I want to be emperor

Chapter 99
The establishment of the official affairs office is one of Luo Zhixue's measures to continuously improve and reform the Baoxiangying.

The reason why they didn't do it before was purely because the site was too small and there were not many people under them.

But now that Baoxiang Ying left Lushan County in the east and controlled a large area of ​​rural areas, the original model of Baoxiang Ying was no longer suitable, so Luo Zhixue also added an official affairs office in due course.

After the establishment of the Office of Civil Affairs and the appointment of Guo Quanshu as the head of the Office, the first task assigned to him by Luo Zhixue was to set up various township yamen in the area controlled by Baoxiangying and conduct more in-depth management of the subordinate villages. .

For example, in addition to the establishment of village chiefs in each village, two new positions of arresting fast and food chief should be established in each village.

The catcher is naturally responsible for local security, while the grain chief is used to collect grain.

Luo Zhixue hoped that the rule of the Baoxiang Ying could penetrate deep into the villages, instead of being limited to the county towns like traditional dynasties, and adopting gentry and clan autonomy over vast rural areas.

The township yamen, on the other hand, serves as the connection between county-level and village-level organizations. After all, neither the current Baoxiangying headquarters nor the future county yamen can directly manage the many villages under it. The first-level administrative agency does not need to have as many agencies as the county government, and is fully staffed. It only needs to shoulder some basic functions.

Regarding this, Guo Quanshu himself was also at a loss, but since Luo Zhixue ordered him to come down, he could only bite the bullet and go to Zhang Luo.

Who made him not have the guts to refuse Luo Zhixue's appointment.

To some extent, the establishment of the township government can be regarded as a major symbol of the transformation of the rural protection camp.

In the past, the Baoxiangying was a pure bandit, but now it is beginning to transform into a local ruling group and gradually becoming more formal.

This point was felt not only by civil officials such as Guo Quanshu, but also by generals such as Wang Xiazi.

Because a few days after Luo Zhixue established the Civil Affairs Office, he once again summoned the civil and military officials in the Baoxiang camp, not to discuss with them, but Luo Zhixue informed everyone.

At the meeting, Luo Zhixue changed the name of the Baoxiang Camp to the Baoxiang Army, appointed himself the general of the Baoxiang Army, and set up the General's Mansion.

There are a total of eight internal affairs offices under the General's Mansion, including the Internal Affairs Office, the Official Affairs Office, the Grain Collection Office, the Farming Office, the Industrial Office, the Commercial Office, the Food and Pay Office, and the Inspectorate Office.

In addition, there are four directors of the military affairs department, the staff office, the ordnance department, the logistics department, the military affairs department, the cavalry director, and the artillery director.

The above-mentioned departments and prisons are directly under the leadership of Luo Zhixue.

Strictly speaking, these changes are not much of a change, they just deserve a title.

Their official name before was the Funiu Mountain Baoxiang Camp, and there were various places and prisons in the camp.

However, the Funiu Mountain Baoxiang Camp was only a unit designation at the beginning, and it had great local limitations. After the Baoxiang Camp came out, it was no longer suitable to continue to hang the three words Funiu Mountain.

At the same time, Luo Zhixue has set up various infantry battalions. Does this conflict with the name of Baoxiangying, and the mere name of Baoxiangying is not suitable for Luo Zhixue's ambitions.

Therefore, taking advantage of this opportunity, Luo Zhixue simply deleted the word "Funiu Mountain", and at the same time replaced the word "Baoxiang Yingli" with "jun", and changed his title from "General of the Funiu Mountain Baoxiang Camp" to 'General of the Rural Protection Army', set up the General's Mansion.

The reason why the word "Baoxiang" is used is that Luo Zhixue does not want to be like those rebels, using such messy titles as Chuangpotian, Treadpotian, Dingpotian, and Shepotian. mob.

At the same time, the word Baoxiang itself has a strong atmosphere of justice, locality, and closeness to the people.

This can also be extended. In the future, the rural protection army can directly shout slogans such as "defend the homeland" and "defend the folks" for external and internal low-level soldiers. This will also be more acceptable to ordinary low-level people.

In the various places under the General Baoxiang’s mansion, except for the Office of Officials, which is a new institution that has just been established a few days ago, other institutions have basically been established for a long time, even the two second-batch institutions of the Supervision Office and the Civil Service Office, It's been more than a month too.

Therefore, there will be no changes in the powers and personnel of various places.

Everyone didn't have any objection to Luo Zhixue's changing his title and setting up a general's office. Anyway, in their opinion, it was just a name change. Luo Zhixue could call him whatever he liked...

However, this is only for the majority of people, and a few people have seen Luo Zhixue's ambition from it.

Guo Quanshu is one of them.

He is not a fool, he is very clear about the meaning of the word Grand General's Mansion today!
The current Baoxiang General's Mansion is small and well-equipped, but if the territory expands in the future, the subordinate departments, especially the internal affairs departments, may directly become cabinet ministries if they change their names.

Just looking at these institutional settings, Guo Quanshu can tell that his own general rebelled to the end and went straight to become emperor.

This discovery made Guo Quanshu even more uneasy.

Luo Zhixue, the leader of the rebels, ran wildly on the road of rebellion, but he, Guo Quanshu, was also forced to run along with him.

But he doesn't want to!

From Guo Quanshu's point of view, although Luo Zhixue is having a good time now, when the officers and soldiers regain their senses and mobilize the main force to attack, it doesn't matter whether you call it the Baoxiangying or the Baoxiang Army.

After Luo Zhixue was defeated by the officers and soldiers, would the government believe that he, who looked like the chief of the staff affairs department but was actually a small official secretary, was forced to do so?
Not only Guo Quanshu was worried, but Song Tiejiang, the director of the Industrial Department, was also very worried, for fear that one day Luo Zhixue would be caught and chopped by the officers and soldiers after Luo Zhixue's defeat.

So Blacksmith Song, who came to Songjiazhuang from Songshan Village for a meeting while Luo Zhixue was convening a meeting, submitted a resignation report to Luo Zhixue nervously after the meeting.

Song Tiejiang really didn't dare to continue to be the director of the industrial department. He was afraid that he would be liquidated by the government in the future...

And he also knew that Luo Zhixue would not let him go directly. In the huge rural protection army, there were only so few technical talents who knew how to build guns. Luo Zhixue would not let him go no matter what.

So Song Tiejiang thought that if he told Luo Zhixue not to be the director of the industrial department, but to concentrate on being in charge of the arsenal, Luo Zhixue would agree.

If he was purely in charge of an arsenal, Blacksmith Song would still be able to defend himself when the officers and soldiers came over, and the government would generally not embarrass the artisans too much, and in most cases would arrest them and let them make guns for the government.

But the director of the industrial department... Song Tiejiang felt that he would not be able to explain it when the time came!
So Song Blacksmith gave Luo Zhixue a report, saying that he was old and frail, illiterate, and that the arsenal had heavy tasks, and he needed to keep an eye on him for a long time.

I don't have enough ability and energy to manage the affairs of the machinery factory, logistics factory and several other new workshops. I hope that I can concentrate on working in the arsenal in the future.

He also said that the current deputy director of the industrial department, Yuan Gaofeng, has been in charge of the affairs of the industrial department for a long time, so he is more suitable to be the director of the industrial department than himself.

After Luo Zhixue considered it, he really approved Song Tiejiang's resignation, reappointed Song Tiejiang as the manager of the arsenal, and promoted Yuan Gaofeng, the deputy director of the industrial department, to the director.

Luo Zhixue made such a decision, not because he saw through Tiejiang Song's plan, or was considerate of Tiejiang Song. In fact, he didn't care much about Tiejiang Song's own thoughts.

Even Tiejiang Song offered to resign on his own initiative, which saved him a lot of effort, because Yuan Gaofeng was originally the director of the industrial department he trained.

In any case, Blacksmith Song is illiterate and can't even read or write official documents. In the past, there was really no one, so he was just the director of the industrial department. This person was originally selected by Luo Zhixue. Chief of Transition.

As for Yuan Gaofeng, he was a half-baked scholar recruited from the fleeing mountain people in Funiu Mountain. He was said to be a half-baked scholar who was compared with Guo Quanshu, a person who took the imperial examination, but in fact he was also literate and able to read and write official documents.

As the first batch of half-baked scholars recruited here, Yuan Gaofeng was trained by Luo Zhixue like the others.

After several months of hard work, Luo Zhixue felt that it was time to mention Yuan Gaofeng and let him officially take charge of the work of the Industrial Department.

Not only is Blacksmith Song a transitional role, in fact, most of the other directors in various places are also transitional roles, and they all have a common characteristic: they can't read big characters.

They can't even read and write official documents. How can they handle government affairs? There was no one in the past. Now Luo Zhixue has gradually cultivated some talents who can read and write official documents. Naturally, he plans to replace them one after another. Let a group of chiefs be able to write and read official documents.

Ernst & Young is an exception here.

Er Yongduo was also illiterate before, but he has been studying hard since he became the head of the staff department, and now he has learned some common words.

Since he has this enterprising mind, Luo Zhixue is also willing to give him a chance, so he has no plans to replace him in a short time.

Even though Huang Guangmao, the resigned general, has performed quite well recently, Luo Zhixue still has no idea of ​​​​removing Ernst and Young and letting Huang Guangmao take over.

After the establishment of the Baoxiang General's Mansion, the development of the Baoxiang Battalion, no, it should be said that it is now the Xiangbao Army, is on the right track.

Many things began to have various detailed regulations, instead of being done casually with a slap on the head as before.

Gradually moving towards the regular Rural Protection Army, while reorganizing internally, it continued to attack the rural areas of Lushan County. By mid-February, the Rural Protection Army had already controlled the central and western areas of Lushan County, and at the same time, its tentacles in the north extended to Yiyang The rural area in the southern part of the county.

The control strategy of the Rural Protection Army is not a brainless expansion of the entire Ruzhou. On the contrary, its expansion strategy is to rely on the mountains in the west.

Mainly to control the villages close to the mountains, not to go too deep into the plains to the east.

The eastern part of Ruzhou is a plain. This plain seems to be a good place, and it is also a traditional grain production area, but it is also not dangerous.

If Luo Zhixue expands to the east without thinking, he can easily control a large area of ​​central and southern rural areas in Ruzhou, but at the same time, if the main force of officers and soldiers comes over in the future, the rural protection army will have to catch them blind.

The main forces of the officers and soldiers are different from those of the thieves. Let alone Chen Zhibang and Zuo Liangyu in the north. Together, they can produce hundreds of cavalry. Just a few hundred cavalry is enough to protect the township army. Difficult to care about.

Not to mention the follow-up threats from officers and soldiers, even if there is no threat for the time being, fully controlling Lushan County and even most of Ruzhou does not conform to the current strategic plan of the Rural Protection Army.

Luo Zhixue's goal was very clear from the very beginning. Going out of Lushan County to the east was not to take down Lushan County or even Ruzhou as a local territory, but for food, soldiers and other strategic materials, so as to lay a real foundation for the subsequent expansion of territory. Get ready!
As for the future territory of the Township Protection Army, where is the foundation for Luo Zhixue to fight for world hegemony?
Luo Zhixue already has a plan for this!

(End of this chapter)