Chapter 230 Reform Bill
After a day of discussion, the final plan for administrative reform was officially confirmed.

First, the capital status of Jiuqi was officially established, with Roland as the supreme leader and holding the highest power.

Authorized by Roland, the capital city Jiuqi established a central agency, which exercised Roland's highest administrative power on his behalf, formally establishing the principle of centralization and the central government being superior to the local governments.

Combining Julius's suggestions and Roland's plan, in order to clarify the powers and responsibilities, according to the current situation of the territory, the central government has set up seven departments: Administration Department, Finance Department, Agriculture Department, Engineering Department, Law Department, Management Department and Military Department.

The Executive Department is the highest administrative body, responsible for the formulation, review and implementation of central government orders and policies. It is also responsible for the promotion of officials, leading and managing other departments and only responsible to Roland.
As the old consul, Julius was directly transferred to the consul of the administrative department.

Ministry of Finance: Responsible for managing territory, household registration, taxes, currency, wages, foreign trade and all financial affairs.

Ministry of Agriculture: Responsible for managing a series of production affairs such as farmland, spells, and mineral veins.

Engineering Department: Responsible for managing a series of engineering construction matters including construction and civil engineering.

Ministry of Law: The criminal law and supervisory department responsible for establishing laws, enforcing laws, and imposing penalties.

Management Department: Responsible for the regulation and management of religious beliefs and traditional customs, and will also be responsible for educational affairs.

Military Department: Responsible for managing all military forces including city defense forces, legion soldiers, and extraordinary people, and is responsible for all military affairs. It is the only department that is not directly managed by the Administrative Department and is directly commanded by Roland like the Administrative Department.

In Roland's opinion, if a force wants to function normally, then the four most basic and core capabilities have already been covered by these seven departments.

First, financial revenue and expenditure. There must be a clear and precise understanding and planning of the financial revenue and expenditure of the power. Otherwise, the power will easily run into problems. One day, it may suddenly run out of money and no longer be able to maintain normal operation of the power.

Second, rules and order. If a force wants to be established, it will inevitably establish its own rules and order, no matter whether it is the implicit rules agreed upon or the explicitly established rules. A thriving force must have order, whether this order is good or bad, and a force with collapsed order or disorder will only gradually move towards collapse and chaos.

Third, regarding government affairs, once a force is formed, there will inevitably be a large number of various affairs that need to be handled. Naturally, there will be a need for an institution that can handle these affairs and arrange for their execution.

Fourth, internal affairs and logistics. After a force is formed, someone is needed to manage it and ensure the food, clothing, housing and transportation of the members of the force. Only by managing and ensuring the food, clothing, housing and transportation of the members can the force function well.

Of course, this is just the most basic and crude organizational framework for the operation of a force.

As their power continues to grow and develop, these organizational frameworks will become more and more complex and will inevitably be refined again. In the confrontation with the outside world, a new core will be born that is specifically used to fight against foreign enemies and maintain itself, that is, the army.

Considering the size and development of Roland Territory, the current division into seven departments is considered to be extremely detailed.

This is the case when Roland accepted some of Julius' suggestions and reduced the number of departments.

In fact, Roland had originally planned to separate the land, currency, and trade affairs from the Ministry of Finance, and to establish independent land, currency, and trade departments, and to split the management department into the Faith Management Department responsible for managing religious beliefs and the Education Department responsible for training and education.

The Ministry of Agriculture should also be divided into three departments: agriculture, forestry, and animal husbandry. The Ministry of Engineering should also be divided into two different departments: public engineering and military engineering. The same is true for the Ministry of Law: legislation, law enforcement, punishment, and supervision can be divided into four departments. The military department can also be divided into two departments: internal and external.

However, based on the data and suggestions provided by Julius, Roland readily accepted most of Julius's suggestions and did not split his powers so thoroughly.

After all, the Roland Territory is still just a backward agricultural power with a limited population and output, so there is no need to refine it to this extent.

However, Roland did not accept all of Julius' suggestions, such as the suggestion to merge the Law Department and the Management Department into the Administrative Department. Roland did not agree.

Although in Julius's view, there was no need to write a written law or to set up separate departments to regulate religious beliefs and education.

After all, according to this world's view, order and rules can be used for hundreds or even thousands of years once they are established. Whether it is the Central Kingdom or the Silver Kingdom, the rules they established when they were founded are still in use today. At most, they are occasionally repaired and there is no need to set up a special department to deal with it.

If changes are really necessary, the worst that can happen is that we can assign more staff to set up a temporary department to discuss how to make the changes.

As for religious beliefs, these are not controlled by the government in this world. They are basically left to their own devices. Faith is faith, and secularism is secularism. There has never been a special organization to manage them. At most, there is an organization for communication, or they can infiltrate each other and get some of their own people inside the other party.

This was the first time Julius had heard of setting up a special agency to manage it.

As for education, isn't that something only available to nobles? Even if Roland wanted to learn from Sinar and set up a college, the total number of teachers and students would be no more than 1,000 or 2,000. Would it be necessary to set up a separate department? Wouldn't it be fine to just assign a few officials to take charge?

This is how Julius persuaded Roland.

Roland expressed his understanding, then rejected her suggestion and said, I am the decision maker.

Just because others are bad doesn't mean Roland has to be bad with them.

Therefore, the political reforms of Jiuqi were finalized.

There is a central government divided into seven departments with clear responsibilities and powers.

As for local reforms, they were also carried out in imitation of the central government's political reforms. Seven local departments were established and were under the command and leadership of their respective departments.

If the reform goes smoothly and the relationship between superiors and subordinates is clarified, the highest power in the local area will be returned to the central government. Local governors will not be able to do whatever they want and will have to selectively execute the central government's orders.

The central agency will manage the internal affairs, foreign affairs, military affairs and other administrative affairs of the entire territory, while the local administrative organs will focus on managing internal affairs, no longer manage foreign affairs, and reduce the management of military affairs.

(End of this chapter)