When he was busy issuing food stamps and minting new money to accumulate strength, Zhou Shixiang successively appointed six officials. Before the Eastern Expedition a year ago, the holy decree brought by the scholar Guo Zhiqi not only named him Xingpingbo, but also gave Ren Liuguan the power.

The six officials are the officials, the rites, the criminals, the households, the soldiers, and the workers, and they are responsible for the duties of inspection, publicity, and trial, so as to facilitate governance. In addition to the power to appoint six officials, the holy decree also allowed Zhou Shixiang to appoint officials, military attachés up to the second rank, but civil officials can only reach the level of six ministers, and the chief official is generally a six-rank official. Obviously, the holy decree of Yongli is still very strict on the appointment and dismissal of civil officials, which can also reflect that the Yongli court still has the old thinking, that is, "civil and military low".

Prior to this, only Zheng Chenggong, the king of Yanping County in Jinxia, was specially allowed to set up six officials in the ninth year of Yongli (the twelfth year of Shunzhi of the pseudo-Qing Dynasty). In this way, it cannot be seen that the premise of Yongli allowing the establishment of six officials is that the communication between the domain (member) and the imperial court is interrupted, or they are far away, and it is for the convenience of governance, so that the power is specially delegated.

Due to Wu Liuqi's sudden invasion of Huizhou, Zhou Shixiang had to go east in advance, so that the six officials have not been set up. After the victory of Chaohui, Zhou ordered Xu Yingyuan to report the victory to Kunming, considering that Xu Yingyuan did not have a formal official position, he ordered him to be the official of the Ministry of Industry, according to the power given by the holy decree, the six products were set. After returning to Guangzhou, Song Xianggong mentioned the matter of supplementing the six officials many times, and Zhou Shixiang drafted a candidate to be appointed.

The official committee is Gui Yongzhi, the former staff member of Li Shutai, the ceremonial official is Guo Tianxu, the former director of the Chongzhen Dynasty Rite Department who is at home, the criminal officer is Ding Zhixiang, the deputy envoy of the Guangdong Inspectorate Department of the former Shaowu regime, the household official is Jiang Xiaoming, the battalion school who broke his arm in the first battle of Xuanwu Mountain, and the military officer is Dong Changqing, a Huizhou student who offered advice and persuaded him to surrender in Lufeng.

The six officials are not set up in the Yamen of the Political Division, but the Xingping Bo, that is to say, the six officials are actually the private officials of Zhou Shixiang, but the Yongli Imperial Court recognizes their official positions and grades. Their duty was only to assist Xingping Bo in handling government affairs, and they were not allowed to interfere with the office of the local yamen, which restrained the power of the domain (town) in disguise, so as to prepare the way for the imperial court to take over the territory of the domain (town) in the future.

It's just that the yamen of Guangdong's political envoy was actually established and controlled by Zhou Shixiang, and together with the officials of various prefectures and counties, he was appointed by Zhou Shixiang, so the six officials of Xingping Bo could not interfere in specific government affairs without Zhou Shixiang's consent.

There are many overlaps between the establishment of the six officials and the functions of the political secretary, the yamen, the government, the county, the township, the village, the military department and the civil department of the army marshal's office, and they are dispensable officials. But the establishment of six officials is the power given to Zhou Shixiang by the Yongli Imperial Court, and it is a symbol, so he can't afford not to set it up. In order to enable the six officials to operate normally and not to overlap with the political envoys and the military marshal's office, resulting in inaction or delay, Zhou Shixiang reorganized the administrative affairs of Guangdong.

As the highest government affairs yamen in Guangdong, the position of the political envoy Song Xianggong was also an official of the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the military marshal's government, responsible for all civil affairs in the areas actually controlled by the Taiping Army. The four officials related to civil affairs, including household officials, engineering officials, criminal officials, and officials, are listed in the yamen of the political department, and each official is responsible to Song Xianggong, and specifically undertakes the affairs of the officials of the yamen of the political envoy department. This is equivalent to subdividing the affairs of the political envoy and the yamen, similar to the departments of transportation, public security, and civil affairs under the provincial government in later generations, and the officials of these departments are the six officials.

As the highest official of the political envoy department, Song Xianggong was directly responsible to Zhou Shixiang, so that there would be no overlapping institutions such as the political envoy department outside and the six officials inside. The territory of the Taiping Army is so large, and the population is more than one million, Zhou Shixiang has no intention of using this six officials as the cultivation of the six departments in the future.

As the general staff of the Taiping Army, the military department is not involved in civil affairs, and the military officers related to the military are promoted by the military department, and are responsible for the appointment and dismissal of lieutenant generals and colonels, the investigation of merits, the salary of ordnance, and the burden of grain and grass. As an official position that has nothing to do with military and civil affairs, Zhou Shixiang didn't think of how to arrange the former head of the Chongzhen Dynasty Rite Department, Mr. Guo, so he asked him to hang his name first and receive a share of the money, and then he came to ask about the etiquette, and he went if he had nothing to do.

The Military Intelligence Department established by Zhang An and Song Ying was also secretly expanded, and it was neither under the control of the Ministry of Civil Affairs nor the Ministry of Military Affairs of the Military Marshal's Office, but under the direct management of Zhou Shixiang himself.

At the same time that Zhou Shixiang allowed Zhang An to build an intelligence network, he could secretly select and recruit people from the army and the people for training, and set up an action team of the Military Intelligence Department, which was similar in nature to Jinyiwei, and was another secret force in the hands of Zhou Shixiang in addition to the Iron Man Guard, which could be mobilized at any time, with about 400 personnel.

After the appointment of the six officials, Zhou Shixiang ordered all prefectures and counties to vigorously strengthen the breeding industry and raise more livestock, such as pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks, in addition to vigorously cultivating land. This matter is vigorously carried out by the Second Department of Reclamation, Fishery and Animal Husbandry of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and all prefectures and counties must attach importance to it and increase investment. The Ministry of Civil Affairs regularly assigns personnel to conduct evaluations, and local officials with outstanding performance should be commended and promoted.

Sugarcane is also one of the key areas of agricultural development, and it is also very profitable to extract sugar from sugarcane and sell it as a commodity to Westerners in Macao. Zhou Shixiang asked Xiangshan County to select one or two townships to start large-scale planting, and subsidize the growers in advance. In addition, the people of Guangdong only use boiled seawater to make table salt, so the quality of salt is very poor. In order to improve the manufacturing process, Zhou Shixiang introduced the method of leaching brine and drying salt, and ordered to dig a ditch near the salt field to make the seawater pour onto the sand to form salt soil, and then take the salt brine extracted from the salt soil to the crystallization pond to obtain salt grains through sun exposure, so as to improve the quality of salt.

Salt and iron have always been the monopoly of the feudal dynasty, and Zhou Shixiang was no exception, and ordered the political envoy to set up a salt patrol department under the department, which was responsible for the salt field and the task of investigating smuggled salt.

Zhou Shixiang also accepted the Song Xiang Gong to set up the Guangdong University Hall in Guangzhou, which was the highest university in Guangdong, and all prefectures, prefectures, and counties set up prefecture schools, state schools, and county schools, and also required all townships and villages to set up primary schools to facilitate their children's enrollment and education. In order to reduce the burden on the parents of children enrolled in school and encourage them to send their children to school, Zhou Shixiang specially stipulated that all children who are enrolled in school can be exempted from 40% of the land endowment.

In the name of the Political Envoy of Song Xiang, it was stipulated that children in all prefectures and counties under his rule must enter primary school at the age of seven, and the textbooks were compiled by the Political Envoy Division. Two examinations in three years, according to the subject and the year of the test children. The state (county) test is sent to the government, the government test is sent to the province, the province is in the middle of the test, and the admission to the Guangdong University Hall is three years, and the completion of the study is re-entered the military training institute for one year, and the classes are still held on a monthly basis. Those who have taken the test for three years will be promoted and promoted by the six officials of the civil supplement, the political envoy of the department, the affairs of each prefecture and county, the military supplement team, the guard captain, and the lieutenant envoy of the security army.

This policy is the imperial examination system, but the imperial examination of the eight shares of the scholar slightly changed, the order of the students to be compiled by the political secretary, the military marshal's office to examine and approve the textbook, the middle of the most of the pragmatic knowledge of governing the people through the world, the eight shares of articles only account for two percent. As the highest literary and military schools of the Taiping Army, the Guangdong University Hall and the Military Training Institute not only undertake the task of teaching students and providing military and political talents for the Taiping Army, but also provide a way for all Guangdong scholars to become scholars. (To be continued.) )