At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Guo Jin did not set up another temporary guard general to replace Zhao Yun in exercising the power of the guard general, but turned himself into a "guard general" and handled the military affairs of the guard himself.

Among the four generals of the guard, Xiahouyuan and Guo Dong, who were in charge of staying behind, took orders directly from Guo Jin and made a statement to Guo Jin, without detouring anywhere, they could directly convey their requests to him.

Guo Jin calmly and logically took the military power of the guard army into his hands, and directly gave orders to the generals of the guard army.

However, this did not satisfy him.

It is not that Guo Jin did not take into account the things that Guo Peng was worried about.

In fact, when Guo Jia proposed Zhao Yun as a candidate, Guo Jin considered the problem.

Guo Peng once said that apart from the emperor, the large group of the Central Army is not suitable for setting up a general spokesperson for the right to speak, otherwise it will easily follow the old path of the Roman Empire.

What is the old road of the Roman Empire? Guo Jin also knows that the imperial guards control the qualifications of the emperor candidates. Whoever benefits them more, they will support whoever is the emperor. Jujube pills.

Therefore, the central army does not need the generals of the guards, and even the four generals in the front, back, left, and right should not be real positions.

The real power to command troops should be directly delegated to the rank of lieutenant, and commanders at the general level should only have the power to command troops during wartime, and should be a mascot at other times.

There are too many school lieutenants, and it is impossible to gather together to form a force that can threaten the emperor. Even in times of political crisis, it is difficult to gather a force to influence the government. Facing the imperial power, they can only worship.

Guo Jin's military prestige is not enough, and he should not have set up a powerful general of the Central Army to threaten his imperial power.

Guo Jin took it for granted. While choosing Zhao Yun as the coach, he also realized the existence of crisis and opportunity. So he took advantage of Zhao Yun's opportunity to lead troops to attack and directly established contact with the four generals of the guard.

Next, he set a small goal for himself.

The first step is to make the generals of the guards empty-handed, and the second step is to further make the four generals empty-handed, and lower the real power to the level of the school lieutenant.

In non-wartimes, the school lieutenant directly leads the guards and connects with the emperor, and in wartime, let the generals you like take control of the real power and lead the troops into battle.

He felt that the concepts of [wartime] and [non-wartime] established by Guo Peng were very good, which inspired him a lot.

Without the implementation of this concept, he really doesn't know how to deal with some senior military generals whose age, age and qualifications are far above him.

But after Guo Peng implemented the concepts of [wartime] and [non-wartime], it became much easier for him to do it.

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In fact, at the moment, the concepts of [wartime] and [non-wartime] have been implemented within the group of the Central Guard.

The five generals of the guard, including Zhao Yun, basically have nothing to do with the army except for some economic power and supervisory power.

Guo Peng came up with the concept of military rank and military position, and separated the military rank and military position. Some generals only have military ranks but no military positions, so they do not have military power.

Only during the battle of marching and fighting, can there be specific decentralization of power, and the general will lead the army to fight.

The other major military regions are arranged in this way, so in Guo Jin's opinion, as long as they have a rotation garrison system and a military rank system, these major military regions can be well controlled, and they can't turn the sky at all.

The separation of daily leadership and command can well control the actions of several major military regions, and nothing will happen that cannot be ended.

But the Central Army is not the case.

Because of the special needs of the Central Army and the special historical situation when the Central Army was first established, Guo Peng established five full-time generals in the Central Army in order to reward heroes, appease people's hearts, and better deter the world.

The position of the commander-in-chief of the General of the Guards, and the four generals in the front, back, left, and right of the Guards, a total of five generals, are all military positions, not military ranks.

The standing general has the commanding power and the commanding power in wartime, and his status is higher than that of the commander of the local army. Moreover, the convenience brought by the night tour position is a difficult problem for Guo Jin.

Guo Peng continued to fight with the officials later, and his greatest historical achievement was to promote the second wave of academic downgrading and ushered in the era of imperial examinations.

That's the big deal.

The issue of the Central Guards, on the contrary, is a particularly small issue, which is not worth mentioning in front of the imperial examination.

Guo Peng handed over the throne to Guo Jin without dealing with the issue of the Central Army, and this issue naturally fell to Guo Jin, who needed to solve it—if he felt unhappy.

Of course he was not happy.

When it was Guo Jin's turn to be emperor, he didn't have the great prestige of Guo Peng to overwhelm the world, so he had to be cautious about any existence that might threaten his status.

The first to bear the brunt are the five powerful generals of the Wei Army.

Zhao Yun, Cao Chun, Li Dian, Xia Houyuan, Guo Dong.

Although these five general positions with real power have also implemented the wartime and non-wartime systems, in Guo Jin's view, there are problems, and they may be threatened and destroyed.

For example, Zhao Yun has great prestige and great contributions. When something really goes wrong, Zhao Yun has the prestige to break through the constraints of the system and can maximize the power of the general of the guard.

This position can turn the guard into the Praetorian Guard of the Roman Empire.

Not to mention impossible, Mr. Guo relied on his coercive prestige and absolute strength to break through the system constraints set by the scholars one after another, destroy the old system in one go, and create a brand new system.

In the "war" of Luoyang, [-] scholars fell into the sand, and the resistance of the scholars was almost completely wiped out. Those who were physically eliminated could no longer fight against the powerful imperial power. The era of imperial examinations came naturally.

Jewels come first.

That was the order that Guo Jin personally conveyed to the Imperial Army.

Therefore, the existence of Guo Peng sounded the alarm for Guo Jin, telling him that the system is actually a bit weak in the face of supreme prestige.

Guo Jin's biggest headache now is the issue of prestige.

The question of prestige really stuck in his throat.

Not to mention Zhao Yun, the other four generals of the Wei Army also have great prestige.

They are all veteran generals who followed Guo Peng to fight.

Cao Chun, Xia Houyuan, and Guo Dong are all Yuan Cong, and Li Dian is a slightly weaker senior general, but he is also a veteran general who has followed Guo Peng since the time of the governor of Qingzhou.

These veteran generals didn't make any mistakes, and they didn't have any problems. They were all cautious, especially after Cao Hong's accident.

He resolutely does not participate in government affairs, does not have any contact with courtiers, and does not give others any chance to catch them. He restrains himself all the time and tries his best to be a harmless person.

If you want to pick faults from them like this, there is really no way.

But leaving it like this, Guo Jin felt uneasy.

Although it is possible to suppress them for a while and prevent them from getting too much contact with the army so as to maintain military power, it is difficult to do so for a long time.

He can do it, but what about his son or grandson?

Can you do it?

He couldn't guarantee it.

Therefore, when it is possible to do it now, Guo Peng, who has retired to the second line, must take back the military power and make the general's position vain.

No generals, not an organized army, but a scattered central army with school lieutenants as the main body, not in wartime.

The ranks above the rank of lieutenant are all vain, there is no need to exist, they are only honorary positions. In wartime, the emperor will grant the position of commanding the army, and it will be withdrawn after the event is over, and it will not be established permanently.

This is the most meaningful thing.

The Guards have to be a whole, and they cannot be a whole.

With such thoughts in mind, Guo Jin found Guo Peng and discussed this matter with him.

Guo Peng very much agrees with his idea.

"I told you before that the Central Guard Army is not suitable for setting up some generals who are too centralized. A group of lieutenants is the best. Officers with the status of generals will be deprived of their posts on a daily basis, and they will be set up when they are needed. Withdraw immediately, just because the father doesn't have so much time to do it.

But it’s also just right, you can’t always expect your father to do everything for you, there are some things you have to do and deal with by yourself, this matter should be regarded as a test of whether you can be a real emperor , You go find a way to make the generals of the guard and the four generals vain. "

Guo Peng smiled and expressed his expectations to Guo Jin.

Guo Jin was silent for a while, then nodded slowly.

"The son doesn't know if he can do it successfully. The father has already completed half of this matter, and the son will try his best to complete the remaining half."

"it is good."

Guo Peng expressed his great expectation to see Guo Jin deprive the five generals of the Guards.

Guo Jin left Taishan Palace, walked all the way, thinking seriously all the way, what method should be used to make the five generals vain.

As Guo's son, Guo Jin is of course well aware of how Guo controls the army.

Grasp the lower level, win over the middle level, and elevate the upper level.

The way someone Guo handles the military is unlike anything used by anyone in this era.

Before the troubled times, people relied on the inertia of the dynasty and led the army with the position of habitually holding the army. The army was controlled by the position, not by that specific person.

At the beginning of the troubled times, everyone began to recruit soldiers and lead troops to fight by themselves, but the inertia of the dynasty has always existed, and everyone is still habitually proud of the highest position. With a position, there is power.

When the troubled times were in progress, many talents were shocked to find that their positions were no longer good, the order of the dynasty had collapsed, and the dominance brought about by the inertia of their positions was gradually collapsing.

Jobs are suddenly worthless, jobs are suddenly not that useful.

When the Han Dynasty was still stable, a school lieutenant was awesome. In troubled times, a super awesome military position like General Hussars and General Che Cavalry can only be used as an extra to make everyone happy. Bing, no one pays attention to you at all.

But at this time, the army controlled by Mr. Guo, who has always insisted on taking the lower route, shines like a standout in the troubled times.

From the very beginning, Mr. Guo paid great attention to the control of every soldier. He was very concerned about close contact with soldiers. Therefore, he insisted on implementing the system of direct payment of military salaries and commendation conferences.

The direct payment of military pay means that the military pay is directly distributed to each soldier by the financial system directed by someone Guo, and it is distributed to the soldiers, but not to the hands of the officers.

The commendation conference is that every once in a while or every time a major battle is experienced, someone Guo will appear on the stage in person, pull the top [-] beheaded people to the stage to commend them personally, and then promote their positions and let them enter the ranks of military officers. in the sequence.

Then there is the military judge system.

A certain Guo has implanted a military judge system into the army since the beginning of the army, which is specially used to punish soldiers who break the law on his behalf, depriving the officer of the power to punish soldiers during non-wartime, and the military judge also serves as a military judge for soldiers. The role of literacy.

While eradicating illiteracy, he taught soldiers the idea of ​​being loyal to Guo, as well as the meaning of the existence of terms such as country and nation.

Slowly and subtly, the soldiers have the thoughts that Guo is looking forward to.

Through this method, when the army was first established, Guo had the entire army in control, and never let the prestige of any officer override him. He is the absolute master of the army.

The lower ranks of soldiers knew what he looked like.

He single-handedly selected and trained the junior military officers in the middle ranks. Later, he established the Shouyang Mountain Lecture Hall and Martial Arts Exercises, systematized the training of officers, and directly controlled the lifeline of the middle ranks of the army.

Finally, there are the deadly upper-level generals who are restricted by the concepts of wartime and non-wartime and the army rotation garrison system.

The upper-level generals can be said to be a group with great power but very limited. The separation of military ranks and military positions, as well as the distinction between wartime and non-wartime duties, largely limit the possibility of powerful generals challenging the emperor's prestige.

After understanding Guo Peng's control mode over the army under Guo Peng's explanation, Guo Jin often thought about what he could learn from it.

The problem he is facing now is nothing more than lack of prestige at the beginning of his ascension to the throne, and he is not very confident in his [Wu De], he feels that it is difficult for him to control the army with prestige, so he must deal with the army in a more institutionalized way.

The meritorious veterans at the beginning of the founding of the country will eventually grow old and wither gradually, and cannot pose a long-term threat to him, but the five generals of the guard who can pose a long-term threat.

If he doesn't make the five generals vain and change the system, he won't sleep well for a day.

In order to sleep peacefully, he must firmly hold the military power of the guards, eliminate the threatening general factor, change the system, and establish a new system that suits his own interests.

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Although he has sufficient ideas and motivation to act, for Guo Jin, changing the system either needs a suitable reason and excuse, or someone needs to endorse him——

For example, Guo Peng, the founder of the system, said that this can be done.

However, Guo Peng is already too emperor, and it is not suitable for him to stand up and speak out.

Not to mention that he himself is not willing, but wants to leave this difficult problem to Guo Jin to solve, so as to exercise his ability as an emperor.

Guo Jin also knew that this was an opportunity to exercise his ability, so he didn't plan to rely on Guo Peng's prestige, he planned to rely on himself.

Relying on myself, what cards can I play in my hand, can I change the military system left by my father?

After thinking about it, Guo Jin's eyes suddenly brightened.

Changing the system is often regarded as a challenging deletion, an action to destroy the system left by the old emperor. For the new emperor who had no prestige in the early stage of succession, rashly changing the system will cause dissatisfaction and anxiety among the officials.

It is inappropriate to do so rashly when the prestige is insufficient and the status is unstable.

Moreover, Guo Jin felt that there was no need for him to destroy the system left by Guo Peng.

This system is a good system and can continue to operate, he just needs to make some additions to this system.

I don't delete, I add, so what can you say?

Do you think I am destroying the system left by the old emperor?