Chapter 476: Three Provinces and Six Ministries
Looking at Sun Ce, whose face was still wrapped in gauze, Zhou Yu hesitated for a moment and said, "Lord, your body has not healed yet, is it ...... to send troops to Jiangxia at this moment?"
Sun Ce waved his hand and said: "My injury is not in the way, now that Liu Ze is plotting against Jingzhou, we must not let him take the lead." Gong Jin, how is the situation on Chaisang's preparations? β
Zhou Yu said: "Although the time is a little hasty, there is no problem in sending troops within ten days. β
Sun Ce nodded and said: "Okay, there is Lao Gongjin on the naval side, you immediately rush back to Chaisang, ready to send troops when the time comes, ten days later, I personally lead the army out of Anhui City, Gongjin leads the naval army out of Chaisang, water and land, and directly take Jiangxia." This time, we must take the head of Huang Zu directly to sacrifice the spirit of the ancestor in the sky! β
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Xuzhou. Xiapi City.
In Xiapi City, there are two palaces coexisting in one city, which is also a unique spectacle in the entire Han Dynasty. In the old city of Xiapi is located is the palace of the king of Xiapi, covering a wide area, pavilions and pavilions, row upon row, extremely luxurious. From the Xiapi Wangfu to the south, through the city wall of the old city, in the new city, is located Jingwangfu. Compared with Xiapi Palace, no matter the scale or momentum, Jingwang Mansion is much more low-key, but it is the center of all Xuzhou people.
As long as the people who have stayed in Xiapi City, they all know that the Jingwang Mansion is the original state pastoral mansion, except for a plaque that was replaced in the fourth year of Jian'an last year, not even a single brick or tile has been moved.
After Liu Ze returned to Xuzhou, the ministers were in addition to congratulating. The first thing proposed was to build a new Jingwang Mansion, and Jian Yong and others had even drawn sketches, and the momentum and scale were far greater than those of Xiapi Wangfu. Liu Zefu smiled, he had no plans to build a new palace at all, the original state pastoral mansion was built very well, so why bother the people and lose money. When it comes to money, Liu Ze is really not bad for money, Xiapi City, which is three times larger than the original, has been built, not to mention the construction of a magnificent Jingwang Mansion? Liu Ze had no plans to build a new mansion because he felt that it was unnecessary, and there was no need to put that magnanimity at all. Although he has a lot of money. But there are more places where it really costs money, good steel is used on the blade, and money is spent on the right way.
As a result, the plaque of the State Pastoral Mansion was replaced with the plaque of the Jingwang Mansion. Brick by brick in the house. Plants. They all remained unchanged.
Although the building of the Jingwang Mansion was not moved, Liu Ze carried out drastic reforms to the team of the original state pastoral mansion. According to convention, Liu Ze ascended to the throne. Naturally, he had the right to open the government, and Liu Ze also served as the governor of Xu Yang's two states, so Liu Ze simply merged the two into one, only retaining the name of the state pastor, abolishing the institutions of the state pastor's house, and merging the Cao Zhi of the original state pastor into the institutions of the Jingwang Mansion.
Generally, the princes and kings of the royal palace set up the princes, Lang Zhongling, servants, scribes and other officials to support the daily life of the princes and kings, because the princes and kings are not allowed to interfere in politics, so the kingdom's other administrative system headed by the prime minister is not subject to the jurisdiction of the princes. Liu Ze is also a vassal king in name, but he is also the state minister, so he is naturally different from other princes and kings, so Liu Ze has completely changed the administrative structure of the Jingwang Mansion.
Liu Ze directly used the three-province and six-ministry system after the Sui and Tang dynasties, and set up Zhongshu Province, Shangshu Province and Menxia Province. Although the name is the same, but there is a considerable difference in substance, among Liu Ze's three provinces, Zhongshu Province is responsible for the drafting and revision of laws and decrees, Menxia Province is responsible for supervision and justice, Shangshu Province is the administrative executive body, it can be said that Liu Ze's three provinces system, has begun to have the prototype of the separation of legislative, judicial, and administrative powers, and between the three provinces, the division of labor is clear, and there are mutual checks and balances.
Shangshu Province has the overall administrative power, and the governor of Shangshu Province is Shangshu Ling, and the deputy governor is Shangshu servants. Shangshu Province consists of six departments: officials, households, rites, soldiers, industry, and commerce. The Ministry of Officials is in charge of the appointment and dismissal, examination, promotion, transfer, and other affairs of officials, the Ministry of Household Affairs is in charge of household registration, land, taxes, money and grain, financial revenue and expenditure, etc., the Ministry of Rites is in charge of ceremonies, sacrifices, imperial examinations, schools, etc., the Ministry of War is in charge of the selection of military attachΓ©s and military registration, ordnance, and military orders, the Ministry of Engineering is in charge of various projects, craftsmen, tuntian, water conservancy, and transportation, and the Ministry of Commerce is in charge of workshops, commerce, and trade.
Different from the six ministries after the Sui and Tang dynasties, there was no criminal department among the six ministries, and according to the principle of judicial independence, the responsibility and power of the criminal department for prison litigation, justice, and trial belonged to Menxia Province. The Ministry of Commerce is a newly established department of Liu Ze, similar to the Pinghuai Order under the Han Dynasty Dasi Nong, and the functions and powers of the Dasi Nong in the Jiuqing are basically the same as the Ministry of Households.
Each department has a chief official Shangshu, a deputy chief officer left and right Lang Lang, each department has four divisions, the chief officer is called Langzhong, the deputy chief officer is a member of the outside Lang, and the subordinate officials have the principal, order history, etc.
At the same time, Liu Ze also enabled a new official grade - the nine-grade official system, the official level is divided into nine grades, each product is set upright, from two levels, a total of eighteen levels, in order to connect with the Han Dynasty official system, Liu Ze stipulated that the old and new official positions are interchangeable, ten thousand stones for the first product, two thousand stones for the second grade, the real two thousand stones for the three grades, two thousand stones for the four grades, than two thousand stones for the four grades, a thousand stones for the five grades, than a thousand stones for the five grades, six hundred stones for the six grades, than six hundred stones for the six grades, four hundred stones for the seven grades, than four hundred stones for the seven grades, Three hundred stones are the eight grades, more than three hundred stones are from the eight grades, two hundred stones and more than two hundred stones are the nine grades, one hundred stones are from the nine grades, and the fighting food and Zuoshi below the hundred stones are not in the stream, and they are not within the eighteenth level of the nine grades.
Because the highest official in Xuzhou was Liu Ze's middle 2,000 stones, and this time after Liu Zejin was crowned as the prince king, his status was sharply improved, and above 10,000 stones, all the official positions under it did not exceed 2,000 stones.
First-class officials are not to be awarded lightly, and those who are not meritorious cannot be deserved. The highest official position in Shangshu Province is Shang Shuling, and the post is the second grade, this time Liu Ze himself took the position of Shang Shuling, and Jia Xu and Jian Yong served as the left and right servants respectively, and the post was from the second grade. The six Shangshu are all awarded the official position of the three grades, the official department is held by Sun Qian, the household department is concurrently served by Jian Yong, the Ministry of Rites is held by Guoyuan, the military department is held by Mi Zhu, the Ministry of Industry is held by the pottery merchant, and the Ministry of Commerce is held by Mi Fang.
Liu Ze himself is also the position of Xuzhou Mu Yangzhou Mu, but he lacks skills and can't manage it at all, so under the rule of King Jing, Liu Ze has newly established the official positions of Xuzhou Thorn History and Yangzhou Thorn History, the rank is equivalent to the six Shangshu, for the three products, and appoints Lu Yu as the Xuzhou Thorn History, and governs the six counties of Pi, Donghai, Langya, Guangling, Peiguo, and Pengcheng, and appoints Wang Jing as the Yangzhou Thorn History, and governs the three counties of Jiujiang, Lujiang, and Huaibei.
Zhongshu Province is in charge of legislative affairs, and the governor of Zhongshu Province is Zhongshu Ling, which is served by Lu Zhilai, Zheng Erpin, the deputy governor is the left and right servants, the left servant of Zhongshu is Cai Yong, and the right servant of Zhongshu is Chen Qi, from the second grade.
The subordinate province is in charge of judicial affairs, and the chief is the chief punishment, which is served by Zhao Yulai, and he is the third product.
The above are the ranks of civil officials, the rank of military attachΓ©s is the same as that of civilian officials, according to the rank to determine the grade, the marshal is from the first rank or from the first Lu, the general is from the second rank or from the second grade, the general will be the third grade or from the third grade, the general will be the fourth grade, the deputy will be from the fourth grade, the bias will be the fifth grade, the pi will be from the fifth grade, the brigadier will be the sixth grade, the colonel will be from the sixth grade, the correct correction will be the seventh grade, the deputy colonel will be from the seventh grade, the captain will be the eighth grade, the lieutenant will be from the eighth grade, the lieutenant will be the ninth grade, and the sergeant will be from the ninth grade.
While Liu Ze reformed the official system, he also reformed the title system. The twentieth rank lord system that has been used since the Qin Dynasty to the Han Dynasty is obviously outdated, and the sale of official titles in the late Han Dynasty has caused a flood of titles, and the three dukes and nine kings can be sold as commodities by the court, not to mention low-level titles such as those made by princes. Therefore, Liu Ze decided to completely abolish the twentieth rank system and restore the five-rank title system of the pre-Qin era, including the duke, marquis, uncle, son, and male. Duke is the highest title and is divided into 1st Duke, 2nd Duke, and 3rd Duke. The following dukes are marquises, which are also divided into first-class marquises, second-class marquises, and third-class marquises, corresponding to the county marquis, township marquis, and pavilion marquis of the Han Dynasty. Below the marquis are counts, which are also divided into three classes: first earl, second earl, third earl. The second is the viscount, which is also divided into three classes: the first viscount, the second viscount, and the third viscount. Finally, there are barons, which are also divided into three classes: barons of the first class, barons of the second class, and barons of the third class.
According to the different titles, the size of the fiefs enjoyed is also different, the highest is like a first-class duke, you can enjoy a county fiefdom, and the lowest is a third-class baron, probably only a few dozen to hundreds of fiefdoms, which can be described as a thousand miles away.
From dukes to barons, these titles are hereditary, so once you have them, you can become a hereditary nobleman and shadow future generations. In the same way, the acquisition of these titles is not so light, according to the regulations on the acquisition of titles, only after accumulating a certain amount of merit, can they be awarded titles, and the accumulation of merits, the fastest way is military merit, the more enemies killed on the battlefield, the more victories are fought, the faster the military merit is accumulated, and the greater the chance of obtaining the title.
Guan Yu was named the Marquis of Hanshou Pavilion by the court because of his meritorious contribution to intercepting Yuan Shu to regain the jade seal of the country, so in Liu Ze's new title, Guan Yu automatically obtained the title of third-class marquis and became the only marquis in the new title, such as Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Zhang Liao, Jia Xu and others, the highest did not exceed the first-class earl. (To be continued......)