According to the convention, it is not possible for Zhao Dongzhi to directly enter the Beiyang New Army to serve as a military post after returning to China, although the international students are very mixed after returning to China, but it is specifically referring to people with diplomas in their hands, and liberal arts students need to pass the Ministry of Rites examination after returning to China, and then they can be awarded the study tour jinshi, and then they can be promoted to make a fortune. Those who came from foreign military academies are much simpler, and when they return to China, they are generally returned to the provinces to serve, and within a few years, they will be the commander of an association or even a town.

And those who can't get a diploma from a prestigious school can't get a high position.

The reason why Zhao Dongzhi was able to enter the third town and also obtained the position of the Association Military Academy naturally has a great relationship with Zhao Dongyun, he is Zhao Dongyun's cousin, and the uncle's father wrote a letter to put down his face and asked Zhao Dongyun to arrange a future for his second son, Zhao Dongyun naturally couldn't refuse to ignore it.

In addition, Zhao Dongzhi was also quite interested in joining the army, so he first arranged for him to be a secretary in the Quartermaster Department of the Third Town, and later when the training department promulgated a new military rank, Zhao Dongyun also conveniently let him obtain the official rank of the military academy.

In fact, he can also be like Zhao Dongping, not to go to military school, and then engage in positions such as ordnance and logistics, with Zhao Dongyun taking care of him, there will be a future, for example, the current Zhao Dongping is younger than Zhao Dongzhi, but now he is the 'Army and Deputy Staff' from the third rank.

However, Zhao Dongping's background and service experience will lead him to have no way to be promoted in the future, and he will not be able to rise to the same level as regular officers.

It is also a regular leader, but there is a world of difference between 'army and military attachés' and 'army is in the same rank', and the difference is the difference between civilian and military attachés of the same grade in the Ming Dynasty.

Zhao Dongzhi wants to join the army as an officer, so naturally he hopes to go to the Beiyang Crash School, so that he will be able to go to the army as the commander of the army in the future.

Zhao Dongzhi looked at the other people in the waiting room, and sighed slightly in his heart, it is estimated that he is a half-born officer here, otherwise they would not care so much about themselves.

He Zhao Dongzhi is Zhao Dongyun's cousin, this identity is not a secret, everyone around him knows it, but he is also Zhao Dongyun's cousin, but the gap between Zhao Dongzhi and Zhao Dongping is very large, and most of the officers in the other third towns will shout Zhao Dongping's general office, because although Zhao Dongping is not a professional officer from a professional class, but he is in charge of the ordnance logistics affairs of the third town.

For example, when the Third Town and Zhang Zuolin jointly eliminated Du Lisan and accepted Feng Delin's surrender, it was not Zhao Dongyun himself, nor Chen Guangyuan and Lin Yongquan, the high-level generals of the Third Town, but Zhao Dongping, the general office of the Ordnance Department, who was originally not involved.

As for Zhao Dongzhi, he just returned to China and entered the third town for less than a month, and he was not from a formal military academy, and he did not go to the ordnance department or the quartermaster department like Zhao Dongping, but went to serve in the grassroots army. In this way, the two ends are not pleased, and naturally they can't attract the attention of others.

"However, after two or three years, I may not have the opportunity to be on an equal footing with them!" Zhao Dongzhi was willing to come to the third town to be a scholar who was despised by everyone, just for an opportunity to enter the Beiyang New Army.

After the assistant staff member took the lead and was received by Zhao Dongyun, the main military academy and deputy military academy were also received by Zhao Dongyun one after another, and although Zhao Dongzhi was Zhao Dongyun's cousin, as the lowest military academy in the officer system, he could only enter in the last one.

Not long after, a strong man walked into the waiting room, this person is none other than Li San, who has been following Zhao Dongyun all the year round, although this person's name is simple, and his official position on the surface is also low, but his status in the third town is not low, but he is the officer of the guard team of the third town headquarters, and he is also the director of the general affairs office of the third town headquarters. In addition to his actual position, in fact, what is more important is that he follows Zhao Dongyun almost wherever he goes, he is not only Zhao Dongyun's security chief, nor is he just an entourage, he is also Zhao Dongyun's adjutant, and many affairs in the third town will generally go through his hands before they arrive at Zhao Dongyun's desk.

Although Li San has no status on the surface, in fact, the ordinary managers of the third town have to shout 'General Manager Li' when they see him

When Zhao Dongzhi saw Li San coming over, he did not regard himself as Zhao Dongyun's cousin, but did enough to act as a low-level Hou Jian officer!

However, since Li San was able to climb to this position step by step with an ordinary personal guard, and was continuously reused by Zhao Dongyun for many years, following him every day, this is enough to show that he is not an ordinary martial artist, he walked in and looked at Zhao Dongzhi with a smile, and said first: "Mr. Zhao, my lord, he can already see you!" ”

Zhao Dongzhi hurriedly got up, Li San was polite to him, and he also remained polite: "Trouble Mr. Li!" ”

Li San said hehe: "What's the trouble, everyone is not an outsider, what are you polite to me, those people are just promoted, according to the usual morning, the adults will see them first, otherwise I will lead you in just now!" ”

This is also a polite remark, the morning time is Zhao Dongyun's office time, especially in the first few hours, it is not a meeting or to meet with subordinate officers and other officials, this Zhao Dongzhi came to see Zhao Dongyun is not a big deal, but Zhao Dongyun called him to give a few words, but he can't squeeze out the important time in the first half of the morning.

Zhao Dongzhi didn't know the many doorways inside, and immediately felt that this Li San was quite good to himself, and he also smiled and said: "Then I have to accept this part of President Li's office!" ”

Speaking of this, Zhao Dongzhi thought about it for a while and said: "It's better like this, how about a few of us go to Jinzhou City for a drink tonight, and I'll call my seventh brother again!" ”

Li San was slightly stunned when he heard this, this Zhao Dongzhi can fight snakes with sticks, but Li San will not ignore Zhao Dongzhi like the officers of other third towns, because he knows that Zhao Dongyun has personally arranged this kid's future, if nothing else, he will graduate from the Beiyang Army Accelerated Martial Arts Academy in two years, with Zhao Dongyun's support, the speed of promotion will not slow down there.

Besides, he also said that Zhao Dongping would go to the banquet, even if he was not optimistic about Zhao Dongzhi, but Zhao Dongping's face still had to be given, and he immediately laughed loudly: "Then I will be the east tonight, and then our brothers will have a drink!" ”

"If you dare to bother General Manager Li's office to be the east, naturally I will invite you!" Zhao Dongzhi put on a posture that if I don't let me have a treat, I will turn my face with you, Li San laughed at this time, and he stopped fighting.

After the two of them walked all the way and said these words, they had already arrived in front of Zhao Dongyun's office, and without any prompting, the two of them had already closed their mouths one after another, outside Zhao Dongyun's office, there were several copywriters in horse coats or military uniforms, and these people each sat in a small cubicle in the open room outside, and then each buried himself in dealing with a large number of documents, or looked at the official document with single-lens eyes, or wrote something with a wolf howling pen.

This is actually the office of the General Affairs Office of the Third Town, which is actually Zhao Dongyun's personal secretariat, mainly to assist him in handling a large amount of paperwork.

Don't think that when a town is in charge, as long as the army marches and fights, in fact, for the new army in the late Qing Dynasty, the town command is not only responsible for leading the army to fight, but also to manage the entire army to eat, drink, sleep, and then to pay and food supplies, and then to the purchase of ordnance, etc., the Beiyang system created a relatively independent management system for each town, and almost every town has a comprehensive management system to deal with all kinds of sundries.

In these years, being the commander of the Beiyang New Army was more than being the commander of a group army in a normal country in later generations, and at least in a normal country, being the commander of a group army or even the commander of a group army group did not have to go to great lengths to raise military funds.

The third town plus the Jinzhou patrol battalion, a total of nearly 15,000 people have to manage many affairs of Zhao Dongyun, these many miscellaneous things are naturally not something he can manage alone, so he specially set up a general affairs office, which is used as his own secretarial agency to assist him in handling countless correspondence.

It is said that Zhao Dongyun of the third town has made the General Affairs Office, the Quartermaster Department, the Ordnance Department, the Law Enforcement Department, and the Education Department at the level of the town, which also indirectly affected the establishment of the Beiyang and even the national new army.

In the Beiyang Standing Army in 1904, only the Military Department of the Beiyang Standing Army and the Third Town Town Department had the Quartermaster Department and the Ordnance Department, such as the Third Town Supervision Office, which was an official organization officially recognized by the imperial court, and the general office, assistant office, second-class staff officer, third-class staff officer and members served in it were all official personnel of the imperial court, not a private establishment.

Although the other three towns of the Beiyang Standing Army are more or less privately organized, they can only be regarded as private, and most of the officers are employed concurrently, and most of the personnel in them are privately hired copywriters.

Sometimes the official compilation of these things represents the name, he Zhao Dongyun dared to engage in all kinds of new establishments, various rules and regulations in the third town supervision office, and also reported to Yuan Shikai and the imperial court with great fanfare, but other towns can't do this.

And this is why after the establishment of the training office, many regulations issued for the national training of the new army, including military uniforms, military ranks, machine guns, new formations, etc., have Zhao Dongyun's participation, the reason is very simple, that is, there is a supervision and exercise office in the third town!

Otherwise, if he wants to participate in the formulation and training of the new army of the whole country, he can only hold an important position in the training department like Duan Qirui, and now even if he does not work part-time in the training department, because of the existence of the third town supervision office, he can also continue to directly put forward many opinions to Yuan Shikai, and through Yuan Shikai, he will influence many decisions of the training department.

Although this general affairs office is far less important than the supervision office, it is one of several subsidiary institutions of the third town, and it is naturally quite important in the third town, but Zhao Dongzhi feels that there are too few people in the general affairs office, even if Li San is added, there is only one general office, one helper, and five clerks, and the total number of people is only seven.

Crossing this outer room, Li San stepped forward and knocked on the door of Zhao Dongyun's office, and said lightly: "My lord, the fourth young master has arrived!" ”

Zhao Dongzhi did not notice the change in Li San's title, he did not call Zhao Dongzhi Mr. Zhao or Zhao Sishu, nor Zhao Military Academy, but adopted the title of the fourth young master among the domestic servants, Li San shouted the fourth young master at this juncture, and it was not Zhao Dongzhi who respected, but put his position on Zhao Dongyun's personal soldiers, thus deepening his influence in Zhao Dongyun's heart.

This is a small psychological suggestion technique, Zhao Dongzhi can't hear it, Zhao Dongyun inside is naturally too lazy to care how Li San calls Zhao Dongzhi, he asked him inside: "Let him in!" ”

At this time, Li San turned around and nodded slightly at Zhao Dongzhi, at this time Zhao Dongzhi stepped forward, and then entered Zhao Dongyun's office through the door that Li San pushed open.

As soon as he entered, he saw Zhao Dongyun who was still writing something on the desk, he had just entered the door, and Zhao Dongyun only glanced up at him slightly, and then lowered his head again: "You sit down for a while, I'll finish this article first!" ”

Zhao Dongzhi looked at his cousin, who was completely different from his childhood and even his youth, and he didn't dare to laugh and laugh like when he was a child, but did it on the sofa next to him after humming.

After sitting down, Li San also served him a cup of tea, but he didn't drink much, just sitting, although his head didn't turn around, but he also looked at Zhao Dongyun's office, the first few times he saw Zhao Dongyun, it was a private occasion, and he was also entertained by Zhao Dongyun and Fang Ruolian, and he spoke as a cousin, but today he met Zhao Dongyun according to the normal procedure, and this occasion is a formal work occasion, so it is not very presumptuous.

Everywhere the eye can see, first of all, it is a pair of 'heroes of the three armies' words, the writing is very good for people who have not touched the brush in later generations, but for many scholars who are still reading the Four Books and Five Classics, that is, the level that can be seen, not blown, the Zhao brothers in addition to Zhao Dongyun, an impostor, other since childhood enlightenment familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics, calligraphy from small to large brothers, all can write stronger than the above words.

But the subsequent signing is impossible to despise, because it is Yuan Shikai's private seal!