Chapter 807: Improving the Military System

Any war that annihilates a country is not a simple matter

However, this time Dongyong sent troops, there was a difference, that is, Zhu Houhuang would not personally lead the troops.

Although Zhu Houhuang personally led the troops most of the time, and fought down again and again, Zhu Houhuang also felt that he was a qualified general, but he was only a qualified general, and he was not very smart, but Zhu Houhuang's prestige and the morale bonus brought by him personally went into battle offset all of this. There are two reasons why he personally led the troops this time

At the beginning, Zhu Houhuang really didn't have a suitable general. After all, Dongyong's foundation is weak. The second reason why he can't say it is that Zhu Houhuang is worried about the military power that someone will take the opportunity to control.

When Dongyong was just founded, the system was not perfect, if there was a general who won a hundred battles, it was likely to share the danger of Zhu Houhuang, needless to say anything else, just divide all the victories of Zhu Houhuang to others, and immediately create a character in Dongyong whose prestige is no less than Zhu Houhuang.

Therefore, Zhu Houhuang's attitude towards military power is that no one is allowed to get involved.

But now the situation is different.

First of all, Dongyong's size has become larger, before, Zhu Houhuang almost every time he sent troops, it was a soldier who poured the country, and hollowed out all the troops that Dongyong could use, and now, even if he went out to attack the Danmu country this time, he took away four battalions of the Yong army, four battalions of the Annan army, and most of the sailors, plus the conscripted pirates, about 100,000.

It's just that Dongyong's military strength is more than half.

Moreover, Zhu Houhuang's prestige in the army has been deeply rooted, and there are also suitable arrangements for high-ranking generals. After all, the reward of splitting the soil is a generous reward that many people dare not imagine.

In this way, Zhu Houhuang's suspicion of military power slowly relaxed. After all, Dongyong is becoming more and more like a country with a perfect system, and as the king of a country, he doesn't have to do many things himself.

So this time, Zhu Houhuang was a general, and ordered Yu Dayou to be a general, commanding the land and water armies, and he sat in the southern capital and was responsible for Yu Dayou's back road.

Of course, as a model in the future, Zhu Houhuang still did a lot of work, and almost transferred most of the Privy Council to establish the Xingyuan Shogunate for Yu Dayou. Among them, a large number of officers came to replace Yu Dayou's staff, and even Xiuyi Wei directly sent a thousand households as an intelligence officer to be ordered by Yu Dayou. All aspects are full of arrangements for Yu Dayou. Let Yu Dayou move in with his bag.

Zhu Houhuang also has to respect the authority of Yu Dayou, who has the power of life and death of all the officials under his command. However, among the lines, there are also special military judges, and under normal circumstances, Yu Dayou will not exceed his duties and march to the military law, but of course this power will be given to Yu Dayou. Otherwise, the manager has no authority, which is quite bad.

Even Zhu Houhuang hinted that as long as these officers can win the war, Yu Dayou will not be condemned for doing anything, and if they lose the war, these officials must also be severely punished.

This time Yu Dayou was in charge, and what Zhu Houhuang did was more cumbersome and nerve-wracking than his own expedition. Why? Because Zhu Houhuang wants to establish a law for future generations. If Yu Dayou's action is successful this time, then from now on, General Dongyong will go on an expedition, and this will be the case.

The tactical unit of the Dongyong operation is the battalion, of course, this battalion is quite similar to the Ming Dynasty's guard, above more than 5,000 people, if it is temporarily added, it is as many as six or seven thousand people, and above the battalion, it is the governor of various places, because the strategy of each place is different, under the jurisdiction of several battalions. And when the actual expedition is made, the Privy Council will select the general as the commander, and the Privy Council will set up a line to be directly responsible for the war.

This set of regulations on training, fighting, discharge, and so on is all integrated.

The promotion of officers is also regulated by certain rules. From ordinary conscription into the army, promotion needs to enter a military school, and after graduating from a military school, he will be sent back to another battalion, and then he will be promoted all the way from the battalion, and when he reaches the first level of the battalion, he will go to another battalion to serve in order to avoid suspicion.

In some military operations, battalion officers with high seniority can be promoted to the rank of commander of the first route, with two or three battalions under their jurisdiction. If the record is outstanding, he will be transferred from the battalion officer to the Privy Council, and become an official under the Privy Council, responsible for the general affairs of the army, such as the promotion of the king, the replenishment of military weapons, the sorting of military information, and so on, all kinds of tasks.

This is to let him look at the strength of the whole Yongguo and have a comprehensive understanding of the national strength of the Yongguo.

In this position, stay for a while, and then let go and serve as the governor of one side.

Zhu Houhuang's governor is actually like the commander of a military region, not responsible for government affairs, but only for military affairs. There are also aspects of power, just like Yu Dayou in Annan, Wang Zhi in Dongyong, and Wu Mingzhi in Xijinzhou.

However, the governor is different from the governor, and some of the governors have less military power than some senior battalion officers. But in any case, after serving as a battalion officer, it means that he has entered the list of Dongyong generals. In the event of a war, he may be sent to command.

If you win again, you will be rewarded with a knighthood.

However, once a military general is knighted, there are restrictions.

This also varies from person to person, if you have connections and foundations, you are likely to jump up and become a senior official of the Privy Council, a privy envoy, or a privy deputy envoy, even if you have no connections, or the credit is too great, you need to cool down, you will be a military school teacher, a relatively high position, and a position with less real power.

But in any case, only after crossing this hurdle is the pillar of the country, and no one can dare to ignore their opinions on any military issues, even if King Yong himself has to consult their opinions before he can draw conclusions.

It can be said that before the knighthood, the generals can only perform the above tasks, who to fight, where to fight, and to what extent. But after being knighted, they can discuss whether to fight or not, whether they can fight these issues, and directly enter the decision-making level, and the authority of these opinions is still above the prime minister.

King Yong must also be accommodating.

Zhu Houhuang did this in order to ensure the authority of the military.

Civil politics is a general direction, and Zhu Houhuang also knows that all countries in later generations have done so. Zhu Houhuang was not worried, because Daming had gone too far, and Zhu Houhuang was worried that after his death, the Prime Minister's Mansion would encroach on the power of the Privy Council, and even directly transfer civil officials as privy envoys. Therefore, Zhu Houhuang is committed to a system that allows civilian officials to resist in the army.

At the top of this system are the nobles, and at the bottom are the yeoman farmers. In the future, if Yongguo wants to compete with the tide of the Great Voyage, what is needed is the strength of the army, so the army must not lose its right to speak at the top of Dongyong. But Zhu Houhuang sometimes feels cold, he thinks in the dead of night, he absolutely doesn't care what he does, in more than a hundred years, even after his death, military power will still be usurped by civilian officials after all.

It's not that Zhu Houhuang is worried about the sky, but Zhu Houhuang knows too well that the combat effectiveness of Chinese civilian officials can't feel the current Yongjun army and the feeling that the enemy is in the military department. But I will be able to feel it in the future.

Even if it's a little pessimistic, things have to be done.

Although Zhu Houhuang was tired, he couldn't help but get excited every time he thought of the plan he designed, which was related to the fate of Yongguo for hundreds of years. After a month of hard work by Zhu Houhuang, he finally completed all the things in the system of the army's expedition, and Yu Dayou was repeatedly summoned to the palace, and was often discussed all night.

At this point, in Zhu Houhuang's view, Dongyong's military system has been largely completed, and there are still some small problems, the biggest problem is the problem of the officers of the water division, such as the training of the officers of the water division, the sequence of promotions, and so on.

Zhu Houhuang decided to leave this series of institutional plans to Huang Shilong.

Huang Shilong is much more professional than Zhu Houhuang, and Zhu Houhuang also despises the sailor a little, not because the sailor is not important, but because no matter how powerful the sailor is, he cannot participate in the rebellion, so it is understandable that Zhu Houhuang's rank of the sailor is below the army.