Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 574: The New Head and Assistant Generation Model
Everyone yearns for freedom and equality, but as long as there are people, there will be rules.

As the ancients said, there is no rule without rules. Although it is contrary to the theory of equality of life, dividing the citizens of the empire into grades and grades is against the theory of equality of life, but for human beings who seek to enjoy better social treatment and social status, it is a voluntary compliance. And highly respected system.

In the years after the Ming Dynasty, everyone took this phenomenon for granted. Some people struggled all their lives to be promoted to first-class citizens, and some people chose their wives and concubines based on their citizenship status.

And it just so happened that this kind of system made the super empire of Ming Dynasty last for a long time, because citizens of every level were maintaining the stability of this empire for their own privileges.

It is relatively simple to occupy two-thirds of the world's land militarily. The most difficult thing is how to successfully establish a stable order after becoming such a super empire and make such an empire last for a long time.

Daming has achieved this now. First, it unifies the mainstream civilization through Sinicization education. Second, it establishes a citizen hierarchy system to clarify the status of each human being. Third, it establishes a system of centralization and governor-general responsibility so that the entire empire can have a basis to rely on. There are rules to follow.

The civilization of China is good at managing a unified society, and even created the county system and imperial examination system for this, but now it is easy to manage such a super empire.

After the establishment and improvement of the imperial order, the entire Ming Empire began to develop rapidly. Infrastructure construction and basic education investment promoted a sharp increase in social labor wealth, and also drove the development of new technologies and new applications in the entire scientific research field.

The electric age began to gradually enter the blowout stage, the internal combustion engine was successfully manufactured, the old-fashioned version of private locomotives has begun to be implemented, the speed of trains has gradually increased, and more railway lines have been laid.

With the further development of electrical applications and material science, various new materials were manufactured, which promoted the rapid development of industries such as biomedicine and machinery manufacturing in Daming.

At this time, Zhu Youxiao’s Qianqing Palace can also see the phonograph, and there is also a special camera team. These things that should have appeared in modern times have now appeared in Daming ahead of time.

As the emperor, he can now take a special train directly from Shenyang to the southern country of Guangzhou, and he can even talk to Lu Xiangsheng, who has retired from the position of chief assistant of the cabinet.

The current central government of Ming Dynasty has become a system of joint responsibility between the emperor and the cabinet.

Basically, the chief assistant of the cabinet has the full power to handle all administrative affairs, but he has to be responsible to the emperor. The first assistant of the cabinet is elected by the representatives of citizens from all over the country. Second-class citizens have two hundred votes, and third-class citizens have one hundred votes.

Therefore, the policies of the previous cabinet chief and assistant candidates basically must conform to the interests of first-class citizens and take into account the interests of second-class and third-class citizens in order to become the cabinet chief and assistant.

The emperor no longer handles daily administrative and judicial affairs, but he is still the supreme commander of the army and has a veto power over the results of the election of the cabinet chief and assistant.

When the judiciary becomes independent, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Ministry of Criminal Justice, and the Dali Temple are not responsible to the cabinet, and the officials of the three judicial divisions are not allowed to concurrently hold cabinet positions. , and is also appointed by the emperor elected by the citizens, of course, as the emperor also has a veto power.

Regarding the army, Zhu Youxiao strictly ordered the army not to engage in business, and established it as an iron law, while military industrial enterprises or military-related transactions were all managed by royal capital and distributed dividends with officers and soldiers at all levels, so the lifeline of the major armies was controlled In the hands of the emperor.

The emperor's successor is also appointed by the emperor himself without election.

In such a system, unless the emperor wants to do something himself, he can be dictatorial immediately and effectively implement the new policy. Basically, he can live a leisurely life as a pampered emperor. The term of office of the chief minister of the cabinet is only four years, and no He was re-elected twice, so it is impossible to establish his own party to usurp the throne and stand on his own.

The first chief assistant to be selected by the court was Yang Sichang, an old guy who was almost eighty years old, and he just relied on his prestige to overwhelm the academic leader Zhang Dai.

However, Yang Sichang died in the third year, which made the selection of the chief minister of the cabinet had to be brought forward.

Although the policy of Ming's cabinet ministers being elected by the citizens themselves has just been implemented for one term, it has already caused a great sensation among the people. After all, no one thought that one day they would be able to go to the Decide the fate of the chief minister of an empire.

As soon as the news of Yang Sichang's death was sent out by telegram, the public opinion on who would be the next cabinet's chief executive committee had already begun to heat up.

Zhu Youxiao appreciates this kind of state where all the people participate in politics, which can make them feel more and more closely connected with the destiny of the country. Now that these people are so active, it also shows that they have accepted this model.

As for some people who say that many people are too selfish and only pay attention to the new chief minister and forget to remember the old chief minister, Zhu Youxiao is too lazy to care about this kind of moral criticism. It is enough for the literati to find the sense of existence. He is not an emperor. Need to care about these little things.

Zhu Youxiao also wished that in the last years of his reign as emperor, there would be more elections for the chief minister of the cabinet. After all, this would allow him to explore a better way of cooperation between the emperor and the cabinet, and to better clarify their respective positions. Authority.

For example, whether the governor is responsible to the emperor or to the chief minister of the cabinet is a policy that concerns the fate of the empire.

Today's chief minister of the cabinet is no more powerful than the previous chief minister, and has greater authority than before. He can directly appoint officials in the administrative field and give orders. As long as they are first-class citizens, even men and women are not distinguished, so candidates are eager to participate.

But generally speaking, the chances of being elected as the chief assistant of the cabinet by the former cabinet chief assistant, the cabinet second assistant or other cabinet ministers, senior ministers, academic leaders, and feudal officials, that is, the governors of various places, are relatively high. With few political resources in hand, it is still relatively difficult to become one person under one person and above ten thousand people.

The votes are owned by representatives elected by citizens of all levels in various fields and classes. These people are rarely civilians. They are either court officials or academic elites or business leaders. All are equal, but it is difficult to maintain a gap in the social and political resources they have.

The army does not participate in elections, so there is no need to worry about someone interfering with the army unless the emperor himself wants to.

(End of this chapter)