What Bai Tu saw all the way, although they were all old scenery and had not yet arrived in Jingzhou after all, it also made Bai Tu feel some shortcomings of the county system......

First, in the troubled times, it is a new test for the unity of each county; Second, the emergence of a large number of workshops in the Chu State made the city more and more important, and the population attached to the city surged, and the large counties became larger and smaller; Three to ...... Roads are becoming more and more convenient, and the speed of transmission is increasing day by day, whether it is news or government decrees.

Therefore, the previous county system is obviously more and more unable to keep up with the rhythm.

Bai Tu has long been pondering that the new division of administrative regions is not a snap on the head, but a reference to the experience of later generations.

It's just that...... Bai Tu is not quite the same as Cao Cao's ideas in history, and even diametrically opposed.

In the history without the White Rabbit effect, after completely replacing the Yuan clan and occupying the north, Cao Cao began to vigorously promote the Great Kyushu Plan, that is, the thirteen states of the Great Han Dynasty were reclassified into Kyushu.

What Bai Tu was thinking about was similar to the two-tier system of states and counties in the Song Dynasty......

The official position in the Song Dynasty has a definition in history textbooks - redundant officials, that is, the official system is too large and redundant.

What is the specific local government system?

During the Han Dynasty and the Han Dynasty, the local government set up counties and counties, and the counties had Taishou and county orders, and even the "county magistrates" of small counties had great real power, so they had the "nickname" of "Baili Hou".

Taishou is even more of a local official, before the troubled times of the Eastern Han Dynasty and Liu Yan fooled Emperor Ling and figured out the state pastoral system, the state was only a supervision unit, and the assassin did not have the power to actually meddle in local affairs!

In contrast, the Song Dynasty took a big step forward in decentralization and centralization, absorbing the experience of the Tang Dynasty......

The smallest administrative unit in the local area is still the county, but the "state" above the county is mostly three or four counties with one state, and there are more than 200 states and more than 1,000 counties in the country during the Northern Song Dynasty!

In other important places, there is the establishment of "prefectures", which are at the same level as "prefectures", but they attach more importance to them.

As for the "road" above the state, it is also only a supervision unit, and compared with the "state" of the Han Dynasty, the "road" of the Song Dynasty seems to be almost the same legal reason, but there is one biggest difference - there is no supreme governor.

Instead, it is divided into four, the "transit envoy" who is responsible for the financial affairs of Caoyun, the "criminal officer" who is responsible for criminal and prison proceedings, the "pacification envoy" who is responsible for military affairs, and the "Changping envoy" who is responsible for storage......

At this time, the population of the Eastern Han Dynasty was much smaller than that of the Northern Song Dynasty, but the area was much larger than that of the Northern Song Dynasty, but the number of counties was only half of the "state" of the Northern Song Dynasty.

The local bureaucracy system in the Song Dynasty was redundant, but there was no doubt that in terms of political stability, it was ranked very high in the feudal dynasty, and it was undoubtedly very up to the standard in terms of the local government taking power and the local departments restraining each other.

It's just that its flaws are also obvious, on the one hand, it is "redundant", and on the other hand, it is ...... Small and medium-sized counties at the grassroots level also face the dilemma of incomplete official staffing, resulting in low administrative capacity.

That is, the power is cut into pieces enough, but it does not merge small and medium-sized counties, resulting in terminal nerve weakness, if the official system of the Song Dynasty is bloated, it is probably like the centripetal obesity of a dead fat house - obviously more than 200 catties, but the forearms and calves are still "slender".

However, it is undeniable that the local official system in the Song Dynasty is more suitable for reference to the vertical management system of the six ministries, and the "supervision" of the Song Dynasty can also be regarded as the prototype of the official workshop.

In the Song Dynasty, the "supervisors", that is, the large workshops of smelting, grazing, and salt production operated by the imperial court, some of which were at the same level as the state and some were at the same level as the county, were all administrative units.

Historically, Cao Cao's implementation of the "Great Kyushu" plan was actually a step to strengthen his own Jizhou, replacing Yuan Shao and beginning to use the north as his base camp, while weakening the Xudu court.

And Bai Tu's current Baizhou plan is also to strengthen the centralization of power in the Chu court.

Although the population was not as dense as in the Northern Song Dynasty, the convenient development of transportation and the tendency of the population to concentrate in cities and towns laid the foundation for the differentiation of local powers and the centralization of power in the imperial court, and also strengthened Baitu's determination to gradually launch the "Hundred States Plan".

Now the large-scale expansion of county-level officials is already paving the way......

According to the White Chart Plan, it will take at least five years to accumulate a sufficient talent pool and gradually improve the functions of the local government offices.

Five to ten years later, the complete abolition of counties into states, with the Chu state now controlling the territory, the establishment of a hundred prefectures - about two or three counties will have a state, key areas set up "mansions", referring to the Song Dynasty's military and prison system, to place troops and officials.

With the state and the government as the end of the vertical management of the six ministries, that is, to ensure that the state level has a full set of subordinate offices of the six ministries, in fact...... It is equivalent to the promotion of the current large counties to "prefectures" or "prefectures", dragging two small counties, just like prefecture-level cities and subordinate county-level cities, which can be regarded as a disguised merger to avoid the incompleteness of the local official system.

At the same time, counties are no longer established, and "roads" are also divided into supervision units, as the middle-level institutions of the six vertical management.

As for the county order after the Baizhou Plan, it is really a "sesame official", and it has nothing to do with Bailihou anymore.

After Bai Tu proposed the two-tier system of states and counties, along the way, he and the staff members transferred from the six ministries also conducted targeted investigations......

In each county, the data of all parties will be sampled and compared with the changes brought about by the increase in the number of workshops, so as to compare the feasibility and necessity of the two-tier system of states and counties.

Bai Tu raised this matter, and at present, only some core officials of the six ministries are aware of it, and most of them have a wait-and-see attitude or a slight resistance in their hearts.

After all, the county system has been in place for so many years, and it has been very perfect compared to before, and after Bai Tu promoted the six ministries to establish county and county direct government offices, it can be regarded as a completed version, so it is said that it is already possible, right?

After all, the change in administrative divisions is undoubtedly one of the biggest causes of political instability.

If the person who proposed it was not a white picture, it is estimated that it would be the kind that resisted it vigorously, and someone would have to die on the spot.

But the words of the white picture......

This is the trust that has been accumulated little by little since the establishment of the six departments of the Empty White Fang during the period of the General's Palace!

And there are also unwritten rules in the court of Chu State, everyone can bar the king of Chu, but please use the current data to speak, don't use the name of the ancestors to make a law, otherwise...... All of them will be answered by You Heng on behalf of the King of Chu.

Therefore, although many people are cautious, they are cautious in seeking verification.

Because there was no official announcement, the counties were taken aback, and thought that the king of Chu was a surprise inspection, but later it was also found that the bigwigs just asked for the data of the counties and did a simple political observation.

It wasn't until I entered Jiangxia that the contrast was even more obvious.

In the area of Wu County and Poyang County, the larger the county seat, the more workshops there are.

Jiangxia County is different, because a year ago it was still a war zone, and most of the local wealthy families were not sensitive to the development of the workshop, which can just be regarded as a "primitive" comparison.

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On the eighth day of the sixth month, not long after Bai Tu entered Jiangxia County, he happened to encounter a family migration.

Although the other party seemed to be eager to hide in the crack of the ground and not be discovered by Bai Tu, Bai Tu still ordered to come forward and ask.

It doesn't look like a disaster in front of you, and there is nothing to escape from in Jingzhou, although it is ...... The scale of a few hundred people is not a big deal, but as the king of Chu, since he has encountered it, he still has to ask.

After all, this kind of large-scale displacement often represents a suspicion of harsh local government......