Chapter 196: The Dispute between Han and Miao

The division of administrative regions in ancient China is constantly changing, during the Qin Dynasty, only the counties were divided, during the Han Dynasty due to the expansion of the area, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty divided the country into thirteen parts, the Tang Dynasty set up the road under the central court, the Song Dynasty changed the "road" to the "road", and the road was changed to a province in the Yuan Dynasty, and continued to be used in later generations.

Although the division of the "road" in the Song Dynasty seems to be similar to the "department" of the Han Dynasty and the "Dao" of the Tang Dynasty, the actual content is quite different, and the quality of the surname is also very different. The "ministry" of the Han Dynasty is a supervision division, the "Dao" of the Tang Dynasty is an administrative and military division, the provinces after the Yuan Dynasty are purely administrative divisions, and the "road" of the Song Dynasty is a typical four dissimilarities. Each road has a pacification envoy (renamed the system envoy in the Southern Song Dynasty), a transfer envoy, a prison sentence, and a regular official position, these official positions do not have any subordinate relationship, each is in charge of a share, and reports directly to the imperial court, which is the characteristic of the Song Dynasty's division "separation of power and rule".

For me, the most familiar thing is, of course, the provincial system. Kublai Khan in the north implemented the provincial system in his territory ahead of schedule, which also led me to carry out this change earlier. I have always been in charge of the separation of government and government, and with the abolition of the Xiang army, the conditions for the establishment of the provincial system can be regarded as basically mature. After I completely devoured the last bit of consciousness of Zhao Yu, I no longer had the slightest scruples about Jia Yidao. Of course, I have also made a comprehensive analysis of Jia Nidao, I will not joke about my surname casually, I believe that Jia Nidao will not rebel, as long as this is true, I will rest assured to carry out reforms.

From memory, I drew a map of China from later generations, and I don't remember very well the borders between the provinces, but I still remember the general outlines of the others, and I also marked the names of each province and most of the famous mountains and rivers on them according to the names of later generations.

I opened the map I had drawn and said to Lu Xiufu and Yuan Jian: "Junshi, sir, come and see, this is the map of our dynasty that I drew according to the provincial plan. ”

After reading it, Yuan Jian said: "The map drawn by Your Majesty includes the original territory of our dynasty, the territory of the Western Xia Kingdom, the Dali Kingdom, and even part of the Mongolian State and its four khanates. ”

Lu Xiufu said excitedly: "Your Majesty, this is a grand blueprint." ”

The two of them had been with me for a long time, and they didn't ask me where the map came from. I smiled and said, "Well, I want the territory of my dynasty to exceed the Taizu period, and also to exceed the time when the strong Han Dynasty was prosperous. ”

Over the next few days, I released several measures one after another.

First of all, the redivision of the administrative areas of our dynasty is to be carried out jointly by the government affairs yuan, with the assistance of the Zhongshu Province, the Ministry of Households, and the Ministry of Officials, and from now on, we will strive to complete the redivision of the existing areas of our dynasty within three years. Of course, I still put the pilot area in Fujian Road, Fujian Road became Fujian Province, which does not involve issues such as regional merger, relatively speaking, it is the simplest area, and only needs to make changes within it.

The redivision of administrative regions involves not only the change of names, but also the redistribution of the interests of officials, for example, if the Liangzhejiang East Road and the Liangzhejiang West Road are merged into Zhejiang Province, the original officials of the two roads will naturally merge into one, so who will keep who will go? In addition, the change of local officials is also inextricably linked with the important ministers of the DPRK and the central government, so the task is also very arduous.

As for the envoy of this matter, I am biased towards Wen Tianxiang, so I did not announce it at the court meeting.

As a result, it has also led to speculation among officials in the DPRK and China whether the Government Council will replace the original Zhongshu Province. After the decree was announced, Weng Yinglong looked helpless, looked at the expressionless Jia Yidao in the corner of his eyes, and did not dare to ask out loud.

Second, Shi Hongsheng was appointed as the squire of the Ministry of Education, responsible for the establishment of the Ministry of Education, and planned to popularize education for all. Third, the Law Department of the Criminal Ministry was instructed to popularize the legal knowledge of officials of various ministries in the DPRK and Central China and explain the code of conduct for officials, and to make it one of the contents of the evaluation of officials. Fourth, the Ministry of Household Affairs was ordered to establish a national surname medical system to ensure that there were government-run medical centers in at least county-level administrative areas. Fifth, the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Agriculture should introduce policies to encourage and support the development of agriculture and commerce in various localities. Sixth, the establishment of the Royal Academy of Sciences, starting from the county-level government, each government should be assigned special personnel to be responsible for the implementation of local scientific and technological tasks, statistics and recruitment of all kinds of talents, included in the official evaluation content.

On the last day of July in the first year of Xianchun, Wen Tianxiang, Lan Yu and others returned to the capital, and before everyone had time to rest, they hurried to the imperial study of Ningqian Palace to report to me the dispute between Han and Miao in Jishou.

I first looked at Wen Zhang's injuries and was relieved to see that he was basically fine.

"Song Rui, Lan Yu, Wen Zhang, the three Aiqing have had a hard trip, sit down and talk." I really wanted to know the process, and motioned to the three of them not to salute, "Song Rui, come on." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." Wen Tianxiang said, "When I left Beijing, the minister first and the ten people including Lan Tongzhi rushed all the way and rushed to Jishou in the early morning of the 8th day. ”

"That's a lot of speed." I said secretly.

From Lin'an to Jishou about 1,500 kilometers, according to the official road calculation may reach nearly 2,000 kilometers, Wen Tianxiang and others only took 8 days, that is, the average daily trip reached about 250 kilometers, which is equivalent to the speed of 600 miles of expedited, you must know that the expedited of the imperial court guards is to change people and horses, and Wen Tianxiang and others just change horses and not people, which shows the hardships and fatigue of the road. Lan Yu and the other guards are okay, they have superior martial arts, although Wen Tianxiang also knows a little about martial arts, but this kind of long-distance travel is also a great test of his perseverance.

Wen Tianxiang continued: "After arriving in Jishou, the minister and the Lan commander discussed it slightly, and decided not to go to the county government first, but to the starting point of the matter as a tourist, Zhenxi Village outside Jishou County, Zhenxi Village is the only way to Miao Village in Jishou County, half of the village is Han people, half of them are Miao people. After two days of inquiry, it was found that the cause of this incident was very simple. ”

Wen Tianxiang took a sip of tea and said, "The water resources in the village are scarce, and there is only one well for the villagers to use. In the first few months of this year, there was plenty of rain in all parts of our country, and there was even a surplus of rain, but there was a drought in the Jishou area, and as in the past, the two sides quarreled again over this. ”

"When there is a dispute between the villagers, the government should naturally intervene, why is it strange?" I asked.

"Your Majesty, this matter has not been resolved for a long time, and the government has ignored it for many years, so the villagers feel strange. The reason for the government's intervention this time is also very simple, there is a Han people in Zhenxi Village who are doing business abroad, it is said that he made a fortune and returned to his hometown, the businessman's surname is Wei, and when he saw the two ethnic groups competing for water, he went to the county government to provide five hundred taels of silver, and Naji Shouzhi County (during the Song Dynasty, the county magistrate of the big county was called the county order, and the county magistrate of the small county was called the county) Wang Kang received two silver taels, and naturally wanted to do things for the merchants, so he ordered that the Jing Han people use two and the Miao people use one, and so on. The Miao people were not satisfied, Tian Yi, the leader of the Miao people in the village, went to the county government to reason, and handed over the appeal, Wang Kang ignored the Miao people's complaints, Tian Fang's surname was strong, and the words were incompatible, and Wang Kang was angry, and ordered the officials to expel Tian Fang's sticks, which caused the dissatisfaction of the Miao people. That Tian Fang is the nephew of Tian Jingzhi, the leader of Miao Village, Tian Jing was already at odds with Wang Kang, Tian Fang told Tian Jing about this, which angered Tian Jing, gradually led to the situation getting out of control, and triggered an incident of hundreds of Miao people surrounding the county government. The Jinghu official who arrived early was an old acquaintance of a businessman surnamed Wei, and he was biased towards the Han people in Zhenxi Village, so he didn't ask about it, and directly concluded that Tian Fang was making trouble under the pretext of making trouble, and wanted to detain Tian Fang, thus triggering a riot of the Miao people again and taking Tian Fang away. ”

"Hey, it's just a small thing but it causes civil strife."

The Han and Miao contradictions have existed since ancient times, and as long as the government is unfair, it is easy to cause disputes and even civil strife.

"Exactly, Your Majesty. There was already a big gap between Han and Miao, and this simple water source problem became the lead of this incident. After the investigation was clear, the minister went to the county office, intending to re-try the case, and ordered the officials to summon both sides to the court, but Tian Jingtian was unwilling to go to the county government to accept the minister's questioning, saying that the Han officials covered each other, even if it was a Qin cha, if the government was sincere, he would go to Miao Village to inquire. ”

"Go to Miao Village?"

"Your Majesty, the minister thought that if he didn't enter the tiger's den, he would get the tiger's son, and Miao Village was also the territory of my dynasty, and the minister was the Qin Mission, and he should treat everyone equally, and keep in mind His Majesty's will to deal with national contradictions, so he told Tian Jing to enter Miao Village on time before noon the next day."

"Well, Song Rui has guts."

I think of historical records, after Wen Tianxiang was detained by the Mongols, he was able to escape with twelve followers, which is indeed courageous and wise.

Wen Tianxiang bowed slightly and said: "Thank you for your majesty's praise, the minister is just doing his duty as a courtier." And there is a blue system, so the minister dared to go to Miao Village. ”

At this time, Wen Tianxiang naturally didn't know that he still had such an "experience" in the "future", of course, I didn't want this kind of experience to appear.

"Song Rui, tell me about your trip to Miao Village."