The total area of Xiaozhan Town is more than 5 square kilometers, the population is only more than 4,000 people, the town is located in the southeast of Tianjin, across the Machang River, Crescent River, known for its abundance of high-quality rice "Xiaozhan Rice", the terrain is empty, the fields are golden wheat waves, the morning breeze exudes a fragrance, Li Guolou followed Liu Jie, the former magistrate of Tianjin, to inspect the terrain here. After checking the terrain, Li Guolou shook his horsewhip and said: "Liu Jie, if you don't want to be in the army, you will do it with me in the future, men have to rely on guns to make achievements, what kind of reason do you talk to foreigners, you are pedantic!" ”

Forty years away, Liu Jie cowered, although he knew that Li Guolou was looking for a training place near Tianjin, he also went to the friendship of the landlord to find a suitable place for Li Guolou, and it was rare to leave the house and come out to relax, but he didn't expect Li Guolou to suddenly say, "You will do it with me in the future." Let him change to a military position, of course Liu Jie knows that he is the culprit of the "Tianjin Teaching Case", his career is over, it would be good to be able to save a life, and he is mentally prepared to fill the army and distribute it.

Liu Jie asked, "Master Li, do you want me to change my name!" ”

Li Guolou pouted and said, "Liu Jie, are you very famous, why don't you know about it!" ”

Liu Jie said again: "Then Master Li, what do foreigners say!" ”

Li Guolou was extremely dissatisfied, and said angrily: "Liu Jie, you are pedantic, the verdict has come down, and the crime has been announced, can't the court reactivate you!" ”

"That's right." Liu Jie couldn't believe Li Guolou's words.

"Hey, are you willing or not, if you don't, when I didn't say it, the old dead guest country also has something to do with me." Li Guolou was a little impatient, he was a scientific scout, and now these Jinshi and the first officials, seeing him, respected him very much, worshiped him as a long-sleeved literati leader who was good at dancing.

"The lower official is willing, may I ask Lord Li, how many rank will you be reappointed as a military attaché." Liu Jie, who has been a seven-rank civil official, attaches great importance to the official rank, as the saying goes, a soldier can be killed but not humiliated, let him be a guard officer, it is better to be transferred to the frontier and maintain a clean name.

Li Guolou looked Liu Jie up and down, a man in his early forties, with big ears and three long beards, in line with the standard image of a county official in the officialdom, and the court's atonement silver proposal made Liu Jie on the verge of bankruptcy, and now he still cares about the future official position, which is the so-called dignity and character of the literati.

"Liu Jie, this official will first promote you as a martial arts officer, the seventh-grade military attache will not wronged you, and I only have a fifth-grade official position!"

"Oh, it's going to be downgraded." Liu Jie was a little lost, and after a moment, he turned over and bowed: "Xiaguan Liu Jie thank you Lord Li for lifting up, and his subordinates are willing to start again!" ”

"Hmm." Li Guolou put on his official prestige, nodded approvingly, touched his chin, but unfortunately did not grow a beard to show off, and said: "Liu Jie, this martial arts hall relies on high salaries to support honesty, and there will not be much oil and water in the future, you can guarantee that a junior will do business with my wife, so that you will not be wronged, give me a mind to run the school, so that students can see that national heroes should have a backbone!" ”

Liu Jie smiled awkwardly and said: "Master Li, I am an official with a clean sleeve, and now someone is deliberately smearing my face, how can you believe it!" ”

Li Guolou said: "Liu Jie, I am a god catcher, folklore says that I handle the case, only a little, how innocent you are, everyone tacitly knows, if there is still a difficulty in the atonement money, then the official will cushion it for you first!" ”

Liu Jie was overjoyed, now there is no need to sell the house and the land, the family went to the old capital to keep it, tears flowed down the face, and he choked up: "Thank you Lord Li for lifting up." Quickly wiped the corners of his eyes with his sleeve, followed closely behind Li Guolou, and walked into the vast field.

Cheng Kun, the guard officer, took out a stack of maps from a long cylinder, and Li Guolou unfolded the map on the grass, this is a set of standard maps of Western military barracks facilities, money can make ghosts grind, he has a friend of British Captain Howard Eugene, and it is not difficult to get a set of maps of British ** camp facilities.

Li Guolou is surrounded by a group of guard officers, there are eighteen people, all of whom are guards of his family, "Wutang" he only uses slaves, not gang brothers, gangsters like to pull the mountain, good courage and ruthlessness, will bring the army's simple and rigorous style of work to the bad.

Li Guolou pointed to the vast wheat field, and said with great pride: "A military academy, a battalion of infantry, a battalion of cavalry, an artillery battalion, a baggage battalion, four battalions is four fingers, plus the thumb 'military academy' to cultivate outstanding loyal and loving officials, is a fist, smash all enemies, rewrite the humiliation of our country, all the kings work together!" ”

"Yes." Including Liu Jie, he changed his original title and stood up for a military salute, which was a Prussian standard military salute, with his right hand raised, his five fingers together, placed on his right ear, and his palm facing forward.

Li Guolou also gave a military salute, looking at his group of cronies, the vast fields will be full of artillery fire, and the small station will witness the rise of a nation.

The Qing Dynasty took the route of elite soldiers and strong generals, and the Eight Banners and the Eight Banners of the Green Battalion were standing armies, marked by eight kinds of flags, including yellow, yellow, white, red, white, red, blue, and blue.

"Flag" was originally a Manchu "integration of soldiers and people" social organization, and has the functions of being in charge of the military, politics and production, Taizong added the Mongolian Eight Banners and the Han Army Eight Banners, so far there are a total of 24 flags, after entering the customs, although the Qing Dynasty still follows the system of commanding the army with the flag, but the Eight Banners have become a completely unproductive military and political organization, divided into two kinds of Beijing Eight Banners and Eight Banners of the Garrison, directly belong to the Ministry of National War, and the leading officers also use Chinese titles such as Zuo Ling, Staff Leader, and Dutong in turn.

The Eight Banners of the Beijing Camp are also known as the Eight Banners of the Forbidden Brigade, divided into Lang Wei and Bingwei, Lang Wei is from the so-called three banners such as Zhenghuang, Zhengbai, inlaid yellow, etc., and the Mongolian people are selected to form a pro-military camp, responsible for guarding the emperor and the court, under the jurisdiction of the Minister of the Guard, the Bingwei is responsible for guarding the Beijing Division, the main force is Xiao Cai, the forward, the guard, the infantry and other battalions, as well as the battalions selected from the battalions, well-equipped soldiers to form the Jianrui Battalion, the Firearms Battalion, the Tiger Gun Battalion, the Shenji Battalion, etc., except for the Xiao Cavalry Battalion under the direct jurisdiction of the Eight Banners, the rest of the President and the commander are under the command, garrison the Eight Banners, by the inlaid white, red, The so-called lower five banners, such as Zhenglan, inlaid blue, and inlaid red, are stationed in important cities and towns across the country, with Jifu, Northeast, and Inner Mongolia as the majority, as a deterrent to local forces, and are commanded by generals, capital commanders, and city guards.

Eight Banners for the World Soldier System, over 16 years old Eight Banners male children selected, Yu Ding and less than 16 years old young, can be selected for the raising of soldiers, that is, reserve soldiers, green battalion soldiers are adapted with reference to the Ming Dynasty military guard system and recruit Han soldiers, with the green flag as the symbol, with the battalion as the formation unit, hence the name, there are cavalry, infantry, guards, cavalry, infantry is also known as soldiers, along the river, the sea with a water division, the green battalion soldiers, are noted in the book, managed by the Ministry of War, "cavalry drawn from the infantry soldiers, infantry soldiers drawn from the guards, the guards pulled out from the rest of the Ding, no Yu Ding is recruited from the people" The generals are selected by the military department, "all the military deputy generals and above in the province, the list is sparse and filled, and the generals below are promoted and elected on a monthly basis", the green battalion has only a very small number of divisions stationed in Beijing, called the patrol and capture battalion, which is under the command of the Eight Banners Infantry Military Battalion, and the rest of the provinces are divided into provinces, according to the size of the area under their jurisdiction, the distance, the danger and the number of people to determine the number of troops, the flood battalion, "to patrol cautiously, prepare for recruitment", the green battalion soldiers take the "town" as the basic unit, as the foundation of the major towns and garrisons in the country, set up a total of 1 member, as the town commander, and there is a commander above the general army, It is used to control the general army of towns within a province or several provinces; There is also a governor, whose commander is also a governor, who has the power to control the towns, and above the governor and the governor, there is a governor, who is used to control the governor, the admiral, and the general army in a province or provinces, and is the high military governor of the region.

The green battalion of each town is organized according to the association, standard, battalion, and flood, and the governor, the governor, the admiral and the general soldier, all have their own direct pro-soldiers, collectively referred to as this standard, sub-called the governor standard, the governor standard, the admiral standard, the general army standard, the standard jurisdiction of 2~5 battalions, divided into the middle, left, right, front, and rear battalions, in the center of the town guard, in order to prepare for the transfer, where the deputy general belongs to the army called the association, is the assistant to defend the important troops, according to the importance of the defense of the battalion of dozens to more than 1,000 people, named after the garrison name, by the generals, guerrillas, capital, garrison respectively, the secondary area set up flood, Every few people to dozens of people, by the thousands, the president brings, from the commander below, only the right to command the army, and no right to transfer troops, its military orders to the governor and governor, the military power belongs to the center, in case of conquest, the emperor is also brief, the counselor and the minister of the army, mobilize the green battalion to fight, the matter is over, the minister of the army, the eight banners and the green battalion are paid a certain amount of silver and rice grains on an annual or monthly basis, the salary and weapons and equipment of the eight banners are superior to the green battalion, the township Yong battalion 184 After the Opium War, the eight banners and the green battalion have been unusable, In 1851, the Taiping Revolution broke out, the Qing court ordered the provinces to hold regimental exercises to "help suppress", Zeng Guo Fan Hunan recruited the regiment Ding for the official bravery, the system of the camp post, the food and salary were taken from the public, called Xiang Yong or Xiang Army, it was the beginning of the township regiment to change the Yong battalion, and then, there was an imitation of the Hunan army system to establish the Huai Army and the provincial Yong battalion, and the war was over, in addition to the Xiang army directly under the jurisdiction of Zeng Guo Fan and some other part of the Yong battalion was dismissed, the provinces were still in danger of staying in the Yong battalion, called the defense army, in addition to the defense army, there was a training army, it was selected from the green camp and trained, and its battalion system was also completely imitated by the Hunan army, The task is the same as the defense army, so that the defense army and the training army became the main armed forces of the Qing Dynasty, their battalion system is derived from the Hunan army, the Hunan army takes the battalion as the basic unit, 5 people are the battalion, the battalion has jurisdiction over 4 posts, and the post has jurisdiction over 8 teams, which are led by battalion officers, sentinel officers, and even chiefs, from two battalions to dozens of battalions to set up commanders, soldiers must be called by themselves, generals must be self-selected, training and command are autonomous, food and salaries are self-raised, each battalion only obeys one battalion officer, each army only obeys one general, and the battalion and army are independent of each other and do not belong to each other.

The prevalence of the Hunan military system became a major change in the military system of the Qing Dynasty.

During this period, the army's weaponry and training system also underwent obvious changes, and the Westernists began to learn from the Western military system, and the "Wutang" established by Li Guolou was based on the Hunan military system, and once again restructured the military system, raising the "supervisory officer" to an unprecedented status, and the supervisory officer had higher authority than the battalion officer and the sentry officer, and had the right to immunize personnel in wartime and supervise military training in peacetime.

The supervisor is directly managed and dispatched by Wutang, hiding sinister intentions, that is, to control the army, and in the name of the emperor, so that the court can not find fault, it seems that the emperor is personally guarding the army, in fact, he wants to put a large number of protégés into the grassroots of the army, as long as he sits on the "Wutang" chief academic and political throne long enough, a large group of desperate protégés, can occupy a high position in the army, and the military power is invisible, it will become something in his pocket.