Song Gexing

Chapter 85 New Military System
Zhao Fang was speechless. He rolled his eyes and despised him for torturing boys and girls. He didn't even think that he was the one who was torturing.

Song Yinzhang was only 13 years old at the time, so he ate it secretly by himself. Now Meng Xin is only 14 years old, and Murong Shuanghua is only 15 years old.

Even the little Xiao Guanyin could hold back, but he still hugged and cuddled frequently. After all, they were a legitimate couple, and it was normal for him to take a few bites.

"Okay, okay, then I'll go back."

Zhao Fang, who was defeated, could only go back in despair. He stayed here for a year. Perhaps it was because the romance in his house was so romantic, but he didn't cause any trouble this year.

As the first year of Huangyou was coming to an end, Yan Qing finally came to the end of his life. The great enshrinement of Taizong Dynasty in the Imperial City Division died in the palace of the Prince of Wei.

The Qingli era name is actually a very good and auspicious era name. Other dynasties are generally unwilling to change it.

However, there was a rule in the Song Dynasty that any reign name could not be used for nine consecutive years. This was because Song Taizu did not have a reign name for more than nine years in his life, so it was inherited.

"Your Majesty, Ying Zhi's appointment has been made, and Wu Zhi and Zi Da are about to go back to the Western Army to practice. The official asks you, have the new military system rules been written?"

In the first month of the second year of Huangyou's reign, Zhe Jizu was already 30 years old. Staying in the Wei Palace any longer would not be for his own good, but would delay his official career.

Therefore, at the end of last year, Zhao Fang begged his father to give him a good position. It just so happened that with the success of the New Deal in recent years, the reform of the army was also put on the agenda.

Zhao Zhen asked him to participate in a reform meeting. He had long been dissatisfied with the military system of the Song Dynasty, so he took the opportunity to propose a complete set of mature military systems.

Of course it couldn't be the military system of later generations. Without that kind of soil, it would be impossible to grow into a towering tree, so what he used was improved from the military system of the Ming Dynasty.

This proposal made everyone's eyes brighten, and they immediately asked him to write a charter and discuss it later.

Originally, he had thought about this matter one after another over the years, but unexpectedly Yan Qing passed away. In order to honor his anonymous master, he had no time to write it.

Today Yan Jidao was called by Yan Shu and urged him to come up with the charter as soon as possible. After the new year, the court would prepare to discuss it at the court meeting.

He had no choice but to scratch his head, promised to give it tomorrow, and quickly went to the study to write.

The next day, a new set of military systems was finally sorted out. It was different from the Ming Dynasty's guard system, but it was indeed derived from the guard system.

The most fundamental part of the garrison system, military garrisoning, was very important. The Song Dynasty actually had a garrison system, but it was different from the hereditary garrison garrison system of the Ming Dynasty. It was only to solve the problem of garrisoning local troops.

Especially the frontier army. The frontier is different from the inland. Many people on the land are unwilling to farm there. It is too wasteful to be desolate. This is why the army's farming model was born.

Moreover, the farming system was implemented by Cao Cao as early as the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and it has been proven to be feasible. Even in later generations, the Chinese army before the 21st century still retained the tradition of self-cultivation.

Therefore, it is not a bad thing for the army to farm. It just needs to properly handle the relationship between training and farming, and not put the cart before the horse.

The military system improved by Zhao Fang did not change the farming of the Song Dynasty, but instead increased the farming of all armies.

It is said that he abandoned the Ming Dynasty's garrison and farming system because the Ming Dynasty was a hereditary garrison and it was a closed small society, which could easily lead to a situation where outsiders could not enter at all.

The military officers in the Ming Dynasty were hereditary, and although the military households were also hereditary, most of them were not locals. In order to prevent the military households from fleeing, the military households in the Ming Dynasty moved with their families to other places.

This makes it easy for military households to be enslaved by officers. Officers are officials in the first place. In addition, they are locals. They can bully military households from outside as much as they want.

The Ming Dynasty's guard system was inherently flawed. Although it saved the court a lot of money, once the central management was a little looser, everything down there was in ruins.Not to mention the middle and late period, even in the era of Zhu Yuanzhang, a vicious incident occurred in which a military household in a guard station was enslaved by an officer and killed more than 100 people at one time.

Of course, Zhao Fang's reforms cannot use this system. Farming is still farming, but the Song army is not self-sufficient in military pay. Farming is only to supplement the army and try to ensure that rations are provided locally.

Therefore, there were not as many local military camps as there were in the Ming Dynasty, and the army's family members were the main force in the farming. The army only helped their family members to farm when they were not training.

Most of the ancient armies were stationed with their families and their families. There was no way to solve this problem, because whether it was a hereditary military household or a recruitment of soldiers, they were not compulsory soldiers who could be demobilized in a few years.

From the moment you enter the army, you have basically been in the military system for your whole life. You cannot work alone, otherwise there will be chaos.

The issue of personal venting is a big problem. If you are not careful, it will lead to the prevalence of male tendencies and bullying of the weak, thus alienating the military.

You can endure it for a few years, but you can't endure it for a lifetime. Therefore, it is necessary to bring your family members to stay in the camp, but your family members have to live. It is difficult to support a family just by relying on one person's military pay.

Farming can solve the problem of military family members and solve the problem of military rations on the spot.

In order to solve the problem of military pay being withheld by superiors in the army, Zhao Fang ingeniously proposed an instructor system that had never been seen before.

It is this system that makes the ministers’ eyesight shine.

This is a system in which civil servants can join the army, but without the problem of civil servants commanding operations. It is taken from the sequence of political commissars and instructors in later generations.

Fan Zhongyan, Han Qi, Pang Ji and others, and even ministers like Xia Song who had opposed the reform, were actually worried that the soldiers of the Song Dynasty did not know the generals, and the generals did not know the soldiers.

But it is difficult for them to accept the idea of ​​giving up using civil society to control military force. This creates a very contradictory entanglement. The knowledgeable civil servants know that this system is not good, but for the benefit of their own group, they have to endure it and not change it.

But if they don't change, they are worried that the situation will get worse in the future. Once there is a gap in the civil servants who know the military, the Song Dynasty's army will become a decoration, and defeat is necessary.

Now that this system is in place, civil servants can legitimately join the military and be responsible for the ideological and political education of the military, supervise military discipline, and check and balance the management rights of generals at all levels. Everyone is happy.

The political commissar system should be said to be the best system for the modern army, and it plays a great role in improving the centripetal force of the army.

It's just that Zhao Fang couldn't use this name. He changed it to the unified title of instructor, set it up above the general level unit, and changed the confusing names of officer positions in the Song Dynasty.

This is also the advantage of the current reform system. The names of military positions are unified and clear at a glance, and those messy and difficult-to-remember officer names are abolished.

The commander-in-chief of each army is still called the Du Commander, but the commanders of the left and right wings are changed to the Commander, the battalion commander is changed to Qianhu, and the Dutou is changed to Baihu. The following are the general flag and the small flag.

Between the Thousand Households and the Hundred Households, a guard was set up. One Thousand Household Camp governed three Guardsmen and ten Hundred Households, one of which was the personal guard of the Thousand Households.

Unlike the original situation, the Forbidden Army had one system, the Xiang Army had another system, and the Fan Army and the People's Army each had their own systems.

The military attachés of the Song Dynasty were really chaotic. They all belonged to different systems such as supervision, garrison, jurisdiction, general manager, Zhijun, and Zhizhai, and the titles of the same level were different.

No matter what the system is now, as long as the rank is the same, he will have the same title, but he also does not use the title of deputy general or chief soldier of the Ming Dynasty.

(End of this chapter)