Lord of Ming Dynasty

To reduce the burden on Zhou Congee, Zhang Qiang also wanted to reduce the burden on himself. He left the Ministry of Supervision to the cabinet and let the second deputy prime minister Tang Dianfeng manage it.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs was also thrown to the cabinet, so the Ministry of National Defense, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and the Ministry of Military Intelligence are left on my side. The Ministry of Defense has become a civilian unit, and the General Staff has become a combat unit. But the General Staff makes plans, and the General Staff The deployment of troops and the distribution of materials, logistics, and personnel are also constrained by each other.

Now the militia headquarters is not busy. Most of the militia units are in the border areas. Except for some account militiamen, there are almost no manpower in the core area. The only thing left for the account militia is to count the number of people and issue pensions.

There is nothing to do at the headquarters of the punishment battalion. When it is unified, it can be transferred to the Ministry of Punishment to manage the prison, and the number and manpower can be cut a lot.

In the future, the Ministry of Military Intelligence can also abolish a group of personnel. There will not be so many wars. Some of the responsibilities of the Ministry of Civil Affairs will overlap with the Ministry of Supervision. Some departments can also be abolished, and the authority and manpower of the departments will be reduced. No one knows except Mirin and himself.

Putting some abolished personnel into the Military Intelligence Department, in fact, the Military Intelligence Department can be abolished.

Zhang Qiang was thinking about where alone.

Chapter 868 Military Rank System Reform

After fine-tuning personnel affairs, the Huaxia Kingdom continued to move forward on the road of great rejuvenation.

However, a new reform has begun. All the militia units have been converted into garrison troops or picket units. Yamen servants and arresters have been merged into them. For a regiment, the following counties set up battalion-level pickets, towns set up company-level units, large villages set up class-level units, and state capitals set up brigade-level units. A large state has at most one and a half brigades.

The defense is in charge of the garrison brigade, and the maintenance of law and order is the responsibility of the picket troops. The garrison brigade will take part in field army operations in the future, and the militia brigade will become a thing of the past. These ledger militia reserve troops will only be mobilized when the population is mobilized to other places.

Of course, the transfer will definitely not be those who are unable to walk, or those who are disabled.

It is likely that the whole family of these hands will become immigrants and move to those newly occupied places.

These are veterans who have been eliminated from the boot camp or the garrison brigade, or from the front line because of disabilities, old age, or who want to retire.

Those recruits who have completed their training and served for two years, and those whose grades or psychological quality are really not good enough, will not be assigned to the garrison brigade, and can only retire and go home.

The soldiers of the garrison brigade have served for three years. If they have no grades, or are not selected, they will be retired. These people can have the right to assign work. The most direct way is to go to the picket brigade, the picket brigade It's equivalent to a job, and you can eat at the public house.

But the price is that you performed well in the new barracks, and those who have served three years in the garrison brigade perfectly, and those who have not served three years have to retire directly and go home.

These people can choose to reclaim wasteland, although there are not many places available for reclaiming wasteland now, only Yungui Prefecture, Sishan Prefecture, and the newly conquered Shaanxi-Gansu Prefecture.

If they perform well there, it is possible to rejoin the picket brigade there or better enter the garrison brigade, and then retire from the garrison brigade there.

After such a rectification, the troops have become streamlined again, at least there is no need for the ordinary militia brigade, the militia elite brigade has been called, and the militia troops have been liberated, so that they don't have to go to the front line to work hard and sacrifice their lives, and directly hand over the fighting to the regular army. The field army and the garrison, as well as the guards, are the three regular armies.

The last battle between Shaanxi-Gansu Prefecture and Shanxi Prefecture made Zhang Qiang feel that he was still fighting in the backward way of man-to-sea warfare. This method can kill many recruits and strong men who have no combat experience, reduce the population of his kingdom, and use regular troops to attack fortified positions. The loss was smaller than using these soldiers, and of course he paid less. He found that his thinking should be changed.

With such an adjustment, even the garrison does not have to go to the battlefield, which saves more troops and supplies, and uses the elite field army to fight, and the guards cooperate or attack independently. Training the two regular troops is the real thing.

Although the relocation and retirement of the militia has increased the burden on the local government, it has also reduced the pressure on the local government, allowing the local government to have troops on hand to sort out some criminals and some dissatisfied elements, and directly use the troops of the garrison brigade. Chickens use butcher's knives, overqualified and overqualified. The garrison can only be used when an uprising or a large-scale organized attack occurs. Otherwise, it will cause people's distrust of the government and a lot of pressure.

Later, Zhang Qiang found that the names of some officials from the Ming and Qing dynasties did not conform to the system of the Huaxia Kingdom and were a bit nondescript, so he began to start with the army and change everyone's ranks first.

Because we have a history of contact with the Westerners and have fought many battles, we proposed to use the ranks and methods of the Westerners to manage the army.

So Zhang Qiang moved over the military rank system of later generations.

The new barracks are called recruits for one year, and private soldiers for two years. This is a bit different from later generations, but because there is still a long way to go for recruits to become regular soldiers, it will take at least five years, and there cannot be a company commander of a garrison brigade with a hundred households. When I arrived in the field brigade, I could only be a soldier, so I tried to find a way from the military rank system.

The recruit battalion is equivalent to the reserve force of later generations. In fact, it is equivalent to the common people who have been trained in the university for three months. After that, these recruits are to learn and compete. They can obey orders, learn to line up, and shoot twice. Soldiers can only go to private soldiers. In fact, they are equivalent to ordinary people who have received basic military training. After retiring, they are still ordinary people.

Those who took the opportunity to stand out went to the garrison brigade, so they became a third-class soldier, a third-class soldier in the first year, a second-class soldier in the second year, and a senior soldier in the third year. It means that they are still soldiers, but they are better trained than recruits. Shooting, tactical actions, maintaining guns, riding horses, using some means of transportation, such as mules, war horses, driving carriages, and repairing firearms, repairing carriages, blacksmithing, literacy, and abacus, so that even if they retire , You can also have a technology when you go out.

Because as the war progressed, the Huaxia Kingdom had almost nothing to fight. They were basically regarded as formal reserves, but they still had to return to the ranks of the common people in the end.

Of course, it is impossible to remain a soldier after five years. Many people can be promoted during training. As usual, everyone is a third-class soldier in the first year. Promoted to Corporal.

After being promoted to corporal, there are many choices, you can learn other things, learn technology, some become technical soldiers, and some become command soldiers.

However, going to the field brigade does not mean that the corporals go, but directly from the field brigade to complete the battalion and supplement the entire battalion. It depends on the situation. Replenish battalions with battle-damaged or retired soldiers.

Or disperse soldiers to supplement other troops.

Of course, this supplement must mean that the first-year soldiers cannot go, only the second-year soldiers can go, and they can’t all go. The skeleton of the original battalion must be left behind. Otherwise, what will happen to the soldiers who are selected every year in the new barracks?

We can't let a group of recruits become a battalion by themselves, and a third-class soldier should be the battalion commander.

The field brigade of the field army has the lowest ranks, that is to say, all the ranks and corporals go in, led by the sergeants and sergeants inside.

This is the case in the first year. In the second year, the field army has retired soldiers, and then the soldiers of the garrison brigade who have been promoted to serve as soldiers or officers with excellent grades form a natural metabolic system in which one level is slowly promoted and gradually filled by new ones.

The officers of the picket brigade come from the demoted retired officers, and the officers of the garrison brigade come from the higher-ups or the promotion of internal qualifications and military merits, but most of them come from the field army or need to be transferred to the garrison brigade for various reasons or make mistakes. dispatch.

Of course, there is also a need for the garrison brigade. The higher-ups select soldiers with excellent grades to serve in the garrison brigade, and they are promoted to a higher level as soon as they come.

There will be less and less opportunities for the garrison brigade to receive awards for meritorious service, and there will not be too many opportunities for the field army. Therefore, training, performance, and qualifications will become the path to promotion in the Huaxia Army.

After discussing with Wei Wuji, Li Dingguo, and Feng Quan, Zhang Qiang introduced his own new military rank system, which would no longer be mixed with the previous official ranks, causing confusion.

The picket brigade (equivalent to the police force of later generations to maintain law and order, arrest prisoners, assist magistrates in handling cases, and deal with local conflicts) is no longer included in the military, but there is a part of the daily content of military training, with certain combat skills, singles with outdated weapons A muzzle-loading flintlock, short-fired blunderbuss.

The picket brigade has established a clerk system, a staff system, and all promotions are equivalent to officialdom.

A brass button on the clerk's shoulder means that he is an ordinary clerk, but he is one level higher than the new clerk, or the leader of other clerks.

As the level increases, a button is added for each level, up to three levels. After the third level, the button is replaced with a yellow vertical bar, which represents leadership.

At least a leader at the sub-department level.Leaders at the official level add a copper button.

Pushing upwards, leaders at each level have their own identification marks, a horizontal bar for department-level leaders, thickened, and a rhombus-shaped copper button for official leaders.

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On the side of the garrison, the highest rank is major general, and there are brigadier generals below. Commanders like Xuanyuan Longfei and the others are lieutenant generals, but others do not have his rank in this position, the highest is major general.

The third-class soldier has only one thin vertical pole, the second-class soldier also has two thin vertical poles, and the first-class soldier has a thick pole.

Corporal, one thin triangle hook, sergeant, two thin triangle hooks, sergeant, three thin triangle hooks, professional sergeant, one thick hook.

Professional sergeants are divided into command sergeants, various technical arms sergeants, training sergeants, logistics sergeants, and staff sergeants. This is classified according to their functions and grades. First-level sergeant, add a thin hook, second-level sergeant, add two thin hooks. Hooks, sergeant [-], plus three thin hooks, sergeant [-], plus four thin hooks, sergeant [-], two thick hooks, one thin hook, sergeant [-], three thick hooks.

The military rank marks of various soldiers planned by Zhang Qiang are different from those of later generations, which are incomprehensible and difficult to understand. He is logical, whether it is one year or two years, you can tell at a glance, this is a one-year soldier, two-year soldier , One level or two levels, you can know by counting the levers, and you can know by looking at the thickness, there are not so many twists and turns.

A sergeant can be converted to a warrant officer at any time, but only after at least a second rank, not a first rank.

A second lieutenant has to go to the military academy where officers are trained to study, or be promoted during wartime. Without study, without military achievements, qualifications will not be promoted.

It doesn't matter how many years you stay up.

However, this article is useless for sergeants. No matter how stupid a sergeant is, he will always have his experience in doing something for a long time. Therefore, sergeants can pass qualifications and years of experience, and then be promoted after passing the assessment, but they cannot exceed four years. Level, that is to say, if you get to level four, you should retire.

The above officers have nothing to say, second lieutenant, lieutenant, captain, captain, then major, lieutenant colonel, colonel, senior colonel, brigadier general, major general, lieutenant general, general, general, the highest is general, no one is a general, Zhang Qiang is going to general Wei Wuji and the others are designated as generals, and they are allowed to retire unless they have special meritorious service or are old enough to have the rank of honorary general.

With such an adjustment, Zhang Qiang felt comfortable. He felt as if he was playing a farming game in the historical world. It was a simple type, not much challenging, except that the beginning was difficult and the enemy was strong. Everyone was cold-armed, but when it developed to the musket The era is almost crushing.