Wild North America 1846

The four major military and political events reported by Royal Secretariat Chief Ryu Hyun-jun, except for the first one involving the British attempt to reorganize the 5th to 9th Divisions of the Expeditionary Force and fight back in place, the other three political events were without exception approved by His Majesty and implemented.

After the performance was over, Liu Xianjun bowed politely and left, and came to a three-story building located outside the palace. It was on the street diagonally across from the palace, so it was very convenient to get around.

This is the daily office location of the Royal Secretariat. It is a small, 8-room Baroque building. More than 220 people from the Royal Secretariat work here.

Only Liu Xianjun, the head of the Secretariat, has a separate small office with an area of ​​more than 10 square meters. The other deputy directors and the first-level secretaries who can meet His Majesty and serve him all have three or four people crowded into one room.

As for the second- and third-level secretaries and lower-level secretarial assistants, there are often more than 20 people in a large office. Only the telegraph team has two separate rooms. The telegraph team’s office and computer room are also on the third floor. The confidentiality level and processing

The offices of the director and deputy director (including first-level secretaries) are at the same level.

Performing in the palace

Although Liu Xianjun was used to coming and going every day, he could still feel the heavy pressure. Maybe it was His Majesty's lingering power, maybe it was the three beasts that always stared at him, or maybe it was some other reason.

After going out

Liu Xianjun breathed a long sigh of relief, and the pressure on his body suddenly eased. As soon as he walked briskly to the door of the Secretariat office building, he was stopped by a soldier and several middle-aged people in youth clothes.

Several people smiled, clasped their fists and saluted, saying;

"Thank you for your hard work, Liu Gongbao. I'll be polite to you now."

The Tang Kingdom was dominated by Tang people from China, so it inherited many Chinese official etiquette and customs, and this official title was one of them.

The honorific title "Gongbao" comes from the ministers who appointed the crown prince and Taibao in the Ming Dynasty. However, in the Manchu and Qing Dynasties, there was generally no crown prince. From Shunzhi to Kangxi, the throne was passed on secretly, and the same was true for all subsequent emperors. This happened to be

Gave the Empress Dowager Cixi a chance to move her hands.

This is off topic.

In the Manchu and Qing dynasties, the emperor's ministers or local governors would usually be given the titles of prince Taibao and prince Shaobao, which could be called "Ding Gongbao" or "Yuan Gongbao".

There was no such position in the Tang Dynasty, but the Secretary-General was an out-and-out internal minister and a close official of the king, so it was okay to address him as "Gong Bao".

Just like the prime minister of the cabinet can be respectfully called "Lord of the Central Hall", in fact, the Tang Dynasty did not have a bachelor's degree, nor did it have a military position similar to that of the Central Hall, but the status was similar.

In the same way, important cabinet staff such as Viscount Huang Yuanqing, Minister of Finance, Count Chen Cailiang, Minister of Economy, Viscount Gai Wangshan, Minister of Interior, Count Juan Carlos, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Baron Dong Jie, Minister of Colonies, Viscount Huang Yuanjia, Minister of Transport, etc.

It can be called "Lord of the Department".

Royal Secretary-General Liu Xianjun glanced at these people with a majestic expression, and saw that they were all familiar faces. They were middle- and upper-level bureaucrats from the Army General Staff Headquarters, the Colonial Department, and the Economic Ministry. The reason for waiting here is self-evident.

He nodded politely and said, "A few ministers are here too?"

"This matter is of great importance. Your Majesty the Ministry of Finance is waiting for you on the third floor. Please come and have a chat with your Majesty the Palace Protector. I am late in waiting for you, so please forgive me."

"Well, the office above is small, so please serve tea in the foyer."

"Thank you, Lord Gongbao, for your generous gift."

"Well, wait a moment."

It was at this time that Liu Xianjun showed the majesty of a close minister of the king. As the saying goes, "the seventh-grade official of the prime minister's family".

As the royal secretary-general, he is equivalent to the great steward of the royal court. He is in charge of the secretariat with more than 500 people, the internal treasury, the royal fund and many other institutions. The departments under the royal secretariat can correspond to the various departments of the royal government one by one.

's internal appearance.

Liu Xianjun walked in from the gate, and the bureaucrats and secretaries he saw along the way stood on both sides, lowering their hands and greeting him respectfully;

"Humble duty welcomes Virgo."

"For the humble job, please see Mr. Gongbao."

These bureaucrats have different identities and different titles. Some senior officials and first-level secretaries are called "Virgo" to show their intimacy, and Liu Xianjun will bow his head slightly in greeting.

His Majesty often behaves like this in imperial meetings, so the ministers around him imitate the same behavior and imitate his demeanor to a certain degree.

Those with low official positions were called "Master Gongbao" to show respect. Liu Xianjun had no time to pay attention to these little bastards and strode straight up the stairs.

Hearing a chaotic noise at the top of the stairs, Lieutenant General Dai Changfu, Chief of Army Staff, Earl Chen Cailiang, Minister of Economic Affairs, and Baron Dong Jie, Minister of Colonial Affairs came out and stood at the top of the stairs waiting for Liu Xianjun to come up.

After seeing them, the three of them smiled and bowed with their hands, saying with a smile: "We have already drank two pots of tea at your place just to wait for Mr. Gong Bao. Thank you for your hard work."

"General seat, sir, you are so polite. I apologize for my poor hospitality here." Liu Xianjun stepped forward and bowed his hands in a polite manner, and then turned around and ordered, "Make a pot of hot coffee, some snacks and

Cigar, I want to talk slowly with you adults."

"Yes, it will be delivered immediately."

"Come on, come on, sir, please come and sit inside." Liu Xianjun greeted warmly.

In the entire royal secretariat, there is only a small reception room outside the director's office, which is about 8 square meters. There are two sofas facing each other, a coffee table in the middle, and a few pots of green plants next to it. It can only seat five or six people at most.

personal.

According to the rules of the Tang Kingdom;

It is not allowed to submit memorials of greetings, memorials of birthdays or New Year greetings that have nothing to say, and memorials of impeachment and recommendation that express party unity and oppose dissent with caution. Memorials submitted to the imperial watch must be about important national events and have something to say.

In this way, the amount of memorials that His Majesty needs to review is reduced by 90%, and he can focus on the major national affairs that need to be dealt with.

It’s not that an impeachment memorial cannot be submitted, but that it requires taking huge risks, and one of the two will inevitably be deposed.

If the exaggeration is true, the minister is suspected of retaliating against his colleagues, begging his neighbor, and even a dull old minister, who has no knowledge of people, cannot escape the crime, and must be transferred from his current position to wait for further reference.

In the light case, the person will be deposed and demoted, and in the case of the serious person, he will be demoted and punished. This is a cruel trick of life and death in political struggle.

If the reported situation is verified to be true, then the impeached official will be miserable. The minister who presented the impeachment memorial will naturally have made a meritorious service, but it will also make the bureaucratic team avoid him.

Officialdom is all about "harmony", and it often uses deadly weapons like "impeachment memorials" to fight you to the death. Who wouldn't stay away after seeing this?

The same principle applies to recommendation memorials. Whether the recommended official does well or not, the recommending minister must bear corresponding responsibilities. If he makes a big mistake, it will affect his career.

The memorials written by Lieutenant General Dai Changfu and other ministers were all important matters of the headquarters, so after sitting down, they looked at Director Liu Xianjun eagerly, hoping to get answers from him as soon as possible.

Director Liu Xianjun was also helpless. He smiled bitterly and said: "Today, I submitted four requests for inspection, and Your Majesty approved three of them. Only the Chief Executive's matter is a bit troublesome. Your Majesty is not very satisfied with the British seizure."

ah!"

"Oh, please let Liu Gongbao elaborate." Lieutenant General Dai Changfu's eyes lit up, he couldn't help but lean forward, and asked quickly.

As the head of the Army General Staff Headquarters, he also coveted the elite officers and soldiers of the expeditionary force who had been baptized by the bloody wars in Europe, and wanted to keep them for himself.

Everyone knows

A year of training is not as good as a week of fighting on the battlefield. Under the battlefield test of life and death, officers and soldiers will undergo rapid transformation.

The more brutal the war, the more it can temper people.

After the Battle of the Chenaya River, the Tang Kingdom's expeditionary force flew over the snow-capped mountains, killing 47,900 Russian troops and capturing 16,600 enemies at the cost of more than 10,000 casualties. The battle determined the outcome and won a great reputation in Europe.

Since then, he has participated in more than 10 battles in a row, and has successively conquered important towns such as Odessa and Yamiansk. He has won many battles and displayed the morale and prestige of the Tang Dynasty.

The strength of France's first-class European army.

Each of these elite officers and soldiers is a good seed. If they come back and enter the officer school for training, the new army formed with this as the backbone will be an unbreakable and unbreakable iron knot, with the foundation of a world-class strong army.

Liu Xianjun saw that Lieutenant General Dai Changfu was anxious, so he made a calm gesture, but he didn't show off, and truthfully described what His Majesty meant.

"Hahaha...hahahaha...you are worthy of being your majesty, hahahaha..." After hearing this, Lieutenant General Dai Changfu looked up to the sky and laughed, and he could not stop his proud look.

This strategy of "removing the firewood from under the cauldron" is indeed a wonderful one!

What the British want is the troops of the 5th and 9th Divisions. Officers and sergeants with great combat experience, as well as veterans with outstanding performance, have been drawn out to supplement a large number of new recruits. The quality has dropped by more than one level?

not to mention

The Army General Staff Headquarters will also make some small moves in private. For example, the ratio of about 1/4 mentioned by His Majesty, it is normal for it to fluctuate during implementation.

Wouldn't it be good for the officers and soldiers from the 1st to 4th Divisions who performed poorly in the war to take this opportunity to adjust and free up more positions for elite veterans?

One is a biological son, the other is an adopted son. Now that the British will want to go back at any time, it is obvious what choice to make.

When they get to the expeditionary force, they will probably try their best to hug all the good soldiers into their arms, leaving the British with nothing good.

The five fingers stretched out are not even equal. In the Chinese Expeditionary Force, the performance of the officers and soldiers naturally has good and bad performance. After the bloody baptism of the European war, the officers and soldiers at all levels naturally know what they are doing.

So poaching corners collectively is not an ordinary feat.

"My lord, I think you are in trouble just because you care. Nowadays, the holy king is in the court, he lives in the temple and controls thousands of miles away, and everything in the world can be seen in the palm of his hand. When has your majesty ever done a loss-making business?" Director Liu Xianjun said with a smile.

Lieutenant General Dai Changfu was reminded of his thoughts, and he was not embarrassed at all. He clasped his hands and saluted in the direction of the palace;

"How can we, ordinary people, be compared with the Holy King? The British devils are not authentic. The troops trained hard by the military will take it away if they say it. Aren't I worried?"

"Let the lords of the ministry see if your worries are unfounded?"

"Hahaha... I admit it. Thank you very much to Liu Gongbao for his hard work. I, Lao Dai, will remember this. I still have two kilograms of good tea sent from China all the way at home. I will have it delivered to my house when I get back.

Come on, please accept it."

"It's a shame, but it's disrespectful, hahaha..." Director Liu Xianjun also burst into laughter.

It is not advisable for ministers of the inner court to have close relationships with important military officials in private, let alone marry. They must pay attention to the influence in all aspects. Otherwise, what do the two want to do if they collude?

But if it's a bag of tea, it's still fine.