Chapter 323: Changing the Law (2)

As for the military power of the Song State, Dai Yan had no idea of handing it over at all! In a country, the army is the last stabilizer, and controlling the army is the symbol of real control of power! The ancients have the same name as the army, so you can know the importance of military power!

Holding the army firmly in your hands is what a qualified monarch should do!

After the Central Committee of the Song State established the Prime Minister's Office, the Seven Ministries, and the Left and Right Courts, Dai Yan began to plan the local administration of the Song State.

Nowadays, the magistrates of the Song State are roughly divided into two types, namely the Yi Shou and the Fengjun. During Zixi's reform, in addition to Le's territory and even Dai Yan's fiefdom, the first-level local officials of the entire Song State were Yi Shou.

After the current Song State was seized by Dai Yan with the Taoqiu army, the autonomous territory of the Le clan was also deprived by Dai Yan, and in his hands, the only territory left to be self-governed by the feudal monarch was the land of the East China Sea!

The shou of the city, literally, is the guardian of a city, no different from the lord of the city. For such an official position, Dai Yan feels that it is really as good as his name! The main job of the Yi Shou was to deal with the internal affairs of each city and to collect taxes from the Song people around the city.

In fact, according to the experience of today's era, the control of the city over the local area is actually relatively tight. A city has the function of connecting places, and the trade and population exchanges of the surrounding villages need to be connected by the city. Even if it is the victory or defeat of the war between countries, the cession of land is always the cession of cities, and it is rare to cede a specific number of acres of territory!

Therefore, controlling each city can be regarded as controlling the entire city and the surrounding territory, which can be regarded as a relatively tight control. But in Dai Yan's eyes, this is far from enough!

Because in today's Warring States Period, whether a country is strong or not depends on how many troops it can mobilize. The Yi Shou system is basically a kind of ruling method similar to the later "imperial power does not go down to the county", under this way of governance, if you want to mobilize enough troops, you need to go through the help of local nobles! In Dai Yan's view, this is plainly putting a bargaining chip into the hands of others, which he absolutely cannot tolerate!

If the emperor of a great unified dynasty continues to extend the bureaucratic machinery below the county level because of the huge territory, then the entire bureaucratic machine will become extremely huge, and if the central government does not have sufficient decision-making power, it will easily collapse, such as the Great Qin Empire. However, now the territory of the Song State is only tens of thousands of square kilometers, and it would be completely stupid to follow the practice of "the monarch does not have the power to descend to the city" at this time!

At least today, most of the countries in the world, but all the countries that have really changed the law and reformed, have extended the power of the monarch to the localities. And the leader among them, the Qin State, is able to bring everyone into the ruling category of the state apparatus through strict household arrangement!

It can be said that the strength of the state apparatus, and even the scope of control of the state apparatus over the people, determines the strength of the country to a large extent! The Qin State was able to always have the upper hand in the struggle with other countries, and the strength of its state apparatus played the most important role!

Regarding the current situation in the Song Kingdom, where Yishou and feudal monarchs coexist, Dai Yan did not intend to destroy it. Although it is true that the complete extension of the monarch's power to the localities is conducive to mobilizing the largest number of troops and exerting the greatest strength, in the border areas where the Song people do not yet have an absolute advantage, rash reform is very easy to cause contradictions!

Dai Yan has not forgotten how huge and long it is to change the land and return to the river in later generations, and even how many iterations it has undergone!

Therefore, Dai Yan changed all the more than 20 cities in the Song Kingdom to counties, and the original Yi Shou was renamed the county order. And the place where the county system was implemented was also called "the native of the Song State" by the Song people, and it was the strongest place in the Song State's power structure!

The county magistrate is the parent official of a place, responsible for managing all the affairs of the entire city and even the surrounding villages, and is the first-level local governor of the entire Song Kingdom.

Under the county order, there is a county lieutenant, who is responsible for the training and recruitment of soldiers in the entire county, and is the local military governor. According to the principle of separation of powers among the administrative, military, and supervisory powers of the Song State, the county council was responsible for supervising the county orders and county lieutenants.

The county council was similar to the left and right houses of the Song Kingdom, and was also divided into the House of Nobles and the House of Commoners. Of these two chambers, only the members of the right house need to be elected, while the members of the left house are selected by checking their ancestry through the local genealogy, plus their specific influence on the local area, and are directly appointed by the left house in Pengcheng!

The officials who are specifically responsible for managing affairs are composed of county officials, Changshi, Gongcao Shi, Guanpeng, Duyou, etc. Among them, the county chief is the adjutant of the county order, which is basically similar to the deputy mayor of later generations; Changshi, on the other hand, is the staff of the prefectural order, and is generally similar to the secretary general of later generations. As for the history of Gongcao, the history of Guanpeng, and the history of Duyou, they are the officials in charge of specific affairs in the county.

Among them, the officials of the county government generally have the main chronicle of the history and are responsible for the records of the county government. He is responsible for the affairs of the recital. Shaofu Shi, responsible for the financial expenditure of the county government. The subordinate superintendent Cao is responsible for inspecting the place and being responsible for law and order.

In terms of specific matters, among the civil affairs officials is Cao Pengshi, who is responsible for the records of the households and the affairs of agriculture. Tian Cao Pengshi is responsible for field reclamation and animal husbandry. Shui Cao Peng Shi is responsible for local water conservancy. Shi Cao Pengshi, responsible for the seasonal sacrifice.

Among the financial officials, there is Bi Cao Pengshi, who is responsible for specific financial records and distribution. Cangcao Pengshi, responsible for Canggu affairs. Jin Cao Pengshi, in charge of currency salt and iron affairs. Ji Cao Pengshi, responsible for the affairs of the plan.

A military and political officer, with a history of soldier Cao Peng, is responsible for the recruitment and training of soldiers. Wei Cao Pengshi, responsible for the migration and transfer of soldiers.

Political and legal officials have a history of thieves and have an overview of thieves. Thief Hunt is responsible for catching thieves. Cao Pengshi is responsible for convicting and convicting prisoners. Resigned from Cao Peng's history, responsible for the matter of litigation.

Local traffic officials, on the other hand, are responsible for the arrest of the order, the recording of prisoners, and the urging of soldiers. Fa Cao Peng Shi, responsible for the affairs of the official post station. Cao Cao Pengshi, responsible for the transportation of grain and grass.

The local education department is responsible for the management of the history of the scholars, the county Peng's sacrificial wine, the study of scriptures, and the history of literature. In addition, he also has a history of medical Cao Peng, who is responsible for people's livelihood and medical care.

At the county level, with such a huge bureaucratic system, it can almost encompass the affairs of the entire county, big and small! This puts an end to the fact that when Zixi was in power before, a Yi Shou could only float on the surface of the nobles, acting as an unqualified tax collector and a liaison between the nobles!

Below the county level, there are townships. The organizational structure of the township is similar to that of the county, and the head of the township is the head of the township. The township is roughly divided into the education system, and its chief officials are the three elders; the fiscal and taxation system, whose chief official is Qiangfu; The security system, which is headed by Youjiao.

In order to concretely extend the power to the lower classes, below the township, there are also pavilions and li. The setting of the pavilion and the interior does not follow the specific specifications, and is roughly set up in accordance with the standards of one pavilion in ten miles and one pavilion in ten pavilions. And in each of them, a special establishment will be carried out, with five families as a team, and a team leader will be set up; Ten families have a tithe, and they are long.

These commanders and chiefs will also be incorporated into the civilian military, and if there is a war in the future, these commanders and commanders will be the direct military commanders!

It can be said that the bureaucratic system of the entire Song State, at the administrative level, basically extended to the township. And below the township, it follows the characteristics of military management! In this way, the entire Song State was like a country that combined military and political affairs.

This kind of integrated management of military and government can ensure that the Song State can mobilize the largest number of soldiers and the most powerful army in a very short time!

In the process of building the bureaucratic system of the entire Song State, those generals and even soldiers who followed Dai Yan to defeat the Song State have been greatly rewarded! Most of those heroes occupy the most prominent positions at the central and local levels!

Like Tian Jiu, the Mohist giant who followed Dai Yan earlier, served as the deputy minister and the secretary of work; and Xu Xing, the head of the farmer's family, concurrently served as the household secretary in the name of deputy prime minister. Most of their disciples became local officials of the Song Kingdom, or became senior officials in charge of the party, or became officials with specific tasks!

In the entire Song Kingdom, there were large areas for the Mo family and peasant disciples to display their talents, which also made the influence of these two schools grow rapidly!

As for the talents who graduated from various schools in Taoqiu and even joined the army, most of them became officials at all levels of the Song State. Because Dai Yan did not specifically divide officials and officials, the local grassroots officials who were initially appointed were all happily appointed!

In the Song Kingdom, among all the local officials, only three positions were the most important, that is, the governors in charge of the three capitals. Dai Yan handed over these three positions to his real cronies to take care of them personally.

In the war, Tian Buli, who had been providing logistics materials for Dai Yan, was ordered by Dai Yan to be Taoqiu Ling; The first fierce general under Dai Yan was appointed as the Suiyang Order to deter the old nobles; As for the delicate Xiao Xiang, he was appointed as the Peng Cheng Commander to deal with the intricate situation in the new capital!

As for the frontier areas of the Song Kingdom, in today's case, they are mainly the land of the East China Sea and overseas territories. In these places, except for the people who are located in the cities and towns, which are Song people, they are all over the countryside, either Yi people or Japanese people like barbarians.

If it was Yimin, the Song people could barely communicate with them. However, the Yimin had their own way of governing, largely ruled by tribal leaders. It is absolutely impossible to rashly implement the county system before there is no strong enough force in the border areas!

As for the overseas Japanese people, they are almost no different from the savages! Such a place also does not have the basis for implementing the county system.

Therefore, in these places, Dai Yan basically directly let the feudal monarchs govern themselves. Of course, in order to build the foundation of the county system in the future, Dai Yan still appointed the most powerful Huangfu Yong as the county commander of Yancheng in Yancheng, where the Song people were relatively powerful.

In this way, the entire Song State, with the local county and township two-level centralized system and the feudal monarch autonomy system, the political system of these two systems in parallel, began to be implemented in the Song State! Such a two-legged way of walking is the unique way of ruling the entire Song Kingdom!

The county system, as the basic plate, was able to maintain the strength of the entire Song state; The Fengjun Autonomous Region, as a pioneering place for the Song people, helped the Song State continue to expand its territory!