Chapter 374: Stepping into Normal
According to the shogunate model designed by Chen Yue and Yu Fenglin, in the future, the generals of each battalion will only be responsible for leading the troops to fight, while all other powers will be under the responsibility of the shogunate's divisions, and the army soldiers will no longer be the general's private army, but can only be controlled by Chen Yue, the Marquis of Pingnan.
When Yu Fenglin first designed the shogunate, he just wanted to learn from the imperial court mechanism to manage the army, and after Chen Yue's participation in the modification, the scale of the shogunate was larger and the functions were more perfect. If the directors and subordinates of each department are supplemented according to this mechanism so that they can operate normally, it is expected that in the near future, this sophisticated machine will rotate rapidly, providing Chen Yue with a steady stream of elite and loyal soldiers.
However, this is also equivalent to changing the power that originally belonged to the military department of the imperial court to the shogunate, and no matter how large the army develops, it is the private army of Chen Yue, the Marquis of Pingnan, and the imperial court cannot be mobilized at all. Yu Fenglin felt frightened when he thought about it, and there was a trace of expectation after the fear......
The shogunate set up six divisions, and Chen Yue did not give up, and after careful consideration, he added the department in charge of the department, and managed the personnel promotion of officers and generals at all levels of the army. The posts of officers and men of each battalion and the list of soldiers and officers are kept on file with the Division, and the promotion and demotion of officers must be approved by the Division.
In this way, the shogunate has seven divisions, each of which has two directors, one principal and two deputies, and then each hall is set up below, and the officials needed are dozens of nearly 100 people, not counting the servants and servants, and everyone in the shogunate is no longer in the imperial court, and Chen Yue needs to find people by himself, but where are there so many talents for a while? It was not a one-day effort to perfect the shogunate.
Yu Fenglin has been appointed by Chen Yue as the chief of the staff department, temporarily in charge of the shogunate, and Yang Zhengping, who is training in Huai'an, has been appointed as the director of the war training department, and will soon lead the army back to Yangzhou to take office. Yang Zhengping is familiar with the military system of the Pingnan Army, and it is very suitable to serve as the director of the War Training Department.
It turned out that more than 10,000 troops of Gao Jie and Liu Liangzuo had been trained by Yang Zhengping for more than a month, and Chen Yue planned to recruit 20,000 recruits, all of whom would be responsible for the training of recruits by the War Training Department.
The head of the Enemy Intelligence Division is temporarily held by Wei Yang, he was originally the leader of the night not to collect, and this position is quite appropriate, but Wei Yang is more honest and has insufficient power, Chen Yue plans to find a suitable person to replace him after a while.
The head of the Zhenfu Division is Shan Minglei, who has always been responsible for the military discipline of the Pingnan Army, and has the reputation of showing talent, which is enough to be promoted to this position.
As for the Ordnance Division, the director was Li Xiong, the original general of the battalion, and considering that Li Xiong was only a military craftsman and did not have much literacy, Chen Yue appointed Pan Xuezhong as his deputy. Pan Xuezhong is the godson of the foreigner Tang Ruowang, who has studied both Chinese and Western, and was originally enough to be promoted as the director, but the seniority is far from Li Xiong.
Zhang Chengkai has been in charge of the grain and grass of the Pingnan Army, and he has been in charge of the logistics affairs of the Pingnan Army in an orderly manner.
As for the director of the department, He Lu is temporarily in charge, He Lu is also an old man in the Pingnan Army, it is very hard to help Chen Yue sort out the paperwork and deal with the sundries in the army on weekdays, and he has a reputation for showing talent, so it is natural for him to be in charge.
The candidates for the directors of each division have been decided, but each department still needs a large number of servants, which requires each director to find it himself. The rule formulated by Chen Yue was that people in the Pingnan Army were preferentially selected, and external recruits had to be approved by Chen Yue himself after an assessment.
Naturally, there are talented people in the Pingnan Army, and since there were only more than 50 family members in the army, they have paid attention to cultural education in the army and opened literacy classes. At first, Chen Yue himself taught the family members to read and write, and later there were literati in the army one after another, such as Shan Minglei, Yuan Kewang, Wang Yin, etc., who at the request of Chen Yue, would also teach soldiers and officers culture from time to time.
When he first joined the army, Chen Yue had a rule that promotion would give priority to literate people, so the atmosphere of learning to read and write in the army was quite strong, and for more than a year, many soldiers could know 100 or even hundreds of Chinese characters, and most of the grassroots officers such as Xiaoqi Zongqi were coarse and could understand military orders written in the vernacular.
Therefore, from the point of view of literacy rate alone, the Pingnan Army can be said to be the army with the highest literacy rate in the Ming Dynasty, of course, all because of Chen Yue's advanced understanding of the traverser.
And now, these soldiers and officers with rough writing have suddenly become fragrant and sweet, and the shogunate departments have begun to poach people from the army frantically, and as long as both sides agree, Chen Yue will give the green light to let them go. As for whether it will affect the formation of the Pingnan Army? In the near future, the Pingnan Army will also be reorganized.
The low-level officials and servants of each department are not established in the imperial court, but they must be given a certain treatment status. Chen Yue was the governor of Jiangbei, but he had the authority to appoint military attachés, so he decided to grant military positions to all the people of the shogunate.
The directors of all departments are given four-rank military positions, which is the highest rank that Chen Yue, the governor of Jiangbei, can confer on the military general, and no matter how high it is, it must be approved by the imperial court and the military department. And now, only Chen Yue needs to stamp a piece of the seal of Pingnanhou. Of course, their identities can only be recognized within the Pingnan Army, because the military department is not archived.
The deputy directors of each department are given military positions from the fourth rank, and as for the members of each hall and section, the officials are awarded the military positions from the fifth rank to the eighth rank.
Different grades will have different treatments, and appointments, dismissals, and promotions have their own systems.
Yang Zhengping has rushed to Yangzhou from Huai'an Mansion with more than 10,000 surrendered troops, and this batch of surrendered troops will be trained with some Huai'an regiments, as well as the recruits to be recruited into a new army, and it is planned to recruit a total of 30,000 recruits to form ten battalions.
Yang Zhengping has already served as the director of the War Training Department, and with the assistance of the Huai'an Yangzhou local government, the recruitment of soldiers is also in progress; although Jianghuai is richer than the north, there are too many poor people, and in the case of not having enough to eat, being a soldier and eating pay is also a way out, and it will not be too difficult to recruit soldiers.
Of course, there are certain requirements for recruiting troops in the Pingnan Army, and they are only willing to recruit peasants from the rural areas, and they are not allowed to recruit any soldiers from the cities.
A large number of veterans and grassroots officers in the Pingnan Army were transferred to the Combat Training Department to assist in the training of new recruits. These newly recruited peasants will undergo three months of arduous and brutal training in the military camp outside Yangzhou, and those who can survive until the last will be left behind and become a member of the Pingnan Army.
This summer, everything in the Jiangbei Governor's Mansion will be normalized.