Qiming 1158

Chapter 1291 Army Number
The Ming government decided to divide the Sichuan-Shu region into three administrative divisions, but it could be completely unified militarily.

Because of the complex ethnic situation in the south of the Minjiang River, as well as the existence of the Dali Kingdom and Southeast Asia, including the Ming Kingdom's future business goals for the Dali Kingdom and Southeast Asia, the establishment and long-term existence of the Chuanshu Corps has practical significance.

The future goal of Su Haisheng and the Qilu Corps under his command is to join forces with the Hexi Corps under Jiang Liangping to advance in the Western Regions, Tubo, and Qiangtang areas. As for the military forces of various ethnic groups that exist in this area, there is still a unified and complete Western Liao Empire. military war.

The ultimate goal is to seize the defense line of the western frontier for the Ming Dynasty and establish enough buffer zones to realize the protection of densely populated areas.

The 20 troops of these two corps will be the main maintenance force for the western border of the Ming Empire in the future.

At the same time, the Henan Corps and Jiangxi Corps, which existed in the Jiangnan area, will be mainly responsible for maintaining the military presence of the Ming Army in the southeastern coastal mountains and the Lingnan area, ensuring the stability and unshakability of the Jiangnan area, and at the same time also fighting the Nanyue area. Expand business.

In this case, the existence of the Chuan-Shu Corps is of great significance.

In the future, the station and defense area of ​​the Sichuan-Shu Corps should be in the prefectures along the Minjiang River. The garrison and some key military areas will be the main force responsible for deterring and maintaining the stability of Yunnan-Guizhou Province. Whenever there is any military conflict crisis, it should be attacked immediately.

Later, Su Yonglin arranged for the Ministry of Finance to participate in this meeting, and asked the Ministry of Finance to attend the meeting to discuss the necessity of establishing the Sichuan-Shu Corps.

Before the Chuan-Shu Corps, the Ming army already had seven corps: the Henan Corps, the Hebei Corps, the Yanyun Corps, the Qilu Corps, the Liaodong Corps, the Hexi Corps, and the Jiangxi Corps. If the Chuan-Shu Corps was established, it would be the eighth Corps.

It is not a simple matter for the imperial court to allocate funds to support troops.

In particular, the treatment of the Ming army is relatively high. In addition to the military salary and benefits a soldier himself gets, there are many direct and indirect supporting military treatment. Taken together, the military expenses for raising a corps are quite considerable.

To increase the number of soldiers in a corps, it is necessary to increase the proportion of military expenditure allocated by finance.

Of course, finance has raised a lot of questions and its own embarrassment, which is obvious.

However, in the Privy Council, Sun Ziyi directly proposed that the Yellow River project is about to be completed, which will reduce a large part of the financial expenditure, and with the recovery of agricultural production in the Huangfan District, the future financial revenue will only continue to rise, not cut.

Therefore, finance can completely increase military expenditure to help the country raise troops.

They have talked a lot about the necessity of the existence of the Chuan-Shu Corps. After the Privy Council talked about it, the General Staff Headquarters also joined in to talk about it, and after the General Staff Headquarters talked about it, the Military Affairs Department also joined in.

Lin Jingchun, who had just returned to the Central Capital to report his work, was planning to go south again. He was naturally a little unhappy when he participated in this meeting at this stall. However, in the face of this situation, he knew that this money must be allocated by the Ministry of Finance.

"It's not easy for the court to make money. Once the army moves, the money will flow out like running water. If you don't feel bad, I still feel bad. I don't object to the Chuanshu Corps, but all your ministries should do the audit work well, and you shouldn't spend it. Don't spend money indiscriminately, or I will never make you feel better when the year-end review is over."

Ending with Lin Jingchun, a threat that was not considered a threat, the central court of the Ming Dynasty basically decided to build the eighth corps, that is, the Chuan-Shu Corps.

Su Yonglin began to order the Privy Council and the Military Affairs Department of the Renaissance Society to do preliminary preparations, and asked these two departments to prepare for the military personnel issue and come up with a plan.

Then Su Yonglin began to prepare for another adjustment in the construction of the army.

Troop number problem.

For a long time, the corps-level designation of the Ming army was based on the regional appellation of the area where the corps was established.

The lower-level military-level designations can even be traced back to some designations formed during the Restoration Army, such as Xuanjia Army, Tianxing Army, Wuyi Army and so on.

The numbers of divisions, brigade and battalions below are numbers that have no symbolic meaning but are convenient for statistics.

Su Yonglin had the idea of ​​changing the regional designation to a numerical designation quite a long time ago. Compared with the regional designation, the numerical designation has no symbolic meaning, and even the symbolic designation without regional designation will even occur. A question of territorial consciousness rather than national consciousness.

However, in the early days of the founding of the army and the country, Su Yonglin didn't have much time to manage these things, so he had always arranged according to the usual practice, but now that the Ming Kingdom is about to dominate the world, many things should indeed be changed.

In fact, it is not only Su Yonglin who has such a view. Some people in the Privy Council and the Central Military Affairs Department of the Renaissance Association have also suggested that the designation of regional names may cause regional awareness within the army, which is not conducive to the formation of national consciousness and the harmony of the army.

This issue was mentioned in Sun Ziyi's work report to Su Yonglin.

Not only that, the Privy Council has also put forward some interesting motions.

For example, a series of military construction tasks such as recruiting, recruiting, training, and assessing assignments have been fully relegated to the Central Privy Council, and nationwide recruiting centers and recruit training camps have been set up in all centrally-administered areas in the central capital.

This work originally belonged to the Privy Council in name, but limited to the actual situation, the power was delegated to each corps in the name of the Privy Council, and it was trained by the recruit training offices under the logistics department of each corps.

Generally speaking, the Privy Council orders and authorizes the corps to recruit soldiers, and the corps conducts recruitment operations in the garrisoned areas. After recruiting a certain number of new recruits, the corps itself is responsible for training, selection and assessment, and the Privy Council is responsible for military expenditures.

The advantage of doing this is that it is convenient for each corps to quickly replenish their troops nearby. In the past more frequent wars, this is practical.

However, with the stabilization of the domestic situation and the great improvement of the traffic conditions in various places, as well as the regionalization problems in the various corps, more and more people feel that this is not a good idea.

The first to realize this problem was the revival organization within each corps.

They found that due to the influence of objective factors, more and more new soldiers in a regiment came from the same area.

This can certainly make it easier for soldiers to unite, but it is also easy to cause some fellow villagers to stick together with each other within the army and have a clear distance from their comrades in other areas.

The contradictions between them are not very prominent, but if this situation continues to develop, I am afraid there will be risks in this regard, which is not conducive to the unity of the army.

After this situation was reported to the Ministry of Military Affairs, it attracted the attention of the Ministry of Military Affairs and Su Yonglin.

Taking into account the issue of regionalization within the army, although soldiers will be given revolutionary education before entering the Corps, and revolutionary education within the army has not been interrupted, it is difficult to eliminate the natural sense of closeness among fellow villagers.

Over time, it is easy to create some regional factions in the army. Even if the soldiers do not subjectively have any regional conflicts, it is inevitable that other conflicts will be stained with regional colors.

The regionalization of the Corps is definitely not what Su Yonglin wants to see, which is very unfavorable.

In the feudal era, because of the need to fight against foreign officials and powerful central authorities for self-protection, clan ties and regional ties became an important consensus among people in a region. Issues such as traffic barriers are also one of the reasons for this strong identity.

This consensus is far stronger than national identity, has a long history and is deeply rooted, and is not conducive to the long-term stability of the country.

Su Yonglin knows that if we want to eliminate the identity at the local level, we need stronger productivity and stronger technical force to do it, and use development and production to connect all parts of the country together to achieve real interconnection.

However, given the current state of the Ming Dynasty, it is difficult to completely solve this identity from the perspective of development and production, but it is not difficult to weaken this identity through proper propaganda and education.

And as a top priority, this situation in the military must be changed.

In the past, this problem has been raised many times to be solved, but it has always been difficult to do it because of practical problems. Now the domestic situation is basically stable and we can start to deal with it.

(End of this chapter)