Although the policy is basically determined, because there are no officialdom talents who understand industry and commerce, we can't replace all the officials of the prefectures, provinces and counties with people from the chamber of commerce. As long as I put the posture of attaching importance to industry and commerce, coupled with the trend of focusing on local economic development in the performance evaluation, I believe that local officials will pay attention to industry and commerce whether it is for the sake of black yarn hats or for more silver. In fact, after all, there are a number of officials, and they can also be monitored, but it is a large number of officials in various places and some local gentry guilds and the like that are the main force hindering the development of industry and commerce, so they have to give full play to the role of the information platform of the chamber of commerce, punish a group, scare a group, and win over a group.

At present, more than 10,000 people of the Wuwei Right Army and more than 3,000 Horqin Mongolian iron cavalry are stationed in the provincial capital to guard the holy car, and the Shanxi Green Battalion is a scum because of its combat strength, so they are simply sent back to Shanxi in Dongchang Mansion, as for Yuxian himself, he honestly stayed in the pavilion. Several detachments of the insurance regiment have now returned to the old camp in Ping'an Town, and except for one detachment sent to Lashan in turn to guard the captured Japanese soldiers, they are all in the process of resting.

On this day, a eunuch surnamed Chen came to the yamen to announce the decree with two little eunuchs. The current inner court is a big colander for me, and I don't need to use the relationship of General Manager Li, I can also know the movements of the imperial court in advance. Sure enough, it was "Husmug Baturu, a third-class viscount, a yellow jacket, a one-eyed flower, a political envoy to Shandong, and Wu Yuhan, a squire of the military department, to prepare for the establishment of a new army with a military wing, temporarily organized a town, raised salaries on the spot, and allocated 200,000 taels of silver to purchase weapons from the household department." A silver ticket of five hundred taels made Eunuch Chen satisfied, and he went back to restore his life without mentioning it.

After sending off the angels, I immediately summoned the heads of the insurance group to a meeting at the Yamen of the political envoy. While I was writing and drawing in the signing room alone to draft the next step of expansion, Han De, the deputy of the four detachments on duty, came in to report that an old friend from Tianjin had come to visit. I didn't react for a while, but since I claim to be an old friend, I believe that no one will dare to tease the political envoy of a province.

When I saw the visitor, I couldn't help but smile and said, "It's not just an old friend, it's also my family." Come and come, hard work all the way. Regardless of whether he was wearing a military shirt or an official uniform, he stepped forward and shook hands warmly with the visitor.

The face of the person who came also relaxed from restraint, "I came to vote in poverty, I didn't expect the adults to greet me so upside down, and the adults really have the style of Mengde." ”

"Hehe, I just thought it was you Wu Ziyu praising me." I hurriedly ordered: "Serve tea, serve good tea." ”

"Brother Ziyu." Wu Luzhen, who had just entered the door, saw the visitor who was drinking tea and chatting with me at a glance, "Such a coincidence, is Brother Ziyu coming to Jinan for business or private business?" ”

"No," a wry smile appeared on the visitor's face, "Actually, I hated my boss for some reason, lost my errand, and went to the end of my life to join the adult." ”

"Hey, Brother Ziyu's words are wrong." I took over the conversation, "I said at the beginning that the door of our insurance group will always be open to you Wu Ziyu, and I am true to my word." ”

"Forgive me for being arrogant at the time, not knowing how to lift, and failing to comprehend the sincerity of the adults." Wu Ziyu hurriedly got up and apologized,

I also stood up and waved my hand, "Brother Ziyu is not an outsider, let's be honest." Your errand just won't last long. ”

"Ah, what do you mean?" Wu Ziyu was confused, and several other detachment leaders who arrived one after another were also confused.

"Because my team has to reopen again, there is a serious lack of generals and handsome people to lead the troops. I can't watch you Wu Ziyu and his * members of the * will be humiliated all day long at the hands of ordinary flies and dogs, if you don't come today, hehe. "I handed him a piece of paper on the table that I had just written before Wu Ziyu came, Wu Ziyu had been with me just now, so I naturally knew that this was what I wrote before I saw him. There is a dense list of establishments and generals on it, and there are seven names in the first list of battalion officers in addition to the five detachment commanders, and his name Wu Ziyu is the first, and a "kidnapping" was written with a pen but it was crossed out again, followed by a few scribbled small characters "buy Shangguan and squeeze out". Wu Ziyu paused slightly after seeing it, and then sweated profusely, obviously this political envoy had the idea of kidnapping him, and even planned to buy his own officials and squeeze himself out so that he could use it. Wu Ziyu raised his head and glanced at me with a weak heart, I nodded slightly to show that he was not wrong, I was just planning to mess up his errand so that he could be used by me.

Wu Ziyu said in his heart that this master is not easy to serve, and it is really strange that a dignified second-class master can use such a trick to dig the foot of the wall. However, I am also very grateful to this lord for his appreciation, and from the perspective of his position, it is obvious that he wants to put himself alongside the original five detachment leaders and become the first-class generals under him. Wu Ziyu hugged his fists and saluted, "Ziyu thanks the adults for their kindness, this time the end of the road to vote, the adults will not give up." He must do his best, and then die. ”

"Okay, Brother Ziyu is a person who hides millions of armor soldiers in his chest, brother, I have your assistance, it is really a great thing in life." It was the first time I met the casting of a historical celebrity, and Wu Luzhen was dug up by me to find a treasure before.

"My lord, two of my classmates just returned from Japan today, and they and I are Lu Shi's classmates, and their grades are also first-class in the class. This time, I received my invitation letter to come to Jinan to have a look, can you take the time to see you? "Wu Luzhen naturally asked me after saying hello to Wu Peifu (Wu Ziyu).

"Well, of course." I saw that Xiao Mingfeng, who was on duty in Lashan, had not yet arrived, so I said, "A few of you greet Wu Peifu and Brother Wu for me." Then he apologized to Wu Peifu: "Brother Wu, sit down and drink tea, I'll go to the front to receive you." Wu Peifu naturally didn't dare to hold it up, so he quickly stood up and bent down to salute, "My lord, please." ”

When I came to the second gate in front, I saw two bald young men wearing Japanese student hats and black Japanese military uniforms outside the door discussing something in the courtyard. When I walked in, I heard a tall man say to his classmates: "Today, our dynasty is armed, and what can be used is Lord Yuan's Wuwei Right Army." The other Eight Banners practiced courage and collapsed at the touch of a button, the Mongolian cavalry was only brave, and the boxers were just pretending to be ghosts. ”

His classmates didn't notice us either, and returned: "Isn't it, Nie Junmen is brave, but it's a pity that his command is full of wine bags and rice bags, I heard that the casualties of the Japanese Fifth Division this time are only 100 people, so they annihilated tens of thousands of Yi soldiers and Wu Wei troops." The Chinese armies didn't even play a five-to-one or ten-to-one exchange ratio, which is really a shame for the best people in me. If there is a strong army that can defeat the Japanese, we will join the army, and it will not be in vain to go east to study all these years of hard work. ”

"Ahem, is what this gentleman said true?" I had already gone out of the second gate, only five steps away from the two of them, and when they heard my words, they turned their heads to look, but saw a young man of medium stature, wearing an iron-gray military shirt on the top, military trousers of the same color, and a pair of patent leather riding boots standing in the doorway. There was no sign on the head, and there was no flower feather on the head, and the two didn't know how to greet each other. At this moment, Wu Luzhen, who was dressed in military uniform, turned out from behind him and said with a smile: "This is Lord Wu Chenxuan Wu, who started from scratch for one year, trained for two years, and became a politician for three years. Why can't you two talk when you see a real person? ”

The two were shocked, they never thought that a dignified red-topped political envoy from the second rank would be so young and casual, without the pedantic arrogance of the Qing bureaucracy. "Participating adults" The adults in the mouths of the two people unconsciously performed a Western-style military salute, and I also cooperated with the salute in return. After understanding, several people laughed, and the atmosphere was much more harmonious for a while.

"Shouqing, introduce me to your two classmates." I say.

"Yes, sir. This is Lan Tianwei, the word Ji Hao. A native of Huangpi, Hubei Province (now Huangpi District, Wuhan City), he was the first leader of the Lu Shi Engineer Section. ”

"Ah, is Ji Hao a talented student of the Hubei New Army or the Hubei Martial Arts Academy?"

"Lord Hui, I graduated from the Martial Arts Academy below, and my grades are acceptable, and I was recommended by Lord Zhang Zhidong Zhang to enter Lu Shi with Brother Shouqing."

(Look at the officers carefully, Wu Luzhen and others first entered the preparatory school of the non-commissioned officer school - Chengcheng School, and after graduation, they went to the Japanese Army Wing for half a year of internship, and in 1802, they were promoted to the Japanese non-commissioned officer school, and the second batch of non-commissioned officers and students in Japan for China.) Lan Tianwei, Wu Luzhen, and Zhang Shaozeng, the three of them have outstanding academic performance and extraordinary interests, and are known as the "Three Heroes of Non-commissioned Officers". This is because of the needs of the plot, and this is advanced by two years, so don't blame you. ）

"This is Zhang Shaozeng, the word respects, the first phase of Lu Shi's artillery department."

"Listen to the accent and respect the public opinion is a Naoli person."

"Lord Hui, I am a native of Zhili Dacheng below."

"Well, since the two of us are classmates of Captain Wu, they are both high-achieving students studying in Dongying. Please go to the yamen and sit down for a while, and ask the two of you for advice later. Wu Luzhen beckoned her guards to entertain the two classmates, and went in with me for a meeting.

"Don't dare, don't dare, please do it." The two of them were naturally interested, and as the guards entered the official room in the second gate to wait, their classmates had already been equipped with guards and were so valued by the princes of one side that they couldn't help but feel a little envious.

Back in the conference room, I proudly ticked two more boxes on the list. Wu Peifu saw that we were going to have a meeting, and it was inconvenient for him to stay here, so he stood up and just wanted to leave.

"Brother Ziyu, do you have something urgent to deal with?" I asked.

"Back to my lord, there is no urgency here, but I see that the adults are going to have a meeting, and there is a lot of inconvenience here, so I am here."

"Hehe, Brother Ziyu is too worried, you have just seen it, I look forward to Brother Ziyu like a long drought and looking forward to Ganlin, Brother Ziyu has come thousands of miles to vote, what can I not do to Brother Ziyu. Besides, don't you want to know which troops you will take with you in the future? ”

"Ah, my lord" not only Wu Peifu was surprised, but even Wei Keren, Du Zicheng, Yang Shihai, He Laoba They were very surprised, the insurance group became an army a year ago, and several detachment leaders have all experienced the difficulties of entrepreneurship with me, even Wu Luzhen and Xiao Mingfeng also joined before the rescue, everyone has carried guns together, has a lot of friendship, and there are no scruples about each other.

But Wu Peifu is not amazing, and he has no reputation, listen to my meaning, he has to be entrusted with important tasks when he first comes, and he is on an equal footing with a few of them, and they can't help but be surprised. But I know my own family affairs, most of the detachment leaders under my command are halfway monks, and they are too young and inexperienced, and they are in charge of a team of people, and they can also lead a team of 100 people with their enthusiasm and sharing weal and pain, but the army is about to be expanded, and these few pieces of artichoke are obviously not enough. I didn't expect that the handsome and talented generals in the future who just thought of in the morning actually popped out three at once, wahahaha, if you don't catch it, how can you be worthy of your relatives?

In the future, the expansion of the new army of the armed wing is imminent, and those who are willing to join the army have signed up.