Chapter 21: The Old Man
Cao Cong deployed in Qinzhou on the road and recruited envoys along the border, without appeasing the envoys, and the official office was very different from Xu Ping. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info this road is strategic, and the institutional setting has changed a lot from before, and the government office of the marshal has also been expanded.
Unknowingly, it has been a month since Xu Ping arrived in Qinzhou. The northwest atmosphere is later than the Central Plains, and at this time the flowers are beautiful, and the peach and plum are fragrant. When I first arrived, the nearby hills were still yellow, mixed with speckled green, but by this time they were already verdant.
On this day, the reconstruction of the Shuaifu was completed, and Xu Ping moved into the new official office with a group of subordinate officials.
Qinzhou is a Jiedu Prefecture, and Xu Ping's Marshal's Mansion was formally established including the Economic Strategy Division, the Pacification Envoy Division, the Capital Deployment Division, the Jiedu Envoy Division and the Observation Envoy Division, which was called the Five Divisions of the Marshal's Mansion, which followed the old system in the Tang Dynasty. The shogunate of Jiedu and Observation has actually become an official of the state government, only a false name, and the authority is merged into the other three divisions, so only the three divisions are really in charge of the five divisions.
Xu Ping is nominally the deputy envoy of Shaanxi Road, and he is only in charge of affairs in Qinfeng Road, so there is no deputy position in the two divisions of economic strategy and pacification, only Sang Yi is the deputy in the deployment department, and the division is in charge of affairs. Below the marshal's mansion, Xu Ping set up various divisions to be responsible for specific ministries.
Jiyi is in charge of intelligence, correspondence with neighboring countries, and confidential documents with the imperial court, and Li Zhang, who is in charge of Jiyi writing. This is the most important department of the Shuaifu, all the secrets are here, and the Shuai Chen must use the institutions of his own cronies.
The Counsellor Military Department, which is concurrently headed by Wang Kai, the supervisor of Qinzhou, is responsible for the daily training of the army, the relocation and deployment of the army, the formulation of battle plans and the issuance of combat orders, and various affairs related to military operations. This is actually the headquarters of the Qinfeng Road garrison, and Wang Kai, as Xu Ping's military assistant, is directly responsible to Xu Ping and executes Xu Ping's will.
The Meritorious Service Division, which is also managed by Qinzhou Tongju Shiheng, is responsible for the rewards and punishments, promotions, and demotion of Qinfeng Road soldiers.
The Department of Military Justice is also in charge of the incoming Qinzhou Metropolitan Governor Gan Zhaoji. The reward is for matters that do not involve violations of military law and military law, and when it involves military law, it is handled by the Department of Military Justice. Gan Zhaoji was transferred to Qinzhou by the inspection envoys of Ying and Shaozhou, as a eunuch, although he was called the capital eunuch, but the edict did not say what affairs he was in charge of the army, in fact, he was the real supervisor of Qinzhou. Xu Ping simply let him be in charge of military law, and the supervising army had the appearance of supervising the army, and the matter was put on the bright side, saving everyone from suspicion of each other in private.
The Money and Grain Baggage Division, which is also managed by Wang Gongchen, the transfer envoy of Qinfeng Road, is responsible for the production, collection, and transportation of military materials.
The Exhortation Division, which is managed by Tian Guo, the judge of the Economic Strategy Division, and Liu San becomes the deputy, who is responsible for motivating the army's morale, as well as usual entertainment, writing family letters for the soldiers and other miscellaneous matters.
There is also a pro-soldier department, which is in charge of Tan Hu, and its responsibilities are very simple, which is to ensure the safety of the marshal's mansion. This is Xu Ping's privilege as an envoy of the festival, which was brought by his official position, not by his sending. After entering the Song Dynasty, in view of the fact that the generals of the five dynasties of the late Tang Dynasty often chose brave and strong people as tooth soldiers, followed by their own side, tried every means to win over, and caused endless incidents, Song Taizu strictly forbade the generals in the army to place tooth soldiers by his side. In other words, today's generals are not protected by their own soldiers on the battlefield. It is precisely because of this that the war with the party has been waged many times, and there have been many cases of the main general being killed and captured. If a general wants to stand out in the war, he must be able to fight, otherwise he may lose his life if he participates in a few more battles. Historically, during the Qingli period, Han Qi saw that this situation was too outrageous, and suggested that the generals choose their own soldiers according to different ranks, so that there was a change. At this time, the war had just started, and before the big war, Xu Ping felt that something was wrong, and he couldn't make suggestions and revisions, so he had to fight and suffer several losses before anyone could listen.
These ministries can not be said to be absent from the current marshal's offices along the border, but their responsibilities are unclear and relatively chaotic. There are so many things about military training and fighting, and the major aspects are roughly similar between ancient and modern China and foreign countries, and the difference is only the degree of specialization and institutionalization.
As soon as a spy came to report the enemy's attack, they rushed over with their own people, for fear that they would be accused of cowardice and failure to fight if they did not send troops. With so many people going out at once, and there was no plan to arrange it, the enemy disappeared after rushing over, and everyone was purely in a hurry. If you are caught with a flaw, you will be alone and surrounded by the enemy's superior forces.
The same is true for logistical supplies, and the military transport envoys transport money and goods to the various garrisons and capital prisons, and they arrange them themselves. There is no co-ordination, no scheduling, and it is a complete mess.
There are commanders, but they are often only reduced to people who are held accountable after the fact, and there is basically no talk of battle planning and command. Again, the Song army has no ability to fight a big war in terms of system and organizational structure. The battles that a ruler and a metropolitan supervisor can face can still be fought in a similar way, and once it involves the coordination of multiple armies, no one knows what the outcome will be.
This time to Qinfeng Road, Zhao Zhen gave Xu Ping a lot of power to act cheaply, including limited changes in the military system and the organizational system of the commander. As long as the organizational setup and personnel arrangements are reported afterwards, the Privy Council and the Council will not interfere.
As for Sang Yi's Xuanwei Army and Gao Daquan's Guiming Shenwu Army, they are mobile armies directly under the jurisdiction of the Shuaifu, and they have also set up corresponding institutions there to connect with the various divisions of the Shuaifu. As commanders, they do not work part-time in the marshal's mansion, nor can they work part-time here.
Sitting behind the desk in his new governor's hall, a group of bureaucrats performed as if they were courteous. Xu Ping said a few words ceremoniously, and then asked them to return to their official halls to familiarize themselves with the new environment and their new subordinates.
When everyone left, Xu Ping picked up the official document on the case and glanced at it casually. Putting down the official document, Xu Ping suddenly picked it up again, unfolded it and looked at it carefully, and couldn't help laughing.
A few days ago, he went to the imperial court, in order to ensure the safety of the Qishan Road from Sichuan and Shu to Longxi, he hoped that the court would send a person to serve as the inspector of Feng, Cheng, and Jie. This official letter is to reply to Xu Ping's request, the candidate has been decided, and he will go to Qinzhou to visit Xu Ping in the near future. To Xu Ping's surprise, it turned out to be an acquaintance sent this time, the right attendant in the forbidden army, Zhao Zi.
At that time, Xu Ping was still making wine in Zhongmu, and this guy often went to his family's wine shop, and he had a little unpleasantness with himself. However, although this guy is a little arrogant, he is not bad, he is relatively cold with Xu Ping, but he has a good relationship with Sang Yi and Gao Daquan.
When Xu Ping met Zhao Zi, he was only in the third class because his father died in battle, and after more than ten years, he was also banned from the right and promoted to the third rank. Wuchen has been grinding every five years, and if he has no fault, he will be promoted, and it seems that he has been promoted in the past few years without merit and according to the regular procedures. However, when I met at the Xu family wine shop in Baisha Town, Zhao Zi was already a junior officer, and Xu Ping was still white, so he looked down on Xu Ping. More than ten years have passed, Xu Ping has become a festival envoy, all the way handsome, Zhao Zi's small envoy's road does not know when to climb up, and the status of the two sides is far apart.
After reading the official document in his hand carefully, Xu Ping shook his head with a smile. More than ten years ago, the past in Zhongmu Village came to mind, as if it happened yesterday. In the blink of an eye, so many years have passed.
At this time, Xu Ping had already established a festival, and he had reached the peak of Wuchen, which was far from Zhao Zi's status, and the unhappiness of the year had long been meaningless. It's just that I don't know what Zhao Zi will think, so that he can face the current Xu Ping.