"Come to the west and leave the yellow crane, and the fireworks will go down to Yangzhou in March. The lonely sail is far away and the blue sky is endless, and only the Yangtze River skyline can be seen. ”

With this Tang poem in her mouth, Mei Xiaohan suddenly felt a little sentimental, my old friend... Zhao Kuangyin, I'm going to Yangzhou soon, but you're here to see me off!

Zhao Kuangyinyi was busy with official business, and did not send Mei Xiaohan, who had just become the emperor, so he naturally had a lot of entertainment. Where can I have time to send you?

Since there is no one to send, let's go by yourself!

Zhao Kuangyin didn't come to send another person to send it, this person was Zhao Kuangyi, that is, Zhao Guangyi, who later became Taizong of the Song Dynasty.

Zhao Guangyi laughed for two minutes before calming down.

"I'm really wronged by you, I originally wanted to keep you in the capital, but it's a pity that the positions have been arranged, and those things that fight and kill are not suitable for you."

After all, it is the world of the old Zhao family, no matter how Mei Xiaohan is an outsider, it is not bad to be able to give a fief.

is about to go to his fiefdom, Mei Xiaohan is a little excited. Although it is only a part of Yangzhou, it also has thousands of square kilometers.

And he has independent autonomy and is the king of a city, which is much better than staying in the capital and being restricted everywhere.

When Zhao Kuangyi sent him out dozens of kilometers, he didn't have the slightest intention of leaving, Mei Xiaohan understood a little, he was the same as his brother, waiting to ask him for something.

"Don't be greedy, not a family!" The brothers have a virtuous character.

"I want to give you a gift?"

"It's... Is it appropriate? "Zhao Kuangyi is already a little ready to move.

So the two exchanged gifts separately, and Mei Xiaohan also satisfied Zhao Kuangyi's little vanity and gave him a pistol.

After Zhao Kuangyi got the gun, he was very excited, and fired several shots in succession, killing a cow grazing on the side because of the misfire of the gun.

When the cow died, Zhao Kuangyinyi did not forget to be greedy, and ordered someone to drag the dead cow home, of course, he also paid the owner of the cow some silver.

And Zhao Kuangyi's gift to Mei Xiaohan was a promise, promising to cover Mei Xiaohan in the future.

The so-called gentleman has no jokes, and if you say it now, you will have to pay for it in the future.

Zhao Kuangyi, who was less than 23 years old, waved goodbye to Changmei Xiaohan outside Kaifeng City.

Mei Xiaohan led his army of 3,000 towards his fiefdom...

There are ways to govern a big country, and there are ways to govern a small city.

The first thing Mei Xiaohan did was:

First, the official positions of the team members will remain unchanged.

Second: "Meicheng" is the new name of his fiefdom.

Third, new administrative divisions should be carried out.

Mei Xiaohan's own people, the people brought from Kaifeng, and now there are Zhang Yun, Liu Sihao, and Liu Sinian, and the others are all left in Kaifeng as hostages.

As for why they didn't remove all the original officials, it wasn't because Mei Xiaohan trusted them. It's because sometimes it's not a bad thing to keep the old hands, and the reform can't come too quickly, otherwise it will cause big waves.

This fiefdom now has a new name, "Meicheng!" "A piece of territory that is completely your own.

Although Meicheng belongs to the administrative division of Yangzhou, it does not obey the orders of Yangzhou government, because it has a high autonomy right, and when Mei Xiaohan arrived here, it was convenient for Yangzhou to become independent.

The big and small officials of Meicheng were at the gate of Meicheng, standing to welcome Mei Xiaohan's arrival, each of them was smiling and not smiling, although their expressions were very in place, but they looked very dull and stiff.

A new dynasty has just been established, and some people have not yet adapted to it, and their attitudes have not changed.

The biggest point is that some of the etiquette of the Later Zhou Dynasty is still being followed, which is absolutely not good, a new dynasty, a new country, and a new atmosphere.

These officials, who are in their seventies and eighties, could never have imagined that their leader was actually such a young boy, and naturally they were quite unconvinced.

However, it does not have much effect if people are not convinced, there are many people who are not convinced, but there are very few people who can live.

For ten days in a row, these treacherous and cunning officials had to treat them to dinner every day, trying to numb Mei Xiaohan mentally and materially.

However, the result of this is that Mei Xiaohan can see the faces of these people clearly.

That is: "They are all people who don't learn and don't know how to learn." ”

The official system of the Song Dynasty was inherited from the system of the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, but important reforms were also made in view of the purpose of stopping secession and centralizing power at the central level.

Even piracy is not exactly the same, and piracy has dignity.

In the Tang Dynasty, the localities were divided into prefectures (prefectures) and counties, and "Dao" was set up as the supervision area.

The Song Dynasty changed to the road, state (government, army, prison), and county systems, but the state level was tightly controlled, and power was concentrated in the center, which meant that the emperor's power was greater.

Supervision Department -- At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, troops were used in various places, and water and land transportation envoys were set up in various states to be in charge of military supplies and food.

After the reunification, the transfer envoy became the official in charge of all kinds of finance, and appointed the Beijing official as the transfer judge.

After Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty, he changed the route to divide the country into 15 roads (Jingdong Road, Jingxi Road, Hebei Road, Hedong Road, Shaanxi Road, Huainan Road, Jiangnan Road, Jinghu South Road, Jinghu North Road, Liangzhejiang Road, Fujian Road, Xizhou Road, Xialu Road, Guangnan East Road, Guangnan West Road).

The transit envoys, deputy envoys, and transfer judges became permanent officials at the road level specially appointed by the imperial court, mainly in charge of land and water transportation and financial taxation of the prefectures and counties under their jurisdiction, and later expanded their powers, sometimes also in charge of criminal law and civil affairs.

Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty stipulated that the transfer envoys from all over the country should take turns to go to Beijing and report the local situation to the imperial court. There was also a pacification envoy, who was concurrently served by the governor of the most important state in the road, who was in charge of the military administration of the road, and was also in charge of civil affairs, justice, and finance.

During the Song Dynasty, Li Bo, the right remnant, suggested that Jiedu should lead the county and call his cronies to take charge of the city, which was not convenient for merchants to circulate goods; Not to have some domination, to divide the power, is to respect the royal family, strong and weak branches.

Taizong Cai Li Zi suggested, 977 Marsh Order, after the Zhou old land divided into 39 prefectures + 阝 (Yinbin bīn), Ning, Jing, Yuan, etc., all directly under the Beijing Division. From then on, there were no more Jiao counties, and all states in the country were directly under the imperial court. In the Song Dynasty, the power of the central government was controlled down to the county level, and the prefectures and towns could no longer be arbitrary.

When Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty was renamed the Institute of Managers, the managers joined the army. Local jurisdictions are also restricted. Taizu ordered that all the crimes of Dabi (head killing) should be recorded and sent to the Imperial Court Criminal Department for review after execution. The imperial court also sent envoys to various places to try cases.

After a series of reforms, Song Taizu and Taizong not only directly controlled the appointment and dismissal of local officials, but also comprehensively concentrated the administrative, financial, and judicial powers of various prefectures and counties in the central government. The so-called "soldiers have also been collected, wealth has also been collected, rewards and punishments have been collected, and everything has been collected."

The Song Dynasty thus took full control of the local government and strengthened the absolutist centralized rule as never before.

After measurement, the entire Meicheng has more than 2,500 square kilometers and a population of 300,000, which can be regarded as a big city.

The year is 960 A.D., February.