The purpose of reforming the Federal Government's system was simple: to streamline its agencies and make management easier.
At the same time, the people's sentiments had to be taken into account.
Rulers rarely paid attention to ordinary people, but in many situations, they had no choice but to accommodate their feelings.
Simply telling them that the Federal Government's system was over could potentially trigger chaos.
So the best approach was to maintain the illusion, to a certain degree, that the Federal Government remained in charge. The enterprises would actually become the primary responsible parties and the ones exercising authority. By the time people realized what was happening, they would already be powerless to struggle—or, rather, unwilling to change anything.
One department after another was being abolished or streamlined through discussion, with even Congress reduced to only nine members.
Moreover, those nine people were not specifically responsible for any work. They existed purely as symbols.
The people in the room were like the murderers of an era. They were dismembering the previous era, and they themselves were representatives of that very era!
This made Lin Qi think of a novel.
The novel was about a dynasty that had reached its final years. Rebellions raged across the land, and even the imperial family had suffered massive disagreements and divisions.
An Imperial Son who had been driven out of the imperial capital after losing a power struggle joined the Rebellion Army and took on a very important position.
After years of conflict, the decaying imperial family was overthrown, and an entirely new nation was established upon its ruins.
Yet people never realized that the defeated Imperial Son had once again become emperor, while the new ministers came, to one extent or another, from the former aristocracy or had countless connections to the Old