Lu Su was stunned for a moment, and was suddenly surprised.

"Your Majesty wants to appoint a minister as a assassin?"

"That's right, with your talents, I think you are enough to take on this responsibility, Pingzhou has just been captured, and you need smart and capable people to manage and govern, and you are the one I chose."

Guo Peng is very sure.

Lu Su was a little uneasy.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty...... The minister's qualifications are still shallow, and it may be difficult to take on a big responsibility. ”

"Zijing, you understand me, I employ people, I don't like qualifications so much, as long as I think you are suitable, you are suitable, over the years, I have put you in many positions, I feel very satisfied with what you have done.

Pingzhou Thorn History is facing a desolate place, the population is only hundreds of thousands, not as large as the Central Plains, the land is vast and sparsely populated, there are many foreign races, the transportation is inconvenient, closed, and the Central Plains and Hebei can not be compared, but the good thing is that it can be used for you to show your strengths, there are no constraints, you can do as much as you want. ”

Guo Peng looked at Lu Su with a smile, which made Lu Su a little frightened.

"Your Majesty trusts the minister so much, the minister is terrified."

"Zijing."

Guo Peng stood up and walked to Lu Su's side, helped him up, held his hand, and said: "In the land of Hebei in the Central Plains, order has been established, densely populated, and increasingly wealthy, and it has its own set of rules of conduct, and what is needed is to consolidate it with old and serious officials.

And Kansai, Jiangnan, and Liaodong are all newly occupied places, our army has not been occupied for a long time, the transportation is not so convenient, and there are not so many Tuntian hukou, and there are even many things that have not been solved, what is needed is an enterprising official to create, this is the reason why I chose you. ”

Lu Su obviously didn't expect that Guo Peng would be a thorn in history as soon as he made a move, or a position in the history of a wilderness thorn was given to him, obviously he was very important to him.

According to this trend, if this test is passed and some achievements are made, it will obviously not be a problem to return to the central government to serve as a high-ranking official and bigwig in the future.

So the excitement in Lu Su's heart is also a matter of course.

After Guo Peng established the Wei State, he raised the salary level of the assassin to the level of 3,500 stones.

There is a significant gap with the county guard of 2,000 stones, the county magistrate of 1,000 stones, and the lower level of the 500 stone township chief and 300 stone village chief.

This move confirms, both factual and nominally, that Assassin Shi is the clear superior of the county guard.

The assassin has a higher level, a higher official position, and a higher salary.

And the requirements for serving as a assassin in the future are also higher, and it is no longer possible for any celebrity to serve by his reputation, and the work that needs to be done is more complicated.

To serve as a assassin, you need excellent talent and political achievements, as well as the recognition of the emperor, and you are a real national scholar.

Since the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty, the status of the assassin has gradually improved, and the treatment has gradually improved, from the initial 600 stone supervision officials to the 2,000 stone de facto administrative officials.

However, nominally it has not changed, and the actual superior of the county guard is still the state pastor, not the state assassin, and it is difficult for the state assassin to restrict the county guard both nominally and in practice.

Therefore, the contradiction between the late Han Dynasty Prefecture Thorn History and the County Taishou is not uncommon.

This is also a kind of checks and balances under the helplessness of the Eastern Han court, so that the local contradictions between each other, so as to establish the authority of the central government.

A typical example, Tai Shici, who is now in full swing, was involved in the political struggle between Qingzhou Thorn Shi and Donglai County Taishou and was forced to take refuge in Liaodong.

It was not until Guo Peng established the Wei State that this situation no longer existed.

The Guo Wei Empire clearly stipulated that the state assassin was the chief administrator of a state, and he was the superior of the county taishou, and the county taishou needed to obey the administrative orders of the state assassin.

However, there was no longer the position of state pastor in the Wei State.

Guo Peng abolished the existence of the state pastor, and clearly stipulated that in the future, the state pastor will no longer be established as a hotbed of warlords who grasp the military, government and financial powers, and that an official must not hold the three powers of the military, government and finance at the same time, and must perform his own duties.

Civilian officials don't care about military affairs, officers don't care about government affairs, the two sides don't interfere with each other, whoever dares to interfere will definitely not end up better than Xun Yu and Zang Hong.

Moreover, although in the Wei Empire, the state assassin and the county taishou were superiors and subordinates, but there was no subordinate relationship between the two.

Both the state governor and the county governor are appointed by the central government, unlike the state minister, who also has the right to appoint and dismiss the county governor and the county order.

All the way to the county magistrate, the county magistrate, and the township and village chiefs under it, now the central government has sent special personnel to appoint and register them, without exception.

The power to appoint and dismiss officials was firmly grasped by Guo Peng, and he did not delegate it to any local official, and local officials did not have the power to appoint and dismiss auxiliary officials in some important posts.

This power belongs to the central government and to the ministry.

Even the important assistants around the state, county, and county administrative officials who could be called on their own are all appointed by the central government.

When appointing officials, the central government will allocate a complete administrative team to the chief official, and the subsequent transfer, appointment and dismissal are all made by the ministry, and the chief official has no right to interfere.

Of course, the chief officer can give advice to the ministry.

The assistant officials around the county magistrate and the county commander also had rules in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Some of them were appointed by the Eastern Han court, and the remaining part was summoned by the Taishou county order on their own, in order to facilitate the local powerful clan and facilitate the rule of the locality.

A very small number of them were appointed by the central government, and a large part was recruited by the officials themselves, symbolizing the compromise and shrinking of imperial power.

The weakened imperial power of the Eastern Han Dynasty can only show the imperial power in key places like Gyeonggi Sanfu and in the border areas where birds don't, and other places are all powerful.

Of course, inconvenient transportation is also a reality and an objective fact.

It will take several months to travel to Luoyang once in remote places, and if the central government intervenes deeply and reports back and forth on everything, the local administration will be abolished.

In the Guo Wei era, the situation changed.

Guo Peng did not make any changes to the specific powers of these local positions, but optimized the organizational structure.

The important positions around the county magistrate and the county magistrate are all appointed by the central government, and only a small number of inconsequential miscellaneous officials can be summoned on their own.

This is the rule since Guo Peng's entrepreneurship, and after the establishment of the Wei State, it was forcibly reproduced, replacing the local counties of the Eastern Han Dynasty and calling them on their own.

At the time, there were officials who objected.

They believe that in this way, the pressure from the central authorities is too great, and the village and township chiefs will not talk about it, and even a county adjutant official will have to make arrangements for him personally, and his interference in the localities will be too much.

And if there is a contradiction between the superior and the subordinate in this state, what should be done and how should it be reconciled?

The nearby area is good, the exchange will not be so difficult, if it is from the north and south of the world, the exchange is difficult, time-consuming, and the appointment and dismissal are inconvenient, which is really not conducive to the central rule, and it is recommended to follow the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Guo thought about it for a while and felt that this also made sense, if officials were appointed and dismissed to and from Luoyang, it would be too much waste of time and would reduce the efficiency of local administration, so some changes were made.

He ordered to expand the number of officials in the Ministry of Officials, and to build a branch of the Central Officials in each prefecture's state office, and each one sent someone to be stationed on a permanent basis, so that personnel changes in each prefecture could be handled nearby, and finally they would be summarized in the Central Officials Department for filing and review.

In this way, you can greatly increase the efficiency of work.

Of course, the Ministry of Officials is still under the jurisdiction of the Central Ministry of Officials, and Cheng Yu is under the control of Cheng Yu and is not subject to the interference of local officials.

However, there are still some people who oppose this, believing that the central government still interferes too much in the localities, which is not conducive to local governance.

This time, Guo did not compromise.

The lesser of two evils, I want them all to become central officials, not subordinates of local officials.

For the sake of centralizing power, it is not unacceptable to cause some administrative inconvenience, and the great power of personnel appointment and dismissal must be held at the central level, not at the local level.

Guo has never thought that there is the best of both worlds.

Along the way, he knows best what it means to be willing to give.

Of course, the method of strengthening the weak branches to the extreme like the Northern Song Dynasty is not good, it is really too restrictive to local development, and what he is doing now is quite modest.

Of course, this kind of thinking can't be revealed, so he simply said, "Is it used to make decorations after repairing so many roads alone", and forcibly suppressed all doubts.

The implication is that I have built so many roads and so many post stations to strengthen the speed of information dissemination, what else do you want?

When so much money is spent in vain?

The officials were shocked.

Does the emperor of feelings still have this consideration for building roads?

You thought about this layer when you started building the road more than ten years ago?

You thought about being emperor so early?