I want to be emperor

Chapter 627 Everyone is a Dragon
In the midst of war and turmoil, the land of Nanyang also ushered in the end of Chengshun's 15 years.

With the arrival of the Spring Festival, all parts of Nanyang have also gained a rare peace.

The war between the Kingdom of Aceh and the Great Chu Empire has ended, and the Portuguese have also reached an armistice agreement with the Great Chu Empire. Even the merchant ships of the Great Chu Empire have begun to help the Portuguese transport more than 1000 prisoners of war and a large amount of supplies to Ceylon Island.

Even the Dutch, who hadn't had a stable life in the past half a year, who were worried at first, finally breathed a sigh of relief, and then prepared for the spice trade and the trade with Chu next year.

It's not that they ignore the threat of the Great Chu Empire, but that life must be lived and business must be done.

War and business, this does not conflict.

By the way, there is also a Kingdom of Johor... sorry, the Kingdom of Johor no longer exists.

In Nanyang in the 16th year of Chengshun, the term Johor Kingdom no longer exists.

In the spring of the 16th year of Chengshun, Lion City.

After several months of continuous construction, the Great Chu Empire built a series of buildings on the Lion City, mainly port terminals, military camps, and office buildings of many military and political institutions.

Among them, the Nanyang Governor's Yamen has also been completed after several months of emergency construction. Although there are still many buildings that have not been completed, the foundation for a large number of administrative personnel to work is already in place.

Therefore, the Nanyang governor's office also went to the Lion City in March of the 16th year of Chengshun.

In the past few months, a series of other administrative agencies have moved into the Lion City together with the Nanyang Governor's Yamen, the Nanyang Inspectorate, the Nanyang Court of Justice, the Nanyang Taxation Department, and the Yamen of the prefect of Tongjia Prefecture.

There are also a series of military agencies, such as the Army Nanyang Garrison Command, the Army No.20 Second Army Command, the Army Fifth Division Command, and the Navy First Fleet Command.

Before the official launch of the Malay Campaign last spring, the high-level army and navy of the Great Chu Empire made certain adjustments to the military command organization in the Nanyang region, the most important of which was the establishment of Army No. The second army, which will be in charge of the war in the Nanyang region for a long time.

However, the troops under the jurisdiction of this army are not fixed, but are dispatched in rotation by the superiors, because this kind of troops deployed overseas is not suitable for long-term deployment of fixed troops, and a certain rotation is required, which is doomed to No.20 II It is impossible for the army to have a fixed establishment.

The No.20 Second Army can actually be regarded as the general headquarters of the Nanyang Dispatch Army.

As for the other institution with the Nanyang Garrison Command, this institution is the same as the domestic provincial garrison commands. It is only responsible for internal repression and defensive operations, and is only assigned to some second-class troops with low combat effectiveness.

Strictly speaking, in the necessary war period, the ground war in the Nanyang region should be dominated by the No. 20 Second Army Command, and the Nanyang Garrison Command should play a supporting role.

This can be seen from the military ranks and titles of the commanders of both sides. The commander of the No. 20 Second Army is the well-known senior lieutenant general Jin Kui in the army and one of the most experienced experts in sea crossing and landing operations in the army.

The Nanyang garrison commander is just an ordinary major general of the army, and Jin Kui also has another title.

And it is still higher than the title of the No.20 Second Army Commander, that is, "Governor of the Army and Military Affairs of Nanyang Region".

To put it bluntly, he is the boss of the army in the Nanyang area, and all the troops of the army in the Nanyang area are under his control, not only the No.20 Second Army, but also those second-class divisions in the Nanyang Garrison Command.

And Huang Jinkui is not an ordinary person who can hold such a position. He served in the Tenth Division in the early days. Later, some troops of the Tenth Division were reorganized into the No.15 mixed brigade, which carried out cross-sea landing training and combat. Jin Kui In this batch of adaptations, he was still a lieutenant at the time and joined the army in a series of sea-crossing and landing operations, and was promoted to major after his meritorious service.

Then he continued to be promoted, and when the No.15 mixed brigade was expanded into the No.20 Third Infantry Division, he was promoted successively to the head of the colonel and finally to the deputy commander of the brigadier general.

When the Chu Army sent the No.20 Third Division across the sea to land in Liaodong, he led the army to land and fight as the deputy commander of the Brigadier General.

Only more than half a year later, Jin Kui was promoted to major general of the army, and served as the commander of the No.20 Third Division, and led the army to continue fighting against the Dongyao people on the Northeast battlefield until the Dongyao people perished.

After the Dongyao War, this gentleman was transferred back to the Army Staff Headquarters and began to be responsible for the construction of the Army's amphibious combat troops.

He was deeply involved in the refitting and reorganization of the 13th Division, No.14 Division, and No.[-] Division, and he was promoted to Lieutenant General of the Army and served as Deputy Director of Army Amphibious Operations.

It can be said that he is one of the few senior generals in the Great Chu Empire Army who is proficient and has been in the field of amphibious warfare for a long time, and his qualifications and prestige are extremely high. He is the next batch of candidates in the army who are expected to be promoted to generals one of the people.

And considering that the troops in the Nanyang region, especially those field troops, are likely to be responsible for external attacks, and this kind of attack operations still belong to the field of amphibious operations.

In addition, the fifth division of the main force currently deployed in Nanyang is a first-class combat readiness force, and has won a big victory in the Malay Peninsula. Everyone from the division commander to the regiment leader is proud and arrogant. The commander-in-chief should be appointed by a senior general with outstanding experience in the field of amphibious warfare, so as to restrain these arrogant soldiers.

In addition, Huang Jinkui himself also needs a resume as a military commander to clear the way for subsequent promotion to general.

It is not to say that if the generals of the Chu army want to be promoted to generals, they have to serve as army commanders. There is no such rule in the Chu army, and many generals have never served as army commanders. The Minister of State Affairs, the Chief of the Staff Department, has now retreated to the second line, and Xu Zhixian, the Duke of the Army, who only holds the title of "Military Advisor to the Imperial Palace".

He has never served as an army commander, not even a division commander. The biggest position he has held in the field army is the battalion commander, but it does not affect that he has been an army commander for the past ten years. The top boss.

Although he has now retired to avoid suspicion and to protect himself, his prestige and influence are still full!
There are also many generals who have not served as army commanders, and some have not even served as front-line command positions, but this does not affect their becoming one of the generals of the Great Chu Empire Army.

In the ever-large army, it is impossible to have only the commanders of the first-line troops. There are also many other fields that need various high-level talents, such as logistics, military administration, ordnance, and other fields.

And there are specializations in skills, and officers in different fields also have their own promotion channels.

However, as a typical commanding general, Huang Jinkui, leading troops to fight is his essential job, and it is also what he is best at.

If he wants to surpass a large number of competitors and become one of the next batch of generals of the Great Chu Empire Army, he needs to make achievements in his field of expertise and be able to overwhelm others.

Therefore, it is also Jin Kui's personal wish to come to Nanyang to work.

The high-level army also supports it. With Jin Kui, a senior lieutenant general who is a candidate for general in Nanyang, he will not let the army suffer in the conflict between the army and the navy.

You must know that the person in charge of the navy in the Nanyang region is the 'Governor of Naval Affairs in Nanyang' and the Commander of the First Fleet, Admiral Wang Kui'en.

Although this Wang Kui'en was promoted to admiral in less than half a year, um, this person was actually promoted to admiral when he was the commander of the First Fleet, but this is an admiral after all, and he also belongs to the first rank in the navy. The first-class general in real power.

If the people sent by the army do not have enough prestige and qualifications, they may be at a disadvantage.

If it weren't for the fact that the army has a small number of troops in Nanyang, and the army has no tradition of letting generals serve as military commanders and command tens of thousands of people, otherwise, the army would directly send a general to the governor of the Nanyang army.

Well, the army actually mentioned it, but it was rejected by Luo Zhixue.

What a joke, the main force in the Nanyang area is only two divisions; the second-class division is only two, and there are only [-] people in total. With such a small force, it is enough to send a lieutenant general there. Nonsense.

You must know that the commander of the First Group Army of the Great Chu Empire who fought against the Jungar people in the Western Regions and coordinated all the army affairs in the Western Regions, Shaanxi, Gansu and other places was just a general.

General In the Great Chu Empire Army, only the commander of the group army, the ministers of various departments, and the deputy ministers have the assigned military ranks.

You can't mess around with things like military rank and position, otherwise, it would be easy for a commander who commands thousands of people to be a marshal... This would be absurd.

Therefore, Luo Zhixue's control over military rank and position is relatively strict. In most cases, the position and military rank match. For example, the commander of the army is a lieutenant general, and the deputy commander and chief of staff are major generals.

The division commander is a major general, the deputy division commander and the division chief of staff are brigadier generals, the regimental commander is a colonel, the deputy regimental commander is a lieutenant colonel, and the battalion commander is a major.

Occasionally, there will be some mismatches between military ranks and positions, such as the situation where the lieutenant colonel serves as the regiment leader, the colonel serves as the deputy division commander, and the situation where the lieutenant general division commander and brigadier general commander, etc., but these are often temporary situations.

For example, when a lieutenant colonel is promoted to be the head of the regiment, because the accumulation of time is not enough, he is asked to serve as the head of the regiment with the rank of lieutenant colonel first, and usually in the form of an acting agent. After a few months, he will follow the trend Promoted to colonel.

In the case of a high rank and a low position, it is often the case that the frontline officer is promoted after he has made meritorious service, but he cannot be transferred to a new position for a while due to various reasons.

In this way, it will be delayed for a while to make another arrangement.

But in principle, the military ranks and positions of the Great Chu Empire are standard.

This is not only for the control of senior military ranks, but also for the soundness of the entire command system, because in the Great Chu Empire Army, the alternation of command power is strictly passed on according to military ranks.

When the commander of the major general fails to command the army due to an accident, the deputy commander of the brigadier general takes over the command, and then the chief of staff of the brigadier general.

If the three generals mentioned above are unable to command the troops, then the school officer with the highest military rank will take over. If the military ranks are the same, then the commander with the higher number of the unit to which he belongs will take over the command. The first regiment, the second regiment, and the third regiment , cavalry regiment, and artillery regiment are postponed in this way.

Because military rank is directly related to the issue of command authority, this is also the number one reason why the military of the Great Chu Empire has strictly controlled military ranks and positions.

It was under such a background that Lieutenant General Huang Jinkui officially became the commander of the No.20 Second Army of the Army, and was ordered to supervise the military affairs of the Army in Nanyang.

After Huang Jinkui took office, he commanded his troops to quickly capture the Malay Peninsula and the city of Malacca, and his own losses were extremely limited. This can be regarded as a high score for Jinling.

Now he leads many personnel of the headquarters to the Lion City, and will follow up with the Lion City as the center to command and radiate the army troops in the entire Nanyang region.

It's just that when they moved, everything seemed to be going wrong... As soon as they arrived at the ground, Jin Kui found out that the navy had put them together...

They were on a naval transport ship. As a result, when the ship docked, the navy side used the excuse that the temporary pier was not enough, pushed the transport ship transporting a group of army officers to the side, and then connected it to the shore with a small boat.

Although this is just a trivial matter, it made Lieutenant General Jin Kui very upset, and it also made him more determined that the army must have its own transport ships and even warships.

When I was in China before, the army did not have much influence without various ships, but after going deep into the Southeast Asia, I discovered that no matter it is troop mobilization or supply transportation, ships are inseparable.

And this kind of transportation, although there is an "Army-Navy Joint Transport Fleet" jointly coordinated by the Army and Navy, it is actually responsible for the Navy.

In this way, the army is very passive, and it depends on the navy's face to do anything by boat.

Therefore, Huang Jinkui, who went ashore in a small boat with a dark face, had just set foot on the land of the pier, and was already thinking about how to write a strongly worded report, strongly suggesting to the big bosses to build the army's own fleet up.

He even thought of the name "Army Navy Division"

Their navy can have a marine corps, but for no reason our army can't have an army naval division!
Jin Kui walked away with a dark face, while on the other side of the port, a few naval generals watched with binoculars as Jin Kui waited for a group of army officers to land in embarrassment, while holding wine glasses and laughing loudly!

Rear Admiral Lin Xiujie, chief of staff of the No.11 Squadron under the First Fleet, put down the binoculars and said meaningfully: "This time, it should be able to let them have a longer memory. Let them know that this place in Nanyang belongs to our navy." The territory, it’s okay for the army to come over and have a meal, but they must not steal the show!”

"Damn it, when I think that they have swallowed most of the seized city in Malacca, I will be so angry!"

"The Portuguese have been operating in Malacca for more than 100 years, and there are many local businessmen there. As a result, the army only gave us spoils worth a mere one million yuan."

"Are you saying that only more than 200 million yuan was seized in total, and the rest were directly used up for military supplies. This is a lie. Malacca is so rich, and it would cost more than a million yuan to scrape a layer of oil, let alone them. Turned the city of Malacca upside down, and even pulled out the gold teeth of the Portuguese prisoners of war, and it turned out that there were only more than 200 million!"

"The seizures in Malacca are at least five fingers, and they swallowed at least 200 million!"

"Someone down there saw it. That bastard Bai Zhen of the fifth division sealed up a whole warehouse of spices himself, and then moved them into the barracks, saying that some condiments were directly included in the military ration management."

"That's a whole warehouse of spices, they just swallowed them raw, and this happened more than once!"

Rear Admiral Lin Xiujie became more and more angry as he talked, and the admirals beside him also looked gloomy and angry.

This time in the Malay Peninsula campaign, the army went too far.

The promised spoils were divided in half, but as a result, their army relied on their own ground to attack, and their navy personnel could not arrive in time for a while, and as a result, they embezzled a large number of spoils.

After this is done, let alone half of the spoils, the Navy doesn't even know if there is [-]% of it.

At first, the navy was puzzled, why the loot was so small this time, it would be better to directly fight the Kingdom of Siam, but after inquiring, especially the reports from the marine corps one after another, the navy executives smelled it bad taste.

Nima, there is no shortage of spoils, and the reason why their navy took less is purely because the army has too much appetite, and they have swallowed more than half of it.

They tried to negotiate with the army, but in the end, the army didn't give them any face at all in the Northern Years. That's all there is to it. If you don't believe it, you can't help it. If you talk too much, you will just drive them away...

This matter is absolutely unbearable. Admiral Huang Kui'en, the governor of the navy's Nanyang Navy, wrote a report and sent it back to Jinling.

This is not tens of thousands or tens of thousands, but involves the distribution of millions of spoils of war, which is enough for the minister of counsel representing the overall interests of the navy, Admiral Bai Yangrong, the head of the naval command department, will definitely not sit idly by and make a fuss in front of the imperial court It's a high probability thing.

I don't care about the domestic side, but in Nanyang, since their army has bullied their navy, their navy is naturally not a soft stubble.

You can't make small moves in formal combat affairs, but don't expect the navy to give the army a good look in other matters.

When it was arranged to transfer the generals and entourage of the army to the Lion City, although the navy arranged warships for escort, these warships with better living conditions and higher ride performance did not allow the army to take them, but arranged several other warships. An ordinary transport ship for the army.

After arriving in the Lion City, even the pier was not arranged.

That's why Lieutenant General Jin Kui was black-faced the whole time when he went ashore.

However, this retaliatory move by the navy also made the army firm in its idea of ​​forming an army fleet.

The phrase "depending on others is worse than relying on oneself", this sentence of Lieutenant General Jin Kui's suggestion to form an army naval division, quickly attracted the attention of the army's top officials.

The former military adviser to the Imperial Army, Duke Xu Zhixian, who has retired from the position of Minister of Staff and Chief of the Army Staff, and turned into a reserve army boss, said this to several army generals who came to visit him: "If you rely on the mountain, you can't rely on others." Yes, you have to do things like sea transportation yourself!"

Then these things inevitably reached Luo Zhixue's ears... After Luo Zhixue heard it, he laughed, but he didn't intervene in any way.

He is not prepared to participate in the conflict between the army and the navy, nor is he prepared to mediate, let them toss!

Because the current conflicts between the army and the navy are basically all connived by him, not only the conflicts between the army and the navy, but also the army, navy and the guards.

The Army, Navy, and Guards dislike each other and have conflicts with each other, so Luo Zhixue can sleep peacefully at night.

If the three major military branches are of one mind, Luo Zhixue will have to worry about whether he will die young!

Playing factions and balancing, this is what Luo Zhixue has been doing for more than ten years, and the more he does it, the more proficient he becomes, and the more he does it, the more experience he gets.

For the new round of contradictions and conflicts between the army and the navy, Luo Zhixue thinks this is pretty good!

If Luo Zhixue didn't participate, the army and navy would naturally quarrel. One moment, the navy accused the army of embezzling spoils of war, and the other moment, the army accused the navy of deliberately neglecting operations and not cooperating in the Nanyang War, so that the army suffered a lot of unnecessary wars. Loss.

After a while, the navy said that several generals of the army who fought in Nanyang engaged in public affairs for personal gain and wantonly embezzled the spoils of war.

After a while, the army directly issued a lot of documents, saying that during the navy's shipbuilding process, a large number of generals profited from it, and the amount reached an astonishing hundreds of thousands of Chu Yuan.

In short, you accuse me and I accuse you... If you want to say how true or false the accusations are, that is a matter of opinion and wisdom.

True is true, false is false...

Especially when it comes to corruption, there are a lot of things like getting some money for yourself within the scope of power. Luo Zhixue has a lot of various officials on hand, including the top-secret reports of the generals who made money through corruption.

And it involves a wide range... How should I put it, if the legal standards are strictly followed, the current nine ministers of the Great Chu Empire and more than [-] co-organizing ministers have not been wronged...all of them are corrupt officials!

Including Xu Zhixian, an army leader who has retired to the second line.

Even you don't need to investigate, just go to Xu Zhixian's luxurious manor on the outskirts of Jinling City to find out.

The pair of white jade lions at the gate alone are priceless!
There are more and more luxurious treasures in the manor. Relying on rewards and his own salary, it is impossible to build such a luxurious manor.

Does Luo Zhixue know this?

He must be clear, even there is a lot of specific evidence, for example, he knows how the pair of white jade lions got here, otherwise, what do you think the Internal Affairs Department of the Imperial Academy is doing!
Under the sun, any senior officials, including generals, have secret agents from the Internal Affairs Department of the Imperial Academy lurking beside them to monitor their every move.

These corruption evidences are nothing more than they have collected by hand.

But will Luo Zhi learn to deal with these corrupt officials?
This depends on the situation, and it will be dealt with when necessary. For example, Luo Zhixue feels that a certain official has made too much money and the influence is not good; Luo Zhixue felt that this person was useless, so he would deal with it naturally.

Killing a corrupt official from time to time is beneficial to the physical and mental health of the people and the long-term stability of the empire.

If it doesn't come out, and Luo Zhixue thinks that this person is easy to use, then he can't see it!

As for dealing with a corrupt official when he saw one, Luo Zhixue would have no one to handle his affairs.

Don't think that removing the current officials and replacing them with other people will make things better, but in fact they won't.

Because everyone wants to slay dragons, and everyone wants to be a dragon... Everyone is a dragon!
And Luo Zhixue doesn't need to slay a dragon, nor does he need to become a dragon.

He is a dragon rider, as long as the evil dragon is obedient and strong in combat, it will be fine.

If you are disobedient, or your combat effectiveness is no longer good, then change to another evil dragon and continue riding!

This time, the conflict between the army and the navy was not too intense and everything was within the controllable range, so Luo Zhixue didn't plan to intervene at all, and let them toss about themselves, sitting on the dragon chair and eating melon seeds to watch the show!

After eating the melons, Luo Zhixue was still in the mood to comment: In recent years, the methods used by the army and navy to attack and annihilate each other have improved, but they are still not as good as the civil servants in the cabinet.

It's been a row for half a month, but there's only a lot of noise and little rain. If it's replaced by the civil servants of the cabinet, at least one co-organizing minister will have to work in this case!
(End of this chapter)