Chapter 317： Institutional reform

The expansion of the Orihi Palace is in full swing. Of course, this does not affect the daily office of the palace. Because the expansion was just adding walls and buildings around the old palace. At most, loud noises during construction affect the mood of office workers in the palace.

Fortunately, there weren't many cutting machines in this era, and they couldn't make very harsh and sharp sounds, otherwise, listening to these sounds was also quite frustrating.

即使 But even so, Marin, a modern person who is used to enjoying, is still very uncomfortable with the noisy sounds around the palace. As a result, he began to feel a little irritable. At the same time, I am also unwilling to handle so many government affairs every day ...

Therefore, Marin decided to add some institutions to share his work ...

The secretariat was first established. The so-called secretariat is the organization that helps his boss handle chores. According to later generations, "there is something for the secretary, nothing to do ..."

However, because the four college secretaries who followed Marin were all male, the latter half of the sentence would not hold, but the first half of the sentence could still be part of it.

Moreover, the state is not a company, and Marin cannot really hand over power to the secretariat. Such as military power, such as financial power, and important personnel appointment rights, Marin did not intend to delegate power to the Secretariat.

The military power Marin is intended to be the General Staff in the city, but because the military education in East Frisian Land has just begun, without ten or eight years, it is not possible to train officers who can be staffed. Therefore, the General Staff cannot be established for the time being.

With financial power, Marin must have been given to Kohler for the time being. After all, Kohler is more trustworthy, at least for now. Of course, it's also because Marin currently has a serious shortage of talent. Therefore, Marin requested that the Treasury Department, which is mainly based on Kohler and supplemented by several college students such as Rabbi, has a certain degree of independence and can reject Prime Minister Jeffrey's unreasonable spending requirements. Of course, if the request of the Prime Minister is rejected, a report must be formed, reported to the Secretariat, transferred to Marin himself for review, to avoid a situation where the Ministry of Finance and the Prime Minister are fighting.

As for important personnel appointment rights, then it goes without saying. Without military power, financial power, and important personnel appointment powers, the Prime Minister is just a purely civil servant who handles chores and can't find any spray. Marin wanted to be lazy, so he planned to develop the secretariat into his own audit department.

What they reviewed was the administrative documents and handling opinions transferred from Jeffrey's side. The Secretariat then issued instructions one by one according to Marin's request and used Marin's seal. Of course, without Marin's signature.

初 From the beginning of the establishment of the Secretariat, Marin had thought of preventing the Secretariat from expanding into an organization similar to the Ming Dynasty cabinet. So Marin limited the powers of the Secretariat. The staff of the Secretariat can only use the seal to give instructions under the guidance of Marin.

Moreover, the Secretariat cannot make any instructions regarding military and financial matters. Unless Marin is out of business, they will be able to make instructions against Marin's strict forms. However, in some important situations, they are not qualified to make an instruction. For example, large-scale military transfers cannot be carried out without the personal signature of Marin. The Secretariat uses the seal of Marin, and the maximum number of troops it can mobilize is not more than 100. Moreover, these 100 people must not be in the city of Orihi or drive into Orihi, so as to avoid a palace change. Even in Marin's vision, even in the future, even if the General Staff is established, the soldiers and horses in the city of Orihi cannot be mobilized. The capital's soldiers and horses can only be commanded by Marin's most trusted people.

No military command, no financial review, no important personnel appointment, the Secretariat is equivalent to a department dealing with chores. Of course, it is also important to review the processing opinions submitted by the Prime Minister.

In this way, the power of the Prime Minister is limited, but the Secretariat cannot process the documents by itself, only review. Kohler can also supervise financially and balance the two parties.

In the future, Marin even intends to set up an agency like the FBI to supervise his staff and prevent them from being malpractices. However, at the moment, Marin has no relevant talents, so he has to let Sauer's men start to exercise this ability.

即使 Even so, Marin decided to limit the power of this intelligence agency. Whether it is the Jinyiwei or the East Factory in the Ming Dynasty, or the special agent in the Republic of China, it is a scourge because of its transcendent enforcement power.

Therefore, even if such an intelligence agency is established, Marin does not intend to give them the right to judicial trial to prevent them from growing larger and creating injustices.

For this reason, Marin came up with a method-that is, to let the intelligence agency only have the power of investigation, evidence, and prosecution, similar to the procuratorial organs of later generations. However, the procuratorial organs are open and easy to be monitored by people with care. The intelligence bureau is secret, and not only can't be monitored, but they must be secretly monitored. Therefore, its role is greater than that of the procuratorial organs.

However, the intelligence service has no ultimate judicial power, and even the power of law enforcement has been reduced to the limit. The arrest of an official or noble must be authorized by the justices. Moreover, judicial jurisdiction is vested in the courts. In this way, the Intelligence Bureau can avoid becoming bigger because it has no judicial power and does not have the ability to plant stolen goods to frame others. But because of his pervasive ability, Marin can “early and conscientiously” understand the situation around the country and avoid being blinded. In addition, the presence of the Intelligence Agency can deter those with bad intentions just by making a few beautiful shots.

With the rise of commercial trade, Marin can foresee an increasing urban population in East Friesland. Well, the issue of urban security needs great attention.

Before that, the urban population of the East Frisian Lambo was very small, but Marin is now expanding the city on a large scale and is also engaged in immigration, and the urban population will certainly form a large size in the future.

The city is also a place where dirt and dirt are hidden. In the current rural areas, because of the existence of the serf manor, serfs were confined to the manor and did not run around. There was no mobile population, as long as the owner or manager of the manor managed the serfs in accordance with the law. Therefore, in rural areas, there is currently no law and order problem.

But cities are different. Cities have always been a place where three religions and nine streams are concentrated. There are many messes. Without law and order, it is impossible.

Before that, although there were sheriffs in various places, local officials usually served concurrently. Moreover, the security personnel under their command are not regular. Either sheriff's younger brother, or simply a local soldier. These people are often hooligans themselves, and law enforcement is relatively rude. There are even acts of oppression of the people. Compared with the security officers of this era, the urban management in later generations should not be too civilized ...

As a result, Marin signed an order to cancel the setting of the sheriff and set up a special police force. Of course, the sheriff system is still used in rural areas, with other officials serving concurrently. But in the five major cities-Orich, Emden, Lyle, Denburg and Norden, Marin established police stations, abolished the former sheriffs, and established formal police stations. The former sheriff was replaced by the police chief.

警察 The source of the police was some former soldiers who had retired due to injuries after the last battle in Lyle County. Of course, although these veterans can't stay in the army, the injuries are not too serious, at least there is no problem in teaming up to beat the hooligan.

人 Because of their strict military training and strict discipline, these people will not bully the people like hooligans, but they are also very combative and can hold their ground.

He Marin selected a total of 300 outstanding soldiers who chose to retire after being injured, and sent them to 5 cities to establish police forces.

The police are not the same as ordinary people. They need to be beaten at any time and have the ability to stop the riots. In the choice of weapons, Marin hesitated for a long time ...

First of all, muskets are not suitable. The rifle is too powerful to kill, not suitable for law enforcement. Moreover, the muskets of this era were too long to refill and their accuracy was poor. If you can't concentrate the criminals with one shot, it will make you unlucky, and it is easy to accidentally hurt innocent people.

So Marin ruled out the musket first. Anyway, he had banned guns all over the country, and no one was worried about guns against police. So Marin began to consider equipping the police with swords.

Alas, the knight's rapier came into Marin's sight. This light sword is easy to carry and not heavy, and is suitable for police use to patrol and perform tasks and fight crime. Therefore, rapiers must be equipped.

However, when it comes to stabbing your head, drawing a sword is usually easy to hurt. Therefore, it is necessary to equip truncheons. However, Marin had no rubber and was unable to make rubber truncheons for professional hits. So Marin remembered the fighting artefacts of later generations—baseball bats ... then baseball bats became one of the police equipment ...

When encountering thorns and confusing things, the police don't need to pull out a sword, just take out a baseball bat and smoke. However, when confronted with a group of people, there is some trouble.

Alas, Marin remembered the riot police using shields in later generations. The reason why the shield is used is to resist the attack of the object thrown by the troublemaker, and it can also resist the knife to a certain extent. Moreover, the shielded riot police can also use the shield to forcibly push away and drive away the troubled crowd.

Therefore, Marin decided that the police's riot gear would be square wooden shields and baseball bats, and a wooden riot hat.

This kind of equipment can be used to beat any promiscuous group, and it can also resist those angry groups. In the future, after Marin obtained the peppers of the Americas, he also planned to make hot pepper powder instead of tear gas to dispel the crowd. However, the caster must also wear glasses and masks first, otherwise it will also harm himself ...

After successively setting up a secretariat, strengthening the Ministry of Finance, setting up an intelligence bureau and a police station, Marin also set up tax bureaus in five major cities in response to the development of domestic commerce.

The staff of the tax bureau was personally dispatched by Marin and assisted by Kohler's Ministry of Finance. In other cities, tax bureaus levy taxes on shops on the streets and vendors on the streets. Even the city's entry tax is placed under the jurisdiction of the tax bureau.

Marlin stipulates that the "one tax system" will be adopted in the future. In other words, in and out of the city, you only need to pay the city tax, not the city tax. At the same time, various domestic tax cards are canceled, and local governments are not allowed to set up private tax cards. For goods in transit, as long as they are invoiced and stamped by the local tax office, when they arrive at another place in East Friesland, they only need to show the stamped invoice, as long as the type and quantity of the goods on the invoice and the inspection results match , There is no need to order taxes.

改革 This reform is intended to be progress. In the Middle Ages, it was common for private tax cards to be set up in various places in the same country. What's more, the tax revenue from private tax cards in these places will not be paid, but will be divided up privately by local officials.

Mr. Marlin's move is actually very harmful to the interests of local officials. If you change countries, you may encounter great resistance.

But the East Frisian country is not the same. The old East Frisian nobles who followed the Sexner family were mostly killed by Marin. The remaining old aristocrats and new aristocrats are very afraid of Marin who is fierce. Therefore, Marin's policy, they dare not violate ~ www.novelhall.com ~ lest they be "clicked".

Therefore, with the previous fierce reputation, Marin easily recovered the power of business tax in various places, and only retained the power of each place to keep certain reserves when collecting agricultural taxes. After all, magistrates also want to eat. However, the tax bureau staff will also send people to supervise the whole process to avoid extortion of these people by the original tax officials. But in fact, Germans and rural fields in this era were basically in the hands of the mighty, and there were basically no self-cultivators. Tax officials just wanted to extort them, and they didn't have suitable targets. Those owners of the manor are basically nobles or relatives of the nobles. In the past, ordinary people in the city who were doing business were suitable targets for extortion. However, Marin reclaimed the right to tax in the city, so in fact, those original tax officials could not get extra money, and they could only eat and drink in the country manor at most ...

What's more, in East Frisianland, four new agencies have been established: the Secretariat, the Intelligence Service, the Police Department and the Revenue Department.

The police and tax bureaus are easy to handle. You can follow the old rules and add new ideas, and you can start working immediately. The Intelligence Bureau, because there is no precedent to follow, can only slowly explore. Moreover, relevant talents also need to be cultivated and explored.

As for the secretariat, facing four immature college students, Marin does not expect them to get started right away. At the very least, it will take a year or two for college students who are too angry with these books to gradually adapt to government work and become politicians. At that time, Marin can get rid of most of the burden and have time to do something else ...

Of course, although Marin wanted to get rid of his baggage, he was not dizzy. Regarding the most important military power and important personnel appointment power, Marin will not let go anytime. As long as you grasp these two powers, no matter how noisy the following people are, you can't turn the waves ...