Chapter 3 Acting Battalion Commander

With the sound of the whistle, a train dragged a long smoke into the city of Beijing, which was the first time that Chang Ruiqing, a man of two lifetimes, came to the capital of this great motherland. Looking out through the car window, the city of Beijing in this era gives people a gray feeling, at a glance are some gray roofs, and then look ahead, it is a tall and gray Qianmen building, the train turned a corner at the foot of the front door, and drove straight into the Qianmen railway station located diagonally opposite the Forbidden City of the Forbidden City.

The Forbidden City, Zhongnanhai, Qianmen, the old railway station, uh, it's still quite new...... The scene in Yiqiē here and Chang Ruiqing's memories in his previous life are familiar, but completely unfamiliar. There is no Monument to the People's Heroes, no Mao Taizu Memorial Hall, no Great Hall of the People, and even the ** city tower looks a lot shorter, and even the ** square does not seem to exist, but there are a few more city gate buildings, as if there are Zhonghua Gate, Chang'an Left Gate, Chang'an Right Gate or something, and a lot of miscellaneous buildings, but what makes Chang Ruiqing feel uncomfortable the most is Beijing's security measures.

Chang Ruiqing led more than a dozen Baoding classmates wearing military uniforms and carrying large bags and small bags, got off the train, walked out of the station, and walked around the Zhongnanhai of Emperor Puyi's ** and President Li Bodhisattva. It seems that the financial situation of the Beiyang government under the oppression of imperialism is really not optimistic, and it cannot afford to raise many troops, and it cannot even get the most important funds for maintaining stability, so it is no wonder that it was finally overthrown by the Kuomintang reactionaries.

After a hurried tour, Chang Ruiqing and his party found a small hotel near Dashilar outside the front gate and settled down. Although these people have also been in the army for more than ten years, they have been receiving military education, they have not received military salaries, and they only have eight cents of pocket money every month, but fortunately, when they left the military academy and came to Beijing to report for duty, they received ten yuan per person for the journey, but these money could not last long in Beijing. So the top priority at the moment is to do everything possible to settle the errand, in addition, there are many classmates at the military academy who are ready to follow Chang Ruiqing, and they are also waiting for him to give Zhang Luo an errand!

So after settling down, Chang Ruiqing freshened up his back and forth, changed into a straight tweed military uniform, took a protégé sticker, and called a carriage to go to the War Department in Iron Lion Hutong to meet that Xu Shuzheng, Xu Daji.

History's evaluation of this Beiyang Anhui general, Duan Qirui's number one henchman, is naturally not high. Who let him die at the hands of the patriotic general Feng Yuxiang? was killed by the patriotic General Feng, naturally he should be unpatriotic, and as for his exploits in leading troops to recover Outer Mongolia, he often avoided talking about it in the official history of later generations, at most it was just a passing pass. After all, it was the great mentor Comrade Lenin who split Mongolia from China, and Lenin would certainly not be wrong......

However, Chang Ruiqing, who has studied the history of the Republic of China, feels that this Xu Shuzheng is the only big tree that he can climb in the Beiyang system. In his opinion, the current Beiyang series is not Duan Qirui, who is not high enough to reach at all, that is, Wu Peifu under Cao Kunmen, Zhang Zuolin who is entrenched in the northeast, Feng Yuxiang, commander of the 16th Beiyang Mixed Brigade, and Xu Shuzheng, deputy director of the Ministry of the Army, can be regarded as the number one person. As for the others, almost all of them are corrupt warlords who are like fakes, and now Chang Ruiqing even if he wants to take refuge, it is estimated that he will not even be able to enter the door of others (he can't afford to give the door bag)!

Among these four, Zhang Zuolin, the new school of characters has not yet risen, and they are all some bandits-turned-military strategists who are in charge, and their own military cadets and others can't pee a pot; And Feng Yuxiang doesn't need to be a military cadet who comes out of a serious class at all, even if he takes refuge in others, he won't accept it; As for Wu Peifu, it is worth taking refuge, it is estimated that Wu Yushuai can also look down on himself, but when the time comes, he will be placed in the Third Division of the Beiyang Iron Army Army as an errand boy, and it will be difficult to make a solo flight independently!

Therefore, Xu Shuzheng, who was evaluated by the wild history of the Republic of China as arrogant and self-serving, became Chang Ruiqing's only choice in the Beiyang system. According to all kinds of memoirs published in later generations, or oral history records, Xu Shuzheng is a very disgusting character in the Beiyang system and even in the Anhui system, only Duan Qirui trusts him to the point of no return! And the reason why this Xu Shuzheng is annoying, in Chang Ruiqing's opinion, is nothing more than "extreme strictness and seriousness", a bit like a Beiyang warlord, maybe Duan Qirui took a fancy to these two points, so he would be so important to him, right?

However, dealing with such people is also simple, the set of treats and gifts, and slapping horses does not work at all, and it is the most important thing to do things seriously and show that your outstanding talent is the most important! And these two points are the only things that Chang Ruiqing can do now.

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"Report!"

Chang Ruiqing strode into Xu Shuzheng's office, snapped upright, and performed a standard military salute: "Student Chang Ruiqing, I have seen Gong Zheng." ”

The process of meeting Xu Shuzheng today was much smoother than expected, and when I entered the number room, I handed over a protégé post and a small red envelope of a few yuan (that is a must). It didn't take long for a Beiyang officer who looked like an adjutant to pass him in, and then led him around the yamen of the War Department, which had been renovated from the former Qing Palace, to the door of an office with a second-long sign. The officer went in again to report, and after coming out, he let Chang Ruiqing go in directly.

"Yaoru, sit down." The furnishings in the office are also very simple, there is almost no decoration, only a mahogany desk and a few chairs, Xu Shuzheng, deputy minister of the War Department, is sitting behind the desk, is reviewing the official documents, hearing Chang Ruiqing's report, he did not look up, but while approving the official documents, he said lightly: "When did you arrive in Beijing?" ”

"I just arrived in the morning." Chang Ruiqing was not pretentious, pulled a chair casually, sat down upright, and replied truthfully.

"Your grades in the Baoding Military Academy are considered to be the first, but that is not the same thing as actually leading soldiers." Xu Shuzheng paused for a moment and said lightly: "Do you have any thoughts on leading soldiers?" ”

"Students think that the key to leading a good soldier is to share weal and woe and be strict and serious." Chang Ruiqing replied without thinking.

"Seriously?" Xu Shuzheng nodded slightly and sighed: "There are many people who can say that they share weal and worn, but there are not many who can know that Yan Sù is serious, and we Beiyang are too unserious in doing things." ”

He smiled faintly, took out a letter of appointment from a stack of papers on his desk and handed it to Chang Ruiqing: "Yaoru, remember what you said today, I will arrange for you to be the acting battalion commander of the 13th Division Model Battalion." This 13th Division was expanded from the original Gong Guard Army, and there were more new soldiers, so it was put together to form this model battalion. Give me three months to help me train a battalion of elite soldiers! If you can't do it, you'll roll up and fuck off! Do you understand? And your classmates, let them all report to the 13th Division, and arrange it in the model camp first. ”

"Student understood!" Chang Ruiqing stood up again, took his letter of appointment with both hands, and saluted Xu Shuzheng. It was a bit unexpected for Chang Ruiqing to get a battalion commander so quickly, although he was only a battalion commander of a "model battalion" specializing in military training.

Chang Ruiqing just wanted to say a few more words to repay his teacher's kindness, but Xu Shuzheng nodded slightly, and then didn't talk nonsense with him, just waved his hand and let him leave, and the whole process was only a few minutes. Such a high efficiency in official affairs is probably unique in Beiyang, a yamen that has almost completely inherited the bureaucratic style of the former Qing Dynasty, right?

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