With the successive victories of the Ming army in the two regions and the recruitment of more and more local soldiers, the question of the status of these new armed forces has become more and more prominent. Previously, the Ming army always classified them as "White Guards", intending to make them nominally part of Free Russia. But now several ministers have raised objections, saying that since the soldiers are recruited on the land of the two frontiers, and the two frontiers belong to the territory of the Ming Dynasty, then why should the troops recruited from the territory of the Ming Dynasty be called the "White Guards" and be under the jurisdiction of Russia?

The High Command soon realized the problem as well. This is not so much a question of the status of a unit as it is a question of the status of the two Xinjiangs. The High Command and the Cabinet held a meeting, and the two sets of military and political teams discussed and decided that in the future, all the troops recruited in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, or the troops recruited on the land that was ready to be included in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, would be incorporated into the Ming army system. If in the future it is farther west, such as Kazakhstan, then the army recruited there can be called the White Guards, and the name above will be under the jurisdiction of Free Russia.

After the decision was made, the Cabinet and the High Command drafted a telegram in the form of a concert and sent it to Zhu Yourong for approval and implementation. Zhu Yourong felt that it made sense after reading it, but she couldn't make up her mind, so she showed it to Xiaoqiang again. After looking at Xiaoqiang, I felt a sense of awakening: This is indeed the case! This is a matter of legitimacy between the two regions, and it is indeed impossible to be careless. - I didn't think of such an important issue, but it was the cabinet minister who thought of it first...... But when Xiang Xiaoqiang thought about it, he was able to comfort himself: This is also normal. What do cabinet ministers do? Isn't this the kind of political thing that is the best? To say that this young man is better than those old men who have been engaged in politics all his life is too demanding, haha.

"Well," Xiang Xiaoqiang nodded, and returned the chapter to Zhu Yourong, "That's right." "Then do I approve it?"

Xiang Xiaoqiang knows how to measure things, and he smiled:

"You'll have to watch it. If I were you, I'd approve it. ”

Zhu Yourong smiled:

"Then I approved it?"

"Oh, where is it so grinding...... Batch, batch, batch. ”

Zhu Yourong chuckled, picked up the red pen and "draped it red", and then handed the fold to Wei Zijin to use the seal.

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Since then, the new troops recruited in the two Xinjiang have become Ming army troops. However, these local troops were divided into two types, one was the regular troops of the Ming Army, which wore the uniforms of the Ming Army according to the number given by the Ming Army. The Ming army was given the same weapons, equipment, food, and military salaries, and the long-distance mobile march was also carried out in military vehicles. In short, everything is the same as the Ming army.

The other category is called "training troops," which are much inferior to regular troops in terms of equipment, weapons, food, and military salaries, and even their uniforms are individually designed, and their quality and workmanship are also much worse. These troops also did not have so many military vehicles, either infantry or cavalry, and the means of transport were mostly horse-drawn carts and donkey carts, and the level of hardware was similar to that of the Soviet army.

The former type of "regular army" is very small in number, has a high threshold, and is not accessible to everyone, and must be carefully selected, and in addition to being physically strong, brave in combat, and outstanding in training, it must also be educated and educated. In other words, the overall quality should not be too far from that of the Ming army. The latter type of "training troops" is quite large, accounting for 80 to 90 percent of the newly recruited troops.

This kind of differential treatment is Shen Rongxuan's idea. The main reason is that if they are all according to the standards of the regular troops of the Ming army, then the expenditure is too high, and the country cannot afford to raise such a huge new army. However, if these Muslim troops are completely treated as second-class troops and discriminated against in all aspects, it will not be conducive to the stability of the military spirit, and it is easy to arouse the dissatisfaction of these Muslim officers and soldiers, who think that the Han people use them as cheap cannon fodder. Even if nothing happens, these national troops will have no sense of identity with the Ming Dynasty, and feel that this war is not their own war, it has nothing to do with them, and they are fighting for those "masters". Then after a long time, the combat effectiveness and morale of the national troops will be greatly reduced, similar to those "client state soldiers" of Austria-Hungary in the Great War in Europe.

In fact, the Ming Dynasty originally established the White Guards and recruited locals on a large scale, just because they wanted to use a large number of cheap cannon fodder in addition to the limited elite soldiers. "Boutique" and "mass production" complement each other, and the effect will be very good. But now it can't be done, and it can't be raised as a "boutique", so I set a threshold to maintain liquidity from the bottom up, giving people hope - do you want to be a "boutique"? Do you want to enter a better army and fight with better comrades? Want a better weapon? Want to eat better food? Want to ride in an armored car in a car? Do you want to get ten times the salary? Want more opportunities for advancement? Okay, then try to make yourself better! Fight hard, train hard, learn culture hard, and when you meet the conditions, you can apply to join the regular army, and everyone has the opportunity. Don't look at your ethnicity, don't look at your background, just look at whether you are good enough. ——This is a meaning that Shen Rongxuan is trying to give to this threshold. Not to mention anything else, at least one month's salary for a soldier of the regular army of the Ming Army is equal to the income of the poor herdsmen or peasants in Xinjiang for nearly a year. The attraction is enormous, enough to drive the soldiers of the "training troops" to work harder. And the Ming army also does what it says, as long as you feel that you can, apply, and pass both military and cultural assessments, you can enter the regular army. The Ming army has set up a special department, which accepts applications and conducts assessments every day, and every day it does let some ethnic soldiers join the regular army.

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The stimulating power of such an example is the greatest. A living example is right in front of us: the day before, the boy from the next class was still like us, eating bread, drinking gruel, carrying a rifle, marching on two legs, and receiving a military salary of eight cents a month. Moreover, how quickly the regular troops of the people are promoted!

In this way, everyone has the hope of "upward mobility". Far from lowering morale, this kind of "differential treatment" has made everyone in the entire national army itch in their hearts. In addition to the original motivation of "killing the Soviet army and avenging their loved ones" when they joined the army, they also had a newer and more lasting motivation. Although only a few are destined to enter the regular army, it is enough to motivate the vast majority to work in this direction.

Since it is called "training troops", in addition to letting them do some cannon fodder work, of course, they must also have a way to "not be cannon fodder". In addition to military training, the Ming army took the company as a unit, and each company set up a military instructor and a cultural instructor. Military instructors are responsible for regulating their actions and improving their military literacy at all times, and cultural instructors are responsible for teaching them when they are not fighting. In addition to teaching them Chinese, Chinese characters, and arithmetic, they also have some basic knowledge of history and geography, as well as knowledge outside of Islamic culture. The instructor had a high status in the army, roughly equivalent to the "political commissar" in the Soviet army. To put it simply, military instructors are responsible for "regularization", and cultural instructors are responsible for "sinicization", or "de-Islamization".

The instructor told the soldiers that in the future, the grassroots officials in the two regions will no longer use the princes and religious elders of the past, but will be selected from among those of you who have received a new education. Whoever learns well will have the hope of becoming a magistrate at the grassroots level.

In this way, the attraction to these soldiers is greater, and their motivation to learn Han culture and secular culture is stronger. But their faith is still 100% respected. Everyone has two books in their arms, a Koran and a textbook issued by the Ming army, and they can read any one they want. However, if you read more Qur'an, you will read fewer textbooks, your cultural attainment will be inferior to others, and you will have fewer opportunities to enter the regular army and become a magistrate in the future. On the contrary, there are more opportunities.

In fact, this is to vigorously promote the "separation of church and state." At this point, Daming will do it more thoroughly than the previous Northern Qing Dynasty. During the Northern Qing Dynasty, although the two regions were under the control of the Qing Dynasty, most of the specific political power in various places was in the hands of local princes and religious elders. The "separation of church and state" in the Northern Qing Dynasty here only stayed on the surface, or at the top. At the grassroots level, there is actually a "theocratic unity". That is, "Allah is in control." Now, the policy that the Ming Dynasty will implement is: "Render to God what is God's, and to Caesar what is Caesar's", first taking the power from the lower levels from the hands of the elders and handing it over to the officials who have undergone modern education. Gradually let the influence of religion decrease and withdraw from secular life.

According to Xiang Xiaoqiang's idea, the ideal state of the two frontiers in the future is that religion should be just a religion and a part of life, just like Dubai, Kuwait, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates in the future, and should not become the whole of life like Afghanistan, Iran, and Palestine. It is also a green country, but the former people are more open-minded, richer, less ignorant, more willing to pursue money, career, love, and other good things in the secular world, and they know that there are more good things in the world besides religion. They will not be like the latter, poor, ignorant, closed-off, and they don't know what good things are in the outside world except what the Qur'an teaches them, and they don't know what the meaning of life is except religion.

The two frontiers are the territory of the Ming Dynasty and are destined to be an inseparable part. So what kind of model will develop into in the future depends on what seeds Daming sows now.

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