Daming kill

Chapter 91 Fundamental Problems
"Don't you think that the military system I created suddenly is incompatible with the current era?"

"Don't you think that my formation of the logistics department in the army actually overlaps with your support battalion in many functions?"

"Have you never wondered why?

Li Ping suddenly started to ask a series of questions.

"No way! Brother, I don't know anything about the military. There is always a reason for what you do."

Song Baolai was a little dazed by the question.

"Who do you think has the most power besides me after I reform the military system?"

Li Ping didn't dwell on the question he raised earlier, but changed another one.However, this time he stared at Song Baolai closely, obviously wanting an answer.

"Ma Yong!" Song Baolai said hesitantly.

"It's true that the staff office ranks first in the sequence, but Ma Yong only takes command, and the appointment and dismissal of officers is not his business. That is the matter of the teaching office, and Duan Qiang is the head of the teaching office." Li Ping explained .

Song Baolai glanced at Li Ping with some doubts and said, "Aren't you the one who decides the appointment and dismissal of officers? It's basically your opinion, right?" Song Baolai didn't interfere, and he still knew some things.

"That's right, most of these officers are my opinions, but there are also a small part that I didn't think about, but Duan Qiang's plan, and in the end all the orders were unified by the teaching office and ordered by Duan Qiang. announced.

If you think about it again, now that we have fewer people, I can directly intervene in many things.If one day, we have more people, how can I be familiar with so many people, will the appointment and dismissal plan of most officers have to be decided by the teaching office. "

Li Ping continued to talk seductively.

Song Baolai finally looked stunned, and then said as an afterthought: "Yes, it's the boss who mobilized the cadres, and it's the same in the localities. I understand that."

So, Li Ping continued to stare at him and asked: "Who do you think Ma Yong, Duan Qiang, or Hu Zhongshan is most likely to let a certain army below take orders from them personally?"

Song Baolai thought about it seriously for a while this time, and then said: "It seems that there is no one. The power in your army is divided too widely. If you want to say who can do things, it is Duan Qiang who has the most opportunities."

"Which of the three is the most loyal?" Li Ping asked again.

"They all look pretty good. As for whether they are really loyal or not, we don't know them very long, so we can't say for sure. If I have to choose one, I think it's Duan Qiang! He looks the best. You say."

Song Baolai answered this question happily, and his previous experience was not given in vain.

"Then who has the most mediocre ability?" Li Ping continued to ask.

"Duan Qiang." Song Baolai answered faster this time.

"Then what are you worried about!"

Li Ping laughed after speaking, but Song Baolai was dumbfounded.

After being stunned for a long time, Song Baolai asked Li Ping what kind of routine this was.Li Ping didn't hide it, but told the whole story.

If you don't explain it clearly, Song Baolai probably won't feel at ease.

Over the past month or so, on the surface, the greatest achievements have been the explosion of soldiers, materials, and new things, but in fact the most meaningful achievement is the transformational reconstruction of the military system, which is also the most core measure Li Ping has taken. .

In fact, from the moment Li Ping became the general manager, he has been thinking about how to truly control the troops and how to solve the problem of loyalty.

Song Baolai said it well, "People's hearts are separated from the belly", no one knows what other people think.

And people still change.

Just because you don't have an idea today doesn't mean you won't change your mind tomorrow.Loyalty today doesn't mean you won't betray tomorrow if circumstances change or if you are tempted or persecuted enough.

The stall is small, there are few people, few things, and few temptations. In addition, everything is under the nose, and the problem will not be highlighted.

But when the stall is large, there are many people and many things, the individual's autonomy and space will become larger and larger, and various thoughts and temptations will come one after another. People's hearts are most likely to change at this time, and risks will naturally follow. Come on.

Especially for outsiders like Li Ping, who not only have no years of business foundation, but also have no background to look up to. They are just small grasshoppers living in big trees, and the risk is naturally greater.

Expecting that others will be loyal to you wholeheartedly and never have a second heart is completely fairy tale thinking and ignorant thinking.Especially in this era when the building is about to collapse, in this era where chaos and betrayal are common.

Therefore, whether or not loyalty can be ensured is not only the primary issue, but also a fundamental issue, especially under the premise that they do not intend to perish together with the Ming Dynasty and Zuo Liangyu, this proposition is even more serious, and more urgent.

So how to solve this fundamental problem?

It is obviously unrealistic to rely on the existing Ming military system.

Because, at this time, the Ming army’s army building model not only included the appointment of middle and low-level officers, but the fact that the generals were self-determination, and the payment of food and salaries was distributed from one level to the next. These loose control problems existed in most ancient armies. Based on a wonderful phenomenon.

In the late Ming Dynasty, as the family system was publicly recognized by the government, the personal soldiers gradually ceased to be simple personal guards and servants around the generals, but developed into the core military force of most of the non-garrisoned officers and belonged to the generals. private.

The number and strength of soldiers is often an effective means of judging the strength of an army, and has become a hotbed of warlordization.

Li Ping has not studied the reasons for the formation of this peculiar phenomenon of close soldiers in the Ming Dynasty, but he probably believes that this should be the product of the extremely low level of military supply and loose management of the army in the late Ming Dynasty.

When the supply of the country is far from meeting the needs of the army and there is no means to effectively control the grassroots of the army, the closeness and estrangement within the army will inevitably affect the distribution of supply.

Therefore, out of the need to safeguard their own interests and stabilize the situation, generals at all levels must ensure a small group of the most assured forces to control the situation and respond to various emergencies.

What is the most reassuring force?
If there are no servants or insufficient servants, they can only be personal soldiers, and it is better to keep them private like servants.

As a result, generals, big or small, began to expand their personal forces and turned them into their own de facto private forces and fist troops, and they were mobilized as they moved without being controlled by other generals.

In the end, the kinship system, like the family system, formed a stubborn tradition.

As a result, the country's influence and control over the military continued to decline, and the control of the generals over the junior generals became weaker and weaker. Finally, the vicious circle intensified.In the end, it became almost commonplace to work without effort, to command immobility, to run away, and to mutiny.

This is also an important reason why Li Ping was eager to implement the reform of the military system.

The troops have been expanded, and the scale has become larger. The sentry chiefs may not have personal soldiers, but what about the generals?Then a series of sensitive issues such as how to allocate military rations and how to promote junior officers will follow.

If the army is still built according to the original model of the Ming army, the newly promoted generals are very likely to form new independent entities one by one, just like the current Li Ping and Zuo Liangyu.

After all, these subordinates have only been with them for a few months.Could it be that just because they are modern people, they can be domineering and make people follow them to the death!Could it be that they have the aura of the protagonist and can easily make others give up!
Dreams can be dreamed, but castles in the air will collapse at any time.

There are some things that he has to guard against, and he has to guard against them early.

Instead of letting people's hearts sway in the wind and rain, it is better to lock people's hearts in the cage of the system, shelter them from the wind and rain, and let them get used to being restrained.

The military system of the Ming Dynasty is not good, so what about the military systems of other dynasties?
The Song Dynasty made a very bold attempt on the basis of summarizing the experience of the predecessors, but it turned the combat effectiveness of the army into scum, and finally died of wealth.

As for foreign countries, because of their different cultural foundations, they do not have much reference value.

In modern times, in the long civil war, when the military system was not much different, except for one army, Li Ping did not remember any army that could solve the problem of rebellion in the organizational system of lower-level troops.

Since there are role models, why not learn from them?Do you have to build a car behind closed doors?What's more, he is so familiar with this role model!
How could Li Ping foolishly think that he could do things that so many famous people in history couldn't do?

It's easy to talk about it on paper, but it's nothing if it can't stand the test of practice.

Therefore, Li Ping decisively decided to bid farewell to all the old leading methods.

Although the core of this example is its thought, Li Ping cannot copy it.After all, its social foundation is far from being formed, and the theoretical foundation and mass foundation must have at least a thousand pioneers to forge ahead after the social foundation is formed.

But Li Ping can still copy the system, which has been perfected after nearly a hundred years of tempering and running-in, at least far ahead of the methods he knows to keep the army centralized and unified.

To put it bluntly, it is to use his mature system of time and space to divide command power, personnel power and financial power and concentrate them in the hands of Li Ping, so that the military and the people's livelihood are completely separated to prevent mutual collusion and excessive power, so that interests can go directly to the bottom. Soldiers, put an end to the soil of warlordization.

Of course, there is also a doubt here, that is, whether it is possible to only set up a staff office and a logistics office.Many people will feel the effect is the same.

Li Ping's point of view is that it is not possible.

Because of this, the staff office will integrate the two core powers of command and personnel, and the separation of powers will become empty. It is even more impossible to expect the logistics office to check and balance it.

Li Ping also resolutely eradicated the foundation of the survival of the soldiers.

Li Pingming ordered that officers at all levels should not be equipped with fixed guards, and when guards were needed, they would be assigned by the staff office.Officers above the company (not including the company) can be equipped with orderlies, but they can only be boys under the age of 16, and they must not be transferred with the adjustment of the officers.

In the construction of the entire military system, although Li Ping copied most of the systems he was familiar with, he made adjustments to individual projects and some details to meet the needs of the current situation and environmental characteristics.

Of course, no matter how reasonable the separation of powers is, it will definitely cause a certain degree of slow response of the troops and restrict the full release of the capabilities of officers at all levels, and in fact restrict the full play of the combat effectiveness of the troops.

But in the face of ensuring loyalty, such a price is worth it.

In this way, through a series of reorganization and adjustments, the entire army was firmly in Li Ping's hands, and the possibility of other generals developing private power in the army was prevented to a large extent, so Song Baolai did not have to worry about Li Ping. Ping's short-term departure will create a problem of loss of control.

After listening to Li Ping's detailed explanation, Song Baolai finally became enlightened, and his brows finally relaxed.

However, after savoring it carefully, he asked another question: "But it doesn't seem to have anything to do with your changing shifts, platoons, and even these modern names? Are you used to it?"

"I can only talk about part of it. There must be other considerations in changing the basic formation of the company." Li Ping scratched his head and said.

"Ah? Do you have other intentions?" Song Baolai asked incredulously.

Li Ping sorted out his thoughts with a smile, and said, "Baolai, it's the seventeenth century now, and this is the age of firearms. In this era, we still hold the idea of ​​cold weapon warfare, isn't that self-proclaimed martial arts?

Besides playing with cold weapons, it is difficult for us to play against people killed from mountains of corpses and seas of blood in this era.Weaponization is the most practical way for us to overtake on corners.

The establishment of firearms has been verified in modern countries in the world and has formed a basically similar model, which shows that this model is optimal, and we don't need to re-create a new one.

After all, the composition of the sentry post is different from that of the firearms-based infantry company, so it has to be changed. This is the main reason why I am staring at you all day long for the blunderbuss. "

After being confused for a while by Li Ping's words, Song Baolai's eyes suddenly lit up, and he asked: "You said Duan Qiang just now, and I just realized it. Does Hu Zhongshan also have a purpose in being the director of logistics? Are you sure?" I know that little old man is not as honest as he looks."

"Go and taste it yourself. When you can figure it out for yourself, I will be relieved of your security camp." Li Ping kept his mouth shut this time.

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Notes:

The servants of military generals were first produced in the Weisuo Army, which was born in the decline and collapse of the army. Therefore, the source of the servants has a great relationship with the land and the family, so they are also called the servants.

The family's parents, wives and children all depend on the generals they are attached to, which is the basis for them to fight to the death and be trusted by the generals. Therefore, most of them only exist in the troops stationed in fixed areas or in the generals' troops with a large amount of land and property.

However, most battalion and sentry units in mobile operations are mostly recruited, and most of their generals are from humble backgrounds or have left their hometowns for a long time. The important foundation of family members does not exist, so personal soldiers are their main form of existence.

Far from being rigorous and unstudied, my rough personal views are not discussed here, and are for reference only.

(End of this chapter)