Become a feudal king from today - #1054 - Chapter 1066 Deepening
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Government Hall.
All the civil and military ministers looked respectful, demonstrating Zhao Xu’s supreme authority.
Nodding with satisfaction, Zhao Xu gave Xiao Guizi a look.
Xiao Guizi understood and immediately called the two young eunuchs serving on the side, asking them to follow him with two thick piles of documents.
Arriving in front of the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs, Xiao Guizi handed out a book.
The contents of these documents are the same, and they relate to a top-to-bottom restructuring of Dasong after Zhao Xu ascended the throne.
“Starting from today, the position of prime minister will be removed and replaced by the cabinet. The number of cabinet ministers is tentatively set at nine, and a cabinet minister will be selected to preside over cabinet affairs.” Zhao Xu said slowly, “From now on, all government affairs in Dasong will be decided by the cabinet ministers. Then submit it to me for review.”
For Zhao Xu, this restructuring needs to be in-depth, but also appropriately conservative, and consistent with Dasong’s own historical and cultural characteristics, as well as the current stage of historical development.
He will not take advantage of others and play Western tricks.
For him, the essence of any system lies only in the people who implement it.
When people are rotten, no matter what the system is, it will eventually be bullshit and it will all rot away.
For example, the Jin State, one of the Five Hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period, established the system of three armies and six ministers at the beginning of the founding of the country, which is the oldest democratic system.
At that time, the king of Jin was called a virtual king and his rights were restricted.
The national government affairs are in charge of the central military generals in turn, equivalent to the prime minister, assisted by six ministers.
This system could be described as advanced and powerful at the time, but in the end, three companies were promoted and sadly withdrew.
Since the Qin Dynasty established the centralized system of prefectures and counties, it has been able to conquer the entire country and finally unified the six kingdoms, but it also perished.
But at least Da Qin once created a glorious history and made immortal achievements for all generations.
It was because of these lessons learned that he decided that Dasong would still be a centralized state led by his emperor.
After all, if we are now playing Xitu’s way of arguing with each other and holding back each other, will Dasong continue to develop?
He didn’t want to argue for three to five years over whether to build a bridge.
If this is the case, the Westerners really want it and would laugh to death.
Furthermore, his most fundamental purpose is to remove obstacles to the development of technology, education, industry, commerce, agriculture and other industries through restructuring, not to put a tight spell on himself.
Thinking of this, he continued, “After the cabinet is established, the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Household Affairs, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Personnel, and the Ministry of Punishment will be abolished. Among them, the Ministry of Rites will be directly abolished, the Ministry of Household will be renamed the Finance Department, the Minister of Household will be renamed the Minister of Finance, and the Ministry of Work will be abolished. The Ministry was renamed the Department of Construction, the Minister was renamed the Minister of Construction, the Ministry of Personnel was renamed the Department of Personnel, the Minister was renamed the Minister of Personnel, the Ministry of Punishment was renamed the Department of Justice, and the Minister was renamed the Minister of Justice.” Zhao Xu said slowly, he did not mention the Ministry of War, because the Ministry of War will be related to the army. Discuss the affairs together.
After such a restructuring, the status of the six departments, which were previously very high-status, will be almost the same as that of the Commerce Department headed by Yang He, the Industrial Department headed by Chen Xu, and the Foreign Affairs Department headed by Dong An.
Of course, the titles of the chief ministers of Yang He and others have also changed during this restructuring. They are Minister of Industry, Minister of Commerce and Minister of Foreign Affairs respectively.
After announcing the restructuring of the core institutions of the imperial court, Zhao Xu then talked about the restructuring of prefectures, counties, and counties, “In addition, starting from today, the Dasong prefectures will be renamed provinces, and the prefectures will be renamed provincial governors. The duties of county guards and county magistrates will still be retained. name.”
The word province evolved from Zhongshu Province, the central agency of the Tang Dynasty.
He abolished states and established provinces in order to further eradicate the bad custom of once state pastoral control of the world.
After a pause, he continued, “At the same time, deepen the system that county magistrates, county guards, and provincial governors are only in charge of government affairs, criminal responsibility determination is handled by the Supervisory Yuan at all levels, and the arrest of thieves and public security are implemented by Wuhou at all levels, and strengthen the system of Liucao Function, rename it…”
All the civil and military ministers in the main hall were holding their breath and concentrating, except for Zhao Xu’s loud voice.
There are many contents regarding the restructuring of provinces, counties and counties. Just like the abolition of the Ministry of Rites, he also abolished redundant institutions, such as the Rites Cao among the Six Cao Cao.
However, some additions have been made, such as institutions for agriculture, industry, and commerce.
In fact, it is basically to reduce the size of the court institutions and move them to various provinces and counties.
This is called a sparrow, although it is small, it has all its internal organs. This is also a common method in all countries.
Regarding the part about government affairs, Zhao Xu read about it for about half an hour and drank tea three times.
But even so, the content is only brief, and the specific content is still in the thick document.
“These reforms are related to the state system, but I also want to make some changes to the customs of Dasong people.” Zhao Xu said with a smile, “For example, from now on, people in the world will not kneel when they see officials, they only need to bow and salute. Of course, they don’t need to do it when they see me. Kneel down.” Zhao Xu said.
He felt that this was a good way to salute, and there was no need to change it to modern etiquette such as shaking hands. It could also avoid skin contact and spread of diseases.
Not kneeling is to blur the harsh custom of respect and inferiority.
As for the government affairs, Zhao Xu cleared his throat and looked at Chang Wei and other generals.
After pondering for a moment, he said, “For the army, I have decided to formally establish the army, navy, and air force. Needless to say, the army and navy. The air force is temporarily composed of hot air balloons and airships that are about to be commissioned. In the future, the air force will be further developed. ”
“On the basis of the three armed forces, a Defense Department will be established to lead the three armed forces. The Minister of the Defense Department will be concurrently held by me for the time being. At the same time, the Defense Department will have a General Staff Department, which was directly restructured from the Ministry of War.”
The functions of the staff include battlefield logistics, formulation of combat plans and other matters, which are consistent with the previous responsibilities of the Ministry of War.
Therefore, Zhao Xu simply restructured the Ministry of War into the General Staff Department.
“Under the Minister of Defense are the generals of the three armed forces, and under the generals are the Duwei (Army Commander), the Commander (Division Commander), the Xiaowei (Brigade Commander), the Battalion Commander, the Du Commander (Regiment Commander), and the General Flag (Company Commander). , Xiaoqi (platoon leader), Duizheng (squad leader),” Zhao Xu said one by one, which was basically the same as before.
After talking for a while, Zhao Xu poured out everything.
Taking a deep breath, he said to everyone, “What I didn’t say is all in the documents in your hands. Today I will first confirm the candidates for the cabinet, and then the cabinet will promote the restructuring.”
After that, he looked at the ministers and said, “Liu Fu was originally the prime minister, and he will serve as the chief assistant of the cabinet from now on. Six of the other eight people will be filled by the former six ministers. This makes seven people. I also have two others. We have selected candidates, one is Mi Yan, the other is Ma Yuan, how about that?”
“Your Majesty is wise. When Mi Yan was in charge of Ningjin Dusi, he worked conscientiously and made outstanding achievements. He is indeed qualified to enter the cabinet. As for Ma Yuan, when he was in charge of Jinzhou for His Highness, he also won the hearts of the people and turned a desolate Jinzhou into a new one. It must be full of vitality,” Liu Fu said with a smile.
In fact, the cabinet candidates were not decided by Zhao Xu at the moment, but the result of discussions between him and Zhao Xu.
Now, what he is saying is just for the occasion. In fact, there are other reasons for choosing Mi Yan and Ma Yuan.
This royal relative of the Mi family can check and balance the royal relative of the Yang family.
And Ma Yuan, a veteran of the three dynasties, was upright and upright, so he could serve as a stick in Zhao Xu’s hand to beat others.
Furthermore, because there were not enough officials in Yanzhou, he absorbed many former Dasong officials into the officialdom, and pushing Ma Yuan out could also unite people’s hearts.
Of course, it can also constrain officials from the Yanzhou line on the one hand.
He knew very well that being an emperor was like nature, maintaining ecological balance.
The excessive expansion of any species is the destruction of nature.
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