Now that the war horse issue has a solution, Li Shaoshi and the Arms and Logistics Department have no objections.
In this way, the question about military equipment was solved.
After Li Shaoshi and the official, it was as if a flood had opened. Officials one after another stood up and raised their questions and what they could do.
Zhao Jun gave answers one by one and asked each department to solve the problems encountered by each other. Soon a large number of difficulties were solved one by one.
The two main topics of today's meeting have also come to an end.
There is nothing much to say in dealing with the Tatar invasion. It is enough to be ready for war at all times and to keep track of the Tatar's movements and respond in a timely manner.
With the current strength of Yunzhou County, although they are not afraid of them head-on, they cannot catch them without being stupid.
So so far, facing the highly mobile prairie cavalry, unless Yunzhou County can find the opponent's lair and annihilate it in one fell swoop, any fight will be in vain.
If someone can't beat you and doesn't want to fight you, he will turn around and run away, and you won't be able to catch him.
Therefore, in the face of the Tatar attack, Yunzhou County can only passively defend itself.
The expansion and changes to the Guards are the most discussed topics today.
The expansion of the Guards involves many more problems. All aspects, whether it is equipment, war horses, food, or personnel, are all difficult problems.
Yunzhou County is not as big as Song Dynasty in Guan Nei.
Although the Song Dynasty court was short of money, the amount of available silver coins and grain and grass was smaller than that of Yunzhou County.
But it has a huge advantage in terms of population.
As long as the three issues of equipment, money and food are met, no matter how the court recruits troops, there will still be people.
But Yunzhou County cannot. As of now, Yunzhou County has a total population of about 2.5 million, excluding the poisonous people, of which 2.2 million are from the Song Dynasty.
There is a naturalized Tatar population of about 300,000.
These 2.5 million Song people alone have already formed 200,000 troops, a ratio of almost ten to one.
This is considered a relatively normal military-civilian ratio.
But if the Guards recruits another 100,000 people to join the army, the ratio will be stretched to seven to one.
Such a military-civilian composition is indeed very dangerous, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is militaristic.
But judging from the current situation Yunzhou County is facing, military expansion is necessary.
Otherwise, the troops in hand alone would not be able to completely keep the Tatars out of the county.
Therefore, the proposal to expand the army was finally approved, and the Yunzhou County Yamen issued a recruitment notice to the Song people in the three counties under its command to recruit troops.
Everything should be based on independence, and there should be no half-hearted efforts.
Solving the population problem solves the biggest law enforcement problem of military expansion. As for other problems such as equipping war horses, solutions have been given before.
As for grain and grass, the current reserve situation in Yunzhou County is not a problem at all. Even if they fight with the Tatars for a few years, the granaries in Yunzhou County can still supply it.
So it's easy to solve.
But now the issue of the military structure of the Guards has stumped everyone.
Today, the current military system of Yunzhou County is the same command system as that of the Song Dynasty.
There are five people in a small team, ten people in a squadron, and the five squadrons are combined into a large team, with a large team of fifty people.
Then there are two brigades as one capital, and five capitals as one battalion, with 500 people in each battalion.
Then the five battalions were combined into one army, and the ten armies were combined into one compartment. The number of people in each compartment was about 25,000.
In terms of officer settings, those below the battalion level are the captain, group leader, squadron leader, squad leader, etc.
At the battalion and above, there are official positions such as commander (battalion commander), deputy commander, and duyuhou (commander is the largest and duyuhou is the smallest).
Once you reach the military level, you will still be the commander (military commander), deputy commander, duyuhou, etc.
Even at the compartment level, it's just the commander, deputy commander and chief minister at the compartment level.
This kind of military system was fine when the number of escorts was still small. You could know the situation in the army very concisely and clearly, and you could know how many people were waiting with just a little calculation.
However, as Yunzhou County became increasingly powerful and the number of troops increased, even reaching 200,000, the original military system was no longer enough.
It even looks bloated.
For example, Ding Hongguang is now the commander of the Xiangxiang, but he commands an army of 200,000 people!
What kind of commander is this? Whose commander has so many soldiers?
Not to mention the organization problem, the scheduling aspect is also a headache.
The bloated size has caused various problems in the military. Some people even don't know who the officer in charge is.
Therefore, it is imperative to reorganize the military.
After recent discussions with the Communist Party of China, the new army organization was finally released.
Originally, Yunzhou County was just a local power, and reaching the level of Xiang was already the limit for military officers.
But the actual situation in Yunzhou County shows that this is not entirely the limit.
Therefore, after discussion, everyone believed that the lower-level military system did not need to be changed, and only the upper-level military system could be added and the escort troops should be divided into armies.
Taking 25,000 people on one side as a small army as an example, and following the imperial court's example of using two sides as a large army, that is, 50,000 people form an army of their own.
There is a chief general, a deputy general, and an army chief named Yuhou who is in charge of military law.
An army of 50,000 people will be commanded by three generals and given military numbers.
And based on the current situation in Yunzhou County, it must be divided into at least four armies.
Above the army, there should also be a military hall composed of three levels: chief governor, deputy chief governor and governor.
Among them, the Grand Governor will always be the sole leader of His Royal Highness King Yun.
Only in the case of a large army going out to fight, the leader of the army is temporarily given the title of general.
Immediately after the army regrouped, he resigned from his rank.
The deputy governors and governors are the direct military officers in charge of the major armies on weekdays.
No matter how many more armies are established thereafter, they will all fall under the control of the Military Hall.
In this way, the originally bloated guard army can be split up.
After determining the military structure, everyone discussed the issue of the number of the army. Finally, after some discussion, Zhao Jun made the decision. Now the existing army will be split up from now on.
The escort army has since been divided into four armies, namely Yunhui Army, Yunyao Army, Yun Ting Army and Yun Xiang Army.
Later, 100,000 people were recruited to establish two separate armies, namely the Yunjiang Army and the Yunhe Army.
In addition, Ding Hongguang, the current commander-in-chief of the escort army, was promoted to the position of deputy governor, and Guan Ning was promoted to the position of governor to implement the reorganization of the escort army.
The new recruits must be trained and the escort must be reorganized before mid-September.
At this point, the two main topics of this meeting have been resolved.
After everyone discussed some more detailed issues, seeing that it was getting late, Zhao Jun announced the end of the meeting.
When walking out of the conference hall, the official from the Grain Reserves Department suddenly asked to see Zhao Jun outside the conference hall.
Zhao Jun thought for a while and agreed, letting Wang Huai'en take him to his study.
He already had a guess in his mind as to why the other party came to look for him.
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(End of chapter)
