#历史故事 #
The death of Yin Xiongzhen and Wu made the young King of Chu Kang very sad. The position of Ling Yin was an important position above ten thousand people under the Chu State, and all along, Ling Yin's power was too great, but Ling Yin's ability was different from person to person. There are many major powers and heavy responsibilities, and it is inevitable to lose sight of one or the other.
King Chu Kang made an important decision: to decentralize the power of Ling Yin, strengthen the power of the king, and reform the administrative and military management system.
Administratively, King Chu Kang appointed Xiong Wu as Ling Yin, and on top of the original Left Yin, King Chu Kang created another Right Yin. The original Zuo Yin was purely Ling Yin's assistant, and everything was arranged by Ling Yin. This Right Yin is different, equivalent to the Deputy Commander Yin, although the status is not as high as Ling Yin, but a considerable part of the power is divided into right Yin. The position of Right Yin was held by Gongzi Xiong, which was equivalent to the equal division of power.
Reactivate Mo Ao's position. Mo Ao was originally the highest official in the Chu state, and concentrated the military and political power of the Chu state, and his status was much higher than that of Ling Yin. However, later, due to Mo Ao's ability to do water energy, and Ling Yin appeared one by one, the military and political power gradually ceded to Ling Yin, and the position of Mo Ao, which was characteristic of the Chu State, slowly withdrew from the stage of history.
Now King Chu Kang reinstated Mo Ao to take charge of royal affairs, that is, King Chu Kang voluntarily ceded a part of the royal power to Mo Ao to assist him. This is invaluable. Qu to serve as Mo Ao. Qu zhi was the patriarch of the Qu clan of the Duke of Chu, which greatly increased the status of the Qu clan and thus became more loyal to the royal family.
Gongzi Xiong Chasshu was appointed as Zhen Yin (箴尹), a minister who gave advice and suggestions to the imperial court, equivalent to the later generations of counselors and officials of the Ming Dynasty. This was a concrete measure to effectively curb corruption, and King Chu Kang had carefully studied the Jin state, and he believed that the Jin state was now a completely corrupt country. It is precisely because of corruption and power struggles that the Jin state is becoming more and more unpopular in the Spring and Autumn Rivers and Lakes, and the Jin monarch is becoming more and more marginalized.
In the reform of the military management system, the power of Sima was decentralized. Originally, the Chu army only established the post of Sima (司馬), which was equivalent to the minister of national defense, and the power was too centralized. During the reign of King Kang of Chu, under the post of Sima of the Chu Army, there were left and right Sima and sima again, which was equivalent to two vice ministers of national defense. Sima controlled Sima around Sima but each had military power, and the three almost equally divided military power. The specific candidates are: Gongzi Feng as the Grand Sima (大司馬), Gongzi Xiongshi (公子熊橐師) as the Right Sima (右司馬), and Gongzi Xiong (公子熊) as the Left Sima (左司馬).
He appointed his most trusted general, Qu Dang, as Lian Yin, who was not the commander of the company, but was specifically responsible for logistics affairs, equivalent to the minister of logistics, or the minister of logistics equipment.
The first archer in history, Yang Yuji, was appointed as the palace stable yin, who was specifically responsible for the administration of Ma Zheng. It should be known that in the era of cold weapons, war horses were the most important strategic resources, and King Chu Kang knew that in order to revitalize the chu state, it was necessary to strengthen the armament, so he attached great importance to Lian Yin and Gong Stable Yin, and the candidates were the generals of the Chu state that he valued most.
All this is a specific measure taken by King Chu Kang to prevent the dictatorship of the Gong clan and prevent internal power struggles, and in this regard, King Chu Kang obviously wants to win over his father, King Chu Gong.
Not only that, but through the extensive use of gong clan doctors for important positions, the support of various gong clans was quickly obtained, and the royal power was more concentrated. A country with a concentrated monarchy is a country with an absolute monarchy in the true sense, and if such a country encounters a wise monarch, it will exert great energy and rapidly enhance the strength of the country. On the contrary, if you encounter an incompetent monarch, it will bring great trouble.
Fortunately, King Chu Kang was at least good. If you want to dominate the rivers and lakes, you must first enrich the country and strengthen the army. During the reign of King Chu Kang, he implemented a vigorous reform of the economic system.
The reform of the economic system revolves around increasing military endowments. The first is land surveys. King Chu Kang conducted the first land census in Chinese history, conducting a comprehensive and detailed survey and analysis of the state of the Chu state, with the aim of implementing economic reforms of "studying according to the amount of income".
The so-called income cultivation is to register the land according to the fertility and poverty of the land, and determine the tax based on the income generated by the land. How much land you have in your family, what is the quality of the land, what is the harvest, after these are clear, and then determine how much you should bear the amount of military endowments such as cars, horses, soldiers, and military weapons, which makes the military endowment have certain standards and effectively eliminates the hidden danger of unfair collection of military endowments and thus internal contradictions.
After the land survey, King Chu Kang also carried out the investigation of industry and commerce and other various industries, and still implemented the quota of cultivation and determined the military endowment according to the income of each industry.
And how did the princes of the Central Plains pay for military endowments at that time? At that time, the princely states of the Central Plains implemented the well field system. The well field system is actually a mixture of the public ownership of the land state and the private ownership of the landlord, what does it mean, that is, the land in the middle of the well field is allocated to you by the state, and you have to pay taxes according to this distribution amount. The land around Ida is developed by yourself, owned by yourself, and does not need to pay taxes.
This is how the land of the King of Zhou was distributed to the princely states. The idea is beautiful, but the truth is cruel. Originally, the King of Zhou had more than seventy princely states, and the land of the whole country was distributed to these princes, and according to the amount of land, how much tax to pay to the royal family was determined. But slowly, many of these princes were destroyed, and the land was merged into the people. The land of others was stolen, and it was not given by you King Zhou, so there was no need to pay taxes. In this way, the land of the King of Zhou was privately embezzled in disguise, the income was declining year by year, and the strength of the royal family was getting weaker and weaker.
And the land of the princely states was also distributed in this way. As a result, some powerful people encroach on the land of others, and these lands become their own, not given by the state, and they do not pay taxes. In this way, the state income of the princely states was also reduced.
Since the private land was their own, the landlords of the various princely states devoted their main energies to the reclamation of the private land, and instead the well field became a side business. Even some landlords will be like this: Brother, this piece of land, you grab it, your piece of land, grab it for me.
King Chu Kang saw this, so the essence of his reform was: no matter what type of land it was and how much income it had, it had to pay the corresponding amount of tax. What private land and public land, it is all your good.