Zhao Laoqi, who basically didn't have any limelight, seemed a little unknown in a group of high-level officials, and many officers and local officials in the new dynasty system had never even heard of this person's name.

However, this person, like Luo Mazi, Wang Dao, and Ding Quankun, is an old bandit, and he was already Lin Ziran's henchman during the banditry period.

In the following years, he served in the field army for a period of time, once serving as the division commander, but not long after Lin Ziran was transferred to the garrison division and served as the commander of the garrison division.

However, to a certain extent, Lin Ziran trusts 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 run to serve as the head of the patrol department, or even become a staff member on duty in the Senate?

It's not close to the body and mind, and it's impossible to get mixed up to this point.

And Zhao Laoqi, who can always maintain his intimate identity, is also more shrewd than outsiders imagine, during his tenure as the commander of the garrison division, the combat effectiveness of the garrison division is not to say, but in terms of loyalty, he has always done a good job, and has become the last sharp knife in Lin Ziran's hand.

Zhao Laoqi, who can do this, is actually not simple!

The last person elected to the Senate was the Minister of General Affairs Xing Shijie.

This person is more special, he does not belong to the group of old people who started from the Daheng United Army, but belongs to the professional bureaucrats who came over halfway, originally the director of the General Affairs Department of Luo'an County, and then joined Lin Ziran.

Step by step, following the growth of the entire Daheng Unification Army collective, he previously served as the head of the General Affairs Department under the Marshal's Office, and this General Affairs Department is under the Marshal's Office, mainly responsible for personnel work and other messy things.

But the main job is still human resources.

And the head of the department in charge of personnel has always belonged to one of the core high-level, even if the outside world does not know about Xing Shijie himself, but this does not prevent him from becoming one of the core high-level in the new dynasty.

The top bosses of the three military departments, and the four people in charge of industry and commerce, money, personnel, and public security in the civilian system.

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 particularity of this Senate.

This is also the effect that Lin Ziran wants to achieve, he wants to make this Senate the real center of power of the empire.

But at the same time, it gave the institution great restrictions, except for receiving inquiries from the emperor and providing various suggestions, but in fact it did not have any practical powers.

This institution was established by Lin Ziran with reference to the Ming Cabinet in ancient times, the Qing Military Machinery Department, and a top authority in a modern country in later generations.

The establishment of this institution will bring a certain impact to the traditional Daheng political system, there has never been a similar institution in the history of Daheng before, and the system of Daheng for thousands of years is still very primitive and even loose in Lin Ziran's view.

The most obvious is the weakening of imperial power, and the emperor lacks sufficient authority to control the whole country completely.

The early dynasties of Daheng's history implemented a very typical feudal system, with the royal family and the aristocracy ruling the world together, and the emperor was only the largest nobleman to some extent.

Subsequently, the aristocracy was gradually suppressed by the imperial family, the fiefdoms of the nobles became smaller and smaller, and the territories directly under the royal family became larger and larger, but 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 aristocracy was completely marginalized, and in addition to its prominent background, the aristocracy no longer had clear real power.

However, it was replaced by a sharp rise in the power of local officials, and the state and county guards belonged to local officials who could manage both the military and the government, and this centralized system of local officials directly led to the feudal town in the later period of Daheng.

Now after Lin Ziran established the Lin Dynasty, he is going to completely eradicate the living soil of the feudal town, how to get rid of it?

Centralization of imperial power!

The core powers of the local government, such as military power and financial power, should be brought together and power should be further centralized.

After the centralization of power, because the power of the ministers of the central organs increased sharply, Lin Ziran divided the power by dividing the various institutions and setting up more independent institutions.

The Government Council alone has 18 independent bodies, the Army High Command has 8 independent bodies, and the Navy High Command has 8 independent bodies.

Among these three major institutions, there is no general responsible person, the Government Council is just a virtual head, but there is no president or vice president, and the high command of the two armed forces has not set up posts such as commander-in-chief and deputy commander-in-chief.

At the same time, the Guards were also independent and directly under the jurisdiction of the Emperor, and the secretary's office reorganized from the adjutant's office, the military attaché's chamberlain reorganized from the guard room, and the newly established palace office were also independent institutions.

In addition, the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Court of Justice are also independent institutions.

And in this way, there are almost fifty institutions directly under the emperor's direct jurisdiction alone!

In addition, Lin Ziran also clearly stipulated that the local chief officials above the county level had the authority to report directly to the emperor, and if necessary, the county guard and the state order could directly forward the report through the secretary's office, without going through the ministries.

In this way, there will be more institutions and officials under the direct management of the emperor!

And is it possible for Lin Ziran to directly manage so many institutions and personnel?

Impossible!

But can he directly set up a permanent body to oversee them?

No, in this case, this institution will undoubtedly become a hidden danger and empty the emperor in the future, which is not in line with the principle of imperial centralism.

In the end, the measure taken by Lin Ziran was to set up a half-virtual and half-real Senate, and transfer the ministers to be on duty to provide advice to himself, but these people did not have any name and actual authority, and at the same time, if the Senate was on duty, it was not a position, and it could be increased or decreased at any time, and they could come and go as soon as they were called.

There is no doubt that even then, there will be problems.

But this is already a relatively balanced measure that Lin Ziran can do at present.

Any form of system will have loopholes and defects, and all Lin Ziran can do is to use it as much as possible and be ready to improve it at any time.

To a certain extent, the establishment of the Senate also reflects one of the most important features of the political system of the new dynasty: the centralization of central imperial power!

After the first day of the long meeting, after finalizing the basic political structure of the new dynasty, the second day of the meeting was to adjust the specific division of labor among the various departments and institutions.

This has a greater impact on various institutions, but for Lin Ziran himself, it is just a means of balancing.

For example, the power to collect taxes will be separated from the Ministry of Finance, and the new agency, the State Administration of Taxation, will be fully responsible.

At the same time, the State-owned Assets Management Department was also separated from the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, and then the State-owned Assets Management Committee was established to comprehensively manage all assets under the official capital.

At the same time, the Railway Coordination Committee and the Shipping Management Committee during the Marshal's Office were merged with the Ministry of Communications to establish a new Ministry of Communications to comprehensively manage transportation affairs such as railways and shipping.

Another example is to combine cultural and entertainment, publicity, education and other affairs, and then establish a Ministry of Culture and Education to take full charge of cultural and entertainment, publicity, education and other affairs.

There are a lot of adjustments, but more of them are in the details.

After three consecutive days of meetings, the various institutional systems of the new dynasty were fully and preliminarily determined.

In the end, Lin Ziran and they only had one last important question left, that is, where is the capital?

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