Recruiting new soldiers?

Yang Mu felt a little hazy, so he said, "Can the old prime minister be more specific?" ”

"The old minister is not talented, and I privately think that my Dacang's soldier system should be slightly adjusted." Fan Hongji bowed, took out a letter from his sleeve, and said: "The old minister has already had some ideas about this matter, three years ago, there were only 10,000 soldiers in my Dacang army, and Wei Zhongquan was a general, and now three years have passed, it is still the case, if you want to recruit new soldiers on a large scale, you must first change the military system." ”

Yang Mu took the fold and looked at it carefully.

On top of the twists and turns, the main thing is to talk about the number of soldiers and the position of generals.

That is to say, after the expansion of the army, how to become orderly.

This is indeed a big problem.

In fact, when people in later generations talk about the ancient military system, they often ignore this issue, but regular military schools generally conduct in-depth research.

Thus, there was an army group.

For example, in the process of modernizing China's armed forces, many units have abolished the establishment of divisions, and even the armies have become group armies, and the mode of combat has directly changed from divisions to brigades and battalions.

In this way, it is more conducive to vertical command and adaptation to modern warfare.

Similarly, now Cangguo is also facing the problem of military system.

But it's not that it's too bloated underneath, it's too sparse.

For example, the Blue Dragon Legion currently has 50,000 soldiers, but in addition to Wei Zhongquan, the highest level is 3,000 generals, which is equivalent to Wei Zhongquan alone, and at least 15 3,000 generals must be commanded vertically.

The root of all this is only because when Cangguo was founded, it was stipulated that the officers in the army were divided into ten commanders, even commanders, centurions, thousand generals, three thousand generals, and generals.

Such a system, which has been used until now, finally showed its drawbacks after a massive increase in the number of soldiers.

Although it is only a small detail, on the battlefield, it can be fatal.

"In the past few days, General Wei Zhongquan is still in the imperial city, tomorrow I will announce him into the palace to discuss this matter, and the old prime minister will also prepare it and discuss it together tomorrow."

"Yes, the old minister obeys—"

……

On the second day, after lingering with Miaoxi until the morning, Yang Mu got up from the gentle township.

It wasn't until Ji Ling'er reminded him outside that he remembered that he had issued an order last night to let Wei Zhongquan and other generals wait in Zichen Hall early, and now it is estimated that it will be almost two hours.

Yang Mu was embarrassed to be late.

Fortunately, the generals did not have any complaints and dissatisfaction, and when they saw Yang Mu enter the main hall, they all knelt down and saluted.

"Generals, you have been fortunate to fight many times."

Yang Mu raised his hand and motioned for them to stand up, then looked at Fan Hongji on the side, and asked him to repeat what he said yesterday.

Sure enough, Fan Hongji said, and the generals nodded more than once, saying that it made sense.

After more than an hour of discussions, the military system reform was drafted.

The grassroots level in the army, not much has changed.

However, on top of the 3,000 generals, 10,000 people were added.

There is no specific establishment for 10,000 generals, and then there is a general general, which can be determined according to the actual situation.

The commanders of the five major legions are collectively known as the generalissimo.

Although there is a word difference between the generalissimo and the generalissimo, the meaning is very different.

The marshal, generally established temporarily in wartime, as the commander-in-chief of the three armies, is higher than the position of the general.

But the word "generalissimo" appeared for the first time in this world.

Perhaps, Yang Mu has a generalissimo complex in his heart, such as the top ten marshals, generalissimos of soldiers and horses, etc., he always feels that it is enough to pull the wind, so he immediately makes a decision, and the top commander of the five major legions is called the generalissimo.

Considering that after the expansion of the army, hundreds of thousands of troops are often involved, and the generalissimo will inevitably make mistakes, or the power is too great, Yang Mu set up a deputy marshal and a superintendent, the deputy marshal is a supplement, and the overseer is mainly responsible for political propaganda work, which is equivalent to the existence of the political commissar of the Soviet system in later generations.

The five major legions, which are being consumed on the one hand, are replenished at the same time, and now have a total of 250,000 people.

The conscription was carried out in two steps, and in the first year, the five major legions were expanded to 500,000 men, which is to say, on the basis of today, and doubled.

In the second year, the people of Shanyin County, Shanyang County, and Shankun County have been initially assimilated, and they can begin to recruit new soldiers into the army, and with the injection of more than 20 million population bases, Cangguo will soon be able to recruit a large number of soldiers, and the strength of the entire country will be expanded to one million.

At that time, each of the five major legions will have 200,000 men.

Based on this pressure, Yang Mu announced that Chen You, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, and Zhao Xuan, the secretary of the Ministry of Households, entered the palace on the way to discuss, and asked about the construction of weapons and logistics supply.

After some statistics and planning, the money and grain are sufficient, after all, the 150 million taels of silver seized by the Dong State, in addition to the recent major appropriations, now the entire treasury still has more than 130 million taels of silver, which is more than enough to support the expansion of the army of 250,000 people.

But on the side of the military department, there is a shortage of manpower.

It stands to reason that the military department is the department with the largest number of people among the twelve, but there are only a few thousand people who can be allocated to casting ordnance, and only more than 500 of them are casting swords, soldiers and spears.

500 people, on average, can only cast 15,000 weapons a month, which also includes the need to replace the front-line soldiers and replace the dilapidated weapons, so calculated, it is good to be able to cast 100,000 weapons a year to expand the army.

If you count crossbows, repeaters, siege equipment, repeater chariots, cavalry harnesses, shields, armor, etc., it can be said that there is a shortage of people in all aspects, and in the current situation, it is even more difficult for the Qilin Army to expand by 50,000 men within a year.

What's even more helpless is that to solve this problem, it is not possible to directly increase the manpower of the Ministry of Industry, which also includes a problem of production capacity, such as the steel plant, a total of one factory, the scale is so large, the production of steel is limited, there is no steel, there is no way to build weapons.

So, is it okay to expand steel production?

Not.

Iron and steel mills to produce steel, first of all, there must be raw materials, before the annexation of the cave country, the iron ore raw materials of Cangguo mainly come from a mine in Longxing County, that is, the iron ore of the former Shen country, and then trade with various countries, and absorb a large number of iron ore that was used to offset the payment, it is on this basis that Cangguo can create 250,000 troops in just three years.

Now, in two years, it is naturally a big problem to complete three times the steel production.

Fortunately, it is comforting to know that there are steel mines in San'in, Sanyang, and Sankun counties, and after a few months of careful excavation, they can deliver a steady stream of iron ore to the steel mills.

Immediately, Yang Mu issued an order to let the Ministry of Industry recruit a large number of people and expand the weapon casting personnel.

At the same time, it has stepped up efforts to supervise the development of several mines, so that the Ministry of Commerce can buy more iron ore when trading with other countries, in an effort to expand the trembling capacity of the entire steel plant.

After that, Wei Zhongquan and a few other generals were left behind, and they had dinner together and discussed how to fight against Sheng Guo next.

"Your Majesty, Weichen has something to explain to Your Majesty and beg for permission!"

During the banquet, Qu Yong put down the wine glass in his hand, walked out of the long table, and knelt on the ground to bow.