The people in front of him are his confidants, and he is not afraid to discuss how to prevent the army from being controlled by private individuals. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoAmong them, Cui Su, Pi Guangye and other scribes, not to mention, have long wanted to restrict the rights of military generals, and Yang Wu's idea is exactly what they want; As for Qin Pei, Hou Zan and others, they are all people with little ambition at present, so they are not opposed to the reorganization of the army.

As for the problems existing in the army, the people quickly raised some questions, mainly focusing on the problems of the army, which are more old and weak, the poor military discipline and disturbing the people, the problem of desertion, and the problem of officers embezzling and deducting military salaries; of course, the problem of the army being controlled by the generals is the most serious.

Among the solutions, it is easy to say that there are more problems of the old and weak, and the solutions proposed by everyone are to select the elite and eliminate the old and weak.

The problem of poor military discipline disturbing the people is mainly due to the individual generals, some of whom are benevolent, and the army under them naturally does a better job in this regard; Some generals themselves are very brutal, and the military discipline of the army under them is naturally not very good. Therefore, Cui Su believes that in terms of disturbing the people, the focus should be on the generals, and punish those who are brutal and make an example.

As for the issue of embezzlement and deduction of military salaries, Cui Su believed that soldiers could report and supervise themselves, but Qin Pei and other generals were unanimously opposed, believing that this could lead to the deliberate framing of soldiers, and even lead to damage to the authority of generals. Yang Wu didn't have any good way to deal with this problem, in later generations, wages and other things were generally directly paid to the individual's card, but in this era, this method obviously does not work.

In their opinion, the army is always the business of the officers and generals, and it has nothing to do with the soldiers. is that several cronies and generals in front of him are all opposed, and the attitudes of other generals can be imagined. Yang Wu didn't want to be a lone husband, so he could only give up on this one, and finally let Cui Su strengthen his supervision.

As for the issue of desertion, in fact, this problem has existed since ancient times, and it is not very serious in the current Huainan army. Since ancient times, the Huainan area has been a place of elite soldiers, and the soldiers have strong combat effectiveness and strong will to fight, so they often do not fall behind in the big battles with Zhu Quanzhong in the north. However, not serious does not mean that there is none, Zhu Siqing proposed a solution, that is, to tattoo words on the soldier's face, but Yang Wu refused.

The method of tattooing words on the faces of soldiers to prevent desertion was first conceived by Zhu Quanzhong, and later spread to the Song Dynasty, and the most famous may be the famous general Di Qing of the Northern Song Dynasty. Huainan's army did not yet have the habit of tattooing, and Yang Wu also strongly opposed this method. After all, before this, only prisoners would tattoo, and treating soldiers as prisoners would be too damaging to the morale of soldiers.

In addition, several people also mentioned some other problems, but the severity is relatively small, and everyone can discuss and put forward some opinions.

Then there is the most critical issue, the privatization of the military.

The Warring States Period and even the Qin Dynasty may be the most thorough period of the nationalization of the army, the army only recognizes the tiger and does not recognize the person is an important embodiment of it, and the situation during the Han Dynasty is almost the end, by the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the situation of various private soldiers has been very serious, such as the trilogy, which is very common in this period. In the Tang Dynasty, especially after the flood of festivals in the Middle and Tang Dynasty, the problem of privatization of the army was very serious.

The situation in Huainan is the same now, the generals subconsciously regard the army in their hands as their own private property and are unwilling to transfer it.

Historically, Yang Wu was an observer of Xuanzhou before he became the queen of Jieduliu, with 3,000 personal soldiers in his hands; Later, Yang Xingmi was seriously ill and urgently summoned Yang Wu to Guangling to take over, while Xuanzhou was handed over to Wang Maozhang to guard. After Yang Wu became the new Huainan Jiedu envoy, he sent an envoy to Xuanzhou to ask for the three thousand personal soldiers who were not taken away because he was in a hurry, but these three thousand people had been annexed by Wang Maozhang at that time, and he was naturally unwilling to hand them over, so the angry Yang Wu then sent troops to fight, Wang Maozhang knew that he was invincible, so he had to flee to Qian Biao, and later was further called to the north by Zhu Quanzhong, who greatly appreciated him.

And Yang Xingmi himself does not pay enough attention to the issue of the private ownership of the army, he only needs to ensure that the army can obey his orders now, such as Wang Tan and Wang Jian, after the rebels stationed in Wuhu surrendered, Yang Xingmi did not punish these two, but let them continue to lead the 15,000 soldiers under them. This made Yang Wu very dissatisfied, but Yang Xingmi had already made a decision, and he had no way to change it, so he could only take advantage of the opportunity of reorganization to integrate it in the future.

Fortunately, after Yang Wu returned to Guangling this time, he focused on talking to him about the issue of military privatization, which attracted his attention.

Regarding this problem, Yang Wu proposed a method to change the guard, and Qin Pei and others also proposed that this method would cause "soldiers who do not know generals and generals who do not know soldiers", and the army's combat effectiveness will be affected as a result.

However, Yang Wu felt that the so-called "soldiers do not know generals and generals do not know soldiers", in the final analysis, it is nothing more than a lack of understanding between generals and soldiers. This drawback can be alleviated by establishing military academies, training generals, and strengthening the training of soldiers; compared with the problem of private ownership of the army, which may cause turmoil at any time, it is actually acceptable that the combat effectiveness of the army will be affected a little.

What's more, the system of changing guards is still in use even in later generations, and there are often cases of high-ranking generals being transferred in the people's army.

There are many reasons for the low combat effectiveness of the army of the Song Dynasty, the most important is the lack of horses, the low status of the generals caused by the heavy emphasis on literature and light on military force, too many redundant soldiers, the corruption of military discipline caused by the army not fighting for a long time, and the low ability of the generals.

In the end, at Yang Wu's insistence, and when others had no better way, the system of changing defenses was determined, but the cycle of changing defenses changed from once every three years to once every five years as Yang Wu envisioned. Five years, as long as they are not too incompetent generals, it is enough for them to get acquainted with the soldiers under their command; And compared with the situation where there has never been a change of defense, an army has been in the hands of a general for more than ten or twenty years, and it is much better.

After deciding on the change of guard system, the rest of the things will be much easier, Yang Wu decided to imitate the system of later generations, and proposed to Yang Xingmi to establish a privy council, which is specifically responsible for military orders; At the same time, a department was set up specifically responsible for the daily management and training of the army, considering that the Tang Dynasty was still there, and Huainan could not blatantly establish a military department, so Yang Wu planned to name this department as the Military Division, and then change it to the military department in the future.

In this way, we can achieve the separation of the power to command the armed forces and the persuasion of troop transfer, so as to prevent either side from monopolizing military power and supporting the troops to respect itself.