March 24, 21st year of Shaoxing.

The Xuanwei Army successfully returned to the garrison in Changguo County, Mingzhou, packed up the barracks, and trained and rested on the spot.

A few days later, a document from the Ministry of War was delivered to the barracks, asking the Xuanwei military superintendent and the commander to jointly draw up a list of officers at all levels, from the general to the general, the general in preparation, the deputy general, and all the way to the general, to list their resumes one by one, and report the military merits they had received.

This is a great joy, and it is required to draw up a list of officers at all levels, which shows that the Xuanwei Army has finally become a regular army of the imperial court with a normal establishment!

After Yang Congyi informed Zhao An, he immediately summoned the commanders of all battalions to announce the good news, and there was no doubt that the officers who would be promoted and appointed would be selected from the current battalion commanders.

As soon as everyone entered the barracks, they were very excited to hear the news, and the atmosphere was extremely warm for a while.

After joining the Xuanwei Army for three years, sweating and blood, and finally getting the opportunity to be conferred and get ahead, how unhappy is it!

However, the atmosphere immediately changed subtly because of one sentence.

"What are we going to do?"

After asking these words in the noise, the seven battalion commanders looked at Yang Congyi and Zhao An with seven pairs of eyes, and the barracks suddenly fell silent.

Yang Congyi coughed and said with a smile: "How to appoint the specific one, it depends on the approval of the Ministry of War, the position must be based on military merit and ability, there are high and low, but what I want to tell you is that the Ministry of War has given a lot of establishment, and you will all be on the roster of officers of the Ministry of War." Since this is the first appointment, you must provide your own resume information for the military department to keep on file for verification, and all the information must be true. ”

When everyone thought about it, what kind of position should be awarded above, it has always been about military merits and qualifications, and now it is in vain to ask, so they will no longer ask about official positions.

But then someone asked: "Prison Army, what is a resume, and what information should we give?" ”

Yang Congyi explained: "Your resume is your experience of more than 20 years, what time and time you are doing, such as practicing martial arts with the master from the age of ten to fifteen, starting to join the army in the autumn of fifteen, where you are in the army, and any position, all the way to this moment, which also includes your place of origin and origin, whether you are married, how many children you have, whether your parents are alive, how many brothers you have, and where you live, all of which must be written clearly." ”

"So many, how to write, we don't know." When everyone heard that it was so troublesome, they immediately began to shout again.

The vast majority of people in the army are illiterate, although Jiang Kai has taught them some before, but since they went to sea, they have not studied and have long forgotten everything.

"Don't worry, I can write for you this time, and you can all write about your experiences, and then come to me one by one. By the way, I would like to remind you that when you become an officer, you have to start to be literate, and if you are illiterate, you will miss the military situation, and you may be removed from your post in the future. Yang Congyi smiled slightly.

"Thank you." Everyone hurriedly thanked them, and secretly swore in their hearts that they must be literate in the future and strive to continue to be promoted.

"Okay, you go back and prepare first, and when I need you to come, I will call you."

The generals retreated, their faces could not hide their excitement, and they went out of the barracks to congratulate each other.

Is it finally time to glorify your ancestors? Everyone was excited and wanted to shout at the wide sea, but reason told them that now was not the time, the appointment documents of the imperial court had not yet come down, and their materials had not yet been handed in.

So everyone went back to the camp and continued to organize the soldiers to drill the military formation.

There were only Yang Congyi and Zhao An left in the barracks, and the atmosphere was somewhat awkward.

After reading the documents of the Ministry of War several times, Yang Congyi said: "This time, the Ministry of War has given a lot of establishment, two generals, four deputy generals, nine generals, and three generals, what do the commanders have on personnel arrangements?" ”

Zhao An hesitated for a while, and replied: "The appointment of the official is the master, and the supervision of the army is in charge, but the training of the whole army is very busy, how can I have time to ask about these things." ”

It can be heard in the words that Zhao An is emotional, but what about emotions, when he was in Anyuan, he was unwilling to go out of the city, so he gradually lost control of the Xuanwei Army, who did he complain about?

Yang Congyi was unmoved, and asked again: "Regarding the appointment of military positions, I think so, and the commander will help you refer to the details." ”

Seeing that Zhao An didn't reply, and didn't mean to get up and leave, he continued: "On this trip to Guangnan, they all have more or less military merits, and they don't look at the length of the army for the time being, judging from their military merits and performance, they are giving two to Su Zhong and Yuan Hua, and four deputy generals to Yao Chang, Liu Shi, Pan Cheng and Luo Cong. There are eight places to prepare, Zhang Dai wants to be among them, Zhang Biao who is far away in the city of Zhancheng, and Xue Wang who is in the country of Srivijaya Qi cannot be left behind, and the remaining five preparatory generals and three generals are selected for comprehensive military training, a trip to the Western Regions of Nanyang and the performance of the Guangnan battlefield, and one is recommended for each battalion. What does the Archon think? ”

Zhao An knew that he didn't have much authority in the Xuanwei Army, and there was nothing wrong with Yang Congyi's arrangement, so he replied: "It's very appropriate for the prison army to arrange it like this, I have no opinion. If nothing else, I'll go first. "Get up and leave.

"Okay, the Commander has something to do." Yang Congyi replied, and began to think about the issue after the appointment of the military post.

In recent years, he also has some understanding of the military system of the Great Song Dynasty, since the Jingkang Rebellion, King Kang crossed to the south, and hastily built the army, the military system of the Great Song Dynasty is different from the previous "art of war", in order to resist the Jin army, five "big armies" were formed before and after, namely Han Shizhong's "front protection army", Liu Guangshi's "left protection army", Zhang Jun's "middle protection army", Yue Fei's "rear protection army", Wu Jie's "right protection army", each army has dozens of armies, nearly 100 generals, each general 1,000 to 5,000 people, each army has several generals.

Since the Song and Jin Dynasty negotiated peace, several major military regions were abolished, the commander's military power was confiscated, and the military command was all in the hands of the imperial court, which directly ruled the armies, and the ruling officer of the army was directly controlled and appointed by the imperial court.

The Xuanwei Army is now also an army, under the management of the imperial court, and the top bosses are the Ministry of War and the Privy Council, and it can no longer be the same as before, as it wants, every position change in the army must be reported to the Ministry of War, and every expenditure must be well documented, there are many departments that supervise the Xuanwei Army, and the difficulty of army management has greatly increased, and Yang Congyi has a headache now.

The whole army has an establishment of 5,000 people, but it is currently less than 3,500 people, minus the guard battalion, a total of less than 3,500 people, two general officers, four deputy generals, nine reserve generals, plus three generals, a total of 18 generals, how to settle them has become a problem.

For army management, Yang Congyi has no experience, there was no superior supervision before, he can rely on the authority of the supervising army, he can arrange it however he wants, and he can even order casually, as the shopkeeper, at that time, the Xuanwei Army still returned to the Yi Guard, and the whole army relied on him to eat, so he had to get the salary, but now it is different, it has become a standing army, the food and salary are from the imperial court, and the military department and the Privy Council are staring, and then according to the previous set will definitely not work, maybe if you catch a little mistake, you will have to lose your military position.

After studying martial arts for more than a year, there is very little content that really involves military management, except for martial arts classics, there are almost no things that need to be actually done, which has to be said to be a pity.

If you want to develop in the army, it is far from enough to stay in the Xuanwei Army, and besides, this post of supervising the army is only appointed in wartime, and it is impossible to go deep into military training at all, and when you return to the army where you are stationed, the supervising army will become a redundant ornament, and sooner or later you will have to leave.

Yang Congyi has gradually realized these problems, but now that there is no edict from the imperial court, he can only stay in the Xuanwei Army, and he has to do what needs to be done well, and his task of supervising the army can be completed.

How to arrange the 18 generals is a complicated big problem, and he can't figure it out for a while, so he can only think about it slowly, but fortunately, it is not a matter of three or five days from the declaration of the information of the officers and troops at all levels to the approval of the military department, and there is still a lot of time to consider.

Subsequently, Yang Congyi returned to his barracks and began to design a form for filling in the officer's information.

Next, it took three days to determine the quota for the 18 officers, and another two days to fill in their resumes clearly, and also made a summary table of the promotion list.

After the military supervision and the commander jointly signed, the information was encapsulated and sent to the military department through the post station, and the report was reported one day earlier, so that the reply could be approved one day earlier.

The camp of Changguo was unmanned for nearly half a year, and it took ten days to repair, the camp was decent, although it was many times better than in Qinzhou, but when the camp was built three years ago, it was a temporary camp, there was no masonry under it, no green tiles on it, it was all wooden houses and thatched huts, as a regular army camp, it was really shabby, it seemed that after the appointment was approved, it was necessary to ask the imperial court for a sum of money to rebuild the camp.

On the ninth day of April, an official of the Ministry of War suddenly came to the Xuanwei Army barracks with the appointment documents.

The Ministry of War approved it, and the officials of the Ministry of War personally announced the appointment, to show that the imperial court attached importance to the Xuanwei Army.

After Yang Congyi communicated with the official, he confirmed that all the proposed military positions were approved, and everyone was gathered together on the same day.

There were more than 20 people in the barracks, some crowded, some noisy, and when they saw the Tsing Yi officials from the military headquarters, they couldn't hide the excitement in their hearts.

"This is Lord Yu of the Ministry of War, who has been traveling all the way and brought the imperial edict from Lin'an, very fortunate, everyone should not delay Lord Yu's time." As soon as Yang Congyi's words came out, the barracks suddenly fell silent.

Then he said to the officials of the Ministry of War: "Lord Yu, let's start here." ”

Lord Yu immediately picked up a document, opened it in front of everyone, and said loudly: "Go to the South Seas, cross the Western Ocean, connect more than 20 overseas countries, capture the rebels, fight Liangshan, repel Li Yue's 100,000 army, protect back to Yi, level Guangnan, Xuanda Song is majestic in the four seas, live up to the name of Xuanwei, brave and good at fighting, outstanding achievements, can be called a model of the army, and the whole army is specially transferred to the front division of the palace!" ”

After a pause, without waiting for any reaction from everyone, he immediately continued: "The officers and men in the army have their own meritorious deeds, and after being recommended by the Xuanwei Army and approved by the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Officials, the next eighteen people are now appointed. Cheng Zhonglang Su Zhong and Yuan Hua served as the main generals of the Xuanwei Army, Chengjielang Yao Chang, Pan Cheng, Liu Shi and Luo Cong served as the deputy generals of the Xuanwei Army, and Zhang Dai, Zhang Biao and Xue Wang, the lieutenants of the Jinwu School....... Ren Xuanwei Army Preparation General, Jinyi Lieutenant Gong Jian..... He served as a general of the Xuanwei Army. I hope you will live up to the grace of the court, do your best, and make new contributions! ”