Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 1419 Military Region
Wei Zhongxian, the internal servant, distributed a booklet to each of the imperial ministers, which contained the concept of the new military system drawn up by the emperor himself.

Privy envoy Li Jing and Minister of the Ministry of War Xu Shiji, the two ministers who are currently in charge of military orders and military and political power in the court, took the lead in watching.

In fact, Emperor Luo Cheng's plan is not too complicated, but it is indeed a completely innovative system.

The emperor planned to withdraw the three government offices.

In the future, there will no longer be Bei Ya, Nan Ya, and Nei Ya.

There will also be no distinction between government soldiers, forbidden troops, and pro-military troops.

The knights conferred by the elite veterans will replace the old guards and become the grassroots core of the future army.

The compulsory military system will replace the original government military system and recruitment system.

In the future, only those elite veterans will be awarded the title of knight and become professional non-commissioned officers. The imperial court will grant them more permanent land than ordinary people, and grant them horses, armor, weapons and other equipment.

The knights became professional non-commissioned officers and took turns to be on duty. When they were on duty, they joined the army to train and lead the troops. When they were not on duty, they could rest at home and cultivate the fields.

The knights were provided with equipment by the imperial court, and were paid military salaries when they were on duty, basic allowances when they were not on duty, and military salaries and rewards when they were recruited to fight, and other rewards if they had military exploits.

The original ordinary government soldiers and recruited soldiers were all canceled and replaced by conscripts.

What are conscripts?
That is, every young and healthy man who has reached his age is obliged to serve the court for three years for free.The service inspectors are selected based on the conditions of being healthy, having a large family, and being rich. Those selected as conscripts will be sent to serve in the army for three years. During the service period, they only have basic allowances and no food. However, the court is responsible for food and clothing. There are also rewards.

The imperial court implemented the military region system with the Dao as the unit, and the governors of the Dao and the left and right were the chiefs of the military region. However, although each military region had units such as military regions, armies, chambers, and regiment battalions, they were usually stationed and trained with regiments and battalions as units. The place where the generals are raised and paid is the transfer order of the officers. The command of the troops is only in the regiment battalion. The military region cannot directly command the army, let alone mobilize the army.

On the other hand, Luo Cheng asked the army to rotate, and the troops in important towns such as Gyeonggi were selected from various military regions to form Fanshang Suwei, which was rotated regularly.

The middle and senior officers do not command the troops, and the right to command the troops is handed over to the regiment and battalion officers, and the training and daily management are handed over to the sergeant sergeant. The middle and senior officers usually stay in various provinces or capital divisions, and are responsible for studying tactics, teaching and training young officers and non-commissioned officers, etc. In case of war, the Privy Council and the Ministry of War will select troops to command the expedition.

"The imperial court plans to set up 36 military regions, and each military region will have two armies. However, when there is no war, each military region will only be half-organized."

"Knights will be divided into knight commanders, knights, squire knights, and trainee knights, corresponding to sergeant majors, senior non-commissioned officers, intermediate non-commissioned officers, and low-level non-commissioned officers."

"There is a full staff of knights at all levels. The ratio of knights to full soldiers in each army is one to five, and the ratio of officers to full soldiers is one to twenty."

Li Jing quickly calculated in his mind that there are 36 military regions in the country, each with two armies, and a full army of 86, which means that if it is full, the country will maintain a strength of 4000 troops.

The emperor said that he only maintains half of his troops at ordinary times, so there are only 43 troops.

However, knights and officers are still full, so the actual number may reach about 50.

It's just that the ratio of the number of knights is a bit shocking. One to five means that 86% of the army is knights, and there are more than 17 knights. Doesn't it mean that there must be more than [-] knights?Even if the knights are divided into four ranks, the fields, equipment, military pay, and allowances granted to knights of different ranks are different, but is this amount too much?
However, considering that there were hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the Southern Yamen of the imperial court, it has been reduced by more than half.

The proportion of officers is one to twenty, so there must be more than 4. Even if low-level officers account for the majority, it is amazing.

With 4 or 30 knights, more than [-] officers, and about [-] conscripts, can they support the safety of the huge territory of the Great Qin Empire?
"Saint, don't you keep the imperial army and the internal army at all? It all depends on the guards in the military area?" Fang Xuanling asked with some concern.

The safety of the emperor and the capital is the top priority, and he always feels that it is not enough if only relying on the soldiers and horses of the military region to take turns.

Wei Zheng suggested, "Why don't we keep the internal government and the army?"

Firstly, the Neiya pro-army is dominated by the descendants of Xun Qi and the loyal martyrs, and secondly, they always believe that the emperor should have a special imperial guard.

But the emperor shook his head.

In what form should the pro-military forces be retained?Is it still in the current situation?Then the pro-army retained in this way will still be the Suwei Gyeonggi in the future, and it will only become more and more silver-like.However, if the current form of the military region is used to retain the internal government army, conscripts, and standing knights, the internal army that has been in the capital for a long time and does not fight will still fall into disintegration sooner or later, and it will be useless to keep it.

It would be better to be decisive and select elites from the 36 military regions to join the guards. As long as the rotation plan is done well, the soldiers and horses of the guards can be guaranteed to be loyal and reliable, and they can also restrain each other so that there will be no troubles.

But the emperor still kept a hand.

His military region system has not been transformed into a Jiedu army town system. The relationship between the military region and the various provinces is parallel, or even irrelevant. In name, they are generals of one guard, but they cannot command the soldiers and horses of each guard. Only when they have obtained the emperor's edict, received the order of the Privy Council, and the military talisman, can they be in the name of the wartime battalion chief , mobilize troops and horses.

Moreover, even if these governors can get transfer orders and military talismans, they are only in charge of the military, and the logistics, money, food, and military equipment still have to be managed by the chief ministers of various branches, and they must also accept the supervision of the inspectors. .

On the other hand, after the establishment of military districts and the implementation of the military district system, each military district has a corresponding defensive defense area. Once there is a war in the area, the imperial court can immediately order the dispatch of officers from the local military district, recruit knights from the local military district, and mobilize the local battalions. Soldiers can quickly form a field army, or defend or attack, which can avoid the time wasted in drawing soldiers from other places, and will not delay the fighter plane.

Of course, the emperor's deeper good intentions were to avoid the phenomenon that the Qin army would eventually become strong and weak, and the army must be firmly controlled in the center of the court and in the hands of the emperor.

Otherwise, if the current situation continues, the Qin army will either become weak and weak as the imperial army of the Song Dynasty in the future, or be domineering and domineering in the late Tang Dynasty.

(End of this chapter)