I want to be emperor

Chapter 221 Metaphysics Year Number (First update please subscribe)

Hanyang City, this place is the prefecture of Hanyang Prefecture, which can be regarded as a prefectural city, but it is far behind Wuchang on the other side of the Yangtze River.

Wuchang, that is the residence of the contemporary governor of Huguang, belongs to the political, cultural and military center of Huguang area, with tall and thick city walls.

As for Hanyang, it is less important politically. It is basically used as a commercial port, and it is also a type that is more difficult to defend in the military. Therefore, the Ming Dynasty did not build the city of Hanyang into a strong fortress before. .

This is just an ordinary city. Luo Zhixue led people to settle in Hanyang City, busy as always.

In addition to arranging the rectification of military affairs, various internal affairs also need to be arranged.

As the Xiangbao Army went south and gradually controlled Anlu Mansion, De'an Mansion, Jingzhou Mansion, Hanyang Mansion, Huangzhou Mansion and other places, the territory controlled by the Xiangxiang Army expanded rapidly.

At present, under the rule of the Rural Protection Army, there are eight prefecture-level administrative regions alone, and there are even more prefectures and counties.

So many local administrative agencies require a large number of administrative officials to maintain. Taking the newly controlled Anlu Mansion as an example, there is not only one magistrate in the Yamen of Guangguang Zhifu, but there are also Tongzhi, Tuiguan , Directors and bureau chiefs of various places/bureaus, there are various departments under each place.

Just a magistrate's yamen, at least hundreds of administrative officials can barely maintain it.

There are five counties and two prefectures under the Anlu Mansion, and the government offices of these prefectures and counties also need to make arrangements one by one.

Just appointing various middle and senior officials is enough for Luo Zhixue to suffer.

Not to mention that after the establishment of administrative institutions in various places, people's livelihood in various places needs to be restored in a timely manner.

Many places have been destroyed by wars. Whether it is the battle between the Township Protection Army and the Ming Army, or the scourge of bandits, the war has made people's livelihood in many places very difficult.

At the same time, Nanyang Prefecture and Xiangyang Prefecture are still facing drought.

There are so many messes.

Luo Zhixue was already so busy just managing the territories of the two prefectures before, and now he directly manages the land of the eight prefectures, which keeps Luo Zhixue busy. For this reason, Luo Zhixue also began to gradually delegate power, such as starting to deal with Luo Zhixue no longer interfered in the appointment of some mid-level officials.

Earlier, even Luo Zhixue would personally inquire about the appointment of county magistrates, but now Luo Zhixue does not care about the specifics of the county magistrates in several southern provinces.

Luo Zhixue is now only arresting the three chief officials in the yamen of each magistrate, that is, the magistrate of the fourth rank, the co-prefect of the fourth rank, and the official Ren of the fourth rank.

Luo Zhixue has completely delegated power to the appointments of various bureaus in the magistrate's yamen and counties, including the appointment of county magistrates.

Of course, this decentralization is also divided into levels. Basically, the appointment of the seventh rank and below, that is, the appointment of the mayor and the various bureaus of the county government, is directly handed over to the county office for overall planning and responsibility.

The appointments from the sixth grade and above to the fifth grade, that is, the county magistrates, county magistrates, chief bookkeepers, various departments and bureau chiefs under the prefecture, prefectural magistrates, prefectural magistrates, and general judges under the jurisdiction of the prefecture are all appointed by the prefectural officials' affairs office Overall responsibility.

The Ministry of Civil Affairs is responsible for appointments from the fourth rank and above, such as magistrates, Tongzhi, and Tuiguan.

By the way, many of the names of the local administrative agencies, officials' grades, and powers of the Rural Protection Army look similar, but they are actually completely different.

The most obvious example is the county magistrate. In the Ming Dynasty, this was the seventh rank, but in the rural protection army it was the sixth rank.

Generally speaking, the current local political structure of the Rural Protection Army is a troika model.

That is to say, a local official who is in charge of the general direction and personally in charge of personnel power, is paired with a second in command of administrative affairs, and a third in charge of judicial affairs.

Specifically, the government has set up magistrates, co-prefects, and officials.

Among them, the magistrate is the fourth rank, grasps the general manager, and is in charge of personnel affairs. The prefect is in charge of the official affairs office.

Tongzhi is from the fourth grade and is in charge of administrative affairs.

Officials are promoted from the four ranks and are in charge of judicial affairs.

The same is true for the states and counties under the government.

The Zhizhou Zhengwupin, who belongs to the state government office, is in charge of personnel affairs.

Zhoucheng from five quality control administration
The general judgment follows the five-quality management of justice.

The county magistrate to which the county yamen belongs is in charge of personnel affairs, the county magistrate is in charge of administration, and the master book is in charge of justice.

These three levels of local administrative agencies are relatively consistent and belong to a typical troika organization.

If there is no accident, when the Rural Protection Army establishes a provincial organization in the future, there is a high probability that it will continue to do so, with a governor, a chief envoy, and an inspector.

This structure is actually a slight modification of the provincial governor and the third division of the Ming Dynasty.

But the biggest change is the abolition of the military organization of the capital commander, and the governor will not have any military command power.

This is to completely eliminate the possibility of civil servants meddling in military affairs, so as to implement strict military-political separation.

In the political structure of the Rural Protection Army, only the General Staff can mobilize the army, and only the Naval Staff can mobilize the navy.

Except for these two institutions, other institutions, including the Logistics Department, Ordnance Department, Military and Political Department, Cavalry Director, and Artillery Director, which are also military institutions, are not allowed.

Of course, Luo Zhixue himself is not within the scope of this limitation.

After the separation of the military and the government, the powers of the local administrative agencies are limited to administrative affairs, and they don't have to worry about military affairs, which are the affairs of the military.

At the same time, Luo Zhixue made a major change to the administrative system of the Baoxiang Army, which was to raise the ranks of many officials. For example, the county magistrate was promoted from the seventh rank to the sixth rank, and the Tongzhi was promoted from the fifth rank to the fourth rank. In order to handle the matter, the exempted deputy has completely become dispensable.

This change in the administrative structure is also the result of Luo Zhixue's continuous exploration and improvement over the past few months. If he finds any problems later, he will continue to improve.

For now, it's not bad. On the one hand, it has ensured the smooth progress of the official administration work, and Luo Zhixue's workload has been reduced a lot.

Anyway, for Luo Zhixue, if there is a problem in a prefecture, it is enough to directly hold the three prefectural officials, the prefect, the co-prefect, and the Tuiguan, to account.

Let the prefects figure out how to do specific things.

Not only was the decentralization of official affairs, Luo Zhixue also gradually delegated power to many other affairs as the territory expanded.

During the Funiu Mountain period, Luo Zhixue was personally responsible for any fart and major matters, and don't be too disgusted, being able to take charge of these trivial matters is the embodiment of Luo Zhixue's power.

When he was in Xiangyang, Luo Zhixue no longer cared about trivial matters.

Until now, Luo Zhixue has focused his attention on the high-rise buildings, and no longer interferes with the specifics.

If you really want to take care of everything, you can't be too busy.

But now Luo Zhixue can delegate power to many things, but there is one thing that cannot be delegated power, that is, proclaiming the imperial system.

Since Luo Zhixue arrived in Hanyang City, the entire Rural Protection Army has entered a rather strange state of excitement.

On September [-]th, the day after Luo Zhixue arrived in Hanyang, Li Chengtong, the commander of the First Division who led the army to fight against De'an Prefecture, hurried back to Hanyang City.

He came to Hanyang with Fei Bingqing, commander of the [-]th Infantry Brigade. This man was supposed to stay in Yingshan City and be responsible for the defense of the Yiyang Three Passes, but he left the military affairs to the deputy brigade commander and other subordinates. To deal with it, I ran over with the excuse that I wanted to ask Luo Zhixue to personally report the development of the Fourth Infantry Brigade and other matters.

The next day, Xu He, the commander of the Second Infantry Brigade who led troops in Huangzhou Prefecture, also hurried back to Hanyang.

On September [-], even Huang Dingquan, commander of the North Route Army who was in charge of Nanyang City, arrived in Hanyang by boat.

That night, Dong Mingjie, the commander of the third garrison division in Jiangling, also ran over.

When many generals used various excuses to come to Hanyang one after another, Luo Zhixue knew that the matter of proclaiming the emperor and founding the country could no longer be delayed.

If you delay any longer, I'm afraid people's hearts will be scattered...

Besides, this group of generals left the army and ran back to Hanyang by themselves. If something happened on the front line, and these military chiefs were not around, it would easily cause big trouble.

In fact, the reason why these military chiefs came back in a hurry was because they had already received news one after another that the general would proclaim himself emperor and found a country in Hanyang.

This news was naturally released by Luo Zhixue himself, but he would not admit it even if he was killed.

In fact, they had already started preparing for Jianguo's proclaiming the emperor when they were in Zhongxiang. Well, since they want to proclaim the emperor, they must have the dragon robe.

And the dragon robe can't be conjured out of thin air, it has to be prepared in advance, right?

Although these preparations have not been made public, it is not a secret to well-informed senior officials.

Whether it's Xiazi Wang or Huang Dingquan, they already knew that they would proclaim themselves emperor in Hanyang, but they didn't know the exact time.

Now that Luo Zhixue has released the news that he plans to establish a country and proclaim himself emperor shortly after arriving in Hanyang, they will naturally rush over.

What are you doing?

Please come in!
You can't let Luo Zhixue brag on his own, and then call himself emperor shamelessly.

Even if Luo Zhixue is really so shameless, traditional etiquette still needs to be scrupled, otherwise he will be slandered every minute as improper.

At this time, the role of the courtiers is reflected.

On September [-]th, after most of the heavyweight generals arrived in Hanyang one after another, many people seemed to have made an appointment on this day, and began to write letters asking Luo Zhixue to proclaim himself emperor.

Luo Zhixue declined in accordance with international practice.

The next day the courtiers came to ask Luo Zhixue to proclaim himself emperor, but Luo Zhixue naturally refused.

However, when Luo Zhixue refused, the city continued to be decorated with lights and festoons, and even the temporary Temple of Heaven in the Heaven Festival had been erected urgently...

During this period, Luo Zhixue also discussed matters such as the title of the country and the title of the year with a group of courtiers.

While refusing to claim the title of emperor, while discussing the name of the country and the name of the year, this operation confuses even a three-year-old child!

Are you proclaiming emperor or not proclaiming emperor?

When discussing the name of the country, it went very smoothly, and the candidates were nothing more than those few. In the end, Luo Zhixue chose Chu as the name of the country.

After all, the Township Protection Army is based in northern Chu, and will use Chu as the foundation to pacify the world in the future. It is also a routine operation to use Chu as the country name. Many dynasties in history have done this.

The name of the country is easy to choose, but the name of the year has a bit of metaphysics in it.

Guo Quanshu and other civil servants made more than a dozen candidate year names, most of them were Shunzhi, Shunping, Shun'an, Yingshun, Chengshun...

It's smooth sailing!
Luo Zhixue was dumbfounded!
After asking, I found out that a group of civil servants under him were still practicing feudal superstition. The reason why most of the candidates for the year names had a word in order was because of the folklore that Zhu Yuanzhang asked Liu Bowen to divination the fate of the Ming Dynasty, and Liu Bowen said it after a fortune-telling One sentence: 'When you meet the rules, you stop'.

Moreover, there is a high probability that this is a joke made up by the people later. It was first recorded in Liang Yi's Zunwenlu during the Zhengde period, but it was widely spread among the people.

After Luo Zhixue heard this story, he remembered that when discussing the name of the country, some people suggested to use "Shun" as the name of the country and build a Dashun country.

Looking at a group of feudal and superstitious subordinates, Luo Zhixue scorned him for a while, and silently chose 'Chengshun' as his year name...

Although it's a bit absurd to say it as a joke, but well, Luo Zhixue thinks that there will be no loss of meat if there is a word in his year name.

Year number, why not use it...

Cough cough, the emperor of the new era, what he pays attention to is a heart, I just like the word Chengshun, not because of feudal superstition!
　Broke out today

　　
　
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