Volume 2: The Eighth Route Army's Festival Envoy - Chapter 12: The Festival and the Festival (4)
However, he patted his chest in front of Han Wei, but Li Wenge did not immediately persuade Wu Gang to touch countless nails, making him realize that this old man Chen was extremely stubborn, unless he thought of an effective way, it was completely impossible to subdue him with his own power alone, and he couldn't really do anything to him because of these things, so after thinking about it, he instructed Chen Zhe, but Li Wenge temporarily put this matter away.
In fact, he has already thought of a general method, but this method cannot be seen immediately, and it requires a soft knife to pull people slowly.
Nine counties throughout Yanzhou have posted notices announcing that the Zhongwu general Li Wenge will also lead the Yanzhou Jiedu Queen. Li Wenge insisted on using the "Yanzhou Jiedu Liuhou" in the proclamation and resolutely opposed the use of the regular name of "Zhangwu Army Jiedu Liuhou", and his action made everyone in the state capital understand that the history of the existence of the Zhangwu Army as a military town was coming to an end.
The fate of the large number of officers and officials of the Setsudu shogunate has become an extremely sensitive issue. These days, Li Bin's observation has caused an endless stream of people in the mansion to come and go. The shogunate bureaucrats, who had rarely moved to the eastern city, had now taken Li Bin's door, and these officials who had sought refuge in the Gao family had actually been completely hollowed out since April, and a large number of civil officials, including Liu Xun, the judge of the festival, and more than a dozen martial artists, including Zhang Tu, were in danger of being laid off, and they did not have the courage to go directly to Li Wenge's door, so they had to come to Li Bin, who had the greatest influence on Li Wenge.
Among the people who came to seek official positions also included many patriarchs of the high-ranking clans, and the entire political system in Yanzhou was facing a reshuffle. This is something that everyone knows very well, those who originally had official positions hoped to keep their official positions, and the clans that had not been able to extend their tentacles into the Shogunate hoped to take this opportunity to send their children into the shogunate and even the army, so as to improve the status of their local family. In this period of alternating between the old and the new, everyone fantasizes about getting a piece of the pie for themselves or their families.
Li Wenge turned a blind eye to this situation, and he has recently been busy reorganizing the army. After the end of the autumn offensive, as soon as Li Wenge returned to Yanzhou, he incorporated the two new battalions of the Xiangbing Regiment, which had completed the training of queues and basic combat skills, and Li Hu's garrison battalion, into the Yan'an Regiment. They are divided into the front battalion, the rear battalion and the middle battalion. In this way, the establishment of the Yan'an regiment was basically full. Five battalions and a scout brigade of nearly 1,400 combat soldiers. Under the current situation, it has basically been able to meet the military defense needs of Yanzhou, and even without the support and cooperation of the Zhejia army, Li Wenge believes that the Yan'an regiment alone will be enough to hold Yanzhou.
The Eighth Route Army's territorial expansion is very astonishing, and now there are a large number of veterans who have been tested in actual combat, and the Xiang Corps is able to train one or two new battalions every month. It was only limited to the local resources of Yanzhou, and Li Wenge could not guarantee that the growth of equipment could keep up with the expansion of the troops. After March, there were 750 sets of infantry armor supported by the Ori family. From the beginning of the year to the present, the output of wooden guns has been growing slowly, from the beginning of the month can only produce 50 wooden guns per month to now be able to ensure the mass production of 160 wooden guns per month, the weapons and equipment of the Yan'an regiment have basically been satisfied, but if the troops continue to expand according to this degree, the current scale of production has been difficult to adapt.
The commanders of the front and rear battalions and the officers of the supervising army are still selected from among the veterans. Limp was appointed commander of the front battalion. And Wei Xun's original younger brother Li Dezhu won the lottery this time, and the team was directly appointed by Li Wenge as the commander of the rear battalion. This primitive corps of officers was the basis by which Li Wenge controlled the army, and the military supervision system from Wei Xun was the second line of insurance to ensure the loyalty of the troops. Therefore, Li Wenge intended to gradually expand Wei Xun's power base in the troops -- of course, this was on the premise of not affecting the combat effectiveness of the troops, and Li Wenge would have solicited the opinions of Shen Chen, the commander, on the appointment of any battalion-level commander, and if Shen Chen could put forward convincing reasons and objections, Li Wenge would never have taken the risk of reducing the combat quality of the troops to forcibly appoint a person with poor military command ability to serve as the battalion-level commander-in-chief.
As for the team-level officers, Li Wenge simply didn't bother to ask about it, and just waited for Shen Chen and Wei Xun to confirm the personnel, and Li Wenge summoned these officers one by one to express his condolences and officially passed it.
In this era when there are no modern means of communication such as radio, the hierarchical command system of the troops is the only guarantee for winning battles, and the existence of a large number of experienced and capable officers at the battalion level is the basis for the combat quality of the troops. In this era, it is difficult for an army that can fight to win a battle even if it is capable of fighting at a higher level, so Li Wenge is unwilling to do such a stupid thing.
On the evening of 15 September, when Li Bin came to Li Wenge with a thick stack of personnel resumes, the new Jiedu Liuhou was writing the art of war with his own memory -- in fact, he was recalling some of the basic theories in the "Theory of War"; many of the concepts of the era of hot weapons could not be copied in their entirety to this era, and Li Wenge could only pick and choose, and select those principles, strategies, and tactics that could barely be used in the hot and cold weapon environment, and record them for later use. Li Wenge knew that he had come to this era for two years, and he had a lot of knowledge before
As time goes by, it will gradually disappear from your memory bank, and if you don't record this knowledge while your memory is still good, you will really travel back in vain.
Li Hu was officially dismissed from slavery by Li Bin a few days ago, and officially moved in with Li Wenge, responsible for the security of the entire Jiedu Mansion. At this moment, he came in to report Li Bin's visit, and Li Wenge put away the pen, ink and paper, and invited Li Bin to come in and talk.
Looking at the stack of resumes brought by Li Bin, Li Wenge smiled lightly and said, "...... It's so eager! ”
Li Bin also sneered: "No matter in prosperous times or troubled times, there are indispensable people who want to be officials." These days, the threshold of the old man's house is about to be broken, and today I am here to discuss a countermeasure with you! ”
Li Wenge frowned and thought for a while, and said, "These people who want to serve in the army." Who are they? ”
"The children of the family, the remaining officers of the original Zhangwu Army, are roughly these two types of people!" Li Bin stroked his beard and said, "Troublesome, I promised them, and the army that just had some new atmosphere immediately became a miasma again, and if I didn't agree to them, I was afraid that this group of people would get together and complain secretly." There are them fanning the flames underneath. Don't try to do anything! Li Bin pondered.
Li Wenge thought for a while. Zhan Yan smiled: "The left and right will have to be done sooner or later, so it's better to take advantage of this opportunity to do it......"
Li Bin squinted at him and said, "You came up with a way so quickly?" ”
Li Wenge said with a smile: "It's easy to say, these resumes of seeking military positions are all placed here with me, and although I have to reply to these people, I just say that I want them to wait for news." ”
Li Bin was stunned: "How are you going to reply to them?" ”
Li Wenge pondered: "At the beginning of the establishment of the town, I have been thinking about building a Liutao Pavilion on Fenglin Mountain, which is directly under the jurisdiction of the military town. In addition to being directly promoted on the battlefield, they must enter the Liutao Pavilion to participate in the study of the art of war and tactics, and practice the method of command and control. After that, they were promoted and appointed according to their military merits and talents. It is an officer who is temporarily promoted on the battlefield. It is also necessary to enter the Liutao Pavilion to study and work before it can be corrected, otherwise it can only be inspected. This Liutao Pavilion was set up, and there were sergeants in the army who were talented generals. The local Confucian scholars who were willing to put pen to paper, as well as the children of these families and old officers who had sharpened their heads and wanted to squeeze into the army, all stuffed them into the Liutao Pavilion to study and train, even if they had official positions at the moment, they were only students after entering the museum. and after graduation, the corresponding positions can be arranged according to the original position......"
Li Bin frowned and said, "Can this method be effective?" ”
Li Wenge smiled: "Observe and rest assured, the high training intensity and strict industry standards in this Liutao Pavilion are by no means tolerable to ordinary people." If these people can't stand the halfway through their studies, you and I must be blamed, we have given them a chance, and it is their own family that has retreated; It's not that we refuse to arrange for them to join the army, but that they themselves don't think they are fit to join the army. Observe and think about it, is that the truth? ”
Li Bin smiled: "What if they really survived and got through it?" ”
"Hiring ——!"
Li Wenge is categorical.
"As long as they are able to pass the job, it proves that they have adapted to the military discipline and training intensity of this new army under our command, and it also proves that they have the qualifications and conditions to become officers and commanders. As long as it is a talent, the Eighth Route Army will use it as appropriate, and heroes do not ask about their origins, although the children of the family are not a head taller than the big soldiers, but they will not become a reason for discrimination. These people are all people who have the conditions to study, their education level is much higher than that of ordinary soldiers, and due to the limitation of literacy, it is difficult for most of these battalion officers to become the commanders of large units at the division and regiment level in the future, but among these cadets, this proportion will be very high in the future. As long as it's good steel, it can always be honed......"
Li Bin nodded: "Since you have confidence, the old man naturally has nothing to say!" ”
He put the top stack of resumes on the table, picked up the bottom stack and said, "What about these requests for clerical jobs?" ”
This time, Li Wenge didn't think about it, and said with a smile: "In addition to the judge of the festival and the pro-people officials of the counties, the rest of the titles of the office, the secretary's office, the copywriter, the long history, and the Sima, can be allowed to them casually, don't be stingy!" ”
"Ah——?h Li Bin suddenly frowned, "Such nonsense, does the state capital still want to operate?" ”
"The state government doesn't need these idle officials...... Li Wenge shook his head.
Seeing that Li Bin was puzzled, Li Wenge explained with a smile: "I am ready to reform the official system of the state capital, and the real power of Zhou Zheng will be attributed to the officials of Zhu Cao Ke in the future. ”
"Reform the bureaucracy?" Li Bin was taken aback again.
"Yes-" Li Wenge nodded, "The state government should be divided into levels and special departments, and it is not possible to grasp the eyebrows and mustaches. If Yanzhou wants to make some improvements, this official system must be changed. ”
"How are you going to change it?"
I feel that Li Wenge is a bit unfathomable.
Li Wenge said without hesitation: "The future state capital is divided into two levels of vertical management of Cao Ke. Under the state capital, Cao is divided into affairs. Each Cao official is called the principal, is the sixth product, and is engaged in the six products; Each Cao is set up to manage the government, and each section official is called the main book, which is the eighth product, and the history of the order is the deputy of the main book, from the eight products. These two levels of officials are state officials, and they are promoted from one to the other in the counties. Adjuvant for government affairs. There are section judges above each Cao. Positive five products. Take charge of all Cao affairs, set up a general judgment as a vice-president, from the five products, and assist in all Cao affairs! ”
"How is the division of labor?"
Li Wenge smiled and said eloquently: "Under the state capital, there are three Caos, who are responsible for the administration of money, grain, civil affairs, prisons, and water and land transportation. Buzheng Cao set up five departments: agriculture, labor, business, taxation, and judgment, and divided into five things: agriculture, craftsmen, merchants, taxes, and inspections; According to the inspection Cao, there are three sections: trial and punishment, public security, and prison. The division files and adjudicates cases, arrests and patrols, and divides criminal punishments and prisons; The transport Cao set up four departments of land, waterway, road construction, and post station, and was divided into four things: land transportation, water transportation, road repair, and post administration. A total of three Cao and 12 departments are used to deal with the local government affairs of the ten counties of the state capital, which is enough! ”
Li Bin was dumbfounded, since the Wei and Jin dynasties, the division of Cao directors has become the basic rule of the central and local government systems, the central government has six departments, and the local prefectures and counties have Zhu Cao. Division of labor to assist in government affairs. In recent years, the local government system has been disordered. There were many subordinates under the Setsudu envoys, and there were as many as 100 shogunate officials above the seventh rank in a prefecture, and these people were all responsible for one of the Setsudu envoys. It is nothing new that the bureaucracy is large and inefficient. The reform of the local government system has long been imperative, but the change of central power and the chaos in the world have not freed up the imperial court to do these things. Li Wenge was a martial artist, and he had not yet officially taken over the post of envoy to Jiedu, but he quietly created a set of state government system with a simple system and a clear division of labor. And this system is so simple and clear that Li Bin only listens to it once and fully understands it without the slightest incomprehension, which is really too unexpected, and what is even more exaggerated is that Li Bin thought about it, but he couldn't think of anything that was not covered by this system for a while, this system seems simple, but in fact it is comprehensive and all-encompassing. Is this really a place designed by a person who has never mixed in officialdom and has never had experience in governance?
Li Bin has been an official for more than 30 years, and he believes that he has not been able to design such a control system.
Li Wenge still remembers the night before he crossed over, the big debate between himself and the obscure fat man, the two of them almost argued from the official system of the Zhou Dynasty to the three princes of the Qin and Han dynasties, the three princes of the Tang and Song dynasties, the six ministries of the Ming and Qing dynasties, the military aircraft, and even the evolution of the political system of the new ChinaThe purpose of the history discipline of "Comparative Studies of the Bureaucratic System" is that a certain fat man does not give in to each other, and the fight has not come to an end until Li Wenge successfully crosses.
The direct result of this controversy is that Li Wenge's level of bureaucracy has advanced by leaps and bounds overnight, and he has already set up a complete and meticulous concept of bureaucracy from the first grade to the ninth grade, from ministry to scattered rank, from the rank of lord to knighthood, from the central to the local, and this concept has concentrated the essence and culmination of the evolution of the bureaucratic system for thousands of years. Its completeness and scientificity have long surpassed the understanding of the relationship between power and bureaucracy by politicians in any historical period in Chinese history.
In this world, there are many people who are more educated than Li Wenge, but when it comes to understanding and understanding the official system, absolutely no one can surpass him. Because he not only knows the changes in official positions in the past 1,000 years, but also knows the evolution and trend of the official system in the next 1,000 years.
Today, he casually said that the local bureaucratic reform plan was just a small test.
Li Wenge is confident that as long as the unlucky fat man does not travel with him to this era, no one in this world will be able to design a clearer and more reasonable plan for the reform of the bureaucratic system than his own.
Although Yanzhou is a prefecture, in fact it is only the area of a prefecture-level city in Li Wenge's era, and its population is not even as large as that of a county in Li Wenge's era.
According to Li Wenge's plan, the total number of officials in prefectures and counties is expected to be limited to 70, and as for the rest of the "servants" and "officials" who have not yet entered the stream, the total number of officials in the ten counties will not exceed 200.
Li Bin came back to his senses for a long time and asked, "This position of judge of the festival degree seems to be Zijian......
Li Wenge was stunned for a moment, shook his head and said: "No, the power and responsibility of the judge of Jiedu are too heavy, and the main responsibility is to coordinate the division of labor and cooperation between the Caos. In my vision, he is the natural choice to be the head of the state government......"