Luo Jingyun treated the disease and saved people, and Zhu Pingjin was not idle.

After dinner, Zhu Pingjin summoned the main cadres to his small courtyard and announced the establishment of the caravan and the list of main officers. There is a small bench for each person, and the small courtyard is crowded. Zhu Pingjin sat under the eaves and glanced at his basic cadres. Everyone was silent, and the atmosphere was a little depressing. Only Zhu Pingjin Chengzhu was in his chest, maintaining a confident smile. According to Zhu Pingjin's plan, the caravan will temporarily take the battalion as the basic combat unit, and gradually expand to the regiment in the future. The existing men and horses are organized into four companies in a battalion, each company is organized into four platoons, each platoon is organized into three squads, and each squad is organized into two groups. There are five students in each group and twelve students in each class. There are 36 regular soldiers in each platoon, two officers, and one sergeant major in the platoon, a total of 39 people. In addition to the chief and deputy company commanders and deputy company supervisors, each company headquarters also has a secretary general, a clerk, a company sergeant major, two guards and signal corpsmen, three standard-bearers, drummers and buglers, and 12 auxiliary soldiers, totaling 148 regular soldiers, 12 auxiliary soldiers, 5 sergeant majors, and 14 officers, totaling 180 people. The battalion headquarters has increased the number of staff officers and logistics organs, the exact number of which is uncertain, because there is simply not enough manpower.

"Now, the prince of the world announces the list of officers." Zhu Pingjin stood up.

At the sound of the bench falling to the ground, the two brothers Song Zhenzong stood up violently and led the others to stand up as well.

Zhu Pingjin took out a piece of paper from his sleeve. Cao Sanbao habitually reached out to pick it up, but Zhu Pingjin waved his hand and read it out by himself:

"The caravan is known to the outside world as the Yazhou Tianquan Caravan. All personnel were temporarily organized into a battalion. The battalion commander Song Zhenzong is also the company commander of the first company and the company supervisor of the second company. ”

"Here!" Before Zhu Pingjin's voice fell, Song Zhenzong immediately responded loudly. He had been waiting for this moment for a long time.

"Battalion supervisor Shu Guoping, who is also the company commander of the second company and the company supervisor of the first company."

"Here!"

"Deputy battalion commander Song Zhensi, also the company commander of the third company and the company supervisor of the fourth company."

"Here!"

"He Youyi, deputy battalion commander and deputy battalion supervisor, is also the battalion chief of staff, the company commander of the fourth company, and the company supervisor of the third company."

"Here!"

ranked fourth among the officers, which made He Youyi a little disappointed in his heart, but he was also a little lucky. However, he knew that the Song brothers were serious palace guards and military attachés of the imperial court; And Shu Guoping is the nephew of the master of the prince, he has only been in the son for a few days, and he cannot be above Shu Guoping. Fortunately, this position is directly led by the troops, but what this 'chief of staff' does, he still doesn't understand.

"Cao Santai, deputy camp supervisor and baggage officer! …… Deputy battalion supervisor and baggage officer Cao Santai! ”

"The slave is here!" Cao Santai didn't expect Zhu Pingjin to call him at all, and he didn't react until he was stabbed in the waist by Wang Sizhong.

"In the future, in the army, you will be called 'to'!" Zhu Pingjin reprimanded.

"The slave knows it's wrong." Cao Santai nodded and said. Zhu Pingjin has already pointed to others.

"Deputy Baggage Officer and Military Medical Officer Luo Jingyun!"

"Here!"

"Liaison Officer Wang Sizhong!"

"The slave has arrived."

After the duties of the personnel present were read out, Zhu Pingjin briefly explained the responsibilities and powers of each position. Zhu Pingjin once again emphasized that the position announced this time was neither an official of the imperial court nor an official of the royal palace, but only an official of Zhu Pingjin himself. The specific name, duties, and authority of this official cannot be announced to the outside world, and can only be called the management team of the caravan protection team to the outside world. At the end, Zhu Pingjin spread his hands and asked everyone else what questions they had.

Song Zhenzong took the lead in asking: "Shizi, you said that the last general and Mr. Shu are both the chief officers of the caravan. What things will be able to call the shots, and what Mr. Shu will be in charge, and please make it clear to the prince, so that I don't quarrel with Mr. Shu after you leave. Shizi, you understand the last general, the last general has no other meaning, just wants to make things clear. ”

Zhu Pingjin didn't answer immediately, but looked at Shu Guoping. Shu Guoping knew Zhu Pingjian's thoughts, and was polite to Song Zhenzong, and then said: "General Song, in the opinion of students, you and I are both chief officials, and we are all in the same spirit. You are in charge of a piece, and the students are in charge of a piece. General, you are responsible for training troops and fighting wars, and students are responsible for military law and military discipline. You and I share the heavy responsibility and respond to the current situation. I wonder if the student understands it or not? ”

Zhu Pingjin added: "The battalion commander is the military commander. Peacetime training and wartime command are the duties of battalion commanders; The supervising officer is the supervising officer, supervising the training and operation, and is responsible for the army's rewards and punishments for meritorious crimes and the pacification of the army and the people. In the event that both the chief and negative military commanders are wounded and killed, or if they flee and surrender, and are unable to command, the battalion supervisor shall take command in place of the military commander. Remember: the battalion commander makes a decision and lets the battalion superintendent know; The battalion supervisor should also let the battalion commander know when he makes a decision. If the two commanders firmly disagree with each other's opinions, the other party's order cannot be effective! Therefore, the two of you have to make decisions together and be jointly responsible for the matter of protecting the caravan! If the two of you have a big difference of opinion and can't report to this prince in time, Song Zhenzong, Shu Guoping, Song Zhensi, He Youyi, Cao Santai, Luo Jingyun and the six of you will discuss together, and whoever gets the most support will be subject to whose opinion! It's called the minority obeying the majority! However, in the event of a wartime emergency, the prince granted General Song the right to dispose of it on the spot. The wartime emergency ended, and so did the mandate of the Honko. ”

Song Zhenzong was about to speak again to ask questions, but Zhu Pingjin knew that he had many questions, so he quickly said to him: "If Mr. Shu becomes a prisoner, he is not a civilian official, but a soldier." Mr. Shu will not interfere with your training command. But in matters within Mr. Shu's duties, you should also respect Mr. Shu. As for the specific division of powers and responsibilities of each position, this prince will also convene everyone to discuss and form a written will. Mr. Shu, this is going to be hard for you. ”

After Zhu Pingjin crossed, he quickly made up his mind to build an armed force of his own. After careful consideration, he used the establishment of a supervisory army as an excuse to create a system of dual military and political commanders, with the purpose of first strengthening his control over the new army and secondly maintaining the combat effectiveness of the new army. The position of supervising the army has existed since ancient times, and it also exists today. The imperial court generally sent civil officials or eunuchs to serve as supervisors in the official army, and even Song Zhenzong knew this. Therefore, Zhu Pingjin believes that his establishment of a military supervision system in the New Army is justified and that it is unlikely that he will be fiercely opposed, and that the possible situation is that he will secretly and passively resist. However, Zhu Pingjin borrowed the name of the imperial court's military supervisor, but it was an old bottle of new wine, which was actually a facelift of the political commissar system in later generations, which was essentially different from the current imperial court's military supervision system.

Zhu Pingjin made such a choice, first of all, because of his loyalty to the current New Army team and his lack of 100 percent trust.

The combat effectiveness of the new army must be tested and enhanced through actual combat. Zhu Pingjin envisioned that after the new army was founded, it would be able to gradually accumulate experience, build up confidence, and expand its ranks through small-scale battles against thieves. After that, the troops are bound to go out of the mountains and fight in eastern and northern Sichuan, where banditry is most serious in Sichuan. Before Zhang Xianzhong re-entered Sichuan and cut off his head, the new army should initially have the combat capability to compete with it. However, once the new army opened the mountains and achieved success, it would attract the attention of the imperial court. It is likely that the imperial court will use means to compete for the dominance of the army and find a way to pull the army over. The simplest and most terrible means is that the imperial court divides and disintegrates Zhu Pingjin's team by making wishes to the main generals and sending money and women to achieve the goal of incorporating the new army. Mr. Jiang used to like to do this, and it worked very well. The second is to directly strike at the head of the army, that is, Zhu Pingjin himself. Through the impeachment of the magistrate, on the charge of violating national law or the ancestral system, Zhu Pingjin was criticized and criticized, sent to Fengyang to guard the mausoleum, and even abolished as a commoner. With Zhu Pingjin's current status and rights, he has no ability to stop the imperial court from making small moves, nor does he have the ability to prevent the imperial court from taking him down. Civil officials once said: "Destroying a feudal king is like slaughtering a dog." Zhu Pingjin doesn't think this is a lie. The army is hidden in the mountains to become bigger and stronger, but it has never seen blood, and its combat effectiveness is worrying; When the army goes out to practice, it may be swallowed by others. Zhu Pingjin knows that this is a tightrope walk, and it is necessary not only to master the balance, but also to be cautious. In the event of an extreme situation, he can only rely on the loyalty of the Forces nouvelles to cope with the change in the situation.

For this reason, Zhu Pingjin paid special attention to three people in his army, one was Song Zhenzong, one was Shu Guoping, and the other was He Youyi.

Song Zhenzong is the current military attache of the imperial court, and he is also an officer of the only pro-army of the Shu Palace, the CD Left Guard. As a pro-army of the royal palace, the Shu royal palace legally has the command of the CD left guard, and is also responsible for the supply of food and salary for the CD left guard. Although theoretically they cannot control the military status, promotion, appointment, and dismissal of officers at all levels of the CD Left Guard, they have the substantive right to make suggestions and even veto. Therefore, the control of the Shu Palace's guards is very strong. The prince can hand over all the affairs of the palace to the princess, but the only one who has not let go is the left guard. In addition, Song Zhenzong and his cousin Song Zhensi were both from Qinzhou and had no roots in the CD Left Guard. His military style is also a complete outlier in the CD left guard commanded by Liu Fatzi. He has a strong desire to train the army and lead the troops to fight, which is completely impossible to achieve in the CD Left Guard. If he wants to make meritorious contributions on the battlefield, he can only rely on Zhu Pingjin. However, this is both Song Zhenzong's strength and his weakness. If the imperial court takes a fancy to him in the future and appoints him as a general, whether Song Zhenzong will be tempted, Zhu Pingjin is not sure. So on the one hand, Zhu Pingjin wants to brainwash him and further strengthen his personal relationship with him, and on the other hand, he wants to use a political commissar to keep an eye on him.

Shu Guoping is Master Shu's own nephew, and he naturally has the background of a royal official. As long as Zhu Pingjin continues to offer Master Shu as a bodhisattva, it is impossible for Shu Guoping to clear his relationship with the palace. Shu Guoping has a blood feud with the thieves, and he is not with the thieves, and the struggle is incomparably firm. Judging from the last recital and recent performance, this person is very hateful to the civil and military officials, and is extremely dissatisfied with the status quo of the imperial court; Have a considerable sense of the overall situation and judgment of the situation of military struggle; The relationship with ordinary soldiers is also relatively harmonious, unlike Song Zhenzong, who is either black-faced or red-faced. Shu Guoping also has a major weakness, that is, he still has illusions about Chongzhen and the imperial court. Zhu Pingjin is ready to continue to educate him with facts, dispel his illusions, and fully integrate him into his own system.

He Youyi is a person who has the ability and means, and he is determined to be desperate. When he saw Zhu Pingjin for the first time, he dared to say rebellious words, and he sacrificed his family to the palace as a slave to gain trust. He Youyi's weakness is the desire for profit, which often affects his correct judgment. Zhu Pingjin has always had a feeling that He Youyi has a knot in his heart, as if he is pursuing some goal. However, Zhu Pingjin believes that this does not prevent him from using He Youyi. Since He Youyi took the initiative to send the hostages to the door, Zhu Pingjin had no reason not to make good use of it.

In addition to Song Zhenzong, Song Zhensi, Shu Guoping, and He Youyi, Zhu Pingjin deliberately added a eunuch Cao Santai to the troop team, because he believed that the eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty were the most loyal to their masters, and it was difficult to be completely won over by civilian officials. In the 300 years of history before the Ming Dynasty, there were three vassal kings who rebelled, King Yan, King Han and King Ning; The generals and eunuchs jointly conspired against each other, Cao Shi's change. There is no record of the literati rebelling alone, but there are many people who follow the rebellion of vassal kings, military generals and thieves, such as Xu Youzhen in the Nangong Rebellion, and Pan Zhanao who is currently in the thieves. Not only did the eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty rebel less, but once the master decided to cut it off, it took very little effort. Quan eunuch Liu Jin and Wei Zhongxian, both of whom were edicts from the emperor, immediately disappeared. Eunuchs were highly loyal to the royal family, not because of their high consciousness, but because their status and rights were absolutely dependent on the imperial power. Internally, they are nothing more than royal eunuchs despised by the literati and the common people, and externally, they are the personal representatives of the royal interests. They have not been examined, they have no teachers and classmates: they have lost their place of origin, and they have no hometown; He has cut off the root of his life, and has no children and heirs. They only have one home, and that is royal. Leaving this home, they are not as good as pigs and dogs, and they are nothing. When Chongzhen was martyred, hundreds of civil and military officials and even the emperor's relatives fled or surrendered, only the eunuch Wang Chengen followed, and many eunuchs and palace people threw themselves into the river, which is a clear proof. In the past few days, Zhu Pingjin has been very satisfied with Cao Santai. He was meticulous and well-organized, and transported more than 300 people's food, clothing, and quilts in a timely manner. He is the old man of the Shu Palace, and he is also Cao Yicheng's godson, Cao Sanbao's godbrother, plus he is secretly training troops on his territory, so it is necessary to promote him appropriately.

Wang Sizhong is his own attendant eunuch, and when he joins in, he can control the movement of the troops at any time.

The person who really reassured Zhu Pingjin was Luo Yuhong's younger brother Luo Jingyun.