After the end of the autumn season in Yongping, the troops of the provinces returned to their garrisons one after another, with joys and sorrows, and each had peace of mind.

Three days later, at the meeting of the Forbidden City's Qinzheng Palace, the matter of the Minister of New Army Training, which had been shelved for more than eight months, was put back on the agenda. Officials from various factions launched fierce debates on the issue of candidates, but Guangxu did not seem to have any excuse to snatch the military power of the new army of Zhili, let alone be mad at Li Hongzhang, and finally had to compromise.

On October 18, Emperor Guangxu issued an edict, announcing the appointment of Wang Chenhao as the Minister of New Army Training of the Qing Empire, and the training of the new army for the imperial court. On the same day, the Military Aircraft Department and Premier Yamen forwarded Guangxu's will, and the official document was sent to the Yamen of the New Army in Tianjin the next day, ordering Wang Chenhao to send the training plan to the Military Aircraft Department for deliberation as soon as possible.

On 22 October, Wang Chenhao went to Beijing to report on his work, went to the military headquarters to replace the seal of the customs defense, and then went to the military aircraft department to receive the edict of the minister, and by the way, he brought the training regulations to the post for examination.

Wang Chenhao's specific training strategy was based on the new army of Zhili, and he first organized and trained five integrated divisions in the Gyeonggi area of Zhili, which took three years. After the training of these five reorganizational divisions is completed, 20 reorganizational divisions will be organized and trained in various provinces across the country, which will take five years. Among them, five divisions of the new army were stationed in the new army to guard the security of Gyeonggi, and the other 20 divisions were guarding the local frontier. It will take a total of eight years for the new army to be trained into 25 divisions.

The Qing Dynasty divided the country into 18 provinces, 5 generals' districts, 2 ministers' districts, and 8 governors, totaling 25 provincial-level administrative regions. The five divisions of Zhili are safe enough, one division in each of the 18 provinces, and the five general districts are all controlled by the Manchu Iron Hat King, so there is no new army, and two divisions are set up in the jurisdiction of the ministers, so that the arrangement does not cost money and meets the security needs.

It will cost 70 million taels of silver to train all the 25 reorganized divisions, and 20 million taels will be spent on military expenditure and combat effectiveness maintenance every year after training.

And first trained in Zhili into five divisions, this is the idea of Wang Chenhao's staff group, and it is also Li Hongzhang's meaning. Wang Chenhao has to have the trump card in his hand that can hold the seven inches of the imperial court, and Zhili is related to the security of Gyeonggi, and training troops in Zhili first can ensure the safety of Beiyang's interests.

Several ministers of the Military Aircraft Department Wang and the Han ministers began to discuss, and the ministers of the military aircraft were resolute and xenophobic, and expressed dissatisfaction with Wang Chenhao's completely Westernized methods in the process of training the new army in Zhili, but because Li Hongzhang's face was not good, he reprimanded Wang Chenhao, and just asked Wang Chenhao to change the name of the army and the military rank system back, and integrate it with the control of the existing Green Battalion and Eight Banners. Han ministers Weng Tongyi and Qu Hongzhen were in a group, and they were not used to seeing Li Hongzhang's faction controlling their subordinates and supporting their resolute opinions.

The attitude of the three royal ministers Prince Gong Wang Yi, Prince Li Shiduo and Prince Qing Yixuan is ambiguous, Han Minister Zhang Zhidong is also unclear in Wuchang, although Li Hongzhang is also the Minister of Military Aircraft Han, but he can only say three, so he has to let Wang Chenhao make appropriate changes.

As a compromise, Wang Chenhao said that the name of the organization could be changed, but the establishment could not be changed, because that would affect the combat effectiveness. The military rank system is related to the establishment of the army and cannot be changed.

Li Hongzhang then communicated with Gangyi according to Wang Chenhao's intentions, although Gangyi was still a little dissatisfied, but Li Hongzhang was willing to give in to give him face, so he didn't make it difficult for Wang Chenhao on this issue.

Wang Chenhao's revised military establishment was changed from the original army, division, brigade, regiment, battalion, company, platoon, and squad to army, town, association, standard, battalion, company, platoon, and squad.

However, Weng Tongyi and Qu Hongzhen will not give up, in order to make trouble for Wang Chenhao. They demanded that Wang Chenhao train into a new army in the 36 towns within two years.

Wang Chenhao knew their purpose. First, the completion of the new army of thirty-six towns within two years is time-critical and not easy to complete; Second, the new army in Thirty-six Towns costs a lot of money, and the household department can pinch the military salary in the hands of Weng Tongyi; Third, there are not so many new-style officers in Beiyang, and the quality of the new army trained will definitely be greatly reduced, and if the time comes, Wang Chenhao may be guilty of being unfavorable; Fourth, most of the new army in the 36 towns had to be trained on the spot in various provinces, and it was good to say that the officials in Beiyang would definitely make things difficult for the officials in Nanyang.

After accumulating this series of problems, it was too difficult to train the new army of the 36 towns in two years, and Weng Tonggong and them obviously had bad intentions.

They can't reason with Weng Tongyi, they can only touch nails with their copper teeth and iron mouths. Li Hongzhang put the goal on the three Wang ministers, Yi was more open-minded, and after some explanations by Li Hongzhang and Wang Chenhao, he expressed his understanding; As long as there is money there, Wang Chenhao picked a jade worth tens of thousands of taels of silver and gave it to him immediately; Prince Qing Shiduo had a good relationship with Weng Tongyong, and he supported Weng Tonggong.

After some debate, the Empress Dowager Cixi and Guangxu finally came forward to make a compromise and ordered Wang Chenhao to train the new army of eight towns in Zhili within three years, and to help the governors of the provinces to train the remaining twenty-eight towns of the new army within six years. However, Guangxu insisted that Wang Chenhao complete the Eight Towns New Army in two years on the grounds that Russia and Yuben threatened the security of Gyeonggi. Cixi also felt that it made sense and did not object. The result of such a compromise is that two years later, the imperial court will hold a new army to inspect the eight towns of Zhili. Six years later, the new army of the whole country was launched to test the combat capability of the standing army of the 36 towns.

Although this compromise is still a bit harsh, Li Hongzhang has done his best to fight for it. In terms of personnel rationing, it is no problem to train the new army in eight towns for two years, and there are talents in Beiyang. It's just that in terms of funds, I'm afraid that Beiyang needs to pay out of his own pocket first, because Weng Tongyi will definitely not pay for it happily.

Li Hongzhang is not as rich as Wang Chenhao now, so he is a dime a dime and wants Wang Chenhao to pay out of his own pocket.

Fortunately, Wang Chenhao knew that his family background was far more than what Li Hongzhang knew, so there was no problem in putting money on the money first, so he finally agreed to this training plan.

After a month of tug-of-war, a group of people from the Military Aircraft Department finally reached a compromise, asking Wang Chenhao to train into the New Army of Eight Towns within two years to first defend the security of Gyeonggi.

In this regard, Wang Chenhao just smiled bitterly, secretly discussing that it is not easy to be a military training minister, no wonder Lao Yuan changed from a rich man to a poor man after training a town of new army.