MTL - Han’s Son is Not a Slave-Chapter 1123 Be the new 1st Army
Due to the war situation and the actual combat command needs, Zhou Shixiang decided to set up a first-level army establishment. According to his request, the military department will select the elites of 10 towns from the existing towns and compile them into 5 corps. Each army has two towns under its jurisdiction, one for pure firearms and one for infantry and cavalry. Each army actually has 21,000 combatants and 2,000 non-combatants (logistics and staff).
The newly formed army has abolished the first level of guards, and consists of six levels: wu, team, battalion, regiment, brigade, and town.
The general of an army is called the army commander. The commander of the army has the rank of commander of the capital (the second rank), the town will be the rank of the commander (the third rank), the brigade school has the rank of the commander of the same commander (the fourth rank), the regiment commander has the rank of Qianhu (the fifth rank), and the battalion officer has the rank of Hundred The household title (positive sixth grade), the team is the general banner title (positive seventh grade), and the corps chief is the general banner title (positive eighth grade).
Each army is still composed of Anjun envoys. The first-level Anjun envoys are called the general town and the commanding rank (positive third-rank), and the security troops at all levels below the town are downgraded according to the rank. , the brigade level is the commander's rank (from the fourth grade), the regiment level is the thousand household title (positive fifth grade), the battalion level is the hundred household title, and the team level is the general banner title. There is no security envoy at the fifth level.
In addition to the formal determination of the ranks of commanders at all levels and the ranks of the An Army envoys, the newly-built military establishment has a staff department. The head of the department is called the chief of staff. and battle command, intelligence gathering and judgment, military order documents, etc.
The Army Staff Headquarters has three organizations: Combat Engineers (battalion establishment), Messenger Special Forces (team establishment), and Combat Staff Office (regiment establishment).
In addition to the new staff, a logistics department was added at the first level of the army. In addition to the direct handover of food, grass, military pay and friendship with the military, the transportation officer is also responsible for connecting with the local area, such as the placement of the military barracks, local communication and so on.
Except for the addition of the staff department, the logistics department, and the cancellation of the first-level guard establishment, the training and orders of the various armies are still the same as before. Soldiers are still divided into sharp soldiers (old soldiers who are good at fighting) and selected soldiers (new recruits). There will be no change in terms of merit evaluation and promotion.
The five new army generals are the five main forces of the Taiping Army. The battle is at the forefront, and the supplement is also the best. In the plan submitted by the military, for the first time, Zhou Shixiang clarified in the form of an official document the method of retiring soldiers. This method stipulates that after serving in the army for three years, if a soldier fails to be promoted to an officer, he will be given a resettlement after retiring.
Because there has not been a large-scale industry under the Taiping Army, that is, state-owned enterprises known to Zhou Shixiang in his previous life, they cannot provide enough jobs for these veterans. Therefore, the resettlement of the veterans is temporarily only the security team in the county and village and the village one. The management positions of the high-level regime can be accepted and implemented.
In addition to resettlement, after a soldier is discharged from the army, he can receive a one-time food stamp equivalent to 150 taels of silver, and he has a certain right to speak in the local area. Combined with the military preferential treatment that his family can get after joining the army, it means that from now on In the future, soldiers will no longer be just cannon fodder for consumption, but a good "job" that can improve the living conditions of families. The premise is that you can survive. Of course, in the event of an unfortunate death in battle, their family members can also receive a large pension. However, no amount of money is as important as living.
Among the regulations for the formation of the newly-built army, there is one that is particularly conspicuous and particularly attractive. This is that in addition to being promoted by military exploits, soldiers can also become officers by taking the military training school opened by the Taiping Army.
After the soldiers are discharged, most of them can only be placed in the countryside because of their limited knowledge, but if the officers are retired, they can serve in the government at all levels. For example, if the travel school retires, they can serve as prefects, and the general banner can serve as county magistrate.
This is a back door opened by Zhou Shixiang for his subordinates in the court. Because after the three major cases, the Jiangnan riots and what is happening in Nandu, he has clearly realized that most of the scholars of this era cannot be used by him, so he will In the past, the fantasies of scholars have been completely let go, and instead, they have started to create and support new bureaucrats who are completely under their own orders.
Who can share honor and disgrace with himself, who knows what people need most in life, who can best understand the horror of the Tartars, and who can support himself without hesitation. Undoubtedly, Zhou Shixiang thinks there is only one answer, and that is his subordinates. Taiping soldiers.
Although a large number of retired military officers have been recruited into local yamen, it will cause chaos in government affairs for a long time, resulting in low efficiency of government operation. After all, officers are used to leading troops to kill the enemy, and are used to rolling in the dead, and they don't take human life seriously. In addition, officers are generally irritable and arbitrary in their actions. Compared with the old fritters in the officialdom, they lack experience and lack of tact. If some things are done by them, I am afraid the effect will be counterproductive. But Zhou Shixiang still decided to implement this method without hesitation, and he was also ready to face trouble.
Long-term pain is worse than short-term pain. Only the military and political system from top to bottom is completely in our hands, and only the top cabinet down to the small officials can take their own ideas as the core and resolutely implement them. Zhou Shixiang Fang may promote the Ming Dynasty. The broken carriage moved forward.
However, Zhou Shixiang did not expect that when the first batch of retired officers entered various yamen to "listen in politics", the number of scholars who signed up for the Taiping Army increased, and the martial arts training school became a more popular place than the imperial examination.
For thousands of years, Chinese scholars have discovered for the first time that, in addition to being able to join the army, they can kill the enemy and make meritorious deeds on the battlefield. career path.
To be an official, you don’t have to read the books of sages. As long as you can read and write, Wubei Academy can also allow scholars to become officials.
Zhou Shixiang criticized old Confucianism in a drastic manner. In the end, he realized that he didn't need to kill too many people, and he didn't need to refute Kong Lao's second batch. After walking around, it will automatically refute the rotten Confucianism for him. All this is because of the word "interest".
The new five armies were named New First Army, New Second Army, New Third Army, New Fourth Army, and New Fifth Army.
When the plan for establishing a new army has not been fully introduced, the people in the military department regard the five armies to be formed as the five main forces of the Taiping army. If anyone becomes the five main forces, it will undoubtedly be extremely honorable and beneficial. No one doubts that His Royal Highness King Qi will not be partial to the five main forces; no one doubts that the future wars will probably be undertaken by the five main forces. As long as they become the five main forces, not only will they be treated well, but also all kinds of new weapons will be replenished first, and there will be much more opportunities to make achievements than ordinary troops.
To become one of the five main forces, since the news spread, it has become the most enthusiastic thing for the generals of the Taiping Army in various places.
And the New First Army, the leader of the five main forces, is said to be the commander's guard, which makes some generals even more unable to sit still. Those who can spare go to Zhenjiang, and if they really can't pull it, they will try to find a way. Send people to Zhenjiang for activities. It is better to be the five main forces, but to be the first of the five main forces is even better!
"As long as you become a new army, you are not afraid of the army of millions of Tartars." Somehow, the phrase spread.
