Chapter 114: A New Dynasty and a New Atmosphere (I)
Zhao Shouzhong saw that Zhao Xi was indeed pitiful, and the loss of the royal family was simply a tragedy, and he was ready to make a deal about the Zhao Song royal preferential treatment regulations similar to the Manchu royal preferential regulations. Seeing the face of the Empress Dowager Gao, the Crossing Public agreed to this regulation, and after the consultation of the Crossing Public, the Provisional Political Axe during the transitional period sent an amendment to the Zhao Song Zheng Axe on December 9, 12 Yuan You, regarding the preferential conditions for the emperor's abdication. On the 10th, Zhao Xi approved this condition, and announced it the next day, announcing his abdication.
The transitional political axe established by the crossing people only existed for 10 days, and all the original members of the Zhao and Song political axes became important members of the new empire. All the conservatives and oppositionists who had long been ready to kick out were transferred out of the center, and their own people were naturally promoted to the designated posts planned in the firing line.
On the day of the enthronement ceremony, Wen Yanbo, Su Shi and others all participated in the ceremony, and these old mascots and vases that had survived for a few more years by relying on the medicine and health care team were naturally more and better. We will continue to exert our spare energy for the cultural and collecting business of the public.
The name of the new dynasty is the Chinese Empire.
Emperor Li Hao (the most handsome, tallest and richest of Li Ji's disciples, who has long served as the director of the Chenji Group's cultural relics museum and the director of the technical database), except for participating in diplomacy, festivals, knighthood ceremonies, signing foreign treaties, and promulgating laws, has no actual rights, that is, a rubber stamp and a megaphone.
The executive power is under the full responsibility of the prime minister, and the cabinet is appointed by the Council of Councillors under the control of the Cabinet of Representatives, who are represented by the new capitalist class and their partners, as well as the powerful classes such as the pro-Chenji faction, such as the large landlords. This kind of governance structure in which Lee Gi is the chairman and largest shareholder, others serve as directors and members of the board of supervisors, the emperor serves as the image spokesperson, the cabinet is the general manager and his team, and the council of councillors is similar to the general meeting of shareholders of the company.
The members of the cabinet are all the original ministers (Wen Yanbo, Su Shi and others), and in fact, it is a large number of ministers who are in charge of affairs by students who have crossed the public. The supreme power and legislative body is the Council of Councillors, the highest executive body is the Prime Minister's Office and the State Council (which has 54 ministerial-level administrative units) where the cabinet is located, and the highest judicial body is the Constitutional Court.
The military system is copied from the United States imperialism and also engages in the separation of powers, the Joint Chiefs of Staff is a decision-making body, and all branches of the imperial armed forces are controlled by the emperor as commander-in-chief according to the constitution of the Great Zhou Empire, and in fact are under the Ministry of Defense.
The Coast Guard is subordinate to the Ministry of National Security in peacetime, the Admiralty in wartime, and the rest of the branches are all subordinate to the Ministry of Defense.
One of the members of the Cabinet is the Minister of Defense, who is in charge of the Ministry of Defense.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff, composed of the heads of the various armed branches, advise the Emperor and the Minister of Defence under the leadership of the Chairman and Deputy Chairman.
The National Security Council is responsible for military diplomacy under the leadership of the National Security Advisor.
There are less than 1.5 million active soldiers and less than 900,000 reserves, most of which are carefully selected by the old and weak after the original Northwest Army army plus the non-political axe armed forces in the hands of the crossers, among which there are not many forbidden troops in the capital of the Zhao and Song dynasties. The Pearl River basin, especially the plague-ridden mountains of Laoze (the plains of Poyang Lake, Dongting Lake and the upper reaches of the Pearl River were still swamps at this time). All the personnel of the Xindi [***] team are volunteers to join the army, standard standing army and professional soldiers, and take the elite route.
The active military is divided into: Army, Marine Corps (mainly overseas garrisons), Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard
The reserve army is a reserve force corresponding to the four major armies.
Dali, Tubo, Dayue, Yueben, Goryeo, Daxia and other regions practiced a highly autonomous fetters system, and the liuguan stationed were only some state advisers, similar to the weakened version of the Yueben advisers in Manchukuo.
Zhao Shouzhong felt that the capital of Bianjing was a tragedy, huge maintenance costs and no danger to defend, under the premise of building a railway system to continue to maintain the capacity of the canal is very ridiculous, proposed to move the capital to the ancient capital Luoyang (renamed Shenjing), the establishment of the political capital Shenjing as the core of the seven capital system, the remaining six are the economic capital Xinjing (Shanghai), the legislative capital Guangzhou, the judicial capital (the seat of the Constitutional Court) Yizhou (Chengdu), the military capital (high-tech army, the most concentrated key point of the arms industry) Lanzhou, Tanzhou (Changsha), the capital of agriculture and culture, and Mizhou (Qingdao), the royal summer center and one of the four major cities.
After having no worries at all, the traversal began a comprehensive reshuffle, ordering all the magnates who had opposed and had been opposed to the traversal (the magnates who were still alive in the bankruptcy proceedings of the royal bank) to take the initiative to confess all the violations of law and ethics during the reign of the Great Song Empire (such as lynching, torture and killing of servants, damage to public and private interests, tax evasion, robbery of people's land, annexation of tuntian, robbery of people's property, arbitrary tax increases, bribery, etc.) to strive for leniency. Severe punishment will be granted.
Treat partners and other rich and powerful members of the ruling class equally, but only privately ventilate, and make it clear in advance that they can strive for the new emperor to ascend the throne and grant amnesty to the world, so that they can be lenient or even exonerated from the past crimes.
Many down-and-out elites who realized that Chenji Group was powerful knew that they were a thorn in the side of the public, so they had to put down their bodies and take the initiative to confess their past crimes. A month later, the powerful and the people in the old system who did not take the initiative to confess all their crimes were sentenced in accordance with the law and all were punished.
The new dynasty has a new atmosphere, and the social atmosphere is positive. Originally, a large number of students from Chenji Academy and its major branches, affiliated colleges, and cooperative colleges were enriched into various newly established grass-roots political axe posts, like a large number of low-level officials and officials entering the academy to re-learn various new rules and regulations, laws and regulations, and technical officials and yamen at all levels also collectively changed their job titles and unit brands. In addition to the noble titles and high honorary positions such as the three divisions and three dukes have not changed, the entire state apparatus has been completely modernized. Su Song developed a perfect calendar and latitude and longitude system at the Xinjing Observatory, with the meridian of the Xinjing Observatory as the prime meridian, the country is divided into five time zones, except for the time zone where Xinjing is located is the zero time zone, the other provincial-level units and regions are the corresponding longitude corresponding to the time zone.
The original four-level administrative system of the central, road, government and county has been changed to a six-level administrative system of the central, provincial/municipal (2 million ~ 20 million), prefecture-level cities/upper counties (200,000~2 million), medium counties/prefecture-level cities and urban areas (40,000~200,000), townships/counties/blocks (5,000~40,000), villages/communities (200~5,000), Forcing it to merge villages and optimize resource allocation).
The country was divided into 23 provincial-level administrative units, 6 municipalities directly under the central government (6 capitals except Shenjing), 16 provinces (similar to later provinces), and 1 Dongyi Island Special Zone
The downward extension of power has created ten times a hundred times the vacancies of official positions, a large number of officials in the elimination of the old and weak, through training and assessment after the re-entry, given official status, all officials with official status (civil servant establishment) are treated equally, as long as they pass the assessment can be promoted, can only stand still (boiling qualifications are meaningless, promote them to use performance and actual results to snatch few opportunities for promotion), if they break the law, they must be sentenced to a heavy sentence in accordance with the law (the crime of knowing the law and violating the law is added to one degree). The imperial examination was changed to a modern civil service examination, and the martial examination was changed to an internal examination of the army.
The official status will lose all privileges such as tax exemptions, the only benefit is that the salary is higher than that of ordinary work, and all public officials receive a pension allowance (20% of the salary, if there is no criminal record, the surname will be paid once at the time of retirement), and various allowances and pensions for official positions above the county level.
A large number of public opinion supervision and external exposure mechanisms have been erected, and a set of external supervision systems that are different from the self-supervision systems of the past dynasties have appeared in this land of almost all innovations, and no corruption can escape the tracking and reporting of the paparazzi.