I want to be emperor

Chapter 407 Three Provinces and One Mansion

In late October of the third year of Chengshun, the Great Chu Empire held an imperial counselor meeting. This meeting was mainly to further improve the provinces and jurisdictions under the rule of the Great Chu Empire.

In the early days, there was only one northern Chu under the rule of the Great Chu Empire. At that time, no provinces were established. After occupying the southern part of Chu, the Great Chu Empire established provinces one after another.

From the initial Chuxing North Province, Chunan Province, to Jiangxi Province, Anlu Province, and then to Jiangnan Province, Zhejiang Province, Fujian Province, Guangdong Province, and Guangxi Province, in addition to these In addition to the provinces actually controlled, the Great Chu Empire also established provinces that have not yet been fully controlled.

That is, Eastern Sichuan Province, Guizhou Province, Henan Province, Shaanxi Province, and Jiangbei Province. These four provinces belong to places where the Great Chu Empire controlled a few places. For example, Eastern Sichuan Province only controlled Kui There are only a few counties in the east of the state capital.

Guizhou Province only controls Tongren Mansion in the northeast of Guizhou.

Shaanxi Province only controls a few counties in the eastern area of ​​Hanzhong Prefecture and the southeastern area of ​​Xi'an Prefecture.

The same is true for Henan Province, which only controls Nanyang Prefecture, and even Ye County, Wuyang and other places in the northeast corner of Nanyang Prefecture are now under the control of the Ming court, that is, Zuo Liangyu.

In Jiangbei Province, there are only a few towns in the east of Yangzhou.

The reason why provinces are established in these areas that have not yet completed actual control is purely for the convenience of follow-up work.

By setting up governors, chief envoys and other institutions in advance, we can first investigate the various local conditions, conduct intelligence collection, recruit personnel, etc., and then wait for the army to kill them, and then directly take over the local rule.

This time, the Imperial Counselor Meeting further clarified the jurisdictional scope of each province, especially the division of Anlu Province, Jiangnan Province, Jiangbei Province, and Jingshi Yingtianfu.

Anlu Province, which was born out of the Anlu governor's jurisdiction not long after the establishment of the Ming court, does not govern the areas of Henan, Jiangxi, Huguang and other places, but only includes the original southern Zhili area, namely Chizhou Prefecture, Huizhou Mansion, Ningguo Mansion, Guangde Prefecture, Anqing Mansion, and Luzhou Mansion, this is a large province straddling the north and south banks of the Yangtze River, and there are many good places in it, but there are also many poor places.

The Jiangnan province governs Zhenjiang, Changzhou, Suzhou, and Songjiang. Although it seems to be only four prefectures, it is actually the most densely populated and most concentrated in money and grain among all the areas currently controlled by the Great Chu Empire. An area with the largest tax contribution.

Jiangbei Province includes Yangzhou Prefecture, Huai'an Prefecture, Xuzhou, and Fengyang Prefecture. If there is no accident, Fengyang Prefecture, which is too large in the area, will be split into several state capitals; , but because of the Huaihe River and the Yellow River, there are many disasters and disasters, and the agricultural conditions are very average, but supported by the salt industry in Xuhuai and Yangzhou, although there is not much food, there is a lot of money.

Yangzhou and Huai'an Qingjiangpu are both well-known and prosperous places.

And that's why Luo Zhixue grouped Fengyang Mansion, Huai'an Mansion, Yangzhou Mansion, and Xuzhou into one province, just for balance, there must be places with surplus and places with poverty, so that they can support each other and develop.

The last one is Yingtianfu, the capital. After the Great Chu Empire captured Yingtianfu, they did not change the name of this place, because the name Yingtianfu was already very suitable as a capital, and it was a special name for the capital of the traditional Chinese dynasty.

In history, after the captives entered the customs and occupied Shuntian Mansion in Beizhili, they did not change the name of Shuntian Mansion, which basically meant the same thing.

However, if it is not the capital or accompanying capital of the new dynasty, it is generally not allowed to continue to use a mansion with a similar name. It was the fiefdom of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty, so Anluzhou was promoted to Chengtian Mansion.

Obviously, this has nothing to do with the Great Chu Empire, so the name was changed back to Anlu directly.

In the future, when the Great Chu Empire enters the Shuntian Mansion in Beizhili, it is obviously impossible for the Great Chu Empire to set up any accompanying capital here, and this is not the place where Luo Zhixue started, so the name will also be changed.

Place names of special words such as Shuntian, Chengtian, and Yingtian cannot be used indiscriminately.

After the Great Chu Empire captured Yingtian Mansion, it continued to use the word Yingtian Mansion and took Yingtian Mansion as its capital. The jurisdiction of Yingtian Mansion under the Great Chu Empire was not much different from that of the Ming Dynasty, but Chuzhou, Taiping Mansion, and The state was merged with it, which greatly expanded the scope of Yingtianfu's jurisdiction.

In fact, although it is still called Yingtianfu, it is more accurate to call it Yingtian Province, or Zhili Province.

And this is also the governor of Yingtian Fu. His rank is not the third rank of the traditional governor, but the second rank, which is the same level as the governors of various provinces.

However, Xia Wenshu, Yin Tianfu's prefect of the Great Chu Empire, just won the title of Prince and Young Master some time ago, and this title is the second grade.

Therefore, the administrative level of Yingtian Mansion is actually the same as that of Jiangnan Province, which belongs to the level of the second rank. Although this second rank is only a false title, it is half a rank higher than that of ordinary provinces.

Generally speaking, it can be regarded as being below the Minister and above the Minister.

After this operation, the Great Chu Empire divided Nanzhili during the Ming Dynasty into Zhili Yingtianfu, Anlu Province, Jiangnan Province, and Jiangbei Province, that is, three provinces and one government. In order to maintain the control over the local area, at the same time avoid a certain province from being too large.

After finalizing the provincial division of Southern Zhili, Luo Zhixue set up a Shandong Province to prepare for the follow-up Northern Expedition. Of course, there is not even any territory in the Shandong Province, so many institutions are fake , the governor of Shandong that has been finalized is also let the right servant of the Ministry of Agriculture concurrently serve as the first... If he wants to officially take up the post of governor of Shandong, it will have to wait for the Northern Expedition to go smoothly next year and go to Shandong.

But even if it is a part-time job, there are finally people who can carry out various preparations better and more conveniently, such as finalizing the personnel in various institutions in advance, and when the official establishment of the governor's office and the government offices of the state capitals, the first time can be done. Select suitable personnel to take office.

The next day, Luo Zhixue also made some detailed adjustments to the provincial administrative agencies at the imperial council meeting, mainly clarifying the powers of the provinces to participate in politics and councils.

The provincial organization of the Great Chu Empire is different from that of the Ming court. The top leader is the governor sent by the central government, with a rank of second rank, and the chief envoy is the second rank, with a rank of third rank. The left and right participate in politics, and the left and right councilors of the fourth grade are in charge of many affairs.

Among them, the left and right political participation and the left and right counselors, the previous powers were not clear enough. Those who are in charge of many affairs are not weaker than the chief ministers, but some political participants who are not responsible for actual affairs are not as good as the magistrates.

At the same time, the grades of the left and right counselors are too low, only from the fourth rank, and no one can control them... because the heads of the departments under the provincial governor's yamen are already the fourth rank...the prefects of the prefectures are also the fourth rank.You are a counselor from the fourth rank, and you can't take care of many affairs.

Since he can't manage affairs, it's not very reliable to have the name of assisting the governor in handling affairs.

And Luo Zhixue believes that one radish and one hole, since there is a rank, one must do things with a salary and play a practical role.

In the end, Luo Zhixue made a decision to abolish left and right councils, and left and right to participate in politics; add "participating in politics" from the third rank, with four or five people in each province, under the governor and political envoy, in charge of agriculture, mulberry, grain storage, business and economics, or imperial examinations Civilization, or transportation and water conservancy, or public security and judicial affairs.

In this way, several political envoys, chief envoys, and governors add up to about seven or eight people to form the highest administrative leadership of a province, which is in charge of many administrative affairs in the province.

It is worth noting that the Provincial Procuratorate, the Provincial Court of Justice, and the Provincial Taxation Department are independent institutions and have nothing to do with the governor's office...they are not under the governor's management.

The main reason is that apart from public prosecution, the main job of the Procuratorate is to supervise all officials, and it is engaged in anti-corruption... Not to mention the trial court, which also needs a high degree of independence in adjudicating cases, so these two judicial institutions are under the jurisdiction of the higher-level institutions .

Not to mention the tax department, the minister of the tax department is the Minister of Counseling... Even the left servant of the tax department is the co-organizer.

The taxation departments in various places are also very high-ranking, and the directors of the taxation departments in all provinces are all third-rank... just a little worse than the governor.

And the deans of the procuratorates and the deans of the courts of the provinces are also of the third grade.

For a whole province, the governor is the largest, from the second rank, and then the chief envoy and the heads of the four independent agencies, all of them are the third rank, and then four or five participate in politics, from the third rank.

Then came the heads of various departments under the governor's yamen, the prefects of various prefectures, and the fourth grade.

The above-mentioned officials of the fourth rank and above constituted the main senior officials of the provinces under the rule of the Great Chu Empire.

As for the generals in the provinces other than civil officials, this has nothing to do with civil officials, because the governor of the Great Chu Empire has no military jurisdiction.

The military has set up its own garrison headquarters in each province, which is responsible for recruiting troops and building a harmonious relationship between the military and the people. It is also responsible for governing the local garrison or the second-line regular army stationed in the local area for a long time, and is responsible for suppressing the local area.

The second-line regular army stationed in this place for a long time is actually reorganized from the garrison.

The Great Chu Empire Army has been continuously restructuring the garrison.

After all, the garrison is a special product of a special era. At the beginning, this thing was developed to better manage a large number of surrendered troops, rather than really expecting them to fight... Well, even if the garrison did play a good role in the war later It has a small effect, but compared with the large amount of money and food that the Great Chu Empire invested in them, the sex price is too low.

Neither Luo Zhixue nor the top army officials thought about allowing the garrison commander to exist for a long time.

Therefore, the garrison in the Great Chu Empire has always been in a dynamic state of change.

Constantly accept surrendered troops to set up new garrison troops, and at the same time continue to eliminate and reorganize.

(End of this chapter)