"The territory is big, and it really needs to be governed......"

Chen Dexing and Zhao Fu stepped on the wall of the abandoned city of Jian'an, looked at the vast land outside the city, and sighed with emotion, "This is a prosperous paradise in the world, since the Warring States period, it has been the home of our Chinese ancestors, but now it is a barren." But...... Barrenness also has the benefit of barrenness, like a blank sheet of paper, which can be played at will. ”

"The king already has a belly case?" Zhao Fu asked with a smile. For the methods of His Royal Highness King Ming, Zhao Fu was very impressed.

"There are some ideas," Chen Dexing patted the mottled battlements of the city wall lightly and pondered, "The Northern Expeditionary Army was built from the Zhou system, and now if you want to establish a country and set up officials and rule the locality, you naturally have to refer to the Zhou system." ”

"Weekly?" Zhao Fu frowned, "The king means to divide the princes?" ”

Chen Dexing smiled and said: "It's not an immutable copy, after all, the world today is different from the Western Zhou Dynasty, and it is impossible to copy the Zhou system." But the best of it should be taken. Mr. Jiang Han, do you know what the essence of the weekly system is? ”

This one...... I really don't know! Although Confucianism has liked to praise the Zhou Dynasty since the day it was born, as a real Confucian, Zhao Fu knew that those touted words could not be taken seriously. If there is really any essence of the Zhou system, how can it not be used by future generations?

"Is it a sub-seal?" Zhao Fu thought for a while and said, "Chen Lu is dull, he can only think of dividing the seal." ”

"It's autonomy." Chen Dexing said with a smile, "The essence of Zhou is the discussion of politics by the people of the country and local autonomy. "Zhou Li" said: If you want to go to the country, there are three inquiries. It is to inquire about the danger of the country, inquire about the relocation of the country, and inquire about the establishment of the monarch. "Zuo Biography" also said: History is a book, a poem is a poem, and the work recites admonitions. The doctor rules, the scholar rumors. Slander, business travel in the city. Hundreds of crafts. The Analects also says: There is a way in the world, and the common people do not discuss it. It can be seen that the people of Zhou Zhiguo can discuss politics. As for the division of Zhou, what is the seal? Its purpose is to hand over the remote and desolate places that are difficult for the king to govern to the feudal monarch for self-government. The people's discussion of politics and local autonomy are the essence of the Zhou system! I should make the people of the country have the right to discuss politics and the right of local self-government. ”

It's true? Zhao Fu was stunned and stunned. This countryman...... If there is the power to discuss politics, will the king's authority be smaller? If this place had the right of self-government, wouldn't the power of the imperial court be smaller?

Now Chen Dexing is discussing with Zhao Fu how to manage his own territory. It's not a discussion on how to toss the Great Song Dynasty...... Is it true that the people's political affairs and local autonomy should be implemented on Chen Dexing's territory?

"Does the king really want to do a weekly system?"

"Naturally, it will be done," Chen Dexing patted the battlements of the city wall, and said half-jokingly, "I am a true Confucian, not like the Northern and Southern Han Dynasty who did pseudo-Confucianism, claiming to be the benevolence of Zong Zhou and practicing the violence of Qin Law." Since the Qin Dynasty, the country has been in a cycle of chaos, and the world will fall several times, which is the root cause. There is no autonomy in the local area, and the people of the country do not discuss politics. The power of a country is in the Son of Heaven and all the people in the world. All slaves!

And the Son of Heaven ...... Although it is called Yingrui Shengming, it is actually more than the hands of the women in the deep palace, and at most it is a little bit of power and the law of controlling the ministers. For many things in the world. I don't know anything at all, and it's very easy to be deceived by traitors. Therefore, this world is nominally governed by the Son of Heaven. In fact, it is a group of traitors and villains who are causing trouble.

In my opinion, it is better to let traitors and villains bring disaster to the country. It's better to let the people discuss politics and local autonomy! ”

It seems to make a lot of sense! Zhao Fu nodded slightly, this King Ming is indeed a bit of a doorman. At a glance, I can see the shortcomings of the Han family for thousands of years - most of the emperor Laozi is faint, and most of the Zhu Zi of the Manchu Dynasty are traitors.

"The Chinese people in the king's mouth are ......" Of course, Zhao Fu knew what was going on between the "Chinese people" and the "wild people".

In the Zhou Dynasty, there were only the people of the country to discuss politics, and there were no savages to discuss politics - in fact, it was a kind of primitive elite democracy. The claim that China has no democratic tradition is biased, but although the tradition exists, it has been lost for more than 2,000 years!

"Chinese people are soldiers!" Chen Dexing said, "Shi is the foundation of the country, and it should be discussed and the local government can be managed." ”

Of course, what Chen Dexing wants to engage in is not the Western democracy of one person, one vote, but the discussion of politics by the people of the Zhou Dynasty, and the democracy of the aristocratic elite...... And it is not the elites of the imperial examination who come to democracy, but the military aristocrats who follow Chen Dexing to fight the world to democracy!

At the same time, this arrangement is also to gradually transform these military aristocrats who fought the world into the main body of the country's middle and upper structure. Similar to the Junker landlords in Prussia and the Chinese landlords and scholars.

Of course, in the current Liaodong, it seems that this can only be done. There is no "landlord class" here in Liaodong, let alone "landlord class intellectuals". There are only the various Tartar tribes and the vast wilderness - the tribes will definitely be torn apart, and the wilderness will definitely be divided. Then it was inevitable to distribute land and serfs (the weak of the clans) to the military nobles and make them land nobles.

"King, how should this scholar discuss politics, and how should the localities govern themselves?" Zhao Fu said, "The Great Song Dynasty also has the saying of 'sharing the world with scholars', and the local gentry are also very powerful. ”

"I'm different from Zhao Song." Chen Dexing shook his head with a smile and said, "Although Zhao Song claims to share the world with scholars, there is no way to govern together. Some are just blindly tolerant of civil officials and scribes, which is not a co-governance. Our deliberation and self-government are above board, and there are laws to follow. Autonomy can start at the local level, and each county has a parliament, which is voted for by the people who are settled. The magistrate appointed by the council and the counsellor department then discuss the administration of a county. The amount of land tax, how it is collected, and how it is used are all determined by the local council and the county. The salaries of officials, the expenses of local township schools, and the expenses of local construction are also raised by the localities themselves. The Recruiting Division only collects some of the assessed contract taxes for military purposes. ”

Chen Dexing's local autonomy is to decentralize power, but at the same time, he is also shirking responsibility and pushing the local area to the aristocracy to govern. His recruitment department is only in charge of a few "commercial big cities", and at the same time grasps the cash cow of sea trade. The commercial tax of the big cities and the taxes related to maritime trade (including the customs duties of several large ports under the jurisdiction of the Northern Expeditionary Department and the toll tax of the sea area controlled by the Northern Expeditionary Navy) were the main sources of military expenditure for the Northern Expeditionary Army.

In fact, this is also a helpless move, Liaodong here is in ruins, although there are countless fertile soil, but to reclaim into fertile land is not overnight. Even if Chen Dexing could catch many serfs and distribute them to his military nobles, it would take many years of construction to make the land profitable. And the local political power at all levels in Liaodong is now almost non-existent. Regime-building also costs money and time. If you want to make some money from the land in Liaodong, it is not an overnight thing. So just let the nobles go to self-government! It is estimated that at that time in the Western Zhou Dynasty, Zhou Tianzi sent the princes to the wilderness to be the monarch with the same idea.

"King, is this law implemented only in Liaodong, or in the world?" Zhao Fu stroked his beard and asked.

There is no problem with the implementation of this set of methods in Liaodong, where there are no gentry or wealthy families in the imperial examination, and even the original tribes have been crushed. Of course, Chen Dexing can be left to "act weekly". However, in the Han region of the Central Plains, especially in the land of the Southern Dynasties, the situation was much more complicated.

Chen Dexing understood what Zhao Fu meant, and just smiled and said: "Of course, you still want to be an official in the exam, and you must always give the people below a way to rise." But the rules for the ascension of this exam are definitely different from those of Da Song. The imperial examination of the Great Song Dynasty was not to win talents for the country, but to share the world with scholars and doctors. We practice the weekly system, the people discuss politics, and the local autonomy. Of course, there is no need for such means, and the examination and selection is really for the country. ”

He lowered his voice: "But the jade is not cut, it is not a tool, people don't learn, they don't know." Even the talents selected by the imperial examination must also learn to govern affairs for officials, so that they can be used by the country. ”

Of course, Chen Dexing knew the disadvantages of the imperial examination - in fact, there was no one who did not know! When the imperial examination reached the Southern Song Dynasty, it was no longer a simple "official examination". Rather, it was a means of involving the scholarly class in the sharing of state power. Therefore, it becomes irrelevant whether the person who is admitted has actually studied or not. And most of the civil officials in the Southern Song Dynasty did not do anything practical......

And Chen Dexing wants to support the military nobles who follow him as the basis of his rule, so naturally he does not need these scholars who rely on the imperial examination to rise. But the bureaucracy that manages the country is indispensable at all times. Therefore, Chen Dexing still needs a bureaucratic selection and training mechanism.

Zhao Fu was silent for a long time, shook his head and said: "The king's reasoning is right, but there are many times when things in this world are unreasonable. If the king really wants to do this, he is afraid that Liaodong will be easy to take, and Yanyun will be able to get it. It will take more effort to take the Southern Dynasty......"

Chen Dexing sneered and looked back at Zhao Fu: "Mr. Jiang Han, do you think I will be afraid that the scholars and doctors of the Southern Dynasty will be unreasonable?" ”

……

"Leave the bow and arrow and the long-pole weapon, and bring the protective scimitar!"

Kublai Khan loudly gave his 500 cowardly order, and then turned his head to Niu Lin who came to greet him and smiled: "Niu Lin replied, there are 100,000 strong men of our Great Mongolia in this Bulachuan grassland, so there won't be any sneak attacks on me, right?" ”

Niu Lin was originally the marshal of the army under the direct jurisdiction of Meng Ke Khan. After Kublai Khan went to war with Ali Buge, he sided with Ali Buge. Now he was sent by Ali Buge to meet Kublai Khan.

After seeing Kublai Khan's cowardice drop his spears and bows and arrows, he smiled and bent down to salute: "King Kublai Khan has this sincerity, and this peace negotiation will definitely be successful." As long as our great Mongolia is united, why can't we destroy Li and dominate the world! ”

Kublai Khan frowned, revealing a melancholy expression: "If it is to defeat Chen and destroy Li, I may not make peace with Ali." However, in today's situation, Chen Li is rising, Mongolia is declining, if you kill each other again, I am afraid that I and Ali Buge will be captured by Chen Dexing sooner or later! ”

Niu Lin was stunned: "Why is this so?" ”

Kublai Khan smiled bitterly, stretched out his hand and took out an urgent report just sent by the Dalu Huachi Governor's Mansion of Liaodong Zhulu, handed it to Niu Lin and said: "Tacha'er has failed miserably on the bank of Zhuangshui!" When he fled back to Liaoyang, there were not even a thousand people around him! Moreover, Chen Dexing has subdued the Jurchens of Liaodong and formed the Eight Banners Jurchens, there are always tens of thousands of people, all of whom are equipped with strong bows and horses, and they are no longer under my Mongolian warriors! ”

Niu Lin suddenly lost color when he heard this: "What? Chen Dexing has tens of thousands of cavalry! (To be continued......)