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Zhang Renjie stayed in Liu Laowei for half a month and taught a set of training methods to protect the Liu family's team.

Liu Mingchuan is also an expert in military training, and when he saw the training drill code given to him by Zhang Renjie, he knew that this was a magic weapon that was hard to find. However, this code of conduct is still in the hands of Zhang Renjie for the time being, and Liu Laowei is trained by Zhang Renjie and twenty soldiers of the guard platoon, including a total of 180 people from the Liu family and the escort team.

Although the time is only half a month, it has reborn the Liu family's team. Originally, Liu Mingchuan's training of the escort team was also strict, but the training methods of the two sides were different. In comparison, of course, Zhang Renjie's method is more effective, and the queue training was completed in just one week.

The Liu family also has marksmanship instructors, and all the team members can use guns. The only difference is that the training is not lawful, and it cannot be as concise and efficient as the Renzi Camp. But now these were no longer a problem, and after a week of training, the marksmanship of the 180 members of the escort team quickly improved significantly.

The guns used by the children of the Liu family were all robbed by German Mausers, and they were also used in the Renzi camp at the beginning, and the power was very good. In the past half month, the rifles in the hands of the Liu family members that had been used for one or two years have also been scrapped one after another, which shows how many bullets this team of 200 people has fired these days.

It has been more than half a month since Zhang Renjie returned to Anton, and the time has reached June. Just a few days ago, news came that Liu Mingchuan had officially sent a note to the imperial court, and the name of the note was "Complying with the Rectification of Coastal Defense and Stressing Armament", in fact, this song was also instructed by Li Hongzhang to let him go, and then Liu Mingchuan was recruited to the capital.

At this moment, the military affairs in the southwest are very urgent, and there is an urgent need to employ people, and some people in the government and the opposition have been constantly mentioning that Liu Ming is in charge of the military affairs of the Guangxi front. But Liu Mingchuan knew that even if he was in a high position in the martial arts, he still couldn't defeat the unspoken rule of "officialdom is cheap and martial arts, and official affairs are more restrictive", so he listened to Li Hongzhang's words and went to this note, which mentioned one of the meanings that he wanted to follow the Huai Army's comrade-in-arms Zhang Shusheng who successfully transformed from Wu Changwen, and was unwilling to blindly lead troops to fight again.

Liu Mingchuan made it clear that if he really wants to use himself to lead the troops now, he must be given the conditions for civilian posts in Xinjiang. The superficial reason is that it is so convenient to raise military salaries and supplies, but in fact, they are all forced by the general atmosphere of emphasizing literature over military force in society at this time.

While Liu Mingchuan was active, Zhang Renjie was not idle. Most of the 500 soldiers of the Renzi Battalion were already in Shanghai at the moment, and the guns and ammunition were secretly loaded into the two newly purchased ships, and as soon as Zhang Renjie's order arrived, the entire Renzi Battalion began to move south, following Liu Mingchuan to Taiwan.

On the 18th, he negotiated an agreement with Hudson of Jardine Matheson to purchase a large number of new ordnance from him, but it was a time limit, so that Jardine Matheson could find a way to send it to Keelung, Taiwan on about the 30th day, and the error in time should not exceed two days. After all, the Taiwan Strait is only a little bit, and it can give an error of two days. With this request, Zhang Renjie also paid nearly 10,000 pounds more for it. In addition to ordnance, Zhang Renjie also purchased a lot of other military supplies, and someone will contact him when he sends the same request to Keelung Port.

On 22 June, Liu Mingchuan was summoned to Beijing by the edict of Emperor Guangxu and Empress Dowager Cixi, and four days later, he was ordered to go to Taiwan to organize defense affairs and was awarded the post of governor to supervise Taiwan affairs. However, for Liu Mingchuan, he was still not satisfied with this official position, and the imperial court used a rare false title of governor to respond to Liu Mingchuan's request for abandoning Wu Congwen's official position, which also shows that there are indeed many people in the court who do not want Liu Mingchuan to go further.

"My lord, has the order arrived?"

"Just your sharp eyes, you will know just a little bit of wind and grass!" Zhang Renjie said with a smile. "The order that the imperial court has just arrived, transfer me to the command of the marshal to listen to the dispatch. The official position is still the capital division, and the grade has not changed at all. ”

"My lord is really prescient, and the time is just right, Liu Dashuai has really been sent to the south to preside over military affairs. Can you be a prophet? Hua Liangfu asked with wide eyes, he had this question for a long time, he just didn't believe it before, but now this idea is getting stronger and stronger.

Zhang Renjie smiled: "How can anyone predict the prophet, you are an immortal to me!" Analysis, analysis understand? Now that the war on the front line is so rotten, the imperial court must send a fierce general who is good at leading troops to lead the troops, and Liu Dashuai is the best candidate. You also know, about my father and his brother-in-law, I went to find Liu Dashuai and just happened to be able to climb the relationship, so that we could go to Taiwan and go to the front line as we wished! ”

"Okay, it's time for us to leave, those green battalion soldiers have all come back a few days ago!"

"Yes, it's only been less than a year, and many people have already spent all the ten taels of silver you gave. Hehe, originally they only got ten taels a year, Shangguan deducted a little, and at most they got half of it, which was good for them, and they spent all the money in a short period of time. When I came back, I really didn't dare to recognize most of the people, where are the soldiers, it's just a group of people called Hanako. Hua Liangfu said with a look of disgust and disgust.

"It's none of our business, as long as they can come back. I use the name of this capital division, that is, for the convenience of doing things, and also for the future development, I don't care about the rest. The successor is about to come, this time it is convenient, he is from our Huai'an Mansion, and the Shanyang garrison has made some money and has been promoted. He is still a member of the Qian Governor's Mansion, so he is close to us. ”

"It's just that he knows that our soldiers and horses are not like this! Oh, I see, hey, it's really distressing to spend silver in vain! ”

Zhang Renjie said with a smile: "These are all necessary, and we will find them back when we come back in the future!" ”

In Beijing, Liu Mingchuan got a new appointment and officially prepared to leave Taiwan. At this time, there was a huge difference between China and France in the negotiations on the Guanyin Bridge incident, and France proposed to intimidate the Qing government to occupy Keelung, Mawei and other places. In the urgent situation, the imperial court is also urging Liu Mingchuan to move quickly. In order to "arrive in Taiwan as soon as possible, so as not to be troublesome", Liu Mingchuan did not dare to delay, and immediately packed up and hurriedly left Beijing to take up his post.

A few days later, Liu Mingchuan first went to Tianjin to ask his old master Li Hongzhang for advice, but during the conversation, Li Hongzhang expressed his concern about Taiwan's personnel issues, fearing that Liu Mingchuan would fall into a passive situation if he entered Taiwan alone. And in front of him, he is worried that he has no one to use.

While on the way to Taiwan, Liu Mingchuan sent a letter to Zeng Guoquan, the governor of Liangjiang, and wanted to transfer troops to Taiwan from the Jiangnan Ming Army, which was stationed in Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, and had participated in the counterattack against the Japanese invasion of Taiwan ten years ago. Other Ming troops stationed in Zhili and Guangdong could not be transferred for this reason. In the end, after Li Hongzhang's discussion, dozens of veteran generals of the Ming Army were transferred, and only more than 120 backbone officers and soldiers of guns and mines were transferred from Liu Shengxiu's department of the Zhili Ming Army, as well as 3,000 Mauser rifles to accompany Liu Mingchuan. In addition, the Jinling Machinery Bureau and the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau also allocated dozens of artillery pieces and mines for Taiwan's defense.

At this time, Liu Mingchuan thought of Zhang Renjie, and hurriedly asked Li Hongzhang for help, transferred Zhang Renjie to his side, and Zhang Renjie arrived by his side, which meant that five hundred elite soldiers had arrived under him.