Piao Tianwen   The first year of the Republic, New Year’s Day.

According to the Sui Dynasty, the New Year's Day will be held every New Year's Day, also known as the Yuan Dynasty. On this day, not only will the Beijing officials from the seventh rank or above have to attend the Yuan Dynasty, but also local prefects, guards, left-behind and other ministers in various places have to go to the Beijing Dynasty to celebrate.

Moreover, the kings and envoys from all over the world will come to congratulate them together.

The Yuan Dynasty is not only a court meeting, but also a celebration. It not only demonstrates the authority of the central government, but also prevents foreign local ministers from entering the court for a long time and without any control in the local area. The annual dynasty gathering not only has to go to Beijing to participate in the Yuan Dynasty, but also has to accept the assessment of the Shangshu Province.

The Yuanhui in the 11th year of Daye was the most solemn Yuanhui since the early emperor Yang Guang ascended the throne. Not only did all local officials enter the capital to gather in court, but most foreign countries around the world sent envoys to pay tribute and pay tribute, and even several kings of small countries came in person. This was an unprecedented prosperous era and the peak of Yang Guang's career throughout his life.

However, in just one year, the world has changed drastically, with nine continents splitting, heroes separating, the Central Plains, emperors, and rebel kings established heroes everywhere. Moreover, wars and chaos in all sides were everywhere, and the localities were unstable. With the arrival of the new year, the grand event of the court has become deserted.

The Beijing court now has a vast area such as western Liaoning, Liaodong, Shiwei, Hebei, Shandong, Huaibei, and even more than ten counties in border Hedong and northern Guanlong belong to the Beijing court. It has nearly 60 counties under its jurisdiction, surpassing the Chen Dynasty in the south of the Yangtze River for the first time and becoming the most widely territorial force.

This Yuan meeting was also the first Yuan meeting after the Liaodong Army supported Yang Gao and established the capital of Beijing. It was also the first Yuan meeting of the republic when it was changed, and it was also the first Yuan meeting after the Liaodong Army entered the Central Plains.

In any aspect, this court meeting is also very important. Therefore, although Huaibei is now,

Shandong, Hebei, Hedong and other places are still unstable, but this time there are no absentees in the officials from various places.

The only difference is that the officials entered Beijing very late this time, basically arrived a few days before New Year's Day, and the court also exempted the local officials from bringing tributes to the emperor when they came to Beijing. Moreover, in order to deal with the local situation, this time the local government only had the prefects of each county.

The county magistrate arrived in the capital, and the rest of the officials remained in the area.

On the contrary, Khitan, mohé, Silla, Baekje, Xiguo, Tiel, Eastern Turkic and other countries,

Basically, important people arrived, either kings or princes or ministers. They all came to pay homage with generous tributes.

In the Forbidden City, officials and local ministers in Beijing lined up from the Taihe Hall to the Xuanhe Gate, a thousand steps away, although the momentum was not as good as the Yuanhui in Daye's 11th year, but it still surprised many foreign envoys.

The New Year's Day ceremony is a ceremony and does not discuss political affairs.

Chen Kefu's previous title can barely be considered as a celebration. After the title was granted, many ministers originally wanted to speak out against tax reform in the Yuan Dynasty. However, Chen Kefu's title was granted, which stripped away the dissatisfaction of most ministers. In the end, although he was still a little dissatisfied with the new tax reform of the tax, he was concerned about today's grand dynasty and the benefits of having the title had been granted before, no one mentioned this matter again, and he would only mention it later.

According to the inherent etiquette and system rituals, the New Year's Day ceremony was held one by one, and everything was fine. The only shortcoming was that the emperor who should have attended was not in good condition but was told that he was not able to attend.

It was not until afternoon that the complex New Year's Day ceremony ended.

Chen Kefu ordered that the palace be given imperial meals.

After the officials in the court have enough food and drink, the Yuanhui will be over and they will go back to their own houses.

However, ordinary officials could leave, but the important officials in the court were passed on to the Political Affairs Hall.

The Political Affairs Hall is the place where the prime ministers who have served as the title of political affairs, is located in Shunhua Pavilion near the south gate of the Forbidden City.

Most of the official system of the Beijing court was based on the Sui Dynasty, and the system of general prime ministers was also implemented. Among the three provinces and six ministries, except for the position of Shangshu Ling as a false position and was not given a grant, Shangshu Ling as a left and right servant, the left and right officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Right, and the six chief officials of Internal Affairs and Right, were automatically the prime minister. In addition to these six people, according to the new system, three ministers must be transferred from the third rank or above in Beijing to the title of General Secretary of the Ministry of State and the position of General Secretary of the Nine Prime Minister.

The nine princes gathered in the office every day in the Political Affairs Hall. The nine princes were at the same position, without any distinction between high and low. They took turns to take charge of the Political Affairs and writing, and each round was once every seven days.

Now, Chen Ke was renamed the prime minister in the court, but he was not the prime minister, but more powerful than the prime minister, equivalent to the regent of the state. Before the emperor came to power, he would temporarily take charge of the court's affairs.

Among the nine ministers in the court today, Mao Xi had just been granted the title of the three companies without authority by Chen Kefu, but was dismissed from the position of the prime minister.

Fang Xuanling was the left servant, Du Ruhui was the right servant, Gao Shilian was the left servant, Lu Guangli was the right servant, Wei Zheng was the left servant, Changsun Wuji was the right servant, Minister of War Li Jing was the right servant, General of Jinwu Guard Li Benlei was the right servant, and the newly promoted Minister of Personnel Chen Jie was the right servant. The nine people were the prime ministers, and they were all the confidants of Chen Kefu.

Mao Xi has always been the first of Chen Kefu's writings since the Liaodong uprising. However, now he feels increasingly that his Mao Bo's rule has begun to have a gap with him and his court, and he always cannot be consistent in rhythm. Considering that Mao Xi is old after all, especially because of the handling of the Hebei clan affairs this time, his ideas are too far from his own. Therefore, Chen Kefu finally appointed him as the Three Dukes, and dismissed his position, but he also made Lu Guangli, the old minister who was also from Chenjiazhuang, and the Minister of Personnel, the right inner-level official was the Minister of Personnel.

Chen Jie is Li Jie in the past. Since Li Lang was destroyed, he turned to himself. In recent years, he has changed from martial arts to literary talent, showing his sè, and this time he has also been promoted to a prestige.

Du Ruhui, who was newly promoted to the right servant, said: "Your Highness, the imperial court has now recovered and occupied as many as 60 counties and more than 300 counties in name.

Moreover, as the court gradually regained more land, the number of counties will increase. By the seventh year of Daye, the court had more than 200 counties and more than 1,000 counties. The Central Secretariat wanted to manage more than 200 counties at the same time, and it was impossible to manage so many counties efficiently at the same time. So please suggest that according to the previously tried methods, the three-level system of prefecture, county and county will continue to be implemented." Wei Zheng opposed and went forward and said, "As early as the second year of the Zhou Dynasty in the Sui Dynasty, the world had already attracted 1.

At that time, many counties even had one county, and one county generally only had one to three counties. The three-level administrative divisions... were no longer of great significance. The prefects of many counties were actually not in charge, but this additional administrative mechanism still caused a huge local bureaucracy system, increasing the burden on the court and the people. Later, Emperor Wen removed the county system and changed it to the second-level system of prefectures and counties. In the third year of Daye, the late emperor changed the prefectures and counties to the second-level system of counties, with the purpose of reducing the huge local bureaucracy system and reducing the burden on the people. Now the right Pushe was about to restore the three-level system, which is undoubtedly a regression." Gao Shilian also stepped forward and said, "Although the imperial court now has more than 200 counties, Jizhou, Yanzhou, Qingzhou, and Xuzhou were added to the counties as early as the time of the late emperor.

, Yuzhou, Yangzhou, Jingzhou, Liangzhou and Yongzhou. The supervisory prefectures have the power to monitor and assess the government. The government system is not large and there are not many officials. However, it can replace the court to supervise the local area and eliminate the huge bureaucratic system. This is a matter that benefits the country and the people. Now our dynasty also needs to do this, without restoring the state system." Chen Kefu was not very optimistic about this supervisory prefecture. In fact, the supervisory prefecture is not an administrative unit like a county, but just a supervision unit sent by the central government. More than 200 counties in the local area must still be directly managed by the Shangshu Province of the court. The Shangshu Province not only has to handle national government affairs, but also manages these more than 200 counties. For this underdeveloped communication, this is not a good idea.

Implementing a three-level system, from the central government to the state and the prefectures to manage counties, will undoubtedly make the central court respond more quickly. Even local government affairs can handle them faster, such as disasters and turmoils caused by the local government, which can be handled more promptly.

However, as Wei Zheng and others said, adding a state-level system undoubtedly has disadvantages. First, it is to make the local bureaucracy more huge, and second, it is possible to cause redundant officials, and even make local powers too large and undermine the central court.

Everything has its pros and cons, everything has two sides.

Chen Kefu was a time traveler. He knew the direction of history well and understood that in history, whether it was the Tang, Song, Ming and Qing dynasties, there were three-level administrative divisions... The biggest reason was that with the Lou Zhan of history, the imperial court's territory became larger and larger, and the population was also increased. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there were only thirteen states in the world, with more than 100 counties. After the separatist rule of the Three Kingdoms, the southern states such as Jing, Yang, Yi, and Jiao had great development, and by the time the Western Jin Dynasty was unified, it increased to the nineteen states. However, the current imperial court had more than 200 counties and more than 1,000 counties, which had long surpassed the past.

After carefully thinking about the trial implementation of Liaodong and other systems, Chen Kefu slowly said, "If the second-level system of counties is continued, then when the court reunifies the world, the central government will face hundreds of counties and thousands of counties at that time, and if it is just to continue to implement the Jiuzhou supervision system, this situation will not be changed. This king tends to add a state system, but what Lord Wei and Lord Gao must not ignore it."

"The court must not only increase efficiency and centralization, but also prevent redundant officials from appearing and increasing the burden on the people's court. Therefore, the king means that the court reforms on the basis of the existing counties and counties to avoid the situation where one county has only one or two counties in the past. All counties must have at least four counties, and each prefecture must also have four counties in place. In this way, the efficiency of the court's affairs can be solved, and the local government can also avoid causing redundant officials and bureaucrats, and the burden on the court and the people in vain."

After a long discussion, it was finally agreed to be in the Liaodong Army's western Liaodong, Liaodong, and Hebei,

Shandong and Huaibei regions, the imperial court established Haizhou, Luozhou, Weizhou, Yanzhou, Zunzhou, Youzhou,

Yizhou, Yunzhou, Zhaozhou, Qingzhou, Yanzhou, Xuzhou and Liuzhou have thirteen states. Among them, there were five states in Liaodong, Liaodong, and Hebei, four states, and Shandong has four states. The state has a governor and a chief of staff.
Chapter completed!