Ganqing Palace.
Li Xiu stood in front of the table, his eyes fixed on a sketch on the table for a long time.
A few lines of small characters above the sketch are also clearly visible.
The Ministry of War, the Governor's Office of the Five Army, and the Wuyuan Pavilion.
The Ministry of War and the Governor's Office of the Five Army are naturally fixed institutions.
The Ministry of War is in charge of military power, logistics, food, grass and weapons, and promotion and award of military generals...
The Governor's Office of the Five Army was in charge of military command, responsible for military training, and management of military households in the garrison. After receiving the order to dispatch troops, the troops were led to combat.
Both functions are very clear, and they are a mutually restrained and complementary existence.
Although the rights of the two were completely unbalanced in the late Ming Dynasty, the Governor's Office of the Five Army was almost completely reduced to a subordinate department of the Ministry of War and a "pig pen" for civil officials to raise military generals!
But at the beginning, the two were completely checked and balanced. If it were not for the magical operation of the international student Zhu Zhaimen, even if the Ming Dynasty emphasized literature and over military affairs, it would never have fallen to the point where the civil and noble martial arts were inferior.
This situation was not changed until Li Xiu took over the capital army. Until now, the power of the Ministry of War has been invaded.
The power to mobilize troops is gone, the power to logistics is gone, and the power to personnel is gone, and they are all firmly held in Li Xiu's own hands.
Nowadays, after experiencing so many wars led by military honors, as well as the initial military reforms, and even the most important dynasty changes, at least in the north, the inertial thinking of civil and noble martial arts has been reversed a lot.
Although it is a good thing to take over your own power, it is obviously not a long-term solution for a country.
Li Xiu was not the Qin Gong who only had to care about his own land, but the king who ruled the world.
A perfect system is the long-term foundation.
With his military merits and his army as his reliance, Li Xiu naturally had an extremely thorough understanding of the violent machine of the army.
It is precisely because of this thoroughness that Li Xiu looked at it longer and that the third party, Wuyuan Pavilion, was also the emergence of the Ministry of War and the Governor's Office of the Five Army.
The Governor's Office and the Ministry of War, one is in charge of the military power and the other is in charge of the military power. As long as the two go hand in hand, it will undoubtedly ensure the checks and balances between civil and military personnel and the stability of the army.
In this way, there are checks and balances, and there are also stability. What Li Xiu considered was the professionalism and combat effectiveness of the army.
Although the five army governor's office has no right to dispatch troops, any unit is undoubtedly under the leadership of personal will. A main general is the heaven of that soldier.
It is extremely common to only know the generals but not the emperor of the court in this era.
Moreover, it is undoubtedly quite risky to determine the success or failure of an army based on the wisdom of one person.
A general is incompetent and exhausts the three armies. This kind of thing has been common throughout history.
No matter how rigorous the promotion and assessment system is, it cannot ensure that every general is a peerless general. Even if it is the capital army he forged, most of them can only be said to be barely useful.
After all, the phenomenon of bad money driving out good money is not rare in the army. There are always many people who rely on qualifications and hard work to advance. As time goes by, some of these mediocre people will always climb to a high position. He cannot stop such things, and he can only raise mediocre people in the Governor's Office as much as possible.
In this case, the scene of a general being incompetent and exhausting the three armies will undoubtedly appear if he is not careful.
Even if you have good luck and no war, the combat effectiveness of the army under the leadership of such mediocre talents can naturally be imagined.
Moreover, the most important thing is that today's army is in a special stage of the transformation from cold weapons to hot weapons.
With the regularization of weapons such as muskets and cannons, they gradually evolved and their qualities for soldiers and generals were much higher than before.
The form of war is much more complex!
Under such circumstances, compared with the commander's decisions represented by personal will, Li Xiu is more inclined to work together and brainstorm!
Three cobblers are better than Zhuge Liang. Even if they are mediocre people, the decisions made by several mediocre people are much better than those made by their personal will.
To be precise, he wanted to integrate the military advisors and staff who had lasted for thousands of years into a formal institution that was independent of the Governor's Office and the Ministry of War.
Wuyuan Pavilion is equivalent to the staff system of later generations!
The imperial court formed the General Staff Department, and then formed the next level of the General Staff Department in each department until the grassroots level.
It is equivalent to the staff and military advisors who originally had to be hired out of their own pockets by the court and became thorough public officials.
The Ministry of War dispatched troops, the ordnance logistics, the sound of grain was dispatched, the selection of officers was selected, the command of the Governor's Office of the Five Army was in charge of combat, daily military management, and the compilation of the yellow military list of military registrations.
The General Staff Department is responsible for organizing daily exercises and drills, making war plans and combat preparations, and in wartime, it is responsible for combat planning and controlling the overall situation of the entire combat.
In this way, the General Staff is equivalent to the brain center of the violent machine of the army, and the Governor's Office of the Five Armies is equivalent to the torso and hands responsible for the implementation.
And the Ministry of War is the reins of this killing giant.
The Governor's Office and the Ministry of War have already had a complete and strict system, and just need to be slowly cleared and adjusted.
Only the General Staff Department can not be improved overnight.
To make the General Staff play the role of the military brain, we naturally cannot do it by putting on the stance in Wuyuan Pavilion, but to use this military reform to implement the staff system into all the military.
Moreover, a complete and rigorous talent training system is needed, and a long period of system adaptation and adjustment.
Moreover, even if all these are completed, the General Staff will not be able to break the inertia of commander decisions for thousands of years and become the center of the army's mind in a short period of time.
This is definitely not something he can accomplish with a military order or a decree.
What he can do is to improve the staff system, plant this seed in the army, and then take care of it and water it frequently. In the end, whether it can grow and become the center of the army's mind depends on the staff system itself.
Just like the cabinet that used to be.
After all, rights... are fought for.
Now, what he gave Wuyuan Pavilion is the right to consulate military affairs. To be precise, the right to assist in handling political affairs and make suggestions at the beginning.
Staff to the military and then give a solution.
Only by using facts to prove that the opinions given by the advisory system are useful and can be of great use.
Only by using facts to prove it again and again can the staff system slowly gain a foothold in the military without becoming formal or superficial.
As all kinds of thoughts flowed, Li Xiu slowly picked up a stack of memorials on the side of the desk. All the books on it were combat plans presented by the staff of Wuyuan Pavilion.
也是他对武渊阁的第一个战争命题.
If the Mongolian and the Later Jin Dynasty unite and hit the border with Daheng, how should Daheng react?
I have to say that at least, the group of Wuyuan Pavilion staff he has selected are all talents with real materials.
These staff members were once middle and upper-level generals of each department, and naturally knew the troops of each department. In addition, the training of the Martial Arts Academy has enhanced their military literacy and the existence of students with strong professionalism in martial arts engineering.
This war plan alone proves that Wuyuan Pavilion is now a very professional and formal military think tank.
Chapter completed!