Who is Luo Zhixue now?
The general of the Baoxiang Army has more than 20,000 soldiers under his command, as well as thousands of civilian officials and technical personnel.
If you count the tens of thousands of workers in major factories and the tens of thousands of indirect personnel in settlement camps, construction camps, and transportation camps, then the number is more than 100,000.
Luo Zhixue, who leads more than 100,000 people under the Baoxiang Army system, can make everyone ignore his origin, his age, his appearance and other insignificant things. In the end, the world only knows that Luo Zhixue is the general of the Baoxiang Army!
As long as he gives the order, tens of thousands of troops will rush to the battlefield to fight the enemy.
Just one instruction from him can directly affect the lives of tens or even hundreds of thousands of people.
Such Luo Zhixue is destined to be no ordinary person!
And this is why when Luo Zhixue didn't even care, Guo Quanshu and Huang Chengxuan were already worrying about Luo Zhixue's marriage.
Now Luo Zhixue is no longer just a person, but the supreme commander of tens of thousands of soldiers and more than 100,000 rural protection troops.
He is a flag, a flag that leads the army to protect the countryside and continues to advance!
However, as the leader of the Home Guard Army, who would lead them to fight for hegemony and even found the country and become emperor in the future, he had not yet gotten married and had children.
It's not normal to be honest.
This forced some senior officials in the Baoxiang Army to consider a question: What would happen to their Baoxiang Army in the future if Luo Zhixue died that day? How should these senior officials and generals deal with themselves?
Are they fighting for power and trying to take over the rural protection army system? Or do you mean to support others in their struggle for power?
However, no matter how they fight for it, their hometown defense army will split and even be destroyed.
Because in the current Baoxiang Army system, apart from Luo Zhixue, there is no other person who can convince the public.
There are currently three brigadiers in the military. The first is Wang Xiazi, the director of cavalry. His influence seems to be considerable, but it is only limited to the cavalry. Although his cavalry is important, it can only last a few hundred cavalry.
He does not have enough prestige or ability to succeed Luo Zhixue's political legacy.
Artillery Director Zhang Malin? This person is basically a low-profile version of Wang Xiazi. Although the artillery under his command is important, apart from the artillery, Zhang Malin has no other influence.
Huang Dingquan, commander of the Northern Route Army?
At first glance, this person seems to be the most likely person to inherit Luo Zhixue's political legacy. After all, he is the commander of the Northern Route Army. He has tens of thousands of troops in his hands, and he has infantry, artillery, cavalry, and complete equipment. He directly occupied Baoxiang. Nearly one-third of the army's strength.
But in fact, among the three brigadiers, the least likely one is Huang Dingquan.
Because this person couldn't fart for a long time. Luo Zhixue always did whatever he said and never had his own ideas.
He was able to become the commander of the Northern Route Army only because Luo Zhixue forced him to do so. Moreover, when he became the commander of the Northern Route Army, he was only a commander on the surface.
The person actually responsible for the defense of the north is Zuo Yingzhe, chief of staff of the Northern Route Army.
Such a person does not have enough charisma or power to convince others to obey him.
If something happens to Luo Zhixue, the first brigadier to fall is probably Huang Dingquan.
Except for these three brigadiers with the highest military rank, let alone the other colonels and lieutenant colonels, none of them could convince the public.
Li Chengtong, commander of the 1st Infantry Brigade, Lin Dongsheng, commander of the 2nd Infantry Brigade, Xu He, commander of the 3rd Infantry Brigade, and Huang Chengyong, commander of the 7th Infantry Brigade.
The commanders of other mixed brigades.
The four major ministers, such as Xu Zhixian, the Chief of Staff.
The above-mentioned people seem to be considered senior generals in the rural protection army, but in fact they are far from having the strength and prestige to control the entire army.
Moreover, the power of many of the above-mentioned people comes directly from Luo Zhixue's support, and he even forcibly pulled them into power.
Take Xu Zhixian, for example. Many people were not convinced that this man could be the Chief of Staff, but he was forcibly pulled into the position by Luo Zhixue. For this reason, he even sent the previous Chief of Staff, Huang Guangmao, to serve in the field troops.
None of the senior generals in the Baoxiang Army had enough prestige, ability, or strength to fully accept the Baoxiang Army after Luo Zhixue's death.
This is true for the military generals, not to mention the civil service system. Now the civil service system of the Baoxiang Army is completely dependent on the military. There is no possibility that civilian officials can rise up and compete for the command of the Baoxiang Army. .
Even the three most powerful ministers in the civil service system, namely the Minister of Civil Affairs Guo Quanshu, the Minister of Taxation Chen Xingkai, and the Minister of Industry Yuan Gaofeng, these three people cannot even suppress the internal affairs of the civil service system, let alone suppress them. Over there is the military.
Once Luo Zhixue dies, several high-ranking generals in the Baoxiang Army will definitely fight for power. Once the Baoxiang Army splits, the Baoxiang Army as a whole will no longer exist. So where will the civil service system in the Baoxiang Army go?
Guo Quanshu and others in the civil service system were actually more frightened than the military generals, and were more worried that the rural protection army would split.
And this is the direct reason why Guo Quanshu and others are more worried about Luo Zhixue's descendants than the generals.
Although no one said it, they basically thought the same thing: Luo Zhixue must have a son.
If one day Luo Zhixue dies in battle or for various other reasons, they can directly support Luo Zhixue's son to inherit the position of general, even if the heir is just a baby.
They need the sign of this successor and rely on their righteousness to maintain the entire system of the Baoxiang Army from directly splitting.
And the Baoxiang Army is not divided, they are the ministers and senior officials of the Baoxiang Army!
The Baoxiang Army is broken up. They are nothing. Even if they defect to Wang Xiazi and others, they still have to worry about whether Wang Xiazi will accept them. Even if they do, the strength of each branch of the Baoxiang Army will definitely plummet after the split. In addition, Without a leader like Luo Zhixue to lead the way forward, the future is worrying.
Of course, even if Luo Zhixue has an heir, there is a high possibility that he will not be able to inherit Luo Zhixue's political legacy, but there is always a choice.
No matter what, several important civil servants such as Guo Quanshu and Huang Chengxuan wanted to maintain the continued existence and growth of the rural protection army as much as possible.
They also want to be the founding heroes!
Guo Quanshu, Huang Chengxuan, and Yuan Gaofeng all had a tacit understanding and did not express these inner thoughts. They just kept sending women to Luo Zhixue.
And just being an ordinary woman is not enough. Luo Zhixue must be married to a real wife and have a legitimate son who can inherit Luo Zhixue's political legacy.
It's easy to give away an ordinary woman, but it's not easy to find a real wife for Luo Zhixue.
Xiangyang City, Guo Mansion.
This mansion used to be the residence of a certain Ming court official. It was confiscated by the Baoxiang Army after the Battle of Xiangyang, and was later given to Guo Quanshu by Luo Zhixue as a private residence.
In the courtyard, the three current giants in the civil service system of protecting rural areas, Guo Quanshu, Minister of Civil Affairs, Yuan Gaofeng, Minister of Industry, and Chen Xingkai, Minister of Taxation, sat together.
Huang Cheng preached: "I have asked people to screen all the unmarried legitimate daughters of the eligible gentry families in the city and nearby counties, and selected nine candidates in total."
As Guo Quanshu spoke, he took out a document and said, "There are also four candidates initially selected by Nanyang Mansion."
"These nine families are all scholarly families whose families have been cultivated and studied for more than a hundred years. They have had officials for the past three generations, and three of them are Jinshi families."
"The nine families mentioned above have all defected to our Baoxiang Army, and some have sent their children to serve as officials in our Baoxiang Army, join the army, and also serve in all walks of life for our Baoxiang Army."
"The Chen Family of Nanyang Xinye is the iron material supplier of our Baoxiang Army and the second largest iron material supplier of our Baoxiang Army. We are currently actively exploring the Chubei channel and organizing the iron materials from Daye to go north."
"The Fang family in Xiangyang has responded vigorously and actively to our work-for-relief program. Several workshops under its name have employed more than 3,000 young and healthy refugee women."
"The Xu family in Xiangyang is a textile supplier for our army. It has supplied our army with a large amount of cotton, wool, cloth, woolen cloth, etc."
"The Ping'an family in Nanyang Town is the third largest supplier of saltpeter and sulfur to our Baoxiang Army. Although the eldest son of the An family is an official in the Ming Dynasty, the second branch of the Ping'an family in the town is the main one. They have already announced a public break with the eldest son and split into another family. Pass."
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Huang Chengxuan said as he handed the information to the other two people.
After he finished speaking, Guo Quanshu also took out a document and said: "I am responsible for the internal selection of our army. There are nine candidates for the show, all of whom are the legitimate daughters of various military and political families."
Yuan Gaofeng on the side took it and looked at it, but frowned slightly. Among the legitimate daughters elected by the military and political parties within the Baoxiang Army, two of them were from the Guo family. One of them was Guo Quanshu's biological sister, and the other was Guo's. The book's direct cousin.
In addition, a direct cousin of Huang Chengxuan is also among them.
And there is another big problem, that is, there were only nine talented women candidates in the two terms of the military and political administrations. As a result, the civil service side occupied seven, leaving only two spots for the military side...
Just because this list was spread, Wang Xiazi and others dared to come over and slap Guo Quanshu directly...
He was not polite to Guo Quanshu and said directly: "If you don't want to die, just pass this list to the Internal Affairs Office!"
When Guo Quanshu heard this, he did not speak, but thought deeply.
The reason why he showed the list of show girls to Yuan Gaofeng and Huang Chengxuan today, instead of sending it directly to Luo Zhixue, was to listen to their opinions.
He did not deny that he had selfish motives, but he also believed that the two daughters of the Guo family were qualified to be included in this list.
At least his family background, appearance, and character are not bad.
As for the number of places for generals, I can't blame him. Most of the generals in the Baoxiang Army were rebel refugees before, and they didn't even have any family members... let alone daughters or sisters of the right age. Something like that!
There are a few children of the right age who also have crooked melons and cracked dates. Guo Quanshu would not dare to send such crooked melons and cracked dates to Luo Zhixue's bed even if he had 10,000 courages.
