After the establishment of the new army was completed, He Changying immediately began a new round of large-scale procurement. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

He Changying asked Lu Zhaomei to send the guards of the guard team and invited Xue Yingchun, the Audrey siblings and Bill to the temporary military camp on the beach.

With the silver in his hand, He Changying became generous, in addition to allocating 3,000 taels of settling-in fees to Bill to hire five war hunters from the Otock Empire to teach, he also directly prepaid Bill 40% in advance, a total of 1,000 taels of commission.

Then He Changying also paid Audrey a commission of five hundred and sixty taels according to Bill's proportion.

Audrey, who got the silver ticket, liked to smile and smiled, which caused the platoon commanders of a tent of new army companies to look sideways, and they all peeked at Audrey and were amazed by her beauty.

Then, after some bargaining, He Changying directly ordered 3,000 sets of new army uniforms from Capet Firm through Bill, which were slightly modified by him, similar to the uniforms of the German army during World War II.

The pattern was sketched out by Xue Yingchun's skillful hands, and the officers in the tent looked at it with a bright eye, even Wu Weiyang, who was old and stable, after reading the pattern, he also chose to acquiesce.

In addition to these 3,000 sets of new military uniforms, He Changying also ordered 3,000 sets of Western-style woolen military coats, 3,000 pairs of military cotton pants and cotton hats, 3,000 Sam Brown armed belts, 6,000 sets of Western-style high-waisted calfskin military boots, 10,000 pairs of thickened wool winter socks, 3,000 wool marching blankets, 3,000 aluminum marching bottles, 300 Webley revolvers, and 60,000 rounds of pistol ammunition.

Hearing a series of bursting data from He Changying's mouth, especially the repeated 'three thousand', the eyes of the officers in the room lit up.

Previously, He Changying clearly asked Bill that the contract for this batch of purchases must be completed before the month of the first year.

There are still four and a half months to go until the month of Layue, which means that within four and a half months, Battalion Commander He will expand this new army to the scale of 3,000 people.

Three thousand people, in the old-style Beiyang Army, are equivalent to five or six battalion heads, so as long as everyone does not drop the chain, they will be promoted to one level after four months.

Then, through Bill's introduction, He Changying bought 400 Lebel rifles and 80,000 rounds of ammunition from Capet Comptoir at the price of 35 yuan a single shot, and gave five Webley revolvers by the way.

These 400 foreign guns were shipped to Tianjin three years ago when Capet Comptoir competed with the German Mauser Company for orders and sent them to Tianjin in order to impact the market of German comptoirs.

As a result, as soon as it arrived at Jinmen, Weng Tongyi, under the instruction of this Cixi, issued a document strictly prohibiting the purchase of Western ordnance for no reason, and this batch of ordnance was in the warehouse of the Capet Firm, and it was three years at a time.

Although the quality of the Mauser rifle imitated by the Beiyang Ordnance Bureau at this time was also good, there was still a big gap between it and Western military factories in terms of details and precision, as well as the material of the gun body and shooting accuracy.

As soon as the guns were sent to the makeshift camp, soldiers and officers who could be idle poured in.

He Changying first equipped these 400 Lebel rifles with the reconnaissance platoon, sniper platoon, guard team, and cavalry company, and the rest were equipped with a reinforced company, and the envious Hao Tiansheng and Li Zhenhua were red-eyed.

Then a dozen or so qualified company commanders began to fight for the five Webley revolvers with a charming metallic sheen.

After the commotion ended, He Changying asked Wu Weiyang to lead the soldiers of the cavalry company to buy a large number of horses at the mule and horse market of the Jinmen guards.

Since He Changying did not plan to lead the new army to be stationed in Pyongyang City and carry out coordinated defense in the city, he wanted to conduct sports warfare and guerrilla warfare in the field.

Then in the case of the complete absence of any logistical support, the means of transport are even more important.

Only with a large number of mules and horses as logistical support, the soldiers can maintain good physical strength at all times during long-distance sports and runs, and can carry out a small-scale assault battle at any time.

In half a day, the entire mule and horse market of Jinmenwei was bought out by Wu Weiyang and others.

More than 80 high-quality Mongolian horses, more than 100 local farming horses, more than 100 mules, nearly 100 donkeys, and nearly 5,000 taels of silver.

After all this, plus yesterday's various purchases, nearly 90,000 taels of silver have been spent inside and outside the new barracks.

In this way, the new military camp still has a reserve of 130,000 taels of silver, and He Changying is ready to directly take out 100,000 taels of silver tickets to exchange them for Guangyang.

In North Korea, they traded with the local people and carried out logistics procurement, but the local people only recognized silver, otherwise no matter how much silver tickets they had, they would be equivalent to a piece of waste paper.

In his calculations, even if the new army is expanded to 3,000 people in the future, and it is guaranteed to eat three meals a day, and eat white rice, big steamed buns, meat and eggs, this 100,000 taels of Guangyang will be more than enough before the end of the year.

Just when all the officers were happily discussing what necessary materials they still needed to buy, Lu Zhaomei, who was on duty outside the tent, came in to tell him that someone from the governor's yamen had come.

The whole tent suddenly cooled down.

Zhili Governor Yamen.

After sending away Luo Rongguang, who had a complicated expression, Li Hongzhang was silent for a long time before asking Goshha of the Governor's Yamen to pass on He Changying and let him go to the Governor's Yamen immediately.

The eldest son, Li Jingfang, took over Wu Yuren's training yesterday, and his whole mind was to go to North Korea to make meritorious contributions, and he slipped away without a trace early this morning.

Son-in-law Zhang Peilun accompanied his wife and daughter to Chaoyin Temple early in the morning to offer incense, saying that he was going to rest in the courtyard next to the temple for two days to cool off the heat.

Li Hongzhang was the only one sitting alone in the signing room, sulking.

As an old man in his seventies, even if he Li Hongzhang was the first important minister of the Qing Dynasty, there were some things that he could not avoid vulgarity.

For example, when I am old, I like to be surrounded by my children and grandchildren, and I like to discuss things with my children and grandchildren.

But today, even Chu Bao, who has always been relatively slow about 'world affairs' and likes to fiddle with those machines, has not come to the door to say goodbye.

Li Hongzhang sat in the signing room for a while, feeling bored, so he went to the pavilion in the inner courtyard, drank the iced sour plum soup to cool off the heat, and looked at the scorching lotus flowers blooming in the pool.

"The boss wants to make a contribution, but do you really think that the city of Pyongyang is as safe as Mount Tai? If it weren't for the naval division, the soldiers of the East would have poured into the eight provinces of Korea a long time ago! There is also Youqiao, who has been in a slump since the Battle of Mawei; White-clothed Prime Minister, white-clothed Prime Minister, if you change someone, it's not me Li Hongzhang, you are a grass man, you don't have a top on your head, you can't even enter the door of the governor's yamen, and you still have a fart appearance? ”

The green jade ball in Li Hongzhang's hand turned 'pop' and said: "You, one is my son and the other is my son-in-law, and it's not as good as my little fellow in Feixi!" ”

"Click."

Li Hongzhang filled the tobacco leaves, lit the velvet with a fire sickle, and took a long puff.

"Now the Manchu Dynasty, from the emperor to the ministers to the Qingliu, and then to the ignorant people of the people, they are all shouting and shouting and fighting, and they are eager for the sailors to be able to wipe out the fleet of the Orientals in one battle; In the past ten years, people have added new ships every year, and even the boilers are burned with first-class Western white coal, and the emperor has taken the lead in donating money to buy big ships, but what about us? ”