At the end of the first month of the first month of the Jiayin year, Xiwang and Xiwangniang took a boat along the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal from Zhenjiang, Changzhou, Wuxi, and returned to Suzhou. On the way, Xiao Yungui and Hong Yun'er stayed in Wuxi for a few days, where Xiao Yungui met Fu Shanxiang, another legendary flower of peace.

This Fu Shanxiang is indeed talented and beautiful, although she only met in a hurry, but her elegant conversation, intelligent intelligence and delicate face left a deep impression on Xiao Yungui. But because Hong Yun'er was by his side, and the two had just reconciled, Xiao Yungui didn't dare to be too presumptuous, and he didn't dare to pretend to be public and private, and transferred Fu Shanxiang to his side to do things.

I don't know if it's an illusion, Xiao Yungui always feels that Hong Yun'er is very careful to control the women who appear next to her, especially unmarried women. When she was in Tianjing, Su Sanniang came to visit, and before she said a few words, Su Sanniang was dragged into the house by Hong Yun'er and whispered alone.

Su Sanniang is a widow, her husband Su San died at the hands of the Qing army, Su Sanniang only raised troops to avenge her husband, although Su Sanniang is still young and beautiful, but Xiao Yungui asked himself to see this beauty from the perspective of pure appreciation, he didn't think about it at all, but he was pulled away by Hong Yun'er. Afterwards, Xiao Yungui learned from Tang Erniu that his gaze at Su Sanniang was indeed a little "too focused" at that time.

The women's pavilion, female officials, and female guards in the Pingsu West Hall are all in charge of Hong Yun'er, and any woman who wants to contact the West King must go through the approval of the West Wangniang. Xiao Yungui has seen the most so far, except for Hong Yun'er, the two daughters of Li Xuanji and Yang Dongqing, these two daughters are Hong Yun'er's henchmen, so they can have more contact with the King of the West. So Xiao Yungui became indignant, did he hang himself from a tree all his life? This four-eyed girl is really playing, and she actually started fire prevention, theft prevention and anti-junior so early.

But fortunately, the two are still in love, and some of someone's desires can be satisfied. It hasn't made much waves yet. In Xiao Yungui's self-deprecating words, he is still full, so he will not consider anything else for the time being.

It was the same when I saw Fu Shanxiang in Wuxi, Hong Yun'er was always by the side of King Xi, Fu Shanxiang was nothing more than a report on some official business, and he didn't say a word of superfluity. Fu Shanxiang is in charge of the women's hall and women's camp in Wuxi, and he is also in charge of the edict in Wuxi, and Xiao Yungui is not very involved in the things reported. It was Hong Yuner who sang the protagonist, pointed out a few things that should be done in detail, and explained that Fu Shanxiang tried to set up a new women's school.

There was nothing major happening in Wuxi, but Li Shourong and Tan Shaoguang from Wuxi followed Xiwang and his party back to Suzhou together. Because Xiao Yungui had already asked Zuo Zongtang to convene military and political generals from all over the country to gather in Suzhou in the name of the West Wangfu to discuss the new policy. Since Xiao Yungui got the clarification from Tianjing, he has been preparing to convene this grand meeting at the beginning of the year in the West Palace, so that the chief officials and generals in various places can understand the general direction of the military and political affairs in southern Jiangsu in the future, and at the same time, many new policy measures need to be promulgated, and all counties, prefectures, and armies must send chief officers to participate.

After sailing all the way to Suzhou. Xiao Yungui and Hong Yun'er returned to Suzhou Xiwangfu non-stop and discussed the new deal with Zuo Zongtang and others. Tan Shaoguang, Li Shourong and other generals who came to Suzhou to participate in the grand event had their own Suzhou officials to receive and settle down.

In the lobby of the main hall of the West Palace. The officials of the Western Palaces gathered here. The official establishment of the West Wangfu is similar to that of the East Wangfu, but there is a slight difference in the number of people. The king of the west is the right and the army division of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, called 8,000 years old, the prime minister of southern Jiangsu is the military and political of the new Sufu Province, where the use of military strategies, punishment, rewards and deaths, official promotions and demotions are all decided by the Xiwang Palace, please Tianjing decree only.

Officials of the West Temple. There are two consuls in chief, and only Zuo Zongtang is currently in office, and the other prime minister is vacant. There are six books of officials, households, rites, soldiers, criminals, and workers, and each department has ten members. There are 60 members in total, all who are distributed by the officials, the head of the official department is rewarded, and the household department is in charge of money and food, and so on, such as the six departments.

Twenty members were announced, and the Lord gave orders; Thirty servants, the lord serves and lives; one member of the left head and one member of the right head; Praise the Eight Members; one member of the canonical Xiyu and one member of the deputy canonical Xiyu; a member of the standard-bearer; the first commander on the left, the second commander on the right, and one member of each member, the chief of the guard; 1,500 guards, that is, the swordsmen of the West Palace, the main attendants, stayed in the West Palace. 800 members of the Dianxi Public; Ten members of the Dian West Malaysia; 100 members of the Dian Xi Cai; 240 members of Dianxile. Thirty-two members of the Dianxi Gong; 24 members of the Western Artillery; Twenty members of the Dian West. There are four members of the Dianxi Prison and the Dianxi Prison. Dian Xi robe, Dian Xi boots, Dian Xi kitchen, Dian Xi Shui, Dian Xi Chai, Shang Shu, Cheng Xuan, servant shooting, head, praise, standard-bearer, commander with the same inspection, the canon Dongyu, deputy Diandong public opinion with the command, Yu Du with the general. There are 141 officers with the same rank, 2 officers with the same ranks, and 3,414 officers with the same rank as generals. A total of 3,557 members.

This is completely in accordance with the official system of the royal palaces promulgated by Tianjing, and the establishment set up by the opening government, no matter how you look at it, Xiao Yungui feels that this establishment is too bloated and huge, and the bloated organization means that the work is inefficient, and there are a lot of generals, and the number of people who are the same generals has reached more than 3,000, is this official title too child's play? Although it is said that there are three officials in front of the prime minister, it is not so widespread. Therefore, the first step of the New Deal was to abolish the bloated bureaucracy in the Western Palace, and to reformulate a government structure that suited the actual situation.

Zuo Zongtang also agreed with Xiao Yungui's idea, although the official system of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is different from that of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, it cannot deviate from reality, and the palace has the same position as the general, not to mention that no one is rare after the flood of official positions, even the money to raise officials is also a large expense.

So the institution of the West Palace's Mansion was changed again, the two prime ministers remained unchanged, Xiao Yungui was afraid that Zuo Zongtang would be in charge alone, so he set up another commander-in-chief, although only Zuo Zongtang was in the Zuo Cheng phase, and the other prime minister was temporarily empty if he was suspended.

Under the left and right prime ministers are officials, households, rites, soldiers, criminals, and workers, each of which is changed to one member, and each of which is changed to six people, and each is equipped with a number of books, clerks, and arithmetic.

In addition to receiving official gifts and rewards, they also have to manage the appointment and dismissal of officials in various places, the annual performance appraisal of officials, and the promotion and demotion of officials.

In short, the household department was in charge of not only the errands of the later statistical bureau, but also the logistics department and the Ministry of Agriculture. Originally, Xiao Yungui wanted to separate the logistics department and the Ministry of agriculture at one time, but Zuo Zongtang said that the official face should not be too excessive, and there are only six departments in the Dongwang Mansion. Under the Ministry of Households, two separate divisions, the Logistics Department and the Agriculture Department, were set up to take charge of errands.

The most striking thing about the change in the official system of the West Hall is the establishment of the Soldier Division and the Logistics Department under the Household Department, and the responsibility of these two divisions is to strip the power in the hands of the generals of the various armies. This is also the West King's early use of the means to prevent his generals from sitting on the throne, as long as the money, food, armor and lifeblood of an army are controlled, no matter how strong the generals are, they will not be able to set off any waves, which also means that the West King's control over the West Palace army is more rigorous. At the same time, the Ministry of Household also joined the Customs Department, which was responsible for the collection of customs duties, and also served as a tax errand in Sufu Province.

The functions undertaken by the Ministry of Rites were originally only the affairs of etiquette and the imperial examination, but Xiao Yungui still added two new departments in this department, the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Department of Persuasion. The Department of Foreign Affairs is the department of the Ministry of Rites responsible for handling various affairs with foreigners, and it is divided into American Unit, French Unit, English Unit, etc., and each appoints a person familiar with foreign affairs as the head of the unit. The persuasion department is an important symbol of Xiao Yungui's opening of Western learning, the meaning of persuasion is to persuade more people to learn, which is also closely related to a very important measure of the new policy in southern Jiangsu, that is, Xiao Yungui intends to establish a new school and a variety of technical schools based on major cities in southern Jiangsu to cultivate their own talents and skilled workers.

The Ministry of War is still in charge of the old department, responsible for recruiting and training troops, and two new divisions have also been added to this department. One is that the Township Soldiers Department is responsible for the township soldiers in various parts of Sufu Province, which is actually the taste of the militia armed forces. The other is the General Staff Department, which is responsible for formulating the strategic planning of the whole army, the formulation of campaigns, and the deduction of the battle situation. Later, many famous members of the Taiping Army came out of these two divisions, because the top students who graduated from the martial arts academy would directly enter these two divisions and be released after a few years of training.

In addition to being in charge of criminal punishment, Xiao Yungui set up a supervision department, which is mainly responsible for supervising the regulation of hundreds of officials. At the same time, the Criminal Department was deprived of the right to promulgate the Criminal Law, and in the future, the Criminal Department would only be responsible for investigating, adjudicating, and adjudicating cases. One of the extra divisions of the Criminal Department is the Police Department, and it is not that Xiao Yungui is lazy, but the word police is still very applicable, and the Police Department under the charge of the Criminal Department is responsible for managing the police stations set up in various places, which is responsible for maintaining local law and order.

In addition to the previous construction of water conservancy, bridge and paving, construction of houses, palaces, and city walls, Xiao Yungui set up three new departments: the Firearms Department, the Ship Department, and the Machinery Department. The Firearms Division is responsible for the manufacture and research and development of various firearms, artillery, and gunpowder, which existed long before the Western Palace's Eastern Crusade, and the craftsmen of the Western Temple at that time were gathered together to specialize in repairing firearms and preparing gunpowder. The establishment of the Ship Division was a bit hasty, although there were many sailors in the Taiping Army, but there were still very few shipbuilding craftsmen, and many shipbuilders were recruited by the people, but their craftsmanship was still in the stage of wooden sailing ships. But Xiao Yungui felt that this matter had to be done step by step, first put up the shelf, and slowly improve it, and later the ship department would invite foreign technicians to join, which would naturally drive his shipbuilding level. At the same time, the Shipping Department should also manage all kinds of ships in inland waterway shipping, which can be regarded as the predecessor of the Jiangsu Maritime Safety Bureau. The Machinery Division is also responsible for a wide range of tasks, from mineral exploration to mining, smelting, and the manufacture of various machinery. But this division, like the Ship Division, started out as an empty shelf. (To be continued......)