The Rise of the European Emperor

In fact, the general staff system is nothing new. As early as the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Ming Chengzu Zhu Di established a humble cabinet. However, the cabinet at that time was completely different from the cabinet in the middle and late Ming Dynasty.

In the cabinet created by Zhu Di, the rank of the cabinet masters is very low, only the fifth rank, which is one level lower than the lower prefect of the fourth rank. But the cabinet has the support of the emperor and can compete with the six ministers. But without the emperor's support, a cabinet scholar with only the fifth rank would not be able to compete with the six ministers.

In this way, the cabinet must rely on the emperor to compete with the six ministries. And the emperor therefore firmly grasped the power.

It's a pity that Zhu Di's descendants don't understand the mystery, so they can't stop raising the rank of the cabinet. The cabinet that was originally "humble and powerful" has become "high and powerful". Especially when it comes to Emperor Jiajing, who likes to cultivate immortals, the chief assistant of the cabinet can check and balance the six ministries after leaving the emperor behind. Then, the role of the emperor is dispensable...

In the Wanli period, Emperor Wanli found sadly that the hole his grandfather had dug was too big, and now the cabinet can leave him alone as the emperor...

Then, the disheartened Wanli simply stopped going to court for decades. Anyway, it's useless for him to go, the cabinet doesn't need him anymore...

Therefore, the cabinet in the late Ming Dynasty has become a superpower that can replace the emperor. With authority no less than that of a monarch, naturally there will be more people who are jealous. Therefore, the party struggle in the late Ming Dynasty was extremely fierce. Because everyone knows that whoever controls the cabinet will gain power comparable to imperial power...

And after gaining a power comparable to imperial power, the civil servants who entered the cabinet were so full... At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Chongzhen was the poorest in the whole capital, and those civil servants were all very rich... …

In the final analysis, it was Jiajing that idiot who was busy cultivating immortals and delegated all the power to Yan Song, the chief assistant of the cabinet, which caused the cabinet to be too big to lose. He himself could rely on Jinyiwei to get his rights back, but once the practice was formed, his descendants would naturally have to be emptied by the cabinet without his means of using the factory guards.

Therefore, with the lessons of the Ming Dynasty, when Marin drafted the document for the establishment of the General Staff, he added a principle that the General Staff only has the command power in wartime, and those who dare to intervene in the command of the army in peacetime will be shot!

In addition, Marin repeatedly emphasized that the general staff has no affiliation with the army, and its status is not higher than that of the local army commander. This point, even the king has no right to change it! If the future king has the intention to forcibly modify it, the ministers can depose him according to this clause...

This one is very ruthless, because Marin is afraid that future generations will act like the emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Jiajing is not the first emperor to improve the status of the cabinet. His predecessors also contributed a lot to improving the status of the cabinet. In short, it is not the responsibility of Jiajing alone. The status of the cabinet of the Ming Dynasty was raised step by step, not in one step. By the end of Ming Dynasty, the cabinet could already bully the emperor.

Marin did not want the situation of the cabinet of the Ming Dynasty to appear, so when he established the general staff in the future, he would publicly announce these two principles, and even the later monarchs could not violate them. Otherwise, it will be deposed according to law...

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Of course, in addition to the general staff system, Marin also had to consider another military leader, the Minister of Military Affairs, who will be the Minister of Defense for later generations.

The identity of this character must be higher than the head of the local army, and also higher than the general staff. How to prevent this person from monopolizing military power is also a very important issue.

Because, in normal times, the General Staff cannot mobilize the army, but the Minister of Military Affairs must have the right. After all, theoretically speaking, the status of the Minister of Military Affairs is second only to the king in the army.

After thinking about it, Marlin finally decided that when the Minister of Military Affairs mobilized troops, he could only mobilize units below the legion level. If you want to mobilize legion-level units, you must ask the king for instructions. Then, the order is issued by the royal family. The Minister of Military Affairs, on the other hand, has no right to directly issue orders to units at the corps level.

In addition, Marin also intends to imitate the Maozi of later generations and set up an internal guard force to surround the capital. This army is under the personal control of the king, and no one else has the right to intervene. Moreover, its organizational system is directly under the royal family, not under the control of the Minister of Military Affairs, and the Minister of Military Affairs has no right to mobilize a single soldier of the Internal Guard. In other words, this force is the Royal Guards of the Beihai Kingdom.

Of course, this is all for the future. For the current Beihai country, it is too early to say these things. Marin knew very well that his generation must have taken control of the military power himself. After all, he has military knowledge hundreds of years ahead of the times in his mind, and no one can do it better than him.

However, he can't guarantee that his descendants will also have military talents. If he encounters a military idiot and monopolizes military power, he is likely to ruin the country's elite just like Ming Yingzong's idiot.

Therefore, in the future, Marin will definitely hand over the general power, leaving only the imperial guards in the capital, which will be firmly controlled by the royal family. In other places, the army will teach the general staff to command the war, and usually hand it over to the Ministry of National Defense for management...

Of course, military expenditures must also be borne by the cabinet. Unlike the current Beihai State, military expenditures are all borne by Marin himself.

Fortunately, food prices in Europe are expensive these years, and Marin has firmly kept the secret of high grain production. Otherwise, Marin would not be able to support so many troops.

However, in the future, the secret of high grain yield will definitely be revealed. At that time, the Hoffman family will not be able to afford the military expenses of so many troops, and can only hand over the burden of military expenses to the national taxation.

Once this is the case, the command of those troops will also be handed over to the Ministry of Defense of the cabinet. At that time, the royal family will only be left with the control of a Praetorian Guard Corps defending the capital, so as to prevent the royal family from being easily overthrown.

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Those are things for the future, and Marin actually doesn't expect his offspring to always occupy the throne. He just hopes that his descendants can survive the wave of the French Revolution. As long as that wave survives, after entering the 19th century, even if the royal family is overthrown, it will not be easily sent to the guillotine.

Marin never expected his descendants to be kings from generation to generation, he just hoped that the descendants would not be slaughtered like chickens and dogs. As long as it can last beyond the 19th century, it will basically not be easily massacred. The bloody and debt-ridden royal family like Man Qing can survive, and Marin doesn't believe that the reputation of his descendants can be worse than them. As long as it lasts until the 19th century, his descendants will not be in danger of life.

After the 19th century, members of the royal family were rarely killed worldwide. Even if they are overthrown, members of the royal family generally go into exile, instead of being slaughtered as before.

Of course, if you can be like the British royal family, you can be a false monarch. At least, no life-threatening.

However, these Marin can only think about it. After all, children and grandchildren have their own blessings, and he really can't control the affairs of future generations...