"One or two thousand?" Yang Changmei was already thinking there: "How much silver does this cost?" ”

How much will this new school cost, Yang Changmei is not clear, but there is one of the best examples put there, and that is the Shanye Military Academy.

Now there are three phases of cadets studying there at the Zenye Military Academy almost at the same time, and the number of students in the school has reached more than 1,700, and the daily expenditure is about the same as that of an ordinary infantry regiment, and if you want to train technicians by this standard, then I am afraid that the expenditure will be more.

"What does it matter!" Liu Chang had already replied to her: "Spring planting and autumn harvest, this is the same thing, I don't spend money now, I will spend more money in the future, needless to say, when I built the Shanye Military Academy, there were a few people who supported it!" ”

This is the truth, when the Shanye Military Academy was established, almost no one in the entire Hongjun agreed, they all thought that the extraction of so many cadres affected the combat effectiveness of the troops, and even Yang Changmei felt that it cost too much, but it turned out that the Shanye Military Academy was very effective, and now the graduates of the second phase have not yet graduated, and they have been booked out by various units, and the third phase of students will not graduate until next year, and they have also been booked.

Then Yang Changmei can only save in other aspects: "How long is the school period?" Now we are waiting for technical personnel, can you refer to the first phase of the student! ”

Although the various units are very satisfied with this batch of graduates, Liu Chang is still only a two-month crash course, and he can't actually learn anything, and this batch of graduates will eventually have to go back to the furnace and retrain.

The second phase of the student has already made it very clear that it will take four and a half months to complete all his studies, while the third term of the student is more formal, and the school system has reached half a year, and the future school system may be more formal, you must know that the first few periods of Huangpu's life are all one-year school system, and in the end, the time is still too short, and many cadres cannot understand the map, and there is still room for operations below the command regiment level, and there is more than enough strength to command operations at the army and division level.

Therefore, Liu Chang also does not approve of the new technical school saving money in this regard: "In the first phase, why should ordinary students take three months?" The language should be doubled! ”

It is six months, and it may not be able to really practice English well, but the first phase was launched in a hurry, and technical talents are urgently needed in all aspects, so Liu Chang can only do this first, and the second phase can consider extending the school system: "I don't know if I can pick a few talents out of this autumn exam!" ”

Yang Changmei said: "Although it is a bit funny that our Heavenly Kingdom holds the imperial examination, it is indeed a usable talent. *.**/*”

The imperial examination is one of the signs of the formalization of the regime, and those peasant ranks who are constantly flowing have no chance to engage in any imperial examinations to recruit talents, and after the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom established the capital of Tianjing, it also immediately held the imperial examination as a symbol of its own government.

It's just that the first imperial examination is called the Eastern Examination, which was presided over by Yang Xiuqing, the king of the East, and the title is "There is an Eastern King within the Four Seas", followed by the Heavenly Examination and the Western Examination.

Therefore, Liu Chang also expressed a certain degree of optimism about such an imperial examination, although Baguwen was criticized as worthless, but under this system, there were Taoist gentlemen like Zeng Guofan, and there were also many big names, and he was mainly practical, so he must be able to tap out more talents!

Fuzhou Prefecture.

Wang Xinde sighed and said to Qingduan, the political envoy of Fujian: "This time we came to Zhejiang's aid, but we loaded ourselves in!" ”

He had to sigh!

A few days ago, there was a thunderbolt from the sea, and the steamer in the hands of the Hong Army had already gone south, and it cooperated with the Red Thief Sailors to intercept ships on the coast of northern Fujian many times, and collected protection taxes on merchant ships in transit many times. …,

And some of the Fujian sailor ships cruising in northern Fujian can't even use the red thief's steam steamer to do it, and the red thief's red single ship can't parry it alone, not to mention that this Baoshun ship is also equipped with two 60-pound rifled guns, which can sink a sailor ship with one shot.

This steamship fell into the hands of the Red Thief, and it was a real disaster! Zhejiang Duan Guangqing, these people are too unfavorable!

And the red thieves on the land also began to move, they dispatched more than 10,000 people to the south, once again conquered Fuding County and prepared to attack Fu'an Mansion next, and the entire Fuzhou Mansion became panicked because of this incident, in order to hold Fuzhou, has been urgently dispatched from Pucheng and other places in northern Fujian to attack the Fujian army in Chuzhou to come back, and only Rao Tingxuan, the old opponent of the rainbow army, was left in the same place.

It turned out that he wanted to coordinate with the three roads, the Fujian army attacked Chuzhou, Deng Shaoliang attacked Jinhua, and Qu Zhenhan took Yueqing, so that the red thieves could not take care of each other.

Qingduan said: "The last time the red thief attacked eastern Fujian, I used the power of the whole Fujian to resist it, and finally broke the red thief. ”

Wang Xinde is not as optimistic as Qingduan: "Mindong is tightly guarded with warmth, which is enough to resist the enemy, and I am worried about northern Fujian!"

The northern Fujian he said refers to the Jianning Mansion, Yan'an Mansion and Shaowu Mansion adjacent to the state capital, these areas were originally stationed with heavy troops to prevent blockage, but this time the red thieves attacked Fujian Province by land and water, in order to ensure the safety of the provincial capital, they could only draw troops from these areas.

Qingduan also took on this problem: "Now that the situation in northern Fujian is in an emergency, how about handing it over to Jiangxi?" ”

"The one in Jiangxi?" Wang Xinde hesitated: "In February this year, he carried a heel in Jiujiang, and he hasn't recovered yet!" ”

"But Zeng Disheng is now busy planning to aid Zhejiang!" Qingduan thought relatively simply: "It's just that He Guiqing hasn't fallen yet, why don't you let him come to help Fujian!" ”

"Aiding Fujian is not good for Zeng Disheng!" Lu Sun, the governor of Fujian who doesn't usually talk much over there, said rarely: "He is not a good and righteous person!" ”

Don't talk about aiding Fujian, in history, the Eight-Nation Coalition Army entered the city of Beijing, and the edict of the King of Xia Qin made Zeng Guofan Qinwang, Zeng Guofan thought of drawing nearly 10,000 troops from the frontal battlefield against the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and immediately made up his mind to fool the past, not to mention that there is no benefit to talk about aiding Fujian now.

You must know that in February of the fifth year of Xianfeng, the Hunan Army Naval Division suffered an unprecedented setback, and was cut off by the Taiping Army as the Outer Lake and Inner Lake Water Division, and the entire Hunan Army was once divided into four independent troops that could not meet each other, and there were only more than 20,000 people left in the whole army, and even Zeng Guofan's boat was taken away by the Taiping Army, Zeng Guofan himself staged a good show of jumping into the lake to commit suicide, and the entire thirteen prefectures of Jiangxi were once taken away by the Taiping Army.

In this case, it must be extremely positive to let him enter Zhejiang to seize the source of salary, but it doesn't seem to be a good idea to let him enter Fujian and fight with the red thieves, not to mention that Fujian is Wang Xinde's territory, even if Zeng Guofan repels the red thieves, this territory is not the territory of the Hunan army.

But Qingduan felt that there were still some opportunities: "Why don't you send an edict today, please ask Zeng Disheng to come to help from Jiangxi, if the red thief takes northern Fujian, I'm afraid Jiangxi will not be able to gain a foothold!" ”

Wang Xinde thought about this proposal carefully: "With the old man's face, it is not a big problem to ask for an edict today, so it is no wonder that Zeng Disheng is not convinced!" ”

"What should I do if Zeng Disheng is really not convinced?" Qingduan said: "Don't you just watch northern Fujian fall into the hands of red thieves!" The Rao Tingxuan troops stationed there are unbearable battles! ”

Rao Tingxuan is already a defeated general of the Hong Army, and it seems that it is not easy to block the Red Thieves from entering Fujian, not to mention that there are still remnants of the Knife Society uprising in Fujian Province. ..., "What to do?" Defending the provincial capital first is the key! Wang Xinde still knows the severity: "Northern Fujian is mountainous, insignificant, easy to attack and difficult to defend, the red thief has now reached Ningshao in the north, there is Jintai, there is Jinhua in the south, if you take northern Fujian again, it is definitely a long snake formation, and when the time comes, it will see how he looks at each other!" ”

The state capital.

Compared with the gloomy clouds on the face of Fuzhou Prefecture, it was very happy here, and the officers and soldiers were all rejoicing at the victory in the defense of the Fuzhou Prefecture this time.

Speaking of which, this time the Rainbow Army in the state capital defense war is also exhausted, you must know that before the war began, the strength of the Rainbow Army in the state capital is only 3,500 people, and the whole battle is fought, the casualties are as many as 1,500 people, although the former Red Turban Army transferred from Wenzhou Mansion many times, the existing strength has reached nearly 8,000 people, but the degree of intensity of this battle will always be remembered in the minds of the officers and soldiers participating in the battle.

It's just that the two sides fought hard with all their might, but it is as well-known as the Battle of Ningshao, after all, this is only an auxiliary battlefield, and the troops participating in the battle are only secondary troops on both sides, so this is just a battle that is destined to be understated.

But no matter what, whether it was the old Ox Knife Regiment, or the newly formed independent battalion, independent company, or the old Red Turban Army transferred from Wenzhou, they were greatly tempered in this bloody and insipid battle, and although the Qing army in front of them made some progress, it was still under their control in the ten county towns of the state capital.

On the contrary, their casualties were much greater than those of Lu Ziyun's troops, especially in the later stage of the battle, Lu Ziyun received a steady stream of weapons, food, ammunition and military salaries, and with heavy firepower, the Qing army paid nearly 2,000 casualties in the offensive in the last week, and had to retreat.

And now is the time for the Hong Army to start a counterattack, Lu Ziyun said loudly: "The Qing demon in front of you has retreated by fifty or sixty percent!" This shows that we have won this battle, and the inspector has sent me a congratulatory message to celebrate the victory, and I will read it to everyone! ”