The announcement was made at the same time as the public holiday, and the federal government authorized the FBI to investigate the history of the federation, investigate the reasons for the loss of federal historical materials, and try to recover historical materials dating back to 250 years.

The federal government has decreed that no one will be held accountable for the outbreak of war, and that the investigation should be initiated in order not to forget history, to remember the sacrifices, to find out the reasons for the formation of historical mysteries, and to use this as a warning.

The most shocking news announced on the same day was the news of the great disarmament of the Federation.

To be precise, the Federation is Huaguo, how many troops are there? I'm afraid most federal citizens immediately think of 2 million. Because everyone knows that the Federation has a total of 200 combat divisions. In reality, however, there is much more to it than that.

Putting aside everything else, each combat division of a single gendarmerie unit must be equipped with a gendarmerie battalion to conduct inspections, and a total of 20 divisions, or 200,000 gendarmerie troops, exist. Military politics, logistics, and military academies also occupy a large number of military establishments, and not counting the 20,000 reserve officers and students in local military academies.

Overall, the number of servicemen with military registration in the Federation is as high as 2,426,700. What about the post-disarmament establishment?

The federation divided all thirteen states, together with the newly formed western states and northern states, into five military regions.

Liangzhou, Bingzhou, plus the newly established Xizhou Beizhou, were divided into the Northwest Military Region. The area under the jurisdiction of the four states is very large, but the population is very thin, the Byzantine Europa and the Golden Horde American are only 2 million in total, plus 470,000 in Liangzhou, 665,000 in the annexed state, the total population under the jurisdiction of the military region is only 3.1 million. The garrison of 120,000 12 divisions was retained. Former commander of the Northwest Army, General Shi Huan and Shi Mingda, will continue to serve as commander-in-chief of the Northwest Army.

Youzhou, Yizhou, and Qingzhou are divided into the Northeast Military Region. Youzhou has 2.47 million, Jizhou 5.8 million, and Qingzhou 2.99 million, with a total population of 11.26 million and 180,000 troops in 18 divisions. Lieutenant General Sun Zhengxiu, former chief of staff of the Military Department, was promoted to general and assumed the post of commander of the Northeast Military Region.

Xuzhou and Yangzhou were established as the Southeast Military Region. Yangzhou has a population of 4.33 million and Xuzhou has a population of 2.79 million, with a total population of 7.12 million and 120,000 troops in 12 divisions. Lieutenant General Guo Huai and Guo Weisi, former commander-in-chief of the Southern Army, was promoted to general and appointed commander-in-chief of the Southeast Military Region.

Yizhou, Jingzhou, and Jiaozhou were established as the Southwest Theater of Operations. However, the area of the national capital is too large with three prefectures, and Nanyang is close to Yongzhou and the capital area, and the map is also embedded in the capital area and Yongzhou, which divides Nanyang City from Jingzhou separately. Therefore, Jingzhou under the jurisdiction of the Southwest Theater is 3.85 million people in Jiangxia, Jiangling, Changsha, Wuling, Lingling, and Guiyang after excluding Nanyang, 5.68 million in Yizhou, and 1.07 million in Jiaozhou, with a total population of 10.6 million and 150,000 troops in 15 divisions. General An Zhicheng, former commander-in-chief of the Western Army, served as commander-in-chief of the Southwest Military Region.

Finally, there is the Central Military Region, which has jurisdiction over Yongzhou, the Capital Circle, Yanzhou, Yuzhou and Nanyang City. Yongzhou plus the capital area is 6.07 million, Yanzhou is 4.04 million, Yuzhou is 5.16 million, and Nanyang City alone is 2.43 million, with a total population of 17.5 million and 250,000 troops in 25 divisions. Lieutenant General Lin Zhennan, former commander of the capital garrison, was promoted to general and appointed commander-in-chief of the Central Military Region.

The remaining registered military personnel were only retained to more than 1,006,000. and to professionalization, the length of service has been greatly extended, and the treatment of military status has been slightly improved.

The total strength of the five military regions is 820,000, plus more than 20,000 instructors from individual military academies, and nearly 120,000 logistics and civilian personnel, mainly in the capital area. The original military police force, which was originally huge to more than 200,000, was reduced to less than 50,000, and all of them were broken up and assigned to major military regions.

The Gendarmerie Headquarters has changed from an independent department that was originally independent of the military department and was held hostage by the military department to a subordinate organ subordinate to the major military regions. This special law enforcement agency, which is independent of the constitution and is based only on military discipline and military law, has disappeared. It has become the sector that has lost the most in this disarmament.

However, the Confederation did not do anything wrong, because the police system received 100,000 disarmament at one time, of which 90,000 were transferred by the gendarmerie, including the 2,000 recruited by the Investigation Bureau. Therefore, although the reduction was large, it did not cause a big rebound.

Secondly, proportionately, the largest disarmament is in civilian and logistical terms. In the past, more than 200,000 were reduced to 120,000, an increase of 40%. However, after the end of the war, the army was reduced by more than 60 percent, and proportionally speaking, the reduction of civilian personnel was less than the disarmament ratio, and there was another group of talented soldiers, so there was no backlash.

As for ordinary soldiers, they have gone from being born to dying to being restored and returning home. Most of the soldiers still support it, and there are as many as 400,000 soldiers, who have been transformed into the Federation's engineering construction force to undertake the Federation's infrastructure construction tasks. From the military to the worker, although he did not have the original military status, his income increased, and he did not have to bear the risk of war. The soldiers were also very supportive.

Incidentally, the number of soldiers who were originally going to be converted into workers was 300,000, and the land had increased considerably due to the peaceful annexation of the Western and Northern states, and the map of the two states provided by Nellis also indicated the location of many mineral deposits. Therefore, the development and construction of the two states should also be put on the agenda, at least first of all, the connection of the railway network and telephone network must not be guaranteed, so the demand for construction workers has greatly increased, expanding to 400,000.

The remaining 900,000 or so soldiers have returned to their hometowns and been resettled by local governments.

Why didn't the restoration of so many military personnel to civilian status cause a shock?

Because the disarmament order was promulgated at the same time as the federal abolition of slavery. All federal slaves, including serfs in the Western and Northern states, were emancipated at once. Become a freeman. For the freed slaves who had lost their land and had no assets, the policy given by the federation was to develop the southern part of Jingzhou, the southern part of Yangzhou, the southern part of Jiaozhou, and the northern state of Xizhou, including the immigration program to expand the population of Liangzhou.

All "freedmen" who wish to emigrate to develop these famously sparsely populated lands are to be provided with the basic security of life by the military districts of the federation for a period of three years, and no taxes are levied. Three years later, it became the household registration of the resettlement area, and the developed land and real estate belonged to the immigrants.

This gave hope to the slave soldiers who originally accounted for half of the army, but it was difficult to be promoted to lieutenant and become a soldier. Although the northwest is bitterly cold, it is easy to graze and mine without war, including farming. As for the south, although it is remote and the natural environment is relatively harsh, in fact, as long as the threat of wild creatures is removed, farming is extremely convenient, and grain can be cultivated two or even three seasons a year, and it was originally a living area dominated by nomads.

Now with the help of the army to provide three years of living security, any family, as long as it is not too lazy, should be enough to gain a foothold in the immigration area and have its own assets, and the slave soldiers are too late to yearn for it, and even have begun to prepare for joint immigration in groups of three or five, so it is also quite smooth.

There will be gains and losses, and after a major disarmament, and the scope of disarmament has reached more than 1.4 million people, there will inevitably be people who will suffer.

First of all, the Sun family represented by the chief of the federal military department, the Sun family has changed from controlling the military department, the general staff, and the military police department, holding the two major theaters in the northwest and west, and having more than 1.5 million troops under its jurisdiction, to now controlling the three major military regions in the northwest, southwest, and northeast, and the number of troops directly under it has dropped to 450,000. The number of direct and collateral generals under his command has dropped from more than 100 to more than 40. The gendarmerie was directly abolished, and the General Staff was massively curtailed and out of control.

However, the federal army controlled by the Sun family is still close to 45% of the military strength. In peacetime, many powers were delegated to the five major military regions, but the military and political offices responsible for the review of military physical fists and federal sword methods, the military order offices responsible for military transfers and officer promotions in various places, and the quartermaster offices that held the economic lifeblood of the major military regions remained unchanged, so the Sun family was still a formidable military and political monster.

And Sun Zhengxiu mastered the Northeast.

The Sun family took the initiative to release a huge amount of military power, but what they obtained was to enter another newly plucked state apparatus, the right of the police force, although they have not directly intervened in the political circles, but the police system is incorporated into the civil service establishment, so it can be said that the Sun family has opened up the route to enter the political world through the police system.

This is the result of a multi-party game. It is also a solution that can be compromised on all sides. So it's not a failure, it's a win-win situation.

The biggest loss is actually that it has been unruly and rampant with the descendants of the Sun family in the northwest and west.

As the commander-in-chief of the 650,000 Western Army, An Jia held the most elite ace cavalry unit of the Federation, but he always had some big tails and openly resisted disarmament. Now it has been weakened to the point that only the Southwest Military Region remains, although it is still the third in military strength of 150,000 on the surface, but insiders know that General An Zhicheng's Southwest Army is not the ace unit of the Western Army that he now controls.

Among them, 120,000 are troops from Yizhou, Jingzhou and Jiaozhou, and the descendants he can bring over will not exceed 30,000. However, the Chen Cang hijacking incident that occurred two months ago slapped the face of the Western Army fiercely, although it was covered up by the Federation, but everyone in the top echelons of the army knew about it, and the government and the military department did not deal with the Western Army on the surface, but now this board has to be settled.

The most dismantled disarmament is the Western Army. In accordance with the disarmament rules of the State Government, the garrisons of each military region are mainly composed of soldiers from the areas under their jurisdiction. But how many people are there in Liangwei? The sum of the two places is barely 1.1 million, even if there are ten men and one ding, how many soldiers are there?

It turned out that the 650,000 troops of the Western Army, the main force was drawn from Yizhou, Youzhou and Xuzhou. In the same situation, the main forces came from Yongzhou, Yanzhou and Yuzhou. Therefore, what An Zhicheng can take away this time is only about 30,000 troops from Yizhou and Jingzhou, which were originally subordinate to the Western Army.

And in the south of Yizhou and Jingzhou, there are a lot of mountainous areas, so the army is mainly infantry. The Yizhou soldiers brought back by An Zhicheng had long been accustomed to corps operations and cavalry operations in the northwest, and even if they returned to Yizhou, they had to adapt to the training of mountain warfare. As for other troops, the soldiers do not know the generals, and the generals do not know the soldiers, which is equivalent to starting all over again.