Chapter 187: Reforming the Ruling System and Military Establishment (2)
In addition to the reform of the military system, the protagonist is also determined to carry out a reform of the political system.
The political system, including the system of the power organs, and the system of the executive branch.
When the protagonist participates in the Inheritance of the Old Gods Conference, he notices that each civilization has its own power structure and has its own characteristics, such as the Leaf Cutting Ant Nation has the Queen Ant Assembly and the Female Ant Assembly, as the two highest power bodies, similar to the Upper House and the Lower House of some human countries. Bullet ants have only one authority, and that is the female ant assembly.
Uncivilized ant tribes also have their own power structures, such as the Council of Elders in the Red Fire Ant Kingdom, and the Council of Kings in the Old Big-Headed Ant Kingdom.
Although the political system of some of them is still very primitive, the power and administrative bodies are in fact overlapping, and many job positions are uncertain, a bit like ancient Greece, a member of the Senate can be sent out to work part-time.
However, the political system of the bad guys exists and is relatively complete.
On the contrary, the Legion of the Divine Envoy King, although the technology is more developed, has not established a scientific and systematic political system. At present, only the military system of the Divine Envoy King Legion is relatively scientific and rigorous.
At present, in terms of the power structure of the Divine Envoy King Legion, the protagonist is the sole power of the Divine Envoy King, but its power tentacles are difficult to extend to the grassroots level of the affiliated ant clan, and it must be transferred through the high-level of the affiliated ant clan.
Although there is a Council of Kings under the Divine Envoy King, this body has no real power at all, and there are almost no meetings, and the members of the Council of Kings are more like they have received an honorary title.
Moreover, the members of the King's Council were mainly military commanders of various legions, and there were very few representatives from administration, industry, scientific research, and other industries.
In the ant world where wars are frequent, you may not feel that there is anything wrong with such a power structure dominated by the army. But the protagonist has a vision beyond this world, and knows that the fundamental reason why the Divine King Legion is strong is not the brave and warlike Divine Envoy King warriors, but technology and ideas!
If the composition of the power structure of the Divine Envoy King's Legion does not reflect the concept of supporting industry and technology, then how can we expect internal ants to flock to these key industries?
Anyway, now in the Divine Envoy King Legion, the male ants are all proud to be the commander of the legion, which is also one of the reasons why the protagonist very much wants to support the Divine Soldier Ants and the Divine Worker Ants, at least they are willing to obediently go to the non-military field.
In addition to the immaturity of the power structure, the big burden is on the shoulders of the protagonist, and the administrative system of the Divine Envoy King Legion is even more primitive, basically following the set of the old big-headed ant kingdom:
The oldest male is in charge of administrative affairs, and the other males assist. The main nest's foreign affairs, scientific research, industry and other matters are not coordinated by a special agency, and the protagonist often has to do it himself, or temporarily assign some ants to take charge of it.
The protagonist realizes that the primitiveness of the political system has limited the development of the Divine Legion, and that it is time for reform.
Just taking advantage of this military victory over the Red Fire Ant Country, sweeping away the haze of defeat from his homeland, the Divine Envoy King gained a high prestige among the younger generation of ants, and at the same time, the country obtained a favorable external environment, and the economic level was also booming.
The protagonist has been conceived for a long time, and the construction of a political system is much more complex than that of a military system, and the balance of interests of all parties must be taken into account.
So it wasn't until the end of June that he finally drew a blueprint after thinking about it for a long time.
In the future, the authority of the Divine Envoy King Legion, the highest authority is the Divine Envoy Wang Benant, which is indisputable and impossible to change, and this time it will be clearly determined in the form of provisions.
Under the Divine King, a joint assembly of the tribes was established as an auxiliary authority. This joint conference is mainly to discuss and negotiate the major proposals submitted by the ant tribes to assist the Divine Envoy King in governing the country, but it is more of a united front function, so that all the ant clans under the Divine Envoy King's legion have a sense of honor to participate in the highest decision-making and cultivate a sense of identity.
The members of the joint meeting of all ethnic groups are called ant representatives, and there are a total of 100 representative seats, including 80 seats for big-headed ants, 6 seats for paving ants, 4 seats for hunting sickle ants, 4 seats for leaf-cutting ants, 3 seats for red forest ants, 2 seats for belly-raising ants, and 1 seat for Japanese black brown ants.
The number of seats in the meeting is fixed, and it is not divided according to the proportion of ants in each ant clan, but according to the contribution of this ant clan to the army of the god envoy king! If the number of seats needs to be changed, it can only be proposed and decided by the Divine King, and the joint meeting itself does not have the right to propose and decide, but can only participate in the discussion.
If a new ant clan joins the Divine Envoy King Legion in the future, it will not occupy the existing seats, but will add a number of seats according to the situation.
Of the 80 seats of the Big-Headed Ant family, the protagonist is planned to allocate 20 seats to military commanders, 30 seats to administrative governors, 15 seats to industry and technology, 5 seats to agriculture, and 10 seats to other industries.
The proportion of seats allocated by industry reflects the protagonist's intention to weaken the presence of the military in the organs of power and enhance the status of the administrative, industrial, and scientific research industries.
If divided by class, the protagonist deliberately gives 40 seats to the male ant, 5 seats to the large worker ant class, 20 seats to the divine worker ant class, and 15 seats to the divine ant class.
Such a distribution of seats is conducive to supporting the large worker ants, divine workers and divine soldier ants who bow down to themselves to check and balance the male ant class, and let the male ants occupy a numerical advantage over other classes on the bright side, so as not to cause resistance.
In addition to the joint meeting of the various ants, there will also be an ant tribe assembly within each ant tribe, which is also 100 seats, and the representatives of the ant tribe will be selected according to their qualifications, and there is no restriction on whether the representatives are male or female ants or other classes.
The general meeting of the ant tribe of each tribe is mainly to discuss and approve the daily affairs of the tribe, but important affairs must be reported to the general meeting of the various tribes for approval.
This is also an institution that is more symbolic than practical, and the purpose is to give those ant elites who cannot become delegates to the joint congress of all ethnic groups, but have a certain amount of influence within their own tribe, a sense of belonging and honor.
Moreover, through the three-level power structure of the Divine Envoy King-the United Assembly of the Clans-The Ant Clan, the protagonist has rightfully become the supreme power of any ant clan.
The Divine Envoy King also gained power, not only to directly control the joint assembly of the various clans, but also to directly intervene in the ant clan assembly below to achieve vertical management.
In the past, the other ant tribes were only subordinate to the big-headed ant clan, and the big-headed ant clan was subordinate to the god king, and the god king himself could not directly control the rule of the subordinate ant clan.
Through such a reform of the power system, the protagonist finally fully grasped the supreme authority within the Divine Envoy King Legion, and also became the common supreme leader of the eight ant clans.