Perhaps, only Xu Shisong, who claims to be the boss of the sister-in-law faction, will be satisfied with the final result of this palace fight.

Anyway, Xu Shiyang doesn't care about this.

In fact, if it weren't for the sadness of his own relatives this time, he would have planned to use more moderate means, spending ten years or more to consolidate the forces within the family little by little to unify them under the same banner and one goal.

For this, it was nothing to sacrifice some money and power, as he had done the year before.

It's just that the war that just ended made him understand that this approach will not work at all. The interests he gave away would only be taken for granted by the best relatives, and at the critical moment, they would not stab Xu Shiyang in the back a few times because of these interests.

This prompted him to make up his mind to take the prestige of Annihilation of the Tartars, unite Xu Shisong and Xu Shiliu to force Xu Muhe to make a position thoroughly, and then used the power of the second room system to force the head of the family to step down, so as to integrate the entire Xu family.

After today, Xu Shiyang has faintly become the top seed player for the next head of the family - in fact, he can now use the identity of the head of the Xu Muhe family to mobilize the strength of the entire Xu family to serve his strategy.

Of course, in the future, the high-level personnel changes of the Xu family are likely to bring some reputation troubles to Xu Shiyang, and the literati will not care about what Xu Mujiang has done, but will only remember the black spots where Xu Shiyang persecuted his elders and occupied the property of his relatives.

It's just that now, Xu Shiyang doesn't care about what the literati who write history will give him for the time being, he has no way back, and he must move forward firmly.

At the Wubao main meeting in November of the 11th year of Jianxing, in addition to dividing the new sphere of influence, Xu Muhe also carried out a series of reforms within the family according to Xu Shiyang's ideas.

The first is to unify the internal class.

With the goal of gathering forces and expelling the Tartars, the new head of the family announced that the entire Xu family would become a large army, and all the people of the Xu family, regardless of men, women, old and young, were all soldiers.

Everyone has to find a place in Xu Shiyang's 15-level military rank system.

To put it simply, except for the head of the family who is a colonel and Xu Shiyang who was promoted to lieutenant colonel due to the defeat of the Tartars, the rest of the Wubao owners are all with the rank of major.

Also receiving the rank of major at the same time was Xu Shiliu.

Each dock fort takes this as a standard, and calculates downwards that in addition to the lord of the dock fort, the highest is the captain of Gongsun Sheng.

Slightly different from the original 15-level military rank system, the two levels of soldiers below the corporal were changed to three classes, which were first, second and third class.

Among them, the first class soldier is a soldier, the second class is a young and strong militiaman, and the third class is the old, weak, sick and disabled. Below the third class, there were two lower classes - commoners and slaves.

The common people were Han Chinese who committed crimes, but their sins did not lead to death, and slaves who performed well.

The lowest-level slaves were the captured foreigners, including the Jurchen, Khitan, Bohai, Goryeo and other ethnic groups, as well as the Fusang Wako who had been captured before.

In this way, the original 15-level system was expanded into an 18-level system, which Xu Shiyang jokingly called the "eleven-year military rank system".

Under this system, everyone can obtain more or less preferential and rights according to their class, and at the same time, they have to bear corresponding obligations according to their class.

Secondly, after the military rank system was determined, Xu Shiyang began to expand the new army, the most important pillar that could defeat the Tartars.

According to the requirements of the head of the family (in fact, it was promoted by Xu Shiyang behind him), in addition to Xu Shiyang's fifth tun, the other 5 dock forts of the Xu family should form a new army with the Dingyuan battalion as a template.

Among them, 1 canton, 2 canton, and 6 cantonment are infantry battalions, each battalion has a standard establishment of 500 people, and the new establishment includes 150 magic soldiers, 150 sharp soldiers, 100 selective soldiers, 80 artillery and battalion headquarters including main officers, drummers, and cavalry signal soldiers.

Luan Tingyu's 3 tuns and Sun Li's 4 tuns were cavalry battalions. Among them, 3 tun are regular cavalry, with an establishment of 200 people. 4 cantonments are mounted infantry, with an establishment of 300 people.

Xu Shiyang's own fifth tun, because of the large population, was expanded to two infantry battalions.

In this case, 5 infantry battalions and 2 cavalry battalions for a total strength of 3,000 men. All soldiers are established for the new army, and except for personnel relations and welfare benefits that remain at Fort Dock, the training, work and rest, operations, weapons and equipment, and logistical supply of soldiers of the new army are under the jurisdiction of the newly established headquarters of the new army, and have nothing to do with the fort to which the soldiers belong.

In other words, the dock fort is only responsible for raising troops, and how the new army is used depends entirely on the command of the new army.

The first commander of the new army was naturally concurrently held by Xu Shiyang.

The commander's first action after taking office was to give a name to the newly built battalion according to his own taste.

The two battalions he formed by himself were, of course, Dingyuan and Zhenyuan.

The other three infantry battalions were named Jingyuan, Laiyuan and Pingyuan after three small armored ships, and the two cavalry battalions were Zhiyuan and Jingyuan.

Just jumping over Jiyuan, which was the most featureless and poorly performed, a Beiyang fleet on land gradually took shape.

The formation of the new army, in a practical sense, also deprived the dock owners of a considerable part of their rights.

Because the new army is all off-duty soldiers, the unified command during the battle is not under the jurisdiction of the lord of the dock fort, but the salaries and benefits of the officers and men are provided by the dock fort where they are located, and there are clear regulations that no deductions are allowed.

This is equivalent to using the financial resources of the dock lord to raise troops for Xu Shiyang's strategic goal, and the dock lord will definitely not like it, but Xu Shiyang is now gaining prestige, and the dock lord has no good way to counter this, so he can only implement it.

In order to prevent the dock fort owners from secretly disfavoring the soldiers of the new army, the first batch of battalion commanders of the new army appointed by Xu Shiyang still highly overlapped with the dock fort masters - Luan Tingyu and Sun Li were the commanders of the Zhiyuan battalion and the Jingyuan battalion respectively, and Xu Shisong was the commander of the Laiyuan battalion.

Including Xu Shiyang, the commander-in-chief who is also the commander of the Dingyuan battalion, the commander of 4 of the 7 battalions is the current master of Wubao.

In the other 3 battalions, the commander of the Zhenyuan battalion is Gongsun Sheng; The Jingyuan Camp formed on the basis of Xu Muhe's first tun was temporarily represented by Xu Shiliu, and when he went to Jiangnan to study, it was handed over to Xu Shiliu's uncle Dong Chao; The commander of the Pingyuan Battalion, which was formed on the basis of Xu Muhai's Sixth Tun, was his brother-in-law Zhang Ye.

Except for Gongsun Sheng, everyone else has been the castle master.

Xu Shiyang played a game of advance and retreat through this method, temporarily appeased the original castle owner, and took the first step to turn Wubao into a simple population unit, rather than a semi-independent force.

Of course, there is still a long way to go from his ultimate goal, and the most obvious sign is that as a military cantonment organization, other fort citizens other than the new army are still firmly attached to the lord of the dock fort.

Although the head of the Xu family ordered that the owners of the dock fort should organize military training for personnel above the second class during the slack period, and do at least five days of training. But how to train, how to organize the militia in battle, and what equipment to equip it with all depends entirely on the owner of the dock fort.

This part of the militia is still semi-serf.