Most of the middle-level officers of the Wei army were not of high origins, and most of them were the children of the civil servants who fought along the way with Guo Peng.

They were able to get into the position of the lieutenant and the army's squad, and could rush around the military camp with five heads, which was also due to military merit.

After years of war, I have accumulated merits and promoted to this level, and it is not easy for everyone to win the status of military families and welfare benefits for my family.

But at present, as the empire's national power becomes increasingly stable and wars are less and less, there are fewer and fewer opportunities for meritorious service to be promoted.

You cannot be promoted by military merits, so if you want to be promoted, you cannot rely solely on your merits in war.

In addition to maintaining qualifications, personal performance should also be put into it, or to put it more vulgar, it is to be conscious.

Some people don’t have much idea about promotion, and think that it is already very satisfied to be a middle-level officer after a lifetime of battle. Let’s just enjoy peace and don’t have to go to camp.

Anyway, when you get to this point, your family is also a military family. You have a lot of benefits. There is no survival problem. The family members are very satisfied, and they are also very satisfied.

As for promotion, it is purely about getting a seniority. It doesn’t matter if you can get promoted, and it doesn’t matter if you can.

But some people still want to get promoted and take a look, and enjoy the general's addiction.

Ah, he is considered an iron-blooded soldier. Even if he gets the lowest level of general, he is OK. To put it, he is a general, so nice.

However, under the current situation, the number of wars is getting smaller and smaller, and the possibility of promotion through military means is getting lower and lower, and the possibility of promotion through other means is getting higher and higher.

So during this period, some people who want to be promoted are not so peaceful.

This trend has been noticed.

Before the Western Expedition, Zhao Yun had written a report to Guo Jin, telling Guo Jin that some people in the army were restless and tried to get the opportunity to get promotion in recent times.

They are not stingy in giving gifts to superior officers or those who have a relationship with superior officers, or find some special channels to get related to some people on the staff, trying to get priority for promotion.

The military dispatch naturally has nothing to do with the civilian government, but military promotion and military rank promotion are managed by the staff and Taiwan Examination Department. They will comprehensively judge based on the military's record. Whoever can be promoted can only wait, whoever wants to be demoted, etc.

They issued written statistics and handed them over to the emperor, who gave the emperor the final approval, but basically the decision was still placed on the staff.

Some people who hope to be promoted will find opportunities to work hard on the staff examination, hoping to get promotion.

Zhao Yun pointed out that this is an action that those in the army who are eager to be promoted after the number of wars decreased. There are many such people. He hopes that Guo Jin will pay attention to it and avoid those who want to be promoted from rushing around and disrupting the combat effectiveness of the army.

At the same time, we must also avoid some people in the staff station from using this relationship to create unnecessary connections with the army and interfering with the purity of the army.

After receiving the report, Guo Jin tried his best to launch the Western Expedition, barely appeased the wave of guys who wanted to be promoted.

But this is not a long-term solution after all.

If the army is to maintain combat effectiveness and maintain fundamental order, it is necessary to have an open and transparent promotion and elimination mechanism for peacetime periods.

War alone cannot appease those soldiers who are eager to be promoted. After all, there are no enemies around the Wei Empire.

So I took advantage of the Western Expedition to think a lot, consulted Guo Peng a lot, and came to some conclusions that he thought were very meaningful.

He wants to plan a relatively open and transparent promotion mechanism for the army.

The elimination mechanism is actually written in the military regulations and laws. As long as it is not followed, it will be restored to your original form at any time. Guo Jin is not worried about this.

However, there must be a promotion mechanism. It is indeed inhumane to only eliminate but not promote.

After a period of thinking and consultation, Guo Jin decided to engage in some daily activities and daily military merit models, and provide the army with a mechanism for promotion through daily activities and daily military merits.

For example, war exercises and military competitions are used to simulate war and confrontation to provide the army with opportunities to compete. Of course, winners will earn merits. The better their performance, the greater the possibility of promotion. This is obviously for you to see and not play tricks with you.

There are too many war exercise modes.

Field battles, city defense battles, street fighting, etc., various occasions, various terrain and various methods, you can do it at any time, and do such large exercises at any time to maintain the combat effectiveness of the army.

The army competition is a stage for officers and super powerful soldiers to show off.

Guo Jin consulted Guo Peng, and Guo Peng suggested that officers and powerful soldiers compete for various honorary titles such as [Soldier King] by competing with their respective military qualities, and give priority to promotions to soldiers with honorary titles and middle and low-level officers.

This inspires officers and soldiers to practice military skills and strengthen their physical fitness.

As the saying goes, there must be a brave man under heavy rewards. If a horse wants to run fast, he must make the horse full.

Guo Jin likes both of these very much.

Then there is daily military merits.

Guo Peng said that our army is different from those of the previous dynasty's gangsters and warlords.

Those old troops were like bandits. Wherever they went, geese plucked their hair, and they became military disasters like disasters. That would not work.

Our army is a regular army to defend the country and protect the country. We must protect the country and the people.

Therefore, our army must develop this habit and not bully the people with a high profile.

In order to cultivate this glorious tradition, when disasters occur, such as floods, winds, earthquakes, fires, or other large natural disasters, troops must be dispatched immediately to rescue local people.

Those who participate in such actions and make contributions will be credited according to certain standards and will also be calculated into the promotion mechanism.

With these rules, the promotion mechanism for the army to be established in a peaceful and war-free period.

After that, we will repair and find some meaningful things to add, so that the army will have many tasks in peacetime, constantly dispatch and move, so that there will be no things that Guo Jin is worried about.

Guo Jin accepted these ideas completely. He felt that Guo Peng’s ideas were very good and fully met his needs.

Now, when he initially grasps the real power of the Guards, he must further enhance his sense of existence in this way.

And as an arbiter, he came to the army.

Through arbitration, we can directly contact middle and lower-level officers and establish the connection between middle and lower-level officers and themselves.

Guo Peng established an absolute connection between himself and the soldiers at the bottom of the army by directly paying military salaries, and from then on, the soldiers at the bottom of the Wei army deeply remembered the existence of Emperor Guo Peng.

Then Guo Jin felt that it was necessary to establish a connection between himself and middle and lower-level officers through his own way and by controlling the promotion channels of officers in peacetime.

This further undermines the presence of the upper-level officers, allowing them to actually lose control of the army, leaving only nominal control.

The real power will be completely in the hands of Guo Jin, who is the emperor.

In this way, he established his own imperial authority, and his military power would not be easily shaken. As a real-power emperor of a unified empire, he was truly formed.

You must never control military power through other people, even if this person is his own half-la-father-in-law.

Guo Peng once told him that the brothers of Fusu and Hu Hai killed each other, and Liu Che and Liu were killed by father and son. In the face of absolute power, what is blood and family affection?

What's more, he and Zhao Yun have no blood relationship yet. To be serious, Zhao Kelan is just his concubine and is not very close.

How can we entrust military power?

Impossible.

Therefore, under this background, the competition for officers in the entire army within the capital city guards officially began.

At the same time, Guo Jin announced a new promotion regulations in the army.

At this point, middle and lower-level officers and soldiers who are expected to be promoted to officers finally understood what this competition means.

It means promotion, it means that you can accumulate merits and embark on the road to promotion in a peaceful era!

This is a smooth road, a smooth road opened by the emperor for them!

Through this bright road, they can go to a broader stage. Even if there is no war, even if there is no blood and fire, as long as they perform very well, they can still gain merits and accumulate merits and promotions.

This model of special accumulation of merit in the non-war era will become more and more mainstream in the future and more and more concerning everyone.

If they can obtain enough merits, even if they have no military achievements, they can still be promoted. This is their promotion path during non-war periods.

They went to inquire about the specific information, learn about the emperor's specific information about the army competition and daily disaster relief operations, and learn about how to do it to achieve merit.

After some understanding, they basically understood what the army's competition and daily disaster relief operations mean.

One is to test the individual quality of an officer, and the other is to test the qualities and abilities of the entire collective led by an officer.

It means that one can achieve personal merit, and the other is to obtain collective merit. Personal merit and collective merit must be combined to get promotion.

Collective merits can also be obtained in the army's competition, because in addition to individual duels, the emperor also plans to add some simulated war projects between the armies to judge which of the combat effectiveness is stronger.

The strongest one can also win collective merits.

Soon, the first army competition will be held in the guards.

So the entire guards were ready to fight and sharpen their swords and make great contributions. Many people were as excited as if they were injected with chicken blood. There were also many young officers who had conflicts on weekdays and said that they would teach them a lesson sooner or later.
Chapter completed!