Chapter 433 Military Reform, Accommodation, Peace in the World

The Ming Dynasty had a third-class title, Duke, Hou, and Bo. In addition to the two eras when the founding of the country and Jingnan, the titles were all added to the generals who held large soldiers. In the next dozen emperors' inheritance, the titles were given to the generals and nobles in order to allow them to hand over military power and enjoy wealth.

A general who can obtain titles must have great achievements. He usually has a team that can be called a strong army. If he is promoted to his military position, he will definitely be in a big way in the future. Give him a title that represents honor, and then hand over the army to others and go to a big city to support him. This is also a means of exchange.

But the rules on Li Meng's side have been completely broken. The title of Duke has been so rare that he has not dared to promise people over the years. After making considerable contributions, he has to leave the army as required to obtain it. Giving Li Meng this position is almost begged to him to accept it.

He also had to send out a few pieces of land in the name of almost cede land, which made Li Meng not continue to insist on the title of King Qi and hand over the territory controlled by the army. He did not dare to mention such things that had previously acquiesced to conventional things.

Compared with the generals of the Tang and Song dynasties, the Ming Dynasty had extremely strict control over the general's name. Only generals stationed in five places in the world could have the title of general. However, by the Wanli year, the title of generals began to gradually spread. By the time of Chongzhen, the world was in constant wars, whether true or false, military merits were easily obtained, and it was easy for generals to accumulate merits and be promoted to the position of generals.

Moreover, the country cannot guarantee the full supply of food and wages, but it also requires the soldiers of the army to fight. The only thing they can afford is the position of the military general.

For example, Zuo Liangyu is not a general of the Nine-Border Army, and according to the rules, he cannot be added to the title of general. However, Zuo Liangyu's 200,000 troops are the largest troops in the Ming Pass. Such a powerful military general is no longer easy for the court to touch, so he simply gave him the title of general to suppress the thief.

It shows that he is superior to the general of the same level, and if he has a unit of more than 200,000, it would be a bit shabby if he only has one general.

Therefore, the current general Zuo Liangyu, who is fighting thieves, has more than a dozen generals under his command. Some of these generals are appointed by the court, and some are appointed by Zuo Liangyu himself. The court pinched his nose and admitted it.

This example is the first. Shandong Duke of Qi and General Zhendong Li Meng, who had more than 100,000 soldiers and horses in his hands, was a natural thing to do these things.

However, although the general appointed by the general of the thief was not in accordance with the rules, it was still a matter of saying that if you, Duke of Qi, would have to appoint a general, which was impossible to say. The court would not admit it at all, but the current relationship between Shandong and the court was to maintain the superficial tradition, and it would be in charge of how the court reacted.

Moreover, the military system changed and officers were appointed. For those ignorant scholars who were righteous and enthusiastic at every turn, these so-called literati knew nothing about this. Jiaozhou Camp established a military system on its own and appointed a general on its own. This means that it was single out from the Ming Dynasty. This is a matter that was even more ruthless than the military affairs of the four provinces. However, outsiders could not understand it at all and could not recognize the significance of it.

The basic organization has changed from the original 1,000 battalion to a regiment of 2,000. Among each regiment, four hundred musketeers were divided into two firearm teams, and the remaining spearmen were divided into eight teams, with two hundred people in each team.

Because the local production capacity and output of weapons manufacturing have been greatly increased, according to the requirements, there will be two teams of soldiers in each regiment wearing half-body armor. This armor is not leather armor or cotton armor, but Western floor armor. It is equipped with a helmet with edges and corners. This helmet can to some extent resist the enemy's slashing at the best distance. Of course, after wearing this standard plate armor, it is difficult for bows and arrows to cause damage to this armored soldier.

After being merged into a regiment, there will be a regiment guard, a deputy garrison, the flag bearer, drummer of each regiment, as well as artillery soldiers and guards, all listed separately. Generally speaking, these people will have about a hundred people in total, and they will be directly under the regiment guard.

So, in fact, the exact number of people in each group is generally around 2,100.

The five regiments are a first army, with a general or a guerrilla commander. However, this army is not permanent, but is only separated if there is a deputy general.

This is a conventional infantry force. The cavalry in Jiaozhou camp still has a regiment of 1,000 people, a total of eight regiments as one army, one of which is a baggage regiment, and a cavalry commander is set up.

There are five artillery troops, one of which is a baggage team and the five are a first army. The artillery commander is set up. The navy has two battalions, which are Dengzhou Water Camp and Laizhou Water Camp. The two battalions are not subordinate to each other, and each has one water camp commander.

The personal military battalion has two brigades under its jurisdiction, one of which is a garrison brigade, with a total of ten brigades. The elite soldiers and officers of the Jiaozhou battalion system were selected into this personal military battalion according to certain process standards. In addition to serving as escorts and commandos, they also learn various command skills. This is the officer's reserve team.

Another brigade is divided into twenty teams, and this team was adapted from the previous experimental camp and used as an experimental improvement for various new tactics and new weapons in the Jiaozhou camp system. The personal military camp set up a commander, which is equivalent to a first army.

In addition to cavalry and artillery, each army sets up a baggage regiment in the conventional infantry regiment in Jiaozhou camp. The baggage regiment can recruit and command civilians in the soldiers to transport food and fodder.

After drawing troops to support north, the Qingzhou army Ma Gang had a total of 20,000 troops, and would replenish troops to replenish 315,000 troops, Chen Liu of Huaiyang army, and would replenish troops to replenish 20,000 troops. Zhao Neng of Dengzhou army, and would replenish 10,000 troops, and would replenish 20,000 troops, and would expand 9,000 troops to replenish 1,000 troops.

The old camp had 30,000 soldiers and horses, which originally included the number of artillery places in the horse army and personal military camps, but this time the 30,000 did not include the number of special troops.

The newly established Hebei army has 20,000, with a total of ten regiments, which are being supplemented...

The reorganization of troops in all directions and the expansion of troops are all very complicated, but the promotion and appointment of generals at all levels have been issued.

Ma Gang, who was guarding the Lianghuai River, was the general of the Lianghuai River, and Chen Liuze, who was in Fengyang, Xuzhou, was the general of Xuzhou, and was also in charge of the three regiments of Guide Prefecture, Henan. He was usually in charge of the management of the guerrilla war in Guide, and the deputy general Gao Ke was the general, and was guarding the Shouzhou area. Zhao Neng was the general of Denglai, guarding the three prefectures of Dengzhou, Laizhou and Qingzhou.

The former Yanzhou Army guerrilla Zhang Jiang was appointed as the general of Hebei, and Wang Tao was stationed in the Hejian Prefecture area to protect the access roads in Shandong and northern Zhili.

Wang Hai, the personal camp, and Tang Er, the commander of the cavalry, naturally became a general this time. Guo Dong, the commander of the artillery, also became a guerrilla.

In late May, the sensational news that had been spreading in the Jiaozhou camp system finally came to an end. The Duke of Qi's mansion wrote a letter to all troops and places, indicating that the General of Zhendong would not be used in the future, and the Duke of Qi was unified.

The title of General Zhendong is not to weaken his power, but to add the rank of general to the two new generals to show that their status is slightly higher than that of generals in other places. The title of general added this time is even more outperforming.

The general of the two Huaihe Rivers was added to the general of Pingnan, and the general of Xuzhou, Chen Liuze, was added to the general of the Western Expedition.

Whether intentionally or not, everyone could notice that the troops directly under the jurisdiction of Duke of Qi Li Meng were nearly 50,000, and the 18,000 Yanzhou army was currently under the management of Duke of Qi. Including the 20,000 generals of Denglai, Zhao Neng, who was almost controlled nearby. The troops in the headquarters are nearly 100,000, which can prevent all problems.

The expedition to the west, Pingnan, and where is the south of the two Huai Rivers? It is the provinces in the south of the Yangtze River. The west of Fengyang and Xuzhou is the Henan. The soldiers and horses in Shandong are naked and uncovered. But this time no one dares to speak out, and they are bustling. When they see a literati who is thundering, they are all silent this time. Occasionally, there is a so-called "talking for justice". His remarks and articles will not appear in the public eye.

Some people explained inexplicably that the Duke of Qi was the most respected person of the Ming Dynasty, and it was not impossible to appoint a few generals and add a few generals.

Compared with the military system reform that was not noticed at the beginning but later silenced the world, another internal measure in Shandong has rarely been noticed.

Because the Tuntianzhuang and Lingshan Trading Company are Li Meng's own private property. Li Meng's private, Zhou Yang, the Jinan Prefecture magistrate, and Ning Qiangui, a salt administration inspector, issued an order.

Tuntiantianzhuang and Lingshan Trading Company have always been streamlining personnel. However, starting from May of the 16th year of Chongzhen, the local governments should vigorously recruit staff at all levels. There is no need to worry about over-staffing, because the over-staffing costs will be over-staffed, and the Duke of Qi will be supplemented by the Duke of Qi.

The recruitment standard for these staff members is to be smart and literate. Regardless of the rest, after entering the farm system and the business bank system, you must learn the experience and service rules of the farmland farm and the business bank as soon as possible, be familiar with the experience, and be able to learn and adapt to this system as soon as possible, so you will retain the promotion, and if you cannot adapt, you must kick it out as soon as possible and re-select it again.

At the same time, Shandong Governor Yan Jizu, Jinan Tongzhi Zhou Yang, and right-sponsor Liu Qingyang all received a hint from Li Meng that they would send the scholars gathered around them to the government offices in Shandong as soon as possible to serve as a practical training.

The Shandong Salt Gang reincarnation Huang Ping and Jiang Xianchuo, and the Lingshan Trading Company Hou Shan also received a task to mobilize all the forces of the Shandong Salt Gang and Lingshan Trading Company to monitor and record various farms and yamen, and try not to let some speculators attempt to get cheap money come in as much as possible.

Such a large-scale recruitment of personnel and dispatching personnel, speculation and fishing in troubled waters will definitely occur. Surveillance will definitely not be able to monitor it, but it is just to minimize this possibility as much as possible.

Tuntianzhuang, Lingshan Trading Bank and officials sent from the staff to local governments were all trained on a large scale for the lack of civil affairs officials in Jiaozhou camp. Sun Chuanting agreed with this, but the surveillance of Shandong Salt Gang and Lingshan Trading Bank on various places really made people feel uneasy about the effect.

Shandong Yanbang and Lingshan Trading Company are completely two online intelligence systems. The working methods and organizational structures are completely different, and the levels of reporting to the upper level are completely different. Let them jointly monitor the trained civil servants and transfer their work to their own people. This is another big problem.

If these two institutions are asked to go up and investigate, there will be a problem and Li Meng issues an order, then the people below must implement it.

How to improve efficient execution is a necessary quality for a capable and capable subordinate. At the end of May, at the suggestion of Sun Chuanting, the "inner account room" that had always been a very vague positioning began to appear in the Jiaozhouying system as an institution.

The name of this institution looks like a department under Ning Qiangui, called the "Shandong Income and Expenditure and Finance and Taxation Investigation Department". It was nominally led by Yuan Wenhong, the former chief clerk of Jiaozhou camp and the current chief of Qi Duke, and was actually led by the female family members of Li Meng's residence. It was also led by Liu Fulai and Sun Chuanting.

The Inventory Department was an institution established under the permission of Li Meng. His power was to investigate the income and expenditure of industries in various parts of Shandong and avoid fraud such as embezzlement and misappropriation.

In fact, the power of this department is far greater than those in his name. Shandong Salt Gang and Lingshan Trading Company used to intentionally or unintentionally place internal spies. The Salt Gang and Trading Company have dedicated personnel to be responsible for this part of the internal part, while the internal part is integrated under the Ministry of Examination.

In addition, during the week, the accounting office has the power to check files from various places and to draw personnel to inquire. After the Inventory Department was officially established, this power was formalized. The personnel of the Inventory Department have the right to require someone to cooperate in investigating something or someone in a certain place, and the person being formulated has the obligation to fully cooperate with the work.

After the establishment of the Inquiry Department, Sun Chuanting, Liu Qingyang and Zhou Yang had a brief conversation. Zhou Yang began to draw experienced yamen runners and veteran officials from the prefectures and counties of Jinan Prefecture to join the Inquiry Department. The same is true for the other prefectures that can be fully controlled by Jiaozhou Camp. A large number of experienced veterans of criminals joined, making this institution more efficient and huge.

However, if someone can see Sun Chuanting's notes, he will find that the Jiaozhou Camp civil servant has a very conflicted relationship with the establishment of the Inquiry Department.

It is said that with the expansion of Shandong's territory and the expansion of civil and military departments, it is imperative to absorb talents. However, the army group is not bad. Through training and various methods, it can always maintain the loyalty of officers and soldiers to Li Meng, but the training of civil affairs officials has no effect. People who are smart and literate are basically scholars. This type of person has the most loyalty to the Ming Dynasty and cannot judge their attitude.

The recruitment of farmland and business banks will definitely be full of mud and sand. In order to ensure a sense of belonging and the most basic level of Jiaozhou Camp, someone must identify and monitor it.

There are naturally mature farms and business systems to identify, but monitoring this must have a powerful and efficient spy agency to do it.

As a literati and a literati from a high-ranking official in the Ming Dynasty, Sun Chuanting was extremely disgusted with spy institutions such as Jinyiwei and Dongchang, but he was in Jiaozhou. However, he found that in order to achieve his goal, he personally created a similar spy institution. Perhaps the ability and efficiency of this institution were higher than that of Dongchang and Jinyiwei.

This incident is indeed a contradictory thing in my heart, and it is even more amused and irritating.

In May, according to the literati of the Lai Party and the Yan Party, it was a new atmosphere, everything was formal, and it began to be so-called embracing all rivers. Those literati who had been excluded from the outside began to be accepted into this system. These people even had a tide of flattery, no one was willing to make a self-righteous and self-proclaimed in their daily lives, and wanted to divide the boundary with the Jiaozhou Camp.

In contrast, the Confucius Mansion, which was inherited by the saints, and the Lu Prince Mansion, which is a royal blood family. Most of the land in the Confucius Mansion and the Wangzhuang Mansion of the Lu Prince Mansion were deprived, leaving them only a land business that could support the operation of the mansion, and the rest were deprived in the name of measuring and clearing the boundaries of the land.

These fertile lands, together with the skilled farmers on the land in the past, were all reorganized according to the rules of the military farms and were classified into the Jiaozhouying industry.

There is a big and small thing in the Suli Kong Mansion. There will always be a large number of people in the Shilin literati who will make a fuss and criticize them, but no one will stand up to jump out of these actions.

Now everyone is from the Duke of Qi system, so you can't hurt your kindness for outsiders. If you have any intention to pay attention to it, in the past ten years, you will find that many articles written by the same person in Shandong have the same thing, and their views and evaluations are completely opposite, which is indeed ridiculous.

The so-called literati have no practice, which is probably what they mean by this phenomenon.

Regarding the changes in the following army, Li Meng and his think tanks have tried their best to adopt a small change. The backbone forces in various places are basically unmoved. While expanding, they are changing and promoting official positions. In fact, the original command power has not changed, including the two battalions and the deputy battalions. In fact, the regiment garrison and deputy battalions are the original two battalions, and are divided into chief and deputy according to their merits and seniority.

However, the merger and reorganization of nearly 200,000 troops involves too many aspects, and it is conservatively estimated that it will not be initially completed until the end of July. This is just the reorganization of the existing troops, not including newly recruited new recruits.

Moreover, this time the expansion of the army of 50,000 almost wiped out the personnel suitable for joining the army among the various military farms and armed salt pedals. The village guard team has the responsibility to maintain the stability of the farm, and the armed salt pedals has the responsibility to be responsible for local stability. When transferred to the army, local stability is also a big problem.

After several considerations, the officers in charge of recruiting soldiers from each army took their assistants to the place to train new recruits at the place where the recruitment was located, and at the same time recruited new village guards from the villages in the military farms, as well as recruited armed salt stewards from the local Jiaozhou camp families. In this way, even if there was any chaos, they could respond on the spot.

This process takes a lot of time. However, the recruitment of soldiers in Jiaozhou Camp is not comparable to those in the past. In the past, we had to use enough wages and food to ensure the guarantee, and we also had to coerce and induce people.

The current military farmer households in the military farm know that the years outside, especially Shandong, are gradually getting better. The civilians outside are living quite happily, but they are semi-serfs, but they cannot enjoy such benefits. They want to get rid of such an identity. The only feasible method is to have their own children to join the army. As long as they join the army, under the provisions of the "Centered Reform Order of Military Families" issued last year, the soldiers' families can immediately remove the identity of the military farmer, and a few years later, the same preferential treatment as the military farmer outside.

If you want to be a soldier, you must first join the village protection team of the Tuntian Village. These interests are affected by the local interests. Naturally, the military farmers are extremely enthusiastic and actively joining the village protection team. This even has a side effect, that is, the young and strong are unwilling to produce but willing to use force, and the managers of the Tuntian Village are in a state of anxiety. At least they are stable and ensure production.

As for armed salt ding, it is an important symbol of the intimacy between the middle and upper-class Shandong clans.

Whose children and children serve in the armed salt dynasty. That means that the family is on the same front as the Jiaozhouying. If the family serves in the armed salt dynasty, or holds a certain position, that would be even more amazing. That means that the family has an extraordinary relationship with the Jiaozhouying.

There are many wealthy families in Yanzhou Prefecture, and several of them have been passed down for nearly two hundred years. They are all big families who started their families and started their own families after being named in Shandong. They are extremely rich, but their status is not as good as the rest of the new wealthy families. The reason is that they finally joined Li Meng's system.

For these families of such large families, each of them only serves as salt ding in Denglai. Compared with the other families, they serve as team captains and squadron leaders, they naturally speak much smaller. The good families of Shandong civilians are extremely envious of the generals, generals, and generals who are in their thirties, who are already generals, generals and generals guarding the side of the Jiaozhou Camp, and are very enthusiastic about registering for the military. However, after the Jiaozhou Camp has two reserve systems, armed Yanding and Tianzhuang, the village guard team, rarely recruits new recruits among the civilians.

This time, the recruitment of armed salt residents, rich and poor families, noble and humble ethnic groups all signed up enthusiastically, and they were in full swing for a while. You should know that the Ming Dynasty divided the people into several levels. Some people would not receive normal treatment even if they joined the army. However, on the Jiaozhou Camp, they were treated equally and fairly.

In addition to the heavy workload, the rest of the recruitment work is progressing smoothly. Shandong is quite satisfied with this result. At present, some are carried out step by step, and all it takes is time.

In this era, except for the nearly desperate army of refugees, there will be almost no army that will fight on a large scale in spring, summer and early autumn. If they fight during this period, there will definitely be mobilization of farmers and destroying farmland. After such a battle formation is over, there will be no food in the next year. Any sensible army will not do this.

So during this period, the Qing Dynasty outside the pass, Mongolia outside the border, and even the Ming troops were very quiet. The situation at this time was very safe for Shandong.

Shandong was quite satisfied with the reforms of Li Meng and civil and military aspects, but this was a lot of planning and documentary work, as well as follow-up afterwards, etc.

Fortunately, the generals from all walks of life can almost know their location, so there is nothing to fight for, but the farms, business banks, local government offices, and these three places absorb a large number of smart and literate people. Even if they are blind, they can tell why this is prepared.

In the development of Jiaozhouying, many people regret betting too late. If they could have followed up boldly at the beginning, wealth and glory are no problem now, and wealth and glory in the future are unlimited. After finally letting go of recruiting talents from all kinds of people, they should not keep up as soon as possible.

In the military, only armed salt dynasties have recruited soldiers, and some positions such as captains and squadron leaders are vacant. For these positions, many wealthy families come to talk about their children.

The rest are all military farms, business banks, and government offices. They ask each other for help. Anyone with relationships and connections in Shandong asks for advice everywhere and uses a network of relationships to enter.

He was not disgusted with Li Meng when he allowed Shandong to form a close community of interests, but he was still happy to see it. However, he was constantly being represented by wealthy families and even civil and military officials from Jiaozhou Camp to plead with him. This made him a little bored. It was clearly a trivial matter of sesame and millet, or a reserve for training civil servants. A group of people were so passionate.

Mu Yunyao's reaction was very fierce during this period. He calculated the time and had a date of birth for more than ten days. At present, the entire Qi Duke's Mansion was busy with this. Li Meng was really too lazy to pay attention to the following relationships. He just wanted to spend more time to accompany Mu Yunyao.

On May 25, the Duke of Qi's mansion began to stay closed and finally stopped the guests from all over Shandong.

These guests were all wealthy people from Shandong. Of course, they also knew that the second wife of Duke Qi was about to give birth. Since they came to Jinan City and could not see Duke Qi, they would not be a bad thing to wait for Duke Qi's child to be born and give him a generous gift to congratulate him.

As a result, starting from late May, the market in Jinan City suddenly flourished, making money from the miserable stores in Jinan City.

In April and May, the Ming Dynasty court was busy licking its wounds and tried every means to restore some vitality, so as to restore the current extremely declining situation. The Qing Dynasty outside the pass went to Laolin to capture savages and replenish its population. The Mongolian tribes on the grassland were still the same as Eastern Mongolia like pigs and sheep, and Western Mongolia was fighting for survival.

On the third day of June, the mansion of General Weide of Xiangyang, which is the mansion of Cao Cao and Luo Rucai, is often noisy and has been drinking and feasting, but today it is extremely quiet.

The general's mansion was full of soldiers from the old camp of Li Zicheng, the King of Rebellion, and were all armed and nervous and alert.

In the main hall, the table and chairs were knocked down by a thunderous sound. Luo Rucai, who was covering his left shoulder, stood up from the lodged table and chairs. His hands covering his left shoulder had already oozed blood. He was still wearing a robe and looked at the front of the hall and shouted loudly:
Chapter completed!