Ma Ming, Duncheng, Bai Min, and Guan Lu, the four internal guards, were completely dumbfounded, they didn't expect that in the middle of the morning training, Prime Minister Xiao Cheng actually brought a group of civil and military officials to visit them.

"Ma Ming, Duncheng, Bai Min, Guan Lu...... Take a step forward!" Zhao Yidao's shoulder let the bullet bite, but it still didn't delay him to toss the group of recruits in full breath, and in his roar, the four guards were stepping forward, and the heels of the military boots collided together, making a loud sound.

Xiao Letian walked up to them, staring at the four of them with blazing eyes, his gaze wandering over them.

"Well, yes, it's a bit of a soldier, and it's a world away from the soft lying appearance you guys had before...... Hehe, I know that you are very unconvinced when you hear it, and I also know that you are all martial arts masters who are no less than Long Ye, but in my eyes, you were all soft little reptiles in the past!"

"Don't be angry, don't be unconvinced, think for yourself, no matter how hard your fists are, no matter how high your kung fu is, but you have a selfish heart and a soul that only knows how to retreat, then what is the use of your good kung fu?"

Xiao Lotian paced back and forth in front of them, "I won't say much about what the four of you used to be like, but yesterday you did a beautiful job, I really didn't expect that when the order to charge was given, the four of you actually rushed to the front, incredible, really incredible......"

"Why don't you want to reward the number of silver? Why don't you think that you don't have any weapons in your hands......?

Xiao Letian's words stimulated the four guards to be angry, they forgot the military regulations, and Ma Ming shouted loudly, "Prime Minister, I don't accept it...... Why do you look down on us so much, we are also dignified men, we also have our dignity, the enemy is in front of us, why don't we dare to fight? You look down on people too much......

Looking at the angry eyes of the four guards, Xiao Letian was not angry at all, he shook his head, "Is it because I look down on you?" Wrong, it was what you did before that made me look down on you, look at your previous appearance on the battlefield, charge to reward silver, heralds to reward silver, the enemy is outnumbered, and I will not fight, turn around and flee...... What do you want me to look at one by one?"

"Of course, the four of you will definitely not be convinced, but to put it mildly, the bravery and loyalty you show must be pure......?

"Think for yourself, if there is no benefit, will you give up your life at all costs? You don't have to give me an answer, just torture your own hearts, in fact, I know more about the Manchu people than you, and the customs and habits in the Eight Banners......"

Xiao Letian's words The four guards couldn't answer, thinking about the lazy atmosphere in Sijiu City, thinking about those Eight Banners who said beautiful on their lips but were extremely selfish in their hearts, the heads of the four guards all bowed.

"But......" Xiao Letian changed his words, "but you did a really beautiful job yesterday, you really showed the essence of a good soldier, there is no doubt when you hear the order, and when you charge into battle, you can forget the small self in your heart to achieve the big self, you actually really integrated yourself into this collective, which I am very pleased ......"

"Come on, give me a gun!" Xiao Letian gave an order, and four honor guards walked over with four trays covered with red silk. Xiao Lotian lifted the red silk, revealing four delicate Colt revolvers, as well as a large number of copper-shelled bullets in Huang Chengcheng.

Ma Ming's eyes were red with excitement, this is the Citigroup rotor gun worth a thousand taels in the Qing Dynasty, which can shoot six bullets in an instant, as long as it is designed closely, even the ancestors are difficult to dodge.

The gun is good, the ceremony of giving the gun is better, Prime Minister Xiao of the East China Sea gave the gun in front of all the new troops, this face is enough for the four of them to blow for a lifetime, and then go back to Sijiu City, with the foreign gun given by the prime minister on his waist, and go to the other person to take a look.

What's more, the little emperor is still picking up the thumbs up behind the prime minister, and the eunuchs in the corner are still wiping tears from their eyes, and the yin people just can't stand this kind of masculinity.

Ma Ming and the others were so tall that they let the honor guard tie a cowhide armed belt on them, and finally Xiao Letian personally inserted the pistol into the holster.

"From now on, the four of you can train with guns, and that's your privilege...... Always remember the moment when you sacrificed your life and forgot to charge yesterday, and never forget the spirit in your hearts...... That's the military soul that a soldier should have!"

"If you want to bring out a new army, you have to change everyone's hearts, don't go back to the old way!"

Listening to the Prime Minister's earnest entrustment, and looking around at the solemn gun-giving ceremony around him, the noses of the four guards couldn't help but sour themselves.

When all the pistols were inserted into the holster, Xiao Lotian took a step back and shouted, "All of them...... Salute!" Hundreds of recruits and dozens of officers present, including Xiao Letian himself and Emperor Tongzhi, all stood up and performed a new-style military salute, and even Mr. Nobil, who was watching the salute at the back of the queue, took off his hat and saluted.

At this time, the four guards couldn't control it at all, and tears rolled down without a breath, they can be regarded as people who have seen the world, and the Forbidden City can enter and exit at will, but today they were moved by this small gun-giving ceremony.

In Sijiu City, they are just slaves, just eagle dogs of the court, and no matter how many nobles and officials are rewarded, they will look at them with disdain. Only at this moment, they suddenly felt that they were an upright person, and Xiao Letian seemed to have smashed a few steel nails into their backbones.

As long as the waist pole is straightened, it will be difficult to bend it in the future!

The gun-giving ceremony ended soon, and in the envious eyes of countless people, the four guards returned to the team and began to train with super intensity.

"Training, training, and then training, the four guards will become the four company commanders, and they will also become the four battalion commanders and the four division commanders...... One day, I will be like my master and train a strong army that makes foreigners retreat, and I firmly believe that ......"

The little emperor was stunned, when suddenly Shimazu Daro's roar sounded in his ears: "Baga! The ceremony is over, why don't you return to the team? Go back to the team immediately and train immediately, otherwise you will not be allowed to eat at noon today...... Go! add twenty extra push-ups, right now, right now, ......."

"Yes!" the instructor ...... Twenty push-ups, right now, right now!" the little emperor ran to the edge of the playground and sat up and did push-ups.

Xiao Letian, who walked to the door of the training camp, looked at the little emperor and the four guards out of the corner of his eye, and there was a bit of contradiction in his eyes in addition to recognition.

"Perhaps only this kind of collective life can dissipate the narrow nationalist complex in the hearts of the Manchus! Zaichun, you have to remember today's life, there are Han Chinese, Japanese, Ryukyu natives, and even young people from the South Seas, and even your enemies, the orphans of the Kingdom of Heaven, ......."

"You live together, train together, eat and sleep together, talk and brag...... I hope you can remember what they looked like, and I hope you can understand this, only when you Manchus learn to integrate with all ethnic groups equally, can you really have hope for the revival of the Qing Dynasty......"

"There is still a long way to go, but fortunately you are still young!"

After leaving the training camp, Xiao Letian immediately held a secret meeting at the highest level in the military headquarters, and the top leaders of the new army gathered together to analyze the situation in Japan, and because of the intervention of the French, the situation in Japan became more and more complicated.

"Ladies and gentlemen, since France has begun to send arms to Japan, then it can only prove that the Tokugawa shogunate and France have reached a secret agreement, and the French forces have begun to infiltrate Japan, and they will not let us dominate Asia.

After listening to Xiao Letian's opening remarks, the room suddenly buzzed, people talked about each other, and the map of the Japanese archipelago in front of him climbed more than a dozen heads.

Luo Huo belonged to the hard-liner representative of the new army, and he was the first to stand up: "Prime Minister, what else is there to talk about, let our new army directly participate in the war, with a thousand new troops as the backbone, eight thousand Japanese troops as meat, and 10,000 troops are enough to sweep through Japan, even if the French army directly participates in the war, it doesn't matter!"

At this time, the commander of the navy, Cai Mao, also stood up, "That's right, there are a total of eight warships available in the Ryukyus now, although they can't compare to the powerful fleet of the Westerners, but there is no problem in dealing with the Japanese navy, and our new cannon is enough to crush them outside the range of the Japanese warships...... Please give the Prime Minister's order, we can bombard Edo, and even lead a surprise army to conquer Edo Castle......"

In stark contrast to the fanaticism of Yu Luohuo and Cai Mao is the calmness of Xiao Hexin and Sima Yun, "No, no, no, the prime minister called us to discuss together, which means that the prime minister can't make up his mind in his heart, war is not only about the battlefield, but also about political ......considerations."

"Our new army directly participated in the war, will the four feudal clans in the southwest agree? The victory in the second Battle of Choshu has already made them a little flustered, and the Maori family and the Shimazu family will agree to the landing of our new army?"

"There is a threat from the French, why don't they agree? Do they think they can still defeat the French?" rang out in the crowd.

Xiao Hexin turned his head and replied, "The key is whether the Shogunate faction will believe our intelligence, the victory in the Battle of Choshu has made them a little fanatical, and their internal power dumping has also emerged, everyone has not yet defeated the shogunate, and they have already begun to consider the distribution of benefits after the war, will they let us get a piece of the pie?"

Xiao Hexin really has a bit of a strategist's demeanor, and the height of analyzing the problem is obviously not the same level as Luo Huo.

The conference room was once again at a stalemate, people began to deduce all kinds of possibilities, and Xiao Lotian himself began to empathize.

"If I were Tokugawa Yoshiki, then I would definitely show weakness to the enemy and retreat step by step to buy time for my army to train...... Although the four feudal clans were strong, they were not united, not to mention the four great feudal lords, and even Sakamoto Ryoma's Sea Aid Association and Nakaoka Shintaro's Land Aid Association were all quarreling because of their different ideas. ”

"For more rights, the four feudal clans in the southwest did not hesitate to wave butcher knives at their own people, not to mention that they were loyal to the emperor, after the Boshin War, it would soon be the Southwest War, and those big feudal lords did not hesitate to go to war with the emperor for the sake of interests, can such scattered sand really continue the victory in the previous life?"

Xiao Lotian fell into deep suspicion.