Reborn in the late Northern Wei Dynasty

Chapter 258 Regional Division
Gao Cheng's views on subdividing states and counties are inconsistent.

Subdividing states and counties will certainly increase the financial burden, but for the Gao family back then, the loss outweighed the gain due to local instability in order to save official salaries.

Through Gao Huan, especially Gao Cheng, weakening the tyrants of the gentry, promulgating various measures conducive to the centralization of power, and diligently governing the local area, although the Gao family has only been in power for eight years, the rule can be called stable.

Looking at the subdivision of states and counties now, it seems that the disadvantages outweigh the advantages.

Not just for financial reasons, as states and counties are subdivided, the number of troops that can be mobilized by the governors of each state will be relatively reduced. When foreign enemies invade, neighboring states and counties must be rescued.

Everyone is also the governor, and whoever takes the lead will not be convinced. Without unified scheduling, it is inevitable that they will fight on their own.

Therefore, the confidant must be a member of the military of several states to deal with the military threat on the border.

Zhang Liang, the governor of Southern Jingzhou, was appointed by Gao Cheng as the governor of Yuzhou in history, and the military power of the eight prefectures including Eryu, Yang, and Ying.

For the same reason, Liang Jiang Xiahou Kui also has the military of seven states in Huainan.

Merging states and counties is very simple, just a piece of imperial edict, but how to arrange the abolished officials is the biggest problem.

Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty and Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty adjusted the administrative divisions for 20 years before successfully reducing the number from 698 counties to 190 counties, and abolished more than 10 officials.

But coincidentally, the biggest problem of personnel placement did not exist for Gao Cheng.

Since four of the five imperial examinations created by Gao Cheng belonged to practice, Gao Cheng allowed officials to abandon their posts and take the exam again in order to seek talents. As a result, a large number of staffing vacancies have emerged.

After the banquet, Gao Cheng returned to his residence, and he was not in a hurry to rest. He spread the geomancy map on the long table, looked at the land of Kanto and pondered for a while.

After thinking for a long time, Gao Cheng decided to make adjustments from Henan first.

He has been in Luoyang for eight years, and he is deeply rooted in Henan. Hebei and Hedong can be re-planned after the north is stabilized, but Henan can be piloted first.

This is also related to the fact that almost all the governors of Henan provinces are his cronies.

Gao Cheng merged East Jingzhou and South Jingzhou into East Jingzhou, and the state government was Anchang City (Zaoyang, Hubei).

Merge Northern Yuzhou and Liangzhou into Liangzhou, and the state government is Daliang (Kaifeng, Henan).

Merge Yuzhou and South Yanzhou into Yuzhou, and still use Xuanhu City (Runan, Henan) as the state government.

But Xuzhou, East Xuzhou, and North Xuzhou were merged into Xuzhou, and the government was designated as Pengcheng (Xuzhou, Jiangsu). Gao Cheng, the governor, did not hesitate, and he wrote Gao Yue's name in the blank.

Jiaozhou and Guangzhou merged into Jiaozhou, and the state government was still in Dongyang City (Qingzhou, Shandong).

Qizhou and Jeju are combined as Qizhou, and the government is located in Licheng (Jinan, Shandong).

Qingzhou and South Qingzhou are combined into Qingzhou, and the state government is in Dongyang City (Qingzhou, Shandong).

And so on, or merge, or share food, divide the south of the Yellow River into Yanzhou, Qingzhou, Yuzhou, Xuzhou, Jingzhou, East Jingzhou, Qizhou, Liangzhou, Guangzhou, Jiaozhou, Shanzhou and Sizhou where Luoyang is located, a total of 12 State.

Yanzhou governor's sister-in-law Liu Honghui, Qingzhou governor's confidant Zhao Yanshen, Yuzhou governor's confidant Yaoxiong, Xuzhou governor's uncle Gao Yue, Jingzhou governor's uncle Hou Jing, East Jingzhou governor's confidant Zhang Liang, Qizhou governor's confidant Wen Zisheng, Jiaozhou governor's father-in-law Li Huibo, Liangzhou governor's list Brother Duan Shao, Gao Shen, governor of Guangzhou, Gao Aocao, governor of Shanzhou, Gao Jishi, also led Tongguan, and Sizhou Mu was still appointed by Kezhu Hunyuan.

Of the 12 prefectures in Henan, there are no confidantes or relatives, only Hou Jing, the governor of Jingzhou, and even Gao Shen, who took over as the governor of Guangzhou, have some relatives.

The five generals who retired, such as Hu Luguang, Gao Aocao, Gao Aocao, Murong Shaozong, Liu Feng, and Hou Yuan, each led their troops to Luoyang to reorganize the Gyeonggi Army, and changed from a foreign governor to a general stationed in Beijing.

The rest also went to Luoyang and Jinyang to serve in the central government.

Gao Cheng plans to expand the quota of 34000 soldiers in Henan to 55000.

Among them, 5000 people guarded Xuzhou with Gao Yue, and 15000 state and county soldiers, a total of 20000 people guarded the southeast, and Qingzhou, Jiaozhou, etc. were later assisted.

Duan Shao, governor of Liangzhou, and Yaoxiong, governor of Yuzhou, had a total of [-] Gyeonggi soldiers under their command. Although they were transferred out of the Gyeonggi Army establishment, they still guarded the place as central soldiers.

Another 5000 people will be led by Gao Jishi to guard Shanzhou and Tongguan, and Dugu Yongye will still be in charge of Tongguan Town.

The remaining 35000 soldiers were all assigned to the Gyeonggi Army Corps, which was divided into six divisions, namely, 5000 Han troops under Gao Ao Cao, 5000 under Hou Yuan, 5000 under Liu Feng, 5000 under Hu Luguang, and 5000 under Murong Shaozong. people, and 10000 people directly under Gao Cheng, including [-] Wuchuan Xianbei.

The reason why Gao Cheng made such an adjustment was that he felt the disadvantage of the generals being separated when he captured Tongguan before, and needed to mobilize troops from various places.

At that time, they were in power not long ago, and they needed their help to sit in the town. Now it is obvious that there is no need for such trouble.

Regardless of the merger of states and counties or military expansion, it is necessary to communicate with Gao Huan in advance. Gao Cheng has already learned that Gao Huan is going to Luoyang for the funeral, so he wrote all his plans and reasons in a letter and sent him to Luoyang.

In this series of state and county mergers, it is not difficult to see Gao Cheng's selfishness, the most important thing is that Hou Jing's Jingzhou territory has not changed.

According to Gao Cheng's vision, the southern border can actually be divided into three defense zones: east, middle, and west.

The eastern part is Xuzhou, where the three states merged, the central part is Yuzhou, which merged with South Yanzhou, and the western part should be Jingzhou, where the three Jings merged.

But Gao Cheng didn't trust Hou Jing, and it was impossible to entrust all the three Jingzhou to him, so he only merged East Jingzhou and South Jingzhou into East Jingzhou.

Of course, Gao Cheng also had reasons. Not all states and counties were merged. For example, Gao Ji’s Shanzhou and Gao Shen’s Guangzhou basically maintained their original status, but there was an extra Tongguan.

It can't be said that King Gao is targeting you, Hou Jing.

The twelve prefectures in Henan may continue to be merged and streamlined after the war is quelled in the future, but it is the most suitable for now, so as not to let the local area become bigger and threaten the central government.

Gao Cheng stayed in Southern Qingzhou for a few days, and then set off to go northward to Qingzhou. Lou Zhao, the governor of Jizhou, also received an order early on. review.

Lou Zhao was ordered to train [-] salt soldiers for more than half a year, and it was time to take a look at their training results. If it was useful, Gao Cheng planned to send them to Liaodong to have physical exchanges with Shiwei and Khitan.

Shiwei is Shiwei, but the name Shiwei was translated in Sui Dynasty.

Losing Wei originated from Hog Wei in the Mongolian Kingdom of Dongyi. After moving northward, it was translated as Donghu Xianbei.

Today, Los Wei is generally active in the west of the Nen River, and there are frictions with Liaodong from time to time.

As for the Khitan, there is no need to introduce more, but now Goguryeo is still alive, and they are just juniors on the grassland.

　I have something to do, more than an hour late, there are still more tonight, at least two chapters

　　
　
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