So what is the establishment of the merchant army that Liu Xing thought of, and what are the new tricks?

In terms of the method of the new establishment, first of all, Liu Xing asked the seed division to clarify a new iron law in the "Rated Recruitment Order", and all merchant regiments and armies should add the position of political training officer. Political training supervisors shall be set up at and above the regimental level, and political training offices and sections shall be established. There are instructors and instructors under the battalion.

All political training officers will be directly appointed by the Ministry of War, and they will represent the imperial court to carry out political training and supervision in the various merchant groups. Its duty was to ensure that all the Shang army would always be loyal to the Northern Dynasty, and to serve as the political chief of the imperial court to supervise the Shang army.

The regiment commanders, battalion commanders, and company commanders of the merchant army were all rankless, but the political trainers were appointed by the imperial court. Liu Xing believed that from this point alone, people with official status suppressed those who had no rank, and as long as they were properly employed, they would definitely achieve the goal of firmly controlling the merchant army.

In addition to the addition of political training officers, the establishment is also a major means. A battalion must not exceed 650 men, and a company must not have more than 150 men. The platoon is a quota of 33 people, and the squad is a basic quota of 10 people.

The use of personnel to curb the scale of the development of the merchant army directly cut off the possibility that the merchants might make the situation of wanton recruitment, and if they have money, they will have soldiers.

In order to reduce the trouble when the officers of the Shangtuan Army may be transferred to the royal army in the future, Liu Xing also clearly determined the ten-rank military rank system of major general, preparatory general, colonel, lieutenant colonel, major, preparatory colonel, captain, lieutenant, second lieutenant, and reserve lieutenant for the merchant army. Soldiers are divided into 12th rank system of sergeant major, sergeant, sergeant, corporal, first class, second class, and private.

How much money to pay to people of all ranks is the business of the merchants, but when those merchant regiments want to be transferred to the royal army, they must first look at the military ranks that must be regularly tested and determined by the imperial court to determine where they are sent and what they are entrusted for.

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So how does Liu Xing want to control the size of the merchant army? There are three ways to do this.

In the first way, the seed master and Zong Ze had already agreed in the negotiation with Fang Cai. That is to implement the system of fixed recruitment rights of the military capital and county of the merchant group.

What is the right to recruit? That is, in every county, no matter how many rich businessmen you have, the military department will only issue the right to recruit one company in that 10,000-household county in the future. Counties with 30,000 households are given the right to recruit one battalion. Counties with a population of 50,000 or more are given the right to recruit up to two battalions of merchant corps.

But what, when it comes to curbing those merchants everywhere. Liu Xing also left a loophole for himself: those who are specially approved by the Privy Council can expand their recruitment on their own.

What does this mean? This means that only merchants with the special permission of the Privy Council can go beyond this basic quota to recruit and form a large-scale merchant army.

However, the governor of the Privy Council is Liu Xing, and the governor is Zongze. This kind of power is firmly in the hands of the three people, and even if those businessmen spend more money, they don't want to get special permission to expand their recruitment......

Nominally, Liu Xing asked the seed division to declare when promulgating the "Rated Recruitment Order" that "not to take war as the first thing, and not to waste all industries with military affairs." ”

What does this mean? It is to tell the people of the world: you can't just go to the battlefield to fight and waste other industries.

As soon as this excuse came out, Planter Zhong and Zong Ze believed that no matter how shrewd those businessmen were, they would never be able to think of a way to refute it.

The second way to curb the merchant army. Liu Xing decided to completely privatize all the generals at all levels in those private armies, and directly cut off the possibility of their private transfer to officials.

The detailed approach was that Liu Xing re-established a set of rules: soldiers of all levels in the merchant army were eligible to join the royal army only if they had served in their original ranks for more than five years, but after joining, they still started as new recruits, starting from the lowest level of soldiers.

The officers in the merchant army were better than the soldiers, but all the generals of the merchant army who wanted to join the royal army had to enter the lecture hall at their own expense. After completing further education, when you join the Royal Army, you must first be demoted by three levels and start over

The third method is what Liu Xingfang said to Su Quan, to establish a new system, and directly separate the merchant army from the royal army in terms of establishment.

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"Huh?" As soon as I heard this. Su Quan was even more surprised, staring at Liu Xingdao: "Taifu, do you want to set up another set of merchant army military system for the merchant army in addition to the current military system of our dynasty?" How do you want to curb the development of the merchant army? ”

The idea of the Shang Tuan Army was conceived by Liu Xing, and it has been proved that the appearance of the Shang Tuan Army has indeed played a great role in the war in the Northern Dynasties and the grasslands, and even the war in the Western Regions.

Mobilize the power of the people. He used the wealth of the merchant to finance his private army to help the imperial court conquer cities and expand his territory. The idea was good, and at least so far no one in the Manchu Dynasty has expressed concern about the matter.

However, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty only saw that Yue Fei and Yang Yizhong used the merchant army as cannon fodder, and in fact, they did not give the merchant army too much to expand their territory, open up land for their family owners, and then make their family masters be crowned nobles.

However, those ministers did not expect that when they were happy that the merchant army had reduced the support of the imperial court, but they had really increased their ability to win the war between the grassland and the northern part of the country. Liu Xing, however, thought of the negative effects that might occur further and for a longer period of time.

Merchants, ten merchants and nine traitors. Liu Xing knew very well that the pit he had dug for the merchant army was temporarily pitting those treacherous and greedy businessmen.

But once those profiteers reflected and came to their senses, they saw through that it was a big hole. When the businessmen jump over the wall in a hurry, there will inevitably be two possible counter-effects.

The better negative effect is that the merchants stop funding the merchant army, and the bad negative effect is very likely that a few, dozens, or even more businessmen will privately collude together for their own interests and openly ask the court for explanations.

If it is the former negative effect, it is a big deal that the imperial court will take over the merchant army, and the survival of the fittest will select some soldiers who can recruit and fight well, and all of them will be incorporated into the royal army.

But if the second negative effect really evolves, Liu Xing doesn't want to finish it outside and immediately catch fire in his own backyard, so that all the people in the Central Plains will fall into the quagmire of infighting again......

Therefore, while Liu Xing decided to build a merchant army, he also thought about controlling the troops recruited by those merchants.

Only by controlling the number of troops that the merchant can control can the second negative effect be avoided to the greatest extent. Even if it appears in the future, as long as it is well contained, it will at most turn into one civil war after another, and will not really turn into a large-scale military disaster.

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