Lord of Ming Dynasty

These people who can read books and study skills in various industries will eventually become deputy township heads, deputy mayors, or research officials. More senior officials can take the imperial examination and then enter a higher research institution.

The fourth level is usually those who have read books and have profound attainments in the industry. They also have the heart of being an official. Members can be promoted to official positions, and can be promoted to positions such as clerks, document offices, book books, etc., which are equivalent to the assistants of township heads and town heads.

These people who can read books and study skills in various industries will eventually become deputy township heads, deputy mayors, or research officials. More senior officials can take the imperial examination and then enter a higher research institution.

Chapter 584 Establishment of the Military General Staff

In a newly built military hall in the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, there were people coming and going, and many Chinese soldiers in blue military uniforms came in and out, busy.

In the main hall, countless arm-thick candles are lit, and countless flat glazed tile mirrors are used to reflect the light into the center of the hall or every corner.

At the end of the hall, on the high platform, the senior generals of the Huaxia Army are all wearing the uniforms of the senior generals of the Huaxia Army. It can be seen from the collar badges, epaulets, armbands, and sleeves that they are all of high rank, the lowest being the rank of lieutenant general general.

Under the high platform, officers at all levels, as well as the senior attendants of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, are collating information, maps, and manuscripts with the generals, garrison and other central generals, as well as various generals and students of the military academy.

Behind the hands around the main hall, there are cavalry generals, hundred households, infantry generals, hundred households, naval commanders, hundred households, artillery generals, hundred households, musket generals, and other officers. It's a short gun, a bayonet.

The soldiers of the Guards Battalion stood at the entrance of the main hall, and the leaders were all small captains of the Guards, all of whom were at the garrison level.

This is a deduction and preparation work for the Northern Expedition to the Kingdom of Jin, which was participated by officers who graduated or are about to graduate from military academies that were rarely seen in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and where all the generals above the defense of the Huaxia Army were present.

Senior officials and civilian officials from various ministries of the Ministry of National Defense participated in it, as well as officials from the central cabinet and the various ministries of the Metropolitan Government. The ministries of the Metropolitan Government were originally collectively called the Ministry of Internal Affairs. It is suitable to include all the ministries under its own management, so this department was renamed the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion.

The Metropolitan Governor’s Mansion includes the various ministries under the Metropolitan Governor’s jurisdiction, as well as the Ministry of Internal Affairs that handles the miscellaneous affairs of the Metropolitan Governor’s Mansion. The Ministry of Internal Affairs includes tasks such as security, life, management, storage, and finance of the Metropolitan Governor’s Mansion. In the past, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was Zhu Dayou, but now the Ministry of Internal Affairs Zhang Qiang, the general manager, handed over to his second woman, Kong Sizhen, and Zhu Dayou has become the governor of Baodao.

The headquarters of the garrison commander under the Ministry of Internal Affairs was handed over to the Ministry of War.

However, the responsibility for dispatching the personal guards of generals at all levels is still the responsibility of the Guards Regiment, a special department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion.

The regiment headquarters of the pro-guard regiment is actually an administrative department. Zhang Qiang's pro-guard battalion only brought a battalion of troops when Zhang Qiang took the front line. Responsible for the transportation and care of all kinds of luggage, mules, horses, weapons and equipment accompanying the army. The other teams of the personal guard battalion are responsible for the safety of some mansions close to the governor's mansion. They belong to the inner guard, and the garrison command is on the outside. Responsible for guarding.

Only when necessary will the other guards of the pro-guard regiment be mobilized to follow the expedition.

As for the dispatch and deployment of the officers of the pro-guard battalion, Zhang Qiang needed the joint approval of the civilian department of the pro-guard regiment, the Ministry of National Defense, the headquarters of the garrison commander, and the military department of the cabinet.

With the establishment of the military academy, the Ministry of Cabinet, the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Defense jointly allocated and deployed soldiers, and the promotion of officers and dispatch battalions became the mainstream.

Mainly the Ministry of War, the soldiers and generals of the Garrison Command need to be transferred to the field forces of each army, and they need to communicate with the Ministry of War. The dispatch only needs to be transferred to the Ministry of War immediately, and the promotion of cadets from the militia to the garrison is only a matter of the management of the Ministry of War.

Similarly, the deployment of field troops and guard troops only needs to be transferred to the Ministry of National Defense. If they want to be transferred to the garrison, retired, and placed in the garrison or militia, several parties need to coordinate and go through the files.

Today's dispatch is no longer something that Zhang Qiang can arrange and intervene casually, and Zhang Qiang's life can be easier again.

Zhang Qiang had the final say on the deployment of the Guards Regiment and the Guards, but the files had to go to the Ministry of Defense. In short, with the improvement of the system and the formation of the country, all things had to be handled in accordance with the formal procedures.

So in the past, Zhang Qiang's great governor's attendant office issued a document and sent it to the army, and the time when a general or soldier was immediately transferred to the corresponding post is gone forever.

Even if a document is issued now to transfer someone, it is necessary to first go to the regiment headquarters of the Guards, then to the military headquarters of the Guards, then to the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Defense to the Ministry of War, and then the Ministry of War to the garrison command or military academy, or recruit training The director's department, or the militia headquarters, or the punishment battalion director's department, or the cabinet staff department, etc. are very troublesome. It takes half a month to a month to go, and the fastest speed is three to five days.

When the navy has been promoted to the navy, the navy is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of National Defense, which belongs to the field force, and the guard regiment and the guard brigade are under the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Government.

However, the training and logistics of these troops, and the training of officers belong to the Ministry of War of the Cabinet, with clear responsibilities, but the organization is much larger and the efficiency is somewhat low. Planning a large-scale strategic-level offensive requires all departments to be in place, and then from above to issue an order.

After the order goes around in the hall, it will be completed in the final review below. Separate, prepare the order, and then divide it into several parts. One is archived here, one is reported to the Ministry of War, one is reported to the Ministry of Defense, and one Report to the Archives Office of the Internal Affairs Office of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, and the remaining copy will be sent to the relevant troops below. Although the time is not long and the manpower is sufficient, it will take about half an hour. To issue an order, this order will take half an hour to walk to this place alone.

If this kind of efficiency is placed in an emergency, things may be delayed, but in the planning stage and the preparation stage, it can be complete, accurate, and comprehensive, discover problems, deal with them, and fully consider the war work or all aspects of the war.

It is equivalent to the general staff of later generations.

Above the main hall, Zhang Qiang, Wei Wuji, Zhou Porridge, Zhang Huangyan, Zhang Mingzhen, Milin, Huang Tao and others analyzed various situations, made rough estimates and analyzes on the various forces, deployments and mobilizations of their Huaxia Army, and put forward their opinions. , After a few people discuss, hand it over to the generals on the side for analysis, discussion, and come up with a plan, and then hand it over to Zhang Qiang and the others for further discussion, and the generals will also participate in the answer and discussion. More detailed plans and marching routes, material arrival time, possible delays, and possible problems, after completion, submit them to the higher-ups, and after the higher-ups review, then hand them back to them, divide them into several more detailed orders, and prepare them into orders , Send out, the guards outside the hall will escort the order to the departments at all levels below, if it is necessary to hand it over to the troops outside the center, the special military messenger and guard will issue the order.

The order was conveyed to the troops in various places through the post road, the troops were mobilized, and finally the preparation and conduct of the battle were completed.

Chapter 585 Partition Responsible

"Zhang Aiqing, you are in charge of Southeast Asia, Annan, Laos, and Myanmar. All the resources are allocated by you, and the generals assigned to them are Zhao Hu's No.13 Field Brigade, Ma Han's No.20 Field Brigade, and No.30 Eighth Field Brigade. The brigade, Li Dingguo's department, Liu Liangzuo's department, all the troops are dispatched by you. I will send you a department of the attendant room, and then deploy [-] officers from the military academy to you. The cabinet and the Ministry of War will prepare some officials for you, probably About [-] people, in short, the direction of Southeast Asia will be handed over to you.”

"Thank you for the great love of the Metropolitan Governor. I will definitely live up to the great love of the Metropolitan Governor. I won Southeast Asia. Congratulations to the Metropolitan Governor, to the Huaxia Army, to our country, to the Han Dynasty, to expand the territory, to protect the environment and the people." Zhang Huangyan faced Zhang Qiangyi bow to the end.

"Okay, you go to make adjustments, come back if you have any questions, anyway, we work in a large hall, if you are tired, go to the side hall next to you to rest and drink tea, it's time to get off work, handle your own time, my department urges you ,Understand?"

"Thank you, Commander-in-Chief, for your generosity." After Zhang Huangyan bowed again, he got up and called the guards and attendants Zhang Qiang assigned to him to form another regiment on the other side of the hall to take charge of the battle in Southeast Asia.

Zhou Porridge smiled and said, "If you let him command the battle over there, then who will manage my household department?"

Zhang Qiang said with a smile: "I didn't tell him to let go of the affairs of the household department. He is still the minister of the household department, but most of the time he is here. He can do it, besides Zhu Dadian and Zhu Yujian, you can put a burden on them, let Zhu Yujian share some of the burden."

"Then what am I responsible for?" Zhou Porridge asked.

Zhang Qiang said seriously: "You have many things to be responsible for, but the main thing is to manage domestic civil affairs well, and the recent affairs of the Consultation Bureau. Although many Nanming officials have come to us, although many officials have already performed their duties With the efforts of Jin Sheng from the Ministry of Officials, the early stage personnel have been arranged.

Now that You Haibo is busy with the following work, what you have to do is to keep an eye on them, don't create some conflicts between the two sides, and at the same time try to educate them as much as possible and let them integrate into us.

For those officials who have not changed their bad habits, they will be handed over to the Ministry of Supervision for investigation. Huang Tao of the Ministry of Civil Affairs is now mainly in charge of domestic counter-espionage and spy tasks, and at the same time cooperates with the Ministry of Military Intelligence to collect enemy intelligence.

Also, try to spare some time to hang around here and cooperate with us.The construction of Baodao has not yet been completed, immigration, the establishment of a sea trade base, and the expansion of various infrastructures, administrations, and regulations for our next trade with the Thai and Western people. You have to deal with it as soon as possible. Southeast Asia, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Shaanxi-Gansu, which are about to start The allocation of materials for the campaign, the cooperation of the local militia and the garrison all required the input and effort of the Ministry of War. By the way, forgot, such things also required the cooperation of the Ministry of War. Li Guo was called to attend our military meeting. "

Zhang Qiang arranged so many things in one go, and Zhou Porridge couldn't remember them. Fortunately, like Zhang Qiang, he has the right to set up his own attendant room, but his attendant is not a room, but an administrative office, and there are special officials in charge. There are also special clerks responsible for recording his words and deeds, as well as his clerical work. These clerks are all new scholars, and they all follow him to learn and handle administrative affairs, which is equivalent to the former Hanlin bachelor.

Quickly record these words and give them to him for review.

"Yes, Chief Governor, I'll do it right away. Then I don't need to stay here." Zhou Porridge asked.

"Well, you go. The main busy person here is Wei Wuji. He is in charge of foreign wars, and his field brigade is mainly fighting."

After talking with Zhou Porridge, Zhang Qiang said to Wei Wuji again: "You and Milin, Huang Tao, Li Guo, and Zhu Dadian, members of the War Committee that make up the General Staff Headquarters, will supervise the various front armies and staff groups below, and participate in their operations. , formulate plans, and issue orders. Zhang Huangyan and the others are the team in charge of Southeast Asia, and Zhang Huangyan is in charge."

Then Zhang Qiang called out, "Gao Jie," Gao Jie, a general below, immediately ran up, "Great Governor," he received a military salute.

"You are in charge of the formation of the Yunnan-Guizhou Staff Group, planning and supporting the battle of Feng Wuyu's troops. Your direct person in charge is the War Committee, and the highest person in charge of the War Committee is Wei Wuji, Secretary of the Ministry of National Defense. You are ultimately responsible to him." Zhang Qiang is serious. said to him.

"Ah, this, Commander-in-Chief, how can I be responsible for such an important task, why don't you find someone else?" Gao Jie was a little ignorant and flustered. How can a junior be in charge of such an important matter.

"It's hard to fight. I want to transfer Feng Wuyu back, let you go to fight? Can you command so many troops? Are they obeying your dispatch?" Zhang Qiang shouted solemnly.

"Well, well, I'm not responsible for messing up," Gao Jie muttered with his head lowered, Wei Wuji frowned, "What are you talking about, you didn't take responsibility, how can we use you? Back then..."

"Cough cough," Zhang Qiang coughed twice, interrupting Wei Wuji's reminiscence prelude, and gave him a blank look, Wei Wuji smiled embarrassedly, "Well, this young man is not bad, he looks like Xiao Fei and Xuanyuan Longfei back then, yes Good food that can be cultivated."

"Don't talk nonsense, Gao Jie, you will be in charge of Yunnan and Guizhou, arrange marching routes for Feng Wuyu and the others, plan food, supplies, supply of troops, and deal with all kinds of emergencies. As for marching command, how to fight, Feng Wuyu is better than you Professional, he will report various combat plans, and you will improve the shortcomings of his plans, as well as various plans and things that need to be dealt with later. If you don’t understand, ask the superiors of the committee, do you know?” Zhang Qiang looked at him and said.

"Yes, Commander-in-Chief, I understand." Gao Jie saluted.

Wei Wuji called him aside, discussed with several people, and assigned him a few attendants, officers from the headquarters of the garrison commander, and generals who graduated from military academies, and then asked Zhu Dadian to assign some cabinet officials to cooperate with them. , Li Guo assigned some military officials.

In this way, the staff group in the direction of Yunnan and Guizhou was formed.

Afterwards, Zhang Qiang discussed with them, and handed over the command of the battle between the Henan government and the Qing army to Li Guo, the minister of the Ministry of War. The battle in Henan was basically over. The whole territory is liberated and has been running stably for a period of time. With Fang Yizhi's help and Gu Yuesheng's management, there is really no need to worry too much. The main situation of Xuanyuan Longfei and Brother Zhu's troops now is that they are bigger than the Qing army. Small-scale battles, and then the main job is to defend and digest the fruits obtained.