Chapter five hundred and eighty seventh fixed capital
Zhao Laoqi has rarely been in the limelight and is somewhat unknown among a group of senior officials. Many military officers and local officials within the New Dynasty system have never even heard of this person's name.
However, this man, like Luo Mazi, Wang Dao, and Ding Quankun, were all old bandits, and he was already Lin Ziran's confidant during his bandit days.
In the following years, he held a position in the field force for a period of time, and once served as the division commander. However, he was soon transferred to the garrison division by Lin Ziran and served as the garrison division commander.
However, to a certain extent, Lin Ziran trusted him more than Luo Mazi, Wang Dao, and Liang Chenglei!
Otherwise, how could this person have served as the commander of the garrison division for several years, and now that he has retired, he can serve as the head of the patrol department, or even become the on-duty counselor of the Senate?
If you weren't caring, you wouldn't be able to get to this point.
And Zhao Laoqi, who has been able to maintain his identity as a close confidant, is also smarter than outsiders think. When he served as the commander of the garrison division, he could not say how good the combat effectiveness of the garrison division was, but he always did a good job in terms of loyalty and became Lin Zi.
The last sharp knife in his hand.
It is not easy for Zhao Laoqi to be able to do this!
The last person elected to the Senate was General Affairs Minister Xing Shijie.
This person is rather special. He does not belong to the group of old people who started the Daheng United Army, but to the professional bureaucrats who came to join him midway. He was originally the director of the General Affairs Office of Luo'an County, and then defected to Lin Ziran.
Step by step, he followed the collective growth of the entire Daheng United Army. He previously served as the director of the General Affairs Department under the Marshal's Mansion. This General Affairs Department is under the Marshal's Mansion and is mainly responsible for personnel work and other messy things.
But the main job is still personnel work.
The head of the department responsible for human resources has always been one of the core executives. Even if the outside world does not know Xing Shijie personally, this does not prevent him from becoming one of the core executives of the new dynasty.
The top bosses of each of the three militaries, and the four people in the civil service system who are responsible for industry and commerce, money, personnel, and public security.
These seven people themselves are the top civil and military officials in this new dynasty, and their selection into the Senate together is enough to prove the special nature of this Senate.
This is also the effect Lin Ziran wants to achieve. He wants to make the Senate the real power center of the empire.
But at the same time, it also gave the agency great restrictions. Apart from accepting inquiries from the emperor and providing various suggestions, it actually had no practical power.
This organization was established by Lin Ziran with reference to the ancient Ming Cabinet, the Qing Military Aircraft Department, and a certain top power organization in a certain modern country in later generations.
The establishment of this institution will have a certain impact on Daheng's political system in the traditional sense. There has never been a similar institution in Daheng's history before. Daheng's system for thousands of years is still very primitive in Lin Ziran's view.
Even loosely.
The most obvious one is the weakening of imperial power. The emperor lacks sufficient authority to completely control the country.
The early dynasties in the history of Daheng implemented a very typical feudal system. The royal family and the nobles jointly ruled the world, and the emperor was only the largest nobleman to some extent.
Subsequently, the nobles were gradually suppressed by the royal family. The fiefdoms of the nobles became smaller and smaller, and the territories directly under the royal family became larger and larger. However, the nobles still maintained a relatively high political and military status.
It was not until the Sixth Dynasty, that is, the Ji Dynasty, that the nobility was completely marginalized. Apart from their prominent birth, the nobility no longer had clear real power.
But instead, the power of local officials increased sharply. Prefectural magistrates and county guards were local officials who could manage both military and political affairs. This centralized system of local officials directly led to the vassalization of Daheng in the later period.
Now that Lin Ziran has established the Lin Dynasty, he wants to completely eradicate the survival soil of the feudal town. How to eradicate it?
Centralization of imperial power!
Gather local military power, financial power and other core powers to further centralize power.
After centralization, because the power of ministers in various central agencies increased dramatically, Lin Ziran divided the agencies and established more independent agencies to divide power.
The Government Affairs Council alone has eighteen independent agencies, the Army High Command also has eight independent agencies, and the Naval High Command also has eight independent agencies.
Among these three major institutions, there is no general person in charge. The Government Affairs Council is just a virtual head, but there is no dean or deputy dean. The headquarters of the two armies does not have positions such as commander-in-chief and deputy commander-in-chief.
In addition, there is the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Courtyard, which are also independent institutions.
As a result, there are nearly fifty institutions under the direct jurisdiction of the emperor!
In addition, Lin Ziran also clearly stipulated that local officials above the county level have the authority to report directly to the emperor, and if necessary, the county governor and state order can forward the report directly through the secretary's office without going through the ministries.
As a result, there will be more institutions and officials directly managed by the emperor!
And is it possible for Lin Ziran to directly manage so many organizations and people?
impossible!
But can he directly set up a permanent agency to oversee these agencies?
No, in this case, this institution will undoubtedly become a hidden danger and sideline the emperor in the future, which is not in line with the principle of centralization of imperial power.
In the end, the measure Lin Ziran took was to set up a half-virtual and half-real Council of State Council, and put ministers on duty to provide him with advice. However, these people did not have any status or actual authority. At the same time, the Council of Councilors was on duty in front of the emperor.
It's not a position that can be added or removed at any time, and it can come and go as soon as you call it.
There is no doubt that even this will have problems.
But this is a relatively balanced measure that Lin Ziran can currently achieve.
Any form of system will have loopholes and flaws. All Lin Ziran can do is to make use of it as much as possible and be ready to improve at any time.
The establishment of the Council of Ministers, to some extent, also reflects one of the most important features of the new dynasty's political system: the centralization of central imperial power!
After the long meeting on the first day finalized the basic political structure of the new dynasty, the meeting on the second day was about adjusting the specific division of labor among various departments.
This has a relatively large impact on various organizations, but for Lin Ziran himself, it is just a balancing method.
For example, the power of tax collection was separated from the Ministry of Finance and placed under the overall responsibility of the new agency, the State Administration of Taxation.
At the same time, the State-owned Assets Management Department was also separated from the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, and the State-owned Assets Management Committee was established to comprehensively manage all assets under official capital.
At the same time, the Railway Coordinating Committee and Shipping Management Committee during the Marshal's Office were merged with the Ministry of Transportation to establish a new Ministry of Transportation to comprehensively manage railways, shipping and other transportation affairs.
Another example is to combine culture, entertainment, publicity, education and other affairs, and then establish the Ministry of Culture and Education, which is fully in charge of culture, entertainment, publicity, education and other affairs.
There are many various adjustments, but most of them are changes in details.
After three consecutive days of meetings, the various institutional systems of the new dynasty were fully and initially determined.
In the end, Lin Ziran and the others only had one last important question left, which was where to set the capital?