Ming Zhengzhi, I am Zheng Kezang

With the change of hands of Zhangde Mansion and Taiyuan Mansion, and with the beginning of large-scale snowfall in the north, Wucheng's 14-year Northern Expedition finally came to an end.In this battle, the Xia army conquered the seven northern provinces in one fell swoop, completely ended the Qing government's rule in the pass, and advanced the forward to the grasslands and outside the Northeast Pass, laying a solid foundation for the subsequent northern operations.

After the war, the Jiji and the inner court have been busy for several months to seize the assets of the Eight Banners and have not stopped. The Ministry of Officials is also dizzy with the allocation of officials in the newly recovered provinces.

But everything can be delayed, but the rewards for the soldiers are urgent.

According to the system of feudal titles in China, when a meritorious nobleman arrives at Kaiguo County, he can be named Shijue County Male, Founding Marquis can be named County Son, Founding County Duke can be named County Bo, and Founding Duke can be named County Bo. Nobility, princes and princes are exclusive to the children of the clan, which means that Zheng Kezang's so-called edict of not stinging rewards from princes and princes during the Northern Expedition was actually just a gimmick.

Moreover, in order to control the number of Spykers who own tax-free land, Zheng Kezang also clearly stipulated in the "Jue Law" that after obtaining the corresponding Spykers, the original meritorious titles will be cleared, and the statistics will be restarted.In this way, the difficulty of obtaining Spyker and the cumbersomeness of credit calculation have been greatly increased. [

In addition, in addition to the titles of honors, medals, medals, medals, and titles of meritorious officials, Huaxia also has a system of rewards for honors, honors, titles of meritorious officials, and medals, medals, and medals obtained in the past. All of them can add points in the process of calculating Gongminjue and Spyker.

After calculating the scores of those who are eligible to receive meritorious titles and titles, titles are not awarded directly, but the total amount of titles must be controlled, and all methods are used to award honors, medals, medals, medals and titles of meritorious officials. To offset the points, but it can't be done too much. If you have more than enough Spyker, you have to forcibly pull it down.

In this way, the addition, subtraction, and subtraction were so busy that the Ministry of Rites did not submit the final list of rewards to Zheng Kezang until the end of December in the 14th year of Wucheng.After Zheng Kezang read it, he sent it first without any problems.The so-called no problem, of course, refers to the Pratt & Whitney Award, a lot of medals, medals, and medals are distributed, and basically everyone has a share.

Next is the highlight of Gong Minjue and Spyker.Don't say anything about Gongminjue, anyone who is not up to the Spyker standard will be announced to the public without any problems. Those who should be promoted to one level will be promoted to one level, and those who should be promoted to two levels will be promoted to two levels. A certain sentry of Zhen captured the sum of the sum and captured a certain squad leader in Chong'an. The former was directly promoted from the founding man to the founding uncle and won the honor of the inspector prince Zhongyun. The third level is directly promoted from ordinary meritorious officials to founding uncle.

The final announced list of promotions to Spyker included 29 counties, [-] counties, [-] counties, and [-] county men.It's not that the higher the position, the higher the title you get.For example, Feng Hui, an envoy of the Privy Council, was originally a son of Fengjie County, but this time he was only promoted to the Duke of Founding and County Boss of Fengjie. He Shuzhi, who was under the command to capture Yinzhi, assist Kujin in defeating the Yinti tribe, and was able to trap Kangxi to death and maintain Youzhou, although He Shuzhi was only a privy secretary, was directly promoted from the county man to the founding son , Quyang County Bo, and Xun, the three princes and Taibao inspectors, were promoted from the fourth-class meritorious officials who founded the country to the third-class; In the county, the meritorious ranks were completely wiped out. It was in the end that Zheng Kezang saw that he had suffered a lot from hard work and no credit, so he gave him three additional rewards, and the title of hero continued to remain unchanged.

The most eye-catching people on this promotion list are Tao Yue, Gu Jie, and Cao Yichong. Needless to say, Tao Yue, the Sixth Division of the Xuanwu Army can be said to be the key to turning the tide of the battle. It is undisputed that the four inspectors, Prince Shaofu and Xun, won the titles of the third-class military officials who defeated the enemy and declared power; No one has much opinion about the first prince who washes horses and wins the fourth-class auxiliary country to defeat the enemy. Cao Yichong, who sincerely declares his strength as a military minister, has some objections from many people because he is commanding an alien force like the Shence Army. Even the other commanders of the Shence Army who led the Shence Army with Cao Yichong also feel that Cao Yichong has taken the credit Gone, dissatisfied with it.

It's just that the list was approved by Zheng Kezang, and no one dared to object, so the matter was settled.

After the reward was over, Zheng Kezang raised his butcher's knife and slashed at the expanding Xia army.

There are currently thirty provinces in China, including Jianghuai, Zhongzhou, Western Hebei, Haixi, Jiangxi, Western Zhejiang, Eastern Zhejiang, Fujian, Southern Jiangxi, Yidong, Jinghu, Hunan, Guizhou, Xuyong, Guangxi, and Shaanxi. The six provinces have deputy commanders, each with one division; the rest include Shandong, Shanxi, Shuofang, Longxi, Yunnan, Jiangnan, Daibei, Sichuanxi, Beiliao, Jinlan, Guangnan, Northern Hebei, Liaoning, and Guangdong. The provinces set up the general army, and each province garrisons two divisions, and the above requires a total of 44 divisions.

In addition, Zheng Kezang previously set up the subordinates of Shuofangdu in Longxi, Shaanxi, the deputy capital of Xuyong in Yunnan, the deputy capital of Guizhou in Guangxi, and the deputy capital of Guangnan and Beiliao. Among them, the three northwestern provinces were subordinate to the garrisons with four additional divisions, and the deputy capitals of the other three provinces were subordinate The garrison that governs an additional division will add up to seven divisions.

Zheng Kezang planned to use four to six divisions for the conquest of Monan and Khalkha, six divisions for the Guandong direction, six divisions for the defense of Wuchang, and four divisions for the control of the construction site near Tianjin. , two divisions of the Shandong and Xuhai bandit suppression troops.

Adding up the above, excluding the Imperial Guards, there are 75 divisions in total.At present, the Xia Army has 85 divisions. That is to say, Zheng Kezang plans to lay off ten divisions this time, and withdraw two divisions after the bandit troubles in Shandong and Xuhai are pacified in the future. The remaining forces then reduced the twelve divisions in Daibei and Northeast to eight, and finally kept the total strength of the Xia Army's land divisions at 69 divisions and less than 80 people.

Speaking of which, Zheng Kezang can also reduce the number of brigades in divisions or regiments in brigades, or even directly reduce the number of outposts in regiments, so as to achieve the purpose of reducing troops and retain the ability to mobilize, but after repeated consideration However, Zheng Kezang still decided to lay off the division directly, so as to reduce the number of special forces belonging to the division that spends the most in the military expenditure of the unit, so as to reduce the military expenditure of the army division and use it in more important places.

The so-called more important places of course refer to the cavalry, navy, artillery directly under the Privy Council, the middle base troops, and the construction of military stations in various places. Zheng Kezang knows that this will inevitably cause controversy within the army, but the pain of disarmament is inevitable. You must know In this era, apart from the Zhungeer Empire in the west, there are no other major land powers that can directly threaten China's security. Even if you want to drive the Russians northward in the future, you don't need a division-level army, let alone serious logistical factors. Restricting the scale of using troops in the north and west directions makes the troops to be invested more expensive and less expensive.

On December 14th, the [-]th year of Wucheng, Zheng Kezang issued an edict at the Dahongmen Palace in Youzhou Prefecture, allowing officers and soldiers of the Xia Army who have served for eight years but less than ten years to retire early---Huaxia implements the policy of recruiting soldiers. Recruit the most robust and qualified soldiers with meritorious status and tax-free benefits. Soldiers who have obtained meritorious status need to serve for ten years after enlisting in the army, and are not allowed to retire from active service except for those who died in battle or were disabled; once enlisted soldiers are promoted to team leaders Afterwards, they need to serve for a longer period of time. At this time, what they gain is not only meritorious status, but higher meritorious titles and even Spykers. The land in the four Zhili prefectures including Wuyuan and Wuyuan can also return to their hometowns or settle in the seven northern provinces, but the latecomers only have the right to tax exemption and free land distribution.According to the statistics of the Huaxia Military Department, this move can reduce the number of officers and soldiers by about [-]. In addition to the wounded soldiers who were injured and unable to return to the army during the Northern Expedition, it can reduce the strength of about five divisions.

On December 22, Zheng Kezang ordered that all the troops expanded in Shanxi be abolished. Among them, the local people who joined the army in Shanxi would be treated as meritorious civilians. placement.This disarmament is more than [-], but this part is not included in the Xia army's establishment table, so it is not considered as complete disarmament.

Since then, in March of the 15th year of Wucheng and in September of that year, Zheng Kezang twice ordered the dismissal of officers and soldiers of the Xia Army who had served for seven years but less than eight years, and six years but less than seven years.In this way, the first phase of the disarmament task of the Xia Army was completed. With this, Zheng Kezang could save at least 400 million yuan in military expenses every year.

Bing and lower-level military officers can be reduced so simply, but military officers above the middle level cannot do so. As the backbone of the Xia army, Zheng Kezang must keep it. The Henan Prefecture of Xijing, the Chengtian Prefecture of the Eastern Capital, and the Qiongzhou Prefecture of the Southern Capital set up young martial arts schools separately, so as to improve the folk martial arts spirit and accommodate some military elites.

In addition, Zheng Kezang further stipulated that all captains who are promoted to captains must have teacher training experience in martial arts or junior martial arts, and deputy lieutenants who are promoted to captains must have a diploma issued by martial arts. [

In order to further enhance the pride of the warriors, Zheng Kezang promulgated an edict on December 14, 25th year of Wucheng, changing the official Wensan officials from General Shilang to Tejin and Doctor Guanglu to Ministers of Civil and Military Affairs and Bi The titles of Sanguan officials shared by the ministers of the Tokuyuan, among them, the Sanguan officials who were first awarded from the ninth rank to Zheng Yipin Tejin, Ronglu Doctor were named military officers, and those who were promoted from the ninth rank to Zheng Shilang The scattered officials of the first-rank Tejin and Guanglu doctors are called civil officials, and the scattered officials from the fourth-rank court doctor to the second-rank Zide doctor are called the ministers of the Bute Academy.