Late Tang

The establishment of instructors at the team, capital, battalion, Xiang, and army levels is a question that Li Jing has been considering and hesitating during this period of time.One of the biggest characteristics of the army in the late Tang Dynasty was that there were many feudal towns, warriors were in charge of the country, and there were countless army leaders, big and small.The commander-in-chief of the feudal town is the largest army, and there are soldiers and horse envoys below each one who know that they are also army leaders, and then there are soldiers and horse envoys who are smaller army leaders.Fanzhen, this is composed of such a group of military leaders.

Li Jing is now also the leader of a large army. In Ziqing Town, apart from the Pinglu Army, Li Jing's Zhendong Army is the most powerful, with 5000 troops.But it is precisely because he is the leader of the army that Li Jing understands the horror of this kind of army leader better than others.It is not uncommon in other towns to support soldiers to be self-respecting, even self-reliant, and even chasing commanders to kill commanders.At the beginning of Zhendong Army, Li Jing relied on being sworn brothers and marriages with Lin Wei, Wang Zhong and other major generals to stabilize his relationship.

However, with more and more people and power, the Zhendong Army now has 5000 troops, which is no longer enough to completely control the Zhendong Army.Li Zhen once suggested to Li Jing that more women from the Li clan should be married to the generals below. Brothers, nephews, etc. married the generals to weave a big picture.

It's a strategy, but it's not enough.

Guo Cheng'an suggested that Li Jing should accept the middle-level generals in the Zhendong Army as foster sons and change their surnames to Li. In this way, the entire army could be controlled by the patriarchal clan system.However, Li Jing was only 21 years old, and none of the generals at the battalion level was younger than Li Jing.Li Jing was not very willing to accept the adopted son.Li Jing couldn't accept a group of people who were much older than him and could even be his father's subordinates as adoptive sons.He was already reluctant to be Song Wei's adopted son, not to mention, adopting a adopted son was not a good way.Just like himself, although he became Song Wei's adoptive son, in fact, he didn't immediately change his mind much about Song Wei.No matter how many adoptive sons you have, the most critical thing is the control of power.

After much deliberation, Li Jing felt that in order to strengthen the control over the Zhendong Army, it would be a good idea for the later Taizu's branch to be established on the side.Starting from the team level, a group of literati were appointed as teachers.The chief officer is in charge of the military, the instructors are in charge of everything other than the military, and are responsible for supervising the chief general to prevent the chief general from monopolizing power.

Wen and Wu are inherently opposed. The new teaching system Li Jing did not use Wu to take up this position, but specially promoted a group of literati to take up this position.Essentially, the chief officers at all levels then had military decision-making power, but were otherwise supervised by teaching.The Tang Dynasty also had a system of supervising the army, but the supervising army was only the highest level of supervision.Zhang Chengye is now the Supervising Army Envoy, and under Zhang Chengye, there are more than a dozen people including the Supervising Army Deputy Envoy, the Supervising Army Junior Envoy, and the Supervising Army Judge.But the target of their supervision is Li Jing, not the lower levels.

Li Jing combined the military supervision system that existed in the Tang Dynasty, the Song Dynasty's system of using literature to control martial arts, and the political commissar system of later generations to create a new teaching system.But there are still some differences from the previous ones. The duty of teaching is to supervise, and the authority of the chief officer cannot be directly exceeded. They have no right to command soldiers and horses, and some have the right to supervise and report.In addition, he must also be responsible for ideological matters and help Li Jing control the army below.

In addition to the trainer at the lowest team level, there is also a trainer in the team to exercise overall control over the entire army.

And in order to prevent the accidents of the military leaders, there is another regulation issued at the same time as the teaching system.That is, officers are not allowed to be promoted within their own ranks when they are promoted.When a team leader is promoted to a team officer, he is not allowed to be promoted within the team. When the team leader of team A is promoted to a team officer, he must be transferred to team B.The same is true for the promotion of the team to the capital, the promotion of the capital, and the promotion of the camp.And even if there is no promotion, all officers will need to be transferred every three years.In addition, there is another important regulation, that is, all officers are not allowed to have private soldiers, and all the personal soldiers they have must be healthy officials in the battalion. After the official position is transferred, the personal soldiers are not allowed to take away.Officers at the battalion level can usually enjoy the qualifications of ten bodyguards, and officers at the Xiang level can have a team of bodyguards.

The consecutive rules are all to avoid the emergence of military leaders after the team grows large.

Especially the teaching system, which made Li Jing rack his brains to come up with it.

Since Li Jing took over Dengzhou, all kinds of performances have not only won the welcome of the people, but also the recognition and support of the aristocratic family.Represented by the three families of Cui, Han, and Xiao, many aristocratic families sent their children to join Li Jing's subordinates.These few joined the army to serve in the army, most of them are still scholars, and many of them are even literati who have passed the Jinshi.At the beginning, Li Jing arranged for many people to enter the city of Dengzhou and the four counties, and arranged for some to enter the Zhendong Army and the second city of Liaodong.But there were still a lot of scribes who came to join him, so in the end Li Jing simply let them go to the army to teach first.

Then according to observation and according to their academic ability, this time they are all assigned as instructors at all levels.

The military meeting of the Zhendong Army every seven days was prepared to be held in the northern barracks of Dengzhou City.In the military camp in the north of the city, there is Li Jing's military meeting hall, as well as a living room and a study room.After the discussion was over, Li Jing returned to the study, and as soon as he sat down, Wang Zhong asked to see him outside.

Li Jing changed into casual clothes under the service of Tie Danzi, Tie Danzi poured a glass of fruit wine for both Li Jing and Wang Zhong, and then retreated.After Wang Zhong waited until there were only two people left in the room, he cleared his throat and said straightforwardly, "Ji Yu, aren't you messing around with these things you made recently? The army is used to fight, and now you have a group of people who can't bear shoulders." Carry, frail scholars who can't lift their hands enter the camp, and they immediately serve as assistant officials at all levels. Do you know that now the brothers in the battalions below are about to be overthrown."

"Why am I messing around?" Li Jing smiled slightly, but was not angry, "And you said that there is going to be a lot of quarrels down here, who is arguing, why are they arguing, why don't they come directly to me and talk about it? "

"In short, using literature to control martial arts is just nonsense."

Li Jing's tone became a little more serious, and he looked at Wang Zhong, "What do you mean by using literature to control martial arts? Didn't I say it clearly? To put it bluntly, each teaching is just the price I send. As long as the leaders at all levels are not afraid of being crooked, as long as they don’t do anything out of line, what happened before is what they are now. And there are instructors They should be happy to share some other cumbersome matters." Li Jing knew that Wang Zhong's presence must have many officers waiting to see the limelight.

Although Wang Zhong is his sworn brother and married his widowed sister-in-law, it can be said that he is even closer.But the more this is the case, the more Li Jing has to focus on the point today, and completely dispel the thoughts of those who wait and see.

"Tell you, the teaching system has not changed. Officers at all levels must be sent if they agree, and they must be sent if they disagree. And let me put it bluntly. These teachings are the representatives sent by me, Li Jing, and I sent them. In the future, whoever dares to make a mess in the future, the supervisor has the right to deal with it at the critical moment."

"Wars have always been the affairs of the generals. Everyone rushes into the battle, no matter what. But now, a group of scholars are sent to ride on the head, and everyone is a little puzzled." Wang Zhong came in to say these words today. It's not that he doesn't understand the reason, but He knew that many generals wanted to say this in their hearts, but they dared not say it.Now he came to say that it was all right for Li Jing to reprimand him, and it just happened to show the attitude of the military envoy to the whole army. "Many of the brothers below just feel that the military envoys are paying more and more attention to those literati. The territory was won by our soldiers with their blood and lives. Now that these literati have not made an inch, hundreds of them will be inserted into the Zhendong Army at once. Many brothers are not convinced."

"What is there to be disobedient? Soldiers regard obedience as their bounden duty. What is there to disobey? You can't even tolerate one of my representatives now. What do you want to do? Do you want to occupy the mountain as the king, or do you want to support the soldiers? Is it still the Zhendong Army envoy?"

Li Jing's words were so heavy and loud that the walls of the study room couldn't stop them from spreading far outside.More than a dozen generals stood there, listening with pricked ears.Hearing Li Jing reprimand Wang Zhong so severely, everyone's expressions were a little ugly.Wang Zhong is the master of the box, he is in charge of [-] soldiers and horses, and now he is guarding Beisha City on behalf of Li Jing, he can be called a general of the frontier.Even his brother-in-law of the military envoy was reprimanded in this way, which shows how determined the general is to establish education.

And the words have already been said for this sake, whoever dares to object will really be suspected of having self-reliance.

Sitting there, Wang Zhong was severely reprimanded by Li Jing. After Li Jing talked for a long time, he quickly handed over the table.He whispered: "It's almost enough, everyone has heard about it."

Li Jing smiled, being together for such a long time, the tacit understanding between the two is still good.This is a double reed, in order to show Li Jing's attitude.It is not appropriate to find other generals to take the lead.It happened that Wang Zhong's status was sufficient, and the relationship between the two was more suitable.

After Li Jing talked for a long time, he also felt a little dry, so he immediately picked up fruit wine to moisten his throat.

"Is it really useful to use a group of literati as teaching?" Wang Zhong asked with some doubts.Recently, he has been guarding Beisha City, and he only returns to Dengzhou once or twice in January.Although he also had some doubts in his heart that this literati should teach him, but no matter what, he still supported Li Jing unconditionally.

"Whether it's useful or not can't be seen in a day or two. But anyway, the Zhendong Army can't be the same as the Hebei Three Towns and other troops. We have to build a real new army." Li Jing put down his glass, The way with piercing eyes.

(To be continued)