In fact, the General Staff system is nothing new. As early as the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Di, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, established a lowly and powerful cabinet. However, the cabinet at that time was completely different from the cabinet in the middle and late Ming Dynasty.

The cabinet created by Zhu Di has a very low grade of cabinet scholars, only the fifth grade, which is one level lower than the lower prefect of the fourth grade. But the cabinet had the support of the emperor and could compete with the six Shangshu. But without the emperor's support, only the cabinet scholars of the five grades could not compete with the six Shangshu.

In this way, the cabinet must rely on the emperor in order to compete with the six ministries. And the emperor thus firmly grasped the authority.

It's a pity that Zhu Di's descendants don't understand the mystery and can't help but improve the level of the cabinet. The cabinet, which was originally "lowly and powerful", has become "high-powered". Especially when it comes to Emperor Jiajing, who likes to cultivate immortals, the first assistant of the cabinet can check and balance the six ministries after leaving the emperor behind. Then, the role of the emperor becomes dispensable......

When it came to the Wanli period, the Wanli Emperor sadly found that the pit that his grandfather had dug was too big, and now the cabinet could leave him alone as an emperor......

Then, Wanli, who was disheartened, simply did not go to court for decades. Anyway, it's useless for him to go, the cabinet doesn't need him anymore......

Therefore, the cabinet in the late Ming Dynasty has become a super force that can replace the emperor. With authority no less than that of a monarch, there are naturally more people who are blushing. Therefore, the party struggle in the late Ming Dynasty was extremely fierce. Because everyone knows that whoever controls the cabinet gains power comparable to imperial power......

And after gaining the power comparable to the imperial power, the civil officials who entered the cabinet ate so much...... At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Chongzhen was the poorest in the whole capital, and those civil officials and bigwigs were all very rich......

In the final analysis, it was Jiajing's idiot who was busy cultivating immortals and delegating all his powers to Yan Song, the first assistant of the cabinet, which caused the cabinet to be in a big tail. He himself could rely on Jinyiwei to get his rights back, but once the convention was formed, his descendants did not have the means to use the factory guards, so they could only be hollowed out by the cabinet.

Therefore, with the lessons of the Ming Dynasty, when Ma Lin drafted the document for the establishment of the General Staff, he added a principle that the General Staff only has command in wartime, and in peacetime, anyone who dares to meddle in the command of the army will be shot!

In addition, Marin repeatedly stressed that the General Staff has no subordinate relationship with the army, and its status is not higher than that of the local army commander. This point, even the king has no right to change! If the subsequent king had the intention of forcibly modifying it, the ministers could depose him on this clause......

This one is very ruthless, that is, Ma Lin is afraid that future generations will be like the emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Jiajing was not the first emperor to raise the status of the cabinet, and his predecessors also contributed a lot to improving the status of the cabinet. In short, it is not Jiajing's responsibility alone. The status of the Ming Dynasty cabinet was promoted step by step, not in one step. By the end of the Ming Dynasty, the cabinet could already bully the emperor.

Marin did not want to be in the same situation as the Ming Dynasty cabinet, so when he established the General Staff in the future, he would publicly declare these two principles, which even later monarchs could not violate. Otherwise, they will be deposed in accordance with the law......

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Of course, in addition to the General Staff system, Marin also had to consider another military bigwig, the Minister of War, that is, the Minister of Defense in later generations.

The identity of this character is definitely higher than that of the local army commander, and it is also higher than that of the General Staff. How to prevent this person from monopolizing military power is also a very important issue.

Because, in peacetime, the General Staff cannot mobilize the army, but the Minister of War must have the power. After all, theoretically, the position of military minister in the army is second only to that of the king.

Marin thought about it and finally decided that when the Minister of War mobilized troops and horses, he could only mobilize units below the rank of the regiment. If you want to transfer a legion-level unit, you must consult the king. Then, the royal family issues the order. The Minister of War, on the other hand, does not have the authority to give direct orders to units at the corps level.

In addition, Marin also planned to imitate the Maozi of later generations and set up an internal guard force to specifically surround the capital. This army is under the control of the king himself, and no one else has the right to interfere. Moreover, its structure is directly under the royal family, and is not under the control of the Minister of War, and the Minister of War has no right to mobilize a single soldier of the internal security forces. In other words, this army is the palace guard of the Beihai Kingdom.

Of course, that's all for later. Now in the Beihai country, it is too early to say this. Marin knows very well that his generation must be in control of the military himself. After all, he had military knowledge in his head that was hundreds of years ahead of his time, and no one could do it better than him.

However, he did not dare to guarantee that his children and grandchildren would also have military talents. If you meet a military idiot and then monopolize military power, it is very likely that you will bury the elite of the whole country like Ming Yingzong's idiot.

Therefore, in the future, Marin will definitely hand over military power, leaving only the Praetorian Guard in the capital, firmly controlled by the royal family. In other places, the military will be taught to the General Staff to command wars, and in peacetime they will be handed over to the Ministry of Defense to manage......

Of course, military spending must also be borne by the cabinet. Unlike the current Beihai Kingdom, military expenditures are borne by Marin personally.

Fortunately, the price of grain in Europe was high in these years, and Marin kept the secret of high grain production. Otherwise, Marin simply wouldn't be able to feed that many troops.

However, in the future, the secret of high grain production will definitely leak out. At that time, the Hoffman family will not be able to afford the military expenses of so many troops, and can only hand over the burden of military expenses to the state tax revenue.

Once this happens, the command of those armies will inevitably be transferred to the Ministry of Defense of the Cabinet. At that time, the royal family will only be left with control of a Praetorian Guard to defend the capital, so that the royal family will not be easily overthrown.

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Those things are all for later, and Marin doesn't actually expect his descendants to hold the throne forever. He just hoped that his descendants would survive the French Revolution. As long as that wave survives, after entering the 19th century, even if the royal family is overthrown, it will not be easily guillotined.

Marin never expected future generations to be kings, only that future generations would not be slaughtered like chickens and dogs. As long as it can survive until the 19th century, it will basically not be easily slaughtered. A blood-laden royal family like the Manchu Qing could survive, and Marin didn't believe that his descendants could have a more infamous reputation than theirs. As long as it lasted until the 19th century, his descendants were not in danger of life.

After the 19th century, members of the royal family were rarely killed worldwide. Even if they are overthrown, members of the royal family will generally go into exile and will not be slaughtered as they once did.

Of course, if you can be like the British royal family, you can also be a hypocrisy. At least, it's not life-threatening.

However, these Marins can only think about it. After all, children and grandchildren have their own children and grandchildren, and he really can't control the affairs of future generations......