Steel Dynasty - Chapter 1042

[Chapter 1033 Administrative District]

In the Imperial Study Room, the Ninth Assistant Minister of the Cabinet stood behind Xiao Ming and looked at Xiao Ming who was dividing the administrative districts on the empire map.

After the Tubo envoys handed over their credentials and left, they were called to the Imperial Study Room by Xiao Ming to formally begin preparations for the new administrative region.

In fact, they were already formulating the corresponding administrative areas before the Tubo War started, and now after Xiao Ming’s final decision, they have finally finalized it.

“This time the Tibetan envoys came, why did the emperor designate it as an autonomous region? Aren’t you worried about Tubo rebellion in the future?” Fiji was suspicious when he received the Tibetan envoys, and now he finally couldn’t help but speak out.

Pointing his fingers on the Tubo Plateau, Xiao Ming said: “Autonomy is just to appease the Tubo people. It is easy to make the Tubo people surrender, but it is very difficult to manage them. Therefore, instead of sending officials from the empire, it is better for the imperial court to directly select officials from the Tubo people to take charge of management. , and then asked these officials to come to Qingzhou Government Affairs College to study regularly, so as to slowly assimilate the Tubo people. “

Clearing his throat, he continued: “And the Tubo military power has been lifted, and the imperial army is stationed, so they can’t lift it. What’s going on?”

Fiji and the others nodded when they heard this, and Pang Yukun said: “Ruling a big country is like cooking small dishes. Some things cannot be rushed. Now that Tubo has been integrated into the empire, we must not overdo it and let it repeat.

” After hearing about the governance of Tubo, Xiao Ming turned around and said: “All the administrative areas are above. Take a closer look.”

According to his idea, the current administrative area divisions of the empire are somewhat similar to the contemporary Ming Dynasty administrative areas. Similar, but not the same.

Roughly speaking, he divided the empire into two direct provinces and eighteen ordinary provinces. These two direct provinces were the Southern Direct Province and the Northern Direct Province. The Northern Direct Province included contemporary Beijing, Tianjin, and most of Hebei Province. and Henan Province, and small parts of Shandong Province.

The southern direct province includes the contemporary Jiangsu Province, Anhui and Shanghai, two provinces and one city. These two provinces are directly under the jurisdiction of the capital.

In addition, other provincial units include Shaanxi Province, Shanxi Province, Shandong Province, Henan Province, Zhejiang Province, Jiangxi Province, Huguang Province, Sichuan Province, Guangdong Province, and Fujian Province, Guangxi Province, Guizhou Province, Yunnan Province, Ryukyu Province, Koryo Province, Kantung Province, Kansai Province and the newly annexed Tubo Province.

As for Australia, which had just been conquered, he was not in a hurry to compile it into the list of imperial provinces, because the empire’s sphere of influence was now expanding, and it would not be too late to compile it after the dust settled.

Looking at the divisions of provinces on the map, the ministers took the booklets and wrote them down one by one.

Sitting on a chair and drinking tea leisurely, Xiao Ming continued: “Each province has one provincial capital, Shangzhou, Zhongzhou, and Xiazhou. You can discuss the details yourself. I will not participate.”

This time Xiao Ming There is no plan to change the state into a city. The division of Shangzhou, Zhongzhou and Xiazhou in the Great Chongqing Kingdom has been followed. Shangzhou is equivalent to the provincial capital, Zhongzhou is equivalent to a prefecture-level city, and Xiazhou is equivalent to an ordinary city.

The top chief executive of each state is still called the governor. The difference is that after refining the government affairs, in addition to the chief governor, each state also has six deputy governors. These six deputy governors manage different aspects of a state, similar to Xiao Liubu.

The government management of provinces is somewhat similar to that of states. The highest official is the inspector, and there are six deputy inspectors under him, who are in charge of different government affairs.

In addition to government affairs, both provinces and prefectures and counties have supervisory bureaus. The state supervisory bureaus are directly subordinate to the provincial supervisory bureaus, and so on.

“Yes, Your Majesty.”

The nine assistant ministers said at the same time. This change in government affairs is not unimpressive. After the reform, the government affairs of the empire will take on a completely new look.

However, they also understand that after this reform, the empire’s government affairs will be more systematic and formalized in the future. After all, with the development of the empire, government affairs have become more and more complex with the increase of industries. In the past, the time when the governor could do everything by himself. Gone and never returned.

After all, limited to their own knowledge, many governors know nothing about certain things, and this also means that more and more students graduating from the academy will enter the government affairs system.

After explaining the matter of government reform, Xiao Ming suddenly felt relaxed. Military reform and political reform were two big mountains that had been weighing on him.

After all, the empire is developing too fast. In order to adapt to this change, he has been constantly adjusting government affairs and the army in recent years. This kind of reform is very troublesome.

But unlike previous military reforms and political reforms, after this reform he will be able to do it once and for all. After all, these two items are infinitely close to contemporary times.

Even if the empire develops rapidly in the future, it will only need fine-tuning, not major changes.

Therefore, from now on, he can focus on external affairs and government affairs can be operated according to the mechanism he promulgated.

After the ministers finished copying the map and left, he and Qian Dafu began to study the map again. At this time, he pointed his finger at the island group on the south side of Australia, “This place is called New Guinea, and there is a huge copper island on it. Mine.”

Qian Dafu’s eyes turned into lines with laughter. As a person with great influence on the Minerals Department, Qian Dafu was very sensitive to minerals. He was extremely happy every time he heard about a new mining area.

“In that case, let the Minerals Department go look for it.” Qian Dafu couldn’t wait. After all, the empire is now short of copper. With the development of the machinery industry, there is a huge demand for copper in all walks of life.

Half a month later, Lei Ming, who was stationed in Australia, received an order from Xiao Ming. The order asked him to send a small team to escort the accompanying members of the Minerals Department to the island of New Guinea. According to their understanding, there were people on the island. Many local aborigines.

At the same time, along with this order was a request for him to attack the British colonies in Indonesia.

Although most of Indonesia belongs to the Netherlands, due to the British dominance in recent years, a piece of it was still captured by the British.

“Hey, the order finally came, and now I have work to do again.” Shi Yanjun was in a good mood, and the battle report sent by Lei Ming had long been replied to.

In terms of rewards for meritorious service, the generals and soldiers who made meritorious service this time were all allocated corresponding manors and fields in Wales.

Now he and Lei Ming are in their own manor. This manor used to belong to a British nobleman. After the nobleman ran away, no one took care of it.

So he spent another thousand dragon coins to buy a hundred Welsh slaves and asked these slaves to manage the manor for him.

Lei Ming now also likes this independent continent on the ocean, so after Shi Yanjun used merit points and dragon coins to purchase a manor, he spent a sum of money to buy a ranch. As a Youzhou native, he has always wanted to have his own ranch.

Now that he finally got his wish, he thought that when he was on vacation in the future, he could ride horses and herd sheep here and live a leisurely life, but before that, he probably still had many battles to fight.

(End of chapter)