When the patrolmen saw that the patrol was so glamorous, they were envious, and complained to the commander again and again, saying that we don't have new clothes, at least let's get some new shoes. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThe ancient city of Yangzhou is a bluestone road, and the leather shoes make a croaking sound when stepping on it, although the foot feeling is not very comfortable, but the momentum is compelling, and it can be heard from a distance, which can make the patrol officers envious and drool.

Police Commissioner Zuo Ping couldn't cry or laugh when he heard his subordinates complaining, it happened that Wang Yongan invited him to Tianyue Tower to eat and drink, Zuo Ping hurriedly kissed it, and then he knew that all the equipment of the inspectors in this inspection station was built by Wang Yongan at his own expense, and he couldn't help crying and laughing: "Brother Wang, you are ...... Spending his own money to do things for the imperial court is the first time in the Qing Dynasty. ”

"I'm also for myself, not for the Qing Kingdom of Raush." Wang Yongan took a sip of wine and said.

"I want to hear about it." Left stand.

Wang Yongan sighed and said, "Brother Zuo, do you know that the revolutionary party is becoming more and more rampant? ”

"I know, I'm also worried about this matter, fortunately, our Yangzhou has always been an important transportation town, and it is advantageous to take precautions, otherwise there is really a possibility of a revolutionary party." Zuo Ping Road.

"Yangzhou has Gaoyou Lake and Hongze, the Yangtze River below, and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, which is really an important town in northern Jiangsu. In addition to my second brother's 24th Beiyang New Army Mixed Association, there are more than 100 policemen from your police station, more than 20 patrols from our inspection office, and 40 or 50 people from the Fire Dragon Bureau. Wang Yongan said that the prosperity of Yangzhou is precisely because it is the most important hub city of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and the decline of Yangzhou is precisely because of the rise of modern transportation, especially the prosperity of shipping and the emergence of railways, which has made the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal lose its former glory.

After the opening of the Beijing-Shanghai Railway (Nanjing-Songhu) last year (1908), it drove the economy and everything in southern Jiangsu, although there are still many old squires who oppose it, but the convenience of the railway is the general trend, and more and more people begin to accept the railway. After the opening of the Beijing-Shanghai Railway, Zhang Zhidong wrote a letter in his sickbed, imploring the construction of the Tianjin-Pudong Railway, which is 1,000 kilometers long, from Jinmen in the north to Pukou in Nanjing. After the imperial court finally decided to build the Jinpu Railway, Zhang Zhidong took his last breath and contributed his last strength to the Chinese nation. The regent ordered Liang Dunyan, the right attendant of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to sign the "Jinmen-Pukou Railway Lease Contract" with the Deutsch-Hua Bank and Central China Railway Co., Ltd. (actually a British company) and began to build the North-South Railway in China.

Once the Tianjin-Pudong Railway is completed, the role of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal will be further reduced, and the 24th Mixed Association will no longer be meaningful to stay in Yangzhou.

Zuo Ping said: "It's better not to come to the revolutionary party, I have a headache when I come, you know that those people are all not afraid of death, and they can rush into the yamen with a bomb." ”

Wang Yongan laughed and said: "Logically speaking, it is impossible for the revolutionary party to revolt locally, but it has to guard against some of them who are not clear-headed. Those revolutionaries are all children, where do they think too much? As the brother of the commander of the city defense and the inspector of the inspection office, if the children of the revolutionary party were blown up and killed, would I not be wronged? ”

Zuo Ping smiled and said: "It is indeed wronged, but if the revolutionary party assassinates you, it will be a great achievement." ”

Wang Yongan suddenly said: "But if there is an outlaw who is not afraid of death, who will protect me with all his might?" Now I give them benefits, let them eat well, dress well, and use well, but if something happens to me, all these benefits will be lost to them, and they will return to the point where they are not ghosts and ghosts. Therefore, these inspectors are my private soldiers and outlaws, and if anyone hurts me, they will cut off their lives. ”

Zuo Ping sank for a while, and said: "Only you, the fourth young master, should have this courage, ordinary people will definitely not take money out to supplement others, it is better to raise a few house slaves more practical." ”

Wang Yongan smiled and said: "The house slave has to be raised, but the house slave can't get the table after all." ”

Zuo Ping stretched out his thumb and praised: "High, the fourth son is really tall." ”

Since Wang Yongan entered the inspection office, although the inspection office has to be ordered every day, the treatment has been much better, and because Wang Yongan's background is too hard, the patrol police no longer dare not take the people of the inspection center seriously. Later, Wang Yongan asked Li Yao to lead people to recruit some young men from the countryside in Yancheng and Huai'an, and made up the establishment of 40 people, and then he borrowed Gong Wuyuan from Wang Yongtai as a trainer, and began to conduct military training for all the people in the inspection center, and threatened: "Those who fail to meet the standards in the final assessment of military training will be transferred from the inspection center to the Water Dragon Bureau." ”

The so-called water dragon bureau is the fire brigade at the end of the Qing Dynasty, under the jurisdiction of the Yangzhou prefect Yamen, with the rank of police, Yangzhou has a fire brigade of 60 people, but compared to the patrol police, the fire brigade is obviously the most dangerous and the most oil-free place in all police departments. The construction time of the water dragon bureau is earlier than the establishment of the police system, according to legend, when the Qianlong Emperor was in power, Nanjing City established China's first professional fire brigade, Nanjing Water Dragon Bureau.

When the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was in turmoil in the south of the Yangtze River, the Nanjing Water Dragon Bureau was destroyed, and later the Qing Dynasty recovered Nanjing and re-established the Water Dragon Bureau. At that time, fires often broke out in Nanjing, and Li Hongzhang, the governor of Liangjiang at the time, not only purchased four Western-style water dragon guns from foreign countries, but also sealed the fire-fighting bonus, and rewarded 1,400 wen for extinguishing a fire.

It's just that it was the price of Nanjing, and when Li Hongzhang was the governor of Liangjiang, he had enough money, but Yangzhou was not so rich. Now even the salt transportation does not go through the canal, but by sea, and Yangzhou has begun to decline.

Gong Wuyuan was very serious in training, and the forty team members complained bitterly, and those peasant children recruited from Jiangbei were okay and could endure the suffering, but the old men of the original inspection office couldn't stand it anymore, and ran to Wang Yongan one by one to complain. Wang Yongan's mind turned and said, "If you complain again, get out of here!" You have to bear the hardships that Lao Tzu can endure. Wang Yongan trained with the troops, and others naturally had to follow suit, and everyone saw that the inspectors had to suffer, and no one dared to complain anymore.

It's just that this is hard for Wang Yongan, what is called breaking teeth has to be swallowed in the stomach, after receiving Gong Wuyuan's training, he knows what hard work is-but he can't hide it.

Wang Yongan thought that the training was a trivial matter, and he could cope with it, but he underestimated the training requirements of the Beiyang Army in this era. Although his second brother embezzled military salaries and ate empty salaries, which made the 24th Mixed Association seriously short of soldiers, several officers under him were all serious and responsible, especially this Gong Wuyuan, training soldiers was not only strict, it was simply harsh, but according to his own words, this was just the daily life of the Beiyang New Army.