Institutional restructuring has always been the most difficult step, but fortunately, the power of the examination method has made many officials self-aware, and those who lack ability naturally dare not easily drill into the new organization, and those who aspire to get ahead are almost vying to go to the new department, especially many people in the household department want to transfer to the Ministry of Taxation and the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

The function of the tax department was originally in the household department, the surname of the director, the old officials are familiar with the old tax code, good at counting but not comprehensive, I thought that the career of this life is a three-product to the end, how to know that the tax department is independent, get a book title. This division under the jurisdiction of 37 cities (excluding the new city) tax matters, each city prefect has a transfer envoy to charge the city's taxes, and salt, mine, tea from the three products of the three full-time transfer envoys, directly to the book of report, the transfer of the envoy below there is a group of promotion, envoy, promotion, assistant and other small officials, can be said to be the largest number of division. Now it is necessary to add the city division, and it is also the meaning of a separate department.

Here I have to mention the 'city and county system' set by Taizong, with the city under the jurisdiction of the state and county, the city to the size of the management scale, the level of the administrative level, or according to the location and geography, the following large counties, Wang County for the state, the rest for the county. For example, Xingqing City has a large territory, but its popularity is insufficient and its income is low, although it is called a city, it is only the income level of Zhongxian County. Langya City is not a big place, but it has a special status, so it is called a city. The one who manages a city is not necessarily the four-pin prefect, but it may also be the six-pin county or the five-pin prefect. If a city has a full-time tax, then the two transporters are responsible for different taxes, and the following officials have overlapping functions and many redundant personnel. Now it is combined into one, and the full-time transfer is no longer independent, and the tax system of a city is merged, reducing a lot of empty officials.

The Ministry of Civil Affairs is another major head, household registration statistics, and the national yellow register is in charge of the civil registration department, which establishes national archives, conducts censuses, and is in charge of sponsoring orphans, the weak, the widowed and disabled, and carrying out social relief such as disaster relief and epidemic prevention.

After the divestment of the Ministry of Households, only the complete functions of the Ministry of Finance - the financial department in charge of accounting, the function of the branch department became the cashier, the treasure division was in charge of the issuance of currency, and then the Ministry of Industry's prudent department for auditing and settlement budgets was put in, all of which required professional financial personnel.

Li Fang has always had a tacit understanding with Yuan Yi, and took the initiative to propose to hold an internal examination for transfer, and all incumbent officials in the country who want to enter the new two ministries can come to Beijing to take the examination in June, and then specially mentioned to the emperor and asked the queen to check the questions. The emperor ignored him at all, and directly invited Xie Qing to discuss, not only consulting about the audit, but also showing him Gu Ci's plan for the royal estate.

and the honorable Xie Qing took over the question, and put forward a few more opinions.

First of all, with regard to the Ministry of Taxation, the current ordinary tax sources come from two aspects, one is the field tax, which has been apportioned into the mu for so many years, and the original Ding Yin and Tian Fu are combined into one to collect the tax in kind or currency, and the other is the commercial tax, which is the miscellaneous tax that the merchants hate. In the previous dynasty, it was unified into shop tax and road tax, but as a result, many magistrates were fattened, and the imperial court could not collect much money. Xie Qing's suggestion is that Tian tax is only cashier, and the part of fire consumption is inflated, which is equivalent to a disguised tax increase, and this part should be paid attention to. Merchants can implement the merchant registration system like a field to facilitate the assessment of political performance and tax collection, and businessmen can also avoid harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and only pay the rated commercial tax once a year, and the shop tax and road tax of small traders can also be exempted. For the salt, mineral, and tea divisions, the right to audit accounts can be increased under the registration system, so that tax evasion can be eliminated as much as possible.

The second is that at present, only the iron mine has run the royal industry to guarantee the tax, whether other minerals follow suit, and whether salt tea is controlled in the same way, which the emperor should consider carefully.

Thirdly, it is true that auditing is not limited to business, and if you want to audit the various government departments and departments, it is better to set up a special audit department in the Metropolitan Procuratorate to make up for the lack of investigation efforts of the imperial historians.

Finally, the vast majority of officials in Beijing are from the imperial examination, especially in the six ministries, even one of the pen posts may be a jinshi. However, what is needed in these places is someone who is good at counting, and the emperor has to help solve the identity problem.

After sending Xie Qing away, Yuan Yi immediately summoned Li Zong, Gu Ao, Jin Zhangsi and Yang Yushi to discuss the establishment of the household department and the audit department, and then recruited other scholars to discuss the establishment of the "Royal News" to replace the newspaper, allowing individuals to contribute, regardless of type, and subject to the review of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. and the abolition of the General Secretary and the Pedestrian Division, formerly under the Cabinet, to place all their functions under the Secretariat. The secretariat is placed in the west side of the palace of the heart of the heart, divided into two places, each cabinet elder in the outer part is equipped with a member, and one person is still accompanied every day, responsible for the summoning of the decree, and the internal department is responsible for the sending and receiving of the fold. It is also necessary to establish a numbering system for the folds, which should be ordered by region, position, and date, in which the dates of the book, receipt, recital, and approval and the signature of the circulator must be clearly indicated on the last page of the fold.

In the absence of a cabinet, the task of adjusting political affairs directly falls on a capable official, which shows that the cabinet in the future will only be a decision-making body and will not participate in the operation of specific affairs, which is very different from the practice of the former emperor's cabinet in controlling the draft and directly ordering the six ministries to implement the cabinet resolutions with cabinet approval.

This is a more efficient and less emotional emperor.

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The civil officials who have been tortured by the examination law are more adaptable and acceptable than the adjustment of the organization, because these clear effects on responsibilities and powers are obvious, so that they have a lot less pressure to be evaluated, and even the military department that belongs to the military post has no objection to the handover and the passing of the soldiers, there is no such people, they also have to send special people to pass on the message, this will just be more people who can be used, and they can pass on the unimportant daily letters from station to station, without one person running from beginning to end. Yicheng's life is simpler, sending and receiving local mail, cooperating with the local military vigilance, and even retaining the right to be dismissed, and Yu Lu is sent from the military department, and is not subject to the jurisdiction of the local government.

However, the adjustment of the civilian system is actually entirely for the purpose of forming a military attache system. In the past six months, Yuan Yi has been preparing for the national policy of establishing a new army system, creating elite soldiers and good generals, and subtly opening up territories.

The establishment of the Postal Department was just to bring the General Staff Department to independence, liberate the troops of the Military Department, enrich the team of scouts and scouts, and prevent them from doing such simple work as running errands. In addition, under the operation of this reform, many post men and soldiers who are not up to the requirements of the Ministry of War can give priority to continuing to be hired and working in the post office, or simply lease the façade of the post house and engage in small business operations, but they are missing a layer of official skin, but they can make a living under the royal industry. Even in poor areas, the food brigade of the Royal Commissary will go there to do business, and it will not cause most people to lose their jobs or lose their livelihoods. This is really thanks to the little girl, she has always considered people's livelihood thoughtfully.

Shang Ying used the 'art of hegemony' to change the law and build the Qin State into a war machine, so that he had the achievement of unifying the six countries, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty also used a little bit of the militarization system of the Qin State, so that the expansion of the Han Dynasty could not be stopped. What he wants to do is not much different from these two emperors, the same needs to mobilize the whole country, emphasize discipline, encourage military merit and strengthen the army, but he can't do this, he can only simmer slowly, raise military generals to suppress civilian officials, and guide them.

In his conception, Dayu's military system has a Privy Council under the jurisdiction of the whole army, which is in charge of public opinion and formulates strategic policies, and is divided into military departments, military departments, public opinion departments, and military departments.

The military headquarters is the existing four armies, including the Anton Navy, plus the artillery corps. The local guards were withdrawn, and the elite soldiers were merged into the Fifth Army.

There is not much difference between the military department and the current military department, the Carriage and Horse Division, the Arsenal Division, the Quanxuan Division, and the Meritorious Division.

The Department of Postal Affairs was subordinate to the Ministry of Public Opinion, and there was also an Intelligence Department that specialized in spying on the military situation of foreign countries, and a Propaganda Department that monitored the movements of officers and men throughout the army and propagated the patriotic ideas of loyalty to the monarch. He hasn't figured out exactly what to do in the Propaganda Division, but referring to the little girl's argument, he feels that it is as useful as controlling public opinion.

The military department is composed of the Retirement Division, which is responsible for the resettlement of veterans, the Inspection Department, which is in charge of the armed forces below the county lieutenant level, and the Township Courage Division, which organizes the militia in border villages.

The Privy Council also has three to five commanders like the cabinet, and the commander-in-chief must be Gu Yao, and veterans like Chi Rui and Ren He are wasteful to manage miscellaneous matters in the later stage or study weapon improvements, and they must be brought in.

He did not think about whether the General Staff Department should be established, and he needed to further consult with the Military Department and several other generals.

In addition, the martial arts hall has been open for several years, and it has recruited a lot of noble children and poor children, not to mention other effects, just physical fitness, it is definitely up to standard. Before the establishment of the Privy Council, the martial arts atmosphere of the capital was brought up through the lecture hall, which changed the impression that the previous heroes were idle because they were not valued by the emperor. Several coastal cities have added sailor courses in Mengxue and Yishu over the years, and as long as they find a group of veterans who are proficient in naval warfare, they can set up a boat master hall in Andong City.

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Before the Dragon Boat Festival, the capital, which had not heard of military information for several years, ushered in a long-lost excitement because of the gathering of the four generals.

Guan Zizai and Gu Chong both came to report on the establishment of Xincheng and the two hostile situations in the northwest, while Xia Ji came to report on the preparations of the Zhoushi Hall and ask for the next instructions of the Municipal Shipping Division, and waited for the new ship of the Industrial Construction Bureau to enter the port and accompany the Xindi for acceptance.

Duan Ang entered Beijing with Duan Fukuan, the strongest Nanzhao king in the southwest, Qu Chengyu, a powerful person in Annan, and Yong Weiqiang, the king of Bi, who felt that all countries were coming to the court, but the three kingdoms had their own demands.

Nanzhao wanted to borrow troops to fight against Tubo and then unify the six edicts, Tubo hooked up with the Xiongnu, no longer went west out of the plateau to set foot in the Western Regions, but turned to the southeast into the Hengduan Mountains, levied heavy taxes on the other five edicts, and set up camps and forts at dangerous places, and also sent troops to help defend Nanzhao and Pi every year. The Five Edicts were forced by the threat of Tibet, and rebelled against the Southern Zhao, who could not bear to attack his own people because he had destroyed the other Five Edicts a hundred years ago and unified the Erhai region, so he wanted to use the power of Dayu to relieve the power of Tibet.

Qu Chengyu fled and came, is Jia Peng's key target in Annan, very fond of Yu Dynasty culture, this time because of the civil war, at the request of the people, willing to return to Dayu forever. However, Annan can be described as internal and external troubles, and now there is a 'monarch' Chen Rili in the north, confronting Li Hengli in the south, and there is a city in the south to make trouble, and the Hongmaoyi people in Saigon are also preparing to go north to occupy more plates, in order to completely control the Beibu Gulf, and compete with the army of Franc Ji on Chongming Island. After discussing privately with Li Hengli, a group of ministers, nobles and wealthy businessmen like Qu Chengyu who were persecuted by Chen Rili were willing to include the whole country in the territory of Dayu, and asked the Yu army to go south to garrison the border to solve the problem of Northern Chen and fight against Waiyi.

When entering the city, the men and women of the Bi country who sang and danced beat the big bronze drum covered with conch shells and exquisite decorations and engravings, led several elephants and many peacocks, and even specially offered a white peacock and a white elephant, so that the people of the capital could relive the Tang Dynasty's "Bi Guole", which was an eye-opener. They were beaten by one of the five edicts, and Siam was pressed tightly in the south, so they had to turn to Nanzhao for help, and found that the two could not defeat Tubo and the five edicts together, so they followed together to ask for **.

With the help of the post office and the interpreter, Honglu Temple properly arranged the people, and began to train them in etiquette and introduce the common sense and customs of Dayu, so that they could hold the teaching workshop and wait for the emperor's summons with peace of mind.

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At this time, Shenzong directly invited the four generals, the three princes and Xiao Lu to the east side hall of the Yangxin Palace, the layout inside is not the appearance of a study, but a particularly large round table in the middle, a huge screen on the front wall, a flat whiteboard on the left, and a few small tables on the right.

Yuan Yi didn't listen to the report of the four people first, and opened the huge curtain behind him with his backhand, and on the wall hung the 'Universal Public Opinion Map' that had been slowly perfected in private for so many years, which was more detailed than the survey that was handed over to Honglu Temple.

Except for Gu Chong, who was quite calm, everyone else was deeply stunned.

Without waiting for them to take a closer look, the little inner servant pulled the rope and rolled up the map, revealing the Eurasian territory of the same size below, and Yuan Yi invited everyone to step forward. The map is drawn on a flat cloth surface, the back panel of the wall is an iron plate, and there are small flags of various colors and shapes in the bottom of the picture, and the bottom is made of magnets, which will not fall off. On this territory, the western border of Dayu is on the line of Heng Shan Mountain, Green Ridge and Our Lady Peak (Himalayas), south to Piguo, Java and other island countries, east of Goryeo, Dongying, north of the ice ocean.

Shenzong drank tea quietly, and when everyone's shocked expressions faded, he motioned for the chamberlain to hang a tree-like diagram on the edge of the whiteboard, which was the organizational structure of the Privy Council he had envisioned.

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The contents of the first meeting of the Privy Council were unknown to outsiders except for the people who were in the room that day, but the resurgence of the Huns in the west, the resurgence of foreign races in the north, the robbery of ships by pirates in the east, and the help of the southern countries spread throughout China with the publication of the inaugural issue of the "Royal News".

In addition to announcing that "those who write and disseminate private newspapers indiscriminately are all in violation of the system", it also broadens the way of speech, allowing literati to write according to the format, and use the postal department to submit articles to the newspaper, conceal and sign for their own convenience, and can pinpoint current affairs, publish new works, and establish topics for debate, etc., and the newspaper will publish them on a merit-based basis. In order to make the official attribute of the newspaper not so strong, the last page of the newspaper also leaves an "advertising page", such as a business or a local specialty needs to do national publicity, welcome to come or write to negotiate the cost and content issues.

The newspaper was published once every five days, and it was enough to be distributed from Beijing to the most remote post houses within half a month through the Postal Department. In order to cooperate with the publicity of the newspaper, Gu Ci specially asked for an additional 'billboard' to be distributed to each post office, so that they could hang it by the door to publicize - the newspaper was available to everyone, and it was the only one in the country that was allowed to publish it, and it was not a private newspaper that confused the public, but could write letters to submit articles, and there were new plays to watch. And she made the first version of the paid advertisement, soliciting special herbs from all over the world, and the specific price can be discussed in detail with the hospitals in each city.

The newspaper was printed by the Royal Book Company, and after the improvement of the Industrial Construction Bureau, it has been possible to engrave the front and back at the same time, and the speed and quantity are guaranteed. The post office leaves a page for each issue as the bottom, and counts the purchase volume in various places once every three months, and it can be raised by one-tenth in the next quarter to avoid wasting paper. If you can't sell out, donate it to Mengxue as a teaching material......

As the first new thing in the first year of the Divine Sect, the huge impact of the newspaper was only apparent more than two months later.