On the first day of the first day of March, the governors and county commanders of various prefectures and counties, as well as the main generals of the various armies temporarily called, including Gao Yuan, Yang Keshi, Tao Gu and others, all rushed to Yanjing City to participate in the first great dynasty of Queen Zhou Nanfeng. Zhou Nan announced these adjustments in the court, and these lords and generals all stepped forward one by one to pay homage to their seals, military talismans, and banners.

Although these generals are all generals, they have also made a distinction in rank, Xiao Laoliu commands the soldiers and horses of the national horse infantry army, the rank is marshal, Gao Yuan and Yang Keshi are the deputy commanders, the rank is general, the rest of the standing army and the main general of the border army are generals, and the main generals of those garrison troops are garrisons.

The biggest adjustment in the official system is the establishment of the Supervision Department, which has been changed from the Biyuan to the Criminal Law Department. The first envoy of the Supervision Department was Guo Zhiwen, the commander of Xincheng County, and was responsible for supervising officials at all levels, listening to local public opinion, and raising major criminal cases. Supervision envoys and deputy envoys at all levels in the Supervision Department have the right to report directly to Zhou Nan and Yu Liyan, and the courts, prefectures and counties have the right to report to the emperor at any time. Guo Zhiwen's uprightness and responsibility, Zhou Nan has always kept in mind, and this time the official system was adjusted, and Guo Zhiwen was promoted to the supervision envoy.

The change of Yili Biyuan to the Criminal Law Department is only a change in name, which is to gradually remove the influence of the Khitan official system, and the criminal law secretary is still Zhang Yingmo.

From the last time he and Yu Liyan jointly ruled Yanjing, and hastily established the Left-behind Mansion, the Three Envoys, the Yili Biyuan, and Ma Bujun to command the Envoys, just to borrow the system of separating finance, government, and military in later generations, and to be more refined, and to separate the criminal law from government affairs, so that these four departments can specialize in their own affairs and carry out them in an orderly manner under the coordination of him and Yu Liyan. The four departments are directly responsible to him and Yu Liyan, which can not only avoid the ambition of ministers in the future to monopolize the government, but also avoid people from being superfluous and redundant like the Great Song Dynasty.

The most important thing is that these four departments require different qualities and skills of people to do things, so they can be distinguished according to the work of each department, so as to better select suitable officials to take up posts. This is also completely in line with the idea of division of labor and cooperation in later generations.

Although at this time, the requirements and awareness of division of labor and cooperation were not high, but as early as the Tang Dynasty, didn't Han Yu write the famous sentence "There is a specialization in the art industry"? And it's also a natural choice to improve efficiency. Zhou Nan also had a plan for a long time, not only to change the official system in accordance with the principle of division of labor and cooperation, but also to refine the craftsmen who were superintendents, so as to quickly make the handicraft manufacturing level of the New Liao State catch up with or surpass the Great Song Dynasty.

Most of the Zhizhou and Zhixian who were selected to the prefectures and counties were young people, and most of them were Jinshi who had not been employed after the last imperial examination, and Yu Liyan issued an edict to various places in accordance with the meaning of Zhou Nan, and hired 45 people, of which nearly 30 were those Jinshi in the last imperial examination, which shows that these people are indeed outstanding.

These new officials are all in their prime of life, and most of them are enthusiastic people, and they are even more grateful for the world laid down by the Wansheng Army in Southern Zhou, so they are diligent in their autonomy. This time, they were overjoyed to be able to receive the edict to come to the court and pay homage to the King of Xinliao and the Queen of Xinliao, so when they visited the court, they would inevitably write in court to state that they had governed the people and implemented the "Land Decree" since they took office. It's just that only prefectures and counties such as Yanjing, Zhuozhou, Yizhou, Gu'an, Guiyi, and Jizhou have reclaimed wasteland, and the rest of the prefectures and counties have no newly reclaimed fields except for distributing the only fields to each household.

The reason is simple, the terrain is limited, and there are really no plots of land available for reclamation. Like Zunhua, Yutian, and Danzhou, there are many mountains and few fields; The fields around Yongqing, Wuqing, Le'anting, and Lutai Town are scattered with rivers, lakes, and mires, and they cannot be cultivated at all.

Seriously, there are only Zhuozhou, Yizhou, and Yanjing around, the terrain is flat, far away from the seaside, dividing the land, opening up the wasteland, and doing it in full swing. The rest of the states and counties are laborious, but the results are less.

After Zhou Nan asked, he knew that there was such a big difference between different places, and said to these governors and county commanders who had no land to cultivate: "You govern one side, and you don't need to follow the script and force farming." The Land Act was originally applied to areas where there was fertile land, or where there was wasteland that could be cultivated. For example, around Yanjing City and in the mountains of Yizhou, there are mountains and valleys that can be cultivated, so they guide the people to farm for business; For example, Zunhua is mostly mountainous land that cannot be cultivated, so you can plant chestnuts and dates, and graze sheep and horses; For example, in Changping, Shunzhou and other counties, there is a lot of grassland, and there are many herdsmen among the Khitan herdsmen. ”

"Even if you plant so many chestnuts, dates, hazelnuts, and Qiang peaches, you can't eat them every day, right? In the area of Yutian and Zunhua, it is not easy to pass, and no matter how much you collect, there is nowhere to exchange grain and rice. If you climb the mountains and cross the mountains to send Yanjing, you can't bring a lot, and in exchange for grain and rice, it's not enough to eat all the way. "One of the magistrates, presumably Zunhua or Yutian, complained to Zhou Nan.

"It doesn't matter. In the future, the imperial court will choose several prefectures and counties in the country as trading places, grain, rice, fur, dried fruits, mountain goods, silk silk, cattle, sheep, horses, camels, etc., all can be traded, and the people in your county will not have to go to Yanjing City to sell dried fruits and mountain goods. Zhou Nan roughly described his planning blueprint to the ministers of the DPRK and the prefectures and counties in various places.

"Your Majesty! In this way, the people will have hope. Zhou Nan's depiction made these magistrates feel happy, and in this way, the people under his rule also had a way to live. Although there are few fields, there is still some harvest by planting some barren-tolerant millet, and the imperial court has not collected rent for the past three years, and it depends on whether you are diligent or lazy. If you can sell the mountain goods and dried fruits in the mountains again, it will be another income - the most annoying mountain in the past will have to be planted in the future.

"There are also areas in Wuqing and Yongqing, where rice was originally born near the water, and there should be rice planting in Yanjing, right?" Zhou Nan changed the topic and said.

"What the horse said is," Yu Liyan continued, "when Emperor Jingzong of the old Liao Dynasty planted rice in the Yanjing area, rice was also widely cultivated in the area of the old Liao and Tokyo areas. The red fragrant rice produced in Jizhou is even more fragrant. It's a pity that because of the fear that in case of a military rebellion in Yanjing City, the imperial court soldiers and horses will not be able to break into the city, so it is strictly forbidden to open up the wasteland and plant rice. ”

"Red fragrant rice? But every time the pot is turned around, the rice grains can elongate? Zhou Nan couldn't help asking.

"Exactly—I didn't think the pony knew about this fragrant rice. This kind of rice can only be produced in the Jizhou area, and if it is transplanted elsewhere, it will not produce that kind of rice. At that time, only the royal family and nobles could taste it. It's just that there have been wars for many years, but I haven't eaten it. Yu Liyan said to Zhou Nan. She is the princess of Da Liao, so she can naturally eat it.

Zhou Nan was overjoyed and said: "Jizhou and Yanjing can produce rice, and it can be seen that the Wuqing area can naturally be grown." An edict should be issued to gather farmers who know how to cultivate rice and go to the prefectures and counties around Wuqing to teach the local people to plant according to law. Yu stays behind, this matter is up to you! ”