In addition to the three-level system in rural areas, a four-level system of counties, districts, streets and lanes will also be adopted in cities.

The reason why the administrative division of cities in later generations is not completely copied is naturally because the Ming Dynasty had its own national conditions.

The degree of urbanization in the Ming Dynasty was actually quite high in terms of feudal society, especially in Jiangnan, where there were more than two or three cases where two or even three counties of Fucheng were attached to Guo.

Such as Suzhou, Xi'an, Nanjing, Beijing, Chengdu, Guangzhou, etc.

Therefore, Zhu Yurao did not use districts to replace counties, but used districts as lower-level administrative units to refine the city's administrative management.

In this new urban administrative system, the administrative head of a district is called Ou Zheng. The prefectural district is the eighth rank, the Fucheng district is the eighth rank, the provincial and urban areas are the seventh rank, and the capital district is the seventh rank.

The county magistrate of the capital is the sixth rank, which is exactly one rank and two steps higher than the district magistrate.

The district chief is assigned to a number of district deputy and other second-level officials, among which the rank of district deputy is one rank lower than that of the corresponding district chief.

Sub-district offices are set up, and the main person in charge is called the director, who is also supplemented by deputy directors and other officials.

The director of the sub-district office is one rank lower than the corresponding district official. Therefore, the sub-district director of Guzhoucheng is the ninth rank, and by analogy, the sub-district director of Jingcheng is the eighth rank.

The person in charge of an alley is elected by the people like the village chief and is called the alley chief.

Only the alley chiefs from the capital, Jingcheng, and Chengdu are civil servants. The other alley chiefs are not included in the civil service establishment.

The reason why these three cities are special is naturally because of their different statuses and large populations.

Not to mention the northern and southern capitals, Chengdu is regarded as the "Longxing Land" of Zhu Yushuo. According to convention, it will be the companion capital of the Ming Dynasty in the future. For this type of city, it is necessary to carry out more detailed management.

Because this system is quite mature, once it is established, it will be implemented in Yingtian Prefecture, Shuntian Prefecture, and Chengdu Prefecture.

After one year, it will be promoted to the four provinces of Southern Zhili, Northern Zhili, Sichuan, and Chongqing. In a few years, it will be promoted to the entire Ming Dynasty.

Basically it follows the Qingtian policy.

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Regarding the abolition of the Lijia system, after the cabinet meeting in which the three prefectures tried to implement the three-level system of "township, commune, and village", Zhu Yu'ao issued an order and the cabinet approved the promotion of Chen Zilong to the position of Doctor of the Ministry of Household Affairs, overseeing all grassroots restructuring affairs in the three prefectures.

Therefore, Chen Zilong can now also be called the governor.

It's just that his governorship can't be compared with the feudal officials like Du Yinxi and Lu Daqi who oversee the military affairs of two provinces. Instead, he is a temporary dispatch similar to Zhang Guowei's governor of river affairs.

At the same time, the newspaper office of the Ming Dynasty, Liu Rushi, also received a task, which was to publish an article written by Chen Zilong in the political section of the next issue of the Ming Bao.

It is not only to explain to the public the three-level system of "township, community, and village" at the grassroots level, but also to publicize this new deal and encourage the public to cooperate with the implementation of the new deal.

The Yamen (courtyard) of the Daming Newspaper Office.

Liu Rushi received Zhu Yu's edict and learned that Chen Zilong had been entrusted with important tasks by the court and was promoted. He was quite emotional for a while.

Looking at the desk again, she saw an autographed article "On the Necessity of the Prostitution Ban" that she had just finalized, and she couldn't help but recall her experience more than ten years ago.

This is an article that uses her personal experience as evidence to conclude the prostitution ban that has been discussed among the public for more than half a month, and will be signed by her most well-known name "Liu Rushi" when it is published.

She strongly supported the "prostitution ban" implemented by the imperial court. Because she was kidnapped by human traffickers when she was a child and sold to Guijiayuan in Wujiang County, Suzhou, where she was given as a maid to Xu Fu, the top prostitute in Guijiayuan.

This is the beginning of what outsiders know about her experience of falling into Zhangtai, but they don't know how painful her experience was before she was abducted by human traffickers and then followed Xu Fu.

At that time, she and many little girls of several years old were often kept in dark places where they were not easily discovered, and only had one or two meals a day, barely surviving.

Even when I arrived at the Guijiayuan (brothel), I initially went through various trainings with a group of girls of similar ages. I was often punished, deprived of food, and beaten. These were common occurrences.

She was able to get such a good position as Xu Fu's maid because of her outstanding appearance since she was a child, her intelligence, and even some small tricks.

Because being a maid to a famous prostitute like Xu Fu is also a disciple.

In the end, when she was twelve or thirteen years old, she became a rare commodity that could be sold at home, and was sold to the Chongzhen court official Zhou Daodeng as his concubine.

That time, Guijiayuan made a lot of money. The proprietor behind Guijiayuan even accomplished an important thing through Zhou Daodeng's connections.

After that, she was both lucky and unlucky.

Zhou Daodeng, who doted on her very much, died of old age and illness a year or two later because he was over seventy.

When she was only fourteen years old, she was kicked out of the Zhou family - speaking of it, this was actually not entirely her luck. It was also because she had a far-sighted vision and had made arrangements before Zhou Daodeng was alive that she was kicked out by the Zhou family.

, instead of selling it like property.

As a result, she gained the long-awaited freedom.

However, growing up in a brothel, she knew nothing but talent and sex to entertain people. In order to make a living, she had no choice but to become an upright official herself.

A year or two later, she lived in Songjiang Prefecture and took the name "Ying Lian". She often wore Confucian shirts and men's clothing. With her talent in poetry, she interacted with literati from Fushe, Jishe, Donglin Party and other groups, and gradually became famous.

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During this period, she first fell in love with Song Zhengyu, a young scholar from Songjiang Prefecture of the same age, and she looked forward to marrying into the Song family, even as a concubine.

However, soon after, the prefect of Songjiang issued an order to expel prostitutes from other places, and she, who was from Suzhou, became one of the targets of the expulsion.

She discussed with Song Zhengyu, hoping to use the Song family connections to gain access and stay in Songjiang Mansion. However, Song was weak and advised her to "temporarily avoid the spotlight" and leave Songjiang Mansion first.

She was also young and energetic at the time, so she broke off all relations with Song Zhengyu.

Then there was the romance with Chen Zilong that was known to many people and also ended in nothing.

After coming back to his senses, Liu Rushi immediately called a reporter from the newspaper office who was good at interviewing civil servants and writing special articles, and asked him to conduct an exclusive interview with Chen Zilong and obtain an article about Chen Zilong.

Although she had an old relationship with Chen Zilong, she had not had any contact with him since Chen Zilong became an official in the Zhaowu Dynasty.

After all, it had been twelve or thirteen years since her relationship with Chen Zilong, and things had already changed - she was married and Qian Qianyi treated her very well despite all his shortcomings.

"To mention it, this Beijing News has gone too far. It has plagiarized many of our news stories this time, and it dares to go against us on the 'prostitution ban' order!"

While Liu Rushi was lost in thought about the past, Guizhuang walked in holding a newspaper, looking very angry as he spoke.

This man was the great-grandson of Gui Youguang, a great prose writer in Suzhou during the Jiajing period, who held the official position of Nanjing Taipusi Cheng.

Several generations of talented people have emerged from the Gui family in Kunshan, Suzhou, and they are all famous in the south of the Yangtze River for their calligraphy, painting, prose, and seal cutting. Guizhuang is even more talented in calligraphy, painting, and literature.

He was only five years older than Liu Rushi, and Liu Rushi had been favored by him when he first came out of the Zhou family.

Therefore, when the newspaper office was short of people, I thought that Guizhuang Shan's prose would be smooth, so he wrote a letter to invite him to join the newspaper office.

Guizhuang indeed has certain talents, and Liu Rushi intends to promote him, so he is now the deputy director of the newspaper.

When Liu Rushi heard from Guizhuang that there was an article in the "Beijing News" that was in conflict with the "prostitution ban", he also felt that something was unusual and immediately took the newspaper from Guizhuang and looked at it...

Chen Zilong's official residence in the capital is now crowded with people, but most people can only leave greetings, and only a few people are actually received by Chen Zilong.

However, when he learned that a reporter from the "Da Ming Pao" newspaper had been ordered to come, Chen Zilong immediately received him.

First update.
Chapter completed!