Daming 1805

Chapter 489 Military Rank Adjustment
Zhu Jingyuan determined the candidates for the most important ministers of the Jiuqing, and at the same time determined the candidates for several key ministers.

There was no large-scale approval or adjustment for the follow-up resignations of most of the third-rank and above officials who had just turned 60 and were less than 60 years old.

Zhu Jingyuan is also an ordinary person, with a clear impression in his mind, and those officials who he thinks are very good in his own special records, are not enough to cover the entire court.

More importantly, it is impossible for me to change all the officials above the third rank all at once.

Then the court will be in chaos.

Moreover, after the Renwu Dynasty, most of the officials in the Central Yamen of the Ming Dynasty had no obvious political inclinations.

Among the bureaucrats, there may be various party groups formed by regions or interests.

But there are no factions formed around other princes.

After he became the emperor, most of the ordinary courtiers would naturally pledge their allegiance to him.

Normal bureaucrats do not have any psychological pressure when they are loyal to the legitimate emperor.

Give them the opportunity to show their sincerity of allegiance.

That is to see whether they have done their best to complete the special affairs assigned by the new emperor.

If you really encounter a small number of individuals who are pushy, obedient, and obedient, just fire and replace them in the name of dereliction of duty.

Zhu Jingyuan put down the notebooks of the civil servants and began to deal with the memorials of the military officer system.

But after picking up the first memorial, Zhu Jingyuan didn't open it immediately to read the contents.

Instead, hold it and start thinking about a seemingly simple but not simple problem.

Do you want to change the names of the Military Aircraft Department and the Minister of Military Aircraft?

Change it to the General Staff, or the Joint Chiefs of Staff, or the Military Council.

In Zhu Jingyuan's previous life, the name of the Military Aircraft Department came from the Qing Dynasty, and it was first set up by the workaholic Yongzheng.

The Military Aircraft Department of the Qing Dynasty was originally used to deal with emergency military affairs, but it gradually evolved into the actual cabinet.

In the Qing Dynasty, the imperial scholar became an honorary title, and the Minister of Military Aircraft was the actual cabinet member.

The duty of the Minister of Military Aircraft is to handle important government affairs according to the will of the emperor.

The Military Aircraft Department was actually the highest authority in the middle and late Qing Dynasty.

This institution carried out the emperor's personal will.

The indoctrination in school history classes, the promotion of various film and television dramas for later generations, and his current status as the Ming royal family made Zhu Jingyuan not have a good impression of the name Military Aircraft Department.

Zhu Jingyuan thought about changing this name more than once.

Zhu Jingyuan is not planning to adjust the responsibilities of the institution, and its responsibilities are relatively reasonable.

Emperor Shizu established the Military Aircraft Department, which was actually an organization between the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Military Commission.

The supreme military power of the Ming Dynasty belonged to the emperor, and the military aircraft department was responsible for formulating the overall combat strategy and planning the development direction of the army and military industry according to the emperor's military intentions and goals.

In addition to the daily work, there are also collecting and sorting out military-related information, summarizing actual combat information and experience, reviewing documents and reports submitted by the Ministry of War and the Governor's Office, etc.

Ming officials and people in this world don't know anything about Qing in another world.

In their view, the place responsible for planning and discussing the important affairs of military aircraft is called the Military Aircraft Department, and the ministers who handle specific affairs in the Military Aircraft Department are called Military Aircraft Ministers, which are very appropriate names.

Before ascension to the throne, Zhu Jingyuan felt that there was no need to discuss with his father to revise it just for a name.

Dad will definitely think that the name of the Military Aircraft Department is very suitable, and he will definitely be very puzzled why he specifically applied for a name change.

If there is a reform and the name is changed at the same time, it can still be justified.

But if the function was not changed, but the name was simply changed, Zhu Jingyuan felt that he had no way to explain it.

So there was no mention of changing the name.

Now that I have become the emperor, if I want to change my name, it will only be a matter of strength.

If someone insists on asking why, they can just reply "I like it".

Moreover, there are many things that Zhu Jingyuan wants to change his name, including the entire military rank and position system of the military attache system.

Zhu Jingyuan wanted to change the rank system of generals and lieutenants plus middle and lower ranks, and return to the traditional Ming system of rank, military position, and honor.

The original bureaucratic system in ancient China, including the two systems of civil servants and military officials, distinguished between "jue", "official", "rank", and "honor", which had matured in the Tang Dynasty.

"The noble is used to determine the superiority, the official is used to divide the position. The rank is used to describe the work, and the honor is used to describe the merits."

In the Ming Dynasty, the nobles were the Duke, Marquis, and Bo. In the early Ming Dynasty, there were sons and men, but they were not used later, and they were used again after the Renwu Dynasty.

The positions are general, general, guerrilla, garrison, and general, which are equivalent to actual positions and directly correspond to the specifications of the troops under management.

The ranks are Dudu, Du Commander, Commander, Thousand Households, and Hundred Households, which can be regarded as some form of military rank.

Xun is Zhuguo, Hujun, Qingche Captain, Qidu Captain, Xiaoqi Captain, Feiqi Captain, Yunqi Captain, Wuqi Captain, which is equivalent to a medal.

Titles, official positions, official ranks, and honors are all clearly distinguished from each other. This management plan is very mature.

Officials work according to their official positions, are paid according to their ranks, and are rewarded according to their honors.

But this system is also a bit too complicated and strict, and there will be great differences between the status and treatment of different systems.

The higher the official rank, the higher the official rank, and the higher the official rank, the higher the official rank.

To give an inappropriate example, there may be a situation where the "major general head" meets the "colonel teacher".

Who is respected when these two people meet?
Even if the system stipulates that the official rank is respected or the official position is the standard, various disputes and troubles will arise in actual use.

Therefore, in the Song, Ming and Qing dynasties, the system was optimized and adjusted more practically.

Gradually determined the tradition of separating "post" and "rank" with official rank as the main and supplemented by official rank.

Official positions are mainly used to determine salaries and benefits, but the official rank system still exists as a differential aid under the same official position.

If a person's official position is promoted, the official rank will also be directly promoted to the corresponding level in the near future.

If a person's official position never rises, the official rank will also stop at a certain stage, stuck at a certain upper limit and cannot be further promoted.

For example, if an officer is promoted to a division commander, his rank will be promoted to a colonel in the next assessment.

If an officer's position is regimental commander, his highest rank can only be promoted to colonel.

In this way, there will be no situation where the regimental commander has a higher rank than the division commander.

If a person has done a good job in the position of minister of the Ministry of Industry, and has served two terms, and the minister of the Ministry of Industry is not yet under the retirement age, it is impossible to directly promote the minister of the Ministry of Industry to become a minister.

But you can add a first rank to the servant, so that the third-rank minister of the Ministry of Industry can enjoy the treatment from the second rank, and the next time you are promoted, you will also start from the second rank instead of the third-rank minister.

This kind of system design was still working as a matter of course until the previous life that Zhu Jingyuan traveled through.

Unfortunately, it was distorted or even regressed due to the impact of foreign cultures.

In the chaotic era when people with lofty ideals were looking for a way to save the country, all forces gave up the local self-evolution either to clarify their determination to break away from the past, or to learn the Thai and Western systems more thoroughly, or to avoid being infected by the old system. out of the rank system.

The rank of nine ranks and eighteen ranks could have been regarded as the final version of the military rank and official rank system evolved locally in China.

It is the simplest and most convenient for ordinary people to understand.

Children all know that Zheng is higher than deputy, first rank is higher than second rank, even uneducated big soldiers can understand it directly.

It is also less prone to confusion and misunderstanding.

It is impossible to confuse the numbers of the first rank and second rank to indicate the ranks of the military ranks with the actual official positions of the governor and chief soldier.

Ninth and eighteenth ranks also have enough capacity.

Adding the four ranks of school lieutenants to the arrangement of senior, upper, middle and lower ranks can make up a total of sixteen ranks. Actually, there are usually only eleven or two ranks.

In the system of the ninth and eighteenth ranks, if the first rank is taken out as a title, there are still a complete sixteenth rank.

However, when the new army was established in the late Qing Dynasty, the old bureaucratic system in the Qing Dynasty was completely decayed.

At that time, in order to avoid being affected by the original system and personnel, the person in charge took this opportunity to start anew.

Due to the strength of the Thai and Western countries, the previous system reforms in the late Qing Dynasty all naturally referred to the Western-style military ranks and bureaucratic system.

Because the Japanese learned Thai and Western people earlier, and the official positions are usually Chinese characters.

Therefore, many systems and names are borrowed from Japanese translations.

However, if we put aside the level of industry and simply look at the perfection of the bureaucratic system itself, the Western-style military rank system is at most the level of the early Ming Dynasty, and it may not be as good.

It looks very simple and regular by increasing the arrangement of the school captains in the top, middle and bottom, but it is actually a perfect finished product after local adjustments.

The original meaning of the military ranks of various countries in Thailand and the West is actually similar to commander-in-chief, deputy commander-in-chief, division chief, brigade commander, regiment commander, deputy regimental commander, battalion commander, captain, and deputy captain.

It is the same system as the governor, commander, commander, thousand households, and hundred households.

Not to mention how the captains and vice-captains in these military ranks can be easily distinguished from the captains and vice-captains in actual positions.

Simply speaking, a Captain refers to the captain of a battleship in the naval system, and the corresponding translation rank is a colonel.

In the army, Captain becomes captain, company commander, and centurion, and the corresponding translation rank is captain.

However, the Taixi people have also figured out a plan similar to that of China. When an American navy general is the captain, no matter what his actual military rank is, he will directly become a colonel Captain.

So Zhu Jingyuan once imagined changing the military rank back to the ninth rank and eighteenth rank while retaining the current military attache position.

At the same time, the traditional honor and scattered official system will be restored, and a set of medals will be produced correspondingly.

But do you really need to do this?

Renaming something that has been around for a long time is just based on "I like it".

Just be sure to change the name that has formed a solid tradition and has no problems.

This is definitely not a good thing for the emperor's surplus, right?

The last Ming emperor who changed his name everywhere was Jiajing.

He still made changes purposefully, in order to stabilize and enhance his authority, and at the same time ensure the obedience of officials in the court.

Let's see if the officials will obey themselves in this kind of thing.

Zhu Jingyuan doesn't need to take the test now, and there must be no official who refuses his order to change his name.

However, if you really do it yourself, the officials and the people may not say it publicly or publicly, but there will definitely be complaints in their hearts and privately.

Moreover, the military rank system of generals and lieutenants is also functioning quite well.

After all, it has passed the test of two worlds.

Although it doesn't look as intuitive as the ninth and eighteenth ranks, this system has a certain sense of honor attached to it. When you reach a major general, you can be called a general.

In fact, the ninth and eighteenth ranks are indeed inexhaustible...

Looking back, when Emperor Shizu established this system, his purpose should also be to distinguish it from the old military position.

Establish a new system and rules that are completely controlled by yourself, and then gradually break up other systems and incorporate them.

Since it was necessary to distinguish it from the original system, the general and lieutenant system he was familiar with in his previous life was the best reference.

He probably didn't think carefully about using the name of the Military Aircraft Department.

The military organization he set up, in the traditional context of China, is indeed suitable to use the word military aircraft.

Moreover, the title of the Minister of Military Aircraft sounds more important than the staff officer, and the staff officer should remind the ancients of the staff.

Emperor Shizu's decision-making should be oriented towards practicality.

From the perspective of later generations, he really turned the tide at that time and rebuilt Daming quite smoothly.

But when he himself just started to build his own power, it must have been very chaotic and bumpy.

Combining theory with practice, screening while taking action, finally built the current system.

If I think about it calmly, there is really no need for me to go to such lengths to change my name for the sake of my comfort.

For the bureaucratic system, simply changing the name is an official business with no practical significance.

An earlier emperor who liked to change his name was "Wang Mang".

Zhu Jingyuan thought about it for a long time.

I feel that if it is a new organization established by myself, I can choose a special name according to my own preferences.

It was built from scratch anyway.

Just like when choosing the year name, I directly avoided Datong and chose Dagong specifically.

For the original organization name, there is no need to specifically take the modification.

The name of the Military Aircraft Department is not particularly unlucky.

Moreover, Emperor Shizu's usage of the Military Aircraft Department was more in line with his original intention than the Military Aircraft Department in the middle and late Qing Dynasty.

At the same time, the staff officers of the low-level troops of Ming Dynasty were indeed directly called staff officers.

The Military Aircraft Department is a joint meeting of the top staff, which itself has the meaning that quantitative changes lead to qualitative changes.

At the same time, the military ministers of Ming Dynasty were actually divided into two categories.

The first category is for practical work, aged between forty and sixty, with military ranks ranging from major general to marshal.

Responsible for the design of the company and strategic plan, and also responsible for making the plan into a formal document, and also responsible for daily affairs such as budget verification.

The other category is advisory in nature, all retired senior military officers, and they are only responsible for providing strategic ideas.

It is to let the old generals and marshals who have retired and still want to participate in strategic planning play their residual heat.

The status and status of these veteran generals are all detached, and their status has once again raised the status of the General Aircraft Department.

It also allowed the Military Aircraft Department to have the function of some top general training exchange meetings.

If the new emperor comes up and changes the Military Aircraft Department into the General Staff Headquarters, it may cause the misunderstanding among civil and military officials that the new emperor will lower the status of the Military Aircraft Department, and even lower the status of military officers and the army.

When the world has been at peace for more than ten years, the military is most worried about this wind direction.

It just so happens that the civil service system has always had this tendency, and Zhu Jingyuan is still the prince who has received great credit for the peace talks.

Zhu Jingyuan's reputation in the folks is not considered to be full of martial arts, and he may even be considered too benevolent by radicals.

After Zhu Jingyuan considered it so carefully, he felt that it was better not to bother with names that have no practical meaning for the time being.

Even if you really have to toss in the future, it will be after completing the adjustment of official positions.

So after thinking a lot in Zhu Jingyuan's mind, he finally put this matter behind him for the time being, and began to deal with the resignations of the senior military officers step by step.

First, arrange several staff officers from the Great Food Kingdom to work in the military aircraft department.

Then pull a few senior military officers from other regions who have dealt with them to give advice.

Qiu Lianggong, the admiral who was in charge of cooperating with the acceptance of the Chesapeake Peninsula, ranks as admiral.

Lu Junde, the army general who was responsible for cooperating with the takeover of Long Island, was a general.

Zhu Zhaoxie, the military governor who was in charge of the Xintianfu Atomic Energy Project, has the rank of general.

Zhu Guangjun, the army governor who was in charge of handling the Quebec incident, was a lieutenant general.

Then adjust the core layer of the Chinese military governor's mansion in charge of home defense.

"Zhu Jianxun, Naval Superintendent of the Commander's Mansion of the Chinese Army, was promoted to Marshal and Governor of the Governor's Mansion of the Chinese Army."

"Yang Yuchun, the Army Governor of the Rear Army Governor's Mansion, was promoted to Marshal, and transferred to the Central Army's Governor's Mansion and Army Commander."

Zhu Jianxun is a naval warlord who was born in the Prince Xiang's Mansion. He once led the first dual aircraft carrier formation in actual combat exercises.

At that time, they also went to Xintianfu to accept the review of the then Supreme Emperor Zhu Zhongliang and Dashi Prince Zhu Jingyuan.

Accompanied Zhu Zhongliang and Zhu Jingyuan to visit the new aircraft carrier and carrier-based aircraft at that time and gave an explanation.

Zhu Jingyuan had an impression of him, and it happened that his qualifications and age were sufficient, so he was directly promoted to marshal and served as the governor of the Chinese military's military governor's mansion in charge of local defense.

Yang Yuchun is 59 years old this year. He is also a celebrity in the original history. He also served in the Dashi area of ​​the Youjun Dudufu.

When Osman withdrew from North Mozhou, it was Yang Yuchun who commanded Da Ming's annihilation campaign against the local Barbary pirate forces.

Yang Yuchun's troops had a habit at that time, as long as the offensive was officially launched, they would no longer accept surrender.

The key is that they still don't like to accept foreign captives, and the cities they take are basically empty cities.

Therefore, Yang Yuchun's reputation overseas cannot be said to be bad, it can only be said to be very bad.

Especially in some areas of Beimozhou, it can already be regarded as a devil full of evil, which can stop children from crying.

His promotion was not affected, and now Zhu Jingyuan still made him the governor.

He is also the most honorable governor of the Chinese military governor's mansion.

According to the current military system of the Ming Dynasty, in a state of peace, the governors of the five major governor's mansions are real positions, but the five major governors are all vain.

The Governor's Army has an independent and clear candidate who is in charge of the political affairs of the entire Governor's Mansion.

The governor is usually served concurrently by the governor of the main local military service. Except for cross-service exercises, the actual jurisdiction is limited to the military service.

But the governor is indeed the most honorable position in the military system.

The Ming Dynasty did not have a great governor who governed the entire army, nor did he have a great governor who ruled over all the governor's mansions.

Only the emperor is the governor of the three armies and the governor of the five armies.

The responsibilities of the Military Aircraft Department cover the three armies and the five major governors' mansions, but they can only provide plans and suggestions, which can only be implemented by the five army governors' mansions after being approved by the emperor.

The highest position that a normal military officer can obtain is the governor of a single governor's mansion.

Obtaining this appointment means being recognized by the current emperor and possessing the guaranteed rank of Marshal.

Before the reform of the civil service system and the establishment of Dayu and Jiuqing, the rank of marshal in the military officer system was also an honorary title.

Usually when the admiral retired, the emperor gave him an additional canonization.

After the establishment of Dayu and Jiuqing, in order to correspondingly improve the status of generals, the marshal also became the actual military rank.

The governors and governors of the five major governor's mansions and Xintianfu were originally given the rank of general, but now they are all given the rank of marshal by default.

At the same time, once the Ming Dynasty fell into a foreign war, and a battle with foreign enemies broke out in the area under the jurisdiction of the Dudu Mansion, the Metropolitan Governor can obtain temporary command of the three armed forces within the Dudu Mansion's jurisdiction after receiving the temporary authorization of the Governor's Army.

After the emperor receives the news, he will give a formal command authorization, or appoint another commander to take over the command.

In other words, the governor is responsible for emergency response to sudden battles.

Zhu Jingyuan knew that Yang Yuchun was really good at fighting, and he was a lucky general in history.

I have fought all my life, have never been injured once, and have no scars on my body.

The experience of this life is usually called legendary, and so far has not been injured.

Probably cleaning up the Barbary pirates is not only a crime, but a merit.

Under the great governor, the five major governor's houses have three military branches, the army, the navy, and the air force.

The military commander was originally a lieutenant general by default, but now he can be a lieutenant general or an admiral, depending on his seniority and age.

Zhu Jingyuan retired the current navy governor of the Chinese military governor's office, and promoted Chen Huacheng, the current navy deputy governor, to be the navy commander.

Then transfer Guan Tianpei, the commander of the Navy of the Great Food Kingdom, back to serve as the deputy commander of the Navy of the Military Commander's Mansion.

Chen Huacheng made outstanding military achievements when he was young, and was promoted to the rank of colonel when he was just 30 years old.

Cooperating with Zhu Jingyuan's plan in Yinzhou, he took over the American line of defense and stopped Napoleon's bicycle blitz.

Although he is only 44 years old this year, he has accumulated 14 years based on his age as a colonel. Under normal circumstances, he should be promoted to lieutenant general.

Zhu Jingyuan has always been very generous to this kind of general who has passed the verification of two generations.

This time, he will be directly promoted to another level, and he will be directly promoted to the rank of general. He should be able to become a marshal when he is in his 50s, and he will be awarded the title of earl when he retires.

Guan Tianpei is younger, only 39 years old this year.

He also accumulated basic meritorious service during the World War, and was already a major apprehension at the age of 24.

According to the accumulation of 15 years according to age, he is also eligible to be promoted to major general.

The key point is that Guan Tianpei was Zhu Jingyuan's first full-time head of the military guard.

Later, according to Zhu Jingyuan's plan, a naval fleet was established in Dashi Kingdom from scratch.

Now Zhu Jingyuan directly gave him the rank of Lieutenant General, and let him take the Dashi Kingdom Navy into the Chinese Army Commander's Mansion and become the Deputy Commander of the Navy.

In the end, Mu Yongfu, the current Duke of Guizhou, was transferred back from overseas to serve as the governor of the Air Force of the Chinese Army, and his rank was promoted to general.

Mu Yongfu was originally in the army, and was responsible for taking over the Chesapeake Peninsula, so he worked under Zhu Jingyuan.

His identity and qualifications are completely sufficient to be the military commander of the military governor's mansion.

This is the end of Zhu Jingyuan's adjustments to the top management of the Chinese military's governor's office, and most of the other officers still have to do what they want.

Then the application for the retirement of the Governor-General of Xintianfu Huangzhuang was approved, and the governor Zhu Xuezhu, who was in charge of organizing a comprehensive campaign against the Bolivar forces, was appointed to take over, and his rank was also promoted to Marshal.

Chen Shaohong, who had left some impressions, was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general.

Among other official positions in the overseas Dudufu, if senior generals are transferred to the positions left by the Chinese Army Dudufu, the Dudufu will propose candidates according to the procedures, and after review by the corresponding military departments, submit them to the emperor for approval before appointment.

All other officers of the Dudufu who have not been adjusted will remain in their original state for the time being.

At the bottom of the army memorials are the memorials of Dongxichang and Jinyiwei.

Dongxichang and Jinyiwei both belong to the military officer system in a broad sense.

The governor of the East Factory is called Qian Xing, and he is not yet at retirement age, and he has not made any mistakes before, so he will continue to serve.

However, the governor of Xichang was already 64, and Zhu Jingyuan approved his retirement.

Then he appointed Lu Liang, who had been on a business trip in Yinzhou, as the new governor.

It was time for the commander of Jinyiwei to retire, so Zhu Jingyuan asked Yingtianfu Jinyiwei commander to take over, and then mentioned Han Tiezhu, who had been the captain of the guard in Meng County, Dashiguo, as a major general, to be the commander of Yingtianfu Jinyiwei.

The officers of Zhu Jingyuan's personal bodyguard are still the soldiers of Guan Tianpei's unit who followed Zhu Jingyuan at first.

Ordinary soldiers are selected from the children of immigrants from Dashi country, the children of Daming Airlines, and the children of Dashi clothing companies.

The treatment of workers and managers in Zhu Jingyuan's own industry has always been at the forefront of the world.

All of these people's families work in Zhu Jingyuan's property.

It is the most reassuring to use the children of these people as their own bodyguards.

Now hand over Yingtianfu Jinyiwei to Han Tiezhu, and hand over the local garrison to Yang Yuchun and Zhu Jianxun.

Zhu Jingyuan's control over the local armed forces of the Ming Dynasty is relatively solid.

(End of this chapter)