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In the sixth year of Yongxing, Duke Chongguo received the reward of Jiuxi, accepted the mandate of heaven, opened the palace, and went out to lead the Privy Council, officially unveiling the pattern of Duke Chongguo's government controlling the military and government of the world; some scholars even wrote letters advising Duke Yuan to change the government.
In the end, Lin Fu did not shamelessly force Emperor Yongxing to change the epochal title, but the affairs of the public government quietly broke into the lives of the soldiers and civilians in the area south of the Huai River, and the Jianghuai government became more and more...
Adapting to the days when we only heard orders from the Privy Council but never saw imperial edicts.
Although the prefectures and counties are still nominally directly under the jurisdiction of the Six Ministries of the Central Committee, and the political hall and the Six Ministries and Nine Temple Ministers still exist, above the prefectures and counties, the "envoys" under the Central Committee, that is, county-level military and political officials, are officially controlled by the Privy Council.
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From the end of the year to March of spring, Lin Fu began to adjust the military and political relations at the central and local levels.
In February, the General Intelligence Department was officially separated from the Privy Council, and the Military Staff Department was established. It was under the direct jurisdiction of the government and was under the jurisdiction of the departments of operations, military intelligence, military affairs, war training, surveying and mapping, and local military preparations. Qin Chengzu and Gao Zongting were appointed as the left and right staff officers.
The Commander-in-Chief has officially become the military command organization that implements and executes the orders and instructions of the government, commanding and deploying combat operations of various camps, armies, independent divisions and local military equipment.
In the local area, he was transformed into the commander-in-chief of the battalion. The military commander of the battalion was the capital commander. He was at the same level as the military commander. Both had the rank of military commander and had the right to attend the decision-making meetings of the military staff. The power of the military staff was forced to be too concentrated in the chief of staff.
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The Military Staff Department is established at the camp, camp army and corps levels to serve as a staff military leader. Its functions are equivalent to those of the Military Staff Department. It is responsible for implementing and executing the orders and instructions of the capital commander and corps commander.
While strengthening the combat command capabilities of troops at the corps level, it also effectively avoids the possibility of important generals at the command level setting up private staff to steal the army; it also pave the way for the rotation of generals at the camp and corps levels, so that the army will not be
The rotation of generals greatly weakened the ability to command operations.
The Military Staff Department has jurisdiction over the Forbidden Camp Army (Capital Commander Zhao Hu), Jingjiang Navy (Capital Commander Ge Cunxiong), Nanyang Camp (Capital Commander Ao Canghai), Jingzhou Camp (Chongcheng Military Capital Commander Zhou Zhou)
, Southeast Navy (Capital Commander Zhao Qingshan also controls the East Fujian Army), Shouzhou Army (Capital Commander Ning Zechen of Fengli Army) and Xuzhou Army (Captain Commander Liu Miaozhen of Huaiyang Army), Jezhou Army (formerly Haiyang Army)
The commander-in-chief of the eastbound camp Ma Yoshi), the Jinghai Division (the commander-in-chief Ge Cunxin) and the cavalry battalion's first town division commander Zhou Pu, the second town division commander Li Liang, and the third town division commander Sun Zhuang
,Denghai Town Division Army Chen Zhi...
The battle training school was also formally reorganized. While the Army (i.e., the Horse Infantry Army) senior command school was established in Jiangning, six additional army junior command schools were set up in Chongzhou, Jiangxia, Xuzhou, Mingzhou, Jin'an, and Jiangning; and another naval command school was established.
School - Cao Ziang replaced Lin Fu as the commander of the Army High Command School and the Navy Command School.
While Lin Fu was evacuating the Zhengshitang, he did not intend to completely evacuate the six central departments.
Lin Fu made Lin Xuwen continue to be in charge of the Ministry of Household Affairs as deputy prime minister while controlling the land tax and taxation of various prefectures and counties. Yu Xinyuan resigned as prime minister and made Hu Wenmu enter the Political Hall and also take charge of the Ministry of Punishment. He also made Zuo Chengmu also take charge of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.
Use Zuo Chengmu to concurrently lead the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and retain local inspectors and censors to supervise local officials. Most of them will be filled with old ministers. This is not only to ease the relationship with officials from the middle forces, but also to make the Metropolitan Procuratorate independent of Chongqing.
In addition to the principality government and the Privy Council system, the old ministers were deliberately used to control the new ministers, so as to prevent the officials of the Huaidong line from getting too complacent after taking over the local power.
Locally, the Governor's Office of the Two Lakes was established, with Fu Qinghe as the governor, and under the jurisdiction of the Xianghu and Jinghu Xuanfu Envoys, Zhang Han and Ye Jun'an were in charge.
The Jiangxi Xuanfu Envoy Department was established, and Hu Zhiyong was transferred to Jiangxi Xuanfu Envoy.
The two Zhejiang Provincial and Fu Envoy Departments were set up to make Liang Wenzhan lead the government and know the Mingzhou Prefecture.
The governor-general's mansion of Eastern Fujian was set up to also control Yizhou, and Huang Jinnian was sent out of Jiangning to lead it and also to know the Jin'an mansion.
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As spring enters March, the earth in Jiangning City is getting warmer and everything is recovering.
It was March 8th. The weather was fine and people were wearing spring clothes. In the afternoon, there was a flow of people going in and out of the city at Shengtai Gate in the south of the city for a spring outing.
A middle-aged man in a green shirt and shoes, accompanied by four armored soldiers, rode his horse slowly outside the city along with the spring crowd. He seemed to be quite enjoying the spring scenery at this time - although the middle-aged man
He was dressed in casual clothes, but he was protected by soldiers, and he also inadvertently revealed the aura of an iron horse that was honed on the battlefield, causing the people around him to stay away from him involuntarily, so as not to bump into the nobleman.
At this time, two unpretentious four-wheeled carriages entered Shengtai Gate against the flow of people. When they passed by the middle-aged man, the curtains of the carriages opened, revealing a weathered face, and shouted happily: "Yang
General..."
Yang Yihang turned his head and looked around, but it was Sun Shangwang who stuck his head out of the carriage, reined in the horse, and said in surprise: "It turns out to be Brother Shangwang. I thought you would arrive in Jiangning in a few days, but you didn't delay at all on the way.
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"My lord has been summoned, how dare I delay on the road?" Sun Shang looked down from the carriage and embraced Yang Yihang as he dismounted. "Where are you going, General Yang?"
"My lord has implemented a new system, giving civil and military officers a day off on the eighth day of every tenth day," Yang Yihang said with a smile, "If I hadn't bumped into Brother Shang Wang, I would have taken advantage of the fine weather today to go out of the city for a spring outing."
Yang Yihang was transferred to the Military Staff Department, where he participated in military affairs and was specifically responsible for naval affairs.
When they were in Jinhai, Sun Shangwang and Yang Yihang had been together for nearly four years and had a close friendship.
After retreating south from Jinhai, Sun Shangwang went directly to Yizhou and stayed in Yizhou for almost five years; while Yang Yihang first led the Miaoshan Camp Army to fight at the mouth of Bohai Sea. After the Qingzhou War, Shandong fell and Yang Yihang was forced to
Then he led his troops to retreat south, served successively as the commander of the naval forces in the Forbidden Camp, and participated in the military affairs - think about it, the two of them have been separated for almost five years.
After meeting Sun Shangwang, Yang Yihang naturally went back home and accompanied Sun Shangwang in the same car back to the city. He said with a smile: "It's a maternity leave today, and my lord also went out for a spring outing. In addition to the officials on duty, you also met when you entered the city today.
If you don't meet anyone, no one will arrange a place for you - I'll count your luck, so you can stay in my house today. Prime Minister Lin is a busy man, and there are not many old friends from Jinhai in Jiangning. Huang Chengen and Chen Jingtang are here, too.
Just a wine jar, so I invited him to help you wash away the dust. I didn’t know that Liu Zhi was so busy..."
Huang Chengen is the eldest son of Huang Jinnian. He was admitted as a Jinshi in his early years and returned to Huaidong with his father when he was in Jinhai;
An official who later joined Huaidong with Huang Jinnian, and now he has been promoted to the position of Wailang of the Ministry of Industry through meritorious service; Liu Zhi once served as an envoy to watch the army in Jinhai, and he had a harmonious relationship with everyone in Jinhai. Even though Liu Zhi was an eunuch,
When it comes to knowledge and insight, he is not half inferior to others. At this time, he was one of the core figures in the government's control of the inner court, and had long been integrated into the Huaidong family.
Yang Yihang sent people to invite Huang Chengen, Chen Jingtang and Liu Zhi to come and cleanse Sun Shangwang. He and Sun Shangwang returned to the house in Tongtuo Lane first.
Although Yang Yihang is a senior general with the rank of commander, his residence in Jiangning is very simple, with only three groups of courtyards, the east and west main halls. Yang Yihang was born as a general in Jinzhong, but he has always been frugal, not because the Jinzhong army was destroyed and his family was in decline.
Only then did he change his style. Yang Yihang remarried after his wife died of illness. He was forty-three years old. He had a daughter who was married to another man and two sons who were underage. They both attended the Army Junior Command School and were not at home at all times.
The main house was occupied by him, his wife and the young daughter left behind by his eldest brother who died with the destruction of the Jinzhong Army. The east courtyard housed maids and six old servants, and the west courtyard housed guards. Senior generals at the envoy level were all commanded.
The number of Jiangning garrison soldiers is fifteen, and the number of soldiers is sixty; therefore, in Jiangning City, a guard squad lives in Yang Yihang's house all year round to protect him and his family.
In fact, all the generals of the Huaidong line live near the Cangjin Bridge, which is also the core area of Jiangning city defense and public security. Under normal circumstances, not even a fly can fly in. However, considering the severe situation of the North-South confrontation
, there is no guarantee that spies from Yanhu, Huaixi or Sichuan and Sichuan lurking in Jiangning will attack the senior generals in Huaidong. Lin Fu still attaches great importance to the safety of senior generals such as Yang General.
Of course, compared to the prestige of Qin Chengbo who had nearly a thousand private soldiers in his early years, Huaidong generals were far from comparable and much more honest. However, private officials and private soldiers were exactly the old things that Lin Fu tried his best to abolish.
Yang Yihang invited Sun Shangwang to hang out in the house. A beautiful girl came over and bowed down: "Chan'er has seen Uncle Sun..."
"Is this Chan'er?" Sun Shangwang looked at Yang Yihang's eldest brother's daughter and said with a smile, "I haven't seen her for several years, and she looks pretty and tall."
"By the way, your boy is already eighteen years old this year, right? I haven't seen him for several years." Yang Yihang asked.
When they captured Yannan, Sun Shangwang's family was destroyed, his wife and children were separated. Only his youngest son and his nephew Sicun escaped. Sizong escaped from the disaster. His nephew Sizong was older and had been working by Sun Shangwang's side. His son Sicun and Sun Shangwang withdrew from Jinhainan to Chongzhou.
When he was only thirteen years old, he stayed in Chongzhou to attend school.
"He is eighteen years old," Sun Shangwang said. "I haven't seen him for several years. He must have moved to Jiangning with the Naval Command School. I originally planned to go to Jiangning to look for his son first, but I didn't want to give General Yang half a chance.
After being robbed, I can only ask Sizong to go find Sicun on my behalf."
"Oh, really?" Yang Yihang said with a smile, "I said that Chan'er has been talking about old things in Jinhai these days. Maybe she met Sicun somewhere!" When Yang Yihang said this, Yang Chan'er blushed and ran away covering her face.
Go somewhere else.
"How about being your Sun family's daughter-in-law?" Yang Yihang pointed at his escaped niece and asked Sun Shangwang with a smile.
"Then this matter will be settled today. You won't regret it later." Sun Shangwang smiled and settled the matter.
Liu Zhi came the fastest. Seeing Yang Yihang and Sun Shangwang chatting happily, he stepped in and asked what was going on. Knowing that they had decided on a marriage in just a few words, he quickly took off the jade pendants from his waist and gave them to each other, congratulating them, but his expression was confused.
It was inevitable that he would be miserable: he entered the palace as an eunuch in his early years and could not marry and have children. Moreover, his family was defeated during Yan and Hu's invasion to the south. His parents and two brothers were missing, and they were probably killed in the war, so he thought about having a son-nephew.
Not for the future.
Before March, Lin Fu mainly established the Military Staff Department on the basis of the Military Intelligence Department, straightened out the relationship between the army, and adjusted several ministers of the border areas to strengthen control over Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Huaihe and other places. Within the Privy Council,
The adjustment has not yet begun, but it is obvious that with the arrival of Sun Shangwang, Wang Chengfu, Li Shuyi, Zhu Ai and others in Beijing, the day is coming soon.
Sun Shangwang had only known Yizhou before, and his status was lower than that of Ye Junan, Hu Zhiyong, Huang Jinnian, Liang Wenzhan and others. However, Lin Fu did not transfer Liang Wenzhan, Ye Junan, Hu Zhiyong and others to the capital to assist the government, and even sent Huang Jinnian to East Fujian as governor.
Sun Shangwang, Wang Chengfu, Li Shuyi, Zhu Ai and other junior officials were transferred to Jiangning. Everyone can guess that Lin Fu wanted to implement the New Deal more vigorously and would not become conservative just because he had already grasped the overall situation of the world.
Lin Fu also revealed his intention to the ministers around him a long time ago, that he would gradually implement the pension system.
Unlike in the past, when an official took the initiative to retire, the court could ask him to retire. Otherwise, he would be ungrateful. Lin Fu clearly hoped that generals should not be over sixty years old in office; officials below the county magistrate should not even be over fifty-five in office.
, the age requirements for generals below the command of the army will be higher; only special ones such as Fu Qinghe, Song Fu and other important ministers named Lin Fuyi as their right-hand men can be extended for another five years.
Lin Fu wanted to use this to ensure the renewal of the generals group, so that the promotion channels of generals and officials could be smoothed, so as to reduce the traditional disadvantages.
Perhaps in the future, Lord Feng, Sun Shangwang, Wang Chengfu, Li Shuyi, Zhu Ai and others will be far inferior to Song Fu, Lin Tingli, Lin Mengde, Sun Jingxuan and other important ministers, but after the establishment of the new dynasty, Lin Mengde, Sun Jingxuan and others will become
Due to their age, they gradually withdrew from the center and no longer held actual positions. At this time, Sun Shangwang, Wang Chengfu, Li Shuyi and Zhu Ai, who were in their prime, were obviously the backbone of the new dynasty that Lin Fu wanted to rely on; and
The younger generation headed by Chongzhou boy, Chen Enze, also went to Jeju this time and replaced Lin Jingzhong as Jiangning governor. It will obviously take only another ten or twenty years for the younger generation to gradually enter the center...
Thinking that Sun Shangwang might be the candidate for prime minister in the future, Liu Zhi wanted to have a daughter or niece and was willing to marry him.
Huang Chengen and Chen Jingtang soon rushed over to cleanse Sun Shangwang. They first chatted in the court about military and political affairs in various places, and also recounted the old friendship between Tianjin and the sea. When the sun went down and the bright moon floated in the sky, Yang Yihang set up a banquet in the court.
After opening the jar for drinking, he had just finished half the jar of wine when he heard a commotion outside the door and saw Lin Fu rushing in, pointing at Sun Shangwang and saying: "What a great Sun Shangwang. When you come to Jiangning, you first hide at Yang Yihang's side to drink.
Fortunately, I am well-informed, so there will be no shortage of me..."
"Shangwang bows to my lord..." Sun Shangwang and Yang Yihang and others hurriedly stood up, and Sun Shangwang wanted to salute.
"The kneeling ceremony has been abolished a long time ago, but the Privy Council cannot formally write this system. It's good for everyone to know..." Lin Fu supported Sun Shangwang and pulled Gao Zongting who was accompanying him. Wang Chengfu sat on the table and told everyone to do whatever they wanted.