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Chapter 179 6.29 The Commander of the Guards Arranges and Adjusts
Chapter 6

6.29 Guard Commander, Sorting and Adjustment

More than half a month later, the time has entered the second half of June of the 12th year of Yongzheng. Even though the traffic conditions in this era are extremely bad, Wei Xu finally received the promotion letter from the Ministry of War.

"Congratulations Commander!" Xue Baochai was still in the living room of the Wei Mansion. With so many people in the Wei family, she was the only one who took this seriously.

"Sister Bao, my husband wants this position to better improve his strength, not to really care about official positions. I hope my sister will not put the cart before the horse." Of course, Qin Keqing will not let go of this opportunity to suppress her "opponent".

This is really helpless. Although the entire Wei family has a large population in the backyard, they have their own division of labor on weekdays, and there is no time for conflicts. Only Xue Baochai, the person in charge of the business department, overlaps with her "Backyard No. 1" responsibilities.

"Little sister dare not!" Xue Baochai's etiquette never required anyone to think too much about it.

"Master, in this way, we may have a lot of trouble in the southern border battle plan in August and September, because now that the position has been promoted, in theory, we should have mastered more troops.

But anyone who has a little knowledge of the court situation knows that from now to July and August, at most two months, the military strength in our hands will not meet the standard no matter what. "Saeko Busujima thought more.

"Brother Xu, this time you have been directly promoted from Qianhu to Commander of the Guards. You have surpassed the rank. Although you also have the title of Commander, if you follow the order, you can be promoted to Commander Tongzhi, which is a great grace of the emperor.

Now he has been promoted from the real position of the fifth rank to the fourth rank, and he is still given a real position. If there is no trap in this, no one will believe it. "Xue Baochai said worriedly.

Although the military positions of the Dashun Dynasty generally inherited the Ming system, the details changed a lot. The most important change was that the "grading" of the positions at all levels dropped a lot, so that it would not be like the Ming Dynasty.

Take the Commander of the Guards as an example. In the Ming Dynasty, it was a real job of the third rank. In the Dashun Dynasty, it was only rated as the fourth rank, and then there are two commanders and colleagues, from the fourth rank, to the commander's affairs, to the fifth rank.

But the above grading is not completely fixed, and there is a habit of "adding titles" in many cases, mainly to comfort those who have served too long but cannot be promoted, or to give the following people a little thought.

For example, the commanding job itself is only the fifth rank, but many veteran officers who have been in this position for half their lives are from the fourth rank; .

Moreover, there is no actual division of labor for this position itself, because the commander and acquaintance are the deputy positions of the commander. Not as good.

"I think this is also the reason why the palace gave me a promotion so quickly. When the time comes to send me to the southern border, then I should bring the strength of a guard, which is a total of 600 people.

According to normal rules, I need at least a year or so to complete the combing of the entire guard, and then there is no possibility of improvement in ten or eight years, but it is obviously impossible now. "Wei Xu smiled disdainfully.

"Master, there are five thousand households in front, back, left, and right under the jurisdiction of the Weisuo. Niu Ben, the son of Niu Jizong, is currently in charge of the Qianhu Office in Jiangdongmen. Presumably he is our Zhongqian household. The other four thousand households have no communication with us.

According to the rules, after receiving the notice from the guard, they will report to the Commander's Yamen according to the time.

What's more, we know their situation very well. Let alone more than 100 people in the full establishment, half of the real soldiers would be good. " Saeko Busushima said with a smile.

"Husband, don't forget that there are four other people, two commanders and two commanders. Husband only needs one commander, and the other three are sweets for other nobles.

Although theoretically speaking, they should not make trouble for your husband, especially at the beginning, but you have to guard against it, after all, they are indeed in that position. "Qin Keqing said softly.

"Then we can only take some extreme measures." Wei Xu shook the jade pendant on his wrist and said, "Take them in and let them live at home for the elderly, don't expect them to do things.

We currently don't have any candidates who can be directly promoted to Qianhu, but it is still possible to select five of the ten Baihu under my command to be promoted to Deputy Qianhu, and let them actually control the force at that time.

On the contrary, it is the addition of personnel. We don't need to worry at all now. The original seven bandit villages secretly trained more than 4000 personnel, plus our original 1000 people, and the integration is enough.

The only position of commanding officer is vacant for now. I am going to train a candidate to look after the position. It is a pity that you cannot hold the position openly, otherwise I can save a lot of things.As for the various logistical positions needed in the military, such as experience, capital, etc., now you understand my purpose of standardizing operations in my caravan, right? "Wei Xu said his arrangement with a smile.

"The logistics are all standardized, and we take the route of our own caravan. All logistics officials and equipment officials are from our own family. It doesn't matter which thousand households are the same. We control the food and clothing.

In this way, no matter who is in charge of the following thousands or hundreds of households, they can only obey our arrangements honestly—Brother Xu, in this way we will be completely safe. "Xue Baochai said excitedly.

"Don't forget, Jinling is the core of the entire Jiangnan Province. There are not many guard commanders in other places. Most of the thousands of households are under the direct control of the temporary agencies set up by the five military governors' offices in each province.

However, many of these institutions are only available during wartime, and are not set up at all on weekdays. That is to say, these thousand household offices can even be regarded as directly under the jurisdiction of the five military governors' mansions in theory.

Although the Jiangnan admiral's office is in Jinling, and we are right under his nose, but he is a soldier system and has no direct relationship with us. Except for a little communication on weekdays, it doesn't matter at other times as long as there is no accident .

What's more, the current Admiral of Jiangnan is Sun Yutang, the second-class hereditary son of the Pingyang House, who belongs to the noble line like us. Although we don't have many contacts, some basic favors are still okay.

The biggest problem now is to quickly integrate our own forces, and then soar into the sky in the southern border battle in July and August to completely stabilize our position. "Wei Xu said calmly.

Not all the nobles are a family, except for the few people who took refuge in Emperor Yongzheng, such as Qi Jianhui, Xie Jing, and Jiang Zining in the capital, in fact, the four kings and eight princes are the core of the nobles, but not all of them.

At present, the armies of the provinces of the Dashun Dynasty are basically in the hands of Xungui, and it has been like this since the founding of the country. Although the civil servants do not want to intervene, so far they have only controlled the Ministry of War, and they can't even talk about complete control.

Although these people belong to the same line of nobles, they do not really have a close relationship with the Four Kings and Eight Dukes in the capital. Then again, if the Four Kings and Eight Dukes really control all the nobles, where will the emperor be placed?

At present, regardless of the four kings who are in charge of the four frontier armies, the Bagong Group's basic base is the North Zhili with the capital and Jingying as the core, and the Jiangnan with Jinling as the core, or according to the pre-Ming statement, it is called the South Zhili.

Other provinces are more influenced in the name of the "honorable core". For example, Chen Yejun was arranged to serve as a thousand households in Qilu, and it needs to be communicated with Qilu.

"Master, what about the arrangements for the lower-level officers? If you only control the upper-level, I believe that this should not be the case with your background, right?" Saeko Busujima said with a smile.

"Don't worry, it's the basic common sense of the great army I belong to to extend the command authority to at least one level of company platoon." Wei Xu smiled slightly, "Let the third batch of disciples graduate early and serve as the general banner in each thousand households.

From the second batch of disciples that have already been arranged, we selected a group of disciples, mainly in the position of a hundred households, to ensure the absolute control of all units. Fortunately, when we recruited the third batch of disciples, we reserved one hand, the age was fifteen or sixteen years old. host. "

"In this case, it's enough for the army for the time being." Saeko Busujima nodded, "It's just that there will be a shortage of manpower in other areas. I'm afraid Director Cao will be annoyed in a short time."

"We can't just rely on the few disciples we cultivate, but also promote and reuse a group of people in some non-core positions according to the situation, otherwise our personnel training speed can't keep up.

It just so happened that a directly affiliated Thousand Household Institute under Jinlingwei had long since been abandoned, so we trained a group of people there, plus Zhou Yunyang, this time we set the number of the fourth batch of disciples at 500.

In this way, as long as it lasts for about a year, we will raise another level next year, and we don't have to worry about shortage of manpower. " Wei Xu said with a smile.

"Brother Xu, when it comes to manpower expansion, Second Uncle's fleet encountered a storm on the way back from Nanyang, and many ships sank, so the food supply after the expansion was somewhat delayed." Xue Baochai said embarrassedly.

"Oh?" Wei Xu's heart moved, and he looked at Saeko Busujima, "It seems a little too coincidental."

"Master, Second Master Xue's daughter just got married with Mei Hanzhang, the eldest son of Hanlin Meizheng of the Imperial Academy, and the same year as the master." Saeko Busujima said flatly.

Now everyone realized something was wrong!

(End of this chapter)