Chapter 271 Establishment of New Counties

Although the order to appoint Buyeo Wang as the chief secretary of Jeju Island County made the Han Chinese officials in Donghae a little unhappy, they still did not say much because it was Wang Ze's order, but this news had a great impact on the immigrants and slaves of Baekje in each county.

In their opinion, since Wang Ze was able to appoint a member of the Baekje royal family as an official, he was just a small people, and as long as he worked hard, he could be further relieved.

Of course, the slaves wanted to be liberated and become naturalized people, but the people of Baekje, as naturalized people, longed to be able to become an equal people like other Han people, so they worked harder.

Wang Ze's takeover of Buyeo Wang was not a whim, nor was he using Buyeo Wang to incite the people of Baekje in Baekje's homeland to create a rebellion against the Goguryeo people.

It's that Wang Ze is indeed too short of capable civil officials now, especially the kind of powerful officials who can take charge of themselves and can serve as a county commander or even a county guard.

Although Buyeo Wang is still young, he is also nearly 30 years old, after all, he is the nephew of Buyeo Chang, and he has also been considered a high position in Baekje before, and has handled many major government affairs in Baekje, so as long as he has some experience, he can be regarded as a very qualified official.

And now that Fuyu Wang has sent thousands of his subordinates to Wang Ze, he is not worried that Fuyu Wang will have other thoughts, so that Wang Ze can get a talent in internal affairs without much effort, which also makes Wang Ze very relieved.

After taking in Buyeo Wang, in the face of Goguryeo's powerful military threat to Zhenhai, as well as the calls and disregard of Wang Ze's various ministries preparing for war, Wang Ze actually began to sort out internal affairs again.

Although Wang Ze was very worried about the situation in Zhenhai before, after learning that the two armies of Zhang Hang and Cao An went to Zhenhai to support, he was no longer always concerned about this place.

In Wang Ze's mind, a good local system of government that can develop on its own is the foundation of a strong country, and now that the Wa State in the East China Sea has been destroyed for nearly a year, it is urgent to set up counties and counties in the occupied areas of the former Wa State and carry out civilian rule.

In addition to the land that Wang Ze wanted to set up a county from the Japanese and Ezo people, there were also Whale Island and Sakhalin Island, which had been occupied for more than a year, and these two places had grown a lot after more than a year of immigration, and they were also within the scope of the establishment of counties this time.

After the occupation of the northern part of Choshu Island was completed, there were still at least 450,000 Wa and Ezo people living in the central mountain range of the Wa Kingdom and further north of Choshu Island.

However, after a year of military control and several rounds of thorough purging by the large army stationed nearby at that time, the total number of remaining Japanese and Ezo people here is only about 200,000, and the threat to the local Han people has been greatly reduced.

After more than a year of emigration, the entire occupied area in the northern part of Choshu Island has reached nearly 500,000 people, including all the troops and militia people, and even if you don't count the densely populated Pingmachuan, the number of Han people in other northern parts of the island is 230,000.

Under the squeeze of so many Han people and local armed militias, the living space of the Japanese and Ezo people is of course constantly decreasing, not to mention that whenever the farming is not working, the militia department in charge of Zheng Kui will organize the local militia to conduct military training, and by the way, they will use these natives to practice their hands, and there are also military merits, and the militia are extremely enthusiastic about this.

Therefore, in this case, the Japanese and Ezo people living here have not even had time to hide from the Han people, where do they dare to come out and set off any big waves.

As long as there are another ten years, or even less than ten years, I am afraid that the number of Han people here can exceed one million, so it is very necessary to abolish the previous state of military control and establish counties in these places.

After some discussion with Yang Ku, LĂź Wen, Xiao Jing and others, Wang Ze announced that after the original four southern counties of the Wa Kingdom, the northern part of Changzhou Island would be divided into another four counties.

First of all, there is the Pingma River (Kanto Plain), where the Yangkuan Tokai Left-behind Prefecture is located, which was established as Pingyang County because of the good conditions of the Pingma River, and the county seat is of course Pingyang Castle (Tokyo).

The jurisdiction is basically a large area centered on Pingmachuan, because this is the location of the Yangkue East China Sea Left-behind Mansion, Wang Ze simply let the Yangkue direct leader, so as to save a few civil officials.

In addition to Binh Duong-gun, the Owari and Mino Plains, as well as half of Miha, Enoe, Omikawa, Izu, Kai, and Shinano, which had been occupied by Choan and Chu Honghang, were merged into Akaishi-gun, which was named after the fact that there was a mountain range nearby with many red stones. happy

Lin Jin, the former county guard of Yizhou, was transferred from Yizhou this time and appointed as the county guard of Chishi County, and his original position was succeeded by Huang Fang, the former chief secretary of Yizhou, who can be regarded as an official who developed Yizhou with Lin Jin, so he knows the situation of Yizhou very well, and can also preside over the overall situation of Yizhou very well.

Compared to these two relatively compact prefectures, the newly established Rinko-gun is very long, and it includes almost the entire west coast of the northern Wakoku region, including the Rimden Peninsula (Kumato), Echizen, Koga, Echichu, Hidan, Echigo, and Shuangfunejima (Sado Island), as well as the other half of the Shinano area in the central mountains.

The name of the county guard of Lindeng County was startled when Wang Ze saw it for the first time, this person turned out to be called Li Jing, but then Wang Ze reacted, this person is just the same name as the god of war, really the military god Li Jing of the Tang Dynasty, has not been born yet.

However, although this Li Jing is not Li Jing, he is still very good at cultural governance, and he was also in Jeju Island County as a classic history before, and more importantly, this Li Jing is the husband of Li Hongyu, a female general under Ji Xiang, think about having such a fierce wife, so this guy is also the object of Wang Ze's sympathy.

In addition to the previous three prefectures, the northernmost prefectures of Choshu Island, Izuwa and Mutsu, were assigned to Taishu Prefecture because they were located in the north, the climate was relatively cold, and the land was not fertile enough, so the population was relatively small, and the livestock industry was basically the mainstay.

The county administration of Taizhou County is Taizhou City (Sendai) on the Taizhou Plain, because Wang Ze really has no civil officials in his hands, so he wrote a letter from his father Wang Yong to ask for Jiaozhou County Shou Kong Yi to serve as the county guard of the largest county on Changzhou Island.

After the entire island of Choshu was divided into counties, it was the turn of Whale Island and Sakhalin Island, which had developed well before, so Whale Island became Whale County.

Located on the coast of the northeastern plain of Whale Island, a small town that has developed on the basis of fishing and fishery processing industry will be expanded on a large scale to serve as the county seat of Whale County, which is still under planning and has a nice name - Diaoyu City.

In fact, Whale County is the largest county in the entire East China Sea under Wang Ze's rule, and the area of the entire Whale Island (Hokkaido) alone exceeds that of all counties, including Taizhou County.

In addition, the newly discovered Kuril Islands are also included, and it can be said that the first county in the East China Sea lives up to its name, and if Iceland (Kamchatka Peninsula), which has not yet been demarcated to the north, is included, it will occupy a larger territory.

In addition to its size, the population of Whale County has reached nearly 200,000 people after successive rounds of immigration, and the population of the island is increasing at an alarming rate.

In addition, the number of horses bred on the island is very large, accounting for more than half of the total number of horses in the entire East China Sea, and the large number of excellent fishing grounds around Whale Island also accounts for more than half of the food of the people in the East China Sea every year, so it is impossible to ignore here.

Therefore, after many deliberations, Fan Wenzhong, the former county warden of Jeju Island, successfully ascended to the position and served as the county warden of Whale County, and only Fan Wenzhong, who has been tempered many times on Jeju Island, which has many affairs, can handle so many complicated affairs in Whale County.

Compared with Whale County, which is very valued by Wang Ze, Sakhalin Island, which is closer to the mouth of the river in the north, is much more shabby, not only is it far inferior to Whale County in terms of area, but even the population is less than half of Whale County.

However, because Sakhalin Island is close to the more important northeast region in Wang Ze's heart, especially the Tongjiang (Heilongjiang) basin, which is the focus of Wang Ze's future development and occupation, Wang Ze still established Sakhalin County here, and the county code is Zhao Chang, who used to serve as a county chief in Qinjin County, and was also Zhuo Ran's right-hand man.

After such a tidying up and planning all the counties, Wang Ze began to popularize the construction of primary and secondary schools in each county.

In addition, university halls are being built in Choju Fortress (Hiroshima), Pyongyang Fortress (Tokyo), and Daeko Fortress (Kyoto) to relocate the schools on Jeju Island, as well as a number of new specialized technical schools.

In the face of Wang Ze's dedication to entering the internal affairs, a group of officials in the East China Sea were very surprised and puzzled by Wang Ze's performance, after all, now facing a strong threat from Goguryeo, you can understand the establishment of counties, but now it is not to mention the increase in schools, and they are constantly inspecting the workshops, do you want to fight with Goguryeo?

However, Yang Ku, who has been in contact with Wang Ze for a long time, understands Wang Ze's thoughts very well, after all, striking iron still needs its own hardness, and it is not a task that can be completed in a short time to deal with Goguryeo, if you don't have that strength, you have to fight hard with Goguryeo, and in the end you can only make wedding dresses for others.

After all, Goguryeo is the current overlord of the East China Sea, and the national strength has increased greatly after the annexation of Baekje, and now with the strength of the Xia Kingdom in the East China Sea, even if it can greatly damage the vitality of Goguryeo, he will fall first.

Just when Wang Ze was tidying up the East China Sea, the situation in Zhenhai became a little complicated, especially when he received a letter from Cao An and Zhang Hang, his brows suddenly furrowed!