Since Guo Ning controls the entire Shandong East Road, it is logical that the soldiers under his command should be promoted and rewarded. In fact, many people are impatient to wait for this matter.
Some people privately advised Guo Ning that at this point, he no longer had to worry about the Zhongdu court. If he really wanted to fall out with the Zhongdu court, let alone King Sui, he might have a chat with the Song Dynasty people in the Southern Dynasty, so as to have an extra idea. The path of advance and retreat.
Guo Ning turned a deaf ear to all such suggestions.
No matter how big your heart is, you must have strength to support it. Guo Ning knows very well that his accumulation is far from enough. If we rush to make any big moves at this time, we will end up becoming the second Red Coat Army and be laughed at by future generations.
What's more, the Zhongdu court is in the north, which is actually the first line of defense against the Mongolian army. According to Guo Ning's idea, unless he can destroy and unify the territory, Zhongdu's power cannot be weakened, but must be strengthened.
Therefore, after taking control of Shandong East Road, the strategy of accumulating grain widely and building walls high remains unchanged.
Guo Ning is still thinking about grabbing enough status from the Zhongdu court. Judging from the current situation, this title, coupled with the strength of Ding Haijun, is enough to stabilize the control of Shandong East Road, and the subordinates can also have a little understanding of the coach's intentions, so as not to fight all the time. Vulgar words calling for death were spoken out, causing confusion.
From the emperor's point of view, his wariness towards Guo Ning was real, but he lacked the ability to restrain him. It was not difficult for Guo Ning to want some status.
After all, when the Mongolian Bureau besieged the city last year, the emperor sealed off hundreds of Meng'an and Dutong in Zhongdu City at once, so that things like imperial status became less and less valuable. In the foreseeable future, the emperor will surely flood the sky with official positions, in order to gain as much benefit as possible before they are completely worthless.
Therefore, Du Shisheng, who was stationed in Zhongdu on behalf of Guo Ning, took action. He respectfully handed over a long memorial.
In the memorial, Guo Ning first claimed that he cooperated with the imperial army in Hebei to annihilate the Red Coat Army tribes and subdue more than ten military states that fell to the bandits. A list of civil and military officials who performed meritorious services during this period is attached.
Then he said, because the states are desolate, lacking in civil and military affairs, and very few people to govern, I feel that such and such talents among my subordinates can be put to great use, so I recommend them to the imperial court and ask them to be given such and such positions as deputy emperors. The intention of seeking talents.
At the end of this ugly memorial, another sentence was mentioned: Now that the war has come to an end, the maritime food trade that had been urgently suspended can also be resumed.
Da Tian listened to the memorial, which naturally aroused the emperor's anger. It is said that the emperor kicked away the servant who presented the edict. When he went to court that day, he also inexplicably reprimanded several officials.
But after losing his temper, the emperor is still the emperor, and the mess is still the mess. In the end, Xu Ding came forward to mediate, and the emperor sent his trusted attendants to serve Wanyan Xielie, and they had several fierce verbal disputes with Du Shisheng.
Of course, there were gains and losses in the outcome of the verbal spat, but for Guo Ning, it was satisfactory enough.
"The weather is getting colder and colder these days, and the Zhongdu court will face Mongolian actions at any time, so it does not dare to deal with us for a long time. Afterwards, there will not be many local officials transferred to Shandong from Zhongdu, and a few particularly important military personnel will be transferred to Shandong. The position is already in our hands!"
Guo Ning looked around at the crowd and slapped a pile of documents on the table.
"The purpose of calling you here today is to finalize the appointment of civil and military officials on Shandong East Road, as well as the military and political system. However, these appointments are all based on local conditions and get rid of pretense. The specific job titles and authority may be based on Daikin's regulations. The system may be mixed with the old practices of previous generations..."
Speaking of this, Guo Ning half-smiled, and said with a bit of contempt: "As for the positions assigned to you by the imperial court, they may be consistent or slightly different, and there are also those messy civil and military casual official ranks. There is no need to mention them individually. . The corresponding official uniforms and honors will be sent directly to your homes. If you really like it, just close the door and put on a posture to see for yourself. Don’t show it out to brag about, let alone rely on the things given by the court to take them in front of the soldiers. big!"
Everyone present understood this truth, and burst into laughter.
Guo Ning raised his voice: "How is it? Is there any problem?"
"Don't worry, Envoy! There is no problem!"
"Well, let's start with the Shandong Xuanfu Division. The Xuanfu Envoy is naturally me... The deputy envoy of Xuanfu is one person, Jing'an Min!"
Jing Anmin immediately came out and bowed.
Most of these job appointments were made by instigating Chu Cai and others to select a large framework list, and then handed it over to Guo Ning, who then considered and determined it over and over again.
According to previous practice, Guo Ning's deputy, the position of deputy envoy to Xuanfu of Shandong, was reserved for Jing Anmin, the powerful faction who was the first to invest in Guo Ning's men as an ally.
When Jing Anmin was operating in Zhuozhou, he showed considerable talent in both civil and military fields. When the navy arrives in Shandong, Guo Ning will conquer the east and west, and the people of Jing'an will usually stay in Laizhou. He had a high prestige in front of the soldiers who came from the Hebei Army. He sorted out all kinds of affairs and worked conscientiously, rarely causing trouble.
Up to this point, he was still above all the generals.
Immediately, Guo Ning appointed the people of Jing'an as the envoy of the Anhua Army and led 15,000 town defense troops out of Mizhou.
According to the system of Daijin, the military envoy of Anhua Army in Mizhou usually also served as the deputy military envoy of Shandong Road and had the power to supervise the military affairs of Juzhou, Yizhou and Haizhou. With Jing'anmin's qualifications and talents, he can naturally control the southern border of Shandong East Road for Guo Ning like Yin Chang.
At the same time, he and Yin Chang became the only two military governors in Shandong besides Ding Haijun military governors. As the people of Jing'an have the title of deputy envoy of Xuanfu, they may be able to deal with the situation of red-coated army factions west of Haizhou more freely.
As for Nan Qingzhou Jiedu, who was originally stationed in Yidu Prefecture, Guo Ning just pretended that he did not exist. He merged the five military states of Dizhou, Zizhou, Binzhou, Yidufu, and Weizhou into the direct jurisdiction of Dinghaijun Jiedushi.
The head of the Xuanfu Envoy Division specifically assists the Zuo Xuanfu Envoy, and the person who controls the affairs of this department is the Xuanfu Magistrate. The Xuanfu judge was appointed by Chu Cai, and there were two deputy judges, one was Du Shisheng, and the other was Geng Ge, who was known as the governor of Dengzhou.
Under these auxiliary officers are the officials and subordinates of the shogunate.
The authority of the original Chief Affairs Department, Chu Cai, and Xu Jin, the Recording Department, remained unchanged. At the same time, a new Counseling Department was established, which was responsible for handling official documents and participating in discussions on confidential military affairs.
There are three people joining the army in the Council Department, headed by Liang Xunyi. The other two people were Zhang Lin, the former Yidu Zhizhong, and Zhang Shengzhi, the former Ordnance Department. Due to Zhang Shengzhi's transfer, the Ordnance Department was also transferred to the Department of Counseling.
Each of these officials had nearly a hundred staff in total. Guo Ning directly sent the appointment documents to the chief officials and asked them to report on their own.
In addition to these shogunate officials, there were also several positions that held real military and political power.
The most important person is the Xuanfu Envoy, the Controller of the Troops and Horses. There are six general managers, still Luo Monk, Li Ting, Wang Shixian, Han Xuan, Qiu Huiluo and Guo Zhongyuan.
In the imperial edict, all six generals were awarded the rank of deputy commander-in-chief of the fourth rank. However, there was no formal commander-in-chief in charge of the deputy commander-in-chief. It seemed that each of them could do his own thing. There was only so much scheming those officials could do, so Guo Ning simply changed the job titles of the six people to save everyone's worries.
These six military generals commanded the elite field armies under Shandong Xuanfu Division and Ding Haijun. The treatment, equipment and training of its troops are far superior to those of the town defense troops in various places.
According to the long-term plan, the six general managers are all equipped with a staff of 10,000 people, and the total will reach 60,000 people. But at this time, those with more troops, such as Guo Zhongyuan, had more than 6,000 troops, and those with few troops, such as Li Ting and Qiu Huiluo, only had more than 3,000 troops each because they suffered losses from Yang Miaozhen outside Mizhou City.
Therefore, even if Li Quan's troops and the Liaodong Khitan soldiers were recruited, the total field army of the Sixth General Manager would only be more than 35,000, and further expansion would be needed.
But everyone knows that these 35,000 people are the main force of the Ding Navy who are accustomed to fighting. Whether they confront the red coat army or the imperial army, they are enough to defeat several times the enemy.
