Chapter 58 Privy Council

Qian Qianyi said: "Your Majesty started from the reckless, experienced in a hundred battles, but today, the situation in Daxia was single-handedly defeated by Your Majesty, and the upper and lower ministers, even the King of Huai'an, the King of Min and other foreign vassals, also surrendered one by one, and did not dare to have the slightest presumptuousness. The situation in Great Xia, Your Majesty can decide with a word. It's just that His Highness compares himself to His Majesty? ”

"It's better to do it." Luo Yulong's tone was a little bitter.

But this is certain.

Luo Rucai's reputation for decades is so famous, not only in Great Xia, but even outside Great Xia, there are many relationships. And Luo Yulong left Great Xia, who knows who he Luo Yulong is.

At least he is far inferior to Luo Rucai now.

"Now that Your Majesty is going, the first thing Your Highness should do is to collect the military power. In the troubled times, military power is important, and the Great Xia army can be divided into several factions, the first is His Royal Highness's cronies, Nanjing and the garrisons in various places in the south of the Yangtze River. ”

Luo Yulong is not without any ability, in the period of time when Luo Rucai went west, he has already included Jiangnan and a part of Nanzhili into his control, this part is Luo Yulong's direct subordinates, although the number is not much, but there are hundreds of thousands, but they are stationed in various places, Luo Yulong with him, only Wuchang garrison tens of thousands of horses.

"Second, it is the soldiers and horses of Cao Ying, such as the various departments of the Battle of Xiangyang and the various departments of Ningguo Gong. These people have their own differences, but there is one thing Your Highness must grasp quickly, that is, His Majesty's Chinese army must not fall into the hands of Zheng Guogong, although the minister knows that Zheng Guogong is His Royal Highness's closest relative. It's just that the power is falling, but it is not the blessing of the society. Even if it is for the sake of Zheng Guogong, His Majesty's Chinese army should be transferred to Wuchang as soon as possible. ”

Luo Yulong said: "This is easy to do, if it is only the Chinese army." ”

Luo Rucai's Chinese army, after all, is Luo Rucai's Chinese army, not Zhang Xuan's lineage, Luo Yulong is Luo Rucai's son, and many people in the Chinese army are Luo Rucai's diehards, so they recognize this article, so it is very simple to recapture the Chinese army.

But even after Luo Yulong recaptured the Chinese army, he did not occupy an absolute advantage in the entire military strength of Great Xia.

However, although Luo Yulong was a little worried, he was still confident in sitting in this position.

Luo Rucai was preparing for Luo Yulong's accession to the throne a few years ago, and it can be said that Cao Ying's status was recognized by all levels of Cao Ying, although Luo Yulong's command of Cao Ying's various departments may not be as good as when Luo Rucai was there, but it is definitely not immobile.

"Third, it's the foreign tribes."

"Gao Jie, King of Huai'an, Zheng Zhilong, King of Fujian, and Yuan Shizhong, Duke of Weiguo, these three can be regarded as feudal towns."

"Yes, how to collect this military power?" Luo Yulong asked.

Qian Qianyi said: "The ministers asked to establish the Privy Council, so that the generals will share the duties of the Privy Council. ”

Luo Yulong frowned slightly and didn't understand, and said, "What's the use?" ”

Qian Qianyi said: "When Your Majesty is here, the major events of the expedition will be convened by Your Majesty to discuss the generals, and then a decision can be made, and Your Highness is different from Your Majesty, Your Highness is in charge of this matter for the first time, once something goes wrong, it is easy to affect the authority of Your Highness, so please set up a Privy Council to control the world's soldiers and horses, and war." In charge of military aircraft. The power to collect troops is vested in the Privy Council. In order to prevent opposition from the generals, the generals may be appointed to the Privy Council. His Majesty had already intended this, but he didn't have time to do it. What does His Majesty mean by appointing the King of Min as the deputy envoy of the Privy Council? Yes, there it is. ”

"What about the generals of the outer towns?" Luo Yulong asked.

"Title." Qian Qianyi said: "All the head town side has the right to act cheaply, and they will be added to the rank of privy council. or for the Privy Council, the Privy Council has the same title of knowledge. ”

"In all military affairs, all the generals with the rank of Privy Council have the right to speak and do things."

"In addition, His Royal Highness can order the generals of the other towns to preside over the Privy Council, and then transfer them to the Privy Council for a few years, so that after a few years, the military power will be fully entered into the Privy Council, and His Majesty will control the Privy Council, and he will naturally be able to control the situation in the world."

"Moreover, the Minister's suggestion to establish a Privy Council is also a matter of urgency."

"My Great Xia, in the past few years, of course, there have been great victories, but every time there is a big victory, they are all accepted into the army, and the army is mixed, and it has already been infected with the previous Ming and accumulated shortcomings, and it has to be rectified."

"One said: empty salary."

"The minister has checked, in the past year, there have been frequent battles, and those who often die in battle have no time to sketch, and they will be captured by the generals as usual."

"Second said: Private soldiers."

"There are obviously disadvantages of supporting the family, but now even if the generals are transferred, they also take the generals under their command, and the generals of the various departments only know the generals, not Daxia. ”

"Three: old and weak."

"There are many surrenders in the army, and many of these surrendered troops are old and weak, and today my Daxia and Xiangyang are not as good as Dongyu, which is the proof. After a large number of wounded recovered, there was nowhere to stay. It has more and more affected the morale of the military. ”

"Fourth: military discipline."

"Discipline in the army is not uniform, there are military discipline as strict as Zheng Guogong, Zheng Guogong is upright, never favoritism, and those who break the law are beheaded, and then Zheng Guogong's military discipline cannot be used in the Chinese army, and the military discipline of the Chinese army cannot be used in the Ningguo Gongjun, although it is in Great Xia, there is a world of difference between them."

"Alright." Luo Yulong frowned and said, "My Great Xia Xiongshi, in your opinion, is it so unbearable, right?" ”

This is not the way the minister sees it, but it is the truth. Therefore, the ministers asked the Privy Council to lead the world's soldiers and horses, and to receive the power of generals, the right to specialize, and the discipline of the army. This is the Great Xia Iron Army. Qian Qianyi said.

What Qian Qianyi said, there is no existence.

Exist.

Cao Ying's army expansion was too fast, and the reason for the failure of the camp was that the army was expanded too quickly and the foundation was unstable, which was also applicable to Cao Ying. In the rapid expansion of the army, there were many problems, such as when Zhang Xuan fought with the Qing army, there was actually a defection of Zuo Liangyu before the army surrendered, which can be seen.

A lot of the army didn't digest it at all, it just changed the flag.

But anyone who finds fault with anything is very good, and anyone can find several if they want to find faults. The reason why Qian Qianyi worked so hard was that he deeply realized that his power was combined with the power of the Great Xia Center.

Those arrogant soldiers and fierce generals in Great Xia have been scolding civil officials for more than one day or two.

The solution Qian Qianyi came up with was to set up a Privy Council. Bring these generals into the system. It's not that Qian Qianyi looks down on these generals, but a lot of history has proved that military generals and civilian officials play political battles, and they must not think about victory.

Qian Qianyi wanted to pull these arrogant soldiers into the territory he was familiar with, and then use his methods to defeat them.

Of course, Qian Qianyi will not be so anxious.

Anyway, he was sure that these generals in the Privy Council would not be able to play, and Qian Qianyi would be able to insert people into it. First the minor officials, then the deputy positions, and finally the Privy Council was in the hands of the civil officials, and in the early Ming Dynasty, the attack of the civil officials on the nobles came from this.

Even the name Qian Qianyi's Privy Council can show his ambitions.

Why is it the Privy Council, and not the Metropolitan Governor's Office in the early Ming Dynasty. It is that the Privy Council was established in the late Tang Dynasty, but in fact, it was just beginning to be a temporary institution, and it was just a matter of dividing the power of the prime minister. During the Song Dynasty, many civil officials served as privy councillors and became part of the civil service system.

Luo Yulong thought about it and couldn't make a decision.

It has been a long time since Luo Yulong took over Cao Ying, and all kinds of power in Great Xia, especially in civil affairs, have long passed into Luo Yulong's hands. The only thing he just accepted was military power. Luo Yulong listened very clearly, no matter how good Qian Qianyi said, in fact, it was to admit the status quo.

Originally, the military power of Great Xia seemed to be scattered in the hands of many people, but in fact, Luo Rucai could control it, and now, Luo Yulong is dispersing this power in the hands of various generals, although it is unified in his hands, but the meaning is completely different.

However, when the regime changes, maintaining stability is the most important thing, although Luo Yulong secretly made up his mind that he would definitely take back this military power. It's just that now, he can only do this first, and said: "In this way, let Zhang Xuan come back to control the Privy Council." ”

When Qian Qianyi heard this, he said: "Your Highness, anyone can be an envoy to the Privy Council, but Zheng Guogong can't." ”

Luo Yulong asked, "Why?" ”

Luo Rucai's advice was still in his ears, Qian Qianyi said so, Luo Yulong couldn't help but wonder if Qian Qianyi had other thoughts, and his tone was a little unkind. After all, he was present at the grudge between Zhang Xuan and Qian Qianyi.