Chapter 1148 Appointment ended, preparations before the founding of the country

. This personnel appointment and dismissal meeting lasted for a whole day. First, the appointment and dismissal of all the chief officials of the three provinces, six ministries, nine courts and one line were resolved, and then the candidates for the three provinces were selected. This is easier to choose.

The members of the Shangshu Province are the six ministers, and there is no need to select them again.

The Secretariat is responsible for drafting government orders and is also Luo Chong's secretary. In modern times, it is the Central Secretariat. This agency is temporarily served by the guards around Luo Chong. They were originally confidential secretaries around Luo Chong, and usually helped him to send and receive documents and government orders.

After the education system is formalized in the future, outstanding talents will be selected from the graduates to enter the Secretariat.

In fact, when the ancient dynasties developed to a later stage, there was no three-province system, but a cabinet system, such as the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty also needed many secretaries to help the emperor draft edicts and be ready to answer some questions from the emperor at any time.

For example, Luo Chong casually asked about the current construction progress of a certain project, and the guards around him, that is, the secretaries, had to answer immediately.

After all, the emperor is also a human being, and a person's energy is limited. If you want to manage such a large country, how can you do it without a large number of secretaries?

However, the secretariat of the Ming Dynasty was not called the Secretariat, nor the

Central Secretariat, but the Hanlin Academy. The person responsible for drafting the decree was not called the Central Secretariat, but the Waiting Hanlin.

In fact, it was just a change of name. The Central Secretariat in the Sui and Tang Dynasties was the Hanlin Academy in the Ming Dynasty, and it was also the Secretariat of Luo Chong. Except for the different names, they are essentially the same thing.

In addition to the secretarial work of the emperor, the Central Secretariat, the Secretariat, and the Hanlin Academy generally like to recruit some knowledgeable people to serve as consultants to the emperor. They are all people with strong professional knowledge and are also the emperor's encyclopedia. If the emperor wants to know something, he can ask these consultants. There

is no need to pick the candidates for the Shangshu Province. The people of the Secretariat are temporarily served by Luo Chong's guards. The Menxia Province is the place where decrees are issued. If they think there are any mistakes in the decrees, they can even reject them.

The power of the Menxia Province is also very large, but there is no suitable candidate for the time being, because no one has figured out how to play it yet. They don't even understand their own affairs, let alone check whether there are problems with other people's policies. Therefore, the Menxia Province will not be established for the time being. When there are experienced talents, these people will be transferred there.

Finally, there are dozens of branches under the six ministries, such as the Ministry of Civil Affairs under the Ministry of Households. This is the department that issues household registration and ID cards, as well as the land corresponding to household registration, and issues marriage certificates and divorce certificates. It does not manage many things, but has great power.

There is also the Ministry of Taxation, which is also an important department. The fiscal revenue of a country depends on tax collection.

In addition, there is the Ministry of Agriculture, which is in charge of agriculture across the country; the Ministry of Banking Supervision, which supervises whether banks have over-issued currency or issued loans indiscriminately. There

are also a lot of things under the Ministry of Industry, such as the Ministry of Transportation, the Ministry of Railways, the Ministry of Water Resources, and the Ministry of Industry. These branches also need chief officers with strong professional capabilities.

The Ministry of War was not easy either. It had a staff department under it, responsible for making national defense deployments, an armed forces department, responsible for conscription and the families of active soldiers, as well as local arrangements for veterans, and an equipment department, responsible for managing arsenals and military weapons and equipment.

Even the Ministry of Justice, one of the three judicial departments, had its own department responsible for arresting and interrogating criminals, a judicial department responsible for popularizing the law and making legal supplementary suggestions, and a fine and confiscation department, responsible for managing assets obtained from fines and confiscations, as well as confiscated crime tools, etc. Some of these things were useless for the court to keep, so according to modern practice, they would be auctioned off by the court.

In addition, there is the Prison Department, which manages prisons across the country. This is not a small department.

Each of the above branches needs an experienced chief officer to take up the post. Those

who did not get the official positions of the three provinces, six ministries and nine institutes before, now have the turn of the branches

under the six ministries, and it may not be enough. Not only the six ministries have branches, but the nine institutes also have their own branches. However, the branches of the nine institutes are called certain bureaus, certain institutes, and certain institutes, and they are not called branches, so as not to confuse them with the six ministries.

It is worth mentioning that the former Imperial Astronomical Observatory has now been changed to the Institute of Astronomy, and the work place is called the National Astronomical Observatory, which is responsible for observing the celestial phenomena and providing time.

The three previous research institutes were completely separated according to research classification. They were free to move around at ordinary times. If they had any new inventions or discoveries, and wanted to do research and experiments, they could discuss them first, and then apply for funds. After the funds were approved, they would do experiments, get results, and finally summarize theoretical knowledge and compile them into textbooks, which could also improve the scientific and technological level of the Han tribe.

In addition, if there are any special projects that need to be developed, the Chinese Academy of Sciences will set up a special research institute group. The group is a temporary organization. Experts in the required areas will be dispatched from various research institutes to form a temporary research and development team.

So in summary, the Chinese Academy of Sciences has two structures: institutes and groups, but each institute also needs its own person in charge. However, this happens to promote some researchers below.

In addition, the other two of the three judicial departments, the court and the procuratorate, are also divided into a three-level system of central, county, and line, with county courts, county courts, and the Supreme Court.

To file a lawsuit or file a complaint, go to the court. If the informant violates the law, just go to the Ministry of Justice to report the case. Just

the appointment and removal of personnel in the branches and sub-branches under the six ministries and nine academies took a whole afternoon to discuss. First, determine the chief officer, which is easy to do. As for the candidates for the adjutants and clerks, they need to be selected from the people below.

Fortunately, Luo Chong asked the county governors to bring the assessment reports of the officials below. Everyone read the reports first, and recommended those with outstanding political achievements. Then the others voted together. Each position was determined by a show of hands. If Luo Chong really chose the minor officials below, he would not know them.

Finally, after these county-level officials became Beijing officials, who should fill the vacancies left by them? So, the appointment of county-level officials in the dozens of counties of the Han tribe took another three hours to discuss. After

all the officials from the local and central courts were appointed, Luo Chong said to them.

"This appointment is determined first, but you can't take office immediately. Now all go back to your original positions, promote the grassroots officials, hand over the work, and then wait until the autumn harvest is over in various places, and then everyone will come back to the capital.

"At that time, we will take advantage of the slack season in the capital to rehearse the founding ceremony, the ceremony of offering sacrifices to the sky and the founding ceremony. These all need to be prepared and rehearsed in advance.

"We only have about two or three months of rehearsal time, and then we will wait until the 14th day of the fifth year of Da Ming, which is the New Year's Day this winter, to hold the ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven and ascending the throne, and then the founding ceremony, when we will also announce a new year name.

"Yes!" Hearing this, everyone stood up and bowed to Luo Chong.

They were excited. The Han tribe was about to establish a country. It would only take a few months. When the time came, the leader would ascend the throne and become the emperor, and they would also soar to the sky and become important officials of the first court of the Han Empire. Such a big event, how could they not be excited?!

(End of this chapter)