August 20, Shanhai City, Summer Palace.

On behalf of the Privy Council, Minister of Military Affairs Du Ruhui reported to Ouyang Shuo on the "Draft Plan for the Reorganization of the Army on the Appropriate Reduction and Reduction of the First-level Garrison Divisions and Regiments at the County Level" drawn up by the Privy Council.

This round of disarmament is only aimed at the land of the four major provinces and 16 counties, and the Zhili County Garrison Division has long been abolished, and Yizhou County, Qiongzhou County, and Xingzhou County are all islands, and they are not among the reductions.

The 16 counties have a total of 16 fully equipped garrison divisions and regiments, with a total strength of 216,000 troops, which is equivalent to the first-level establishment of three army corps. At the same time, three full-fledged group armies were stationed in the four major provinces, with a total strength of 1.05 million.

Such a large army size is not only unnecessary, but also exerts great pressure on the imperial court's finances and on the local government, and it is necessary to properly slim down.

At Ouyang Shuo's personal suggestion, the Privy Council drew up this round of disarmament plan.

Each of the four major provinces of Yunnan, southern Sichuan, Lingnan and southern Fujian retains only one garrison division, and the territory to be expanded in the future will be directly equipped according to the standard of one garrison division in one province.

The subordinate of the garrison divisions retained by each province will also be transferred from the Privy Council to the yamen of the provincial governor, who will command and dispatch the provincial governor. In this way, the county guard was also cut off from the local garrison, making the provincial governor the only civilian official within the province with the right to transfer troops.

This institutional arrangement is very beneficial to the maintenance of the authority of the Governor.

Among the four governors who had just been appointed, Bai Hua, Fan Zhongyan, Huo Guang, and Xun Yu, none of them were not familiar with military affairs, and commanding a garrison division was really more than enough.

The previous Mulan Yue and Pei Ju also had a little knowledge of military affairs, which was already a basic requirement for the governor.

Of course, the provincial governors only took over the command authority, and the appointment of officers at the brigade commander and above of the garrison division, military registration files, the supply of weapons and equipment, and the management of combat training were transferred to the theater command.

In wartime, the theater commander also has the right to bypass the provincial governor and directly transfer the garrison division. All the theater command has to do is report to the Privy Council before the transfer of troops.

It is equivalent to saying that the Privy Council basically let go of the local garrison divisions and regiments and concentrated on the field army.

Because it is four to retain one, this round of disarmament will reduce 12 garrison divisions and regiments at one time, with a total of 162,000 people. Garrison divisions and regiments are officially recruited and are treated on par with those of the field army, so they must be properly resettled after they are dismantled, and they cannot be directly transferred to other jobs as they did with prisoners of war.

To this end, the Finance Yuan has earmarked a special fund of 1 million yuan for the resettlement of the retrenched soldiers.

Some of the soldiers who have been laid off in this round will be transferred to the government service, and will be added to the internal affairs departments of the governor's yamen, the county guard yamen, the prefect's yamen, and the four levels of the prefect's yamen, so as to further improve the local government service system.

In particular, the newly formed governor's yamen needed to be staffed with at least 3,000 to 4,000 servants.

According to the estimates of the House of the Interior, the government service system can absorb more than 30,000 people, less than one-fifth.

Some soldiers, especially at the officer level, will be transferred to civilian officials and will enter the agricultural system, the construction system, the internal affairs system, and the customs system, so as to enrich the local yamen.

In particular, the Interior and Customs are most likely to require the transfer of experienced officers.

The Customs Department and the Border Department, which have just been established in the Taxation Department, are in urgent need of a group of military attachés to be transferred to inspectors and inspectors in the civil service.

Some soldiers were transferred to [Shushan Iron and Steel Group], [Huaxia Shipping Group], [Huaxia Textile Group] and [Huaxia Construction Engineering Group] and other enterprises.

In particular, the [Shushan Iron and Steel Group], which is in urgent need of expansion, is in urgent need of a group of hard-working iron and steel workers, and the group alone can absorb 50,000 ordinary soldiers.

As far as the engineers in the garrison division are concerned, the [Huaxia Construction Engineering Group] that is being formed is a very suitable place.

[Huaxia Shipping Group] needs to recruit a group of soldiers and transfer them to the maritime escort team.

Through the above several ways, the problem of resettlement of most of the soldiers was solved, and the remaining 30,000 soldiers were given a considerable amount of transfer fees according to their ranks, so that they could fend for themselves.

Fortunately, the dynasty is prosperous in business, and these soldiers do not have to worry about finding jobs.

As soon as they got the news, the three imperial merchants came to hear about it and wanted to recruit a group of soldiers who had been re-recruited to enter the Chamber of Commerce and act as escorts. These soldiers were several times stronger than the strong men recruited by the caravan in the people.

There are also soldiers who start their own businesses after changing jobs.

All in all, this round of disarmament has not only slimmed down the armed forces to a certain extent and reduced the burden of defense spending; Moreover, it is a great supplement to all aspects of the dynasty, especially the human resources, and it can be said that both sides benefit from consolidating the bureaucratic system.

Otherwise, the Treasury would not have happily come up with a million resettlement fees.

The above is only on the surface, secretly, a group of soldiers who "fend for themselves" and "start their own businesses" have actually been quietly absorbed by Shanhaiwei and become a new group of secret agents.

For Shanhaiwei, aren't these soldiers who have been on the battlefield and seen blood the best secret agents? In particular, the scouts among them were basically booked in advance by Shanhaiwei.

Some of the elite soldiers of a hundred battles were quietly absorbed by the shadow guards set up by Shanhaiwei.

This round of disarmament can be described as a feast for the dynasty to divide the cake, and it is really wonderful.

Because this round of disarmament involves more than a dozen key departments, the cabinet will take the lead in setting up a disarmament group, headed by Jiang Shang, the first assistant to the cabinet, and Du Ruhui, minister of military affairs, as the deputy leader.

The team members include Vice Minister of Administration Zhang Tingyu, who is mainly responsible for the establishment of civil servants in the process of changing jobs; Di Renjie, Vice Minister of the Interior, is mainly responsible for the placement of government officials and the internal affairs system; Vice Minister of Finance Choi Yeong-woo is mainly responsible for the placement of personnel in enterprises and the tax system, and then the issue of transfer fees.

In addition, nearly 10 senior officials, including the director of construction, the director of agriculture, the director of civil affairs, the director of security, the director of finance and the director of taxation, are also listed.

The four governors who remained in Shanhai City were naturally also involved.

Disarmament is easy to say, but it is an extremely complicated matter to be implemented, and according to the calculations of the Privy Council, it is already efficient if it can be properly placed within three months.

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The disarmament plan will take effect immediately after Ouyang Shuo's approval.

In this way, at the end of August, a huge disarmament action was launched in the territory of the four major provinces of the Great Xia Dynasty, and there were often teams of soldiers on the official roads in the territory, which attracted considerable attention from the outside world.

As a "superstar", Da Xia's every move is easy to provoke the sensitive nerves of others.

This time is no exception.

Ouyang Shuo didn't think about it and deliberately concealed it.

In just three days, the news that the Great Xia Dynasty took the initiative to disarm 200,000 people spread and made headlines on the front pages of major media. No one knows what the extra 40,000 is about.

Anyway, in order to attract attention, those unscrupulous media don't mind exaggerating a little bit, in the words of the literati, this is called a rhetorical device, not a deception.

Naturally, there are mixed reviews for the disarmament of Great Xia.

Praisers believe that Daxia's initiative to dismantle the local garrison shows its extreme confidence in the security of its territory. Facts have also proved that in the last two or three years, no army has invaded the territory of Great Xia.

Every major battle in Great Xia was a foreign conquest, so thinking about it, there was really no need for Great Xia to place a large number of garrisons inside.

Some people also believe that in addition to self-confidence, the abolition of local garrisons in Great Xia shows that Great Xia is further deepening the dynastic governance system and carrying out internal self-innovation.

Such acts are a sign that the level of governance in Bactria has risen to a new height.

Throughout the 5,000-year history of China, in every prosperous dynasty, the army was concentrated in the capital and the frontier, and there were few garrisons in other places, mainly in agriculture and commercial development.

In this way, the people can forget about the war, concentrate on production, and improve the happiness index.

The Great Xia Dynasty is heading towards a prosperous era!

Naturally, there are not a few detractors, who believe that the disarmament of Daxia is overconfident, and once the flames of war reach the territory of Daxia, they will swallow the bitter fruit for this round of disarmament in the future.

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Just when the outside world was disturbing, the Great Xia Army had a new movement.

On 22 August, the Third Army Corps and the Fifth Army Corps, which were stationed in the mountainous areas of southern Yunnan Province, suddenly moved northward under the pretext of "changing guards."

In addition, the Leopard Tao Army stationed in the southern Sichuan Province, as well as the Tiger Ben Army stationed in the Lingnan Province and the Southern Fujian Province, all showed signs of assembling on the border.

This unusual military move immediately attracted the attention of those who were interested.

There are even people who associate this matter with the disarmament of Great Xia, and people can't help but wonder if the so-called disarmament of Great Xia is just a smoke bomb in order to cover up the true whereabouts of the Great Army?!

Many people are worried that this is a sign that Great Xia is preparing to fight again.

It's just that who is the opponent to be eliminated in Great Xia this time, [Northern Sichuan City-State], [Southern Hunan City-State], or [Yanhuang League]? No matter which one it is, it seems that it can't resist the iron hooves of Great Xia.

All of a sudden, the world was turbulent.

The clouds of war once again loom over the wilderness of China, suffocating.

The [Northern Sichuan City-States] and [Shonan City-States] that are most likely to be attacked are like ants on a hot pot, panicking, people's hearts are fluctuating, and even prices begin to fluctuate.

The lords of the two city-states met frequently to discuss countermeasures.

The current Great Xia is really not something they can fight, even if the two major city-states join forces, they are not sure.

Someone with good deeds has predicted that after this battle, there will be no more city-states in China, and it will officially evolve into a Warring States pattern, except for one side of the princes, the remaining lords will all withdraw from this wilderness hegemony.

The bloody princes competing for hegemony are gradually coming.

Just as this news was in the air, one shocking news after another kept coming out.

Almost at the same time, Great Xia's allies, such as Stubborn Stone City, Luofeng City, Western Chu, and Jiangchuan Province, mobilized their armies and assembled on their respective borders.

This time, the Chinese region is really in chaos!

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