Early in the morning, those who begged for monthly passes, recommendations, and subscriptions said that Big Luo Luo and Little Luo Luo begged together

On this night, the wharf outside Tung Chung Fort on Lantau was brightly lit, three Western galleons had docked, and several horse-drawn carriages were hurrying straight to Tung Chung Fort. Now Baiyun Mountain must have fought there! Even if he didn't make a move, surrounded by twenty or thirty thousand Qing troops, it would be difficult for Zheng Hong to pull the team out - after all, not all the strong people on Baiyun Mountain, and the families of those strong people. So as soon as he returned to Lantau Island, Zhu Jishi gathered his subordinates to discuss countermeasures.

In fact, the countermeasure was already in place on the way to Lantau Island, that is, to raise troops in advance!

In Tung Chung Fort, Han Si, Liu Peng, Luo Junqi, Lu Peifang, Zhong Ziliang, Su Yuniang, and Liu Jiong, an observer student at the Sanchester Military Academy, who had just returned from Europe a few days ago, were unanimously in favor of the early rebellion.

"Actually, it's not too early, we have already gathered 20,000 people on Lantau Island! There's no place to arrange for anyone to come over! ”

Han Si was the first to say that now that Zheng Hong is not here, he is the number one general of the Ji Shijun. During these days, he and Luo Junqi, Su Yuniang, Zhong Ziliang and others practiced with their heads covered on Lantau Island.

"Ming Gong, our 20,000 people can at least top the Qing army of 200,000! And they are all elite soldiers such as supervising and raising standards, and such soldiers cannot make up 200,000 in the Manchu Qing Dynasty. ”

Zhong Ziliang, who is really a second minister, is now the deputy military division of the Jishi Army, and he also has the rank of lieutenant colonel, specializing in the intelligence work of the Qing army. He has been in the Qing army for more than ten years, although he can't fight. But he knew the situation of the Qing army well. It's a fitting job.

He snapped his fingers and said like a treasure.

"The Manchu Qing Dynasty's troops in Guangdong were in addition to the Eight Banners New Army and the four standards of the Governor, Fu, Ti, and Army. A little bit can be played is the town mark of the seven border towns such as Humen, Chaozhou, Nanao, Qiongzhou, Gaolian, Yingde and Huizhou Jieshi Town. However, after all, the town standard cannot be compared with the four standards of supervision, fu, mention and army. On the one hand, the number of people is smaller; On the one hand, the oil and water of the general army in a town are limited, so it is impossible for the soldiers under his command to drink the blood of the soldiers, and it is impossible to raise troops like the governor and the Manchurian generals. ”

Speaking of this, Zhong Ziliang sighed.

"And the green battalion soldiers in Guangdong are actually quite decent, but there are a little more people who eat big cigarettes. The green battalion soldiers in the north are really similar to beggars, and if they can get three or four percent of their monthly salary of one or two halves and two taels of silver, they can be regarded as having a conscience. There are not as many ways to get money here in Guangdong, this soldier ...... It's really called Huazi Bing, and he doesn't have a face to say it. We, the leading officers of the green battalion, also made those civilian officials look down on them, and a third-grade general saw a seven-rank magistrate, and they all had to be respectfully called subordinates, and they had no heart at all. Where can such a soldier fight? ”

Zhu Jishi nodded frequently, the root cause of the Qing army's weak combat effectiveness is not only the overall backwardness of equipment, training, and tactical thinking, but also the low social status and poor treatment of the officers and men of the Qing army's green battalion. So much so that "a good man is not a soldier, and a good iron is not a nail" has become a folk saying. Compared with. The lower-class samurai in Japan who "have a sword and a life" are just as poor. But he is still a human being in Japanese society. Becoming a samurai is the dream of the vast majority of Japanese civilian teenagers.

This difference in mentality has already determined the performance of the soldiers of the two countries on the battlefield in history! During the First Sino-Japanese War, the equipment, salaries and logistical supplies of the Qing Dynasty's training far exceeded that of the Japanese Army. However, the performance on the battlefield was terrible, and even with strong fortifications, it was very rare to hold out for more than a day. In contrast, the later Kuomintang reactionary Tofu Army was often able to hold out for several months in a battle with the Japanese army, which had an overwhelming superiority in weapons and equipment.

This is probably because the Republic of China is an era of shiny military uniforms, right?

"The status of our Ming soldiers must be improved, we cannot learn from the Manchu Qing Dynasty to use literature to control the military, and the army must have an independent military and political, military order and personnel system." Zhu Jishi thought for a while and looked at Liu Jiong, "Mu Lin, you go and Will. Hemming, Robert. Churchill and Old Peel discussed and came up with a way to promote the Ming army's military administration, military orders, and personnel in the future. You can refer to the system of Britain, France and Prussia, and the Generalissimo's Office, War Department, and General Staff Headquarters of the Ming Dynasty must be organized before the troops are raised.

The Generalissimo's Office consists of the War Department, the Navy Department, the Army General Staff, and the Navy General Staff, each with a Shangshu, a squire or a chief of staff and a deputy chief of staff to manage the ......"

Although Zhu Jishi is waving the banner of opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty, he is building a new country, and now is the time to establish a system. In particular, the military system must be established as soon as possible. When he established the Grand Duchy of Lanfang before, he had already followed the example of the West and established a War Department, but it was only a sketch creation.

"The post of secretary of the War Department is also held by me for the time being. The Chief of the General Staff may appoint the foreign general Will. Hemming was appointed. Zhu Jishi pondered. Now the main generals in the Jishi Army are Han Si, Luo Junqi, and Su Yuniang, none of whom are people who can be Shangshu - when Shangshu is always a scholar, he must have both civil and military skills, and the suitable person in Zhu Jishi's mind is actually Liu Jiong. However, Liu Jiong's qualifications are a little shallow, and he still needs to lead troops to fight before he can be this scholar. As for the post of chief of the general staff, it sounds like it is similar to that of a military division, but in fact, it is fundamentally two different things, and the military command and command system of the modern army is complicated, and Zuo Zongtang and Zhong Ziliang can't do it at all. Only Will, who has received a complete Western-style military education, can only be allowed to do so. Heming came to do it.

And this appointment is also selling well to the British Empire!

"Yusheng," Zhu Jishi looked at Zhong Ziliang again, "You will be the deputy chief of the General Staff, remember, Mr. Hemming is my old brother who has followed me in England, and you have to do your best to assist him in the work of military orders, understand?" ”

Will. Haiming's fighting skills must be reliable, at least stronger than a group of martial artists in the Great Qing Kingdom. But he didn't understand what virtue the Manchu army was, so he had to let Zhong Ziliang, a general who had taken refuge in the Qing army, to assist, so that he could know himself and his opponent.

"In addition, after the capture of Guangzhou, it is time to establish a government, I mean to establish a government of the Ming Kingdom first...... It is necessary to set up a cabinet, and the post of prime minister might as well be done by the military adviser and Mu Wen. ”

O Prime Minister!

Zuo Zongtang and Liu Peng glanced at each other, both holding back their laughter! After the post of prime minister was abolished by Zhu Yuanzhang, it has not appeared in China for hundreds of years, although the Ming Dynasty later had the first assistant of the cabinet, but after all, there was no prime minister, and the Qing Dynasty simply did not even have a nominal prime minister......

"Under the cabinet, there should be ten ministries, including the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Communications, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Construction, and the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. Under each ministry, a number of divisions will be established as appropriate. ”

In the past, there was also a ministry under the cabinet of the Grand Duchy of Lanfang, and the head of one section was called: Minister, which was to reflect that Lanfang was a British vassal, so it imitated the official name of the United Kingdom. Now that we have regained our sight, it is natural to use the title of Shangshu. However, the establishment and responsibilities of the ministries are still Western-style.

"Duke Ming, there doesn't seem to be a ministry under our Ming cabinet, which department should be responsible for the appointment of this official?" Lu Peifang asked with a frown. He is also the identity of a person, although he is not as early as Zuo Zongtang to take refuge in Zhu Jishi, but his contribution is not small, and his son is still fighting hard with the Qing army in Baiyun Mountain! This prime minister has no share, there should always be a book, right? The six departments of the Manchu Qing Dynasty were headed by the Ministry of Officials, so his psychological price was the Ministry of Officials. However, the cabinet in Zhu Jihua did not have the yamen of the Ministry of Officials, and naturally there was no Ministry of Officials......

"The appointment, assessment, and promotion of officials in the Ming Dynasty are not overseen by a yamen." Zhu Jishi touched his beard and thought.

For a political regime and a country, the rule of officials is undoubtedly the foundation of doing all the work well, if the officials of a country are corrupt and incompetent, no matter how much the haode system will bring much progress to the country, it is even better to live in a foolish way.

The weakness of the Manchu Qing and the former Ming Dynasty was largely due to the rule of officials. Zhu Jishi now wants to revive the Ming Dynasty, so naturally he can't copy the Ming and Qing dynasties. (To be continued......)