It is said that Pei Weiyun, a bachelor in the cabinet, reported the excerpt of "Arbitrary Robbery of the Officers and Soldiers Please Punish the Reason" made the Guangxu Emperor very angry, this kind of bottom-level army [***] through the situation, in fact, it is not the first time that someone has reported to the court, but this is indeed the first time that it has been sent to the Guangxu Emperor, of course, this kind of ability, there are a few people in the court who can do it.

Pei Weiyun, a cabinet scholar, wrote in the excerpt the real face of the army he saw when he visited the local area last year:

“…… The thieves marched with strict discipline as the first priority, and the famine years were anxious to be displaced. Compared with the military book, the officials may not be able to do anything when they encounter problems, or take care of the situation, and there are many places...... The battalion officers took it for granted, and although there were accusations, the magistrates did not dare to ask about them, and so far they left hundreds of people everywhere, and the military discipline was ruined, and the situation was ......very miserable."

This second-ranking official from the rank of Jinshi bluntly said that there is a huge problem in the control of military discipline today, and that the management of military discipline is completely handled by the battalion officers and generals, and if these lieutenant generals let this go, it means that the soldiers can act arbitrarily, and although the local officials have the duty to catch thieves and thieves, they cannot control these army soldiers at all.

Last year, he passed through Shandong, Shanxi, Huguang and other places, and saw that the local army training was on the way to the beginning of the wanton robbery of the people's women, and even a battalion of soldiers stayed in the place for a few days, and when they left, there were hundreds of people's girls abandoned in the barracks, and the magistrates were completely powerless to do anything about it, and the impeachment of the small county commander could not shake the bad habits of this huge army system at all!

Of course, Pei Weiyun's excerpt is only the tip of the iceberg of the military discipline of the imperial army [***], and after his excerpt was re-handled by the Minister of Military Aircraft Weng Tonghong, it immediately triggered a series of chain reactions, and a large number of officials have written to expose the problems of military discipline in the army, the problem of food and salary, and the problem of reselling weapons......

After these excerpts passed through the hands of Weng Tonggong, some of them were sent to the diligent Guangxu, and some other problems were ignored by this targeted surname, it is obvious that the young emperor attaches great importance to the military power in his hands, especially now that the Eight Banners Army has become a nursing home, the training army trained in accordance with Western law has become the main military force of the country.

Unexpectedly, the huge army that costs tens of millions of taels of military salaries every year has such a serious problem of military discipline, and Weng Tongyi's evaluation of this is even more thorough, he bluntly said to the little emperor, "The huge cost of training the army, and the expected cost of such a huge amount of money to raise such a useless army, it is better to save the silver and put it into the treasury. ”

Now, although the Huai Army is still the middle of the country's national defense forces, there is no serious Huai Army now, and those are all training troops in the name of the Imperial Court.

The Qing Dynasty now earns more than 8,000 taels of silver a year, but in fact, the annual treasury expenditure is always empty, if you can dig out millions of good money from the military spending, it is also a large balance, not to mention, this move can obviously hit the old opponent Li Hongzhang!

However, Weng Tongyi is very clear about one thing, if he wants to dismantle the Huai army, it is almost impossible at present, and he has launched a denunciation of the army's military discipline under his command, obviously paving the way for the preparation of the military discipline battalion.

Under the verbal and written criticism of the Qing faction in Beijing, many conservative officials also joined the queue to denounce Li Hongzhang, and the feudal official had no choice but to defend himself in mid-March, claiming that he would thoroughly investigate the cases of military corruption and military discipline, and that he would investigate the responsibility of the relevant generals and would not tolerate them.

After Li Hongzhang's excerpt arrived at the center, he naturally would not be left by Weng Tongyi, he wanted to attack Li Hongzhang, and he didn't need such unruly means, and soon the excerpt was sent to the palace, and also reported to the Empress Dowager Cixi through other channels, after all, Li Zhongtang was always a celebrity in front of the Empress Dowager.

20 said, the queen mother's side has a decree down, for Li Hongzhang is full of praise for the above expression, however, for Qingliu's proposal to abolish some of the violators of discipline, the queen mother who has been thinking about spending money is also on the mind, after all, the reduction of tens of thousands of troops, that is hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, so the queen mother also rewarded Qingliu and his faction for their loyalty to the country.

With this decree, he immediately persuaded Guangxu to take action against the army, and was in the palace all day, just listening to this old man explaining the essence of Chinese Guangxu, although he claimed to be talented and intelligent, but the real insight could not be heard by listening to lectures in the palace all day, he thought about it, naturally he had no real insight, but fortunately, his teacher did not let such a difficult thing for the emperor to do.

On the afternoon of the 23rd, Weng Tongyi had been instructed to draft a holy decree to send seven special envoys to supervise the military discipline of the army...... However, Emperor Guangxu obviously did not agree with his teacher's opinion on this, and after a slight revision, he no longer held accountable for general problems, and only punished if he was corrupt or violated discipline seriously.

Later that day, Emperor Guangxu and Weng Tonggong and Sun Yuwen went to the Summer Palace to see Cixi, and after submitting the draft, the Empress Dowager of the West Palace read it very seriously.

Sun Yuwen, who was good friends with Li Hongzhang on the side, has always looked down on Weng Tongyi's lofty appearance, and he naturally wanted to come out in this matter, so he immediately gave up his hand, "Queen Mother, Weichen also understands the emperor's anxious thoughts, but if it is a special envoy from these seven roads, I am afraid that the local governor will have more opinions, after all, the envoy sent by the emperor is the identity of the Qincha, and I am afraid that there will be a lot of inconvenience in the local area!" ”

The old woman behind the curtain hummed painlessly, and only after a while did she say: "There is some truth in what Master Sun said, Lord Weng, I think it's almost enough to send two ways, and it is for the emperor to share the worries of the emperor when things are done properly!" ”

These words are naturally not as simple as they sound on the surface, after the little emperor knelt down honestly, he retreated, and when he got outside, Guangxu asked his teacher very hesitantly, "Ge Lao, what the emperor means, do you understand?" ”

Weng Tongyi nodded with a smile, in front of himself, the emperor's student, he has always been a jack of all trades, "The Queen Mother has too many envoys on 7 roads, and only opens 2 roads, obviously she doesn't want us to make too much movement, I'm afraid it will mess up the morale of the army...... I think the Queen Mother's worry is really necessary, I think I will send a water division and a land division all the way, and the Eight Banners of the Beijing Division will not be investigated! ”

"The teacher has the right candidate, I think this thing has to be an honest and upright person!" The young emperor has a good grasp of the key to this kind of problem, and if he wants to go down to investigate, the pressure can be described as extremely huge, even in the name of Qincha, it may not be useful.

Weng Tongyi didn't answer directly, but looked at Sun Yuwen, who was still following behind, this is a famous celebrity in the back party, and the conversation between the two of them deliberately did not avoid this, that is also an attitude, but this candidate, he has a few, "Your Majesty, Lang Zhirui, the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites, Shen Zengzhi, the director of the Criminal Department, Wang Renkan, Huang Shaoji, and Ding Lijun, the editors of the Hanlin Academy, are all available, and I will report it after I go back to think about it!" ”

After Weng Tongyi just returned to the military discipline yamen, he naturally considered the people who supervised the military discipline affairs this time, and after thinking about it carefully, if the previous Qingliu cadres really went to the army to do this thing, to be honest, he was a little uneasy, this investigation of military discipline is definitely a matter of offending people, but if nothing can be found out, it will not be a loss of the emperor's face and his own face.

Lang Zhirui, the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites, is the cousin of the emperor's favorite concubine Zhenfei, and he is capable of doing things, and it is feasible to send him to Lu Shi to supervise military discipline, while Shen Zengzhi, the director of the Criminal Department, can write well, but he is not a person who does big things, Wang Renkan, Huang Shaoji, and Ding Lijun are all good pens and characters, but they lack practical experience, and they have never been in contact with sailors and Lu Shi......

After thinking about it, he had a headache, and brought Li Hongzao and Huang Tifang to discuss, but Li Hongzao recommended Hanlin to edit Li Wentian, but Huang Tifang did not choose anyone, he thought about recommending Lu Hong, but now Lu Hong is just a cloth cloth...... However, this opportunity seems to be the right to repay this Lu Xian's nephew!

Weng Tongyi was worried about supervising military discipline, but two days later, something happened in Shanghai that shocked him!

[With the support of the brothers who have tickets~~]

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