Primo moved swiftly.
Not long after the military parade ended, the Spanish government announced reforms to its government departments, cutting several meaningless departments and merging those with similar administrative scopes.
After the government reforms, the number of Spain's Cabinet departments was streamlined as well. The Army and Naval Department were integrated into the Ministry of Defense, and Grand Duke Serrano was promoted to Minister of Defense.
This was very necessary. Spain's navy had never been particularly strong, nor was there any need to develop it in the short term—though in truth, there was simply no money to develop the navy—so there was no need for the Naval Department to continue existing independently.
It appeared that the Army and Naval Department had been merged into the Ministry of Defense, but in reality, this weakened the importance of the Naval Department. After all, the minister in charge of the Ministry of Defense was Marshal of the Army Serrano.
The Ministry of the Interior was divided into the Public Security Department and the Ministry of Livelihood. Together with finance, industry, agriculture, healthcare, education, defense, and foreign affairs, they formed Spain's new Cabinet system.
The nine departmental ministers, together with Prime Minister Primo, made ten people in total—the entirety of the Cabinet. Streamlining the Cabinet's numbers would also improve its administrative efficiency.
Looking across these nine Cabinet departments, the three most important at present were defense, finance, and industry.
Finance and industry concerned Spain's overall development, while defense concerned Spain's territorial security. Thus, the men leading these three departments were all famous figures in Spain.
There was naturally no need to say more about Minister of Defense Serrano. Prime Minister Primo personally served concurrently as Finance Minister. Though the name Manuel Ruiz Zorrilla might have been less familiar, he was also a highly prestigious