【2nd Update】

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After Wang Chenhao returned to Li Hongzhang's Earl's Palace, he had to be questioned by Li Hongzhang and Zhang Peilun. And Wang Chenhao had nothing to hide, and told them truthfully.

After listening to Wang Chenhao's description, Li Hongzhang breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "There are only two situations when the Queen Mother scolds, one is very angry and wants to kill, and the other is happy. Chenhao, you're in luck! ”

Zhang Peilun also smiled: "The first time I saw the Queen Mother, I gave her a good impression is very important to Chen Hao's future career, it seems that Chen Hao has passed the test this time, and when I suddenly heard the Queen Mother summon him before, I sweated for him!" ”

Wang Chenhao smiled shyly.

After Li Hongzhang smiled, he sensed Cixi's deeper purpose, and said: "The Queen Mother knows our whereabouts well, and she needs to pay special attention to her actions in the future. Especially Chen Hao, you must have registered with the Queen Mother, and you must not be tempted in the future, but you must be vigilant, and it is not a big mistake to speak carefully! ”

Wang Chenhao nodded yes, and immediately talked about the Empress Dowager Cixi allowing him and Li Youyi to go to the Summer Palace tomorrow night to watch and play. Li Hongzhang only said that this was the queen mother's reward, and let Wang Chenhao just go to play, but deal with it carefully.

Zhang Peilun envied Wang Chenhao's good luck, but he was also very happy, as Wang Chenhao's staff, he was looking forward to Wang Chenhao one day surpassing Li Hongzhang and being a very popular minister.

Li Hongzhang said: "Then Chenhao, you hurry up and send a telegram back to Youyi, and ask her to prepare and come over quickly." ”

Zhang Peilun suddenly interjected: "I'm afraid Chen Hao can't wait for a long time!" ”

Wang Chenhao laughed hesitantly, saying that when he entered the door, he had already instructed Li Guodong to do it, which immediately caused Li Hongzhang and Zhang Peilun to laugh.

After laughing, Li Hongzhang turned to the topic and told the situation of the early dynasty.

In fact, there is no need for Li Hongzhang to say it all, his purpose in doing this is nothing more than to make Wang Chenhao feel the competition for fame and fortune in the court.

After listening to this, Wang Chenhao understood Li Hongzhang's political skills, and invisibly learned another trick.

From Li Hongzhang's mouth, Wang Chenhao found that the current situation in the court is that the queen mother wants to maintain the status quo, and the interests of all parties also want to maintain a delicate balance, and they don't want this balance to be broken.

Since Guangxu came to power, he was eager to seize power and tried to break this balance. He first instructed Weng Tongyi to target Li Hongzhang everywhere, so as to support Beiyang's hind legs, and then took advantage of the unfavorable facts of the First Sino-Japanese Land War to attack Li Hongzhang and cut off his Huaijun system, but unfortunately he was too anxious, and with Li Hongzhang's sophistication, how could he easily give Guangxu an excuse to be mad?

"So as long as you win in Qiuying, you can win this military training minister?"

Wang Chenhao couldn't help but ask about this military training minister, but he was deeply taught by Mao Da, and he came out of power from the barrel of a gun. Now that he has a relationship with Li Hongzhang, then the Beiyang Group can no longer be cheaply given to Yuan Shikai, and he, Wang Chenhao, has to do all the things that Yuan Shikai can and can't do in history.

"That's right! Can Chen Hao be sure? Li Hongzhang and Zhang Peilun looked at Wang Chenhao at the same time, with a look of anticipation in their eyes.

Wang Chenhao said confidently: "No problem! In my opinion, it is impossible for all provinces to organize and train the new army. The new army is constrained by financial, material and human resources, and not every province has the strength and family background of Beiyang! Maybe only Zhang Zhidong can practice one in Nanyang, but I am sure to win him! ”

Looking at Wang Chenhao's self-confident appearance, Li Hongzhang and Zhang Peilun had a little bottom in their hearts.

Li Hongzhang is not a hesitant person, since he has put all the bets on Wang Chenhao, then he has to give his full support without hesitation.

Zhang Peilun said: "Even if everything is ready, it is a time-consuming thing to train the new army! I'm afraid that Zhang Zhidong will start practicing soon, and we have to hurry up! ”

Li Hongzhang looked at Wang Chenhao, after all, he was the protagonist and wanted to hear his opinion. asked, "What kind of practice is Chen Hao going to do?" Speaking out, the old man and the young haggard might be able to help in advance? ”

This time it's really going to be a military training, Wang Chenhao doesn't dare to talk about it on paper, and he needs to think carefully before replying. So he told Li Hongzhang that he would list the details before dinner and show him the details.

Li Hongzhang nodded in agreement, and after the three of them discussed some things, Wang Chenhao and Zhang Peilun left the study and returned to their residence.

Zhang Peilun knew that Wang Chenhao wanted to discuss with him, so he ordered someone to prepare pen, ink, paper, and inkstone. He knew that Li Hongzhang couldn't understand Wang Chenhao's chicken crawling words, so he could only ghostwrite it himself.

Military training is nothing more than instructors, soldiers, weapons, training grounds, and base logistics.

Wang Chenhao was talking about his own thoughts, and at the same time he asked Zhang Peilun about the detailed rules for military training in reality, so as to achieve a target.

"I plan to train a division of troops for Beiyang first, and the total number will be controlled at about 12,500 people, and this conscription is the first level!"

Zhang Peilun said: "Conscription is not a problem, our Beiyang treatment is the highest in the country, as soon as the conscription order is issued, tens of thousands of young and strong people can be recruited within half a month!" It's all the strong people you want, the good discipline of the peasants! ”

Zhang Peilun deliberately accentuated his tone in the last sentence, and looked at Wang Chenhao with a slight smile.

Wang Chenhao laughed "hey", no matter how Zhang Peilun laughed at him, he only wanted to be practical. "Then 25,000 soldiers will be conscripted first!"

Zhang Peilun asked puzzledly: "Why do you want so many people?" Isn't that expensive? ”

Wang Chenhao smiled mysteriously and said: "I plan to use the elimination system, the last 5,000 people who do not meet the standard every month will be eliminated, half of them will be eliminated after the three-month recruit training period, and the rest will be just the number of one division!" ”

Knock-out?

All right! Zhang Peilun admits that Wang Chenhao is a very thoughtful person.

Zhang Peilun thought about it carefully and felt that Wang Chenhao's idea was good. This kind of elimination system will make people feel huge competitive pressure, so that the quality of the remaining recruits after three months must be very high.

Wang Chenhao continued: "At present, the German Army has the highest training quality in the world's armies, so we hire German Army officers from foreign teachers. ”

Zhang Peilun interjected and asked, "Why does Chen Hao think that the German Army has the strongest training quality?" ”

Wang Chenhao explained to him: "The current German Empire is unified by war, and they have war experience that other countries do not have!" Moreover, Germany has a small population, and as a European power caught in the middle, the German Army must face an enemy more than a dozen times its own. This requires the German soldiers to have the ability to fight with one to ten, otherwise they will be wiped out by the Russian and French armies with absolute numerical superiority! Therefore, it is said that the training of the German army will be the most rigorous and even demanding in the world, and the soldiers trained in this way will be the strongest! ”

Zhang Peilun nodded, it was undeniable that Wang Chenhao's argument was very favorable, so he couldn't find a reason to veto.

"Hannagan, the adjutant of Lord Zhongtang, turned out to be an officer in the German Army, and he has a deep affection for our Beiyang, and it will be very beneficial to ask him to be a foreign instructor!"

Wang Chenhao was a little surprised, he had met Hannagan a few times, and his impression of him was not bad. But it was the first time that Wang Chenhao knew that he was an officer in the German Army, but after remembering that Ding Ruchang was also a general in the army, Wang Chenhao was relieved.

"That's a good idea! But he's too little alone! At least fifty people are enough! Wang Chenhao nodded in agreement, since Hannagen was an officer in the German Army, there was no problem.

"Don't worry!" Zhang Peilun said with a smile: "We have thousands of foreigners in Beiyang, and since the British closed the door to Chinese talent assistance, there are the most foreigners of German nationality, not to mention 50 people, 500 people can also be called." Besides, Hannagan was a German nobleman, and after Lord Zhongtang asked him to be an adjutant to supervise the Beiyang Naval Division, he received the help of a large number of German aristocratic forces. ”

So that's it! It is hard for Wang Chenhao to imagine that Li Hongzhang let Hannagan, an army officer, be the coach of the Beiyang Naval Division, but it turned out that he took a fancy to Hannagan's German aristocratic network!

When Wang Chenhao was stunned, Zhang Peilun asked, "There must be our own instructors, right?" The chief instructor has to be himself! Who are you going to put in this role? ”

Wang Chenhao replied: "All the grassroots instructors are recruited from the Beiyang Martial Arts Academy, as for the chief instructor?" ”

Wang Chenhao suddenly smiled and said, "How about me being the chief instructor?" ”

"......" Zhang Peilun was stunned for a moment.