。 The first year of the Republic, New Year's Day.

According to the Sui Dynasty's customary system, every New Year's Day and New Year's Day, a New Year's Day festival is held, also known as the Yuan Meeting. On this day, not only the Beijing officials from the seventh rank and above had to participate in the Yuan Meeting, but also the local Taishou and Tongshou and the left-behind and deputy left-behind ministers stationed in the local areas all had to go to Beijing to gather. And the kings and envoys of the four seas will also come together to congratulate.

The Yuan Hui is not only a court meeting, but also a celebration. It not only demonstrates the authoritative momentum of the central government, but also prevents foreign local ministers from entering the court for a long time, and there is no one to control them in the local area.

The Yuan meeting of the eleventh year of the great cause is the most solemn Yuan meeting since the succession of the first emperor Yang Guang, not only the local officials all enter the Beijing court, but also most of the four sides of the Fan Kingdom also send envoys to come to pay tribute to the court, and even several small kings come in person. This is an unprecedented prosperous era, and it is also the peak of Yang Guang's life's career.

However, in just one year, the world has changed drastically, Jiuzhou has been divided, the heroes have been divided, the Central Plains, the emperor and the anti-king have stood in various places. And wars are raging on all sides, and the place is unstable. The new year has arrived, but this grand event of the court has become deserted.

The Beijing Imperial Court now has vast areas such as Liaoxi, Liaodong, Murowei, Hebei, Shandong, Huaibei, etc., and even more than ten counties in the east of the border river and Beijing and the north of Guanlong are all under the jurisdiction of the Beijing Imperial Court, and there are nearly 60 counties under its jurisdiction, surpassing the Chen Dynasty in Jiangnan for the first time, and becoming the party with the most extensive territory today.

This Yuan meeting was also the first Yuan meeting after the Liaodong Army supported Yang Gao as the emperor and built the capital of Beijing, and it was also the first Yuan meeting after the Yuan Republic was changed, and it was also the first Yuan meeting after the Liaodong Army entered the Central Plains. In every respect, this meeting is also very important. Therefore, although Huaibei, Shandong, Hebei, Hedong and other places are still unstable now, there are no absentees among the officials in various places in the DPRK this time.

The only difference is that the officials entered Beijing very late this time, basically a few days before New Year's Day, and the imperial court also exempted local officials from the practice of bringing tribute when they entered Beijing to meet the Son of Heaven. Moreover, in order to deal with the local situation, this time only the Taishou and county orders of the counties arrived in the capital, and the rest of the officials stayed in the locality.

On the contrary, it was the Khitan, the Tatar, Silla, Baekje, the Xi Kingdom, the Tiele, the Eastern Turks and other countries. Basically, important people arrived, either kings or princes or ministers. And all of them came to the court with rich tributes.

In the Forbidden Palace, officials in Beijing and local ministers lined up from the Taihe Hall to the Xuanhe Gate, which was thousands of steps away. Although the momentum was not as good as that of the eleventh year of the Great Cause, it still surprised many foreign envoys.

The New Year's Day court meeting is a ceremonial court meeting, and political affairs are not discussed.

Chen Kefu's knighthood before can barely be counted into the celebration. After the knighthood. Many ministers had hoped to speak out against tax reform at the meeting. However, Chen Kefu was knighted. The dissatisfaction of most ministers was eliminated. In the end, although there was still some dissatisfaction with the new tax reform of apportionment into the mu, but considering today's court meeting, coupled with the benefits of being knighted before, no one mentioned this matter again, and only waited for the future to mention it.

Rituals in accordance with the inherent ceremonial system. The New Year's Day pilgrimage meeting was carried out one by one, and everything was fine. The only drawback is that the Son of Heaven, who was supposed to attend, was told that he was unwell and could not attend.

It wasn't until the afternoon that the complicated New Year's Day pilgrimage meeting was over.

Chen Kefu ordered that the palace give imperial food.

Wait until the Manchu officials are full of food and drink. Even if this reunion is over, everyone will go back to their own homes.

However, ordinary officials were allowed to leave, but the important ministers of the court were passed to the political affairs hall. …,

The government hall is the meeting place of the prime ministers with the title of governor, and it is located in the Shunhua Pavilion near the south gate of the Forbidden Palace.

Most of the official system of the Beijing court was based on the Sui Dynasty. It is also a group system. Among the six ministries of the three provinces, in addition to the post of Shangshu Ling, which is not conferred, the left and right servants of Shangshu Province, the left and right ministers of the Menxia Province, and the six chief officials of the Inner History Province and the Inner History Order, are automatically the position of prime ministers. Fill in the position of the nine phases.

The nine phases gather in the government hall every day to work, and the nine phases are in equal positions. There is no distinction between high and low, and they take turns to take charge of political affairs. Round every seven days.

Now in the imperial court, Chen Kefu is known as the prime minister, but he is not the prime minister, but more powerful than the prime minister, equivalent to the regent of the supervising country.

Among the nine phases of the court today, Mao Xi has just been crowned by Chen Kefu as an apprentice of the three companies without authority, but he has been removed from the phase.

Fang Xuanling is the left servant, Du Ruhui is the right servant, Gao Shilian is the left internal Shi Ling, Lu Guangli is the right internal Shi Ling, Wei Zheng is the left Nayan, the eldest grandson Wuji is the right Nayan, Li Jingjia, the secretary of the military department, participates in political affairs, Li Benlei, the general of Jin Wuwei, and Chen Jiejia, the newly promoted secretary of the ministry, participates in the political affairs. The nine of them are all Chen Kefu's henchmen.

Mao Xi has been the head of Chen Kefu's civil officials since the Liaodong uprising, but now, he feels more and more that his Mao Bo has begun to have a gap with him and his court, and he has always been unable to keep up with the rhythm. Considering that Mao Xi is old after all, especially because of the handling of the affairs of the Hebei clan this time, his concept is too far from his own. Therefore, in the end, Chen Kefu crowned him as the third duke, and dismissed his phase, but Lu Guangli, who was also an old minister from Chenjiazhuang, was promoted from the official department to the phase of the right internal Shi Ling.

And Chen Jie is the Li Jie of the past, since the Li Valve was destroyed, he turned to himself. In the past few years, he has performed well from martial arts, and this time he has also been promoted to the phase.

Du Ruhui, who was newly promoted to the right servant, said: "Your Highness, now the imperial court has nominally recovered and occupied as many as sixty counties, more than three hundred counties. And as the imperial court gradually regains more land, the number of counties will proliferate. By the time of the seventh year of the Great Cause, the imperial court already had more than 200 counties and more than 1,000 counties. The Central Shangshu Province has to manage more than 200 counties at the same time, and it is simply impossible to efficiently manage so many counties at the same time. Therefore, I would like to propose that the system of three levels of state, county, and county be continued in accordance with the method that has been tried before. ”

Wei Zheng objected and stepped forward, "As early as the second year of the elephant of the Great Sui Dynasty, there were already 211 states, 508 counties, and 1124 counties in the world. At that time, many counties even had only one county, and a county generally only governed one to three counties, and the significance of the three-level administrative division was no longer significant. Later, Emperor Wen abolished the county system and changed it to a two-tier state and county system. In the third year of the Great Cause, the first emperor changed the prefecture and county to the county and county two-tier system, the purpose was also to reduce the huge local bureaucratic system and reduce the burden on the people. Now that the right servant shoots is going to restore the three-level system, this is undoubtedly a step backwards. ”

Gao Shilian also stepped forward and said, "Although the imperial court now has more than 200 counties, as early as the time of the first emperor, Jizhou, Yanzhou, Qingzhou, Xuzhou, Yuzhou, Yangzhou, Jingzhou, Liangzhou and Yongzhou have been added to the counties. The power to supervise the state and carry out supervision and assessment, the government system is not large, and there are not many officials, but it can be a good substitute for the imperial court to supervise the locality, and it can also eliminate the huge local bureaucratic system, which is a matter of benefiting the country and the people. ”

Chen Kefu is not very optimistic about this supervision state. In fact, the monitoring state is not an administrative unit like a county, but only a central inspection unit. The more than 200 local counties still had to be directly administered by the Shangshu Province of the imperial court. Shangshu Province not only had to handle the affairs of the whole country, but also managed more than 200 counties, which was not a good way to deal with the underdeveloped communications of the time. …,

The implementation of a three-tier system, from the central government to the state, and the state to manage the county, will undoubtedly make the central court respond more quickly. Even local government affairs can be handled more quickly, such as local disasters and turmoil, which can also be dealt with in a more timely manner.

However, as Wei Zheng and others said, adding a state-level system undoubtedly has drawbacks. First, it will make the local bureaucratic system even larger, and second, it may also cause redundant officials, and it may even make the local government too powerful and empty the central court.

There are pros and cons to everything, and there are two sides to everything.

Chen Kefu is a traverser, he knows the trend of history, and understands that in history, whether it is the Tang and Song dynasties or the Ming and Qing dynasties, they are all three-level administrative divisions. The biggest reason is that with the development of history, the territory of the imperial court has become larger and larger, and the population has increased. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there were only thirteen states in the world, with more than 100 counties under its jurisdiction. After the division of the Three Kingdoms, the southern states of Jing, Yang, Yi, Jiao and other states had great development, and by the time of the unification of the Western Jin Dynasty, the number increased to 19 states. However, the current imperial court has more than 200 counties and more than 1,000 counties, which has long exceeded the past.

After carefully thinking for a long time about changing Liaodong and other provinces to a three-level system, Chen Kefu said slowly, "If the two-tier system of counties and counties is continued, then when the imperial court reunifies the world, the central government will not be able to effectively manage hundreds of counties and thousands of counties." And if we just blindly continue to implement the Kyushu supervision system, we will not be able to change this situation. This king is inclined to add a state system, but what Lord Wei and Lord Gao said cannot be ignored. ”

"The imperial court should not only increase efficiency and centralize power, but also prevent the emergence of redundant officials so as not to increase the burden on the common people. Therefore, what this king means is to reform the imperial court on the basis of the existing counties and avoid the situation that there were only one or two counties in one county in the past. Every county must have jurisdiction over at least four counties, and each state must also have jurisdiction over four counties. In this way, we can not only solve the efficiency of the imperial court, but also avoid the local redundant officials and redundant bureaucrats, which will increase the burden on the court and the people. ”

After deliberating for a long time, it was finally agreed that in the Liaoxi, Liaodong, Hebei, Shandong, and Huaibei regions directly under the Liaodong Army, the imperial court set up a total of 13 prefectures, including Haizhou, Luozhou, Weizhou, Yanzhou, Liaozhou, Youzhou, Yizhou, Yunzhou, Zhaozhou, Qingzhou, Yanzhou, Xuzhou, and Liuzhou. The state has official positions such as Assassin History, Chang History, and Sima. ()