When Rong Lu preemptively said Tan Feng's name, Cixi's expression relaxed, the Martial Arts Academy is too important, this position must not be 'handed over' to Yuan Shikai and Zhang Zhi 'hole', originally, the power of these two people is already too great, if they master the Martial Arts Academy, then the future officer level of the new army can be said to be these two people, where is there room for the imperial court to 'interfere'?

However, there are too few people in the court who have the ability to hold this position and match their status, except for Yuan Shikai and Zhang Zhi's 'hole', there are very few people who can rely on their own prestige to operate this matter, and Cixi is also a little headache. [Ran^Text^Library] []. [774] [buy]. [com]-

At this time, Rong Lu threw out Tan Feng, Tan Feng, as Zhang Jianzhi's confidant at the beginning, was a top student of the Fengtian Military Academy, and also served as the commander of the artillery brigade, the commander of the artillery division, the commander-in-chief of the armed police, and later served as the commander-in-chief of the Second Group Army, the Jilin overseer, and was born in the blue wolf battalion.

Yes, now Yuan Shikai feels extremely aggrieved, he has already regarded the new martial arts academy as something in his pocket, even Zhang Zhi's 'hole' will not compete with him in this matter, after all, Zhang Zhi's 'hole' is to educate talents and foreign civilization, but his military talent is very mediocre, he will not earn his head and blood with himself in this kind of thing, but he never expected that Rong Lu would preemptively throw Tan Feng!

What to do?

Tan Feng took a lot of effort to dig it up from Fengtian, and solemnly recommended it to the imperial court, touting Tan Feng is about to go to heaven, if he doesn't agree, wouldn't he slap himself in the face? can't justify himself at all, and it will affect the relationship between himself and Tan Feng, maybe there will be a gap, blocking people's future, like killing parents!

Agree?

Now Yuan Shikai has not completely 'touched' Tan Feng, although he values Tan Feng, but when he does not fully confirm Tan Feng's loyalty to him, such an too important position is better to control it himself, this is a martial arts academy! In the future, more than half of the military 'elite' Ying will come from here, and mastering it means that at least more than eighty percent of the military strength of the Qing Dynasty in the future will be in their own hands, and they are not reconciled.

Rong Lu is really an old 'traitor' and cunning, he has suffered this loss, and now in such a situation, he can only agree to it temporarily, otherwise, once it spreads, it will be too unfavorable to himself.

Yuan Shikai twitched the corners of his mouth, smiled stiffly, and said: "What Lord Ronglu said is that Lord Jianshan is extremely capable, and in the court, I am afraid that no one can overpower him, and this position is very suitable." ”

Rong Lu smiled secretly in his heart, Zhang Zhi's 'hole' on the side frowned, for Yuan Shikai's deflated this time, obviously he was also very excited, although he didn't know Tan Feng's thoughts now, but as long as this position did not fall into Yuan Shikai's hands, for him, it would be a victory!

Yuan Shikai continued: "Lafayette, just preparing for the construction of the military academy is not enough, our new army, the military quality is too low, not only is it far from the Western powers, even compared to Japan, there is a big gap, Weichen suggested that the imperial court should eliminate the Eight Banners and the Green Battalion soldiers, and not retain the establishment." The saved military expenses were used to reorganize and train the new army. ”

Cixi frowned slightly and said, "Train a new army? Comfort Pavilion, this is not easy, after all, the imperial court has already organized and trained the new army twice, and the results achieved are not very outstanding, this time against the coalition forces of various countries, there is not much resistance, and the whole army is annihilated, do we still have the need to train the new army? ”

Yuan Shikai said in a deep voice: "Back to Lafayette, in fact, this confrontation with the Eight-Nation Alliance, the situation is very complicated, far from the new army's low combat effectiveness is caused by a 'fan', the core problem is that the Boxers and the new army at that time were all mixed together, this is the road to death, in the 'elite' army, mixed with so many 'chaos' people, will also be all the military deployment 'chaos', the new army at that time was not without the power to fight back, but their own defense line was all by the Boxers' If there is no participation of the 'chaotic' people, even if they are not the opponents of the coalition forces, at least in Langfang to resist the coalition forces for three to five days, there is no problem at all, and the worst will bring heavy casualties to the coalition forces. Moreover, this time in the north of Baoding, Chen Qimei led the main force of the Beiyang New Army and the coalition army, you also know that the strength of the two sides is basically one-on-one, and our troops are slightly superior, and the result will be defeated by the coalition army, which shows that our new army training still has great results! ”

Cixi nodded and said, "Well, that's right, what Weiting said is also good, out of the new army, is there anything else?" “

Yuan Shikai hurriedly said: "There is also the need to increase the purchase of weapons, ammunition and 'medicine', without Western heavy artillery and firearms, even if our new army is strong, it will not be able to compete with other Western-style armies." The minister had already written a note on the matter of military innovation in the imperial court and asked Lafayette to look at it. ”

As he spoke, Yuan Shikai took out a fold from his sleeve and handed it over, and Li Lianying on the side took it and handed it to Cixi.

Yuan Shikai continued: "Lafayette, the minister thinks that our imperial court must at least prepare for the construction of a new army from fifteen towns to twenty towns, plus the new army of Wuchang and the new army of Beiyang, together, the total strength of the army is maintained at twenty-five towns and more than 450,000 people, so as to be able to protect the security of the Qing Dynasty's homeland. The situation in each province is different, with a slight increase or decrease, and it will take three to five years to make every effort to build a new army system of our Qing Dynasty, which will surely become the immortal Great Wall of our Qing Dynasty! ”

Cixi opened the fold, which not only contained these contents, but also more specific ones, such as the appointment of Western military instructors, the comprehensive introduction of Western military training methods, the establishment of a new type of military management in accordance with the Western military system, and the 'drawing' of existing officers of the new army to supplement the new army, hold important positions, be responsible for training, and so on.

An excerpt, sprinkled with joy, was written by Yuan Shikai thousands of words, which shows that Yuan Shikai has really worked hard.

Cixi said lightly: "Okay, what Weiting said is very reasonable. It's just that the military is the important weapon of the country, and it can't be ignored, and Weiting is only afraid that it will be difficult to deal with it carefully, so let's do it, Ronglu, appoint you as the minister of the General Office of the New Army, and be fully responsible for the training of the new army. ”