The beggar emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty - Chapter 546

Another new year’s Eve is coming. Without Qin Huan, it would be the 16th year of Chongzhen. The Ming Dynasty is about to collapse. In the next ten years, the people all over the world will be in dire straits, with a population of ten to seven or eight.

Now, with the end of the world war, a large number of materials are continuously transported to the north. Coupled with the relief loan policy of the Royal Bank, the people in several northern provinces will not starve or freeze to death, although they can’t live a good year.

The key is that the new deal of the Qin Dynasty let them see hope. Once people have hope, they will have vitality, and they will no longer want to rebel and kill officials.

After some rough statistics, the four northern provinces of beizhili, Shandong, Shanxi and Shaanxi have suffered the most serious population loss. Taking the Wanli period as an example, the four provinces have a total of more than 60 million people, but now they are less than 10 million.

More than 50 million people died in the war. Of course, this is only a conservative estimate, and the actual number will only be more.

Only God knows how many people died during the Wanli period, because there was definitely a lot of water in the population counted during the Wanli period, coupled with the reproduction of the apocalypse and Chongzhen dynasties.

Among them, the northwest is the worst. The total population is less than one million. Of course, not all of them died. In addition to rebellion, some fled to Henan and Sichuan.

Originally, Henan was not much better, but after three or four years of development, it has completely recovered its vitality.

Sichuan has also been tossed about by the eight kings and Chuangwang. The province with a population of more than 10 million is now only half. However, it is undoubtedly much luckier than it was almost killed in history.

In order to make the population statistics of the whole country clear, Qin Huan set up another Statistics Office under the Ministry of internal affairs to specially count the data of the whole country in the future.

In addition to the original history, punishment, household, tax, commerce, agriculture, industry, land, mail and external, as well as the newly established Baigong Institute and Lifan Institute, there are as many as 15 departments directly under the jurisdiction of the government of the interior.

However, both the Ministry of rites and the outside are just empty shells. In the future, the Ministry of rites will only be responsible for education, and the hundred Institute of technology will take over the compilation of calendars. There is only a nominal Shangshu and a waiter outside.

Because the outside is responsible for negotiating with foreign countries, Portugal is also preparing to establish diplomatic relations.

As for Ryukyu, North Korea and the small countries in Southeast Asia, they are all traditional vassal countries of China and can not be counted as foreign countries in name. Therefore, the Li Fan yuan will be responsible for handling relevant matters.

Qin Huan did not let the Government Council arrange for him this time, but directly appointed song xiance as the head of the Lifan court, from a first-class official title.

In terms of grade, it is half higher than each ministry. In theory, it is the same as the court, the military and political yuan and the metropolitan inspection yuan, but it is controlled by the Government Council and the interior government at the same time.

The Ministry of war is also different from the original Ministry of war. It is only purely responsible for building weapons. It governs several Arsenal, shipyard, rocket factory, etc.

The Logistics Department of the military and political yuan will not produce any weapons and equipment in the future, but will only be responsible for procurement, and even the breeding base will be assigned to the royal family.

After the new year, Qin Huan began to carry out drastic reforms in the institutions of the imperial court and the administrative regions of the provinces.

The first is to split Shaanxi into Shaanxi Province and Gansu Province. Guangdong and Guangdong are also divided into Guangdong Province and Guangxi Province, Guizhou, Sichuan, beizhili and Shandong.

However, beizhili changed its name to Hebei Province and governed Beijing. In addition, it divided a large area where the three towns of Wuhan are located and established an independent state, Zhongzhou, which will be the capital in the future. As for the provincial administration of Hubei, it will be moved to Xiangyang.

Zhongzhou was also the fourth independent state after Shanghai, liaozhou and Hezhou. At the suggestion of the Government Affairs Council, Qin Huan had to give another short name to the independent state of Shanghai, Songzhou. Qin Huan originally planned to name it Dongzhou, but it seemed that there were a group of islands in the east of Shanghai that were more suitable to be called Dongzhou, so he simply named it after the word song of Songjiang mansion.

The power structure of the great Qin Dynasty and the functions of the courts, Qin Huan also made it clear to the world in the form of an imperial edict for the first time. He even drew a ladder diagram for fear that the people might not understand it.

The peak of the power of the great Qin Dynasty is naturally the emperor. The emperor is supreme. Below the emperor are two houses and five courts, namely the house of internal affairs, the Marshal’s house, the Government Council, the military and Political Council, the ducha court, the court and the protection court.

The house of interior is responsible for managing the Royal private industry and related matters, and supervising the courts.

The Government Council is responsible for governing the world, and the military and Political Council is responsible for the recruitment, management, training, publicity, pension, logistics, personnel and other related matters of the army.

The Marshal’s house is responsible for the mobilization of the army, the promotion, assessment and dismissal of officers, that is, in the future, the military and political yuan must report to the Marshal’s house for examination before the promotion of officers below the junior general can take effect, while for officers above the junior general, after the Marshal’s House passes, it must also report to the emperor for approval and be personally conferred by the emperor.

The same is true of the removal and disposal of officers.

Similarly, although the Government Affairs Council usually manages the army, it can not command the army to fight. The army can not leave the jurisdiction without the order of the Marshal’s office. In addition to self-defense and disaster relief, it can not even take the initiative to fight.

Qin Huan temporarily divided the whole country into six military regions. The first military region is the Central Military Region, which governs two lakes and Henan. It governs the first, 2345 legions, with a total of 250000 people.

Among them, the first Corps is the Guard Corps, which is responsible for Garrisoning the palace. It has a force of 50000, 20000 female soldiers and 30000 male soldiers. There is no army head, and it has jurisdiction over 10 independent battalions and 5000 men.

Each of the other four legions also has 50000 people. Each Legion governs two towns dominated by firearms and four independent battalions with 5000 people.

The number of people in each town is about 15000. In addition to 100 Fran machine small guns, all of them are equipped with fire system.

There are four independent battalions, namely a cold weapon heavy infantry battalion, a rocket battalion, a cavalry battalion and a craftsman battalion.

These four legions also do not have a military head, and in the future, Daqin will not appoint a long-term military head. It will only appoint a military head temporarily in wartime. When several legions need joint operations, it will send another general to command all the major armies.

At ordinary times, the generals leading the troops are also middle generals and young generals. The middle general is the general of a town, and the major general is the commander of an independent battalion. Although there are high and low ranks, in fact, no one can control who.

This means that the Town chief wants to rebel, but there is no support from the commander of four independent battalions. Relying on 30000 firearm soldiers alone, the weakness is too obvious.

There are no heavy infantry attacking the city, pulling out the stronghold, charging into battle, no cavalry cover, and saturated long-range attack of rockets, not even engineers.

Except that the Central Military Region has five field army regiments, there is only one in the other five military regions, and the configuration is similar.

They are the East China military region, covering Jiangxi, huaidong, Huaixi, Zhejiang and Fujian provinces.

The two cantons under the jurisdiction of the South China military region will certainly be expanded in the future.

Southwest Military Region, Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan provinces, and Canada plateau region.

North China military region, Shandong, Hebei, Shanxi, liaozhou, Hezhou.

Northwest military region, Shaanxi, Gansu.

Of course, the military region must be established in the future. The number of military regions depends on the actual situation.

In this way, the field troops of the Qin army will be reduced to 500000, just ten legions. Even if you add 100000 navies, they will be only 600000 professional soldiers.