Chapter 39: Reorganizing the Army

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"Husband, you've lost weight." Zhao Jingniang said in a low voice in the smoke courtyard.

Ma Yun smiled, and before he opened his mouth, Ziying on the side said: "That's as powerful as you say, it's just a little darker." It looks a little haggard. ”

Princess Mingle said on the side: "Yes, after all, marching and fighting is not as much as in Changsha on weekdays, so you have to worry more about it and think about more things." ”

After returning from Lichun Courtyard, Ma Yun finally withdrew from state affairs and accompanied several of his wives and concubines. After half a year apart, whether Ma Yun is emaciated or haggard has naturally become the top topic in their mouths.

Ma Yun said with a smile: "The march is better, if you want to say that you have to endure hardships, you still have to go on the road, the mosquitoes in Jingzhou and Dongting Lake are too powerful, it is estimated that they are the size of swallows, and the whole body of the bite is full of bags, which is itchy and unbearable, and I can't sleep all night long." ”

Mingle and Jingniang pursed their lips and smiled, but Ziying smiled on the side: "Hehe, since it's so big, why don't you catch a few and roast them to eat?" ”

Everyone laughed again, provoking Yunwen and Yunwu, who were sitting on the ground, to laugh too, Ma Yun leaned over and hugged Yunwen and asked, "Little guy, what are you laughing at?" ”

Yunwen just he, stretching out his little hand, to grab Ma Yun's crown, Ma Yun raised his head, flashed away, and said with a smile: "Want this?" That has to be done when you grow up and have the ability. ”

Ziying stretched out her hand to take Yunwen from the side, and said, "Hug me, he's skinny." Self-cooked, not afraid of anything. Mingle's eyes moved, as if he was looking for this sentence, but it was just a flash of thought, and his expression returned to normal, laughing with him.

Ma Yun handed Yunwen to Ziying and said, "By the way, when I was in Tangzhou, I met Brother Guo and Kuang Yin, they were all right, and let me say hello to you for them." ”

"Is Kuang Yin okay? Father, mother, and younger brother, how are they? ”

"They are all good, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty is newly established, and my father-in-law has been transferred back to Bianjing to take up his post, so you can rest assured, it is so close, and it is also convenient to take care of the family. Kuang Yin has made many military exploits, and it is estimated that he is going to be promoted now. Unexpectedly, my brother-in-law is still a good hand at fighting. Ma Yunyan praised insincerely.

Ziying smiled lightly, and was busy taking care of her son, so she stopped talking.

Ma Yun turned his head and said to Mingle again: "By the way, in two days, Zhao Pu will send an envoy to Datang, you see what you have to bring, let Zhao Pu bring it for you." You can't go back here, and you should do some filial piety. ”

Mingle's eyes jumped, and he asked, "Lord Zhao, are you going to envoy to the Tang Dynasty again?" ”

Ma Yun glanced at Mingle and said: "Yes, right now, our Dachu occupies Xiangzhou and other places, which happens to be on the Huai River line of the Tang Dynasty, and we can fight north together against the Central Plains in the future." This time, Zhao Pu will continue to deepen the exchanges between Chu and Tang and enhance the trust between the two countries. ”

"King, is there anything to be gained from the Tang Army's Northern Expedition?" Mingle asked quietly.

Ma Yun was silent for a moment, sighed, and said: "At the beginning of the year, we agreed with Datang to jointly send troops to the Central Plains. It's a pity that the father-in-law hesitated and did not send troops until the Han Emperor Liu Zhiyuan ascended the throne, entered Bianjing, and stabilized the world, and the father-in-law sent troops. ”

"Oh." Mingle nodded and stopped talking.

Ma Yun saw that Mingle was depressed, and said with a smile: "Although the Tang soldiers were defeated, the foundation is still there, you don't have to worry." The Han army did not dare to cross the Huai River in the south, if the Han army crossed to the south, the widow should personally take command and go out to rescue the Tang Dynasty. ”

"Oh, by the way, tomorrow the widow will recruit He Zhongju into the palace, let him paint a picture for our family, and when Yunwen and Yunwu grow up, let them see what they looked like when they were young. Ziying, Mingle, what do you think? Ma Yun suddenly proposed. This is Zhao Pu's request, asking Ma Yun for a portrait of Mingle, Yunwu, and his family of three, and this Lord Zhao is ready to take this painting as a gift to envoy Li Tang.

Anyway, it's a sub-painting, and there is nothing to lose, Ma Yun happily agreed, just for Mingle to paint, other wives and concubines couldn't help but feel unbalanced, so when the words came to their mouths, they became a painting for everyone. As for looking for He Zhongju to paint, it is because Li Jing's cultural quality is relatively high, since he wants to paint, he must paint better, among the Chu Kingdom, the one with the highest level of education and the most obedient is of course the eighteen bachelors of Tiance Mansion, and among the eighteen bachelors, the one who is the best at painting is He Zhongju.

Ziying and the others praised it after hearing it.

On May 27, the twelfth year of Tianfu of the Han Dynasty, Ma Yun, the king of Chu, returned to Changsha. At the suburban welcome ceremony, Tuoba Heng took the lead in questioning the king and advised the king not to be reckless, and then the two prime ministers, Xu Zhongya and Fan Zhen, also successively advised the king of Chu to "disarm", and the king of Chu was silent and noncommittal. This news soon spread in the officialdom of Changsha, and the ministers who were good at studying the heart of the king of Chu guessed the heart of the king of Chu.

Since the next day, there have been officials who have written to echo the suggestions of Xu and Fan, and Ma Yun, the king of Chu, has left all their concerts in the middle and not sent them, so more and more officials have written to disarmament, and the reasons have changed from scratch, from small to large. In the face of such a situation, of course, the military will not let it go unchecked and ignore it, because after all, once it is disarmed, it will directly affect their vital interests. The privy envoy Wang Yun, the deputy envoys Li Xiang and Liu Yantao have asked to see Ma Yun many times in the past few days, and they wanted to talk to Ma Yun about their power, but they were all taken back.

In this way, the officials who are still waiting and watching can fill a room in a group of people who have written a disarmament note. After all, many people don't just write once, but write repeatedly, each time more detailed, more reasonable, and longer than one time. When the majority of officials were preparing to make persistent efforts and capitalize the close-up, the king of Chu suddenly issued an edict, ordering Xu and Fan Erxiang, the six ministries and nine secretaries, to discuss matters together with the privy envoy and the privy deputy envoy, and everyone knew that there was going to be a conclusion to this matter.

After a whole day of intensive consultations, the next day, Ma Yun held a grand court meeting and promulgated an edict on the reorganization of the army, the first sentence of the edict was: Reform is imperative.

So far, for the Chu army of more than 193,000 people, first select the elite of the army, set up a 10,000-strong guards, with Cao Bin, Pan Mei, Shi Da as the left and right regimental training envoys, and then the army was reduced to 100,000 standing troops, including 20,000 sailors and 80,000 horse infantry.

In the whole army, a new method of army formation has been implemented, and a seven-level organization of fire, team, capital, battalion, regiment, division, and army has been established, with 10 people being one fire, five fires being one team, five teams being one capital, four being one battalion, three battalions being one regiment, three regiments being one division, and three divisions being one army. The commander of the team is called the captain, and the commander of the capital is called the head of the capital, and the rank is captain, and there are captains; The commander of the battalion is called the commander, and the commander of the regiment is called the regimental training envoy, and the rank is the school officer, which is divided into upper, middle and lower; The commander of the division is called the defense envoy, and the commander of the army is called the commander, and the rank is the general, and there are also upper, middle and lower grades. In addition, lieutenants, school officers, generals, and titles. With the title, you can enter the Martyrs' Shrine and enjoy the sacrifice of the Spring and Autumn Festival, and you can embroider the title on the military uniform in the army to show your glory. The lieutenant begins with the word "brave"; The school officer begins with the word "loyalty", the general begins with the word "wisdom", "benevolence", and "faith", and the rank above is marshal, and the title begins with the word "martial". For example, if a captain has made great contributions, in addition to rewarding meritorious deeds, he can also be rewarded with titles, such as "Yong'an Wei". In order to control and control the army more comprehensively, Ma Yun also set up a literary troupe in units above the battalion level in the army, which specially gave lectures and stories to the officers and men in the army, most of which were to publicize loyalty and patriotism and not fear death, or some small pleasures in life, to relieve the boredom of officers and soldiers.

Commanders and defense envoys are called military positions, and after that, there are also official positions, such as a battalion stationed in Yuezhou, then the military position of the battalion commander is the commander, and the official position is Yuezhou Shou, which is half a level lower than Yuezhou in terms of official rank, and is responsible for the defense of Yuezhou. Ma Yun reorganized the military command system of the Chu State, integrated Wuzhou Road and Liuzhou Road together, called Lingnan West Road, and appointed Ma Guangmeng as the commander of Lingnan West Road, the commander of Ma's Second Army, with the rank of major general; Langzhou Road was changed to Qianzhong Road, and Cao Yun was appointed as the commander of Qianzhong Province, the commander of Ma's Third Army, and only governed one division and one regiment below, with the rank of major general; The eight prefectures of Xiang, Fang, Jun, Deng, Tang, Sui, Fu, and Cheng were divided into Shannan East Province, with Ding Sijin as the capital of Shannan East Province, and the commander of Ma's First Army, with jurisdiction over two divisions and three divisions of township soldiers; Jingzhou, Anzhou, Yuezhou and other places are Jingnan Province, Zhu Yuan is the capital of Jingnan Province, Ma's Fourth Army is the commander, and Lin Renzhao is the commander of the navy.

In order to build an army with the characteristics of Dachu and increase the pride of the army, Ma Yun ordered that within three years, the uniform of the army should be unified in stages, and there should be a clear difference in the uniforms of captains, colonels and generals. From today on, all the armies of Dachu can only fly the banner of the Ma clan, and cannot write their own surnames as military flags. Ma Yun used the Xuanhuang Rolling Dragon Flag embroidered with the word "horse" in the center as a military flag.

Immediately afterwards, Ma Yun issued an edict to formally set up a military academy, specializing in training team, capital, and battalion-level officers, called the Ma Military Academy, and every year some officers are selected from the army to participate in training, the president of the academy is served by Ma Yun himself, and the vice president is the retired veterans Lu Shizhou and Zhang Shaodi, majoring in military command and politics two major courses, military command textbooks, such as Sun Tzu's Art of War, and the important one is Ma Yun's signature and compilation of "On the Huge Role of Grassroots Cadres in War"; As for the political ones, the people from the Supervision Yuan came to teach the ideas of loyalty to the monarch and not being afraid of death, as well as how to do ideological work on ordinary soldiers.

After the edict was issued, the officialdom of Chu State was a voice of praise for this, which to a certain extent catered to the idea that civilian officials were eager to supervise and control the army, and on the other hand, for the army, there were more praises than objections, after all, after the number of troops was reduced, the treatment of soldiers was improved a little, although the army was cut, but because some officers participated in training, the number of officers did not decrease.

Of course, the happiest is Jack Ma. Since becoming the king of Chu, he is most at ease with the army in Jingnan, and the most unat ease is the internal army near Changsha, but under the circumstances at that time, the internal army can only be appeased, and he took advantage of the support of the internal army and the Jingnan army to forcibly transfer away the children of the Ma clan who have real power in various places and rectify the government system. After completing these tasks, Ma Yun led the internal army and the Jingnan army to the Northern Expedition, and made a little transfer of the two parts of the army on the way to the Northern Expedition, and then the Northern Expedition was victorious, and his prestige in the army was high. At this time, Ma Yun had the heart to rectify the army, veterans like Liu Yantao, those who should stay and those who should retreat should be retreated. However, Ma Yun still didn't make a move, and when Xu Zhongya and others proposed disarmament, Ma Yun was happy, but on the surface, he still treated Xu Zhongya and others coldly. It wasn't until the entire civilian system shouted at the army that Ma Yun threw out his idea of rectification, and sure enough, it was successfully passed.

Disarmament, the biggest action is Shannan Dongdao, but many of the troops in Shannan Dongdao are surrendered troops from the Later Jin Dynasty, and the resistance to dismantling is much smaller. As for the appointment of officers, through the Northern Expedition, there were promotions and demotions, which was also due, so the progress was quite smooth.

At the same time as the reorganization of the armed forces, the work of issuing treasury bonds was also carried out one after another. With the arrival of June, after the grain harvest, the people paid their taxes and the treasury was rich. Ma Yun's gaze gradually surrendered to the south-Lingnan Liu. Time is not waiting, now Guo Wei is already the privy envoy of the Han Dynasty, and he has mastered the strength of the Han Dynasty, if Liu Zhiyuan is hanging, the establishment of the Hou Zhou will not be far away, so that Chai Rong, Zhao Kuangyin and others will be in power soon.

Therefore, the pace of Dachu's reunification of Jiangnan must be accelerated. Otherwise, when those fierce people take power, they will still guard the one-third of an acre of land in Chu State, but it will be dangerous. As for the idea of taking advantage of the turmoil in the Central Plains to compete with Guo Wei for the world, Ma Yun has not thought about it, but compared with the unification of the south of the Yangtze River and then the north to fight for the Central Plains, the former is too difficult. The Central Plains Rebellion is indeed very chaotic, and the economic situation is not good, but there is one point, the Central Plains troops are strong in combat, and if they want to compete with Guo Wei for the world, then they must use the soldiers of the whole country to kill 1,000 enemies and lose 800 themselves. Rather than this, it is better to focus on the unification of the south, after all, Lingnan is already meat on the board, and Li Tang, as soon as it issues a lot of money, it will not be able to jump for a few days.