Because the northwest has incurred a huge amount of military expenditure, and it is difficult to start the reform of the military system, the Huai Army's financial difficulties have become an excuse for the reduction.

Although the funds for the Huai Army were provided by customs duties, cents, and provincial salaries during the war, once the situation eased, there was no guarantee for the allocation of funds, and Li Shaoquan needed to personally ask all parties to take care of them. At that time, the main investment was the funds for the Western Expedition, and if the Huai Army could not join, the source of funds would naturally be tight. The household department's difficulties in reimbursing the Huai army's military salary caused great pressure on Li Shaoquan.

In addition to the fact that the supply of salaries for the Huai army was not guaranteed and he was facing the pressure of retrenchment, Li Shaoquan was transferred from the front line of leading the Huai army to the post of governor of Zhili, so that his control over the Huai army was also difficult in the system, and he could only control it privately. The ownership and command of the Huai Army were extremely unsmooth due to the system. Although Li Shaoquan regarded the Huai Army as his descendant, after he left the front line of "counterinsurgency," he could not appoint a successor from the institutional point of view. The Huai Army is facing dismantling because the system is not in line with the system and has no legitimacy. Straightening out the system was the key to solving the problem, but there was no hope for that at the time.

But the Battle of Moss Bay, which took place in 9074, gave Li Shaoquan a turning point.

After the Japanese invasion of Moss Bay, the court can be said to have panicked, fortunately Lin Yizhe led the Ship Master Sailor to sail directly to Moss Bay, Langqiao destroyed the first Japanese invasion of Moss Fleet, reversing the passive situation, but Lin Yizhe led the Marine Corps of the Ship Administration and Sailor Division was too small to go ashore to attack the Japanese Army that had landed, and there were no troops to adjust in Fujian and other places, and at this time, the important value of the Huai Army was once again reflected.

Faced with the crisis in Mosswan, Shen Youdan asked Li Shaoquan for help, and Li Shaoquan generously transferred the main forces of the Huai Army, Tang Dingkui and Zhou Shengchuan, to Mosswan, under the command of Lin Yizhe, to attack the Japanese army in Moss.

The combat effectiveness of the invading Japanese army was very strong, but the Huai Army, as one of the elite of the Great Cadre Army, although its performance was weak at the beginning in the face of the Japanese army, was indeed beyond Li Shaoquan's expectations, but under the command of Lin Yizhe, it finally completely annihilated the invading Japanese army and achieved another major victory after the "suppression of the Sect and the Peace."

Li Shaoquan did not shy away from talking about the performance of the Huai Army in the battle of Moswan, and he took this opportunity to make a big fuss and wrote to the imperial court one after another, pointing out: The Japanese Army is stronger than the Huai Army because Japan has carried out drastic military reform since the Meiji Restoration, abolished the samurai class to control the national military, implemented the "equality of the four peoples", and imitated the Western countries in training the army, and achieved great results, and the Japanese army in 9074 has actually basically completed the reform. Combat effectiveness is at or near the level of European countries. However, because the Huai army has been under tremendous pressure to be dismantled, its combat effectiveness has not improved much compared with before, and it is only because it has become like this.

Li Shaoquan, who is well acquainted with the national defense situation of the Qianguo, has a sober understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Daqian Army.

In the impression of the people of the time and even some foreigners, Qianguo has always been famous in the world for its huge army of more than one million, but the truth is far from being comparable with the numbers.

However, since entering the Central Plains, the combat effectiveness of the Eighth Division and the Youth Brigade has deteriorated, not only because of the lack of updating of weapons and equipment, but more importantly, because of the corruption of the bureaucratic system and the abandonment of training. In the two anti-smoking wars, the Eight Divisions and the Youth Brigade were exhausted by the Western powers, and by the time of the Shengping Heavenly Kingdom War, they were completely useless. After the end of the Shengping Heavenly Kingdom War, the combat effectiveness of the two standing armies of the Qianguo government had long been lost, and they could only barely play the role of maintaining social order, but these two "armies" were extremely rotten, because they were the children of the imperial dynasty who once helped to lay down the country, and they belonged to the "old ancestral system" that maintained the existence of the political power, and the sword of reform could not be touched at all, and every year, the imperial court of the Great Qian, which was not well-off, had to pay about 20 million taels of silver for the two idle teams. It can be described as a huge cancer in the system of the Great Qian's empire.

Ironically, when something happens, most of the armed forces that can really come in handy come from the militia and are not included in the state establishment of the Qianguo government. After the outbreak of the Shengping Heavenly Kingdom War, the Eight Ministries and the Youth Brigade were completely defeated, and the helpless cadre government was forced to use the ministers of the Xia nationality in the Central Plains to return to their hometowns to train troops, and to turn the tide with the local militia called the "Yongying". During the war, there were several famous Yongying troops with strong combat effectiveness, including the Hunan Army founded by Zeng Bohan, the Huai Army founded by Li Shaoquan, Zhang Yao's Henan subordinate Songwu Army, the Song Qingyi Army evolved from the Anhui Army, and the Zuo Ji Gao Chu Army born from the Hunan Army and self-reliant, among which the Hunan Army and the Huai Army were the most outstanding.

These brave battalion armies were united by the ties of nostalgia and family affection, and were forced to strive to obtain modern weapons to equip themselves in the smoke of the world's largest civil war at that time. These armies, which have no names and are paid by the localities and raise their own money through taxes, have comically and upside down the responsibilities of the Wehrmacht as militias.

Among the millions of troops on paper in the Great Qianchao, the Yong battalion and training army composed of militia were the backbone, while the Hunan army was largely dismantled by Zeng Bohan after the end of the Shengping Heavenly Kingdom War, and Li Shaoquan's Huai army was the best equipped and most trained in the Yong battalion, but although the Huai officers and soldiers were equipped with new guns, in their bones, it can be said that they were still an army in the Middle Ages.

And the battle of Moss Bay vividly showed the problem of the Qianguo Army in front of everyone.

The Huai army is still like this, if it is other brave battalion training troops, I don't know what it will be like!

The Qianguo Army has rotted into such a situation, and Li Shaoquan wasted no time in pointing out that the time has come for change.

Because of the facts, the stubborn old-school ministers also had to admit that the eight youth brigades were unusable, and not only were the voices of the Huai army dismissed all mute, but even the military salaries (290,000 taels of firewood, grass, oil, and candles) that the household department had owed to the Huai army for two years (290,000 taels of firewood, grass, oil, and candles) were also issued.

From then until now, no one dared to mention the stubble of dismantling the Huai army.

Although he thwarted the conspiracy of those who were bent on making trouble for him, Li Shaoquan also knew very well that the imperial court was jealous of these Xinjiang ministers with heavy troops, and if the Qianguo wanted to be invincible in future wars, it was urgent to reform the military system , he can only choose to accept the reality helplessly.

Li Shaoquan also revealed to Lin Yiqing the bitterness in his heart about the future of the Huai Army: "Every time a reimbursement is made, the Ministry of Agriculture often refutes it and blows the hair," "When the subordinates see that our army has been sold to more than 5 million, they can't help but have hot eyes, and they have not checked why it was allowed to be sold in the past, so how can it be inconsistent", "When I suddenly heard about it, I didn't feel cold," "The way of Master Wen Zhengshi in his later years is the way for my generation to be the law." However, the old Huai army, distributed in various provinces, is difficult to repatriate, and there is no one to take care of on the left and right, and it is afraid that it will not be appropriate to send and withdraw. If they can withdraw all and return to the court, or if they return to the palace, they will also be physically and mentally satisfied", "The battalions that are now left to defend the provinces seem to be in danger of safety, and it is difficult to be repatriated. The country is based on the department, and it is difficult for a poor family to be a poor family, so it has to be. In the middle of spring, Shanghe Shengming asked the defense army a little; The elders of the cardinal court have never discussed it, and they don't know what the use of keeping precautions is, and what the source of pay is, but they don't know that Southeast and South Africa and Zhang Tong are not enough to rely on. And the contemptible people are not only in great difficulty, but they also dare not avoid suspicion, and they are quiet", "and there are few defense troops, and the outsiders discuss the abolition, and the bureau also suffers from supplying 100 million." ”

Lin Yiqing didn't have any good ways to deal with the embarrassing position and difficult reality of the Huai Army, he just tried his best to secretly help Li Shaoquan solve the problem of military salaries for the Huai Army in various places (as expected, he deserved to be the God of Wealth), keep all the departments of the Huai Army as much as possible from being abolished, and use his current opportunity to train the Boren New Army, try his best to make suggestions to Prince Jing and Prince Chun and the Empress Dowager of the Two Palaces, in order to promote the reform of the military system in the imperial court.

Li Shaoquan knew very well that although Lin Yiqing was appointed to be responsible for the formation and training of the new army, in fact, he did not have military power in his hands, and the situation was not easy, and the cooperation between the two had to be carried out secretly, so that as long as he had the opportunity, he would use it to make a fuss and reduce the resistance to the actions of the two of them.

"This Korean rebellion can also be like the battle of Moss Bay in the past, and the adults can say that the new army is strong, prompting the imperial court to reform the military system." Xue Shuyun said, "Your Excellency should know that every time only foreign affairs are stimulated, the imperial court will change a little." ”

"It's a lot more exciting, but I'm afraid I'm going to be numb again." Li Shaoquan looked at the city outside the window and sighed, "If the stimulation is too great, I am afraid that it will be like that seriously ill person, who will die all of a sudden......"

While the two were talking, Master Lou Chunfan hurriedly walked in with a telegraph newspaper.

"What's wrong?" Li Shaoquan noticed that Lou Chunfan's expression was different, and immediately asked.

"Lord Huitai, Lord Lin of the Lin Jue Department...... Hurt ......"

"What?!"

North Korea, Seoul, former residence of the Kim family.

Jin Taixin would never have thought that the person named Lin Yiqing would live in the Jin family's compound now.

When Kim Tae-hin woke up, her stomach was grunting with hunger, and she thought it was almost noon, so she pushed the heavy lid of the box above her head and sat up. The room was pitch black, except for a small crack in the skylight above the head, casting a few scattered pillars of light.

After taking a few breaths of fresh air, she realized that she was dizzy and weak in the box, and she was secretly glad in her heart, if she hadn't been woken up by hunger, she was afraid that she would have been suffocated to death if she continued to sleep like this.

There was silence all around, and it was a little strange that it was peaceful and stable. Jin Tae-xin estimated that everyone might have fled a long time ago, leaving her alone here, and she couldn't help but feel gloomy.

She struggled to crawl out of the box, and slowly lay down with her hands and feet spread, figuring out her next steps.

This small building is a spare room in the family, used to store some long-term not very important items, here is usually gloomy, no one comes, it is Jin Taixin who dares to use the white rotten method of hiding in the box for thousands of years to protect himself, so far everything is so perfect that he has to admire himself, but a small question is: what to do in the future?

It's definitely not a way to hide all the time, and if you don't suffocate to death, you will starve to death.

After her brother Jin Yujun left them all away, Jin Taixin's only thought at that time was to end her life, she knew that her brother had committed such a serious crime, he would definitely be held accountable by the government, and all his family members would be affected, she had to choose the right time and the right opportunity, and if she didn't succeed, she would become a benevolent, otherwise once she was caught, it would really be the end of everything.

She thought of all kinds of ways to end her life, swallowing gold, hanging, throwing herself into a well, etc., etc., etc., etc., all of which were too painful, and she heard that the death was very ugly, she hoped that she could die with dignity, so she thought of a way to kill herself by drinking medicine.

But where is the ready-made poison?

After thinking for a long time, she remembered a foul saying she heard somewhere: "The big cigarette paste is wine, and the small life is not immediately", she suddenly remembered that there was still cigarette paste somewhere in the house, so she went to rummage, and after looking for a long time, she found a piece of suspected cigarette paste, and she found half a bottle of soju dropped by the fleeing servant, and swallowed the "cigarette paste" with the wine, and then lay down in a fine camphor wood box, quietly waiting for the arrival of death.

But she just slept and didn't die.

Could it be that God took pity on her and didn't let her die?

But if you fall into the hands of the servants alive and die after being humiliated, it is better to die happily now!

Why didn't the big cigarettes and alcohol work on her?

was thinking wildly, but heard a slight sound in the dark corner, Jin Tae-xin's heart tightened, and she got up and looked carefully. The pillar of light cast from the skylight was falling in front of her, and countless fine dust slowly fluttered, blocking her vision, but she clearly felt a faint air flow stirring the dust in the pillar of light trembling, and flying wildly like a frightened swarm of bees.

The air seemed to grow stronger gradually, blowing so that the pillars of light were crumbling, and then slowly weakening again, almost stationary, and then beginning to grow stronger, as if it were some kind of large, deep breath. A layer of cold sweat broke out on Jin Tae-xin's back, crawled on the ground and slowly retreated to the farthest corner, her voice trembling and shouting softly: "Who?" Who's there? ”

There was no answer, but the air flow became stronger and stronger, and it turned into a hot wind blowing in his face. After a long time, there were several low noises in the darkness, like nasal sounds, like whining in the depths of the throat, and then there was a grinding sound, as if something had moved, and the sound was extremely soft, and it was difficult to detect it if it were not for such a high level of tension.

Jin Tae-hin leaned against the wall, there was no way back, she could only stare ahead, her sweaty and cold hands groping behind her back, trying to find something to hold in her hand at least to resist.

The air flow slowly approached, first a furry front paw stepped into the aperture, and then a pair of dark green eyes gradually emerged from the dust, the pupils were glowing, and the fluff on the flat face stood up one by one, illuminated by the faint light.

It's not that Kim Tae-hin hasn't dealt with animals in the past, but at this moment, in the dark and narrow room, looking at such a pair of eyes of unknown origin, she only feels as if her heart has fallen somewhere and she doesn't know where to go, and her whole body is so weak that she has no strength at all, and she is wet from head to toe as if she was fished out of water. She didn't dare to make a sound, for fear of alarming the other party, but she moved slowly with her back against the wall behind her, and her eyes followed her without blinking.

Suddenly, her subordinates knocked something down, and there was a "clang" sound. Jin Tae-xin's heart stopped beating instantly, and she saw that the hair on the monster's body trembled suddenly, and two sharp teeth burst out of the corners of her grinning mouth, and her body was ready to shoot as soon as she sank. At this moment, countless thoughts flashed in Jin Taixin's heart, she couldn't imagine that she was so thin, she knew that it was better to continue to sleep in the box and suffocate to death, so that she would not be torn apart by sharp teeth and die so painfully and ugly. At this critical moment, I suddenly heard a crisp and bright female voice next to me, saying:

"What are you afraid of, if it tried to bite you, you would have died a long time ago."

Kim Tae-hin looked back like a savior, only to vaguely see a figure pushing open the screen and moving over, it seemed to be a young girl. The girl walked past her, stretched out her arms around the monster's neck, and looked intimate, and then turned her head and said proudly: "Its name is Lao Bai, it is my friend, as long as you obediently don't move, I won't let it bite you." ”

Jin Taixin was completely relieved, but she snorted deliberately in her mouth: "Don't look down on people, I'll be afraid of your dog?" ”

The girl giggled and opened the window behind her: "What is the hard mouth now?" You're hiding here, and the lord knows about it, and he doesn't know what to do with you. Don't come out soon, or I'll lock you up." ”

Jin Tae-hin hurriedly climbed out of the window, and the light outside pierced her eyes for a while, and it took a while to see that she was in her own garden. The air was moist and cool, and the midday sun sifted down through the sparse gaps between the branches, splashing countless faint spots of light, and not far away was a babbling stream, and the sound of water droplets was endless.

The girl closed the car door and walked forward with a jump, and Jin Tae-xin saw her appearance clearly, but at the age of fourteen or fifteen, her round face was bright and moving, and her dark and flashing eyes were always restless, like small animals, and she was wearing a rose-colored tunic that had just reached her knees, and she was wearing small soft leather boots on her feet, and her steps were as light as dew drops on the blades of grass. Look at the monster behind her, she had never seen it before, its body was like a leopard, but it was bigger than an ordinary leopard, its big ears were erected upward, it swayed back and forth, and it was covered in black and shiny fur wrapped in strong muscles and bones, and it walked proudly like the girl. (To be continued.) )