Prime Minister of Great Qin

Chapter 468 If Xianyang cannot be moved, then move it to the imperial court! (Please subscribe)

Fusu lifted the bottle.

All the officials also raised their bottles, and the king and his ministers drank together.

After finishing the glass of wine, Fusu suddenly said: "The implementation of the special zone system in Kanto can indeed solve urgent needs, but it cannot be sustained."

"After the unification of the world, the territory of the Qin Dynasty was greatly expanded, and the shortcomings of the prefecture and county system have gradually become apparent in the past ten years."

"Kuandong is too far away, and political orders are not smooth."

"If there is chaos in Guandong and it spreads to Xianyang, then Xianyang will discuss the results and then distribute them to the localities, it will take too much time on the road."

"It could easily worsen the situation."

"I am saddened by this, and have decided to re-establish the world's order and redefine the world's system. For three generations, the world has followed the system of Shiqing and Shilu, and the enfeoffment system."

"The age of great strife begins."

"Some court officials are used to directly govern the subordinate counties. However, if we continue to move down the court system like the Three Gongs and Nine Ministers, it seems a bit inappropriate."

Now that Fusu is bringing up old matters again, he is obviously dissatisfied with both of them. It is absolutely impossible to enfeoff. It's just that at the moment, the governance of the court in counties and counties is very inconvenient.

Ensure the stability of the world.

Fusu smiled and said: "I only have some superficial ideas, not very mature, but if you ministers go down, you can think more about it for me."

From the initial beating, to the proposal to select a few places in Kanto to form special zones, and now to the proposal to change the existing system.

"Since the big court cannot be moved, then the small court will be moved. In the past, the world was divided into nine states, but now Daqin has forty-two counties and more than seven hundred counties. Can we divide these counties into a dozen big states? "

Reduce the poor delivery of government orders midway.

Although the successive kings of Qin from Xiaogong on down sometimes had royal children or important ministers leading one side, they were all governed by officials from the national government, prefectures and counties. The role of royal children and important ministers was to suppress and promote the rule of law.

Hear the words.

Meng Tian came out and said, "Your Majesty, what adjustments and changes do you want to make?"

At this time.

Fusu smiled and said calmly: "We will make a compromise between the system of prefectures and counties and the system of enfeoffment, choosing the best and discarding the dross, in order to stabilize the Qin world."

"When I first got involved in political affairs, I led a reform of the 'official mountains and seas'. I remember clearly that in order to prevent those merchants from secretly sabotaging and deliberately creating chaos without removing evidence, I specially ordered the merchants to All of your functions are registered in the court."

only……

"I want to make some changes."

Baiguan frowned.

Obviously he came prepared.

However, as the rebellions in the six regions were suppressed, Guandong could no longer make waves, and the so-called healing of the world has now become nonsense.

Therefore, the real benefit of enfeoffment is to govern according to the time and place, so as to better bridge the world. The nine states in the world have different situations and customs, and it is difficult to govern them uniformly. By enfeoffment, governance can be promoted according to place.

"If anything happens, the merchants responsible for relevant functions must be responsible. I want to see if this method can be used on Da Qin's physique."

In this kind of territorial governance, all taxes and taxes are paid to the government, and there are no private soldiers or officials in the territory governed. This is a special case of unified governance of counties and counties.

As for the advantages of counties, they are also clear.

“Break down the functions and then add them up.”

But... can the world really have such a system that kills two birds with one stone?

How does Fusu want to change it?

Changing the political system is not a trivial matter. It can easily endanger the country and even shake the stability of the world.

If we think of the special zone mentioned by Fusu earlier, Meng Tian and others also suddenly realized that what His Majesty wants is to give local governments autonomy so that they can govern according to their location, while also ensuring the system of counties and counties. characteristics.

Therefore, the real benefit is only one, saving the labor of governing the people, and at the same time it comes with some so-called governance based on local conditions.

"It's also a bit too big and inappropriate."

That is to say, all taxes within the territory are turned over to the national government, and there are no private soldiers or officials in the territory. In short, the local government can perform national affairs on its behalf.

The officials' eyes were slightly different.

Hear the words.

The emperor controlled the three lands of Zhao, Wei and Han as the imperial territory, and the three lands of Yan, Qi and Chu were divided into feudal lords. Once something happened, he could stay close to calm the chaos.

Everyone was suspicious.

"My idea is very simple."

They didn't speak, they were all thinking secretly. Fusu's banquet today obviously had a very strong purpose.

What are the benefits of enfeoffment?

According to the old Prime Minister Wang Wan, enfeoffment is based on geographical distance to determine the size of the state. The king entrusts enfeoffment. The closer the land is, the larger the state is. The farther the land is, the smaller the state is. Therefore, there are princes ten miles away on the sea.

"However, as the old Prime Minister Wang Wan said back then, although the system of prefectures and counties is very good, the current strength of the Qin Dynasty is not enough to implement it. On the contrary, it is easy for local governments to collude and secretly break away from the control of the court, and then cause chaos."

The veterans who had participated in the discussion on the enfeoffment system of counties and counties were suddenly pulled back to the past and relived the scene of the public debate.

"Since Xianyang cannot be moved, then move the court hall from Xianyang to Handan, Shouchun, Daliang and other places."

"The system of Shiqing and Shilu began to collapse. At the beginning of the founding of the Qin Dynasty, the feudal system was completely abandoned and the system of prefectures and counties was implemented in the world."

"What do you think, gentlemen?"

"The chief official of the court is in charge of all the affairs of one of the departments, and arranges an assistant official from the official office to go to the local state to be responsible for the corresponding political affairs."

"Counties under the state also have this official position."

"In this way, if an incident occurs in one department, it will not involve other lawsuits, and the local area can always maintain stability. If there is an incident in the local area, it can be directly reported to the state government, who will directly order the handling."

"Then report it to the court."

"After all, state officials are members of the court officials, and they have such convenient powers."

"at the same time."

Fusu looked slightly condensed.

After hesitating for a moment, he continued: "The Sangong and Jiuqing in the court are still retained, and the scope of their powers is further refined. Compared with the lower government offices, the Sangong and Jiuqing can subordinate several large government offices, and there are no specific restrictions on their powers. .”

“And it plays a coordinating role with other government agencies.”

Done.

Fusu said with a smile: "These are just some of my superficial ideas. They are not very mature and need to be considered again and again. My dear, you can also help me think about whether there is a better way."

Listening to Fusu's words, Baiguan felt that his heart was scratched hard and it was a little difficult to breathe. Now that Fusu's words have ended, he can only take a few breaths.

But all that came back to his mind were Fusu's words.

Fusu is taking back power!

Although Fusu talks between the lines of delegating power and giving up some control over the court, in fact what he gives up is of no importance at all.

Once what Fusu said is true, the prime minister's powers will undoubtedly be greatly reduced, because part of the powers that originally belonged to the prime minister will be divided, and the powers of the other nine ministers will be increased.

It seems that the scope of authority is no longer limited, which also means that the powers of the past Nine Ministers will also be re-divided. Who gets more and who gets less depends on the ministers themselves secretly playing games.

The order of Jiuqing will also change drastically.

In the end, the secret battle will become more serious, even cruel.

As for local areas, they have greatly taken away power.

In the past, local governance rights were actually very loose. Otherwise, how could Xiang Liang, Wei Jiu, Zhang Liang and other remnants of the Six Kingdoms have been hiding? Even as a guest of local officials.

But when the "Chaotang" is moved down and prefectures are established, the autonomy of counties and counties will be greatly reduced, and everything is under the eyes of the Chaotang.

An dares to cause trouble?

Also.

The subdivision of powers and the specificization of functions are reflected in the court and the prefectures and counties. This also means that the past era of county magistrates, county magistrates, and county magistrates, who spoke in one voice, is over.

Local governance became dual leadership.

Not only must they be led by the local chief official, but they must also be led by their direct superiors, which can be said to be a great tightening of local power.

More complete centralization of power.

The so-called state governance is the local avatar of the court, which manages the local area on behalf of the court. It does not have the actual status of a prince, but it has the functions of a prince.

Thinking of this.

The expressions of all the officials were extremely complicated.

Fusu didn't think carefully about this. He had clearly thought about it a long time ago, and now he just found an excuse to tell them. For selfish reasons.

Most of them do not want the court to be in chaos. Once the court is in chaos, no one knows what will happen in the end. No one knows whether they will be abandoned by His Majesty in the end.

There are too many variables.

But what if they don't support it now?

Today's Fusu is no longer what it used to be. It has a very high prestige in the world, especially in Guanzhong. In the past, it had trained many officials through the Office of Affairs. There are countless officials in the world who have been promoted by Fusu's 'non-commissioned officer transfer' benefit from.

Five years of turmoil in Kanto.

I don't know how many Guizhou leaders in Kanto entered the Officer Academy through winning military merits, and then obtained official positions in local places.

These people are all standing behind Fusu.

The only thing that reassured them was that Fusu didn't think about getting on the horse directly, but just said it in advance. This was obviously a step for them to step down and let them agree.

The so-called going down and thinking is the opportunity given by Fusu to ask for a price. This is not a decent ending, if someone really objects.

The liaoke and huaji outside the palace are not just decorations.

Fusu had convinced them. It was not a discussion at all, but a notification. They had to agree even if they agreed, and they had to agree even if they disagreed.

No choice!

The officials looked at Fusu with complicated expressions, sighing secretly in their hearts. Now, after several years of silence, Fusu showed his fangs again.

This revelation has the potential to shake up the court system.

Fusu sat on it.

He stared at the officials below with a cold expression.

He didn't speak anymore. Now he needs Baiguan to digest what he said before.

He believed.

Baiguan can understand his difficulties and worries.

Your Highness.

Meng Tian lowered his head.

People can't see the changes in emotions clearly. They always look like a mountain is collapsing in front of them, but their happiness and anger are invisible.

Feng Quji's expression on the side changed again and again, and finally he sighed deeply, his eyes unable to conceal his sadness and solemnity.

Zhang Cang looked at his nose and his heart with his nose, and acted as if the matter had nothing to do with him. He didn't want to get involved. If people thought that this was his advice to Fusu, I'm afraid he would be targeted in vain. .

and……

He thought about it just now and had to admit that Fusu's approach was absolutely right. It greatly improved the centralization of power and weakened the power of the prime minister. More importantly, it avoided the existence of private soldiers and officials under the feudal system. Centralization of power is truly achieved.

Although state governance will take away some rights.

However, compared with the previous governance system, the degree of centralization has obviously been greatly improved, and it can more conveniently control and stabilize the world.

but……

He remembered it clearly.

What Fusu said before was so upright. He wanted to reform the world system, so how could he limit himself to this? I'm afraid this is just the beginning.

And behind this, Master Ji was probably plotting secretly.

He couldn't figure out what Ji Heng was thinking, and he couldn't guess what the Qin system would eventually become.

But he knew something.

Whenever Ji Heng takes action, he never misses.

It’s a perfect strategy.

The officials with the lower rank of Jiuqing moved their eyes slightly. Although Fusu said verbally that he would keep the Sangong and Jiuqing positions, in fact, he would only retain an empty name from now on.

The real authority will change drastically.

To a certain extent, their authority has been elevated, and they have gradually gained important power from relatively unimportant authority in the past.

and……

If it is true what His Majesty said, their respective official offices are also established in the local areas, and their overall power has been greatly strengthened.

In the past, the three princes and nine ministers in the court seemed to be higher than other court officials, but this was not the case. As we all know, the number of nine ministers was not nine.

Just nine of them are the most noteworthy.

For example, the lieutenant who manages the security of the capital, the lieutenant of the lord who manages the affairs of the princes, the general who manages the palace construction, the internal history who manages the capital area, etc., all belong to the same category of Jiuqing.

If the duties and powers are really divided into different categories, the three ministers and nine ministers may really be superior to other officials.

All the officials in the palace had different thoughts.

Some were in favor, some were happy, some were dissatisfied, some were expressionless, and some were frowning.

finally.

All the emotions turned into one sentence.

Your Majesty is wise!

Seeing this, Fusu nodded with satisfaction and said: "Since all the ministers agree with my suggestion, I will leave it to you all to plan the specific situation."

"No." Baiguan responded.

Fusu nodded, walked off the high platform, and walked towards the outside of the hall. All the officials bowed their heads and greeted him respectfully. However, when he was about to walk out of the hall, Fusu stopped.

He didn't look back.

Just as if he thought of something, he said to himself: "Did you have this idea, sir? It was my suggestions that finally turned Great Qin into the Kingdom of Jin."

"These local state governments have become the six ministers of the Jin Dynasty in the past. The official positions in the court are limited, but the terms of office of officials are lifelong."

"There were no vacancies for local officials to be promoted, and they governed the same place for a long time. In the end, this place became the private land of some officials, just like the three families of Zhao, Wei and Han in the past. In this way, the ancestor's dream may not be a warning to Fusu."

"Warn Da Qin that one day it will become the Jin Kingdom of the past!"

"I think you should think more about me when you go down, how to prevent Great Qin from making the same mistakes as Jin in the future, and..."

“Perhaps it’s time to change the life-long system of world officials.”

Done.

Fusu strode away.

Only the frightened Baiguan was left. Only when Fusu was completely out of sight did he dare to raise his head, his eyes full of anxiety and uneasiness.

This time is a big feast.

It's really frightening.

It also made people's scalp numb. Fusu's exposed fangs made them feel suffocated. Fusu was using the power of the world to force them to let go.

Give up!

This ensures the stability of the Qin Dynasty.

How could they be willing to just hand over power like this? How could you be willing? The officials left with a very serious expression.

at the same time.

Fusu announced again.

In another three days, the heroes who helped pacify Guandong will be summoned.

Since then.

The smell of gunpowder smoke in Xianyang City gradually increased, and everyone could feel a sense of solemnity and heaviness. There seemed to be a big divide between Guanzhong and Guandong.

But everyone in the know knows it.

It's not that there is a division between Kantong and Guanzhong, but that His Majesty is using the hands of Kantong and Guanzhong to beat each other and force the two sides to make concessions.

Then take back the power!

(End of this chapter)