"There is no doubt that today we have already seen the model of future wars, and since we have seen it, then the construction of future troops should move forward on the road of the future, instead of looking at the victories and glories of the past all the time!"

Although this is not explicitly stated, it is very obvious that it is a criticism of some die-hard conservatives in the military leadership, whose continued behavior of blocking the implementation of the new establishment has made Lin Zhe feel tired.

From the day Lin Zhe established Yu Shengjun, the Chinese army was an army that dared to innovate, when the Qing army and the Taiping army still used cold weapons such as knives and guns to fight, he introduced the British modern army, brought the line tactics to China, and made this line line tactics become the pursuit of the major domestic forces in just a few years.

In those years, the new armies of the major domestic forces suddenly appeared!

Later, Lin Zhe introduced rear-loading rifles and front-loading rifled guns into the Chinese army, and the equipment of these two weapons greatly improved the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army, so that it was possible to defeat the British and French forces, successively defeat the Manchu Dynasty, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and Lin Chengting, and surrender Zeng Guofan.

If after 1858, the Chinese army was not equipped with rear-loading rifles on a large scale, and there was no Northern Expedition of the Sixth Army, then although the Chinese army still had an advantage over other new armies in Shanghai, it would definitely not be so big.

The pursuit of innovation is an important characteristic of maintaining the high combat effectiveness of the Chinese army.

However, after 1860, with the unification of the country, many military generals began to be content with the current state. They believe that the current Chinese army is strong enough.

But Lin Zhe knew that this advantage would not last long. Countries such as Britain and France have already entered the era of modified breech-loading rifles, and the next time a war breaks out with countries such as Britain and France. The rifles used by their troops will be all breech-loading rifles.

No matter what the era, it is impossible to stop military development, because if you are not careful, the enemy will overtake you.

Maintaining a sense of innovation is Lin Zhe's requirement for the military.

However, many senior generals made Lin Zhe quite dissatisfied!

Alas, maybe they are old, maybe they think it's time to enjoy their wealth in peace!

Thinking of this, Lin Zhe looked at the group of generals in front of him again, these generals of his own were indeed old, and they couldn't see the vigor and momentum of the year in their bodies.

In fact. The actual age of these imperial generals standing in front of Lin Zhe was very young, and the age of their main group was between thirty and forty-five years old, which could be said to be a man, the peak age of the military.

But Lin Zhe still feels that they are old, and it is not their age that makes them old, but their mentality!

They who have lost their pursuit are no different from those old stubborns in their seventies and eighties, and perhaps it is time to take advantage of this opportunity to make some personnel adjustments.

At this moment, they who were standing in front of Lin Zhe and listening to the hadith did not know it. The emperor standing in front of them had already made up his mind to make personnel changes in the near future, and many of them might leave their current positions.

On the way back to the palace, Lin Zhe called the director of the Quanxu Department of the Command Department into the carriage!

The director of the Quanxu Division is named Lu Changyan. Chinese New Year's Eve, a native of Anqing, Anhui Province, is not a traditional military background. In fact, he was an ordinary civil official until 1858.

But it was in 1858 that Lin Zhe began to implement the civilian system in the military, political, personnel and other departments of the military. In addition, some people with rich administrative experience were transferred from the cabinet and even the civilian sector to serve in the military's administrative departments, mainly for some clerical work.

It was at that time that Lu Changyan was directly assigned to the headquarters by the head of the personnel section of the Secretariat of the Palace Affairs Department. He first served as the director of the Quanxu Division, and then was soon promoted to the deputy director of the Quanxu Division, and this year he was successfully promoted to the director of the Quanxu Division.

In fact, not only him, many important civilian positions in the military are not professional soldiers, the most typical is Han Xiangfang, the chief of the ordnance department, although he has the rank of lieutenant general, but in fact he has never fought in his life, and he is not even very good at shooting.

Han Xiangfang is a typical administrative bureaucrat who basically has little connection with the military, but he has always firmly occupied the post of chief of the ordnance department and has become the core high-level of the military.

In addition, in many institutions, such as the Ordnance Department, the Quartermaster Department, the Ministry of Military Affairs, the Quanxu Department, the General Affairs Department, and the Military Medical Department, quite a number of their middle and high-ranking officers are not from professional military backgrounds, some are from technical personnel, and some are simply from civilian officials.

Lu Changyan is one of them.

Naturally, it is not okay for you to let him fight, but he has been engaged in personnel work in the Lin Zhe shogunate for many years, and served as the head of the personnel section of the palace affairs department, so he has quite a lot of personnel work experience.

In addition, although the head of the Personnel Section of the Secretariat of the Imperial Affairs Agency is only the title of section chief, he actually has considerable powers, because this personnel section is not said to be in charge of personnel issues for the Imperial Family employees within the Imperial Affairs Agency, but in fact the personnel affairs of the Imperial Employees are handled by the Personnel Division under the Imperial Affairs Agency.

The personnel section of the secretariat was responsible for assisting Lin Zhe, the emperor, in dealing with the personnel of state employees throughout the empire, including the cabinet, the military, and local governments.

Their work, like that of other sections of the Secretariat, is mainly to act as Lin Zhe's personal advisers and staff, and to deal with some complicated and specific matters.

For example, when Lin Zhe felt that the leadership of a certain province was not strong in business ability and needed to change the leaders of the province, the main work was the responsibility of the Cabinet Organization Department, such as making a list of candidates for the new governor and political envoy.

The work of the Personnel Section is actually very similar to that of the Organization Department, in that they will also draw up the relevant list of candidates, verify the list of candidates submitted by the Organization Department in more detail, and make a preliminary evaluation of each candidate.

At the same time, if the organization department carries out any organizational reform and submits many reform plans, they are also responsible for reviewing these plans and putting forward preliminary review suggestions.

Of course, they don't have any decision. They only play the role of Lin Zhe's personal advisors.

In general, the secretariat model constructed by Lin Zhe is very similar to that of the military aircraft department in the former Qing Dynasty and the celebrant supervisor in the Ming Dynasty. But the difference is that the secretariat established by Lin Zhe has a number of clear institutions. Not just a few people, but an entire Secretariat with more than 100 staff members and a lower political status.

Such a secretariat is a private think tank under Lin Zhe, and at the same time assists Lin Zhe in handling a lot of paperwork.

was transferred from the head of the Personnel Section of the Secretariat of the Palace Affairs Department to the Quanxu Department of the General Headquarters, which was a process of going from the back to the front for Lu Changyan.

After entering the military, he inevitably hung up his rank and became a major general, but he still didn't look like a soldier when he put on a military uniform.

At this time, he listened to Lin Zhe, and nodded yes from time to time!

"The graduates of the previous military academies have also experienced almost the same. It's time for them to take more responsibility! ”

"Now that we are officially in an important period of military reform, although stability is the first priority, we must also appropriately bring up some suitable talents, so that they can take on more important affairs. Well, we must also make proper arrangements for some people who are no longer able to hold important positions, and we can't let these old people who have been fighting with me for so many years chill their hearts! ”

Lin Zhe explained these questions in a casual tone!

Lu Changyan naturally nodded yes continuously. But after leaving Lin Zhe's carriage, he sighed secretly, this thing is not so easy!

When he entered the Lin Zhe shogunate in his early years, he was engaged in personnel work, and he was also in charge of personnel issues in the military for a time. He has been engaged in personnel work for so many years, and he knows very well that this kind of large-scale military personnel adjustment in Lin Zhe's mouth will involve many things.

For example, some political interests are entangled, and some military factions are tilted. There is even the possibility of causing a riot in the army, followed by a mutiny, and so on.

Both in the civilian system and in the military system. Large-scale personnel brawls represent a reshuffle of the power system, and a poor handling can lead to major negative consequences.

And once there are significant negative consequences. Those military generals naturally did not dare to have any complaints against His Majesty Lin Zhe, the emperor, and it was estimated that they would be angry with themselves, the specific person in charge.

At that time, in order to appease the military generals, it is very likely that he will be abandoned by His Majesty as an outcast, which is difficult for a standard political official to accept.

But Lu Changyan knows better that even in the face of this crisis, he must do it.

Because he, like many people, he got up on his own, and he didn't form a gang, he came step by step to the present by relying on Lin Zhe's trust and relying on the identity of a lonely minister.

He does not have a large group of political allies or factions like other officials or generals, and he has only one backer, and that is His Majesty.

His Majesty's trust is all his capital.

So even if the road ahead is very dangerous, he has to do it.

Lu Changyan not only did it, but also moved very quickly, and within a few days of the end of the Guards exercise, the Quanxu Division issued many personnel adjustment orders.

A large number of graduates of the military academy who graduated early and have accumulated considerable qualifications have been promoted, and have successively taken up some important positions, such as the operational staff positions of the Operations Department of the General Staff, and the ranks of these combat staff officers range from lieutenant to colonel, but no matter which one they are, they are the pursuit of many young officers, because after going to the Operations Division, they will be able to get in touch with more things, learn more things, and after going around in a circle, they will be able to serve in the field troops, and basically they can be promoted.

After the adjustment of the Quanxu Division, in addition to the deputy director and director of the Operations Division, the other directors and section chiefs of the other divisions were all graduates of the military academy who graduated after 1856.

Some of the lieutenant positions were those who graduated after 1858 and went through systematic skirmish tactics.

At the same time, more graduates have been assigned to serve as company commanders, battalion commanders, and even regiment commanders in some major field units.

In particular, the junior officers of some of the main forces were replaced by young officers who graduated after 1856.

And among the three students who graduated from Yu Shengjun's camp academy, except for those who were already in the top echelons, they did not move, and the other officers who were still only below the rank of lieutenant colonel after so many years belonged to the ranks of the cleanup.

Of course, this kind of clean-up does not mean that they will be discharged directly, but through a series of personnel adjustments, such as transferring them from the main front-line troops to the second-line troops, such as transferring them from field units to garrison units, or transferring them to various departments of the general headquarters and headquarters at all levels to take up some civilian posts.

This kind of large-scale adjustment will naturally attract the attention and even dissatisfaction of some people, but Lu Changyan is not stupid, he does not mean that hundreds of people will be adjusted at once one day, but a batch of adjustments will be adjusted every few days, and at the same time, in order to confuse more people, this adjustment is not to say that one layer remains the same, in fact, there are still some old and die-hard officers in the era of the camp academy have been promoted, and some graduates of the military academy who graduated after 1856 have been demoted, and so on.

Unless you get the list of adjustments within the Quanxu Division, it will be difficult to see the pattern in such a wide range of adjustments.

Of course, the main reason why there has been no unrest is that the current adjustment is only for the officers and lieutenants, and there is no large-scale adjustment for the generals.

However, Lu Changyan knows that the large-scale adjustment of generals is the real challenge, and this challenge will appear after the award ceremony in August this year.

In mid-August 1861, a large number of military generals and local government dignitaries gathered in Nanjing, and everyone had smiles and expectations on their faces.

Because since the beginning of the first half of the year, there have been rumors in the palace that with the end of the large-scale war in the country, the domestic bandit suppression operations have been completed one after another, and it is time to prepare to judge and award many heroes in the past few years.

According to the unclear information coming out of the palace, there will be multiple dukes and at least ten or more marquis in this large-scale award, and even more as earls, viscounts, and barons.

Hasn't it been to fight with Lin Zhe for so many years just to get a prince and marquis, and now it's finally time to pick the fruit. (To be continued.) )