Chapter 462: A New System

With the rapid expansion of the land area of the Xia State, Wang Ze began to feel that the previous political system was gradually no longer applicable, so after he completed the reorganization of the army, he finally decided to make a major reorganization of the civil system of the Xia State after discussing it with Liu Xin, Yang Ku, Xiao Jing, Lu Wen and others.

First of all, he set up the Government Council as the highest administrative body, which was actually an institution equivalent to the role of Shangshu Province in the Three Provinces and Six Ministries, and almost all matters related to the governance of civil officials in the Xia State were governed by it, which was also called the State Council in later generations.

Although Liu Xin, who served as the premier of the Government Council after the reorganization, and Yang Ku, the vice premier, are both trustworthy people Wang Ze, he still has to make all preparations for limiting the power of the Government Council, and the perfect system is more trustworthy than everything.

So he first set up the Constitutional Yuan to formulate a large number of laws, under Wang Ze's concept of governing the country according to law in the past 20 years, Xia officials have become accustomed to governing the country according to the letter of the law, and in the past, the missing parts of the law were sentenced according to the moral provisions, but now these missing laws are being rapidly formulated and improved.

Many moral provisions that have a positive effect on the social atmosphere will soon be endowed with legal power, and there will never be those who help the grandmother in later generations but are blackmailed, although many outsiders feel that the laws of the Xia Kingdom are too strict, but the people who have lived in the Xia Kingdom for a few years know that it is the existence of these laws that can ensure that their legitimate interests are not infringed upon by the powerful in the future.

Although most of the people in Xia now know martial arts, and they all have knives and guns in their hands, and even bows and arrows, and they can also ensure their legitimate rights and interests with these weapons, Wang Ze definitely does not want the country he established to rely on the people themselves to use the weapons in their hands to maintain.

In the law, it is necessary for the people to legally possess knives, guns, bows and arrows, in fact, these are also very tolerant of the people holding these weapons in ancient history, whether it is the Tang and Song dynasties, the people can hold knives and guns, but the restrictions on crossbows and arrows are very strict.

Because the main task of the Constitutional Yuan is to formulate a large number of legal provisions, in the face of a large number of Xia nobles, military generals, teachers, workers, farmers and herdsmen, and factory owners of the Constitutional Yuan, the person presiding over the Constitutional Yuan must have a strong ability to reconcile, so Xiao Jing, who is the best at this aspect, became the president of the Constitutional Yuan.

Not to mention, since Xiao Jing became the president of the Constitutional Yuan, the speed of the Constitutional Yuan's formulation of laws has been significantly accelerated, and most of the provisions are very reasonable in Wang Ze's opinion.

In fact, Xiao Jing is still relatively cunning, he borrowed a lot from the Northern Qi Law written in the Gaoyan period, this Northern Qi Dynasty took more than ten years to finally formulate the law, in the Sui and Tang dynasties, it was directly adopted by a large number of later generations, and it was a law with a high status.

It's just that no matter how good the law is, it is in vain if it is not implemented, and the Northern Qi Dynasty is not unjust in the slightest because of this!

If there is a law, there must be enforcement, Wang Ze formally established the Supreme Court, with Lu Wen, who is nearly seventy years old, as the supreme justice, and the position of this chief justice in the future is directly appointed by the king, and generally for life if he does not make a mistake.

After the highest level of political system is determined, a similar system will be gradually established at the local county level, but the Constitutional Yuan can only be called the Constitutional Yuan at the local level, and they do not have the power to make laws, but they can supervise whether the local administrative officials act according to the law.

If a local official violates the law and discipline, the members of the Constitutional Court can sue in court, and of course, if they make false accusations, they must also bear some responsibility.

On this occasion, Wang Ze formally established that the local system of the Xia State was divided into two levels, and the county officials were appointed by the Government Council, and the decree of being officials in other places was implemented, and all officials must serve in counties and counties outside their hometowns, which could greatly avoid corruption.

Counties can only be established if the population of the area reaches 150,000, and the establishment of counties must ensure that the local permanent population reaches 10,000, and for those areas with a population of less than 10,000, towns will be established.

According to the local people's self-government system implemented by the Xia State in the East China Sea in the past, these small towns were all freely elected by the local people, and the people of the East China Sea have been familiar with this routine for decades, which is more conducive to safeguarding the interests of these people.

In the month since the Supreme Court was established, few penalties have been imposed for other crimes, but a large number of officials who have violated discipline and new immigrants who have seriously violated environmental protection laws, most of whom are Han Chinese immigrants from the former Goguryeo and Central Plains.

Although the people of Xia Guoyuan took the trouble to teach these new immigrants some laws, telling them that in Xia Country in particular, they should not reclaim wasteland and cut down trees without authorization, but these new citizens obviously did not take these advice to heart. Love more than the book city

In the past, in the Central Plains and Goguryeo, the policy for wasteland was that whoever reclaimed it benefited, although every year some people would be taken away by the powerful people who had reclaimed their own land, but as long as there was wasteland, everyone could continue to reclaim a large amount of wasteland, so these people had rich experience in reclamation.

After arriving in the Xia Kingdom, they suddenly found that there were so many fat and oily black soil around the land they were allotted, and now they each had fifty acres of land, and if they worked hard to reclaim some of them, then it would only take a month to open up hundreds of acres, so wouldn't their own family have to have hundreds of acres of land?

The abundance of fertile, flat and irrigated fields is clear to the extent of the attraction of these newcomers.

So these people quickly ignored the government's decree and began to desperately open up the wasteland, and some even went to cut down trees privately to sell them for money, and at most thousands of people were illegally reclaiming wasteland and cutting down forests, and these people were quickly captured by the National Guard in various places.

There were even some people who were still at a loss when they were arrested, not knowing why the officers and soldiers wanted to arrest them, obviously they had long forgotten the laws that were taught to them when they migrated, or they didn't pay attention to these laws in the first place, after all, there were neighbors who had lived in the Xia Kingdom for many years who were telling them these things.

At first, there were still many people who felt that it didn't matter, since the government had arrested so many thousands of people in one go, and their families were tens of thousands of people, according to the practice of not holding the public accountable in the Chinese law for thousands of years, the government must have let everyone go after some education.

However, they ignored Wang Ze's determination to uphold the law, and in order to maintain the dignity of the law, Wang Ze even dared to depose one of the only dozen or so county guards in the Xia Kingdom, and now in order to maintain the seriousness of the law, not to mention thousands, even tens of thousands of people must be dealt with according to law.

Therefore, when the Supreme Court pronounced the crimes of these tens of thousands of people in accordance with a series of laws such as "The Law of Hunting in the Mountains and Forests", "The Law of the Lakes and Forests", and the "Law of the Fields", most of them were sentenced to exile, most of them were exiled to the South Seas, some were exiled to the West, and even dozens of people were to be exiled to Guiyi City, 30,000 miles away, like some corrupt officials.

After hearing such a solemn sentence, the vast majority of the new citizens were stunned, but after thinking of the repeated admonitions of the people of the Xia Kingdom to them, they couldn't help but be glad that they had just arrived, and they were careful in what they did, so they escaped the catastrophe.

However, from then on, these new citizens became more in awe of the laws of the Xia Kingdom, and only when the people threw away the mentality of 'the law does not blame the people', they could have enough reverence for the law, and only when they knew that the law was a powerful tool to protect their rights and interests, they would love the law more.

At the same time as perfecting these political systems, the Xia Royal Academy of Sciences was officially established in Zhenhai, which included almost all the people who had contributed to all the subjects of the Xia Kingdom, most of whom were craftsmen in the arsenal, and some of them were outstanding talents in agriculture, medicine, shipbuilding and other fields.

With the establishment of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Xia Guo added 20 new colleges of higher learning this year, and the university towns set up by Wang Ze in Jeju Island, Pyeongyang County and other places have cultivated a large number of talents, and now Xia Guo has the strength to further increase the number of colleges and universities.

These colleges and universities are almost distributed in every county of Xia Kingdom, but because the geographical location of Xuanqian County is too dangerous and the population is really small, only Xuanqi County does not have a college of higher learning, and other counties even Jiangzhou County and Liaodong County also have an agricultural college and a metallurgical college respectively.

Wang Ze's establishment of these colleges of higher learning is certainly not to cultivate lazy wasted people like later universities, as the children who enter the colleges are definitely not so easy, they not only have to learn every theory, but also must practice it themselves.

It can be said that the students of these colleges of higher learning are a very good part of the combination of theory and practice, and each college has a corresponding workshop, workshop, and farm for their practical use.

In addition to colleges and universities, basic technical schools are of course more important places for Wang Ze, colleges and universities only represent the future, and these technical colleges represent the present, only now is more and more powerful, can we be qualified to talk about the future.

Since Jeju Island, Wang Ze has been working hard to train skilled workers, he not only set the minimum wage standard for skilled workers, but even organized technical workers in various industries to compete in technical competitions every year, but the most motivated for skilled workers is the promulgation of the patent law.

With such a law, the owners of the workshops had to pay for any new technology invented by these workers, and in this way a large number of wealthy people from skilled workers were quickly created in ten years, who had ideals and skills, and soon occupied a place in the economy of the Xia Kingdom.

However, the people of Xia have long been accustomed to the increasing number of technical colleges and universities, and the expansion of these colleges has not attracted the attention of the people of Xia too much, and their attention has been attracted by the civil service examination announced by Wang Ze.