Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

At the very beginning of the reorganization meeting, the composition of each branch of the Runing Army and the appointment of the chief officer were announced.The armed forces of the Runing Army are divided into soldiers, militias, village guards, road guards, and mine guards.Oh Se Kung will be the supreme commander of the armed forces.

Xue Yongli will be the orthodox commander of the entire Runing Army, and Zhou Xun will be the deputy commander.However, they can only command soldiers in peacetime, or in modern terms, they can only command field troops.Only in wartime, under the authorization of Wu Shigong or in an emergency, can they command other armed forces of the nearby Runing Army.

And here, the soldiers will be composed of full-time, paid soldiers with the best weapons and equipment. They will be the main force in future battles.And this time the number of soldiers of the Runing Army will increase to 5000;

The militia has also been upgraded to a second-line army, and it is also fully out of production, but the weapons and equipment are inferior, and the military pay is also lower.The main task of the militia is to defend the fortress and maintain the place, as well as transport and assist in combat.To describe it vividly, it is like a modern armed police force.During the final discussion, twelve militia groups were established, each with 500 members, for a total of 6000 members.

But one of the militia groups will be quite special, that is, the militia group where Yu Zilian is the county magistrate.How to dispose of this militia will be decided by Wu Shigong, Zhang Xuebin and Yao Yuanwai, local gentry from Guide after discussion;

The village guards, road guards, and mine guard teams are composed of half-time militiamen.They will be led by retired veterans, using the outdated and crude weapons of the Runing Army, and will play a role in controlling the place for the Runing Army.Of course, during combat, it can also assist in combat.

Due to the increase in refugees accommodated by Wu Shigong, the Runing Army will allow more than 3000 men of all ages to participate in military training, and stipulate that each of them will serve in the village guard, road guard, and mine guard team for one month every year.Therefore, in normal times, this militia team will have about 500 people.But it can even be mobilized in wartime.

In addition, there are 500 internal affairs troops led by Xue Qiang, who will usually perform the work of maintaining local law and order and suppressing bandits.Of course, in the process of suppressing bandits, after obtaining the authorization, the Department of Internal Affairs can let other armed forces of the Runing Army cooperate.

There are also nearly 500 members of Xue Zhinong's Shanchuan Division Action Team and peripheral combat teams.This time, Wu Shigong will also formally put this armed force under the management of the Runing Army.

As for the military households under the command of Guidewei Zhao Ming, Wu Shigong planned to let Yu Ji, the former Guidewei military households, infiltrate them through their connections, so as to gain the support of as many Guidewei military households as possible.

There is also the allied army, but now it can be said that the allied army under the command of the Runing Army only has more than 300 personal soldiers led by Nanyang garrison Li Lu and more than 100 servants privately raised by the private iron mine owner of Nanyang .

But this alliance is rather loose.Only under the common interest, these allied forces will be under the command of the Runing Army.Besides, apart from Li Lu's personal soldiers, the combat power of the other allies, which is better than oppressing the common people, is simply unreliable.

The five armies of the Runing Army remain unchanged.Wu Shigong announced the list of chief and deputy army commanders and major army officers at the military meeting:

Commander of the Teaching Corps: Li Sanhe; Deputy Commander: Yu Ji;

Chief of Nanyang Legion: He Fei; Deputy Chiefs: Chu Ge, Wu Shumo;

These two are full regiments.

Chief of the Guide Army: Xue Qiang; Deputy Chief: Qian Qi;

The head of the main army of the Runing Army: Yang Rusong; the deputy head of the army: Liang Hui;

These two are half legions.

Chief of the Cavalry Corps: Zhang Biao; Deputy Commander: Xue Cunzhuang (former guard of Xue Mansion. Promoted and appointed);

Direct artillery team leader: Xiong Zhengen; deputy team leader: Gong Benshi;

Xiong Zhengen is the deputy commander of the original artillery team.And Gong Benshi was the best gunner of the original artillery team, this time he was promoted exceptionally.

Directly under the head of the engineering regiment: Xue Cunyi (former guard of Xue Mansion. Promoted and appointed. He is Xue Cunzhuang's cousin); deputy head: Guo Ming (formerly a military household in the fortress of Qianhusuo, promoted and appointed);

And Tao Xin was appointed as the captain of the personal brigade.

The appointment of the following officers is also not listed in detail.However, in this reorganization, basically all officers have been promoted to a higher level.However, Zhou Xun, Qian Qi and other four people who were promoted the fastest, and these people from the Liang Hui Artillery Team.

It can also be seen that in the Runing Army, officers who participated in more battles were promoted faster.Officers in the cavalry and artillery were also promoted quickly.Of course, the happiest person is Yang Goudan, who is listening at this time. He is the son and son-in-law of Double Harvest.

The reason why the Nanyang Legion set up two deputy regiment commanders was mainly because Shumo was still in charge of the construction of the Longan Village and the Luojia Town camp, and also set up an effective front line of defense for the Runing Army.So stay on for the time being.

As for the Portuguese officers like Gonzales, except for a few craftsmen who made guns and ammunition, they were transferred to the Workshop Division, and there were nearly [-] left behind.For the time being, they will serve as consultants to help with this reorganization, and they will not be given real positions.

For this appointment, there are still about [-] officers above the deputy company commander vacant. After the reorganization is over, outstanding officers in the Runing Army, including Portuguese officers, will be promoted and appointed.

The next step is to arrange the training of the reorganized army.These days, the senior officers of the Runing Army, combined with the income from the expedition recorded by Chi Ming and others, together with the professors of the Portuguese officers, preliminarily compiled a new drill and a new tactical manual for the Runing Army.

In the next few months, the Runing Army will train soldiers according to this new drill code and new tactical manual.This time, the tactical content will be greatly increased from ten-man teams to joint operations of the entire legion.Of course, if problems are found during the training, the content of the new drill and the new tactical manual will also be revised.

That's pretty much it for the military.Under Wu Shigong's arrangement, in addition to the senior officers above the deputy head of the directly subordinate troops and above the deputy head of the troops stationed abroad to continue the military discussion, Wu Shigong asked other officers who participated in the military meeting to rush back to their own troops as soon as possible, and began to recruit new recruits. , stepped up training.

Wu Shigong confessed that he will leave the Runing Army camp in a month to conduct a comprehensive inspection of each unit and check the training effect, so all officers must pay attention to this reorganization.

Then Wu Shigong started the high-level meeting of civil and military officials of the Runing Army.First of all, Wu Shigong proposed to Deng Qifan that local control should be strengthened.

Wu Shigong and Deng Qifan discussed several times these days, and found that there were quite a few local gentry children who took refuge in the Runing Army, but it was difficult to arrange them, but it was a pity to give up these literate and some background people.In addition, with the expansion of the Runing Army, the number of domestic slaves Wu Shigong recruited increased, and many civil affairs needed to be handled by people, so this time the civil affairs system of the Runing Army was simply established.

In order to strengthen local control, the entire civil administration system will be divided into four levels: Township - County - Government - Runing Army.Compared with the lowest level of bureaucracy in the Ming Dynasty, which was at the county level, the control of the Runing Army will be greatly enhanced.

This time, the Runing Army can be said to have completely independent the Ming Dynasty official system and established a new civil administration system.Once there is any problem, it will immediately become a major rebellion.Therefore, Wu Shigong especially emphasized that, except for these special places in the northern mountainous area of ​​Runing Prefecture, the civil administration system of the entire Runing Army is temporarily shrunk within the farms, mining areas, and the gathering places of the Runing Army, and should not expand and infiltrate.

Officials in the civil affairs system implement the system of two heads and five senses.The chief executive is in charge of the overall situation, and the deputy chief is responsible for finances.There are also three officials who are in charge of farmland, academic and political propaganda, and an official who is also the chief of the local internal affairs department.Major local issues will be voted on by these five officials.

Although it seems that the number of officials is a bit more, but in this way, on the one hand, it can appease and win over the gentry in those places, and on the other hand, it can train a large number of civil affairs officials.After all, Wu Shigong's ambitions are not limited to his farms and mining areas.

However, Wu Shigong also had requirements on where those officials would work. Among the five officials, at least three must be appointed in different places to prevent the emergence of independent kingdoms in the locality.

And Wu Shigong's requirements for the performance of civil affairs officials are, first of all, to be stable. In this troubled world, stability is the most important thing.Wu Shigong didn't want to see any fire in the rear.

The second is fiscal revenue.In the agricultural society of the Ming Dynasty, the income from agriculture must be the bulk, but Wu Shigong also asked these officials to pay attention to forestry and animal husbandry.Especially the taxation of industry and commerce.In this regard, Wu Shigong is actually similar to the modern officials who attach importance to attracting investment.

The Runing Army's finances are very tight, relying on Wu Shigong alone to earn income is always somewhat incapable, and war money is also a matter of one thing and another.But dangling the official hat in front of those local officials, they will also exert enormous energy and increase a lot of financial resources for Wu Shigong's Runing Army.

Of course, Wu Shigong also asked Zhang Xuebin to cooperate with these local officials to attract investment from the gentry in those places, and even used Zhang Xuebin's relationship to attract investment in Nanzhili and Zhejiang and other areas with developed industries and commerce.Comprehensively promote the development of Runing military industry and commerce.

To this end, Wu Shigong will also formulate a series of laws and regulations to encourage industrial and commercial development, including the "Patent Law", so that those businessmen can safely make money in Wu Shigong's territory.Of course, these merchants will also pay taxes for the Runing Army, unlike the Ming Dynasty government, which basically cannot collect taxes from industry and commerce.

In addition, Wu Shigong also emphasized to all the civil and military officials that it is strictly forbidden to do things that envy and seize the property of businessmen, and those businessmen are free to come and go with their personal and property, and cannot be blocked arbitrarily.In a word, the core of the current Runing military and civilian administration is: comprehensive development of agriculture, industry and commerce.

Wu Shigong didn't know that these measures of his had pushed the political system of the Runing Army onto the road of capitalism. (To be continued..)