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There was also the setting up of the Grand Council, where the War Division, Military Intelligence Division, and Navy Headquarters would be under.

With that, the Privy Court would mainly care about the daily matters of the army and their logistics, while the Grand Council would be in charge of commanding. These two organizations would work together whilst also working independently.

The Grand Council would have one head to lead them all.

Military Affairs Minister Du Ruhui would temporarily take the role of Grand Council Head, Navy Admiral Zheng He, Guards Legion Corps Marshal Huo Qubing, Dragon Legion Corps Marshal Baiqi, Tiger Legion Corps Marshal Sun Bin, and Leopard Legion Corps Marshal Han Xin would all be members of the council.

The Cabinet and the Grand Council were the highest military and administrative organizations in the dynasty. Apart from the organizations under Ouyang Shuo's direct control, the others would be under these two.

The Clerk Room would be upgraded to the Secret Document Pavilion, and there would be one advisor and two secretaries. Tsing Yi would be the Secret Document Pavilion Advisor and Bai Nanpu would be the secretary.

They would also set up the Administrative Mentor Court to take charge of military and administrative questions; they would also be in charge of memorials. There would be one Chief Secretary, two advisors, and four secretaries. Jia Xu was appointed as the Chief Secretary and Chen Gong as the advisor.

The Censorate would be set up to be in charge of monitoring, and there would be one minister, and one assistant minister. Wei Zheng would be the minister while Feng Ting would be the assistant minister.

The newly established Secret Document Pavilion, Administrative Mentor Court, and Censorate, along with the Honglu Temple, Shanhai Guards, and Black Snake Guards were the six organizations under Ouyang Shuo's direct control.

Below the cabinet would be the Administrative Court, Internal Affairs Court, Financial Court, and Privy Court as well as the Industrialization Department and the Four Seas Bank.

The secretaries under the four courts would all be upgraded to department, and their member appointments would be kept the same with no changes.

After the reshuffle, the local offices and Yamens around the territory needed to adjust too.

Based on the system, the local offices would all be set into six grades, province, prefecture, house, county, township, and village. Each grade would have a fixed number and one could not randomly add or deduct the number.

At the same time, the province used bureau as the highest grade, prefectures had department, house had division, county had office, and township and villages had branches.

Branch, office, division, department, bureau, and court; these were the six layers of the organizational system.

With that, the system was fluid and perfected. Only then could they ensure a smooth administrative system.

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The last imperial decree that Bai Nanpu read was regarding the nine grade rank. Since one had a perfect system, one needed strict and clear grades.

Based on the system, the Great Xia Dynasty would have nine grades of officials, one primary and one secondary, for a total of 18 grades.

Based on Ouyang Shuo's request, the Great Xia Dynasty would not have a grand tutor, a senior grand tutor, and a grand protector. The Imperial Court civil servants were led by the Cabinet Grand Secretary and the generals were under the Grand Council.

The Cabinet Grand Secretary, Cabinet Assistant Grand Secretary, and the head of the Grand Council were all Primary Grade 1; Administration, Internal Affairs, Financial, and Military Affairs Ministers were all Secondary Grade 1.

Di Ruhui taking up two roles meant that he would have the higher rank. In the future, when the time was right, Ouyang Shuo was considering getting a minister for the Grand Council to do daily duties.

The Honglu Temple and Censorate leaders were Primary Grade 2, and the assistant ministers of the four courts and the Zhili viceroy were Secondary Grade 2.

Taking this chance, Ouyang Shuo officially announced the four assistant ministers of the four courts. He appointed Zhang Tingyu as Assistant Administration Minister, Di Renjie as Assistant Internal Affairs Minister, Cui Yingyu as Assistant Financial Minister, and Xiahou Dun as Assistant Military Affairs Minister.

Original Military Affairs Bureau Deputy Director Zhao Kuo would move along with the War Division to the Grand Council.

The Zhili viceroy was like the head of all governors.

The Provincial Governors, Administrative Mentor Court Minister, Shanhai Guards Commander and Black Snake Guards Commander were all Primary Grade 3. The directors beneath the courts, such as Industrialization Director, and Four Seas Bank Treasurer, were all Secondary Grade 3.

Secret Document Pavilion Advisor, Censorate Assistant Minister, and the like would be Primary Grade 4, while the secretary and deputy directors of the four courts would be Secondary Grade 4.

Out of the six organizations directly under him, Honglu Temple was in charge of diplomacy, and the Censorate handled channels for criticism and feedback; they were really important departments. Hence, their position was really high and only second to the four courts.

The Administrative Mentor Court, Shanhai Guards, and Black Snake Guards were on the same level as a Provincial Governor. Although the Secret Document Pavilion was really close to Ouyang Shuo, he only gave it a Primary Grade 4 rank.

The reason he arranged it like this was naturally to set up restrictions.

Further down, the secretaries of the four courts, the directors of the provincial Yamens were all Primary Grade 5. The Governor and deputy directors of the provincial Yamens were Secondary Grade 5.

Directors of the House level were Primary Grade 6, and Prefects were Secondary Grade 6. Country Magistrate and House Secretaries were Primary Grade 7. The four office managers at the county level would be Primary Grade 8 and the branch heads were Secondary Grade 8.

The town mayor was Primary Grade 9, while village heads and town grade branch heads were Secondary Grade 9.

After the grade system was released, all the officials in the dynasty would be given a rank with a certain amount of salary.

Hence, there was a way to settle the ruling foundations of the dynasty.

A new dynasty was about to arrive!