In order to take back Jianghai Beiguan from the foreigners, Lin Zhe had to learn more about Jianghai Beiguan, after all, what he knew before could only be regarded as hearsay, part of it was Pan Li's proclamation, and the rest was some information he collected everywhere after he arrived in Shanghai.

However, external news and official news are naturally different, so before dealing with the matter of Jianghai Beiguan, he still has to have a detailed discussion with Wu Jianzhang, who is in charge of this matter.

When Wu Jianzhang walked into the Yushengjun barracks at the West Gate, although it was not the first time to come to this barracks, nor was it the first time he had come into contact with these Yu Shengjun soldiers, he still looked at the surrounding Yushengjun soldiers with a slightly curious gaze.

When he entered the barracks, he saw a large number of Yu Shengjun in a large open space on the right hand side conducting slightly strange training.

A large group of soldiers were running around the open space in a circle, although it was late autumn, but these soldiers were not wearing shirts, all running shirtless, if you look closely, you will find that although these soldiers are not as tall as those big men, but they are all extremely thick and full of muscles.

Seeing that these soldiers were already lying on the ground one by one under the orders of the officers, and then began to do push-ups, until Wu Jianzhang crossed the clearing, those soldiers were still doing.

Let Wu Jianzhang have a more direct understanding of the physical fitness of these soldiers of Yu Shengjun.

He had heard a little about it before, and heard that the soldiers in Yu Sheng's army had excellent food, and they were full of white rice every day, and there was meat to eat at both ends for three days, but he didn't believe it in the past.

If the soldiers were really allowed to eat openly, how much food money would Yu Shengjun have to spend every month?

Wu Jianzhang didn't know that Lin Zhe had always been very concerned about the food of the soldiers in order to let the soldiers have a strong physique to meet the high-intensity military training.

In the soldiers' monthly salary, a part of the soldiers' food expenses is deducted, but this part of the money is not enough for the soldiers to eat openly, so Yu Shengjun will also subsidize a part.

Fortunately, Yu Shengjun's rice and grain were rarely bought at his own expense, and most of the previous rice and grain were donated by the local government and the gentry.

But if all the rice and grain are counted as silver, then Yu Shengjun's food expenses alone are as high as several thousand taels of silver for the extra monthly subsidy.

So if you count the additional subsidized food costs, plus the inherent salary of the soldiers, you will find that the salary of Yu Shengjun's ordinary soldiers is far more than four taels of silver, and the average will reach about five taels of silver, which is higher than the salary of the Hunan army.

The food standard in Yu Shengjun's army is far higher than the food level of the average contemporary people, not to mention those poor people, in fact, even if they are small landlords with hundreds of acres in the countryside, the diet of ordinary middle-class families in the city is not as good as that of Yu Shengjun and these soldiers.

In this era, there are not many families who can be full of white rice every day, because in this way, each person has to pay a few taels of silver for a single month, and a family has to pay more than ten or twenty taels of silver.

In modern times, it is the luxury of most people to eat a full meal every day, let alone white rice every day.

Yu Shengjun's high standard of food expenses can be regarded as a special case in China in this era, not because of how kind Lin Zhe is, if he can, he will also reduce the food expenses of the soldiers, but reality does not allow him to do this.

Soldiers must maintain high-intensity training in order to be able to exert their due combat effectiveness, and high-intensity training requires physical fitness, and physical fitness needs food to ensure it.

To put it simply, eating well is also a necessary condition for an army to exert its high combat effectiveness.

Although Wu Jianzhang didn't know these details, looking at the physique of the shirtless soldiers, he knew that the food standard of the Yu Shengjun was worthy of its reputation.

Tsk, this Lin Zhe is a big deal, he is willing to spend so much rice and grain, so he can be regarded as a soldier!

However, he soon saw a trace of discord, that is, another team of training teams in the field suddenly stopped, and then one of the officers walked in front of a soldier who was training in formation, first yelled a few times, the soldier was lying on the ground with his hands on the ground, and then the officer waved the leather whip in his hand and whipped it at the soldier, although the beaten soldier did not make a scream, but Wu Jianzhang heard the sound of the leather whip breaking through the air.

Wu Jianzhang's fat face shook when he heard the loud whipping sound, this Lin Zhe trained like this, isn't he afraid that the soldiers will mutiny!

If the running, push-ups and other training of Yu Shengjun's soldiers just now were within his understanding, although it hurt Lin Zhe in his heart to take out so much rice food, he also agreed with these trainings.

But now seeing the soldiers being whipped made him have a little doubt.

Don't they all say that those famous generals are like soldiers, why don't you see this now!

With doubts, he asked Shi Langyi, who came in with him, and said, "Commander Shi, what mistake did that soldier make to be beaten so badly!" ”

Shi Langyi smiled and said in a tone that didn't care much: "It's nothing, it's just half a step slower than others when turning!" ”

Wu Jianzhang was horrified when he heard this, but he was about to be beaten by this if he turned half a step slower, and the military law of Yu Shengjun was so harsh.

Shi Langyi didn't care what Wu Jianzhang was thinking, as one of Yu Shengjun's senior officers, Shi Langyi knew very well that Yu Shengjun's military law was almost harsh to a terrifying level.

In particular, during the training of recruits, they are more likely to be beaten every day, because when those recruits first entered the camp, they did not obey all kinds of orders, and the officers of Yu Shengjun could not spend several months building feelings with them, and they would adopt the most direct and violent method, that is, they would beat recruits when they made mistakes in training.

After the recruit training period, these soldiers will form the most direct instinctive response to the officer's orders, so that they can calmly line up in the face of enemy shells and bullets, and then load and shoot with a blank face when their comrades fall one after another.

Only soldiers who can achieve this kind of dù are qualified soldiers in the modern army, and such an army composed of such a large number of such soldiers can be called an elite modern army.

Of course, the soldiers in the current Yu Sheng Army, even the oldest soldiers of the First Rank Corps, are still quite far away from this kind of Cheng dù.

Shi Langyi knew that his soldiers could not do what Hunter William said, ignoring any shells and bullets, and still reloading and shooting with the slightest change in the face of his comrades falling down.

However, their soldiers are much better than they were a few months ago, and the soldiers will instinctively carry out the orders of the officers during the battle, although they will sometimes panic and have a frightened look on their faces, but there will be no trembling hands in the battle and they cannot reload.

From this point of view, the more than 500 soldiers of the original First Rank Corps in Yu Sheng's army, after half a year of training, have initially become barely qualified line infantry in this era, of course, they are only barely qualified, and there is still a considerable distance from the word elite.

Shi Langyi took Wu Jianzhang past the open space in the barracks, and then went straight to the courtyard in the middle of the camp, which was the temporary military headquarters of Yu Shengjun.

It didn't take long for Wu Jianzhang to meet Lin Zhe, and this Lin Zhe, like the other officers and soldiers in Yu Sheng's army, was dressed as a new-style officer.

Wu Jianzhang found that the people in Yu Sheng's army wore military uniforms on weekdays, and the soldiers didn't say anything, even those officers, including Lin Zhe, wore military uniforms every day, and only on some formal occasions would they change into official robes.

It's just that I have to say that although the military uniforms in this Yu Shengjun look weird, they look like they can make people feel more handsome and handsome, and they exude the atmosphere of a professional soldier from the inside out.

"Come on, Lord Wu, please take a seat!" Lin Zhe greeted Wu Jianzhang very warmly.

Although Lin Zhe's grade is higher than Wu Jianzhang's, and he is also the minister of the Qincha regimental training, it stands to reason that there is no need to be so polite to Wu Jianzhang, but Lin Zhe is not stunned, if he wants to stay here in Shanghai in the future, and more importantly, if he wants to take down Yu Shengjun's roots here, then he needs the cooperation of the local government.

Although Wu Jianzhang doesn't look very good, he is Su Songtai and concurrently supervises Jianghaiguan Road, and he is also a big member of the local government, and more importantly, this person also stays in Shanghai all the year round.

In the future, if you want to live more comfortably in the Susongtai area, especially in Shanghai County, Songjiang Prefecture, Wu Jianzhang's attitude is more important.

Although he is not afraid of Wu Jianzhang's small actions, and he is confident to deal with any trouble, it is better to have fewer troubles, and who doesn't want to deal with troubles every day.

Lin Zhe didn't ask him to bow down to himself or anything like that, he just asked this person to be able to live in peace with him, and not to come to trouble him every day.

So today Lin Zhe is quite polite to this Wu Jianzhang, but Lin Zhe's politeness seems to make Wu Jianzhang a little unaccustomed.

There is no way, although Lin Zhe said that there is nothing real in Jiangsu, and even assisting in the defense of Shanghai is just a verbal name, and there is no official appointment from the imperial court, but this person has more than 3,000 people in his hands and has an equal dialogue with Xu Naizhao.

He, Wu Jianzhang, a fourth-grade Taoist, may be regarded as a high-ranking official in the locality, but he still feels a little restrained in front of Lin Zhe.

So he just sat on half a chair and didn't dare to sit down.

Seeing Wu Jianzhang like this, Lin Zhe didn't say anything, and now he can't feel what kind of pressure his thousands of troops will bring to others.

After the two sides sat down, Lin Zhe spoke first: "Xu Futai asked me to take back and rectify the Jianghai North Pass, how to rectify the customs will not be said first, but how to get this customs back from the hands of foreigners, I don't know what Lord Wu thinks?" ”