In the evening, Chongzhen returned to the Asahi Temple from Changping City.
In the past half month, Chongzhen has been living in the military camp of the Asahi Temple. He has never planned to move back to the Forbidden City, or even take a look back.
Chongzhen no longer planned to move back to the Forbidden City.
The Forbidden City is magnificent and has superb architectural craftsmanship. It can be said to be a masterpiece of classical architectural art. However, such a complex of buildings is obviously more suitable for viewing than for living.
In terms of living experience, the Forbidden City is actually very bad.
The first one is the heavy Yin Qi. From the fourth year of Yongle to the present, countless people have been killed here in vain, and a large amount of evil Qi has accumulated. How can one live a long life in such an environment for a long time?
The second one is that it is so spacious that it takes half a day to go out.
As a time traveler, Chongzhen still prefers fireworks.
However, Chongzhen has not yet decided where to live in the future.
So for the time being, I can only live in the military camp at Asahitan.
As soon as Chongzhen returned to the military camp, Jiang Tianyi submitted the new army's reform plan.
Until now, the Ming Dynasty's new army has not been formalized, and the scholar battalion is only a temporary group. There has never been a clear conclusion as to whether it belongs to the rank of generals or the ranks of civilian officials.
But this situation obviously cannot continue.
With the demise of Jiannu, there must be a clear statement.
Jiang Tianyi's new army innovation plan is based on this idea.
But Chongzhen was very dissatisfied with the first version of the plan made by Jiang Tianyi.
The main thing is that it is too different from the military system envisioned by Chongzhen.
"Jiang Tianyi, I said, you remember." Chongzhen returned the reform plan to Jiang Tianyi.
Jiang Tianyi quickly took out the wolf hair brush he carried with him and got ready to record.
Chongzhen pondered for a moment and then said: "From now on, the army of the Ming Dynasty will be divided into three branches: the army, the navy and the air force. The emperor of the Ming Dynasty will be the general marshal of the army, navy and air force."
"The old military positions such as admiral, commander-in-chief, deputy general, garrison, commander-in-chief, commander-in-chief, commander-in-chief, etc. will be abolished."
"New positions such as commander, division commander, brigade commander, regiment commander, battalion commander, company commander, platoon leader, squad leader, etc. will be established."
"It was changed into a squad. The infantry squad has a capacity of 15 people and is equipped with 15 rifles and 1 musket. The baggage squad has a capacity of 15 people and is equipped with 15 rifles, 1 musket and a number of mules and horses or carriages."
"The team was changed into a platoon. An infantry platoon has three infantry squads under its jurisdiction. The chief and deputy platoon commanders plus trumpeters and messengers. Each infantry platoon or baggage platoon has a capacity of 50 people and is equipped with 50 rifles and 8 short muskets."
"The infantry artillery platoon consists of 30 people, equipped with 4 2.5-inch tiger crouching cannons and 30 short muskets."
"The artillery platoon consists of 20 people, equipped with a 2.5-inch mountain gun or a 4-inch field gun, 20 short muskets, and a number of mules, horses or carriages."
"The sentry was changed to a company. An infantry company has three infantry platoons and one infantry artillery platoon, with a capacity of 190 people."
"An artillery company has three artillery platoons, with a capacity of 70 people, and is equipped with three mountain guns or field guns."
"The general structure was changed to a battalion. An infantry battalion has 3 infantry companies with a capacity of 580 people. An artillery battalion has 3 artillery companies with a capacity of 220 people and is equipped with 9 mountain guns or field guns."
"The battalion was changed to a regiment. An infantry regiment has three infantry battalions with a capacity of 1,750 people. An artillery regiment has three artillery battalions with a capacity of 670 people and is equipped with 27 mountain guns or field guns."
"The brigade is still a brigade. A mixed brigade has 2 infantry regiments, 1 baggage regiment and 1 artillery regiment. It has a capacity of 6,000 people and is equipped with 4,520 rifles, 2,275 short muskets, and 72 2.5-inch squatting tiger guns.
, 27 2.5-inch mountain guns or 4-inch field guns plus a number of mules or horses or carriages."
"The mixed brigade is the smallest independent combat unit."
"According to the type of artillery, it is divided into mountain mixed brigade and field mixed brigade."
"The town was transformed into a division. One division has three mixed brigades plus a medical team and other teams directly under the division headquarters, with a capacity of about 20,000 people."
"There are group armies above divisions. A group army has several divisions under its jurisdiction, with a strength ranging from 20,000 to 100,000. The specific size depends on the needs of the campaign."
"Military chief officers are not permanent."
"Only in wartime will officers and soldiers go out together as one."
"In peacetime, soldiers return to the town and officials return to the government."
It is a principle to separate officers and soldiers. If generals and soldiers are allowed to stay together for a long time, the generals can use means of showing favors, win over, or intimidation and coercion to make the lower-level soldiers form a strong personal attachment relationship with them. If this is the case, the warlords will be only a few steps away from separatism.
There is only one step left. There have been countless bloody lessons on this point in history.
As a time traveler, Chongzhen would naturally not repeat the same mistakes, so officers and soldiers had to be separated.
As for the separation of officers and soldiers, it is possible that the generals will not know the soldiers, and the soldiers will not know the generals. It may indeed weaken the combat effectiveness of the army, but for the current Ming Dynasty, this is actually not a problem.
Because after entering the age of firearms, the logic of the battlefield has been completely different.
As long as the discipline of the army is guaranteed, even if the generals do not know the soldiers and generals, the combat effectiveness will not be bad.
Speaking of this, Chongzhen added: "When there are no combat missions, soldiers need to return to the town platform to wait for recruitment, and officers need to return to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to wait for selection. When there are combat missions, the Staff Section will start from scratch based on actual needs.
A town or several towns select a sufficient number of soldiers, and then select corresponding officers from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, form an army, and then go on an expedition."
"Also, the selection of officers should no longer be as random as it is now, but must follow certain rules."
"In the future, a military rank system can be introduced. Military ranks can be divided into non-commissioned officers, lieutenants, field officers, generals and marshals."
"Except for the marshal, who is not graded, the other four military ranks are divided into three levels: upper, middle and lower. From lowest to highest, they are corporal, sergeant, staff sergeant, second lieutenant, lieutenant, captain, major, lieutenant colonel, colonel, major general, lieutenant general and
General, there are five levels and thirteen levels in total."
"The rule is that students who are graduates from Nanjing will be corporals. Non-commissioned officers cannot serve as squad leaders, non-lieutenants cannot serve as platoon commanders and company commanders, non-school officers cannot serve as battalion and regiment commanders, and non-commissioned officers cannot serve as brigade commanders and division commanders.
No one other than a marshal can be appointed commander."
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Finally, based on the military merits of the soldiers of the Shizi camp and the first period of the country's students in the war to exterminate slaves, the corresponding military ranks can be evaluated one by one for future preparation.
In terms of selection, the majority of the scholars in the Shizi Camp are school officers, and the proportion of generals does not exceed 10%. The first-term Imperial College students in the Nanjing Imperial College are mainly sergeants, and the proportion of lieutenants does not exceed 30%."
Jiang Tian recorded everything one by one, and finally asked: "I have something unclear, please ask the Holy Spirit for instructions."
Meeting Chongzhen's questioning eyes, Jiang Tianyi then asked: "If the soldiers return to the towns and the officials return to the government, how to ensure the training of the soldiers in each town? And how to maintain the weapons and equipment in each town?"
Compared with cold weapons such as swords, spears and bows, the maintenance of firearms is more frequent and important.
Generally speaking, it is enough to maintain cold weapons such as swords, spears, bows and arrows once every ten and a half months, but firearms need to be wiped and tested every day, and they cannot be slacked off for a moment.
That's why Jiang Tianyi specifically raised this question.
However, this matter could not trouble Chongzhen, who had already made corresponding arrangements.
"The Ministry of Internal Affairs regularly dispatches a group of lieutenants to serve as instructors in various towns and are responsible for training in each town."
"As for the maintenance of weapons and equipment, separate arsenals can be set up in the forts of each town to store weapons and equipment. During daily training, the town soldiers can do a good job in maintaining weapons and equipment."
Regularly dispatching low-level officers to various towns to take charge of the training tasks of the town soldiers, there is no need to worry about the risk of warlord separatism. Firstly, low-level officers do not have that appeal. Secondly, even if a few low-level officers have strong appeal, they do not have time to let them go.
He established a personal relationship with the soldiers.
The military reform was settled.
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When Jiang Tianyi returned to the Staff Section, Zheng Sen and several other scholars were having a heated discussion with more than a dozen Imperial College students.
"What are you discussing? It's so lively?" Jiang Tian asked with a smile, "I'll listen too."
"Hey, what else can we discuss? It's just about military merit." Zheng Sen said, "Before launching the Northern Expedition, the Holy Father made it clear that after the Northern Expedition was successful and the slaves were wiped out, a new military merit system would be formally established.
Do you know what kind of military merit system this new military merit system is? When will it come out?"
The reward for meritorious service after the war was agreed upon long ago.
The reward for meritorious service is divided into two parts. One part is a reward. This has been distributed a long time ago. Regardless of whether it is a scholar, a junior scholar or a low-level soldier, the standards are the same, and they will all be rewarded 55 yuan.
In addition to rewards, there is also the military merit system or the title system.
Many scholars look forward to the military merit system, but are also afraid of the title system.
The reason is also very simple. Both the commander-in-chief of the scholar camp and the first-term imperial students consider themselves scholars, so they disdain to associate with military generals and are resistant to being awarded titles.
Xue Zongzhou said: "In my opinion, most of them followed the Qin and Han Dynasties in establishing a military merit system."
The other scholars and scholars also agreed one after another and agreed with Xue Zongzhou's judgment.
However, Jiang Tianyi smiled and said, "That's what I'm talking about. What a coincidence."
When Zheng Sen heard this, he immediately became energetic and asked urgently: "Has the military merit system been introduced?"
"It's out." Jiang Tianyi smiled, "But it's a little different from what you said."
"What's that like? Brother Wenshi, tell me quickly." Zheng Sen said anxiously, "Stop being so pretentious."
Jiang Tianyi said: "The military merit system established by the Holy Spirit is not the twenty-level military merit system of the Qin and Han Dynasties. It is divided into five levels and thirteen levels. From low to high, they are corporal, sergeant, staff sergeant, second lieutenant, lieutenant, captain, and major.
, lieutenant colonel, colonel, major general, lieutenant general, general and marshal. Above the marshal there is also the general marshal of land, sea and air, but this is exclusive to the emperor."
"Senior? Lieutenant? Colonel? General? Fifth level and thirteenth level?" Zheng Sen and other scholars and imperial students looked at each other in confusion.
This military merit system set by the Holy One was indeed beyond their expectations and was simply unheard of.
Jiang Tianyi went on to say: "What the Holy Lord has established is actually not the military merit system, but the military rank system, but the meaning is similar. Soldiers and Imperial College students need to accumulate military merits to achieve promotion in military ranks. The more military merits accumulated or the higher the military merits.
The greater the level, the greater the increase in military rank will be."
