In late October of the third year of Chengshun, the Dachu Empire held an imperial council meeting. This meeting was mainly to further improve the provinces and districts under the rule of the Dachu Empire.
In the early days, the Great Chu Empire only governed Chubei, and no provinces were established at that time. After occupying Chunan, the Great Chu Empire gradually established provinces.
From the initial Chuxingbei Province, Chunan Province, to Jiangxi Province, Anlu Province, to Jiangnan Province, Zhejiang Province, Fujian Province, Guangdong Province, and Guangxi Province, in addition to these In addition to the provinces under actual control, the Chu Empire also established provinces that were not yet fully controlled.
That is, Sichuan Province, Guizhou Province, Henan Province, Shaanxi Province, and Jiangbei Province. These four provinces are all places where the Chu Empire controlled a few places. For example, Sichuan Province only controlled Kui. There are only a few counties in the eastern part of the state capital.
Guizhou Province only controls Tongren Prefecture in the northeastern part of Guizhou.
Shaanxi Province only controls part of the eastern area of Hanzhong Prefecture and several counties in the southeastern area of Xi'an Prefecture.
The same goes 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, namely Zuo Liangyu.
Jiangbei Province only has a few towns east of Yangzhou.
The reason for establishing provinces in these areas where actual control has not yet been completed is purely for the convenience of follow-up work.
By setting up governors, chief envoys and other agencies first, they can first explore various local situations, collect intelligence, recruit personnel, etc., and then wait for the army to kill them, and then directly take over local rule.
This time, the imperial council meeting further clarified the jurisdiction of each province, especially the division between Anlu Province, Jiangnan Province, Jiangbei Province, and Yingtian Prefecture in the capital.
Anlu Province was born out of the Anlu governorship area that was just established by the Ming Dynasty. However, it does not govern areas such as Henan, Jiangxi, Huguang, etc. It only includes the original areas of Southern Zhili, namely Chizhou Prefecture and Huizhou. Fu, Ningguo, Guangzhou, Anqing, Luzhou, this is a large province spanning the north and south sides of the Yangtze River, and there are many good places in it that are a land of plenty, but there are also many poor places.
Jiangnan Province governs Zhenjiang Prefecture, Changzhou Prefecture, Suzhou Prefecture, and Songjiang Prefecture. Although it seems that there are only four prefectures, it is actually the most densely populated and most concentrated of money and food among all the control areas of the Chu Empire. The area with the largest tax contribution.
Jiangbei Province includes Yangzhou Prefecture, Huai'an Prefecture, Xuzhou Prefecture, and Fengyang Prefecture. If nothing unexpected happens, Fengyang Prefecture, which is too large in the area, will be split into several prefectures. Although this place is large, , but because of the Huaihe River and the Yellow River, there were many disasters, and the agricultural conditions were very average. However, with the support of the salt industry in Xuhuai Yangzhou, although there was not much food, there was a lot of money.
Yangzhou, Huai'an and Qingjiangpu are both famous and prosperous places.
And this is why Luo Zhixue brought Fengyang Prefecture, Huai'an Prefecture, Yangzhou Prefecture, and Xuzhou into one province. It was for balance, so that there must be rich places and poor places to support each other's development.
Finally, there is Yingtian Mansion, the capital. After the Great Chu Empire captured Yingtian Mansion, it did not change the name of this place, because the name Yingtian Mansion was originally very suitable for the capital, and it was a name reserved for the capital of traditional Chinese dynasties.
Historically, after the East captives entered the Pass and occupied Shuntian Prefecture in Beizhili, they did not change the name of Shuntian Prefecture. Basically, the meaning was almost the same.
However, if it is not the capital or accompanying capital of the new dynasty, then it is generally not allowed to continue to use a mansion with a similar name. For example, after the Chu army captured Chengtian Mansion, they restored Chengtian Mansion to its original name of Anlu Mansion, because this Chengtian Mansion was The fiefdom of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty was why Anluzhou was promoted to Chengtian Mansion.
This obviously had nothing to do with the Chu Empire, so it was changed back to its original name of Anlu.
In the future, when the Great Chu Empire invades Shuntian Prefecture in Beizhili, it will be renamed because the Great Chu Empire is obviously unlikely to set up any capital here, and this is not the place where Luo Zhixue started.
Special words such as Shuntian, Chengtian and Yingtian cannot be used indiscriminately.
After the Great Chu Empire captured Yingtianfu, it continued to use the term Yingtianfu, with Yingtianfu as its capital. The jurisdiction of Yingtianfu under the Great Chu Empire was not much different from that of the Ming Dynasty, but except for Zhouzhou, Taipingfu, Hezhou was merged into it, which greatly expanded the scope of Yingtianfu's jurisdiction.
In fact, although it is still called Yingtian Mansion, it is more accurate to call it Yingtian Province or Zhili Province.
And this is also the Yin of the Yingtian Prefecture. The rank is not the third rank of the traditional Fu Yin, but the second rank, which is the same level as the governors of various provinces.
However, Xia Wenshu, Yin Xia Wenshu of the Yingtian Mansion of the Great Chu Empire, had just won the title of Prince's Young Master some time ago, and this title was the second grade.
Therefore, the administrative level of Yingtian Mansion is actually the same as that of Jiangnan Province, which belongs to the second-level official level. Although this second-level official rank is just a false title, it is still half a level higher than that of an ordinary province.
Generally speaking, he is placed below the minister and above the minister.
After this operation, the Great Chu Empire divided Southern Zhili during the Ming Dynasty into Zhili Yingtian Prefecture, Anlu Province, Jiangnan Province, and Jiangbei Province, that is, three provinces and one prefecture. This ensures local control while preventing a certain province from becoming too large.
After finalizing the provincial division of Southern Zhili, Luo Zhixue took precautions and first established a Shandong Province to prepare for the subsequent Northern Expedition. Of course, now there is not even a bit of Shandong Province's territory, so many institutions are fake , the governor of Shandong who has been finalized is also let the right minister of the Ministry of Agriculture serve concurrently... If he wants to formally take up the post of governor of Shandong, he will have to wait until the Northern Expedition goes smoothly next year and he goes to Shandong.
But even if it is a part-time job, there is finally someone who can carry out various preparations better and more conveniently, such as finalizing the personnel in each agency in advance, so that when the governor's office and the government offices of each state are officially established, they can be transferred as soon as possible Suitable personnel will be employed.
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 each province to participate in politics and discuss affairs.
The provincial institutions of the Dachu Empire were different from those of the Ming court. The top leader was a governor sent by the central government, with a rank of second rank. The chief envoy was the second leader, with a rank of third rank. Then there were the third rank. The right and left ministers participate in politics. The right and left ministers of the fourth rank are specifically responsible for many affairs.
Among them, the left-right political advisors and the left-right political advisors had unclear powers before. The political advisors who were in charge of many affairs were no less powerful than the chief envoys. However, some political advisors who were not responsible for actual affairs were not as powerful as even the prefect.
At the same time, the rank of the left and right councilors is too low, only the fourth rank, and no one can control it... Because the directors of the departments under the provincial governor's yamen are already the fourth rank... and the prefects of each prefecture are also the fourth rank. You, a fourth-grade counselor, cannot take charge of many affairs.
Since he can't take charge of affairs, it's not very reliable to have the name of assisting the governor in handling affairs.
But Luo Zhixue believes that it is a carrot and a pit. Since you have a rank, you must do something after receiving the salary and play a practical role.
In the end, Luo Zhixue made the decision to abolish the left-right consultation and the left-right political participation; to add a third-level "political participation", with four or five people in each province, under the governor and chief envoy, in charge of agriculture, mulberry grain storage, industry and commerce, or imperial examinations Education, transportation, water conservancy, or public security and justice.
In this way, several political envoys, governors, and governors, a total of about seven or eight people, form the highest administrative leadership body of a province, which oversees many administrative affairs throughout the province.
It is worth noting that the Provincial Supervisory Yuan, the Provincial Trial Court, 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 administration.
The main reason is that in addition to public prosecutions, the main job of the Supervisory Yuan is to supervise officials and engage in anti-corruption... Not to mention the Trial Court, those who try cases also need a high degree of independence, so these two judicial agencies belong to the superior agencies themselves. jurisdiction.
Not to mention the Taxation Department, where the Minister of Taxation is the Counseling Minister... even the Zuo Shilang of the Taxation Department is the co-organizing minister.
The taxation bureaus in various places are also very high-level. The directors of the taxation bureaus in each province are all of the third grade... which is a little worse than the governor.
The presidents of the Provincial Supervisory Yuan and the Judicial Court are also of the third grade.
In a whole province, the governor is the largest, starting from the second rank, followed by the chief envoy and the heads of the four independent agencies, all of which are the third rank, and then there are four or five political officers, starting from the third rank.
Next are the directors of various departments and prefects under the governor's yamen, who are in the fourth rank.
The above-mentioned officials with grades above four constituted the main senior officials in the provinces under the rule of the Chu Empire.
As for the generals in each province other than civilian officials, this has nothing to do with civilian officials, because the governors of the Chu Empire did not have military jurisdiction.
The military has set up its own garrison headquarters in each province, which is responsible for recruiting troops, building harmonious relations between the military and civilians, and other matters. It is also responsible for commanding the local garrison or the local second-line regular army that has been stationed in the local area for a long time, and is responsible for suppressing the local area.
This second-line regular army stationed in the place for a long time was actually reorganized from the garrison.
The Da Chu Empire Army has been continuously reorganizing its garrison.
After all, the garrison is a special product of a special era. It was originally created to better manage a large number of surrendered troops, rather than really expecting them to fight... Well, even if the garrison did perform well in the war later It was a small role, but compared with the large amount of money and food that the Chu Empire invested in them, the price was too low.
Neither Luo Zhixue nor the top army officials thought about letting the garrison exist for a long time.
Therefore, the garrison in the Da Chu Empire has always been in a state of dynamic change.
Continuously accepting surrendered troops and setting up new garrison forces, and at the same time, they continued to be eliminated and reorganized.
