In fact, the General Staff system is not a new thing. As early as the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Di, the Ming Dynasty, established a cabinet with low power. However, the cabinet at that time was completely different from the cabinet in the middle and late Ming Dynasty.
The cabinet established by Zhu Di had a low rank, only a fifth rank, which was one level lower than the prefect of the Xiafu who was from the fourth rank. However, the cabinet had the support of the emperor and could compete with the six ministers of the six ministers. However, without the support of the emperor, the cabinet with only a fifth rank could not compete with the six ministers of the six ministers.
In this way, the cabinet must rely on the emperor to compete with the six ministries. The emperor has firmly grasped power.
Unfortunately, Zhu Di's descendants did not understand the mystery and could not help but improve the level of the cabinet. The cabinet, which was originally "lower and more powerful", became "higher and more powerful". Especially when it came to Emperor Jiajing who liked to practice immortality, the cabinet chief minister could check and balance the six ministries after he put aside the emperor. Then, the emperor's role was optional...
When it was the Wanli period, Emperor Wanli was sad to find that the pit his grandfather dug was too big, and now the cabinet can leave him alone...
Then, Wanli, who was disheartened, simply stopped attending court for decades. Anyway, it was useless if he went there, and the cabinet no longer needed him...
Therefore, the cabinet in the late Ming Dynasty had become a super power that could replace the emperor. With authority no less than the monarch, there were naturally more people who were jealous. Therefore, the party struggles in the late Ming Dynasty were extremely fierce. Because everyone knew that whoever controlled the cabinet would gain a power comparable to that of the imperial power...
After gaining power comparable to imperial power, the civil servants who entered the cabinet were so full... In the late Ming Dynasty, Emperor Chongzhen was the poorest in the capital, and those civil servants were all rich...
After all, it was the idiot Jiajing who was busy cultivating immortals and delegating all his power to Yan Song, the chief minister of the cabinet, which caused the cabinet to be overwhelmed. He could rely on the Jinyiwei to get the power back, but once the convention was formed, his descendants would not have the means of using the factory guards, so they would naturally be emptied by the cabinet.
Therefore, with the lessons of the Ming Dynasty, when Ma Lin drafted the document to establish the General Staff, he added a principle - the General Staff only has command power in wartime, and in peacetime, if they dare to interfere in the command power of the army, they will be shot!
In addition, Marin repeatedly emphasized that the General Staff and the army have no subordinate relationship and their status is not higher than that of the local army commander. Even the king has no right to change this! If the descendants of the king have the intention to modify it forcibly, the ministers can depose him according to this clause...
This is very cruel, because Malin was afraid that his descendants would be as chaotic as the emperors of the Ming Dynasty. Jiajing was not the first emperor to improve his cabinet status. His previous positions also made considerable efforts to improve the cabinet status. In short, it was not Jiajing's responsibility alone. The improvement of the cabinet status of the Ming Dynasty was step by step, not one step. By the end of the Ming Dynasty, the cabinet could already bully the emperor.
Malin was unwilling to have the situation like the Ming Dynasty cabinet, so when he established the General Staff in the future, he would publicly announce these two principles, and even the later monarchs could not violate it. Otherwise, he would be deposed according to law...
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Of course, in addition to the General Staff system, Marin also had to consider another military leader - the Minister of Military Affairs, that is, the Minister of National Defense in later generations.
The identity of this character must be higher than that of the local legion commander and the General Staff. How to prevent this person from taking over military power is also a very important issue.
Because, in normal times, the General Staff cannot mobilize the army, but the Minister of Military Affairs must have power. After all, theoretically, the Minister of Military Affairs is second only to the King in the army.
After thinking about it, Marinsi finally decided that when the Minister of Military Affairs mobilized troops, he could only mobilize units below the corps level. If he was mobilized, he had to ask the king for instructions. Then the royal family would issue an order. However, the Minister of Military Affairs had no right to directly issue orders to units at the corps level.
In addition, Marin also planned to imitate the later generations of Maoists and set up an internal guard force to encircle the capital. This army was controlled by the king himself, and others had no right to intervene. Moreover, its system was directly under the royal family and was not under the jurisdiction of the Military Affairs Minister, and the Military Affairs Minister had no right to mobilize one army and one soldier from the Internal Security Force. In other words, this army was the palace guard of the Beihai Kingdom.
Of course, this is all future events. It is too early for the Beihai Kingdom to say this. Marin knew very well that his generation must have personally controlled the military power. After all, he had military knowledge that was hundreds of years ahead of the times in his mind, and no one could do better than him.
However, he could not guarantee that his descendants would also have military talents. If he met a military idiot and monopolized military power, he would likely ruin the elites of the whole country like the idiot Yingzong of Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, in the future, Marin will definitely hand over the military power, leaving only the capital's imperial guards firmly controlled by the royal family. Other local armies will teach the General Staff to command wars, and usually they will hand them over to the Ministry of National Defense to manage...
Of course, military expenditures must be left to the cabinet. Unlike the current Beihai Kingdom, military expenditures are all borne by Marin personally.
Fortunately, Europe's food prices are expensive these days, and Marin has kept the secret of high grain yields. Otherwise, Marin would not be able to support so many troops.
However, in the future, the secret of high grain yield will definitely be leaked. At that time, the Hoffman family will not be able to bear so much military expenditure, and can only hand over the military expenditure to the state tax.
Once this is the case, the command of those troops will inevitably be handed over to the cabinet's Ministry of National Defense. At that time, the royal family will only have control over a guard army that defends the capital to prevent the royal family from being easily subverted.
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Those are things that will happen in the future, and Marin actually does not expect his descendants to occupy the throne forever. He just hopes that his descendants can survive the wave of the French Revolution. As long as that wave persists, after the 19th century, even if the royal family is subverted, they will not be easily sent to the guillotine.
Marin never expected his descendants to be kings for generations, but only hoped that his descendants would not be slaughtered like chickens and dogs. As long as he could last until the 19th century, he would basically not be easily slaughtered. A royal family like the Qing Dynasty, which was heavily in debt, could survive. Marin did not believe that his descendants' reputation would be even worse than them. As long as he lasted until the 19th century, his descendants would not be in danger of their lives.
After the 19th century, members of the royal family were rarely killed worldwide. Even if they were subverted, members of the royal family would generally go into exile abroad and would not be slaughtered completely like before.
Of course, if you can be a Void Lord like the British royal family, at least, it is not life-threatening.
Chapter completed!