After the meal, the others went about their business, and Gao pragmatically called Liu Xin and went to her study in the secretariat.
Gao pragmatically took Liu Xin's usual seat politely and said: "If nothing unexpected happens during this Western Expedition, I plan to use Jiang Wu as the main general. The Ma family and the Ma family will each have at least one young general to lead them.
Lieutenant General...but you can definitely see that there are still some problems in this arrangement."
Liu Xin rolled her eyes at Gao Pragmatic, who was jockeying for a seat, but obediently moved another chair and sat down next to him, saying, "When you suddenly said that, I may not be able to see all the problems at a glance. However,
There are some obvious problems that can be seen... For example, my brother's Liu Jiajun headquarters has very few cavalry. If he serves as the central army, the speed of the Western Expedition may not be accelerated, and this seems to be quite different from your previous plan.
There is a discrepancy."
Gao pragmatically said: "The Imperial Guards and the five generals' Jia Ding Army will become the first batch of Type A troops. Naturally, the Liu Jiajun will also be reorganized. In addition to the already elite infantry and vehicle battalions (artillery), they will continue to improve their technical weapons.
In addition to the proportion, the expansion of its cavalry is one of the main focuses."
Liu Xin was a little surprised and asked: "Are you planning to unify the Dingjun of the five major generals according to your wishes, and don't intend to let them maintain the regional uniqueness of the area where they are stationed?"
Of course Gao Pragmatic knew what Liu Xin meant by the "regional uniqueness of the permanent area". What this meant was that for example, the Ma Jiajun was mainly cavalry, with very few infantry and not many artillery; the Li Jiajun was also considered to have cavalry.
Main, but this "main" mainly refers to combat effectiveness. In terms of military strength alone, they still have a certain size of infantry and artillery. The Ma's Army's organization is relatively comprehensive, with 60% of its troops being infantry and 20%
It is cavalry, artillery and engineers each accounting for 10%.
The Ma Family Army's organization is comprehensive, mainly because his family has been under Gao Jingjing's command for the longest time. The younger generation of the Ma Family Army has also been relatively promising in recent years, so Gao Jingjing has directly intervened and cared more, which makes the Ma Family Army's organization more comprehensive.
The comprehensiveness is relatively high.
Although the Liu Jiajun was Gao Pingshi's main support target in the Southern Army, the South was not like the North in that it did not have such high requirements for professional cavalry.
In addition, the areas where Liu Wei fought in the past few years were really scratching his head. They were either northern Burma or Guizhou. They were all rugged and dangerous mountainous areas. Therefore, if he had too many cavalry, there would be no place for heroes to use them. Therefore, he only fought around two or three thousand cavalry all year round.
Huang, not even 10% of the total strength of the army.
The situation of the Qi Jiajun has been mentioned before. The nominally serious Qi Jiajun can only maintain around 6,000 people at most, but in fact the Qi Jiajun is scattered all over the sky.
Hundreds of people were brought to various parts of the country to serve as their "resident servants", that is, personal soldiers.
This situation has led to a trouble, that is, from a political perspective, Gao Pragmatic needs the Qi Family Army to become one of the "six main forces", but from a military perspective, the current Qi Family Army only has a size of 6,000 people, and it is necessary to complete the establishment of a "Type A Army"
This requires a significant military expansion.
The problem now is that Gao's pragmatic idea is that except for the Imperial Guards, which is a special case, the other five A-type armies will all be organized at the town level according to the model of the Southern Xinjiang Garrison Army (Southern Xinjiang is called a division), which means that only one
The town's military strength only has a few people.
The fixed establishment of the garrison is as follows: each town is full of men, with two standard infantry regiments, three independent artillery regiments, one independent cavalry regiment, and two engineer battalions.
Of course, we are not going to discuss here the Huben Army that Gao Pragmatic just talked about. Otherwise, the Huben Army would be much stronger than the current Ming Dynasty Imperial Guard, and the scale of its establishment would be extremely large, and there would be no comparison at all.
Of course, the major garrison units in southern Xinjiang are based on the town (division) level, and the number of towns under the "army" level is not the same. For example, the Dingnan garrison currently has five towns under its jurisdiction, and
The Vientiane Police Force only has two towns under its jurisdiction, and the gap in strength is still very large.
In Gaowu Shi's current organizational plan for the six main forces of the Ming Dynasty, the Imperial Guard remains unchanged for the time being and still has five towns under its jurisdiction. Its artillery and cavalry are more numerous than those of the Dingnan Garrison. In fact, there are nearly 70,000.
However, as the central imperial army of the Ming Dynasty, the scale of the Imperial Guard is of course a special case and cannot be copied by the other five Type-A armies.
The remaining five A-type armies are all "three-town armies" in the highly pragmatic organization concept, that is, each army has three towns under its jurisdiction, plus a military headquarters. One headquarters is directly under the independent artillery association, and one headquarters is directly under the baggage standard.
, one headquarters is directly subordinate to the engineer battalion, and one headquarters is directly subordinate to the guard battalion.
According to the plan, the final establishment of such a Type A Army will be about 43,000 in total. In fact, this total number of troops was something Gao had thought about seriously. The reasons were not only military factors, but also political factors.
level factors.
The simplest truth is that, like all previous reforms, Gao Pragmatic believes that in order to promote a reform, his first consideration at the beginning of the reform is how to appease the old vested interests.
This sounds very un-revolutionary, but it is very realistic. When it comes to the reform of the Type A Army, Gao Pragmatism must first think of one thing: the first six armies selected as the Type A Army themselves
At least we must not be dissatisfied with the reform.
The Imperial Guard will not be dissatisfied, because Gao Pragmatic treats it as a special case, its super scale will not be reduced, and it may even replace some old equipment that has been equipped for a long time.
Ma Gui, Liu Wei and the others will not be dissatisfied, because after the reform of the Type A Army, the number of troops under their command will increase, their technical equipment will be further supplemented, and their strength will only become stronger.
However, Li Rusong's attitude is worthy of attention, because the Li family was originally the number one general in the world. Although they suffered some losses in the Korean battlefield, they have basically made up for it again in the days after withdrawing from the war, so they
The total strength of the Li Jiajun has been restored to about 40,000.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Then, if the size of the Type A Army planned by Gao Pragmatic is less than 40,000, the Li family and its related generals will inevitably suspect that Gao Pragmatic is this
Weakening them in disguise.
Even under the current circumstances, Gao Pingshi's reputation in the army is unmatched by anyone. Even if the Type A Army is forced to be planned according to the establishment of less than 40,000 people, the Li family will only dare to slander and will definitely not jump out to openly oppose it.
.However, it is still not a good thing for such a situation to occur.
When it comes to reform, the biggest fear is to hit a snag at the beginning or to plant a hidden danger. The former is too demoralizing, while the latter can easily develop into a pustule. So in this kind of thing, it is best to pick the easy one first. A good start will lead to success.
Half of it, as for the subsequent reforms, they can be deepened and strengthened step by step.
With 43,000 men, the Li family's army would not suffer losses at this scale. On the contrary, because the imperial court would treat everyone equally, the ratio of their technical weapons could be greatly supplemented.
This article needs a little explanation. The number of servants of each general family in the Ming Dynasty is variable, and the amount of military pay allocated to them by the court depends on their own "activity". If your family has strong mobility, then the court will allocate more military pay.
The amount of money you need to subsidize yourself will be less. On the contrary, the court will not give you much money, and you will have to rely on yourself to provide the bulk, which is very frustrating.
The total amount of money that the Li family's army can get is not small, but his family has the largest army, so it still needs to invest heavily in the army. Of course, the Li family's industry in Liaodong is very rich, which has been explained a long time ago.
However, in any case, due to Gao Pragmatic's strong support for several direct generals under his command, there was great competitive pressure on the Li family, so the Li family had to "additional investment" and began to spend money on more technical weapons.
Especially artillery.
It has to be said that artillery these days is really expensive, especially the artillery made by Jinghua, which is well known for its high price - of course the reason for the high price is that its quality is indeed excellent.
But how to put it, selling artillery is actually an extremely profitable business. According to the No. 3 artillery, which is the most equipped in the Ming Dynasty army, the manufacturing cost of Jinghua was around 220 taels at the beginning. Later, due to technological progress and production
The scale expanded and gradually dropped to about one hundred and eighty taels.
However, the retail price of the No. 3 gun is 800 taels, and the large-scale military purchase is 650 taels. In other words, even for the imperial court's large-scale military purchases, Jinghua's profit margin is as high as over 360%.
But this is not because Jinghua deliberately treated the imperial court like a pig, but in the artillery industry, there are currently some reasons why only Jinghua can achieve such a profit margin. After the military industry is privately owned, it is not only Jinghua that can produce artillery, whether in the north or the south.
Many families have tried to enter this industry, but so far, few have made much progress.
why?
There are two main reasons: first, only Jinghua has mastered the material production and manufacturing technology of steel artillery; second, only Jinghua can control the scrap rate of artillery production to less than 30%.
Many people in later generations may not know that the scrap rate of artillery production in the 17th and 18th centuries was quite alarming. Especially in the Ming and Qing dynasties in the original history of China, the scrap rate was often as high as about 80%. At that time, if there were artificial cannons that could
If you can use it 30% of the time, you are undoubtedly a master.
At the same time, without Beijing's interference, cannons in this era could only be made of copper. As a big country that already lacks copper but uses copper coins, the cost of making cannons with copper is obviously extremely high for China.
According to many records, in the original history, red cannons were made in the late Ming Dynasty. To make one cannon required five thousand kilograms of copper, and to make ten cannons, only two or three were barely usable, so the final cost was as high as two thousand kilograms.
One thousand taels of silver per door - note that this is the official construction cost of the Ming Dynasty, but there is no profit in it.
So, why do Jinghua’s cannons look so expensive, but whether it’s the imperial court or maritime merchants, everyone is still willing to be slaughtered by Jinghua? Without him, the technology is monopolized.
Except for Jinghua, the products made by other companies are either of inferior quality or more expensive. Under this situation, in order not to be outcompeted by other generals, Li Jiajun had no choice but to continuously create profits for Jinghua, and this forced Li Jiajun to
Families can only live by tightening their belts year by year.
Of course, the Li family would also settle accounts themselves, so there was a strange incident in which Li Rusong retreated after suffering a slightly serious loss during the Korean War. In addition to the trouble that the power of the main family and branches may be out of balance, there is another point that Li Rusong did not dare to
The losses continued, because if the losses were too much, I was really worried about not having the money to make up for it.
But now Gao Pragmatic wants to build an A-type army, and will not reduce the establishment of the Li Jiajun. Although according to Gao Pragmatic's standardized establishment idea, the Li Jiajun will only be the same as the Ma Jiajun in the future, but at least it can still maintain a stable position.
One of the main forces.
And the most important thing is that the expenses of the Type A Army are completely borne by the court. No matter how the prices of muskets, artillery, war horses and other military supplies fluctuate in the future, the Li family finally does not have to spend their own money. This is a great opportunity for the generals.
Big economic loosening.
Of course, if your Li family wants to provide welfare subsidies to the army alone, Gao Pang will not take care of it for the time being, and there will be a period of policy ambiguity.
But in the future... Eliminating the influence of private military forces is a long-term task. Although it cannot be rushed, it must be done eventually.
"In the future, the A-type army will have an integrated and standardized organization. Whether it is cavalry, artillery, engineers, and heavy equipment, the organization of all A-type armies will be consistent." Gao Pragmatic said without hesitation: "You may
Worrying that too many artillery and cavalry will become a burden to the Liu family’s army who are permanently stationed in Sichuan is overblown.”
"Why?" Liu Xin was a little confused. Why did she worry too much? If we fight in the southwest, we really don't need so many cavalry. As for artillery, although it's hard to say that it's not necessary, if there are too many, the mobility of this battlefield will definitely be needed.
Isn’t it obvious that you are affected?
However, Gao Pragmatic shook his head and said: "The reason why you are worried is because you subconsciously feel that once it comes time to fight a big battle, the Liu Jiajun may be the only reliable main force in the entire southwest.
However, the fact is that I will establish a sufficient B-type army for the south - not just the southwest - and the strength of these B-type armies is at the level of the current nine-border field troops, so there is no situation where only the Liu Jiajun can fight
.
For more time in the future, the Liu Jiajun's role in the south will be primarily to intimidate and serve as a central force during battles to stabilize and boost morale."
"I see..." Liu Xin nodded and asked thoughtfully: "Then what did you want to say when you called me here? Oh, no, you probably have something you want me to convey to my brother, right?
?”
"Yes, there are some things that I would not be comfortable saying to him directly, or even implying in a private letter. It would be more appropriate for you to convey them on my behalf." Gao Pragmatic nodded and admitted.
Liu Xin opened her eyes wide and said in surprise: "Is there such a thing? Tell me, I'm very curious!"
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