Jiang Daoquan and other conservatives are against the fact that a woman with a backing of the bureau enters the palace as a concubine? is afraid that the military and the concubine will collude, and in the future, they will interfere in major affairs such as the royal prince and even rebel.

For example, when the prince competes for the throne in the future, the military will bring tens of thousands of troops to say that they want to support a prince with a military background to ascend the throne, what should I do when the time comes?

As a result, among the many concubines in the harem, no one has direct contact with the military, and the closest relationship is only Queen Chen Jing.

Anyway, there is no one else to support, so it is better to directly support Chen Jing, the queen mother who has a righteous reputation.

If it is only an analysis of external forces, the most powerful forces supporting the throne of Empress Chen Jingzhi's eldest son in the future are many military bigwigs, including Prime Minister Bi Yutong.

The only problem is that Queen Chen Jing has no children so far, and they have no one to support if they want to support.

So they prefer to postpone the issue of the crown prince, and it's too early to appoint the crown prince or something.

Lin Zhe can somewhat guess what the courtiers think, but he is still firm in his idea, that is, when his prince grows up, he will determine the candidate after observing his mental talent, and then his selection of heirs is only related to the talent of the prince himself, and has nothing to do with the background behind them.

If there is external opposition, then he does not mind suppressing all those who oppose it.

As the founder of the empire, Lin Zhe has the determination and ability to do so.

Now the conferment of the title of barony to these two princes is just a routine matter, but it has caused some discussion in the outside world. There were also a few more daring courtiers who tried in vain to support the merits, and asked for Lin Xuan or Lin Lu to be appointed as the prince and prince of the county. Or simply become the crown prince.

For these people, Lin Zhe is still the same. Directly dismissed or demoted with the sentence of 'arrogating official duties'.

In this way, many people who are ready to move have once again dispelled the idea that they shouldn't have, and what should they do in the future!

Compared with some small turmoil caused by Lin Zhe making his two sons barons, it is far less than the impact of the subsequent large-scale personnel adjustments in the military.

After the large-scale knighthood, under Lin Zhe's secret orders, the headquarters continued to adjust the personnel of the military.

The difference from the previous personnel adjustment is that the previous adjustment was only designed to the two levels of colonel and lieutenant, but this time the adjustment involves generals.

On August 26, after two years of silence, Wang Luyun, who was once suspected of being about to retire from a core high-level position in the military, was once again reused.

He was transferred from the post of Commander of the Cavalry to the post of Chief of the Military Administration Department of the Army.

Wait. After many years in the northwest, Bian Chengxun, who had been the commander of the Sixth Army, was transferred back to Nanjing to replace Shi Qingxuan as the new chief of the army staff of the empire, and was awarded the rank of army general.

In September, Lin Zhe set up the Imperial Command Committee, and transferred Army General Shi Qingxuan, Army General Xu Yanqing, Army General Lin Chengfei, Army General Shen Chiyun, and Navy General Lin Dabiao to the committee as members.

The committee composed of the above five people is responsible for the overall affairs of the whole army!

For example, Shi Qingxuan is no longer the chief of the General Staff, and although the General Headquarters Committee is said to be responsible for the overall planning of the whole army, in fact, the affairs of various military departments have always been directly responsible to Lin Zhe.

Other words. The current position of a member is a fictitious office and is unlikely to have real power.

In the eyes of many people, this is Lin Zhe to deprive them of their military power, for fear of killing heroes in previous dynasties. For a time, many high-ranking generals resigned and returned to their hometowns.

This made Lin Zhe a little crying and laughing, although he said that he planned to revoke many high-ranking generals who did not want to make progress, but he also did not plan to learn from Zhu Yuanzhang to kill heroes. Or follow the example of the Song Dynasty to play a glass of wine to release military power.

Even if those high-ranking generals who are not enterprising are transferred from important positions, most of them will give them a pension position.

Otherwise. Some time ago, the large-scale knighthood was not in vain, sealing a group of nobles and then killing them. Isn't this a pain in the pain of being idle?

Although there was some criticism in the army, taking advantage of this large-scale knighthood, almost all the senior military generals were in Nanjing, and Lin Zhe was not afraid that they would really turn the sky upside down.

If we don't take advantage of this opportunity to make thorough personnel adjustments, it is estimated that we will not have such a good opportunity to get it done all at once.

Giving up this opportunity, in the future, he can only boil frogs in warm water, step by step, and it will take many years to complete the personnel adjustment of the military, and this time is something that Lin Zhe is unwilling to waste.

Now that the Chinese army is in a critical period of reform, he does not have much time to waste.

According to Lin Zhe's adjustment of military personnel, the first step is to put some people who are absolutely loyal and do not have too many factions involved in important positions, such as Wang Luyun.

Although his ability is very average, and he does not even have a high level of education, his personal loyalty to Lin Zhe is something that many military generals do not have.

However, in order to avoid a large-scale backlash from the Royal Army, Lin Zhe did not put the generals of the Guards system into important positions in the Royal Army, and the generals of the Guards were generally generals who had many connections with the royal family, and their loyalty to Lin Zhe was enough.

However, in recent years, in order to completely separate the Guards from the Royal Army, Lin Zhe has deliberately created some contradictions between the two, so that the Guards and the Royal Army have become two completely different military systems, which rashly transferred the senior generals of the Guards to important positions in the Royal Army, which is easy to cause extreme dissatisfaction among other senior generals of the Royal Army.

Therefore, Lin Zhe selected loyal people from many senior generals of the Royal Army itself, these people do not have high requirements for talent and ability, as long as they are loyal and have a certain prestige, their job is to act as a transition, so as not to cause some turmoil within the military in the large-scale personnel adjustment.

Then there is the introduction of new generals who have performed well in the past few years, such as Bian Chengxun, a military rookie, who has been using breech-loading rifles and skirmish tactics since the Chinese army. The most outstanding young general.

Later, Lin Zhe promoted more than 30 army major generals in one go, and all 30 army major generals were army cadets who graduated after 1856. After being promoted, these people will serve as division commanders, army chiefs of staff, and directors of various departments of the high command.

Some of the traditional and old-school generals were transferred to serve as commanders of the provincial garrisons. Or some other minor position.

However, these adjustments only concerned the rank of major generals, and although some generals at the rank of lieutenant general were also adjusted, few were demoted, and the only few army generals were transferred to the committee.

However, according to Lin Zhe's plan, half of the current army lieutenant generals will be transferred to other positions within the year.

By 1862, Lin Zhe wanted all core positions such as army commanders and major generals to be filled by generals who supported skirmish tactics and new formations.

As for the conservative generals who clinging to line tactics and the invincibility of front-loading rifles, they will be arranged to retire from their positions, or simply retire from active duty.

Such a large-scale personnel adjustment of senior generals can only take place in the early days of the establishment of a country. If it had been a different period, such a large-scale personnel adjustment would most likely have led to a mutiny or even a civil war.

And when Lin Zhe carried out large-scale personnel adjustments to the military, the external environment of the empire was still not good.

In August and September 1861, the Imperial garrison in Trans-Khingan Mountains maintained a large-scale conflict with the Russian army that lasted for two months.

The 41st Corps and the 15th Cavalry Regiment under the 14th Infantry Division of the Imperial Army, with the cooperation of the 9th Cavalry Garrison Battalion and the 44th Garrison Regiment of the Heilongjiang Provincial Garrison Command, fought a fierce battle with the Russian army in more than 15 immigration and military strongholds.

In this two-month battle, the empire seized more than 10 colonial and military strongholds from the Russians, but because the Trans-Khingan Mountains were so large, some of the imperial strongholds with fewer garrisons were also conquered by the Russians.

At the same time, the Russian army is also trying to land on Sakhalin and establish a military garrison in the northern part of the island. However, it was blocked by the Fourth Fleet of the Reich, and in order to prevent the Russian army from continuing to attack Sakhalin, the Navy built three new armed bases on Sakhalin, including the original one. At present, there are four armed positions on Sakhalin Island, where a total of about 500 marines are stationed.

In this two-month armed conflict, there were both gains and losses. But on the whole, it was the Empire that took advantage of the big advantage, in this conflict. The imperial military had completely driven the Russians out of the north bank of the Heilongjiang River and completely controlled the Heilongjiang River Valley.

In the Central Asian direction. The two sides are relatively restrained, and they are still in an armed confrontation, because the Russian army is accelerating its aggression against the three Central Asian countries in the near future, and it intends to annex the three Central Asian countries first, and then turn around and fight with China.

On the one hand, they gave a batch of mini rifles to the three Central Asian countries at a price that was almost free of charge, and on the other hand, they also personally went into battle and took the initiative to contact the Kokand Khanate, hoping that the other party would pay tribute to the empire and become a vassal state, in exchange for the promise of the empire to send troops to help the Kokand Khanate resist Russian aggression.

It is a pity that even if they are facing Russian aggression, for them, in fact, there is no difference between China and Russians, and becoming a vassal state of China is no different from becoming an empire of Russia, both are precursors of the destruction of the country.

Therefore, the Kokand Khanate rejected China's request for military assistance and directly accepted China's military aid.

However, the reaction of the Kokand Khanate did not discourage the Empire's intention to interfere with Russia's annexation of the three Central Asian states!

The Kokand Khanate did not agree to become a vassal state of China and asked China to send troops, and China itself directly sent troops into the Kokand Khanate.

In July 1861, the Empire sent troops, bypassing the Russian-controlled Verne and heading north to capture Pilbek, cutting off any possibility of Russian troops marching from east to west to the Kokand Khanate.

After learning that China suddenly sent troops to occupy Pilbek, the Russian army once considered attacking the city directly, but after discovering that the Chinese army stationed in the city had a full infantry regiment, it was dispelled.

The Chinese army is not the army of the Kokand Khanate, even if it is an infantry regiment defending the city, the Russian army will not be able to take it easily.

Besides, the Russian army does not have many troops in this area, at most there are only 10,000 people, and this division of more than 10,000 people is in a wide area on the south bank of Balkhash Lake, and Kopal and Verne need to garrison a large number of troops, because the opposite side is the Chinese army, which will be taken by the Chinese army if they are not careful.

However, the Chinese army's seizure of the Kokand Khanate did not discourage the Russians from continuing to march and annex the Kokand Khanate.

The struggle between Russia and the empire in Central Asia and the Trans-Khingan Mountains was continuous, and the outcome of the victory or defeat was not visible for three or five years.

Compared with Central Asia and the Trans-Khingan Mountains, the situation on the Vietnamese side made Lin Zhe frown even more, the army of the Nguyen Dynasty in Vietnam was really not good, and after only a few months of war with the French army, it had already lost six provinces in the entire south, and now it was supported by the only new army they had, that is, the newly trained forbidden army. (To be continued.) )