Chapter 632 Divide the Northwest into Three Provinces!
Officials were dispatched to Yan'an, Pingliang, Qingyang, Yulin and other places one after another to restore the administrative governance in northern Shaanxi. Zhu Youjian considered that the framework of provincial administrative agencies in Shaanxi should also be established.
Due to the serious shortage of officials, and considering leaving enough room for future officials' promotion and development, Zhu Youjian discussed with the cabinet and decided to temporarily build the main office in the Xinfu area with a single official in charge, and then later follow up.
As the governance process is gradually improved and completed. When appointing administrative chiefs, the chief yamen at the prefecture and county level should serve as chief officials as much as possible, while at the provincial level, both the governor and the governor can be considered, but it is not necessarily necessary.
Determine the first-in-command first. It is also possible to consider using the second-in-command to temporarily replace the authority of the first-in-command.
Even so, senior feudal officials were still quite scarce. After taking over northern Shaanxi, Zhu Youjian discovered that what had to be solved was not the establishment of a provincial administrative team, but three or even four provinces.
A high-level administrative team needs to be built.
The Chief Secretary of Shaanxi in the Ming Dynasty was really too big. It was the only sound provincial administrative agency in the geographically huge northwest in later generations. The geographical area was so large that even in the Ming Dynasty, they had to find ways to set up more provincial-level administrative agencies.
The existence of level-level administrative agencies to achieve governance. Under the framework of the Shaanxi Chief Envoy, there are the Shaanxi Governor's Yamen, the Yansui Governor's Yamen, the Gansu Governor's Yamen, and the trilateral governor's offices of Gansu, Ningxia, and Yulin.
There are three provincial departments, plus three governor's offices and one governor's office. Doesn't this mean there are four or five provincial-level yamen? In later generations, this should include three complete provincial-level administrative regions of Shaanxi, Gansu, and Ningxia.
There are parts of Qinghai and Inner Mongolia. So is this a matter for one province? This is a matter for the entire northwest.
It's impossible to rely on a provincial administrative agency. Even if you use the old Ming Dynasty method of setting up governor's yamen and governor's yamen to make up for your crotch, it won't work! At that time, the Shaanxi-Gansu turmoil meant that the administrative agencies in the northwest region were not sound and could not form an effective system.
The joint efforts of comprehensive management are also the reason why the government is invincible. After all, the functions of the governor's yamen and the governor's yamen cannot be compared with the well-established provincial yamen. Just one thing, the lack of financial and taxation functions, can kill people. It is precisely
Due to the lack of support from the three provincial departments, northern Shaanxi can only rely mainly on military means to suppress bandits, and cannot cooperate with corresponding administrative and civil affairs means.
Having said that, mending crotches and adding patches is also a helpless way to save money. Regions such as northern Shaanxi, Gansu, and Ningxia during the Ming Dynasty were really poor. With a bunch of provincial agencies, how could they support them? So in the
The allocation of officials is to save what can be saved. Poverty-stricken areas have less fiscal revenue. Once the fiscal revenue is low, administrative agencies and personnel must be streamlined as much as possible. But the contradiction is: although the population in poor areas is also small, the number of administrative personnel needed
But it cannot be too little. Poverty-stricken areas often have mountains, deep ravines, inconvenient transportation, and are vast and sparsely populated. Once administrative management is not in place, wouldn’t it mean that poor mountains and rivers breed unruly people? It is easy for rebellion and chaos, and it is very difficult to quell chaos.
On the one hand, we are short of money and need to save money; on the other hand, management costs are still higher than in normal areas. The dilemma of not being able to make ends meet is indeed quite a headache.
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"After several cabinet ministers restored northern Shaanxi and the upcoming Battle of Guanzhong, how to effectively govern the northwest is a major issue before us. You see, this is northern Shaanxi, this is Guanzhong and Hanzhong, and this is Gansu
, as well as the Huangshui area, this is Ningxia and the Hetao area. Such a large area is very difficult." Several cabinet ministers such as Wu Sheng, Ma Shiying, Song Yingsheng, etc. were called, and Zhu Youjian mapped the entire northwest of the Ming Dynasty.
The area is drawn in a circle.
"The place is indeed large and difficult to govern. I think, combined with the previous method of setting up governor's offices and setting up special administrative areas, Shaanxi province can be divided into several districts for governance? If the place is smaller, it will be easier to manage.
"Wu Sheng took a careful look at the circle drawn by the emperor on the map. He usually didn't pay attention to it, but now the more he looked at it, the bigger it became. It was too big.
It felt like it was larger than the current actual control area, so he quickly asked if he could divide it up! With such a big place, no wonder it couldn't be cured before.
"It is better to set up an administrative office and divide it directly into provinces. It will be easier to manage if Shaanxi and Gansu are separated." Ma Shiying saw that after the emperor finished drawing the circle, he did not stop, but drew a line at Longshan. He was anxious.
Turn, look at the meaning, the emperor wanted to create another province? So he figured out the holy will and put forward the suggestion of dividing Shaanxi and Gansu.
"The poor people in the northwest are hungry. Will the establishment of another province cause a financial burden? It is difficult to use the land of one province to support the officials of one province." Song Yingsheng did not agree with Ma Shiying's proposal of dividing Shaanxi and Gansu. The establishment of provinces and administrative offices
They are completely two concepts. A complete provincial establishment is a lot of bureaucracy. At least it will increase the expenditure of 2,000 people. For 2,000 people, based on the average annual expenditure of 60 taels of silver dollars per person,
That is an increase of more than 100,000 yuan in fiscal expenditure. It will be difficult for the newly divided Gansu Province to receive so much tax!
"It is not divided into one province, but three provinces. Pingqing, west of Longshan, Qinzhou, Gongchang, Lanzhou, and Hexi areas are divided into Gansu Province, Guyuan, Zhongwei, and Ningxia. The old Dongshengwei is naturalized.
Suiyuan Province is located in the Hetao area southwest of the city. From this, three northwest provinces of Shaanxi, Gansu and Suiyuan were formed to secure the western frontier.
As for the financial problem, it will be solved gradually. Who would have thought that Beizhi Province alone could support the national ZTE plan?"
Having said that, in fact, Zhu Youjian has no idea whether the northwest can solve fiscal expenditures on the spot. In later generations, these places are relying on transfer payments to solve problems, which means that they purely rely on local local finance to solve problems.
, the challenge is huge, not a small difficulty but a major one.
Using the government's finances to support local governments is not a safe way, and it causes many problems and hidden dangers! It is best to find ways to develop local areas. However, there are not many ways to think of. Northern Shaanxi can rely on oil extraction.
Let’s deal with it, where are the other places? It seems that I can’t think of a good product or industry!
Let's wait and see, the worst case scenario is to use the imperial government's finances to subsidize it for a long time!
"The cabinet must make plans and preparations in advance around the main purpose of dividing the northwest into three provinces. Once the Battle of Guanzhong is concluded, it will be officially implemented."
"Your Majesty, why do you want to assign the two prefectures of Pingqing and Gansu to Gansu? With this division, the province of Gansu seems to be in disarray." Seeing that the emperor had made up his mind, Wu Sheng focused on the specific administrative divisions.
The more he looked at the scope of the emperor's demarcation of Gansu province, the more awkward he became. Why did he insist on setting up the second Pingqing mansion? Wouldn't it be better to just use Longshan as the boundary?
Wu Sheng didn't understand, and neither did the local people in later generations. Every few years there would be rumors that Pingqing and Qing were to be allocated to Shaanxi. But Zhu Youjian felt that the administrative divisions of Gansu in his memory were reasonable, so he added this
The two mansions definitely didn’t do this just to be an eyesore!