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The centralized system promoted by Qin Shihuang consolidated reunification

In ancient China and centralization of authority, the central power was strengthened and the local power was weakened. Reflected in: (1) Financially, "a hole is made" and belongs to the central government. That is, financial resources are monopolized by the central government. In order to control the financial power of the whole country, feudal dynasties adopted various measures. On the one hand, farmers were fixed on the land to ensure the source of agricultural tax. For example, the household registration system in the Western Han Dynasty: the Eastern Han Dynasty and some dynasties verified the national land, and the Sui and Tang Dynasties set up a household registration department in the central government to manage finance and other matters. On the other hand, strengthen the management of important assets such as salt, iron, copper and coins. Such as the salt and iron monopoly during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. (2) Deprived of local affairs, the officials are out of the emperor. (3) Judicially, the law is promulgated by the emperor and the law is in the hands of the state. (4) Militarily, "strong cadres and weak branches", the central government macro-deployed the national army, and the emperor monopolized the military power. (5) In the ideological field, cultural absolutism was promoted.

in 221 BC, Qin unified China, which marked the development stage of feudal society, that is, the beginning of feudal landlord society. On the basis of the original system, Qin Shihuang established an autocratic centralization of authority based on the private ownership of land by landlords. This system has the following characteristics:

(1) Emperor system. Determine the name of the supreme ruler as the emperor, and Ying Zheng claimed to be the first emperor, commanding the state power.

(2) the system of three publics and nine ministers. The central government set up a prime minister, an ancient censor and Qiu, which are called "three fairs" to help the emperor handle national political affairs, supervise officials and manage the military respectively. There is also a "Jiuqing" under the "Three Publics", which is in charge of the government affairs of various departments respectively.

(3) county system. The county has guards, commandants and censors, and there are counties under the county. Below the county are townships and villages, and the grass-roots public security institutions are called "pavilions". The main officials of counties and counties are appointed and removed by the emperor, and they must absolutely obey and carry out the emperor's orders.

throughout the country, the Qin dynasty formed a ruling system from central to local, which strengthened the state machine of the landlord class. This autocratic centralization of authority is a tool used by the landlord class to rule the working people. However, it is also a new development of China's ancient political system. At that time and for a long time to come, it played a certain role in defending and consolidating unity, promoting feudal economic and cultural development, and had a far-reaching impact on China's feudal society for more than 2, years. All dynasties after Qin basically followed this system. Tan Sitong, a reformist in the late Qing Dynasty, wrote: China's two thousand-year-old administration was also Qin's. What is Qin Zheng? Is absolute monarchy. This kind of politics is that the monarch has full possession and control of the whole state machine, and anyone within his jurisdiction is absolutely subordinate and submissive to the monarch.