Chapter 212: Governing the city
In the history of Zhao State, there was no shortage of officials sent to the local capital, following the example of Ximen Leopard, shouting and killing the local chief, for the chief, it was undoubtedly a catastrophe, and they did not want to see it, and the final result of these cases was generally that the officials and the chief were both defeated. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
The first thing Chang'an Jun did after coming to Qi County was to enter the city to pay homage to Qi Xi Temple, Qi Xi is the ancestor of the Qi family, and has been worshiped by incense for generations, which is undoubtedly showing goodwill to the Qi family and has also played an excellent role.
At least, the Qi family's internal worries about Chang'anjun dealing with his own family as soon as he came to Qi County disappeared for the time being.
"Such a gentle son, coming to Qi County to be a feudal monarch is not necessarily a bad thing......"
Chang'anjun gave the Qi family face, and the Qi family Weng reciprocated the favor, and presented a mansion to Chang'an Jun on the same day, as his residence before the Fengjun mansion was repaired, and on the grounds that Chang'an Jun's residence was not served, he gave him more than a dozen young concubines in one go, although they were not beautiful, at least they were clear-eyed.
After Mingyue excused herself, she said that it was "borrowed" and accepted Qi's gift with a smile. This mansion is not small, a hundred steps square, only three or four courtyards, much smaller than the Proton Mansion in Linzi and the Chang'an Jun Mansion in Handan, but Mingyue is peaceful. However, he did not live here, but let the doormen who followed him all the way from Handan to this place settle in, and he himself took Cai Ze and other cronies to live directly in the county temple.
The order from Handan has come, and the commanders and lieutenants of Qi County will leave next month, and Qi County will break away from the traditional county specifications and be completely privatized. Before that, the county officials had to hand over the affairs of Qi County to Chang'anjun one by one.
In the county temple, which is countless times smaller than the Handan court, the county order has sealed all the slips and books, just waiting for the bright moon to accept it.
Before Mingyue, he had only been a worker in Handan, and he was in charge of the affairs of a hundred workers, and he could be regarded as having some understanding of the rules of this era, but he suddenly gave him a county of thousands of households, and he was still a little clueless.
Fortunately, when Cai Ze was unwilling in Yan Kingdom, he also worked as an assistant official in Gangcheng County for a period of time, and he was familiar with these things, so Mingyue briefly understood what it took to govern a county with his assistance.
When the county magistrate brought them into the room containing the papers, Mingyue was slightly surprised, but saw that there were dense piles of large and small wooden boxes here, and in the boxes were piles of bamboo slips and wooden slips.
Mingyue couldn't help but turn her head and asked, "There are so many?" How many years does it accumulate? ”
The county order implied that this Handan prince really didn't know much about governing the place, so he smiled and said: "So that the prince knows, this is only the past six years, and the files and slips of King Huiwen twenty-nine years ago were all burned down by the Qin soldiers......"
Six years ago, in the 29th year of King Huiwen (270 BC), Qi County was once taken by the Qin army, and although it was quickly returned, it still dealt a great blow to the local people's livelihood and the rule of Zhao in the local area. The Qin soldiers burned down the county temple, so Mingyue can still find the burned stones and blackened walls at the temple gate, and the archives that have been kept for many years have been burned - perhaps due to the influence of the Shang Dynasty's burning of poetry and books, whenever the Qin soldiers occupy a city, if they are not sure to defend it, they usually burn the local archives and documents.
Next, the county ordered to count boxes after boxes, and took the trouble to explain the contents.
Originally, these slips were all archives of the past years, including the decrees issued from Handan and Jinyang, the household registration of Qi County over the years, land reclamation, property statistics, land rent and tax, labor and forced labor, storage of money and grain, armor materials, road mileage, post and Jindu management, slave trade, prison management, as well as sacrifices, medicine and other related decrees and documents.
Everything about Qi County seems to be condensed in this small archive.
Different from the ceremonial patriarchal system in the Spring and Autumn Period of the Yin Zhou Dynasty, the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period had completed a storm of reform, changing the law from the top down, making the bureaucratic system fully established, and the former nobles had fallen into local tyrants, or ordinary scholars, and a large number of literate taxis were sent to the official places as grassroots officials, so that a new state system was constructed: the law and order system.
Handan promulgated the law as the national criterion, and the counties arranged the annual spring ploughing, summer harvest, autumn harvest, and the final tax according to the order, and then handed over the collected grain to Taiyuan County with the bamboo slips that recorded the annual briefing. Taiyuan County counts the data of each county and then submits it to Handan.
Just as King Qi Wei wanted to evaluate Doctor A and Doctor Jimo, Handan would also make a comparison of the governance of each county according to these slips......
Mingyue just briefly flipped through these slips, and got a glimpse of a lot of details of local governance, in addition to the most detailed tax calculations, there are also fines for criminals in the county, among which "one shield" and "one armor" refer to the amount, which means that the person who made the mistake should pay a shield or a pair of armor, otherwise he would have to "count the resistance", that is, shave off his hair and serve as a sinner.
In addition, the county lieutenant also handed over a lot of documents, such as some brief texts that recorded the consumption of food by the local county officials in a certain month, as well as the storage of weapons in the arsenal, all of which were recorded in great detail.
These dense data, Mingyue can see that her head is almost big, fortunately, there are also Cai Ze with some scholars who have been recruited in Yan Kingdom to help sort it out, but there is a big difference between Zhao Guo's seal characters and Yan characters, and when it comes to conscription and rent, there may be big problems if there is a difference of one word.
This overstretched situation made Mingyue soberly realize that she urgently needed more customers and people. does not seek any talents, but simply helps himself to deal with the documents, so that he can smoothly be the feudal monarch of Qi County and manage this territory.
So a day after Mingyue arrived in Qi County, she announced her first order since she became a feudal monarch: except for the county orders and lieutenants to be transferred, the rest of the officials will be retained, and they will also seek talents from the county!
"Since ancient times, the Son of Heaven founded the country, the princes established a family, and those who have the soil to seal the grass, can they not taste the wise men and gentlemen to govern their land together? Uncle Wei Kang was sealed, and first sought the sage of Wei Di with "Zicai"; When Dr. Qi Xi said goodbye, he also pushed the fox in front of you. Mozi said, those who can govern the country can make the country govern, those who can make the governor make the governor, those who can govern the city can make the ruler govern, and those who can govern the country will be treated. Qi is a big county, outstanding people, but there are good people who live in the family of the elder and have never been out of office, or the room of the scholar Lu Lane is depressed? Under this order, everyone can nominate others, and others can also nominate themselves! Light young to seal, but also hope that the second and third sons of Zuo I will be ugly, enthusiastically recommend talents, do not avoid relatives and enemies, I have to use it, talented people will respect their officials! “