The official system of the Northern Song Dynasty was the most complex, chaotic and puzzling official system in Chinese history.

The reason for this situation is inseparable from the general environment at the beginning of the country.

Of course, it is also inseparable from scholars who are full and have nothing to do if they like to complicate simple things.

Civil officials are the same, and military officials are the same.

There are many different kinds of things, endless.

After the Anshi Rebellion, the feudal states became bigger and threatened the central imperial power at all times.

Even if the Tang Dynasty fell, it would be able to solve the problem of feudal states.

On the contrary, the Tang Dynasty was destroyed due to the vassal states. After the demise of the Tang Dynasty, there were constant wars in China. The Jiedushi was no longer satisfied with the title of Jiedushi, and simply began to become kings and emperors.

The emperor took turns to do it, the general seized power, killed the lord and the father, and the carousel was staged.

After Guo Rong's death, Zhao Kuangyin put on a yellow robe.

In view of this chaos, a series of measures have begun to be used to weaken the power of the governor.

The main thing is to send your confidant generals first to take over as local governors, but this is not enough. When I was alive, I could still suppress these confidant generals. One day I would return to the field, and these confidant generals were in charge of military and political affairs. Wouldn’t they have to stage a pattern of vassal states?

Therefore, Zhao Kuangyin adopted the policy of strengthening the trunk and weak branches.

What are strong, dry and weak branches?

Many people in later generations accused Zhao Kuangyin of releasing military power by drinking wine and abandoning his martial arts skills. I don’t know which brain-dead historian was the first to releasing military power by drinking wine. Anyway, it poisoned a large number of keyboard warriors in later generations.

The national policy of strong trunks and weak branches was not to weaken the military power of the Northern Song Dynasty, but to defend the central imperial power.

That is, select the most elite troops from the army of local governors and incorporate them into the imperial guards.

From the perspective of military and political aspects, the best combat preparations were given to the Central Imperial Army, weakening the strength of the local wing army.

In fact, at the beginning of the founding of the country, the use of literati did begin to govern the country.

However, in the era of Taizu, there were many famous generals, and it was never said that military generals could not be prime ministers.

For example, Cao Bin became the Privy Councilor and was not excluded by civil officials.

However, the Northern Expedition of Emperor Taizong Dynasty, Yongxi lost all the elite troops of the Song Dynasty. From then on, the group of military generals was broken and could not be lifted in front of the civil officials.

It can be said that the situation in the future of the weak Song Dynasty was caused by Zhao Er!

After the Northern Expedition of Yongxi, the group of literati and doctors truly began to rise above the courts of the Northern Song Dynasty.

Then he began to think of various ways to fool Zhao Er into various bloated bureaucratic systems. In short, there was only one purpose: to give full play to civil servants and to curb military generals!

How to curb military generals?

First, start brainwashing from the spirit!

All things are inferior to those who are good at studying!

The soldiers were inferior people!

Secondly, the military positions began to weaken, creating a lot of military official positions and titles that were mutually restricted and restricted, and unknown.

Literary soldiers have a characteristic: Don’t be so unkind, it’s not easy for everyone. He just violates military rules. Just scold him, or demote him or fire him. How rude is he going to beat him? What? Do you want to kill? No, you can’t kill him...

Military discipline was completely broken!

The so-called kindness does not control the army, which started with the literati of the Song Dynasty and became a negative joke.

From Zhao Huan's perspective, the military law must be clear. The Song Dynasty must establish its own military court and take charge of the military discipline on behalf of the emperor. The military law is ruthless and there must be no exceptions!

Those who should be killed live for one more minute are committing crimes!

According to the military strategy proposed by the emperor last year, the Song Dynasty divided five major war zones: Yanyun War Zone, Northwest War Zone, Southeast War Zone, Southwest War Zone, and Central Gyeonggi War Zone.

The three yamen were abolished and the Imperial Army Governor's Office was established above the five major war zones. It had the right to command the imperial army. Its rank was the same as the East Government Government Affairs Hall and the West Government Privy Council, and it was called the Central Government.

The status of this imperial military governor's office is obviously higher than that of the previous three yamen, and it also shows the emperor's determination to strengthen the army.

Zhong Shidao was separated from the Privy Council and served as the first marshal of the Central Government, leading the five major war zones.

In fact, the Marshal of the Central Government was just the emperor's military adviser. In the war era, the emperor commanded the troops and was usually a void position. While the generals of each war zone reported to the Marshal, they also needed to report to the emperor's military affairs.

In the future, the so-called army of any route will be abolished and arranged below the war zone according to its geographical location.

The highest military commander in the war zone is the governor, called the governor, and all the governors are from the Imperial Military Governor's Office.

The law was restored and the Political and Propaganda Department was officially changed to the Supervision Bureau, and together with the Supervision Bureau, it was called the Second Judicial Court.

The Supervisory Court is in charge of the Military Court of the Song Dynasty and the key to enforce military discipline! It is on par with the Military Governor's Office.

This is a readjustment to the military structure.

After listening to Li Gang's report, Zhao Huan nodded, obviously very satisfied.

This is the military structure that Zhao Huan thought.

Although the salary of the three yamen in the past was higher than that of the Privy Councilor, their actual status was not high.

Now at the same level, the Central Government is in charge of military power, and the Western Government is in charge of military power.

In order to constrain the military power of the war zone commander, the law of garrison will continue to be updated.

In order to strictly enforce military discipline and eliminate the so-called tradition of only recognizing generals as strong soldiers, the Supervisory Office was established.

The Supervisory Court enforces military discipline management on behalf of the emperor.

After defining the power structure, Li Gang reported on the military rank and level.

The titles in the Song Dynasty were divided into twelve levels: king, successor, county king, duke, county duke, founding duke, founding duke, county duke, founding duke, founding duke, founding duke, founding duke, founding duke, founding duke, founding duke, founding duke, founding duke, founding duke, founding duke, founding duke.

Zhao Huan, a modern person, thinks this set of titles is too troublesome. It is simply left behind by the habits of the founding country and should be changed.

The titles since then still use traditional Chinese titles: Gong, Hou, Bo, Zi, and Male.

The title of King was also added, and the titles were divided into upper and lower levels.

At the same level 12, not only civil servants can get titles, but also military generals or ordinary soldiers.

However, the threshold for obtaining a title is much higher. For example, military generals or ordinary soldiers must be civil and military talents to obtain a title. They can not only charge forward, but also know how to arrange troops, military strategy and military politics.

Finally, it was awarded by the court under the comprehensive assessment of the court.

Of course, the promotion of military rank is much simpler, and it is evaluated according to military merits.

The military rank has also been reorganized.

The military rank was the most painful thing about Zhao Huan. The scholars of the Song Dynasty were so idle that they had a lot of military ranks. The emperor, as he, had read it several times but couldn't figure it out.

Finally, it is the easiest to use directly, and it is best to remember ordinary soldiers. Only when ordinary soldiers have memorized them can they have the motivation to make military achievements!

The new military rank of the Song Dynasty: general, wise, lieutenant, soldier.

Among them, generals, lieutenants have superiors, middle and young men, and sects have only superiors, middle and young men, so the soldiers are even simpler, first and second-class privates.

As a result, Zhao Huan's structure of the entire army became much clearer.

According to the previous military system, the emperor, he had to be confused.

He even suspected that some people deliberately set up the military system so complex to avoid military pay and earn extra money.

It’s different now. After many things are simplified, the context becomes clearer.

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