In Chen Xian's view, the first road is very dangerous, but the second road is not an easy one.

If he pushes the Directory system upwards to restrain the upper echelons, and the soldiers eventually produce a bourgeoisie, then in the end, this restriction will fall on his head as well, and if he dares to resist, perhaps the state and government he has built and cultivated will send him to the guillotine.

However, for Chen Xian, this is not a difficult topic to choose, because even if it is restricted, it is better than death.

Therefore, Chen Xian chose the lesser of two evils, and could only choose the second way.

Taking advantage of the year of Genghis Khan's attack on Western Xia, Chen Xian carried out a reform of the bureaucratic system of the Eastern Sea Kingdom.

Chen Xian established that the basic administrative unit of the Donghai Kingdom was the town, not the county of the past, and that a town had a small governor's house, and a town mayor, and the governor and the town mayor were elected by the voters in the town.

In Tokai Province, not everyone is a voter, and there are two prerequisites for becoming a voter: first, to obtain a primary school diploma, and second, to pay a certain amount of taxes every year.

After the mayor is elected, he hires magistrates, tax collectors, treasurers, and other administrative officers according to the situation of the town, and forms the management of the town.

Above the town are the counties, and at the county level, in addition to the Governorate and the county magistrate, there are the judiciary, the courts and the prosecutor's office.

The candidates for the county magistrate and the county governor may go to the towns under their jurisdiction to conduct propaganda and canvassing, and the election is presided over by the town governor's court, and the county judicial organ shall supervise and impartiality.

After the counting of votes in each town election, an elector is sent to the county to vote for the electors, and this elector does not have the right to vote himself, but is only ordered to vote according to the results of the election in his town.

Finally, the county judicial organ counts the votes of the electors in each town, and then multiplies it by the population coefficient of each town, which is equal to the weight of the votes of each town, and finally counts the weight of the votes of all the towns under the jurisdiction of the county, and counts the weight of the votes of the candidates.

This kind of electoral system is simple and clear, a county may have tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people, but there are only dozens of towns, and each town is only a few thousand people, each town sends an elector, and dozens of people are concentrated in one hall, who does your town elect? Who do you elect? Dozens of people can quickly count the results, and then find an accountant to calculate the weight of the votes in each town according to the population, and then add them up, and the election results will be available in no time.

This method is much simpler than tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people elected together, and then counted, and a townsman does not need to go to the county town to vote.

In the era of underdeveloped technology, this can greatly avoid waste and improve the election rate, after all, if you let a person spend a morning to go to the town center to vote, maybe most people will go, but if you let a person spend a few days and go to the county town to vote, then more than half of the people will not go, if it takes half a month to go to the capital city to vote, then it is estimated that no one will go.

Cities and counties are equal-level institutions, and a city only has jurisdiction over its own urban area and part of the suburbs, and basically the jurisdiction area of a city will not be larger than that of a county.

In order to facilitate management, cities, like counties, are administered by divisions, and elections are held by divisions, and finally voters vote centrally.

Chen Xian divided the whole of Shandong into seven counties, namely Penglai County with Dengzhou as the center, Langya County with Qingdao as the center, Qi County with Weizhou as the center, Donghai County with Haizhou as the center, Dongping County with Jeju as the center, and Jinan County with Jinan as the center.

Each county has jurisdiction over dozens of counties, and the election of the county still adopts the electoral system, which is divided into three levels of election, first the election at the town level, and then the electors at the town level are concentrated in the county to vote, and after the results are obtained, the county sends electors to the county seat to represent a county or a city to vote.

As soon as Chen Xian's change was announced, the whole country was in an uproar!

Officials from all over the country wrote letters one after another, and some officials who paid themselves to be close to Chen Xian even ran to Chen Xian's line in Qingdao desperately to try to persuade him face to face.

Chen Xian immediately entered the garrison of his own guard army, and when he was reformed in the army, the guards he chose were all young officers who had the least to do with all aspects.

Chen Xian's behavior of hiding directly in the guard army frightened the officials everywhere, and this behavior simply treated the officials everywhere as anti-thieves, making the officials not know what to do for a while.

The reason why officials in various localities are so angry is that Chen Xian's approach is almost tantamount to openly supporting the wealthy businessmen in various places.

In the elections of counties and towns, although Chen Xian's original bureaucratic system relied on the resources it had previously mastered during the period of official appointment and the support of school graduates in various localities, it still held most of the initiative, but as the businessmen and wealthy households in various places became more and more familiar with the rules of the game, they had begun to grasp more and more of the right to speak in the grassroots government, especially the Supervisory Yuan, which had become the hardest hit area of the grassroots government.

This is also the reason why, over the years, Chen Xian's bureaucrats have become more and more disgusted with the Overseer, and they can't stand the fact that the people they were trampling under their feet can suddenly point fingers at them.

In recent years, the government, which was not restricted by the Governor's Yuan, was established by Chen Xianxing, and vigorously suppressed the wealthy businessmen, which was actually a kind of backlash against this phenomenon.

Officials knew very well that once Chen Xianxin's new policy was fully implemented, it might not take ten years for the county wardens to fall into the pockets of a certain merchant, because under the electoral system, the merchants could unite and convert their local advantages into advantages in elections at the top.

Chen Xian's overreaction startled the officials and calmed down, although the civilian officials were powerful, they had no military power in their hands, and in fact they were not difficult to deal with.

Next, Chen Xian sent an envoy to first recruit the officials of the six prefectures in Shandong to the camp in Qingdao.

At this time, the bureaucratic class of Donghai Kingdom was still too young to take root, and their power actually came entirely from Chen Xian's edict, so although these officials were afraid of Chen Xian's summoning them to the barracks, they did not dare to refuse.

After entering the barracks, the officers were released on the third day.

The officials who left the barracks all looked strange, as if they were confused, as if they were puzzled, and they seemed to be admired......

Chen Xian is worried about his increasingly inadequate power schemes, but at least for now, he is still extremely wise in the eyes of his officials.

Over the years, everything he has done is like ghosts and gods helping each other, and it is difficult to say in the future, but at least for now, there is still a supreme majesty and mystery in the minds of these officials under his command.

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