I want to be emperor

Chapter 412
In the field artillery unit of the Chu army, on average, a nine-pound field artillery must be equipped with more than 25 people and more than 25 mules and horses.

But in fact, the standard gun crew of the nine-pound field gun is eight people, and once casualties occur during combat, in fact, three or four people, or even the last two people can continue to operate the artillery.

The rest of the crew are ammunition transporters, backup members of the gun crew, um, grooms and the like.

Similarly, the number of mules and horses is similar.

In order to ensure the mobility and continuous combat capability of the artillery, the number of manpower, mules and horses required is larger than ordinary people imagine.

That's all, not counting the logistical units that provide logistical support in the rear.

With reduced mobility and reduced support personnel, these units are usually deployed in battalions ranging from hundreds to hundreds of people in strategic locations such as cities and passes.

And the cost of this kind of troops is also very low, the consumption of the same force is only about 40.00% of the main force division, but in the internal suppression, the area it can actually control is not much less than a main force division, The performance in low-intensity tasks will not be much worse than that of the main division.

After all, the soldiers in these troops are also regular troops, and all kinds of training are strictly carried out in accordance with the regular troops.

Moreover, the emergence of this kind of troops has another advantage, that is, a group of new positions for officers have emerged.

With more new positions, that means more people can be promoted.

As for promotion, everyone likes it.

In order to distinguish these two newly formed divisions with the main task of garrisoning local areas, they are called second-class divisions within the army, while the original main force is called first-class divisions. division.

However, although there is a distinction between A and B, both of them belong to the regular army of the army, and the treatment of officers and soldiers is uniform.

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The establishment of a second-class division is a change made by the Army to reduce costs and expand its military to increase local control. There are many similar changes.

And when the construction of the second-class division was finalized, the time also entered the fourth year of Chengshun.

This year's Spring Festival, in addition to celebrating the Spring Festival, the Great Chu Empire also had a huge piece of good news that inspired many civil and military officials.

On the fifth day of the first lunar month in the fourth year of Chengshun, in the other palace of the Jinling City of the Great Chu Empire, concubine Song Zhuang successfully gave birth to a prince with handles, who Luo Zhixue named Luo Xun (qiū).

The "恷" in this name doesn't have any special meaning, it's just a rare and uncommon word. In general places, things don't use this word, even people's names are rarely used.

The reason why this word was chosen as the name of the eldest son of the emperor is purely for the convenience of the people to avoid taboos in the future!
Luo Zhixue has a deep understanding of avoiding taboos.

According to tradition, the people need to taboo the names of local emperors, and this taboo is not limited to personal names, but also includes place names, item names, and so on.

For example, Kangxi’s name was Xuanye, so Xuanwumen became Shenwumen... Even Shiren wrote a book about Li Xuanba, a historical figure, and renamed it Li Yuanba... The medicinal material Scrophulariaceae was renamed Yuanshen...

This kind of thing seems nonsense at first glance, but in fact it has been like this for thousands of years. Every time an emperor ascends the throne, there will always be a wave of large-scale name changes. The names of people, places, and objects are all changed...

That's why there are so many fake characters in history...

Luo Zhixue didn't know much about these things before, but even if he did, it was useless. The name could not be changed randomly, it was given by his father, and his father Rhodes obviously didn't expect that his son would become emperor in the future...

Because the name is common, there are many people with the same name or even the same name as him among the people. At that time, there were hundreds of civil and military officials in the Great Chu Empire called Zhixue, and Luo Zhixue had them all. many……

When Luo Zhixue ascended the throne as emperor, there was a wave of taboo name changes in the empire, and many courtiers were forced to change their names.

Later, as the Great Chu Empire actually controlled the southern provinces, even ordinary people among the people gradually changed their names to avoid taboos, especially people with the same name and surname, and many people with the same name would change a word.

The wave of name changes caused by taboos is very large, and all of them have created certain confusion and difficulties for document records.

This time Luo Zhixue was clever, and specially found a rare word as the name of the eldest son of the emperor. Not only the eldest son of the emperor, but other sons in the future will also use at least one rare word as their name.

In this way, no matter which one becomes the emperor in the future, there will be no need for large-scale follow-up folks to avoid name changes.

In order to avoid fuss in the future, it is better to choose a rare word as the name of the prince.

The birth of the eldest son of the emperor, Luo Xun, made Luo Zhixue very happy, and made a large number of courtiers of the Great Chu Empire ecstatic.

This is Luo Zhixue's first son!
Even if this is not the son of a concubine, Luo Zhixue didn't even have a son in the past few years, so having a son of a concubine is already pretty good.

This country is finally there.

There are successors to the empire, so they don't have to worry every day that after Luo Zhixue's sudden death one day, this huge empire will directly split and collapse.

On the sixth day of the first lunar month, Luo Zhixue decreed to confer concubine Song Zhuang as concubine Song Zhuang, first conferring, and then holding the formal conferring ceremony after confinement.

Three days later, an official decree was issued to announce the amnesty of the whole world, and amnesty was given to some ordinary and minor criminals. As for murder, rape, and tax resistance, the major criminals were not within the scope of amnesty.

Amnesty for ordinary prisoners is enough to show that Luo Zhixue is also very happy.

I can't be unhappy, a few years ago Luo Zhixue actually didn't care about his son or not, he felt that he was still young, and sooner or later he would have a son.

He was even very dissatisfied with the idea that the courtiers always let him be a concubine so that he could give birth to a son as soon as possible, thinking that he was only a teenager, but these courtiers were only thinking about the issue of heirs after their death.

But as time gradually passed, especially when the first few pregnant concubines gave birth to a son, and when many courtiers began to worry about the issue of the country, Luo Zhixue himself became a little anxious.

Before Concubine Song Zhuang, five women had already been pregnant one after another, including Empress Wang and Concubine Shu, Concubine Li and Concubine De who Luo Zhixue loved very much before.

However, Queen Wang gave birth to a daughter, Concubine Shu and Li Zhaoyi both had miscarriages one after another, Concubine De gave birth to a daughter, and Concubine Li also gave birth to a daughter.

Five women were pregnant, two had miscarriages, and three gave birth to daughters. In the past two years, no son was born, and a group of people were eagerly waiting for him to give birth to an heir. I'm a little anxious.

Now that concubine Song Zhuang finally gave birth to a son, Luo Zhixue was naturally extremely happy and forgot about it.

It's not because Luo Zhixue likes Concubine Song Zhuang so much personally. In fact, to be honest, Luo Zhixue doesn't have much special feeling for Concubine Zhuang herself, and even seldom serves her bed.

Otherwise, it wasn't just a concubine before, even this concubine was consecrated after she became pregnant to reassure her.

Before that, the Song family was just a Zhaoyi... one of hundreds of ordinary Zhaoyi and other low-level concubines in the harem of the Great Chu Empire.

But Luo Zhixue still canonized her as a concubine immediately, and if nothing unexpected happens, in a few years, when the child grows a bit, Luo Zhixue will further canonize her as a noble concubine.

All this is because she is the biological mother of the eldest son of the emperor.

For him, Luo Zhixue, and even for the entire Great Chu Empire, the arrival of the eldest son of the emperor was very timely and very important.

To a certain extent, Concubine Song Zhuang has stabilized the foundation of the country and made great contributions to the country. She deserves the title of a concubine or even a noble concubine.

Concubine Song Zhuang successfully gave birth to the eldest son of the emperor, which caused quite a stir in the royal harem.

Whether it's Queen Wang, Concubine Shu, Concubine De, or Concubine Li, a large number of women in the harem are in a bad mood...

Especially Queen Wang was so worried that she couldn't eat or sleep well for several days!

But on the surface, he had to put on an appearance of a good wife and mother, show a cheerful expression in front of people, especially in front of Luo Zhixue, and greet Concubine Song Zhuang in various ways...

But in my heart... I guess they have already cursed the concubine Song Zhuang's mother and son wishing to go to hell.

This is the first prince of the empire, the veritable eldest son of the emperor, and a favorable contender for the future throne.

This is not a good thing for Queen Wang. She still thinks that after giving birth to her daughter, she will make good adjustments to her body and give birth to a prince, so that her son will be worthy of the name of the eldest son.

But it is a step too late, which will inevitably have a negative impact in the future.

Luo Zhixue could actually see some of the depression, pain and even worry in Queen Wang's heart, but he pretended not to see it.

This is an established fact that has already happened, and it is impossible for him to do anything extreme to satisfy the Queen's wish.

This is not a matter of personal feelings, but a political event.

He might coax him about small daily matters and be a little concerned about what the queen thinks, but when it comes to such political matters, Luo Zhixue never cares about women's thoughts.

Conscience of heaven and earth, he didn't fall in love with Queen Wang and get married...

As for the thoughts of Concubine Li and Concubine Shu, Luo Zhixue actually paid even less attention to them.

It is true that he used to dote on these two women who were more in line with his own aesthetics, but this kind of liking has nothing to do with love.

It was just a very pure liking, liking for beautiful women.

And with the continuous expansion of the harem team in the past two years, and after the people at the top learned about Luo Zhixue's aesthetic preferences, the women who were selected into the palace later were basically women who conformed to Luo Zhixue's aesthetics.

Then Luo Zhixue was inevitably attracted by other women... In the past half a year, in fact, Luo Zhixue has rarely called Concubine Li and Concubine Shu to sleep with him.

Luo Zhixue is still very pure and conservative emotionally. At least so far, he can still proudly say that he has never been in a relationship, not even a first love...

What, you mean those women in the harem?That's just a concubine, not a lover, the two are not the same concept.

Among the many women in the harem nowadays, Queen Wang is special. She is special because of her status as a queen, so Luo Zhixue pays more attention to her, and respects her opinions on some small matters.

There is also Concubine Song Zhuang who just gave birth to the eldest son of the emperor. She is special because she is the biological mother of the eldest son of the emperor. Therefore, in the past few days, Luo Zhixue has still played the role of a good husband in front of her, making Song Zhuang The concubine was very moved.

She has been in the palace for nearly two years, and she has never seen such a gentle Luo Zhixue, who even came to her with nourishing soup to feed her.

Let alone her, there is no other woman in the entire palace who has enjoyed this kind of treatment.

Therefore, when she drank the soup, she shed tears while drinking, and the big teardrops fell into the bowl, Luo Zhixue was speechless.

But she didn't say anything, she just got up and gently wiped the handkerchief handed over by the maid beside her.

When Concubine Zhuang finished drinking the soup, Luo Zhixue stood up and said, "My concubine is resting well and confinement, it will be a long time to come!"

Concubine Zhuang nodded: "Yeah!"

After getting up, Luo Zhixue looked at the son who was being held by the nurse next to him, and finally got up to leave.

The work in the harem is over, and there are still a lot of military and political affairs ahead.

Now the year has changed, the Spring Festival has passed, and the Beginning of Spring has passed, so this is considered spring.

The arrival of spring also means that the Northern Expedition is about to start, and with the approach of the Northern Expedition, there are more and more various affairs, all waiting for Luo Zhixue to deal with.

On the [-]th day of the first lunar month, Luo Zhixue held a military affairs meeting in front of the imperial court. This meeting discussed the first half of the Northern Expedition, that is, the plan for the Jiangbei Campaign!
(End of this chapter)