Chapter 80: Against the Current
What Wei Ying heard, summed up as nothing more than moving against the times.
When the world of great controversy had come, and the princes still knew that they wanted to centralize power and suppress the aristocracy to gather power, the content of the Song State's non-offensive and state-building strategy given by the Mo family was all reversed.
According to the strategy, the power of the central body of the Song State was not much different from that of the previous time when there were many nobles.
According to this, the central organs of the Song State only had a few pitiful powers.
As the saying goes, five ratios are Lu, four Lu are clans, five clans are the party, five parties are prefectures, five prefectures are townships, and there are 12,500 townships.
Therefore, in the strategy of non-offensive and nation-building, the Song State was divided into 16 townships and 4 special prefectures.
These four special prefectures were under the jurisdiction of the Mohists, including the important border cities of Fuli and Shashuidu in the southern part of the Song Dynasty.
The remaining 16 townships are all autonomous.
The township should elect a sage association, govern the township with the people of the township, adapt measures to local conditions and customs, but the whole should not contradict the laws and regulations of the central Song Dynasty.
Each township elects three people to be the representatives of the Central Consultative Council, which is directly elected by the people, and then gathers the representatives of each township to elect the sages of the Central Consultative Council.
In fact, it looks like a copy of the Junziyuan and the Commoners' Yuan, which originally stirred up the political situation of the Song Dynasty, except that the personnel of the Junziyuan were elected by the representatives of each township, and the original rule that the Junziyuan must be served by the aristocratic circle was rejected.
In view of this, stability should be the first priority, so the first election was exempted and the method of direct distribution was adopted.
Among them, the people of the peasant family were divided into the six townships with the deepest remnants of the aristocracy in the western part of the Song Kingdom, and the rest of the Zhuzi schools were divided into several townships, and the people of their school were temporarily designated as the township chiefs, and the people of their schools designated three people as the first representatives of the township sages.
This results in the formation of the House of Representatives for the House of Representatives, and these people then elect the candidates for the Central Council.
The first term of office was five years, after which it was no longer appointed, but was instigated by people of various schools among the people, and the sages were selected by the people of each village.
According to the balanced strategy of the central and rural sages pulling each other and dragging each other's feet, the specific responsibilities, voting methods, and respective powers of the central and rural sages were determined.
The Chief Yin of the Advisory Council has the power to appoint central officials, but the appointees must be selected from the list provided by the representatives participating in the political affairs.
All deputies can receive a certain amount of money every year and become full-time government officials.
Borrowing the form of the previous six officials, referring to the precedent of the radicals of Sishang, the six officials were reorganized into six departments.
Among them, those in charge of military affairs and education are temporarily held by people from the Mo family, and the rest, such as finance, are provided by the Inquiry Yuan.
The power possessed by the center of the Song Kingdom, under this strategy, is actually pitiful.
Among them, the right to start a war is not in the hands of the Duke of Song or the Great Yin of the Inquiry Yuan, and it must be approved by the Township Sage Center for Consultation and Participation in Politics.
However, the right to mint coins was withdrawn, because in the past, the big nobles who had fiefs or mines in their fiefs often minted coins privately, and copper coins were more often used as the value of copper as monetary value, which made the money of the Song Kingdom very chaotic.
This time, the right to mint coins was withdrawn, and the townships were not allowed to mint coins privately.
The Song State would form a standing army of five divisions, which would be trained by the Mohists, and each township would be recruited according to a quota, with a service period of three years and five years of tax exemption.
In terms of education, each township should establish an intermediate school with central funding, and the rest of the Kaimeng schools should be handled by each township itself.
Taxes and fees on education and military affairs, as well as the expenses of the Song Dynasty, the expenses of sacrifices, and the necessary expenses on weekdays, were collected by the central organization in a unified manner, and were uniformly levied at the tax rate of 16 taxes per mu and 20 taxes on commercial taxes.
The remaining expenses of each township shall be levied by the villagers of each township by their own agreement, including activities such as enlightenment schools and water conservancy construction, and the central government shall not care about them.
All the land of the fugitive nobles and rebellious nobles in the Song State was confiscated to the township and the center, and the specific distribution method was handled by the townships themselves, or divided equally or auctioned, and the center did not care.
This is also the reason why the Mo family does not want to participate in the Song State now, the Sishang model is destined to digest the Song State without discrimination, the cost is really huge, just education alone, this is a long-term return on investment, if it is not good, it will make the Song people feel that Sishang is biased.
Instead of this, it is better to flick your big sleeves and jump out of the quagmire of the Song Kingdom, and the rest of the Zhuzi schools are how you want to come, anyway, it has nothing to do with the Mo family.
As far as the Song Kingdom is now about to become a dumping ground for commodities and raw materials in Sishang, coupled with the fact that this decentralization is no different from the previous sub-feudal system, if anyone can build flowers in the township, it is really a genius.
The land and taxes of the Song State are not greedy at all, and the income of the land tax in Sishang is not the first income, so it is better to make a raw material production area and market than to rely on that land tax, otherwise it will have to invest a lot in the system of Sishang, which will affect the follow-up plan.
The rest of the schools have the opportunity to govern, so that they don't talk nonsense in Si, but they clean each other and get more in one fell swoop.
Five years later, if the situation in the world has not changed, as long as the Mo family has not fallen, the various schools of governance in the Song State will have to learn to take the folk road, let go of those lofty figures, and no longer ponder relying on the permission of the king to get ahead, but turn to the people.
The people are not a whole, but have different righteousness and interests, as for whose righteousness and whose interests they want to represent, that is also something that the Mo family does not want to care about for the time being.
Whether it is chaos or governance, what Sishang needs now is an absolutely neutral attitude of the Song State, and the world will be determined by the Song Dynasty, and the surrounding environment is destined to be a place where the Song State is not cost-effective for Sishang.
These detailed and seemingly complex non-offensive and state-building strategies, these detailed and cumbersome voting rules, will affect everyone's way of thinking in the long run, just like the content of equality and resistance that has been imperceptibly instilled in the Si school since childhood.
But in the environment surrounded by the great powers of the world, these complex, detailed and cumbersome contents are also destined to drag the Song Kingdom into a situation of endless nonsense and arguments every day.
This is what Wei Ying sees, and it is what Shi wants to see.
After a long discussion, this was finally supported by various schools, led by the Mo family, and the celebrities of each school signed their names one after another, which will be transferred by the Mo family to the Song Gong and the Dai family, which can be regarded as a step down for the princes of various countries.
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A few days later, this non-offensive and state-building strategy signed with the names of the world's heroes and celebrities was transferred to Shangqiu.
There were no traces of war and war in Shangqiu City, everything was in order, and those soldering pots, candy sellers, cloth sellers, and cotton yarn sellers were once again busy with their lives.
Except for the soldiers on the street wearing black armbands to maintain order, nothing seems to have changed.
Those who are full of hope, full of disappointment, passionate, and indifferent...... People of all kinds are waiting for a result, what kind of result the Song Kingdom should have in the future.
Or, for most people in Shangqiu, what they are waiting for is just what Shangqiu will do in the future.
In the palace, Song Gongzi Tian looked at the non-offensive and national strategy handed over by the Mo family with a flat face, and then made a beaming look, pointing to the name on it and exclaiming: "Wow! Corpse Jiao, Tian Wuxian, Meng Sunyang, Xu Xi...... The talents of all the world, today they are all willing to enter the Song Dynasty and govern, and the people of the Song Kingdom are blessed. β
The envoy of the Mo family felt that Song Gongzitian's acting skills were a little absent-minded, and they were a bit formal, and he was a little embarrassed.
However, Song Guo resolved this embarrassment first and asked: "The rebellious imperial father was captured, and this matter will be handed over to Song Di for trial after all, I don't know when it will be handed over?" β
These words are not only to resolve the embarrassment, but also to show Song Guo's attitude: if you say that he is rebellious, then he is, and I admit that he is, this is my attitude.
The envoy of the Mo family said: "The emperor's father, Yue Ling, is still in custody, and will be returned to Shangqiu in the near future, and all the nobles who have been captured will be sent." β
Song Gong said: "Those fiefs, after all, were sealed out by the Song Duke on behalf of the previous generation, I think it is better for me to take back these fiefs, and it can be regarded as a little effort for the Song Gong for the people of the Song Kingdom." β
The fiefs of the fugitive and rebellious nobles were to be taken back anyway.
The Song State is not centralized, and the Duke of Song has no real power, so it is destined that his mascot will not hope to turn the tables with the power of the aristocracy like those princes with real power.
Zida's words are also somewhat interesting.
He also saw that as long as Sishang did not fall and all countries succeeded in non-interference, land reform was inevitable.
He is just a puppet, just a mascot, who puts it out when he needs it, and is still uncared for in the deep palace when he doesn't need it.
He does not take back his fiefs, and those fiefs will also be taken back.
Rather than this, it is better to take it back yourself, with this credit, it can be regarded as currying favor with the Mo family, currying favor with the people of the Song Kingdom, even if you really "choose the sage as the Son of Heaven" in the future, you can also rely on this merit and affection to eat and drink.
The envoy of the Mo family was slightly stunned, this matter had also been discussed by the high-level officials of Sishang before coming, and it would be best if Song Gong could come forward to take it back.
Because the Mohists really wanted to dilute the "rebellion" color of the coup d'Γ©tat of the Song State, it would be very beneficial to the situation in the Central Plains, and it could be regarded as a step for the princes of various countries, as well as a foreshadowing for diplomatic mediation in the future.
The same result, the same behavior, it is not the same thing to be taken back by the people's opinion and Song Gong to announce the retraction, of course, the result may be the same.
Seeing this, the Mohist envoy praised Tian for a few sentences, which was nothing more than saying that he had some ambitions to benefit the people, and Zitian gladly accepted it, and asked someone to record today's conversation to be compiled into history as evidence.