Lord of Ming Dynasty

If they are as expected by Zhang Qiang.

For the strategic security of a country, the Chinese Empire can even pretend to be the Spaniards to attack the British. This time, Tianying was dispatched to command the military. The British didn't know it at all before, and even if the Spaniards leaked it to the British, it didn't matter. It has not been a day or two for the Chinese Empire to suppress the British in the East.

There are some things that Zhang Qiang can say, and Tang Dianfeng, the current Prime Minister of the Chinese Empire, has such worries in every dynasty, and can even tell his son, but there are some things that cannot be said, that is, future generations, Zhang Qiang’s predicted historical trend, and the future. The atmosphere of the British and Westerners' scientific and technological development and progress may surpass the Chinese Empire. These words cannot be said. As the new emperor or the new prime minister, the next emperor and prime minister of the empire have to think, see, understand, and be reasonable Allocate the resources of the Huaxia Empire, mobilize the Huaxia Empire to catch up, or take other measures to suppress it.

Tang Dianfeng also felt the importance of these things, and proposed a plan to continue to suppress the development of the Spaniards in the Bengal area and provoke the British to fight against the Spaniards.

And encourage the immigrants of the Chinese Empire to completely occupy the place except the port, fully Sinicize that place, and suppress the indigenous people in those places. The rule of China cannot be developed with peace of mind, and it can only establish a colonial foothold somewhere, which is not yet a very stable point.

In this way, the Spaniards are under a lot of pressure, unable to develop, and pose little threat to the Chinese Empire. The Chinese Empire will support them to challenge the patience of the British and their inherent sphere of influence to attack the British.

As long as the Spaniards can always stand on the side of the Chinese Empire, always make trouble with the British, and always have hatred against the British, then the rise of the British will be nothing. They have to deal with the Spaniards first. The British have to work a hundred times harder, at least in the East, they can't surpass the Spaniards, the main struggle is in the West, and the West is so far away from the East, if it's broken, or how they fight is their business, it won't affect When they go to the East and they struggle, their financial resources and energy will have to be dragged away to the West, and their development will definitely slow down. If you think about it this way, then worry, all worries will be nothing.

The [-]th chapter of the entanglement of troops

After the naval battle between the Spaniards and the British, the two colonial Western countries died down at the same time.

The British sadly watched the Bengal area become a colony of others. Three months later, Portman was transferred to Africa, Phillips was fired when he returned home, and the governor was transferred back to the country. The new governor will not arrive in India until three months later. There is no leader here, and the Indians also watched the fall of Bengal with fear and panic.

On the Spaniard's side, there were only nine warships left, six of which were urgently repaired lying on the beach, and three warships with injuries were repaired in a hurry, barely maintaining the law and order here.

Of the 700 regular army troops, only [-] of the regular army troops are still intact, [-] wounded have not left the hospital, and there are only more than [-] mercenaries left. The rest are either dead or seriously injured. Joined the army.

Of the 600 sailors in the fleet, there are only less than [-] left, most of whom are injured or mentally broken, and have no way to engage in this industry. With the addition of some recruited sailors and soldiers in Bangladesh, the Spanish can make up enough There were barely enough soldiers and officers for the three ships of the war to start and fight, and these were all the strength of the Spaniards in the East.

This strength, in fact, can't even beat the Coastal Navy Guard of the Chinese Empire, and the garrison of the lowest-level state or even the capital of the Governor's District can easily copy the Spanish territory.

You must know that any state of the Chinese Empire, not to mention the core area, the military unit of the governor's district is a regiment-level unit of a garrison. Although it has been dismantled many times, the overall combat strength of the regiment-level unit is only fifteen vehicles Wide-body carriages, 200 horse-drawn gun carriages ranging from 300-pound to 250-pound guns, the total number of combatants is only 24 people, three battalions of [-] people, one guard battalion of [-] people, and one regiment-level There are [-] staff members, a security squad, and several regiment-level chief officers.

The weapons and equipment they hold are not much different from those of the British and Spaniards. The flintlock gun is a five-shot version. The British and Spaniards have a single shot, but they can quickly reload ammunition.

But such a regiment-level governor-general unit equipped with such armed forces cannot be defeated by the current Spaniards, because their strength is too small. The overall combat unit, the elite combat unit, is only 600 people. Although others have combat Experience, but in terms of organization and combat power output, it is still inferior to a regular prefecture-level combat unit under the Governor-General of the Chinese Empire.

These combat units are usually stationed in the counties below, and they are assembled when needed, and the regiment headquarters are stationed in Fucheng.

The battalion-level combat units below were also split up and stationed in various important towns in the county in the form of companies to control the local area.

The military units in the state have not been strengthened much, and they are just a unit with a battalion stationed, and then other regiments are stationed in key state capitals.A brigade-sized unit of an understaffed garrison.

After it is full, a brigade-level garrison unit has 6000 people, at least three to five regiments, but now there are only three regiments, not a regiment of 500 people, and sometimes the company soldiers in these companies have already retired. , or recruited by recruits, local recruits serve as soldiers, that is to say, when they are about to assemble, maybe the three regiments may only reach about 200 people with the current establishment of 1000 people. There hasn't been a major war in decades.

However, there are some frictions and small battles in Southeast Asia. Otherwise, in other governors’ districts and state capitals, a regiment of 600 people is enough. The core idea is to save military expenses and use manpower to increase economic strength.

There are generally no garrisons in the governor's district, and there are some garrisons only in important places. Because the garrison, as the name suggests, is to defend the core territory of the Chinese Empire, so most of the garrisons are deployed in the core area.

During wartime, the garrison is the main preparation for the battle, and the establishment must be sent to the field army. When it expands, most of the garrison will become the field army.

Well, by expanding more branches of the military, the elite troops and soldiers in the army were retained in cash, which was a core idea of ​​the abolition of the army at that time.

Perhaps most of the elite soldiers are still old and disabled, and have been dismissed for various reasons, and some people have to reluctantly dismiss them, but in the end, a part of the core people remained, and these formed the five The core of the military forces has even extended to the company-level team. After ten years of development, these company-level personnel have at least risen to the battalion level and become battalion-level cadres. In the garrison, such company-level cadres have basically become He has reached the position of deputy regiment-level cadre, at least the position of a regiment-level staff officer.

Of the five armies, the guards retained the least manpower, 30 people, and later abolished part of it, leaving 23 people, but a large part of the abolished group actually entered the field army or the garrison army, and the cavalry army. Even the soldiers have entered the garrison, but those soldiers are old and close to retirement. Now these soldiers in the garrison have risen to the level of battalion-level staff officers. Of course, most of them have actually retired, because the old Yet.

After exceeding the maximum limit of the service period, he had to be discharged from the army and transferred to another place.

Because the cavalry army wants to maintain order in Mongolia, Siberia, Central Asia, and the Western Regions, these sparsely populated places have a relatively large establishment, reaching 150 million people. The garrison is a national combat force in the core area, so the establishment It is also relatively large, with 80 people. Although the combat effectiveness and various weapons and equipment of the garrison are all retired from the elite army above, how can they guard the territory of 230 miles, so their establishment has reached 180 million people. There are 45 useless personnel, which is also about [-] million. Because the field army is relatively weak and functional, it only retains division-level headquarters and military-level elite officers, as well as continuous training and acceptance of officers and officers who have been demoted and promoted from other arms. Elite soldiers, while maintaining various local structures ready to fill in the gaps with garrison troops, resulting in a measly [-] men.

Calculated in this way, the Huaxia Empire still has at least 160 million elite combat troops, plus the elite combat troops of the cavalry army, there are still 230 million people, and the elite combat troops of the garrison army have reached 260 million. They are supplemented by recruits and cadets, as well as temporary troops that are constantly adjusted in various places.

If you add the navy's land forces and sailors' combat power, at least 300 million elite combat power, but the actual total number of soldiers and officers is 700 million. These 700 million people have to be filled and left behind in the structure. , because every year your recruits have to train, where do the recruits go after training?It must be assigned to each unit, and after two years of duty, the extra 400 million recruits will become veterans. Although they have not fought in war, they are still troops after all.

After retiring from the army in the third year, hundreds of thousands of troops will return to society, and then recruit more from society, maybe less, depending on the situation and the finances of each local government. The 230 troops may be no more than 40 to [-] elite, and the rest are recruits and veterans who have served for less than two years.

The garrison really needs to see talents. Patrols, investigations, temporary transfers, or work are all these recruits, supplemented by elites, and the garrison cannot be said to be always those people. After four or six years, the soldiers of the garrison If he can't go up, he can't be promoted to an officer, he has to retire, and he needs to be supplemented by the garrison. The soldiers of the garrison are promoted, and the four- or six-year veterans of the garrison are discharged. This is a cyclical replacement process.

For these military forces, the main guard force in the core area is still the garrison, and the garrison and guards are the ones who maintain the capital. The garrison only maintains local law and order, but overall the proportion is not very large, and the relatively large proportion is on the frontier. The hoarding troops, that is to say, the Governor's District, approached the border of the Governor's District in a radial pattern, and then formed a light or heavy ring-shaped protective net on the border.

The strength of the garrison in the core area is almost hollow, not much, because the law and order in many places in the core area is quite good, the garrison or even a mansion is equipped with less than two battalions, that is, about 600 people, the strength of the garrison in the state may not be enough It is one and a half regiments, or maybe one and a half brigades. The state with the smallest total strength is only equivalent to a reinforced regiment, which is about 800 people. The largest state garrison is only less than two brigades, which is only equivalent to one and a half The size of the brigade.

The only place where the garrison is full is the counties on the edge of the core area. Some counties may be equipped with a battalion to two battalions, and some counties may have a full regiment of 500 people.Plus various subsidiary troops, there may be 800 people, and some even have 2000 people.

This is because to prevent some places in the Governor's District from rebelling, directly attacking the core area, and destroying the stability of the core area, it is also for the urgent recruitment and reorganization of troops in the core area to form a force that can attack and defend. When the time comes, the garrison will fight. When the garrison resists, continue to reorganize the core area troops, quickly expand the field army, and form a combat force that can quickly attack or counterattack later.

Combat still has to go to the field army.

And the guards have to quickly retreat or reorganize and expand. The guards can be expanded to 50 troops within three months, guarding the capital and capital, as well as key industrial areas, and even defending the royal family, the royal family and various central departments. Officials are what the Guards do.

The cavalry army will be completely abolished in the future and merged into the field army and the garrison. At present, the Governor's District has completed 60.00% of the total population immigration and construction tasks. In a few years, the field army will take over from the cavalry army to guard these areas, and the garrison will be Garrison Governor's District.

With the construction and improvement of the governor's districts in various places, or the development of some governor's districts close to the core area, they are gradually abolished and merged into the core area, and the strength of the garrison will further decline.

The garrison takes over the defense tasks of the entire Governor's District merged into the core area, expands the garrison, and downsizes the garrison.

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Yes, Zhang Qiang has been entangled in the huge army supported by huge military expenditures and a small number of elite troops. A small amount of military expenditures will definitely cause problems in some places, and the troops will not be able to deal with it. From the heart, although the army It is the cornerstone of maintaining the country and must be respected, but it must also be sidelined or even weakened during economic development.

Just look at Siam in the later generations. Civilian officials are absolutely not allowed to have absolute power, and the army always controls the political power. This situation even affects the formulation of the country's governance policy, because everyone is human, and human beings have emotions and desires. There are various interest entanglements. The military can maintain the interests of the military in the general direction, but when a conflict occurs, one person may cause the policy of the civilian government to fail to guarantee the national interest, because it is absorbed by some people in the military.

The Privy Council of the Chinese Empire can be said to be stronger than the cabinet to a certain extent. Although the cabinet also owns the garrison and has the right to deploy troops, the Ministry of War is in charge of the logistics of all troops and has the right to mobilize the garrison. The government shares power, but the Privy Council has the right to directly mobilize the complete garrison and cavalry, and part of the field army.

Because they are defending the country, the staff department of the Privy Council formulates a plan and sends people directly to each army. It is the pro-guard regiment, which is directly mobilized and issued orders, and the cabinet military department cooperates.

Under such circumstances, the Privy Council with the crown prince and emperor must be much higher in power and status than the Prime Minister of the Cabinet. The second deputy prime minister who is in charge of liaising with the Privy Council does not necessarily have the right to speak in front of such a powerful force. megaphone.

But in such a situation, what can you do as a deputy prime minister?Who put you in charge of contacting the Privy Council and communicating with the Ministry of War that you are in charge of?

As the second deputy prime minister, this is a symbol of status, which indicates that once the political council is postponed again, it is possible that he can take over as the first deputy prime minister and become a popular candidate for the future prime minister. He is equal to the first deputy prime minister but also equivalent to Competitors may go up and down at any time, or they go up and go up themselves. He is the prime minister and he is the first deputy prime minister, who is in charge of the overall situation and controls more than half of the power distribution in the cabinet.

The prime minister only controls the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the first deputy prime minister controls the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Supervision, and can intervene in everything else, and the second deputy prime minister only controls his own business and liaison, coordinating some departments For the coordination department, according to the regulations of the Chinese Empire, you cannot infringe on the rights of other vice ministers, you cannot accept reports from subordinates managed by other vice ministers, you cannot get too close to them, and you must accept the principle of alienation.

This is because one deputy prime minister controls too many departments and overshadows other deputy prime ministers, or two people directly unite to overshadow the first and second deputy prime ministers, or the second deputy prime minister and the first deputy prime minister jointly overshadow the prime minister.Only the first deputy prime minister can intervene in other departments, but it is only responsible for coordination and liaison, inquiries, not specific operations.

The prime minister can take charge of the overall situation, intervene in the work of any deputy prime minister, listen to the report of any deputy prime minister at any time, or stop the work of the deputy prime minister directly, because he is the prime minister and he has the greatest power.

But he could not dismiss the deputy prime minister, and the dismissal of the deputy prime minister had to be dealt with directly by the emperor, or with the consent of the Political Council.

The dismissal of the second deputy prime minister needs to be notified to the Privy Council and the Senate. The first deputy prime minister will discuss it with the Privy Council, the Senate, and the Political Council. The emperor also has to call everyone to a meeting. A prime minister is a candidate for the prime minister and cannot be changed casually.

In short, the removal of the deputy prime minister must be deliberated by the Political Council. With a reasonable reason, even if someone resigns voluntarily, you have to give the conditions that everyone agrees or at least two-thirds of the people agree, and then report to the emperor for approval.

Except for the first deputy prime minister who is in charge of the overall situation, it is actually in charge of the daily affairs of the center, inquiring about the work of each deputy prime minister, uploading and issuing them, and doing their own work well, other vice prime ministers can only work in their own charge If you work within the scope, even if you hear other deputy prime ministers in charge or have different opinions, you can only submit it to the first deputy prime minister for him to handle.

Now the Huaxia Empire has seven vice ministers, compared to eleven before, but the number of vice ministers has decreased due to work adjustments or entering the Senate.

As the second deputy prime minister, Feng Wuyu also felt exhausted by the continuous adjustment of the Chinese Empire's military strength. Although he used to be the chief of staff of the Ministry of National Defense, he now serves as the second deputy prime minister in the cabinet, liaising with and managing the Ministry of War. His subordinate Tong Dawei, a civil official who entered the ranks of civil servants much earlier than him.

Looking at Tong Dawei's stooped figure and white hair, Feng Wuyu felt that his age was not forgiving. Compared with those soldiers who rolled around in the army, their interpersonal relationships were simpler and their affairs were less, they joined the army early. Tong Dawei, a civil servant, once served as an operator of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He presided over the contact with Li Dingguo, helped and instigated Li Dingguo's ministry, and then rescued Jin Sheng. At the same time, he led the No.19 Field Brigade to fight against the Qing army. Cheng, later a county comforter, later served as magistrate, member of the Advisory Bureau, deputy governor of a state, military officer of a state, governor of a state, and later transferred to the army to serve as commander of an army, then served as governor of Guangxi state, governor of Guangxi state , the prefect of Guangzhou Prefecture, the commander of the coastal naval garrison, the governor of Guangzhou Lake, the governor of Baodao State, the garrison commander of Baodao and Qiongdao, and the governor of the two islands.