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In the sixth year of Qianfu, the fifteenth day of the first month.

This day is the Shangyuan Festival, one of the grandest and most lively festivals of the Tang people. Every year on this day, the Tang dynasty and the opposition have a three-day holiday, from Chang'an to all places, all cancel the ban on Jinwu supper, in order to facilitate the people to enjoy the lanterns, called the night.

The Northeast Daxingtai also issued an order early to come, and this year's Shangyuan Festival holiday is three days.

In this rare three nights, from civil officials and military generals to peddlers and pawns, everyone went out to enjoy the lanterns. From Dengzhou to Liaodong, all the cities in the Northeast Road are full of traffic, and the people are surging and lively.

All kinds of lanterns have already begun to sell well, so Li Rang, the head of the household, also specially pulled out 100,000 pieces of money to decorate the festive atmosphere of Liaodong City and Dengzhou City and other cities in these three days.

Therefore, although it has snowed heavily since the morning, the streets of Liaodong City, there is still an endless stream of cars, horses and pedestrians coming and going. Parents also let their children wear new clothes, build snowmen on the side of the street, shout and chase and fight, and do not stop.

Even the patrol soldiers who walked in neat formations from time to time were wearing bright red cotton robes today, mighty and handsome.

However, Li Jing, who had just returned to Liaodong City, couldn't enjoy all this.

Since the establishment of the Northeast Road Daxingtai, Li Jing has promoted the original Six Towns Festival Envoy to Dahang Taichung, and the position of the Six Towns Festival Marshal has been vacated.

Li Jing has not appointed a new commander of the Six Towns for a long time, but the civil officials and military generals below have been staring. Now, in the blink of an eye, it has been a few years later, and the small-scale war against Youzhou has ended. At this point, Li Jing no longer had any reason to drag this matter.

In the yamen of Daxingtai. Daxingtai Shangshu left servant shot Cui Yunqing's gaze stopped at a self-striking bell on the table on the north side of the hall. The style of the bell is a handsome horse carved in jade, with one foot on a flying swallow. The entire shell of the bell is carved in gold. The face of the clock is a jade plate, marked with twelve hours. Below is a jade pendulum, swinging back and forth.

The sound of "tick tick" is constantly ringing.

This self-striking bell belongs to the luxury type, which was donated to Daxingtai by the self-striking bell factory. Cui Yunqing knows very well that in fact, this Ziming Bell Factory is Li Jing's industry, but the income is also allocated to Daxingtai's finances. It is considered Li Jing's inner treasury, but the money in the inner treasury is also handed over to Li Rang for use.

This self-striking bell can now be regarded as the hottest commodity in Northeast Province, and it is priceless and marketable. In Chang'an, the asking price is 1,000 yuan, and in Silla, Bohai, and Japan, it is 3,000 guan. and exported to Taixi merchants such as Da Shi and Da Qin, it is at least 5,000 guan. And this is only the luxury type, and the more luxurious collection and treasure type are at least 3,000 in China. Sold overseas is as high as 10,000.

The Ziming Bell Factory was located in the city of Liaodong, although a large number of artisan workers were recruited. But production is still very low, but even so. After the start of production, within half a year last year, the self-striking bell factory has also sold 3,000 self-striking bells, achieving sales of more than 9 million guan, creating more than one million guan tax revenue to Daxingtai, and the self-chiming bell factory has also reached a profit of more than 6 million guan, which is really a huge gold mountain.

Moreover, since the chiming bell is a luxury item, a luxury tax will be levied, and it will be mainly sold overseas, and the newly established customs department of Daxingtai will also levy a large amount of customs duties. And although this bell is expensive, it earns all the money of rich people, and it does not affect ordinary people at all.

"Bell!" As soon as half an hour arrived, the chiming bell rang on time, Cui Yunqing was startled, until now, he still felt that the chiming bell was striking the time every half an hour, and the sound was still so loud.

He glanced at Li Jing and saw that Li Jing was sitting there, waiting for their opinion.

"Brother Xingxu, I don't know what your opinion is on this?" Cui Yunqing was not the first to speak, but pushed Li Zhen's head first and let him speak first.

It's not that he is sleek, but this time Li Jing summoned the left and right servants, the left and right Cheng and the six Shangshu into the internal discussion, and the matter to be discussed is too important. There was no news in advance, and after coming in, each person suddenly sent a copy of the excerpt, which was actually written about the change of the official rank in the current big bank.

According to what I said above, this change is too big, first of all, the Six Towns Festival Envoy who is currently being watched by everyone is about to be canceled.

The abolition of the more than 100-year-old system of moderation is not the whole story, and what is mentioned above in this excerpt is to comprehensively reform the existing official and military systems. This reform is huge, and Cui Yunqing didn't know if Lu Dao meant it or not. Therefore, he did not approve or disagree at first.

Li Jing is wearing a stiff-winged head today, a purple robe, a jade belt tied around his waist, and a pair of high-cut calfskin wool boots under his feet, sitting on a chair.

As soon as Li Zhen received this excerpt, it was already clear at a glance that this unsigned excerpt must have come from the hand of the county king. He just hurriedly swept it over, and he already understood that the original intention of this fold was to cut power and divide power, just like the previous division of power and power for the history of assassination, this time it was to divide the power of the degree.

In this excerpt, Li Jing's reform plan is very clear, which will abolish the system of moderation and make it possible to establish provinces above the prefecture instead.

Today's Northeast Road belongs to Xingshangshu Province, but it is a big platform in terms of grade. According to this fold, it seems that a small province will be established. However, it is different from the previous system of exercising Taiwan, and the new provincial system replaces the original festival degree envoy and abolishes the festival degree envoy, but there is no line of the Taiwan book order.

Instead, it is necessary to divide the authority of the original section envoy who oversees the affairs of a town into three, and divide it into three with the original state assassin history, and change it to the assassin history, the defense envoy and the inspection envoy, and the same is true for this province.

The new province will have a governor in charge of civil administration, a governor in charge of justice, and a governor in charge of the military affairs of a province.

The existing states of the Northeast Province will be abolished and merged, and 30 prefectures and 100 counties will be established at the end.

The original six towns will be changed to the Five Elements Province.

The five provinces are Liaodong Province, Liaoning West Province, Shandong Province, North Parallel Province, and Andong Province.

The current Ziqing Town and Denglai Town have been merged into one and become a new Shandong Province, which has jurisdiction over the five states of Zizhou, Qingzhou, Dengzhou, Laizhou and Qizhou.

The land of Liaodong will be bounded by the Liao River. East of the Liao River and north of the Yalu River. All the way to the south of Buyeo in the Bohai Sea. Including the Liaodong Peninsula, it will be classified as the province of Liaodong. After the merger of the provinces and counties in eastern Liaodong, it has jurisdiction over seven prefectures: Jinzhou, Jianzhou, Anzhou, Liaozhou, Tiezhou, Xizhou and Shenzhou.

The west of the Liao River, the south of the West Liao River, the east of the Tuhe River, the north of the Yanshan Mountains, the hills of western Liaoning and the eastern part of the Khitan grassland will be divided into western Liaoning provinces. Including Yingzhou, Jinzhou, Ningzhou, Fuzhou, Fuzhou, Kezhou, Panzhou.

Andong Province is the area east of the Wugu River and south of the Yalu River. Including Xiuzhou, which was originally the mouth of the Yalu River on the Liaodong Peninsula, was divided into Andong Province. Including Qingzhou, Hengzhou, Danzhou, Hezhou, and Xianzhou, of which Hezhou and Xianzhou were later ceded from the Bohai State.

Beiping Province is the area of Yanshan, east of Taihang, and west of Liaohai. Including Pingzhou, Jizhou, Danzhou, and the newly laid Shunzhou, Jingzhou.

The original land of Liaodong was merged and abolished several states.

There was not much difference between the six towns and the five provinces, and fundamentally speaking, the territory of each province had to expand a little.

However, the original Jiedu envoy who was in charge of a town was abolished, and it was replaced by three governors who shared the power of a province.

It can be seen that the core of the restructuring is the separation of powers.

It turns out that the right to assassinate history is great. But since the restructuring, Thorn Shi has only been in charge of civil affairs. Even the judicial power is gone, and the military power is even less there.

However, the defense envoys of the states did not actually have any real power, and after Li Zhen saw the restructuring of this province, he began to focus on the position of the governor in charge of the military affairs of a province. The defense envoy of the state does not really have the real power to hold the army, so does this governor have the real power to hold the army?

If the governor still effectively controls the military power of a province, then the reform will not change much.

Li Zhen continued to flip back, and immediately saw that there was indeed something in his guess behind him.

After the abolition of the festival and the establishment of three governors in the province, the reform of the military system was deepened this time.

The Governor's Office and the General Staff of the Five Armed Forces were newly established to take charge of military orders and military and political affairs together with the Ministry of War.

However, these three departments are different, according to the description of the excerpt, after the restructuring, Daxingtai set up the front and rear left and right central and central five army governors' offices, the five military governors will be in charge of all the troops in Daxingtai, as the supreme command organ of the Daxingtai army, control all the troops in the northeast province to control training, garrison guarding, relocation and supplement, rewards and punishments, the five armies are not subordinate to each other, each army is under the jurisdiction of about 20 battalions. The governor of the five armies was directly subordinate to the Daxingtai Shangshu Order. It has the right to command troops, but it does not have the right to transfer troops.

The General Staff is responsible for making strategic decisions, handling defense matters, and recruiting, reviewing, and dispatching troops. The General Staff has the power to transfer troops, but not to command them.

The military department will only be responsible for the examination and selection of military generals, in charge of unity soldiers and township soldiers, management of honor guards and chariots, coordination of household departments to allocate military rations and salaries, and responsibility for logistics and equipment. It deals with administrative and logistical work.

According to the new regulations, the power to hold the army is in the hands of the Daxingtai Shangshu Order. Each time the army goes out, a general will be appointed by the Daxing Taishang Order. It also stipulates that the commanders of all armies must also practice the law of changing the military and the law of rotation, and the generals must change their generals after leading the troops for a maximum of three years. At the end of three years of garrison, soldiers must also be transferred to the garrison.

In short, the military department, which had the highest authority among the six provinces of Daxingtai, suddenly had all its power distributed to the General Staff and the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, and the military department only became the Qingshui Yamen, which was responsible for administrative and logistical affairs.

The newly established General Staff was equivalent to the Privy Council of the imperial court, with the power to transfer troops, but not the power to command troops.

The Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies is equivalent to the twelve guards in the early imperial court, with the right to command troops, but not the right to transfer troops.

Daxingtai Shangshuling has the right to hold troops, and when the army goes out, the commander is appointed by Daxingtai Shangshuling.

In this situation of separation of powers, the power to command, the right to hold troops, and the power to transfer troops, although the local provincial governors have the name of unifying the military of the province, they are in fact in charge of the military administration and logistics of a province, and are in charge of the united soldiers and the township soldiers, just like the military department in Daxingtai.

Moreover, under this system, in non-war times, the military capital is stationed in various places as a battalion unit, and the generals above the battalion level stay in the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies where Daxingtai is located. In the event of a war, Daxing Taishang ordered the transfer of troops, and when the war ended, the soldiers returned to the garrison, and the general returned to the governor's mansion of the five armies.

In addition, this restructuring also includes the system of the Supervision Department, which has already begun to operate, and the restructuring of the officials of each prefecture.

However, compared with the major changes such as abolishing the establishment of provinces, reducing the power of the military department, and setting up the staff committee and the governor's office of the five armies, Li Zhen and others did not have the heart to pay attention to the reform of the official system.

After reading the excerpt in his hand in one go, Li Zhenchang breathed a sigh of relief, he knew that Northeast Road was about to experience another round of great changes! (To be continued......)