Chapter 3327
The war launched by Haihan against the Ming Dynasty came to an end in the summer of 1657 after lasting for more than two months.
The armistice agreement signed by Emperor Chongzhen and stamped with a jade seal was already placed on the executive committee's meeting table.
However, everyone in the meeting was actually not very interested in this armistice agreement. After all, this was only a phased agreement, and its validity could only last until the next war begins. Compared with the agreement that will be sent to the archives, they are more concerned about Haihan's actual gains in this war.
The summary reports on the results from various regions are far more important than this agreement.
The scale of the battle between the two countries this time was larger than that of the previous years, but the Haihan Army still did not attack with all its strength. It only mobilized the garrison troops in the Northern Region and the East China Sea Region, which already allowed the Ming Dynasty to attack in North China and East China. It was difficult to resist on both battlefields.
After this battle, Haihan truly realized complete control of the Bohai Sea, Yellow Sea, and East Coast coastal areas. The coastal areas of Hejian Prefecture, Yongping Prefecture, and other places were officially assigned to Haihan through the armistice agreement.
Since then, the north-south section of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, which accounts for about two-thirds of the total route of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, the downstream section of the Yangtze River from Jiujiang, and the Jianghuai area south of the Yangtze River have all fallen into the hands of Haihan.
The Haihan Army in Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian also took this opportunity to expand their control area inland to Hunan and Jiangxi. However, most of these newly occupied areas belong to remote mountainous areas with high mountains and far away from the emperor. Their impact on the Ming Dynasty is far less than that of the lost state capitals in East and North China. They were not even included in the armistice agreement between the two countries.
The outcome of this war has been decided, so the re-demarcation of the actual control areas between the two countries will probably be completed within this year. However, the war compensation requested by Haihan was too much. Maybe by the time the two sides start fighting next time, Ming Dynasty may not have completed the compensation items in the armistice agreement.
But perhaps when the Haihan Executive Committee drafted the armistice agreement, they never thought of cashing in all these compensation items. As long as it can effectively suppress the Ming Dynasty's finances for a long time and make it difficult for it to raise funds to strengthen its armaments, the goal will be achieved.
At the same time, Haihan also needs to provide pensions and awards to the country's soldiers who were injured or killed in this war.
Although the Haihan Army's combat power was in an advantageous position, after all, the Ming Army was superior in strength and had the advantage of the home field. In addition, there were many fierce siege battles during the war, and the Haihan Army's four-digit casualties were indeed quite high.
Yan Chujie, who rushed back to Hangzhou from Nanjing to attend the meeting, introduced the current situation to everyone: "Each army has reported the list of meritorious services and casualties. After verification, the Ministry of National Defense will complete the process as soon as possible and provide the soldiers with information. Award given.”
"In addition, I applied in the name of the Ministry of National Defense to use the first batch of war reparations paid by the Ming Dynasty to provide pensions to the casualties and build martyrs' temples and hero's tombs in Tianjin, Nanjing, Shanhaiguan and other places."
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No one here expressed any objection to this proposal. The Haihan Army has always provided very generous pensions to casualty soldiers, and the pensions to be paid after the war are not small. If this money is to be taken out of the military budget, it may affect the normal operation of the army. Using the Ming Dynasty's war reparations It's quite appropriate to fill this hole.
After it was successfully passed, Yan Chujie then proposed the next motion.
The large area occupied by Haihan through this war will definitely require a certain size of troops to be stationed in the future for a period of time. However, the existing establishment alone is obviously not enough to meet the actual needs. Therefore, the Ministry of National Defense requires that the army be stationed again within the next two years. Expand the army.
"Both the East China Sea Region and the Northern Region need to expand the army by at least two more divisions to ensure that each state and county newly included in the jurisdiction has an organic garrison." "In addition, the navy will establish a formal inland river fleet, which will also It must be put on the agenda. We cannot always drag the warships of the maritime fleet to work part-time in the inland rivers, and there is no formal establishment of troops that are actually on duty in the inland rivers for a long time.”
"Therefore, the Ministry of National Defense needs to apply for a special military expenditure to complete the implementation of relevant projects."
What Yan Chujie said is indeed true. In fact, the Haihan Army was already stretched thin during this battle and had to mobilize local militia forces from the rear many times to rush to the front line to act as security forces.
The new occupied areas will not become peaceful just because the Ming army withdraws. After a short rest, the various troops in the northern region have begun to carry out new tasks of suppressing bandits and quelling chaos. If there are no Haihan troops stationed in these occupied areas, various armed groups will soon appear there.
However, although this is an objective demand of the current situation, the cost required to establish the new troops required by the Ministry of National Defense will also be a huge number. And Yan Chujie has made it very clear that this money cannot be deducted from the existing military budget and must be allocated separately by the Executive Committee.
Everyone on the Executive Committee has no objection to the military expansion, but how much the money will be spent and how it will be spent still requires careful review of the Ministry of Defense's proposal.
Of course, the Executive Committee cannot spend this money in vain. It must ensure that these newly formed troops are still loyal to the Executive Committee and not to a certain local military leader.
Therefore, while reviewing the military budget, the Executive Committee must also identify a group of candidates to serve as chief officers at various levels in these new units.
When it came to personnel arrangements, Ning Qi simply expanded the issue. After all, it was not just the military that needed to appoint a large number of officials.
As Haihan's territory expanded again, it was time for the whole village to share the pork. The personnel change plans submitted by the Donghai Region and the Northern Region are all in a thick pile, and most of them are applications for the appointment of officials in the newly occupied areas.
In fact, before this, in order to ensure that the acceptance is completed as soon as possible, many places have arranged for officials to take office first, and then submitted the appointment application to the executive committee. This is a case of getting on the train first and then making up for the ticket.
According to the tacit rules of the Haihan bureaucracy, county-level officials are generally appointed by local regions. There is no need to apply separately and only need to report. As for the chief officials at the state level, candidates can be recommended by the local government, but they also need to be appointed by the executive committee before they can take effect.
In regional central cities like Nanjing, chief officials must be directly appointed by the executive committee.
It is said that when a person attains enlightenment, a chicken or a dog ascends to heaven, this is of course a great opportunity to travel through the crowd to benefit his own children and his disciples and grandchildren.
Among the lists of personnel sent to the Executive Committee for approval, many of them were personally recommended by the senior officials here.
Most people who have traveled through time are over sixty years old. Even if they are still in power, they have already entered the countdown stage. Naturally, they want to pave the way for future generations while they still have energy.
(End of chapter)