After finishing his inspection in Xuzhou, Luo Zhixue's imperial train continued to move north, leaving Jiangbei and entering the jurisdiction of Yanzhou Prefecture, Shandong.

The Yanzhou Prefecture during the Great Chu Empire was quite different from the Yanzhou Prefecture during the Ming Dynasty.

During the Ming Dynasty, Yanzhou Prefecture was very large, with 23 counties in the four prefectures of Jining, Dongping, Cao and Yi. The Great Chu Empire first continued the old Ming system, but later the Great Chu Empire reformed the prefectures and prefectures, upgraded the prefectures and prefectures in various places to provincial prefectures, and adjusted the jurisdictions between prefectures.

Later, some of the provinces with larger areas, large populations and large economic output were upgraded to prefectures.

For example, the Heyuan area where Wang Tu worked went through this process. At the beginning, it continued the Ming system with one prefecture and ten counties. Later, Lianpingzhou and Longcun County were merged into Heyuan Prefecture, and later Heyuan Prefecture was changed to a provincial prefecture, leaving Huizhou Prefecture.

Later, Heyuan Prefecture was promoted to Heyuan Prefecture. In this process, Wang Tu also took a ride-hailing ride from a fifth-rank prefecture magistrate, to a fourth-rank prefecture magistrate.

Yanzhou Prefecture has also experienced similar jurisdiction adjustments, and the four subordinate prefectures have been successively promoted to provincial jurisdictions, leaving only ten counties.

Immediately afterwards, the four provincial and provincial prefectures merged with other prefectures and prefectures, and were finally upgraded to prefectures.

During the same period, the other five government agencies in Shandong also made some adjustments. After some adjustments, Shandong also expanded from the previous six governments to twelve governments of all sizes.

Similar situations also occur in other provinces, not an isolated case.

Although the methods may be different, the purpose is the same, that is, to expand the prefectures under a province from the previous single digits to more than a dozen prefectures.

And cancel the prefectures and provincial jurisdictions that are neither up nor down, and provincial jurisdictions.

Because years of research by the Ministry of Personnel shows that if the area at the prefecture level is too large, it will be difficult for the prefect to effectively manage all areas, and it is easy to be careless about the beginning and the end, resulting in serious imbalance in local development.

For example, in order to develop local governments, many prefectures tend to invest a lot of manpower and material resources in areas that are easier to develop economy in their jurisdictions, but they will be ignored in other places, especially in remote mountainous areas.

At the same time, it is also believed that if a provincial governor's yamen is only managing a single-digit mansion, it seems to be extra and unnecessary...

Therefore, after years of research by the Ministry of Personnel, the administrative reform plan for changing the prefectures to provincial prefectures around the fifteenth year of Chengshun was promoted. At the beginning of the 20th year of Chengshun, the provincial prefectures and various prefectures were gradually adjusted one after another, and finally established more prefecture-level administrative agencies, and in this process, the provincial prefectures and prefectures were completely abolished.

This whole process, also known as the "abiding states and setting up a prefecture", lasted for more than ten years before it was finally completed.

Now, the administrative structure of the provinces under the Great Chu Empire is very different from the Ming Dynasty. Basically, each province has more than ten prefectures. The provinces with large areas and large populations have more prefectures, while provinces with small areas and small populations have fewer prefectures.

Therefore, the local administrative structure of the Great Chu Empire was from the previous relatively complex local administrative institutions such as provinces-prefectures/provincial jurisdictions-counties/prefectures (there are several counties under the prefectures)-towns-villages.

It has become a provincial, prefecture, county, town and village, with a total of five administrative agencies, one level deducting one level, which is simple and clear.

Unlike before, if you say something about a magistrate, you don’t know whether he is from a magistrate in the fourth-rank province or a magistrate in the fifth-rank prefecture.

At the same time, in order to solve the problem that local officials with fifth-rank ranks were interrupted due to the large disappearance of provincial and provincial officials. At the same time, because the local institutions of the Great Chu Empire had more affairs than those of the previous dynasties, the Great Chu Empire also added several fifth-rank rank provocateurs to the first-level yamen of the prefecture.

As for the fourth-rank magistrates from the provincial governors, this rank is also the rank of the magistrates of each prefecture, and the rank of the deputy directors of each department of the provincial governor's yamen, so there will be no problem that the promotion channels will be interrupted.

Now, the officials of the Great Chu Empire on earth covered all ranks from second rank below, from top to bottom, from second rank governors, third rank governors, inspectors, and third rank participating in politics.

The director of the fourth rank of departments and the prefect of the prefect.

The deputy directors of each department, the joint magistrate of each government, and the judges of each government

The fifth rank has directors of various departments under the provincial and department and officials of various departments.

The fifth rank has deputy directors of various departments, directors of various prefectures, and magistrates of various counties.

That's right, in the Great Chu Empire, the rank of the county magistrate is from the fifth rank, which is further improved from the sixth rank in the founding period.

The Great Chu Empire has always attached great importance to the authority of grassroots officials. When it was founded, it ranked the rank of the county magistrate at the sixth level, which was directly raised by two levels compared to the traditional 7th level.

In the subsequent continuous reforms, the Ministry of Personnel of the Great Chu Empire believed that for most counties, the sixth-rank magistrates were still lower, because this rank was lower than the fifth-rank directors in each prefecture... This is obviously inappropriate.

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For this reason, during the more than ten years of Chengshun, the magistrates of some large and upper-level counties were successively upgraded to medium-level counties and then to lower-level counties.

In the 28th year of Chengshun, the comprehensive adjustment of the rank of magistrates in various places has been basically completed. Now, all the magistrates in the Great Chu Empire, except for a few officials who have been promoted by various prefectures and are on the fifth rank, all the other magistrates are from the fifth rank.

Below the fifth rank is the sixth rank, which is the grade of the deputy directors of various departments of the prefecture, county magistrates, and chief clerks.

From the sixth rank, it is the rank of many clerical officials in each county.

The seventh rank is the grade of each town and the chief of each county and department.

From the seventh rank, the deputy directors of various departments in the county, Xiezhen and Huizhen.

Further down, there is the eighth-rank rank that belongs to the grassroots level. The heads of the departments under the county and department, and the heads of the departments in the town are at this level.

From the eighth grade, this is the grade of the deputy section chiefs of each county and the deputy section chiefs of each town.

The following are the grades of the nine grades and the nine grades without leadership positions, and are both of the grades of ordinary clerks.

It is worth noting that many ordinary clerks, whether at the grassroots level or at the Gyeonggi, will have high-quality clerks. Generally speaking, clerks with non-main positions can reach the highest level of the fourth rank.

This kind of high-level clerk usually appears in senior executives who are older and in poor health, so they retreat to the second line. This kind of person is very special and belongs to a group who only gets a salary and does not do anything... They come to retire and retire when they reach their retirement age.

There are also some high-level officials who are unwilling to work in local areas. After going through the relationship, they have to work in provincial capitals or capitals, or they have made mistakes or other things and are willing to be removed from their official hats, but they have not reached the level of being directly dismissed. For these people, they are often retained and demoted to ordinary clerks.

Some people can't stand it and will resign directly and go home, but some people who are thick-skinned or look forward to a new recovery will become a small clerk as a high-quality person. Such people are very special, and generally speaking, there are very few people and are not mainstream.

The mainstream is still those who have experienced and slowly upgraded their grades.

Because according to the relevant regulations of the officials of the Great Chu Empire, ordinary clerks can be promoted every ten years without merit or failure. Suppose a young scholar who entered the official position at the age of 20 will be the ninth rank, and will not make any contributions or make mistakes in his life, and no one appreciates them and cannot climb up.

Even if he will embark on the path of most officials, he will be honest until he is promoted to the ninth rank at the age of thirty, to the eighth rank at the age of 40, to the eighth rank at the age of 50, and to the eighth rank at the age of 60, he will be able to retire from the seventh rank and enjoy the retirement benefits of the seventh rank.

This kind of promotion is to only upgrade but not upgrade, and the salary will not be too much, because the salary of officials in the Great Chu Empire is divided into two parts: grade salary and position salary, and the majority is still in the position salary!

The Ministry of Personnel and Finance Department are not stupid. How can you make you survive the seventh rank, and then you can also get a salary and retirement salary from the seventh rank chief official level.

Don't even think about such a good thing!

The high salary of officials in the Great Chu Empire refers to the chief officer with management positions. Again, you must also have the title of deputy section chief.

Otherwise, ordinary clerks can earn high salaries even if they are old, and the finances will not go bankrupt!

You should know that the number of officials in the Great Chu Empire was very large, and the number of ordinary clerks accounted for the vast majority.

No matter what happens, once this base comes up, it will eventually evolve into a huge number.

Therefore, the financial personnel of the Great Chu Empire have always strictly controlled the salary levels of officials to avoid excessive salary levels leading to the collapse of local and even the capital's finances.

Because there are high-level clerks, in order to avoid the fact that the clerk's grade is higher than the deputy section chief, the high-level clerk will also be transferred to departments with higher level of chief officers.

There will be no situation where an ordinary clerk can scold his boss by relying on his higher grade.

The official system of the Great Chu Empire has been around for thirty years since the Funiushan Official Affairs Office, and various rules and regulations have been quite perfected.

This has also formed the political structure and official system of the contemporary Great Chu Empire.

It is not very good, it can only be said that with the changes of the times and the progress of productivity, it has been continuously improving and barely adapting to the industrialized Great Chu Empire.

The changes in the jurisdiction and administrative institutions of Yanzhou Prefecture are a microcosm of the reform of the local administrative structure and changes in the official system of the Great Chu Empire.

In the Great Chu Empire, almost all changes in local administrative institutions can be seen in Yanzhou Prefecture.

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After Luo Zhixue's and the imperial train entered Yanzhou Prefecture, they passed through Yixian, Tengxian and Qiuxian, and finally arrived at Yanzhou Prefecture to govern Ziyang.

When he passed by the three counties before, although Luo Zhixue did not get off the bus to inspect, the train added coal and water at the Hanzhuang Railway Station in Zexian County and Tengxian Railway Station. Therefore, Luo Zhixue took advantage of this time and took a few minutes to meet the magistrates of these two counties.

This is also the usual way Luo Zhixue did when he was traveling to some small places, especially those county towns.

When the train is adding coal and water, people don’t get off the train, so they spend a few simple minutes on the train to meet the local chief officer.

If you don’t see each other, it’s okay, but it’s not necessary. Anyway, the train needs to stop and add coal and water. It’s not a big problem to spend a few minutes meeting each other.

The train technology level is still not very good these days. Even though the official category uses the latest Guangsan series locomotive, its overall battery life is still not very good.

The passenger train driven by the Guangsan Locomotive, which is operating normally, basically adds coal and water once every 100 kilometers on the plain terrain. If it is on the terrain that requires climbing, the range will be shortened by dozens of kilometers.

The heavy-duty freight train has a shorter range.

This is also the reason why the railway line of the Great Chu Empire often requires a railway station if it is a few dozen kilometers apart. Sometimes, train stations are still set up in some remote and uninhabited areas... It is not for passengers to get on and off, but for adding coal and water.

Of course, you can also carry more coal and water from the beginning, or use light loads to increase battery life, but this will make the cost more during commercial operation.

The imperial special train is a train that is mostly equipped with coal and scattered water. However, in order to prevent and avoid various accidents, it will stop and add coal and scattered water at a distance of dozens of kilometers.

Therefore, you can also see the imperial special trains of the Great Chu Empire and other accompanying trains. After running for dozens of kilometers, you will stop and add coal and water.

But it will soon start again and continue moving forward.

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After all, adding coal and water to the train stations is equipped with mechanical equipment, adding coal and water is very convenient and fast.

When passing Qiu County, the imperial train did not stop but crossed directly, and then arrived at Yanzhou Prefecture and stopped.

However, Luo Zhixue still had no intention of conducting an open inspection in Yanzhou Prefecture. He still met local officials such as the Yanzhou Prefecture Prefecture Prefecture and Qiu County Prefecture in the imperial carriage. He left Yanzhou Prefecture at about noon and continued northward to Tai'an Prefecture.

After receiving local officials from Tai'an Prefecture on the train as usual, the imperial train headed straight to Jinan Prefecture.

Jinan Prefecture is Luo Zhixue’s third stop to inspect the city.

The first stop is Fengyang, the second stop is Xuzhou, and the third stop is Jinan. After that, there will be cities such as Tianjin, Youzhou, Shanhaiguan, Jinzhou, and Liaodong.

Luo Zhixue did not say that cities along the way would get off the bus to inspect. Generally, there were only provincial capitals or important cities. Cities with special significance would get off the bus and stay for one or several days.

Small cities along the way basically just meet local officials when the train stops and adds coal and water, and then you'll finish it by listening to the report.

After all, although the speed of taking a train is fast, it is actually just that... The average operating speed of trains these days is only 40 or 50 kilometers per hour, but it cannot be compared with that of trains in later generations.

It is impossible for Luo Zhixue to spend a lot of his time on some small cities on the road.
To be continued...