Chapter 222: Reform of the God-Slaying Division

On May 14th, at the barracks of the God-Slaying Division.

Thousands of God-Slaying Guards dressed in brocade clothes have been standing on the parade ground for two hours, but they still dare not complain in their hearts.

Now that the signboard of the Inspection Office has been put up, the performance appraisal system must naturally be implemented.

Zhou Tieyi did not launch any surprise attack, because the management of the army is not a one or two day attendance check, but a long period of running-in, which turns people into precise parts that can form a steel torrent when needed.

Incompatible parts need to be replaced in a timely manner. This is what is meant by "the camp remains permanent, but the soldiers come and go."

After spending two hours reading files at the Supervisory Office, Zhou Tieyi finally walked onto the parade ground.

There was a chair right in front of the parade ground, and next to the chair were ten tables. The clerks from the Inspection Office also stood behind the tables for two hours.

Based on Hu Wenlang's information, Zhou Tieyi selected these clerks, all of whom were young men from poor families like Wu Qian.

"Thank you all for your hard work."

Zhou Tieyi looked at the thousands of people present and spoke loudly. The strong energy and blood power allowed his voice to be clearly heard throughout the entire training ground.

"Thank you for your hard work, inspector."

Led by Shentu Yuan, the military heroes who were won over by Zhou Tieyi naturally knew how to answer and responded quickly, but nearly half of the remaining military heroes, a large number of officials from the civil service group, and small flag officers from humble backgrounds did not react at first, and only responded sporadically afterwards.

Zhou Tieyi shook his head secretly in his heart.

With this level of ability, let alone killing the enemy in battle, it would be considered a skill for them not to step on their own people.

But this is normal. The military equipment of the entire Tianjing God-Slaying Division has been abandoned for more than 20 years, and a generation has been wasted.

Zhou Tieyi did not demand too much now, but smiled and said, "I have already informed you of the rules I set yesterday. Now I will give you another chance. If you are not used to my rules, come forward and cancel your registration in the God-Slaying Division. I will definitely not blame you."

After Zhou Tieyi finished speaking, the training ground fell silent again.

Even though the small flags and general flags of the civil service group were afraid of being harassed by Zhou Tieyi, they did not want to step forward and admit defeat at this time.

In their minds, the worst that could happen is that Zhou Tieyi would report for duty every day, and they would go to the God-Slaying Division according to the rules and regulations. Anyway, the system of the God-Slaying Division was definitely not considered laborious, and was similar to the Tianjing Guards and other military equipment.

Many families even want to train their useless sons and do not allow them to resign immediately.

Zhou Tieyi was not surprised by the current situation. He laughed and said that the roll call is not just for you guys.

Although there were thousands of people on the parade ground at this time, the number was far from enough.

Under normal circumstances, excluding assistants such as clerks, calligraphers, and painters, the Tianjing Headquarters of the God-Slaying Division should be fully staffed with a combat force of 8,000 people.

After checking the accounts, he found that the entire Zhushen Division reported more than 7,000 combat troops, but there were only more than 1,000 people on the scene!
Of course, it was not because the remaining 6,000 people dared to offend Zhou Tieyi's tiger whiskers at this time, but because they did not exist at all!

Even Zhou Tieyi cannot kill a person who does not exist.

Eating a salary without working!
When he entered the God-Slaying Division, his second uncle Gong Shusheng had mentioned this issue to him, saying that he wanted to transfer personal guards from his family to fill the vacancies under his command.

Because the Zhou family is a military family and the backbone of the military family, there are so many people who can fill the position.

But what about the remaining small flags and the overall flag?
In theory, a small flag should command a combat unit of ten people, and the general flag should command five small flags to form a complete action unit of the Zhushen Division.

But the current situation is that in the entire Tianjing's God-Slaying Division, the small flags who came from the Buyin family receive the training supplies for their own combat units every month, but they do not summon a single person at all!

The warehouse department also knew this, so the small flags only took 30% of the training materials for their subordinates as a pretense, and used the remaining 70% to manage things up and down. In this way, the training materials of the entire Zhushen Division were consumed out of thin air.

This is the headquarters of the Tianjing God-Slaying Division. Even for the most basic combat unit, the 'Warriors', two ninth-grade martial arts training resources must be issued on time every month.

Pills, medicines for injuries, visualization diagrams are all good stuff that are in short supply and there is no need to worry about selling them.

Zhou Tieyi looked at Wu Qian and said, "Let's start the roll call."

Wu Qian nodded, and took the account books with the clerks around him, "The flags whose names are called out below, lead your strongmen to re-record and revise the roster."

"Shen Tuyuan."

"To!"

Shentu Yuan immediately led the ten personal guards he had mobilized from home and began to revise the roster.

"Liu Zong."

"To!"

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The first people whose names were called out were all the sons of military honors notified by Zhou Tieyi. They also had sufficient resources to fill the vacancies and at least set an example so that the whole scene would not be too ugly.

But as the sons of military honors who had defected to Zhou Tieyi stepped forward, the remaining small flags and the general flags immediately understood what Zhou Tieyi was going to do and their faces changed.

If this performance examination system only required everyone to report to the government office on the surface, everyone would have accepted it after gritting their teeth.

But checking the military pay really touched everyone's heart.

Especially for the children of civil officials, although they have retainers in their families, it is difficult for many civil officials to pass down their family honors from generation to generation like military honors, so the training of retainers focuses more on the quality of the retainers rather than the quantity.

The family does have eighth- and seventh-rank martial artists as guards, but they generally do not recruit ninth-rank martial artists.

Because the cost-effectiveness is too low, just like the college students in the previous life, human resources have a headache when they see them. If you say they are useless, after all, others have come through thousands of troops. But if you say they are useful, unless they are particularly outstanding, otherwise bringing them back will only cost their own resources and train them again.

Only families with military honors, who regularly train personal guards from a young age, can have a large number of ninth-rank martial artists, because they can make clear arrangements for these personal guards from beginning to end, and even those who are eliminated due to lack of qualifications can be sent into the army.

A relationship of trust is formed between the host and his guests, spanning one or even several generations.

Now Zhou Tieyi's intention is to let them use the eighth-grade and seventh-grade martial artists in their families to fill the ninth-grade vacancies. Not to mention whether there are so many people in the family, the loss alone will be borne by everyone out of their own pockets!
In the past, those who had disturbed the foundation of Tianjing's system of appointing officials to official positions would have been crushed to ashes long ago. But now the person who was stirring up trouble was Zhou Tieyi, who had stepped on the officials of Si Min and Si Lu to rise to power. As a result, everyone was at a loss for a moment, and no one even dared to be the first to take action!
Zhou Tieyi smiled again and said, "I still say what I said just now. I cannot bear this 'hardship'. I will come here and cancel my membership in the God-Slaying Division. I will never pursue the past!"

Finally, he added, "You guys discuss it."

The children of civil servants looked around and suddenly someone said to the people around them, "Since Inspector Zhou said that bygone days will not be punished, if you have any difficulties, go and cancel your official status."

The person who spoke was Tang Wulun, the grandson of Tang Anshi, the Minister of Education. He was also the leader of the generation of civil servants in their twenties in the Zhushen Division. As soon as he spoke, the other small flags who had been recruited through the civil service system breathed a sigh of relief.

Although they were unwilling, they all stepped forward to cancel their eighth-rank official status and became commoners, which also meant losing a stable resource for cultivation.

Then, Tang Wulun and other top civil servants' sons stood still, waiting to be called. Knowing that Zhou Tieyi wanted to restructure the God-Slaying Division, their families had of course made all the necessary preparations. The problem of empty salaries was naturally taken into consideration, and they brought enough ninth-rank retainers today, and even asked Tang Wulun and others to bring the training materials that needed to be 'supplemented'.

It's not that they are greedy for the eighth or seventh rank official positions, but Zhou Tieyi is reforming the military equipment of the Zhushen Division. No matter what the civil officials say, they will not feel at ease with Zhou Tieyi taking control of the Zhushen Division. At least they want to have spies in it to understand what Zhou Tieyi has done.

The civil officials split into two factions, and the military heroes were not much better off, especially those who did not follow Zhou Tieyi to Linshuixuan that night. Some of them came up and asked if they could mobilize their personal guards now.

Zhou Tieyi kicked him to the ground, then walked over with a sneer, "You thought I was playing house with you."

He pointed at Tang Wulun who was standing still, "Be smarter in the future. You'll get into trouble if you stay in the God Execution Division if you're so stupid. Get out of here!"

Even though these military heroes were unwilling to do so, they had no choice but to step forward and have their names removed from the rolls.

The third type of people are the small flags who come from humble backgrounds. Most of them entered the Zhushen Division through the martial arts examination, and they just want to use the resources of the Zhushen Division to practice. But now the gods are fighting and the mortals are suffering. Where can they find strong men to fill the vacancies under their command?

So they could only step forward and remove their names one by one.

Zhou Tieyi saw this but didn't say anything immediately.

After a complete set of procedures were completed, there were thousands of soldiers in the military camp, but only 800 people stood in the parade ground, forming exactly 16 combat units at the general flag level.

But this is far from enough. There are more than 10 million people in the four cities and one mountain of Tianjing. If you add the hidden population, it is estimated that there are close to 20 million people.

Zhou Tieyi stood up and looked at the people in the training ground. Even the 'strongmen' brought by the civil officials were elite, so he nodded and said, "Finally, it looks good."

Then he spoke, "In view of the current shortage of personnel in the God-Slaying Division, I have discussed with the gentlemen and decided to recruit a group of resigned personnel to serve as acting flag bearers. After re-evaluation and deployment of strongmen under their command, the word "acting" will be removed."

Zhou Tieyi looked at his clerks, who immediately understood and took out the roster to re-call the names of the poor and small flag officers whose accounts had just been cancelled.

These small flags, who were originally dejected and thought they were unlucky, were suddenly overjoyed and looked at Zhou Tieyi with gratitude.

It turns out that Inspector Zhou was waiting here.

Tang Wu Lun and others looked at Zhou Tieyi with serious expressions. Even though they didn't pay any extra price, Zhou Tieyi had already won the hearts of the people with his comings and goings.

The military heroes were naturally dissatisfied. Some of them were about to speak, but when Zhou Tieyi looked at them, they were so scared that they dared not say a word.

What a disgrace to the Military Honor!

Zhou Tieyi cursed in his heart.

They didn't dare to follow me to Linshuixuan that day because I knew that these idiots had neither the courage nor the wisdom to see the situation clearly.

Such a cowardly and foolish person, even if he is also a military hero, what's the point of keeping him in your hands!
Could it be that they respected the prince back then, but they don’t respect me, Zhou Tieyi, today?
Then why have I been building up my authority for so long?
It only means that I haven’t established my authority enough, and I have to kill a few more people today!

Looking at the now much cleaner Zhushensi training ground, Zhou Tieyi stood up and said, "Enter the camp!"

For a moment, new vitality was injected into the originally decadent and dilapidated barracks.

The civil officials, the small flags of military honors, and the general flags looked at the barracks with complicated expressions. Just for a moment, they also wanted to re-enter this miserable barracks that they originally looked down upon, but now they could only go back and ask their families for solutions.

Zhou Tieyi didn't care about what these people thought at all, and went straight to the office residence of Wei Shaoan, the commander of the God-Slaying Division. Today he sorted out the God-Slaying Division for the first time, and only touched the small flags and the general flag.

There are still hundreds or thousands of households left.

Because the original system of the headquarters was chaotic, and the hundred and thousand households were already real middle-level managers with the conditions to work independently and did not need to be affiliated with the military camp, the problem of ghost employees there was much more serious than here, otherwise the current situation would not have occurred.

This also needs to be changed, and we even have to eliminate the system of hundreds and thousands of households from the root.

Apart from the issue of empty salaries, the only remaining issue is the issue of "salary".

In the past, the compensation provided by the God-Slaying Division was for the entire imperial court, so all officials turned a blind eye to the food and salary of the God-Slaying Division. It was like the small flags actually only received 30% of the resources for cultivation, and the remaining 70% were still stuck in various links!
If they reform themselves now, they will only get stuck even more.

I can act according to the rules and regulations in my small piece of land in the God-Slaying Division, and they can also act according to the rules and regulations in their own small piece of land.

It's not that we won't give you the food and salary from the God-Slaying Division, but everyone is doing things according to the rules and regulations, so it's not too much to withhold your military salary for a few months. After all, Daxia is so big and money is needed everywhere, and you should also understand everyone's difficulties.

Zhou Tieyi is very experienced in this kind of behavior.

He does have the ability to get this part of the military pay back eventually, but he can't waste these few months.

The emperor already has enough hungry soldiers, but you, Zhou Tieyi, are making a fuss about reforming the God-Slaying Department, but as soon as you take office, everyone has no food to eat.

Then the prestige that he had worked so hard to build up and the vitality he had injected into the current God-Slaying Division would be completely consumed, and he would have to work hard to accumulate them again.

Officials, officials, you must feed your officials first before you can be an official. Otherwise, no one will help you govern the people.

This is not a problem that can be solved by killing people. If you only know how to kill people, then you are at most a ruthless person, not a capable person. Since you are no longer prepared to follow the path of a cruel official, you have to find a way to get through this critical period of reform.

Fortunately, I already have a clear idea about the source of military pay. What is the Jinyiwei best at? Isn't it confiscating property?
Since the property was confiscated, it was natural that something would be "lost". What was lost was the source of military pay for the small flag reforms of the Zhushen Division in the past few months.

If all the officials couldn't stand it if he didn't succeed, they naturally wouldn't dare to delay the military pay.

Otherwise, we soldiers are not greedy, so let’s see who dares to be greedy!
What a joke!
In addition to military pay, there are also the daily functions of the God-Slaying Division that need to be clarified, and the training tasks that need to be clarified. There are so many things to do, but fortunately, there are ready-made templates to refer to. In this process, you can also select a group of truly capable people.

Sunset.

Today the Right General’s Mansion is much more lively than usual!
Just like Zhou Tieyi went to the Right General when he knew something was wrong, these military meritorious playboys did not dare to jump up and down in front of Zhou Tieyi, but thinking that with so many people united together, they naturally wanted to use the Right General to suppress Zhou Tieyi, at least to allow themselves and others to re-enter the God-Slaying Division.

After this group of military meritorious service entered the Right General's Mansion, the Right General's eldest grandson Yuchi Jing looked at the 'little brothers' who were begging him to make the decision in the yard. If he had encountered such a situation before, he would have been very happy.

But in the past few months, Zhou Tieyi has been changing, and the people around him have also been changing.

Among them was Yuchi Jing.

Especially when comparing the people in front of him with Zhou Tieyi, Yuchi Jing felt even less interested. What else could these trash do under his command except wasting food!
However, their Right General's Mansion is different from Zhou's Mansion. As the leader of military merit, even if Yuchi Jing is unwilling, he has to pretend to do so, just like when the Right General allowed Zhou Tieyi to enter the mansion last.

"Everyone, this matter involves Inspector Zhou. Allow me to report to the Right General first."

The military heroes who had been noisy just now were stunned for a moment.

Because the name of Yuchi Jing is very problematic.

Inspector Zhou, Right General.

These are all official titles, and they mean that official business should be handled impartially.

Even if it fails in the end, it has nothing to do with Yuchi Jing, a commoner, but an internal matter of you officials.

Everyone couldn't help but look at Yuchi Jing again, and suddenly found that there seemed to be something different about Yuchi Jing.

clothing!

Those who were quick-witted immediately noticed the biggest difference. In the past, Yuchi Jing always liked to wear a scholar's gown that matched his body shape and appearance.

Even though no one dared to say it to the others' face, they all laughed at the bear in their hearts, saying that it was a brown bear wearing human clothes.

But today Yuchi Jing was only wearing a simple martial arts outfit. Even though he was not wearing any gold or jade, with his height and size, he looked intimidating without even being angry. People did not dare to look down on him. On the contrary, he was much better than the inappropriate scholar's long gown.

"Thank you, Brother Yuchi."

Everyone bowed their hands and saluted.

Yuchi Jing nodded calmly, then walked towards his grandfather Yuchi Pojun's study.

Of course, Yuchi Pojun knew everything about what was happening in the Right General's Mansion. He had just used his second-rank ability to secretly check how Yuchi Jing handled the matter.

When he heard what Yuchi Jing said, he couldn't help but nodded slightly.

Although it has not fully grown yet, it is still a significant improvement compared to two months ago.

It turns out that it is necessary to teach this grandson and son.

And you have to teach your grandson a good lesson, let him hang out with that kid more. At least he has written some articles and knows what position he should be in and what to say.

Thinking of Zhou Tieyi, Yuchi Pojun couldn't help but frown again.

Yesterday, Qingkong Gui and Dong Xingshu joked with me that Zhou Tieyi would cause trouble for me at the next court meeting. I didn't expect that trouble for this kid would come so soon. He had already found me before the next court meeting.

Zhou Tieyi can do without the waste among the military merits, but their Right General's Mansion cannot ignore it. This is because their status is different and the things they do are also different.

(End of this chapter)