Chapter 485 The Administrative System of the Papal State
“Sneeze!”
Halkin sneezed loudly, interrupting Horn’s mid-sentence.
Seeing everyone looking at him, Halkin smiled and said: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I couldn't hold it back."
Horn laughed: "It's all nine The weather is indeed getting colder in the month, so remember to wear more clothes to avoid catching a cold. ”
This is Horn's first regular meeting after returning to Castle Joan from Autumnset Island.
The new tax system will be announced at this regular meeting, which has become the biggest topic in the Papal Kingdom of Salvation in the past two days.
"So everyone agrees with the proposal of changing the name of the Kush Territory to Hongfeng Township?" Putting the documents in his hands aside, Horn raised his head and asked.
“Agree.”
“I am the first to agree.”
"I agree so much!"
Looking at Saint Jeanne's silly face, it is estimated that no one dares to raise a objection at this moment.
"Okay, then this proposal is over, let's move to the next topic: "The Plan for the Reform of the Bureaucracy of Church Orders in 1445""
The opening was as usual, with some Small issues that don't matter often come to the end at the end.
The bureaucratic reform plan ranked second to last is definitely one of the heavyweights.
Based on the current internal and external situation, Horn knows that they cannot establish a constitutional system and can only choose an absolutist centralized system.
He originally thought that he had limited talent and knowledge, and wanted to leave how to establish centralized power to specialized scholars.
But Horn found that the scholars did not understand what centralization meant at all, and the suggestions they put forward were messy.
There are local councils, or each village appoints a village chief to manage, or reverses the trend and makes the head of a hundred households hereditary.
In the end, Horn was shocked to discover that they had no idea how to establish a centralized system.
Even the Kingdom of France, which claims to be an autocratic monarchy, has not yet fully completed its centralized system.
Well, now, Horn, a food delivery guy, has become a political scientist.
After all, in this era, no one understands centralization better than him.
There is no other way but to do it by yourself, so we have the current plan.
Horn has always believed that the first step in any so-called political reform is to govern officials.
No matter how good the law is, if the enforcer is not good enough, it will only lead to three results:
Formalism, over-the-top violation and over-implementation.
The Salvation Army is currently able to carry out effective administration, firstly because of its small territory, and secondly because Horn has a group of young generals who have no brains to follow orders.
Of course, there is also his own huge prestige and the propaganda effect of Armand's Ministry of Truth.
But this means that Horn is a charismatic leader, like the Great Khan on the grassland.
The entire country is glued together by him. If he dies or loses his political ability, the Salvation Army will collapse in a few years.
This is actually a common problem among most peasant rebels.
So what Horn moved out was this special modified version of bureaucracy, where the government became a machine rather than a reflection of a certain person.
“The first point of this new plan is the division of administrative divisions, which has a lot to do with our newly launched bureaucracy.” Sitting behind the round table, representatives of governments at both sides sat at The benches were all ears.
“This bureaucratic system is very simple to say. Let’s take Kush Ling, uh, Hongfeng Township as an example...”
According to the current household registration survey, there are about 450-600 people in each 100-household area. Hongfeng Township currently has 512 100-household areas, with about 200,000 people.
Originally, these 100-household districts were directly managed by Fort Joan of Arc, and the 100-household districts and towns were on the same level.
But with the current increase in Horn's territory, the government team can no longer bear it.
There are 200,000 people in Hongfeng Township, 180,000 people in Yibei Township, 250,000 people in Jinhe Township, 150,000 people in Gouhu Township, 320,000 people in Xiaohe Township, and 50,000 people in Daze Township.
The territory currently belonging to The Salvation Army covers 32,000 square kilometers and has a population of nearly 1.2 million people.
The 200,000 people in Hongmaple Township almost exhausted Horn to death. This number has increased six times, which is definitely beyond the administrative capacity of the current Salvation Military Government.
So the first step in this "1445 Bureaucratic Transformation Plan" is to subdivide administrative divisions and establish priestly orders.
The so-called priestly order is a deacon order composed of several traveling monks from hundreds of households. It is responsible for the political and economic work of the entire area and elects a chief monk.
For example, a priestly order has 70 districts and 1 town under its jurisdiction, which means 8 itinerant monks.
The superior religious order promotes one chief monk from the eight traveling monks. The promoted chief monk no longer tours various districts, but is a permanent deacon in the order and presides over daily work.
The 10 hundred households in which he lived re-elected or appointed new itinerant monks from the Papal Palace.
Such 9 people form the main administrative force of a deacon order.
Of course, this does not mean that only the 9 of them can complete Horn's decree. After all, a priestly order manages 30 to 50 thousand people.
The priestly order would establish an administrative church, usually in a town, and hire its own assistants.
In addition to presiding over the daily work, the chief monk can also nominate affairs officers to the superior order, such as clerical officers, financial officers, judicial officers, etc.
These affairs officers are only responsible for assisting in daily administrative work and are considered assistants.
The actual decision-making is voted on by the meeting of traveling monks, and any decision must be voted on at the meeting.
Each priestly order also has two or three secretary monks from the Order of the Holy Father. They do not participate in any administrative work and only do one thing, which is to record every meeting and make copies to send to the Papal Palace and superior orders.
If something goes wrong in the future, these meeting minutes will be an important proof of the pot-sharing meeting.
In this way, the 512 100-household districts in Hongfeng Township have become 7 priestly religious orders, and the 180,000 people in Yibei Township have become 487 100-household districts and 6 priestly religious orders.
Horn's responsibility changed from 999 hundred-household neighborhoods to 13 priestly orders.
However, this is not the end, all the priestly religious orders in a township have to form a rural religious order.
Taking Ibe Township as an example, 6 chief monks of priestly orders and 1 appointed chief priest will form a rural order.
The Priestly Order is responsible to the Rural Order, but the Rural Order cannot appoint chief monks, but can only appoint itinerant monks and stewards.
The Council of Cardinals may appoint superiors.
The rural religious association is responsible to the Council of Cardinals, but the Council of Cardinals cannot appoint chief priests, but can only appoint chief monks and rural affairs officers.
Horn can appoint a chief priest.
In addition, the Order of the Holy Father, the Saints, the Council of Cardinals, the Cheka, and all the armies are all responsible to Horn alone.
If Horn has to manage multiple counties in the future, there may be a county-level order.
"...In this way, the division of bureaucracy will be obvious." Under the attentive eyes of everyone, Horn raised his fingers in turn, "Itinerant monk - chief monk - chief priest - royal priest - cardinal . ”
Since the bureaucracy is only appointed by the Salvation Military Government, the heads of households or city mayors elected below are not included in the bureaucracy.
If these grassroots officials and affairs officers perform well, they can be nominated by their superiors to enter the Holy Father Academy in Qiumu Island.
After graduation, you are automatically granted the status of a robed monk, similar to the status of a sword-wielding monk among military officers.
They, like other Salvation Army nationals, are monks.
It's just that the former is responsible for administrative work, and the latter is responsible for military work.
"Your Majesty, but I would like to ask, what is the difference between this and before?" Hakuto couldn't help raising his hand and asked.
This is also the question of most people present. The original Salvation Military Government system was quite good. Why did we replace it?
Horn smiled slightly: "In the past, I always proposed an idea, such as building a canal in the whole township, which area should be built, and which area should be built.
Okay, everyone Let’s take the mission and go do it... What do you think?”
"What's wrong?"
On the contrary, other participants present were surprised.
"That would be too rigid. A township is fine, but what if it's a county? What if it's the entire Thousand River Valley?" Horn rapped his knuckles on the table, "By then, I won't be able to listen to the report just It takes a day to listen, and it takes a day to issue orders!"
"We can appoint governors for each township." Someone suggested loudly, "Wouldn't it be better to let him decide these things? "
"Foetentessoni, stultaverba (ancient Ayre language)" Catherine couldn't help but whisper to the side.
"Aren't you afraid that he will betray and start a civil war with us?" Busak stood up and cursed towards the place where the voice came from.
“Wouldn’t it be better if we sent someone to supervise him?”
“Then how do we ensure that the people who supervise him are not incited to rebel?”
“Or we have more Send a few people and let them restrain each other."
Some people in the crowd raised random opinions, but most of these issues were discussed by Horn at the Cardinals' Meeting, so they were refuted by the cardinals one by one. go back.
"Silence! Silence!" Thomas knocked on the table with a wooden hammer and shouted as a great-grandson, forcing the crowd to fall silent again.
Horn continued to speak unhurriedly:
“You have all discovered the old drawbacks, now let’s listen to the new process.
I propose a strategy If the Council of Cardinals deems it feasible, it will be passed and sent to various departments to formulate specific feasible laws.
After the decree is promulgated, the Council of Cardinals will break it down into mission objectives and assessment indicators for the rural religious associations and issue them. , the rural religious order was dismantled again and distributed to the priestly order
For example, when I proposed the development of agriculture at the beginning of the year, the Council of Cardinals felt that it should be completed within three years.
In the first year, water conservancy will be developed first and water conservancy will be used as an assessment indicator to be distributed to the rural religious associations.
The rural religious association proposed to build an irrigation canal in the entire township and issued tasks and indicators to the priestly religious association.
Then the itinerant monks of the Order of Priests dismantled it again. When it came to the head of each hundred households, the task became a small section of irrigation canal built by them.
At the end of the year, the Council of Cardinals tests the results of the rural religious orders, the rural seminaries test the results of the priestly seminaries, and the traveling monks test the results of the heads of households.
In this way, the specific decision-making power, that is, ‘What to do? ’ When it is delegated to the local level, we are only responsible for deciding, ‘What to do? ’ That’s it, greatly reducing decision-making errors and workload.
Well done, liter. If things don't go well, you will be demoted.
It’s that simple. ”
“His Holiness! "After thinking for a while, many senior executives present nodded one after another.
But in the midst of the praises, Sissi frowned, and he keenly discovered the most critical thing. A little bit.
He looked at Catherine aside, only to find that Catherine was looking at him meaningfully.
Sissi hesitated for a while, then stood up:
“But Your Majesty, where do people come from? How do you manage money?”
(End of this chapter)