Chapter 489: Unexpected Appointment

The title of the Hezhou Imperial Army, the Xingyuan Mansion Imperial Army and the Jinzhou Imperial Army, was all canceled, this is the establishment of the army of the Song Dynasty, and now the Ming Dynasty is naturally not usable, in fact, a few years ago, Wu Shaogang began to implement a certain degree of transformation of the army, for example, the establishment of the Dingkun Army, completely independent of other armies, but this change, only within a small range, see after the creation of the Ming Dynasty, the army needs to be re-established, there is a new name. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

On this issue, Wu Shaogang is very cautious, before the crossing he was originally an instructor of the special forces, and he is more familiar with the historical changes of the army, how to establish the military structure of the Ming Dynasty, whether to implement the transformation according to the establishment after a thousand years, or to change the structure of the army of the Great Song Dynasty slightly, is a dilemma.

According to the army system after the millennium to standardize the army under the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty, this should be the best choice, after all, after a few years of evolution, after a thousand years for the establishment of the army, there is the most mature establishment system, and that arrangement, is also conducive to the real combat effectiveness of the army, but that kind of arrangement, whether the people of this era can accept, whether they can understand the mystery, it is difficult to say.

Wu Shaogang did not accept a slight improvement in the establishment of the Great Song Dynasty army, even if it was the army of the Great Yuan Dynasty, which was known for its courage and good warfare in history, its army establishment was too chaotic.

We must not be negligent in the issue of the name and establishment of the armed forces, and if we are indifferent, it will have a direct impact on our combat effectiveness.

After several days of thinking, Wu Shaogang finally proposed the name and organization of the army owned by the Ming court.

The army owned by the Ming Dynasty is called the Ming Army, with the Privy Council as the highest military command organ, and the Ministry of War assists the Privy Council in handling the relevant matters of the army, and the Ming army of more than 300,000 is divided into five parts, which are called the Central Theater, the Northern Theater, the Southern Theater, the Western Theater and the Eastern Theater, each theater sets up a metropolitan governor to lead the affairs of the entire theater, and the Metropolitan Governor has four to five thousand household chiefs, and the number of troops under the command of each 10,000 household chiefs is about 10,000 people, and the number of thousands of households under the head of 10,000 households, deputy thousand households, 100 households, General flags, small flags, and so on.

Each theater has set up a metropolitan governor's office to oversee the affairs of the army under its jurisdiction, and the local government is not allowed to interfere in any affairs of the army, and the metropolitan governor's office has set up corresponding official positions to assist the metropolitan governor in handling all matters, but the number of people needs to be limited, and try to be as capable as possible, so that it can make decisions at any time and not delay time because of mutual prevarication.

The Metropolitan Governor is under the jurisdiction of the Privy Council, and the Emperor appoints him directly, and the Metropolitan Governor of each place generally cannot serve as the Metropolitan Governor for more than five years in the war zone, and must be adjusted or rotated at that time.

The army stationed outside the city of Kaifeng Prefecture is called the Imperial Forest Army, with a total of 50,000 troops, responsible for the defense of the capital, including the defense of the capital, and its commander-in-chief is also called the Metropolitan Governor, but the officers under it are replaced by the Governor of Ten Thousand Households, and the Governor still sets up thousands of households, deputy thousands of households and other officers.

The arrangement of the Ming army is the product of the combination of ancient and modern, and it shows Wu Shaogang's prudence, to do anything, you need to take it step by step, you can't take a big step, if it is directly over to the establishment of the army after a thousand years, I am afraid that everyone will not accept it, and it is difficult to really carry it out, and in terms of the number of officers, it is a detailed and strict regulation, the number of officers is fixed, and non-special circumstances must not allow arbitrary breakthroughs.

In terms of the staffing of the metropolitan governor, Wu Shaogang also thought about it carefully.

Ma Long served as the governor of the Imperial Forest Army, Zhang Binghui served as the governor of the Eastern Theater, Cai Siwei served as the governor of the Northern Theater, Zhang Hongfan served as the governor of the Southern Theater, and Zhang Jue served as the governor of the Northern Theater.

Li Tingzhi served as the privy envoy, Wu Shaowu, the secretary of the military department, served as the deputy privy envoy, and Yuan Shichun and Tan Changxuan served as the privy deputy envoys.

After this appointment was issued, it caused a huge repercussion in the DPRK and China.

The most surprising thing is that there are two aspects, one is that the prime minister of the DPRK and China is not necessarily the privy envoy, among the prime ministers, only the left prime minister is the privy envoy, and the deputy privy envoy is the secretary of the military department and the military officer, and it is also the privy deputy who manages the daily affairs of the privy council, and major matters will be coordinated and decided by the privy envoy.

On the other hand, Zhang Hongfan served as the governor of the Southern Theater.

Zhang Hongfan is the son of Zhang Rou, and he is also an official of the Dayuan court, so long time has passed, Zhang Hongfan is not particularly outstanding in the army, and he has not made any great contributions, compared with many henchmen around Wu Shaogang, the qualifications are far from enough, but Zhang Hongfan, who is not qualified enough, actually served as the governor of the capital.

However, this was a decision made by the emperor, and everyone was only surprised, but no one objected.

Wu Shaogang must have made these two decisions for a reason, and the mystery and meaning of them are not necessarily clear to many civil and military ministers, but Wu Shaogang himself is very clear and understood.

The practice of the left and right prime ministers of the Great Song Dynasty serving as privy envoys and controlling the army is actually a practice of the founding emperor Zhao Kuangyin in order to be able to fully control the army, and the most clear point is that almost all the prime ministers of the Great Song Dynasty are scholars, and they are not particularly familiar with the affairs in the army, and the so-called control of the army is impossible to know the inside affairs of the army, so the army is actually in the hands of the emperor, and at the same time, let the left and right prime ministers control the army, and let them contain each other.

Let someone who is not familiar with the army be the commander of the army, Wu Shaogang will not do such a thing, it is tantamount to self-destruction, and it will only make the army slowly weaken, as for the emperor's fear of others usurping power, in Wu Shaogang's view, this mainly depends on the emperor's own ability, if the emperor is a waste, it is better to let a capable person inherit.

Wu Shaogang has absolute control over the Ming army, and he is slowly letting the prince Wu Ruikun start to contact the army, so that many generals in the army will submit to the prince Wu Ruikun, so that when Wu Ruikun ascends the throne in the future, he will also be able to control the army.

As for only letting Prime Minister Zuo serve as a privy envoy, this is also considered from the aspect of army construction, the army needs a lot of expenses, which will be a heavy burden for the Ming court, but such a burden must be carried on, and must not be ignored because of the huge expenses, history has proved countless times that if the army is abandoned, the country will be poor and weak, and while developing the economy, it is necessary to strengthen the construction of the army.

Wu Shaogang also knows that Li Tingzhi's power is very great, so big that it is not even weaker than the prince, but in this case, you can rest assured, Li Tingzhi's age is not young, and he has a very special identity, according to Li Tingzhi's current attitude and ideas, he will only do things desperately to make the Ming Dynasty stronger, and he will spare no effort to assist the prince, and there will never be any idea of usurping power.

Of course, the left prime minister after Li Tingzhi cannot have so much power and background.

As for the rise of the Li family, this is something that Wu Shaogang can't stop, any dynasty will have a prominent family, even after a thousand years, this is the law of historical development, Wu Shaogang will not adjust the law of history.

Appointing Zhang Hongfan as the governor of the Southern Theater, Wu Shaogang was also resolute.

Through a period of observation, Wu Shaogang found that Zhang Hongfan is indeed a rare talent, and it is no wonder that Kublai Khan attached great importance to Zhang Hongfan in the past, Zhang Hongfan is an honest official, can care about the people's welfare, and takes the lead in the army, and will never exploit the sergeants, and more importantly, Zhang Hongfan has a very good way to control the sergeants, so that the sergeants are convinced.

Lifting Zhang Hongfan is also the back hand left by Wu Shaogang, and the rest of the governors are all Wu Shaogang's own henchmen, except for Zhang Hongfan, and this time Zhang Hongfan served as the governor of the southern theater, the prince Wu Ruikun is about to go to the south to inspect, at this time, let Zhang Hongfan accompany Wu Ruikun, after getting acquainted with each other, Zhang Hongfan is an important talent left by Wu Shaogang to the prince, of course, Wu Shaogang will also warn Wu Ruikun, be sure to envelop Zhang Hongfan.

Regarding the affairs of the Wu family, Wu Shaogang categorically vetoed the proposal of Li Tingzhi and others.

Li Tingzhi and others suggested canonizing the people of the Wu family, for example, Wu Shaogang's father Wu Qiming, younger brother Wu Shaozun and sister Wu Shaolan and others, including Wu Shaowu, Wu Shaogang did not agree, he knew very well that the family could not completely intervene in the affairs of the court, and if they did not have considerable ability, they could not go to the court to be officials, so as not to use their special status to do mischief, so that Wu Shaogang would not be easy to deal with.

Of course, to give the family glory and wealth, this is needless to say, let the parents not do things, can get the regular supply of the imperial court, it is also possible, Wu Shaogang even made a decision, after the south is completely pacified, let the parents still return to their hometown in Luzhou to live, as the age gradually increases, I am afraid that the parents will want to return to their hometown, where is the root of the family.

There are some rules, Wu Shaogang will respect history and smooth history, but there are some rules that Wu Shaogang is determined to abandon, which depends on whether the remaining rules are conducive to the strength and growth of the Ming Dynasty.

Dealing with these matters also cost Wu Shaogang's time and energy, just when Kublai Khan sent Moge and Wuliang Hetai and others to the Mobei grassland, Wu Shaogang was also thinking about trying to stabilize the newly founded Ming Dynasty and stabilize the situation in the south, so both sides were quiet at this time, and there was no intention of continuing the expedition.

However, both sides are making preparations, they are very clear that the final decisive battle is coming, and the curtain of the battle for the world has already opened.