Anyway, they all use money to sell officials, and the Lin family is not short of money, if they buy a low-level alternate magistrate, prefect and the like and then be troubled by other officials, it is better to directly do it in one step and directly donate the highest official that can be bought with money: alternate Taoist, Zheng Sipin!

Huang Peizhi said very enthusiastically that he could find a relationship to quickly handle the donation affairs for Lin Zhe, although Lin Zhe could also handle the donation affairs himself, but Huang Peizhi volunteered to help handle it, so he naturally didn't bother to run in person.

When Chengcheng gave Huang Peizhi a silver ticket of 10,000 taels of silver, of which more than 9,400 taels of silver were the official money that the imperial court clearly marked the price.

Of course, Huang Peizhi will not run in vain, the remaining more than 500 taels of 10,000 taels of silver, plus an additional silver ticket of 1,000 taels of silver given by Lin Zhe, is Huang Peizhi's hard work, as for how to do the activity to favor people, it is not up to Lin Zhe to worry about, after all, Huang Peizhi's more than 1,000 taels of silver is not taken for nothing.

This is to take out the money, and Huang Peizhi to Lin Zhe It will also take a certain amount of time to run for office, although it is impossible for Lin Zhe to set up the Yuyao County Yongying and take office as the superintendent before Lin Zhe's official position comes down, but now it is possible to start formal preparations.

If this group training is done well, maybe he can really make him a person like Li Hongzhang and Zeng Guofan.

In fact, until the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861, those Yankees and slave leaders were still in line to be shot, until the end of the American Civil War, with the large-scale withdrawal of front-loading guns from all over the world, and gradually equipped with rear-loading guns, queue up to shoot after exiting the stage of world war.

And now this era is the last glorious era of the era of queuing to be shot, and the battle of Bali Bridge, which made countless Chinese people sad, the cavalry of the Qing army was defeated by the British queue to be shot.

According to the standard small infantry regiment in the British army, each infantry regiment had six infantry companies, and each infantry company should have eighty privates in addition to the officers. In addition, Lin Zhe also planned to set up a personal guard, which was expected to be formed into a uniform cavalry, equipped with war horses and cold weapons, to perform the tasks of escort and even hand-to-hand combat.

Combined with the personnel of the various agencies of the battalion headquarters, the total number of people should be about 600.

In order to raise enough of these 600 people, Lin Zhe directly drew out 50 people from the nursing home that he originally planned to recruit, and then recruited more than 500 new recruits.

In order to be able to recruit a large number of high-quality soldiers, Lin Zhe set a high salary, and the monthly salary of the soldiers was initially set at four taels of silver, although this amount was slightly less than that of the Hunan army, but it was at least twice as much as the green battalion and other local brave battalions, and at the same time gave ten taels of silver to settle in.

However, in order to prevent the recruitment of homeless people, soldiers and the like, and even more to prevent these recruits from becoming deserters after taking the settling-in allowance and the first month's salary, Lin Zhe had higher requirements for the source of the recruits, and he first selected from the children of small households in his own grange, and then from other rural areas in Yuyao.

Everyone who comes to serve as a soldier must be guaranteed by the local village chief, baojia, etc., and must also have a family member.

The soldiers recruited in this way are not physically literate, but because they are all peasant children, they are absolutely honest, but they are definitely easier to discipline and obey orders than the small citizens and homeless ruffians in the city.

At the same time, there is a guarantee, there is a family member, and it is more convenient to issue salary, because in the salary system formulated by Lin Zhe, the soldier's salary will be divided into three parts, one part is used to deduct the food and clothing fee, one part is directly distributed to the soldier, and the other part is directly distributed to the family by the army. The cost of food is deducted only during non-war periods, and will not be deducted during wartime, and the military is directly responsible for the cost of food and clothing.

As for saying that if you dare to take Lin Zhe's money and become a deserter, Lin Zhe will arrest your parents without saying a word.

The speed of recruitment was much faster than Lin Zhe expected, and as soon as he heard that he was given a monthly salary of four taels of silver and a settling-in allowance of ten taels of silver, many families could not survive, or the second and third sons who could not inherit the family's fields came to apply.

The reason why the recruitment is fast is related to the amount of money Lin Zhe gave, and on the other hand, it is also related to the fact that the Lin family is the premier wealthy family in Yuyao.

In less than half a month, Lin Zhe had already recruited nearly 400 recruits, and at this time, he filled in the original 50 original nursing homes that had been trained for more than a month as the backbone, and selected some of them to serve as platoon commanders

As for the officers at the level of company commander and deputy company commander, to be honest, Lin Zhe really can't find it now, originally he wanted to send people to Ningbo, Shanghai and other concessions to recruit foreigners as instructors or simply become officers, but because of the short time, it was really difficult to find for a while.

I just found two foreign bank employees who had business dealings with the Lin family, and according to themselves, they said that they were retired soldiers of the former French army and had participated in countless battles and so on.

Lin Zhe didn't believe it, but just asked them to try to help train for a few days, and found that although these two people were not very capable, they still had the most basic tactical literacy, so he first let them have the name of teaching and helping to train the most basic military skills, such as loading, aiming, etc.

As for the higher-level company commander, Lin Zhe is ready to leave it empty first and leave it for real talents to be appointed, and the officer of the pro-guard team is Wang Luyun.

This army, you can't have people, you have to have weapons!

In terms of weapons, Lin Zhe imitated a purely Western-style army, that is, the foreign gun team as the saying goes, and the most important weapon was naturally the musket.

Last month, Lin Zhe sent someone to buy dozens of smoothbore firing rifles from a foreign firm he was familiar with, and this time he was also going to send someone to a foreign firm to buy foreign guns.

But when he heard that Lin Zhe was going to buy a large number of muskets, Anders, the French teacher who was not very capable, came to the door, and then spoke a lot in French, so that the translators on the side were too busy.

"I have to say, General, it is a huge mistake for you to continue to buy this old-fashioned front-loading smoothbore rifle, as a responsible instructor, I have the responsibility to tell you that the world has changed now, those old-fashioned smoothbore guns are outdated, and now only the Mini rifle gun is the most advanced rifle gun of this era!"

This translator, who was originally working in the Lin family's Ningbo warehouse, remembered as he spoke, and he not only had to translate Anders's words, but also Lin Zhe's words.

Lin Zhe listened to the translator's words and groaned slightly, Mini step 'gun?

Although Lin Zhe in later generations did not know much about modern military technology, after coming to this era, especially some time ago, he planned to expand the scale of the nursing home, because he needed to buy muskets, so he specially asked the Lin family firm to collect a lot of information about foreign guns in this era from many foreign firms.

Contemporary Western-style armies are widely equipped with 'front-loading smoothbore rifle rifles', which generally weigh around 4.5 to 5.2 kilograms and have a caliber of between 17.5 mm and 20 mm.

At the same time, there is a more special example, that is, the Prussian Army is equipped with the Dresser firing pistol, which is a 'breech-loading rifled needle 'gun', which is this rifle gun has been regarded as a military secret by Prussia in the early stage, and it was not announced until a few years ago, but after the announcement, the world's military experts on the rear loading gun debate is relatively large, Prussia tried to sell this rifle gun to other countries, but this rear-loading gun sales that were very famous in later generations were not good.

In fact, Lin Zhe did not have any specific preferences and rejections for any smoothbore guns or mini guns or rear-loading guns from these Western countries, and his idea was very simple: buy whatever you can now!

Because even if the foreign gun purchased is the worst front-loading smoothbore rifle gun, it is much better than the large number of shotguns in China now.

Not to mention that the Prussians could not be found in the Far East at this time, even the Minnie Infantry gun Lin Zhe had never heard of anyone selling it before.

But now that Anders said that he could find the Mini Bug gun now, no matter how awkward the Mini Bug gun was in history, let alone debate the unrealistic question of whether the Mini Bug 'gun was better or the Dry' Step, as long as there was a stock in the foreign deal, then he would buy it.

Immediately, he asked Andre in detail.

As it turned out, Andrei was not talking nonsense, nor was he saying it because of his sense of responsibility, but because he had a batch of British Mini rifles in the foreign firm where he worked, and he wanted to sell them in order to get a boost.

Therefore, the performance of this rifle gun is explained in great detail, but unfortunately this French translation of the Lin family is okay for daily conversations, but it is blind to professional words such as weapons, and after a long time, Lin Zhe only heard a few key words from the translator's mouth.

The most important thing is that he said that the rifle had a range of up to 900 yards and an effective range of 500 yards. The maximum range has no real combat significance and can be ignored directly, and what is the concept of that limited range of five hundred yards?

By comparison, the effective firing range of other front-loading smoothbore rifles was about 100 yards, and the effective firing range of the Mini rifle handle was increased by more than four times at once.

When Lin Zhe heard these key words, he was already excited, no matter what the detailed performance and the like, as long as the range was longer than the old-fashioned smoothbore gun, then everything else didn't matter.

Immediately, he sent a steward of the Lin Mansion and two guards who knew how to use muskets to accompany Anders to Ningpo, as long as the Minnie Bu' guns were really as good as Anders said, even if they were more expensive, he would buy them.

Lin Zhe didn't know how those foreign companies got their hands on and sold the most advanced standard rifles of the British army, but since there were goods to buy, he naturally wouldn't want them.

Compared with muskets, it is easy to obtain, artillery is difficult, because Lin Zhe's brave battalion is too small, and it is impossible to purchase and belong to too many and advanced artillery, so he first removed the few small front-loading copper cannons on the head of Yuyao County and barely used them, for which Lin Zhe also paid Huang Peizhi a lot of money to buy 'scrap copper'.

Before the Mini Bu's gun was in place, Lin Zhe was training the recruited soldiers in the early stage of physical fitness and discipline, after all, the soldiers had been recruited, and they couldn't wait until the muskets were in place before starting training.

And in this preliminary training, there is nothing to say about physical training, eat enough, eat enough to be able to train people, the key is discipline and the most basic formation.

Training a group of peasants who can't even distinguish between left and right to line up, and follow the command to advance or squat, and shoot, the difficulty makes Lin Zhe want to scold his mother.

In order to solve this problem, Lin Zhe specially formulated an extremely strict military law, turning wrong, immediately whipping, let you take three steps You take two steps, immediately whip, let you reload and you shoot, needless to say, continue to fight!

Getting beaten always gives them a quick memory, and after a few beatings, the soldiers are naturally able to distinguish between the left and the right.

For this reason, Lin Zhe came to a conclusion: a soldier who has not been beaten is not a good soldier!