The seed master was originally a person who had been on the battlefield for many years and had led troops for many years, so he naturally knew why Liu Xing wanted to give him this article first. With his understanding of Liu Xing, he also knew that there must be other constraints waiting for him.

Glancing at Zong Ze and the seed master, he looked at Liu Xing again, and said after thinking slightly: "The veteran, I am the three souls of an army, and the weapon is the six souls of an army. I know this, I will not easily overthrow Yue Fei's current military system and rules, you can rest assured. Are there any other statutes? You can say that it will come out. ”

Seeing that he took the initiative to ask, Liu Xing did not greet him, and said other constraints that gave him the right to open the four products.

Among these constraints, the second is to "judge the affairs of the clan and expand the horse in advance".

It is true that Ma Kuo is the governor of the Li Fan Academy, but according to his rank and official position, he is actually at the same level as the seed master. It stands to reason that Ma Kuo is the elder of Ma Kuo among the breeders, and it is impossible to really have too many checks and balances and constraints on him.

So why did Liu Xing deliberately list such a constraint? That's because the leader of the army is an expert in fighting, and it is okay to govern a state and a government. But neither then nor now, he has never really handled the affairs of the domain on his own.

Those who know can do it, and those who don't know will make mistakes. For the sake of safety, Liu Xing still decided that he must report to Ma Kuo first when he had any affairs to deal with, and let him discuss with Ma Kuo before doing it.

This minimizes the possibility of making wrong decisions, and also avoids the possibility of giving someone a handle and causing trouble for himself......

The third constraint, Liu Xing clearly set his responsibilities, although the master is a lord and a high position, after arriving in the grassland, he is not allowed to call the lord's soldiers without authorization.

If you need the help of the lord's soldiers, you must first go to Kou Yuan, who has now become the lord's public recommendation of the "People's Lord's Protectorate".

If Kou Yuan is unwilling to send troops, he can only report to the Privy Council first, and cannot force him to be ordered by the power of the military department.

At the same time, in order to prevent the occurrence of private grants and acceptances, Liu Xing also added a note to this treaty regulation: private gifts of more than 100 yuan, more than three times to receive all their rights. The lord of the gift is reduced to the first rank, and the person who receives the gift is dismissed from office.

What does this mean? The meaning is obvious. The lords now have land, are merchants, and have money. Such a soldier in the division went to the grassland to serve as the general of the Northern Army, how could those people miss this great opportunity to tie up with the powerful man?

Businessmen, small profits can not be early, get up early must seek profit. The planter is a person who is not very self-disciplined, and his current desire for power is inflated, which also reflects that he has begun to be complacent and lose himself.

Under such circumstances, Liu Xing no longer dared to believe that once he went to the side of that group of businessmen, he could still be as strict with himself and honest as he was by his side.

Once he received the gifts of those lords and lords, he took other people's hands short and ate other people's mouths. In the future, there will inevitably be some things that will harm the court and harm the people for the benefit of those people.

Prevention is better than prevention, Liu Xing has always tried to prevent everything before it happens, and this time it must be the same when he goes out to serve as the general of the expedition to Peking University. Knowing that Liu Xing has always been a policy and principle of doing things, the seed master naturally agrees with nothing else.

In addition to these three constraints, Liu Xing gave another privilege to the seed master. What privileges? That is to allow him to "build a city on the grassland and recruit people to go to the tun." Establish counties and governments, and build new provinces. ”

In other words, when the seed master went to replace Yue Fei this time, in fact, Liu Xing not only restricted his power too much, but also slightly satisfied his desire for power and vanity.

On the grassland, he had full authority to choose the site and build a new city, and he was solely responsible for setting up the state capital and the provincial governor's yamen. What a great honor that is? Once that thing is done, it will be difficult for the seed master not to leave his name in the history in the future......

"Choosing a site to build a city and establishing a new state capital, there is always a basic framework, right?" After Liu Xing's words, the seed master looked at Liu Xingdao with his eyes: "Is it to determine the city by size, or by population?" ”

It is easy to build a city, and after thousands of years of development in China, it is only a matter of time before the people of the Chinese people want to build new cities. The variety of skilled craftsmen, coupled with tens of millions of laborers who could be employed, determined that the construction of a new city was a relatively simple task.

But how to build a new city is a science.

Taking the Central Plains as a reference, whether it is Henan, Hebei, Shandong, or Shanxi, most of the time when establishing a new county seat is not based on the size of the place, but on the number of households in the population to determine whether to establish a new county seat.

Of course, there are exceptions to either rule. In Hunan, Hubei, especially in the Liangguang and Fujian areas. The establishment of the new county seat is due to the fact that there are too many natives who will not enter the new city to live in those places, so it is only a nearby site and a demarcation jurisdiction, which makes the territory of many county towns in those places unusually wide.

In contrast, the distance between the county towns in Henan, Shanxi and other places may be too short compared with Liangguang and Lianghu.

There are two county towns in Shanxi that are only 200 miles apart, and you can cross Chengyi County in one day to catch a carriage and set off from morning to evening.

But what about Huguang, especially in Guangxi, where there are many indigenous people? First, the mountain roads are rugged and there are no smooth roads, and there are not many official roads. Second, the distance between the two counties is five or six hundred miles in a straight line, so if you want to pass through the state in Guangxi, the fastest carriage has to go for two or three days.

The same situation is most obvious in the land of Bashu.

There are many salt wells in Shudi, and iron is also a very important resource. Since the Han and Tang dynasties, Shu has undergone thousands of years of continuous development, and now the population accounts for as much as 20% of the total population of the Great Song Dynasty.

If the city is built according to the number of households in the population, the two provinces of Shu are now not only more than 40 state capitals and more than 210 county seats, but also have to reach 100 prefectures and 1,000 counties.

The difficulty of Shu Road and the difficulty of going to the blue sky make the two provinces of Bashu still remain on the basis of the county system in the Tang Dynasty, and its steep mountainous areas are also the biggest reason why it has not become the largest place in the world in terms of the number of prefectures and counties......

Therefore, there must be a clear definition and rules for what kind of standard to use to demarcate the land and encircle the city to build a new city.

"Where a new city or county needs 5,000 households, the upper limit of each prefecture is 20 counties and 100,000 households, and the lower limit of each prefecture is 50,000 households in 10 counties. The area is not limited, but each person must keep 50 acres of grassland and raise five war horses for my Great Song Dynasty all year round. ”

Knowing these truths and rules in his heart, Liu Xing replied immediately after he asked: "The county order is the seventh rank, the state is the fifth rank, and the government is the fourth rank." You can appoint all appointments in advance, but they can only be appointed with the approval of the Ministry of Officials and the Heavenly Hub. (To be continued.) )