If you don't have too many scruples, even selecting a county magistrate for a heavyweight county like Shanghai County is actually not that difficult.
The empire has been established for so many years. Although the imperial examination system has been changed over and over again, it has also added a large number of middle and low-level officials to the empire. A considerable number of these officials have entered the official position through the new imperial examination. Their various talents
Although far inferior to those perverts at the Royal Institute of Technology, in this era, they are still top elites.
It has to be said that China has been open for thousands of years. No matter what era officials are, they are actually the top elites in society. This will not change whether they read the Four Books and Five Classics or mathematics, physics and chemistry, or whether they are honest officials or corrupt officials.
Because they have knowledge that ordinary people don’t have!
In the past, they could stand out among all living beings in the ranks of the Four Books and Five Classics. Now, they also surpass ordinary people in mathematics, physics and chemistry.
For them, it doesn't matter what they study. Anyway, whether they study the Four Books and Five Classics or study mathematics, physics and chemistry, it is all for the purpose of becoming an official.
Even a corrupt official must have some IQ. Without some IQ, how can he corrupt so much money!
Today's various education and imperial examination systems in the Tang Empire can select various talents for the empire, at least they will be qualified officials.
Under such a general environment, if the empire wants to select just a sixth-grade county magistrate, even if it is the magistrate in charge of Shanghai County, the Ministry of Personnel can select hundreds of candidates every minute.
These candidates, both in terms of resume and ability, are qualified enough to be promoted to this position.
However, even though there were so many qualified candidates, Liu Bagou and the others still failed to select even one suitable person.
At this time, more consideration is no longer just about ability, but also the particularity of Shanghai.
At the end of the discussion, the meeting of ministers on duty in the imperial study room failed to select a single county magistrate from Shanghai County.
In the end, even the candidate for the governor of Songjiang Prefecture was not decided.
When this matter reached Li Xuan, Li Xuan was able to roughly understand why his subordinates had been unable to decide on the new Songjiang prefect and Shanghai County magistrate because the matter was too complicated.
It's not just economics that are complicated, there are also political issues.
Under this situation, Li Xuan couldn't help but think of Shanghai and several other important economic cities in later generations, that is, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen. How were those cities governed?
Then he discovered the problem in Shanghai today!
The administrative level of Shanghai County, and even Songjiang Prefecture as a whole, is too low!
The county-level administrative level of Shanghai County, the county magistrate is only the sixth grade. Although this level is unified throughout the empire, it is not appropriate to place it in Shanghai County, a place that can contribute 8 million in fiscal revenue a year.
It is unsuitable in terms of population, economy, political influence and other aspects.
In the tenth year of the Xuanping Ping Dynasty, the permanent population of Shanghai County within its jurisdiction has exceeded 200,000, and hundreds of thousands of people from surrounding areas and even other provinces have come to work and live here.
The number of permanent and temporary residents in the entire Shanghai County has exceeded 500,000, which is more than the entire Jinling City and suburban areas.
Not to mention the economy, there are thousands of factories and many service industries, and the fiscal revenue contributed every year reaches 8 million taels of silver.
It is obviously inappropriate that such a Shanghai is just an ordinary county-level city.
If the administrative level of Shanghai can be raised, then the subsequent selection of officials and management will be easier, and there will be no such real trouble.
Immediately, Li Xuan summoned several ministers and began to discuss the issue of Shanghai's administrative level.
According to Li Xuan's idea, Shanghai can completely follow the example of the other three capitals, such as Youzhou, Xi'an, and Zhaoqing, and exist as a city directly under the provincial government for special affairs.
As for the cities directly under the central government, currently, there is no such situation in the empire. Even the three previous capitals had such a cabinet-directed plan at the beginning, but it was quickly abandoned and finally became cities directly under the jurisdiction of the provinces.
And processing.
But Shanghai is still a bit more special.
Although this city has a great economic status, in the end it is just an ordinary county and does not have too special political meaning.
At the same time, Shanghai County and Songjiang Prefecture cannot be separated. In this case, Shanghai County is actually an incomplete county. Although Shanghai County has a business zone and an industrial zone, it still cannot do without the support of several other counties in Songjiang Prefecture. It is not close to
Shanghai cannot develop without the county's transportation, food, population and other support.
So in the end, Li Xuan decided to do something special, directly raising the political status of the entire Songjiang Mansion!
Today, Songjiang Prefecture is placed under Jiangnan Road and is a prefecture-level yamen commonly used in the empire. The prefect is the fourth rank.
But now, Li Xuan plans to improve the character of Songjiang Prefecture's magistrate. Of course, it does not mean that Songjiang Prefecture will be promoted to Songjiang Road, because this will also bring more serious problems and affect Songjiang Prefecture and Jiangnan.
development elsewhere.
Jiangnan is a whole. Even if the economy of Shanghai County is more developed, but then again, Shanghai's economic development is actually based on the overall environment of Jiangnan. If two roads are established, it will be administratively
Songjiang Prefecture is separated from Suzhou, Zhenjiang and other prefectures, which leads to various troubles.
Therefore, Li Xuan is not planning to upgrade Songjiang Prefecture to Songjiang Dao, but to upgrade the grade of the prefect of Songjiang Prefecture from the fourth grade to the third grade.
At present, the local administrative system of the Tang Empire is mainly based on provincial roads directly under the jurisdiction of the cabinet!
Most of them are provinces, which are governed by second-grade governors. Most areas in the empire belong to provincial institutions.
Then there is Taoism, which is quite special. There are currently four Zhili Taoisms. In the early years, the rank of Taoist priests was Congsanpin. After the reform in the first two years, the provincial level was Zhengsanpin, one level lower than the governor.
Under the provincial highway, there are three administrative agencies, prefecture, provincial highway, prefecture, prefecture, and county. The prefect level is divided into four grades, the provincial prefecture, prefecture, is the fifth grade, and the prefectural prefect is the fifth grade.
The county magistrate is the sixth grade.
The above-mentioned provincial highway structure basically constitutes the main administrative system of the current empire!
In addition, there are two more special local administrative agencies. One is the territory directly under the jurisdiction of the cabinet. These places are usually overseas territories, mainly Ryukyu Prefecture, Luzon Prefecture, Banten Prefecture, and Gohe Prefecture.
The other type is a military-controlled area. As the name suggests, this kind of place is an area where military rule is maintained. This kind of place is generally extremely desolate, with not many ordinary people, only a large number of garrisons, and areas where they have been fighting enemies for a long time.
It is difficult to implement effective ordinary administrative rule and can only maintain a state of military rule for a long time. You say it is an administrative region, let alone a war zone.
There are several such places at present. The most typical representative is the Gansu Military District. This place was actually the Shaanxi-Gansu Xingdusi in the pre-Ming Dynasty. It is bounded by Jiayuguan in the west and in contact with the Tubo people; it is bounded by the Great Wall in the north and is in contact with the Tubo people.
The Tatars came into contact. To the east is the terrain next to the desert, and they also came into contact with the Tatars.
Only the south is in contact with Lintao Prefecture in Shaanxi, and the southwest is Qinghai, where there are still a mess of hostile forces such as Tatars and Tibetans.
The Gansu military-controlled area now controlled by the Tang Dynasty is actually a huge protrusion, extending in the west direction, all the way to Jiayuguan, and is the only way for the Tang Dynasty to kill to the northwest.
In this kind of place of the Fourth War, there are basically not many ordinary people. Apart from the army, there are various settlement regiments!
Therefore, although this place nominally belongs to Shaanxi Province, it is directly under the central management!
Of course, even though it was a military-controlled area, in the Tang Empire, the separation of military and political affairs was a matter of political principle and there was no room for sloppiness, so strict separation of military and political affairs was still implemented here.
This place is still nominally under the jurisdiction of Shaanxi, and Gansu Prefecture has been established to govern the three counties of Xining, Liangzhou, and Suzhou. It has prefects and county magistrates and governs the local people.
It’s just that there are very few ordinary people in the local area. The entire Gansu Military District has about 100,000 people, more than half of whom are soldiers, and the rest are reclamation regiments under the jurisdiction of the military. There are less than 10,000 real ordinary people, and
Even for such people, most of them depend on the military for life.
Therefore, the prefects of Gansu Prefecture and those county magistrates have a greater symbolic role than their actual role!
But sometimes, even a symbolic prefect has to be there!
The Gansu Military Administrative Area is generally a special administrative area under the joint jurisdiction of the central and local governments and dominated by the military. In the same place, there is the Northeast Military Administrative Area in Liaodong Province and a special area at the junction of Yunnan, Sichuan and Tibetan areas.
Area Xikang Military District.
Although there were many complex administrative systems, the local administrative system of the Tang Empire basically followed the ancient model of counties, prefectures, prefectures, and provinces, and Li Xuan did not want to change. What he wanted to change was just to
It only mentions the grades of the administrative officials in special places like Songjiang Prefecture in Shanghai County.
The Taoist priests of Jiangnan Dao are of the third rank. This will basically not change. If you go up further, it will be the second rank of Congcong, which will be the first province. However, Li Xuan has never established Zhili as a province or a province.
The plan to establish a province in Jiangnan is as large as Zhili. It is impossible to establish a unified province, and it is also impossible to establish four separate provinces.
Because Li Xuan hoped that these places would be placed under the direct jurisdiction of the central government, and the central government must maintain the greatest influence, it was impossible to establish provinces, and the road was the limit.
Jiangnan Dao Taoist priests are of the third rank, while the prefect of Songjiang Prefecture was formerly the fourth rank. Now Li Xuan plans to raise the prefect of Songjiang Prefecture by one level to the third rank.