Due to the war situation and actual combat command needs, Zhou Shixiang decided to form a first-level army organization. According to his requirements, the military headquarters will select 10 towns from the existing towns to form 5 armies. Each army has two towns under its jurisdiction, one is a pure firearm town and the other is a combined infantry and cavalry town. Each army actually has 21,000 combat personnel, and 2,000 non-combatants (logistics, staff)

The newly formed army organization abolished the first level of the guard and consisted of six levels of the army, team, battalion, regiment, brigade, and town.

The generals of the first army are called commanders, and the following are town generals, brigade school, regiment commander, battalion commander, team commander, sergeant commander. The commander is the commander (second rank), the commander is the commander (third rank), the commander is the commander (fourth rank), the regiment commander is the commander (fifth rank), the regiment commander is the rank of Thousand households (fifth rank), the battalion officer is the rank of Hundred households (sixth rank), the team is the rank of General Banners (seventh rank), and the sergeant is the rank of General Banners (eighth rank).

Each army still organized an army envoy. The first-level army envoy of the army was called the general town, with the rank of command (third rank), and the rank of An army envoy at all levels below the town were demoted according to the command, the rank of commander (fourth rank), the first-level army envoy was the commander's rank (fourth rank), the first-level army envoy was the commander's rank (fourth rank), the first-level army envoy was the commander's rank (fifth rank), the first-level army envoy was the rank of 1, the first-level army envoy was the rank of 100 households (fifth rank), the first-level army envoy was the rank of 100 households, and the first-level army envoy was the rank of general flag. The first-level army envoy was not set up at the rank of 100 households.

In addition to formally establishing the ranks of commanders at all levels and the ranks of the military envoys at the military, the newly established military organization has set up a staff department. The chief of the department is called the Chief of Staff, with a slightly lower rank in the army commander and the general town. In order to rank in the third rank, he is responsible for the daily training and combat command of the first army, as well as intelligence collection and judgment, military orders and documents.

The military staff department has three institutions: combat engineers (battalion organization), special forces (team organization), and combat staff (corporation organization).

In addition to the new staff department, a logistics department will be added at the first level of the army. The chief of the department is called the logistics officer, and the rank is the commander of the fourth rank, and is under the jurisdiction of a transportation battalion responsible for the food, grass and supplies. In addition to directly handing over the food, grass and military supplies with the military headquarters, the logistics officer is also responsible for the docking with local governments, such as military camp resettlement, local trafficking, etc.

In addition to adding a staff department, logistics department, and abolishing the first-level guard division, the training and orders of each army are still the same as before. Soldiers are still divided into sharp soldiers (old soldiers are good at fighting) and select soldiers (new troops). If supplements are needed, the security team in the township will be selected (prepared soldiers). The evaluation and promotion of military merits will not change for the time being.

The five newly built armies will be the five main forces of the Taiping Army. The battle is at the forefront and the supplement is the best. In the plan submitted by the military headquarters, Zhou Shixiang clarified the method of retiring soldiers in the form of official documents for the first time. This method stipulates that if soldiers fail to be promoted to an officer after serving in the army for three years, they will be retired and transferred to the township.

Because there is no large-scale industry under the Taiping Army, that is, a state-owned enterprise known to Zhou Shixiang in his previous life, it is impossible to provide enough jobs to these veterans. Therefore, only county and village security teams and rural-level management positions can be accepted and implemented.

In addition to resettlement, after retiring from the army, soldiers can receive 150 taels of food coupons equivalent to 150 taels of silver at one time, and have a certain right to speak in the local area. Combined with the preferential treatment of their families after joining the army, it means that from now on, soldiers will no longer be cannon fodder that is simply consumed, but a good "job" that can improve the living conditions of the family. The premise is that they can survive. Of course, if they are unfortunately killed in battle, their families can also receive a considerable amount of pension. However, no amount of money is important to live.

Among the new army's establishment regulations, there is one that is particularly conspicuous and particularly touching. This is that in addition to being promoted through military achievements, soldiers can also be transferred to officers by passing the military school run by the Taiping Army.

After the soldiers are discharged from the army, most of them can only be placed in rural areas due to their limited knowledge. However, if the officers are retired, they can serve in government offices at all levels. For example, if the brigade school is retired, they can serve as prefects and the general flag can serve as county magistrates. However, before that, they must first experience in the relevant yamen for one to three years and pass the assessment of the Ministry of Personnel before they can take the position.

This is a back door opened by Zhou Shixiang for his subordinates in the court. After three major cases, the riots in the south of the Yangtze River and what was happening in Nandu, he had already clearly realized that most scholars in this era could not be used by him. Therefore, he completely let go of his past fantasies about scholars and began to devote himself to building a new bureaucrat who fully obeyed his orders.

Who shares honor and disgrace with himself, who knows what people need most in life, who knows the terror of the Tartars, and who can support him without hesitation, undoubtedly, Zhou Shixiang only has one answer, that is, the Taiping Army soldiers under his command.

Although a large number of retired officers who are enriched in local government offices will cause a long period of chaos in government affairs and cause inefficiency in government operations. After all, officers are used to leading troops to kill enemies, and are used to rolling around among the dead, and do not take human lives seriously. Moreover, officers are generally irritable and arbitrary in their work. Compared with the old fox in the officialdom, they lack experience and perfection. If some things are done by them, the effect will be counterproductive. However, Zhou Shixiang still decided to implement this method without hesitation, and he was also prepared to face trouble.

It is better to have short pain than long pain. Only by fully controlling the military and political system from top to bottom, and only by top officials, from cabinet to minor officials, can we take our own ideas as the core and resolutely implement them. Zhou Shixiang may push the broken carriage of the Ming Dynasty forward.

However, Zhou Shixiang did not expect that when the first batch of retired officers entered all yamen to "listen to the government", more and more scholars signed up for the Taiping Army suddenly became, and the martial arts preparatory school entrance examination became a more popular place than the imperial examination.

This is the first time that Chinese scholars have discovered that in addition to being able to kill enemies on the battlefield and become a marquis of thousands of households, they can also study hard in the past and study hard on the road of imperial examinations, and thousands of troops can not get it through the imperial examination.

As an official, you don’t have to read books of sages. As long as you know how to read, the martial arts school can also make scholars become officials.

Zhou Shixiang criticized the old Confucianism drastically, but in the end, he found that there was no need to kill too many people, and there was no need to criticize Kong Lao Er and criticize him. He took off the altar. As long as a scholar walked around the army, he would automatically refute the corrupt Confucianism for him. All this was just because of the word "interest".

The five newly formed armies are named the New First Army, the New Second Army, the New Third Army, the New Fourth Army, and the New Fifth Army.

Before the plan to form a new army was fully introduced, the military headquarters would take care of the five armies that were about to be formed as the five main forces of the Taiping Army. If anyone becomes the five main forces, it would undoubtedly be very respectful and beneficial. No one doubted that His Highness King Qi would not be biased towards the five main forces; no one doubted that the future war would probably be borne by the five main forces. As long as he became the five main forces, not only would he be treated well, but all kinds of new weapons would be supplemented first, and there would be much more opportunities to make achievements than ordinary troops.

Becoming one of the five main forces, since the news spread, it became the most passionate thing for Taiping Army generals from all over the country.

The new army, the leader of the five main forces, is said to become the general's guards, which makes some generals even more unable to sit still. Those who can't pull away can go to Zhenjiang. If they really can't pull away, they will find ways to send people to Zhenjiang for activities. It is better to be the five main forces, but if they can be the leader of the five main forces, it is better!
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