The continuous military operations in the spring and summer of the third year of Guangshun made the jurisdiction of the Eighth Route Army develop from one state to four states today. The stall has become bigger, and the previously inconspicuous issue of jurisdiction has suddenly officially surfaced. It stands to reason that Li Wenge's current post as the envoy of the Eighth Route Army can only govern one prefecture, Yanzhou, but at this moment, the four counties in the northwest are under the control of his military forces. Of course, theoretically, these places are all imperial prefectures and counties, and should be managed by officials appointed by the imperial court.

The subtlety of the matter lies in the fact that everyone understands that the imperial court will not be so faceless, and the territory that General Li has brought down will be spit out by his old man, and he will not be able to take it without enough price.

Taking a step back and thinking about it, there will not be any official who is so blind and touches General Li's moldy head with thunder. You must know that at present, these states and counties, except for Yanzhou, are not good places to go. Needless to say, Xiazhou and Youzhou, the economy of Hezhou collapsed, tens of thousands of barbarians were waiting to be fed, and a few civil officials ran over, afraid that they would not be gnawed off as jerky? Even Gyeongju, which has a slightly better economic situation, there are still three barbarian tribes entrenched, once the officials with no foundation take office, they will have no soldiers and no money, and the three major tribes will rebel again, who can afford it?

Want General Li to help? Just kidding, to grab the meat in someone's hand and ask someone to help remove the bones, how can there be such a cheap thing in the world?

Even if you want to be naturalized, you still have to wait for General Li to clean up these states and counties......

It is certainly a good thing for Li Wenge that the imperial court does not interfere, but it is really a bit difficult to get the leading groups of four states at once from the family background of one state......

For this matter, as soon as Li Wenge came back, he dragged Li Bin and Qin Gu to hold a long meeting night and night, so that Li Bin, the old man, couldn't hold it anymore, and finally decided on a plan to promote cadres from various counties.

On July 18, the third year of Guangshun, the Yanzhou Eighth Route Army Jiedu Mansion issued an appointment notice, appointing Gao Shaoyuan as the Eighth Route Army Qingzhou Jiedu Judge Quan Zhiqingzhou Political Affairs, appointing the former Yanzhou Transshipment Cao Zhizhi Yanzhou Jiedu Judge Quan Zhiyanzhou Political Affairs, appointing Xiao Yali, the former Yanzhou Buzheng Cao Zhicha Chief, as the Eighth Route Army Xiazhou Jiedu Judge Quan Zhixia Prefecture Political Affairs, and appointing Lu Xun, the commander of the Eighth Route Army's Xiangbing Corps, to concurrently serve as the Eighth Route Army Youzhou Jiedu Judge Quan Zhiyouzhou Military Affairs

This system is a completely new feudal system. ^^ Premiere &nbsucom^^ In the old system, both the governor and the governor were appointed by the imperial court, and at least nominally had no direct subordinate relationship with the Jiedu envoys who held real power. However, in this new system, all state jiedu judges are preceded by the title of "Eighth Route Army", which clearly reflects the subordinate relationship between these state-level administrative officials and the Eighth Route Army Jiedu government. It's just that the judges of the original Jiedu Prefecture have changed from one member to many, and they are all responsible to the Eighth Route Army Jiedu Mansion in Yanzhou, which has evolved into an administrative jurisdiction higher than the state-level administrative unit, which has never been seen in the history of the late Tang Dynasty.

From this time on, the term "Eighth Route Army" took on two completely different meanings, the first referring to the army under the leadership of Li Wenge. The second refers to the administrative region composed of several prefectures under the jurisdiction of Li Wenge, which will grow stronger and stronger in the future with the evolution of the general trend of the world.

As for the "Quanzhi X State Political Affairs" and "Quanzhi X Prefecture Military and Political Affairs" followed by the titles of the judges of each state, it is a basic distinction between the power of local administrative officials. In the present. The power in the hands of Li Wenge was mainly divided into administrative power and military power, so the power under his command was also divided into these two categories. Those state judges who only have the suffix "Quanzhi X state affairs" only have administrative power in their own jurisdiction, such as Gao Shaoyuan, who can only be in charge of Gyeongju administrative affairs. The military power of Gyeongju was in the hands of Li Hu, the training envoy of the Gyeongju regiment of the Eighth Route Army, who was solely responsible for Li Wenge, and did not accept the leadership and dispatch of Gao Shaoyuan. However, Lu Xun, the observer judge of Youzhou with the suffix "Right to Know Youzhou Military and Political Affairs", is completely different, he not only has the administrative power of Youzhou, but also has the military power of the state, and the new Youzhou regimental training envoy of the Eighth Route Army, Di Huaiwei, is directly responsible to him, and he is directly responsible to Li Wenge.

At the same time as the civil appointment, Li Wenge appointed four state regimental training envoys. Ling Pu served as the training envoy of the Yanzhou Regiment of the Eighth Route Army. Li Hu served as the training envoy of the Qingzhou regiment of the Eighth Route Army, and Jing Hai served as the training envoy of the Xiazhou regiment of the Eighth Route Army. Di Huaiwei served as the training envoy of the Youzhou Regiment of the Eighth Route Army.

On the day after the announcement of the appointment on July 18, that is, on July 19 of the third year of Guangshun, Li Wenge issued another relatively brief appointment letter, appointing the top political governors and the top military affairs chiefs of the four prefectures.

Qin Gu was appointed as the chief historian of the Eighth Route Army, and Zhou Zhengyu was appointed as the Sima of the Eighth Route Army. **&***

In order to make the division of labor between the military and the government clear, Li Wenge redefined the official ranks internally while issuing the proclamation.

According to the new Yanzhou official system, the commander of the Eighth Route Army, Shi Zheng, was on the fourth grade, and Sima of the Eighth Route Army was on the fourth grade, with the rank of General Xuanwei; The Eighth Route Army is under the fifth grade, and the Eighth Route Army is training the sixth grade, with the rank of Zhaowu Captain.

Some of them are not much different from the central government, while others are quite different. For example, the judge of the festival degree is the title of the fifth grade in the current late Tang Dynasty official system, and the long history of the festival itself is also the title of the fourth grade (more than half a level of the governor of the history of the thorn), there is no difference between the two, but the original judge of the fifth grade is only the deputy of the state of the state of the governor, and now it has become a real chief executive, in charge of the civil affairs of a state, the original history of the festival is only in charge of the civil affairs of a state, and now this official position has even disappeared after the gradual evolution of the system, but now this position has not only reappeared, And all of a sudden, he became a feudal official in charge of the administration of several states. Originally, the position of the regimental training envoy was a prominent military position of the fourth grade, but in the hands of Li Wenge, it became the sixth grade.

On the one hand, the purpose of making the new official system consistent with the military system of the Eighth Route Army, and on the other hand, it is to implement the principle of civilian politics and highlight the political concept of governing the country with civilian officials.

As a result, the secession regime in the four prefectures of Yanqing and Youxia has now formed a complete bureaucratic system from top to bottom. In this system, Li Wenge is located at the top of the entire pyramid of power, under him there are two four-rank officials of Changshi Sima, and under Changshi, there are three branches: the Department of Undertaking and Proclamation, the Department of Prosecution, and the Department of Waterway Transfer. Each judge's office has jurisdiction over the proclamation of the government, the proclamation of the sentence, and the transfer of the three Cao, and at the same time has jurisdiction over the county orders. The county-level administrative units will no longer be subdivided, with the county order as the chief, and the county chief in charge of the general administration. The county lieutenant is in charge of public security and prison, and the county chief clerk is in charge of miscellaneous affairs and post administration.

On the first floor of Jiedu Mansion, there are five Caos in the Department of Administration: agriculture, business, labor, taxation, and judgment; According to the procuratorate, there are three courts: trial and punishment, public security, and prison; The Transshipment Division consists of four routes: land, water, road construction, and posting. ^^ first &nbsucom^^ Each Cao Neifu is divided into departments according to the division of labor. The official rank of the Cao Branch of the Jiedu Prefecture is the same as that of the local Cao Ke.

As a result, there are more vacancies in the Jiedu Prefecture alone, and the establishment of 12 Cao and 48 sections in the four prefectures and counties has increased sharply to more than 200 administrative officials above the eighth rank under the jurisdiction of the Eighth Route Army, and in addition to the 112 chief officials in the 28 counties under the jurisdiction of the current jurisdiction, the total number of administrative officials in the four prefectures is 353.

This number is very frightening, and you must know that this does not include military officers and Li Bin's supervision officials stationed in various states and counties.

Li Bin's Prime Minister's Office also nominally had jurisdiction over the administration of the prefectures and the Jiedu Prefecture. But this jurisdiction is more of a supervisory nature. Li Bin stationed a supervisor in each county, a supervisor in each state, and a supervisor in his prime minister's mansion. There are a total of 33 supervision officials in each prefecture and county.

In addition to the military system, the number of "state cadres" in the four prefectures of Yanqing and Youxia nominally reached 386 at once.

Compared to the population base of less than 300,000 in these four states, this establishment is indeed terrifying!

Of course, these are just theoretical figures. In the current Eighth Route Army jurisdiction, part-time jobs are almost inevitable, taking Qin Gu as an example, this Eighth Route Army Jiedu Changshi currently personally serves as the political envoy of the Jiedu Mansion and the waterway transport envoy, and also concurrently serves as the chief of the political secretary, the director of agriculture, the chief of business, the chief of the judgment, and the director of the land route in the transfer department.

Qin Gu, who only had jurisdiction over a few thousand people in a poor county just two years ago, is now in charge of civil affairs in 28 counties with a population of nearly 300,000, which is indeed a big challenge for this young civil official.

Faced with the anxious situation, Qin Gu had no choice but to bite the bullet. What's the solution? The blame is only on Li Wenge's expansion speed, which is a little too fast......

Many officials have risen through the ranks as a result of the regulatory reforms. Chen Shutong, who was only a nine-pin county lieutenant more than a year ago, is now a dignified Yanzhou political director and a six-pin official. Of course, after his appointment, he was also allowed to "concurrently act in Yan'an and Fushi County Orders". **&*** There is no way, there is a lack of many officials, and it is really rare for officials with actual political experience to be found, so let's reluctantly do both.

On July 20 of the first year of Guangshun, the new official system was implemented, and the Eighth Route Army had jurisdiction over 4 prefectures and 28 counties, with 386 officials and 94 actual posts, with a shortage of three-quarters.

Li Bin and Qin Gu once asked Li Wenge why he insisted on implementing such a cumbersome new official system, and Li Wenge finally scratched his head and replied embarrassedly after avoiding it several times: "With this shelf, under the court of the Great Zhou, no matter how big the territory is in the future and how many states are in my hands, I can use this system to wrap them up and digest them......"

Li Bin and Qin Gu looked at each other speechlessly......

The two of them studied this official system in private, and at first they couldn't come up with any other conclusions except for rigor and complexity, until finally Qin Gu had a flash of inspiration and finally discovered a benefit of this official system.

Under this official system, Li Wenge did not need to be called king and emperor, but could also unscrupulously annex prefectures and counties and expand his territory.

The advantage of this bureaucratic system is that it can be used to annex the whole world, and all the institutional problems in the process of expansion can be properly solved in this political system without an emperor......

To put it simply: slowly reign as king, expand widely......

This is a super warlord program, a guy who can create such a warlord system on his own, and he is definitely a guy who has studied the advantages and disadvantages of warlord politics throughout the ages.

What kind of weird guy is Li Wenge......

The history of the five generations of warlords in the late Tang Dynasty has been more than 100 years, of which Li Bin has witnessed at least more than 50 years, but Li Bin admits that he has never seen a warlord with such a high level of rank, and he has actually made many ways to be a warlord.

After staying for a long time, Li Bin smiled bitterly and spit out a sentence: "Wei Ying, Li Siding, three dukes and nine qing." Gao Ying and Yang Su set up three provinces and six departments, and if everyone sees Huairen, they should all avoid the road......"

Qin Gu sprayed a mouthful of water on his shirt and coughed for a long time......

Nevertheless. But the problem of insufficient posts must always be solved, after all, one state has changed from four states, and this is real. ^^ starter &nbsucom^^

Li Wenge's countermeasure to this was to ---- the opening of Yanzhou Qiuqiu. Establish a civil service examination system with Yanzhou characteristics.

The imperial examinations in the Tang Dynasty were held in the first month, and the list was released in February, which was really "spring", and Li Bin and Qin Gu had never heard of it.

From 22 to 28 July, through the mouths of the "journalists" who had been appointed in the counties of Buda Prefecture, the locals, people, industrialists, and people of all stripes in Yanqing and Yanqing Prefecture were so surprised that their jaws could not be closed. From September 1 to 10, the county seat of Yan'an will hold an autumn imperial examination, and those who are hired will be directly appointed by the Jiedu Prefecture. There is no need to wait for the court officials to choose officials.

The reason why the people were surprised was that this imperial examination was not only in the wrong season, but even the form was very different from previous years.

First of all, there is no need to submit papers for this imperial examination. There is no need to be recommended by an official person, only the reference person needs to register at the county office and pass the preliminary examination on the spot to obtain the qualification to go to Yan'an for the retest.

The content of the preliminary test is extremely simple, there are only two items, one is that the examiner randomly writes a sentence on the paper, can copy this sentence and read it aloud, then it is calculated that the "literacy" subject test, and then the examiner casually comes out with a two-digit addition and subtraction and single-digit multiplication and division of four arithmetic questions, as long as the candidate can answer the correct answer. Even if you pass the test of the "clear calculation" section. If you pass both items, you will be registered. It is numbered according to the region, and a local document jointly signed by the supervisors dispatched by the county and the Jiedu Prefecture is obtained, with this document, the candidate is qualified to participate in the imperial examination in Yan'an.

Although Li Bin and Qin Gu, serious Confucianists, instinctively opposed this examination model, they also had to admit that in the years of war and chaos, it was already rare to be able to read and count the number of local people, and they must take the examination according to the "six studies and eleven subjects" of the Tang Dynasty, but they were afraid that the four states would not even be able to make up ten qualified candidates.

In order to prevent fraud in the preliminary examination, Li Wenge sent 20 students from Fenglin Academy to 20 counties in Yanqing and Yanqing Prefectures. Since these students are not government officials, and most of them are the children of displaced people or orphans from other places when they enter Fenglin Academy, their social relations are relatively simple, so they can be considered basically reliable.

This preliminary examination mode is too pediatric, and basically children with a Mongolian level can pass it, so it is jokingly called "Mengsheng" by the Yanzhou aristocracy, and the candidates who pass this kind of examination are contemptuously called "Mengsheng". It is not known who first called this name, but when the Taixue Temple determined the local imperial examination level a few decades later, all the students who had passed the county-level imperial examination were collectively referred to as "Mengsheng", which was unexpected by the inventor of the term.

The local initial test can be handled simply, but the unified retest will not work, after the news of the opening of the autumn season is released. Li Wenge, Li Bin, Qin Gu and others began to set the test subjects and test questions for Qiuyu.

The subjects of the imperial examination in the Tang Dynasty were too cumbersome, and the topics were difficult, and Li Wenge felt that it was not conducive to the large-scale selection of talents, so after consulting with his staff day and night, and after compromising with Li Bin and Qin Gu, he finally came up with a set of methods for selecting scholars. There are a total of seven subjects in the re-examination examination, namely Ming Jing, Ming Calculation, Ming Law, Ming Ci, Ming History, Ming Rites, and Policy Theory; It corresponds to six individual majors: Economics, Arithmetic, Law, Poetry, History, and Strategy.

There are eight categories of scholars in the re-examination examination, in order: Jinshi, Jingshi, Arithmetic, Priest, Poet, Poet, Scholar, Scholar, and Scholar. In addition to Jinshi, the remaining seven categories of scholars are all ranked in the top 40 of a single subject, those who are ranked in the top 40 of the seven scores are called Jinshi origin, those who are listed in the top 40 subjects with less than seven or more are called Tongjinshi origin, and the top three of the seven total scores of those who are Jinshi are Jinshi and first, Jinshi and the first name champion and first, the second name of the list eye and the first, and the third name Tanhua and the first.

For this new imperial examination system, Li Wenge and Li Bin and Qin Gu wore out their mouths, according to his temper, poetry and etiquette and other useless knowledge in his opinion should not be included in the examination subjects at all, according to Li Bin and Qin Gu's cognition, it is almost intolerable for the abolition of Ming characters and Xiucai subjects. Li Bin was even more surprised that he had canceled the Jinshi, which ranked the examination subjects after the Ming Jing, but set it as the highest grade of the scholar.

In the end, the result of the compromise was that the Ming character and poetry examinations were merged into the Ming Vocabulary Examination, while the Ming Rite Examination was retained, and in addition to the six subjects, a special scrivener degree was set up to test the calligraphy proficiency of the candidates.

In the autumn of Yanzhou in September of the third year of Guangshun, although the preparation was hasty, the process was full of loopholes and jokes, leaving many people to talk about after dinner, but it was a milestone event in the history of the development of the imperial examination system.

First of all, this imperial examination has changed the previous loose proposition mode of the single subject of the imperial examination, and the single subject test questions have been changed to the basic unit of the question. Taking the Ming Jing as an example, the original Ming Jing exam was a posting essay and then an oral examination, with ten questions and three practical strategies. In the autumn of the seventh year of Guangshun, it was changed to three ways to fill in the blanks with the scriptures, three ways to sing the scriptures, three ways to interpret the scriptures, and one to discuss the scriptures, a total of ten questions.

Secondly, the concept of scores and standard answers was introduced in this imperial examination, and each of the seven subjects was ten points, a total of seventy points, compared with the original imperial examination, the impact of the examiner's personal likes and dislikes on the candidates' scores was much reduced.

Finally, the imperial examination introduced a single-subject and comprehensive dual-class degree system, forming a four-level degree system of Jinshi and first, Jinshi origin, Tongjinshi origin, and single bachelor's degree, so that comprehensive talents and various specialized categories of talents can be admitted through the performance orientation in the examination, and be appropriately hired according to the director in the future selection of officials.

If these new systems had been implemented after the Two Song Dynasty, the Confucian masters, who had been imprisoned by dogma in thought and action, would have attacked them en masse, drowning this new system in a monstrous amount of saliva; If it had been implemented before the late Tang Dynasty, its excessively low threshold and too superficial atmosphere of aristocratic equality would have ended in a joint boycott between the authorities and the aristocratic class and the scholarly class. Even in the special era of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, if it is forcibly implemented without doing any preparatory work at the beginning, it will also end miserably in the wave of opposition that is shameless and disdainful.

Only in Yanzhou, in the autumn of the third year of Guangshun, the huge cadre gap and the excessively low average quality of the population forced Li Bin, Qin Gu and other traditional scholars to compromise with Li Wenge on this issue. In their hearts, there is no such thing as this is an expedient measure, and it is natural to restore academic orthodoxy and Confucianism and Taoism after the restoration of peace in the future world, but the subsequent development of the situation has made these historical creators and participants themselves gradually drift away from the past path, and when people look back decades later, they are shocked to find that the imperial examination held in a very funny atmosphere has changed the course of the world so profoundly.

However, at the end of July of the third year of Guangshun, not to mention Li Qin, even Li Wenge, who was a traverser, was still far from seeing the impact of what he was doing on the future. At that time, Li Wenge did not even have time to be distracted from these thoughts, he was in the midst of the deepest political crisis since the establishment of the town in Yanzhou......