Chapter 280: Establishment of the Temperance Envoy
"Your Majesty, did we really win?!" Zhang Hua looked at Emperor Sima Shu excitedly and asked, but now Zhang Hua still can't believe that this is true.
"yes, we won!" Sima Shu nodded firmly, breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "This time it was a complete victory." As soon as he was convinced, Sima Shu personally went to the British Mansion to meet Zhang Hua, who had been worried about the troubles in the north all these years!
From the establishment of the Jin Dynasty by Emperor Wu to the Rebellion of the Eight Kings, the Hu and Han sides never stopped conflicting. It was not until Sima Shu ascended the throne that the Han gradually gained the upper hand. It is now the fifth year of Sima Shu's ascension to the throne, and in the past five years, the court has been preparing for this battle with great painstaking efforts.
Now that the imperial court has finally been eliminated, and more importantly, this battle has re-established the prestige of the Han people, which terrified the Hu people in the north, and also re-established the hegemony of the Great Jin in Asia!
"Taifu, I've already started to get people to start a full-scale publicity!"
"Well, Your Majesty's move can be described as far-sighted!" Zhang Hua immediately grasped the purpose of Sima Shu's propaganda with great fanfare, which was the best time to fully establish the emperor's prestige within the Great Jin Dynasty.
When the news of a major victory was announced by the imperial court, almost all the factories, schools, and departments were in a boil, but after the boiling, it felt a little unreal, and the war lasted only two months before it was completely victorious?
Then the newspapers were printed out and distributed in the streets.
At first, the news was not very comprehensive, but soon the major newspapers reported one after another.
When the reporters published the results of the battle in various places in the newspapers. No one doubted the news of the victory anymore.
This is a miraculous victory, for the people of Dajin, this victory came so dreamlike, so that the whole country was immersed in an incomparably good mood.
Whether it is an official newspaper or a private non-governmental newspaper, when publicizing this victory, they do not forget to publicize the emperor Sima Shu, and at the same time call on the people to bury their heads in production, so as not to hinder production and construction. With the end of the war, a new round of construction in Dajin will kick off.
In the Jiade Hall of the Imperial Palace, Emperor Sima Shu was discussing post-war matters with cabinet members. I only heard Meng Guan, the deputy envoy of the Privy Council, say loudly: "Your Majesty." The Privy Council has already decided on the outcome of the battle. There is nothing wrong with that. In this battle, we captured 110,000 Huns, killed more than 50,000, and less than 10,000 escaped. What a big win! Meng Guan sighed.
"Haha, good! I know. Shizhi will not let me down. Unexpectedly. It's still beyond my expectations! Although Sima Shu already knew the results of the battle. But after hearing it from Meng Guan again, he still couldn't help laughing, it seemed that he was very satisfied with the outcome of this big battle.
"Mengsun. When the war is over, the casualties of the troops will certainly not be small, so you must do a good job of relocating the wounded. Sima Shu told that this northern war lasted for two months, and although the Great Jin Dynasty achieved a brilliant victory, its own casualties were not small.
"Aiqing, how many people did we lose in the entire Northern War?" Sima Shu turned his head and asked Meng Guan on the right.
"Your Majesty, the specific casualty figures have not yet been counted, but according to the minister's estimates, in the two-month war, there were about 50,000 Jin troops who were killed and seriously injured and retired, plus other wounded Jin troops, accounting for almost a quarter of the entire participating troops, and we lost more than 20,000 people in the Jinyang Battle alone." Meng Guan replied in a heavy tone.
Sima Shu nodded, his mood was also very heavy, after this battle, the Jin army lost at least 80,000 people, "Although the loss is a bit big, it is worth it to completely change the strategic situation of the northern land of the imperial court." In addition, the Privy Council, the War Department, and the Admiralty immediately began to recruit new soldiers from among the local government soldiers to replenish the lost troops, and the number of troops serving as field missions in the future should be kept between 300,000 and 500,000! In the end, all meritorious personnel should also be commended, and they should be promoted, and the General Staff Military Administration will come up with a specific plan! ”
"Please rest assured, Your Majesty, regarding the list of commendations, the General Staff Military Administration is discussing with all front-line departments, and will come up with a preliminary plan in the near future. In addition, after the end of the war, were the major theaters in Guanzhong, Central Plains, Northwest and Northeast adjusted or abolished? ”
Sima Shu was stunned when he heard this, but he quickly reacted. At the beginning, in order to facilitate the command of the battle, the imperial court set up several major theaters to unify the command of the Jin army in various places. It's just that in this way, including Zu Ti, all of them have become generals with heavy troops, and during the war, everyone may feel nothing, but as soon as the war is over, these generals with heavy troops will make the court feel like a man!
"Well, I have a new idea for discussing this with the ministers. This theater system was set up on an ad hoc basis, and now with the end of the war, it is only natural that the theater will be abolished. But I have another layer of consideration, please see, now our territory is much larger than ever, and there are still more than 300,000 troops to manage in peacetime, so it is very necessary to set up a sub-management body under the Privy Council! ”
"Your Majesty, what are the levels and settings of this institution? And what kind of responsibilities will he have? Zhang Bin asked.
"Well, I plan to set up nine major jiedu envoys in Dajin, with one jiedu envoy in the mansion, two deputy jiedu envoys, and a number of long history and army members. In peacetime, the duties of the Jiedu Embassy are mainly responsible for managing the daily training tasks of the Xiang Army within the Jiedu Embassy, and will be upgraded to the corresponding theater as needed in wartime. Sima Shu explained.
"Your Majesty, isn't the power of the envoy a little too great?" Wang Yan frowned and asked, in his opinion, Sima Shu's move was no different from Emperor Wu's expansion of the power of the vassal king, and it would be equally easy to breed a powerful feudal town in the future.
"Hehe, father-in-law, don't worry, listen to me. Although this envoy was responsible for the management of the Xiang army in his jurisdiction, he did not have the right to transfer troops, and at the same time, he did not have the power to promote and appoint the soldiers under his command privately, and the logistics and supply of the Xiang army were still managed by the imperial army department. Moreover, the term of the festival envoy is only five years, and after five years, the local festival envoys must be rotated! ”
"Oh, I see!"
Everyone suddenly realized that the Jiedu envoy looked like he commanded tens of thousands of troops, but he was just a paper tiger. The officials in the entire Jiedu envoy are all transferred by the imperial court, and the Jiedu envoy does not even have the right to suggest, plus the rotation system and logistics are controlled in the hands of the imperial court, so the Jiedu envoy just looks majestic.
"This section sets the official position under the four ranks, which is one level lower than the two major departments under the jurisdiction of the Privy Council (the Military Service Department and the Military Judge Advocate General's Office). I plan to be in Guanzhong (under the jurisdiction of Yong and Qin), Northwest (under the jurisdiction of Liang and Xihai (not yet recovered), Shuzhong (under the jurisdiction of Yi and Liang), Huainan (under the jurisdiction of Jing and Yang), Central Plains (under the jurisdiction of Si, Henan, Yan Prefecture), Hebei (under the jurisdiction of the two prefectures of Ji and Hebei), Shandong (under the jurisdiction of Xu and Qing), Liaodong (under the jurisdiction of You, Ping, and Andong), and Sanhan (under the jurisdiction of Sanhan and Wadao). ”
"What do you think of my idea?" Sima Shu asked.
"The ministers have no objections, Your Majesty, if this Jiedu Embassy is established, will the governor's mansions in all places be under their control?"
"Of course not, the governor's offices in various places still operate independently, they only accept the leadership of the War Department, and the envoys of various places have no right to interfere in the affairs of the governor's office, nor do they have the right to mobilize the government soldiers in various places privately!"
Zhang Bin and the others looked at Sima Shu thoughtfully, it seemed that their methods as an emperor were becoming more and more sophisticated, and they were very skilled in using the way of checks and balances of the emperor's mental technique. After the end of this war, a large number of soldiers will definitely be promoted to the ranks, and the military will also produce a number of generals.
You must know that Sima Shu has been on the throne for so many years, and only Zu Ti has obtained the rank of general Zuo in the entire court, and the ranks of the others have not reached the rank of general. In this way, the imperial court is not afraid to arrange your positions, and now the military who wins the general will usher in a big outbreak, and the imperial court needs to have more positions to accommodate each other.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the war is over, and we have won, so we can finally put all our minds on economic construction in the future. Please ask the cabinet to come up with an economic recovery plan as soon as possible, and it is best to formulate a five-year plan, and strive to use five to ten years of effort to make the north of the Great Jin Dynasty as prosperous and powerful as the inland! ”
"Do your Majesty's will!" The cabinet members nodded one after another, and without external threats, the Dajin economy will undoubtedly be able to develop more rapidly.
"As for the military aspect, after the end of the Hu-Han War, the threats we faced were mainly in the northwest and Mobei, especially in Henan, and I hope to recover them in two to three years and completely expel the Xianbei forces from the south of Yinshan. Only in this way can we ensure the safety of Guanzhong. After exhorting the economic construction, Sima Shu did not forget to remind everyone not to relax the military aspect.
"Your Majesty, speaking of the land of Henan, the Military Intelligence Agency has just received an urgent report that Tuoba Pugen in Mobei is secretly plotting to annex the southern part of Tuoba. With the failure of the Great Wall in the south, the rule of Tuoba Liuxiu in the south of Tuoba seems shaky, and he has sent an envoy to our court, and it is estimated that he has come to sue for peace. Meng Guan said.
"Well, it's good to come, it's not appropriate for us to meddle in the land of Henan too early at the moment, and let Tuoba Xianbei have some civil strife first, which is a good thing for us. But we can't just cheap the other party, and when the people of Tuoba Six Cultivators arrive, we have to blackmail the other party. ”
"Hehe, please rest assured, Your Majesty, this time you have to make the Tuoba people vomit blood!" (To be continued......)