Indoors, Han Zheng and others sat in their respective positions one after another, and at the same time, Han Goudan and Cao Debiao took the initiative to stand on both sides of the door and acted as guards.

In fact, the two of them are the captain of the guard team and the deputy captain of the guard team, and it seems that they are a little out of order as a goalkeeper, but because the various things in the camp have not yet officially entered the right track, the guards under them have to guard the salary, and the current guarding of the door will naturally be handed over to the two of them. The two of them didn't feel anything, and after seeing their guards go out to cooperate with the inventory of baggage, they took the initiative to take on the responsibility of guarding.

This is the first more formal meeting in Han Zheng's army, and everyone here, at least for now, is the backbone of the independent standard army, so before the formal discussion, Han Zheng arranged for Zheng Rong to hand over the information he had just sorted out to everyone present.

Everyone knew that this was their first step, and as the list of materials circulated in everyone's hands, the conference room fell silent for a while, except for the sound of rumbling through the pages.

It wasn't until the list returned to Han Zheng's hands that Han Zheng put the list in front of him, and then said to everyone: "Now, I think everyone knows everything they should know, and they also have some understanding of the material aspects of our army." Our first task is about military salaries. ”

Han Zheng glanced at the people listening carefully below: "According to my thoughts, this time, all the military salaries will be distributed according to the specifications of ordinary soldiers, and at the same time, the arrears of the previous soldiers will be made up, and most of the soldiers in the battalion have been owed two months' military salaries, which is a large expense, but we can't deduct it because of this, and the soldier can't lose a single child." However, in this way, we, the officers, will have to take the lead and pay the military salary according to the standard of the soldiers. Besides, the situation we are facing this time does not have so much energy entangled here, we have to cut through the mess quickly this time, and finalize the matter of military salaries at one time, of course, I can't exclude it, as for the remaining part of the military salary, it will be handed over to Zheng Rong's logistics office for safekeeping and keeping for later use. ”

Xiang Jie and the others, when they heard Han Zheng's suggestion, they had nothing to object, now there were all kinds of businesses in the barracks waiting to be developed, and nothing had yet become regular, and they were planning to do a big job, and they were not dissatisfied with the current hardship. And Zheng Rong and several old people in the original army, not only did not oppose at this time, but breathed a sigh of relief, now there is an unwritten rule in the army, soldiers' salaries, including those of lower-level officers, will be deducted by the commander-in-chief, and the actual military salary in the hands of soldiers can be 50 percent, which is already a lot, and junior officers, there will be about 60 percent, even less than the full military salary of soldiers.

Han Zheng asked everyone to pay according to the specifications of the soldiers, and in fact, the amount of money that fell into the hands of everyone was even more than before. Moreover, on the list, it is clearly written that there is a share of Han Zheng's salary in the officer's salary, and it is still paid according to the standard position, which is a lot of wealth.

Therefore, since then, all of you here have accepted this proposal calmly.

Han Zheng nodded with satisfaction, as long as he got through the most chaotic first stage in the army and waited until everything was on the right track, he didn't have to worry about this kind of thing.

"Since everyone has no opinion now, then it is decided, before all the junior officers are elected, we all treat everyone equally, work together, and build our collective into a sharp army, so that the enemy is terrified of the elite division, although the road is still far away, but I believe that this day will come soon with the joint efforts of everyone!"

There was no objection from the crowd, and the matter was decided.

The matter of military pay is certain, and as for other miscellaneous matters, it has become easier.

"In addition to the military salary, as for the other baggage we received this time, it is also a lot, everyone should have seen it just now, these baggage, but the foundation of our hundred and ten people, we will rely on these to make contributions in the future." After Han Zheng dealt with the issue of military salaries, he then turned to weapons and other baggage. After all, these things are real hardware facilities, without firearms, how to kill the enemy, not to kill the enemy, not to mention what to make a contribution.

In fact, according to the regulations, there is still a big difference between the weapons received by Han Zheng and the others this time and the actual level, but everyone here also knows that it would be strange if anyone really put the regulations on themselves and not make jokes, especially an abandoned army like Han Zheng who was almost regarded as a consumption.

Originally, after Yuan Shikai took over the training of the Beiyang New Army, he made up his mind to change the situation of a wide variety of guns and artillery in the past, so as to strive for the unity of armaments and armaments and enhance the combat effectiveness of the troops.

At that time, the Beiyang armies were using the Austro-Crarian Charliman's 8mm hand-pulled straight-moving rear bolt machine rifle, cavalry gun and Browning or Colt six-shot revolver, so that the weapons in the army were a little messy, in the face of this situation, Yuan Shikai re-requested that the soldiers and officers of the new army be equipped with weapons and equipment, and the officers of the infantry arms should be equipped with six-shot revolvers and sabers. The main and deputy commanders, regular soldiers, trumpeters, and guards were mainly equipped with a Manlixia rifle and 50 rounds of ammunition.

For cavalry, officers were also armed with six-shot revolvers and sabers. The main and deputy leaders, regular soldiers, trumpeters, and guards are all equipped with a Manlisha horse pistol and 50 bullets, and at the same time, they are each equipped with 1 more saber than the infantry.

The artillery was 3 teams per battalion, divided into three teams, left and right and one receiving team, and the equipment of each team began to differ. According to the requirements, the left team was equipped with 18 Krupp 75 mm caliber mountain light guns (6 per sentry), each with 7 horses, a total of 126 horses. The right team is equipped with 24 Grusen 57 mm caliber mountain guns (8 guns per post), each with 7 horses, a total of 168 horses. The receiving team was armed with 18 Grusen 57 mm caliber land guns[9] (6 per outpost), each with 5 horses and 5 horses, for a total of 180 horses (to be increased during the march). In wartime, the artillery of the whole battalion was "divided into three, one percent was used artillery, one percent was retained, and one percent was held to grab and protect artillery."

Among the sappers, due to the different nature of their work, each team is equipped with different equipment and tools.

In this way, that is, the main weapon of the Beiyang Army has become the Xia Manli rifle.

Of course, Yuan Shikai's idea is very good, but to complete this restructuring, it will undoubtedly cost a lot of material and financial resources, even if Yuan Shikai makes up his mind, it is difficult to fully achieve this, China's financial resources are limited, and it has to pay off huge foreign debts every year, and it is impossible to afford such a big stall in any case.

In the end, it couldn't, and Yuan Shikai could only be equipped according to this standard in his Beiyang lineage.

On the surface, Han Zheng led the whole army according to the target, but in fact, it was not enough to even have a complete battalion, and there were only more than 100 infantry in total. Therefore, the equipment of cavalry, sappers and artillery is really not to be thought of. Even if the more than 100 infantry are equipped according to the requirements, there must be about 150 Manlisa rifles, and even if they do not count the training needs, there must be at least about 8,000 rounds of ammunition.

As for the allocation of officers such as Han Zheng and others, it is a large expense.

In fact, there are only more than 5,000 rounds of ammunition on it, and the guns are barely one per person, and most of the pistols equipped by the officers are second-hand.

However, the only thing that made Han Zheng and the others have some comfort is that they may also feel that they have gone too far, so their conscience found that they left the one or two hundred miscellaneous rifles that they were originally going to replace, and at the same time, it also included nearly two thousand rounds of ammunition of various specifications.