While all the ministers had not yet begun to report to me the news of various ministries and departments, I first opened my mouth and said to all the ministers: "Ladies and gentlemen, during my eastern tour, I occasionally encountered a military operation to encircle and suppress bandits in Qingzhou, and when I sent troops to suppress bandits, the grassroots command of the army was relatively chaotic. It is imperative to train officers at the grassroots level and reform the armed forces at the grassroots level. ”

The military reform involves the Ministry of War, so Zhou Tong, the secretary of the Ministry of War, took the lead in bowing to me and said, "The minister would like to ask for the Hadith." ”

You look at Lao Zhou, although he is old, this sycophant just slapped on my itch, the corners of my mouth raised slightly, and continued to follow the previous paragraph: "Why do I say that the grassroots command is chaotic, please think about it carefully, first, the number of soldiers in each army is not fixed, which is easy to cause the problem of soldiers not knowing generals and generals, although this can eliminate the possibility of large-scale chaos in the army, but this also causes senior officers to be unable to do the army like an arm when fighting, As a result, the combat strength of our army has always been relatively low, and it is easier for the enemy's meticulous work to infiltrate our army. Moreover, in large-scale military operations from ancient times to the present, there will always be such a sentence, which is called that you cannot take the commander before the battle, and there is also a saying that you cannot change the general before the army, which shows what an army, if its top general is killed, then no matter how strong its combat power is and how well-equipped the army is, then they will also be defeated. Moreover, if a general or even a marshal has to command tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of troops to fight, and there are only a few generals in the military tent, how can these generals send down the highest combat tasks in detail to every soldier in the army? Therefore, I have determined that from today onwards, every 10 people in the army will be a squad, with a squad leader, a deputy squad leader, a team for every 100 people, a team leader, two deputy captains, a regiment for every 1,000 people, a regiment commander, two deputy regiment commanders, and a brigade for every 5,000 people, and there will also be a brigade commander and two deputy brigade commanders, and the military combat tasks of more than 10,000 people will be temporarily ordered by front-line commanders. Moreover, to a large extent, we can avoid the problem of self-respect of the generals guarding the border, and even if the supreme commander of the front line is killed, our army can withdraw from the battlefield in an orderly manner under the command and leadership of its grassroots commanders, thus retaining our vital strength to the greatest extent. Ladies and gentlemen, think about it again, if it was before, the army went out to fight, you ordered troops in front of the formation, and a large area of black pressure, how many people could you know, and you could command a few people like an arm, but after the reform, if you want to lead an army of 100,000 to go on the expedition, all you command is the twenty brigade commanders in front of you, and a few senior generals with the army, and each brigade commander directly gives command orders to the two deputy brigade commanders and five regiment commanders, and the regiment commander's order is issued to two deputy regiment commanders and ten captains, and so on, like this, Our army's front-line operational command capability and small group military combat capability will be greatly enhanced. ”

"What Your Majesty said is that with such a change, the front-line military command of my Great Song Dynasty and the combat cooperation between various branches of the military will also be greatly improved, and my emperor is really a genius." After Zhou Tong figured out the key to what I said, he slapped me with a little sycophant, who said that old Zhou didn't understand human feelings, you looked at the sycophant, although it was obvious, but you couldn't find a little fault

Then Zhou Tong, the secretary of the military department, asked me again: "Your Majesty, if you reform like this, will the four special forces of artillery, Hua Wolf, Ghost Shadow and Izumo also be reformed in the same way?" ”

As for the artillery, the same is true, they have a small group of five people per artillery, two groups are a squad, ten squads are a team, and so on, but the highest establishment of artillery is at the regimental level, and the artillery of each regimental unit can be dispersed and equipped with various armies. Let's assemble a certain amount of mortars for the time being. ”

"The old minister obeys." Zhou Tong bowed down

"There is also a naval division, from today onwards, the Zhejiang naval division will be renamed the East China Sea Fleet, Yue Fei will be the first general of the East China Sea Fleet, the Ordnance Department and the Shipbuilding Department will step up the work, quickly complete the equipment of the East China Sea Fleet, and send an order to Yue Fei, I require the East China Sea Fleet to have strong combat effectiveness in a short period of time."

"Yes, the old minister obeys. However, Your Majesty, the old minister still has a question. ”

"Oh? What's the doubt? Zhou Laoqing's family, please speak. ”

"Regarding the issue of artillery equippment, Lao Chen doesn't know why His Majesty only assembles a certain amount of mortars on Jiangnan Zhulu?"

"The climate in the south of the Yangtze River is humid, nearly 150 days out of 365 days a year are rainy and continuous, gunpowder and its susceptibility to moisture and lose its effect, and there are many waterways in the south of the Yangtze River, and the land routes are also relatively muddy, our heavy field artillery is fighting in the south, and it is extremely inconvenient to move, so I let the roads in the south of the Yangtze River only be equipped with a certain amount of mortars." As long as the gunpowder is wrapped in oilcloth paper, waterproof and moisture-proof to make it home, it can be used in the south, and the cavalry is not afraid of the muddy roads in the south, but because of the army in the southern roads, I am not sure if there are those ill-intentioned families involved in it, and when I find out the situation of the army in the south of the Yangtze River, I still have to count on them to fight in India for me

Zhou Tong, the old fox, is an old man, looked at my eyes for a while, and then said those words, how could he not know what I was thinking, and then he cooperated with me to make a sudden realization and said: "Oh, I see, it is still long live to see far away, the old minister is ashamed of himself." ”

After Comrade Lao Zhou patted me on the back, he returned to his shift, and then the heads of various ministries and departments of the DPRK and the Central Committee took turns to report to me on the work of various ministries and departments in the past few months, such as the personnel assessment of the Ministry of Officials, the external social problems of the Ministry of Rites, and the tax issue of the Ministry of Household Affairs on the tax this autumn. The reason for this was that the Seljuk Turkic Empire in the West, with its rich and gold-rich Eastern Empire, levied extremely high taxes on non-national merchants from the East and West who passed through its territory

I kept suppressing the anger that was bubbling in my heart, gently rubbing my temples, and secretly scolding the greedy and damned Turks and Kipchaks

I controlled my emotions, waved my hand to let Liu Shihai return to the shift, put this matter aside for the time being, and then I continued to ask the ministries and departments: "Ministry of Industry, how is the construction of the cement avenue?" ”

"Returning to Your Majesty's cement avenue to the west through Henan Mansion, Hezhong Mansion, Yan'an Mansion, Xiazhou to Xingqing Mansion has been completed, and the cement avenue to the north through the Daimyo Mansion and Xingzhou to Zhending Mansion can be completed in a month."

"How many Dangxiang slaves are there in our country so far?"

"Long live, there are a total of 900,000 male and female slaves of the Dangxiang clan still alive in our country."

Alas, the lack of personnel made the construction of roads in the Great Song Dynasty very slow, and when Africa could be discovered, I was very optimistic about the black slaves there

I retracted my thoughts that I had digressed again, and said to Zheng Junyan: "The Ministry of Etiquette has issued a etiquette policy, pedestrians are all on the right side of the road, and the rest of the non-pedestrian personnel are all on the right side of the road. ”

Zheng Junyan took a step forward and bowed.