"He reorganized the Cabinet into fourteen departments and held the
Minister at the head of each department responsible. He converted the
Army and Navy (who were eating up the hard-earned wages of the working
men and women of our land in idleness and dissipation), into a great
industrial army and assigned them to work under the different
departments as they were required, weeding out the worthless and
reducing to the ranks all officers that conducted themselves in a manner
unbecoming a gentleman and by election of officers giving every soldier
equal opportunity to rise to the highest rank. This great measure
eliminated the aristocracy in the Army and made the Emperor the idol of
the soldiers, so that from that time forward every effort of the
aristocracy to oppose the Emperor in giving to the country a Government
by the people was futile for the Army supported him with a force that
was irresistible. He ordered the districts laid out according to
latitude and longitude, making due allowance for population, the
smallest district being one degree of latitude in breadth and two
degrees of longitude in length, and the largest (which were situated in
the frozen regions of the Arctic or in the great desert) five degrees of
latitude in breadth and ten degrees of longitude in length, and when
they were surveyed he ordered that the land should be assessed without
improvements at its full value, and the owner had to swear that he would
sell to the Government the land at its assessed valuation.
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