The Ming Dynasty has a third-class knighthood, duke, marquis, and uncle, except for the two times of the founding of the country, the title is added to the military generals who have the soldiers, and in the next dozen or so emperors' inheritance, the military generals are given the title of nobles, just so that they can hand over their military power and enjoy wealth and prosperity. (Provide a > for the latest chapter reading.)

If he is promoted to his military position, there will definitely be a big tail in the future, give him a title that represents honor, and then hand over the army to others, and go to the big city to raise himself, which is also a means of exchange.

But the rules on Li Meng's side are completely broken, the title of Duke of Guo has been easily allowed over the years, and after making considerable contributions, he must leave the army according to the requirements to obtain it, and giving Li Meng this position is almost begging him to accept it.

also gave away a few pieces of land in the name of almost cutting land, so that Li Meng did not continue to insist on the title of King of Qi and hand over the territory controlled by the army, and this kind of acquiescence to routine things in the past did not dare to mention.

Compared with the flood of generals in the Tang and Song dynasties, the Ming generation had extremely strict control over the names of generals, and only the general soldiers stationed in five places in the world could have the name of generals, but in the year of Wanli, the name of the general soldiers began to gradually flood, and when it came to the Chongzhen year, the world fought again and again, whether true or false, military merit was also easy to obtain, and it was easy for military generals to accumulate merit and be promoted to the position of chief soldier.

Moreover, the state cannot guarantee the full supply of food and salary, but it still has to show the generals and soldiers to fight, and the only thing that can be obtained is the official position of the military general.

For example, Zuo Liangyu, he does not belong to one of the general soldiers of the Nine Sides, and according to the rules, he cannot be added to the title of general, but Zuo Liangyu's 200,000 soldiers and horses can be called the largest army in Daming Pass, and such a powerful general is no longer something that the imperial court can easily touch. Simply gave the rank of general of the thief.

To show that he is higher than the general general of the same level, and the 200,000 troops, if there is only one general soldier, it is indeed a bit shabby.

Therefore, the current general Zuo Liangyu has more than a dozen general soldiers under him, and these general soldiers are appointed by the imperial court, and some are appointed by Zuo Liangyu himself, and the imperial court pinched his nose and admitted it.

There is this example in the front, Qi Guogong of Shandong, Zhendong General Li Meng. With more than 100,000 soldiers and horses in hand, it is logical to do these things.

However, although the appointment of the general by the thief is not in accordance with the rules, it can still be said that in the past, you have to appoint a general as a Duke of Qi, which cannot be said anyway, and the imperial court will not recognize it at all, but the current relationship between Shandong and the imperial court. That is, to maintain the superficial system, where the court will react.

And the military system has changed. Commissioned officers. For those who are righteous at every turn. At every turn, the ignorant scholars are impassioned and generous. These so-called literati don't know anything about this. The Jiaozhou battalion established its own military system. Appoint commanders and generals on their own. This means that it is demarcated from the system of the Ming Dynasty. This is a matter that is even more transgressive than the military affairs of the four provinces. It's just that. Outsiders simply can't understand it. I don't know what it means.

Basic preparation. From the original land a battalion of a thousand people. into a mass of two thousand people. In each regiment. Four hundred musketeers were divided individually. Divided into two firearms teams. The rest of the spearmen were divided into eight teams. Two hundred people per team.

Because the local production capacity and output of the weapons manufacturing industry have increased significantly. So as requested. There will be two teams of soldiers in each regiment who are dressed in half-body armor. This type of armor is not a leather or cotton armor or other local color. It's the kind of Western floor armor. It is equipped with an angular helmet. This helmet is somewhat resistant to enemy slashing at a distance. Of course, after wearing this standard plate armor. Bows and arrows are already very difficult to damage such armored soldiers.

After merging into regiments. There will be a regimental garrison. A deputy guard. Flag bearers and drummers of each regiment. There were also three artillery ground artillery. as well as heralds and guards. It's all listed separately. Generally speaking, there will be about 100 of these people combined. Directly subordinate to the regimental garrison.

So. As a matter of fact. The exact number of people in each regiment is generally about 2,100.

Five regiments are one army. Set up a general or a guerrilla commander. However, this army is not permanent. And only in the case of a lieutenant general, it is demarcated separately.

This is the setting of the regular infantry unit, and the cavalry of the Jiaozhou battalion is still a regiment of 1,000 people, with a total of eight regiments as an army, one of which is a baggage regiment, and the horse army is set up to command.

The artillery has five teams, one of which is the baggage team, the fifth team is an army, with an artillery commander, and the naval army has two battalions, the Dengzhou water battalion and the Laizhou water battalion.

The pro-soldier battalion has two brigades, one of which is the garrison brigade, with a total of ten teams, and the elite soldiers and officers of the Jiaozhou battalion system are selected into this pro-soldier battalion according to certain process standards, in addition to serving as escorts and commandos, they also learn various command skills, and this is the reserve of officers.

The other brigade was divided into 20 teams, and this team was adapted from the former experimental battalion and used as an experimental improvement of various new tactics and new weapons in the Jiaozhou battalion system. The pro-military battalion is set up to have a commander, which is equivalent to an army.

In addition to cavalry and artillery, among the regular infantry regiments in the Jiaozhou camp, each army set up a baggage regiment, and the baggage regiment could be requisitioned and commanded by the soldiers to transport grain and straw.

After sending troops and horses to the north to support, the Qingzhou Army Ma Gangshou has 20,000 people and ten regiments, and will be conscripted to make up to 35,000 regiments, and Chen Liu, the Huaiyang Army, has 15,000 soldiers in his hands, and will be conscripted to 20,000 and ten regiments. The Dengzhou Army Zhao Nengshou has 10,000 soldiers, which will be replenished to 20,000 and ten regiments, and the Yanzhou Army, with a total of 9,000 people, will be expanded to 16,000 and eight regiments.

The 30,000 soldiers and horses of the old battalion originally included the number of artillery areas of the horse army and the pro-military battalion, but the 30,000 this time does not include the number of those special troops.

The newly established Hebei Army of 20,000, with a total of ten regiments, is being replenished......

There are many things to do in various directions, such as the reorganization of the local army and the transfer and expansion of the army, but the promotion, transfer, and appointment of generals at all levels have already come out.

Ma Gang, who guarded Lianghuai, was the general soldier of Lianghuai, and Chen Liu, who was in the Fengyang generation of Xuzhou, was the general soldier of Xuzhou, and was in charge of the three regiments of Henan Guidefu. Guarding the area of Shouzhou. Zhao Neng was the commander-in-chief of Denglai, guarding Dengzhou, Laizhou, and Qingzhou.

Zhang Jiang, the former guerrilla of the Yanzhou Army, was appointed as the commander-in-chief of Hebei, and Wang Tao was the deputy general, stationed in the area of Hejian Fu to protect the passage between Shandong and Beizhili.

Wang Hai of the pro-barracks and Tang Er, the commander of the cavalry, naturally became generals this time, and Guo Dong, the commander of the artillery, also became guerrillas.

Late May. The boiling news that had been spread in the Jiaozhou battalion system finally had a result, and the Duke of Qi sent a letter to all armies and localities, indicating that the General Zhendong would not be used in the future, and that it would be ordered by the Duke of Qi.

This removal of the title of General Zhendong is not to weaken his momentum, but to add the rank of general to the two new commanders, to show that their status is slightly higher than the other commanders. The title of general added this time is even more transgressive and unruly.

Ma Gang, the general soldier of Lianghuai, was added to General Pingnan, and Chen Liu, the general soldier of Xuzhou, was recruited as General Xi.

Whether intentionally or not. Everyone can notice that the troops under the direct jurisdiction of Li Meng, the Duke of Qi, are close to 50,000, and the 18,000 Yanzhou Army is currently under the management of the Duke of Qi.

Zhengxi, Pingnan, where is the south of the two Huai, it is the provinces south of the Yangtze River. The west side of Fengyang Xuzhou is there, it is Henan, and the minds of the soldiers and horses in Shandong are naked and undisguised, but this time no one dares to speak out. This time, it was all silent, and occasionally there was a so-called "righteous speaker", and his remarks and articles would not appear in the public eye.

There are also people who explain inexplicably, saying that the Duke of Qi is the most respected title of the Ming people, and it is not impossible to appoint a few general soldiers and add a few generals.

Compared with the military system reform, which was not noticed at the beginning but later silenced the people of the world, another measure in Shandong was rarely noticed.

Because Tuntian Grange and Lingshan Commercial Bank are Li Meng's own private property. Li Meng's private and Jinan Prefecture Tongzhi Zhou Yang, as well as the Salt Administration Inspection Department Di Ning Qiangui gave orders.

In the past, Tun Tian Tianzhuang and Ling Shan Commercial Bank had been downsized. However, it was required that starting in May of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, the local government vigorously recruited staff at all levels. Don't worry about staffing, because of the expenses incurred by staffing. There will be a supplement from the Qi State Mansion.

The recruitment standard for these clerks is to be smart and literate, regardless of the rest, and after entering the Grange system and the business bank system, it is necessary to learn the experience and rules of the Tun Tian Grange and the business bank as soon as possible, be familiar with the experience, and learn to adapt to the system as soon as possible, it is to retain and be promoted, and those who cannot adapt to it must be kicked out as soon as possible and re-selected.

At the same time, Yan Jizu, the governor of Shandong, Zhou Yang, the governor of Jinan, and Liu Qingyang, the right-hand political counselor, all received hints from Li Meng, asking them to send the scholars gathered around them to serve as practical training in the government yamen in various parts of Shandong as soon as possible.

Huang Ping and Jiang Xianqiu of the Shandong Salt Gang and Hou Shan of the Lingshan Commercial Bank also received the task of mobilizing all the forces of the Shandong Salt Gang and the Lingshan Commercial Bank to monitor and record the various granges and yamen, so as not to let some speculators who tried to make cheap money get in as much as possible.

Such a large-scale recruitment, dispatching of personnel, speculation and fishing in troubled waters will definitely occur, and surveillance will definitely not be able to monitor, but it is just to reduce this possibility as much as possible.

Tuntian Grange, Lingshan Commercial Bank, and officials sent to the local government from the staff team, these are all for the large-scale training of civil officials who are scarce in the Jiaozhou camp, Sun Chuanting is quite in favor of this, but the monitoring of various places by the Shandong Salt Gang and Lingshan Commercial Bank is really not very reassuring about the effect.

Shandong Yanbang and Lingshan Commercial Bank are completely two online intelligence systems, with completely different working methods and organizational structures, and the levels of reporting are completely different. It is another big problem for them to spy on the civilian officials who have been trained, and to transfer the work of the enemy to their own people.

If these two institutions are allowed to go up to investigate so stubbornly, they will have to make a mess, Li Meng has issued an order, then the people below must carry it out.

How to improve efficient execution, this is a necessary quality of a capable and high-level subordinate, at the end of May, at the suggestion of Sun Chuanting. Originally, it had always been a vague positioning of the "inner account room", and began to appear in the system of the Jiaozhou camp as an institution.

The name of this institution looks like a department under Ning Qiangui, called the "Shandong Revenue and Expenditure and Financial Inventory Division", nominally led by the original Jiaozhou battalion master and the current head of Qi State, Shi Yuan Wenhong, but in fact it is led by the female relatives of Li Mengnei's house, and staffed by Liu Fulai and Sun Chuanting.

The Inventory Department is an organization established with the permission of Li Meng, and its other authority is to check the income and expenditure accounts of various industries in Shandong. Avoid corruption and misappropriation.

In fact, the authority of this department is far greater than that of his name, the Shandong Salt Gang and the Lingshan Commercial Bank have intentionally or unintentionally planted internal eyeliners and secret agents, and the Salt Gang and the Commercial Bank have special personnel to take charge of this part of the interior, and this part of the interior is unified under the subordinates of the Inventory Division.

In addition, the account office has the power to inspect the records of various places and send personnel to inquire during the weekday, and this power has been formalized after the official establishment of the Inventory Division. Inventory of local personnel. The person who has the right to be required to cooperate with an investigation or a person in a certain place is obliged to cooperate fully with the work.

After the establishment of the Inventory Division, after a brief conversation between Sun Chuanting and Liu Qingyang and Zhou Yang, Zhou Yang began to transfer experienced officials and veteran officials from the yamen of various prefectures and counties in Jinan Prefecture to join the Inventory Division, and the same is true of the rest of the state capitals that the Jiaozhou battalion can fully control.

But. If anyone can see Sun Chuanting's notes, they will see that the number one civil official of the Jiaozhou battalion is quite contradictory about the establishment of the Inventory Division.

It is said that with the expansion of Shandong's territory and the expansion of various civil and military departments, it is imperative to absorb qualified personnel, but the army is a good group, through training and various methods. It has always been able to maintain the loyalty of the officers and soldiers to Li Meng, but the training of civil officials has no such effect, and the intelligent and literate people are basically scholars, and this kind of people have the most loyalty to the Ming Dynasty, and they are the most unable to judge their attitude.

The recruitment of the grange and the commercial house will definitely fall into the mud and sand, and in order to ensure the sense of belonging and the most basic standard of the Jiaozhou battalion, someone must screen and monitor.

There is naturally a mature system of granges and trading houses, but there must be a strong monitoring of this piece. Spy agencies efficiently to do it.

As a high-ranking official in the Ming Dynasty, he was born as a local doctor. Sun Chuanting was extremely disgusted with the secret agent agencies such as Jinyiwei and Dongchang, but he was in Jiaozhou. But now, in order to achieve his goal, he has made a similar spy agency by himself. If you don't know, the capacity and efficiency of this institution are higher than that of Dongchang and Jinyiwei.

This incident is indeed a contradiction in people's hearts, and it is even more difficult to cry and laugh.

In Shandong, in May, according to the description of the literati of the Lai Party and the Yan Party, it was a new atmosphere, everything was formalized, and the so-called sea of rivers began, and those literati who had been excluded from the outside began to be accepted into this system.

On the other hand, the Confucian Mansion inherited by the saints and the Lu Wangfu of royal blood, most of the land properties of the Confucian Mansion and the Wangzhuang of the Lu Wangfu were deprived, leaving them with only the intention of supporting the operation of the mansion, and the rest were all deprived in the name of measuring and clearing the boundaries of the land.

These fertile lands, together with the skilled peasants of the former land, were all reorganized according to the regulations of the Tuntian Grange, and were subsumed into the Jiaozhou industry.

There is a big and small affair in the Confucian Mansion in Pingsuri, and there will always be a large number of people in Shilin who will make a fuss and criticize with emotion, but no one stands up and jumps on these actions.

Now everyone is a person in the Qi Guogong system, you can't hurt the harmony for outsiders, if you have a heart to pay attention, in the past ten years, there will be many articles written by the same person in Shandong, and the views and evaluations are completely opposite, which is indeed ridiculous.

The so-called literati have no action, which is probably what we mean by this phenomenon.

With regard to the changes in the army below, Li Menghe and his leading think tanks have already adopted the method of making small changes as much as possible, and the backbone troops in various localities have basically not changed, and at the same time they have been expanded, and changes have been carried out to promote official posts; in fact, there has been no change in the original command authority, including the two battalions and the regiment in one, and in fact the regimental garrison and the deputy garrison are the original two battalion commanders, who are divided into principal and deputy according to the size of their merits and seniority.

It can be combined and reorganized with nearly 200,000 troops. There are too many aspects involved, and conservative estimates will not be completed until the end of July. And that's just a rearrangement of the existing troops, and it doesn't include the newly recruited recruits.

Moreover, the current expansion of the army of 50,000 has almost swept away all the personnel suitable for serving in the army among the various tuntiangzhuang and armed salt ding, and the village protection team has the duty of maintaining the stability of the grange, and the armed salt ding has the responsibility of being responsible for local stability.

After a few deliberations. There are still officers in charge of recruiting in each army who go directly to the local area with their assistants to train new recruits in the recruiting area, and at the same time recruit new village guards from among the Zhuang Ding in Tuntian Tianzhuang, as well as recruit armed salt soldiers from those pro-Jiaozhou battalion families in the local area, so that even if there is any chaos, they can also respond on the spot.

This process will take a lot of time, but the recruitment of today's Jiaozhou battalion is not comparable to the past, and in the past, it was necessary to use sufficient pay and sufficient food to ensure it. And it is necessary to coerce and induce.

Today's Tuntian households in Tuntian Tianzhuang know that the current situation outside, especially in Shandong, is gradually getting better, and the ordinary people outside are living quite happily, but they are semi-serfdom status, but they can't enjoy such benefits, and they want to get rid of such an identity. The only feasible means is to have their own children to serve as soldiers, and as long as they become soldiers, under the provisions of the "Order on the Conversion of Military Families in Tuntian" promulgated last year, the families of soldiers can immediately remove the identity of Tuntian households, and after a few years, they will be treated with the same preferential treatment as military families from outside.

And want to be a soldier. It is necessary to join the protection team of Tuntian Grange first, and the interests of this level are naturally to let the Tuntian households join the army with great enthusiasm, and they are extremely enthusiastic to participate in the protection team, which even has a side effect, that is, the young and strong are unwilling to produce and are willing to use force, and it is to make the management of Tuntian Grange anxious, but it is stable and ensures production.

As for the armed salt ding, it was the middle and upper families and the upper Shandong clans. It is an important symbol of intimacy with the Jiaozhou camp system.

Whose children and sons serve in the armed salts? That means that this family is on the same front as the Jiaozhou battalion, and if there are many people who serve in the armed salt ding. Or hold a certain position, which is even more remarkable. That shows that the relationship between this family and the Jiaozhou camp is extraordinary.

There are many wealthy families in Yanzhou Mansion, several of which have been inherited for nearly two hundred years, and they are all big families who started a family when King Lu was awarded the title of Shandong, and they are extremely rich, but their status is not as good as the rest of the new wealthy families, the reason is that they are the last to join Li Meng's system.

These few such big families, each family has only one or two in the land of Denglai as a salt ding, compared to the rest of the family as a captain, squadron leader, naturally the voice of the voice is much smaller, Shandong civilians are good families, are about thirty years old in the Jiaozhou battalion, is already the general soldiers, generals, the general of the town guard side is extremely envious, to join the army are very enthusiastic, but the Jiaozhou battalion has armed salt Ding and the Grange after the two reserve systems, there are very few recruits among the common people.

You must know that the Ming Dynasty divides the people into several classes, and some people will not get normal treatment even if they join the army, but on the Jiaozhou battalion side, they are treated equally and fairly.

Except for the heavy workload, the rest of the recruitment work is progressing smoothly, and the people in Shandong are quite satisfied with this result, and at present some of them are being carried out in a step-by-step manner, and all that is needed is time.

In this era, there will hardly be any army that will engage in large-scale battles in spring, summer, early autumn except for the army of exiles, and if it were fought during this period, there would certainly be a mobilization of the peasants and the destruction of the farmland.

Therefore, during this time, the Manchu Qing outside the Guan, the Mongols outside the Saiwai, and even the Ming troops were very quiet, and the situation at this time was very safe for Shandong.

Shandong is quite satisfied with the reform of Li Meng, civil and military, but this is a lot of planning and paperwork, as well as follow-up after the fact.

Fortunately in the army, the generals of all walks of life can almost know their positions, so there is nothing to fight about, but the grange, the trading houses, and the local officials, these three places absorb a large number of intelligent and literate personnel, and even a blind person can see why this is prepared.

In the exhibition of Jiaozhou camp, there are already many people who regret betting too late, if they can boldly follow up, now the wealth and glory are not a problem, the future of wealth and glory is unlimited, and it is not easy to let go of the recruitment of all kinds of talents, that is not as soon as possible to keep up.

In terms of military affairs, only armed Yanding will be vacant because of recruitment, and there will be some positions such as captains and squadron leaders, and for these positions, there are many wealthy families who come to talk about their own children.

The rest are all those positions in the Tuntian Grange, the commercial bank, and the state and county yamen, and they ask each other, and all those who have connections and connections in Shandong are asking for help everywhere and using their networks in order to be able to enter.

Let Shandong combine into a close community of interests, there is no disgust with this Li Meng, but he is still happy to see it, but there are constantly representatives of wealthy families, and even civil and military officials within the Jiaozhou battalion come to intercede, which makes him a little bored, it is clearly a trivial matter of sesame grains, or a reserve for training civilian officials, a group of people are so enthusiastic.

Mu Yunyao's reaction during this time was very violent, calculating the time, the delivery period is only ten days, and the entire Qi State Mansion is currently busy with this, Li Meng is really too lazy to pay attention to these human relations below, he just wants to spare more effort to accompany Mu Yunyao.

On May 25, the Mansion of Qi began to close its doors to outsiders, and finally stopped the guests who had rushed from all over Shandong.

These guests are all rich and noble people in Shandong, of course, they also know that the second wife of Qi Guogong is about to give birth, since they came to Jinan City, they can't see Qi Guogong, so waiting for Qi Guogong's child to be born, send a generous gift to congratulate it, this is not a bad thing.

As a result, since late May, the market in Jinan City has suddenly prospered, making the dismal shops in Jinan City a small fortune.

In April and May, the Ming court was busy licking its wounds, and did everything possible to prepare to recover some vitality, so as to bring back the current withering situation. The Manchu Qing outside the pass went to the old forest to capture the savages and replenish their own population and soldiers. The Mongolian tribes on the steppe are still the same as those in Eastern Mongolia like pigs and sheep, and Western Mongolia is fighting to survive.

On the third day of the first month of June, the Xiangyang Weide General's Mansion, that is, the mansion of Cao Cao and Luo Rucai, was noisy and noisy on weekdays, and the banquets were continuous, but today it was unusually quiet.

Inside and outside the general's mansion, they are all the strong pawns of King Li Zicheng's old camp, all of them are fully armed and nervously guarded.

In the main hall, the tables and chairs were knocked down with a bang, and Luo Rucai, who was covering his left shoulder, stood up from the fallen tables and chairs, the hand covering his left shoulder had oozed blood, and he was still wearing a robe, looking at the front of the hall and shouting:

"Blind man, why do you want to kill me!!" White, thank you, don't open a single chapter to canvass, I don't know if there is any effect, thank you