The method of appointing a governor was already relatively common in the late Han Dynasty, but the governors at that time were mainly in charge of the military, such as the famous Soochow Governor Zhou Yu.
But now, the so-called military governor has actually handed over all the local military and administrative affairs to the governor. For example, Wu Mingche’s previous position as the military governor of Huainan was equivalent to handing over all the military and civil powers of the prefectures in Huainan.
To Wu Mingche, but this kind of appointment is a bit similar to the governor-general of the later Qing Dynasty. After all, it was only used during war.
Now Li Xingchen is also managing through this method, such as Luo Ya, the governor of Luzhou, Pei Zilie, the governor of Xiangyang, etc., but this is not a long-term solution after all. The politics and military of a region cannot be all in the hands of one person for a long time.
, and if this position is not established, the local state capital will be in disarray.
Therefore, Li Xingchen must consider building a new administrative system, which can also reduce the chaos of local administration to a certain extent.
Taking advantage of the fact that spring plowing has not yet begun, Li Xingchen naturally planned to put this on the agenda.
In Li Xingchen's view, the truly appropriate administrative division is of course the three-level administrative division system of state-county-county. If it is a two-level division, it will undoubtedly be too detailed. Li Xingchen currently does not have the energy to deal with the affairs of each county.
Therefore, it is still necessary to establish an administrative unit at a higher level than the county.
"Bashu, Nanzhong, Hanzhong, and Xiangyang in the northwest are already large enough. It's time to unify the division and management of counties and counties," Li Xinchen said after considering, "especially since the interior of Bashu has been pacified. If we follow our current counties and counties
If it is divided, it will be difficult to issue policies step by step. Whether it is our farming policy or the establishment of banks, we need to have a complete and reasonable administrative structure of states, counties and counties."
Tang Yishun and others exchanged glances. Of course, they all knew about this issue. Li Xingchen's rear was now stabilized, and it would be unrealistic to continue to use this very unreasonable system.
According to Li Xingchen's idea, the state-prefecture-county system is naturally the most suitable. This is almost the same as the provincial and municipal systems of later generations. However, in the Han Dynasty, the state governor did not have such great real power and only acted as a supervisor.
However, Li Xingchen did not mind improving their civil power, but this improvement was only limited to civil affairs, and it was impossible to decentralize all the military power of a state as it did in the late Han Dynasty.
But Li Xingchen still wanted to listen to other people's opinions. Facts have proved that an effective top-down reform cannot be just one person's insistence. It must actively absorb the opinions of many parties. In other words, it is necessary to ensure some of everyone's interests.
to get support.
Without the support of these ministers, even if Li Xingchen wanted to reform, he would only find that his decrees had no impact at all.
"I believe that we are in a rare truce period now, so it is appropriate to take this opportunity to improve the administrative system." Tang Yishun stood up and said loudly, "But it is not appropriate to carry out drastic reforms. Firstly, because we currently have insufficient talents.
, many remote counties and counties even have one person responsible for the management of two or three places. Secondly, Xiangyang, Baidicheng and Hanzhong are still on the front line. At this time, large-scale reforms are likely to lead to conflicts between the army and local governments or
Chaos gives the enemy an opportunity to take advantage of it."
"Situ (Author's note: Tang Yishun's official position, in charge of civil affairs, in accordance with the official system of the Southern Dynasty) said nothing wrong," Yao Cha said solemnly, "he pointed out the problem to the point, and the subordinates think that what Tang Gong said is exactly what we said this time
It needs to be solved centrally.”
Tang Yishun frowned and pointed out these two problems to himself. In fact, he wanted to tell Li Xinchen about the hidden dangers that may arise if he carries out reforms now. After all, the Tang family in Xiajiang and other Bashu aristocratic families are now in the
The local administration still occupies a high share. This is also because there was no one available for Li Xingchen at the beginning, so naturally he could only grab the children of these aristocratic families to supplement them.
Now Tang Yishun is not sure what the purpose of Li Xingchen's actions is, so he can't guarantee whether it will touch the core interests of the Bashu family. With the entry of the southeastern gentry and the northern family, the Bashu family will no longer be as unscrupulous as before.
Development, but at least the local administration of Bashu is the basis for them to gain a foothold in this group. If even this is weakened, then the Bashu family will be marginalized.
From the bottom of my heart, there has been no enmity between the Bashu family and Yao Cha in the past, and there has been no enmity in recent times. This guy will not attack at this time, unless he is behind the instructions of Xu Ling and other southeastern nobles. Especially Yao Cha has always been a man of few words.
, jumping out to sing the opposite tune so actively made Tang Yishun have to doubt this.
Li Xingchen also saw the subtle changes in the expressions of Tang Yishun and others, and couldn't help but smile. It seems that he still needs to test whether Yao Cha is sincere or fake: "Then how does the Yao Qing family think it should be improved?"
Yao Cha said in a deep voice: "First of all, the first question is that the main reason why one person can serve as county magistrate in several places is that the administrative divisions mentioned by His Highness are really chaotic. Many counties are remote and sparsely populated, but
The territory is not vast, and there are some counties whose land is intertwined with the surrounding counties. In order to facilitate management, it is reasonable to appoint one person to manage two or three places. Therefore, the simplest way is to cancel these unnecessary areas.
Administrative divisions merge these two or three counties into one county, and the same principle applies to counties and states.”
After a pause, Yao Cha took out a memorial directly from his sleeve: "This is the division method summarized by my subordinates after inspecting the administrative systems and administrative plans of the Qianliang and Zhou people. It also includes the divisions made by my subordinates on the current administrative divisions of Bashu.
I sincerely ask Your Highness to take a look at the suggestions given."
Li Ping hurriedly took the memorial, and Li Xingchen opened it and took a look. It was densely written in detail. It must be said that Yao Cha was a historian, and he did have an innate advantage in tracing history.
Yao Cha then said: "As for the second question, I think there is actually no need to consider it now. Although we want to implement a new administrative system, the feasibility of this administrative system still needs a period of observation and testing.
, so we might as well pick out a place to try first, so that even if any problems arise during the process, we can have time to correct them."
"As for Bajun and Hanzhong, which are on the front line, areas that my subordinates think are not suitable for experimentation, even if we start to implement them in the future, we will separate the front-line state capitals, and all administrative management of the front-line state capitals will be separated.
The status quo should be maintained to avoid chaos, and our target should be the state capitals that have been stabilized in the rear." (To be continued)