Chapter 92 Da Qi's Official System

When hearing this news, Li Shang still breathed a sigh of relief. After all, as long as there was a force resisting Cao Cao in the Jiao Ji Plain, it would be impossible for Cao Cao to concentrate all his troops and attack Li Shang. This gave Li Shang some time to recuperate and regain strength.
Later, Li Shang no longer pondered the South Cao Cao, and instead began to study the future development direction of Daqi Town.
Firstly, Li Shang said that the appointment was affirmative, only in this way can the hearts of the entire force be gathered. Everyone will know what they are fighting for.
Secondly, it is necessary to re-evaluate the official positions of all members of the Great Qi faction.
Thirdly, it is urgent to recruit and train new troops. All the military forces in the Great Qi towns need to be trained as first-tier units as soon as possible, in order to quickly form combat effectiveness.
Fourth, as his power gradually expanded, Li Shang decided to redivide the jurisdictions of various regions.
Fifth, Dazi needed more talents to govern a larger territory in the future.
This is a list of all the questions Li Shang has currently thought of. There is no doubt that Li Shang has planned to decisively claim the throne of the Kingdom of Da Qi after resolving other matters. As for the second point, it requires all these talented people under his command to discuss and come up with a solution together. After a day of discussion, they finally come up with a preliminary plan.
The entire Daqi Houguo is divided into four towns (currently only Daqi Xiaozhen is a town-level unit), namely Daqi Xiaozhen, Hualong Xiaozhen (formerly Hualong Village), Beiping Xiaozhen (formerly Beiping Village), and Yanzhi Xiaozhen (Yanzhi Village, which will soon be taken over). Currently, Daqi Xiaozhen is the center and the administrative and military systems are being reorganized. The highest level in Daqi Houguo is the Hou, under which there are two systems in charge of the administration and the military. The highest official in the administration is the Prime Minister, while the highest official in the military is the Grand General. The Prime Minister is assisted by the Left and Right Prime Ministers, while the Grand General has several Generals under his command.
Moreover, the administrative system is currently divided into three levels: village level, town level, and central management level. Each level corresponds to different official positions and is responsible for specific administrative management.
The military system is divided into five levels: corporal, sergeant, centurion, general, and grand marshal, according to the previous classification.
When these talented individuals presented this idea to Li Shang, he keenly noticed the loopholes in this system.
"Jackie Chan, why is there no plan for the judicial system in your proposal?" Li Shang casually asked. "Judicial system?" Yu Chenglong clearly seemed unfamiliar with the term. "How do you usually solve this problem when people have disputes?" Yu Chenglong immediately understood when Li Shang described it, and he smiled and said, "Don't worry, my lord. Isn't the judicial system already included in the administrative power? People are used to handing their problems to the administrative department when they encounter issues, just like when someone's belongings are stolen in the village, they will find the village chief, or when someone is inexplicably attacked in town, they will find the town mayor. The village chief and the town mayor will naturally help them solve their problems."
Li Shang shook his head: "No, the fusion of judicial power and administrative power will cause many problems, similar to officials using administrative power to oppress the people and using judicial power for their own advancement, which will promote corruption among officials. Although even if the judicial power is independent, officials may still collude with each other, but even if they collude, it will greatly increase the cost of corruption among officials and can also partially limit the power of officials and reduce the results of corruption." Upon hearing Li Shang's words, Yu Chenglong nodded in agreement. Deeply agreeing with Li Shang's views, he hurriedly went to modify the draft, but Li Shang stopped him: "Chenglong, there's one more thing I haven't mentioned." Yu Chenglong turned around with an inquisitive look in his eyes: "What else does Your Excellency have in mind?" "It's not really a brilliant idea." Li Shang smiled and said, "Education is the foundation of a country. We didn't have a unified system to manage the education sector before, so the development of education across the entire country was uneven. And as the territory continues to expand, the demand for talent by the country is definitely increasing exponentially. Therefore, I believe it is necessary to separate the education system and let dedicated individuals be responsible for education nationwide. This will also facilitate the development of the national education sector and demonstrate our level of importance attached to talent. What do you think, Chenglong?" Yu Chenglong's eyes lit up upon hearing Li Shang's words. "Your Excellency has a great idea!" he exclaimed. After that, Yu Chenglong, Guo Jia, and Wei Heng began to modify the draft of the Da Qi Huo Guo official system in accordance with Li Shang's thoughts. Subsequently, the official system draft of Da Qi Huo Guo was officially established. The following is the content of the "Da Qi Huo Guo Official System Draft".
The Qihou, also known as the Grand Chancellor, is the highest ruler of the Great Qihou Kingdom, with the power to declare wars, appoint officials, and command the military.
The Great Qihou Kingdom has five coexisting powers: the administrative system, military system, judicial system, supervisory system, and education system. Except for the Grand General in the military system and the Grand Tutor in the education system, all other officials hold the title of Prime Minister. According to their powers, they are divided into the Prime Minister of Administration, the Prime Minister of Justice, and the Prime Minister of Supervision. The five systems balance each other and do not command one another. They have similar status and accept unified leadership from the Qihou.
The administrative system is divided into four levels: Head Official, Deputy Heads (several), Mayor, Village Chief.
The military system is divided into several levels: Grand General (commanding the entire army), Generals (several, commanding all the armies in different regions), Thousand-man Commander (commanding a thousand soldiers), Hundred-man Commander, Ten-man Commander, Sergeant.
The judicial system is divided into: Sishi (highest official in charge of law and justice), Zhensizhang (town judicial officer), Cunsizhang (village judicial officer)
The supervisory system is divided into: Jianxiang (supervisor in charge of overseeing administrative officials), Huminguan (official responsible for protecting the interests of the people)
The education system is divided into: Taifu (highest ranking official in charge of education), Xueshi (scholar-officials who provide advice to the government), Jiaoyuan (teachers responsible for town-level education), Cunjiao (teachers responsible for village level education)
In addition, except for the military system, which follows the original system of beheading nobles, all other systems are promoted through the assessment and promotion by Qihou and the prime ministers. Furthermore, only Qihou is authorized to appoint the prime ministers and the grand marshal.
"This system is the first set of governing system similar to the feudal system used by the Daqi Empire, representing the transition of the Daqi Empire from an early tribal system to a feudal system." Decades later, a teacher of the Daqi Empire stood on the platform and spoke. Upon hearing the teacher's words, some students in the audience immediately raised questions. "Teacher, this administrative system clearly disperses various powers and forms a political system with separation of powers. Shouldn't it be a democratic system instead?" The teacher smiled upon hearing the students' remarks. "Students, think about it. We often say that a political system protects the interests of who it belongs to, it is their system. This set of political system designed by Li Shang consolidates military, administrative, diplomatic powers, and others into the hands of Li Shang alone, monopolizing power. This political system actually only protects Li Shang and serves him. How could it be a democratic system?"