The time has entered September, and it has been a year since the defeat of the rebel army such as King Fu and King Lu last year.

The political situation in Daming is stable!

"Fengtian carrier, the emperor said, from today onwards, the three powers of the county government will be separated, and the police department and the court department will be established!"

The so-called separation of powers refers to the division of the rights of the county ordinances into three.

Originally, the county ordinances controlled almost all the rights of a county, whether it was the arrest of prisoners, the interrogation of prisoners, or the pronouncement of sentences, all of which were done by the county ordinances alone, which gave the county ordinances a great deal of power in the local area.

The so-called mountain high emperor is far away, and in some remote county capitals, the county order is like the soil emperor there, without any restraint.

If the county order is a corrupt official with a bad character, there are often people who sue the wicked and fail, but are bribed by the wicked and harm themselves, which greatly restricts the implementation of the legal system, and it is easy for the people to be disappointed in the court.

The power of the county order in one place is too great, and what Zhu Ci has to do is to restrain them and separate the three powers.

From now on, the prefectural ordinance will only be a prefectural ordinance, which will only be responsible for enforcing the decrees of the imperial court, the police department will be responsible for arresting prisoners, interrogating prisoners, and collecting evidence, and the court will be responsible for reviewing evidence and pronouncing sentences.

Although there are some loopholes, it is definitely much more beneficial to ordinary people than just a county order to seize power.

In fact, at this time, a profession closely related to the court had already been born, that is, the lawyer, that is, the lawyer of later generations, but the current lawyer was not yet recognized by the imperial court.

At the same time as Zhu Cihe's separation of powers, the profession of lawyer has also been established, and he can directly participate in the court's judgment!

Of course, there is no doubt that there are also big loopholes in the profession of lawyers, but in the same way, because of their existence, many people who do not know the law at all have a place to consult, and at least, there are teachers who are familiar with the law, and even if the judges of the court are bribed, they will not blatantly use the law at all to trap the people, in short, the benefits outweigh the disadvantages!

After the separation of powers, the police station will be separated from the county government offices in various places, and the Jinyi Guard Posts that were previously set up in each county will also be incorporated into it.

The court was split from the master who originally assisted the county order to hear the case.

In this way, the original county government is almost divided into three, the difference is only that the county government is no longer the sole ruler of the county government, the county government, the police station, and the court are not all under the control, forming a system of mutual control and mutual supervision.

This kind of action is naturally huge, but it only happens in the changes in the imperial court itself, and the impact on ordinary people in the process of reorganization is not very great.

Zhu Ci made such a big move, and it was naturally impossible to be without resistance, and when he announced this reform in the early court, nearly half of the civil and military officials immediately jumped out to oppose it.

The county magistrates of the county governments around the country reacted even greater, because the power was ultimately divided between them, and they felt as if they had been hollowed out all of a sudden, which was extremely uncomfortable and unacceptable to the county magistrates who were originally high up in one place and held great power!

In this regard, Zhu Ci hesitated without saying a word, and immediately questioned all the ministers who came out to oppose them, asking them the reasons for their opposition.

In the face of Zhu Ci's questioning, the ministers who jumped out to oppose were undoubtedly stupid, squeaked and squeaked one by one, and couldn't say any reason at all, after all, this is only the right of the county orders in various places, although they are also affected, but let them say that the reason why they came out to oppose is because they don't want the power in their hands to be weakened? No one seems to dare to say that!

"Your Majesty, the county order is in charge of a place is the ancestral system, and all dynasties have been like this, the emperor has taken the liberty of changing it, I am afraid it will backfire, it is better to think in the long run!" Finally, an official came up with a plausible reason.

"Yes, yes, such a big thing needs to be considered in the long run!"

Zhu Ci immediately sneered, ancestral system? Can the ancestral system oppose him? In the past few years, he has not stepped on the old ancestral system for such reforms!

Thinking of this, Zhu Ci waved his hand and said: "No need, the reason why I separate the three powers is to prevent the county commanders from grasping the power of a place and treating themselves as the emperor of a land, thus endangering the people. ”

The ministers are silent, even if they come up with opposition afterwards, will it be useful?

The ministers were silent, extremely helpless, the emperor insisted on issuing new policies not once or twice, according to past experience, even if they fiercely opposed, it may not have any effect!

Helplessly, the ministers could only choose to remain silent, and Zhu Ci ignored it, so they acquiesced.

Excluding the opposition of the government and the central government, the opposition of those in power in various prefectures is even simpler.

Zhu Ciji directly ordered the five Yinglong troops also distributed in various provinces to carry out a large-scale actual combat shooting drill on the spot, and all the places selected were close to the county seat!

All of a sudden, in the camps of the Yinglong army in various places, the sound of dense gunfire and artillery fire resounded for dozens of miles.

At the same time, the Daming Daily widely publicized the actual combat shooting drills conducted by the Ying Long Army in various garrisons.

What is this, this is simply a kind of **naked threat! Let those who oppose it everywhere recall the collapse of countless noble clans and heroes a year ago.

All of a sudden, all the people who opposed it felt a chill in their necks and trembled in their hearts, and the voice of opposition was extinguished in an instant.

After the separation of powers, whether it is the police department or the court, there is no doubt that there is an ultimate helmsman.

The court is relatively simple, and the helmsman does not need to do a lot of work, so Zhu Ciji directly asked the secretary of the criminal department to temporarily serve as the secretary.

The police department is more important, in the whole process, the police department is complicated to arrest prisoners, interrogate prisoners and collect evidence, and there must be an upright person at the helm at the beginning, otherwise problems are prone to occur.

To say that he is really upright, Zhu Ci thought about it and only felt that Shi Kefa was the most suitable.

Shi Kefa originally served as the governor of Shandong, and later after the Xuzhou War, he was always left in Xuzhou by Zhu Ci to deal with the aftermath and appease the local people, and now more than three years have passed, and he is just transferred back to be the director of this police station!

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