MTL - Chastity Layman-Chapter 1457 province

  Chapter 1457 Provinces

  As early as the Zhenguan period, the Xichang Road was established to the west of Dajinchuan, bringing this remote mountainous area including the 48 Qiang tribes of Xishan Ruoshui into the direct control of the Tang Dynasty.

  Set up prefectures and counties, and garrison troops.

With Xining Prefecture (Xichang, Liangshan) as the head city, Huiye Prefecture (Kangding), Danba (Xijialiang Prefecture), Daowu Prefecture (Daofu), Jianchuan City (Jianchuan), and Yubi City (Deqin) were established. ), Jianxun (Weixi), Iron Bridge, Moutong City (Heqing), Songwai City (Yanbian), Huichuan (Huili), Baosai (Mianning) Zhuzhou counties, castles, post stations, etc.

  However, after the establishment of Xichang Road at the beginning of the year, the Western Qiang tribes headed by Dongnu, Xishan Eight Kingdoms, etc. were actually still dominated by Jimi rule. Even if Taoism was established later, it also gave those Western Qiang a lot of autonomy.

  After all, the area to the west of Dajinsha River and Daxue Mountain is really not a good place. It is located in a remote place, with inconvenient transportation and sparsely populated.

  It's just that since it is a remote and barbaric land, the leaders of the Xiqiang tribe inevitably have a limited structure. Often some chiefs are short-sighted, and even easy to expand and rebellious.

Over the past few decades, although the imperial court has unswervingly strengthened its control over Xichang Road, built roads, increased post stations, even immigrated, and developed local mines, etc., but limited by the conditions here, the development is still relatively slow .

  As a result, tributes and taxes were often plundered, tribes merged with each other, vendettas were killed, and things openly confronted the court.

Xiqiang used to be known as the forty-eight tribes, but in fact it was just a general term. In fact, there are countless tribes, large and small, and they have always been scattered. This one occupies a river valley, and that one occupies several mountains and rivers. Anyway, it is to be at ease in the mountains.

  Generally, when their tribes vendetta, plunder and annex each other, the officials and garrison of Xichang Road will also mediate. But sometimes these people will boldly rob business routes, even impress the mines opened by the Central Plains businessmen in the past, and plunder the settlements of immigrants, etc. This is a violation of the red line.

The great rebellion that spread throughout the Kham-Tibet Plateau in the past two years was actually caused by the fact that after the imperial court took control of the Dianyue and Lishui areas in the south of the mountain, it also formed a strategic encirclement of this plateau. After that, of course, there will be more motivation to open up the plateau and the mainland.

Therefore, the start of a new round of land reform has also led to an increase in the mining value of many mineral resources in the region. A large number of merchants have poured in, and even the imperial court's garrison is increasing. The imperial court has implemented a higher standard of officials. The autonomy of the chieftains has been weakened, and the tolerance for their past chaos is even lower.

  As a result, large-scale bandit suppression operations appeared in various places. In fact, they were beating those natives, and at the same time robbing some important resources and minerals.

The reason why Jiannan Yunnan and Qinghai Longyou were not involved is that the imperial courts in those places have stronger control, and the Kangzang area has been in a semi-restricted state before, and their interests are the most touched, so they responded most intense.

   It's just that it's not the Zhenguan Dynasty after all. The imperial court has even won Lishui and Dianyue for decades, and will allow these barbarians on the Kangzang Plateau to make trouble. Of course, it is not polite to send troops. Because Jie Shuai of Xichang Town just died of illness at that time, the Xichang Army had no leader for a while, and the Xichang Army was weak in both number and strength in the border town, so the performance in the initial counter-insurgency was not very good, which provoked Qin Yandao of Dianyue Dao Directly allied with Wu Shide from Lishui Road, and Cheng Boxian from Sanjiang Town, they sent troops together, and quickly joined forces to put down the rebellion, killing a lot of people.

  Afterwards, the imperial court transferred Guo Daifeng from Anxi to be the commander-in-chief of Xichang.

Guo Daifeng is a ruthless man, he came and killed a bunch of people, and then wrote to the court, saying that the previous reform of the native land was not thorough enough, and the autonomy given to the natives was too great, so it must be taken back, and the land should be fully reformed, Xichang The soldiers of the town are willing to provide military support for the imperial court to deepen the reform of the land and return it to the people.

  Guo Daifeng even proposed a three-pronged approach to Ping-Tibet.

   Zichen Hall.

  The joint meeting of the Eastern and Western Governments discussed the state affairs together. The Grand Scholars of the Imperial Academy of Internal Affairs, the fortune-telling envoys, and the royal doctor were also present, and the eunuchs and eunuchs of the emperor's inner court were also present.

  The envoys of Xuanhui Yuan, the envoys of Privy Council, the envoys of Imperial Academy, the envoys of Zhengshitang and other eunuchs are honored as eunuchs.

  The second supervisor was the first to use scholars and civil officials as the chief, and they were called supervisors, or chief supervisors, eunuchs. Later, it was gradually dedicated to eunuchs, also called eunuchs, and now it has become a respectful name for the top group of eunuchs.

The right servant shot Qin Xiaozhong was reporting to the emperor Guo Daifeng's three strategies for Pingzang. In fact, it is a cliché. Xichang, together with Subi, Tubo, Xiangxiong, and even Nibhara, who were formerly vassals of the imperial court, wanted to directly change their lands and return them to Liu.

  Guo Daifeng insisted that these four domains should also be included in Xichang Road.

The last strategy is to strengthen the development of the plateau. First, build several roads that connect the entire plateau, and connect Jiannan, Yunnan, Lishui, Dianyue, and Anxi, Xindu, Qinghai, and Longyou. Promote education, develop industries, and increase the development of local resources and minerals.

  The vigorous development of mineral resources can also drive local economic taxation, and even the local people, and can also introduce more population to the past, which helps to strengthen control.

"The four domains of Subi, Tubo, Zhangxiong, and Nipura were all included in Xichang, and all the land was converted to the local people. Then the Xichang Road is too big. It has six or seven thousand miles from east to west, and two thousand miles from north to south. It is too big. , can’t control it at all.”

   Wei Yuanzhong, who had just joined the political affairs hall as the Minister of Zhongshu, raised an objection. He had served as the governor of Xining Prefecture in his early years, and he was regarded as an official from Xichang Dao.

   I know the area very well, quite well.

Although the administrative divisions at the Dao level have been stabilized since the Zhenguan Dynasty, and later the Economic and Strategy Commissioner, the Observation Commissioner, the Changping Commissioner, and the Criminal Commissioner were established permanently, in charge of military, government, finance, and law, but at the Dao level. , the four divisions are parallel organizations, and even the four divisions of many provinces are not located in the same city.

   Each is often stationed in one city, and some Dao even have four divisions stationed in four cities, so Dao does not have a formal Dao city in the strict sense.

Later, the imperial court officially abolished the inland Dudufu system, and the large Dudufu was changed to be a prefecture, such as Bingzhoufu, Yangzhoufu, Guangzhoufu, Yizhoufu, etc. These former Dadufufu, which were upgraded to Fufu, governed the land. Many military powers have been cut off, and even most of the power to control surrounding states has been cut off.

  Fu is just a division higher than the state, but it still belongs to the Tao.

Dao is still only an incomplete administrative level. There has never been a chief official such as Fu Yin and state governor. The main reason is that the Dao level has too much jurisdiction. The permanent chief officer commands all the prefectures in the entire Dao, and the four divisions at the yamen level, the power is astonishingly great.

  The court even had to consider whether it would get out of control.

  After all, there are four divisions in Taoism now, but after all, these four divisions are in charge of one piece, and they belong to the dispatched agencies of the Central Committee of the imperial court.

   This is also an important reason why the imperial court later changed the governor to Jiedushi in the border areas. The border areas are far away from the center of the imperial court, and the situation is more complicated, requiring more unified powers.

Therefore, Jiedushi was established, which is equivalent to a military region, and has great power in the military. Even in recent years, Jiedushi has been gradually allowed to serve as observation envoys, Changping envoys, and criminal envoys, etc., in order to unify powers. With more efficient and rapid self-governing frontier affairs, avoid asking the central government for everything, delaying opportunities and inefficiency.

  But the imperial court did not dare to do this in the mainland.

  Xichang is not counted as the mainland, and Jiedushi was also set up, but if the four vassals are included in Xichang, then even if the Jiedushi has one person and four envoys, it will not be able to control it.

"Your Majesty, I have recently thought about the administrative divisions of the Kingdom, from the Xingtai established during the Wude Dynasty, to the General Manager's Mansion, and then to the Governor's Mansion, and then to the establishment of Taoism, the establishment of four divisions, and even the establishment of Jiedushi. It is always changing and adjusting, and the purpose is nothing more than to be more suitable for the current situation and better manage the place for the emperor."

  Qin Xiaozhong took out a memorial and began to offer advice.

  He suggested that in the border areas that are not in the heart of the mainland, the Xingtai system should be restored.

The Xingtai system of the Wude Dynasty, also known as the Xingshangshutai system, was not created by the Tang Dynasty, but a system that emerged during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties. power.

  The chief of Xingshangshutai is also called Shangshu Ling, or Xingtai Shangshu left and right servants. Generally, Daxingtai also has six Xingtai Shangshu, and general Xingtai has two or three Xingtai Shangshu.

The imperial court sends prime ministers, generals, princes, etc. out of the town, usually during wartime or special periods such as local rebellion, such an organization is temporarily set up, a minister is sent to sit in town, and he is given high enough authority to further Quickly handle affairs.

  After the peace, it is often abolished.

At that time, Li Shimin had served as the secretary of the Daxingtai of Eastern Shaanxi Province, and the entire Central Plains to the east of Tongguan was under the control of Li Shimin, the secretary of the Xingtai. The highest representative of the Chang'an court in the Tang Dynasty in eastern Shaanxi.

  However, the Xingtai in the early Tang Dynasty was quickly abolished, and then came the general manager's mansion and the governor's mansion with weaker power.

   Now Qin Xiaozhong proposes to set up Xingtai in some areas, because the center of the imperial court is under Zhongshumen, so Xingtai should be called Xingzhongshumenxia Province, referred to as Xingsheng.

  For example, in Xichang Road, the current situation is special. Xichang Province can be established, and the imperial court will send a prime minister from the central center, or select a senior minister, and add the title of Zhongshu Shilang or Menxia Shilang as the Xingtai Chief.

  There can be two high-ranking officials, such as Provincial Zhongshuling and Provincial Attendant. Of course, if you feel that this is easy to confuse with the central chief, you can also change the name, which is also very simple.

  However, when a province is established, its authority will be very high. It belongs to the dispatched agency under the Zhongshumen and is a branch of the Zhengshitang, but it can be permanent, so there is no need to dispatch people from the center like Xingtai in the early Tang Dynasty.

   Instead, select officials of sufficient rank and ability to form provincial yamen, and the fourth department at the provincial level has also become a subordinate institution of the province, such as the Liucao under the governor of the state.

The governor of this province, whether he is called the governor or Xingtaizhong Shuling, is different from the temporary official positions such as Xuanfu envoy, Xuan comfort envoy, and appeasement envoy established before. He is the official chief official of a province. The provinces under its command will also replace the Tao and become a sound first-level administrative division.

  In one place, the provincial yamen is like a small political hall, and its power concentration and strength are unprecedented.

  As soon as Qin Xiaozhong's provincial system came out, the hall was silent for a while.

  (end of this chapter)