"The time and number of inspections of each county by the Supervision Department is not fixed. As long as each prefect and county magistrate can work diligently, the Supervision Department will not embarrass you. In addition, if you have any objections to the Supervision Department's practices, you can appeal directly to me, and I will send a special

Human trial.”

Chu Tian considered that the Supervision Department might become a mad dog that would bite anyone he saw. In order to protect the governors of various counties and avoid causing panic among the civil servants, Chu Tian gave his subordinates the right to appeal.

If the Inspectorate bites people randomly, once the appeal is successful, the Inspectorate will get burned.

This is a kind of check and balance.

Hearing that they could appeal, the expressions of the civil servants present softened slightly. They all understood that the Supervision Department was Chutian's double-edged sword used to supervise subordinate officials. If they were accidentally targeted by the Supervision Department, they would all be in danger.

Even Xia Liang, who has been with Chutian for more than three years, does not want to be targeted by the Supervision Department. However, the Supervision Department does not dare to cause trouble for her. Otherwise, if she goes to Chutian to appeal successfully, the entire 150 people in the Supervision Department will be dismissed.

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Chutian will not let the Supervision Department bite people everywhere.

"Fang Xuanling is responsible for assessing the administration of officials in each county. There is a small exam every year and a large exam every three years. The assessment standards depend on each county and serve as the basis for future promotions, rewards, and even requests for enfeoffment."

Chutian considered that different counties have different levels of development and natural resources, so the assessment of each county magistrate cannot be generalized.

It is up to Fang Xuanling how to formulate the assessment plan specifically.

"The source of candidate officials is the imperial examination system. In June of this year, which is the fourth year of the lord calendar, the second imperial examination will be held. It is also divided into two forms: civil examination and military examination."

Chutian planned to extend the imperial examination system from Langya Kingdom to the entire Xuzhou as a mechanism for selecting talents in the future, completely replacing the examination of filial piety and integrity.

The talent selection system that promotes filial piety and integrity allows aristocratic families to control too many resources. They often recommend disciples of aristocratic families, monopolizing upper-level resources.

Chu Tian estimated that using the imperial examination system instead of promoting filial piety and integrity would arouse fierce opposition from the aristocratic families because it would harm their interests.

As expected, many officials from Xuzhou aristocratic families were whispering among themselves in private, and they were quite critical of Chu Tian's actions.

"Please don't whisper. Langya Kingdom has already held an imperial examination and selected hundreds of talented people. That's why Langya Kingdom is so strong. It can be seen that the imperial examination system is conducive to discovering talented people."

Chutian indeed discovered many gold-level and silver-level heroes in the first imperial examination. The screening method of the imperial examination system reduced Chutian's cost of finding talented people, and at the same time broke the monopoly of the existing aristocratic families to a certain extent.

"Don't think that the imperial examination system will have a great impact on each family. If each family carefully cultivates its disciples, with the resources and family tradition of the family, the success rate of the children will be very high, not as good as that of ordinary people. If they are mediocre people who cannot even stand out in the imperial examination, then

Even if you promote filial piety and honesty, it will only harm one people. I believe everyone understands this truth."

Chu Tian's principle is very simple. Since he is a disciple of a noble family, he has the ability to pass the imperial examination system.

The Xuzhou aristocratic families present could not admit that their descendants might not be as good as the descendants of common people, so they had no choice but to acquiesce in the fact that the imperial examination system replaced the examination of Xiaolian in Xuzhou. The success rate of disciples of aristocratic families is much higher than that of ordinary commoners.

, from this point of view, the family still has the advantage.

Chutian couldn't do better. Relying on the imperial examination system to select talented people was already the best solution.

The system of supervision, assessment, and selection of officials was established, which basically solved the problem of official administration.

Secondly, there is punishment. Each county has a county government responsible for handling disputes, as well as dungeons and head arrests.

"When deciding each case, a record should be prepared so that the case can be reversed in the future."

"Cases that cannot be decided in each county or that may be controversial are submitted to the county government Yamen. Matters that the county government offices cannot decide are handed over to Li Kui and Wang Lang. Li Kui and Wang Lang determined the new laws and regulations, and passed them through me

It will be promulgated after approval."

Chu Tian asked Li Kui and Wang Lang to be responsible for the punishment, with Li Kui as the leader. Li Kui also served as Langya Prime Minister, so cases that were difficult to judge were decided by Wang Lang. Wang Lang's characteristic "prison management" just came into play.

"If there is a case that even Li Kui and Wang Lang cannot decide, then submit it to me and I will decide it myself."

Chutian announced the contents of the new ruling system one by one, from official administration to punishment, establishing the most basic framework.

More specific content, such as how to evaluate officials' performance and the regulations applicable to civil litigation, will depend on how Fang Xuanling, Li Kui, and Wang Lang determine them.

Anyway, Chutian is the final handler, and his consent is required for everything to take effect.

"Then there's the matter of Nongsang."

Chu Tian mentioned the land issue that all aristocratic families are most concerned about.

Most of the aristocratic families are big landowners and own a large amount of land. If Chu Tian declares that the whole world is not royal land and turns their private land into the lord's mansion, they will definitely rise up or contact other state pastors to replace Chu Tian.

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In order to temporarily appease the aristocratic families in Xuzhou, Chu Tian, ​​who was not planning to take action against the aristocratic families, said: "The private land of each aristocratic family will be reserved. The ownership of the farmland reclaimed by the refugees arranged by the lord's mansion and the original abandoned farmland belongs to the lord's mansion. Private ownership.

The sale and purchase of fields is temporarily prohibited."

Chutian plans to win over the Xuzhou family first, and then try to turn the farmland into royal land. The ownership of all land will belong to the lord's mansion. As for the farmland newly reclaimed by the refugees organized by the lord's mansion, and the farmland that no one cultivates due to the war, it directly belongs to

Owned by the Lord's Mansion.

"Farming in each county should be based on local conditions, carry out rotation farming, plant a variety of crops, and strive to increase food production. Li Kui and Miss Xia have already experimented with a one-year rotation arrangement of new crops in Langya Kingdom, and have learned about the habits of each new crop.

Everything is well understood. In the future, various counties and counties can learn from the experience of Langya Kingdom, especially the experience of Kaiyang County of Langya Kingdom."

The best-governed county under Chutian was Kaiyang County. They tried to grow new crops such as sweet potatoes, corn, peanuts, potatoes, etc. They already had detailed information on their growth habits, and then arranged agricultural production.

Because of the influx of new crops from the Americas, Langya country's food production has increased and can feed more people. There will be no worries about food for future wars.

What is different from the real world is that there are various bonuses in "Lord" that can increase food production.

For example, a special building observatory can increase food production by 5%.

When a city develops for decades, it may be able to support 2 to 10 times more people.

Therefore, farming is very necessary.

A state that has developed over decades is more powerful than a state that is constantly at war and has an empty treasury.

"The resettlement of the refugees and the reclamation of new farmland will be left to Langya Xiang, Donghai Xiang, and Xiapi Xiang. The reclamation of new farmland and the resettlement of the refugees must be completed before sowing in October this year. Sow the seeds in October and harvest next year.

Lots of snacks.”

Chu Tian added more and asked Mi Zhu: "Are Xuzhou's household registration statistics detailed now?"

Mi Zhu shook his head: "The war continues, and the population of counties and counties has dropped sharply. Ten houses and nine are empty. It is still impossible to count."

Chu Tian was silent.

Xuzhou was very chaotic in the first three or four years.

Each lord started a village war, then a town-level war, then a county-level war, and finally a annexation between counties.

According to Mi Zhu, because every village and town is at war and the population changes every day, it is impossible for Xuzhou officials to conduct household registration statistics for such a large Xuzhou.

A village or town founded by a lord may still exist today and be destroyed tomorrow. Xuzhou officials are powerless and of little significance.

"Each county conducts strict household registration statistics. Today's Xuzhou is no longer the chaotic Xuzhou before. It is necessary to thoroughly check the number of people in Xuzhou to determine the land tax and corvee labor."

"For the villages living in seclusion in the mountains and forests, persuade them to surrender to the government, or move them to the plains. The plains in Xuzhou still have huge agricultural potential, and there is no need for them to go to the mountains and forests to avoid war."

"Suppress the bandits in various counties and counties in Xuzhou, force them to surrender, and increase the population of each county."

The experience of governing the Langya Kingdom made Chu Tian gradually mature. He drew inferences from one example and found that the same reasoning could probably be applied to other counties in Xuzhou.

"Then the roads will be repaired, the markets will be prosperous, and trade will be promoted."

Chutian has detailed arrangements for agriculture, population, household registration, roads, and economy.

Roads refer to the construction of roads connecting various important towns in Xuzhou.

In particular, the official road between Langya City-Xiacheng-Tancheng-Xiapi City should be widened to facilitate Chutian to dispatch troops calmly and to facilitate caravans to transport goods and grain.

Economic development depends on the cash crops and specialty products of each county.

Counties on the plains develop agriculture, counties on the seashore develop trade, and counties with mineral veins develop mining...

"Establish a unified bank in Xuzhou, name it 'Tongbao Bank', set up a head office in Xiacheng, and set up branches in each county to absorb deposits. The head office must reserve 30% of the reserve fund."

If you want to get rich, you must first build roads, and financing is also essential.

Chutian has received a lot of benefits from the bank. He has survived many financial crises by borrowing money from the bank. It can be said that without the bank established by Xia Liang, Chutian would have gone bankrupt many times.

Being a lord is not as easy as imagined.

After receiving the benefits, Chutian simply extended the Langya Kingdom's banks to the entire Xuzhou and used the banks to make money. When necessary, Chutian could ask the banks for money.

If one person deposits 100 copper coins in a bank, a population of 10 million is equivalent to one million taels of silver. With a reserve of 30%, 700,000 taels of silver can be temporarily used when launching a war.

This is the power of finance.

However, the reputation of a bank needs to be maintained for a long time before people will trust it.

"The account books of Tongbao Bank are reported to me every three months, and a copy is prepared for Miss Xia to check."

Chu Tian did not dare to ensure that she would not be fooled by the subordinates who managed the bank. After all, the account books were easy to falsify, so she could only entrust Xia Liang to review them. She was one of the people who did not want anything to happen to Xuzhou.

"There is also the matter of foreign trade..."

The foreign trade that Chutian refers to is not entirely trade with other civilizations. The foreign trade here refers to areas outside Xuzhou.

"There are currently two important ports, Qu County (Lianyungang) and Xihai County (Rizhao), which can encourage the private sector to build a large number of sea-going ships and engage in trade and fishery. The person who coordinates foreign trade matters is Miss Xia and Mi Zhu. If there is any disagreement

, subject to Miss Xia’s judgment.”

Chu Tian once again placed Xia Liang on Mi Zhu.

The reason is not complicated. Xia Liang knows what civilizations exist outside the sea, and can contact the forces and lords of other civilizations and reach trade agreements with them. Mi Zhu cannot do this.

The role of Mi Zhu is to integrate the resources of Qu County and even the East China Sea Kingdom, and establish coastal and even ocean-going fleets.
To be continued...