The establishment of the Personnel Affairs Office is one of Luo Zhixue’s measures to continuously improve and reform the Baoxiang Camp.
The reason why we didn't do it before was simply that the territory was too small and there were not many people under our control.
But now that Baoxiang Ying has left Lushan County in the east and controlled a large area of rural areas, the original model of Baoxiang Ying is no longer suitable, so Luo Zhixue set up a staff office in due course.
After establishing the Civil Affairs Department and appointing Guo Quanshu as the director of the Civil Affairs Department, the first task Luo Zhixue gave him was to set up township yamen in the Baoxiang camp control area and conduct more in-depth management of the subordinate villages. .
For example, in addition to establishing a village chief, two new positions, namely catcher and grain chief, should be established in each village.
The catcher is naturally responsible for local security, while the grain chief is used to collect grain.
Luo Zhixue hoped that the rule of Baoxiangying could be extended deep into the villages, instead of being limited to the county seat like the traditional dynasty, and adopting gentry clan autonomy for the vast rural areas.
The township yamen serves as the connection between county-level institutions and village-level institutions. After all, neither the current Baoxiang Camp headquarters nor the future county yamen can directly manage the many villages under its jurisdiction. There must be additional The first-level administrative agencies do not need to have as many agencies as the county government. They are fully staffed and only need to shoulder some basic functions.
Guo Quanshu himself was confused about this, but since Luo Zhixue had given the order, he could only bite the bullet and go ahead.
Who didn't have the guts to refuse Luo Zhixue's appointment?
The establishment of a rural government office can, to some extent, be regarded as a symbol of the transformation of Baoxiangying.
In the past, the Baoxiang Camp was a pure bandit, but now it is beginning to transform into a local ruling group and gradually becoming more formal.
This was felt not only by Guo Quanshu and other civil servants, but also by generals such as Wang Xiazi.
Because a few days after Luo Zhixue established the Civil Affairs Office, he once again summoned the civil and military officials in the Baoxiang camp. He was not looking for them to discuss anything, but Luo Zhixue informed everyone.
At the meeting, Luo Zhixue changed the name of the Baoxiang Camp to the Baoxiang Army, appointed himself the general of the Baoxiang Army, and established the General's Mansion.
There are eight internal affairs departments under the General's Office: the Internal Affairs Department, the Civil Affairs Department, the Grain Collection Department, the Agriculture Department, the Industry Department, the Commerce and Trade Department, the Grain and Payroll Department, and the Supervisory Department.
In addition, there are four military affairs agencies including the General Staff Office, the Ordnance Office, the Logistics Office, the Military Administration Office, the Cavalry Director, and the Artillery Director.
The above-mentioned departments and prisons are directly under the leadership of Luo Zhixue.
Strictly speaking, these changes are not big changes, they are just a new name.
Previously, their official name was Funiu Mountain Baoxiang Camp. There were various offices and prisons in the camp.
However, the Funiu Mountain Baoxiang Camp was just a unit designation at the beginning, and it had great local limitations. After the Baoxiang Camp left the east, it was no longer suitable to continue to use the word Funiu Mountain.
At the same time, Luo Zhixue has already established various infantry battalions. Does this conflict with the name of Baoxiang Camp? Moreover, the name Baoxiang Camp is not suitable for Luo Zhixue's ambitions.
Therefore, taking advantage of this opportunity, Luo Zhixue simply removed the word "Funiu Mountain", and at the same time changed the word "camp" in Baoxiang Camp to "jun", and changed his title from "Funiu Mountain Baoxiang Camp General" to The "General of the Baoxiang Army" has the General's Mansion.
The reason why the word "baoxiang" is used is that Luo Zhixue does not want to be like the rebels, using random names such as breaking through the sky, stepping on the sky, pushing against the sky, shooting through the sky, etc. These names make it clear that they are a group of people. mob.
At the same time, the two words "protecting hometown" itself have a strong flavor of justice, rurality and people-friendliness.
This can also be extended. In the future, the propaganda slogans of the Hometown Protection Army to the outside world and the bottom soldiers at home can be directly called "defend hometown", "defend fellow villagers" and other slogans, which will be more acceptable to ordinary people at the bottom.
In all places under General Baoxiang's Mansion, except for the Civil Affairs Office, which is a new organization that was established just a few days ago, other organizations have basically been established for a long time. Even the Inspection Office and the Quanxu Office, two of the second batch of establishments, It's been over a month.
Therefore, there will be no changes in the authority and personnel of each location.
Everyone had no objections to Luo Zhixue changing his title and setting up a general's office. Anyway, in their opinion, it was just a change of title. Luo Zhixue could be called whatever he liked...
However, this is only for most people, and there are also a few people who see Luo Zhixue's ambition.
Guo Quanshu is one of them.
He is not a fool, he knows very well the meaning of the word "General's Mansion" today!
The current Baoxiang General's Mansion is small but well-organized. If the territory expands in the future, the subordinate departments, especially the internal affairs departments, may change their names and become cabinet ministries.
Just by looking at these institutional settings, Guo Quanshu can tell that his general is definitely rebelling to the end and is heading directly to become the emperor.
This discovery made Guo Quanshu even more uneasy.
Luo Zhixue, the rebel leader, ran all the way on the road of rebellion, but Guo Quanshu was also forced to run with him.
But he doesn't want to!
From Guo Quanshu's point of view, although Luo Zhixue is jumping around happily now, when the officers and soldiers come to their senses and mobilize the main force to suppress, no matter whether it is called the Baoxiang Battalion or the Baoxiang Army, they will all be finished in the end.
After Luo Zhixue is defeated by the officers and soldiers, will the government believe that he, who seems to be the director of the civil affairs department, but is actually a small-sized minister of the civil affairs department, is forced to do so?
Not only Guo Quanshu was worried, Song Tiejiang, the director of the Industrial Department, was also very worried, fearing that one day after Luo Zhixue's defeat, he would be caught and chopped by soldiers.
So while Luo Zhixue was convening a meeting with people, Blacksmith Song, who came all the way from Songshan Village to Songjiazhuang for the meeting, nervously submitted his resignation report to Luo Zhixue after the meeting.
Tiejiang Song really didn't dare to continue in the position of director of the Industrial Department. He was afraid of being liquidated by the government in the future...
And he also knew that Luo Zhixue would not let him go directly. There were only so many technical talents who knew how to build guns in the huge Baoxiang Army, so Luo Zhixue would not let him go under any circumstances.
So Blacksmith Song thought that if he asked Luo Zhixue not to be the director of the Industrial Department, but to concentrate on being the manager of the arsenal, Luo Zhixue would agree.
If he were purely in charge of an arsenal, Blacksmith Song would still be able to defend himself when officers and soldiers attacked him in the future, and the government would generally not embarrass the craftsmen too much. In most cases, they would capture them and let them make guns for the government.
But the Director of the Industrial Department... Song Tiejiang felt that he would not be able to explain it then!
Therefore, Blacksmith Song reported to Luo Zhixue, saying that he was old and frail, illiterate, and had heavy tasks at the arsenal, which required him to keep an eye on him personally for a long time.
I no longer have enough ability and energy to take care of the machinery factory, logistics factory and several other newly built workshops. I hope I can concentrate on working in the arsenal in the future.
He also said that Yuan Gaofeng, the deputy director of the Industrial Department, has been in charge of the affairs of the Industrial Department for a long time and is more suitable to be the director of the Industrial Department than himself.
After Luo Zhixue considered it, he actually approved Song Tiejiang's resignation, re-appointed Song Tiejiang as the manager of the arsenal, and promoted Yuan Gaofeng, deputy director of the Industrial Department, to director.
When Luo Zhixue made such a decision, it was not that he saw through Blacksmith Song's plan or that he was considerate of Blacksmith Song. In fact, he didn't care much about what Blacksmith Song thought.
Even Song Tiejiang took the initiative to resign, which saved him a lot of effort, because Yuan Gaofeng was originally the director of the Industrial Division whom he trained.
In any case, Tiejiang Song is illiterate and cannot even read or write official documents. In the past, there was really no one, so he was asked to be the director of the Industrial Department. This person was originally selected by Luo Zhixue. Transitional Director.
As for Yuan Gaofeng, he was a half-baked scholar recruited from the people fleeing the famine in Funiu Mountain. He was said to be half-baked compared to people like Guo Quanshu who took the imperial examination, but in fact he was also literate and could read and write official documents.
As one of the first half-baked scholars recruited, Yuan Gaofeng, like several others, was trained with great concentration by Luo Zhixue.
After these few months of hard work, Luo Zhixue felt that it was time to bring up Yuan Gaofeng and let him officially take charge of the work of the Industrial Department.
Not only is Song Tiejiang in a transitional role, but in fact most of the other division chiefs in various departments are also in transitional roles. They all have a common characteristic: they are illiterate.
If you can't even read and write official documents, how can you deal with government affairs? There was no one in the past. Now Luo Zhixue has successively trained some talents who can read and write official documents. Naturally, he plans to replace them one after another. Let's not talk about his ability or incompetence. Let a group of division chiefs write and read official documents.
Here, Anyong is an exception.
Anyongduo was illiterate before, but he has been studying hard since he became the head of the staff department, and now he has learned some common words.
Since he has this ambition to make progress, Luo Zhixue is willing to give him a chance, so he has no plans to replace him in the short term.
Even though Huang Guangmao, a demoted general, has performed well recently, Luo Zhixue still has no idea of removing An Yongduo and letting Huang Guangmao take over.
After the establishment of the Baoxiang General's Office, the development of the Baoxiang Camp, no, now it should be said that it was the Baoxiang Army, was on track.
Many things began to have detailed regulations, instead of just being handled casually like before.
The Baoxiang Army, which was gradually becoming regular, was reorganizing internally while continuing to conquer the rural areas of Lushan County. By mid-February, the Baoxiang Army had controlled the central and western areas of Lushan County, and its tentacles in the north also extended to Yiyang. The rural area in the southern part of the county.
The control strategy of the Baoxiang Army was not a mindless expansion of the entire Ruzhou. On the contrary, its expansion strategy relied on the mountains in the west.
It mainly focuses on controlling villages close to the mountains and will not go too far east into the plains.
The eastern part of Ruzhou is covered with plains. This plain seems to be a good place and a traditional grain-producing area, but it is also undefeable.
If Luo Zhixue expands eastward without thinking, he can easily control large areas of rural areas in central and southern Ruzhou. However, if the main force of officers and soldiers comes over in the future, the rural defense army will have to be blinded.
The main force of the officers and soldiers is different from the bandits. Let’s not talk about the distance, let’s talk about Chen Zhibang and Zuo Liangyu in the north. Together, they can produce hundreds of cavalry. Just these few hundred cavalry are enough to protect the head and tail of the rural army. It’s hard to take care of.
Not to mention the subsequent threats from officers and soldiers, even if there is no threat for the time being, fully controlling Lushan County or even most of Ruzhou is not in line with the current strategic plan of the Hometown Protection Army.
Luo Zhixue's goal was clear from the beginning. He left Lushan County eastward not to conquer Lushan County or even the entire Ruzhou, but to gain food, soldiers and other strategic materials for subsequent land acquisition and lay a real foundation for the future. Prepare the foundation!
As for the future territory of the Baoxiang Army, where will the foundation Luo Zhixue use to fight for world hegemony?
Luo Zhixue already has a clue about this!
