The 10,000 lottery junk troops who served as the local garrison were enough to assume all the officer positions, but this was equivalent to blocking the way for local white soldiers to be promoted to official positions in a different direction, blocking the path for soldiers to make meritorious contributions, which was a very dangerous thing in the long run.

No one wants to die in a unit with no future and the constant threat of war!

Hong Tiancheng's way to solve this hidden danger is very simple, and he moved the non-commissioned officer system of later generations into it.

For the first time, the concept of soldier rank was introduced in the local garrisons of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, starting with the lowest recruits, and white soldiers could be promoted according to the number of years of enlistment, the number and scale of wars they participated in, and the military exploits they had made during the battle.

By standard, a white soldier who had been in the army for more than a year (if he was alive at the time) could be removed from recruit status and promoted to third class even if he had not fought in any battles.

Further on, there are privates, privates, corporals, sergeants, sergeants, sergeants, and even the highest master chief!

The non-commissioned officer chief basically has a certain authority to lead troops, which is equivalent to the position of deputy captain in a ten-person squad, and after the commander dies, he has the right to take over the position of captain and continue to command the battle, and is the only soldier rank who has the opportunity to be promoted to a real officer-squad leader.

The squad leader has the rank of second lieutenant, the squadron leader is a lieutenant, the squadron leader is a captain, and the battalion commander has the rank of major.

The colonel is the real number one at the regimental level, and the regimental unit is also the largest military composition of the local garrison force, and the local garrison unit will not set up division-level combat units because it does not have to undertake the combat mission of foreign invasion, that is to say, in the local garrison force, the colonel and regiment commander are the officers of the highest rank.

This is mainly because Hongtian has become a means of restricting the local garrison forces, the positioning of the local garrison forces is the second-line territorial defense force, and there is no need to carry out large corps operations at all, even if it is a last resort, it is also a large-scale battle under the leadership of the main force of the Taiping Army, and when the time comes, it can directly obey the division-level commander of the main force of the Taiping Army.

In addition, because the main force of the Taiping Army is composed of all die-hard soldiers of the all-out war system, there is no cumbersome soldier rank, only the rank of officer, and the officer rank of the Taiping Army is naturally one level higher than that of the local garrison force, in case of an emergency, without the clear instructions of the superiors, the officers of the Taiping Army can command the local garrison troops, but not the other way around, even if the colonel of the local garrison is the head of the regiment, he has no right to command a small soldier in the Taiping Army.

The cumbersome and multi-rank soldier hierarchy did not completely block the promotion path of white soldiers, leaving them with room for 'positive' progress, and greatly limiting the path for white soldiers to be truly promoted to officers.

It is easy to be promoted from a recruit to a third-class soldier, but after that, it is necessary to calculate the number of battles and military merits, and it is no longer possible to be promoted according to the enlistment period, of course, the longer the enlistment period, the more settling-in allowance you can get when you leave the army.

The soldier rank does not have the so-called real power, it is more of a symbol of glory and status, and at the same time, it is also linked to the military salary that the soldier gets, and when the white soldier breaks through the first class to become a corporal, the family can get an additional military merit field, and after sacrificing his life for the kingdom of heaven, he can also get another meritorious field......

Although the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom spent a lot of military expenses for this, everything was worth it, anyway, the gold and silver coins plundered by the Taiping army in the war were there, and they would continue to fight in the future, and the money was not bad for the time being.

After every white soldier joins the local garrison, the family will get a small amount of acres of land in lieu of enlistment pay and a year's military salary, which undoubtedly makes the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom greatly save a sum of money, and even after the soldier dies, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom will also use the land as a pension, the white soldiers who really need to pay metal coins in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom are only those white veterans who have been promoted to non-commissioned officers through military merits, and these white veterans are also the soldiers that the local garrison really needs, and it is worth the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to spend money to support them.

While Hong Tiancheng received a large number of systematic troops, not only did he not completely abandon the population welfare of the local white people, but instead established a more humane and efficient system to win over and control the local white civilians, because Hong Tiancheng had regarded the areas controlled by the Taiping Army as his basic territory.

Only by pulling white civilians into the military system of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and completely separating them from the local aristocratic forces, Hong Tiancheng can ensure that the local areas of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom will not fall into continuous chaos in the next comprehensive purge.

Although Hong Tiancheng doesn't care about the life and death of white civilians, if all the white civilians die, who will go to cultivate the land to produce materials to support the Taiping army?

The wreak havoc of the Christian Brotherhood in Lithuania was not without its benefits, as they took away a large number of white civilians who harbored hatred of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and there were only two kinds of white civilians who were reluctant to join the Christian Brotherhood when it was strong.

One is the people who are naturally afraid of death and just want to live, and the other is the people who yearn for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and worship the powerful power of the Taiping Army.

Of course, this refers only to the common class, and only the poor common people will not do things that go against their hearts because of their interests.

Hong Tiancheng did not immediately send troops to purge the local aristocratic forces that had surrendered to Chengcheng, but vigorously took the lead in carrying out the reorganization of the local garrison forces, and all the white militia and security forces were selected and incorporated into the local garrison units in various towns.

The main task of the local garrisons on weekdays is to maintain law and order and to combat bandits and guerrillas.

Interestingly, Hong Tien Cheng did not integrate the Lithuanian militia that maintained the Smolensk and Vilkhov regions into the Lithuanian local garrisons, but left them in the original Russian lands for use as garrisons, plus the newly recruited locals, and mixed them into local garrisons.

The reason why Hong Tiancheng did this is very simple, most of the relatives of this group of surviving Lithuanian militia have died in the previous Lithuanian civil strife and the ravages of the Christian Brotherhood......