After returning to Shandong, Zhao Guanhou had the first major task at hand to reorganize the army. The foundation of the pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info Zhao Guanhou is the fifth town in his hand, and his governor's seal can be handed over at any time, as long as the fifth town is in hand, he will not worry about having no official to do. On the other hand, without the Fifth Town, no matter how big the official is, it is an empty shelf.

In addition to the regular army, Shandong's current troops have flag soldiers in the flag city, green battalions and defense battalions in the localities, plus the previous road protection army, with a total number of more than 30,000 troops. Moreover, the people of Shandong are still martial arts, and due to the economic development of Shandong, people from all over the country have fled to find a way here. If the young and strong of these people are not placed in the army, they may also become thieves and disrupt local security.

However, according to the establishment of one town and one association given by Yuan Weiting, it must not be arranged, and a number of troops will be eliminated. For these soldiers, Zhao Guanhou didn't want to let them go, and the solution could only be to set up a name.

The first is the fifth town, which was ostensibly set up according to the establishment given by Yuan Weiting, but in practice, Sun Meiyao's cavalry standard was cultivated as a shelf standard. The officers inside were trained, and in the daily training, the head of the shed was also used as the platoon commander, and the platoon commander was the sentry officer training, so that in time of war, it could be quickly expanded into a cavalry association. A separate battalion of town guards was set up, expanded from the former Mini rifle post, with all soldiers armed with Mini rifles and officers with two additional revolvers and sabers.

The second is to expand the establishment of the reserve force, a large number of soldiers have been incorporated into the reserve force, and the police have set up an additional gendarmerie standard in the army, under the jurisdiction of three battalions of the gendarmerie. Nominally as a law enforcement agency for the maintenance of the army, in reality, all gendarmerie drills are conducted in accordance with infantry standards and can be converted into infantry at any time in wartime.

The military salary of the reserve army, which is half of that of the regular army, is transferred to the reserve service, and at this time, it has been regarded as a punishment by the Shandong army, and this habit and understanding has continued for many years to come, and it has never changed. The reason for this sense of shame is that many troops would rather be completely wiped out on the front line than retreat back to accept the punishment of being transferred to the reserve.

Third, it was Shandong that took the lead in proposing the concept of the Reclamation Corps. A part of the tidal flats and wasteland was purchased by the government, and then the troops reclaimed and planted cotton and other cash crops. The income of these troops was determined by the harvest of their fields, and in the event of a famine, the yamen were supplied with money and food. In terms of weaponry, guns were issued to the troops on the grounds of protecting crops, and even bullets were left on hand.

In terms of armament, the Fifth Town has reorganized the armament of its units. Originally, Sun Meiyao's cavalry was marked in name only, this time a large number of horses were captured outside the pass, and then five hundred Albiang horses sent by Fusang were received in Shandong, and there was no shortage of horses and soldiers, and the whole cavalry was in line with the name, and the number of horses far exceeded the rating, one person and two horses, and there were a large number of horses and artillery to match.

The 9th and 1st Battalions each had a cavalry battalion to ensure that they could be used as independent combat units, while the Biao and Battalion were equipped with platoon-sized horseback heralds and scouts.

As the foundation of Zhao Guanhou's fortune, the cannon mark is also his favorite, and all the twelve pounder guns in the town are handed over to the cannon mark for use. In addition, the two associations had a direct artillery battalion equipped with six-pounder guns, and each standard had a direct artillery post with a two-pounder light gun. There were more than one hundred and fifty artillery pieces in the town. The vast majority of these cannons came from the Xigu arsenal, and the insufficient part was ordered by Jensen from the courtesy and foreign companies.

Among the infantry, the equipment of the Xigu arsenal was originally 37 open, after the formation and training of the fifth town, Yuan Weiting allocated a part of the new rifled guns as supplies, and the rifled guns of the entire fifth town were equipped with more than 50%, and the mini rifle force reached two battalions. The cavalry was equipped with carbines and sabers, officers above the platoon level had revolvers, and some cavalry practiced spears. Some Rouran soldiers were equipped with more bows and arrows.

Among the special forces, the artillery is still equipped with flying cavalry artillery, pulling horses and horse-drawn guns, riding infantry to protect the artillery, and the artillery itself is also equipped with smoothbore guns and bayonets for hand-to-hand combat at any time. The engineer is equipped with a Tie Le Bear gun, which has a low shooting distance and accuracy, but has one advantage, it is extremely powerful in close combat, and there is basically no way to dodge. Basically the engineering troops do not undertake the main attack task, and this kind of gun meeting in a narrow way is of great use to itself.

At this time, Shandong's military academy had also been established, with four instructors including Ed serving as instructors, and all officers of the army were trained in rotation, taking turns to receive education in the academy. In the troops, a thousand mercenaries led by Ryan Stein served as instructors to train soldiers and junior officers. Reinstein himself, in addition, served as the instructor of some officers, as well as the training of staff officers.

At the beginning of the establishment of the Beiyang Army, Zhao Guanhou and Reinstein discovered the problem, that is, the Beiyang Army first ignored the role of the General Staff, and the establishment of the General Staff was like the staff of the old army, and most of them invited some famous men to serve as advisers and think tanks. Giving advice to the chief officer, or writing a poster, does not have the purpose of a modern staff officer.

Another problem is to ignore the supply of military stations, march along the way, and rely on local support to run errands, and have no concept of preset military stations and warehouses, and these two points are the shortcomings that the fifth town of Shandong tries to avoid. For the time being, the military station can only be repaired in its own province, and as for the staff officers, it will be handed over to Ryan Stein for training.

In terms of personnel, Zhao Guanhou originally thought that Yuan Weiting had given a town and another mixed association system, and a mixed association system was actually only half a level lower than the town control system, so he should have broken his head and wanted to go out. I didn't want him to announce the news, and those in the army who were qualified to go out to be co-unification came to dredge up the relationship, but they all pushed this command outward.

Among the officers with soldiers, they gave full play to the hometown of the Qilu sage, the good moral demeanor of gentleness, courtesy, and frugality, introduced the many advantages of their colleagues to Zhao Guanhou, and promoted their colleagues to take up this position, and at the same time said that they were of the same mind as the adults and would not move.

Zhao Guanhou was puzzled at first, but Jiang Fengzhi said, "What's so hard to think about." My father is in Beidaguan, he is covered by the three characters of ginger, and the apprentices follow him, eat and drink, and don't have to think about anything. If you leave my father and go outside to run the dock by yourself, without this care, you can give face on the rivers and lakes or not, and you have to take care of a bunch of small ones by yourself. If you do it well, that's what you should, if you do it a little badly, you have to be scolded, saying that you are not a little worse than the old man at the beginning, this angry official, but no one is willing to do it. ”

The fifth town can be pulled up because Zhao Guanhou has the relationship between Jensen and Siheng, and has Yuan Gongbao and King Qing as backers behind him, so he can get the financial support of foreigners and have huge financial injection. Whoever wants to protect the future of the person who wants to protect it, as soon as it is folded, it will be guaranteed immediately. Mixing in this group, whether it is official or financial, is not a problem.

When you go out to set up a mountain, everything has to come by yourself and it is in the province of Shandong, so friction will inevitably occur. Think about it, you also know that who has touched Zhao Guanhou, as long as you throw a piece of music on it at that time, it will be a sin of dismissal, this kind of plague official, no one is willing to do it.

Zhao Guanhou had no choice but to promise again and again when the group held a meeting that he would go out as a mixed association, just like his daughter went out of the cabinet, she was still her own person. Lack of money, food and weapons, will definitely help, will definitely not be embarrassed. If you defend the ground and divide it clearly, there will be no problem.

In the end, Shang Quan came out and said: "Someone has to do this unlucky thing, if you don't do it, maybe the court will appoint someone to come down and grab the seat." I'll go up first, and I'll hold the seat of the co-ordinator in my hand, and it's not cheap for outsiders. But I'll put my words here, the mixed association is the third infantry association of our fifth town, and if the adults have orders, Shang will definitely obey them. If the mouth is not hearted, the heavens and the earth will be destroyed. ”

He is a veteran of the small station, in terms of age and qualifications, he is above Zhao Guanhou, and he studied in Prussia, so it is completely feasible to jump out of the door and stand on his own. He expressed his support so publicly, which made Zhao Guanhou extremely moved, but Shang Quan said: "My lord, Shang Mou will admit a truth, people know that they don't repay their kindness, they are not as good as animals." Just for these things you have done for this group, if I am playing with you, the old and young masters will not tolerate me. The personnel and financial powers of my mixed association are all in the town, and I will listen to your arrangement. ”

Having said that, Zhao Guanhou also knows how to be a man, and he doesn't ask about all the affairs of the association, he only lets Shang Quan do it freely. As for asking for guns and money, it is not difficult to give them if they have them, so the construction of the mixed association is also very fast.

The fifth town's own two associations are organized as the ninth and tenth. The Ninth Association, Zhao Guanhou Baoju is still the old general of the Huai Army, Ren Sheng, the Tenth Association, he originally wanted to protect Zhang Huaizhi, but he didn't want to send a student from the Fusang Military Academy Jia Maoqing to serve as the Tenth Association, and at the same time sent a person named Ma Gen to serve as the gymnastics coach of the Fifth Town. This is an appointment by the imperial court and cannot be stopped, but Zhao Guanhou also compensates himself. In addition to retaining Zhang Huaizhi's first standard command of the artillery of the Fifth Town, he was also appointed as the deputy commander of the Fifth Town.

At this time, the word gymnastics actually refers to military gymnastics, that is, techniques such as queue and assassination fighting, all of which are gymnastics. Ma Gen himself is a skilled hitter, practicing boxing and wrestling, and his subordinates are said to be very good, but the fifth town has Wang Wu and several of his friends in the army, and he doesn't pay much attention to these junior martial artists.

As for Jia Maoqing, because he studied engineering and military science in Fusang, he was even more despised by the officers and soldiers of the Fifth Town, and even some of them even wanted to come to Shandong to be a supervisor of the army. Such disdainful words, before the officers arrived, the contradictions between the upper and lower levels had already taken shape.

Fortunately, there are not many people sent by the imperial court, except for these two people, there are more than 20 people who have taken eight lines down, Zhao Guanhou specially set up an adjutant office for this purpose, specially arranged these yellow coats, each according to the treatment of the sentinel, get a salary of 100 taels per month, no need to work, and no power, and they are very satisfied with each other.

Among the other cadres, Huo Qiu's qualifications could have been mentioned as standard, but he resolutely refused to accept it, and only served as Zhao Guanhou's guard battalion management belt. Gao Sheng served as the general office of the adjutant's office, and Yuan Baoshan's brother served as the chief and deputy standard commander of the first infantry of the Ninth Infantry Association.

Yang Futian served as the second standard. Sun Guiliang is the standard commander of the cavalry, in fact, the right to speak is still in the hands of Sun Meiyao. Li Zongyun served as the tenth assistant commander of the infantry and the first standard commander of the infantry. The officers on the first floor of the remaining management bands and sentry officers are all old members of the old artillery department of the day, or the old team members who came to set up the team together with the sentry posts, and the grassroots officers are all old people.

After the initial resolution of the issue of the establishment of these troops, another issue is the cost of troops. According to the funds given by the imperial court, half of the gap is there, even if Zhao Guanhou has the skill to scavenge and take advantage of the Eight-Nation Alliance, he robbed the rear army, but the army is a gold-swallowing monster, and the money thrown into it can only last for a few years.

Jensen was empathetic, "Guanhou, I think I can help you with this question, and we can sign some contracts on both sides." I'll help you pay a portion of the money in advance, and you do business with me. Including the construction of a power plant in Jinan and the construction of a tram company in Dezhou. Anyway, the walls of Texas are meaningless, let's tear them down. Also, there is a gold mine in Zhaoyuan, I ...... Want. ”

Want the word "want", the magic is endless, Zhao Guanhou was in the signing room, and hugged her, "Do you want to be here?" ”

"Of course here...... OK. We can come to the public case, as long as you are happy. But you should know what I mean by wanting. ”

"Of course I know that there is a gold mine in Zhaoyuan, and the owner of the mine is a lifter, and he has no power, but he is very easy to deal with. But I heard that the original owner has been hovering between losses and small profits, and there is nothing to gain. Moreover, according to the treaty, the Prussians and Albians had the right of first refusal to exploit the mineral deposits in Shandong. ”

"It's easy, I can get a mining license, I have very capable employees, as you said, Zhaoyuan Gold Mine has not been profitable, they don't care. But I was sure that it was a huge gold mine, a swan that lay golden eggs, and if we listened to it on the harp, it would provide us with a steady supply of gold. My giant, will you cooperate with me? ”

"Of course, but I'm not going to be a giant, I'm going to be Jack."

After some lingering between the two, the plan was roughly finalized, and what was missing was for the original mine owner to promise to hand over his family's ownership of the gold mine. It is not difficult to clean up a person, but if Zhao Guanhou is the new governor, if a fire burns on his head first, it will be bad to win the fortune in a battle. Fortunately, at this time, he already has a group of talents in the scene, and someone works for him.

Zou Jingzhai and Xia Manjiang are both old guests in the officialdom, and they are all easy to do this. And his proprietor has reached the governor's level at a young age, and he knows that he can't enter the cabinet? Therefore, in their hearts, these two people have the heart to cling to the chief official, so that they can develop their hearts, and they are also very serious in their work.

Zou Jingzhai had a few friends among his staff, and recommended two more to Zhao Guanhou. One of these two people is named Li Runnian, who was born as a Jinshi, but the official charm is not prosperous, and he only served as a magistrate, and he has no end, and his life is very embarrassing, and he has to rely on people to help. He has a very good brain, but what is bad is luck, as long as he is willing to carry him, he will definitely be able to make a big move.

Another person named Wang Hexuan, very learned, but moral character, sleeping flowers and willows on weekdays, behavior is very absurd, originally had thousands of family wealth, and later also lost the essence, and the days passed without a day. The people of the government refused to use him, and he continued to be a prodigal.

After these two people invited Zhao Guanhou out, they really put their hearts into it, Wang Hexuan and the eldest son of the mine owner of Zhaoyuan were friends who drew the same vote and knew him very well. When it comes to gold mines, I become a lobbyist.

He knew that the mine owner was old and that he relied on his son to take care of things. The son is also a fun-loving person, and he doesn't want to run the ancestral business at all. Wang Hexuan said: "Dashuai gave me 10,000 taels of silver, I promise, I will get this gold mine for you, there is no gossip." ”

Zou Jingzhai said: "Don't take 10,000 taels of silver, I'll find a way to raise it for you, if it doesn't work, I'll go to my niece and ask for it." But, let's talk about the ugly things before, I am your master, I know your brother's temperament, don't get the money to drink wine and smoke foreign cigarettes, it is small to use up 10,000 taels of silver, if I delay the official business of the handsome, I will not be able to see people. ”

Zhao Guanhou hurriedly smiled and said: "Jing Weng is serious, there is no doubt in employing people, and there is no need for suspicious people, I believe that if Heweng has this words, he must be completely sure." But I have something I want to ask the people in front of me, why this family can't make money by mining gold, and the key here, and I would like to ask Crane Weng to tell me about it. (To be continued.) )