Chief of Staff Sun Liechen finally reacted at this time, and then asked the question he wanted to ask the most. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Marshal, what is the specific establishment of the Wehrmacht?"

Yang Xingguo immediately said what he thought in his heart: "The largest unit of the border guard army is the brigade, and the level is equivalent to the deputy division commander of the main force. Each brigade has three regiments, three battalions under the regiment, and three companies under the battalion, and the company has the same strength and firepower as a combat company of the main force. ”

"That's not the same as the establishment of the main division, in that case, why not just call it the border division." Sun Liechen's brows furrowed, and he immediately asked Yang Xingguo.

"No, it's different!" Yang Xingguo replied in the affirmative.

"The main task of the border guards is to defend the border and block all enemies who want to invade our territory. Therefore, even if the border guards encounter a battle, it is a defensive battle. ”

"However, the main combat mission of the main force is to attack, so because of the different combat methods, their establishment and firepower configuration will also be different."

"The newly formed border troops, light and heavy machine guns and mortars suitable for defensive warfare, will be massively equipped with troops. But heavy artillery suitable for the offensive is not equipped. There are also reconnaissance troops, engineering troops, and baggage troops...... The allocation of technical troops will also be much less than that of the main force. ”

Seeing that Sun Liechen directly took out a notebook to prepare for the record, Yang Xingguo continued to explain.

"The border guard battalion has only three main companies, a communications guard platoon, a heavy machine gun platoon, and three heavy machine guns."

"One regiment of the border guards has three main battalions, a guard company, a communications squad, a mortar company, a baggage platoon, and no sappers and scouts."

"The brigade has three regiments, a guard battalion, a communications platoon, a mountain artillery battalion, a baggage company, an engineer platoon, and a reconnaissance cavalry platoon."

"Because the troops have reduced the proportion of artillery and there is a large number of technical arms, a border brigade has been formed, with a total strength of about 5,000 people. Just in terms of troops, it is equivalent to half a division of the main force. ”

"The total garrison force of the whole army is about 150,000 people, leaving 30,000 to be reorganized into a police force, the remaining 120,000 to be reduced and 30,000 to be dismantled, and the remaining 90,000 to form 15 frontier brigades, each brigade is responsible for a section of the border defense line, and the 15 brigades should be able to replace all the main forces on the border.

Sun Liechen saw at a glance the tremendous benefits of forming a border guard. Therefore, as soon as Yang Xingguo finished speaking, he was happy and returned to the staff headquarters with the treasure he recorded to study how to implement the entire plan.

Streamlining the administration of the elite army, dismantling the garrison troops, and forming a border guard army certainly belong to the content of the elite army.

As for streamlining administration, it is a matter of the government.

In order to stabilize the local areas, when the government took over the local areas, the national defense forces took over all the various institutions and officials set up by the imperial court.

With the National Defense Forces thoroughly controlling the three northeastern provinces, the imperial court officials who originally belonged to the local snake can no longer affect the stability of the government, and leaving these court officials behind will be a cancer that will do all kinds of harm and no benefit to the National Defense Force.

Therefore, it is necessary for Yang Xingguo to take advantage of the temporary tranquility of the three eastern provinces to completely remove this cancer.

After Yang Xingguo told Huang Xing, who hurried over, his thoughts, as the Minister of Civil Affairs of the three northeastern provinces, Huang Xing knew this tumor better than anyone else, and then agreed without thinking about it: "Dashuai, I have long wanted to clean up these people." You don't know, all these people in the three northeastern provinces combined, there must be 60,000 people. More importantly, these more than 60,000 people are dispensable, and if they are removed, the operation of the government will not be affected at all. ”

"After all, many of the functions and powers of those institutions left over from the imperial court are duplicated, and they are not used at all in the three northeastern provinces now. If they were removed, the government would save at least seven million taels of silver a year. ”

"But the government is going to lay off so many people at once, and it is sure to cause a certain amount of panic. In order to ensure the stability of the overall situation, I would like to have the support of the Ministry of Supervision and the army. ”

Huang Xing has long had this determination, which is definitely good news for Yang Xingguo

Without thinking about it, he replied, "There is no problem with this." I want to know exactly what you're going to do with this! ”

"These people are all officials of the imperial court, and as far as I know, few of them are clean. I'm going to start with that, and the Ministry of Supervision will find out about their corruption, and then the army will arrest them. ”

"If the circumstances are serious, they will be sent directly to prison. If it is not serious, they will be fined a piece of silver according to the amount of embezzlement, and they will be allowed to get out of the officialdom. In this case, the whole repeal will become justified, and no one will have anything to say. ”

The smile on Yang Xingguo's face became thicker at this time, and he said with great satisfaction: "There is no problem, just do it according to your ideas, and through this repeal, all the tumors on the government will be removed." ”

"In addition, the funds saved by the government after the abolition of these people will not be a penny of money from the Marshal's Mansion, and all of them will be included in the salaries of government officials. From now on, I will pay high salaries to the people who eat official food under the Marshal's Mansion, so that all the people in the three eastern provinces will envy these people. However, if the Ministry of Supervision also finds that someone is corrupt at the same time as the high salary, then I am sorry, and I will definitely increase the punishment. ”

With a high salary and low income, Huang Xing, who studied abroad, immediately understood Yang Xingguo's thoughts.

A very important reason why the Qing court was full of corrupt officials was that the salaries of officials were too low.

The meager salary can't even support his own family, so what's the point of being an official?

In order to live a good life as a human being, and to glorify their ancestors, social reality forces them to embezzle.

It was precisely when he saw this that he mentioned this matter to Yang Xingguo when he joined the National Defense Force. Yang Xingguo also recognized his idea at that time, and at that time he raised the salaries of all government officials to twice that of court officials of the same level.

However, such a salary standard can only make the officials' lives worry-free.

And if you want to glorify your ancestors and live a life that others envy, you obviously can't reach it.

And after this salary increase, Huang Xing is sure that it can be regarded as a generous salary, which is enough for officials to live a life of superiority and glorify their ancestors.

Thinking of this, Huang Xing immediately said gratefully: "I am Xie Dashuai on behalf of everyone in the government." With such a generous salary, if there are still people who are corrupt, it is not forced by life, but a problem with character. ”

"To deal with such people, not to mention the Ministry of Supervision and the marshal, even I, Huang Xing, will not let them go. Please rest assured, I believe that the government has tens of thousands of people, and even if there are such people, there are very few. ”

For several months, the entire three northeastern provinces were enveloped in a tense atmosphere because of the continuous attacks of the Japanese navy.

However, the newly established Ministry of Supervision has developed vigorously under the management of Minister Zhou Zhongju. From a few dozen subordinates at the beginning, it has now grown to more than 2,000 subordinates.

Today, the Ministry of Supervision has an inspection section and 10 inspectors in each county. Each city has one supervision office, more than 30 procurators, and each province has one supervision office, and more than 100 procurators.

In addition, in order to cooperate with the Ministry of Supervision in identifying officials, the police force to be established by the Government will also be under the dual leadership of the Ministry of Supervision. (To be continued.) )