Chapter 60 Datang's New Administrative Plan "By the way, starling, what is that administrative district?
I just heard you say that the eldest brother is the governor of the administrative district?
We don't seem to have this administrative unit in Datang, right?
Li Ming noticed a question and asked very curiously.
"It is similar to the administrative unit of Henan Province and Hebei Province, but the difference is that this administrative region has a governor, and his name is the governor - you can use him as the Chengdu Protectorate, but there is a gap with the Metropolitan Protectorate in details, and it is a little more free than the Metropolitan Governorate, and the administrative governor not only controls the military, but also can control politics, people's livelihood, economy, and so on."
Li Zhen explained.
Dao was the highest-level administrative unit in the Tang Dynasty, but in the early Tang Dynasty and the prosperous Tang Dynasty, Dao was only an administrative division noun, and the supreme chief executive would not be established in normal times.
As for the general manager of the march, first of all, this is a military position, only to fight wars, regardless of the people's livelihood, and secondly, this is a temporary position, which will only be established in wartime - Liu Hongji is an exception, at that time his main purpose was actually to help Li Zhen Town, responsible for deterring the major forces in Lingnan, and later was transferred to Nanyang by Li Zhen because of the war.
So in fact, the highest local administrator of the Tang Dynasty is the assassin history, but the Tang Dynasty has more than 300 states, which is already the limit of the management of the Tang Dynasty, and now Li Zhen has added more than 300 states to the Tang Dynasty (the Indochina Peninsula plus the South Asian subcontinent and a Luzon Islands, it is not a problem to divide these places into 300 states), and with the expansion of the Tang Dynasty's conquest, there are more territories that will be incorporated into the Tang Dynasty's rule.
Therefore, if there are only state-level administrative units, it is far beyond the limits of Datang's governance, and Datang must set up a higher-level administrative unit above the state.
Originally, Dao was the best choice, but the scope of Dao's management was too large - even if the Tang Dynasty did not count the land occupied by the Turks and Tibetans in recent years, the area was at least several million square kilometers, and such a large place was only divided into ten regions, and one Dao had to manage more than one million square kilometers of land on average, and it was in charge of millions of people.
If the chief executive is added to these provinces, how much power does the governor of the province have?
You must know that at this time, it is not as good as the later generations, the communication conditions in the later generations are developed, and where there is a problem in the whole of China, it can be transmitted to the central government in a few minutes at most, but at this time, even if there is a road, even if what happened in Henan Road recently, it will take at least a few days to reach Chang'an, let alone other places.
In case any of these Dao defects, I'm afraid that the court here has not yet reacted, and it is not certain that the other side has become independent, how much trouble will it bring to the court?
How much will the repetition of the thieves bring to the people?
What's more, the territory area of the Tang Dynasty at this time is much larger than that of Huaxia in later generations, according to Li Zhen's estimates, if you add the Tubo and Turkic, as well as Nanyang and Tianzhu, as well as Goguryeo, etc., the land that has just been beaten down, the area is definitely more than 10 million square kilometers, even if it is much more than the area of the heyday of the Yuan Dynasty, it is estimated that it is close to 20 million square kilometers, if the entire Tianzhu is taken down, the area of the Tang Dynasty can definitely exceed 20 million square kilometers.
But with such a large area, Datang is only divided into ten provinces plus four prefectures (Anxi Prefecture, Annan Prefecture, Turkic Prefecture and Western Tibetan Prefecture, as for the two Prefectures of Andong and Anbei, they have not yet been established at this time), a total of fourteen administrative units, ten of which still do not have the geographical division noun of the highest governor - such a division is really unreasonable.
And although the Metropolitan Protectorate is nominally at the same level as the Dao, it also has its own chief executive, the Metropolitan Protector.
However, the Metropolitan Protectorate said that it was an administrative unit, but in fact it was more inclined to a military unit, and the biggest role of the Metropolitan Protectorate was not to govern this place, but to supervise the nearby countries to live and protect the trade routes, and once there was a change in the surrounding area, they would immediately strangle them.
For example, the most famous Anxi Protectorate, the most important role is to monitor the 36 countries in the Western Regions and guard the Silk Road at the same time, and at most have a peacekeeping role to mediate the contradictions of the surrounding countries.
Of course, there is also a hidden role that no one knows about the Metropolitan Protectorate, that is, assimilation, while ruling the people in these places, it is also silently exporting the Tang Dynasty culture, invisibly assimilating the national ideas near the Metropolitan Protectorate, and when the time comes, these places will be directly swallowed up, and then the Metropolitan Protectorate will be revoked, and another province will be set up to govern - at present, this assimilation has been done quite well, and it is difficult to say that the Western Regions are there, but the people of Turkic and Western Tibet have regarded themselves as Tang people, The culture of Datang has also completely penetrated into the culture of the two places, and I believe that after a period of time, Datang's plan will be completely realized.
As for the Annam Metropolitan Protectorate......
Well, this has been revoked, when Li Zhen destroyed Lin Yi, this capital protectorate was already in name only, and then Nanyang was completely defeated, and the imperial court simply completely banned the Nanyang capital and ruled in Nanyang.
However, in any case, the Metropolitan Protectorate is a unit that is more inclined to military organization, and its main role is deterrence, and as for governing the people, it has to be civilian officials......
Therefore, now Datang urgently needs to set up a hierarchical administrative unit above the state, and the administrative unit of Dao will either be abolished, or it will be subdivided and increased to fifty, and then it will be set up as a prefect yamen - this is Li Zhen's careful calculation, with the current ruling ability of Datang, Datang itself must have fifty Dao-level administrative units to rule the world (this includes the territory of the Turks and Nanyang), if the territory area increases again in the future, It would be necessary to set up a higher administrative unit on top of the Dao.
As for the outer colonies, in order to distinguish them from the mainland, Li Zhen planned to set up an administrative unit of the same rank as the province - the name was called the administrative district, and the governor was called the governor.
To be honest, the administrative district is somewhat similar to the combination of the prefecture and the province, and even more than the two combined: First, the Governor had military authority and could command garrisons and local troops. secondly, the Governor had the power to administer the administration of the colony; Third, the Governor had diplomatic powers and was responsible for the foreign relations of the colonies; …… The military, political and legal affairs are grasped with one hand, and the power can be said to be very large, and he can be called the emperor of the colony, and no one in the whole world can dictate his rule except for the Tang Dynasty.
Much like the British and Spanish governors of later generations – well, that's what Li Zhen modeled on the colonial management experience of these two countries.