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Volume 1: Fierce Battle in Changsha Chapter 299: The System of Counties

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    In addition to the two prime ministers, the six departments and the thirty-six divisions under the jurisdiction of the six departments, the Xiwang Mansion also has four special yamen and departments that are directly under the jurisdiction of the Queen of the West.  One is the imperial edict office that Hong Yun'er has been in charge of for a long time, the other is the women's office, the public relations department, and the third is the medical department.

    The imperial edict office is responsible for the issuance of various laws, documents and official books of the West Palace, as well as the publication and review of various private books, which is an important measure for the West Palace to control public opinion.  Because Hong Yun'er liked books very much, the imperial edict office was temporarily led by Hong Yun'er himself, assisted by talented women such as Fu Shanxiang and Li Xuanji.

    The Women's Office is in charge of women's affairs such as the West Hall Women's Camp and the Women's Hall, and is also managed by Hong Yun'er with Fu Shanxiang, Li Xuanji, Yang Dongqing and other women.

    The Publicity Department is headed by Wang Libin, who holds the same position. He is responsible for running newspapers, controlling public opinion, and also responsible for various propaganda matters.

    The last Medical Department was headed by Yao Yuan, who was responsible for various medical services, medical clinics and military medical affairs in Sufu Province.

    There are two other departments that are also directly managed by King Xi. One is the newly established Intelligence Department, which is headed by Qian Jiang and inspected by colleagues; the other is Bai Zetang of Tong Qiangsheng.  The Intelligence Department is the official intelligence agency of the West Palace. In addition to being responsible for gathering intelligence and collecting private information, it is also responsible for secretly supervising officials. Their duties are different from those of the Supervision Department of the Ministry of Justice. They are only responsible for collecting intelligence on officials and  There is no right to break or take people.  Bai Zetang, on the other hand, is like the West Palace secret police force. In addition to spying on intelligence, they also engage in some shady activities, such as assassinations, spreading rumors, etc.  Because these two departments are extremely important, Xiao Yungui is also directly in charge of them.

    Because the generals in the West Palace were too focused on military affairs, there were too many military attaches, but too few civil servants. Therefore, many of the ministers in the Six Departments were served by generals who had transferred from military positions.  The six ministers are all held by scribes.

    Zuo Zongtang is the left prime minister of the West Palace and also serves as the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs.  Hua Hengfang was appointed as the Minister of Rites and was also responsible for preparing for the West Academy of Sciences. Originally, Xiao Yungui preferred Li Shanlan as the Minister of Rites, but the old man concentrated on studying academics and had no intention of becoming an official, so he had to give up. In the end, Li Shanlan agreed to help open the West Academy.  He would be the principal of a new school or university.  Li Kaifang was transferred to the position of Minister of the Ministry of War, and also had jurisdiction over the soldiers and horses in Suzhou District, which meant that he was the commander of the Suzhou garrison.

    Ji Wenyuan was appointed Minister of the Ministry of Punishment.  Ji Wenyuan was fair and selfless in his dealings. Although he had a military background, he handled cases in the army without any objections, so it was appropriate for him to be the Minister of the Ministry of Justice.  It's just that his idea of ????judging criminal cases still stays on the old feudal criminal case thinking, which emphasizes severe punishment.  Although his thinking is somewhat different from Xiao Yungui's.  However, Zuo Zongtang stated that these were troubled times, and heavy codes were used in times of trouble. Ji Wenyuan's harshness was just right for him. Finally, Xiao Yungui appointed Ji Wenyuan as the official.

    Although there are several departments in the Ministry of Industry that have not yet been appointed as ministers, they are considered empty-handed, but the minister of the Ministry of Industry is appointed by Xu Shou.  Xiao Yungui also gave Xu Shou special privileges. As long as they were engineering talents that Xu Shou found, the West Palace could employ them under special circumstances.  Historically, Xu Shou helped the Qing government run the Anqing Ordnance Institute, Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, etc., which were very successful. In addition, Xu Shou was a rare engineering talent.  He did not have the prejudice of other rotten scholars who regarded foreign science as a fancy and obscene technique, so it was a good choice for him to serve as Minister of the Ministry of Industry in the West Palace.

    As for the Secretary of the Ministry of Personnel, Li Shourong was appointed. Xiao Yungui, the official in Wuxi, planned to let someone else take over. Li Shourong joined Wang Kaiyun, Zuo Zongtang and others under his own account. After experiencing the Battle of Nanjing and the Eastern Expedition, he was also regarded as the West Palace.  He is an old man, and his talents and learning are not inferior to those of Wang Kaiyun, so it is suitable for him to serve as Minister of the Ministry of Personnel.

    The central structure of the West Hall has been erected, and the rest is the local government structure.  To govern a party well, the establishment of local political power is very important.  After the founding of the Taiping Rebellion, the Qing court's administrative division system of "province, prefecture, road, and county" was changed to a three-level system of "province, county, and county", that is, the "road" was canceled and "prefecture" was changed to "county".

    After discussion between Xiao Yungui and Zuo Zongtang, they redefined the local administrative divisions of Sufu Province. After the change, Suzhou, the capital of Sufu Province, consisted of 10 counties and 70 counties.  Suzhou County governs Suzhou, and governs the same city as Changzhou Tianxian, Wuxian, and Yuanhe counties. It governs 10 counties: Changzhou Tianxian (reformed from Changzhou County in the Qing Dynasty), Wuxian, Yuanhe, and Changshu (the same city as Zhaowen County  ), Zhaowen, Kunshan (renamed from Kunshan County in the Qing Dynasty), Xinyang, Wujiang, Zhenze, and Dongshan.

    Changzhou County (referred to as Changzhou Prefecture in the Qing Dynasty) governs Wujin and Yanghu, and governs 5 counties: Wujin, Yanghu (the two counties govern Changzhou City together), Fuxi (changed from Wuxi to Fuxi in the Qing Dynasty), and Jingui (the two counties govern the same city)  Wuxi City), Yixing, Jingxi (the two counties govern Yixing City), and Jiangyin County.

    Taixuan County (renamed Taixuan County from Taicang Zhili Prefecture in the Qing Dynasty) governs Shanghai County.  It leads 5 counties: Shanghai, Zhenyang, Jiading, Baoshan (the same applies to Jinshan after Baoshan was changed), and Chongming.

    Songjiang County (referred to as Songjiang Prefecture in the Qing Dynasty) governs Huating and Lou counties.  Ling 7 counties: Huating, Lou County, Jingpu (reformed from Qingpu County in the Qing Dynasty), Fengxian County??Nanhui, Chuansha, Jinshan.

    Hangzhou County governs Qiantang and Renhe counties, and covers 9 counties: Haining, Qiantang, Renhe, Fuyang, Yuhang, Xincheng, Lin'an, Yuqian, and Changhua.

    Jiaxing County governs Jiaxing and Xiushui counties.  Counties: Jiaxing, Xiushui (changed from Qingxiushui County), Jiashan, Haiyan, Shimen, Pinghu, Tongxiang.

    Huzhou County is governed by Gui'an County.  Counties: Gui'an, Wucheng, Changxing, Deqing, Wukang, Anji, Xiaofeng.

    Yanzhou County governs Jiande County and covers 6 counties: Jiande, Shouchang, Tonglu, Fenshui, Chun'an, and Sui'an.

    Shaoxing County governs Shanyin and Kuaiji counties.  Counties: Shanyin (changed from Yin County in Qing Dynasty), Kuaiji, Juishan (changed from Xiaoshan County), Zhuji, Shangyu (changed from Shangyu County in Qing Dynasty), Sheng County, Yuyao, Xinchang.

    Ningbo County governs Qin County and covers 6 counties: Qin County, Yixian, Fenghua, Zhenhai, Xiangshan, and Dinghai.

    Today's Sufu Province is much larger than the Sufu Province established after Li Xiucheng's Eastern Expedition in later history. Therefore, the newly established Sufu Province has 10 counties and 70 counties.  Each county has a county magistrate's office to govern the local area, and each county has a county magistrate. Then to the townships and villages, they are organized according to the township official system (see the previous article for details).  In addition, police stations are set up in local counties and counties to be responsible for local security. Township military stations are set up in rural areas to be responsible for local security. Those with formal troops stationed in the area are not subject to local control, but are directly controlled by the Ministry of War and the Western Prince's Mansion.

    ?????????? The appointment of county governors in various places is mostly done by local figures. For example, the county governor of Suzhou County was appointed by Xu Naizhao, who had been demoted to Taiping.  It's just that Xu Naizhao was originally the acting governor of Jiangsu, but now he has become the county governor of Suzhou. It's like he was demoted, from governor to mayor.  However, Xu Naizhao has no complaints, because his family in Qiantang has been saved, because he has surrendered to Taiping. If he does not do his best for Taiping and the Manchus come back, you can imagine his fate of being demoted.  That would be enough if Manchu officials like Xu Naizhao did not surrender.  Once surrendered, he went crazy to overthrow the Manchu Qing Dynasty, sometimes even more vicious than Lao Changmao.  Appointment and demotion are one category, because these people are familiar with local government affairs and can get started faster.  Moreover, Xiao Yungui also had the intention of buying horse bones with a thousand pieces of gold.  Among the county guards and county magistrates in ten counties and seventy counties, this type of people accounted for 30%.

    The second type of local figure is the local figurehead.  For example, He Wenqing, who served as the governor of Shaoxing County, and Huang Chunsheng of Ningbo County.  He Wenqing and Huang Chunsheng were both rebels who helped the Taiping Army conquer local areas. In addition to their great achievements in helping the Taiping Army, they were actually powerful people in the past. Huang Chunsheng's family was a wealthy landowner.  This kind of people also account for 30% of the county guards and county magistrates in ten counties and seventy counties.

    What is left is the third situation, and the third type of people are my old brothers in the Taiping Army.  For example, Zhu Xineng resigned from the military and became the governor of Hangzhou County.  Wang Kaiyun's appointment as the governor of Taiyi County and the director of the Administrative Department of Shanghai was a special case because Shanghai's status was so special.  Shanghai is directly facing the very complicated foreign affairs, and people like Wang Kaiyun must be in charge.  Although the governor of Ningbo County was Huang Chunsheng, Xiao Yungui, the director of Ningbo Military and Political Department, appointed Liu Lichuan who was rescued from Xiamen. Liu Lichuan was also quite capable in governing Shanghai after he occupied Shanghai in later history.  Even foreigners admit that during the period when the Little Knife Society occupied Shanghai, all businesses were still prosperous and public security was excellent.

    Xiao Yungui had no choice but to allocate official positions in this way. The Manchu government in southern Jiangsu, Ningbo and other places had been completely destroyed. The Taiping Army naturally had to start from scratch if they wanted to establish their own local government. And a large number of people in the West Palace were very good at fighting.  But the governance of the local area is really not much better than those corrupt officials in the Manchu Qing Dynasty.  In Xiao Yungui's words, he lacked local cadres. Think about it. When Taizu conquered the world in later generations, he did not occupy such a large territory at once, especially when he established anti-Japanese base areas during the Anti-Japanese War.  , there is still a lack of local cadres in various base areas, and many cadres have transferred from the army.

    In view of the lack of talents, Xiao Yungui, Zuo Zongtang, Hong Yun'er and others agreed to start the imperial examination of the West Palace in southern Jiangsu as soon as possible. The Ministry of Civil Affairs will launch a short-term civil servant training course. I believe that both parties will start together. In half a year,  Only then will the phenomenon of lack of civilian cadres be reversed.

    It¡¯s not that there are no scholars who come to seek refuge, but the number of scholars who come to seek refuge is too few compared to the talent needs of the huge central and local governments in the West Palace.  Moreover, the talents and learning of the scholars who came to seek refuge varied widely, and there were even some who were driven crazy by reading eight-legged essays. Such people would not dare to use it.  In fact, more scholars are still waiting and watching. In fact, there are many scholars in southern Jiangsu, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but they are still wary of the new imperial court of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. At the same time, they are also afraid that the Manchus will counterattack and if they stay in official positions for too long.  Mao, one can imagine the fate of the entire family.

    Therefore, Xiao Yungui knew that this kind of thing must take time. The purpose of opening the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's own imperial examination was to tell the scholars all over the world that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had been established, so that scholars could continue to have a way to become officials.

    And?Before starting the imperial examination, both the central government of Suzhou Xiwangfu and the counties and counties must first put their government functions into operation. Restoring local reconstruction and public security is the most important matter at the moment.  If any official does not perform well, the Ministry of Personnel can also replace the official after annual assessment.

    Officials at all levels in the West Palace are not only entitled to money and food for their duties, but also have fictitious titles such as inspection and command, and even a salary to the prime minister. Those who are granted the title of Prime Minister can also receive the title of Prime Minister.  Salary.  Xiao Yungui offered a high salary to maintain integrity as soon as he came up, and he also made it clear that the West Palace wanted to clean up the officials. In addition to punishing corrupt officials, the West Palace's methods were very harsh. In Xiao Yungui's eyes, greed for one tael of silver is the same as greed for one thousand taels.  Ten thousand taels makes no difference. Once you are greedy, you will end up lighting sky lanterns. This is the only place where Xiao Yungui did not change the laws of Tianjing.

    So, at the West Palace New Year Meeting held in the main hall of the West Palace, the first thing was to announce the transfer, appointment and dismissal of various official positions.  Before the incident, Xiao Yungui, Zuo Zongtang, Hong Yun'er and others had communicated with the parties involved in advance, and many of them had talked individually, so there was not much of a stir after the appointment was announced.  The next day was the policy negotiation, and from the very beginning, the policy discussion on the New Deal entered a heated dispute.  (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature. The novels will be better and updated faster!
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