Chapter 324: Three in a game of chess

Cao Xin sentenced the left guard, Liu Chenglin sentenced the right guard, Tu Lichun commanded the central army, You Yong served as the commander of the soldiers and horses, in charge of the soldiers, Min Rou served as the marching Sima, in charge of the army, Fu Wu, and the order of the seal, concurrently served as the commander of Li Ze's pro-Wei Yicong, and Li Mi was the deputy commander of the pro-Wei Yicong, but he was actually responsible for the daily affairs of the pro-Wei Yicong. Others, such as Shi Zhuang, Li Rui, Li De, Li Hao, Li Han, Chen Changping and other brothers, all added generals and spread throughout the army, so far, Li Ze has completed the control of all the armies of Wuwei and ensured that they are loyal to him. And on this basis, the old ministers who had become virtuous in the past were reasonably arranged, and everyone was happy. Li Ze can be regarded as having completed his idea of a game of military chess.

In terms of administration, under the Wuwei Festival Town Government, Xue Ping is the deputy envoy of Wuwei Festival Town, of course, this deputy envoy is more of an honorary position, Xue Ping can only influence the 10,000 gods he brought, which is also to give face to the court, Xue Ping served as the deputy envoy of Wuwei Festival Town as a Huangmen squire, and his qualifications are also sufficient.

Zhang Hui, the head of Wuwei Academy, served as the secretary in charge, and all the things about Wuwei's rhetoric came from him. This position seems to be just a clerical position, but in fact it is Li Ze's first aide.

Chun Yu overstepped the appointment of the magistrate and held the law. What surprised everyone was that Bai Mingli, who was originally an old official in Cangzhou, who had made great contributions when Li Ze attacked Cangzhou, was appointed Chun Yuyue's deputy. Behind this appointment, Li Ze wanted to use Bai Mingli's hand to carry out a large-scale cleanup and purification of the officials of Wuwei Festival Town. As an old official, Bai Mingli was very familiar with the collusion between officials at the lowest level of the bureaucratic class.

Officials who run water, officials who fight with iron, for the localities, these officials who hold the actual power to do things, actually have a greater impact on the people. Just like Bai Mingli, when he was in Cangzhou, he seemed to have no reputation, but secretly, he could easily shake the rule of a state, which could not help but make Li Ze vigilant.

And one of the appointments that everyone expected was that Xia He took the position of judge of Wuwei Festival Town, and was in charge of the money and food affairs of the entire festival town. This appointment is both reasonable and somewhat unexpected. It is reasonable because Xia He basically controlled Li Ze's financial power before, and her ability also convinced Li Ze and his subordinates. Unexpectedly, the newly established branch division of Xia He, where Xia He was the judge, was so powerful that everyone was dumbfounded.

The new degree branch department not only controls the taxation, but also gives it the ability to unify all tax sources, and then coordinate the finances, truly realizing the integration of the three, and actually controlling all the administrative finances. On the court side, these were originally done by three different departments, holding each other back and elbowing each other. This is more powerful than the imperial court's Hubu Shangshu. The head of the household is still under the elbow of officials such as the salt and iron transfer envoy and the degree support envoy, and the current Xia He is actually a combination of three powers.

A game of fiscal chess is the core of Li Ze's second point in reform.

In the past, the states were basically self-supporting, and even when it was not enough, they reached out to the festival towns, which is also the reason why many festival towns could not effectively control the thorn history of the real power under their command, and slowly formed a situation where the tail could not be broken. Just like Zhaoyi Jiezhen, in the end, Xue Wei had to use external forces to stabilize his rule.

In the states under the Wuwei Festival Town after the unified finance, all revenues such as taxes must be reported to the Jiezhen Branch Division first, and the estimated amount of revenue and budget expenditure in a year must be reported, and then the Jiezhen Branch Division will make unified arrangements.

Such a fiscal policy is naturally not happy for big states like Zhenzhou and Zhaozhou, but for other economically backward states, they are happy to see it, because they belong to the scene where income is not as good as expenditure.

Of course, these dissatisfactions can only be buried in the heart, in Li Ze's eyes, rich places naturally have to help backward places to develop and progress together, otherwise, the rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer.

A game of financial chess is to integrate the resources of the whole town and use every penny to the best of the blade.

Now the degree branch department has become a huge department, and each state, within the degree branch department, has a corresponding department, which is responsible for reviewing and approving the state's income, budget, expenditure, etc. In addition to the audit of each state, the division also has a department for each of the different armies, which audits the expenditures of the army and allocates funds.

Correspondingly, Li Ze's status as a businessman was greatly improved, and the supply and marketing cooperatives established with Yixingtang as the main body were formally incorporated into the official system, and Tu Hu was under the control of the Zhengwupin Jiezhen Sima title, including the monopoly power of salt and iron, all of which were attributed to the supply and marketing cooperatives, and more importantly, the supply and marketing cooperatives not only monopolized the strategic materials of the franchise, but also had pricing power for ordinary goods. Any price rise or fall without the approval of the supply and marketing cooperative is illegal.

It can be expected that for a long time to come, the supply and marketing cooperatives will use their official strength, huge financial strength, and logistical convenience to compress the profit margins of ordinary businessmen step by step, so as to grab greater benefits from it.

Of course, Li Ze knows that such an act will greatly suppress the more dynamic market economy, and will even have an adverse impact on the vitality of the market and normal competition, but it is obvious that this kind of planned economy will be more beneficial for him to concentrate all his forces now and win the current war of life and death.

He has always put himself above the position of a weak man, and he will do his best to fight Zhang Zhongwu, and after taking this biggest enemy, many policies can be released step by step.

Because only then will he have the time and space to adjust the policy step by step.

And now, he needs to pool all his resources, even if it hurts the interests of others.

In such a planned economy, of course, the people who suffer the most are the original giant businessmen, but for ordinary people, they can still obtain great benefits in a short period of time.

To use the simplest analogy, under the planned economy, grain, which is the most basic matter that has a fundamental bearing on the fundamentals, Wuwei Jiezhen has realized the overall planning of prices, and whether it is a good season or a period of green and yellow, the price of grain will never rise or fall by more than 5 percent.

What Li Ze can imagine is that in the next time, more small businessmen will no longer be able to operate in the run on the supply and marketing cooperatives, and many people will be merged by the supply and marketing cooperatives or go bankrupt.

This may have some adverse effects, which will affect the stability of society considerably, but during the war, Li Ze did not care. In an era when the commercial economy is not developed, a strong planned economy will have more advantages than disadvantages for its own rule and for the stability of people's livelihood.

Under such a system, business practices like Tunjijuqi would cease to exist.

This is Li Ze's economic game of chess.

And in the end, there is the administrative game of chess.

Not only was the assassin in charge personally appointed by Jiezhen, but the appointment power of the county governors was also returned to Jiezhen, although these local governors were administratively responsible to the local governor of the state, but in terms of personnel appointments, they were all under the control of Jiezhen, and the state governors did not have the authority to appoint and recall.

This further curtails the power of a state assassin.

After canceling the military power of the assassin history, and canceling his personnel appointment and dismissal rights, it completely eliminated the qualification of the assassin to threaten the town according to the locality. If you want to do this, you also want those county officials below to be willing to follow you! Serving in a different place has become a fundamental guarantee to ensure that this policy can be carried out to the end. And when every county magistrate takes office, he will have a task, that is, to measure the fields and clean up the household registration.

If you want to complete such a task, it is basically impossible to cooperate with the local rich and powerful gentry, these county orders can rely on, in addition to the administrative power in their hands, and then they have to rely on the power of the Yixing Society in the local area, and the Yixing Society also took advantage of this to slowly take root in the local area, starting from the grassroots level little by little to dig out the foundation of those rich and powerful gentry, and finally let this big tree overwhelm and collapse.

All in all, all the reforms made by Li Ze have only one ultimate goal, that is, a high degree of centralization. When the military, finance, administration, and other powers are infinitely concentrated in the Jiezhen centered on him, he can do whatever he wants.

Of course, after depriving the local assassins of so much power, Li Ze also compensated them in another aspect, that is, to increase the rank of official and enter the knighthood.

This is certain and unchanged for each of the ministers of the assassin history, but the title of the scattered official can be promoted, so most of the old assassins, such as Yuan Zhou, Yang Wei and the like, the rank of the scattered official has also been greatly promoted all of a sudden, and they have all jumped to become the third grade, you must know that even Li Ze is just the third grade. Although this is just a false title, it has greatly improved the identity of these people, and also provided them with the key to enter the door to occupy a higher position in the future.

There is the Tang generation, from the eighth grade to the seventh grade, it is a big hurdle, from the seventh grade to the fifth grade, it is another big hurdle, and from the fifth grade to the third grade, it is even rarer, among the thousand officials, there is not necessarily a single person who can come to this point.

Under Li Ze, the vast majority of people are still very optimistic about this new predator, the decline of the imperial court is an indisputable fact, once Wuwei Festival Town has achieved something in the future, the status they have obtained today will be a stepping stone to a different day.

Under Li Ze's command, the military generals of Wenchen gathered in Wuyi for more than half a month, but the real conference time was only one day. The so-called conference, that is, Li Ze and all the officials gathered together to announce the decision, and before that, everything had been decided in a series of small conversations and meetings.

In Li Ze's words at the final meeting, this is a meeting of unity and a meeting of victory, and Wuwei Festival Town will also take this as a starting point to move forward bravely from one peak to another.