The cold was oppressive, the night was dark, and nothing could be seen in the dark room, except for a little light through a small window in the wall, which was the light of the lantern in the hands of the guards outside.

The Qing Empire's minister of the Qing Dynasty and the governor of Liangjiang, Duan Fang, was locked up in this hut, and he enjoyed the same treatment, as well as Lang Yinchang, the right attendant of the Ministry of War, Zhang Biao, the commander of the eighth town of the Hubei New Army, and other high-ranking Manchu officials, and more than 20 officials were crammed into this small black house with an area of less than 20 square meters.

Now, the two petty officials have a dispute because of the competition for a piece of "territory", at the beginning they were just "greetings" each other's female relatives, and later it evolved into a full martial arts again, both of them are officers, and the training in the past was really not in vain, and this fight was not comparable to the brawl scene of that class of civilian officials.

"Enough! Does the court raise you to make you fight? Stop it all for the official! Yin Chang stood up and scolded, and at this time, an official sitting next to him hurriedly took advantage of the situation and quietly moved a place here, expanding his "territory" a little.

Although Yin Chang is also a prisoner, but in the end the official is a big level, the prestige still exists, as long as he is still panting, this said that the words are quite weighty, so the brawl stopped, but when Yin Chang sat back, he didn't find that his "territory" had been encroached upon by someone A small piece, this is not surprising, after all, the official who forcibly occupied his territory was a member of the household department, and he was usually good at making flower tents when he was greedy and impersonated, and he couldn't do flower tents on a few substitute ghosts. Now that he occupies a small amount of territory, it is really a good way to solve the cow, and he is at ease.

After Yin Chang sat back, he listened attentively, but heard Duanfang's murmuring again.

"Zhang Nanpi, Zhang Nanpi, you can kill your master. When you get to Jiuquan, you're not done! ”

Zhang Nanpi is the former governor of Huguang Zhang Zhidong, who is directly subordinate to Nanpi, so he is called "Zhang Nanpi". In the Sino-Japanese First Sino-Japanese War, it was this person who first advocated the imperial court to train a new army, cut out the old battalion, and set an example, when he was acting as the governor of Liangjiang, he trained a new army of thousands of people, called the "self-improvement army", after the war he returned to serve as the governor of Huguang, although the self-strengthening army was not brought back, but the idea of training the new army was stronger, and later the imperial court trained the new army, Yuan Shikai in the north, and Zhang Zhidong in the south, all of them fulfilled their duties and tried their best to organize and train, so that they had the name of "South Zhang and North Yuan", The reason why the new army in Hubei has made such a rapid progress in its formation and training and ranks first among the southern provinces is precisely because of Zhang Zhidong's all-out supervision. However, as early as last year, Zhang Zhidong was transferred to the capital, which meant that he would assist in the new policy and preside over the center with Yuan Shikai, but in fact, it was the policy of the imperial court to transfer the tiger away from the mountain, paving the way for the banner people to govern the place in the future.

Although the current governor of Huguang is not Zhang Zhidong, but because the Hubei New Army was created by him, therefore, Duanfang has been thrown into this small black house since he was thrown into this small black house, and he began to complain about Zhang Zhidong, it seems that in his opinion, if Zhang Zhidong did not train the Hubei New Army, then, there would be no mutiny, and he Duan Fang Duan would not stink in this black house.

In this regard, not only Yin Chang disagreed, but even other petty officials also scoffed, if they did not train the new army, they were afraid that in a few years, the army of the imperial court would not even be able to defeat the party armies, where would it be his turn to come to the school to review the autumn exercises? Is it really as some princes said, asking foreigners to send troops to protect the court? If state affairs are really handled like this, then these soldiers who are paid for their salaries can simply take a piece of stinky tofu and shoot it to death, so as to save the eyes of the people.

No matter how the new army is, at least it is much stronger than the old army, and now those officers of the old army do not wear military uniforms when they go out, why? Shoot the white of the eye. The officers of the new army are different, the camp is the same inside and outside the camp, the military uniform is neat, the riding boots are shiny, walking on the road is full of energy, and the people are also praising it, the reason, the new army uniform is beautiful, not as obscene as the old army, wearing it on the body like a monkey, the new army uniform is good-looking, spiritual, according to the foreigners' military uniform, can it not look good? The second reason is that the new army is strict in discipline, and it does not harass the people like the old army, which makes the people hate it to the core, and the new army even pays money according to the market price to buy vegetables, can the people be unhappy?

But the new army also has the difficulties of the new army, if you want to maintain discipline and not harass the locality, you can only improve the military salary, but the high salary means that the imperial court has to increase investment, and a lot of money has to be taken out, and this silver center will not be given, you have to rely on the locality, as a result, the local governor wants to call the poor, to push left and right, and is unwilling to seriously train; To be literate as a soldier means that some ill-intentioned foreign students will inevitably be recruited into the army, these people from the army to serve the country is fake, the rebellion is true, a careless, let them take advantage of the loophole, the Anqing mutiny, the Huangnigang mutiny are clear proof!

But it is not possible to recruit these scholars, and now the march and war are not as good as in the past, not to mention anything else, just the marks on the cannons, the squares on the gun mirrors, these things can only be understood and used by the literate people, and it is expected that those who are illiterate will only throw these sharp and advanced weapons to the Hui Party.

The painstaking efforts of the imperial court may not be understood by everyone, but the critical situation facing China at the moment is in front of us, and the training of the new army is not only to deal with the party, but also to prevent external humiliation. The indemnity can also be given less, and the land can be cut less, and now there is not much left in the Qing Dynasty, so if you can cut one less piece, you can cut one less piece, otherwise, in the future, when you stretch your legs, you won't even have a place to put a coffin.

Who told the flag man not to be angry? The children of the Eight Banners, who were like tigers in the past, are now only left with the ability to fight birds and crickets, and it is more difficult to call them into battle than to catch ducks on the shelves! The training of the new army is hard, and these Eight Banners have not raised their eyes at all, it is the first town of the Beijing Banner Standing Army, and it took the imperial court a lot of effort to collect from the Eight Banners from all over the country, and I don't know how many fake flag people are mixed in.

There is no way, you can only rely on the Han people, when the imperial court could control the Han soldiers in the green camp, why couldn't it control the Han soldiers in the new army? But the imperial court never thought of one point, that is, now the world has changed, from Yantai to take a steamer, it will take less than two days to the East, after the defeat of the First Sino-Japanese War, the imperial court sent students to the East, originally expected them to return from their studies to repay the court's kindness, but who would have thought that these people went out, as soon as their eyes opened, their hearts and eyes were broken, and when they went out, they knelt three times and knocked nine times, but when they came back, they even cut their braids, and the braids were still light, and many people came back with a "revolutionary" sledgehammer, Then hammered the iron bucket-like country of the Great Qing Kingdom into holes, although this barrel is still standing, but who can guarantee that it can stand for a few days?

It has been more than 250 years since the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, and there are few Central Plains dynasties that have been in the country for more than 300 years.

In the words of some princes in Beijing, "I am afraid that the number of qi people in the customs is exhausted."

It's over, it's over, not only the princes can see it clearly, but even the grass people can see it clearly, and those officials in the court are even more transparent, so all the people are fishing, desperately fishing! Catch up before you're done! As a result, various "companies" have been established—————— two major shareholders of "Qingna Company", one Qingwang Yixuan, and the other is Shi Natong of Tirenge University, the company specializes in sales officials, from the Minister of Military Aircraft to the Copywriting Division, all of which are sold; "Sanlin Company" is a joint venture composed of three imperial histories, because the last word of the name of the three adults is similar in pronunciation, so it is named, the company's main business is to buy excerpts, especially the excerpts of impeaching officials for corruption and lawlessness, and occasionally also operate excerpts for the country's sponsorship......

In this vigorous "company movement", only two big men did not participate, one Yuan Shikai, the other is Zhang Zhidong, but in the eyes of people who understand, although Yuan Shikai did not form a "company", but his ambition is not small, the Beiyang he is in charge of has already become his Yuan's Beiyang, all over the private people, weaving party henchmen, the situation will change in the future, only afraid that it is more dangerous than the "Qingna company", only Zhang Zhidong Zhang Nanpi Gongzhongguo, who is sitting in Huguang, does not hesitate to work hard to train the new army, and does not set up any "company", Don't go to install cronies, as soon as the imperial decree arrives, immediately pack your bags, go north, and participate in national politics, which is like that Yuan Shikai, when he heard that the court wanted to transfer him from the Beiyang Minister and the Governor of Zhili, but he pushed back and blocked, and then he couldn't grind, so after promoting his cronies to succeed him, he rushed to the capital to take office as a Beijing official.

It's called "Love Stack"! Colleagues are white-eyed, the court is taboo, if there is no accident, Yuan Shikai is not far from getting out.

A Zhang Zhidong and a Yuan Shikai, comparing the two, who is a loyal minister and who is a traitor, you can see at a glance, but now this Duan Fangduan Lord is adamant that the culprit who caused him to be detained by the mutineers is actually Zhang Nanpi, who is loyal to state affairs, and the new army he has trained is the base camp of the chaotic party! If Zhang Zhongtang was here, he would have to die of anger on the spot.

"Zhang Nanpi, Zhang Nanpi, the master is not finished with you, he is not finished with you! If you return to the capital alive, you will have to be revisited! Harboring the rebellious party, its heart can be punished! Duanfang shrank in the corner, humming without a word.

If Zhang Zhidong is harboring the rebellious party, there will be no official who does not harbor the rebellious party that day, and the leader of the chaotic party who died in the hands of Zhang Nanpi, if you count from Tang Caichang and others in the year of Gengzi, there are not a hundred but fifty, then Tang Caichang is said to be a disciple of his Zhang Nanpi, and he doesn't even care about the feelings of teachers and students, which shows his loyalty to the imperial court, of course, this can also see that he is sleek and exquisite, otherwise, how can he sit on one side with a clear background and become a feudal official with real power? Even the powerful Li Hongzhang and his gang couldn't defeat him, which shows his ability.

In the eyes of Yin Chang and others, Duanfang's words can only represent one thing: his "bullet shock" has committed again.

It's really hard for him, the rebels put more than 200 cannons into the barracks and the town, and he can only get sick until now, and he is also a rare man among the banner people.