The original palace affairs department had four major business institutions, namely the secretariat related to administration, the intelligence department, etc., then the financial department related to the royal family industry and the royal financial expenditure, and then the chamber related to security, and finally the many institutions responsible for the daily royal affairs and maintaining the normal operation of the Zhonghua Palace, such as the medical office, the internal affairs office, the internal office, and the internal office.

The reform of the palace affairs department is to separate these four major businesses and separate a few of them!

For example, most of the business of the Finance Department, including the Textile Department, the Machinery Department, the Shipbuilding Department, the Ordnance Department and other departments, were separated to form the Royal Asset Management Department, while the original departments of the Finance Department, such as the Royal Family Branch Department and the Procurement Department, remained in the Finance Department, and rebuilt the Finance Department with these departments as the core.

The impact of the reform of the Treasury Department is naturally great, but the business involved in the Treasury is still a private matter of the royal family, and has little to do with the cabinet and the military.

But the next reform of the Secretariat has a lot to do with the Cabinet.

The Secretariat of the Palace Affairs Department, this seemingly infamous institution, is the real core power department, and its operation mode is completely in accordance with Lin Zhe's private staff organization.

For example, in the personnel section of the secretariat, they are involved in the high-level personnel of the military and political departments, and although they have no decision-making power, they can influence the selection of governors, political envoys, and even military commanders and division commanders of a province to a certain extent.

Another example is the industrial department, which can affect Lin Zhe's domestic industrial layout to a certain extent.

In recent years, this secretariat has nominally belonged to the Palace Office. But it has come into its own because of the fact that those in the Secretariat, albeit of a lower political status, have come to an end. But the real power is very large, and it has become the first choice for many young officials in the empire. Imperial officialdom even referred to the Secretariat as the Imperial version of the Hanlin Academy.

Because in recent years, when the secretary of the secretariat was transferred, he was basically steadily promoted, and when the head of the people's livelihood section was released in the early years, he started as a Taoist in Shandong, and now he has been transferred to Hunan as a political envoy and has become the second-in-command in the officialdom of a province.

This shows how good the prospects are for some of the most powerful positions in the Secretariat, such as the heads of sections.

This influence has also been exacerbated by the number of appointments made by the Organization Department to the Secretariat in the last two years, since the Secretariat of the Secretariat, with the exception of those ordinary staff and secretaries, are young people. For example, those who have excelled in the national employee examination and those who have just returned to China, but some section chiefs and deputy section chiefs are all young grassroots officials who are recognized as having great promises, and they are all selected from local officials at the level of prefects and prefectures.

If the local prefect is placed in the Ming and Qing dynasties, he will already be a member of the four grades, and he will be the mayor in the later generations, and he will already be a person who has half a foot in the high-rise.

Only the best in this class can be transferred to the Secretariat to serve as deputy section chiefs and section chiefs, which shows that they are in the internal post level of the Organization Department. The head of a section of the secretariat is higher than the prefect of the prefecture, and is roughly the same as the sub-provincial governor.

This shows how much influence the Secretariat actually had in imperial officialdom.

Now that the palace affairs department is being reformed, the cabinet is most concerned about the reform of the secretariat!

Reform of the Secretariat. Lin Zhe should be more cautious, first of all, to directly separate the secretariat from the palace affairs department, and its name was changed from the palace affairs department secretariat to the 'palace secretariat'. Its office is still located in the Xinhua Palace.

The name alone was certainly not a major reform, and the real reform of the Secretariat lay in the reorganization of many of its internal sections. Originally, the Secretariat had 18 large and small sections, offices, and groups, which included almost all military and political affairs.

Reorganization, on the other hand, involves the consolidation of some of these sections. At the same time, it is necessary to separate some departments that deal with military and political affairs at the same time, such as the personnel section, which is involved in both military personnel and cabinet personnel.

The reorganized Secretariat has a total of 13 sections!

One of the more important departments is the Administration Section, which is responsible for administrative personnel issues and is also responsible for coordinating conflicts between various cabinet ministries and local governments.

In addition, there is also the Military Affairs Section, which mainly provides Lin Zhe with all the advice related to the army, including personnel, specific strategy and tactics, it is worth noting that the department of the section does not have any active military generals, but all civilian officials, the reason why military personnel are sent out is because if Lin Zhe wants the military generals to provide him with any military advice, he can go directly through the High Command, and there is no need to set up a separate military affairs section in the Secretariat.

The existence of the Military Affairs Section is to allow Lin Zhe to look at military issues from the perspective of civilian officials, because many times, the perspective and vision of civilian officials on some strategic military issues are completely different from those of military generals, and as the ruler of an empire, Lin Zhe needs voices from different angles, so as to be able to make better decisions.

For example, when the military intends to nominate a general for an important task, it may be because the general has this talent. But in the eyes of those civilian officials in the Ministry of Military Affairs, it doesn't matter whether the generals themselves are talented or not, what matters is the various political influences caused, such as whether it will affect the balance of factions within the military, and whether it will disrupt the overall strategic deployment of the empire.

When the empire needs to develop peacefully, it appoints a belligerent general who likes to make himself as the chief officer of a certain unit on the front line, so what if it is not good to provoke a war with a foreign country?

For example, when there are frequent contradictions between the empire and a certain country, or there are simply too many domestic contradictions, and a war is needed to divert the contradictions and the attention of the people, your military arranges a stable person to hold a key position, and how can you find an opportunity to start a war at that time?

In terms of weapons and equipment, the military naturally hopes that the more advanced the weapons, the better, but the civilian officials of the Military Affairs Section of the Secretariat will consider what impact it will have on some related industries in China if they purchase certain equipment.

Is it negative or positive?

Because the two are from different angles, their views may be very different.

After the Military Affairs Section, there are several other important departments, such as the Economics Section, which is responsible for domestic economic affairs, including industrial and agricultural economics and commercial economics. There is also the Mining Division, which is responsible for the mining of various minerals, iron and steel smelting, and the development of precious metals such as gold, silver, and copper, as well as some industrial raw materials.

The Secretariat of the Palace Affairs Department was reorganized into the Palace Secretariat, and the adjustment of its internal departments was just to better serve himself for Lin Zhe, but for many officials below, it meant a shock to the officialdom, you must know that in the process of reorganization, many departments were merged and split, and half of the Secretariat officials above the level of deputy section chief were appointed separately, in addition to the internal secretariat, young elites were transferred from other institutions of the imperial officialdom to serve as the section chief and deputy section chief of the new department and other important positions.

In this process, it is natural that some people are happy and some are sad, and there will also be some officialdom political struggles that outsiders like to see.

Although Lin Zhe has absolute authority over the control of the entire empire's military and political affairs, there are rivers and lakes where there are people, even if Lin Zhe does his best to put an end to it, it is impossible to put an end to the unique gangs and factions in the officialdom.

Therefore, although Lin Zhe occasionally suppresses the behavior of his courtiers such as forming gangs and factions, it is more that he sits on a balanced job, and when a courtier's faction is powerful, he will push the boat to help their political opponents once, and then suppress and suppress.

In short, it is not to let the cabinet or the military have a situation of less than 10,000 and more than 10,000.

For example, in the civil service system, Bi Yutong and Guo Longyun are each other's biggest political opponents, Guo Longyun is the Minister of Economy, and at the beginning of the year, Lin Zhe added him the title of Associate Minister of the Cabinet, and for a while there were even signs of challenging Bi Yutong, the prime minister.

However, Bi Yutong, as the prime minister of the cabinet, is not to be outdone, and continues to stabilize Guo Longyun by promoting resettlement and other achievements in governance.

However, Guo Longyun, as the leader of the new industrial faction of the empire, has a good relationship with many important ministers of the empire, such as Xue Huan, who has always held the post of governor of Jiangsu, is his important political ally, and Xiao Changzhong, the mayor of Shanghai, and Bi Xuanxi, the governor of Anhui, are also close to him.

Together, they promoted a series of policies for the development of the Empire's industrial and commercial economy!

However, Guo Longyun had political allies, as did Bi Yutong, and his allies were none other than Jiang Daoquan, the most conservative official in the Chinese empire.

Speaking of Jiang Daoquan, those middle and low-level officials may only know that he is a high-ranking official of the empire, but the high-level military and political dignitaries of the empire basically know that this Jiang Daoquan is a stone in a pit, smelly and hard, relying on his prestige, often pulling a group of old stubborn conservatives to oppose some of the empire's reform policies.

What's more, this person is making trouble everywhere, but the position of Minister of Education under his ass is still very secure, and His Majesty has no idea of removing him.

Jiang Daoquan's conservative attitude did not make him lose power, but in the past two years, he has become more and more comfortable, and in the previous large-scale knighthood of the empire, Jiang Daoquan was made a viscount.

At the same time, his youngest son also married the daughter of the Empress Dowager Lin's mother's house, and the daughter of the Fang family was the eldest daughter of Lin Zhe's eldest son.

If this is related to relatives, this Fang family's concubine is Lin Zhe's cousin and niece. (To be continued.) )