Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 89 Xiujia's internal affairs reform - the three departments and nine departments of the reform of the internal departmental framework.

With the end of the Hideo evaluation, the retainers left the city after receiving new certificates of knowledge from Masayuki Hanafo. Gao Hu and the other five stayed behind.

Kamei Tomoki is a well-known all-around fighter in the Warring States Period, a hexagonal fighter, and a man whose average attributes are above the average.The Xiu family called him in the hope that he could serve as the family's farmer and be responsible for managing the country's farmland under the "Four Fields Law".

At the evaluation meeting, Xiu Jia only talked about the decree and interpretation of the "Four Fields Law". Xiu Jiaming did not explain how to implement it. The most difficult thing to deal with is the issue of buying and selling land in the country.

How do you make sure that this field is the same size, location, and output as your registered field?This requires the registration of each field mu, and the compilation of a unique code. Xiujia prepares the code for the country-county-number number, and independently numbers each field mu in units of counties.

Clearly register the location of each farmland, the number of surrounding acres, the amount of grain produced, the nature of the land (granted, open, occupied), the owner of the land, and the actual cultivation of the land.

After the registration is completed, there will be 6 copies, one for the cultivator, one for the owner, and one for each of the county secretary and the Linguo enforcement office.A copy is kept by the head office of Yuxi's many fields and the headquarters of Yuxi's many clans.

The process is very cumbersome, but the management of this is also very effective.

Of course, in order to carry out this work effectively, the Xiu family needed a huge civil service system, which worried the Xiu family in the Warring States period, a society where there were as many illiterates as dogs.

After thinking about it, Xiujia plans to make supplements from three aspects. The first is the most basic registration work, which requires a certain mathematical foundation.The Xiu family plans to temporarily enlist the subordinates of the merchants in the territory, such as the hand generation, the small head, etc., to help Yu Xi's family register the data of the acres.

Then seek help from the abbots of various temples in the territory, and use the method of offering money to find monks to temporarily help Kamei Ziji manage the fields in various counties to fill the lack of low-level skilled warriors.

According to Xiujia's many years of experience, in the Warring States Period of Japan, samurai were found for fighting and killing, and bald donkeys were found for internal affairs management.

Among them, the Xiu family plans to enlist some smart and studious young children from the Banner Congregation and the directly governed territory, employ them as the Concentric Congregation with an annual salary of 10 shi, learn arithmetic from businessmen, and learn certain skills from Kamei Ziji and monks. political capacity.

Xiujia bestowed a new name on this institution——Hongwen Hall. Regardless of one's background, one can study together in the library. After graduating from a qualified degree, one can become a concentric member of Xiujia's practice and have an iron rice bowl.This is tantamount to a huge temptation for the precarious people of the Warring States Period.

Xiujia also asked his teacher, the great monk of Guangxingyuan, to inscribe 8 words: An Bang Ding Guo, a king and a herdsman.As the school motto of the Hongbunkan, at the same time, Master Pingxi (Ukita Tadaka), who has become a monk in the internal affairs of Ukido, was invited out of the mountain to serve as the principal of the Hongwenkan.

The original purpose of the Xiu family to establish the Hongwen Museum was to systematically train a domestic vassal who could respond temporarily. Therefore, the schooling period was only half a year. During the half-year period, he studied and practiced with businessmen, monks, and old monks.

What the Xiu family didn't expect was that with the development of the Hongwen Museum, it gradually became a school that provided multi-level talents for the Yuxi family, which laid the foundation for the Xiu family to quickly take over the Toyotomi regime after it became prosperous.

At the beginning of the Hongwen Museum, there were no teaching materials, and it was all relying on merchants to dictate the rules of arithmetic. Monks taught stories from Ming Dynasty books combined with the experience of followers.

At that time, Japanese businessman's algorithm formulas were based on the Japanese upper and lower five abacus. Hideo, who only learned Chinese abacus in elementary school, would not know it!

For the convenience of calculation, Hideka brought Arabic numerals and multiplication formulas into Hongbunkan. At the same time, he reformed the Japanese abacus.

However, Xiujia clearly stipulates that Arabic numerals can only be used for draft calculations, and all documents registered here can only be recorded in Chinese characters. The purpose is naturally to prevent the numbers from being tampered with.

For this reason, Xiujia specially appointed Akashi Quandeng to take full charge of the affairs of the Hongwen Museum, and appointed him as the Wenting Office, responsible for registering and writing the experience of the teachers and old Fengshang, and engraving and printing as teaching materials.

In early China, even during the Sui, Tang and Song dynasties, although the imperial examination system had undergone development, knowledge was still firmly in the hands of the powerful.The imperial examination room became another promotion channel for the aristocrats, until paper was improved to reduce the cost, and woodblock printing was widely used in the middle and late Tang Dynasty, so that book knowledge flowed out of the aristocratic monopoly.

These mass-printed books have finally been passed on for hundreds of years. In the Song Dynasty, for the first time, children from poor families were able to pass the imperial examination and be on an equal footing with wealthy families in a true sense.

In Japan, political literature has always been monopolized in the hands of aristocratic families and monks and Buddhist temples. This is why Taiyuan Xuezhai came to power in the Imagawa family, and Nantianfang Guanghai and Yixin Chongchuan became the black-clothed prime ministers of the Tokugawa family.

Even many great names in the Warring States Period, such as the Xiu family, were boarded by the Zhi family in temples when they were young, and they were able to read and write.It's just that these ladders for learning culture are still monopolized by the upper class, which cannot provide Xiujia with cheap and large numbers of civil servants.

The purpose of Xiujia's establishment of the Hongwen Museum is not to teach academic ideas, but purely to train batches of low-level civil servants in an assembly line.

After all, it is impossible for you to allow Fengxing to measure Quanyuxi's territory by himself.

Therefore, due to the lack of civil servants at the grassroots level, even Taige and Wenqing's land inspections are mostly carried out to the field, and then the field reports themselves to count the number of acres of land in the entire territory.

Among them, how much is the real field data?How much did you conceal?It all depends on the mood of the land.This is also the reason for the several times difference between the shogunate and the wise inspection data.

And with these grassroots civil servants, Xiu's family will not be forced to be as obsessed as the big names in other countries when it comes to farm management and land inspection, and can clearly understand the real situation of the system itself.

Of course, the Xiu family is also planning to make annual accounts at the same time. When the Taige inspects the land, they will hand in one copy and use the other for their own real statistics.Thereby hiding his edge.

Hideka appointed Osafuna Tsunao as the procuratorate, responsible for the inspection of transferred territories, spot checks and recombination of existing territories, etc. This part can be postponed, and it will be carried out after the establishment of an acre-enforcement structure equal to that of Kamei Tomoki.

But there is another thing that the Xiu family cannot slow down, and that is the management of armaments.Hideka appointed Todo Takatora as the head of military affairs, responsible for the manufacture of Ukita's furniture and swords.

Osafune in Bizen is a famous sword producing area in Japan. Relying on the high-quality iron ore of Misaku, the local area continuously forges swords that are far sharper than other territories.

Hideka plans to use Osafune as a signboard to manage all blacksmith shops in a unified manner. The first step is to ask Fujido Takatora to collect statistics on all blacksmith shops in the three countries in the territory.

In the second step, Bichu and Misaku only kept the blacksmith houses for making agricultural tools, and relocated the highly skilled craftsmen to the long boat. In the future, the weapons and equipment in the whole country can only come from the official hands of Ukido.

In the third step, Hideka will use the rich water flow of Asahikawa and Ichikawa to build water conservancy forging machines on both sides of the river to streamline the forging of knives and swords, instead of being forged by a single craftsman.

At the same time, the water conservancy forging machine can also forge large pieces of small armor pieces, reducing the use of ropes, and finally refer to the Nanban plate armor to forge a whole piece of iron shell armor to replace the large number of small armor pieces worn with prestige ropes. , while improving protection and reducing costs.

The third step is to find craftsmen who can forge iron cannons from Hirado, Otomo, Satsuma, Sakai, and Omi Kuniyu in Kyushu with a lot of money, and come to Nagafune to open the Iron Cannon Museum, which is dedicated to forging iron cannons for Ukido.

At present, Yuxijia already has the production capacity of gunpowder and matchlock. If it has the production capacity of iron cannon, it will form a closed loop.Merchants no longer need to go to Guoyou to buy iron guns, go to Kyushu to buy sulfur, and ask Nanban people to buy saltpeter and matchlocks. Okayama Town can handle them all.

Moreover, the Xiu family can also accumulate talents through forging a large number of iron cannons, and accumulate experience for forging bronze cannons in the future.

The Xiu family retained the four outstanding members of the younger generation in internal affairs, assigned tasks to each of them, and ordered them to be directly responsible to Hanafang Masayuki.

Hanafang Masako, as one of the three elders with the highest prestige in the Yuki family after the Zhong family retired, has been in charge of the internal affairs of the Yuki family, but Hatoyama has no fixed official position for such an important position.

In fact, it’s not just the Yuki family, but all the big names in the world. The reason why Hideyoshi kept Hanabou Masayuki is to hope that he can count the civil servants in the Yuki family. Come up with a complete set of official structure and salary level, so as to form a fixed formula.

Xiujia directly took Hanafang Masako as an example. As the official in charge of coordinating all the implementation of Ukido, he can be called the Tongzheng Order to govern the implementation of each department. hall.

For example, Dingkou Fengxing, which is in charge of the management of the population in the territory, is organized into the civil department, which is in charge of the territory of the territory, but is not responsible for collecting land taxes;

Armed Forces Implementation, Husband Service Enforcement, Spectrum Please Enforcement, and Military Enforcement form the military office, which is in charge of military or semi-military projects in the territory, such as: army training, armament production, repair of cities and roads in the territory, and important event records when the army goes out. Material coordination, etc.;
The Ministry of Education, which manages the Kobunkan, and Tojo, who manages affairs within Okayama Castle, form the ceremony hall;

The county officials who manage the other counties and divisions, and those who are in charge of the unity and strength of the organization form the Office of Officials.

The towns in the territory are divided according to the size of the town. For example, Okayama Town has three towns in the east, west and south, Tsuyama Town is divided into two towns in the north and south according to the city and river, and there are two towns in town.These executives who manage each town form a commercial hall, which is in charge of commerce;

The commercial tax that specializes in collecting commercial taxes follows the Hetian tax, and the field tax follows the composition tax;

The Du Branch Office, which is responsible for managing the money and food expenditures of Yuxi's family, has set up a Du Jin Enforcement and a Zhi Jin Enforcement;
Mining Gold Pursuit, which is responsible for the development of mineral resources in the territory, especially in Bichu and Mijo, and the Ministry of Industry, which is responsible for the production, collection, and unified sale of various handicrafts that have nothing to do with military use in the territory, such as Bizen-yaki, Tsuyamadura, etc. hall;
For example, the Army Department, which collects manufactured weapons and stores them properly, and the Food Department, which manages the food in the territory, and the Wood Department, etc. form the Logistics Office, which is responsible for the collection, storage, and management of various materials.

This is Hideka's thoughts on the internal affairs framework of Ukido in the future, and he wrote his plan in a pamphlet and handed it to Hanafang Masayuki.The specific settings and salary need to be re-optimized by Huafang Zhengxing.

This is a complete set of internal affairs framework. Now, due to the lack of excellent internal affairs personnel, it is impossible to appoint the assistants and general administration officers of each department. We can only let the flower house Zhengxing serve concurrently. Fortunately, there are some talents at the executive level.Finally set up the framework.

One thing needs to be clarified: the county commissioner governs the chiefs of each county, and the county chiefs follow the practice; the organization pursues the management of all the unity and strength in the territory, but in fact the direct leaders of the unity and strength of each department are Collaborative pursuit and pursuit of other departments.

By subdividing the departments, Xiujia divided the equipment production and management into two departments, and divided the fields, commerce, taxation, and gold and silver into separate departments, instead of concentrating them in the hands of one person.

At the same time, the command authority of Lihe Concentric is given to each department to implement, but the management and promotion authority is transferred to the organization rather than each department to implement itself. It is hoped that through the means of mutual restraint, the master's control over each department will be strengthened. The way to reduce and control corruption in the territory.

Afterwards, with the implementation of decrees and the accumulation of internal affairs personnel's experience, capable ministers can be selected from one heart and one mind, with the strength of the crowd, cooperating with the implementation, pursuing, cooperating with the administration, and continuously upgrading the administration.

Of course, the Xiu family clearly stipulates that civilians can only be promoted to Xie Congxing, and then they are the positions of samurai masters. Xie Cong Tongzheng and Tongzheng have set two thresholds of 500 stones and 1000 stones respectively to limit the middle and high-level The status and power of the samurai.

All of the above are under the jurisdiction of the Tongzhengyuan. In addition, the Xiu family is also planning to set up a direct responsible for strengthening the relationship between the Xiu family and the wealthy families in the territory, issuing government orders, collecting opinions from various departments, retainers, and wealthy families, and managing various powerful feudal clans, landed wealthy families, and wealthy clans. The lower court of the retainers.

Taking the Ministry of Education as a template, the Overwatch Council is in charge of hundreds of officials and in charge of government, military, and supervisory powers.

Hideka’s set of templates was established and optimized based on the template of the three provinces and six ministries, and brought into Japan’s unique national conditions, such as strengthening the authority of the lower house of the door, and handing over part of the power of the Ministry of Rites, which was originally in charge of foreign affairs, to the lower house of the door. This is because It is determined by the unique national conditions under the Japanese enfeoffment system.

Of course, due to the lack of internal affairs personnel, the connection to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has not been filled. The two courtyards can only be imagined and cannot be built yet.

At the same time, the Xiu family also hopes that this can be used as a template for the management structure of the various vassal states in the future. If the Xiu family ascends to the top of the world one day, it can also be used as a basis to build a real system of three provinces and nine courts to govern the country at a higher level.

(End of this chapter)