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After dealing with Zuo Liangyu's matter, Qin Mu's expression changed, and then he said, "Yang Shen, let's start." ”

Yang Shen got up and waved to Qin Mu, and then said loudly: "If wars are frequent today, in order to deal with the upcoming higher-intensity war, the Lord plans to set up several departments in the military, namely the General Staff, the General Supervision Department, the General Armament Department, and the General Logistics Department. These departments will be in charge of our army's operations, politics, equipment, and logistics, and will be directly responsible to the adults.

The General Staff Headquarters will serve as the highest military command organ responsible for organizing the construction and operational command of our army under the leadership of Lord Qin. According to the initial idea of the adults, the General Staff General will set up the following departments, namely: the Operations Department, the Military Intelligence Department, the Military Training Department, the Equipment Department, the Mobilization Department, the Confidential Department, and the Surveying and Mapping Department, each of which will perform its own duties. ”

Everyone in the three divisions hall listened with bated breath, and no one spoke for the time being.

Yang Shen continued: "The next thing to talk about is the functions of the various departments under the General Staff, first of all, the War Department. The War Department will be the core department of the General Staff Department, and all military orders of the whole army will be issued through the War Department, which will be the general headquarters of the whole army in wartime. The Military Intelligence Department is mainly responsible for collecting and analyzing military and political intelligence, and the functions of other departments, as the name suggests, are not difficult for everyone to understand. ”

The functions of the General Supervision Department are to win the war, to ensure the loyalty of the army and the implementation of the policies of the adults in the army, to ensure that the whole army maintains a high degree of ideological unity with the adults, and to ensure that the army is politically qualified and its combat effectiveness is enhanced. The Organization Department, Propaganda Department, Security Department, Liaison Department, Military Procuratorate, Military Court, and other departments under its jurisdiction will dispatch officers to the garrison units above 1,000 households to take charge of political work in the army. ”

"The third is the General Logistics Department, which is mainly responsible for the logistics organization, command and service support of the whole army, and consists of the Finance Department, the Quartermaster Department, the Military Medical Department, the Ordnance Department, the Vehicle and Ship Department, the Material Department and other departments. In wartime, he was responsible for treating the sick and rescuing the wounded. ”

"Zuihou is the General Armament Department, which is responsible for the development, testing, and finalization of weapons and equipment for the whole army."

After Yang Shen introduced the situation of several departments, Qin Mu said solemnly: "Okay, everyone here, please speak freely, and if you have any suggestions and questions, you can directly put forward." ”

Sima An kept frowning, and as soon as Qin Mu's words fell, he immediately said: "My lord, all dynasties and dynasties have made a clear division in the right to command troops and the right to transfer troops. decentralization of power to different departments is crucial;

For example, in the Song Dynasty, the power to command the army was in the hands of the Sanya, who was responsible for the stationing and training of the army on weekdays. The power to transfer troops is in the hands of the Privy Council, and all troop movements and combat matters must be carried out through the Privy Council;

Looking at the Ming Dynasty again, the power to command the troops on weekdays is in the hands of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, and the right to transfer troops is in the hands of the Ministry of War. The Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies is in charge of the troops on weekdays. and has no right to transfer troops; The military department is responsible for dispatching troops and directing operations in wartime, but has no authority to command troops in peacetime;

From the precedents of all dynasties, it is not difficult to see the importance of dividing the right to transfer troops and the right to command troops, however. In this military system set up by the adults, the subordinates do not see a clear division of the power to command the troops and the power to transfer troops, and this is extremely inappropriate. ”

Sima An's words can be said to be straight to the core, in order to ensure that the army does not have problems. In order to prevent generals from exercising too much power, in terms of military system, the ancient Chinese system was even more complete than that of later generations. Also more severe. This clear division between the right to transfer troops and the right to command troops is the most haode explanation.

Taking the military system of the Song Dynasty as an example, if the generals who usually commanded the army, including the chief officer of the Sanya, mobilized the army without the order of the Privy Council, they would be dismissed from their posts and beheaded at the worst.

The Song Dynasty divided the country's army into three yamen, while Zhu Yuanzhang divided the country's army into five prefectures, so that the power of the highest commander was smaller.

This division effectively prevented the tyranny of the generals and threatened the emperor's dominance.

Of course, Qin Mu knew the importance of dividing the right to command troops and the right to transfer troops.

However, he also knew that it was precisely because of this division that the generals were greatly restrained and constrained, and the direct result was that the military response was slow, and in the event of a sudden war, they were often very passive and easy to miss the best fighters.

For the time being, Qin Mu has only 150,000 troops under his command, and he will soon face a series of high-intensity wars.

It was with this in mind that when Qin Mu set up this military system, he blurred the division between the right to command troops and the right to transfer troops.

It is necessary to limit the power of the generals and prevent the generals from having exclusive power, or wait until the overall battle situation is in the upper hand and they have the initiative in the war when they face the Manchu army.

The purpose of the four military departments he has now set up is not to limit the power of the generals, but to improve the combat efficiency of the armed forces and ensure that the operational command and logistical supply are more efficient and orderly during major battles.

After Qin Mu explained his meaning to Sima An, Sima An repeatedly weighed the pros and cons, and felt that if the servants sent to the military by the General Supervision Department could play their due role, it would be an insurance to prevent the generals from deteriorating.

On the other hand, it cannot be regarded as a complete failure to divide the power to command troops and the power to transfer troops; in fact, the power to command troops is now scattered in the hands of various generals, and when encountering a major battle, the army is under the unified dispatch and command of the General Staff Headquarters, and the General Staff Department holds the power to transfer troops.

It's just that in some small-scale local wars, the commanders and generals are limited by the General Staff Headquarters and can play freely.

In addition, the number of troops is not too large now, and the number of troops led by the generals of each unified army is also small, and they all followed Qin Mu all the way, Sima An did not strongly demand the division of the right to command troops and the right to transfer troops.

Next, all the people in the three divisions discussed the functions within the four military departments one by one, and almost everyone spoke, and the discussion was extremely intense;

On the contrary, it is the most difficult to discuss the division of functions of the General Logistics Department, because at present the logistics work not only involves the army, but also requires the cooperation of local officials and Liu Boquan, the "secretary of the household department." Its functions are the most complex and involve the widest range.

On the question of whether it is necessary to completely separate the procurement, management, and transportation of military materials from the local government and set up a separate logistics system, everyone is fighting over each other.

Many civilian officials believe that this will lead to a major waste of manpower and financial resources, while most military generals support the establishment of an independent military material supply system to improve the efficiency of the supply of war materials.

This matter actually involves the distribution of power between civilian officials and military generals.

Even after the logistics supply was in the hands of the military, civilian officials had no say in the military, which was inconsistent with the practice of using civilian affairs to control the armed forces in previous dynasties.

There has never been a precedent for the military supply system to be completely controlled by the military, so in this matter, the opposition of the civilian officials present was very fierce, and the military generals refuted even more fiercely.

Zuihou is still Qin Muqian's decision, and the clapper is passed.

Again, everything now is centered on war, and everything must be subordinated to war in order to ensure that victory can be achieved one after another.

When it was their turn to discuss the issue of the General Supervision Department, almost all the generals present were silent.

Very simply, the core function of the General Supervision Department is to ensure the loyalty of the army and implement Qin Mu's will, these things are very sensitive, if any general opposes it, others will inevitably have doubts about your loyalty.

In fact, the army of the Ming Dynasty was not without such functions in the past, like the various guards and thousands of households in the Ming Dynasty, in fact, there were also the posts of the servants and commanders, but the functions of the servants set by Qin Mu were more complete, and they were actually equivalent to the political commissars in the army after the event, and the powers were very large, and they could shoulder the main generals in the army.

The setting of this military system is too complicated, although Qin Mu has set up a complete set according to the cognition of later generations, but not everything is suitable for the current situation, and the functions of each department basically need to be re-discussed, and it will not be implemented in a day.

At this time, in the north, Li Zicheng's army had crossed the Juyong Pass and rushed towards Beijing

*(To be continued......)