After the morning of July 25, the fifth year of the Grand Duke, Lin Zexu and the cabinet scholars headed by Niu Jian jointly submitted a report to Zhu Jingyuan.

"Adjustment Strategy of Political Region and Noble System".

After the end of this war, the Ming directly ruled most of the entire planet, plus various forms of vassal states controlled all regions.

The pre-war administrative divisions were no longer suitable, and they had to be adjusted accordingly to the current situation.

Although this Tessie war as a whole was an absolute crushing situation, it cannot be said that the personnel at the front and rear were all in vain.

The land in the entire Taixi Continent is not picked up in vain, and a large number of personnel will be needed to continue to garrison and transform it in the future.

Of course, the link of rewarding meritorious deeds after such a large-scale war operation is absolutely indispensable.

According to Zhu Jingyuan's promise before the war, a large number of new nobles would be born after this war, and at the same time, a part of the actual feudal kingdom would also be divided.

On this basis, Zhu Jingyuan asked the cabinet to take responsibility for drawing up a new plan for the adjustment of political districts and titles.

Zhu Jingyuan opened the report to check, and Niu Jian and Lin Zexu introduced the situation beside him.

According to Zhu Jingyuan's request in advance, the guiding ideology of this adjustment plan was to correspond to the rank of the title and the vassal state with the level of the administrative division.

The administrative region is generally divided into five levels: region, province, government, prefecture and county, fang, city, factory, town and township.

A "domain" is a first-level administrative region, with an area ranging from millions of square kilometers to tens of millions of square kilometers, usually divided into a few to a dozen provinces.

The chief officials of the domain are all Zheng Erpin, the administrative officer is called "Du Hu", the criminal officer is called "Punishment", the supervision officer is called "Yushi", and the military officer is called "Governor".

The territorial realignment of the domain is also the largest of all levels, mainly increasing the scope of the former Tessie States.

The land of the original Lucia and Western Xianbei countries, plus Finland, Norway, Sweden, Iceland and other places, was merged to establish the Xianbei region.

The original Prussia, Austria, Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and other regions were merged to form the Taixi Regions.

The former Ottoman mainland, including the Balkan Peninsula, plus the Great Food Peninsula and the northern part of Mozhou, were merged to form the Roman Domain.

The main purpose of the jurisdictional adjustment of Taixi and the surrounding three large regions is to disperse the hundreds of millions of people in the Taixi continent.

The northeast and north were given to the Xianbei region, and the eastern Roman region in the southeast was given to the Roman domain.

In this way, the population of each of the three domains does not exceed 200 million.

In the future, the population of the original ruling class will continue to be relocated outward, and the population of Taixi in each large region will be suppressed to less than 100 million.

Then the Kazakh, Khiva, Persian, and Tianzhu regions in the central part of the continent were merged and established as the new Anxi Domain.

The southern region of Mozhou in the south of the Sahara was divided into the Eastern Ink Region and the Western Ink Region according to the east-west dividing line originally divided by Zhu Jingyuan.

The Eastern Mo Domain is mainly the immigrants of the Ming Dynasty and the surrounding ethnic groups, and the Western Mo Domain is mainly the Taixi immigrants and the native Mo aborigines, and there are a large number of Taixi vassal states.

The North Yin Chau region north of Panama was established as the North Yin Region, and Panama and the South Yin Chau region south of it were established as the South Yin Region.

The Tiannan Continent and the surrounding islands of the Great Ming Ocean and the Small Western Ocean plus the Antarctic Continent were merged to form the new Tiannan Domain.

The jurisdictional areas of the provinces directly under the territorial government remain basically unchanged.

"Provinces" are second-level administrative regions, with jurisdictional areas ranging from tens of thousands of square kilometers to millions of square kilometers, and usually have a few to a dozen prefectures.

The chief officials of the provinces directly under the central government of the local government are the second grade, and the chief officials of the provinces under the overseas region are of the second grade.

Provincial-level administrative officials are called "political envoys", criminal affairs officers are called "procurators", supervision officials are called "imperial historians", and military affairs officers are called "commanders".

"Fu" is a three-level administrative region, with jurisdiction ranging from thousands of square kilometers to hundreds of thousands of square kilometers, usually under a few to a dozen prefectures and counties.

The prefect of the province directly under the local government is the fourth grade. The chief official of the province under the province of the overseas region is from the fourth product.

The government administrative officer is the "prefect", the criminal officer is the "general sentence", and the supervision officer is still collectively referred to as the "imperial history", but the administrative level is different.

The rank of the military officer depends on the number of troops in the garrison, and it may be "commander" or even "commander", or it may simply be "pacification".

"Prefecture" and "county" are both four-level administrative regions, with jurisdictions usually ranging from hundreds of square kilometers to tens of thousands of square kilometers, with several to a dozen townships, towns, and cities.

The governor of the prefecture under the province directly under the local government has been adjusted from the fifth rank to the sixth grade, and the state chief officer under the overseas province has been adjusted from the sixth rank to the sixth grade.

The state administrative officer is "Zhizhou", the criminal officer is the "judge", the supervision officer is collectively referred to as the "imperial history", and if there is a garrison, it is usually "suppressed".

At the state and county level, it is necessary to directly manage the people, which is equivalent to the police, and the Jinyiwei has become more important, so the officials of Jinyiwei are also important officials in the state and county.

"State" is the intermediate state of the prefecture and the county, and it is the most complex layer in the Daming administrative region, and there are three states with completely different natures that have existed.

The first is the "Zhili Prefecture" and "Sanzhou" that have appeared since the Yuan Dynasty.

Usually in some difficult or remote places, there is a relatively isolated area that is far away from the formal administrative center of the higher level, or where it is difficult to get around.

The area and population of the prefecture are larger than those of a county, but for the time being it is not enough for the size of a normal prefecture, and a "state" is usually set up here.

The prefecture is not attached to Guo County, and the prefecture yamen itself must first directly manage the affairs of its own urban area, and this part of the function is the same as that of the county yamen.

At the same time, the state yamen also has to take care of the affairs of a few adjacent counties, and this part of the function is the same as that of the government yamen.

This kind of state is somewhat similar to Zhu Jingyuan's previous life, a regional central city 2,000 years ago.

Some of these prefectures are directly under the jurisdiction of provincial-level yamen, so they are called "Zhili Prefectures", which are "small prefectures" in nature.

Some of them are under the jurisdiction of other prefecture-level yamen, and such prefectures are called "scattered prefectures", which can be regarded as "deputy prefectures" in nature.

However, whether it is Zhili Prefecture or Sanzhou, it is basically invisible now.

When Zhu Jingyuan was in the last years of Ankang, he began to adjust the details of the local administrative divisions.

In the relatively developed areas in the east and south of the Ming Dynasty, the urban size and population of most counties continued to expand in the process of industry.

The size of the cities and populations in many areas that were originally relatively isolated has gradually approached the size of the original normal prefectures.

The population of the surrounding prefectural districts is also increasing, and the management pressure is increasing.

At the same time, in the process of industrialization, road and rail and air transportation became more and more convenient, and radio and telephone gradually became popular in administrative work.

Isolated and remote areas that were originally inaccessible can now be more convenient to communicate with neighboring areas.

Zhu Jingyuan pushed for this form of state to be upgraded to a full-fledged prefecture, and at the same time took several counties from the neighboring larger prefectures and handed them over to this new prefecture for administration.

In some areas, there are a number of relatively isolated states adjacent to each other, and Zhu Jingyuan directly merged them into one prefecture.

One of the largest prefectures became prefectures, and the counties under the jurisdiction of other prefectures were also placed under the administration of prefectures.

For other state towns, the smaller ones are downgraded to counties, and the larger ones retain the administrative level of the state, depending on the size of the urban area and the size of the population.

The cantons at this reserved level are no longer in charge of other counties, and have jurisdiction only over their own urban and suburban affairs.

In fact, it became a "county-level city" in later generations, and it belonged to a "big county" in nature.

At the same time, counties under the jurisdiction of other prefectures can also be upgraded to this new type of state if the city size and population have reached a certain level, depending on the situation.

In order to add more administrative staff to deal with more complex and diverse affairs than traditional counties.

Such "big counties" are becoming the majority of the existing states.

The current strategy for the adjustment of administrative regions will also take the form and situation of this state as an indicator for formulating the norms of the state-level yamen in the future.

Therefore, in the process of adjustment, the rank of the state chief officer was all downgraded by one level.

After all, the state in the future will only be independent "big counties", and there will be no "small prefectures" and "deputy prefectures" that will manage other counties.

The grades of officials who have already taken office before the adjustment will not be reduced, and the officials who will succeed will be implemented in accordance with the new standards.

In the process of readjusting administrative divisions, the number of prefectures has increased on a large scale, and the importance of the prefecture itself has greatly decreased.

However, as industrialization continues to accelerate, the expansion of the scale of Fucheng, as the main force in medium-sized cities, is also very amazing.

At the same time, all lower-level state and county affairs should also be reflected in the prefecture-level yamen, so that the affairs of the government will be multiplied.

Therefore, after the compromise between the two phases, the level of the prefecture-level yamen remained unchanged.

Under the prefecture, outside the state, the remaining "counties" are the most traditional grass-roots administrative level names in Shenzhou.

Roads, roads, provinces, prefectures, counties, and prefectures have all changed many times, but the county has not changed significantly for more than 2,000 years.

The county chiefs of the local provinces have been adjusted from the seventh grade to the sixth grade, and the county chiefs of overseas regions have been adjusted from the seventh grade to the seventh grade.

The county is the most common administrative level that directly manages all kinds of grassroots affairs.

With the development of industry and commerce, the urban population continues to increase, and the affairs managed by the county-level yamen are also increasing.

With the continuous development of technology, the imperial court's management intensity of townships, towns, squares, cities, and factories below the county level is also constantly increasing.

This led to a further increase in the affairs of the county-level yamen.

Therefore, Zhu Jingyuan promoted the county-level chief officer by one level to better arrange more lower-level officials.

At the same time, the gap between the grades of county and state chiefs has been narrowed to one level.

The administrative officer of the county is the "county order", the criminal officer is the "county cheng", the supervisor is also the imperial history, and the "county lieutenant" has become the position of Jinyiwei.

There are currently three main types of "counties" in the Ming Dynasty.

First of all, the most common "suburban counties", that is, the suburban counties of Fushitasha, they have their own independent county seats, and govern their own county towns and the people in the suburbs.

Then there is the "Fuguo County", the county within the city where the higher yamen such as Fucheng, Provincial City, and Jingshi are located, similar to the "district" of Zhu Jingyuan's previous life.

Before the Industrial Age, there were only the largest cities in the Ming Dynasty, and there were one or two counties attached to Guo.

Even the north and south of Kyoto have only two prefectures attached to Guo.

Suzhou, as the first capital in the world, was the first city in the Ming Dynasty to have the third city attached to Guo County.

In recent decades, due to the continuous acceleration of industrialization, the population of major cities has swelled rapidly, and Fuguo County has sprung up like mushrooms after a rain.

Suburban counties and Fuguo counties are now the most typical county seats, and the third type of county is a relatively special "barren county".

Refers to a county with a large area but a sparse population.

Over the past decade, Zhu Jingyuan has been promoting population concentration and the construction of large cities in inland areas.

For places that are located in remote inland areas, where transportation is inconvenient and there are few resources, there is no investment in development and construction value, whether it is a state, county or government.

They all took the initiative to bring the local population together, or to move to more habitable distant places, such as the vast overseas colonies.

The current Ming Dynasty is generally "less people and more land", and the key is that the population is still particularly unevenly distributed.

There is a huge amount of high-quality land overseas that needs to be developed by manpower.

Whether it is for ordinary Ming people or for the Ming court, it is far better to spend a lot of money to dig in the mountain lumps to dig food, it is far better to go to overseas fertile soil to open up wasteland.

Therefore, the Ming court's governance method for the old and young in the border and poor areas was to immigrate.

The most typical representative area is the snowy plateau, where the local yamen has basically emptied the original population on the plateau.

At present, there are basically only people who are left with the purpose of exploration, investigation, and exploration will temporarily go to the plateau.

For the large open areas created in this way, Zhu Jingyuan's strategy was to revoke and merge the prefectures and counties that were empty, leaving only a few "barren counties".

Let these barren counties directly manage a large number of open areas under their control.

The barren county itself is under the jurisdiction of the nearby prefecture or the superior province according to the surrounding situation.

In the Western Regions and the Mongolian Plateau, there are sporadic large cities built in a concentrated manner, and most of the barren counties in these places are subordinate to the prefecture.

There are no big cities on the snowy plateau anymore, so the barren counties here are directly subordinate to the snowy provinces.

In this way, there are only two administrative levels left in the sparsely populated area: the province and the county.

For the relatively empty areas of the overseas colonies, the Ming Dynasty also adopted a similar management model.

For example, the entire Tiannan continent, the great plains of North Yinzhou, the tropical jungles of South Yinzhou, the grasslands of the inland of Mozhou, and so on.

There are several provinces under the large domain, and the area of the province itself is extremely huge, and it may be millions of square kilometers.

If there are large immigrant cities in these provinces, there are usually a few or even only one or two provinces.

Most of the remaining areas are directly set up as huge barren counties with full rank, directly managing a very small number of immigrants and natives.

As well as a large number of wastelands, barren mountains, deserts, jungles......

Towns, cities, factories, towns and townships below the county level are the fifth-level administrative districts of the Ming Dynasty.

The yamen of these four administrative regions are the real grass-roots administrative institutions, and they are the lowest administrative institutions that the Ming court can directly control.

Townships and towns are small settlements outside the county seat, and they are no different from the townships and towns in Zhu Jingyuan's previous life.

A township is a regular grass-roots organization that governs a few to dozens of villages, and a township is usually a township with a relatively large central built-up area.

Fang, city, and factory are all grassroots administrative districts in the city, similar to the sub-district offices in Zhu Jingyuan's previous cities.

"Fang" is usually a residential area, "city" is usually a commercial area, and "factory" is usually an industrial area.

However, this distinction is not absolute, and it does not mean that you cannot open shops in residential areas, and there are apartments and hotels in commercial areas, and dormitories and shops in industrial areas.

However, there is a purpose in the zoning, and the commercial office buildings are usually in the commercial area, and no one will go to the city center to buy land to build a fertilizer factory.

Fang, city, factory, town, and township are at the same level, and the local chief officials are all from the eighth grade, and the overseas chief officials are all from the eighth grade.

The rank of the title corresponds to the level of the vassal state, and all of them correspond to the level of the administrative dialect.

At the same time, from the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the clan titles and foreign surnames were officially separated.

Clan titles: Prince, County King, Zhenguo General, Auxiliary General, Fengguo General, Zhenguo Lieutenant, Auxiliary Lieutenant, Fengguo Lieutenant.

Titles of meritorious heroes with foreign surnames: Guogong, Hou, and Bo.

The purpose of clearly distinguishing the clan from the meritorious heroes with foreign surnames seems to be to elevate the status of the clan, so that the foreign surnames will not have the opportunity to covet the prince.

But by the time of Emperor Sejo, the two titles were mixed up again.

Those bunches of generals and lieutenants were abolished, and they directly continued to use gong, hou, and uncle, and also took out the sons and men abolished by Emperor Taizu.

The purpose seems to be to mix the clan into the ordinary people again, so that they can seamlessly insert into the foreign court.

Zhu Jingyuan's title adjustment this time has once again improved and expanded this system.

First, the same title was divided into ranks, and the two informal titles of township and gentry were standardized and formalized, forming a total of 12 levels of title system.

Prince, county king, county prince, county duke, county candidate, county uncle, state uncle, state son, county son, county man, squire, country scholar.

If the prince and the prince are vassal kings, they can be collectively referred to as kings.

The country corresponds to the province, the county corresponds to the similar prefecture, the state and county correspond to the state and county, and the township corresponds to the township.

The status and rank enjoyed by the nobles in the imperial court are based on the direct titles of princes, princes, uncles, and sons, and the size of the corresponding vassal states is limited to the rank of the name.

If the prince is a vassal king, the feudal state is compared with the top countries in ancient times, such as Qin, Jin, Qi, Chu, Wu, etc.

Now you can own the current provinces to several provinces, and the enclosure area is tens of thousands to millions of square kilometers, and the maximum is not more than 10 million square kilometers.

The upper limit of 10 million square kilometers is equal to no upper limit, and no emperor will seal 10 million square kilometers for his son.

There are no 10 million square kilometers in the entire Tiannan Continent, usually tens of thousands of square kilometers.

If the prince of the county and the prince of the state were the monarchs of the vassal states, the fiefs were compared to the large ancient states, such as the major states of Han, Wei, and Song.

It can be granted a prefecture to several provinces, with a fiefdom area of thousands to hundreds of thousands of square kilometers, and a maximum of one million square kilometers.

The fiefdom size standard of the county king is the same as that of the prince, but the county king has a higher status as a prince and a clan.

However, according to Zhu Jingyuan's special request, this plan did not write the restriction that the prince was limited to the clan.

The upper limit of one million square kilometers is actually extremely huge, and the standard is usually tens of thousands of square kilometers.

Therefore, there will be no huge difference in the area of the fief between the prince, the prince of the county, and the prince of the country, and the difference is that the prince is more noble.

If the county princes, county princes, and county uncles under them are the monarchs of the vassal states, the fiefs are compared with the ancient medium-sized countries, such as Lu, Wei, Zheng, etc.

It is possible to receive a prefecture to a province, with a fief area of thousands to tens of thousands of square kilometers, and no more than 100,000 square kilometers.

If the state uncle, the state son, the county son, and the county man are divided into feudal domains to establish the country, the fief can be compared with the ancient small country, and can receive a state or a county.

At the same level as prefectures and counties, the area of fiefdoms is hundreds to thousands of square kilometers, and the maximum is not more than 10,000 square kilometers.

Squires and townsmen were the lowest official titles, and if they were divided into feudal states, they could get a township, up to a hundred square kilometers.

In terms of the nature of feudal states, there are three types of feudal domains: pro-feudal domains, outer feudal domains, and internal feudal domains.

A feudal domain is a feudal state divided by the imperial family, and a foreign feudal state is not a feudal state with a foreign surname, but a regular feudal state that fulfills the obligations of a vassal state.

The foreign feudal clan only needs to pay taxes on time, does not violate the laws of the Ming Dynasty in peacetime, and accepts the supervision and protection of the Ming garrison.

In addition to this, the vassal kings had the actual rights of the vast majority of the kings.

The internal domain is highly similar to that of a regular province, with all legal and administrative processes being the same as those of the province, as well as all personnel appointments and dismissals.

The feudal monarch was actually a hereditary envoy, but he could receive a fixed percentage of tax dividends.

Once the administrative divisions and the system of titles have been determined, rewards for meritorious personnel can be arranged.

France, Spain, Portugal, the Ottomans, Austria and other countries were all foreign vassals.

The point is that these countries have taken the initiative to surrender without direct conquest by war.

Their titles and fiefdoms are all inherited from reality or formed by transactions, and may not meet the standards of the fixed title system.

And the meritorious personnel on the Ming side, they will be arranged according to the title system.

Including generals such as Yang Yuchun and Guan Tianpei, as well as former foreign monarchs and courtiers such as Luo Yashan, Napoleon, Mu Yi, and Yisai.

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