Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1147 Organization and the First Commander

Faced with Zhu Yijun's words, Gao Wushi smiled and said: "I don't care what the background of the generals of the Imperial Guard is. Noble or ordinary generals are fine. The only thing I care about is one thing."

"Oh? What's the matter?" Zhu Yijun was a little surprised when Gao Wushi said that he didn't mind Xungui.

"The generals of the Imperial Guard must have war experience and perform outstandingly." He paused for a while, and said, "Although there is a trend of fewer and fewer honorary leaders nowadays, it is not completely absent. He has combat experience and has demonstrated the ability to meet the requirements of the generals of the Imperial Guard, so I also don't mind recommending such a noble to become a general of the Imperial Guard."

Then he finally concluded: "In a word, it is four words: those who can live."

Zhu Yijun nodded slightly to show that he understood, but he didn't express his opinion immediately, but began to think about it.

Gao Yushi knew exactly what Zhu Yijun was worried about, and added: "Maybe the emperor has two doubts. One is that the border troops or generals in various places may perform better, but the emperor is not familiar with them, and even some of them are not very loyal. Afterwards, he might have been promoted all the way up from an ordinary soldier, so...how loyal he is, it's hard to judge."

Zhu Yijun didn't comment, but asked, "What about the second point?"

"The second point, the emperor may be worried about the attitude of the nobles. After all, I have been focusing on the nobles for 200 years. If the emperor suddenly replaces them, will it cause dissatisfaction among the nobles?"

Zhu Yijun smiled bitterly: "It seems that you are sure to convince me?"

This is the default.

Gao Wushi smiled and said, "Actually, these two are not difficult. Let me talk about the first one, the loyalty of frontier or local generals after they come to the Imperial Guard."

"Your Majesty, the first thing we need to make clear is that the Imperial Guards should have existed as the core force of our Ming Dynasty from the beginning of its establishment. This means that the Imperial Guards will enjoy the most favorable treatment and the best military equipment. The most rigorous training and the most honorable reputation.

So, what does it mean for a side general to be transferred to the Praetorian Guard?It means that he has been closely watched by the Ministry of War, the cabinet and even the emperor himself, which in itself is a very high honor.Think about it, after an ordinary general has obtained such a sense of honor and satisfaction, will he try his best to repay the emperor's kindness, or will he repay his kindness with ulterior motives?There is no doubt that it must be the former, or at least he will definitely want to repay the emperor's kindness in the short term. "

"In the short term?" Zhu Yijun actually understood the highly pragmatic analysis and agreed with it, but this "short term" made him a little confused.

"In the short term, this statement is of course more cautious." Gao Yushi said: "But for the Guards, this kind of caution is very necessary. Therefore, in addition to the above points, we also need institutional measures. restrictions, such as term of office.”

Zhu Yijun suddenly said: "Oh, you mean just like a civil servant, you have to take the exam every three years and take the exam every nine years?"

"Nine years is too long!" Gao Wushi said solemnly: "You cannot allow a general to stay in the position of the main general of the Imperial Guard for nine years. This is a way to bring disaster."

Zhu Yijun was startled for a moment, but immediately nodded in satisfaction, and asked gently, "Then what do you mean?"

"One term every three years, at most two terms." Gao Wushi said decisively: "This regulation is specifically for the chief officer of the Imperial Guard—according to the habits of the garrison, this is called the commander. Of course, if you want to be called the commander, it is also possible. Generally speaking In principle, one term is the main term. If the performance is indeed outstanding, the Ministry of War and the cabinet will consider him to be loyal and capable, and he can report to the emperor. The emperor will make the final decision on whether the member will be re-elected. But no matter what , can be re-elected at most once, that is, no more than six years in total, this is an iron rule."

"I understand what you mean." Zhu Yijun nodded, thought for a while, and asked: "The organization you mentioned is different, so it's not just the fact that the chief officer's term of office is limited, right? Tell me about other things too. Bar."

Gao Pragmatically said, "The overall establishment of the Imperial Guard is divided into eight levels from top to bottom: army, town, association, standard, battalion, company, platoon, and shed. The town is the basic organizational system—this The meaning of the basic system means that if the imperial guards need to be dispatched, it is usually impossible to dispatch the whole army, so they will be dispatched in units of towns."

Zhu Yijun nodded and asked, "How many towns will the Imperial Guard be divided into?"

"Five." Gao Yushi said: "At present, I have made a rough compilation. It is planned that each town has a quota of 12512 officers and soldiers, consisting of infantry, horses, artillery, workers, and luggage. chief of staff."

Zhu Yijun reached out his hand to stop him, and asked, "I understand infantry, horses, and cannons, but what about workers and supplies? Didn't you say that soldiers, farmers, and craftsmen should be separated?"

"They are separate, but the engineering soldiers and supply soldiers are not simple craftsmen and farmers. These people are regarded as combat soldiers like infantry, horses, artillery and other soldiers, and they also need to master special skills."

"Does this have special skills?" Zhu Yijun said in amazement: "I think that the task of the engineer you mentioned is probably to repair weapons and armor. This is what ordinary military households do. The luggage is even heavier. Needless to say, a strong man can do things like pushing carts and picking food, so why count them as soldiers?"

Gao Wushi smiled and said: "Your Majesty, before the military industry was privately owned, why more than [-]% of the muskets in the army were useless, do you remember the reason?"

"Oh..." Zhu Yijun suddenly said: "You are going to talk about how much money you get for how much work you do. Let me guess, this time you also have to say, count them as soldiers, and their treatment will be the same as that of soldiers." It is much more generous, so you have to work harder, because you must also include the quality supervision system of military products. Whoever repairs which weapon must be responsible for it, right? This way Come on, in order to keep this golden job, these people have to put in all their strength to work, and the success rate of repairs will definitely be greatly improved, right?"

Gao Wushi laughed, cupped his hands and said: "The emperor sees thousands of miles away, it seems that the emperor has already figured out all the tricks of this minister."

Zhu Yijun smiled and waved his hands: "You are still familiar with the game, I just remembered it after hearing you say that." But he was a little puzzled immediately: "But this only needs engineers, what's the use of heavy soldiers?" ? It’s enough to be a porter, and it can save a lot of money, so that you don’t have to keep it at ordinary times.”

You really got into the eyes of money.

But Gao Wushi shook his head and said: "It will not be that simple in the future, because there are more and more artillery pieces now, and according to the report made by Jinghua Ordnance Industry to the minister, it is already difficult for artillery to maintain only the four artillery pieces of one, two, three, and four." It’s the model, and it’s bound to be subdivided in the future. At present, it’s imperative to subdivide land and sea, and of course there’s no need to elaborate on the sea part for the time being...”

"Wait a minute, why is it imperative to subdivide land and sea?" Zhu Yijun obviously didn't understand this "imperative".

Gao Wushi explained: "Because we are short of copper in Ming Dynasty, the largest producing area is Yunnan, but as far as I know, the copper mines in Yunnan are not enough for minting coins. This time, Myanmar may provide some supplements, but it is still not enough. A drop in the bucket, so we must try to reduce the casting of copper cannons and replace them with iron cannons.

It's just that there is a difference between the iron cannon and the copper cannon. It is used on land. With the update of technology, the iron cannon is not out of the question.But it doesn’t work at sea, because of the relationship between the climate and the environment on the sea (Zhu Yijun can understand the high humidity, but Gao Yushi is afraid that he can’t understand the high salt, so he only talks about the climate and environment), iron cannons are too easy to rust, and they can’t be used after rusting , so the guns used at sea still have to use bronze.As a result, land and sea subdivision must be done as soon as possible. "

"So that's the case, it's because you have considered it comprehensively. I am really short of copper, and it is really important to save the copper used for casting cannons." Zhu Yijun nodded and said: "So you mean, because these cannons are difficult to transport, so we have to Is there a special person—the so-called heavy soldiers to do this job?”

"Yes, and it's not just guns, including palm mines (grenades) and other weapons. They are all flammable and explosive, and they need to be transported by professional logistics to be safer, so as not to cause unnecessary losses—— Whether it's the loss of personnel or the loss of the weapons themselves."

That's true, Zhu Yijun can bear the loss of personnel, but Zhu Yijun can't bear the loss of the weapon itself, because...it's expensive!The things in Jinghua are good, and they are really expensive, at least much more expensive than before when there was no military industry or private sector!

Of course, Zhu Yijun can still understand this kind of expensiveness.Because as far as he knows, although Jinghua's artillery is nearly three times more expensive than before, it has basically never had any incidents such as bombing. One cannon is more durable than the previous ten cannons. The overall calculation is still very cost-effective What's more, Jinghua's artillery is far more powerful than the previous artillery.

Thinking that these heavy soldiers were serving the expensive Jinghua artillery and firearms, Zhu Yijun felt that it was still necessary, nodded and said: "In this case, it makes sense. How many people are there in these establishments? A town of 1 Two thousand five, what about the lower levels?"

"Please take a look at it, Your Majesty." Gao Wushi took out a note from his pocket and handed it to Zhu Yijun.

Zhu Yijun took it over and saw that it was exactly the establishment of a town written on it: each town has two battalions, and one battalion has 38 officers and soldiers; each battalion has two bids, and each bid has 750 officers and soldiers Slightly less, 110 people); each bid is divided into three battalions, each battalion has four companies, each company has three rows, each row has three sheds... and so on.

The cavalry team and the artillery team have one bid each, with three battalions for each bid, four horse companies for each battalion, and three artillery teams for each battalion; one engineer battalion, four companies for each battalion, and three platoons for each company;

Infantry companies, artillery companies, and engineering companies each have three rows with three sheds in each row; horse companies have two rows with two sheds in each row; baggage companies have two rows with three sheds in each row.There is also a team of military music and golden drums.

There are two officers and assistants in each shed of each arm, four officers and eight assistants.The town has 740 officers and officers, 430 and 320 officers, and 1 and 510 soldiers, totaling [-].

Zhu Yijun didn't know much about these details. After reading it, he had a general impression. It was obvious that he was thinking too much to tell the good from the bad.However, he believed in Gao Yushi very much. He believed that since Gao Yushi could win the two battles in Annan and Dingbei, his understanding of the battle formation was of course the best in the world. That's it.

This line of thinking is perfectly in line with what Emperor Longqing taught him back then: It doesn't matter if I don't understand, as long as someone I trust understands, it's fine to let him do it, and all I need to do is to support him with all my strength.

But this time he really looked up to Gao Yushi, the Young Sima, because Gao Yushi's Imperial Guard organization was almost copied from the organization of the Beiyang New Army in later generations-except for changing the "team" to something he was more familiar with. Except for "even", nothing moved.

He didn't even change "shed" to "ban" because it might be confused with the word "ban" in Banjun.

However, this system of the Beiyang Army can really be used now. The reason is that under his highly pragmatic intervention, Daming has paid more and more attention to firearms and artillery, and can already adapt to the establishment of the new Beiyang Army.

Of course, the specific combat effectiveness is definitely far from comparable, at least Jinghua's current artillery is definitely far from being comparable to the Krupp artillery commonly used in Beiyang, and there are no machine guns such as Shui Lianzhu and Maxim.This statement is purely from the rate of use of firearms.

After all, to prepare this kind of thing, we must adapt to the level of weapons and equipment. Using the three-three system of later generations for the ancient cold weapon army is likely to be suicide. Fortunately, the Ming army is now becoming more and more hot weaponized. In order to use the special establishment of the Beiyang New Army during the transition period.

Zhu Yijun looked at it for a long time, and finally found a problem, and asked: "Why are there as many as 740 officers and officers in this town?"

Good question, in the ancient military system, how could there be such a large number of officers?Zhu Yijun's question was quite level this time.

Gao Wushi explained with satisfaction: "Because in addition to the higher-level military headquarters, each town also has a staff battalion office, a law enforcement battalion office, a supervisory battalion office, and an inspection battalion office. The functions of these establishments will be elaborated in separate articles and memorials at that time, in short, these are all necessary institutions to ensure combat effectiveness."

In fact, the role of these institutions is still easy to understand. Zhu Yijun understood more than half of it just by "just as the name suggests", so he nodded in approval.

He took a look and felt that there seemed to be no major problem, so he asked one of the matters he was most concerned about: "The first commander of the Imperial Guard, have you already been selected?"

Gao Wushi said: "There is indeed a person who I think is the most suitable candidate at present, but... this person's current task is more important, so I still have some hesitation."

Zhu Yijun became interested and asked, "Who is this person?"

Gao Wushi said, "Qi Jiguang."
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