'Hiss......'

Wang Sirui's words made Wang Shizhen and the others gasp, how much wealth did the coalition army fight for in the capital? This is a number that ordinary people dare not imagine.

Listening to Wang Sirui's tone, it seems that these properties plundered by foreigners eventually fell into Wang Sirui's hands.

It is no wonder that Wang Sirui was able to invest so much money in an industrial park in one go, and even dared to directly control the imperial court.

There are money and soldiers, if you have to say something that is still missing, I'm afraid Wang Sirui is only short of time, right? If you can give him a year, I'm afraid he will be able to sweep the whole country directly.

Wang Shizhen and the others also began to feel glad for their choice just now. If they choose to be the enemy of Wang Sirui, I'm afraid they will die a miserable death, right?

Even if they owned the entire Shandong Peninsula, they didn't have enough money to develop themselves, and in the end they would only be killed by Wang Sirui's Jin Ge Iron Horse.

In the end, after discussion with the three, Wang Sirui balanced the contradictions between the three well.

Among them, Wang Shizhen was appointed as the Minister of Industry, which is a newly created position, and the current power in his hands is relatively small, and he can only manage the industrial park, but Wang Shizhen sees the development of this industrial park very much, and even seeks to promote this model to the whole country.

Although this is a matter for the future, Wang Shizhen is still very satisfied with this position, at least, this is a real doer, not something that can be done by those high-spirited scholars who talk about ideals.

Of course, there is another very important reason why Wang Shizhen agreed to Wang Sirui's arrangement without hesitation.

Taking this opportunity, Wang Shizhen has already jumped out of the military system, and in the future, he will not have to compete for power with Duan Qirui and Feng Guozhang in the same system. At the very least, he was already capable of doing what he wanted to do.

Duan Qirui, Wang Sirui let him return to his old profession, Duan Qirui, who was born in artillery, later because there was not too much artillery in the army, and his ability was too prominent, so he finally had to jump out of the small world of artillery, but Wang Sirui was very clear about the role of artillery in future wars.

Moreover, Wang Sirui plans to learn from the experience of later generations and directly form a cluster artillery unit to concentrate the artillery for use in order to exert greater results.

Wang Sirui's idea also made Duan Qirui very excited, but Duan Qirui was the most aggrieved of the three.

Because the two divisions on the Han side did not have a single real artillery at all, only those fixed artillery that were left on the walls of the capital. If there is anything that can really let him command, there are only more than 20 artillery pieces left in the Wuwei Army.

However, Duan Qirui's name is not small at all, although he does not have many troops, but Wang Sirui gave him enough rights to use the current artillery to train as many artillery as possible, and promised that he would give priority to supplying artillery in the future.

In the end, Duan Qirui received the position of commander-in-chief of the Han army's artillery, with the same rank as the commander of the Han army. Perhaps so far, his level is the only one Duan Qirui can compete with the other two.

As for Feng Guozhang, who had few words and was stolen from the limelight by Wang Shizhen and Duan Qirui everywhere, Wang Sirui did not underestimate it at all.

Feng Guozhang entered the martial arts from a scholar in his life, and then studied military affairs after reading literature and history.

In his time, he experienced several wars, including the Sino-Japanese War and the invasion of Beijing by the Eight-Nation Alliance.

As a generation of Chinese intellectuals with lofty aspirations, or as a military general with strong national self-esteem, Feng Guozhang once repeatedly made suggestions to his superiors and the Qing court with his profound thinking and keen insights, and has always done his best for the grand wish of "the country's sea ban and the beginning of major events in the East".

Although Feng Guozhang also had a struggle for power and profit in the later period, after Yuan Shikai became emperor, he was appointed as the chief of staff, and later let him replace Duan Qirui as the commander-in-chief of the conquest of Yunnan, but he was all in office, and united with the other five generals to force Yuan Shikai to cancel the imperial system.

And with this move, Wang Sirui also has a deeper understanding of this historical celebrity.

Therefore, Wang Sirui gave Feng Guozhang, who seems to be silent and always silent, the most important position at present.

The Wuwei Right Army and the vanguard of the Wuwei Right Army were reorganized into the Third Division of the Han Army, with the same number of personnel as the First and Second Divisions of the Han Army, and the extra troops were handed over to Duan Qirui, and another 2,000 people were added to Duan Qirui from the new barracks.

After gaining Wang Sirui's trust, Feng Guozhang also immediately stated that he would definitely manage the Third Division well and strictly abide by Wang Sirui's orders.

And the obscure Cao Kun, who was ignored by everyone, also made Wang Sirui almost ignore it, but fortunately, in the end, Wang Sirui came to ask with interest, and then discovered this historical bull.

Wang Sirui directly appointed Cao Kun as a brigade commander of the Third Division, which was tantamount to upgrading Cao Kun by one level. And Cao Kun, who knew that no one cared about him because of the loss of his backer, also threw aside Yuan Shikai's backer for a while, and secretly decided to monitor Feng Guozhang's every move for Wang Sirui, as long as Feng Guozhang did something against Wang Sirui's will, he would immediately report it to Wang Sirui.

As everyone knows, a slight move made Wang Sirui turn Yuan Shikai's henchman into his follower so easily.

Wang Shizhen withdrew from the military and began to enter politics, Duan Qirui became an independent army and led his own artillery, Feng Guozhang unexpectedly replaced Yuan Shikai and became the supreme commander of the army, and Cao Kun was also promoted to a brigade commander.

The future of the four of them can be described as bright, and they also know that this is the stage where Wang Sirui is just starting, and if he performs well in the future, the possibility of taking the position will be greater, at least more clearly than following Yuan Shikai's side.

In this way, Wang Sirui easily disintegrated Yuan Shikai's main high-level leaders of the Beiyang Army.

Out of trust in Duan Qirui, Feng Guozhang and Cao Kun, Wang Sirui ordered Feng Guozhang to govern Shandong, and concurrently served as the governor of Shandong, and at the same time asked Wang Shuqi to send a regiment of troops to Shandong to help Feng Guozhang reform the army.

In order not to arouse Feng Guozhang's doubts, Wang Sirui also told Feng Guozhang very clearly that after the three-month restructuring period was over, the troops of this regiment would return to the capital.

In addition, Duan Qirui was ordered to return to Shandong, bring the artillery and the artillery supplemented to him to the capital, and receive the latest training here.

As for Wang Shizhen, he was left in the capital.

The industrial park will not be able to install equipment until next month at the earliest, but Wang Sirui doesn't want him to be idle at all.

So, Wang Sirui asked the troops to select those soldiers or officers who had flexible brains and crooked ideas, and then Wang Sirui himself and Wang Shizhen personally served as instructors to teach these people.

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The twelfth day of the second month of the lunar calendar, the 31st day of the third month of the Western calendar, Sunday.

In the Liuli Factory in the capital, it has been converted into an open-air classroom, where hundreds of officers and soldiers have gathered.

Today was their second day here, and at first everyone was curious, but some well-known officers eventually inquired about their purpose here.

I heard from the people above that this is a training course for staff officers, and those who can come here basically meet the requirements for becoming officers, while those who are already officers are not very interested in this, and the most interested are those soldiers.

Because, according to the officers, once they leave the course, they may be promoted to officers.

As a recruit who had just enlisted in the army for more than a month, Cheng Min was fortunate to be recommended to this training course by the instructor of the new barracks.

In fact, as a recruit, Cheng Min not only aroused the appreciation of his instructors, but also alarmed the attention of Wang Shuqi, the chief instructor of the recruit battalion, and it took a lot of courage to send Cheng Min, who had not yet completed the recruit training, and was the youngest recruit in the entire army, to the training class.

In the end, it was Wang Shuqi, the chief instructor, who signed the letter of recommendation, and he knew what kind of talent Wang Sirui needed, and if he missed this opportunity, he didn't know when it would be next time.

Yesterday was the first day of school, and they were given the first day of lessons by their vice-principal and deputy chief instructor and instructor, and the main topic was the daily life of a staff officer.

And today is their principal, chief instructor, and instructor Wang Sirui came to give them the first lesson, and Wang Shizhen was also very curious to stay here, he also wanted to hear what Wang Sirui had different views on the position of staff officer.

Unlike Wang Shizhen, the entire Han army high-level, in addition to Duan Qirui and Feng Guozhang, who have returned to Shandong, all the officers above the regimental level in the whole army have also been pulled over by Wang Sirui, Wang Sirui hopes that through this school, these chief officers can also understand the importance of the position of staff officer, so that they can be liberated.

And this simple school was also named the Army Staff College by Wang Sirui, and this simple academy was also called the earliest cradle of the entire Chinese nation for the cultivation of modern war talents.

"Staff officer? What is it? "Wang Sirui stood on the lecture hall, and behind him was a temporary patchwork of 'blackboard', which should be between the blackboard and the whiteboard, and he was holding a white lime in his hand to write and draw on it, and the effect was very unsatisfactory. But Wang Sirui didn't care about this. (To be continued.) )