Early the morning after Dingguo Day, Xiao Yungui held the first state meeting after Dingguo in the Ganqing Palace. At the meeting, the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Heaven, Zuo Zongtang, announced a series of political systems and official system reform laws on the spot. The most eye-catching one was the establishment of the central cabinet of the Kingdom of Heaven.

The cabinet system appeared in the Ming Dynasty. Since Yongle, emperors of all dynasties have been entrusted with major policies to varying degrees. The emperor "who can rule the world without receiving ministers but being able to rule the world because of the votes of the cabinet ministers." However, none of them dared to take the charge of violating the ancestral system, and no one would want to share with the cabinet ministers from the imperial power that had achieved complete victory. Therefore, the cabinet progressed slowly and never became a formal administrative agency at the central level.

This time, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom officially designated the cabinet as a formal administrative agency at the central level, and the cabinet implemented a responsible cabinet system. However, unlike the British responsible cabinet, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's responsible cabinet is not responsible to the parliament, but to the Emperor of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. That is to say, if the emperor does not trust the cabinet or has a motion for impeachment by civil and military officials, the emperor can choose to remove the cabinet or dissolve the cabinet after passing the cabinet hearing, and then select the cabinet to form the cabinet again.

Of course, although the Taipingtian Cabinet is responsible to the emperor, it has greater power than the Ming Dynasty Cabinet. Although the Ming Dynasty Cabinet also had greater power, it always succumbed to the imperial power. With the Ming Dynasty, the cabinet never became a threat to the imperial power. However, the cabinet system reform of the Taipingtian Kingdom this time was a great way to untie the power of the cabinet. The Taipingtian Cabinet was both involved in legislation and was responsible for administration and actually controlled the legislative procedures of the Heavenly Kingdom. At the same time, the cabinet prime minister was the head of the cabinet government, presided over the cabinet meetings, took charge of government affairs, and had the power to appoint and remove cabinet members and all senior government officials. He was responsible for formulating and implementing major domestic and external policies of the country.

The only way for the Emperor of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to control the cabinet is the cabinet hearing system. If the emperor has objections to the cabinet's governance, he cannot completely obstruct the cabinet's governance. He can only intervene by removing the cabinet. The current Taiping Heavenly cabinet system is like a listed company. The emperor is the chairman, and the appointed prime minister is eO, and the operation of the entire company is controlled and completed by eO. Then the board of directors and the chairman have the power to remove eO.

At the same time, because the power of the cabinet has greatly increased, there is no eunuch group in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Palace. Therefore, the Tianli Cabinet has more power than the Ming Dynasty cabinet, because it does not need to compete for power and profit with the eunuch group and the six ministries, which can ensure smooth operation of the cabinet and no situation will be allowed to go out.

At the same time, in order to ensure effective supervision of the cabinet, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom established the House of Democratic Representatives, which means that ordinary people from all over the world elect representatives. They are only responsible for proposing to judge the quality of state government affairs and policies in the House of Democratic Representatives, and finally send the judgment results directly to the emperor. The emperor decided on the work results of the cabinet through the motion of the House of Democratic Representatives. This House of Democratic Representatives is just a form of information collection and communication, and does not directly remove the cabinet, nor does it participate in the election of the cabinet prime minister. However, this electoral system of the House of Democratic Representatives is to lay the foundation for the future election of the people, and at the same time gives the cabinet another constraint.

After the announcement of the cabinet system, the reform of the six ministries was the reform of the traditional six ministries. The traditional six ministries had seriously hindered the operational efficiency. The thirty-six ministries under the six ministries should be in charge of all the affairs of the state, including the army, government, transportation, medical care, education, diplomacy, commerce, agriculture, industry, etc., but every time the ministries had official duties, they had to go to the six ministries to transfer first. This was a very impactful effect on efficiency, and there were also a large number of redundant officials with overlapping responsibilities. Therefore, this time, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom directly abolished the traditional six ministries and directly promoted the thirty-six ministries to the central ministries of the country, and established the Ministry of National Defense, Ministry of Transport, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Industry, Ministry of Agriculture, etc., to make each department more professional. The original six ministries, ministers, ministers and others went directly to the new ministries and commissions to take over the position of minister, while some entered the cabinet.

In addition to the above political reforms, there are also eye-catching military reforms. According to the new military system of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Emperor of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom also served as the commander of the three armies of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. It was divided into nine military regions according to its region, including the East China Military Region, the South China Military Region, the Central China Military Region, the North China Military Region, the Northwest Military Region, the Southwest Military Region, the Northeast Military Region, the Xinjiang Military Region and the Central Military Region. The traditional Chinese region is easy to understand, and the Xinjiang Military Region is divided separately because it is still the army of Yidian, and the central military region is an important manifestation of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's guarantee of the capital's defense.

Then there is the division of troops within each military region. The elite First Army and the Second Army are assigned to the central military region, while the remaining 3 to 18 armies are assigned to the remaining seven military regions, while the Xinjiang military region is led by the King of Wings. The military chiefs of the above military regions are rotated every three years, except for the Xinjiang military region.

Originally, Xiao Yungui wanted to set up an overseas military region, but the intention of expansion was too obvious and he was afraid of bringing bad diplomatic influence, so he was not established yet. However, a few years later, this military region was established, and there were two, one was the South China Sea Military Region and the other was the Northern Xinjiang Military Region (known as the Siberian Military Region by foreigners).

After the reform of military and political affairs, another major reform on education was announced, that is, the abolition of the imperial examination system for thousands of years, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom began to implement the three-year compulsory education system for all people and the national government service examination system. Three-year compulsory education is a universal education that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom spent a lot of money and investment to reduce the national illiteracy rate. It is expected that more than 3,000 new primary schools will be opened in three years, ensuring that there are public primary schools in each county in more than 3,000 counties across the country. Because the country has too many populations and too wide a region, three-year compulsory education can only be implemented for the time being, otherwise the financial pressure will be too great, because this compulsory education is paid by the state and is completely free.

The national government service examination system has opened up the channels for ordinary people to become officials. As long as you are literate and have a skill, you can participate in the government service examination held every year. Like later generations, the country will be admitted to the best, starting from local government affairs and gradually promoting it to the central government. This will prevent a group of nerds who only know how to write eight-legged essays from controlling the country's political situation for a long time, and truly achieving a selection system that can reduce talents without any restrictions.

After the various reform systems were announced, the old court officials of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom were relatively calm. They had already known these reforms in their hearts. They had participated in many systems before, so they were not surprised. Yuan Jiasan, Li Hongzhang, Peng Yulin, Qingfeng and other demoted officials in the Qing Dynasty were very surprised.

After the dynasty was dispersed, Li Hongzhang walked on the corridor in the palace and said to Yuan Jiasan and Peng Yulin: "Looking at the atmosphere of my new dynasty, it is opening up a new situation in China that has not been seen in three thousand years." Peng Yulin said: "Is the new emperor delegating power too much? Will there be a case of the Ming Taizu?" The three of them understood the matter of the Ming Taizu mentioned by Peng Yulin. It was that Zhu Yuanzhang established the left and right prime ministers in the early Ming Dynasty, but later the imperial power and prime ministers clashed, and finally Zhu Yuanzhang abolished the prime minister system.

Yuan Jiasan pondered for a while and said, "The new emperor is an enlightened king. He must not be the kind of person like Zhu Yuanzhang who kills founding heroes indiscriminately. China will definitely be able to be severely punished within decades." Yuan Jiasan's words were only half true. Xiao Yungui was indeed not a person who killed heroes indiscriminately, but his wife Hong Yuner was. Twenty years later, Xiao Yungui died of illness first, and later the new emperor succeeded to the throne. When the domestic bourgeoisie wanted to master the national affairs and traditional feudal forces at that time, Hong Yuner, who was already the empress dowager, killed more than a dozen founding officials representing the remnants of feudal forces, including Yuan Jiasan himself. However, it was also a blessing that when Hong Yuner killed the heroes, many of them had died of old age, so they were not too many.

Hong Yuner killed the heroes twenty years later and supported the reform of the capital system, which was another major change. At that time, the country had already met the conditions for reform. The people's illiteracy rate dropped sharply, the people's wisdom began, the thoughts surged, domestic industry and commerce flourished and developed, and it was inevitable that the capital class, who controlled the national economy, launched a major change. After this change, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom finally embarked on the road of constitutional monarchy, and the Xiao family became a royal family, just a symbol of the country, and the imperial power was further weakened. The country formed a State Council of the House of Representatives and capitalists, that is, the lower house and upper house of the United Kingdom. The Prime Minister changed to a system that was responsible to the two houses of the Democratic House of Representatives and the State Council.

After hearing Yuan Jiasan's words, Peng Yulin said, "What about abolishing the imperial examination system? Scholars in the world are afraid of being dissatisfied." Li Hongzhang nodded slightly and said, "It is possible that they are dissatisfied. Without the titles of juren and scholars, some taxes cannot be exempted." Yuan Jiasan said, "For the country, we scholars should have paid taxes and paid food long ago. I think it is not reasonable for others to be exempted from taxes unless those who have made contributions to the country in the future can be exempted from taxes for only a few years. Moreover, the country is currently doing universal education, and more and more people will be studying and literate in the future. The emperor's compulsory education is even more dominant than Mr. Confucius Sheng. He wants the people of the whole country to be scholars."

Li Hongzhang said: "Yes, Confucius educates the people, and the emperor today really wants to educate the people." Peng Yulin nodded and sighed: "Who dares to bully us when it comes to that time? Perhaps China will usher in another prosperous era in the Han and Tang dynasties."

While he was talking, he saw a group of people walking towards him, but dozens of imperial guards in the palace escorted more than a dozen prisoners. The three of them retreated aside. Peng Yulin recognized that the group was Zeng Guofan, Guo Songtao, Zeng Guohua and others in the Hunan Army. Peng Yulin hurriedly stepped forward, but was stopped by the guards. He hurriedly said, "I'm just saying a few words." The guard said, "Your Majesty is waiting to see them, I'm sorry." After that, he escorted him and continued to move forward.

Zeng Guofan looked back at Peng Yulin, and then smiled bitterly, and then bowed slightly. Peng Yulin replied deeply. Li Hongzhang and Yuan Jiasan walked up behind him. Yuan Jiasan sighed, "Zeng Wenzheng is a powerful man, but he doesn't know what the emperor will do about them." Li Hongzhang sighed, "If it were the previous dynasty, it would have been a high-ranking official, but this new dynasty, alas, is to publish four words according to the law..." (To be continued...)
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