The War Court and Lap Pillow, Austria's Mandate of Heaven

Chapter 1073 Official Appointment
The enthronement ceremony was successfully completed, and the interludes in the middle were deliberately ignored or exaggerated.

The newspapers were full of debates about the Roman Empire, as well as news of the coronation ceremony and new personnel appointments, and the Hungarians' all-out attack was squeezed into a very remote location.

Felix Schwarzenberg became Reich Chancellor, an appointment that was not controversial. Although he is a reformist, he is one of the conservatives in his heart.

During the turmoil of 1848, conservatives either actively or passively gave up a large number of official positions. Franz did not leave those positions vacant but directly awarded them to candidates he thought were good.

This made conservatives madly criticize the decadent official system of the Austrian Empire. The emperor's wanton behavior made the whole country go crazy.

Of course, they did not dare to scold Franz, so all these blames were thrown on Ferdinand I, who had abdicated.

The strong never complain about the environment unless the environment is not favorable to the strong.

Their complaints are not just complaints. They want to change the current environment, otherwise a new privileged class will replace them in a few decades.

If it were in the past, these people would have directly paralyzed the entire country, or even launched an army to rebel, or they would have colluded with the demons from outside the territory.

However, at this time, Franz took control of the military and defeated the extraterrestrial demons they had high hopes for. Facing the new emperor's almost black hole influence, their own influence was like a candle in the wind. Fragile.

They also knew that Franz was just a demon who committed murder in the name of kindness. But ordinary people have no access to these inside stories, and even if they know it, they will not sympathize with them. After all, the killings are not ordinary people.

As long as Franz likes, he can immediately arrange charges for them, either on the gallows, or lying dead on the streets, or directly killed by the army as enemies, or sent to the stake by fanatical believers and nationalists.

But Franz would not do that. To be honest, even if he killed all the privileged classes in the Austrian Empire, it would only extend the time of reincarnation.

The people promoted by Franz will fill the ecological niche of those guys. Of course, Franz has a long life and he can come back several times, but what about after his death?

Everything will return to how it was before, he is just a passer-by and an arrogant clown.

So Franz will not kill them all. On the contrary, Franz will let them promote reforms.

The civil servant selection system of a large modern Eastern country is indeed very advanced, but it is not suitable for the Austrian Empire at this time.

Naturally, the examination and appointment system should be established and vigorously promoted. However, the system of conferring officials cannot be abolished. What should be abolished is the system of favor and yin. We should not create a farce where one person is an official and the entire clan is an official.

What Franz wants is only virtue and talent, not a group of idiots who can only take exams, let alone a group of lackeys of the bureaucracy.

The system of conferring officials can preserve the imperial power as much as possible to prevent the bureaucracy from covering the sky with one hand. At the same time, it can also minimize the probability of talents being buried and win over the nobles.

This was the original purpose of this system, and Franz did not forget his original intention.

Of course, in order to rationalize it, Franz had to install a corresponding investigation system. The problem with the inspection and promotion system is not the inspection, but the lack of inspection, which has resulted in a large number of cronies becoming officials directly without examination.

In fact, the solution to this problem is very simple. This problem can be solved as long as the power of assessment, appointment and dismissal is returned to the central government.

This may have been an unsolvable problem in the Han Dynasty, but it was not a big problem in the 19th century. After all, the emergence of railways has greatly changed mankind's original concepts of time and space.

A round trip that used to take months now only takes a few days.

However, systems alone are not enough; supervision and guidance are also needed.

Historically, no one has thought of ways to fight the bureaucracy, but most of the methods are just to create another organization of equal strength to balance it.

There were emperors in the East who came up with the system of conferring officials, but not only did they make the same mistakes as Western emperors, they even lost their reputation.

In Eastern history, officials personally appointed and dismissed by the emperor would be called "passing officials", "zhongzhi officials" or "Xianfeng officials". Just hearing the title will tell you that it is not a good term. In fact, these "passed officials" or "inclined officials" will also be frantically suppressed by the bureaucratic group in their official career, and have been criticized verbally and written for thousands of years in public opinion.

This made officials and officials deeply ashamed. In history, there were many people who refused the emperor's official appointment in the middle and late dynasties.

Are ancient Eastern officials so aloof and unwilling to serve as officials? No! Because they could get better and bigger official positions from the bureaucracy as long as they refused the emperor.

Isn't the cabinet afraid of the emperor's revenge when he slaps the emperor in the face like this? The answer is really not afraid! Before the Qing Dynasty, cabinet ministers were not slaves or scumbags.

In TV dramas, the emperor's killing of first- and second-grade officials is often like chopping melons and vegetables. A look can scare the piss out of him. It is not an exaggeration to say that he tramples on the cabinet system at will and follows the law.

But in fact, as long as the cabinet in the middle and late Ming Dynasty believed that the emperor's decree was unreasonable, they could refuse to draft it and return it to the executive committee.

Of course, the emperor may not approve the cabinet's proposal, but the cabinet may also ignore the emperor's refusal to revise it. In the later stage of development, even the six departments and ministries were able to return the imperial edict, and no one in the bureaucracy could control it.

In the end, he was beaten to pieces by external forces after repeated wrangling.

Franz did not intend to repeat the same mistakes, so he did not intend to give these people the opportunity to become big from the beginning. Those who were awarded officials would not only not be despised, but would also be a privilege.

There are no surprises in the appointment of the Chancellor. Carl Ludwig von Bruck has been working hard for so many years and he deserves this position.

The Minister of War was continued by Count Toural. Although he did not have any earth-shattering achievements, he did not make any mistakes. He supported reforms and was responsible.

(Historically, the failure of Count Toural's reform was largely due to lack of money. At the last moment of his life, when the mob besieged the Ministry of War, he chose to take the initiative to take responsibility, and was beaten to death by the mob.)
The Minister of the Navy was held by Archduke Friedrich, a military genius and the father of the Austrian Imperial Navy. No one was more suitable for this position than him.

The Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Transport, the Secretary of Justice, the Secretary of Education, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Industry, and the Secretary of Trade are all replaced by new people, but most of their junior ministers are experts in the field.

For example, Mendel serves as the Undersecretary of Agriculture and Technology, and Luxem Sina serves as the Undersecretary of Trade.

Why didn’t Franz just use technocrats? It's okay for these people to give opinions, but if they are really allowed to preside over government affairs, they will all be convicted of corruption within a few days.

Because they know better than ordinary bureaucrats, and because they know better, they are bolder and cause more serious damage.

In addition, it is not an unusual phenomenon for experts to stay in the government for a long time and not speak out. On the one hand, they tend to be out of touch, and on the other hand, it is due to their own interests.

And in Franz's opinion, it is actually a waste to let experts join politics, in order to prevent this situation from happening.

Franz must improve the treatment and status of scientific and technical experts and let them stay in the right place instead of doing business and politics with their heads sharpened.

Franz's idea is good, but we still have to see how this government can run. But fortunately, Franz is a time traveler, and he has knowledge and vision that far exceeds his times, which can help him to some extent.

Although he finally waited for the day when he ascended the throne and came to power, he was not happy at all.

Although Franz ignored the opinions of the Frankfurt National Assembly and the Russians, those ideas spread like a plague in the Austrian imperial government.

In fact, Prince Felix Schwarzenberg, who is also Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, is a staunch Greater Germanist, but this is not inconsistent with his conservative identity, just as he himself supports reforms.

However, including the Prime Minister of the Austrian Empire, none of them knew what the German Empire was going to do and what it was. All they had were enthusiasm and visions that were so beautiful that they were unrealistic.

Everyone felt that as soon as the German Empire was established, all problems would cease to exist and everyone would be happy.

They have too high expectations for this unknown country. Generally speaking, the higher the expectations, the greater the disappointment. How positive they are at this time will be how crazy they will be later.

Instead of becoming disillusioned later, it is better for them to recognize the reality now.