Zhao Shijie and Shen Youlong, the governor of Liangguang, had a very happy conversation, and even under the guidance of his remarks, Comrade Shen began to think seriously about the current situation in the Ming Dynasty.

Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong and other large and small peasant rebels are still attacking the city and plundering the land, and the Houjin in the north has not stopped.

In addition, the struggle in the court has become more and more intense, and Donglin has reached the point of madness for the exclusion of dissidents, completely ignoring the danger of the country, and reading all the books of the sages in vain, but not remembering the words of the sages.

Shen Youlong already had a grudge against the Donglin in the court, and even agreed with Zhao Shijie's Donglin misunderstanding, which would lead to the failure of the Ming Dynasty's successive battlefields in the north and the peasant uprising in the northwest.

People like Donglin are vampires, they suck the blood and sweat of the entire Ming people, but they don't care about the life and death of the people at all, such people are no longer worthy of becoming court officials, being officials for the people, not seeking outstanding political achievements, but also seeking no major faults, this is Shen Youlong's principle.

Therefore, he has always taken the approach of going with the flow for the commercial trade between the two Guangzhous, and at the same time he is also observing the benefits of trading with the Australians.

Although Lao Shen was a Confucian who studied the books of sages and sages, he was not pedantic, and after he took office in Guangzhou, he also promoted a series of favorable policies, among which the support for handicraftsmen can be seen. He is a person who accepts the change that comes from new things.

In addition to the 100 rifles given by Australia, Lao Shen also had an unclear idea, hoping that the Australians could send a team of instructors to help train the soldiers at the same time.

However, for the instructors sent, Lao Shen did not let the white faction, promising to pay the Australian instructors, and all the expenses in Guangzhou, and still provide food and accommodation.

This request is not too much, even the guns have been sent to send a few people to train recruits, Zhao Shijie readily agreed, there is only one request, that is, the training of the Ming generals must not interfere, otherwise Australia will unconditionally withdraw the instructor team.

Shen Youlong also readily agreed to this request, after all, he had already invited the other party to help train the recruits, so he couldn't interfere. Although Shen Youlong doesn't have much experience in how to control the army, he still understands some basic principles.

As the governor of Liangguang, the post of supervising the army, there is still some prestige, although he was born in the civilian group, but in the late Ming Dynasty, the military attache basically became a vassal of the civilian official, and generally there will be no such thing as the military attache looking down on the civilian boss.

Of course, Shen Youlong did not plan to gather the army of the guard to form a new army, but followed Zhao Shijie's suggestion to recruit young, strong and brave warriors among the displaced people to join. The main reason for not recruiting officers and soldiers in the guard post is that most of the officers and men in the guard post are not strong in combat effectiveness, that is, a group of peasants with military household names but no soldier strength.

Moreover, there is also a big problem in recruiting the officers and soldiers of the guard, that is, it is not easy to manage, and every officer and soldier of the guard is registered in the register, although these people are nominally professional soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, but in fact they have become some of the generals' private tenants.

If a group of these races were drawn out, it would definitely make those military attachés and generals oppose it, and there would be no such problem in recruiting from among the displaced people, and now the largest number of refugees in the entire city of Guangzhou are refugees, and it is still very easy to recruit one or two hundred young people.

The reason why Zhao Shijie suggested this is that this group of soldiers will be cultivated as seeds, and the entire army reform of Liangguang in the future will infiltrate from these people to help the Ming Dynasty build a real new army.

Governor Shen Youlong received the news of a hundred firecrackers from the Australians, and did not hide it from those generals who commanded the army, this is not very big news for them, even if Shen Youlong wants to recruit one or two hundred homeless people to train into a firecracker team, everyone's interest is not great, after all, this can't bring much benefit to himself.

So everyone's eyes are still on what they benefit, and they have no opinion at all about Shen Youlong wanting to form a fire gun team of one or two hundred people to play with everyone, and even directly expressed their support for this, as long as they don't go to their own guard to select young people.

For these generals who put their personal interests first, Shen Youlong didn't have much hope at all, in addition to a few guards in the north that can fight in the Ming Dynasty, where are there guards who can fight, let alone the officers and soldiers of the guards in the rich land south of the Yangtze River.

Since Shen Youlong accepted Zhao Shijie's suggestion, it means that he is indeed worried about the current situation, and he is considered to be a rare few visionaries in the Ming court.

What's more, in ancient times, the forging technique of training the army can be said to be a secret book that is not passed on, and the famous generals of the past dynasties can only become famous if they have their own special training methods.

What a rare opportunity for this Australian to abandon the view of the door, if you don't grasp it well, there will be no place to cry if you regret it.

Shen Youlong is not stupid, although he was born as a literati, but in the future, when this new army is trained, he is not just as simple as becoming an official and becoming a knight, and his name is small in history.

In order to cooperate with the training of the Australians, he has carefully selected young strong men in the city to join the newly formed Liangguangshen fleet, whether these refugees agree or not, anyway, he pulled people away like directly grabbing strong men, and issued a set of military uniforms that were also purchased from Australians, and threw them to everyone, so that they could be dressed neatly, and they would be soldiers and food in the future.

Although at the end of the Ming Dynasty, due to the changes in the world, the management of the road guidance system was no longer so strict, but if the government really wanted to be more serious, it was not impossible to punish you, so those unwilling homeless people had to agree, otherwise they would inevitably have to suffer some hardships if they were punished. Judging from the current situation, at least it is true that this soldier eats food.

At the same time, in order to help Shen Youlong, the governor of Liangguang, train the new army, the Australian side also made very careful consideration and research, and sent the first company of the army in the Australian army, which currently has rich combat experience, and the selected instructors to lead the team this time are He Yu, Makarov, Yu Shan, Qiao Xian and others.

The first company is very experienced both in terms of combat experience and in training new recruits, and the Ministry of Defense is confident that they will be able to accomplish this difficult task. (To be continued.) )