With the increasing attrition of the front, and at the same time the continuous expansion of the Chinese army, the gap in new recruits is to be widened, and if you stubbornly recruit soldiers in the existing areas, it is very likely that you will not be able to meet the demand, so it has become necessary to expand the recruitment areas.

Matters such as expanding the recruitment area and setting up a recruiting station in the newly occupied area will naturally be handled by the Military Training Department and other departments of the General Command, and all Lin Zhe has to do is approve it.

After dealing with a bunch of affairs reported by Shi Langyi, Lin Zhe met with several people in the cabinet again, this time the cabinet mainly talked about judicial issues, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Industry and Commerce and other departments together formulated laws and regulations for the signs of industry and commerce, including the introduction of patent law, commercial tax law, financial law, etc.

The promulgation of these laws was not a blind manipulation by the cabinet itself, but a preliminary legal and regulatory work prepared by Lin Zhe himself, and at the same time hired many foreigners as consultants.

In addition to the company law that was first implemented, the Ministry of Justice has formulated a series of traditional laws and regulations such as the new criminal law, civil law, and marriage law in accordance with the previous Qing Dynasty law and the Ming law.

It also stipulates that criminal acts can only be investigated, arrested, and interrogated by local patrol police departments, and can only be prosecuted by local inspectorates directly under the Inspectorate, which is independent of the Cabinet, and tried by local courts under the Supreme Court, which are also independent of the Cabinet.

Although this system is still very rudimentary, it has initially separated the executive power from the power of supervision and adjudication.

As for the legislative power, if it were other modern countries, it would probably have institutions such as the National Assembly, but now the Chinese Empire does not have such a thing as a National Assembly. The legislative power was independently controlled by the emperor, as for the Ministry of Justice. Only the power to draft laws and regulations could be enforced after approval by the emperor.

The power structure of the Chinese Empire today is rather vague. Despite the emergence of many institutions with modern terminology, it is still an imperial regime in essence.

Since the empire had just been founded, in order to improve the legal gaps in the empire, the people in the Ministry of Justice were busy drafting various laws and regulations every day.

However, on the whole, there is not much change from the traditional laws in the past, for example, in the criminal law, murder pays for life, and wounding people is imprisoned, but the previous beheading has been changed to shooting, and the distribution of frontiers has been changed to hard labor.

In addition, the law of marriage in civil law. Monogamy continues to be practiced according to tradition, and many people think that the Chinese tradition is polygamy, but in fact this is not the case, China has been monogamous since ancient times.

As for concubines, concubines in ancient times were similar to slaves, and the relationship with the male master was not a marriage relationship in the traditional sense, and no matter what era a powerful man would not have only one woman, the ancient concubine, and the Republic of China was an aunt's wife. The two, three, and four mothers in the 21st century are all proof.

Therefore, there is no content related to concubines in the marriage law, which basically ignores this relationship directly, and does not treat 'concubines' as 'family members' like the Republic of China in later generations, so the people in the empire marry concubines. In fact, it cannot be regarded as a marriage, it can only be said that if you raise a 'lover', the son born will become an illegitimate child. In fact, it's almost the same as a modern person.

However, there are exceptions, although the marriage law stipulates that the citizens and even the nobles must be monogamous. But this is not the case with Lin Zhe.

As the emperor of the empire, according to the concept of the monarchy. Lin Zhe is the 'Son of Heaven' who is ordered by Heaven.

As the Son of Heaven, Lin Zhe formulated and issued laws to rule the people, which means that all the laws of the empire are limited to the administration of subjects, and it cannot be said that they are in charge of Lin Zhe.

One of the biggest examples is that there is absolutely no Lin Zhe and the royal family in the household registration list of the civil affairs department.

Therefore, Lin Zhe is not a 'person' in the legal sense, he is a 'Son of Heaven'.

As the Son of Heaven, he naturally has a unique set of rules, for example, Lin Zhe can only marry one queen, but he has many concubines at the same time, and these concubines and Lin Zhe have a legal marriage relationship, and the sons of the concubines have the right to inherit the emperor's throne.

In the imperial dynasty, even if Lin Zhe himself didn't want the three palaces and six courts, his subordinates would not agree, because it involved the issue of the heir to the empire.

It's a matter of the country, and it's no wonder that the government and the opposition don't pay attention to it!

After discussing several decrees with the ministers of the Cabinet, Lin Zhe did not approve them immediately, but felt that there were many loopholes in several regulations such as the Patent Law, so he asked the Ministry of Justice to continue to improve them and approve them for implementation.

After dealing with military and political affairs, Lin Zhe also put down his work and returned to the backyard, although Lin Zhe likes to seize power, but he will not personally handle all matters like Zhu Yuanzhang, generally speaking, his work is limited to grasping the general, as for the specific way to do things, there are naturally many ministers in the cabinet to discuss.

And the current Lin Zhe is not like the leaders of later generations, who hold meetings every day to convey instructions when there is nothing to do, basically Lin Zhe does not need to deal with many official documents, and he spends a considerable part of his time meeting with military and political personnel.

Today's things are not much, so at three o'clock in the afternoon, he just left the office in the front yard and returned to the backyard, and when he returned to the backyard, he saw Chen Jing talking to a few palace maids wearing Hanfu and others, Lin Zhe knew that Chen Jing was dealing with the affairs of the inner palace, although he was the emperor of the empire, but according to the tradition of the male protagonist and the female protagonist, the affairs of the harem and the inner house were handled by Lin Zhe, the queen.

Lin Zhe is also not easy to meddle, but then again, Lin Zhe's mind is full of military affairs, and he is in the mood to meddle in the affairs of the harem.

However, Lin Zhe didn't bother, but the news that Lin Zhe was back naturally reported to Chen Jing early in the palace maid, and soon Chen Jing came out of the hall with someone.

"Your Majesty!" Chen Jing was the first to speak when he came out, and the palace maids behind Chen Jing also lowered their heads and did not dare to look up at Lin Zhe.

Some of these palace maids are the old mothers and maids of the Lin family, and some of the newly elected palace maids of the people.

Since Lin Zhe personally looked directly at the abolition of the eunuch system, there were only palace maids in the court, in order to regulate the inner court. Lin Zhe has formulated a more detailed system and receives a fixed salary. At present, there are about 300 palace maids, who are responsible for the daily life of the entire royal family. The reason why there are more people is because these palace maids also shoulder the work of eunuchs in the past.

A considerable number of palace maids are actually healthy women, responsible for some manual labor, and there are not many real personal maids, that is, dozens of them.

In addition, since the empire had ordered the abolition of the slavery system, as an example of the world, these court ladies were not servants of the royal family, but employees of the royal family. It has a relatively high salary and comes and goes freely.

When recruiting, it is for the whole society to recruit, and it is not forced, but it is also a relatively high number of key members to be recruited, and there are certain requirements for family background, appearance, and character, and an employment contract is signed after recruitment. If you don't want to do it during work, you can just quit and leave.

Basically, it is the principle of strict entry and wide exit.

The reason why the management is relatively lax is mainly because Lin Zhe not only abolished the eunuch system. It is also strictly forbidden for palace ladies to participate in politics, and palace maids, as employees of the royal family, are not civil servants like the palace affairs department, and have no right to meddle in state rights.

Although Lin Zhe and his wife are more polite on weekdays, they have been married for several years. They are not always as fearful and respectful as the monarchs and ministers, and they talk to each other more casually.

I saw Lin Zhe walk up. said in his mouth: "I just saw you asking something inside, so it's not good to bother." I'm about to go! ”

Chen Jing also stepped forward, regardless of the palace maid on the side. Just grabbed Lin Zhe's arm: "It's nothing, just tell a few of them to prepare for the relocation of the palace, and pack up all the things that should be packed, so as not to be in a hurry when the time comes!" ”

The main project of the new palace, that is, the first half of the huge main hall and the main square, was naturally not completed so quickly, but the second half of the living buildings have been completed.

When Shi Da set fire to the Tianwang Mansion, at most he burned down those palaces, but the rockery in the back garden was not much damaged, so it didn't take long to clean up the back garden after the construction office, and the following months were used to rest the courtyard where Lin Zhe's family lived, although these projects are not small, but they are not worth mentioning compared to the former main hall and square.

At present, the second half of the new palace, that is, the living and living place of the royal family, has been rested, and since the living and living place of the royal family has been cleaned up, it is natural to move there, and it is impossible to stay in this private house all the time.

The reason why the construction office was able to rest so quickly was actually related to Lin Zhe's instructions to keep everything simple, Lin Zhe did not have the slightest affection for those ancient houses and deep mansions, but he preferred only a small courtyard in a whole garden.

Therefore, the second half of the entire palace, there are not many actual buildings, if you look down from the sky, the second half of the entire palace is rockery, but there are a few small western-style buildings dotted in the middle.

Lin Zhe said: "You don't have to worry too much about these things, the palace affairs department will naturally handle it properly, and we will just move over when the time comes!" ”

Chen Jing nodded: "Well, listen to you!" ”

The two talked again, and Chen Jing suddenly raised his head and said: "The concubine who entered the palace before said that she was homesick, and asked the concubine to say that she wanted to go back to her mother's house to visit the elders!" ”

Lin Zhe frowned when he heard this, what did Chen Jing mean by saying this at this time? seems to be suspected of provoking in front of Lin Zhe, and although this concubine is a little coquettish, she shouldn't say that she wants to go back to her parents' house for no reason!

It's tiring enough to be busy with state affairs in the front hall, and when you return to the back house, do you still have to take care of the palace fight in the back house?

Last month, Lin Zhe was arranged by the palace affairs department and the empress dowager Lin Mu, and selected nine people from the dozens of people in the primary election, and named nine concubines according to the ancient system, the same as the nine concubines of the Ming Dynasty, in order to enrich the harem for Lin Zhe and let the royal family appear as soon as possible, in order to consolidate the country's foundation, although this matter was arranged by the empress dowager and the palace affairs department, but in fact, it also has a great connection with many military and political dignitaries in the empire.

Although in order to avoid the relatives from becoming bigger, when the palace affairs department selects the show girl, it will not be selected from the immediate family members of the prefect and above the prefect of the court, and the colonel or above in the army, but which of these military and political bigwigs does not have a bunch of relatives and fellow villagers behind him, Lin Zhe chose a concubine for the first time, and there is no prince yet, if the woman who is selected gives birth to a son, it is very likely that he will be the prince of the future empire, so there are many people who want to make up their minds here.

Among the dozens of people selected in the primary, there is no real folk girl, basically after the official eunuchs, all of them are beautiful, and all of them are good-looking.

Lin Zhe was also too lazy to care about the dirty thoughts of the people below, and later selected nine people from it as nine concubines according to his own pleasing eyes.

Among them, the concubine is more special, this daughter is not the family daughter of the military and political dignitaries of the DPRK, but Lin Zhe's mother, that is, the daughter of the Fang family of the Empress Dowager's mother. This is to marry her son, Mrs. Lin is also a little partial to her mother's Fang family, and the Fang family naturally can't use cousins who are related to Lin Zhe or the like, so she specially found a concubine from the Fang family, who was separated by several generations, and Mrs. Lin sent her to her son.

After Concubine De entered the palace, because of her good appearance, and her figure was not as round as others, but relatively weak, it was easy to arouse Lin Zhe's pity. (To be continued......)