Chapter 216: The New Army Emerges

Except for the twelve cadets who were assigned to serve in the newly established Attendant Military Attaché, the other cadets from the Nine Sides were all arranged to serve as middle and lower-level military attachés in the first town of the New Army. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Although it is still the middle and lower levels, but before these came to the Jingshi Lecture Martial Arts Hall to study, they were generally low-level military attachés who were the general, the thousand, and the division, but now it is only three months later, everyone has been promoted to the next level, and the general has become a thousand generals, thousands of generals have become capital divisions, garrisons have become capital divisions, and all divisions have become guerrillas. So everybody is satisfied.

After this matter spread in the nine sides, he entered the Huangming Loyalty and Righteousness Martial Arts Hall and became a protégé of the Son of Heaven, which has become a fast promotion channel that everyone in the low-level military attaches in the Ming border army envies.

Of course, speaking of the first town of the New Army today, except for the big camp in Luhe Bay, ten miles outside the north gate of Tongzhou City, it is just an empty shelf.

Sun Chengzong, a cabinet minister and minister of military aircraft, has always been in charge of the new army training camp in Zhuozhou and the Huangming Zhongyi Lecture Hall in Tongzhou, so for the formation of the first town of the new army, Emperor Chongzhen not only made his own ideas on the composition of the army, but also listened to Sun Chengzong's opinions on the selection of generals and officers.

Sun Chengzong recommended Ma Shilong, his right-hand man who had always been in military command, to serve as the commander of the first town of the New Army.

Ma Shilong is not only Sun Chengzong's trusted confidant, but also the chief military officer who left the post before, and he is also one of the chief teachers of the Jiangwutang today, serving as the capital of the first town of the New Army.

Therefore, as soon as Sun Chengzong recommended it, Emperor Chongzhen quickly agreed to this candidate.

At the same time, Sun Chengzong also recommended candidates for the left and right deputy capitals of the first town of the New Army, with You Shilu as the left deputy and Qin Yiming as the right deputy capital.

Although these two specific candidates were not personally nominated by the emperor, they were recommended and selected according to the emperor's wishes.

Sun Chengzong knew very well that the status of the first town of the new army in the emperor's heart, so he also spent a lot of thought on the selection of generals above the first town of the new army.

For example, the reason why Ma Shilong originally entered Sun Chengzong's eyes was because he valued and was good at using vehicles, cannons and firearms, while You Shilu was good at cavalry combat, not to mention Qin Yiming, who was selected completely to cater to the spear formation tactics proposed by Emperor Chongzhen.

For these candidates, Emperor Chongzhen knew at a glance that Sun Chengzong really understood his intentions, so he didn't hand them over to other personnel in the Military Aircraft Department for discussion, and immediately approved and agreed.

In the entire first town of the new army, only the imperial history of the superintendent army can be said to have been nominated and appointed by the emperor himself.

As for this imperial history of the supervising army, Emperor Chongzhen ordered Qian Yuanyu, the official who was the first to stand up to impeach Wei Zhongxian.

First, this Qian Yuanyu stood up to impeach Wei Zhongxian, which was a favor to the emperor, and the Chongzhen Emperor at that time was like promoting him to be reused, but it was a pity that Qian Yuanyu's new official was not long in the department, just for a bullet medal, he was suddenly promoted and reused, and the traces of remuneration were too heavy.

Second, the imperial history of the supervising army at that time was still a new thing, and those middle and lower-level officials in the six ministries who boasted of being clear did not want to wade into this troubled water.

At that time, Qian Yuanyu was already in the Langzhong of the Ministry of Officials, and he was considered a more important and powerful official position in the six departments, so he did not participate in the selection of the Imperial History of the Nine Border Supervision Army.

Nowadays, the imperial history of the supervising army weighs nine sides, and young Beijing officials like Mao Weizhang, Chen Renxi, and Ma Maocai, who were originally unknown, have now become powerful and famous in the sea.

The Imperial History of the Prison Army also has the right to secretly fold affairs, and can directly contact the emperor privately through Jinyiwei and Dongchang, which is a power that many court officials dream of but can't do.

So in less than a year, the imperial history of the supervising army has become a shortcut for many young officials to ascend to the sky.

In particular, being the supervisor of the first town of the new army is similar to the supervision of the army in Beijing, and there is no need to go to the nine sides, and at the same time he has the power that the supervisor of the army should have, and there will be no shortage of opportunities to make contributions in the future.

Therefore, even if Qian Yuanyu, a minister, is allowed to be the supervisor of the first town of the new army, it is no longer like when the imperial history of the supervising army was first established, which will give the Manchu Dynasty civil and military an impression that Qian Yuanyu was assigned.

Moreover, although this Qian Yuanyu is now only a minister, he is also one of the important peripheral personnel of the Donglin Party in the DPRK.

Let him be the supervisor of the imperial history of the army, one meaning is to pay for merit, and the other meaning is to put the Donglin Party members among the middle-level officials in the middle of the court one by one outside the court, so that they can not only play their role as Shilin Qingliu, but also not stay in the court to cause chaos for themselves, or become victims of party struggle.

Today's Emperor Chongzhen heard a saying in later generations that the so-called garbage is just a misplaced resource.

This sentence left a deep impression on him, and even now, he still remembers it vividly.

Whether it is a peripheral element of the Donglin Party or a peripheral element of the Eunuch Party who has not been convicted, as long as they are used in the right place, they can play their positive role.

If as an emperor, you always have the prejudice that you are a Donglin party or a eunuch party to the courtiers, then the party struggle above the court is really unavoidable.

Qian Yuanyu received the emperor's decree appointing him as the supervisor of the first town of the new army, and soon went to the camp of the first town of the new army in Tongzhou.

The first thing he did after he took up his post was to be ordered to build a civilian system in the first town of the new army, mainly including the discipline officers, salary officials, and town officials under each standard.

After these candidates are proposed, they are reported to the Military Aircraft Department, and after the Military Aircraft Department agrees, they are transferred to the Cabinet Countersign, and then to the Ministry of Officials or the National Supervision and Adjustment Personnel.

Today, Qian Yuanyu is sitting in the Zhuozhou New Army Training Camp together with his friends, that is, Lu Chengyuan, the instructor appointed by the emperor after his recommendation, and others, along with the generals and colonels of the following battalions under the command of the first town of the New Army, to assess and select the new army soldiers who have completed the training of the Zhuozhou camp.

The military attachés led by Ma Shilong were under the command of the first town of the New Army, and the military quality of the reserve soldiers of the New Army in the Zhuozhou battalion was assessed, mainly in terms of physical fitness and queue.

The civilian officials who were responsible for leading the team by Qian Yuanyu, the imperial historian of the supervising army, mainly assessed the basic understanding of the new army reserve soldiers of the Zhuozhou battalion on the distinction of Huayi, loyalty and filial piety, martyrdom, the military discipline of the Ming Dynasty, and the conduct of the new army. Then, the civil officials led by Qian Yuanyu, the imperial history of the supervising army, will review them one by one, and eliminate those who fail to understand or fail to answer the questionnaire.

It stands to reason that after the Zhuozhou New Army Training Battalion completed its training at the end of September, it had already conducted an assessment and screening in accordance with the basic standards for new army soldiers given in the New Army's drill code.

All those who have passed the assessment and screening have already been approved by Wang Fu, Zhu Mei and others, and Sun Chengzong nodded and agreed to end the training.

Of the 25,000 people who started training in early June, at the end of the training three months later, only about 18,000 people remained in the training camp of the new army in Zhuozhou, and the rest either died because of the cruel training of Wang Fu and others, or were removed because they violated military discipline, or they were persuaded to retire because they were injured during the training, and of course there were those who took the initiative to retire because they could not stand the suffering, but most of them were eliminated because they did not meet the standards in the three-month training period.

Of the 18,000 people who persevered and completed more than three months of training, more than 3,000 failed to pass the final training examination due to various reasons.

These people have been retained as reservists of the Forces nouvelles, and they can remain in the reserve battalions of the Forces nouvelles as errand servants, or they can then participate in the training of the second batch of recruits to begin a new round of selection process.

And more than 14,000 qualified recruits who have passed the strict assessment of the Zhuozhou battalion, in fact, in the eyes of Wang Fu, Zhu Mei, Wang Tingchen, Li Changling, Hei Yunlong, etc., who are now gathered in the Zhuozhou battalion, as recruits, whether it is physical fitness or discipline, they are already the best choice, and some are not far behind the elite of the nine sides.

Therefore, they were really a little puzzled and unhappy that the generals and colonels of the first town of the New Army headed by Ma Shilong were stationed in the Zhuozhou camp and once again personally assessed and selected the soldiers of the New Army.

However, the emperor asked the generals and colonels of the first town of the new army, especially those who had just graduated from the lecture hall of the new army, to take the test again, and according to the standards of the military attaches of these standard battalions and sentinels, they selected their own soldiers from the training camp of the new army in Zhuozhou, and no one dared to say a word more.

In this way, after entering October, the civilian team led by the general officer of the first town of the new army and the superintendent of the army Yushi successively entered the training camp of the new army in Zhuozhou, and began to seriously select the new soldiers and soldiers of the first town of the new army of the emperor and the Ming Dynasty.