Section 172 Military Town

On the twenty-ninth day of December, Zhu Mao descended to the right.

On January 18 of the sixth year of Jingtai, Gongjiang Feng of Pengcheng County asked the imperial court to re-establish the Governor's Mansion of Huaiyou Town, Wuning Town, Tianping Town, Pinglu Town, and Ziqing Town, and at the same time set up the Xuzhou Governor's Mansion with jurisdiction over five towns.

Among them, Tianping Town has jurisdiction over Cao, Pu, Yan, Yun and Yi five prefectures, Pinglu Town has jurisdiction over Deng, Lai, Mi and Hai four prefectures, and Ziqing Town has jurisdiction over Zi, Qing, Qi and Ji four prefectures.

The jurisdiction of Wuning Town has become Xu, Si, Ying, Bo and Suzhou five prefectures, of which Suzhou is newly established, and the state is Tongqiao, and Fuli and Qi counties, which originally belonged to Xuzhou, are included in Suzhou, and Linli in Bozhou is included in Sizhou, and Hongxian in Sizhou is included in it, which is equivalent to rebuilding Suzhou when Tang Wenzong Taihe was three years old.

Huaiyou Town has jurisdiction over eight prefectures: Gwangju, Huzhou, Shouzhou, Luzhou, Haozhou, Hezhou, Chuzhou and Shuzhou.

Counting the twenty-six states under the jurisdiction of these five towns, but in fact, only twenty-one states are currently in the hands of Jiang Feng, Cao and Pu are still nominally in the hands of Daliang, Guangzhou is occupied by Nanyang, and Yingbo is in the hands of Yuan, so there are still some names that are not worthy of the name, but Jiang Feng through this performance, asked to obtain the name of the imperial court and clarify the ownership of the states, such as Yingbo, such as Cao Pu.

On the issue of setting up the five towns, Jiang Feng also thought about it for a long time, and also held many consultations with his subordinates Chen Wei, Cui Shang, Wang Huang, Du Tuo, Yang Xun and others, and there were many differences on this issue.

Since the Tang Dynasty, the division of administrative regions has changed greatly, from the beginning of the state to the county, and then the county to the state, and then divided into the province, and then set up an interview to make the division of the state to supervise, at this time this province has not become a real administrative region, until before and after the Anshi Rebellion, in order to strengthen the defense of the border area, began to appear across the state of observation, strategy, defense, and then evolved into the jurisdiction of the Jiedu Envoy, completely disrupted the Dao - state - The three-level mechanism of the county, which crossed the state but did not completely follow the level of the province, finally appeared, which also became the beginning of the division of the domain in the future.

And the feudal towns are basically commensurate with the towns, a town is less than two or three states, more than ten states, such as Liang, Jin, Wu, Yue and other feudal towns are even more feudal kings.

Although Jiang Feng is still only the identity of a Pengcheng county prince, I believe that after taking Pinglu Ziqing, it is only a matter of time before he becomes the king, at least now he needs to give Jiang Feng the identity of a county king, but now the situation in the court is not good, and the Central Plains War has risen, it is estimated that there is not much heart to pay attention to these things.

There is no fixed number of states and counties in each town, and it is normal to increase or decrease.

Now Jiang Feng proposed to the imperial court to divide the jurisdiction of Pinglu Ziqing Jiedu into two, and Haizhou was included in Pinglu Town, and at the same time, the territory under the jurisdiction of the Taining Army was also adjusted, and Tianping Town was proposed, and Cao Pu Erzhou, which was still under the control of Daliang, was divided into Tianping Town.

The jurisdiction of Wuning Town has also been adjusted, in the late Tang Dynasty, Wuning Town governed the four prefectures of Xu Si and Suhao, and later Suzhou was withdrawn, and Wuning Town became a probationary military town, and now Wuning Town has been reset, and Suzhou has been restored, but Linli now belongs to Bozhou, and Bozhou is controlled in the hands of Yuan, which can only be regarded as a remote setting, if you want to restore the right to govern, you have to see the development of the situation in the future.

Hezhou in Huaiyou Town has not yet been included in the governance, but now that the war between Li Wu and the ant thieves in Jiangnan has entered the stage of stalemate, both sides have already felt a little exhausted, and Li Wu does not have much energy to ask about Hezhou, a small state that seems to have a heavy status but a small area, and there is not even any regular garrison in Hezhou.

If Huaiyou wants to win, it is just a gesture, but considering the impact and the trend of the future situation and the main target direction of Huaiyou in the next step, it has not been moved for the time being.

Now the administrative division of the five towns has come out, but how to manage it is a complicated problem.

Set up five towns, each town set up the governor's office, the governor's office is mainly responsible for military affairs, such as the Huai Right Army, divided into left and right compartments, each compartment set up five armies, the original considerable part of the elite transferred to other towns, and such as the newly established Ziqing Army, also divided into left and right compartments, but each compartment set up eight armies, that is to say, the configuration of the troops set up in each military town is not consistent, need to be strengthened and reduced according to the situation.

Judging from the current military situation, the situation in the south will be relatively peaceful, and the greatest possibility may be the line between Huzhou and Shouzhou, but 25,000 troops from the left and right 10 armies of the Huaiyou Army are enough to deal with it.

However, north of Huaishui, the newly established Tianping Town, Ziqing Town, and Wuning Town may face a rather grim situation, so the strength of these three towns is set up in the pattern of the left and right 16th Army, and even the full strength may be set up to the 20th Army in the next step.

At the same time, Jiang Feng ordered the abolition of the separate cavalry establishment, and the maximum composition of the cavalry army was set at 2,500 cavalry per army, which was incorporated into each military town according to the needs of each military town, for example, the cavalry establishment of Ziqing, Tianping, and Wuning was more than three armies, and the cavalry establishment of Ziqing and Tianping armies was four armies.

For Jiang Feng, the biggest gain from winning the Pinglu Army was the cavalry.

Among the 50,000 troops in Pinglu, the number of cavalry exceeded 10,000, and there were many horse farms in the territory of Pinglu, and the quality of the war horses raised by them was good, not much inferior to the horses raised by the Hu people in the north.

In addition, these soldiers have been trained for a long time, and their combat effectiveness is very considerable, and now they are included in the bag, and the newly built cavalry of Ziqing Town and Tianping Town are mainly derived from this group of cavalry.

The cavalry of Wuning Town and Pinglu Town mainly came from the cavalry newly formed by Huaiyou on the basis of the cavalry of the Taining Army and the Reform Army after taking Yanyunyi and Xuzhou.

The establishment of five new towns has solved the problem of the army, in fact, these armies are also hung in the name of a certain town, which may be reflected in the source of these army soldiers, and in the future, the supplement of these military towns and soldiers is mainly from the states and counties to which these military towns belong, and the others basically have nothing to do with military towns.

The armies of these military towns are firmly in the hands of the Privy Council under the jurisdiction of the future Xuzhou Governor's Office, and the logistics is completely broken by the traditional way of supplementing by the locality, and has become unified by the logistics department of the Privy Council, and the logistics department will also set up military warehouses in the jurisdiction of each military town, responsible for the unified deployment of various materials such as grain and grass, weapons and armor, equipment and equipment, and the replenishment of these materials is also unified by the logistics department to purchase from local businessmen, and the local government is not linked.

This change can be described as earth-shattering, especially in the procurement of grain, which was originally the most important task of the government to collect grain every year, and the main destination of the collected grain is to provide it for the army, but now the government is no longer responsible for collecting grain, but instead collecting a fixed amount of money and silver to pay taxes, which cannot but be said to be a groundbreaking change.

On this point, there is also a fierce debate within Huaiyou, mainly because of the relationship between money and silver and grain prices, and it is an old problem that grain cheapness hurts peasants; if the government only collects money and silver and no longer collects goods in kind, will it cause the price of grain to fall?

In addition, in the event of a famine, will the price of grain rise to a point that is unacceptable to a farmer?

These are an unavoidable problem in the feudal social economy, of course, the traditional way is nothing more than the establishment of a standing position, but this way also has many drawbacks.

In Jiang Feng's view, the best way is to intensify the development of the market economy and adjust it through the market.

Of course, this is still an initial embryonic economic system, but he believes that with the ceramic industry and shipbuilding industry in Shouzhou, the iron smelting industry in Xuzhou, the salt industry in Haizhou, the tea industry in Huzhou, and the silk weaving industry in Shuzhou, these industries have already developed enough.

Jiang Feng didn't think that he was pulling out seedlings to help him grow.

In fact, after the late Tang Dynasty in history, that is, in the Song Dynasty, there was already the germ of a capitalist economy, and the capitalist economy itself was built on the large-scale workshop industry.

At present, in this time and space, the economic foundation established by promoting the two-cropping system in one year and the three-cropping system in two years, promoting the increase in grain production, and at the same time freeing up labor force to invest in industry and commerce, can support the possibility of greater foreign wars in the future.

There are many problems that plague Jiang Feng, but the most urgent one is the management system of each town.

The Governor's Mansion has solved the problem of the army, but the Xuzhou Governor's Mansion proposed by itself alone has jurisdiction over 21 prefectures, more than 100 counties, such a large area, such a large population, especially many of them have just taken over, and it is simply possible to quickly and smoothly incorporate them into their own governance system.

As far as the current governance system is concerned, even if he began to consciously carry out official rotation training and officer training as early as Huzhou, his own jurisdiction is expanding too fast, and the new officials are simply a drop in the bucket, and to a large extent, he can only follow the original system pattern, and the original governance pattern is difficult to adapt to Jiang Feng's administrative requirements for these localities.

Of course, Jiang Feng also knew that this was not a matter that could be solved in a short period of time, and at the same time, his main energy could not be put on this for a long time, military affairs were his main energy, but if he wanted to win the initiative in future wars and have a solid foundation, then he had to take precautions and start preparing earlier.

The administrative management system of the governor's office-state-county, or the administrative structure of setting up a town between the state and the governor's office, has become the most urgent problem facing Jiang Feng.

The pros and cons of the administrative structure at the level of setting up or not setting up towns are obvious, needless to say, the key is that now Jiang Feng feels that he is a little struggling with these 21 states, just the history of these 21 states, the long history of the inspection and appointment have already made him feel a lot of pressure, and the supervision system arrangements for these states and counties are all extremely complicated problems, how to solve them, bothering Jiang Feng.

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