The provincial garrison headquarters of the Dachu Empire were responsible for recruiting troops, commanding their militia, reserves, and wartime mobilization. Some border or coastal province garrison headquarters were also responsible for land border defense, coastal defense and other matters.
In addition, it also has certain authority to mobilize the second-class divisions within its jurisdiction, but it is limited to mobilization within the province. It cannot command the second-class divisions under its jurisdiction to fight outside the province. The authority of the second-class divisions to fight outside the province belongs to the staff.
As for the first-class divisions, their command authority naturally belongs directly to the staff headquarters.
After the Yunnan-Guizhou Campaign, the Great Chu Empire formed a Northeastern Campaign Command, two border defense headquarters of Shaanxi-Gansu and Xuanda, and a command system of twenty-two garrison headquarters, of which twenty-two garrison headquarters were the two Ten provinces and two Zhili prefectures.
It is worth noting that the above-mentioned headquarters are directly under the jurisdiction of the Military Academy and have nothing to do with the local provincial governors. The provincial garrison headquarters and the provincial governors have no connection.
The Great Chu Empire implemented a strict principle of separation of military and political affairs. Civilian officials did not control the army, and military generals did not interfere in politics. In the past, not everyone violated this, but the most severe punishment measures were taken.
Because there are several major generals and second-grade civil servants who have lost their heads.
Luo Zhixue used the harshest means to forcefully declare to all civil and military officials: the separation of military and political affairs cannot be destroyed in the slightest!
With the successful conclusion of the Yunnan-Guizhou Campaign, it also meant that the Chu Empire had fully recovered the Han lands within the Pass, leaving only the Liaodong region outside the Pass.
In order to further motivate the soldiers, boost morale, and prepare for the subsequent Northeast Campaign, Luo Zhixue held a large-scale canonization ceremony in Jinling City in May, awarding some meritorious soldiers with knighthoods, and at the same time promoting the military ranks of some generals.
This time, Luo Zhixue will also confer several ministers as dukes for the first time!
Except for a few senior generals who were stationed at the frontier and couldn't escape, the other senior generals gathered in Jinling City. For a time, the generals in Jinling City were so bright that you could meet a general just walking on the street...
So much so that Major General Luo Yang, the new commander of the Third Division who had just returned from Yulin, couldn't help but sigh: "Damn, this general is worse than a dog. Why are so many people coming back..."
The reason why Luo Yang came all the way back from Yulin was because he received an order from his superiors to return to Jinling City to report on his duties, because his major general promotion ceremony and viscount conferment ceremony would be held together with other promotions and conferrals.
Well, although he had actually received the appointment of major general, the superiors insisted that he go back and complete a collective promotion ceremony with others. What could he do but follow the order and run all the way back.
Not only him, this time more than fifty brigadiers will be promoted to major generals, more than ten people will be promoted to lieutenant generals, and it is rumored that several people will be promoted to generals.
The number of people who have been conferred has reached hundreds, and it is rumored that His Majesty will confer the title of Duke.
This is harvest time!
It's just that, when he looked at the dark-skinned silly boy he brought back from Yulin... he couldn't help but sigh even more!
This comparison between people is so irritating!
I worked as a dragon for several years, worked hard, and went through life and death several times before I earned the title of viscount. But this kid, just because he had a good uncle, he became a count as soon as he opened his eyes while farming at home. .
This black boy's name is Sun Donggou. He has an ugly name and cannot read Chinese characters. He is a farmer in Yulin and has never been out of the village in the first half of his life.
Moreover, the eight generations up to the Sun family were all farmers, with at most some soldiers serving in the army.
Among the many people in the Sun family who ran out to apply for military service in the past generations, there was a person who was very special to the Chu Empire and to Luo Zhixue.
Sun is established!
Known as Sun Mazi, he had an ordinary appearance until one day he followed Li Tongren in rebellion and became a bandit...
After becoming a rebel for several months, in the autumn of the seventh year of Chongzhen, he followed Li Tonglin to the outside of Luoyang City and captured, no, rescued a refugee scholar!
This refugee is the current Emperor of the Chu Empire, Luo Zhixue!
Soon after Li Tonglin died in battle, Sun Mazi became the leader of the rebels in the chaos and worshiped Luo Zhixue as his military advisor. The following year, Sun Mazi died of illness and before his death, he appointed Luo Zhixue as the new general of the Baoxiang Army.
From this, Luo Zhixue began the process of conquering the north and south, and gradually unifying the world.
Last year, when the Chu army marched into Shaanxi, Luo Zhixue also specifically asked several generals on the western front to search for Sun Chengli's hometown after taking Yulin.
He also owes Sun Chengli a promise: let Sun Chengli return to his roots!
After the Chu army captured Yulin, this task was entrusted to Luo Yang, the new commander of the Third Division stationed in Yulin.
It took Luo Yang several months to find Sun Chengli's hometown, and finally found Sun Chengli's only eldest nephew: Sun Donggou!
Then he was told by his superiors to take Sun Donggou with him to Jinling City, because His Majesty wanted to confer this Sun Donggou with a title, and he was an earl!
It is normal for Your Majesty to want to repay a favor. This is the behavior of a benevolent king. Naturally, a bunch of ministers raised their hands and stood in solidarity.
But... Luo Yang looked at this Sun Donggou, and still had to curse in his heart: Damn, this luck is terrible, a count fell from the sky, and he will live a life of glory and wealth from now on.
Even though the titles in the empire now have no actual military or political power, they still have some aristocratic privileges, and they also have salaries.
With the title of earl, you can receive a salary of three thousand taels a year!
Is this number high?
There must be a lot.
Don't look at the fact that the Great Chu Empire spends tens of millions of taels of silver on military expenses, but this is an entire empire, and when it comes to individuals, their incomes are actually very low.
The annual income of low-level officials such as rank-9 ordinary clerks and patrol policemen in Jinling City is between eighty taels and one hundred taels. And this is for high-ranking officials. If it is an ordinary person, the annual income is actually only Forty or fifty, or even twenty or thirty taels of silver.
For example, in the Dangtu Industrial Zone next door, an ordinary young worker without special skills can only earn about thirty taels per year.
After Sun Donggou is awarded the title of earl, his annual income will be a hundred times that of an ordinary young worker!
From now on, he can just lie down and live a happy life.
To give Sun Donggou, a peasant whom he had never met and who had almost nothing to do with the Chu Empire in the past, with the title of count was purely a matter of political propaganda.
The history of the Chu Empire is very clear. It used to be the Baoxiang Army, and Luo Zhixue was not the founder of the Baoxiang Army, but the second leader who succeeded it.
Going further back, it can be traced back to the era of Li Tonglin.
Strictly speaking, Luo Zhixue is the third-generation general of this bandit army!
As a human being, you must not forget your roots, especially when you are an emperor.
Therefore, after Luo Zhixue sent troops to capture Shaanxi, he ordered to search for Sun Chengli's hometown and his descendants. After finding him, he was going to give him a title. To be precise, he did not directly grant the title to Sun Donggou, but let Sun Donggou inherit the title.
Luo Zhixue had previously made Sun Chengcheng a marquis, and Li Tonglin had also been made an earl.
Sun Chengli did not have a family and had no children. Now that he has found Sun Chengli's nephew, he will naturally inherit Sun Chengli's title and become an earl at a reduced level.
Not only Sun Chengli, he actually also sent people to find Li Tonglin's family members, but unfortunately they couldn't find them, so he had to leave the matter alone.
After Sun Donggou was brought to Jinling City, Luo Zhixue specially summoned him once. Unfortunately, this honest person had never even been out of the village before being found by the Chu army. When he saw Luo Zhixue, his legs were weak. Let alone talking, I can't even stand still.
He was helped in, and then helped out...
Luo Zhixue originally thought that if Sun Dongguo was a man of talent, he would be promoted a little or two and find a suitable job for him instead of just waiting to die with a title, but seeing that this man couldn't even speak, He couldn't stand still, so he gave up the idea.
So I just said a few words and let him go. Later, this person will follow the relevant officials to the foot of the pine mountain in Funiu Mountain to move Sun Chengli's bones back to Yulin and follow Sun Chengli's last words to return to his roots.
The officials sent by the Hanlin Academy were naturally responsible for Sun Chengli's return to his roots. Sun Donggou was just there to serve as a family representative...
Many trivial matters were almost dealt with. The most important reward for many ministers was also finalized after collective discussion among many ministers and Luo Zhixue's personal approval. So on May 27th, the promotion ceremony was officially held. .
First, there was the promotion ceremony of generals. A total of 58 people were promoted to Army Major General, 13 to Navy Rear Admiral; 18 to Army Lieutenant General, four to Navy Lieutenant General; seven to Army General, and one to Navy Admiral.
The next day, Luo Zhixue also held an appointment ceremony in the civil service system, appointing five senior second-rank officials and 23 junior second-rank officials.
This promotion brings joy to both civil and military officials.
In addition to these two ceremonies attended by Luo Zhixue in person, there were also a group of generals and officials who were promoted in other places, and Luo Zhixue sent imperial envoys to announce their promotions.
After the promotion is completed, next comes the highlight of the title conferment ceremony!
In this title conferment ceremony, Luo Zhixue conferred 239 barons, 116 viscounts, 24 counts, and nine marquises.
The most eye-catching one is the birth of four dukes!
Participated in a series of Huguang battles, led the army mainly in the Eastward Campaign, led the Northern Expedition, defeated Hong Chengchou in Tianjin, and overthrew the Chongzhen Dynasty. He is currently the commander of the Northeast Campaign. Army General Li Chengtong was canonized as a Duke.
He guarded northern Chu for a long time and resisted the Ming troops from Shaanxi and Henan from going south. He subsequently led the Central Plains Campaign and the Shaanxi War, invaded Chang'an and destroyed the Long'an Dynasty, successfully recruited the Gansu border troops, ensured that Jiayuguan Pass was not lost, and stabilized the Jiayuguan Pass and the The three-sided border defense was not lost. The current commander of the Shaanxi-Gansu border defense, Army General Huang Dingquan, was canonized as a Duke.
Army General Xu Zhixian, the Minister of Staff and Chief of Staff who has long been in charge of staff affairs and coordinating imperial strategy, was canonized as a Duke.
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He showed bravery in all the battles going south. He defeated Xiong Wencan's army of more than 100,000 from Guangxi and Guangxi, captured Guangxi and Guangxi, and avoided the worries of the Chu Empire's Northern Expedition. After the Guangdong and Guangxi campaigns, he was transferred to the post of Minister of Logistics, coordinating large-scale campaigns such as the Northern Expedition and the Western Front Campaign. Logistics affairs, the current Minister of Logistics, General Huang Xiangbin, was canonized as a Duke.
In addition to the four people, there are also many famous generals who were canonized as marquises, such as General Li Dongshao, General Han Ziping, General Dong Siyuan, General Zuo Yingzhe, etc. Li Tonglin was granted the title of Marquis.
As for the count, there are even more, because the Chu Empire does not grant the title of duke without military merit. In other words, one can obtain the title of earl without military merit.
Therefore, several civil servants with great merit were awarded the title of earl, and then several generals who had died in the early battles were posthumously granted the title of earl, and their descendants were allowed to inherit the title.
As for Sun Donggou, he inherited Sun Chengli's title with a reduced rank, rather than being newly canonized. The two are not the same concept.
After the canonization, everyone is happy and everyone is happy!
However, what surprised many people was that after the canonization ceremony, General Li Chengtong and General Huang Dingquan, who had just been canonized as Dukes, all submitted letters requesting to return to Jinling. They said that they had led troops for many years and their bodies could no longer bear it, so they requested to be transferred to the reserve force. The emperor refused.
The two of them wrote again to beg for their bones, saying that they hoped to be discharged and return to their fields. They would return to their hometown and become farmers at the foot of the mountain, always accompanying their two elders, but the emperor refused.
Two days later, the emperor officially issued a decree. In recognition of Li Chengtong's many years of hard work and meritorious service, he was transferred to the post of Minister of Ordnance and summoned to the Imperial Study Room to assist in secret affairs;
Huang Dingquan was loyal to the emperor for many years and worked hard without complaint. He was transferred to the position of commander of the imperial guards and recruited into the imperial study to assist in handling secrets.
But after this news spread, many people breathed a sigh of relief!
