I want to be emperor

Chapter 223 New Official System (Subscription for the third update)

In this canonization, although Luo Zhixue did not mention it, there is another rule in the specific implementation, that is, princes will not be awarded unless they have military merits.

Among the eight marquises, all generals, not a single civil servant!
In the civil service system, even Guo Quanshu, the head of the civil service department, was only awarded the title of Earl.

This is also a manifestation of the importance attached to soldiers in the early days of the founding of the country.

However, the titles conferred by Luo Zhixue are not the same as the titles of the Ming Dynasty, that is, the titles of the Ming Dynasty are basically hereditary titles.

However, the titles conferred by Luo Zhixue are all descended titles.

Even in order to avoid misunderstandings by the courtiers, even the word hereditary was used very carefully, but the word inherited was used instead.

Because there is no original hereditary title in the true sense, Luo Zhixue does not intend to award such a title.

The titles of the Protectorate Army are all reduced inheritance titles.

However, there are two types of inheritance by reduction.

At present, the highest level is "reduction of succession to no replacement". The detailed explanation is that after the reduction to the lowest level of baron, the title of baron will be hereditary and rest with the country.

This hereditary title in the true sense only needs to be reduced to the baron before it can be hereditary.

There is also the ordinary reduction and inheritance.

This is to reduce the baron after inheriting to the baron.

However, in order to appease the founding heroes, Luo Zhixue specially allowed some of them to inherit the original title for three generations.

That is to say, the original noble can be inherited for three generations, and then the reduced inheritance can be replaced or the inheritance can be reduced.

It was considered a small opening, but it was only used as an unconventional method, and it also allowed Luo Zhixue to have a higher discretion.

At present, the eight marquises have all obtained special decrees, which can be inherited for three generations and then reduced inheritance will be implemented.

Among them, the titles of two of them were specially designed to inherit the reduced inheritance after three generations.

They are Wang Xiazi and Huang Dingquan.

The reason why there are only these two people is not because they have made great contributions. Those who were able to be awarded the title of Marquis and even broadcast the drama have a lot of credit.

What really earned them the honor was something else.

For Wang Xiazi, the main reason was that when Sun Jiancheng passed away, Wang Xiazi, an important general who held the cavalry force in the rural protection army at that time, did not choose to compete with Luo Zhixue, but took the initiative to be soft as a subordinate. Wang Xiazi's original initiative Allegiance to Luo Zhixue directly avoided the split of the Township Protection Army.

Although Xiazi Wang also had his own considerations at the beginning, Luo Zhixue had to remember this matter, so this time he gave Xiazi Wang a special decree to allow Yuanjue to inherit the three generations and reduce the inheritance.

As for Huang Dingquan, it was a pure reward for loyalty. Despite his honest appearance, this person was actually Luo Zhixue's most important confidant.

Otherwise, how could he be placed in the position of commander of the North Route Army, in charge of an army of [-]?

Through these two people, Luo Zhixue wants to tell others openly: You can't go wrong with Lao Tzu, and you have all the high officials and rich salary!

Middle and high-level civil and military officials have won titles, and other middle and low-level civil and military officials who have not been able to obtain titles for the time being also have their own benefits.

For example, promotion!
On the military side, the Township Protection Army is preparing to build a fourth division, while the second and third divisions are also continuing to expand. Both divisions need a large number of officers.

Military expansion equals more job vacancies, and these job vacancies need to be filled by existing officers.

In today's rural protection army system, even people with little merit can get promoted if they follow the steps.

If you have credit or talent, then the speed of promotion is very fast.

If he has both credit and talent, this kind of person who has both will be promoted as fast as a rocket. A few months ago, he might have been a battalion commander, and then he could become a division commander a few months later.

The same is true for civil servants. Maybe it is only a magistrate of the seventh rank now, but there are many examples of magistrates who have been promoted to the fourth rank after a few months.

In addition to promotion, there will be no shortage of rewards in terms of materials. The biggest measure is that all soldiers in the army will be given subsidies equivalent to three months in September.

Regardless of whether it is the main force or the garrison, whether it is an officer or a soldier, or even a recruit who has just entered the camp or a soldier who has just joined the army, they can all receive a one-time three-month subsidy in September.

It is said to be a half-year subsidy, but in fact it is not too much, because the rural protection army is different from the traditional dynasty army, and there is no such thing as salary.

For all the soldiers who join the army, the army will cover their food, drink and clothing. They will not pay you a few taels of silver in name like other armies, but will deduct them in the name of food, clothing, etc.

The measure of the Rural Protection Army is to directly cover all the expenses, and then distribute subsidies as pocket money.

The amount of this subsidy is also gradually increasing. At the beginning, it was only two or three hundred cash, but now it has increased several times.

At present, the monthly pocket money of the first-class soldiers in the Rural Protection Army is now a standard of one tael of silver. This one tael of silver is at the sole disposal of the soldiers. They can also use their own pocket money, or entrust the army to send it home.

Now if you get a three-month subsidy reward at one time, that's three taels of silver.

It seems that there are not many people, but now the total strength of the Township Protection Army is nearly 10, and it costs several 10 taels of silver just to distribute the current rewards.

However, this mere 10 taels of silver is not too much of a burden on the current finances of the Township Protection Army.

Not to mention before, the various types of cash confiscated in the process of going south to Anlu Mansion, Hanyang Mansion, De'an Mansion, Jingzhou Mansion, and Huangzhou Mansion amounted to several million taels of silver.

A reward of several 10 taels was given to the soldiers of the whole army. This will not affect the financial operation of the new Great Chu Empire, but it can greatly improve the morale of the whole army.

Not only the military, but even civilian officials also received extra cash rewards.

Middle and senior officials were promoted to titles, and middle and low-level officials, as well as ordinary officers and soldiers, were directly paid.

Luo Zhixue's large-scale reward this time was shared by everyone, and none of them were left behind. Even the young and strong in the military management in the transportation camp, construction camp, and reclamation camp were given extra meals.

Luo Zhixue's idea is very simple, this is rebellion, just like starting a business.

In the early days of the business, everyone tightened their belts and put their heads on the belts to follow Luo Zhi.

This venture is barely considered a success. Although it has not yet reached the level of the world's top [-], it can barely be considered a listing.

The listing of start-up companies will create a large number of rich people. Even ordinary employees can get some bonuses and get more year-end bonuses.

These rebels have established a country, so naturally they need to give generous salaries to the core backbone and high-ranking officials, and cash rewards to ordinary officials and soldiers.

Everyone is good, everyone is happy!

While everyone was happy, Luo Zhixue also took advantage of this opportunity to promote the new official system. This new official system has more new institutions, more complete institutional settings and distribution of powers.

But none of this matters.

The most important thing is that in this new official system, Luo Zhixue further concentrated the central imperial power.

In the newly born Great Chu Empire, the principle of separation of military and government will be clarified. For this purpose, the "Military Affairs Academy" will be established, which will be directly managed by Luo Zhixue. There are five directors and two directors.

The above-mentioned five ministers and two directors will serve as the top generals of the military to assist Luo Zhixue in handling various military affairs.

In terms of government affairs, there are a total of nine ministries and six independent departments and bureaus under the former General's Mansion, including the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Commerce and Trade, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Taxation, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Ethics and Education, and the Patrol and Police Department. Incorporated into the jurisdiction of the newly established Government Affairs Council, each ministry has a second-rank minister and a second-rank minister.

The Government Administration Council also does not have a head office such as the dean, and is directly managed by Luo Zhixue.

Luo Zhixue will continue to make adjustments to the various ministries within the Government Affairs Council according to the actual situation. For example, Luo Zhixue is planning to make adjustments in the Ministry of Commerce. The current Ministry of Commerce and Trade is only responsible for doing business with the outside world, but Luo Zhixue is preparing Let the department take on more responsibilities, otherwise, there is no need for a ministry-level organization to do business with the outside world.

At the same time, Luo Zhixue also intends to continue splitting up the various administrative ministries to avoid the excessive power of a certain department. Among them, the Ministry of Industry will be the key target for subsequent splitting.

The Military Affairs Council and the Government Administration Council, these two institutions divided most of the original institutions under the General's Mansion, but still not all of them.

There are also some institutions that are independent.

Among them, the legal department and the inspectorate department were separated, and the legal department was not only independent, but also split and reorganized.

The part of the legal department can only be revoked.

Part of its supervision and management can only be merged into the Inspectorate, and then the Inspectorate was upgraded to the Grand Inspectorate.

The Grand Procuratorate is set up to be in charge of the first and second ranks of the "Du Yushi", and from the second rank to the deputy Du Yushi.

The Judgment Division in the Ministry of Justice was expanded into the "Grand Court", with a second-rank chief judge and judges from the second rank.

After the division of the Ministry of Justice, there were only a few institutions left, namely the Department of Civil Law, the Department of Criminal Law, the Department of Political Law, etc., and then the Ministry of Justice was upgraded to the Judiciary, which is responsible for various law-making matters.

After adjustments, the nascent Great Chu Empire also formed a complete judicial system in which the Court of Justice was in charge of legislation, the Inspectorate was in charge of supervision, the Ministry of Punishment/Tax Investigation Department was in charge of law enforcement, and the Court of Justice was in charge of adjudication.

The above-mentioned Military Affairs Council, Government Affairs Council, Metropolitan Procuratorate, Grand Court, and Court of Justice, together with the Hanlin Academy, which had a very special status and was reformed purely as the Ministry of Staff of Luo Zhixue’s private secretary organization, constituted the newly born Chu Empire. high-level political structure.

It covers military, administrative, judicial, legislative and other aspects.

In addition to these institutions, there are more than a dozen independent institutions, such as the Internal Affairs Department in charge of Luo Zhixue's personal life affairs and the guard room in charge of Luo Zhixue's personal security.

Luo Zhixue took advantage of the opportunity of founding the country to implement a full set of new official systems. However, there is an obvious problem in this new official system: there are too many organizations that Luo Zhixue directly manages!
However, Luo Zhixue has limited time and energy. It is impossible for him to fully manage so many organizations by himself. Then he can work 24 hours a day without rest every day.

And this also involves another system that Luo Zhixue has been planning for a long time: the participation system!
(End of this chapter)