As the students of the Beiyang Military Academy came to report to the new army yamen in Zhili one after another, Li Hongzhang's adjutant German adviser Hannagen led 36 foreign instructors composed of retired German army officers to report.

Most of these German [***] officers are instructors of the Beiyang Armed Forces Academy and Weihai and Lushun Battalion Armed Forces Schools, and since the flag-pulling incident, the British personnel have been evacuated, and Li Hongzhang has hired Germans, which just came in handy at this moment.

Wang Chenhao and Hannagan have met many times during their time in the Beiyang Naval Division, and Hannagan also participated in the First Battle of Incheon, and the two are comrades-in-arms, so they cooperate well with each other.

Hannagan was a quick-tempered man, who had come to China for so many years and was still not infected by the procrastination of the Qing political axe, and was definitely not lazy when it came to work.

This Hannagen was a captain in the German Army, but when he came to China, he was arranged to be an instructor in the Beiyang Naval Division, and Hannagan had to do the work of "Zhang Fei embroidery" because of his father-in-law, De Xuanlin, although he had no merit, but he was also conscientious.

Now that he was able to get out of the sailor division and return to his familiar army career, he was very happy, and hurriedly sent a telegram back to Germany, contacted his mentor and friends at the Berlin Military Academy, and asked them to help send some books and materials for him to study, and used his aristocratic connections to invite Major Major Spedder Steinier, a senior retired instructor of the Army Military Academy in Berlin, Germany, known as an iron-blooded instructor, to come to China.

This Hannagan undoubtedly wants to achieve a career and prestige in China, in the past few years of the Beiyang Naval Division, his status and contribution are disproportionate, to many people at home and abroad to criticize, self-esteem is very strong, now he can get a job that can show his strengths, how can he miss this opportunity to make a name for himself?

During this time, Wang Chenhao studied this Hannagan a lot through Yang Shixiang and Zhang Peilun, and he can still trust his personal personality, as for his strength in the army, he was a German army captain, and there should be no problem in training recruits.

At the same time, a group of elite officers among the old generals of the Huai Army recommended by Li Hongzhang and Yin Chang to Wang Chenhao also left from Song Qing and Nie Shicheng in Liaodong and arrived in Tianjin one after another.

According to the rules of the Huai military system, when they arrived in Tianjin, they had to greet Li Hongzhang first, and then go to meet their new boss, Wang Chenhao. However, because of the relationship between Li Hongzhang and Wang Chenhao, a lot of courtesies were saved, and Li Hongzhang directly asked them to go to the new army yamen to meet Wang Chenhao, and only some generals that Li Hongzhang particularly valued were personally recommended by Li Hongzhang to Wang Chenhao to be familiar with. Among them, such as Jiang Guidi, Gong Yuanyou and others, under the recommendation of Li Hongzhang, Wang Chenhao met with them and had in-depth exchanges.

Jiang Guidi was well versed in cavalry tactics, and Gong Yuanyou was good at engineering surveying and mapping, so Wang Chenhao arranged for Jiang Guidi to be in charge of cavalry training, while Gong Yuanyou was in charge of the training of recruits in the engineering battalion.

In the half month since he went to work, Wang Chenhao has worked overtime almost every night, mainly because the leading body of the new army must be established as soon as possible. Although there are soldiers and generals, how to arrange the generals, how to subdue them, and how to hold the military power tightly in their own hands? These all need Wang Chenhao to worry about his brain.

It was late at night, and Wang Chenhao was still reading the information of his subordinates in the study. Hundreds of resumes are piled up on the desk, and Wang Chenhao's job is to memorize each one.

I don't know when, Li Youyi appeared behind Wang Chenhao in a set of orange loose pajamas, and a pair of Qianqian arms gently wrapped around Wang Chenhao's neck. When Wang Chenhao turned around, a fragrant kiss had already taken the initiative to send it.

After a deep kiss, Li Youyi said softly: "It's time for the husband to rest!" ”

Wang Chenhao held her hand and said, "Tomorrow there will be a few important officers coming to report, I have to memorize their materials and give them a good impression!" It will be easier to give orders in the future! ”

Li Youyi asked puzzledly: "They are not as big as you, and they are your subordinates, why do you want to please them?" ”

Wang Chenhao smiled: "Although I am their boss, I can't do everything myself!" I have no relatives here, so I need more connections, right? ”

Li Youyi suddenly hugged Wang Chenhao tightly and said, "Take your time?" Why worry about having a righteous father? Then she coquettishly said: "You haven't been with anyone for a few days!" ”

Wang Chenhao smiled bitterly in his heart, Li Hongzhang still has a few years to live, he knows best, and he has to hurry up!

"Good! Let's go to sleep first! Feeling the softness of his wife's pair rubbing against his back, a burst of ** feeling came, but Wang Chenhao could only endure it.

After all, Li Youyi is still a woman who understands the general situation, and after being coquettish for a while, she stopped pestering her husband and went back to her room to sleep, but she ordered the two little maids, Shishu and Si Qi, to wait in the outhouse and take care of Wang Chenhao at any time.

The next day, Wang Chenhao met with Wang Shizhen, Duan Qirui and Liang Huadian alone in the yamen, showing that he valued the three of them. The three of them are all from poor families, and they do not have a good status in the Huai Army system, and they rely on their real skills to survive to their current status. Wang Chenhao wants to train his own Beiyang team to replace the Huai Army system, so he has to start with this kind of person.

After last night's preparations, Wang Chenhao talked eloquently in front of the three of them, and told the deeds of the three of them like a few treasures, which really surprised the three of them, and they didn't expect Wang Chenhao to pay so much attention to them.

It is a very happy thing to be appreciated and paid attention to by the top boss, and Wang Chenhao specially designed a series of topics to talk to them about according to the preferences of the three of them, so that they quickly put aside the strange feeling between them, as if they had not seen each other for many years.

Wang Chenhao is open-minded, and there is no taboo for the three of them to speak in front of him, and they can speak freely. And Wang Chenhao's personal knowledge and literacy have also been affirmed and praised by the three.

Among the three, Wang Shizhen went to private school, practiced martial arts, and helped train artillery, infantry, and engineers under Ye Zhichao's account. Wang Chenhao was lacking an office secretary general who could be civil and martial, so after the two talked, Wang Chenhao promoted Wang Shizhen to deputy secretary general.

In Wang Chenhao's yamen, the civil and military positions are all imitated in modern times, different from the official positions of the Qing Empire, this deputy secretary general is equivalent to a copywriter, but because he directly obeys Wang Chenhao's orders, his position is extremely important, second only to Yang Shixiang, the secretary general.

For Wang Shizhen, he has no power, no power, no status, and he is a guilty person, so it would be good to be a petty official. But he didn't want Wang Chenhao to value him so much, and he felt like a thousand miles of horses and Bole.

Duan Qirui graduated from the Berlin Military Academy and was proficient in German artillery skills, so he could communicate and cooperate with German artillery instructors, so Wang Chenhao appointed him as an artillery instructor.

Similarly, Duan Qirui was also in the middle of his family in his early years, although he was born in Hefei and was taken care of by the Huai Department, but because he was an honest official, he couldn't integrate because he was talented. Now that he can be reused by Wang Chenhao, he became an instructor of the New Army Artillery Regiment when he met for the first time, and this treatment made him very grateful to Wang Chenhao.

And Liang Huadian's family background is slightly better, but his stinky temper has offended many big officials in the Huai Army, so the top graduates of the Beiyang Military Academy are only one infantry officer in Song Qingjun, which is really condescending.

Wang Chenhao is a meritocrat, how many meters under the pot. Liang Huadian has a lot of experience in infantry training, so Wang Chenhao appointed him to enter the infantry team coaching group and train recruits with others.

This is because Wang Chenhao's training method is to first conduct training on the basis of company platoon squads, and after training for a period of time, then combine them into battalion and regiment levels for combined training, and finally form a reorganized division to complete the confrontation exercise. Therefore, Liang Huadian can only serve as the company commander of a recruit company now.

The three of them all got the ideal positions, and they were grateful to Wang Chenhao, and they all took the warrants given to them by Wang Chenhao to go to the military horse farm to find Yang Shixiang to report.

In the next few days, Wang Chenhao continued to recite the information of his subordinates every day, so that he knew in his heart that he would arrange the work of taking the right seats in the future.

However, to Wang Chenhao's surprise, there was one more person who recommended himself among the people sent by Nie Shicheng, and he was Feng Guozhang.

This Feng Guozhang is also too low-qualified, Li Hongzhang did not recommend him to Wang Chenhao, but Feng Guozhang was favored by Nie Shicheng, so Nie Shicheng personally wrote a letter to Wang Chenhao and introduced Feng Guozhang to him.

This Feng Guozhang is also one of the three heroes of Beiyang, when he entered the Beiyang Martial Arts Academy to study, because of his hard work, he was among the best in every exam. When he graduated, he was retained as a teacher because of his excellent grades, and he was admired by his peers and students. In 1893, he joined Nie Shicheng as a staff member in the army, loyal to his duties, and in the First Sino-Japanese War, he moved to the northeast front with Nie and repeatedly gave advice to Nie, so Nie's army had a better record and was quite reused by Nie Shicheng.

Feng Guozhang handed over his compilation of "Journey to the East" to Wang Chenhao for review, which recorded the itinerary and what he saw and heard along the way, and recorded the local historical evolution, customs, and trade in products, especially in the border areas such as the geography of the soldiers, the topography and landforms, the garrison garrison, and the post roads. Feng Guozhang told Wang Chenhao his views on the situation in the Northeast, and to Wang Chenhao's surprise, he actually expected that Russia would invade the south, because he had encountered the Russians exploring the terrain and landforms in the Northeast more than once.

"Maybe the Russians are looking for mineral deposits?" Wang Chenhao tested him.

Feng Guozhang replied with great certainty: "Don't hide it from your lordship, I thought so at the beginning!" But then I found out that the Russians continued to buy and steal military maps from the generals of the Eight Banners in the three eastern provinces, and during the First Sino-Japanese War, some of the maps stolen by the spies were also bought by the Russians at high prices. ”

Wang Chenhao laughed and said: "Sure enough, you are a general, you have Guozhang to join our new army, why are you afraid of the invasion of Russian devils?" ”

"Your Excellency has won a prize!" Feng Guozhang hurriedly asked, "What about the humble position?" ”

Wang Chenhao smiled and nodded, wrote a warrant and handed it to Feng Guozhang and said, "Let's go report first!"

Feng Guozhang took the warrant and looked at it, and it was written on it that the commander of the recruit company was overjoyed: "Thank you, Lord for your grace!" ”

Wang Chenhao smiled and nodded, seeing that Feng Guozhang's expression did not seem to be fake, it seemed that he had already asked the commander of another recruit company before he came, and obviously knew the important surname of the commander of this recruit company, so he would not have the question mark on his face when he first saw the position of company commander like others.

Feng Guozhang saluted and left, and after a while, Wang Chenhao couldn't help laughing.

Beiyang Sanjie!

Wang Shizhen, Duan Qirui and Feng Guozhang were the core figures who helped Yuan Shikai unify Beiyang back then, and now they are all under Wang Chenhao's account, which naturally makes him happy.

Old Yuan! Your role was robbed by Wang Chenhao like this!