According to the Ming system, even if it is a local official like the governor, there are not many officials with grades under him, and how to deal with huge and complicated affairs, the governor alone will definitely not be able to rely on the governor, so each governor will recruit many staff members to help him deal with various matters.

There are many such staff members under the various governors, and most of them are scholars who have no hope of fame. When Chen Yue was in Nanjing, there were originally many scholars who thought of serving as his staff, but unfortunately Chen Yue's later actions in Meixianglou offended the entire Fushe, and Fang Mingxia even made an opera similar to a peach blossom fan to satirize Chen Yue, which made Chen Yue very bad in Nanjing Shilin, and no one was willing to work for him. Of course, Chen Yue is not ready to use these people who can't read except for mouths and farts, he wants people who are really capable, not people who can only dance and ink after reading a few poetry books.

The shogunate outlined by Yu Fenglin for Chen Yue was a very complex institution, which was very similar to the government agency, and it was countless times more than recruiting a few staff members to help handle affairs.

According to Yu Fenglin's plan, the entire shogunate was divided into six divisions: combat training, staff officers, enemy intelligence, pacification, ordnance, and logistics, which respectively managed all affairs of the army under their jurisdiction. The shogunate system was set up in accordance with the six Cao of the prefecture. According to his own understanding, Chen Yue referred to the institutions of the army in later generations, and added unique functions to the design of each division.

The Department of Combat Training is responsible for the recruitment of soldiers and the training of all new recruits, and the training cycle is three months, and the new recruits who have completed the training are then integrated into the various armies. With the War Training Division, the recruitment rights of all the troops under Chen Yue's jurisdiction were collected, and all the generals had no right to recruit troops on their own, and the shortage of soldiers could only be supplemented by the Governor's Office, which was conducive to controlling the troops under his jurisdiction.

As the name suggests, the General Staff Department is the counselor of military affairs, responsible for formulating operational plans in wartime, surveying the terrain of various places in peacetime to make maps, and formulating the date of the march route during the march. War has always been a complex affair, and there are many aspects to which it is designed, and these are only big and general concepts.

In reality, a sudden rise in a river can cause an army to arrive at the designated battlefield with a delay of a day or even days, resulting in the loss of a battle. A sudden rainstorm would put the cavalry in a desperate situation, soften the bowstring, and prevent the fire from being fired, thus affecting the outcome of the war.

For a famous general with a high talent for war, perhaps none of this is a problem. However, for generals with ordinary qualifications, with the planning of the General Staff Division, at least many mistakes can be avoided, which also increases the possibility of victory. War, on the other hand, is often a comparison of who makes fewer mistakes on both sides of the war.

Chen Yue admits that he is not a famous general, although he has been in the army for more than a year, he still knows little about war, and he has won some battles with advanced knowledge. But most of the battles he fought were small-scale battles, and he encountered most of the "famous generals" such as Gao Jie and Liu Liangzuo, and he did not fight against the real strong army of this era.

According to the original history, in less than a year, the main force of the Manchu Qing Dynasty will go south to attack Ming. And the Eight Banners can be said to be the strongest army in this era, most of the troops are strong soldiers who have been fighting on the battlefield for many years, they are all professional soldiers, with strong organizational power, and the personal combat power of soldiers is even more amazing.

In the face of such a strong enemy, Chen Yue was not at all sure that he could deal with it, and he did not think that his ability to lead troops and command battles would be stronger than that of a fierce general who was used to fighting like Doduo Azig.

If we can win the war and how we can learn from each other's strong points, we naturally have to rely on a more advanced and perfect system. Therefore, Chen Yue has high hopes for the General Staff Division.

As the name suggests, the Department of Enemy Intelligence is naturally responsible for investigating the enemy's situation. On the battlefield, it is extremely important to be able to accurately detect the enemy's intelligence and know oneself and the enemy, and it has a bearing on whether or not the army can achieve victory. Of course, in every army there is such a formation as the night guard, which is responsible for probing the enemy.

The Governor's Office of the Enemy Intelligence Department went beyond the low-level task of detecting the enemy's situation in a battle, but before the battle broke out, it was necessary to send enemy intelligence personnel to the enemy to find out all the enemy's information, troops, defenses, generals' names and hobbies, etc., and if necessary, it also had to undertake the task of bribing assassinations, and at the same time preventing the infiltration of enemy personnel.

According to Chen Yue's understanding, the Manchu Qing Dynasty often used such means as bribing Ming generals and persuading them to surrender, and they had to guard against it. Therefore, the Enemy Intelligence Division also has a duty that cannot be said, which is to monitor its own important generals! Prevent your own personnel from being bribed by the enemy, or even mutiny.

In the past, it was Jinyiwei who was responsible for such responsibilities, but now, Jinyiwei is only a start-up and cannot afford such a heavy responsibility. Although the current commander of Jinyiwei is Chen Jianghe, after all, Jinyiwei is the emperor's pro-army, and it is not nominally under the command of Chen Yue. Maybe one day, Chongzhen will hand over Jinyiwei to others, and Chen Yue can't pin the future of the Pingnan Army on the uncontrolled Jinyiwei.

The Department of Suppression and Pacification is naturally responsible for military discipline, suppressing corrupt officers in the army, responsible for order in the army, supervising the war in wartime, and recording the exploits of soldiers in battle. According to Yu Fenglin's plan, there was a town and pacification department in the governor's mansion, and there were also town and town officials in each battalion, and the town and town officials of each battalion were directly led by the town and town department.

The Ordnance Department is responsible for the replenishment of all weapons and ordnance in the army. To form a new army, it is not enough to recruit tens of thousands of soldiers, but to equip them with armor and weapons. The soldiers of the newly formed army are inferior to the enemy army in terms of personal combat effectiveness, their experience is inferior to that of the enemy army, and they are far from an army like the Eight Banners in all respects.

Although it is said that the equipment of the soldiers should be replenished by the imperial court in charge of the military department, which can be the efficiency of the military department, and the corruption of the military department officials, Chen Yue did not dare to count on the weapons and armor provided by the military department. To be responsible for the creation, repair, and maintenance of weapons, there will be various sub-divisions such as the Bow and Crossbow Division, the Artillery Division, and the Armor Division, and it is planned to recruit Nanjing's famous craftsmen to fill the Ordnance Division, and directly start the workshop in Yangzhou to create various weapons. Of course, in the Pingnan Army, there were originally general battalions, and there were dozens of craftsmen who could make some ordnance, but it was far from enough to rely on them to provide armaments for tens of thousands of troops.

The affairs of a large army are extremely complicated, and if we want to let the soldiers train and fight with peace of mind, it is natural to do all the logistical work, such as the supply of grain and vegetables, the preparation of meals, the construction of barracks, the management of baggage, and so on. Of course, in each battalion, there will be a certain number of baggage soldiers who will be responsible for these tasks, but the logistics department will be responsible for the overall deployment of materials in each battalion.