Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 519 Competing in the Central Plains (46)

One month later

Baciuzin

This place is located at the estuary of Baoqiu River, which is currently under the control of Yan State. On the Baoqiu River, ships are constantly coming and going, carrying a large number of people and property. These are Du Luozhou's fleet.

Du Luozhou failed in the battle for Hebei, and now the army is defeated. Even Yunzhou has been occupied by the rebellious Gao Huan, and now only the counties and counties of Youzhou are left.

The so-called Youzhou in Wei State actually only wanted to be Yuyang County, Guangyang County, and Zhuo County in the late Han Dynasty.

Because of frequent wars, the division of administrative regions is chaotic. Often, the division near the capital is relatively large, which can increase the strength of the emperor.

This is a huge change compared with the Han Dynasty. In the Han Dynasty, a state had about ten counties, and a county had about twenty counties.

Today's state is only about twice as large as the county in the Han Dynasty.

As the size of the state becomes smaller and smaller, the counties in the middle will naturally disappear slowly.

This is normal. If my state is so small that there are only a dozen counties left, why don't I just let the state manage these dozen counties?What is the point of continuing to keep the county? Is there an extra intermediate administrative district to increase administrative costs?
Because there were too many counties, the central government could not manage them, so states were set up on top of the counties to help the emperor supervise the counties, and gradually became the highest administrative region, replacing the central government to manage these counties.

And because there are too many wars, refugees from different regions need to be resettled, and because the imperial court's territory is too small, it is necessary to divide the local territory, so as to prevent the local power from becoming too powerful.

As local states are cut into smaller and smaller counties, and the number of counties in a state becomes smaller and smaller, the existence of counties will appear to be very weak. In the end, the middle counties will be simply canceled and directly managed by states and counties.

But once the new ruler unified the world and extended the level of prefectures and counties to the whole world, then everything would return to the situation in the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, that is, there were too many states, and the central emperor of the empire could not manage them. What should we do?Of course, a new higher-level administrative district is being set up on the state. This administrative district can be named "Tao", or it can be named "Dogdan".

It doesn’t matter what the name is, as long as you remember that it is the highest administrative region. For example, Youzhou, we can call it Goudan State, Preserved Egg State, what state, that state, this state, it doesn’t matter what it is called, as long as you remember , it is a highest-level surveillance area/administrative area in the northeast corner of the empire.

If the ruler is called Goudan instead of Emperor, then everyone will be proud of Goudan. If the ruler is not called Qianshou, but Emperor, then Emperor will naturally become a synonym for lowliness.

What matters is not the noun, but the power, wealth, status, etc. behind the noun.

This is "names can be names, not constant names". A noun is just a reference. You can't see a noun and think what the noun is like naturally, but you need to see the essence behind the noun/thing.

Does the essence of the noun "emperor" lie in the noun "emperor", or does it lie in the supreme authority behind the noun "emperor"?
If other conditions remain the same, but the term "emperor" is replaced with "Qianshou", will the supreme ruler become a miserable low-level person?

If the person in charge of the highest power is called "Qianshou", but the group of people who are enslaved is called "emperor", and a Qianshou who rules hundreds of millions of emperors, does it mean that Qianshou overthrew the emperor?This is obviously impossible, so we should not be confused by the [name], but see the essence behind it through the [name]. This is the truth that Lao Tzu told us thousands of years ago, but it is still difficult for many people. understand.

The ruler of Yan Kingdom, Yan Lian, even now, still calls herself Lord Yan, not even a king, but who would really think that she can't be regarded as an emperor?

A person picked up the Jade Seal of Chuanguo and proclaimed himself emperor in Shangougou, but who would really regard him as emperor?

The essence of an emperor/monarch does not lie in what he is called [name] now, he can be called "emperor", "king", "gong", "chief", "master", "god", "great emperor", "great prime minister", "emperor", "sage" ", and can even be called "dog egg", "Qianshou", "zitian", "emperor", "mother", "shit", whatever you want, as long as he is still the supreme power holder.

If Yan Lian stipulates that the common people are only allowed to call themselves Zhen, not me, and only the nobles of the royal family can call themselves me, then the people of Yan Kingdom will naturally regard "I" as a symbol of dignity, and conversely regard "I" as a symbol of humbleness.

In the process of the evolution of administrative regions, because there are too many administrative regions, the central government cannot manage them, so higher-level administrative regions are set up, and higher-level administrative regions are set up, which leads to the growth of local power and the tendency to become more and more independent. Cut the place into pieces, and then cut the place into more and more pieces. The administrative district in the middle has no meaning anymore, so it is naturally cancelled. However, there are too many administrative districts at the highest level, and the central government of the empire cannot manage them. What to do, then set up a new higher-level administrative area. As a result, the higher-level administrative area is too powerful and tends to become more and more independent. What to do, then continue to cut the administrative area into pieces to prevent The local power is growing, but in this way, the administrative district in the middle is gradually meaningless, so it is simply cancelled. However, there are too many administrative districts at the highest level, and the empire's central government cannot manage them. What should I do? Set up a more advanced administrative region, but the higher-level administrative region is too powerful, and the trend of independence is getting more and more serious, so what should I do, then cut the local administrative region into fragments, and then...

The evolution of the administrative district is not a whim of a genius, but the optimal solution of the ruler based on the actual situation.

If there is too much water, add noodles, if there is too much noodles, add water, and so on, and finally the water is not the same as before, and the noodles are not the same as before.

The same is true in the army. Hou Jing didn't feel that the names of the Yan State were different from the official positions in the Central Plains, because the essence of an official position lies in how much power it can hold, not what the name of the official position is.

Even if there is an official position called "dog egg", as long as this official position can control the government like the Great General Sima in the Central Plains, countless people will still flock to it and take pride in being a "dog egg".

Naturally, the future aristocratic families will not regard "four generations and three princes" as showing off capital, but will regard "four generations and three dogs" as showing off capital.

The name can be named, not the constant name!
Hou Jing obviously understands this truth, so these official positions in Yan State whose names are completely incomprehensible have not affected his urgency to make contributions at all. He doesn't care what the names of these official positions are, whether the names are old enough, he only cares about fighting for them Whether these positions can make yourself rich and prosperous.

(End of this chapter)