On February 19, the thirteenth year of Yongli, the rotation and adjustment of officials in the Qi Wangfu and the local provinces was completely completed, and after a few days of rest, Chen Wen issued an order to convene a meeting on the reform of the institutional system under the Qi Wangfu. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The reform of the official system is something that Chen Wen has long been in mind to do. However, before that, the Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Ming military groups had not yet reached a level suitable for the reform of the official system in the control area, especially the newly recovered provinces, and there were still a large number of opposition gentry in Jiangnan, so it was postponed to this day.

However, today, through a series of means, such as the division of Huguang into provinces, the relocation of military households in Guizhou, the abolition of the authority of the local government to Tuntian, the crackdown on the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River, the strict implementation of the new policy in Zhejiang, and the long-term defense of the area, the control of the control area has reached a sufficient level, and the time is finally ripe.

"With the expansion of the control area and the complexity of affairs, the old institutions of the Qi Wangfu are no longer sufficient. Therefore, since March of the thirteenth year of Yongli, the five divisions of the Qi Palace, including the judge, the degree, the construction, the army and the navy, were newly established. ”

"The chief of the trial and litigation department is served by Sun Yu, the former governor of Zhejiang, who is responsible for the appointment and dismissal of civil officials in all departments under the Qi Wangfu and the provinces......"

"The civil service training course located in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province was relocated to Nanjing, and placed under the management of the Department of Propaganda and Education, which is responsible for training affairs and shall not interfere in the appointment of personnel subordinate to the Department of Trial and Prosecution......"

The civil service training course was first held in Jinhua Mansion, and later moved to Hangzhou as Hangzhou regained its status as the provincial capital and Sun Yu, the governor of Zhejiang Province in charge of the civil service training school, went north. Now, Sun Yu has been reappointed as the chief of the trial and litigation department, and he has the power to appoint and dismiss personnel, so it is naturally inconvenient for the civil official training class to be placed under the management of the trial and litigation department, and the mission and education department is responsible for training affairs, and the trial and litigation department is responsible for appointment, which is also the proper meaning.

"The chief of the degree branch is Wang Jiang, the former governor of Jiangxi, who is responsible for the taxation, financial planning, and expenditure of all departments under the Qi Wangfu and the provinces......"

Finance is a major matter of the country, and the chief person in charge of finance is often known as a plan. Originally, the Qi Wangfu had a series of related institutions, and even most of the subordinate departments of the Du Branch Division were old, but Chen Wen did not establish such a special department before, but was directly responsible. Nowadays, the territory is getting bigger and bigger, and it also needs a professional talent who is good at this task to manage it.

Personnel and finance are the two most important departments of the government, and Chen Wen clearly divided the responsibilities of Sun Yu and Wang Jiang respectively, which did not surprise the participants. Sun Yu has always been in charge of the civil training class, and it is natural for him to accept personnel management; And Wang Jiang is a veteran financial expert, whether it was on Dalan Mountain back then, or in Jiangxi in the past few years, the financial plan is praised, and it is not surprising.

"The general director of the construction department, served by Gu Shouli, the former governor of Nanjiang, is responsible for the research and development and manufacturing ...... tuntian, water conservancy, operation, machinery research and development, and manufacturing"

"The provincial tuntian and all coolie camps are under the management of the Construction Division, and the Jinhua Machinery Manufacturing Workshop, Nanchang Agricultural Machinery Manufacturing Workshop, Jiangxi Jingdezhen Imperial Ware Workshop, Nanjing Weaving Bureau, Hangzhou Weaving Bureau and Suzhou Weaving Bureau are under the management of the Construction Division. In addition, the workshops under the Department of Military Industry are still under the direct management of the Department of Military Industry, and the Department of Construction shall not interfere or interfere with ......"

Gu Shouli is one of Chen Wen's earliest staff, and he is the third governor-level civil official of the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Ming Army Group.

The next two divisions, the Army Department and the Navy Department, are relatively new organs, which are respectively responsible for the selection, training, suppression, herding, postal and public opinion of officers and non-commissioned officers of the army's divisions and battalions, local garrisons, the navy's East China Sea Fleet, the South China Sea Fleet, the Yangtze River Cruise Fleet, and the inland river fleets of various provinces.

In addition to these five divisions, the functions of the original Propaganda and Education Department, the Criminal Prison Department, the General Staff Department, the Military Supervision Department, the Military Justice Department, the Military Training Department, the Quartermaster Department, the Military Industry Department, the Military Intelligence Department, and the Supervision Department remained basically unchanged, and the provincial governors were still directly responsible to the Qi Palace. The Zhejiang New Army Martial Arts School in Jinhua and the Zhejiang New Navy Martial Arts School in Ningbo are under the jurisdiction of the Military Training Department and are no longer under the responsibility of the Propaganda and Education Department......"

The provincial governors of the provinces, which were reorganized from the old guard and shouldered the functions of the People's Armed Forces Department in later generations, had the function of primary training, but their more important function was to manage the military households in various places, especially the reserve troops in them, and their rights were greater than those of the People's Armed Forces Department. For example, this decisive battle with the gentry in Jiangnan was that the provincial governors who exported the goods selected reserve troops to accompany them.

In order to prevent the formation of a militaristic system that is frightening to normal countries, the military is often divided into three aspects: recruitment, training, and support, to achieve separation of powers and checks and balances. In the Song Dynasty, this principle was both a privy envoy, a command envoy, and a transit envoy, and in later republics, the General Political Department, the General Staff Department, and the General Logistics Department, and even in foreign countries, they were all roughly the same in principle, and the difference was nothing more than a title and subtle aspects.

In the Ming Dynasty, the army was recruited by the military department, trained by the Metropolitan Governor's Office and later the Metropolitan Governor's Office of the Five Armies, and guaranteed by the local health office. However, when the civilian officials completely overwhelmed the military generals, the functions of the governors of the five armies were eroded by the civilian officials, and the system of the local guards was corrupted, everything entered a period of national stability, and the civilian officials controlled everything - as long as the central government's ability to control the military generals declined, the military generals would be in danger of being transformed into feudal towns at the local level, and the Guanning Army of the Chongzhen Dynasty and even the Chu Zhen Zuo Liangyu at the end of the period, the four towns of Jiangbei in the Hongguang Dynasty, and Zheng Zhilong in Fujian were all the same.

Chen Wen's new system has not yet been completely completed, and the meaning of the existence of many departments is for the existence of the next war, Chen Wen is personally in charge of military affairs, and the various departments in military affairs are refined, so that Chen Wen can deal with threats from all sides like an arm, especially when he still has more different means.

The functions and powers of the subordinate departments of the Qi Wangfu have changed, but the local official system has not changed, or it is still according to the situation after the changes in the past few years. Each province has three levels of management under the province, the prefecture and the county, and there are also yamen at the provincial level such as Tuntian Road and Quanye Road that are responsible for special work, among which Tuntian Road and the provincial governor's office are all linked to the military field, but one is responsible for the land and the other is in charge of personnel, and the difference is still clear.

The staff read out the documents of division and appointment, and the hall was filled with whispers. Every change of authority is actually a redivision of powers.

For example, this time, the Department of Missions and Education has no martial arts school, but there are more civilian training classes, and the positioning of its civil service system department is clearer. The Military Training Department has gone from simply training non-commissioned officers, managing recruit training camps, and reviewing the training results of reserve soldiers in the provincial governors' offices to now having a military academy, which is also a great step forward in power. However, the Jinhua Machinery Manufacturing Workshop, which originally belonged to the Military Industry Division, was assigned to the Construction Division, which was one less money-making department, but the positioning of the Military Industry Department was the research and development and manufacturing of weapons and armor, and too much energy was put into civilian machinery and did not conform to the current situation.

After the official appointment ended, the various divisions of the Qi Palace's Mansion were also given various areas of the outer courtyard of the Qi Palace's Mansion as the government office. From the Jinhua Huiji County Palace, to today's Qi Palace, the area has expanded, but the rights are getting bigger and bigger, and there are more and more personnel and documents.

This question was raised by Chen Wen when he met with Gu Shouli, the chief director of the construction department, who came back to report on his work, and Gu Shouli's opinion was to use the land in Nanjing's Mancheng to build a larger Qi Palace. In that year, the Manchu Qing Dynasty built the city of Nanjing, occupied the land of the Ming Imperial Palace, and demolished the Ming Imperial Palace. Chen Wen had thought about that land before, but now was not the time, at least it was not convenient for Chen Wen to do so blatantly for the time being.

However, this time the adjustment of the official system itself has the intention of expressing a political position. It is inconvenient for Chen Wen to occupy the land of the Ming Palace for the time being, but for his own group, it is also the time for a showdown.

"Ming people don't say dark words, all of you here are the backbone of my Jiangsu and Zhejiang Wang Division, this lonely new and old department, many people should already be able to understand what it represents. There is a sentence that you can hear, and you will bring it to your subordinates without moving. ”

"People have their own ambitions, if someone is not willing to follow me Chen Wen to create a new era, let's get together and disperse, retirement silver is routinely not given, and a single rite is given in a private capacity, thank you for all these years of hard work. If you are willing to stay, you can only send a word to you, the revolution has not yet succeeded, and comrades still need to work hard! ”

"I am willing to die for His Royal Highness King Qi!"

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The crowd in the meeting hall of the Qi Palace's palace was encouraging, although Chen Wen did not say it explicitly, everyone could understand the meaning of the words, and they also expressed their position in the simplest way.

Among them, Zhang Huangyan, the new chief arraignment officer of the Criminal Prosecution Department, is an exception, he did not get up to express his position, nor did he turn to leave, which was very eye-catching. However, the officials present here are all core officials of the Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Ming military groups, and they have heard more or less about Zhang Huangyan's affairs, Chen Wen has always looked at Zhang Huangyan differently, and the character and credit of this civil official who is different from them is also admired by others, so it is not surprising.

It's just that after the Northern Expedition, Zhang Huangyan will inevitably choose to leave, but his position has been targeted by many people - not to mention anything else, the Criminal Department is obviously used to temporarily replace the authority of the Criminal Department, and the official position of a "Shangshu of the Criminal Department" is still hot for many people.

The official system has been changed here, and Chen Wen's layout in other aspects has also begun to reap due results.

First of all, on the Macao side, Yao Qisheng served nearly one term as the magistrate of Xiangshan County, and at first he was honest and honest, living in harmony with the Portuguese in Macau, and when he completely mastered the administrative power of Xiangshan County, especially to complete the control of those Tan people's groups, he immediately turned his face and denied people.

First, he forced the Governor of Macao, Bujialu, and the Macau Council to fulfill the agreement made when Chen Wen summoned Bujialu in Guangzhou, and restored the judicial power of the Macao officials and Xiangshan County over Macao. After the Yamen of the Criminal Division took control of the judicial power of the Han people in Macao, it began to gradually erode the litigation between the Portuguese and the Han Chinese in Macao. By the end of last year, Chen Wen had begun to intensify his efforts to crack down on smuggling, and cooperated with the Fujian Ming army to impose a trade embargo on the Dutch in the north of Dayuan, and Yao Qisheng forced the Governor of Macao and the Macau Council to dismantle Macao's forts against Guangdong.

If nothing else, Yao Kai-shing's next step is either to encroach on the judicial power between the Portuguese and the Portuguese in Macao, or to erode the administrative power of Macao, or to try to expand the authority of the Macao officials to achieve full control of Macao. When Macao is in control, the Governor of Macao and the Macao Council will be able to go wherever they want.

Yao Qisheng's tenure will be vividly interpreted by the four words of Long Wangshu, although the progress is much slower than Chen Wen expected, but he did not exert any help to Yao Qisheng, just watching how a Xiangshan county is spreading. Now it seems that this person who left his name in history is indeed not a fuel-efficient lamp.

"When the Governor of Macao and the Macao Council were completely abolished, Yao Qisheng was transferred to the Qi Palace. Doesn't he like to toss these barbarians, then when we have the opportunity, let him toss Japan and the Ryukyus, or the Mo Dynasty and the Li Dynasty in Annam, can it be regarded as making the best use of people? ”

Hearing Chen Wen's words, Sun Yu was also speechless for a while, Chen Wen did not directly force the Portuguese in Macao to abolish the Governor of Macao and the Macau Council, but the Yongli Imperial Court did not do so. However, it now seems that the recovery of Macao is only a little late.

"The doorways in the Bugarao Cannon Foundry have been figured out by Yao Qisheng, and the Chinese craftsmen in it have basically been bought by Yao Qisheng, and now the final showdown is waiting there, and it is estimated that the time to see the Governor of Macao and the Macao Council is not far away."

Once the most famous cannon foundry in East Asia, the Bugarao Cannon Foundry was originally established by the Portuguese in Macao, where Chinese craftsmen also developed and innovated the iron cannon casting technology, and the copper and iron cannons produced were quite famous in Europe.

The artillery purchased by the Ming court from Macao, except for some of them shipped from Europe, the rest were basically produced by the Bugarao Foundry. Chen Wen did not directly force the Portuguese away before, but also out of the intention of preventing them from jumping over the wall and defecting to the Manchu Qing with technology and machinery, and now he has almost sharpened the soft knife with Yao Qisheng, but it has also achieved the desired effect.

After the discussion on the matter of Macao, and when it was time for lunch, Chen Wen invited the officials of various departments to the inner courtyard for dinner, firstly, as a reward for loyalty, but also for some official duties that had to be discussed and reached out as soon as possible, and there was no way to occupy the time for eating.

However, Chen Wen had just left the official room, and before he could take everyone to the inner courtyard to work in the Supervision Department, Zhang Jun, who was in charge of some confidential matters, rushed over, and Chen Wen had to ask Zhou Jingting to take others to the inner courtyard to wait for him.

"King, the number three person has been a little uneasy lately."

Hearing this, Chen Wen frowned, and then asked, "Isn't their family already under control?" ”

"Yes, King. Maybe it's because of the long time under house arrest, the third person is a little impatient, and he asks to see the king, otherwise he will be tired of life. ”

"Want to die? Then tell him that he has received news that there is such a number one person as him, and he has sent someone to kill him,"