"However, the construction of the navy has not been taken seriously, but after my strong request, the establishment of the coastal defense force has been recognized, and the state will purchase two hundred heavy coastal defense cannons from the Guangzhou Arsenal for defense, which is twice as much as you planned." Li Hongzhang said with a smile.

Li Yi saw the smile on Li Hongzhang's face, and he was not disappointed by the construction of the navy, he knew that he was also a continental thinker and was not very interested in the sea, but what comforted Li Yi was that with the deterrence of two hundred heavy coastal defense artillery, it was impossible for the powers to land from the sea, and the offshore sea would become a forbidden area for them.

The first phase of the "Reaper Plan" has been fully launched, the economic and military reforms have begun, the reform of the political system is still in secret planning because the interests involved are too great, and the land reform is even more involved in the direct interests of the vast number of landowners, and they dare not blindly unfold it, and the whole country is staring at the two Guangzhous and seeing the results of Zhang Zhidong's reform in the two Guangzhous.

Li Yi was officially appointed as the training envoy of the new army, and the army reform in the four products and six provinces was not carried out as Li Yi thought, and the Han army of the Great Qing Dynasty had more than one million personnel, but this was not the main force of the Qing State. The Xiao Cavalry Battalion, the Forward Battalion, the Escort Battalion, the Infantry Battalion, the Jianrui Battalion, the Firearms Battalion, the Shenji Battalion, the Tiger Gun Battalion, and the Shanpu Battalion were the main forces of the Qing Army.

The cavalry battalion is directly under the jurisdiction of the Eight Banners, and the forward battalion, the guard battalion, and the infantry battalion are under the jurisdiction of the commander; Since the Jianrui Battalion, the Firearms Battalion, and the Shenji Battalion are all special forces, they are under the jurisdiction of the Minister of the President or the Minister of Management; The Tiger Gun Battalion is a full-time servant, hunting, etc., and has the jurisdiction of the president; The Kick Camp specializes in wrestling.

The Eight Banners of the garrison are stationed in important places throughout the country, and there are generals, commanders, deputy commanders, city guard captains, defense captains and other officers depending on the situation. Inland generals are only in charge of military affairs, while generals stationed in the frontiers are also in charge of civil affairs. The generals of the Qing Dynasty were the title of Manguan, and in wartime, the prince was appointed as the great general.

The green battalion is the Han soldiers, and the patrol battalion stationed in the Beijing division is called the patrol battalion, which is under the jurisdiction of the infantry army. The establishment of the green battalion is divided into several levels, such as standard, association, battalion, and flood, and the standard is divided into superintendent standard, Fu standard, promotion standard, town standard, military standard, river standard, Cao standard, etc., which are respectively commanded by the governor, governor, admiral, general soldier, general garrison of the Eight Banners, governor of the river, and governor of Caoyun.

In fact, the green battalion of each province is independently organized as the standard and the town standard, and the commander is actually the highest military attache of a province, and the total army is slightly lower than the commander. Below the general corps, the deputy general belongs to the association, the staff general, guerrilla, capital division, and garrison belong to the battalion, and the thousand generals, generals, and foreign commissions belong to the flood.

The Eight Banners Army is untouchable, and the Green Camp Army is not a soft persimmon pinched at will, Li Yi took office as a regimental training envoy to clearly know how huge the resistance he faced, and you can see how great the resistance and pressure Li Hongzhang is facing, and now Li Yi has completely changed his opinion of Li Hongzhang, and the more he understands, the more respect he has.

In order to stabilize the situation in the country and prevent riots, Li Yi gave up the plan to reorganize from the old army, but adopted the appropriate selection of soldiers from the old army and the re-recruitment of new recruits to form a new army, the basic model can be said to be a copy of the new army in Guangzhou, but the means are much milder, and before the new army is formed, the continued existence of the old army is temporarily tolerated.

At the beginning of April, Li Yi bought a large mansion in Tianjin, and at the same time entered a group of well-trained guards, these guards are secretly trained by the Ghost Shadow Society, full-time guards, the number of more than 500, all equipped with the most advanced weapons of the Guangzhou Arsenal, among which the newly developed Type 87 pistol is not equipped with one, as well as a large number of heavy machine guns, these 500 people can be said to be able to resist the attack of a division for several days.

Li Hongzhang trusted Li Yi very much, and directly handed over his Huai army to Li Yi, although the Huai army is an old powerhouse, but only less than 20 percent of them can meet the requirements of new recruits, more than 9,000 Huai soldiers were forcibly retired by Li Yi, more than 5,000 people, and the remaining 2,000 people were transferred to the Guangzhou logistics troops, and they can officially become logistics troops after receiving systematic military training in Guangzhou.

"Wang Xiaohu and Cao Zhen, you must be strict when recruiting new soldiers, and six of you are from Shandong, three are from Guangxi, and one is from Guangzhou. Li Yi smiled and said to his ten capable subordinates: "A height of 1.7 meters is enough, don't force 1.75 meters." ”

"Commander-in-chief, I have an opinion!" Although Wang Xiaohu respected Li Yi very much, he did not agree with Li Yi's request, and said loudly: "I don't care where they go to find soldiers, but I definitely want to find Shandong soldiers, I am not biased, but it turns out that among the 30,000 student soldiers in Guangzhou, they train hard and dare to fight, and they are still strong Shandong soldiers, and their height generally grows fast, and they are about the same height at the beginning, but in the past two years, the height of Shandong soldiers has been at least five centimeters taller than other soldiers." ”

"I think the same way, I've already sent a letter to my hometown, and there are already a large number of people waiting for me to choose." Several other Shandong people also shouted.

"Phew!" Cao Zhen, King of Yama, and Wang Feng said proudly: "Shandong people are also tall, Han is just a big man, and the real ones who can fight are our Guangxi soldiers, which is the truth of practice, and the three of us have also thought about it. ”

Li Yi saw that a few people were about to quarrel again, and hurriedly waved his hand to stop it: "Don't attack each other, the people in that place in the Great Qing Kingdom have warriors, and the regional prejudice is unacceptable, but since I let you recruit, I will never interfere with you, this time the size of the recruits is only 10,000, but we can't be so conservative, I ask you to recruit 10,000 recruits each, and the excess military expenses will be given to you in Guangzhou, as long as the soldiers are qualified, you must try to fight for it, and the settling-in allowance is 100 yuan, but if the soldiers are good, you can increase the settling-in allowance appropriately." , three years for recruits is compulsory. ”

"Hey, hey! Commander-in-Chief wise! Wang Xiaohu and the six of them smiled and patted their ass, took out the application together, and said: "Shandong soldiers are good, they can stand the test, so we apply for a settlement fee of 150 yuan per person, and we promise to recruit 60,000 recruits to your satisfaction." ”

"We Guangxi soldiers can't drop the price, and each person also needs a settling-in fee of 150 yuan!" Cao Zhen didn't expect Wang Xiaohu and these people to hide that they had even written the application, and glared at Wang Xiaohu very dissatisfied, not revealing such an important matter to himself.

Li Yi was a little depressed, an extra fifty yuan at once, 100,000 people is 5 million yuan, although the funds are abundant, but the money cannot be spent indiscriminately, with the development of military training, the cost is even more huge, no matter how much money there is, it will not be enough to spend.

"There can be no regional prejudice, Guangxi is too far away, and besides, we have a militia organization in Guangxi, so we don't need to go to Guangxi to recruit soldiers this time, the three of you will go to Anhui, Hunan, and Fujian to recruit new soldiers, and the settlement fee of 100 yuan is a lot. Wei Cheng: You recruit 10,000 recruits in Zhili, and there are many people from Hebei who practice martial arts, and there are many good soldiers. ”

Cao Zhen was vetoed to go to Guangxi to recruit new soldiers, and he didn't have anything in his heart, but he didn't hear the commander-in-chief say that he would let Wang Xiaohu and the six of them recruit elsewhere, nor did he say that he would reduce their recruitment fees. ”

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