If you don't have too many scruples, even if it is for a heavyweight county like Shanghai County, it is not very difficult.

The empire has been established for so many years, although the imperial examination system has been changed back and forth, but it is also a large number of middle and low-level officials for the empire, among these officials, a considerable number of them have entered the ranks through the new imperial examination, although their talents in all aspects are far inferior to those perverts in the Royal Institute of Technology, but in this era, they are still the top elites.

I have to say that for thousands of years in China, no matter what era the officials are, in fact, the top elites in society will not change because of whether the books they read are the Four Books and Five Classics or mathematics, physics and chemistry, whether they are clean officials or corrupt officials.

Because they have knowledge that ordinary people don't have!

In the past, they were proud of all beings in the ranks of the Four Books and Five Classics, but now, they also surpass ordinary people in mathematics, physics and chemistry.

For them, it is not a question of what to learn, anyway, whether they study the Four Books and Five Classics or learn mathematics, physics and chemistry, they are just to become officials.

Even if you are a corrupt official, you have to have a little IQ, and if you don't have a little IQ, how can you be corrupt for so much money!

Today's education and imperial examination system in the Tang Empire can select all kinds of talents for the empire, at least they will be a qualified official.

In this environment, the empire wants to elect a county commander of the sixth grade, even if it is the county commander who governs Shanghai County, the officials can elect candidates of hundreds of people in minutes.

These candidates, both in terms of their resumes and abilities, are candidates who are good enough to move up to the position.

However, even with so many qualified candidates, Liu Bagou still failed to select even one suitable person from them.

At this time, more consideration is not only about capacity, but also about the particularity of Shanghai.

In the end of the discussion, the meeting of ministers on duty in the imperial study was unable to elect a county from Shanghai County.

In the end, even the candidate for the prefect of Songjiang Prefecture could not be decided.

When this matter reached Li Xuan's side, Li Xuan was generally able to know why he couldn't decide on the new Songjiang prefect and the candidate for the county magistrate of Shanghai County, because this matter was too complicated.

It's not just the economy that's complicated, it's also political.

In this case, Li Xuan couldn't help but think of Shanghai and several other important economic cities in the later generations, that is, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, how those cities were governed?

Then he discovered the problem in Shanghai today!

Shanghai County, and even the entire Songjiang Prefecture, the administrative level is too low!

Although this grade is unified by the whole empire, it is not appropriate to place it in Shanghai County, a place that can contribute eight million fiscal revenue a year.

It is not suitable in terms of demographic, economic, political influence, etc.

In the ten years of Xuanping, the permanent population of Shanghai County 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 residents and temporary residents in the entire Shanghai County has exceeded 500,000, which is more than the entire Jinling City and its suburbs.

Not to mention the economy, there are thousands of factories and many service industries, and the annual financial income is 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 it will be easier to select and manage officials in the future, and there will be no such real troubles.

Immediately, Li Xuan summoned a few courtiers and began to discuss the issue of Shanghai's administrative level.

According to Li Xuan's vision, Shanghai can completely follow the example of the other three accompanying capitals, such as Youzhou, Xi'an, Zhaoqing, and special affairs, and exist as a city directly under the central government.

As for the cities directly under the central government, at present, there is no such situation in the empire, even the previous three major capitals, although there was such a cabinet plan at the beginning, but it was soon abandoned, and finally dealt with as a provincial city.

But Shanghai is still a little more special.

Although the economic status of this city is very large, it is still an ordinary county in the final analysis, and it does not have too special political implications.

At the same time, Shanghai County and Songjiang Prefecture can not be separated, in this way, Shanghai County is actually an incomplete county, although Shanghai County has a business zone and industrial zone, but it is still inseparable from the support of several other counties in Songjiang Prefecture, without the support of transportation, food, population and other neighboring counties, Shanghai can not develop.

So in the end, Li Xuan decided to make a special case and directly elevate the political status of the entire Songjiang Mansion!

Nowadays, Songjiang Mansion is placed under Jiangnan Province, and it is a common prefecture-level yamen in the empire, and the prefect is the fourth grade.

But now, Li Xuan is planning to raise the quality of the prefect of Songjiang Province, of course, it is not to say that Songjiang Province will be promoted to Songjiang Province or anything like that, because this will also bring more serious problems, which will affect the development of Songjiang Province and other places in Jiangnan Province.

Jiangnan is a whole, even if the economy of Shanghai County is more developed, but then again, Shanghai's economic development actually depends on the overall environment of the whole Jiangnan, if two provinces are established, it is equivalent to administratively distinguishing Songjiang Prefecture from Suzhou, Zhenjiang and other prefectures, which will lead to all kinds of troubles.

Therefore, Li Xuan did not plan to upgrade Songjiang Mansion to Songjiang Dao, but to upgrade the grade of the prefect of Songjiang Mansion from the fourth grade to the third grade.

At present, the local administrative system of the Tang Empire is dominated by provincial roads directly under the jurisdiction of the cabinet!

The most is the province, which is governed by the governor of the second grade, and most of the empire belongs to the provincial institutions.

Then there is the Tao, this road is more special, there are currently four direct subordinates, the grade of the Taoist in the early years is from the three products, after the reform in the first two years, the provincial level is the three products, one level lower than the governor.

Under the provincial highway, there are three kinds of administrative organs, the prefecture, the provincial highway is affiliated with the state, the prefecture is affiliated with the prefecture, and the county is under the prefecture. The prefect's grade is divided into four products, the provincial highway is five products, the prefect is five products, the prefect is five products, and the county is six products.

The above-mentioned provincial highway structure basically constitutes the main administrative system of the current empire!

In addition, there are two special types of local administrative institutions, one is the Cabinet Territory, which is usually an overseas territory, mainly the four regions of Ryukyu, Luzon, Banten, and Gohe Prefecture.

As the name suggests, this kind of place is the area where military rule is maintained, and this kind of place is generally extremely desolate, there are not many ordinary people, only a large number of garrisons, and the area that has been fighting with the enemy for a long time is difficult to implement effective ordinary administrative rule, and can only maintain military rule for a long time.

This kind of place, there are several at present, the most typical representative is the Gansu Military District, this place was actually the Shaanxi-Gansu Xingdu Division in the pre-Ming Dynasty, with Jiayuguan as the border in the west, and the Tubo people contacted; The north side is bounded by the Great Wall, which is in contact with the Tatars, and the east side is also the terrain next to the desert, which also comes into contact with the Tatars.

Only in the south is contact with Lintao Province in Shaanxi, and to the southwest, there is Qinghai, where there are still Tatars, Tibetans and other chaotic hostile forces.

Now the Tang Dynasty controls this piece of Gansu military area, in fact, it is a huge protrusion, extending to the west, extending to Jiayuguan, which is the only passage for the Tang Dynasty to kill to the northwest.

In this kind of land of four wars, there are basically not many ordinary people, except for the army, which is all kinds of cantonment regiments!

So this place, although it nominally belongs to Shaanxi Province, is directly under the management of the central government!

Of course, even if it belongs to the military management area, but in the Tang Empire, the separation of military and political is a matter of political principle, and there is no room for sloppiness, so strict separation of military and political is still implemented here.

This place is still nominally under the jurisdiction of Shaanxi, and the Gansu Prefecture has been established, which governs the three counties of Xining, Liangzhou and Suzhou, and has a prefect and county order, and governs the local people.

It's just that there are very few ordinary people in the local area, and the entire Gansu military area has about 100,000 people, more than half of whom are in the army, and the rest are also cantonment regiments under the jurisdiction of the military.

Therefore, the prefect of Gansu Prefecture and those county orders have a symbolic role more than the actual role!

But sometimes, even if it's a symbolic prefect, you have to have it!

The Gansu Military Administrative Region is basically a special administrative region under the joint jurisdiction of the central and local governments, with the military as the main administrative region, and the same place is the Northeast Military Administrative Region of Liaodong Province and the Xikang Military Administrative Region, a special area located at the junction of Yunnan, Sichuan, and Tibetan areas.

Although there are many complex administrative systems, the local administrative system of the Tang Empire basically follows the ancient model of counties, prefectures, prefectures, and provinces, and Li Xuan does not want to change, what he wants to change is only to raise the rank of the chief official of a special place such as Songjiang Mansion in Shanghai County.

Jiangnan Daoist is the third grade, this basically will not change, if you mention it again, that is, from the second grade, that is, a province, and Li Xuan has never set up a province in Zhili, or the plan to set up a province in Jiangnan, Zhili is so large, it is impossible to set up a unified province, and it is impossible to set up a province by separating four.

Because Li Xuan hoped that these places would be placed under the direct jurisdiction of the central government, and the central government must retain the greatest influence, it was impossible to set up provinces, and the Tao was the limit.

Jiangnan Daoist is the third grade, and the prefect of Songjiang Prefecture was the fourth grade before, and now Li Xuan plans to raise the prefect of Songjiang Prefecture by one level and become from the third grade.