Following.

Before the early dynasty began, a holy decree was passed out from the palace of the Xia King.

From now on, the city lord system of each local city in the Great Xia Dynasty was changed to the county system, and the city lord of each city was changed to the county order, and the official title was appointed according to the size of the city and the main cultivation of the city, with the highest from the second rank to the lowest ninth rank.

The city lords must strictly cooperate with the imperial court to hand over the appointment and dismissal, and there must be no mistakes.

Those who resist the decree and do not obey the will will be punished by the nine clans!

As soon as this decree comes out, you can imagine what kind of shock it will cause!

Although a few days ago, there was news in the Xia Wang Palace that the local city lord system was to be reformed, but it has not been implemented, and there is no holy decree in the Xia Wang Palace, so although many people are secretly vigilant, they do not pay too much attention to it.

Reform of the local system, where is it so easy.

Great Xia has been inherited for 10,000 years, and it has always been the city lord system, which can be said to have been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and everyone has become accustomed to this system.

The local lords and guards will jointly manage the city, have absolute control, and are only responsible to the imperial court, and no one else can mobilize them.

But this is also based on the fact that the prestige of the imperial court is enough to intimidate local cities.

If the imperial court is weak, the control of these local cities is not great at all, and if someone rebels and involves a lot, it is not so easy to suppress.

Therefore, for a long time, the imperial court has always adopted a policy of appeasement for these local city lords and guards.

To put it simply, the imperial court needs them to help govern and protect Great Xia, and they also need the imperial court to give them the right to be famous, and they can legally implement the rights of the city lord by relying on the imperial court behind them.

Otherwise, not to mention the common people, even those previous families and sects, if they had the intention to fight for control of the city, they would not be able to resist.

A few days ago, after the imperial court successfully repelled the coalition forces of the three major dynasties, and then integrated and suppressed all the clans and sects in various places, so the power of the local city lords also increased greatly, and the control of the city became stronger.

But who knows, this comfortable day did not last long, and the imperial court suddenly issued such a holy decree, reforming the local city lord system and changing it to a county system.

Through careful understanding, they also understood the meaning of this county system, which is probably to divide all the cities of Daxia into how many counties, and set up a county guard, the county guard is the highest official of the county, although he does not participate in the management of each city, but the county orders to which the county belongs are under the jurisdiction of the county guard.

At first glance, in fact, the rights of the city lords have not been weakened, they are still the highest governors of the city, but they have changed their titles.

But the main thing is that suddenly they have a county guard on their heads!

And this county guard, the imperial court did not explain, that is, it is obviously not prepared to be elected from among the city lords, but intends to be directly sent by the imperial court to take office.

This means that they can no longer rely on the mountains and emperors to be far away as before, and the court cannot control them, but can do whatever they want.

At this moment, there is a knife hanging over their heads, a knife of the imperial court!

And this county guard is this knife!

They naturally saw that the imperial court's move was to centralize management and enhance the ruling power of the imperial court.

And this matter is by no means so simple, the court must have a backhand.

Because of this holy decree, it only asked the city lords of each city to cooperate with the imperial court to hand over the appointment and dismissal, and did not make arrangements for the city guards.

You must know that the strength of each city is in the hands of the guards, and the rule of the city lord over the city mainly depends on the troops, so generally speaking, the relationship between the city lord and the defender is excellent, and the status of the two is equal.

But at this moment, the imperial court only asked the city lord to cooperate with the imperial court handover, but did not make arrangements for the guards, which is a bit intriguing.

Everyone speculated that the imperial court should intend to control the forces in their hands, so for the time being, only the city lord should cooperate with the handover.

Sure enough, the next day, another holy decree came from the Xia Palace: the imperial court had elected the county guards, and the county guards had gone to the counties to take office, and ordered the city guards to report to the county guards on the same day, hand over the military power, and obey the appointment of the county guards.

As soon as this decree came out, the atmosphere became even more tense.

Throughout the ages, their own rights have come from strength, and for these local officials, their strength is the military power in their hands!

But now that the imperial court wants to control the military power in various places, will these officials be willing to hand over the military power like this?

The answer is no!

Accustomed to the days when they hold the military power in their hands and decide the life and death of a person with a word, how can they be willing to hand over the military power like this.

But a few days ago, the imperial court repelled the alliance of the three dynasties, as well as the subjugation of various family clans, which had already demonstrated the great strength of the imperial court.

But they didn't want to sit still and wait for death, so many city officials united, and while jointly voting their loyalty, asking the imperial court to retract the order, they also dealt with the officials sent by the imperial court to hand over the decree, and dragged it out and did not accept the decree.

In their opinion, although the imperial court is powerful now, it is impossible to directly force them to accept the order, so if they are forced to be urgent, the civil strife in Daxia is not something that the imperial court is willing to see.

Therefore, most people were fearless, feeling that the court did not dare to persecute them too much, ignoring the two holy decrees, and threatening to play the court and ask the court to withdraw their orders.

Of course, there are also some people who choose to wait and see, and are extremely polite to the officials sent by the imperial court, and they are very well-behaved on the surface, but they have no actual action, so they plan to drag it out like this first, waiting for the reaction of the imperial court.

No city official chose to accept the decree and cooperate with the handover, appointment and dismissal of the imperial court.

The scene was deadlocked.

Hearing this news, many families and sects that were originally suppressed and subdued by the imperial court became active again, and secretly sent people to contact the local government.

Although it is not known what they talked about, it was not long before these officials, even more unscrupulous, were full of confidence in their plan, and felt that the imperial court would definitely take back their fate.

And the reform of the local city lord system will also be dissolved and will become a joke.

For a time, there was a dark tide surging all over the place.

The wind and rain are coming!

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Summer Palace.

After hearing these news, Qin Wuxian smiled faintly and did not feel any surprise.

That's how the human heart is!

They used to honestly obey the orders of the imperial court, firstly, because the imperial court was powerful, they had to obey.

The second is because their interests are not involved.

And now that the reform of the local system obviously involves their interests, they can't sit still.

And the reason why they are so fearless is that they feel that now that Great Xia has just experienced internal strife and external troubles, and the foundation is unstable, the imperial court should not dare to force them at this juncture and let Great Xia be in turmoil again.

The most important thing is that this matter implicates all the cities of Great Xia except for the Central Royal City and the Sifang Border, and they feel that the law is not responsible for the public, so they are even more unscrupulous!

But......

Don't dare to persecute them?

Does the law not hold the public accountable?

In the Xia Palace, Qin Wuxian smiled, and his smile was even more unscrupulous!

The next day, a holy decree came out of the palace of the Xia King again.

And with the spread of this holy decree, the already tense atmosphere in various places instantly became more tense!

At the same time, all over Great Xia, one after another figures wearing brocade guards and eight doors official uniforms took secret actions......

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