Xicheng Prefecture is one of the three prefectures of Kucha Kingdom divided by the capital of Kucha. Zhao Xun used this as the center of the Great Zhao army stationed, echoing the western part of Liangzhou to the east. Because this is a peaceful adaptation,
In order to shock the local area and complete the Zhao army's control over this place, Zhao Xun has been staying here.
"I didn't want to fight, the war in Jingzhou became so rapid. I originally thought that among the southern princes, Qi army was the first to decline. I didn't want to fight, and the first one was the Tang army."
Situ Liang smiled and said, "The reason why the Tang army declined so quickly is that in addition to fighting with the Shu army in the south for Jiangzhou and being weaker than others, it is also related to the fact that the King of Luoyang and King of Hanzhong were suppressed too closely by us. Other princes all turned against each other.
The Qi army had the opportunity to quit, but the King of Hanzhong and Luoyang had no way out."[
Zhao Xun smiled and said, "Although it was a bit beyond our expectations, the decline of the Tang army was also a good thing for us. Feng Ziming asked for it very much. I replied to Feng Ziming and asked them to do it.
Even if the Tang army is about to perish, we must consume the strength of the King of Hanzhong and Luoyang for us."
"By the way, I plan to reorganize Huitong Money Bank and adapt it into Dazhao Bank. The basic operating methods remain unchanged, but Dazhao Bank will become the only bank in the country. In addition to the conventional issuance of currencies, it also has to bear the storage, lending and issuance of bonds.
Of course, the bank will assist each other with the Finance Division and the Tax Division and do not interfere with national financial affairs. Therefore, the Finance Division and the Tax Division will no longer have the control of the bank."
"In addition to opening branches in various parts of Zhao, the prefectures and counties in the Western Regions will also start construction. I have discovered that the people in the Western Regions have a lot of gold and silver. If they gather together and issue Da Zhao coins, we will do it.
It's also a great thing."
Zhao Xun said this, firstly, the Finance Department began to regard Huitong Money Bank, which began to spread all over Zhao, as the source of financial expenditures for Da Zhao. Secondly, Zhao Xun did not want this bank to be controlled by the Finance Department, so as not to lose the money in the future.
, poses threat to your descendants.
"Secondly, the Commercial Bureau mentioned the issue of using inferior products as good ones and fake ones. Therefore, from now on, all products must have their own unique marks and become trademarks. Each company is engaged in production.
Businessmen or chamber of commerce must go to the Business Department to file their own unique trademarks, and others are not allowed to counterfeit them, and those who violate them are severely punished. In addition, those who report illegal businessmen will be encouraged to obtain half of the property of those who are reported."
Because of the rapid development of the business in Zhaojun, various problems have occurred frequently, especially some fakes, which often appear, and even many merchants use fakes to impersonate other people's excellent products. The buyer is deceived and the impersonator is damaged.
Zhao Xun asked the workshops that produce goods to print their own unique marks on the goods.
"Third, in this Western Region, the proportion of Chinese people in our Han people is extremely low. In the Central Plains, there are many people and few lands. According to Feng Ziming's proposal, the government formed a law to encourage those with fewer people in the Central Plains and those with less lands.
Come to the Western Regions to exchange for several times of land. This will not only increase the proportion of Chinese people in the Western Regions. In addition, we can no longer obtain land by forcing the land of local large households to allocate it to the people. In this way, I will not be able to do so.
What do you think is good?”
Zhang Yuanjing said in a deep voice: "This method is good. In this way, it can not only solve the problems of the Western Regions, but also be of great benefit to our future attacks to the south. If we can not use the means of confiscating the fields of local powerful people, we can
To gain support from local gentry, at least, they will not object."
"The current situation is very clear. If we rush our troops south, these powerful people will not do their best to protect their property. And the people in those places can seek life in various workshops, chambers of commerce
In addition, you can also obtain larger land in the Western Regions."
"In this way, there are very few people who rent the land in the hands of those powerful people, unless they are willing to reduce the rent of the land. When a certain proportion is formed, we can set the rent of the land under the law. In this way, the people who rent the landlords will also
It’s not that the rent of the land is too high and life is unsustainable.”
"Master Feng suggested that the Tang army in Jingzhou use population to exchange for weapons and armor. In addition to allowing the Tang army to fight fiercely with the Han army and Luo army for longer, it also reduced the amount of people in Jingzhou. Of course, the most important thing is to reduce the number of people in Jingzhou.
In the future, they will occupy the strength of the princes in Jingzhou."
"By the way, judging from the news from the Business Department, because of the prosperity of business under our rule, many workshops and chambers of commerce lack manpower. The Land Registration Department also complained to us that the amount of people engaged in agricultural affairs in the country has dropped sharply,
It will affect the grain output in our Zhao area.”
Zhao Xun also knew what Zhang Yuanjing said. He had expected this. The prosperity of commerce will definitely have an impact on agriculture. Especially in the era when most commerce is mainly manual, without machines, it requires a lot of manpower.
The expensive treatment also caused many people to turn to work, which affected grain production. This is also the reason why Zhao Xun has spared no effort to absorb refugees from all over the country. Although it may have been pressure in the early days, it will become a driving force in the future.
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Wei Zilin said in a deep voice: "In this case, first, Italy develops various labor-saving and convenient tools to reduce the demand for manpower. Just like the water truck we started to use widely. With the help of water, we have reduced many workshops.
The high demand for manpower is another way to continue to increase manpower. But people are different from tools, not just there is something to have. However, there is no way.”
Zhao Xun looked sideways and said, "Oh? What's the point? Let's hear it."
Wei Zilin said in a deep voice: "Report to the Lord, what I said is a slave. The Han people fought in the territory, and aren't the foreign tribes in other places like this? Not to mention the far away, the Turks in the north fought between the east and west, and they had many slaves.
.We will not allow the caravan to buy slaves from the Turks to engage in dangerous and difficult affairs."
"Catch slaves...slave hunting team..." Zhao Xun suddenly thought of these words in his mind.
Zhang Yuanjing also nodded and said, "Yes, what Lord Wei said is indeed a good idea. Not to mention the distance, it is very appropriate to let these slaves do such dangerous things as mining."
Situ Liang smiled and said, "Master, I think this is a good idea. We now occupy half of the Western Regions, but in terms of the west, north or south, they are all enemies. That is the case, why not encourage merchants to be here
What about seizure hunting? It can even encourage the powerful people from all over the Western Regions to capture seizures. This will not only weaken other countries, but also allow these original local powers to bet on the interests of the people, and facilitate our local reforms."
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"In addition, our army has nearly 100,000 troops stationed here. I think it is the Wusun Kingdom in the west or the Turkic tribes in the north, and they dare not easily conflict with us. In this way, the enemy is weak and I am strong,
For it!”
"My fellow Taoist is not dead, but I am not dead! Well, that is, let's open up the sale of slaves. However, it must be emphasized that the target of being captured can only be foreign enemies. All slaves must be at the level of the government and pay a certain amount of money.
Taxes." Zhao Xun said in a deep voice, "For slave capturing teams, they must go to the government to register before they can form a team and purchase weapons."
Zhao Xun didn't want him to accidentally make the slave-capturing team in the territory become a powerful bandit, "In fact, the best way is to sell the prisoners in the war. In fact, they were conquered by the Turks earlier.
By the time we had done so."
"In addition, let the caravan hire more Western Regions people to scatter them into various places, so as to reduce the proportion of Western Regions people here and let them integrate into our Great Zhao."
Now the area occupied by the Zhao army has been roughly divided into nine prefectures. Of course, the area occupied by prefectures here is larger than that of the Central Plains. Various administrative methods have also begun to gradually move Zhao. On average, each
In a prefecture, all officials from Han and Western Regions coexist. However, among them, the officials sent by the Zhao army control important positions. Or, the Western Regions are headed, but their assistants and order officials have both Zhao army take over and control them.
Real power.
Afterwards, Zhao Xun and Zhang Yuanjing and others discussed, they sent an order to the Youzhou Government Affairs Department and unified the jurisdiction of officials under the Zhao army.
What does it mean? This means the difference between officials and officials among officials. In the feudal dynasty of China, officials did not mean one type of people, but two types. Among them, officials refer to those with grades. Only
The one with the grade is the official. According to the Dayan system, from the first rank to the lowest rank, each rank is divided into two levels: regular and subordinate levels, and different levels are divided according to different positions.
In addition to the official officials of the court, if an administrative agency wants to operate, it needs another official who is not an official, that is, an official, that is, an official, or a minor official. Speaking of official staff members like official officials,
I have to talk about the administrative system of the feudal dynasty. As for the Dayan, it is similar to other dynasties. The smallest administrative unit is the county, which has a county magistrate, a county magistrate, a chief clerk and a county lieutenant, and together there are only four.
A high-ranking official, but if a county wants to operate, four enrollment will definitely not work, so we have to recruit some of them. Some of them, such as the six-house managers, are so-called officials, and their status is equivalent to those of later generations.
For middle and low-level civil servants, the main thing they do in the yamen is to rely on these officials.
However, officials are different from officials. Officials are appointed by the court and their salaries are also paid by the court. However, officials are different. Officials are recruited by local officials themselves. At most, they can report to the Ministry of Personnel. The court official is basically
It is not possible to control these, and the salaries of these officials are also paid by local officials, which has no much to do with the central court. At most, the central court will acquiesce the local officials to intercept some of the taxes as the salaries of these officials and other administrative expenses.
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However, in this way, it is easy to see corruption and bribery. A large part of the reason why corruption has become a popular situation in feudal dynasties is because local officials have the power to intercept taxes. In addition, officials are also politically discriminated against, for example,
Like Shang Ren, descendants were unable to take the scientific examination, etc. The status of the officials was not high, but they controlled the real power of the place. However, officials and scholars who were promoted through the official scientific examination looked down on such minor officials.
Although Zhao Xun is not very clear about the complex relationship among officials, he also knows some situations. In his memory, in the history of the right path, the Qin and Han dynasties were the period of gradual formation of the official class, and the Sui and Tang dynasties were the period of official division.
The Yuan Dynasty was the heyday of the officialdom, and the Qing Dynasty was the perverted and differentiated period of the staff, that is, officials.
Here, Dachu, which reversed the wheel of history, customized a complete official system. Since then, officials and officials have formed a complete two-level differentiation.
However, in terms of history in memory, or from then on, Zhao Xun understood that the development trend of the bureaucratic system in China is hierarchy, the distinction between levels is becoming clearer, and the number of people to be included at all levels is gradually expanding again.
Trend. In the early days of the founding of each new dynasty, the level and total number of officials in the official dynasty were greatly reduced compared with the old dynasty, but by the middle dynasty, its scale often exceeded that of the previous dynasty. Moreover, the expansion rate and proportion of each dynasty
There are also rules, that is, often the number of officials doubles, the number of officials doubles (or even several times), and the number of servants is more complicated. No matter how they are cut off and simplified, it is still a matter of trouble. There are servants outside the service, and there are increase and decreases, forming a triangle framework.
The bottom edge is longer and longer.
One of the major reasons for this is that the order officials are not under the direct jurisdiction of the court, and the local governments recruit them on their own. However, the order officials are also indispensable and indispensable for the court to rule the area.
Of course, it is not impossible to be promoted to officials, but it is much more difficult than officials. Moreover, even if they are promoted, officials who have passed the scientific examination cannot accept them. But Zhao Xun had to admit that these minor officials are the only ones to the local area.
The most familiar and true talented person. In other words, the officials are all leaders, while the minor officials are the ones who are doing it. The leader moves his mouth and runs his legs off.
However, with Zhao Xun's encouragement for business and the equal status of scholars, farmers, industry and commerce, many unorthodox Confucian scholars can become officials, and many officials who have been struggling to help officials suggest to Zhao Xun to these ordinary officials
With identity. Although before this, the descendants of these order officials did not receive restrictions as they used to receive, and they were treated unfairly. However, minor officials were still minor officials and were not valued by orthodox officials.
Zhao Xun had not paid attention to this matter before. After being reported to Zhao Xun by the Government Affairs Department, Zhao Xuncai remembered this group that played an important role in the government.
In Dayan, these officials are not unavailable to be promoted, but in the official system alone, there are third-class levels. Only after passing the third-class level can you get the chance to be promoted to an official. But this is just an opportunity, and the chance of real income is not great
, in addition to making special contributions.
After checking the details and considering them for a long time, Zhao Xun made a fundamental reform, which was to eliminate the difference between officials and officials.
First, Zhao Xun took back all the salaries and powers of officials and distributed them to the court, and recruiting officials were also appointed by the court. In other words, although they were not among the ninth-rank officials, they were also recognized by the court.
The official system has not yet reached the ninth rank, and it has also eliminated some discrimination policies against officials.
In addition, considering that these minor officials are familiar with the local area and play a very important role in local governance, Zhao Xun used the order officials as an important source for selecting the most basic officials. In other words, after the reform, officials from the scientific examination were not directly treated with the
He was delegated to local people and county magistrates, but became officials or officials at the level of the prefecture. Only after accumulating certain governance experience will he be selected as a parent official in charge of the place.
In addition, in addition to the local parents reporting their achievements, the Supervision Department also conducts separate assessments for the promotion of minor officials. This opens up channels for promotion between officials and officials. You should know that in Zhao, there are quite a few assistant officials. In the past, these assistant officials were the same.
All of them were reserve officials who were designated as "rebellious" by the court, not recognized by the court, and trained by themselves. Now, they will all become officials in prefectures and counties. Many officials in the Western Regions, Yuzhou and Yanzhou
Many officials are promoted by such officials.[
Although the direct promotion of officials was a major selection mechanism, some traditional officials were a little dissatisfied, but because the Zhao army had already had a precedent for craftsmen, merchants, and farmers to be officials, there was no strong opposition.
At least October, after the Youzhou Government Affairs Department used this as a government order to promote Zhao territory, there was no fierce opposition.
Although this is not unacceptable to officials. However, for a large number of minor officials, they have become dismissed from being looked down upon. Now, they can also compare with officials. The only difference is that
They are just lower than the ninth-rank county magistrate. In addition, they can be promoted in the future. Therefore, these minor officials support Zhao Xun very much, and have put a lot of effort into doing things in order to be promoted. After all, this
But what is related to their future must be taken care of.
Although the advantage of selecting officials from officials is that most of the promoted officials have grassroots work experience and are familiar with their own jobs. They will not be like those who study hard and do not know how to administer after becoming an official, and they will also have to go to the officials around them.
Ask for advice. But it is not without shortcomings, such as it may cause different levels of education of officials. In order to all officials are promoted, they must also be transferred back to Youzhou for training for a period of time.
Because of Zhao Xun's decree, the Supervision Department, the Hawkeye Department and the Shadow Department also investigated and dealt with a large number of illegal officials from all over the country. These officials were either despised by others in the past or because of the old dynasty system, and were all bullied in the local area.
The superiors concealed their subordinates and did evil deeds. This time, a large part of them was eliminated due to the new government's orders.
After hearing this, Zhao Xun was furious. He did not expect that there was such a bad apple under his jurisdiction. The world was not peaceful, so it would be like this. If the world was peaceful, it would be better.
I knew what would happen. So Zhao Xun ordered the Supervision Department, the Hawkeye Department and the Shadow Department to investigate domestic officials. Once any problems were found, they would not be forgiven.