One is the main field force and the other is the local garrison force.

Different tasks, different resource allocation.

After all, the various garrison armies in the Chu army were actually just to house a large number of prisoners of war, and to select some of the soldiers who could fight for their own use.

But I really didn’t expect to rely on these garrison troops to fight the war.

In fact, the combat effectiveness of these garrison troops is not very good. It is okay to use them to deal with the battalion sentries in the Ming army, but it is obviously not enough to deal with the new standard troops in the Ming army.

If we were to go north and face off against the Eastern captives, these garrison troops would also die and become cannon fodder.

Therefore, in Luo Zhixue's mind, these garrison troops are only a temporary measure and should be used first.

When the combat missions are no longer tense, or when a certain garrison is stationed in the rear hinterland and there are no combat missions.

Then these garrison armies should be further streamlined, and the truly usable elites should be selected and reorganized into the main force. Although the quality of the garrison divisions is a bit poor, they can be selected and reduced into a mixed regiment organized by the main force.

It’s okay to do it reluctantly.

Such a mixed regiment with main force and equipment is much more powerful than a garrison division.

The remaining garrison officers and soldiers were selected and arranged to go to the fields to become self-reliant in order to save military expenses.

After a few years of farming, depending on the situation, they may be transferred to the frontiers for farming, or they may simply be demobilized and demobilized so that they can become farmers or workers again.

After such integration, there will be no garrison left.

Through the establishment of provincial garrison headquarters, the military's top brass once again learned about Luo Zhixue's attitude towards the garrison and its future arrangements.

They will first be reorganized to serve in secondary combat missions, and then they will be streamlined directly when the missions are no longer available. Elite troops will be selected and trained as the main force, and the remaining troops will be stationed for farming and retired after a few years of farming.

In this way, a large number of surrendered troops can be arranged to prevent these surrendered troops from wandering to local places and endangering public security or even turning into bandits. At the same time, it can continue to control the support of military expenditures.

The senior military officials are also very supportive of this.

The current military expenditure is too huge, and a large part of the military expenditure is actually personnel consumption.

Because of the particularity of the garrison being derived from prisoners of war, as the Chu Empire continues to expand, its scale will inevitably continue to expand, and the expansion speed will be faster than the expansion of the main force.

In a battle in Chunan, the Chu army expanded by two garrison divisions.

Now, the Eastward Campaign has been completed for less than a month, but two garrison divisions have been expanded. As the battle continues, we still don’t know how many garrison divisions will be expanded.

Regardless of how strong or weak these garrison divisions are in combat, they all cost money and food.

Everyone has to eat, right?

The number of garrison divisions is increasing, and it has begun to seriously occupy the main force's share of military expenditures. Therefore, it is necessary to control the size of garrison divisions.

As for the continuous streamlining and downsizing of the garrison officers, the Chu Empire had already done this once last year.

When Wuchang was established as the capital, the garrison divisions under the Chu Empire Army at that time each had a strength of more than 10,000 people.

However, after some streamlining, basically there were only more than 7,000 people left in each division at that time. In other words, the Da Chu Empire Army basically eliminated one-third of the garrison soldiers at one go and arranged

These downsized garrison soldiers went to farm or engage in construction work to support themselves.

Now, as the garrison division expands again on a large scale, Luo Zhixue has made this routine clear.

In the future, we will avoid having to equip a large number of cold weapons with little combat effectiveness. The garrison that has obviously fallen behind the times will not be able to lose its weight.

When Luo Zhixue finalized the garrison headquarters of each province and once again clarified the idea of ​​using the garrison, a large amount of money and food was collected from the northern and central areas of Jiangxi, and then gathered into the hands of the Dachu Empire officials to support the next step.

war.

Because after the capture of the central and northern areas of Jiangxi, a large amount of money and food were collected, Huang Chengxuan, the Minister of Finance, has been walking much straighter in recent days.

At the imperial staff meeting, Huang Chengxuan said with a smile on his face: "The army did a great job this time, and the tax department did an even better job. The various trophies seized from the south, the money and grain confiscated by the recalcitrant nobles and gentry, and various materials were discounted.

After all, including cash and floating wealth, the total is probably more than eight million taels of silver, which is no less than what we gained in Chunan before."

"And a considerable part of it is precious food, which is even more rare."

Luo Zhixue also had a smile on his face: "Huang Aiqing still knows the importance and the urgency!"

Huang Xiangbin led the 7th Division to fight south, which was actually very challenging. This challenge was not a military challenge, but an economic challenge.

How to fight in order to preserve and seize more money and grain to the greatest extent.

This is a very critical issue.

Going south to win a battle is nothing, but being able to seize millions of taels of property is a real skill.

And Huang Xiangbin obviously did a very good job.

In this imperial meeting, several senior civil servants attended the meeting, and these civil servants were talking about administrative or financial matters.

As for military affairs, that is the military's business, and Huang Chengxuan and Guo Quanshu have nothing to do with it.

At this meeting, in addition to the follow-up arrangements for the money and grain seized in Jiangxi, the main topic was to finalize the candidates for Jiangxi governor, chief envoy, inspector general, Nanchang prefect and many other senior officials on the ground in Jiangxi.

Before the war, the Chu Empire had already established the Jiujiang Prefecture's Yamen in advance, and began to initially build the Jiangxi Governor's Yamen.

However, more senior official appointments have not been made in time.

Now that the army has successively captured most areas in Jiangxi, the selection of governor of Jiangxi cannot be delayed any longer.

After some deliberations, Luo Zhixue carefully considered the many candidates selected and finally selected Han Yuanji, the former prefect of Huangzhou Prefecture and director of the Agriculture Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, as governor of Jiangxi.

However, there are two special people among the others, namely Huang Xingwen, who was demoted by the Ming Dynasty, and Jie Xuelong, who was captured.

When the city of Nanchang was destroyed, Huang Xingwen directly shouted that Luo Zhixue was his majesty and declared that the city would serve Da Chu.

And the identity of this person is not simple. He is the Deputy Inspector, a supervisor who patrols Ruizhou and other prefectures. He used to be highly valued by Shi Kefa and even Wang Jiazhen. In Jiangxi, his political status is worse than that of Jiangxi Governor Xie Xuelong.

Some.

It doesn't matter whether such people are sincere or not, but since they have openly joined the Da Chu Empire, it is naturally impossible for them to go down. With a wave of his hand, Luo Zhixue directly gave Huang Xingwen the title of "Jiangxi Inspector"

He wore an official hat and sent a team of guards to personally 'protect' this person.

As for Jie Xuelong, he did not surrender, but was captured.

This was also the first time that the Chu Empire captured a high-ranking Ming court official at the governor level, which had extremely important political implications.

Naturally, such a person cannot be allowed to die easily, let alone let him go.

Targeting this person, Hantong and the Military Intelligence Department directly cooperated and sent a team of elite spies to Xinghua, South Zhili, overnight, which is Xie Xuelong's hometown.

The kidnapping... no, it was to protect Xie Xuelong's direct family members in his hometown.

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After all, Jie Xuelong has already been 'surrendered' to the Chu Empire, and even the letter of allegiance, which is more than 60,000 words long and stamped with Jie Xuelong's personal seal, has been published.

When Jie Xuelong saw this letter of allegiance, he was speechless...

When did I, Jie Xuelong, say that he would be loyal to you, Pseudo Chu?

But no matter what, after this letter of allegiance is announced, the Ming court will most likely become furious and exterminate the Jie family!

The Great Chu Empire naturally wanted to protect Jie Xuelong’s family.

Faced with Jie Xuelong, a feudal official and a high-ranking official with strong political significance, Luo Zhixue had already decided to pay attention, no matter what this person thinks in his heart, whether he is willing or not, no matter what his ability is, let alone what his character is.

He will hang this person up high and act as a model!

A typical example used to attack the prestige of the Ming court, the morale of the Ming army, and boost one's own prestige and morale, as well as the people's hearts.

"Look, even such high-ranking officials have defected to our Chu Empire, and you haven't surrendered so easily..."

As a result, Xie Xuelong, who was imprisoned a few days ago, discovered that a letter of allegiance had been written out of nowhere, and his imprisonment turned into house arrest...

Just three days later, Jie Xuelong, who was still under house arrest, was appointed as the chief envoy of Jiangxi by Luo Zhixue.

Even though there were eight guards with knives and muskets staring at him, Jie Xuelong still firmly refused and had an extremely tough attitude, saying that he would rather die than become a hypocritical official. He wanted me to be a thief in his dream.

Go for it!

Until a man from Hantong walked up to him and muttered something, vaguely hearing something like killing the whole family...

Finally, Jie Xuelong sighed, knelt down obediently and accepted the imperial edict, becoming a glorious civil servant of the Great Chu Empire.

As a result, in a series of battles in Jiangxi, a governor captured by the Chu Empire, a deputy inspector and supervisor whose actual status was second only to the governor, suddenly became an official of the Chu Empire.
Chapter completed!