Chapter 493
In addition to the Han people, there are a large number of other ethnic groups, for example, there are many Tibetan people, and there are some surrounding nomadic people, such as Tugulu, after the extermination of the country by Tubo, the Tang Dynasty originally wanted to seek justice for them, but the Battle of Dafeichuan was defeated. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Tang Dynasty was helpless, so he couldn't ignore it, so he arranged Tugu Lu near the four towns of Anxi.
Therefore, how to assimilate these different types and different ways of life to win the people is to test the wisdom and skill of the local government in Yanxi.
But basically, the traditional way of managing the foreign races in the Tang Dynasty is to ignore it. As long as they don't make trouble, let them take care of themselves. It doesn't matter who it is, whether it's a big cannibal or a party member, it's all the same.
Of course, Li Chen was going to change, and he had mentioned his policy of assimilation before. Tunpu is also a basic unit that bears such responsibilities.
Not to mention that basically in this Tunpu, in addition to the Han people, there are many Tibetan people who are in urgent need of education. In addition, if it expands to other regions, it will take on the responsibility of transmitting culture.
Li Chen wants to expand the colony. In order not to let the newly established areas go further and further with the Tang Dynasty, in addition to economic control, there are also cultural gains. In the future, Tunpu will not appear in those rich areas, but only in the frontier areas, which can also be said to be frontier areas.
Most of those new immigrants may not have much education, mix well and don't want to immigrate. And there are, the number is also small, and the majority of them are still those ordinary people, so education is very important.
Seriously, China is so big, bigger than Europe, and when it comes to the terrain, there are also some places that are very closed, and when it comes to language, it is even more many. However, if we look at what Europe is like and what China is like, we will know how important ideological education is for a big country.
Although China does not dare to say that it is universally popular, at least the upper echelons agree with it. Speaking of which, we should thank Qin Shi Huang and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty for his Confucianism.
In order not to let those colonies who are thousands of miles away from the Tang Dynasty and thousands of miles away, and detach from morality, education is very important. Tunpu and Tunchang are the first line of education, passing on knowledge and culture, so that new immigrants or local natives who have joined the Tang Dynasty will have the same feelings about the Tang Dynasty.
There is no repercussion of the consequences, one is the United Kingdom, and this country is really remarkable. On the island of England, the Scottish people have been hundreds or thousands of years, and they are still practicing independence. They can't even do it with Ireland next door, let alone the United States.
The other one is the Northern Zhou Dynasty and the Northern Qi Dynasty, because of the Hanization, resulting in a huge empire, directly divided, which is also because of the cultural differences. Of course, Li Chen will not repeat the mistakes of the past, so every Tunpu task is difficult, and it is fortunate that Li Chen has promoted literacy in the Shence Army, otherwise it is really difficult to find people.
The next day, the Shence Army continued to camp, the goal was Chang'an, originally to temporarily stop the offensive, first hoard materials, and wait for the recovery of the four towns in Anxi in one fell swoop, but now the domestic situation is in danger, Shang Wanwen and the maid continue to camp west of Guazhou, there is no sign of marching, and the Shence Left Army can only withdraw its camp and return to China first.
In the future, the four towns of Anxi were recovered, and they were handed over to Zhang Yichao, who was promoted to the envoy of the festival in the western region. However, Li Chen still made some arrangements.
What did Li Chen do? Very simply, it is about the reform of the economy. Originally, the courtiers were negotiators, and Zhang Yichao had made great contributions and could give the post of envoy to the Western Festival. And because of the meritorious service of returning to the righteous army in Yanxi, it is called the return of the righteous army, and Zhang Yichao is the temperance envoy of the returned righteous army.
Li Chen did not target the name, but made changes in the system. First of all, the Returned Military Envoy no longer has the status of an observer envoy, nor is he concurrently in charge of civil affairs, and is simply a military commander. In terms of civil affairs, Li Chen officially set up a post of governor, and the chief was the governor.
The local system of the Tang Dynasty theoretically consisted of a two-level system: prefecture and county. Although there was already a Dao administrative unit at the next level, however, Dao was only a supervisory unit, ten in the early Tang Dynasty, and increased to fifteen in the Xuanzong period. It is not an administrative unit, but only an observation and supervision area.
Although in the later period, the province gradually became an administrative unit, but it was not fixed. And Li Chen added him to the local system of the Tang Dynasty. Since then, the local system of the Tang Dynasty has changed to a three-level system of provinces, prefectures, and counties.
Because if you take the state as a unit, it feels a little smaller. A lot of things can't be done. He had seen the gains and losses of China's traditional politics, and he admired the local political system in the Han and Tang dynasties, and thought that it was relatively simple, while Qian Mu believed that the local two-level system was relatively better.
But Li Chen didn't look at it that way. If the two-level system is really better, then how can the later stage be changed to a three-level system? At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, it was also a two-level system, and later it was also changed to a three-level system. At the first level of the Dao, although the Tang Dynasty did not officially designate him as an administrative unit, it gradually changed towards that direction in the future.
The reason why, he didn't know, but he knew that what he was going to do was not good enough. He wanted to correct the way in which magistrates were evaluated.
The two-tier system, if only manages tax collection by the government, may be sufficient. If we compare the ancient and modern Chinese governments, we will find that the modern governments are much busier, and the development of the local economy is the most important game. No matter which direction it takes, the biggest difference between the functions of the modern government and the ancient government is that the ancient government, as long as the local government is basically fine, it is a good thing.
The modern government, on the other hand, has nothing to do. There is nothing peaceful in the local area, which basically means that there is no change. The economy is not developing, and construction is not increasing.
In the past, although the government had many functions, such as indoctrination of the localities, such as the capture of thefts, the promotion of agriculture, the increase of the population, the punishment of disasters, and so on, basically the most important thing was the collection of taxes and the collection of conscription, and it was really none of his business whether the people under his rule were good or not.
They don't think about how the people lived, as long as there were no cases, no mass exodus, taxes were collected, and forced labor, basically you could hardly imagine what they would do.
And these things, basically, some officials can be taken care of. That's why, the emperor of the Ten Thousand Calendars can not go to court for several decades, not be a director, and not make up for the shortages, and the country is still operating as usual, anyway, there are local officials in charge, which is very good. No, it's better, the local people come on their own.
Anyway, my taxes can be collected, and there is nothing to do under my rule, and the conscripts sent by the above can find someone to do it, and everything else will be fine.
Of course, Li Chen didn't want such a thing to happen. When an official is so leisurely, I, the emperor, will give you a job, and I will be an official.
Therefore, if he wants to reform the model of the future generations, the magistrate must use all his brains to develop the place. It's no longer about waiting for taxes. Of course, Li Chen thinks that he is also a little biased, and if he overturns a boatload of people with a rod, in fact, there are people who will make some political achievements.
Not all of them are vegetarians, and there are also some magistrates who will develop the local economy, build water conservancy, or study and dredge rivers. But this is a minority, and what Li Chen wants to do is to make this behavior more numerous.
For this reason, he wants to make some reforms, such as the method of evaluating the performance of the officials, the way in which the officials score the examination, and changing it to some relatively indicative results, such as the increase and decrease in the population during his term of office, or the improvement of the people's living standards, and so on.
As for the conduct of officials, or the aspect of morality, it will no longer be included in the examination. Of course, this is not to say that magistrates can be corrupt as much as possible, but that some moral defects, such as unscrupulousness, will no longer be taken into account. As long as you can do things.
There seems to be a bit of a reversal of the cart before the horse, which will require the morality of the officials, usually to get them to get things done. It's kind of a self-requirement. If you don't ask for ethics at all, won't it be full of villains? Like Wang Anshi's transformation.
Wang Anshi had to change the law, and he himself had experimented with it, and when he was a local official, he experimented and thought it was effective, so he would insist on going his own way and implement it.
As a result, it is often at the local level, and as soon as it is carried out by the local officials, it is changed. Like the Qingmiao Law, it has always been a good policy, but it has become a tool for officials to oppress the people. Because the gentlemen of the court and the middle of the court were reprimanded, the rest were all flattering villains. Some officials of the New Party in the Song Dynasty really couldn't stand it, like Lu Huiqing, who was a pole.
But does a gentleman have to be good? Let's take the changes in the Song Dynasty as an example, Sima is just a gentleman, as soon as he came to power, he immediately gave all the changes to the law, no matter how good or bad, he didn't think about it, and completely insisted on abiding by the law of his ancestors.
Anyone who has read history knows that the Song Dynasty reached a point where it was impossible to change the law. Otherwise, if that kind continues, it will only become more and more difficult to return, and it will be difficult to sink into it. But the gentleman Sima Guang, he directly ignored all this and insisted on following his gentleman's way.
One more, Wang Mang. As everyone knows, Wang Mang usurped the Western Han Dynasty, and finally the new dynasty died in less than 16 years. Because Wang Mang is fooling around. But Wang Mang is also a gentleman, he completely follows Zhou Li, according to the ancient law, and also has ideals and ambitions to be a good person, but what is the result?
Let's take the Eastern Han Dynasty as an example, why Cao Cao wanted to issue the three orders of Wei Wu, regardless of character, only by looking at it. It is because we want to correct the kind of Donghan that in order to attach importance to the name, all kinds of strange things are done to take the favor of the public.
Therefore, Li Chen decided to advocate the name festival on the one hand, but that is advocated by society, and on the other hand, it is necessary to reform the way officials are evaluated, and officials really have to do something.
To achieve this, it may be necessary to start from the roots, on the one hand, to reform the performance examination method, and on the other hand, to re-educate officials, and this is also the reason why he has given lessons to those officials.
And Yanxi is a pilot point, and when the experiment in Yanxi is successful, it will be considered to be implemented in other parts of Datang. On the one hand, Li Chen did not have so many officials to do.
As for Yanxi, he not only paid attention to himself, but also selected some officials in his bag who had a good reputation to serve as assassins. Many places have obtained county orders, all of them are new science and technology scholars, he was the first to get a jinshi after he came to power, and he also entered the academy with the same class to study the official officer, because the internship period expired, they were all sent to Xuxi by Li Chen, and it was these officials who were pictured, and they were not too deeply contaminated with the atmosphere of officialdom.
If you don't implement it immediately, on the other hand, you are worried, which will cause turmoil, and if you don't do it immediately, you will be ruined, and if you let him smear it, it won't be worse anyway. If it is implemented in other places, officials will not be able to collect taxes, and if it is too serious, it will cause a comprehensive backlash by local officials and a suspension of government affairs. That's not what he wanted.
In addition to the reform of the three-level system, there are many local bureaucratic systems in Yanxi that are different from those in other parts of the Tang Dynasty. The simplest thing is to be in charge of the dictatorship, like a magistrate, who is no longer in charge of adjudicating cases and no longer being responsible for levying taxes; anyway, if conscription is abolished, you will no longer be able to examine cases, no longer collect taxes, and will not be responsible for conscription, so you can concentrate on developing the local economy.
And what does this have to do with the two-level, or three-level, magistrate system? This is because many economic development considerations usually need to be considered comprehensively, not only from one state and one county, but also from a general direction.
For example, if we want to build water conservancy and improve roads, we should never let each state and county build its own. Therefore, Li Chen tried to set up a third-level organization, and as for how effective it is, it needs to be tested, otherwise how would it be called a test point?
In addition to the reason for economic development, the more important reason is that he wants to try to limit the rights of local economy. It's not that he is not worried about Zhang Yichao, in that situation, he still remembers the Tang Dynasty, does not simply do his own thing, and also sends hostages, and his loyalty is commendable.
What he wants to guard against is the whole group of festival envoys, and when he starts training in the army, then Qianxi will be a pattern, and he will reduce the power of the local festival envoys, just like the Song Dynasty, but he will not completely override the festival envoys, but just take back all kinds of rights, and then the temperance envoys will simply be a military chief.
Therefore, he had to arrange in Shanxi, in addition to recovering financial and administrative powers, supervisory powers, and military affairs, he appointed Zhang Yichao, and then the imperial court would assist him in training troops on the spot, and gradually recover the four towns of Anxi, or, when the imperial court was empty, it would also solve the Tibetan people there and gradually recover the lost land.
Of course, since the Shence Left Army is now in Yanxi, it has directly given a lot of help. A lot of armor and equipment were left in Yanxi, and even thousands of Shence Left Army fighters stayed in Yanxi directly, and they would become the backbone of the Shenxi New Army, and bring the training methods of the Shence Left Army here.
Li Chen was a little worried, and he didn't know what Zhang Yichao would think. Will you think that this is a distrust of him, he has worked hard, and finally overthrew the Tubo people in the other region, and he wants to return to the Tang Dynasty, and finally comes back, but this is the case, I don't know if he will be disappointed.
However, according to Li Chen's thoughts, it should not be too much worse. After all, disappointment is also targeted. Yanxi and Datang have been separated for many years, the news is not smooth, and they are not familiar with the situation of Datang.
This is what Li Chen was thinking about all the way before he left for the school. And when I got to school, the first thought was, maybe should I push the rifle fire? (To be continued.) )