Chapter 73 Hereditary
After attending Wu Dengke's wedding, Chen Wen returned to Anyuan Hou Mansion to continue his work. However, as he saw the marriage beside him, Chen Wen suddenly had the urge to find a girl to fall in love. This impulse seemed to have happened every time he attended a wedding and was a member, but it was unknown whether it was the same this time.
In early February, newly trained recruits had begun to be incorporated into various combat camps and garrisons in various places in batches, but it would take at least one month before these recruits were fully integrated in spirit and cooperation with other comrades. Taking advantage of this period, Chen Wen decided to solve the problem of hereditary military posts in the army at one time.
This problem comes from the system of the Ming Dynasty itself. Herald officers and the military household status passed down from generation to generation, which formed the most important military force of the Ming Dynasty. Although the three camps were formed as the core force of national defense by the time of Zhu Di, the Ming Dynasty, and even later, with the destruction of the three camps in Tumu Fort and the rapid corruption of their derivatives, the Ming Dynasty even introduced a recruitment system to replace all of this. But even so, the taxes of the ward system, the output of soldiers or officers, and the responsibility of guarding the local area throughout the country were still indispensable components of the ward system of the ward system.
However, it is now the end of the Ming Dynasty. The Qing Dynasty has been in the pass for many years and has begun the reform of the system of digesting the ward system. Although the series of work of changing the ward into prefectures and counties and turning the army into the people has just begun, the Ming Dynasty's own system has been corrupt and collapsed. To oppose the Qing Dynasty, the original system can only restrain one's own hands and feet, and even kill itself.
System reform is necessary, and Chen Wen has already started, but unlike the reforms of the military towns and garrisons that he has carried out before and is still underway, the hereditary military post was originally a product of feudalization, and feudalization was always eliminated by him in the army. However, in the general environment of feudal society, he could deprive himself of his feudal interests, or expel some feudal bad habits through generous rewards and brainwashing. However, hereditary military posts are related to the welfare of their descendants for the soldiers in the army, and Chen Wen has no price to exchange for.
Since this is the case, there is only one way to go for compromise. However, compromise is compromise, Chen Wen did not intend to let his army recover feudal. This is a matter of principle and there is no compromise at all.
After a month of consideration, Chen Wen decided to come up with a system similar to the Wusan rank as the hereditary standard, rather than continuing to use the original system of hereditary military positions of the Ming Dynasty.
The Wusan rank began in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, and it was not without it in the Ming Dynasty. From the highest-level official first-level official and special Guanglu doctor to the lowest-level official from the sixth-level official Zhongxian lieutenant, there were 30 levels. However, this system was originally a honorary title, and now the Ming Dynasty is still in use. Chen Wen did not intend to leave any loopholes in this regard. Whether it is a military supervisor or other noble generals, even the emperor is not ready.
Chen Wen never thought that being a loyal minister was the most important thing to expel the Tartars. Many things can be compromised on this issue, but the right to be granted by the emperor and the inequality in personality represented by the emperor cannot be compromised at all.
Whether to establish a business or not is still a matter of later. After all, you have to kill the bear of the Qing Dynasty to have the opportunity to share the meat. Otherwise, why would he have such an accident? But even if there is an emperor from the Zhu family, he will deprive the emperor of the emperor and be a mascot in a regular manner. Just like the Queen of England, the main business is to walk the dog, and the side business is to become the queen so that he will not threaten the future of his descendants. Naturally, the Chinese in future generations do not have to worry about the problem of a foolish monarch coming to the world.
Chen Wen has done a lot of things to change the ancestral system, and the military town and garrison office are still continuing to improve, but no matter how they change, it is impossible to change it back to the original one.
In fact, Chen Wen's recently planned system similar to the Wusan rank system is actually a military rank system. The name will not be used for the name of the lieutenant general, major, captain, etc., but instead uses the name of the Wusan official in the Tang and Song dynasties as military ranks, and will be given some marks such as epaulettes and collar seals to indicate it, so as to further clarify the relationship between superiors and subordinates in the army.
However, it is still far from the day when the Tartars were truly expelled. At least Chen Wen could not come up with any plan similar to "Five Years of Pacifying Liao". Since this is the case, making all the military ranks in one go will only restrict his own hands and feet, so he just made more than ten from low to high and used them for the time being.
According to Chen Wen's plan, the lowest level is called the Deputy Captain of the Rong, which is similar to the Tang and Song Dynasties. It is used to award low-level officers such as the captain of the firearms team and the cavalry leader of the war barracks; the upper level is the captain of the Rong Clerk, and the infantry captain of the war barracks. And so on, when the command level of the war barracks, it is necessary to be the Chief of the Zhiguo Clerk, and the military commander, military law, military supervisor and other officers in the camp were demoted to one level.
These are all military ranks used in the army, and the hereditary ones are no longer official positions or dispatches, but military ranks. The reason for this is that the official positions, dispatches and honors of the Ming Dynasty have become a huge fuss. For example, Chen Wen's current ally, Zhang Zisheng, had only more than 10,000 men, women, young and old, but there were about fifty generals alone, and an average of only one person was only a 200. If it were Tianqi or the early years of Chongzhen, an officer who was in charge of 200 people would be just a thousand generals, at most a garrison. At that time, a general, even if he was just a regiment training general, was a personal soldier, and his servants were larger than this number.
The phenomenon of low-level official positions and low-level officials was too shocking, and Chen Wen could only manage his own territory. However, as soon as the hereditary military rank was released, in addition to the military rank system being able to be developed in the army and the superiors and subordinates of the army began to act as a dam to resist the torrent of feudalization, he would no longer have to use so much land to reward him if he wins a battle in the future. After all, although there are a lot of wastelands everywhere, there is always a limit.
Of course, the premise of hereditary military rank is that age and other conditions meet the standards, and after the corresponding level of assessment, those who cannot achieve this right cannot enjoy this right. As for bribery exams, there is no need to worry about it yet, because there are not many officers who can obtain hereditary military positions, and their offspring are even far away from hereditary military positions.
Once the system of hereditary military rank was announced, the army was filled with joy and praise. Now that the Ming army in Zhejiang is in full swing, each of them seems to have seen that one day their descendants can inherit their posts in the army and will no longer start from small soldiers like them.
Chapter completed!