"The territory is too big, and it really takes effort to manage it..."

Chen Dexing and Zhao Fu stepped onto the wall of Jian'an's abandoned city, looking at the vast land outside the city, and sighed a little, "This place was originally a prosperous land on earth. Since the Warring States Period, it has been the home of my Chinese ancestors, but now it is a wasteland. However... barren also have the benefits of desolation, like a piece of white paper, which can be used for development."

"The king has a vain?" Zhao Fu asked with a smile. Zhao Fu was very impressed by His Royal Highness's method.

"I have some ideas," Chen Dexing gently patted the mottled city walls and thought, "The Northern Expedition Army was built from the Zhou system. Now that we want to establish a country and establish officials and rule the local area, we naturally need to refer to the Zhou system."

"Zhou system?" Zhao Fu frowned, "What is the king meant to enfeoff the princes?"

Chen Dexing smiled and said, "It is not a constant copy. Nowadays, the world is different from the Western Zhou Dynasty. It is impossible to copy the Zhou system. But it should be taken. Mr. Jiang Han, do you know what the essence of the Zhou system is?"

This... I really don't know! Although Confucianism has liked to praise the Zhou Dynasty since its birth, as a true great Confucian scholar, Zhao Fu knew that those words of praise should not be taken seriously. If the Zhou system really had any essence, how could it not be used for future generations?

"Is it a ban?" Zhao Fu thought for a while and said, "I can only think of banning the ban."

"It is autonomy." Chen Dexing smiled and said, "The essence of Zhou is that the people of the country discuss politics and local autonomy. The Literature of Zhou says: The king wants to go to the people of the country, and there are three inquiries. It is to ask about the dangers of the country, inquire about the moves of the country, and ask about the establishment of the king. The Zuo Zhuan also says: The historical man is a book, the blind is a poem, the master recites the advice, the officials' rules, the scholars' rumors, the common people slander, the business travels in the city, and all craftsmen perform their skills. The Analects of Confucius also say: There is a way in the world, and the common people do not discuss it. It can be seen that the people of Zhou can discuss politics. As for the division of feudals in Zhou? The purpose is to hand over the distant and deserted places that are difficult to govern by the king and the emperor to govern. The people of the country discuss politics and local autonomy are the essence of the Zhou system! I follow Zhou, and I should give the people of the country the right to discuss politics, and the local autonomy should have the right to govern themselves."

Is this true? Zhao Fu was stunned again and again. If this country... has the power to discuss politics, wouldn't the power of the king be less? If this place has the power of autonomy, wouldn't the power of the court be less?

Now Chen Dexing is discussing with Zhao Fu how to manage his territory. He is not discussing how to mess with the Song Dynasty... This country's people discuss politics, should local autonomy be really implemented on Chen Dexing's territory?

"The king really wants to implement the weekly system?"

"Of course," Chen Dexing patted the battlements of the city wall and half-jokingly said, "I am a true Confucian scholar, not like a false Confucian scholar in the north and south of the Han, who cited the benevolence of Zhou and carried out the violence of Qin law. Since Qin, the country has been governed and chaotic, and the world has been about to fall into the roots. All of them are in the local area without autonomy, and the people of the country do not discuss politics. The power of a country lies in the emperor, and all the people in the world are slaves!

Even though the emperor... is called wise and wise, he is actually good at the hands of women in the deep palace. At most, he is a little wise in power and skills to control ministers. He knows nothing about many affairs in the world and is very easy to be deceived by treacherous villains. Therefore, the world is nominally governed by the emperor. In fact, it is a minister who is causing trouble.

In my opinion, instead of letting the treacherous ministers and small states, it is better to let the people discuss politics and local autonomy!"

What he said seemed to make sense! Zhao Fu nodded slightly. This Ming King was indeed a bit tricky. He could see at a glance that the disadvantages of the Han family for thousands of years lies in the emperor's tyrants, and most of the Zhu Zi in the court were treacherous.

"The Chinese people mentioned by the king are..." Zhao Fu of course knew what happened to "Chinese people" and "savages".

The Zhou Dynasty only had Chinese people discussing politics, but no savages discussed politics, which was actually a primitive elite democracy. The so-called China has no democratic tradition is biased, but although there are traditions, it has been lost for more than two thousand years!

"The people of the country are scholars!" Chen Dexing said, "Scholars are the foundation of the country. They should discuss politics and manage the local area."

Of course, what Chen Dexing wanted to do was not Western democracy with one person and one vote, but the people of the Zhou Dynasty discussed politics, the democracy of the aristocratic elites... And it was not the imperial examination elites who came to democracy, but the military aristocrats who followed Chen Dexing to conquer the world to democracy!

This arrangement also requires the gradual transformation of these military aristocrats who conquered the world into the main body of the country's middle and superstructure. It exists similar to the Prussian Junker landlords and Chinese landlords and literati.

Of course, in Liaodong at present, it seems that this is the only way to do it. There are no "landlord class" in Liaodong now, and there are no "landlord class intellectuals". Only various Tartar tribes and large areas of wilderness tribes must be broken up, and the wilderness must be distributed. Then allocating land and serfs (weakers in the tribe) to military aristocrats and making them become land aristocrats is inevitable.

"King, how should this scholar discuss politics and how should the local government govern themselves?" Zhao Fu said, "The Song Dynasty also said that 'sharing the world with scholars and officials', and local gentry were also very powerful."

"I am different from Zhao Song." Chen Dexing smiled and shook his head, "Although Zhao Song said that he shared the world with the scholars and officials, there is no way to govern together. All of them are just to be generous with civil servants and scholars, so they cannot be considered as co-governance. My political discussions and autonomy are open and upright, and there are laws to follow. Autonomy can start with the local government. Each county has a council, and the magistrates appointed by the recruiting department will discuss the politics of a county. The amount of land taxes, how to collect and how to use them will be determined by the local council and the magistrates. The salaries of officials, the fees of local town schools, and the fees of local construction are also raised by the local government. The magistrates only collect some taxes for military use."

Chen Dexing's local autonomy was delegating power, and at the same time he was shirking responsibility and pushing the local area to the nobles for autonomy. His Zhidao Department only directly managed a few "big commercial cities" and also grasped the money tree of sea trade. With the commercial taxes of big cities and taxes related to sea trade (including tariffs on several large ports under the Beidi Zhidao Department and the toll taxes in the sea areas controlled by the Northern Expedition Navy), it is the main source of military expenditure for the Northern Expedition Army.

In fact, this is also a helpless move. Liaodong is in ruins. Although there are countless fertile land, it is not a matter of reclaiming fertile land overnight. Even if Chen Dexing could capture many military nobles assigned to him by serfs, it would take many years of construction to generate profits for the land. And local governments at all levels in Liaodong are almost non-existent now. The construction of regimes also costs money and time. It is not a matter of overnight digging out some money from the land in Liaodong. So let the nobles go to autonomy! It is estimated that in the Western Zhou Dynasty, the Zhou emperor sent the princes to become monarchs in the wilderness.

"King, is this method implemented alone in Liaodong or in the world?" Zhao Fu asked while stroking his beard.

There is no problem in implementing this method in Liaodong. There are no gentry or imperial examination families here, and even the original tribes were crushed. Of course, Chen Dexing could be allowed to "perform the Zhou system". However, in the Central Plains, Han areas, especially on the land of the Southern Dynasties, the situation was much more complicated.

Chen Dexing understood what Zhao Fu meant, but just smiled and said, "Of course it is necessary to be an official in the exam. We always have to give the people below a path to rise. But the rules for the exam are definitely different from those of the Song Dynasty. The imperial examinations in the Song Dynasty were not to win talents for the country, but to share the world with scholars and officials. We were under the Zhou system, the people discussed politics, and local autonomy. Of course, we did not use such means. The selection of exams was to truly win talents for the country."

He spoke in a deep voice: "But if jade is not carved, it will not become a weapon, and if people do not learn, they will not know. Even the talents selected by the imperial examination must also learn the learning of being an official and governing affairs, so that they can be used by the country."

Of course, Chen Dexing knew the disadvantages of the imperial examination, but no one didn't know! In the Southern Song Dynasty, the imperial examination was no longer a simple "official examination". It was a means to let the scholar-official class participate in sharing state power. Therefore, it became irrelevant whether the person who passed the examination had practical studies. Most of the civil officials in the Southern Song Dynasty did not do anything practical...

Chen Dexing wanted to support the military achievements and aristocrats who followed him as the foundation of his rule, so he naturally did not need these scholars and officials who rose to the imperial examinations. However, the bureaucrats who manage the country were indispensable at any time. Therefore, Chen Dexing still needed a bureaucratic selection and training mechanism.

Zhao Fu was silent for a while, shook his head and said, "The truth of the king is right, but there are many times when things in the world are unreasonable. If the king really wants to do this, I am afraid that Liaodong can be easily taken and Yanyun can be obtained. It will take more time to take the Southern Dynasty..."

Chen Dexing sneered and looked back at Zhao Fu: "Mr. Jiang Han, do you think I am afraid that the literati and doctors of the Southern Dynasties would be unreasonable?"

...

"Leave both the bow and arrow and the long pole weapon, and just carry a protective scimitar!"

Kublai Khan gave his 500 orders, and then turned his head and smiled at Niu Lin who came to greet him, "Niu Linan replied, there are 100,000 heroes from our Great Mongolia on the Bulachuan grassland. If there is no snatching me, will there be no snatching me?"

Niu Lin was originally the Marshal of the Sichuan Army directly under Mengge Khan. After Kublai Khan went to war with Alibuge, he stood on Alibuge's side. Now he was sent by Alibuge to welcome Kublai Khan.

After seeing Kublai Kyusai's Qiexue throwing his spear and arrows down, he smiled and bent down and saluted: "King Kublai Khan has this sincerity, this peace talk will surely be completed. As long as our great Mongolians work together, why worry about not being able to defeat Chen and destroy Li and unify the world!"

Kublai Khan frowned and showed a melancholy expression: "If it were to defeat Chen and destroy Li, I might not have been in harmony with Alibuge. However, with the current situation, Chen and Li are rising and Mongolia decline. If brothers are killed, I am afraid that I and Alibuge will be captured by Chen Dexing sooner or later!"

Niu Lin was stunned: "Why is this so?"

Kublai Khan smiled bitterly, reached out to find an urgent report just sent by the Daluhuachi General Administration of Liaodong, and handed it to Niu Lin: "Tacha'er was defeated by the bank of Zhuangshui! When he fled back to Liaoyang, there were not even a thousand people around him! Moreover, Chen Dexing had already conquered the Liaodong Jurchens and formed the Eight Banners Jurchens. There were always tens of thousands of people, all of whom were strong bows and horses, no longer under my Mongolian warriors!"
Chapter completed!