At present, the title system of the Chinese Empire is not perfect, and there are currently two levels of kings and lords, which are princes and county kings. There is a fifth-level ordinary title, which is: the prince and the uncle.

The first of them is the prince, who is not the prince, and the second is the prince of the county, and the son of the prince is not the prince. And it is worth noting that although the son of the prince can be named the prince of the county, this is not a hereditary title of the prince of the county, but is directly given by the emperor. In other words, the prince can only be sealed and cannot be attacked!

As for saying that the prince cannot inherit but the subsequent clan, what should I do? For the time being, Lin Zhe himself has not thought about this problem.

Why? Not to mention that the world has not yet been defeated, and more importantly, he doesn't even have a son now, and it is still too early to think about his grandson in a few decades and hundreds of years, and what title his great-grandson should get.

The titles of princes and barons other than the prince are relatively simple, and they do not learn from the Qing Dynasty to make a first-class earl, second-class earl or the like, which is directly simplified to five levels, and there is no title such as the light car captain of the previous dynasty under the baron, nor is there a knight in the West.

Because Lin Zhe wanted to increase the gold content of the title from the beginning and increase the difficulty of obtaining the title, so effectively ensuring that the noble group is worthy of the name, it is also to avoid the nobles flying all over the sky, and a nobleman can appear in a random small village.

Due to the small number of titles, the secretariat is to make a suggestion to subdivide the current titles, especially the earls and above, into ordinary titles and titles.

For example, the current Shi Qingxuan, he is now an earl, and this time Lin Zhe plans to give him a knighthood. Suqian County, the place of Shi Qingxuan's military exploits, was titled, and Shi Qingxuan was named Suqian Bo. Double the year.

In addition to giving titles and adding new years, Lin Zhe also gave Shi Qingxuan a palace of the former Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. There are also a command knife engraved with the royal dragon pattern, two Yanmar and other odd and bits of rewards.

However, there is also a more important thing to posthumously seal Shi Qingxuan's deceased father, of course, he still uses the name of Su Qianbo.

In contemporary China, where loyalty and filial piety are paramount, in fact, the posthumous title of Shi Qingxuan's father is more severe than giving him a marquis!

Another general in northern Jiangsu, that is, Shen Chiyun, deputy commander of Jiangbei Military Affairs and commander of the Fifth Army, was rewarded for his achievements in conquering Yangzhou, Huai'an, and Shuyang, and was promoted from major general to lieutenant general. He became the second senior general in the Chinese army to be promoted to lieutenant general.

And the knighthood is not promoted, and is still a viscount.

The reason why he was promoted to military rank but not to knighthood is because at present, for Shen Chiyun, what he needs most is not the honor of the knighthood, but the real rank of lieutenant general, as a commander of the Fifth Army, it is not a matter to always carry the rank of major general on his shoulders.

In fact, Lin Zhe's promotion was not a special treatment, but a foreshadowing of a large-scale promotion, waiting until December. Lin Zhe will carry out a new round of adjustment of military ranks, and when the time comes, he plans to raise the commanders of all departments and the commanders of all armies to the rank of lieutenant general, otherwise the division commander will be a major general and army commander. The chiefs of staff of the army are also major generals, and even the chief and deputy chiefs of various departments. The heads of important departments and bureaus are also major generals, and there are so many major generals. And the lieutenant generals are only one or two, and they will definitely not work.

Such a large-scale promotion of military ranks naturally cannot be inconvenient because the ranks of generals are the same. Rather, there is a deeper consideration: that is, the preparations for the large-scale transfer of senior generals of the military in December that will be brought about by December!

Since the era of Yu Shengjun, it has never been said in the Chinese army that a certain general can stay in a certain position for a long time, especially a division commander, army commander and other positions of real power, it is impossible to be held by a certain general for a long time.

This is not only to take into account the fact that the general's long-term service will make the troops under his command have an overly strong personal style, and to prevent the troops from rebelling, etc., but also to take into account the promotion mechanism and training of the general.

After all, the Chinese army is so big, but the real large-scale battle with the enemy is actually only in the northern Jiangsu region, and it will still be in the north in the next six months or even a year, but this has also caused a problem, that is, generals in other directions have no battle to fight, no battle will not win, no victory will not have military achievements, and no military achievements will not be promoted!

Shi Qingxuan has been in the limelight in Jiangbei for more than half a year, not only becoming the first person to be promoted to lieutenant general in the army, but also the first general to obtain the title.

Xu Yanqing, who is in southern Anhui, has written many times to ask for war, asking the empire to launch a westward expansion plan as soon as possible, and at the same time, he has also given Lin Zhe a secret fold, and has already talked about some topics many times in a vague way, such as putting forward a few tactical ideas for long-distance attacks, and saying what problems should be paid attention to when conducting winter operations in the northern plains, etc., just to remind Lin Zhe: He Xu Yanqing can also go to the north, and he can also lead the First Army to sweep through the northern provinces.

Even Shi Langyi, the chief of the General Staff, has been unwilling to be lonely recently, a few days ago, when Lin Zhe left him to have afternoon tea with him, he let go of a few idle words, and his words were full of envy of the generals who led the army, although he did not say it explicitly, but Lin Zhe also knew that he hoped that he could let him go out and return to the field army.

Shi Langyi was known as the first general under Lin Zhe in the early years, and actually planned many battles in northern Zhejiang, Suzhou and even Changzhou, when Xu Yanqing ran hundreds of miles all the way from Huzhou to Danyang, Zhenjiang, and Nanjing, outsiders remembered Xu Yanqing's bravery, but Lin Zhe also knew that these battle plans were formulated and implemented by Shi Langyi.

It's just that two years ago, Shi Langyi had some illusions about the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and was faintly suppressed by Lin Zhe, and in the end, his reputation in the Chinese army became less and less, and his reputation was not even as prominent as Chen Yuntao.

In the early years, Shi Langyi was a little afraid of rebellion, and some were reluctant to follow Lin Zhe to do it, but now that the wood is in the boat, whether he wants to or not, he has already boarded Lin Zhe's ship, and it is the kind that can no longer go down, and the more important thing is that now the Chinese Empire is extremely good, and the military Lian Zhan Lianjie has allowed the empire to control Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Anhui, Fujian and other provinces, and the expansion of the ruling area also provides more adequate military spending.

The annual military budget of 60 or 70 million silver dollars alone is more than the total expenditure of all other military forces in the country.

For the future of the empire, not only the soldiers have great confidence, but even those civilian officials who surrendered from the Manchu Qing are smiling, why? Because they saw the great possibility of the empire unifying China!

In fact, last year, Shi Langyi had already given up other ideas and fought for the great cause of rebellion of the Chinese army with others, but those remarks in the early years still made him suppressed, which can be seen from the fact that he has not served as the commander of the army for more than a year.

But this Shi Langyi is already tied to his chariot, and he can't keep letting this talented general waste time in Nanjing.

The chief of the Joint Staff may sound very powerful, but in fact he is more like a steward, and strategic planning and other affairs are handled by the various departments under the General Staff.

Sooner or later, Lin Zhe will have to put him back down, and the upcoming December adjustment is an opportunity.

In addition to Xu Yanqing and Shi Langyi, some other people also need to make adjustments one by one!

In order to make the adjustment go smoothly, Lin Zhe began to pave the way in November, first of all, to promote the ranks of some senior generals one after another.

That is, after Shen Chiyun was promoted to lieutenant general, Xu Yanqing, commander of the Fourth Army, and Shi Langyi, chief of the Joint Staff, were also promoted to the rank of lieutenant general in November, and in December, Lin Anfei, commander of the Second Army, and Lin Dabiao, chief of the Navy Department, were promoted to lieutenant general and vice admiral.

At the same time, a group of people were promoted from colonel to major general!

Beginning in early December, with Lin Zhe's large-scale promotion of military ranks, more than ten senior generals such as Shen Chiyun, Lin Anfei, Xu Yanqing, Chen Yuntao, and Shi Qingxuan were successively recalled to Nanjing by an edict to report on their work.

At the same time, in order to prevent large-scale turmoil during the adjustment period in December and to avoid giving the enemy an opportunity, it is not that all the senior generals have returned to Nanjing to report on their work, and they are not coming back at the same time, but in batches; generally speaking, if the division commander returns to Nanjing, the division chief of staff will definitely stay, and if the army chief of staff and the division commander are gone, the army commander will also stay.

For example, in Jiangbei, Shen Chiyun returned to Beijing to report on his work, but Shi Qingxuanyun stayed.

And not all the people who returned to Beijing to report on their work came back at the same time, the first one to return to Beijing was Shen Chiyun, he received the order to return to Beijing to report on his work at the beginning of November, and he just returned to Nanjing and did not even return home, but was directly taken to the Zhonghua Palace Pingren Hall to meet Lin Zhe, and after the two talked for several hours, he went to the headquarters to participate in a joint meeting.

After returning home and sleeping in a hurry, he continued to soak in the headquarters the next day, and after meeting Chen Yuntao, who had just returned to Beijing, at noon, he hurriedly took a ship of the navy again in the afternoon, and then rushed to northern Jiangsu.

It's just that when he left Nanjing, he had changed from the commander of the Fifth Army to the commander of the First Army, and at the same time he also brought with him the appointment decree written by Lin Zhe himself.

This is actually the same as Shi Qingxuan's 'Jiangbei Military Commander' before, which is a temporary assignment and is not considered a formal military position.

As for Shen Chiyun's transfer, it can also be seen that the current Shen Chiyun has replaced Shi Qingxuan as the supreme commander of the Chinese army in the north. (To be continued......)