Chapter 486: Military and Political Reform
The Ministry of Intelligence's original work of spying on people's livelihood, industrial and commercial development, science and technology, and other aspects of other countries was transferred to the corresponding departments of the Ministry of State Security and the Ministry of Commerce.
The Ministry of National Defense also has the Central Military Education Department under its jurisdiction, which is responsible for the management and enrollment of military academies at all levels.
Under the jurisdiction of the General Logistics Department, it is responsible for the logistics supply of the whole army, and the scheduling, management, distribution, and procurement of military materials such as tuntian, nomadic herding, and so on.
The construction of the Silk Road by land and sea was entrusted to the newly established Ministry of Communications, and the Ministry of Communications was also responsible for the road administration and shipping administration, and the secretary of the Ministry of Communications was Meng Jian.
Building a national highway network and developing and constructing maritime traffic routes are the key tasks of the Ministry of Communications.
The original Criminal Department was abolished, and several new departments refined their functions.
The first is the Ministry of the Interior, which is equivalent to the police duties of later generations, responsible for public security throughout the country, and all local garrison brigades are under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of the Interior, and the secretary of the Ministry of the Interior is still held by Manchu.
The second newly established department is the Ministry of Justice, which is in charge of investigating criminal lawsuits, formulating laws and regulations, and managing criminal prisons in various localities.
The third newly established department is the Ministry of Supervision, which is responsible for supervising civil and military officials, mainly civilian officials, of course, because the Ministry of National Defense has its own supervision department, and the secretary of the Ministry of Supervision is Jia Xu's eldest son, Jia Ji.
There was also the Ministry of State Security, which was responsible for all internal and external intelligence work other than military intelligence, counter-espionage work, and supervision of ordinary people.
Finally, the original Ministry of Industry was also split into a number of departments, the first of which was the Ministry of Industry, which was responsible for the industrial production of the whole country, including the production of military merits, which was originally the responsibility of the Ministry of War.
The Ministry of Industry is still Ma Jun, and Ma Dashen is now more focused on administrative management, and the various teams of the Academy of Sciences are doing scientific research and development.
The second is the Ministry of Construction, which is responsible for infrastructure construction nationwide, including water conservancy construction, urban construction, environmental construction, etc., and the secretary of the Ministry of Construction is Jia Kui.
This is the many departments under the jurisdiction of the State Council after the reform, the original division of functions is more reasonable, more clear, the ministry has set up departments, and the appropriate people are responsible for the corresponding work, and the efficiency has been greatly improved.
And Lu Bu is also planning a bigger political move, that is, to set up a senatorial council, and Jia Xu is tentatively appointed as the chairman of the senatorial council.
The Senate was set at 300 members, of whom one-third were former government and military officials who had relegated to the second line, and the remaining two-thirds were elected by government departments, military units, and counties of the country from among active officials, active military personnel, and ordinary people.
This veteran senate has great authority to examine the annual summary reports of the departments of the State Council and the work plans for the next year, and has the power to identify defects and order the parties concerned to rectify them.
It has the power to review the central government's foreign dealings and war operations, but His Majesty the Emperor has the final veto.
The members of these Senates are elected for a term of three years, with re-election every three years.
Of course, in this day and age, it is unlikely that representatives will be elected from among the people at the bottom, and the vast majority of ordinary people are still literate and wealthy, but this is already a great progress.
Since one-third of the composition of this Senate is former government officials and military personnel, and many of them are representatives of the gate lord aristocracy, they do not have much resistance to the Senate.
These nobles were more receptive to and deceived by such modest reforms, and over time, more and more of the poor would become officials, soldiers, and parliamentarians.
Their proportion was destined to increase gradually, and by that time, it would be too late for the nobles to regret it, even if they found out.
The civil rights of the governors of the states and counties, the assassins and the taishou, were greatly increased, while the military rights were greatly deprived, and the states and counties had separate military governors, subordinate to the Ministry of Defense.
Military districts are set up at the prefecture level, and military subdivisions are set up at the county level, with officers at the rank of major general and officers at the rank of colonel serving as commanders at the command of military subdivisions.
In this way, the assassin and the Taishou only have the right to mobilize the troops in their jurisdiction, but they have no right to command and recruit, and they are no longer the feudal officials who are grasped by the military and government in the traditional sense.
This political system of separation of civil and military rule has also fundamentally put an end to the emergence of warlord forces.
Although in the later period of the Han Empire, due to various reasons, new warlords appeared, a large part of the reason was the change in the political system of civil and military separation.
After the implementation of the military rank system, the formulation of the first batch of military ranks still focuses on the current military positions of the parties, such as the rank of corps commander, which is generally the rank of lieutenant general, and also by the larger corps, the corps commander is a general, such as the Egyptian Expeditionary Force and the Haotian Army.
The division commander level is generally the rank of major general, and a small number of division commanders with more seniority are the rank of lieutenant general.
The brigade commander rank is generally the rank of colonel, but generally if the division commander is a lieutenant general, then most of the brigade commanders below him are major generals.
The regiment commander rank is generally the rank of lieutenant colonel, the battalion commander is a major, the company commander is a captain, the platoon commander is a lieutenant and a second lieutenant, and the squad leader is a sergeant major or sergeant.
The biggest advantage of the military rank system is that in wartime, there are often multiple divisions and regiments fighting together, and at this time, the command is determined by the rank of the commander.
After the end of the civil war, with the exception of Central Asia and the Middle East and the northern steppes, there were foreign wars of varying scales, and most of the divisions and regiments of the Wehrmacht were administered territorially.
Territorial management means that each division and regiment has a clear definition of the prefecture and county in which it is stationed, and the commander of each division and regiment concurrently serves as the commander of the military district and military subdivision at the state and county level.
For example, for example, if Tai Shici's Ninth Division is stationed in Qingzhou, then Tai Shici concurrently serves as the commander of the Qingzhou Military Region with the rank of lieutenant general, and the three brigade commanders below him concurrently serve as the deputy commander of the Qingzhou Military Region, and the nine regiment commanders concurrently serve as the commanders and deputy commanders of the military divisions of each county.
Because some states have more than one regular division of the National Defense Force, they will distinguish between principal and deputy positions.
Because of territorial management, when each division recruits new recruits, it will also recruit local people to enlist in the nearest army.
In order to avoid a series of problems in the human situation caused by the long-term stationing of an army in one place, the divisions and regiments of the National Defense Forces will also rotate according to the length of military service.
At this stage, the compulsory military service system of the Han Empire stipulates that the military service period is four years, so the divisions and regiments of the National Defense Force will rotate the garrison area once every four years.
Each of the two prefectures has its own border garrison under its own command, which is supported by local finances like the local garrison brigades in the prefectures and counties, but is under the command and establishment of the Ministry of Defence.
The local garrison brigades, however, are all under the control of the Ministry of the Interior and belong to the paramilitary forces and reserve forces. Take a hundred plating on the latest chapter of "I am Fengxian Claw Book House" to read for free for the first time.