Daqin: Assist Zulong at the beginning and become a public enemy

Chapter 503 Changing the Official System
Chapter 518: Changing the Official System
Before the civil and military officials could react, the moment all the soldiers stopped, the entire vicinity of Xianyang Palace Square instantly became a boiling sea.

Countless people chanted "Long live the Great Qin", "Long live Your Majesty" and "Long live the Prince" and prostrated themselves on the ground, weeping bitterly.

Great Qin established the country with martial arts, but today is the first time that everyone feels that if they don't shout out, they will explode.

Pride, emotion, and excitement can no longer describe the feelings in the hearts of the old Qin people who witnessed this scene in front of Xianyang Palace Square at this moment.

From a small country in the west to a unified state, then split, and then to its current rise, Qin State achieved a great cause by destroying Chu State. It can be said that the entire Qin State is like a roller coaster ride, which is hard to figure out.

As ordinary people, the only thing they can do at this moment is just shout, shouting over and over again.

At the same time that Ying Gang was conferred the crown prince, Ying Zheng also held a state funeral for Wei Liao to commemorate this minister who had made countless contributions to the state of Qin.

As soon as Ying became the prince, he immediately suggested to Ying Zheng that he should change his current official position.

As expected, such a big change was opposed by almost all the court officials, including Feng Quji and Dunwei.

Among the three lords and nine ministers, only Zongzheng Yingteng has not yet spoken.

Indeed, apart from Ying Teng who served as Zongzheng of Zongzheng Mansion and Sheriff of Neishi County, basically no one from the Ying clan could enter the Great Qin Dynasty Hall, let alone the counties below.

The official system implemented by the Great Qin Dynasty, the Sangong Jiuqing, is the topmost building.Below it is the county guard, county supervisor, and county lieutenant, and then the county magistrate.The county magistrate is also the lowest level in the Daqin official system.

In the prefecture and county system of Daqin, the prefect is a prefect.Most of the frontiers are military generals, and most of the interior are Lang Guan, with silver seals and green ribbons, and ranks of two thousand stones.In Daqin's current system, the power of the county guard is very strong. Except for the county magistrate who is directly appointed and dismissed by the imperial court, the supervisor who is responsible for supervising the county government, and the county lieutenant who is responsible for commanding the garrison and managing public security, all other officials in the county are controlled by the county. Shou self-appointment and removal.

Although it is said that the appointment of county magistrates and magistrates is in the imperial court, the selection of county magistrates occupies the vast majority of them.In other words, the imperial court often chooses who will be the county magistrate based on the recommendation of the county magistrate.

According to the current official system of Daqin, that is to say, all officials from the three gongs and nine officials to the county magistrates and county magistrates need to be appointed by the emperor himself before they can take office.

Originally, this was an act of the first emperor to strengthen the imperial power.After all, all power is under the control of the emperor, so that the first emperor can feel at ease.But today's Great Qin is no longer the original Guanzhong vassal state, the land is only a few counties, and the county government is no more than dozens or hundreds.

After the unification of the world, there were thirty or six counties under the jurisdiction of the Great Qin Dynasty. After a series of changes in the later period of the First Emperor, there were as many as 46 counties. Among these counties, the number of counties ranged from five or six counties to as many as ten Yu County; a small county is as little as one county, and as many as two or three counties.

The sum is not a small amount.

With so many county governments, how could the first emperor have the time to pay attention to how a small county magistrate was appointed?Who should be chosen for the job?
In addition, Yingzheng wanted to become immortal and live forever before, so he didn't have enough control over the county guard, let alone the county magistrate.

Therefore, in the final analysis, most of these county magistrates are actually elected by the county guards.

And how did the sheriff come here?

Although the county guard was also appointed by the Emperor of Qin, except for those selected by the emperor, the rest of the candidates were naturally divided among the Sangong Jiuqing and the nobles of the Qin family.

For example, Li You, the son of Li Si, was the sheriff of Sanchuan County, a major county in the Qin Dynasty.

If you count the newly established Beihai County by Yingzheng, Daqin now has nearly 47 counties in total.

47 counties means that there must be 47 county guards, and these county guards, except for a few counties in Guanzhong and some important county guards, Ying Zheng, know their details and everything. I don't know the character of the sheriffs of these counties.

Xianyang is the seat of the country's capital. There is no county guard, but it is directly administered by the imperial court, and the highest is the internal history.He is the same as Jiuqing, so he has to participate in the government.

The internal history of Neishi County is the old Zong Zhengyingteng.

Except for Neishi County, the remaining forty or so counties were all directly appointed by important officials in the court, such as Sangong Jiuqing, the nobles of the Daqin family, and the county guards who took office directly because they had made great contributions to the Qin Dynasty when they unified the world.

These three forces constituted the most basic middle-level structure of Daqin's rule of the world today. It is true that Daqin unified the world, but if the world cannot be controlled by this hand, it is better to just close the foundation.

At least these counties are firmly in the hands of Daqin, and will not be a wall.

Originally, in history, in the surging anti-Qin wave, which one of the county guards saw that the momentum was wrong, and immediately changed their banners to join the rebels.It is a kind of sadness to hold Daqin's salary and become the backbone of the anti-Qin in the end.

In addition to the county guard, there is also the county lieutenant, and the county supervisor is also the censor.These three are somewhat similar to the separation of powers in later generations. In the official system of the Great Qin Dynasty, these three positions were not classified as high or low, and they were considered equal.

The civil servants in Daqin enjoy a veritable high salary.

Although this also proved the wealth of Daqin from another aspect, but it was a group of moths who couldn't support their families.Of course it's not absolute. Among the forty or so sheriffs, there must be some sheriffs who care about Daqin, but how many are there?

Outside the county guard, the county lieutenant is in charge of the county garrison, in charge of public security and detecting thieves.The county lieutenant is also directly under the imperial court, and is in opposition to the county guard.

In the official system of the Great Qin Dynasty, the county lieutenants belonged to the officials and had a prime minister, and the counties in the interior had one prime minister, and the big counties had two prime ministers.For the counties in the frontier fortress, there is one captain every [-] miles, and the captain and Shi Shi, and two Weishi each, are in charge of the frontier fortress garrison.

The disposal of the pass, Guan Duwei, is under the command of the county.

Junwei, the soldiers under his jurisdiction are the county soldiers in the military sequence of the Great Qin Dynasty, that is, the local army.

However, regarding the number of soldiers in each county and how many local troops there should be, the imperial court has clear regulations for the defense of important towns except for the frontier fortresses. You can rely on.

In other words, Daqin has no clear regulations on how many soldiers should be in each county.As for the equipment and weapons, training, etc. of the county soldiers, there are also no laws to follow.Every county, every county has an arsenal.

In the original history, most of these arsenals were actually used to provide weapons and armor to the rebels.If there are no rebels, it is estimated that it will always be rotten in the arsenal.

There was no law to follow, which resulted in a situation where the outside of the Great Qin was more important than the inside.The frontier fortress town has the most elite frontier troops in the Great Qin Dynasty, such as Jiuyuan Army, Longxi Army, Liaodong Army, and South Navy.

But the inland counties are extremely empty.There was no clear order from the imperial court, and the local county guards and county lieutenants worked together to fill their pockets. Naturally, they would not make great efforts to recruit soldiers. What's more, in the later period of the first emperor's reign, in addition to large-scale recruitment of labor to build the Great Wall, Chidao, and Lishan Mountain The imperial mausoleum and the construction of the Efang Palace are all spent most of their energy looking for the elusive immortality.

And large-scale conscription of the people to serve hard labor, naturally there are not many young and strong people in the inland counties who can serve as county soldiers.This is one of the reasons.

For various reasons, in the original history, following the rise of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, the anti-Qin flames spread rapidly to all parts of the Central Plains, and the inland counties did not have any troops to suppress these rebellious survivors of the six countries, so that the original stars The fire of the Great Qin Dynasty eventually became a prairie fire that destroyed Daqin.

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