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In a spacious conference room in the pen making branch of Qinchuan Aurora Company, Qin Chuan, dressed in military uniform, and more than 40 people in suits, leather shoes or robes and horse coats, and there were even more than a dozen middle-aged people wearing glasses that were not commonly used by Chinese people in these years, sitting around the long table that was improvised with several tables, and the table was covered with a tablecloth with bright dark green cloth produced by Qinchuan Aurora Dyeing Factory, on which were placed several large plates of melons, fruits, pears and peaches, more than 40 tea cups, and more than a dozen boxes of cigarettes, these people were drinking tea and eating melons and fruits, while whispering excitedly to each other.

Chu Yunfei and Xu Tong, who were dressed in crisp military uniforms, wore a wide brown cowhide armed belt around their waists, carried a brown and yellow wooden shell shell gun coated with tung oil, hung a special saber made by the Salt Regiment on their waists, and wore black and shiny riding boots on their feet, energetically commanding five or six guards dressed in the uniforms of the soldiers of the Salt Regiment, who were also diagonally straddling the shell guns, and were pouring tea and water for the men who were about forty years old who were sitting around.

Looking at Chu Yunfei carefully, his demeanor was very different from the past, although he methodically commanded his guards to pour tea and pass water non-stop, but whenever he had leisure, he couldn't help but smile and look down at the shiny rank on his chest, or he couldn't help but gently stroke the long-barreled barge gun with a barrel of 132mm on his waist.

Since Zhou Fu took the opportunity of Beiyang Colonel Qin Chuan and his salt regiment to win the establishment of three battalions for Qin Chuan, Qin Chuan, who was planning how to fight the original one battalion, immediately came to the spirit, with the establishment of a total of four battalions, his salt regiment is really a regiment, and it is also a reinforced regiment that is not adulterated at all. On the second day after Zhou Fu's approval, Qin Chuan reorganized the salt ball.

Qin Chuan reorganized his salt regiment into four battalions, each battalion had three companies, and the battalion headquarters directly belonged to four platoons of guards, reconnaissance, communications, and baggage, plus a medical squad. The unit directly under the leader of the Yan Regiment in Qinchuan was composed of seven companies of guards, cavalry, artillery, reconnaissance, communications, baggage, and medical services, and the staff and logistics units were temporarily absent. Because of the shortage of existing personnel, Qin Chuan arranged for several hundred tall recruits to be carefully selected from several counties around Tianjin, and the number of Yan regiments exceeded 2,800 people, so that the shortage of troops was roughly enough.

Among the four battalions, Chu Yunfei, Wang Xiping, He Ruhuai, and Fang Weijun were respectively appointed as four battalion commanders, Shi Feng was appointed as the commander of the guard company, Xu Tong was appointed as the commander of the reconnaissance company, Du Baozhong and Li Yutian were appointed as the chief and deputy commanders of the cavalry, Qiu Qinghe was appointed as the commander of the artillery company, Liu Weifa was the commander of the baggage company, and Zhang Jingfang was the commander of the communications company and the commander of the medical company.

Zhou Dajing, the head of the staff unit, although there is no second person in his staff unit except him, Qin Chuan asked him to look for candidates on his own while taking charge of the five companies of guard, communications, reconnaissance, cavalry, and artillery.

Fang Jinggui, head of the logistics unit, was temporarily in charge of the two companies of baggage and medical services.

After the reorganization of the troops, except for Qin Chuan, the actual leader of the salt regiment, who was unwilling to call himself the head of the regiment, his salt regiment was almost exactly the same as the establishment of the modern army regiment, and the only drawback was that he did not have a military rank. There is no way, his salt regiment is a local army, don't say that these people under him have no officials and no positions, even he Qin Chuan is still an alternate officer, and the Qing Dynasty does not recognize the military ranks of those school officers and generals.

For the sake of this military rank, Qin Chuan was very depressed for a while at the beginning, and thought about it for a long time, and finally Qin Chuan was ruthless and did not report, so he set up his own rank in the salt regiment, two unit commanders, four battalion commanders and seven directly subordinate company commanders are all majors, twelve company commanders in the four battalions are all captains, and other deputy positions are set up in order, and military salaries are paid according to the rank.

Because the level of the average directly determines the amount of military salary, so the matter of military rank made Qin Chuan think a lot, originally Shi Feng has been with the factory protection team, but Shi Feng is loyal and does not have much culture, so the army is reorganized Shi Feng insisted on not being the battalion commander, no way, Qin Chuan finally had to wronged him to be the commander of the guard company.

Chu Yunfei, Zhou Dajing, Xu Tong, and Wang Xiping, more than 20 young people who studied at the Tianjin Martial Arts Academy, although they were promoted, they were the most bitter, not to mention going to the Martial Arts Academy during the day from Monday to Friday, and when they came back at night, they had to participate in military training and manage internal affairs, and on the evenings of Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, they also had to listen to Qin Chuan's military classes.

In Qin Chuan's salt regiment, in addition to Chu Yunfei and Zhou Dajing, officers above the squad leader, as well as soldiers of some cultures, every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, Qin Chuan had to gather them together and train them individually, explain the essentials of tactics, and give theoretical courses on command, staff, logistics, baggage, and other subjects, and artillery even more separately trained and explained.

Qin Chuan also made it clear in the army that in the future, the military rank will be promoted according to the level of military merit in wartime, and the observance of military discipline, training diligence, and combat skills in peacetime.

Not to mention, since the establishment of military ranks, the appearance of the troops has changed greatly, and everyone is proud of abiding by military discipline and training diligently.

In the past few months, another thing that made Qin Chuan particularly excited was that William Jr. not only bought him 5,000 German-made Type 88 rifles, but also gave Qin Chuan 300 long-barreled barge guns from Germany, all of which were 20-round cartridge magazines. Because the barrel is 132mm long, this gun also has another name, the long sight magazine.

The only regret is that Qin Chuan knew from William Jr. that this kind of barge gun has not begun to be officially mass-produced in Germany, and even the patent applied for has not yet come down, and these 300 pistols are just sample guns produced by the Mauser Arsenal, which are specially recommended for use by the armies of various countries, especially since there is no continuous firing system, only semi-automatic.

At present, these barge guns are only equipped with officers at and above the guard company level, and after mass production next year, William Jr. will expand the scope of distribution after he purchases a large number of them for him.

"Seniors."

Qin Chuan opened his mouth to speak, and only then did he wake up Chu Yunfei, who was still admiring himself with his shiny rank of major.

Today is the first plenary gathering of the guests sincerely invited by his eldest brother from all over the country in Tianjin, Qin Chuan convened this tea party for only one purpose, that is, to invite these young children in the United States to work in their Aurora company, according to Xu Tong's grandfather Xu Zichuan said in private, it is his eldest brother who is going to become a big thing in recruiting the team。。。。。。

Chu Yunfei knew Qin Chuan's thoughts, and couldn't help but quietly tug at the placket, straighten his waist, and stand behind Qin Chuan's side energetically.