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Chapter 484 Sixth Official Examination

When he was busy issuing food stamps and minting new money to make profits and accumulate strength, Zhou Shixiang successively appointed six officials. ⊙⊙. Before the Eastern Expedition, the imperial edict brought by Grand Secretary Guo Zhiqi not only gave him the power to serve as Xingping Bo.

The six officials are officials, rituals, punishments, households, soldiers, and labours, and they are responsible for the posts of inspection, inheritance, and trial to facilitate the administration of government. In addition to giving the power to serve the six officials, the imperial edict also allows Zhou Shixiang to appoint official positions. Military officers can reach the second rank, but civil servants can only reach the sixth rank, and the chief officials are generally sixth rank officials. Obviously, the imperial edict of Yongli is still extremely strict in the appointment and removal of civil servants, and it can also reflect that the Yongli court still has old thinking, namely, "literary nobles and martial arts are lowly."

Before this, only Zheng Chenggong, the prince of Yanping of Jinxia, ​​was specially appointed for six officials in the ninth year of Yongli (the twelfth year of Shunzhi of the pseudo-Qing Dynasty). It cannot be seen that the premise for Yongli to establish six officials was that the vassal (member) had interrupted contact with the court, or was far apart, so that in order to facilitate the administration, he specially delegated power.

Because Wu Liuqi suddenly invaded Huizhou, Zhou Shixiang had to advance the eastward expedition, so that the six officials had not been established. After the Chaohui victory, Zhou ordered Xu Yingyuan to go to Kunming to report the victory. Considering that Xu Yingyuan did not have a formal official position, he ordered him to be an official of the Ministry of Works, and according to the power given by the imperial edict, he was appointed as a sixth rank. After returning to Guangzhou, Duke Xiang of Song mentioned the matter of supplementing the six officials many times, and Zhou Shixiang planned to take the lead.

The official officials were appointed as Gui Yongzhi, aide of Li Rutai, the former aide of Li Rutai, the former head of the rituals of the Chongzhen Dynasty, Guo Tianxu, who retired at home, the criminal officials were Ding Zhixiang, the former deputy envoy of the Guangdong Censorate of Shaowu regime, the household officials were Jiang Xiaoming, the camp school where the broken arm was in Xuanwu Mountain, and the military officer was Dong Changqing, a student of Huizhou who offered advice to surrender in Lufeng. In this way, the worker officer Xu Yingyuan, all six officials took office.

The six officials were not established in the yamen of the governor, but in Xingping Bo. In other words, the six officials were actually the private officials of Zhou Shixiang, but the Yongli court recognized their official positions and ranks. Their responsibilities were only to assist Xingping Bo in handling government affairs and not to interfere in the office of the local government. This disguisedly restricted the power of the six officials, so as to make the court's future takeover of the territory of the vassal (member).

However, the Guangdong Provincial Government Office was actually established and controlled by Zhou Shixiang, and the officials of each prefecture were appointed by him, Zhou Shixiang, so the six officials of Xingping Bo's ancestry could not interfere in specific government affairs if Zhou Shixiang disagreed.

The six officials had many overlaps with the functions of the General Office, the government office, the county, township, village, the military headquarters, and the civil office, and the civil office. However, the six officials were the power given to Zhou Shixiang by the Yongli court, which was a symbol, so he had to set up them. In order to enable the six officials to operate normally and not overlap with the General Office and the Military Head Office, resulting in inaction or dragging back, Zhou Shixiang re-disciplined the Guangdong government affairs.

As the highest government affairs office in Guangdong, the status of the General Administration Commissioner, the position of the General Administration Commissioner, was unshakable. The General Administration Commissioner, Song Xianggong, was also an officer of the Military Command, and was responsible for all civil affairs in the areas actually controlled by the Taiping Army. The four officials related to civil affairs, including household officials, work officials, criminal officials, and official officials, were listed in the General Administration Commissioner's yamen, and each official was responsible to Duke Xianggong, and specifically undertake the affairs of the original officials of the General Administration Commissioner's yamen. This is equivalent to specifically subdividing the affairs of the General Administration Commissioner's yamen, similar to the later provincial governments under the jurisdiction of the Transportation, Public Security, Civil Affairs and other departments, and the officials of these departments were six officials.

As the highest official of the General Administration Commission, Duke Xiang of Song was directly responsible to Zhou Shixiang, so that there would be no external authority and the six officials, two overlapping institutions. The Taiping Army was so large that the population was only more than one million. Zhou Shixiang had no intention of training these six officials as the future six ministries. At present, expanding troops and simplifying administration is the most appropriate means.

As the General Staff of the Taiping Army, the military headquarters did not involve civil affairs. Military-related officers were recruited by the military headquarters, responsible for the appointment and removal of lieutenant generals, merits and examinations, military pay, and food and supplies. As an official position that is not very related to military affairs and civil affairs, Zhou Shixiang did not think of how to arrange the former head of the Chongzhen ritual department, Mr. Guo, so he asked him to name him first and receive a salary. He came to ask about etiquette and asked him to go there without any matter.

The Military Information Department established by Zhang An and Song Ying was also secretly expanding, neither under the jurisdiction of the Civil Affairs Department of the Military Commander's Office nor under the jurisdiction of the Military Commander's Office, but Zhou Shixiang himself was in charge of it.

While Zhou Shixiang and Zhang An were building an intelligence network, they could secretly select and recruit personnel from the army and train the people to form an operation team of the Military Intelligence Department. This force is similar to the Jinyiwei. It is another secret force in Zhou Shixiang's hands that can be mobilized at any time, except for the Iron Man Guard. It has about 400 people.

After the appointment of the six officials, Zhou Shixiang ordered all prefectures and counties to not only vigorously settle and reclamation, but also vigorously strengthen the breeding industry and raise more livestock, such as pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks. This matter is carried out vigorously by the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Department of Fisheries and Animal Husbandry. All prefectures and counties must pay attention to and increase investment. The Ministry of Civil Affairs regularly dispatches personnel to assess, and those with outstanding performance of local officials should be commended and promoted.

Sugarcane is also one of the key points of agricultural development. Sugarcane is extracted from sugar and then sold as a commodity to Westerners in Macau. The profit is also very high. Zhou Shixiang asked Xiangshan County to choose one or two townships to start planting. In addition, Guangdong people only use torment seawater to make salt, so the quality of salt is very poor. In order to improve the process, Zhou Shixiang introduced the method of sanitizing and salt drying. He was determined to dig a ditch near the salt field to soak the seawater on the sand to form salt soil. Then, the brine extracted from the salt soil was taken to the crystallization pond to obtain salt grains after sunburn to improve the quality of salt.

Salt and iron have always been a specialist in the feudal dynasty, and Zhou Shixiang was no exception. He ordered the Administrator to set up a Salt Inspection Office, which was specifically responsible for the Yancheng and the anti-smuggling tasks.

Zhou Shixiang also accepted the proposal of Duke Xiang of Song to establish the Guangdong University Hall in Guangzhou, which is the highest institution of education in Guangdong. It has established prefectures, prefectures, prefectures, and county schools in Guangdong. It also requires all townships and villages to set up primary schools to facilitate children's enrollment and education. In order to reduce the burden on parents of children entering school and encourage them to send their children to school, Zhou Shixiang specially stipulated that all children who enroll in school can exempt their family from land tax.

Duke Xiang of Song also stipulated that children under his rule in all prefectures and counties must enter primary school at the age of seven, and the lessons will be compiled by the textbooks of the governing corps. The two tests in three years are held, and the subjects will be held according to the subjects. The prefecture (county) test is famous for sending the government to the province, and the provincial test is famous for sending the province. The provincial test is passed and the provincial test is admitted to the Guangdong University Hall. After the academic system is completed, they will be admitted to the military preparation institute for one year after the study is completed, and the monthly classes are still held. Those who take the exam in three years will be given six officials in the literature, the governing corps, the governing corps, the chief of the military commander, the military commander, the military commander, and the military commander, and the promotion will be promoted.
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