Chapter 959 Supervising Army Eunuch
Guangzhou Yacheng, in front of the Jinglue Mansion, the banners of the Chinese Army on six sides stand tall and flutter in the wind.
"In ancient times, the Son of Heaven had six armies, and the feudal lords had three armies. Today, there are twelve sons, and the feudal lords have six armies, so the banner is dominated by six. Duke Wei is extremely trusted by the emperor, and he bestows double banners and festivals, and he is in charge of the army, and the banners are specially rewarded , the festival is dedicated to killing, and it is specially designed to inherit the worship..."
Six days ago, a group of officials came to greet him, but the one who spoke was a fat man with a beardless face and a soft voice.
But among the officials who came to welcome them were not only Chang Shi and Sima of the Guangzhou Metropolitan Government, but also the Observation Envoy and Chang Ping Envoy of the Three Cantons in Lingnan. .
"Is **** Gao still used to living in Lingnan?"
Qin Lang stepped forward with a smile and said to the eunuch.
"Don't dare to be called a eunuch. I'm just a regular attendant. Thanks to the saint's trust, let us come to Lingnan to do this errand. In the future, we will have to rely on Duke Wei to take care of me. If Duke Wei doesn't think I'm a eunuch, call me It’s fine to be Gao’s servant, or you can just call me Gao Jianjun.”
Eunuch is a respectful name for the chief supervisors of the imperial court. Because the Ministry of Internal Affairs in charge of eunuchs was renamed Changqiu Jian in the Sui Dynasty, it is actually an honorary title to call eunuchs with duties. Same without subtitles.
Eunuch is really synonymous with eunuch, in fact, it was in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Eunuch in Tang Dynasty did not mean eunuch. Many scholars and civil officials served as chief supervisors, and they were often called grand supervisors and eunuchs, such as secretary supervisors. Wei Zheng was also known as Wei Jian or Wei Eunuch in the past.
It is not too unusual for an **** from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to be sent to Lingnan to serve as the military supervisor. At the beginning of the founding of the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Gaozu Li Yuan often sent officials to serve as supervisors in various armies, and the power of supervisors was still extremely great.
At this time, the supervising army was only temporarily dispatched, not a formal official position, and the people used were not clearly stipulated. Sometimes they sent civil servants, sometimes censors, sometimes military generals, and even eunuchs who were slaves of the emperor. The supervising army represents the will of the emperor, and is mainly responsible for delivering news. It is also responsible for supervising the military situation, military officers, and even helping with some post-war affairs, such as collecting some treasures for the emperor, collecting beauties, or Disposal of some special prisoners of war and so on.
After Li Shimin became emperor, he still had the habit of sending supervisors, but at this time, Li Shimin mainly transferred censors from Yushitai to serve as supervisors.
The supervisory army has gradually become more standardized. These supervisory troops mainly play the role of controlling the large with the small, and use the censor to supervise the behavior of the generals. Of course, there is also an important task, which is to check the military exploits.
The censors are of lower rank, and they all serve in their own ranks, so most of the censors are only seven or eight ranks. Compared with those generals of the third and fourth ranks who command the troops, they are low-ranking officials, but they are not affiliated It is better for commanding generals, so it can still play its due role better.
Especially Li Shimin's censors and supervisors are usually set up in those camps, that is, when the battle is going out, a censor is sent to supervise the army, and they withdraw after the war.
So the supervising army and the general can play a better role in each other.
The situation in Lingnan has been special in recent years.
Qin Lang carried out drastic reforms in Lingnan, and at the same time suppressed the iron blood of the southern barbarians. The imperial court also gradually seized the real control of Lingnan.
This makes the Lingnan area must have an overall overall planning, instead of the three provinces, Guangxi, or even central Guizhou and Yunnan, and other places acting independently. In particular, the military, government and finance must be coordinated and arranged together, so as to better adapt to the situation in the Lingnan area and maintain stability. .
It was on this basis that Li Shimin also reused Qin Lang in an exceptional way. He not only agreed to a series of Lingnan new policies formulated by Qin Lang, but also removed the post of governor of Guangzhou and Zhennan, which was originally held by the prince, and replaced it with Qin Lang himself. concurrently.
And in order to better integrate the entire Lingnan area, a Lingnan guarding economic strategy Jiedu Ambassador was set up on it, Jiedu Lingnan Nine Mansion Twelve Army.
This is an envoy, but it exceeds the jurisdiction limits of the original Guangzhou Metropolitan Governor and Annan Metropolitan Protectorate, and integrates the entire Lingnan region.
This is already the imperial court's plan to use troops against the barbarians in Lingnan for a long time, and to continue to appease Lingnan until it completely controls Lingnan, so this time Li Shimin specially increased the number of troops for the Twelfth Army in Lingnan.
From the original 3,000 troops per army to 5,000 troops per army, the number of troops in the south of the Lingnan Zhechong Mansion also increased correspondingly, and the principle of organizing Lingnan government soldiers into the 12th Lingnan Army in Lingnan and guarding nearby was implemented. It will be rotated, but the Lingnan soldiers will be used to town Lingnan, and the number of troops from the Central Plains will be reduced to go south to the south to strengthen the combat effectiveness of the Lingnan Twelfth Army.
The Lingnan Army reorganized 60,000 troops, with another 120,000 troops near the city and side. This number was already very large, and was even opposed by many ministers in the court, who believed that Lingnan did not need so many soldiers.
And with so many soldiers, the military expenditure is too high.
After Qin Lang promised that Lingnan could completely solve the military expenditure of the Lingnan Army, he passed the army plan at Li Shimin's insistence.
Qin Lang said that he could solve the military expenses by himself, but he wasn't all bragging. In fact, in recent years, Lingnan has indeed increased its financial revenue greatly by virtue of trade in industry and commerce, as well as the benefits of salt and iron.
In addition, although Lingnan said that the Central Plains is called wild, the conditions are actually not bad. Not to mention other things, only two crops a year are enough for self-sufficiency.
Lingnan Sanguang has a vast land and resources, but the population has always been small, so there is a lot of land for reclamation.
Another key magic weapon for Qin Lang to raise his army is to garrison fields.
All the garrison troops also set aside land to reclaim wasteland and farmland. In addition to fighting and training, they open up wasteland and farm and breed in their free time. Not only can they be self-sufficient, they can even store up as military rations, and even give out some of them every year. Soldiers do welfare, or take out some of the old grain and sell it.
In any era, military settlements are actually the most effective means of supplying troops in frontier areas, because there is no shortage of land in the frontiers, which is an incomparable advantage in the Central Plains.
Farming the fields by yourself can also solve the huge transportation expenses of long-distance transportation of military rations from the mainland.
Not to mention that Qin Lang not only allowed his 60,000 Lingnan Army to garrison the fields, he even let the 120,000 barbarians near the city and the side all garrison the fields.
These cities and sides are actually strong men drawn from the barbarian villages. After they turn 18, they have to serve compulsory military service, usually for three years.
The Man Ding who was drawn out was assigned to each army to train and cultivate. During the war, they were mainly responsible for the transportation of logistics and supplies, capturing and transporting prisoners and other auxiliary tasks, and they assisted in defending the city, patrolling, etc. in normal times.
The income from farming is not only the military rations of these barbarians, but also their allowances and benefits.
As for the Zhechong Mansion where the 60,000 mansion soldiers are located, in addition to the military land granted to each mansion, each Zhechong mansion will also be divided into some land, and then the mansion soldiers will be dispatched, the people hired, and the barbarians will be cultivated at ordinary times. The training rations of the military government, etc., after deducting the expenses of employment and other expenses, are used as combat reserve rations.
The Unity Battalion in each prefecture, the security regiment in each county, and even the Joint Defense Brigade in each township, etc., Qin Lang all adopted the policy of garrisoning land, setting aside large areas of wasteland for them to reclaim and garrison land.
Anyway, there are so many young and strong, it is impossible for them to be all training. Farming is also a kind of training.
Letting the army farm, some people said that it might affect the combat effectiveness, but Qin Lang believed that there were not so many battles in Lingnan, and it was more about maintaining a strong military force, enough to deter those barbarians.
So there are more soldiers, but it can't just be training. Since there are few combat missions, we should farm more.
It's just that Qin Lang only allowed the army to garrison the fields, but he didn't allow them to do business, mine or go into business, etc. Farming is farming, and doing business is doing business. Although after the mid-Tang Dynasty, the army did business in an endless stream, and even many feudal towns relied on doing business to maintain their expenses. .
Even many feudal towns recruited many businessmen, gave them capital, let them do business on behalf of the army, and even sent troops directly to **** supplies and so on.
Qin Lang didn't open the door. Although the industry and commerce in Lingnan is booming now, it is easy to open mines, build salt factories, build workshops, etc., but this is still fundamentally different from farming.
The army settled the grain by themselves, but the Lingnan government provided the money.
The army in Lingnan increased greatly. Many people in the court thought that it was not good for Qin Lang to guard Lingnan alone and monopolize the power, so he proposed to send a supervising army.
Li Shimin also followed the advice, first set up a supervisory envoy in Lingnan, and Yushitai sent a fifth-rank Yushitai vice-official to serve as the supervisory envoy in Lingnan, and there was also an inspector under him. , Shi Yushi and others served as record room, recorder, and master book.
He sent a team of censors to supervise the army in Lingnan, and Li Shimin then sent his own domestic slave, a regular servant of the fifth rank, as an envoy to watch the army, and also sent many low-level eunuchs and mid- and low-level imperial guard officers. Let's go south together.
So now in the city of Guangzhou, a new Military Supervisory Academy has been set up, and there is also a Military Watch Academy.
The biggest difference between the establishment of these two courts is that in the past, when the imperial court sent supervisors, they only sent the censor to supervise the army. If you bring one or two entourage staff yourself, there is no relevant organization.
The current situation in Lingnan is rather special. It is not a state of camp during wartime, but it is obviously to maintain a long-term situation.
Therefore, now that the Jinglue Mansion has established a government office in Guangzhou, of course the Supervising Army must also be resident, and the resident must have its own organization and personnel. Therefore, the Supervising Army Mission and the Guanjun Rong Mission have been established together, and each has its own set. team.
Two fifth-rank officials serve as deans, double supervisors, and Datang is the only one.
Qin Lang didn't know what Li Shimin meant by this, did the supervising army still need to send two?
(end of this chapter)