Chapter 383 Establishment of the system
In addition to determining the two most important things, the country name and the national capital, Yang Wu also had to determine the various official systems of the future Wu State during this period. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Although Yang Wu had been preparing for the establishment of the country in the future for a long time, the current official system in Huainan was still mainly based on the feudal town system.
Although Yang Wu is a person of later generations, he also understands the superiority of various political systems in later generations, but at this time, without any foundation, implementing a system like that of later generations is simply looking for death.
Therefore, what he can do is to combine the actual situation of today, and then select the various systems of the Song, Ming and other dynasties and later generations, and try to find a relatively ideal political system.
In the beginning, Yang Wu tried his best to follow the system of the Song Dynasty, because he considered that the Song Dynasty ended the disputes of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, and its system must have been created in response to various problems in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, which was of the greatest significance for Yang Wu.
However, in the process of implementation, Yang Wu found that the problems he faced were still very different from those faced by the Northern Song Dynasty.
The most important point is that Huainan was a feudal town before, and in the process of transforming into a state, there was no need to inherit the problems left over from the previous dynasty, while the Northern Song Dynasty was the direct successor of the Later Zhou, so the various systems of the Later Zhou Dynasty were generally inherited by the Northern Song Dynasty.
Therefore, Huainan can plan according to Yang Wu's ideas on a relatively blank piece of paper, but the Northern Song Dynasty cannot.
In addition, the problems encountered by the Northern Song Dynasty, such as the excessive power of local festivals, are actually not serious in today's Huainan, especially after Yang Wu's many rectifications, the phenomenon of those military generals tyrannizing power has now been greatly reduced.
In this way, Yang Wu naturally prefers the Ming system, which is also established from the blank.
Of course, many of the systems of the Ming Dynasty that had been proven inappropriate by later generations would naturally be improved.
The first is the central system, Yang Wu intends to directly imitate the cabinet system of the Ming Dynasty, with scholars as cabinet ministers, jointly exercising the power of the prime minister, as the highest authority of the center.
Under the cabinet, six ministries, the Privy Council, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Dali Temple and other institutions were set up to be responsible for the actual operation of the entire country.
For the time being, there are only three Cabinet Fellows, one of whom is the First Auxiliary Fellow, who is in charge of six ministries and is responsible for daily government affairs. The other two scholars were respectively responsible for the military affairs of the Privy Council, the supervision and trial of the Metropolitan Inspectorate and the Dali Temple, so as to check and balance each other with the first and auxiliary scholars.
In addition to the three scholars, the scholars of the six ministries, the two deputy envoys of the Privy Council, as well as the inspector of the Imperial Court and the Siqing of the Dali Temple, will be crowned with the title of bachelor, and also have the right to participate in cabinet meetings.
However, in terms of specific rights, the rights of the bachelor are naturally much lower than that of the bachelor, and they belong to the leaders of the three scholars, and they are all future candidates for the bachelor's degree.
The central structure is largely the same as that of the Ming Dynasty, but there are many differences in specific aspects.
The first point is the tenure system and the appointment system for university scholars.
In order to prevent the occurrence of a situation in the future in which scholars have arbitrary power and hold the position of a scholar for a long time, Yang Wu specially stipulated that all scholars should be elected for a term of five years, and after the deadline, they should be re-elected, and a person could only serve two terms of university scholars at most.
The purpose of such a regulation is to fundamentally eliminate the emergence of powerful ministers.
Of course, Yang Wu also knows that the system is dead and people are alive; Institutions can never limit people.
Even in later generations of Citigroup, it is inevitable that there will be a situation of four consecutive presidents, and there is a situation where someone becomes the prime minister after being the president, and then becomes the president after being the prime minister.
These are all unavoidable things, Yang Wu will not think that everything will be fine in the future after he makes this regulation, but at least there is this "ancestral system", and future generations will still have to be somewhat constrained between things and things.
As for the Zhishi system, Yang Wu stipulated that officials who had reached the age of 65 must go home to retire unless they were university scholars.
What Yang Wu needs is a capable minister who can govern the local area, not open a nursing home.
In addition, Yang Wu greatly strengthened the authority of Dali Temple.
On the one hand, the local government, as the main body of administration, is not only responsible for the day-to-day management of the locality, but also responsible for the duties of criminal prisons and trials, which has brought room for the operation of local judicial corruption.
Therefore, Yang Wu decided to separate the judicial power from the local government. Standing up, the courts at all levels under the Dali Temple are responsible for hearing the case; Procuratorates at all levels have been set up under the Metropolitan Procuratorate to be responsible for supervision and inspection.
In this way, once a crime is committed in a locality, the local government will first investigate and handle it, and whether it is an investigation or arrest of a criminal, the arrest will be completed first, and then it will be handed over to the procurators at all levels for examination and approval, and finally the case will be prosecuted to the court for trial.
When the time comes, those who should be killed will be killed, and those who should be convicted and exiled will be exiled, so that mutual restraint can be avoided to a large extent the behavior of the magistrates covering the sky and making a big deal of unjust imprisonment in the locality.
In addition, the court and the prosecutor's office are independent because of the . In this way, those who understand the law can be recruited separately to serve in the position, and the behavior of those local officials who did not understand the law in the past can be avoided.
To put it bluntly, Yang Wu's purpose is to initially establish a judicial system similar to that of later generations, and prepare for possible reforms in the future.
As for the local institutions, Yang Wu's plan is also in accordance with the system of the Ming Dynasty, which Yang Wu has actually done a lot, and he does not need to make much changes, and even directly use the current local structure.
Specifically, it is to divide the place into three levels of administrative divisions, the highest level was officially named the province by Yang Wu, and now the two provinces of Jiangxi Province and Zhejiang Province have been established, and in the future there should also be Fujian Province, Hunan Province, etc., as for the old territory of Huainan before, it was divided into Zhili by Yang Wu, that is, it directly belongs to the central control.
Below the province is the state and government level, and below the state and government is the administrative division at the county level, and there are not many specific changes.
In addition, Yang Wu also set up two special administrative divisions, "Wei" and "Jian", of which "Jian" is a state-run mining and metallurgy, coinage, horse randing, salt production and other professional management institutions, while "Wei" is set up in some dangerous places, responsible for guarding one side.
The last point is that Yang Wuxin established two states, one is to upgrade Hailing County to Taizhou and Jiaxing to Xiuzhou.
In general, Yang Wu has not made many adjustments in the local administration, or the areas that need to be adjusted have been completed before.
After determining these most important matters, there were still some special things that required Yang Wu to have a headache.
The first point is the issue of wives and concubines.
Since Yang Wu founded the country and became the king, the problem of not having many heirs is no longer a family affair of the Yang family, but also a state affair of the Wu State.
Now Yang Wu still only has a three-room wife, which is an incredible thing in this era, not to mention those lustful Zhu Wen, Liu Rengong, Wang Jian and others, even Yang Xingmi, who lives an extremely frugal life, is far more than three wives and concubines.
So when Yang Wu's official founding of the country was decided, Gao Miao ran to Yang Wu and said with a serious face: "...... Now that the eldest prince is not rich, it is not a blessing of the country, please order the selection of draft girls to enrich the harem! ”
"What? Draft girl? This is too disturbing for the people, it is impossible! Yang Wu refused without thinking about it.
Although he can also accept political marriage, he also knows that he can't always have only the current Mrs. Sanfang, but the draft girl will completely turn herself into a stallion, this kind of thing Yang Wu is not willing.
What's more, things like draft girls often have a huge impact on the people, and Yang Wu is unwilling to do such a big thing when he is not yet king.
Seeing that Yang Wu rejected the proposal of the Guang draft girl, Gao Miao smiled slightly, and said unhurriedly: "Although the king puts the people first and does not want to disturb the people, but after enrichment. The palace is imperative, so the king may wish to choose a woman with good looks among the civil and military officials to enter the palace! ”
Yang Wu suddenly knew that this was Gao Miao's real purpose, as for the proposal of the so-called draft girl in the front, first, it was just to make it difficult for Yang Wu to refuse the latter proposal, and secondly, it was more important to test Yang Wu.
In history, there are many wise and martial kings, who began to be corrupt and degenerate after ascending the throne, content with enjoyment, and not thinking of progress; Now that Yang Wu has also reached the step of founding the country and becoming the king, will he continue to forge ahead as before, or will he be content to enjoy it, Gao Miao and others really can't be completely assured.
Since Yang Wu understood the painstaking efforts of Gao Miao and the others, he immediately said solemnly: "Why should Gao Ge Lao be like this? If the day is not yet settled, is it time to be content with pleasures? You can rest assured that no matter whether the world is peaceful or not, the enterprising heart in the lonely heart will never change! This is Lone's promise, and I also ask Mr. Gao to convey it to all the secretaries, so that they can do things with peace of mind, Lone will never change, and they will not forget their merits! ”
After hearing this, Gao Miao finally reassured: "The king's words should be relayed to your colleagues." However, this matter of enriching the harem is imperative, and please don't shirk it! ”
The probability of the death of young children in this era is very large, even the royal children also have many premature deaths, such as Yang Wu had a younger brother who died young.
This is also why Gao Miao and others insisted on Yang Wu finding more women when he already had a son, just in case.
Of course, for Yang Wu, now that the new dynasty has been established, it is indeed necessary for him to marry a few more wives, which is not only related to the issue of the Yang family's heirs, but also can be used to win over the ministers of Huainan.
However, Yang Wu needs to think carefully about the specific candidates, otherwise he will inevitably cause trouble in the future.