Chapter 19: Ideas for the Military System
"Young Master" "Young Master" ...... Yang Wenli excitedly took Yang Renyue to the martial arts training ground, and several young people who stayed behind to guard his belongings greeted him one after another when they saw him.
Yang Wenli only nodded, but his eyes were aimed at the boxes protected by a few people and the piles of blades on the ground, which were obviously not suitable for opening the boxes and viewing, so he stared greedily for a full minute before he began to praise a few teenagers and said: "You have done a good job, you have really made a great contribution this time, and I will reward you heavily."
In this way, I will make a statement, and I will give each of you a wife in the future and become a family, as a reward for your meritorious service this time.
After this small battle, you are already a qualified native soldier, and after a few more battles, you can be promoted to a glorious non-commissioned officer, congratulations! ”
"Thank you, young master!" Several teenagers immediately thanked each other with joy.
The householders are the servants of their masters, and they have no property of their own, and they cannot create property, because even they themselves are their masters'. Only the master's reward is truly their private property, which includes taking a wife and starting a family.
The subordinate can also start a family, but it is generally the master's cronies who have this glory, and ordinary subordinates may be alone for life.
Therefore, Yang Rentian and his teenagers are so excited, which indicates that they can also pass it on in the future, and they will have children to support when they are old, and they will have children to worship after death, which may be everyone's dream!
The qualified soldiers that Yang Wenli called are a new type of military system that he founded independently according to the military system of later generations and the environment of the Ming Dynasty.
Although he only has ten family members at present, for the sake of his personal safety in the future, he will definitely train more and more family members, until he can be single and self-protective in troubled times. This size could be in the tens of thousands, so it was necessary to create a military hierarchy early.
The military is different from society, it is a violent institution, and even in later generations, in countries that claim to be democratic and free, there is a strict hierarchy within the army, and the subordinates must unconditionally obey the orders of their superiors.
In the Ming Dynasty, the class of the army was even more obvious, because although the Ming Dynasty was a feudal society, there were actually slaves, and within the army, there were also slave soldiers, such as Aha of the Later Jin, which was a veritable slave soldier.
The military system envisioned by Yang Wenli is also a slave soldier at the lowest level, generally capturing ordinary soldiers of the enemy, or homeless people and bandits who do not do much evil, and killing them all, firstly, hurting the heavens and peace, and secondly, it is too wasteful of human resources. Relegating them to slave soldiers is the best way to do it.
The superiors of the slave soldiers are ordinary soldiers, that is to say, Yang Rentian and they have become qualified soldiers in Yang Wenli's mouth, indicating that Yang Rentian and they have become de facto free people, rather than ordinary family members.
There are two classes of soldiers, namely private and soldier, and private refers to soldiers who have not undergone training and have not received meritorious service, and they usually do not have slave soldiers.
Similarly, a soldier is a private who has made a meritorious service and captured the enemy, so that the private is automatically promoted to a soldier, and a soldier can command up to 5 slave soldiers.
In other words, Yang Rentian and they are still just a small private, not even a soldier, but Yang Rendi of the other team is not even a private, of course, they are not slave soldiers, they are family members.
Jiading was an ordinary existence in the army of the Ming Dynasty, and it was a relatively high-status soldier, and they were the cronies of the main general.
But in the army envisioned by Yang Wenli, Jia Ding can only be regarded as a reserve soldier, because in the future, in his army, not to mention ordinary soldiers, even the generals are all from Jia Ding. A soldier with the title of Jiading means that he is not very qualified, so he can only be called a reserve soldier.
Above the soldiers are the non-commissioned officers, and a non-commissioned officer can command up to ten soldiers. As with the non-commissioned officer system of modern armies, there are non-commissioned officers of the first rank up to the seventh non-commissioned officer.
The establishment of the multi-level non-commissioned officer system is specially set up for those veterans with rich combat experience, who are not suitable for being officers and can only lead a small number of people to fight, so a few levels of non-commissioned officers do not mean that he can lead more soldiers, the same is ten, only indicates his status and salary.
As in the modern military system, above the non-commissioned officer are the lieutenant officer, and above the colonel officer and up to the general officer, which is also the third rank of each rank.
An officer can lead more soldiers, and even lead a single battle, which is the difference between officers and non-commissioned officers.
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"Don't thank me, this is what you deserve, as long as you have made more meritorious contributions, then you still have the opportunity to lead the troops and become a distinguished non-commissioned officer and an officer. I am a meritocracy, and I will give each of you a fair chance to advance. Yang Wenli encouraged them with a smile on his face.
Immediately, he made arrangements: "Camouflage it with firewood and grass, take the blade to my bone china experimental field, carry the treasure chest to the house, and hand it over to the old lady in person." ”
"Yes" Yang Wenli's voice fell, and several teenagers immediately stood up and hit their chests in response. This is the benefit of initial military training, which is not comparable to ordinary family members.
"Hey! What are you carrying a pile of firewood for? Don't you know how to carry it to the firewood room? The old lady saw a few servants carrying firewood into the main house without knowing how to be polite, and immediately stopped.
Yang Rentian immediately walked a few steps to the old lady and said to her, "Old lady, please take a step to speak." ”
The old lady was not stupid, and knew that something must be wrong, so she instructed the maid next to her, Xiaohong Xiaolu: "You two, bring me to the kitchen to stew a bowl of ginseng soup." ”
The implication of her words was that she should avoid it personally, and Xiaohong Xiaolu was not stupid, so she immediately agreed to retire.
Seeing Xiaohong and Xiaolu walking away, the old lady asked Yang Rentian coldly, "What's the matter!" The gods are weird. ”
"Old lady, this is a box of gold, silver and jewelry, and the young master wants us to hand it over to you for inspection." Yang Rentian replied quietly.
"What? Where did it come from? The old lady was frightened by Yang Rentian's words, as the saying goes, there will be no pie in the sky, and it is impossible to have a box of gold, silver and jewelry for nothing.
"We went hunting today, and we came across an old river bandit in the mountains, and we defeated them and got it from their trenches." Yang Rentian briefly explained the origin.
However, he talked about the war lightly, as if the Jiang bandits were all paper-paste, and was scared away by them. In fact, it's about the same, I can only blame them for being too perverted.
"Oh! They don't know who you are, do they? Will it come in search of revenge? "It's okay to get ill-gotten gains from the Jiang bandits, but the old lady is worried about whether it will attract the Jiang bandits' revenge.
"No, no, don't worry, old lady, we have defeated them, and they dare not take revenge with 120,000 guts, and besides, they don't know who we are, so it is impossible to find them here." Yang Rentian hurriedly comforted the old lady and said.
…… To be continued