Five miles outside Shengzhou City, many people gathered to watch several ships on the river.

Wang Pu squeezed into the crowd and pointed at the boat and said to the people around him: "Did you see it? That is the steam engine transported from the Central Plains. The court wants to set up a wool-woven factory here, and I heard that people are being recruited."

The man said, "Mr., what is a steam engine?"

Wang Pudao: "Why don't you know what a steam engine is? Have you ever taken a train? I've never taken it before and always saw it! The train can run because there is a steam engine on it! As long as you add water and burn coal under it, it will be better than countless cattle and horses to do their best!"

The man shook his head and looked at the square thing covered with oil cloth on the boat, which could not be connected to the steam engine.

Tao Shiqi stood at the bow of the boat and saw Du Zhongxiao standing in front of the dock from afar. He was excited. He withdrew from the Yingtianxiangjun early, focused on doing things in the Iron Supervisory, and missed the Hequ Road Battle. However, he did not regret it. He found what he really liked and achieved results.

When Du Zhongxiao was building the Iron Supervision Bureau, he was managed by officials. Later, officials gradually became specialized managers and gradually became independent from the official system. Officials were assigned by the yamen, mainly responsible for the general direction and finance of the Iron Supervision Bureau, and then supervised the completion of tasks assigned by the court.

At the beginning, the technicians were just divided into the Iron Prison and gave some subsidies to their salary. After Du Zhongxiao left, Su Song began to be included in the guise official system, and Guo Zi gradually improved it. Now the technicians in the Iron Prison have their own promotion system, independent of military and civil positions. In addition to having a certain political status, they mainly have an income tilt. In addition to the salary from the court, the Iron Prison Commission provides subsidies based on their contributions. Top technicians like Tao Shiqi are only lower than those of the Iron Prison Guo Zi, and are even higher than other officials of the Iron Prison.

In the official business of the Song Dynasty, it was common for the officials who were in charge of the business who had lower income than the main managers and technical personnel. This was the case in most places. The Iron Supervision is not special. Officials represent the supervisors of the government office and do not participate in daily management. They are two systems with the business management of the business.

In the past, craft officials were mainly medical officials, painters, etc., and were relatively unrespected and had a lower political status. As the status of several iron supervisors became more and more important, their status gradually began to rise. Although they were still not as good as civil and military positions, they were much stronger than before.

When they arrived at the pier, Tao Shiqi stepped onto the shore and saluted Du Zhongxiao: "I haven't seen my husband for a long time, so the subordinates really want to be nervous!"

Du Zhongxiao held Tao Shiqi's hand: "Isn't it just a meeting? You have done a good job in the past few years, very good! Who would have thought that a young man who took revenge in the street could do this today!"

After saying a few gossips, Du Zhongxiao said: "Download the goods from the ship, install them inside, and let them prepare them. I prepared wine and food inside to welcome you. After so many days, we will gossip."

Tao Shiqi agreed and said, "Mr., in addition to the machines transported by the Ministry of Commerce, there are also some heavy artillery from the Management Office, and they have arrived in Shengzhou City. The husband should ask people to unload them as soon as possible to avoid occupying the vehicle. These vehicles are empty and cannot be repaired when they are damaged in front of the war. They can be transported back to the railway supervisor with the vehicle. There are many batches of artillery behind them, which will be transported again and again."

Du Zhongxiao ordered his followers and said, "Today we will not talk about official affairs, we will only talk about personal affairs!"

In the past, the equipment was tens of thousands of troops, but now it has expanded to 160,000 troops, and the number of equipment lacking is not a small number. Hundreds of thousands of troops have changed their clothes, and the general guns and cannons are not the turn of Hequ Road for a while, and they are all assigned to the imperial guards for training. Only heavy artillery, other troops cannot use it, and they all go to Hequ Road first. In Du Zhongxiaoding's system, heavy artillery is a strategic weapon, which is directly controlled by the General Administration, and will be strengthened to various departments if necessary. Other imperial guards and senior command agencies such as the General Administration have no clue yet.

Hequ Road is a template for the future establishment of the general's offices, and the court also intends to do so. The organizational structure is based on Du Zhongxiao's proposal and the opinions of all the officials of the court, and some modifications have been made. Taking Hequ Road as an example, the general commander of the general's office is in charge of civil affairs. In fact, it is the management of the general's office, or the general's office, which roughly overlaps with the transshipment route. The military force below is divided into three parts, which are actually three military routes. Yang Wenguang from the east road, Zhao Zi from the west road, and the commander is also changed from Dou Shunqing to Zhang Ji. The middle road is the strategic reserve army, which is directly under the commander, and both the commander is in charge of the general's office.

Each route has 50,000 soldiers, approximately 30,000 infantry, and 10,000 cavalry and artillery. Since some rangers and light artillery are under the organization of infantry, the actual total force distribution is about 20,000 artillery, more than 20,000 cavalry, and about 50,000 infantry.

Yang Wenguang, Zhao Zi and Zhang Ke's current status is approximately equivalent to that when Du Zhongxiao first led his troops north, each unit had quite strong combat capabilities. When the imperial court now calls these positions, it is generally called generals in the front, while Du Zhongxiao is the general.

The other roads, institutions, organizations, and deployments are basically adapted according to Hequ Road. Some roads have more generals, such as Hebei Road and Shaanxi Road, and four Hedong Road, with the least Hequ Road. Hebei, Hedong, Hequ and Shaanxi are called the Four Roads along the Border.

Unlike before, the General Office was also in charge of civil affairs, while the generals were focused on military affairs and no longer in charge of civil affairs. In contrast, the direct power of the General Office was reduced, mainly heavy artillery, as well as personnel required for intelligence, logistics, staff, training and other matters. In addition to the 150,000 troops of the three armies, the remaining 10,000 people were basically composed of direct personnel of Du Zhongxiao, the direct personnel of the General Office.

The court made such changes, on the one hand, strengthened the restraint of the generals of the subordinates, and on the other hand, strengthened the independent combat capability of the generals. The upper and lower levels of the generals are the traditional way of governing the subordinates. Corresponding to such a setting, the generals tended to be civil officials with military experience, corresponding to the Privy Council of the court. On the other hand, the generals were military generals, corresponding to the three yamen.

Such a layout should not be wrong. Now the combat power of the troops along the way is too strong, and once they lose control, the consequences will be unimaginable.

The status of the general of the frontier corresponds to the original military management of the Third Yaya, which was already the military minister. No one can tell whether the three yamen will be set up in the future to allow the three yamen to join the Privy Council and the Privy Council to join the Privy Council. Now no one can explain clearly. The power to use military forces has been lost and the structure of command has been changed. The three yamen have become a bureaucratic organization of force, which is completely different from before. The imperial guards in the capital can also be arranged according to the border, without the generals in the capital. Whether it is the Privy Council or the Third Yamen, there is no command of the imperial guards in the capital without the imperial guards. Or you can only set up the General Office, without the General Office, and the General Office can be stationed in other places.

The imperial power's defense against military power is mainly in the imperial guards in the capital, rather than the army along the border. The three yamen's hall has the least soldiers in front of the hall, but the commander in front of the hall has the highest status. The higher-level hall has already left only empty names and not given real titles, so it is because of this.

The most important issue now is that the battle of the imperial guards along the border is not a standard, but the capital city has no threat as the standard. How many people are suitable for the most basic combat units? Du Zhongxiao originally envisioned a battalion, with a scale of about one or two thousand people, but now the officials in the court think it is too few. But if they really use the road level as the unit, the threat is too great. Fortunately, the imperial guards along the border have generals in the capital city have 50,000 troops in command, and the capital can control the government.
Chapter completed!