In the East Palace, Wu Huaiyu checked his identity at the palace gate and entered the palace. He sighed in his heart that Li Shimin was already the emperor, but he still lived in the East Palace, while the Supreme Emperor Li Yuan still lived in Taiji Palace.

On the surface, this is Li Shimin's "filial piety", but in fact, this situation is unreasonable. It is estimated that someone will write a letter soon to ask Li Yuan to move out of Tai Chi Palace and let Li Shimin move into Tai Chi Palace.

But Wu Huaiyu didn't intend to mention this matter.

No need, no need at all. At his current age, he has already become a marquis and holds the rank of fifth-rank official, which is enough.

Following the chamberlain into the palace, he was thinking about what the emperor was doing when he suddenly summoned him.

In the palace, Li Shimin was discussing matters with a group of confidants.

"Your Majesty, Marquis Wu Huaiyu of Shouyang is meeting you outside the palace."

"Xuan."

When Wu Huaiyu entered the palace, Li Shimin waved to him, "No need to be polite."

There were only Gao Shilian, Changsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, Zhou Shaofan, and Ma Zhou in the hall. "A few days ago, I asked officials to discuss the pros and cons of national policies. You wrote a memorial for the establishment of ten channels in Bingzhou and County in the province.

I thought it was very good after seeing it, and I showed it to Wuji and the others just now. We were discussing it, so I asked you to come over and tell everyone the details in person."

Wu Huaiyu breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that he was just here to talk about this.

"Your Majesty, take the example of the Chen family's original residence in Sanyuan County in Weibei. In the fourth year of Wude, it was changed to Chiyang County. In the fifth year, it was changed to Huachi County, Sanyuan County was separated, and Quanzhou was established. Because there is still a Quanzhou, so

It was also renamed Beiquanzhou······

I went to the Ministry of Civil Affairs to check the archives and found that in the eighth year of Wude in the Tang Dynasty, there were 229 more prefectures and 383 counties than in the fifth year of Daye.

In the early days of the Republic of China, rebel armies were swarming from all over the country, the Tang Dynasty was booming, and the prime ministers came back. The emperor set up prefectures and counties for them to favor them. Therefore, the number of prefectures and counties was twice that of the founding emperor, and the great cause was great.

In addition to the increase of a large number of prefectures and counties, the situation of repeated place names in prefectures and counties is also very serious. There are 49 prefectures with the same name, including four in Yizhou, three of which are Yun, Wen, Ping, Long, Zhi, Nanping, Yong, and Jianzhou.

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There are more than 40 people with the same name in the two states.

There are more counties with the same names, such as Xincheng County in Hangzhou, Dengzhou, Hengzhou and Xizhou, Xinning County in Quanzhou, Hengzhou and Tongzhou.

The three prefectures of De, Ci and Ya all have Pingchang County, etc.

The imperial court had to explicitly add the word "nan" before the names of places, but there were still two Nanping prefectures, two Nanjin prefectures, two Nanshi prefectures and two Xihui prefectures.

The geographical names of administrative regions are confusing, and reforming the old and new ones is inevitable. I believe that now that the country is unified, it is urgent to reorganize states and counties, and to merge provinces, states, and counties. Many states have less than five counties under their jurisdiction. Ten sheep and nine herds...

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"Then how do you plan to save the merger?"

"I take Sanyuan as an example. Sanyuan and Chiyang were originally one county, or were merged into one county. There is no need to retain Beiquanzhou, so they can be directly eliminated and Sanyuan merged into Yongzhou.

In the Gyeonggi region, there are still many prefectures like Beiquanzhou, as well as counties such as Huachi and Sanyuan, which can be merged into provinces. There are dozens of counties under Yongzhou Prefecture, which can be merged into eighteen counties. Weinan and Weibei each retain nine counties.

county······

It is completely possible to restore the state and county divisions to the Kaihuang period, cutting off 200 states and 400 counties.

It is enough to retain 300 states and about 1,500 counties across the country. In this way, one state governs at least five counties, which is relatively reasonable.

Above the state, we divide it into ten lanes according to the geography of the world's mountains and rivers, and send officials to monitor and inspect it just like the governor of the state in the Han Dynasty!"
Chapter completed!