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Chapter 116 Military Department (thanks to Xin Zongjun for the reward)
"General Huangfu, I need your help on an important matter. I wonder if General Huangfu can agree?" Zhang Ming said lightly.

Huangfusong was a little surprised, now that the enemy troops in Chang'an City have withdrawn, what important things does His Majesty need for himself?

"Your Majesty's affairs, I will try my best to complete them." Huangfusong said solemnly.

"I want to set up a military department, set up a military department secretary, and General Huangfu will be in charge." Only then did Zhang Ming express his idea.

The so-called military department actually integrates the military power of the whole country. In fact, it is similar to the military department of later generations, except that the military department is more complete than the military department. It will not only be established in the central government, but also corresponding subordinate departments will be established in the local states in the future. .

"Your Majesty, what does the military department need to do?" Huangfusong asked curiously. The previous Emperor also had the same idea, and had a different idea.

"General Huangfu, it's like this. The military department is an institution that is responsible for the transfer of military personnel across the country, logistics transfers, national war statistics, rewards for soldiers, and so on." Only then did Zhang Ming fully confided his thoughts. Of course There are no specific details yet, and there is only a general framework for now.

Huangfu Song is loyal and upright, not good at dealing with people and the world, but he is not a stupid person, through a few words from His Majesty, he immediately felt the power of this new official position.

"Your Majesty, there is Taiwei Huang Wan in the court, why not let Taiwei Huang Wan take this position?" Huangfusong wanted to refuse, because he was old and the position was too dangerous.

"Taiwei Huang Wan is also very loyal and capable, but he doesn't know how to fight and has no authority, so he can't deter the soldiers at the bottom. The Minister of the Military Department needs someone who understands military affairs, so I can trust him with this position." Zhang Mingxuan Said slowly.

In fact, it would be better for the military ministers to be handed over to people who don't know much about military affairs, because in this way, it will be beneficial for Zhang Ming to take over the military power alone. people.At present, Huangfusong is the only one who is capable, loyal to the imperial court, and has meritorious deeds.

"Your Majesty, this matter is so important that I dare not make any suggestions, but Your Majesty must let me take up this position. I will be loyal to the court and Your Majesty." Huangfusong understood very well that what His Majesty needs most for such an important position is loyalty. .

"General Huangfu, as long as you stand by my side, I will have nothing to fear. Although this matter is important, as long as you agree, the court meeting is just a formality." Zhang Ming gave Huangfusong unlimited trust , to repay his loyalty.

The establishment of the Minister of the Military Department is not a trivial matter, and it must be discussed by the court, but now Huangfu Song is on Zhang Ming's side, and Lu Bu is also completely loyal to him. On his side, even if he directly set up a military minister, it would be of no avail if the ministers of the DPRK and China opposed it.

However, the form of the Hundred Officials Council still needs to go. Zhang Ming can’t move the Hundred Officials for the time being. The operation of the Han Dynasty cannot be separated from them. During the period, they can only continue to use them to maintain the operation of the country. For the last dynasty, changing masters is much faster than changing ministers. One emperor and one courtier cannot be applied at the end of the dynasty.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, I will definitely stand on His Majesty's side." Huangfu Song said expressionlessly.

Zhang Ming suddenly remembered one thing, that is about military rewards. Now that the crisis in Chang'an City has been resolved, the next step is to reward soldiers. If it is placed on the previous emperor, the rewards of war are mainly concentrated in For generals above the rank of military marquis, after all, soldiers of lower ranks are not eligible to receive the emperor's reward at all.

Zhang Ming’s previous military merit reforms expanded the number of soldiers who can receive military merit rewards. Now that he has planned to set up a military department, the task of rewards will naturally be handed over to the military department. After all, he alone There is no way to reward them all, so it is the best choice to improve the rewards in an institutionalized way.

And rewards are a very important thing. For low-level soldiers, they need to see the sincerity of the court. If the court chooses to fool them, they will also fool the court. In the end, the new military merit system is like a piece of waste paper , It will not play any role, so the first reward is very important, and there must be no mistakes. Let all the soldiers know that the court will do what it says.

"General Huangfu, do you have any new ideas about rewards?" Zhang Ming asked Huangfusong as he walked.

Now that Huangfusong has been appointed by him as Minister of the Military Department, although there is no edict yet, it is already an indisputable fact. Therefore, many matters related to the military need to be discussed with Huangfusong instead of going through a hundred officials. The efficiency has been improved a lot. No wonder later emperors continued to use the six-part system. Of course, the later generations continued to use the six-part system more for the emperor's centralization of power.

"Your Majesty, in the past, rewards were only given to generals. Soldiers basically relied on looting to obtain money. That's why they frequently slaughtered cities and villages. The soldiers under my account are strictly controlled, but the situation of slaughtering cities is still the same. It has been repeatedly banned, so Your Majesty's military merit system has met the soldiers' financial needs, but the rewards in the military merit system are still not detailed enough and need to be further improved." Huangfusong said.

"Then do you have any ideas for improvement?" Zhang Ming naturally knew the problem with the military merit system, which was the lack of details.

"First of all, the meritorious officers in the army should report the military merits of the officers and men of the various ministries, and secondly, the generals or lieutenants of the ministries should distribute money and food to these officers and men." Huang Fusong said.

Huangfusong's thinking is actually the same as what he did before. The rewards in the army are generally carried out in this way, the general or the school lieutenant rewards the soldiers under him.

However, the rewards in the past were very random. Often, generals and captains would reward their subordinates when they were happy. Sometimes, they would reward their subordinates just because they were in a good mood. This kind of reward was completely different from what Zhang Ming wanted. the same.

Moreover, the biggest disadvantage of this kind of reward is that the general and the school lieutenant control the rewards of various ministries, and the soldiers below will try their best to please the general or school lieutenant, which will cause the general or school lieutenant to form an interest relationship with the soldiers below, so that the emperor's An order is not as easy to use as a general's order.

"No, this is no different from the previous rewards. Once the general gets the power to reward, does it depend on the general's will whether the lower-level soldiers can get the reward?" Zhang Ming said.

What His Majesty said made Huangfu Songmao suddenly realize that when he was a general, he was indeed able to reward his subordinates very well, but even so, he would inevitably be biased. However, the big man has several generals like him, and more The general will only embezzle part of the rewards given by His Majesty before distributing them to his subordinates.

"Then what does His Majesty mean?" Huangfu Song looked at His Majesty thoughtfully.

"My idea is this. I plan to set up a military merit department under the military department, referred to as the military merit department. There are two officials under it, one is the chief and the other is the deputy. There are special officials under the two to manage each Rewards for military merit. Whether it is the military merit of the general or the military merit of the soldiers, two officials are in charge of it." Zhang Ming said slowly.

Huangfusong didn't directly refute it, nor did he agree. He had never heard of this kind of reward, and it was the first time he had seen it, so he was inevitably a little confused.

Zhang Ming looked at Huangfusong's silence, and he didn't bother to ask. His proposal was just his own idea, and he didn't know if it would be really effective and could be carried out, so he could only propose it first. His own thoughts, see if Huangfusong has any opinions.

Soon, Huangfusong discovered the problem.

"Your Majesty, the old minister feels the subtlety of your idea. The establishment of the Military Merit Department can prevent military merit from being affected by generals and lieutenants, and thus reach the hands of soldiers at the bottom. If this is the case, what if the officials in the Military Merit Department are corrupt? "

"A general's corruption only affects the combat capability of one army, but once such a problem occurs in the Military Merit Department, it will affect all the troops."

"Moreover, the Military Merit Department is set up in Chang'an. If the general is out fighting outside and cannot return to the capital for a long time, how will the military merit be distributed? Should the army come back to collect it, or should the officials go to the army with rewards to distribute?"

Huangfusong's answer hit the nail on the head. The first problem is easy to solve. It is nothing more than strengthening supervision. But the second problem is the most important. Once the army is far away from the court, it is difficult for the court to distribute military rewards in place. After all, during the Han Dynasty, the transportation was not developed, and the armies in various places were often self-sufficient, so the local armies were basically supported by local tyrants.

In the Han Dynasty, most of the food consumed by the army every time it went out was consumed on the marching road. Because it was very difficult to transport food, it required a lot of manpower and material resources, and even the cooperation of multiple parties.

First of all, the chi roads in various places have not yet been perfected, and the construction of chi roads is a big project. Qin Shihuang's construction of chi roads and palaces caused public grievances, and finally peasant uprisings broke out in various places, so the construction of chi roads in a short time is to Don't even think about it.

Secondly, the Han Dynasty also lacked large-scale transportation tools. In this war, Zhang Ming could see clearly that whether it was transporting grain from Lantian and Meiwu to Chang'an, or the enemy troops outside the city, they basically relied on The way of human carts, this way of transporting grain, as the distance increases, the proportion of grain consumed on the road will increase.

Finally, the speed of military information transmission is also very slow, so many generals lack information communication, which leads to the problem of mutual distrust. The most typical example is the siege war in Chang'an City. That's why it's easy to be alienated by Zhang Ming.

Therefore, it is too difficult to solve the second problem Huangfusong mentioned, and Zhang Ming can't think of any good solution.

"General Huangfu, I will send someone to verify and supervise the first problem you mentioned. As for the second problem, there is no need to solve it at all." Zhang Ming said after thinking for a while.

"Your Majesty, what do you say?" Huangfusong looked at His Majesty suspiciously.

"Because even if my edict can reach the rest of the states and counties, they will not carry out my orders, so what I'm doing now is only to increase the strength within the scope of my actual rule, and after conquering other places in the future, I will go to Consider these questions."

"Seeking truth from facts, it is enough to propose a solution to the immediate problem." Zhang Ming said again.

Zhang Ming's idea is different from Han Gaozu's idea. Liu Bang first entrusted kings with different surnames, and finally removed these kings with different surnames after defeating Xiang Yu, so as to achieve the goal of actual unification.And his idea is to first improve the strength of Weizhou, the Sili school, and then slowly annex other places, and finally achieve the goal of unifying the world.

Historically, from the Yellow Turban Uprising to the unification of the Three Kingdoms, from 184 to 265, it took 81 years, at least three generations, during this period, due to frequent wars, the population dropped sharply, from more than 5000 million people at the peak of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Three Kingdoms After the end, the population was less than [-] million. In the end, the Jin Dynasty officially opened the prelude to the Five Husbands after the Eight Kingdoms Rebellion.

The Three Kingdoms was an era in which heroes came forth in large numbers, but it was also an era in which people’s lives were worse than death. Therefore, Zhang Ming’s idea was to restore productivity while nibbling away at the states and counties. , The country he wants is a beautiful country, not a broken country.

Huangfusong looked at His Majesty in surprise, this Majesty is too pragmatic, there is no big reason, only immediate practical interests, it is really a blessing to have such a Majesty.

"I am willing to accompany Your Majesty to solve these problems." Huangfusong said respectfully.

After walking, Zhang Ming, Huangfusong and his party returned to the city wall.

The corpses outside the city wall are still piled up everywhere. These corpses are the corpses of the enemy soldiers, and they have not been cleaned up yet.

And Huangfusong had already sent scouts to check the direction of Niu Fujun, Zhang Jijun, and Guo Sijun. When they were farther away from Chang'an City, the guards could be completely relaxed, and the soldiers could go out of the city to build these corpses into a Jingguan.

Regarding Huangfusong's preferences, Zhang Ming couldn't say anything. Although this kind of behavior was a bit shocking, it could indeed boost the morale of one's own side and enhance the cohesion of one's own army.

Anyway, after the guards in Chang'an relaxed their guard, Zhang Ming would return to the palace. As for the Beijing Temple built by Huangfu Song, he would naturally not go to see it.

the next morning.

The scouts sent by Huangfusong have finally returned. According to the reports of the scouts, the allied forces outside the city have already gone a long way. Among them, Niu Fujun encountered Lu Bu's ambush in Lishan, and Niu Fujun fled in all directions. Zhang Jijun has already passed. In Lantian County, Fan Chou and Guo Si's troops were about to arrive in Huaili County.

Huangfusong called Liang Yan, Guo Dian and other school lieutenants, as well as several visitors, and ordered, "Let the Chang'an defenders release their combat status and return to their standing status."

"Yes, General." Several people said in unison.

After Huangfusong gave the order, he went to the turret on the wall of Chang'an City, but His Majesty has not returned yet.

Huangfusong remembered that His Majesty said before that His Majesty would return to the palace after the war in Chang'an was lifted, and now is the time.

When Huangfusong entered the turret, he saw His Majesty who had already asked the eunuch to prepare things. Huangfusong said respectfully, "Your Majesty, the crisis in Chang'an has been resolved, and I respectfully send Your Majesty back to the palace."

"General Huangfu has worked hard." Zhang Ming said with a smile on his face.

"Let's go back to the palace." Zhang Ming said to the eunuch and guard behind him.

(End of this chapter)