The enthronement ceremony was successfully completed, and the interlude in the middle was deliberately ignored or amplified.

The newspapers were full of controversy about the Roman Empire, as well as news of the enthronement and new appointments and dismissals, and the all-out offensive of the Hungarians was squeezed into a very remote position.

Felix Schwarzenberg became Prime Minister of the Reich, an appointment that was not controversial. Although he was a reformer, he was his own man in the hearts of conservatives.

During the turmoil of 1848, when conservatives relinquished a large number of official positions, either actively or passively, Franz did not let those positions vacate but rewarded them directly to those whom he thought were good.

This led conservatives to frantically criticize the rotten system of the Austrian Empire, and the emperor recklessly caused the whole country to jump.

Of course, they didn't dare to scold Franz, so all these black cauldrons were thrown on Ferdinand I, who had abdicated.

The strong never complain about the environment, unless the environment is not good for the strong.

Their complaints are not mere complaints, they have to change the current situation, otherwise in a few decades a new privileged class will replace them.

If it was in the past, these people would definitely directly provoke them to paralyze the entire country, or even raise an army to rebel, or collude with extraterritorial heavenly demons.

However, at this time, Franz was in control of the military, and he had beaten the extraterritorial demons they had high hopes for, and their own influence was as fragile as a candle in the wind in the face of the new emperor's near-black hole influence.

The official system can preserve the imperial power as much as possible, so as to prevent the bureaucracy from covering the sky with one hand, and at the same time, it can also reduce the probability of talents being buried as much as possible, and can also win over the aristocracy.

In fact, the solution to this problem is very simple, as long as the power of evaluation, appointment and dismissal is transferred to the central government, this problem can be solved.

So Franz won't kill them all, on the contrary, Franz wants them to push for reform.

This was the original purpose of the system, and Franz did so without forgetting his original intention.

Of course, in order to rationalize it, Franz also had to be equipped with a corresponding probation system. The problem with the probation system is not that it is inspected, but that it does not examine, which leads to a large number of friends becoming officials without examination.

Franz wanted meritocracy, not a bunch of nerds who could only take exams, let alone a group of lackeys of the bureaucracy.

However, the system alone is not enough, and supervision and guidance are also needed.

They also knew that Franz was nothing more than a demon who killed in the name of benevolence. But ordinary people can't get in touch with these insiders at all, and even if they know, they won't empathize with them, after all, it's not ordinary people who kill them.

Naturally, the examination system should be established and vigorously promoted. However, the system of giving officials cannot be abolished, what should be abolished is the system of grace and shade, and there should be no farce in which one person is an official and the whole clan is an official.

This may have been an unsolvable problem in the Han Dynasty, but it was not a big problem in the nineteenth century. After all, the advent of railways has greatly changed the original concept of time and space.

Everything will go back to the way it was, and he's just a passerby, just an arrogant clown.

The civil service selection system of a large modern Eastern country was indeed very advanced, but it was not suitable for the Austrian Empire at this time.

The people Franz promoted would fill the niche of those guys, and of course Franz had a long lifespan, and he could have come a few more times, but what about after he died?

As long as Franz liked it, he could immediately accuse them of crimes, either to be put on the gallows, or to be killed in the streets by the army, or to be burned at the stake by fanatical believers and nationalists.

But Franz would not do that, and to be honest, even if all the privileged classes of the Austrian Empire were killed, it would only prolong the cycle of reincarnation.

What used to take months to make a round trip now takes only a few days.

It is not that no one in history has thought of a way to counter the bureaucracy, but most of the methods have been to create another organization of equal strength to balance it.

There were also emperors in the East who came up with a system of giving officials, but they not only made the same mistake as the emperors of the West, but even lost their reputation.

In Eastern history, officials appointed and dismissed by the emperor himself would be called "Chuan Feng Guan", "Zhong Zhi Guan" or "Diagonal Seal Official", which is not a good word just by listening to the title.

In fact, these "official officials" or "oblique officials" will also be frantically suppressed by the bureaucracy in their official careers, and they will be criticized by thousands of years in public opinion.

This made officials and scholars deeply ashamed, and there were many people in history who refused to be given official titles by the emperor in the middle and late dynasties.

Could it be that the ancient officials of the East were so upright and unwilling to be officials? No! Because they could get better and bigger official positions from the bureaucracy just by rejecting the emperor.

Isn't the cabinet afraid of the emperor's revenge if he slaps the emperor in the face like this? The answer is not afraid! Before the Qing Dynasty, cabinet ministers were not slaves or mud knicks.

In the TV series, the emperor killing a first- or second-grade member is often like chopping melons and vegetables, a look can scare a piece of pee, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he tramples on the cabinet system at will.

But in fact, as long as the cabinet in the middle and late Ming Dynasty thought that the emperor's will was unreasonable, it could refuse to draft it and seal it back.

Of course, the emperor can also disapprove of the cabinet's vote, but the cabinet can also ignore the emperor's refusal to redraft. In the later stage of development, even the six departments and ministries were able to return the holy decree, and the bureaucracy was completely uncontrollable.

In the end, it was washed away by external forces in repeated ruffles.

Franz did not intend to repeat the mistakes of the past, so he did not intend to give these people the opportunity to grow in the first place, and the recipient of the position would not only not be despised, but would be a privilege.

There are no surprises in the appointment of Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Karl Ludwig von Bruck, who has worked hard for so many years, deserves the position.

The Minister of War was continued by the Count of Tural, who, although he did not do anything earth-shattering, did not make any mistakes, supported the reforms and took responsibility.

(Historically, the failure of Count Tural's reforms is largely due to lack of money, and he chose to take the initiative to take responsibility when the mob besieged the War Department at the end of his life, and was then beaten to death by the mob.) ）

The Minister of the Admiralty was Archduke Friedrich, a military genius and the father of the Austrian Imperial Navy, a position no one better suited than him.

The Ministers of the Interior, Transport, Justice, Education, Agriculture, Industry, and Trade have all been replaced, but most of their vice-ministers are experts in the field.

For example, Mendel, who served as Vice-Minister of Agricultural Technology, Lucind Sina, who served as Vice-Minister of Trade, etc.

Why didn't Franz directly use technocrats? It's okay for these people to put forward opinions, but if they really let them preside over government affairs, they will all become embezzlers in a few days.

Because they know better than ordinary bureaucrats, because they know better, they are bolder, and the damage they cause is more serious.

In addition, it is not an isolated phenomenon that experts stay in the government for a long time and do not speak people's words, on the one hand, they are easy to be ungrounded, and on the other hand, it is due to interests.

And in Franz's view, it is a waste to put experts in politics, in order to prevent this from happening.

Franz must improve the treatment and status of scientific and technical experts, so that they can stay in the right places, instead of sharpening their heads to go into business and politics.

Franz's idea is good, but it remains to be seen how this government will run. But fortunately, Franz is a time-traveler, with knowledge and vision far ahead of the times.

Although he finally waited for the day of his accession to the throne, he was not happy at all.

Although Franz ignored the opinions of the National Assembly in Frankfurt and the Russians, those ideas spread like a plague in the Austrian Imperial Government.

In fact, Prince Felix Schwarzenberg, who was both Chancellor and Foreign Minister, was a staunch Greater German, but this did not contradict his conservative status, as he himself supported reform.

However, none of them, including the chancellor of the Austrian Empire, knew exactly what the German Empire was going to do, what it was, they only had enthusiasm and visions that were too good to be realistic.

Everyone felt that as soon as the German Empire was established, all problems would cease to exist, and everyone rejoiced.

They have high expectations for this unknown country, and generally the higher the expectations, the greater the disappointment, and how positive they are at this time, how crazy they will be after that.

Rather than being disillusioned in the future, it is better for them to recognize the reality now.