Minh Mạng turned the palace secretariat into the Nội các (1829) and set up the Cơ mật viện (1830) to handle the most important affairs of state; in 1829 he also ended the hereditary rule of upland chiefs.
Political
Minh Mạng creates the Inner Cabinet and the Privy Council
- 1829 – 1830
- Southeast Asia
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