The last position of the supervisory minister is Hong Tao. The government, military, and intelligence are the demands of the current stage. Hong Tao will not hand over these rights without smoothing out the Jinhe Empire. Once this thing is entrusted with someone, it will be fatal. No one has to choose the deputy minister. No one is greedy for this offensive job, at least not now. Cixi took office without permission. His brother was considered the imperial grain and became the director of the Interior Bureau of the Supervision Department as he wished. These two families are Hong Tao's direct descendants. Hong Tao only needs to keep an eye on them, and the others don't have to worry about them. They will treat each person like hunting dogs as an enemy, and will report to their master Hong Tao whenever there is any disturbance.

When the company becomes a country, the board of directors will naturally become a parliament. Not only does the name change, but the scale must also be expanded, so that the will of the whole people can be better reflected. The first Jinhe Empire had only one parliament, with a number of fifty people, and the Prime Minister was naturally the president of the parliament. However, he only had the right to hold a meeting and had no right to vote. The emergence of parliamentarians was temporarily designated by the emperor, and how to elect in the future has not been determined. The allocation of quotas was that local 80%, that is, forty people, and ten people were generated in overseas territories. This parliament was the highest legislative body of the Jinhe Empire, and any law must be passed by two-thirds of the parliament before it could be enforced.

The reason why the first parliament members were appointed by Hong Tao himself was not that Hong Tao wanted to undermine the parliament, but that the structure of the Jinhe Empire is not very suitable for the current situation. If you want to ****, you have to wait until the empire structure is completely changed. Moreover, Hong Tao is not prepared to get it in one step, so that the residents who just understood the election of board members would immediately enter the bicameral system, which would make them all confused. Let a parliament transition first, and when everyone gets familiar with this set of things, all classes have begun to form in the Jinhe Empire, and then evolve into the bicameral system. In fact, for the current Jinhe Empire, a parliament is completely enough, the country is too small and the number of people is too small, so there is no need to be so complicated.

After the government and parliament were designed, the matter was just half completed. The country had it. The industries that originally belonged to all residents of Jinhewan had to be transformed from large collective models to state-owned holding enterprises, and then these enterprises were assigned to different departments according to different types. The government staff of these departments and the management of the enterprise sat together to discuss how to divide the shares of the enterprise. How many shares should the employees get, and there are also many issues such as future wage levels, welfare benefits, etc., which have to be discussed slowly to find a balance point.

Hong Tao could not monopolize the power of this work by himself. There were too many things that he could not finish until he died. He temporarily put aside these things, first focused on promoting the establishment of the country and establishing the parliament. Then he followed these people to discuss the appointment of government cabinet personnel, the drafting of the constitution and various laws, and was busy until the New Year and didn't understand it. Fortunately, the appointment of cabinet personnel was approved. Emperor Hong Tao, Prime Minister Hong, and Minister Hong were finally no longer fighting alone, and there was a turf team around him.

In 2018, the second year of Jiaxi, Song Lizong began to change the reign name again. Hong Tao had just traveled to the Southern Song Dynasty for 11 years and had already experienced the three reign names of Shaoding, Duanping and Jiaxi. Although the Southern Song court at this time had some changes inside and outside the Southern Song court in history, the problem of changing the name of Emperor Lizong did not change at all.

During the more than a year when Hong Tao voyages from Europe, the Mongol Empire's army has never invaded the south on a large scale. It is just that it often sends small troops to harass the strongholds on the front line of the Southern Song Dynasty. The scale is not too large. Apart from causing a certain degree of damage, it has not made any big gains. Both sides are basically stable on the original front line and no one can push anyone. It is thought that the Mongol Empire retreated because of the loss of thousands of troops and a prince. Hong Tao himself did not believe it. There is a reason for endurance. It was held back and exploded with a bang, and the power was even greater and the damage was even more harsh. Then what bad water was being held in the Mongol Empire? The information brought by Kong Pei and Cixi pointed to one aspect, the navy!

"There are so many?" Hong Tao, the emperor, was so miserable. It would be fine if there was no palace, but there was not even an emperor's office. The Prime Minister was not very glorious. He had an office, and he was in the new Empire State Building. Unfortunately, the Empire State Building had not even finished drawings. If he wanted to hold a cabinet meeting, he had to temporarily requisition his own house. At this time, he was holding two reports, looking here and then looking at it, and the expression on his face became more and more relaxed.

"There are only a lot, and Dengzhou is no longer close now. Unless the war begins, there are still dozens of nautical miles away from the peninsula, and there are Mongolian naval patrol ships patrolling day and night on the sea. They are still training sailors and often sailing large fleets. Now they can sail directly to Jinzhou. The destroyed ports there have been rebuilt, with strict defenses and no closer." Kong Pei pointed to Hong Tao's right document and used his own eyes to determine its authenticity. The Mongolian Empire was really led by Hong Tao from the original road. They suffered a loss from warships and began to learn and use new technologies. However, this time their good learning may not be reported, and it will harm them.

"The specific number should be about fifty ships, all of which are large ships with a displacement of more than 300 tons, and the largest one may be close to 600 tons. The craftsmen who built their ships not only included people from the Jin Dynasty in the past, but also many big cannibals. The specific ship structure data cannot be obtained. It is said that in Dengzhou and Jinzhou, there were senior Mongolian officials personally supervised the construction of the shipyard. The shipyard was cleaned up very clean, and there were no residents within a dozen miles. All the craftsmen lived in the military camp and could not go out. In addition, there is a bad news that the Mongolian navy is probably also using artillery large numbers.

I carefully asked the merchants from Japan. They said that over the past year, a large amount of sulfur has been bought by several Korean maritime merchants, and they bought as much as they have, and rarely bargained. The price of purchasing sulfur on Lao Xu has increased more than twice as much as they have been a year ago, and it is still rising. The Mongolians want so much sulfur, which is definitely not used as medicine, and can only be used for making gunpowder." As the intelligence leader of the Jinhe Empire, Cixi, although she could not go to the sea with her own eyes, had a wider source of information and a higher reference value.

"Oh! This is a bit interesting. Are they also making artillery?" Hong Tao was not worried about how many ships the Mongolian navy built. The number of ships in naval battles is not a very important parameter, especially for his own fleet, the number of enemies is ten and one hundred, which is nothing more than the number of guns fired, and has no substantial significance. But the type of weapons of the enemy ship is very critical. It is obviously not the same concept as dealing with fleets with only crossbows and arrows. If the Mongolian navy really developed the artillery, no matter which type of artillery it was, it would pose a great threat to the fleet of the Jinhe Empire. At this time, the number of their ships became an important parameter. Two hundred warships equipped with artillery? He dared not say that he could win the ten Jinhe ships for Hong Tao.

"I don't know, there is even less news about this. Our people cannot reach Zhongdu. Those merchants doing business on both sides cannot go to the important departments. They can only find clues from some fragmented information. It shouldn't be true. I haven't heard that the Mongolians purchased a large amount of copper. They can't use wood to make cannons, right?" Cixi could not answer Hong Tao's question positively, he really didn't know.

"Whether it is a gun or not, you must be vigilant. Lao Kong, you have suffered these days. Take the fleet and go around there to try to contact their warships and see what weapons they have on the ship. We should not use live ammunition, just use empty cannons to scare them. The main thing is to touch the bottom and don't reveal the true strength." Cixi's answer could not reassure Hong Tao. He must know the true strength of the Mongolian navy. Since he can't find out, then try it. Although this method is expensive and dangerous, it can only be like this.

"I understand that the fleet will definitely not be too close to them. I will take the ship up and try it alone. Even if they have cannons, they may not do anything to me." Kong Pei fully understood Hong Tao's intentions and focused on the safety of the fleet, so that Hong Tao could rest assured that he would not let the entire fleet take risks.

"Don't! You are now the deputy minister of the Ministry of Defense of the Empire and the commander of the main fleet. You cannot do this kind of thing yourself and let other captains go. You cannot always protect them. Since you are the captain of the warship, you are going to fight. The greater the scene you have seen, the greater the risk you have taken, and the faster they will grow. By the way, the ships you are going to test cannot be warships, and you should use salmon-class instead, and do not equip cannons. Be prepared to be beaten and configure the minimum number of sailors.

"All people who become officials are cruel, but they are not human beings when they become emperors. This principle is very correct. If it were put in the past, Hong Tao would have taken merchant ships to test the reality of the enemy warships. Now he has involuntarily regarded many people as pawns, and has never even thought about their feelings. On the one hand, he is called politically mature and has a leader. On the other hand, he is getting further and further away from the category of human beings, and all the emotions and six desires are slowly disappearing.

"Master, is it a bit dangerous to send salmon-grade? I have secretly sold some of the construction drawings to several maritime merchants in Mingzhou City. These guys have a close relationship with the Korean merchants at both ends. They may not be sure to sell them to Koreans. When they reach the Koreans, they are not far from the Mongolians." When they hear that Hong Tao was going to send merchant ships to take risks, Cixi immediately showed an anxious expression on her face. She looked around and looked at Hong Tao again, and still told what he did. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!