The political structure of the Feng Empire
General Overview of the Feng Empire: The country covers an area of about 4 million square kilometers, has a population of 35 million, and has an army of 2.8 million. The capital of the www.biquge.info country is the city of Tfal, with a population of 1.4 million. It has four cities with a population of more than one million, two largest rivers, a plateau, and two large lakes, and the overall topography is high in the southwest and low in the northeast. Because Feng Empire faces the sea in the west and north, the climate is humid all year round, and the temperature difference between winter and summer is small, with an average temperature of minus 3 degrees Celsius in winter and 25 degrees Celsius in summer in the past 100 years.
Emperor: The head of state of the Feng Empire, who has supreme power and is the owner of the entire country's land and people. The supreme guardian of the state, the commander-in-chief of the whole army, is able to make laws, appoint officials at all levels, judges of courts at all levels, imperial historians of the imperial history court, and officers of the army.
Aristocrats: can only be divided by the emperor, the number of nobles in the country is relatively large, divided into five levels of male princes, and divided into hereditary and non-hereditary.
Hereditary nobility: Hereditary nobles, can be granted mansions by the emperor, the emperor must give them small plots of land, the maximum and minimum land area that each level of nobility can obtain is strictly regulated, the highest level of duke can be given a maximum of 30 kilometers of land, hereditary nobles have financial and governing power over their fiefs, no military power. Each rank of nobility may have its own private army and servants, and shall not exceed the amount of private armies and servants of each rank of nobleman prescribed by the state, and shall abide by the supreme laws of the state and the decrees of the emperor. There are about 300 hereditary nobles of all sizes in the country.
Non-hereditary nobility: The non-hereditary aristocracy must grant mansions, and the emperor decides whether to grant smaller lands (up to one kilometer in length and width), and has a different number of private troops and servants than the hereditary nobility, and the land granted can only be uninhabited (or a small number of people living in the past, in which case the state has to pay for the relocation of these people), and the non-hereditary nobility has no ownership of the land, which can be taken back immediately by the emperor when the nobles die. The state has nearly 1,000 large and small non-hereditary nobles.
For the sake of reward, the emperor sometimes made a hereditary nobleman a non-hereditary nobleman with a higher title (e.g., a hereditary earl was made a non-hereditary marquis), and the original hereditary title and benefits enjoyed by the nobleman remained unchanged, and the current non-hereditary title and benefits were added. In the event that the non-hereditary title is withdrawn by the Emperor or that he dies, he or his descendants retain his hereditary title.
Court Mage: The Court Mage Organization is an organization that protects the Emperor and conducts royal magical activities, and is also responsible for the security of the palace and the teaching of magic to the royal family. The leader is the archmage of the court. The Court Mage Organization has its own set of organizational structures, and does not accept the leadership of any institutional department other than the Emperor and the Court Archmage.
Palace Guard: The court warrior organization is the forbidden army in the palace, which is an organization that protects the emperor and conducts royal military activities, and is also responsible for court security and teaching martial arts to the royal family. The chief is the commander of the court. The palace guard has its own set of organizational structures, and does not accept the leadership of any institutional department other than the emperor and the imperial envoys.
Officials: The rank of state officials, ranging from the first to the sixteenth grade. In general, it is divided into five levels: state agency department, state agency department, government agency department, county agency department, and township agency department; There are special departments of the highest state institutions; There are more detailed two levels of li and pavilion, but the structure of li and pavilion is incomplete, some are relatively small, only the li long, no deputy position, some pavilions are relatively small, and the pavilion chief is not set. At present, the Feng Empire has a total of 12 states and 79 prefectures.
Prime Minister's Body: Composed of the First Minister, the Second Minister, and the Ministers (the number of whom may be determined by the Emperor). The Prime Minister's Corps is responsible for drafting the Emperor's edicts and formulating national policies, and is the main functional department for the operation of the state. The officers of the Prime Minister's Corps are all third-level officials.
First Chancellor: However, there are very few times in the history of the Empire when the First Chancellor is expressly prescribed by law as a second-class official.
Ministers: The emperor can appoint ministers at will, and ministers often have no real power, but only have the right to speak. Although there is no real power, if there is a right to speak, there is influence, and if it has influence on national politics, it is the only real power of the ministers at the same table.
Prime Minister: The rights and status of the prime minister are equivalent to the entire prime minister's group, but the state does not set up a prime minister in principle, and the prime minister's group is actually the product of dividing the prime minister's power. The Prime Minister is a first-class official.
Honorary Prime Minister: As the name suggests, an official who does not have the actual power of the prime minister, and the official position is generally second or first class.
Since the country has not had a prime minister for a long time, and the prime minister's group leads the government's work, the members of the prime minister's group are also called prime ministers unofficially.
Grand Court: Governed by three justices with equal powers. In the reform of the Feng Empire presided over by Kexin 140 years ago, the status was greatly improved, and it became one of the three major departments of the empire. The Supreme Court is the superior department of the Supreme Court and the Upper Imperial Historical Court, and is generally not responsible for hearing cases, but is mainly responsible for judging whether the decrees drafted by the imperial government (mainly referring to the Prime Minister's Corps, the six provinces and six ministries) are in accordance with the laws of the country. It was also responsible for giving opinions on decrees issued by the emperor. All three justices are third-class officials.
Military Department: Imperial Military General Headquarters, responsible for the deployment and arrangement of all military operations in the country, the chief is the Minister of War, the Minister of War is the highest level of officers, generally speaking, the movement of the national army needs to be jointly signed by the emperor and the Minister of War before it can be moved, but in history, the emperor has bypassed the Minister of War many times to directly issue orders on the movement of the army, and the Minister of War generally cannot order a large number of troops to move alone; Of course, in history, those rebellious military ministers could mobilize some of their own cronies, not to mention military ministers, officers could directly command their own cronies when they rebelled.
There are other provisions on the rank of officers, which are generally divided into three ranks: general, colonel, and lieutenant, and the two levels of colonel and lieutenant are divided into three levels: upper, middle, and less, and the general rank has five levels: general, large, upper, middle, and less. The Minister of War is a general.
The Prime Minister's Corps, the Supreme Court, and the Military Department are the highest institutions of the state, and the three are not subordinate to each other, and they have no ability to interfere with each other, and only the emperor can give orders to the three highest institutions. The three departments all have a slight restraining ability on the emperor, and whether or not they can produce a restraining effect depends on the emperor's own will. However, in history, there have also been people who have the identities of the Prime Minister's Corps, the Military Department, the Prime Minister's Corps, and the Supreme Court, but there has not been a person who has the status of the Military Department or the Grand Court.
Supreme Court: The highest court of the state, subordinate to the Grand Court, which is mainly responsible for hearing cases. The chief is the envoy of the capital, and the official rank is fourth. The subordinate state, prefecture, county, and township legal envoys shall review the laws and regulations in their respective levels and determine whether they are valid. In principle, there will be no more capital envoys at the township level.
Shangyu Historical Academy: The highest level of supervision department in the state, subordinate to the Grand Court, is the legal supervision department and the official supervision department. The chief is the imperial history of the capital, and the official rank is fourth. The subordinate prefectures, prefectures, counties, and township supervision envoys shall supervise the governments and legal departments in their respective regions. In principle, there will be no more supervision envoys at the township level and below.
Imperial Mandate Division: The chief is the emperor's commander-in-chief. It mainly supervises the implementation of the emperor's decrees. With the exception of the Imperial Envoy, who was sometimes one of the prime ministers, he had no power over the enactment of laws and regulations. The subordinate imperial envoys are mainly responsible for the implementation of the laws and regulations of the central government and large regions, and the envoys of prefectures, prefectures, counties, and townships are responsible for supervising the implementation of government documents and decrees in their respective regions at all levels. In principle, there will be no longer any orders at the township level.
The Government Council: Directly under the Prime Minister's Group, the national policy is implemented by the Government Council, which is led by the Chief Minister and the Second Minister, and has six subordinate departments: the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Ministry of Industry.
Ministry of Officials: Responsible for the appointment of officials, led by the envoys of the Ministry of Officials.
Ministry of Defense: A special department, mainly responsible for the country's defense, but nominally not organized, nominally under the Government Council, in fact the Ministry of Military Affairs is responsible. The chief is the defense envoy. The Ministry of Defense exists only to give the Council and the Prime Minister's Corps a certain say in military operations, but they still do not have the right to directly direct military operations.
Ministry of Finance: Responsible for national taxation, finance and other related work, and the chief is the financial envoy.
Ministry of Health and Security: Mainly responsible for the internal security of the country and the arrest of criminals. The chief is the Guardian Envoy.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs: responsible for foreign diplomatic activities. The chief is a diplomatic envoy.
Ministry of Industry: The agency in charge of construction projects, responsible for the construction of public buildings, water conservancy management, as well as the emperor's travel, palaces, and amusement parks. The chief is the envoy of the Ministry of Works.
In addition to the Government Council and the six ministries, there are still six departments at the same level as the six ministries, which directly belong to the Prime Minister's Group, collectively referred to as the six provinces, and the six provinces are:
Minh Hoa Province: Responsible for education, culture and related matters, and the chief minister is the head of Minh Hoa.
Ministry of Internal Affairs: Responsible for the arrangement of attendants, maids, and finances in the Imperial Palace, the construction and repair of large and small projects in the Imperial Palace, and the clothing, food, housing, and transportation of the Emperor, and the Chief Minister of Internal Affairs.
Ministry of Auditing: The chief auditor is responsible for supervising the financial compliance of all countries (excluding the military), including the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Finance, with the payment in place.
Ministry of Communications: Responsible for the transfer of national materials and documents, and the chief is the chief of transportation.
Ministry of Special Affairs: The nominal leader of various warriors with special abilities such as domestic magicians, warriors, and priests is actually more about identifying the identities of all warriors in the country, as well as supervising functions, and there are a large number of powerful warriors in it, responsible for supervising and even hunting down such warriors who cannot be restrained by secular laws. Although nominally it does not have the function of supervising religious activities in the country, it is in fact doing so. The Ministry of Special Affairs is headed by two people with the same power as mages and warriors, as well as its subordinate units. Of course, the Ministry of Special Affairs cannot lead, supervise, or judge court mages and court warriors.
Ministry of Commerce: Established 140 years ago in the Kesin Reforms, it regulates trade as well as imports and exports. The chief officer is the chief of commerce.
In principle, there will no longer be six provinces and six ministries at the level below the level.
Due to the state of war, the empire merged several states into regions, and set up special regional governors and commanders for each region, who were responsible for the allocation of resources, political and economic work of each state in the region, as well as communication and cooperation with the military headquarters of the region.
Each prefecture has a governor's envoy, each prefecture has a governor's envoy, each county has a county governor's envoy, and each township has a township governor's envoy to take charge of the administrative affairs of each prefecture, prefecture, county, and township.
Generally speaking, the deputy level of an official position is one level lower than that of his main position, for example, the governor of six ministries and six provinces is level five, and the deputy governor of six ministries and six provinces is level six.
In fact, the six ministries and six provinces have corresponding institutions at all levels of prefectures, prefectures, counties, and townships, of which only the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Minghua, the Ministry of Auditing, and the Ministry of Communications, the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Special Affairs, and the Ministry of Commerce have at least county-level institutions, while the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Defense, and the Ministry of the Interior have no corresponding organs at the prefecture, government, county, and township.
To sum up, the rank of Feng Empire officials can be roughly as follows:
Level 1: Prime Minister;
Level 2: Honorary Prime Minister;
Level 3: Prime Minister's Corps, Chief Justice;
The fourth level: the capital envoy, the imperial history, the emperor's general envoy;
Fifth level: the governors of the six ministries and six provinces, the governors and envoys of the regions, the deputy envoys of the capital, the deputy imperial historians, and the deputy envoys of the emperor;
Sixth level: deputy governors of six ministries and six provinces, deputy governors and envoys of various regions, and envoys of the emperor;
Level 7: Governor's Envoy;
Level 8: Envoy of the Deputy Governor of the State, Envoy of the State Governor, Envoy of the Commander, and Envoy of the Supervisor;
Level 9: Prefecture-level governors under six ministries and six provinces, and provincial governors;
Level 10: Deputy governors at the state level under the six ministries and six provinces, deputy envoys of the government, legal envoys, envoys of the capital, and supervision envoys;
Level 11: Prefecture-level governors under six ministries and six provinces, county magistrates;
Twelfth Grade: Deputy Governors of Six Ministries and Six Provinces, Deputy Governors of Counties, Envoys of the Laws of the County, Envoys of the Commanders, and Inspectors of the Counties;
Thirteenth level: county-level magistrates under six ministries and six provinces, township chiefs;
Level 14: Deputy county-level governors under six ministries and six provinces, deputy township envoys, township legal envoys, metropolitan envoys, and supervision envoys;
The fifteenth level: the township chief under the six ministries and six provinces, and the lieutenant chief;
Level 16: Deputy head of the township under the six ministries and six provinces, pavilion chief.
In addition, there are actually many officials under each department, such as officials in the state courts, in addition to the state, government, county, and township legal envoys, there are also many officials of various levels in various aspects and links, which are not listed here.
About 30% of the sixteen officials in the empire were hereditary nobles, and 90% of these 30 percent were concentrated in the top 10 ranks. Among the top 10 ranks, the imperial hereditary nobility accounted for about 20%, and the hereditary and non-hereditary nobility together accounted for 60% of them. Some of the estates of the hereditary nobility had reached or were sealed in lands ranging from li to prefecture, and these li, township, county, and prefecture were no longer appointed by the empire.
Imperial Meeting: The Imperial Council is divided into different scales, and the smallest is limited to the Prime Minister's Delegation, the three justices, and the Principal and Deputy Ministers of the Military Department; The largest can reach the level of honorary prime ministers, prime ministers, chief and deputy governors of six ministries and six provinces, three justices, as well as the imperial envoy of the capital, the imperial history of the capital, the chief and deputy ministers and generals of the military department, some general-level officers, and the chief and deputy governors of the imperial envoy and the imperial envoy. The maximum amount of the Imperial Council was to be held at least once a week, and the regional governors and governors were in principle eligible to participate in the Imperial Council (except for the smallest ones). For this reason, the largest Imperial Council is often referred to as the "Regular Imperial Council" on a daily basis.
Of course, as the ruler of the country, the emperor has the right to decide that anyone temporarily participates in any level of the imperial council, of course, this does not mean that this person has been promoted, there have been cases in history where state and government level officials have participated in the imperial council, and the participation is just to explain to everyone in detail some situations that only he knows, and after the meeting, he still returns to his original official position to continue.
Similarly, as the head of the state, the emperor could decide that any person and any number of people should meet at any time and place, but these meetings were not usually called imperial councils.
What's more, as the head of the state, the emperor could make any decision without going through a royal council or consulting with anyone. Of course, this would make the emperor's decision very resistant, and the average wise emperor would not do this.
The security of the palace and the safety of the emperor himself were protected by the court mages and the palace guards. Although the two organizations could not compete with other government departments for official or military ranks, the amount of money their leaders received was the level of a first-class official, but in terms of the scope of their powers, it was equivalent to six ministries and six provinces at most. But in the eyes of the world, the archmage of the court and the commander of the court have the status of equal to the prime minister's corps, the chief justice, and the minister of the military department.
Imperial Family: Those royal families who can't be emperors, some of them will be divided into hereditary nobles, and some of them can only stay in the palace, anyway, the palace is big enough, and there is no problem with living more people. However, most of the royal families had official positions, and their official positions and status were often enough for them to own a nice house in the imperial capital or somewhere.