297 New Dynasty and New Style (II)
The new imperial court completely separated the military and the government, and although the military department was still managed by civilian officials, it was basically responsible for affairs, and the real training of troops and marching and fighting all depended on military attachés. www.biquge.info Since the Eight Banners system has been abolished, it means that the military system of the Qing State needs to be reformulated, and there is no need for the Green Battalion to exist.
Also modeled after part of the Tang system, the Qing Dynasty's military system also underwent major reforms. First of all, the Qing army carried out a transformation in the establishment, five people and one army, ten people and one tithe, this grass-roots structure has not changed, but the chief of the army is subordinate to the chief, in fact, the chief is equivalent to the squad leader. Basically, it is a three-three system, three tithes are a platoon, three platoons plus a company to form a company, and the company is a scale of 100 people. The three companies form a battalion, and the three battalions form a standard, which is marked as a scale of about 1,000 people, which is half smaller than the Datang Infantry Regiment. Then the three standards are one association, and the three associations are one town, that is, division-level troops, with a scale of about 10,000 people, and the extremely standard three-three system.
However, in terms of officer titles, a large number of the original Qing army titles were retained. The company commander is called the company commander, the battalion commander is called the battalion commander, the standard commander is the standard commander, the co-commander is the co-commander, and the town commander is still the general soldier.
In wartime, the troops of several towns may be formed into a single army, the size of which varies according to the needs of the army, and the supreme commander is the capital commander.
The Qing army also began to use the military rank system, and at first the court officials and Yongyan also wanted to engage in some Qing characteristics, but because the Qing army would definitely cooperate with the Tang army to some extent in the future, Bai Nan directly rejected their proposal and framed the new army with the three-level system of the global general captain. From the second lieutenant platoon commander, lieutenant company commander, captain battalion commander, to major standard, lieutenant colonel assistant commander, colonel commander. All were major generals, and lieutenant generals were commanders-in-chief of the Front. The general is the commander-in-chief of the theater, the commander of the services, and the chief of the general staff.
Naturally, these generals will not be needed for a while. Because in essence, it is now directly under the imperial court. There was no Qing army.
The regiment commander of the Tang Dynasty is the rank of colonel, with only 1,500 people, and the total number of soldiers of the Qing army is 10,000, which is also the rank of colonel. No matter how you look at this, it is problematic, but it is full of Tang considerations, not to mention that the town tactical units of the Qing army are actually similar to the regimental troops of the Tang army, and if there is really a joint operation in the future, Bai Nan hopes to be the colonel of the Tang Dynasty. The colonel of the Qing Army is the chief soldier, so the rank must be the same level or one level lower than the Tang Army officer.
Here I have to mention a special force, that is, the Armed Guard Army, which is composed of the soldiers of the Green Battalion and the children of the good family of Zhili. In the previous war, the Tang army wiped out more than 100,000 Eight Banners and Green Battalions, some of which had been transformed and reorganized into the Wuwei Army, while the other part had not accepted the reorganization, together with their own families, that is, military households, were ready to emigrate to the Tang Dynasty. The total number of these green battalion military households is about 50,000. Bringing a family with a family is basically a semi-forced migration. However, the mood was generally stable, because the military families were given a settling-in allowance and some food supplies, as well as some land deeds. However, the land granted to the green camp military households is slightly less than that of voluntary immigrants, eight acres per person, which is also for the sake of distinction.
The relocation of 50,000 military households was a strong demand in China, and the shortage of labor made the country ask Bai Nan to find a way to send all possible immigrants to China, and Bai Nan easily relocated those military households who did not actively join the armed guards. There are also some people in Zhili who want to go abroad, but relatively few, compared to the Hakka people in Guangdong, the northerners are relatively more traditional and conservative, but the population base is here, and it is also a relatively considerable population.
The Wuwei Army had a total of more than 30,000 men, which happened to be three divisions. In terms of its positioning, Bai Nan finally established a principle, that is, the Wuwei Army was nominally under the dual leadership of the Qing Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty, but in fact, the Tang Dynasty was responsible for its training and command, and the military expenses and other expenses were paid by the Tang Dynasty. In this way, the Wu Weijun shouted that they wanted to serve the Qing Dynasty, but in fact they were eating the food of the Tang people, and it was self-evident who they would listen to when it came to the end.
Moreover, now that all the Wuwei troops are up and down, and a single braid is gone, Yongyan and the new imperial court have absolutely no real trust in this force, which is known as the first new army of the Qing Dynasty. However, the Armed Guards were still training at this time, and it was estimated that it would take at least two to three months before the Armed Guards would have initial combat effectiveness.
At this time, I have to mention a question, the future Great Fresh Army outlined by Bai Nan is definitely not a modern army, not to mention the puppet army of the Wuwei Army, the vast majority of the Qing army will still be a force dominated by cold weapons. Maybe Bai Nan will be "kind" and equip the Qing army in a town with about 500 to 1,000 SC-2 muskets, and even 18 SC1776 rifled guns, but in essence, it will not be a fully firearms unit, but a special unit combining cold and hot weapons.
Bai Nan will not be stupid enough to make trouble for himself, if he uses SC-2 muskets and SC1776 artillery to equip the Qing army into a modern army with all firearms, even if its combat effectiveness is limited, then for the Tang army, there will never be a situation like the Beijing Incident, the Tang army moved and the Qing army was defeated.
Of course, it is impossible not to equip the new army with firearms at all, because the original Qing army was equipped with a large number of firearms. On the one hand, a certain amount of firearms sales are in line with the interests of the Tang military industry, and the Americans, French, and British have now imitated some rifled muskets similar to those exported by the Tang Dynasty. The Jingshi Incident basically gave the Qing people a slap in the face, and a wave of new trends to open their eyes to the world was already predictable by Bai Nan.
On the other hand, the Tang Dynasty itself has a faster level of weapon progress, and the Qing army, which is about equivalent to firearms in the mid-19th century, is absolutely unable to fully achieve the same combat effectiveness as the Tang army with the same level of weapons during World War II. Datang's mechanized army can be completely crushed. Even if the Qing army played tricks to intercept the weapons evenly distributed to each town, equip them with a special army to use, and build them like the Armed Guards, they would definitely not be able to hold out for long in front of armies like the Tiger Regiment and the Snow Leopard Regiment.
Secondly, there is a problem that Bai Nan considers, and Datang took a big bite on Qing Guo this time. It may have made those European powers see that this ancient empire is a foreign power, and they may not seek to take as many advantages as the Tang people, but they can eat an extra bite. If the Qing army was too weak, the Tang people would have to stand up in person in the face of foreign insults, which was obviously not in the interests of the Tang people. In addition, it is conceivable that during the period of change, there will be an endless stream of careerists in the country, and the Tang Dynasty hopes that the Qing Dynasty will slowly disintegrate its social structure in relative stability, so the Tang people must not sit idly by and watch things such as the Sichuan and Chu rebellions, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom uprising, and the Tongzhi Shaanxi and Gansu rebellions.
In the nineteenth century, there were three large-scale civil wars, each of which lost more than 10 million people, which was unimaginable for Bai Nan, assuming that these 30 or 40 million people did not die needlessly, but emigrated to North America or other regions, which would be of great help to the future development and influence expansion of the Tang Dynasty.
Therefore, the Qing army must not be too incompetent, at least it can deal with the rebellious people and foreign invaders. This is another difficult problem with certain challenges, if it is too strong, the Tang Army will be in trouble in the future, and if it is too weak, it will still be troublesome, and it is really not an easy thing to master moderation.
Since the treasury of the household department and the treasury of the internal affairs of the Qianlong Dynasty were all collected by the Tang people, the new imperial court now has almost no funds. In order not to make the new court unable to open the pot, Yongyan could only use tariffs as collateral in exchange for a loan of 30 million taels from Yuanzong. This incident made Yongyan hate so much that he had to grind his teeth at night, he knew that the Tang army had robbed the treasury and the internal affairs office, and also robbed all the family property of the people in the city, and now he actually had to use the tariff as collateral to borrow the money that originally belonged to him, with an annual interest rate of three percent.
Bai Nan knew that if the Qing market was fully opened to Datang, then next year's tariffs would inevitably exceed 10 million taels, followed by an astonishing explosive growth, and 50 or 60 million taels a year would be common in the future. Even the principal and interest will be repaid in the form of customs duties, and I am afraid that the money will be paid off within three years.
Yongyan, who is bent on re-strengthening the imperial court, can be regarded as racking his brains for a little money. In the end, he still threw out the trick of betraying the official mantle, which has been tried and tested since ancient times. There is a special shortage of officials in the imperial court and local governments, and it is obviously impossible to make up for all the officials by relying on the imperial examination and other methods for a while, so why not rely on this opportunity to make a fortune.
non-grade public office, five hundred taels; From five pins, one thousand taels; positive five products, two thousand taels; From the fourth grade, three thousand taels; is four products, five thousand taels; From three products, ten thousand taels; is three products, 20,000 taels. This time, the donation was up to the third grade, and Bai Nan was blamed for setting a total of ten official levels for the new imperial court, which was also inconvenient to buy and sell officials.
However, Yongyan didn't dare to go too far, all the donors bought grades, if they wanted to join, they had to be assessed, this assessment was much easier than the imperial examination, and it was also like this during the Shunzhi period. After passing the assessment, the real shortage is granted, ensuring that everyone has an official position, and if they are really capable, it is also very possible to donate 20,000 taels to a prefect. However, if you want to donate to the provincial government, you have to pay 10,000 taels, although you can't donate a big person like the governor, but the deputy position in the provincial bureau may be able to donate, such as a deputy director of the provincial agricultural bureau.
If you have money and a big heart, 50,000 taels, one step in place, enter the Beijing imperial court to join the three products, the emperor may be able to see it, maybe once you are favored, you will get up.
Bai Nan was also extremely helpless after seeing the new donation plan formulated by Yongyan, but he did not object. On the one hand, the anti-corruption intelligence of the Metropolitan Procuratorate in the new imperial court has been greatly strengthened, and soon officials will find that there are serious consequences if corruption is found without the maintenance of honest silver. The rate of return on this donation is worrisome.
And after donating officials, he wantonly amassed wealth, which intensified social contradictions to a certain extent, which is what Datang wants to see. (To be continued.) )