Chapter 156: A Useful Cabinet System
In fact, Zhao Dutian is only to generate income, not to turn the empire into an ascetic society, because in the Han Empire, brothels and other erotic places are legal and protected by the laws of the empire!
After all, these places are also big tax collectors!
Zhao Dutian, who has no discipline and no lower limit, even if those prostitutes shoot a shot, they have to extract part of the prostitution funds to build the empire......
This can also be seen from the side, some reckless Zhao Dutian, how short of money!
The construction of the railway costs money, and the sail battleships that the shipyard began to lay dumplings made Zhao Dutian look everywhere where he could deduct money, and most importantly, the increasingly huge army system, Zhao Dutian was about to tighten his belt!
From the food, you can see how simple Zhao Dutian is now, and he used to be 'Manchu and Han full banquets' (not really Manchu and Han full banquets, but all the dishes of the Han Empire will be made and let Zhao Dutian taste them!). Now it's ten dishes and one soup......
Of course, it is eaten by the family, and if Zhao Dutian eats it by himself, he can't finish it until he dies......
There is also the aspect of living, except for a simple imperial palace, Zhao Dutian has never built any gardens, fountains, these beautiful and fun Dongdong, compared with the luxurious Summer Palace of the Qing Empire in the East, the place where Zhao Dutian lives is simply a hillbilly taste!
In fact, the Imperial Code nominally regulates the number of wives and concubines according to social status and wealth, but here it is very biased towards the Han people, for the simple reason that in the Han Empire, all the system Han people are already small assets!
According to the provisions of the Imperial Code, even the worst Han people in the system can marry two wives!
Double fly or something, what man doesn't like it?
The number of the Han people in this empire has not been too much due to financial problems, and because of the problem of loyalty, it is naturally Zhao Dutian's focus on taking care of it!
With the efficient operation of the cabinet system, the new imperial code was quickly issued, and the cabinet system was more and more perfect.
The cabinet members, including the record officials next to them, are only a dozen people in total, and only when there is a major event that requires Zhao Dutian's nod, a cabinet meeting will be held, of course, if Zhao Dutian wants to give any order, he will also hold a cabinet meeting, which is all administrative!
In terms of military affairs, it is two sets of teams with the cabinet system, the army is directly loyal to the emperor of the Han Empire, and is deployed by the imperial general staff on weekdays, and the chief of the general staff is concurrently served by the emperor, and the chief of the general staff of the Han Empire is actually the same figure as the commander-in-chief of the three armies in Zhao Dutian's previous life. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Naturally, the emperor could not manage the affairs of the army every day, so the operation of the General Staff was mainly responsible for the various staff officers and several chiefs of staff in various aspects, in fact, only in the war period, Zhao Dutian would come to the General Staff to sit down, listen to reports and carry out general strategic command, on weekdays, Zhao Dutian rarely came to the General Staff!
To say that Zhao Dutian has the most contact with the cabinet ministers or the staff officers of the General Staff, it is the Jinyi Guard and the Secret Service!
Zhao Dutian will only hold a cabinet meeting every few days or even more than a month, but the intelligence summary of Jinyiwei and the secret service will be handed over to Zhao Dutian every day!
Since Jinyiwei and the Secret Service are mainly investigating and supervising, they naturally have a lot less to do than managers, and Zhao Dutian's workload is not large, not to mention, those information have been sorted out and analyzed!
The spy agency, the cabinet system, and the General Staff constitute the three top departments of the Han Empire, and they are also the core of Zhao Dutian's rule!
The General Staff is responsible for war mobilization and fighting, the cabinet system is responsible for administrative management and law enforcement, as well as the transmission and fulfillment of the emperor's decrees, and the spy agency is responsible for supervising officials and the population to ensure the rule of the empire and the collection of foreign intelligence!
Because these three systems are all loyal and reliable system Han people, plus all systems are made by one voice, so the efficiency is very high, there is no trouble with any raffles, once there is a disagreement in any aspect, as long as it is reported to Zhao Dutian, the emperor, it can be solved quickly, regardless of whether what Zhao Dutian said is right or wrong, no one will question it!
Of course, if Zhao Dutian makes some obvious mistakes, the people below will still remind him euphemistically, Zhao Dutian, as an independent and ruler who has risen from the bottom, is naturally not the kind of emperor who can't listen to persuasion, and even sometimes, he will be interested in hurriedly discussing with the subordinates below which plan is more beneficial to the empire!
For example, after Zhao Dutian saw the achievements of the Jinshan, he didn't want to give an order to build all first-class battleships in the future, and then he was reminded by the people of the General Staff.
As a naval layman, Zhao Dutian, after listening to the explanations of those naval experts, generally understood the details of the naval battle, changed the previous order, and there was no bullshit truth that the emperor's words could not be taken back in the Han Empire, and the naval construction of the Han Empire began to develop in many aspects!
And after the series of victories of the Han Empire came, the most surprising was undoubtedly the British envoy who stayed in the Han Empire - George Macartney!
George Macartney hurried day and night to report the details of the Han Empire's possession of the construction of first-class sail battleships to China!
For George Macartney's behavior, Zhao Dutian did not stop it, the current world is not the ancient world where the news is closed, the Han Empire has achieved such a brilliant victory, tens of thousands of people have seen it with their own eyes, the news will spread sooner or later, Zhao Dutian can't fall out with Britain, a European power, because of this little thing!
The first step is the most difficult and slowest in anything, especially when it comes to building battleships, even though the Han Empire has a full set of first-class sail battleship technology, it took more than two years for the first one to barely form combat effectiveness.
With the practical experience of the first ship, the Han Empire, which is rich in timber resources, ushered in the peak period of real sail battleship construction!
At the current shipyard, there are already more than ten first-class sail battleships and fourth-class frigates with keels laid, including a powerful sail battleship that is expected to exceed 3,000 tons and load more than 110 heavy guns!
Because Zhao Dutian learned through George Macartney that the British had a known as the world's largest sail battleship - the Victory!
There were more than 110 heavy guns on it, including two 68-pounder cannons! The fortress cannons of the Han Empire have not reached this weight!
The displacement has reached an appalling 3,500 tons, which is a wooden-hulled ship rather than an ironclad ship!