paranoianovel Chapter 340: One-Hundred-To-One Ratio Between Officials And Citizens, Weak County Governance [Please
Chapter 340: One-Hundred-To-One Ratio Between Officials And Citizens, Weak County Governance [Please
King Yan Zhu Di frowned and looked at Yan Changqing and said:
"This means that at the local level, the power of the imperial magistrate is actually not as good as the power of the local gentry?!"
"The rule of the imperial court actually ended at the county magistrate level, and the lower levels of townships, towns, villages, and li were actually governed by the gentry who controlled the clan?!!"
After listening to Yan Changqing's words, Zhu Di keenly grasped the key point, that is, the power of the imperial court as the ruler of the world only extended to the lowest county level!!~!
Strictly speaking, the smaller townships, towns, villages, and li areas under the county were not included in the power system of the imperial court!!-!
This is somewhat difficult to accept for Zhu Di, who inherited Zhu Yuanzhang's strong desire for power and control.
Yan Changqing shook his head, and then looked around the classroom, looking for a prop to help explain.
Soon Yan Changqing's eyes stopped at the flowerpot in the window next to Zhu Xiongying, and then he walked straight towards the flowerpot.
When he walked to Zhu Xiongying, Yan Changqing smiled at Zhu Xiongying, took out a few small sugar cubes wrapped in white paper from his pocket and handed them to Zhu Xiongying, then rubbed his little head and said with a smile:
"You can eat it to satisfy your stomach."
Zhu Xiongying shook his head shyly, saying that he was not hungry yet, but he still squeezed the small sugar cube in his hand.
Then Yan Changqing held the flowerpot, walked up to King Yan Zhu Di, picked off the flowers on it, and then placed the entire flowerpot upside down on the blank side of Zhu Di's table. He looked at King Yan Zhu Di and said:
"Please, His Highness Prince Yan, just use your hands to pick up all the soil on the table."
A look of confusion flashed across Yan Wang Zhu Di's face, but he didn't say anything more and just obeyed, because he knew that Yan Changqing asked him to do this, and it must be Yan Changqing's intention.
Prince Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan and other princes also watched in silence as Zhu Di began to use his hands to try to pick up all the soil on the table.
It's just that the palm of King Yan Zhu Di is so big, and the pot of soil on the table is obviously more than what his palm can hold.
No matter how Yan Wang Zhu Di opened his palm to the maximum, he still could not lift up all the soil on the table.
Zhu Yuanzhang, who was sitting at the back, saw this scene, and a flash of admiration flashed in his eyes. He already knew the intention of Yan Changqing's move.
Because he is also very clear about how local clan issues arise, but knowing clearly, if he were asked to explain it with examples, he would definitely not think of such an example.
And now Yan Changqing's move can perfectly explain the local clan issues.
After watching the soil on the palm of King Yan Zhu Di once again fall from the gaps between his fingers, Yan Changqing said gently:
"If His Highness Prince Yan cannot hold them all by himself, you can find others to help."
Upon hearing this, King Yan Zhu Di immediately looked at Zhou King Zhu Ji next to him, and said decisively:
"Brother Ji, help me."
Zhou Wang Zhu Zhu nodded, then rolled up his sleeves and reached out to hold the remaining pot of soil on Zhu Di's table.
With Zhu Di's help, Zhu Di no longer has to spread his fingers to the extreme like he just did. He shakes off some excess soil on his palms and closes his palms better.
Make sure that the potting soil on the palm of his hand can be firmly held in his palm and will not shake off from the gap between his fingers.
Zhou Wang Zhu Ji picked up all the pots of soil that Zhu Di had shaken off, as well as the rest of the pots of soil on the table.
Yan Changqing pointed to the soil in the palm of King Yan Zhu Di and said lightly:
"This is the power held by the imperial court!"
Then Yan Changqing pointed to the ball of earth on the palm of Zhou Wang Zhu Ju, and said calmly:
"This is the power held by local clan gentry!"
King Yan Zhu Di was shocked all over, his eyes widened to the extreme, staring at the handful of soil in his hand.
Zhou Wang Zhu Ju also looked at the soil held in his palms in shock. He already understood what Yan Changqing meant.
Prince Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan and other princes also had their own thoughts and vaguely understood the meaning of Yan Changqing's words.
Yan Changqing walked back to the podium, drew a large triangle on the blackboard, and then drew a horizontal line about a quarter of the way through the main character.
Write the word "Court" on the three-quarters part, and write the four words "Local Clan" on the remaining one-fourth part.
Then Yan Changqing turned his head and looked at Zhu Yuanzhang below, as well as the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Gang, Zhu Di and other princes, and explained:
"I wonder if you still remember the power of the emperor in the second chapter of "Dragon Slaying Technique: The First Core of [Power] - Game of Thrones" that I mentioned before?!!"
"When talking about "Chapter 2: Game of Thrones", I once said that the emperor alone cannot support the power of the emperor covering the entire world!!!"
"For the same reason, the imperial court alone cannot truly manage the entire world."
"Now the administrative regions of Ming Dynasty have been unified into four levels: province, prefecture, state and county after His Majesty's previous revision."
"But even at the smallest county level, lower-level counties have 30,000 to 50,000 people, medium-level counties have 50,000 to 100,000 people, and upper-level counties have more than 100,000 people!!!"
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“And how many standard management personnel are there in a county?!!”
"One person is the county magistrate of the seventh grade, one is the county magistrate of the eighth grade, and one is the chief registrar of the ninth grade county. These are officials."
“Below the three officials, those who work specifically in the yamen are the Li Dian, the six-room clerks responsible for officials, households, rituals, soldiers, punishments, and work, as well as the other clerks responsible for the reception room and the cabinet storehouse. "
"Their number ranges from twenty to thirty to nearly a hundred."
"Under the eight-room clerk, there are the largest number of servants. The number of servants in lower-level counties is generally two to three hundred, and the number of servants in upper-level counties will be one to two thousand more."
"In other words, the total number of people in the entire yamen of a lower-level county is probably about 300 to 500 people, and the number of people they need to manage is 30,000 to 50,000 people."
"The total number of people in the entire yamen of a superior county is only about one or two thousand, but the number of people they need to manage is more than 100,000, "maybe even 30 million!"
"In general, the ratio of the number of officials to common people is roughly one to one hundred!!!"
"Compared with one hundred officials and civilians, your highnesses feel that it is only a mere magistrate, or a mere magistrate's office."
"If all the affairs in the county, big and small, were really collected and handled by him, would the county magistrate's office be able to handle it?!!"
Yan Changqing looked at the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes and asked, and then without waiting for their answers, Yan Changqing himself answered for them:
"Can't handle it."
The one-hundred-to-one-to-one-to-one ratio between officials and citizens has already determined that the imperial court's ruling power will be very weak when it reaches the county level.
To put it bluntly, the total number of people in an inferior county's yamen is not as large as the population of a village.
If the young men of any two villages start a fight, the magistrate's Yamen alone cannot stop it.
At most, after the two villages have finished fighting, the county magistrate will act as a referee to understand the cause and effect, and then mediate between the two parties.
And this is one of the main significances of the existence of local magistrates.
If you want to have truly effective rule, or govern a place, you must have enough force to suppress violent conflicts in a place!!!
Force is the prerequisite to ensure necessary dominance, and then comes specific and cumbersome governance.
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