Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 605 Counties and Provinces

In the second year of Shaoming, Shangyuan Day, among the envoys from various countries, Gao Baorong, the heir of Nanping Prince who came first, had already stayed for six months, and the rest stayed for three or four months, and it was time to leave.

Zhang Tie then hosted a banquet in person to see off the envoys from various countries.

Nantang Li Jingda had a great time playing in Tokyo. During the period, he personally joined a polo team in Tokyo and became the biggest sponsor.

As for other real estate purchases in Kaifeng Prefecture, Tokyo and Luoyang, the capital of God, it can be described as spending a lot of money.

Zhou Guochaotang praised Li Jingda's demeanor and his move to buy properties in Tokyo and Shendu, thinking that this was the preparation of the Southern Tang Li family for living in Tokyo and Shendu in the future.

But Zhang Ting deeply suspected that Li Jingda's actions were just Li Jing's paralysis.

It's not that Zhang Ting thinks Li Jing is so ambitious, but from a historical point of view, Li Jing still regards the position under his butt as extremely important.

Deep down in his heart, Li Jing often misjudged his abilities.

He has always thought of himself as a wise lord in history, but Zhou Guo is too strong, and it is bad luck to lose Huainan.

Well, it's not that our army doesn't work hard, it's that the communist army has a taste of Gundam.

With such a personality, Zhang Ting would rather believe that he would go to Hongzhou to close the door and live a happy life, and he would not believe that he would take the initiative to act like he lived in Tokyo and the capital of God when he still owned half of Huainan.

Therefore, when Zhang Ting raised his glass to see Li Jingda off, he said with a pun.

"Go back and tell your brother, since you are a descendant of the Great Dynasty, you should know my attitude towards the Great Dynasty clan.

It is not advisable to separate one side. If you really want to belong to the country, I can entrust him with the affairs of Jiangnan. If you still want to separate, Hongzhou is not safe. "

Li Jingda was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat, he dared not speak.

For Wu Yue's envoys, Zhang Zhao was much gentler.

Wu Yue's envoy, Pei Jian, was a veteran of Qian Liu's time, and his family was also a wealthy Jiangzuo family. In addition to Wu Yue's obedience, Zhang Zhao was still unwilling to persecute him too much.

"The two Zhejiang provinces have outstanding people, and the time of great dynasties is where Jiangnan's culture is located.

King Wusu (Qian Yu) and King Zhongyi (Qian Yuanguan) are both loyal to the country, and I admire them very much.

Your lord Yuanyou is still young, and you and other important ministers should give more guidance so that they will not forget the loyalty of their ancestors.

I have given a secret seal, and I will give it to the king when I go back. If you have any questions, you can ask me with the secret seal. "

Yuanyou is the name of Wuyue King Qian Zuo, and Zhang Zhao called him directly, basically thinking of Qian Zuo as his younger brother, and giving him a secret seal is even more meaningful.

Zhang Zhao knew that Wu Yuechen was strong and the ruler was weak, and Qian Zuo was young, so if there was something he couldn't control, with this secret seal, he could use Zhang Zhao's power to stabilize his position.

And once Qian Zuo borrowed the power, he would make the difference between the upper and lower levels more stringent. In the future, when the Southern Tang Dynasty was gone, Qian Zuo would naturally have to return home with the whole country.

This was the historical fact that Qian Yue belonged to the Song Dynasty, which gave Zhang Zhao enough confidence, but he didn't know that Qian Zuo was only a few months away.

Hearing this, Pei Jian knelt down to accept the reward, and then stood up to finish the wine. Pei Jian had a deeper understanding of the strength of the Central Plains Zhou's army and Zhang Ting's personal ability.

In his opinion, the Great Zhou Dynasty, where the sage king was in power, with virtuous civil servants and brave generals, already had a tendency to dominate the world.

He decided to persuade Qian Zuo when he went back, simply hit the snake with the stick, and quickly sit down to a situation commensurate with Shao Tianzi's brother.

As for Gao Baorong, Zhang Zhao was even more kind, he took Gao Baorong's hand.

"I heard that the king of Nanping is ill, so I specially asked the imperial medical office to select three famous doctors and some valuable medicinal materials. The chief minister can take them to Jiangling.

Baoying is willing to stay in Tokyo to study, I am very relieved, and I will definitely urge him. "

Gao Baorong and his younger brother Gao Baoying also bowed down directly. Among them, Gao Baoying had already caught Luo Siniang's eyes, and Gao and Luo's two families had already made a marriage contract.

The last one is Ma Xiguang. This gentleman knows his character just by his appearance. He is round and simple-minded. Although he is not particularly fat, his soft appearance seems to add a little weight to him.

"I heard that brother Xi Guang is going to Xuzhou to worship the ancestors, I have already informed Xuzhou Zhongwu Army Jiedu Envoy Panquan to make arrangements, and the tomb of Ma's ancestors has also been repaired.

Brother Xi Guang and I hit it off right away, March is Empress Dowager Ciyou's birthday, brother Xi Guang must be there, and you and I will drink another hundred cups. "

Ma Xiguang prostrated himself on the ground gratefully, sobbing, but Zhang Ting told him that he really had nothing to say.

There are banquets every few days, and there are often treasures, utensils, and delicacies. Ma Xiguang also loves polo, and Zhang Tie even took time to teach him in person.

In Ma Xiguang's life, even his elder brother Ma Xifan was not so kind to him.

What's more, during his visit this time, a major event happened. After careful comparison by Jin Yi's personal guards, he finally found the former residence of Ma Yin, the ancestor of the Ma family, and dozens of surviving members of the Ma family.

Ma Yin was from Xuzhou, and before he started his family, he made a living as a carpenter. Zhang Ting not only found the Ma family clan in Xuzhou, but also found the grandson of the craftsman who taught Ma Yin the carpenter's craft.

Therefore, Ma Xiguang had to go to Xuzhou to meet the Ma family after the meeting. Although the itinerary would be delayed for a month or two, Ma Xiguang didn't think it mattered.

. . .

On the next day, after the banquet for the Shangyuan Festival ended, Zhang Zhao immediately asked Zhongshu Sheng to draw up an order.

Ma Xifan was granted the title of King of Chu, Taiwei of the school, Ling of Zhongshu, Jiedu envoy of Wu'an and Wuping armies, and the governor of Tanzhou's governor's office.

Feng Qianzuo was appointed as the envoy of Wuyue King, Taibao, Zhendong, and Zhenhai to take pictures of the affairs of eastern and western Zhejiang.

Feng Gao Congxuan was King of Jing, Taifu of the school, Pingzhangshi under Tongzhong Shumen, Jiedu envoy of Jingnan, and governor of Jiangling.

Since then, Zhang Zhou finally established a suzerain-vassal relationship with the four countries of Southern Tang, Ma Chu, Wu Yue, and Nanping, and obtained a strong claim on these four countries.

Among all the kingdoms in the world, only Mengshu and Nanhan are still claiming to be emperors.

Five days later, Feng Dao and Zhao Ying returned from the various states and counties in Henan. The two brought a lot of first-hand information about the grassroots. Two days later, the guards in Jinyi also came back.

Zhang Tie immediately ordered Liu Tao, the secretary's assistant, and Li Fang, the central government official, to summon the scholars from all the middle schools to analyze and sort out the two reports. After forming a table, Zhang Tie finally understood the specific situation of the territory under his rule.

In fact, in the land of Henan, Wubao is everywhere, and it still only exists in the twelve prefectures of Meng, Huai, Zheng, Ru, Xu, Chen, Song, Cao, Shan, Yan, Hua, Chan, and Pu near Luoyang and Kaifeng. .

Because these twelve states are facing the threat of the Khitan people hitting the grass valley, they have urgent security needs.

Although other prefectures and counties also have Wubao, they are purely for self-protection by folk associations, and do not form strong personal attachment and personal oppression.

And after the political situation of the imperial court was stable and there was no external threat, Wubao itself was in a state of disintegration.

Moreover, there are not as few cultivated land among the people as Zhang Tie thought. Except for these counties where a large number of Wubao appeared, the farming situation in the rest of the counties is still acceptable.

From this, Zhang Ting realized that the old township official system and the newly emerged service position system did not evolve independently, but changed with the changes in the central organizational structure.

Corresponding to the township official system is the prefecture and county system from the Qin Dynasty to the Han, Wei and Jin Dynasties.

This kind of system of prefectures and counties, in the words of Gu Yanwu in the Ming Dynasty, is called its special subordinate.

That is to say, in the system of counties and counties, the autonomous power of counties and counties is too strong, and the only way for the imperial court to interfere with counties and counties is the option of county magistrates.

Complementing the prefecture and county system is the township official system.

This caused the central dynasty to rely on, and even to some extent coax, the three-level officials of the county, county and township to complete the management of the county, county and township. The local power is obviously too strong.

In the Tang Dynasty, the Jiedushi vassals and towns were different from the prefectures and counties in terms of expression, but the connotation and the prefecture and county system, and even the powerful families of the Han, Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties belonged to a major aspect.

It is all because the local power is too strong, and even formed a model that can completely become a country on its own.

And corresponding to this specialization below, it is specialization above.

That was the period of the county system. Although the central government could not deeply intervene in the local structure, it was not a small problem to drive local forces.

But the benefits of the whole country are too concentrated at the central level.

This has resulted in national wealth, most of which are concentrated in the capital and the Guanzhong and Heluo areas where the capital is located.

In the words of later generations, it is the central government that siphons everything from the local government, including taxes and talents.

This kind of political structure had caused huge influence and damage in Han and Tang Dynasties.

An important reason for the outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion was actually that the Li and Tang Dynasty cared too much about Guanzhong, and the blood-sucking place was too much.

Otherwise, just a beard in An Lushan, without the dissatisfaction and resistance of the entire class in Hebei, would not have caused such great harm.

For Zhang Zhao, the township government system, no matter how many benefits it has, is meaningless.

His biggest problem now is to take over the power of the local government and prevent the recurrence of the situation of separatism in feudal towns. Then he cannot use the township official system produced by the high degree of local power centralization.

So what is the superstructure of the service system?
Of course, it was the budding of the Song Dynasty, the great achievements of the Yuan Dynasty, and the finalized provincial system in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

In this system, in the name of the Ministry of Public Affairs, part of the power is delegated to the local government in the form of authorization, but all governance power belongs to the central government, and the provinces are only agents of the central government.

In the case that the imperial court can always control part of administrative, financial, military, and judicial powers, it also distributes a considerable part of power to the provinces, and uses the situation of the provinces to centralize power at the center.

This is the trend in the future, Zhang Zhao's major reforms at the local level will also be put on the agenda.

(End of this chapter)