Chapter 586: Year Number
Since the end of the enthronement ceremony, Lin Ziran has been busy with his feet not touching the ground.
As soon as the enthronement ceremony ended, Lin Ziran convened the core civil and military officials under his command, including the army and navy generals and ministers and other important officials for an important meeting.
The meeting lasted more than six hours and ended in the evening.
There was only one thing that was discussed during such a long meeting, and that was to determine the basic structure of the new dynasty and the framework of the various administrative institutions.
First of all, the first thing that was approved at the meeting was that the empire would continue to use 'Heng' as the name of the country, and the name of the country would still be the Great Heng Empire.
In fact, there is nothing to discuss, because no matter how the dynasty has changed for more than a thousand years, the name of the country has never changed.
Of course, in popular terms, in order to distinguish the dynasties, it is still called a certain dynasty according to the surname of the royal family, for example, the fifth dynasty is the Zhou dynasty, and the Daheng people generally call it the former Zhou dynasty.
The Sixth Dynasty Ji Dynasty can now also be called the former Ji Dynasty.
The current new dynasty can be called the Seventh Dynasty, and at the same time, because of Lin Ziran's surname, it can also be called the Lin Dynasty, but this is just a popular name.
The country established by Lin Ziran is still the Great Heng Empire.
Even more strictly speaking, he did not establish a new state, but snatched the Great Heng Empire from the Ji clan.
It's a legacy relationship.
Although there is nothing to discuss, the name of the country is actually very important, and it is also a necessary measure for the new dynasty to show the righteous name of orthodoxy to the outside world.
Determining the country name is to determine the year name, Lin Ziran's year name has actually been pondered a long time ago, there are several candidates, and finally a very tall year name was chosen: Qiansheng.
What does this era name mean?
The heaven that Qianzhi refers to, and the saint refers to the gods, which together are the gods of the heavens, and when used on Lin Ziran, that is, Lin Ziran is not a human being, but a god in the heavens and the earth!
And this kind of era name is tall at a glance, but anyone who is a little thinner in the skin, but who has a trace of face in his heart, he doesn't dare to use it.
No matter how powerful Luo Mazi and Liang Chenglei blow, if they were normal people and ascended the throne as emperors, they would not dare to use this kind of era name.
But Lin Ziran used it!
Because he was not originally from this world, he came from the earth, and he also came with countless advanced knowledge of the earth, for the people in this world, there is actually no difference between him and the gods from the sky.
Moreover, Lin Ziran has always been thick-skinned!
Therefore, the final era name is Qiansheng, and the subsequent era name will be notified to the world, and the new historical dynasty will immediately begin to use Qiansheng as the era name to show the change of dynasty.
Therefore, from the beginning of determining the year name, if the time is recorded internally in the subsequent Lin Dynasty, it can no longer be used for the fifty-third year of Yongchang, but for the first year of Qiansheng.
After the country name and year name were decided, Lin Ziran and their next discussion was the establishment of the institution.
This is actually simpler, because before that, the Marshal's Office was actually a complete ruling body, with various departments, the Army Command, and the Navy Command.
To put it mildly, the institutions that a dynasty should have in the previous Marshal's Mansion have been there, but many of them are not very perfect, and there will be some duplication and conflict in the business under the jurisdiction of some institutions.
So this time the discussion is mainly about these duplicative, conflicting institutions, sorting out many issues, and then clarifying the terms of reference of each department.
Of course, by the way, change the name......
For example, the name of the Daheng Unification Army needs to be changed.
The term unification army, out of the Daheng Unification Marshal's Mansion, is naturally going to be changed now.
How to change?
It's very simple, the army calls it 'Daheng Imperial Army', and the navy calls it 'Daheng Imperial Navy', which is simple and convenient!
The garrison division was renamed the 'Royal Guards of the Great Heng Empire'.
However, this change in name did not affect the changes in the internal units, and the army still had 13 infantry corps, three cavalry corps, and four artillery brigades, in addition to more than a dozen garrison divisions, fortress coastal defense, river defense regiments, brigades, and other units in various states.
The navy still consists of the First Fleet, the Second Fleet, and the Third Fleet, the temporary First Artillery Fleet is renamed the Jinghe Fleet, and some of the inland river vessels remaining in the Luo River are renamed the Luo River Fleet.
The high-level organs of the army and navy remain unchanged, and the supreme command organ of the army is still the army high command, which is under the personal control of the emperor and consists of army departments, directorships, and bureaus.
The supreme command body of the Navy is also the Navy High Command, which is commanded by the emperor himself, and consists of various departments of the Navy.
On the whole, there have been no real changes in the affairs of the army, except for a slight change in name.
It's a time of war, and the troops are fighting quite well, so there is no need to change it.
For good or bad reasons, it is impossible to make large-scale adjustments to this kind of joint eye.
There has not been much change in the army, but there have been significant changes in other areas.
The first is the establishment of the Government Affairs Yuan, which consists of 13 ministries, including the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, the Ministry of General Affairs, the Ministry of the Army, and the Ministry of the Navy, as well as five independent general bureaus, including the General Administration of Customs and the State Administration of Taxation, with a total of 18 directly under its jurisdiction.
Among them, the War Department and the Navy Department are relatively special, and it is clearly stipulated that the ministers of these two ministries must be civilian officials, and the deputy ministers are to arrange a military attache or civilian officer according to the situation, but they do not make any mandatory requirements, and at the same time, these two ministries are not responsible for the operational affairs of the troops.
For example, military recruitment, national defense research, military salaries, professional demobilization, aftermath matters and so on.
Correspondingly, the Army High Command and the Navy High Command abolished the corresponding institutions and reorganized them into the War Department and the Navy Department.
The setting up of the War Department and the Navy Department is, to a certain extent, to allow civilian officials to have a certain degree of control authority over the military, so as to avoid the military from dominating the army, and finally make all kinds of ****.
On the other hand, however, the operational command of the army and navy was separately accountable to the emperor and not to the government council, so the army maintained a great deal of independence.
This is a very typical balance setting, and it is also Lin Ziran's attempt to balance the conflict between civil and military, whether the effect is good or not, wait for the follow-up to see, if the effect is not good, or if there is any problem, then continue to improve.
In addition to the three major organs of the Army Command, the Navy Command, and the Government Affairs Yuan, Lin Ziran also separated the Supervision Department that was previously under the Patrol Police Department, and the original task of this Supervision Department was specifically used to supervise officials and fight corruption, but now it is to use this Supervision Department to expand, supplement, and finally set up a completely independent Metropolitan Procuratorate to supervise hundreds of officials and fight corruption.
This institution is also under the jurisdiction of the emperor!
In addition, the division (adjudication body) that was previously under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Justice was also separated, and after being supplemented and expanded, a new court was established, and like the Metropolitan Procuratorate, branch courts were set up in various regions to take full charge of adjudication affairs.
As a result, the new dynasty also formed a three-division organization composed of three institutions: the Patrol Police Department, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the Court Authority.
As for the legal department within the Government Council, this body is to study and propose various legal provisions, and another business is to manage the legal profession.
In fact, there is nothing new in the above-mentioned institutional settings, but there is another institution that surprises everyone.
At the end of the meeting, Lin Ziran personally proposed the establishment of this institution, and personally took out a handwritten constitution of the institution.
The institution has no fixed staff, no rank, no salary, and all personnel are selected by the emperor himself, and they need to be on duty in front of the emperor at ordinary times to accept inquiries at any time.
At first glance, this seems to be an institution that has no clear personnel, and it seems that cats and dogs can be transferred in because of the emperor's words, which seems to be child's play, but everyone sees that the people of the institution can accompany the emperor and accept inquiries at any time, but anyone with a little political consciousness knows very well that this institution is definitely not simple.
At the end of the meeting, Lin Ziran personally selected seven people to be on duty in the Senate.
And after these seven people were elected to the Senate, they did not even receive even a single official title.
But after seeing who these seven people are, then everyone can know that this is the core authority of the new dynasty!
The first seven ministers selected by the Senate are Wu Guanlin, chief of the army staff, and Duan Hongxiao, director of the navy command department.
The above two people are serious army and navy bosses, among them Wu Guanlin, even if Xu Zhongshu and Liang Chenglei are the generals who lead the party, they have to call themselves juniors in front of him.
Although Wu Guanlin did not lead troops, he single-handedly assisted Lin Ziran in establishing the Daheng Unification Army.
Duan Hongxiao is also a well-deserved boss in the navy.
And the military's third-party force, the Guards system, there are also people, that is, the newly released Imperial Chief Military Attache and Commander of the Guards Army, Zhang Hanqiu, who was transferred back by Lin Ziran to serve as the new commander of the Guards, preparing to expand the garrison division with only one division size to more than three divisions.
In addition to these three military figures, there is also the Minister of Finance, Han Haochuan, who is in charge of the money bags of the entire new dynasty.
Then there is the Minister of Industry and Commerce, Ding Quankun, who is not only the Minister of Industry and Commerce, but also the supervisor of the Wartime Production Committee.
In addition, there is Zhao Qi, the head of the patrol police department, this person is the former commander of the garrison division, but this person really has no talent for the army, and later Lin Ziran simply let him go to the patrol police department as a minister, although it is not good to say that this person is not good as an official, because his education is too low, he can't even write a serious article, but he can be the head of the patrol police department from the head of the garrison division, and even entered the Senate, which is enough to prove that this person seems to be not good, but in fact he is shrewd.