Chapter 738: Ye Yu's version of the military system reform
If it is said that Su Yuanhang is for personal grudges, to beat Yue Lei's father and daughter, and his father-in-law Su Quanzhong, then punishing Sun Dehai, the general of Jin Wuwei, and removing Jiang Fu from his position as privy envoy, is for the official affairs of the imperial court.
Because all along, Ye Yu has been worried about the military system of the Great Song Dynasty!
When Ye Yu was the secretary of the ministry, he made a series of reforms in the governance of officials, although there was no immediate effect like Wang Anshi's drastic moves, but the foundation of gradual progress has been built.
The rule of officials has gradually been effective, but the disorder of the military system is one of the most troublesome things after Ye Yu ascended the throne.
During the Southern Song Dynasty, the military system changed greatly compared with the Northern Song Dynasty. Started from Gaozong Zhao Gou, and opened the Marshal's Mansion to control the armies.
Although the military leadership system of the Privy Council was basically retained, the ability of the imperial court to control the army had been weakened, and the military power of the Privy Council had also been reduced.
The forbidden army is no longer in the main position, there are many box soldiers, there are no longer the soldiers of Fan, and the construction of the township soldiers is more complicated, the system is different, and the main force of the army is the garrison soldiers and the three Ya armies.
The garrison soldiers are the troops led by the generals of the anti-Jin Dynasty and stationed on the front line, and their titles have changed several times. Later, in order to strengthen the control of the garrison soldiers, the imperial court changed it to the imperial camp army or the marching camp guard.
These are all military systems formed when Gaozong Zhao Gou fled to Jiangnan and established the imperial court at the beginning of the period, and had to face the Jin soldiers going south. But at the same time, with the development of time, the generals of these garrisons in various places have their own troops.
Among them, the most obvious is Yue Fei, so after Zhao Gou sat down in the country, out of the pressure of the Jin State and Qin Hui's fanning of the flames, in the end, jealousy and suspicion prompted the determination to kill Yue Fei.
This embarrassing situation of not being able to control the local military force was not slightly improved until the period of Xiaozong Zhao Yan, and the power of the Privy Council gradually increased, but it was still difficult to control the local military forces, such as the Wu Legion in Sichuan and Shu in the southwest, which is a very intuitive example.
At the same time, the formation of a bloated trend of armament personnel at the central and local levels is also a problem that brooks no delay.
In short, there are many people who don't and eat, but there are very few people who really do practical things and have combat effectiveness.
These people are like vines, entangled and clinging to the big tree of the imperial court, and at the same time, they are also imprisoning the growth of the big tree step by step.
However, these people should not act rashly, and in addition to the network-like relationship structure between the government and the opposition, it is more about how to settle these people after they move recklessly.
The three redundant crises of redundant soldiers, redundant personnel, and redundant expenses are hidden dangers throughout the entire Song Dynasty, and it is not easy to cure them radically, whether it is Fan Zhongyan or Wang Anshi, they are powerless in this regard.
Move the whole body with a hair, move the government and the opposition with a strategy, even if he Ye Yu is authoritarian and arbitrary, he can't be so rash to use the knife, the slightest carelessness will lead to failure.
At that time, it will not only affect his own throne, but also affect the hard-won momentum of the Northern Expedition!
With the Song army coming all the way north and the triumphant song of Tokyo, Ye Yu felt that the seeds of his long-brewing plan already had fertile soil for growth.
What is lacking is just a drop of rain to make the seed grow and sprout.
Now that this 'drop of Ganlin' is finally here, Ye Yu, who has not used the topic to play, has finally found an outlet for release.
The next morning, Ye Yu made a mention of the military reform in the court, and Wu Ting, who was promoted to privy envoy, strongly supported it, although the military reform was detrimental to the strength of the Wu family, but he still had a clear distinction between the country and the family.
Although Jiang Fu, who took a back seat, was quite a micro-minister, but affected by the incident of the drunken immortal building last night, he was already shameless, and he knew that this move was irreversible.
Ye Yu already had a draft of the plan for military reform, and he didn't dare to have too much span, but complemented and mixed Fan Zhongyan's Qingli New Deal and Wang Anshi's Xining Reform Law back then.
Ye Yu does not think that a failed change is a failure, and its content plan is a failure, and it can only be said that the implementation of the change is hindered by external reasons.
Of course, except for the Wuxu Method, it is just the work of the hypocrite Kang Youwei!
The most important reason for choosing to mix these two changes is that these two changes have achieved certain results before, and the pros and cons are well known, so they can effectively learn from and make up for the shortcomings.
The reform of the military system is basically based on the law of strengthening the army in Wang Anshi's reform, and is summarized as six laws, including special, military reduction, generals, horse protection, ordnance supervision, and military aircraft!
Among them, what is different from Wang Anshi's method of strengthening the army is that there are more special laws and military aircraft laws!
The special law is actually the prototype of the special forces, which Ye Yu has planned from the beginning, otherwise the guards around him will not have the combat power to make the enemy fearful.
This bill was opposed by a number of ministers, because the development of a special forces requires more than twice as much money as the Central Army, and training and training are not very troublesome things for the stationed institutions.
But on this issue, without Ye Yu coming forward to explain, Wu Ting stood up directly, and the answer was very decent: the cost of using special forces to quell the rebellion and expedition is far lower than the cost of using the Xiang Palace or the Forbidden Palace to quell the chaos in the past.
This is an ironclad fact that has been fought in several wars.
As Wu Ting, who has the most right to speak in the military, after some analysis and explanation, everyone had to choose to remain silent, because this is indeed a fact......
Immediately after the bill was decided, the original Privy Council was directly reorganized into the Military Aircraft Department, with Wu Ting as the Minister of Military Aircraft, Jiang Fu and Yue Lin as deputies, and seven people from the DPRK were selected to join the Military Aircraft Department to discuss the matter.
The initial leadership of the military aircraft composed of 10 people directly broke the pattern of civilian control in the Privy Council, and also directly formed a system of 10 people, dividing and weakening everyone's rights.
This is the Military Aircraft Law, the Military Aircraft Department composed of these ten people directly belongs to the emperor, that is to say, the Minister of Military Aircraft still has no right to adjudicate on a major military aircraft matter.
Ye Yu didn't think about playing with a postmodern military system in one step, because it was not a very realistic system, and this was the reason for the seedlings to grow.
The application of some novel terms is not to mention whether the courtiers can understand it, that is, whether the postmodern system can adapt to the fertile soil of the feudal dynasty is a matter of unknown things.
You are good at taking risks, but you don't take risks to disrupt the country!
Finally, after many military disputes, Ye Yu accepted Wu Ting's Jianyi, and the imperial court would establish a special army of the Eighteenth Route in Xingqingfu, Qinzhou, Hejian Fu, Bazhou, Zizhou, Qianzhou, Juzhou, Yizhou, Guiyang, Qinzhou, Jizhou, Hongzhou, Jiangningfu, Caizhou, Luoyang, Kaifeng, Xuzhou, Hangzhou and other places.