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- Plato (one of the greatest philosophers and thinkers of Western culture)

After the large-scale knighthood, Oscar left all the affairs of the grant of land to Vipsani and Nat; It was only natural for Vipsani to deal with these matters, after all, he was the main person in charge of the affairs of the Augustan family.

And Nat was also involved in the handling of these things, but it was specially ordered by Oscar; In fact, Nat should not have interfered in the affairs of the Augustus family, his main task was to be responsible for the economic development of the Augustus family, which was barely within the scope of government affairs, but it was fundamentally different from the government affairs of Vipsani.

However, this knighthood plan was originally proposed by Nath, and its fundamental purpose was to pave the way for the all-round development of the Augustan family; Therefore, Oscar also handed over the follow-up arrangements of the plan to Vipsani and Nat to be jointly responsible.

The two did not have any opinion on Oscar's arrangement, because Vipsani was not very familiar with economic affairs and needed Nat's assistance to deal with it; And Nat also needed Vipsani to help him establish his prestige within the Augustan family, and the cooperation between the two could be regarded as mutually beneficial development.

After giving these specific instructions, Oscar returned his busy focus to the most important army building of the Augustan family; Long before the decisive battle with Hannibal, Oscar had already begun preparations for the construction of the General Staff of the House of Augustus.

Later, with the change of the situation and the urgency of time, the Oscar system of the General Staff has always remained on paper, and even if Mary was appointed Chief of the General Staff, it was only the nominal Chief of the General Staff, and there was no practical meaning at all.

Now, the decisive battle with Hannibal is also over, and the established strategy of the House of Augustus is complete; Even the loopholes in the military establishment exposed by the Augustus family in the decisive battle were resolved by Oscar through negotiation with Luquis and Quintus.

Then, it was also time for Oscar to begin the official implementation of the system of the General Staff of the House of Augustus; For the specific implementation of this General Staff, Oscar still has to discuss it with Mary, after all, Mary is the Chief of the General Staff of the General Staff.

In fact, the establishment of the General Staff is very complicated to say, but it is relatively simple to do; That is, a group of middle-level officers who graduated from the Augustan Military Academy were selected to serve as the staff of all levels of the army, and then all of them were under the command of Mary's general staff.

The role of Mary's General Staff is to plan the military strategy of the Augustan family as a whole, and to provide specific plans and feasibility analysis for the military operations of the Augustan family; More importantly, it was to make logistical arrangements for all the armies of the House of Augustus.

That is to say, after the establishment of the General Staff of the Augustan family, the supply of the army corps and the naval fleet will be uniformly formulated and managed by the General Staff; The transport units of the army and the transport ships of the navy will also be under the direct jurisdiction of the General Staff.

If it had been organized according to the initial ideas of Oscar and Mary, then the General Staff would have jurisdiction over two military classes; The first is the establishment of the staff headquarters of each army corps, and the second is the logistics supply system of all armies.

It will take time for the former to be formed, after all, the current Augustus family legion does not have the concept of a staff department, and it still takes a certain amount of time to implement it from the selection of graduated officers to the formal appointment of them as staff officers of each legion.

The ownership of the latter is relatively simple, the Augustan family originally had its own perfect military logistics supply system; It's just that the supply of the army belongs to the army, and the supply of the navy belongs to the navy, and now it is only necessary to bring all these supply systems under the general staff.

Of course, the specific formation of the staff headquarters of each corps is not a matter of overnight; After all, the Augustus family now has a full seven regular legions and five special legions, and the formation of twelve staff departments is still relatively cumbersome.

Leave aside the rest of the matter, in terms of the composition of the corps' staff; The staff of a corps must be composed of at least one chief of staff and one deputy chief of staff, plus more than six ordinary staff officers.

Such a small staff of eight people can barely ensure that the staff of the entire corps can be functional; A legion of eight people, then the twelfth legion needs a full ninety-six people to complete the formation of the Augustus family legion staff.

This is only the formation of the corps staff under the General Staff, and it is also the initial basic staff; With the passage of time, the improvement of the staff system and the expansion of the role of the general staff, the scale of the staff will continue to be expanded in the future.

In addition to the corps staff, the formation of the General Staff required a much larger number of staff officers; After all, the General Staff is tasked with formulating battle plans and allocating logistical supplies for all the armies of the Augustan family, and the number of personnel required is still very large.

According to Oscar's most basic idea now, the General Staff of the House of Augustus currently needs to set up at least four subordinate bodies that are not subordinate to each other, so as to ensure that the huge House of Augustus can operate like a sophisticated machine.

The first is the agency responsible for the change of guard corps within the Augustus family; the second, the body responsible for the development of the strategic plans of all the North African armies of the House of Augustus; the third, the quarter responsible for the formulation of the strategic plan of all the armies of the Iberian Peninsula of the House of Augustus; The fourth, and most important, was responsible for the logistical supply of the Augustan family's army.

Of these four agencies, in addition to the first three, the most important logistical supply agencies also require at least 60 staff officers to ensure that each corps and each fleet has several specialized staff officers to make logistical supply management arrangements.

As for the three agencies that need relatively few staff officers, considering that the conduct of the war and the gathering of intelligence, as well as the formulation of strategic plans, are a huge project; Each agency also requires the cooperation of at least 30 staff officers.

That is, only the four subordinate bodies subordinate to the General Staff require at least one hundred and fifty ordinary staff officers; And that's not counting the most important staff members of the General Staff.

In addition to these four subordinate bodies and the staff of the various corps, there were only direct staff officers under the direct leadership of Mary, the chief of the general staff, and several deputy chiefs of the general staff; For this scale of direct staff officers, Oscar's heart expectation is fifty people.

Although on the face of it, the four major general staff agencies and the general staff of the various corps have carried out all the main functions of the general staff; However, the real summaries and arrangements, as well as the planning and review of the various agencies and the various corps staffs, required these direct staff officers to help Mary to complete it.

Therefore, this seemingly useless direct staff officer is the core essence of the entire General Staff, and it is also the core key to the establishment of the General Staff by Oscar; For such a crucial institution, Oscar will naturally not be stingy with the investment of talents.

Based on this preliminary calculation alone, the Augustus family needs at least two hundred outstanding mid-level officers who graduated from the Augustan Military Academy to serve as staff officers of the General Staff; And that's not even counting the time and effort required to train them into qualified staff officers.

However, for Oscar, who is well aware of the superiority of the General Staff system, no matter what the price is, as long as the Augustus family can establish the General Staff system in their hearts; Then, Oscar will be willing to pay these prices!

After discussing the detailed formation of the General Staff with Mary, Oscar and Mary spent a week planning without sleep or food, and finally built the overall framework of the entire General Staff system!

In order to ensure that the staff officers of the House of Augustus were all professionals who were proficient in warfare, Oscar finally decided to select only a hundred staff officers from the Augustan Military Academy; The remaining 100 staff officers were all drawn from among the outstanding centurions of the various regiments.

As for the issue of staff rank, Oscar still adhered to his previous arrangement, only made some adjustments; After the formation of the specific corps staff, the rank of the corps chief of staff will be the rank of the corps deputy general, and the rank of the deputy chief of staff will be the captain, and the rank of ordinary staff officer can only be centurion.

As for the staff officers belonging to the General Staff, they also adopted such a hierarchical division; It's just that the heads of the four major institutions under the General Staff, their ranks are just at the level of corps commanders, and Mary's level is even higher than that of corps commanders!

At the same time, in order to ensure that all legions and all Augustan officers and soldiers recognized this staff system; In addition to appointing Mary as Chief of the General Staff, Oscar will also serve as the Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Army, General Lucquis and Quintus of the Army, and Commander Nams of the Navy, so as to establish the authority of this General Staff!

It's just that Oscar's proposal was strongly opposed by Mary; The reason is also very simple, that is, Mary thinks that she cannot be above Luquis and others, how can she become their superior in this general staff?

Oscar, who was inconsiderate, understood where his mistake was at the moment when Mary clearly objected; However, in order to ensure the implementation of this general staff system and establish the authority of the general staff, Oscar still decided to make these three commanders deputy chiefs of the general staff.

It's just that Mary, who was originally the chief of the General Staff, was also appointed deputy chief of the General Staff; And the post of Chief of the General Staff was held by Oscar himself! In this way, the implementation of this general staff system will inevitably be unimpeded; Moreover, no one in the entire Augustan family did not know that Mary was the de facto chief of the General Staff, that is, a different name. (To be continued.) )