At the trade talks between the two countries to be held at the beginning of next month, the host of the Daheng Empire is not Jiang Wanye, the foreign minister, but Ding Quankun, one of the ministers of staff of the Daheng Empire and in charge of economic and people's livelihood affairs.

Even though Jiang Wanye, the foreign minister, is already a high-ranking official in the empire, compared to Marquis Ding Quankun, he is still a small matter.

In the power system of the Daheng Empire, the real core authority is the Senate, which oversees the military and political affairs of the Daheng Empire.

The Senate of the Great Heng Empire was seven at the beginning, and it once reached the scale of thirteen at the beginning of unification, but then gradually reduced to the scale of eleven.

At present, there are eleven ministers of staff in the Senate of the Daheng Empire, of which there are four in the military system, usually serving as admiral-level bigwigs in the army and navy and the Guards, and after the establishment of the Supreme Command, these four people are generally the heads of the Joint Staff, that is, the Chief of the Joint Staff, followed by the Chief of Staff of the Army and the Navy, and then the Chief of Staff of the Guards under the Guards Command.

How to say it, the people in the Senate in the military general system are the four bigwigs of the military order system, and the military order system is very important in the military circles of the Daheng Empire, and it belongs to the system specifically responsible for mobilizing and commanding troops to fight.

However, military generals generally do not participate in the daily meetings of the Senate, and generally have major military affairs, and the Supreme Command holds its own meetings, and if it cannot be resolved internally, it will be directly reported to the Imperial Front, but they will not discuss with a group of civilian officials how to develop the army.

Therefore, strictly speaking, the daily members of the Senate are mainly civilian officials, and the military generals are only in name, so as to reflect the integration of civil and military affairs, and treat everyone equally.

There are seven people in the civil service system, and among these seven people, they are responsible for all civil affairs of the empire, among which Ding Quankun is relatively special.

Ding Quankun served as the Minister of Industry and Commerce for a long time, and was in charge of the economy and people's livelihood work as the Minister of Industry and Commerce, but later Lin Ziran adjusted the relationship between the Senate and the Government Council, making it clear that the Minister of Counsel will no longer directly serve as a minister of a certain ministry, and Ding Quankun will be promoted to vice president of the Senate, in charge of economic and people's livelihood work.

Unlike the military system, where the functions and powers are relatively clear, there are many things in the civilian system, and there are more than 20 ministries, departments and bureaus directly under the Government Council alone, and there are seven civilian and staff ministers.

One is the person in charge of the judicial system, which is usually rotated between the Metropolitan Procuratorate or the Supreme Court of Justice, an independent body.

The other is very special, and is in charge of many institutions directly under the imperial family, such as the secretary's office, the military attaché's chamberlain's office, the palace affairs department, and the imperial assets department.

In other words, there are a total of eleven Ministers of the Senate, and only five seats are reserved for the Council.

However, the Government Council is a huge institution responsible for many government affairs in the country, and there are more than 20 directly subordinate agencies, which means that each of the five people has to be in charge of multiple departments, and the work intensity is very high, and if you have to be specifically responsible for the work of a certain department, then it will be even busier.

Lin Ziran looked at the successive ministers of counsel under his hand, all of them were premature and decrepit, especially Ding Quankun, since he became the minister of counsel, this person has become thinner and thinner, and the dark circles under his eyes have not disappeared.

The year before last, he had the courage to find Lin Ziran, saying that he wanted to return to his hometown!

This Ding Quankun is only in his early forties, and if he is not sick or sick, he will return to his hometown......

Coupled with the fact that several other ministers were also sick, Lin Ziran felt that he couldn't embarrass them too much, and the reputation of exhausting the ministers under his command to death was not very good.

Therefore, they have been promoted to vice presidents of the Government Council, and at the same time, their ministers have been dismissed, which can be regarded as reducing their work pressure, and at the same time, they can better manage various departments.

As for the dean, it continues to be vacant.

Lin Ziran didn't want to make a president of the Government Council, a prime minister or something like that, and getting five vice presidents was already the limit of what he could accept.

At this time, the core power structure of the Great Heng Empire slowly formed today's structure!

The five vice-presidents of the Council in charge of various types of government affairs, the independent Metropolitan Prosecutor's Yuan, and the Supreme Court alternate to elect a Minister of Justice, a Minister of Imperial Affairs, Sect Affairs, and Nobility Affairs, and four generals in charge of military affairs.

These eleven were the core of the empire.

As the vice president of the State Council, Ding Quankun is also more important than several other ministers of counsel because he is the minister of staff in charge of economic and people's livelihood work.

Compared with Ding Quankun, Jiang Wanye, the foreign minister, is only a supporting role.

And the Daheng Empire sent Ding Quankun to the Krull Kingdom to participate in the trade meeting between the two countries, which is enough to see that the Daheng Empire attaches great importance to this trade meeting.

Ding Quankun went in person, not to say that in order to resume the import of top-level industrial equipment from the Krull Kingdom, don't expect this, as long as the Daheng Empire can't obtain high-end machinery and equipment from other countries and can't produce itself, they will restrict exports, if it is high-end equipment that can be obtained from Kekel and Walya, they didn't ban exports......

The Krull Kingdom is also shrewd, not only to restrict the high-end industrial development of Daheng, but also to give up the industrial market of the Daheng Empire!

In fact, even if the Krull Kingdom restricts the export of high-end equipment by raising tariffs and manufacturers raising prices, the amount of goods imported by the Daheng Empire from them is still very large.

At the same time, the Daheng Empire will continue to export a large number of agricultural and livestock products, primary mineral products, and civilian consumer goods to them every year.

The two countries are each other's largest trading powers.

As long as there is no war now, then it is impossible to give up the other party's market, otherwise, the losses will be too great!

This is true for the Kingdom of Krull, and it is also true for the Great Heng Empire.

This is also the reason why the two countries held high-level business meetings at a time when there was a rift in diplomatic relations between the two sides, and the Kingdom of Krull restricted the export of high-end equipment to the Daheng Empire.

Now, for both countries, neither side can give up the other's market, and if there is another rift, both sides must repair it, even if it is only superficially.

As the front station, Jiang Wanye arrived at the port of Needham in the Krull Kingdom on July 26, the 10th year of the Qiansheng Dynasty.

Although Needham was not the capital of the Krull Kingdom, their capital was only a few dozen kilometers away from Needham, and after the gradual expansion of Needham's urban area, their capital was actually included and became part of the Needham urban agglomeration.

Therefore, in a sense, Needham is also the capital of the Krull Kingdom.

Many of their core official institutions are based in Needham.

This time the talks between the two sides will also be held in Needham!

Jiang Wanye is not the first time to come to Needham, he used to be the vice minister of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, and he came to Needham many times during the period when he was in charge of international trade, so he is still familiar with Needham.

But once again, I still have a deep feeling for the development of Needham, which is a super urban agglomeration composed of a core urban area and a dozen affiliated urban districts, with a total population of millions.

Such a huge urban agglomeration and such a high population density are unique on the Blue Star, and there is no city with such a dense population even in the Great Heng Empire.

This is not because the Daheng Empire has a poor economy and a small population, but because the geographical climate of the Daheng Empire is superior, coupled with the large land area, and the Daheng Empire has a unique rural economy, so the urban branches of the Daheng people are traditionally more extensive, and there are a large number of small cities with thousands of people and tens of thousands of people around the rural areas.

In some core economic areas, there will be some cities with a population of hundreds of thousands, such as Chongke City, Deqing City, and Ansu City, but the number is not large, and they are generally state cities or other important commercial cities.

As for the super-large city, there are only two in the entire Daheng Empire, one is Jingshi and the other is Luohai!

However, Luohai City, which is the cultural and economic center of the Liangluo Plain, the Luohe River Basin, Shayang Bay, and the southern part of the empire, had a population of only more than 800,000 before reunification.

As the political center of the empire, as well as the economic and cultural center of the Jinghe River Valley, the imperial capital Jingshi has a combined population of more than 1.3 million people in the urban area and suburbs.

It seems that the area of these two cities is not small, but compared to the huge population of the Great Heng Empire, then it is small.

Moreover, there is another interesting feature of the cities of the Great Heng Empire, that is, the urban area is generally large, and the urban population density is relatively low compared to the cities of other countries.

The size of the Imperial Imperial City is not small, basically the same size as the Needham urban agglomeration, but the population is only about one-third of theirs.

This also leads to the fact that there are generally no high-rise buildings in the cities of the Great Heng Empire!

But Needham, the population density is high, although the city area is not small, but the population is larger, in order to accommodate more people, and because of the development of technology, their buildings are getting higher and higher.

Especially a block in the core city, all of which are tens of meters high!

Jiang Wanye stayed at the Needham Commercial Hotel, which is the most famous building in Needham City in recent years, and it is also a world-renowned building.

The hotel is built with a height of 46 meters, a total of 11 floors, and is equipped with hydraulic elevators, creating many historical firsts.

When Jiang Wanye took the elevator to check into the top suite on the top floor, he could see the Needham River outside the hotel from a high vantage point, and if he looked out, he could also see the port and the sea, and the scenery was excellent.

And there are many such buildings here in Needham, and there are even taller ones.

However, Jiang Wanye did not envy their tall buildings!

With so many people crowded into a small town, what kind of quality of life can there be?