Chapter 805

In history, a considerable number of cities were named Madame City, of which the Madame city outside the Great Wall was of the most special significance, while the other Madame cities were relatively unknown. Due to the stress and practice of naming Zhuxia, the reason why they are named Madame city must be that there is a memorable woman.

This Madame city in Changshan County was established during the Warring States period. It was a military stronghold set up by a general of the state of Zhao in memory of his mother. Behind it, it gradually became a settlement of the people. At first, it was not called Madame City, but the people called and called behind it, and the name was continued.

As the end point of Chi road from Yanmen county to Changshan County, it is not that Madame city has a very important military strategic position. In fact, it is located on the edge of sheshui, which is connected with other rivers. The Han country, which widely uses rivers as water transportation, values that Madame city has a perfect wharf, which can be better used as a storage place for transshipment materials.

Like many cities, Madame city doesn't have many people. Seven or eight out of ten people who live here all year round are official staff, troops responsible for defense, workers responsible for labor and so on.

Liu Yan got off from Madame city without stopping. He crossed the water and went northeast. The place he's going is called ma drowning pass.

Mayao pass was built at the beginning of the Western Jin Dynasty. The pass is close to huanshui in the East. Together with hongshangguan, it has become a barrier behind Hengshan in the Western Jin Dynasty in order to defend against the invasion of grassland nomads.

Liu Yan will stop at hongshangguan for a while, waiting for the follow-up troops to cross the river and catch up. He also intended to visit Hengshan at first. He heard that there were no people there, and there was no way to go up the mountain. Considering that he really wanted to go, the surrounding counties needed to mobilize civilian men to open the way and level the land to provide camp, so he gave up.

Changshan County was originally called Hengshan County. In order to avoid the name of emperor Liu Heng, it was renamed Changshan County. It is a part of Beidi. There have been many celebrities in history. It is not Zhao Zilong who was mythologized by romance, but many heroes who stood in the frontier fortress to resist alien invasion. In addition, Liu Xiu, the founding king of the Eastern Han Dynasty, claimed the emperor in Jianyuan, Changshan County.

It's not nonsense to say that Zhuxia had a particular name. Changshan County was formerly called Hengshan County. Of course, the landmark is Hengshan. More than half of its terrain is mainly mountainous, and there are quite a lot of water systems. Cultivated land in the territory is very scarce, mainly concentrated in the middle.

"Changshan County has a registered population of 270000, with the most dense population in the southeast. Lingshou, Zhending and puwu are the upper counties." Zhao Ping is the Sheriff of Changshan County. The son of heaven will certainly welcome and accompany him. He is a middle-aged man who looks slightly fat. When asked about domestic matters, he can always quickly answer: "the rest of the land is surrounded by mountains, or is surrounded by mountains, with a small population."

The population of Shangxian County in the Han Dynasty needs to reach 30000. In addition, the number of corvee provided and taxes paid meet the standard.

At present, there are less than 100 counties in the Han Dynasty, many of which are counties with a population of hundreds of thousands or even millions, such as Jiankang in the south, Linzi in the East and Chang'an in Guanzhong. They are all large counties with a population of millions. In addition, nearly 20 counties such as Xiangguo, Yecheng, Xingyang, Pengcheng and Chengdu have a population of more than 100000.

In the northern region, there are no counties with a population of more than 100000. There are only about 30 counties in Shangxian county. Changshan County can account for three of them. It is really because the rest of Changshan County is mountainous, so the population is concentrated in plain counties?

Hongshangguan is only a place name now. It has not existed as a pass for a long time. Even the pass can not see the outline, but only a residual foundation.

"There are only a hundred people here. They usually live by fishing and hunting." Zhao Ping didn't know that he worked very hard at ordinary times, or knew that Liu Yan was coming to memorize the data under the rule, and smoothly answered Liu Yan's questions. Seeing that Liu Yan was in a happy mood, he joked: "because it is located at the junction of the two counties, the geography seems vague, and its people are running around the two counties, the people really don't know whether it belongs to Changshan or Zhongshan."

Next door to Changshan County is Zhongshan County. Hongshangguan is really at the junction of the two counties. Therefore, Lu Xun, the Sheriff of Zhongshan County, and a group of Zhongshan County hope families will also come to pick him up.

Lu Xun could not help feeling a knot in his heart when he heard Zhao Ping say that.

It was not long before the Han Dynasty began to pay attention to internal affairs. Before that, because the speed of recovery was too fast, the boundary division of some counties was actually relatively vague. Then, the study of history also belonged to this and that. Indeed, there were some jurisdictional disputes.

There are only more than a thousand people in hongshangguan who can't provide much corvee. There are really no specialties, and a small amount of farming can't pay much tax. But now it's an era when mosquito legs are thin and meat. The state pays close attention to the population. For each county, more people will have more political achievements, not to mention more than a thousand people. How can we not compete.

Liu Yan heard it. It was to let him, the son of heaven, decide whether hongshangguan belonged to Changshan County or Zhongshan County.

It's really an interesting thing to say. Leaders play with the prestige brought by power. Opening their mouth and saying a word determines the ownership of a place. In history, many powerful people like to do this to show their authority.

Liu Yan looked at Zhao Ping coldly. Which place should belong to whose rule? As the son of heaven, should he lose his share to this point to show his authority? That is the responsibility of the prime minister's office.

Zhao Ping was looked at by Liu Yan, and immediately his back was wet with sweat. People couldn't help shaking a few times, and sweat ran down from the bridge of his nose.

Lu Xun next to him didn't know how gloating he was. The two counties had jurisdiction disputes not only in hongshangguan, but also in mayaoguan, Xinshi and Jiumen. Those were the people's settlements at the junction of the two counties. Usually, when it was time to collect corvee and taxes, there was no lack of friction between the two places, and even petty officials quarreled many times.

Not only Changshan County and Zhongshan County have such a situation. Each adjacent county has similar things. There are too many busy things in the prime minister's office. There are too many controversial places in each county. It's really hard to deal with them in a short time, so they have been delayed.

The prime minister's office really needs a lot of busy places. The most important task is to build Chang'an City and national roads in the southeast and northwest. The manpower used in these two places accounts for 67 / 10 of the staffing. The rest are busy in the infrastructure supervision or acceptance of counties and counties. In fact, there are no redundant people to do other things.

The construction of new Chang'an has entered the final stage, but it does not mean that the staff of the prime minister's office can be drawn out. On the contrary, more manpower needs to be invested for acceptance. Ji Chang lamented that the manpower is really insufficient. He thought about requesting to increase the staffing more than once, but considering that the staffing of the prime minister's office has been extremely large, whether for taboo or redundant officials in the future, I put up with it.

There are only two largest institutions in the Han Dynasty, except the prime minister's office, which is the Taiwei office. With the separation of military and government, the prime minister's office is no longer involved in military affairs, and the Taiwei office has assumed all military responsibilities, including the deployment of troops and generals and the deployment of logistics materials.

Xu Zheng is a smart man. He feels that his rights are too great. He has soldiers and materials. He has written memorials to Liu Yan more than once and asked for splitting. If he doesn't split, he really doesn't dare to continue to do it.

Of course, Liu Yan also knows that the power of the Taiwei is too great, but the governance of the country always needs to separate steps. First, the military affairs should be separated from the prime minister's office, belong to the Taiwei office for a transition, and then set up a new Department to share some functions and powers, so as to avoid any instability.

In fact, there will be major reforms in the military in the future. It will probably be divided into special general dispatching departments, special troop dispatching departments and special war planning departments. Materials will set up an administrative organization managed by civilian officials and military generals. In addition, there will be two different management departments of the field army and the Garrison Army (including the border army and county soldiers), so as to clarify their functions and powers... Or even oppose each other.

Not only will the military split and refine, civil affairs will also be carried out. After Liu Yan's repeated consideration, he came to the fact that the three public and nine Qing system really can't keep up with the times. In order to clarify some functions and powers, it may be an inevitable trend to change to three provinces and six ministries.

It's not that Liu Yan didn't want to be modern. It's a pity that he really can't decide. He knows the premier's office and what the premier does, but he really doesn't know what department there is in the premier's office and what officials are under the premier!

At present, the three provinces and six ministries were implemented in the late three kingdoms, the Western Jin Dynasty and the Eastern Jin Dynasty. They are far less mature than those in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, but they really have some, and the missing ones can be supplemented according to actual needs.

Just as splitting the Taiwei office requires steps and transition, Liu Yan can't do everything in one step. It takes about two or three years to do it slowly.

It will be a two-year or three-year consideration. Ji Chang, Xu Zheng and others will end their three terms of office three years later (the 13th year of Yuanshuo). At that time, they should leave their posts and go to which post to continue to shine. Let's not mention that each post must be taken over by new people.

Liu Yan started again two days later and entered Zhongshan County. However, he only passed by the north of Zhongshan County and did not plan to inspect the rest of Zhongshan County. The next county to enter is Fanyang county.

Fanyang County originally belonged to Youzhou. For a period of time, it was the capital of Youzhou. The most famous county is Zhuo County, where Liu Bei was born and grew up. It is adjacent to Dai County, Guangning County, Shanggu county and Yuyang county (Yanfeng state in the Western Jin Dynasty).

The final destination of the patrol team in Fanyang county is Zhuoxian. On the way, it passed Fanyang and Gu'an. Liu Yan stopped and inspected during the period. It can be said that at the beginning of the visit, he could see the wounds left by the war.

"This is the first place for our army to attack (Murong) Yan country." Liu Yan's memory is actually vague. He can't remember who led the army and which standing army participated in the war. He only remembers that Murong Yan's army resisted tenaciously: "why hasn't the city wall been cleaned?"

Guo Tian, the governor of Fanyang County, immediately looked at LV Hua, the county magistrate of Fanyang county. He felt that it was a big thing to lose face and a small thing to lose face. It was a big thing to leave insufficient tasks for the emperor.

"Your Majesty..." Guo Tian couldn't help but say, "just do it, just do it..." but he was more angry with LV Hua in his heart.

"Where is the magistrate here?" In fact, Liu Yan had seen more than one person wearing green official robes earlier. Among them, there must be Fanyang county magistrate. When he saw a person come out to kneel down and plead guilty, he asked without any emotional fluctuation: "how many people are there in the city?"

LV Hua's voice was a little frightened and answered, "there are 210 people in the city, 207 adult men, 112 women and 89 children."

Liu Yanke did not forget that under eight years of age is not counted in registered residence. He would ask, just want to know how much labor force, will know why it has not been cleaned up.

Fan Yang City has more than 400 internal nationalities? It should be that there are too many deaths or escapes caused by the previous war. There are no new residents to move in. In the era of relying entirely on manpower, there can't be too many things without enough manpower. In particular, not long after the war has just ended, people give priority to their stomach. Only when they ensure enough food will they do things that will not affect their livelihood.

Lu Hua was asked about the population of Fanyang county. He replied that there were 4700 people. This time, he didn't answer in as detail as when he reported the population of Fanyang city.

"When I came, I saw the fields and paths, and priority was given to farming in the county?"

The fields that Liu Yangang just saw are not very good, but considering that they are also affected by drought, they can still see farming all kinds of food, and some people are herding sheep. It is a relatively good place to be tall in a short place.

Speaking of drought, the North has finally had a rainy season recently. Liu Yan knows that it is the credit of setting fire on the grassland. The rain for half a month has alleviated the drought in the north, that is, the rain in the hinterland of the Central Plains is smaller, and there is still no rain in some places.

"Indeed, we should first ensure the stomach of the people." According to the current evaluation criteria, Liu Yan has to appreciate that LV Hua is at least a responsible local official. In particular, he learned that Fanyang county has made great efforts to promote waterwheel and produced hydraulic millstones. He should greatly appreciate: "it is the greatest credit not to starve in a disaster year."

After this inspection, especially when he entered Beidi, Liu Yan saw too many desolate places. There is no prosperity in the inhabited cities at all. If there is a comparison, it can only be said whether he can maintain the needs of life, and which place is more miserable.

LV Hua was very excited to get the emperor's appreciation. He knew how to be a man. He said that Guo Tian, the prefect leader, was good, and the reserved smile on Guo Tian's face never broke.

Liu Yan will know a little about whether groups of locusts have been found, and whether it is due to the fire or the recent continuous rainfall. There are more or less signs of locusts found everywhere. Poultry and people have been hunting and killing a number of locusts, and there is no disaster of locusts raging in groups.

"Only one place can be said to be an accident, and many places are like this..." Liu Yan privately said to Sang Yu: "it's to set fire against the whole grassland, so what!"