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Because the post-war reconstruction work of Shaanxi, Shuofang, and Longdong provinces was extremely heavy, and because the geography of the three provinces was too far away from the administrative center of China, and more importantly, because in order to prevent the Mongolian departments in the three directions and the Qing army in Shanxi, more than 100,000 Xia troops were hoarded in the three northwestern provinces.

However, the time is almost the New Year, and Lin Liangrui is a Fujian person who is not tolerant of wind and cold, so it is naturally not a charter to give preferential treatment to the old ministers, so Zheng Kezhang arranged for him to take office again in February.

Just a former minister, Zheng Kezhang was not at ease, so he sent his sister-in-law Zheng Anyang to the minister of economic strategy.

Of course, in order to be promoted even by jumping, Zheng Anyang at this time only has the official position of Zhengqipin, and he can only act as a management clerk in the Jingluo Xingyuan.

"Lin Qing, I will give you the bus from Panyu County." In the imperial study, Zheng Kezhang explained to Lin Liangrui, "If the jade is not cut, it will not be successful, don't indulge him because of his status as a prince, and discipline him as he wants." ”

Lin Liangrui felt that he had a heavy responsibility, but he also knew Zheng Kezang's intention to hand over the prince to him, so he solemnly said: "Please rest assured, the minister will treat everyone equally, and the identity of the prince of Panyu will not be exposed." ”

"Sure enough, it's an old courtier who has been with me for many years, okay, it's good to understand." Zheng Kezhang smiled and ordered the waiter to send Lin Liangrui away, turned around and asked Zheng Anyang. "Sheng Guan, do you know why Daddy arranged you on this èizhi?"

Zheng Anyang, who has been trained step by step from a small official who has never entered the stream to the present, responded with a smile: "Father, the son understands that going through a post to manage and exchange documents seems to be a cumbersome and inconsequential job, but if you can think about it carefully, you can see a lot of things from it." ”

"That's a good point." Zheng Kezhang praised. "The experience of the Jingluo Mansion is no better than your previous one township, one county and one government, and the affairs of the three provinces are gathered, which can be described as a thousand things, you don't have to keep an eye on everything, just look at Lord Lin's approval, and then look at the cause and effect, when you will have a little more insight into politics."

Zheng Kezhang is putting Zheng Anyang at a certain height to look at the overall situation, of course, with Zheng Anyang's current experience as an official, it seems that he understands the ruling skills of the prime minister of a country from a high vantage point, but Zheng Kezhang feels that it is okay to let him see it early, at most, let him sink down and be a pro-people official in one or two realms in a down-to-earth manner, just like he stuffed his eldest son Zheng Andi into the shogunate of Lin Weirong, who was the governor of Ganzhou and other places.

Zheng Anyang replied thoughtfully: "Erchen understands, Erchen will work hard in Shaanxi." ”

"That's good," Zheng Kezhang nodded. "Let's go to Shaanxi after the New Year." Lin Liangrui is a veteran who can only go to Shaanxi after February, but the shelf in the Xingyuan of the Minister of Economic Strategy cannot wait for him to arrive before it is formed, so if Zheng Anyang doesn't want to expose his heels and feet in a big way, he can only go out early with the officials and the staff. "By the way, this time I will take your daughter-in-law to Shaanxi together, let him watch you, and I will like one when I get a place."

Zheng Anyang was a little sneering, but it is the nature of a young man to be good, not that he likes one by nature, but he can't hold back.

Regarding his unpromising appearance, Zheng Kezhang couldn't help laughing: "Okay, don't make a twisted look, there are several sons and daughters, what's wrong with this, can you keep the bottom line and don't go to the fun to look for flowers and ask Liu to come back with a dirty illness, Daddy is already very satisfied, but this time under Lin Liangrui's nose, you have to be measured." ”

Zheng Kezang's words were very vague, but Zheng Anyang heard it clearly, yes, this time it was under the noses of important ministers, if he did something absurd again, there would be a problem with word of mouth, and it would inevitably cause some obstacles to his future future, so this was also a test of Zheng Kezang's patience for him.

"Alright, don't think about it anymore." Seeing Zheng Anyang bow his head and remain silent, Zheng Kezhang waved his hand with some emotion. "Go see your grandmother, after the new year, the Shengguan will also go down to the place to experience, all of a sudden the two sons have gone on a long trip, your aunt may also have some relatives, while there is still time, go and accompany her more."

Zheng Anyang retreated, Zheng Kezhang stomped to the desk, and picked up a report that had been dusted for a long time, which was specially presented by the Privy Council. Zheng Kezhang looked at it for a while, frowned, and then looked at the previous report of He on the march to Gansu, thought about it again, and finally made up his mind.

"Come on, go and summon Lin Sheng of the military department and Hong Gongzhu of the Privy Council, I have something to ask them!"

Lin Sheng, the secretary of the Ministry of War, and Hong Gongzhu, the envoy of the Privy Council, quickly arrived, looking at the two Xia army generals in front of him, Zheng Kezhang asked the chamberlain to hand over the two letters: "He's report said that the artillery of each division is almost impossible to Tongguo Bailongjiang Valley Road, and the Privy Council report that the last time I watched the battle of the Taixi countries in the suburbs of Coconut City, it was also mentioned that the Yi soldiers were widely equipped with small-caliber artillery. ”

Zheng Jun, the predecessor of the Xia Army, was originally equipped with light artillery similar to four-pounder guns and six-pounder guns, but with the great exhibition of Zheng Jun after entering South China, in order to strengthen the range advantage in the battle with the Qing army, the caliber of the artillery is getting bigger and bigger, and now the eleven points (new, about 66mm) guns equipped with the Xia Army brigade level are already the level of Taixi's ten-pounder guns, and the one-and-a-half-inch (about 91mm) guns at the division level have reached the level of Taixi's eighteen-pounder guns, not to mention the bulkiness. In the counter-shooting, it may not be able to defeat the firearms battalion in the Qing court, which is said to be equipped with a caliber of more than 11omm, and the cannon of General Wucheng Yonggu.

Building artillery and formulating the establishment of troops are both the business of the Ministry of War, so Lin Sheng asked tentatively, "What does the Holy Lord mean?" ”

"Now that our division has recovered most of the country, in addition to continuing the Northern Expedition, garrisoning has become a long-term priority, and there are no more than two divisions in each province, and only one division at least, and there is only one regiment left in the Partition Mansion." Zheng Kezhang said with some concern. "Although it is said that firearms are not used to quell the civil disorder, but now is not the prosperous era of the Haiqing River Banquet, there may be bandits in the mountains and forests, if you want to suppress them one by one, I think it is better to have a few artillery pieces at the regimental level."

Lin Sheng gasped, and the artillery assigned to the regimental level was not one or two, which not only meant that the existing military system had to be revised, but also meant a huge overhead. The more money it spent, the more power it proves, but it's not just what he thinks. The water control and immigration of Zhongzhou and Jianghuai, and the use of troops in the three northwestern provinces, which do not need the huge financial subsidies of the Huaxia Dynasty, Duzhi Yamen has already screamed, how can there be extra financial resources to give the military department additional military spending.

So Lin Sheng replied with a wry smile: "Holy Lord, this matter involves a lot, so you must act cautiously." ”

"Continuing the Northern Expedition is the biggest thing for the dynasty," Zheng Kezhang had clearly made up his mind. "Every qiē has to make way for this national policy." Having said that, money doesn't fall from the sky, so Zheng Kezhang changed his words. "I don't want you to do it overnight, first make the strategy of restructuring, as for how to match, it should be completed one by one in several years."

In March of the ninth year of Wucheng, according to Zheng Kezang's suggestion, the Huaxia Military Department issued a plan for the reorganization of the 6th Division of the Xia Army. In the plan, the sentry level does not distinguish between firearms and firearms and white sentries with cold weapons in armor, and is unified into mixed sentry posts, each sentry is equipped with two Russian infantry teams equipped with firearms, and the white soldiers in armor still maintain a quota of 100 people, but it is more reasonable to match the serious illness.

But that's not the core of this adaptation. The focus of this reorganization was to expand the size of the regiment.

A regiment will be expanded from six posts to seven posts, five of which will be mixed foot posts, one will be a baggage post responsible for transporting supplies throughout the regiment, and the other will be an additional artillery post.

The artillery guard post is also composed of 100 people, and in addition to the personnel of the command post of the outpost, there are three artillery teams under it.

Each artillery corps consists of two gun squads each equipped with one gun and one infantry squad equipped with rifles; In addition to the squad leader and gunner, the rest of the alternate gunners in the artillery squad mostly serve as ammunition carriers and white-edged soldiers who last guard the artillery; In this way, an artillery outpost is equipped with six eight-point guns, equivalent to a four-pounder gun, to ensure that each mixed sentry can be supported by a light field gun in skirmishes.

In addition, due to the arrangement of baggage posts, the baggage brigade directly under the regiment was abolished, and the total strength of the regiment was set at 720 men.

The brigade continued to command the soldiers and horses of the three regiments, and directly governed the baggage post, the middle base post, and the ranger post; Accordingly, the total strength of the brigade was set at 2,500 troops.

The division has jurisdiction over three brigades, one baggage regiment, one middle base regiment, one artillery regiment, and one jumping (white soldier) regiment, and also has jurisdiction over three ranger and personal guard posts, a military hospital, a sick horse factory, and a flag and drum team, with a total of 11,000 soldiers, an increase of 10 percent over the original one.

The artillery corps of its division is composed of five artillery posts and two baggage posts; The establishment of each post is the same as that of the regimental artillery post and the baggage post, except that the artillery equipped is 11 minute guns. Accordingly, the division's artillery corps was equipped with 30 artillery pieces, and the whole division was equipped with 84 artillery pieces.

The number of artillery at the division level increased significantly, but it became lighter, so in order to overwhelm the artillery of the Qing army in a large-scale battle, this reorganization formed a heavy artillery regiment and a siege artillery regiment directly under the Privy Council outside the divisions. Among them, the heavy artillery regiment is equipped with 30 two-inch (about 12omm) heavy long guns; The siege artillery regiment was equipped with short-barreled naval guns and short-barreled mortar guns of larger calibers, and the number of equipment was also thirty. According to the existing equipment of the divisions, the military headquarters plans to organize a total of 22 heavy artillery regiments and nine siege artillery regiments.

In addition, the caliber of artillery equipped by cavalry divisions such as the Iron Cavalry, Hussars, and Flying Cavalry has been further reduced to allow them to maneuver quickly. Among them, the caliber of the artillery equipped by the cavalry regiment and the mounted infantry regiment was reduced to a six-point (about 36mm) gun equivalent to the three-pounder gun of Taixi; The divisional level was also armed only with a nine-minute (about 55mm) gun that was slightly equal to the six-pounder gun of Tessie.

Of course, the reorganization strategy was announced early in the morning, but due to financial problems, it will take time for the various departments of the Xia Army to really implement it.

Just when the Xia army and the Chinese court were living a hard life again, the war in the northwest was already on the verge of death.