In November 1901, Yuan Shikai had not yet officially asked the imperial court to open the Beiyang Standing Army, but I don't know who revealed the rumors, and the imperial court had a lot of arguments about this, some opposed or supported, and some said that it was okay to train the Beiyang Standing Army, but it was also necessary to train a Beijing Banner Standing Army, in short, there were all kinds of voices.

However, no matter how the imperial court argued, Yuan Shikai's pace of army expansion did not stop at all, and even before the official name, the preparation of the Beiyang Standing Army had already embarked on a rapid pace of development, on the one hand, it was to recruit a large number of good family sons as soldiers, and on the other hand, it was also to draw officers from various units to enrich the standing army.

As a unit started by Yuan Shikai, the Wuwei Right Army is also the only new army in China that comprehensively imitates the Western French training, and it has naturally become the cradle of the Beiyang Standing Army, not only the military system imitates the Wuwei Right Army, but most of the officers of the Standing Army are also drawn from the Wuwei Right Army, and in this way, some important positions in the Wuwei Right Army are vacant.

Duan Qirui looked at the dozen or so names in his hand, and after thinking for a while, he focused his attention on the three words Zhao Dongyun on the list.

At this time, after several other vacancies had been determined, Yuan Shikai took a sip of tea and continued: "Now there is still a lack of a command belt on the second battalion of the right wing, tell me who is suitable!" ”

At this time, Duan Qirui spoke: "I recommend Zhao Dongyun to teach in the Suiying Academy!" ”

"Zhao Dongyun? This person has just returned from Germany for less than a year, and this year he is only twenty and three, and he has no experience as a regular Indian official, how can he take on the important task of commanding a battalion? One of the people next to him immediately spoke out against it.

Duan Qirui didn't expect that his words about recommending Zhao Dongyun would be opposed as soon as he finished speaking, and he looked at Yuan Shikai with a somewhat unpleasant face, only to see that Yuan Shikai didn't have any obvious look, so he said again: "Zhao Dongyun once traveled to study at the Berlin Military Academy in Germany, and now he has returned to China after completing his studies, and his knowledge of Western-style exercises is far better than others. If you have such a talent, if you don't use it because of your age and qualifications, why spend a lot of money to send people to study abroad. ”

Duan Qirui's words are very simple, that is, since they have spent a lot of money to send people out to study, and they will not be reused when they return to China after completing their studies, why should they spend this unjust money in the first place!

In these years, if you send government-funded students to Germany, the annual cost per person is about 300 pounds, which is about 2,000 taels when converted into Kuping silver. In addition, students are generally sent abroad in batches, and the overall cost of all this is quite large.

You have to see the results of all this money spent!

Seeing that the man still wanted to speak and argue, Duan Qirui didn't give him a chance to speak, but continued: "As for qualifications and experience, everyone has the first time, and I haven't heard that anyone has experience as soon as they come up!" ”

Seeing that Duan Qirui strongly recommended Zhao Dongyun, several people next to him naturally understood. They all know that Zhao Dongyun also came back from studying in Germany, which can be regarded as the same school of study in Germany as Duan Qirui, and it can also be called the relationship between seniors and seniors, and this relationship between seniors and seniors is not worth mentioning if it is placed elsewhere, for example, the classmates in the Tianjin Martial Arts Academy, everyone doesn't pay much attention to it, because everyone is a classmate, and most of the generals in the new army system have to talk about the feelings of classmates.

However, there are only a handful of German students in the Chinese military circles, and even fewer have entered the Wuwei Right Army system after returning to China, and everyone is only known to Duan Qirui and Zhao Dongyun.

So it's not for nothing that Duan Qirui strongly recommends Zhao Dongyun!

Of course, Duan Qirui didn't say anything about helping Zhao Dongyun take the position, in fact, for most of the previous half a month, he had not recommended Zhao Dongyun to serve in the standing army, because the standing army was stared at by too many people, and he lacked the ability to promote Zhao Dongyun to the throne. And today, he didn't have this plan originally, but when he saw that Zhao Dongyun's list was in the list of candidates, he temporarily decided to help Zhao Dongyun.

In fact, even if Duan Qirui doesn't help Zhao Dongyun, but since Zhao Dongyun's name has been included in today's shortlist by Yuan Shikai, it already means that Zhao Dongyun has entered Yuan Shikai's sight, even if he is not recommended by Duan Qirui today, he will be recommended by others, after all, there are so many vacancies, and there are only a few people available, no matter what, Zhao Dongyun will be reused, the question is what position to hold!

Today, Duan Qirui is just pushing the boat, if he can help Zhao Dongyun find a position as the commander of an infantry battalion, he must be able to bring a lot of help to himself in the future!

Feng Guozhang next to him also looked at Duan Qirui, and after seeing that Yuan Shikai's face had no other changes, he immediately said: "Now that our army is making great strides, it is in urgent need of talents to serve, since Zhao Dongyun has the ability, I think he can temporarily replace the second battalion, and then turn into a regular when the drill is successful!" ”

Yuan Shikai saw that the others didn't speak, and immediately said: "Originally, I wanted him to serve as the assistant of the Suiying Academy, since Zhujun thinks that he can manage a battalion, then let him manage the second battalion of the right wing first, and then turn into a regular when it is effective!" ”

For Yuan Shikai, although a battalion command is not a trivial matter, it is not a big deal, and in a few words, this matter was settled, and then it took less than ten minutes to determine the other five vacancies. After that, he put down the list in his hand, and then said: "Now not only is we planning to set up a standing army here, but the imperial court also said that we want to help train a standing army of Beijing Banner. ”

Let's not mention that Yuan Shikai and others are discussing many military affairs, and Zhao Dongyun is here.

At this time, Zhao Dongyun didn't know that he had been booked as the commander of the second battalion of the right wing of the Wuwei Right Army, and now he was staying in his study, holding a pen in his hand and writing something.

If you look closely, you can see that some terms written on the paper are incomprehensible to outsiders, such as tanks and airplanes, so at this moment, Zhao Dongyun is searching for some things about air-ground coordination in his memory, and is trying to combine some limited memories and imaginations about air-ground coordination to make a summary of air-ground coordination.

Zhao Dongyun didn't write these things to say that he was going to hand over this thing to Shangfeng to seek advancement, in fact, he was just writing a memo.

Since coming to this era, Zhao Dongyun began to record the things in his memory in words, and the reason for doing this was that he was afraid that he would forget the things of his previous life after coming to this world for a long time, so he quickly recorded them in words while his memory was still clear.

Based on this, the content of his memo is quite extensive, basically writing whatever comes to mind, military, cultural, scientific and technological, etc., and then according to these limited memories combined with his own imagination, he also came up with some plausible things, such as the tactical outline of infantry and tank coordination, such as the outline of defensive tactics combining heavy machine guns and barbed wire, and the outline of air-ground cooperative operations that are being written.

These things are written out, and the names sound quite vain, but whether they can be used in the future is estimated that only God knows!

After all, it is not ordinarily difficult to ask a pseudo-military fan to write a military theory!

Just as Zhao Dongyun was pondering and writing this summary of the coordination of the open space, there was a knock on the door of the study, and Zhao Dongyun couldn't help frowning, but he still said: "Come in!" ”

Immediately, a pretty maid walked in outside the door, and I saw her take two steps closer and said, "Master, someone is here in Guangping!" ”

Zhao Dongyun was slightly stunned when he heard this, and then said, "Who is here?" ”

"It's the young master of Dongping in the third room!" The maid replied.

Zhao Dongyun's father has four brothers, Zhao's father ranks second, the third room in the mouth of this maid also refers to Zhao Dongyun's third uncle, this Dongping young master is Zhao Dongyun's second son Zhao Dongping, Zhao Dongyun vaguely remembers that this person is two years younger than his younger brother, and he should only be seventeen years old this year, why did he run from his hometown Xuzhou Guangping to Baoding at a young age?

Puzzled in his heart, Zhao Dongyun immediately ordered his subordinates to bring people in, and after a while, he saw this cousin who was still a little immature in the side hall.

This Zhao Dongping was wearing a cotton robe, his face was a little immature, and after he saw Zhao Dongyun, he immediately stepped forward to salute: "Third brother!" ”

Zhao Dongyun ranked third among a group of cousins, which was a relatively big one, and he stretched out his hand to help: "My brother, what's polite, sit down!" ”

After Zhao Dongping sat down, he took out a few letters from his arms and handed them over: "This is a letter from the second aunt and my father!" ”

Although there has been a telegram in these years, but the telegram is expensive, usually send a few words to report a peace, if you really want to say that you still have to write a letter, Zhao Dongyun took the letter, and immediately opened it and looked at it, the third uncle's letter was a little flattering, and asked himself to help Zhao Dongping find an errand, Zhao Dongyun did not feel strange after reading this.

He is now not too big or too small to be regarded as an official person, although he is only a famous school teacher, but for the people in his hometown, he is a big official of the fourth grade, and it is natural for him to find a livelihood for the children of the family.

The third uncle's letter is very simple, that is, to ask Zhao Dongyun to help Zhao Dongping find an errand for Zhao Dongping.

But what his mother's letter said made Zhao Dongyun feel a headache, because she said that her son, your life's major events can't continue to be delayed, and you have to solve it as much as possible, and said that if you don't have a favorite person here in Baoding, then she will do the right of her parents' orders and help him find a suitable woman in Xuzhou.

This letter made Zhao Dongyun smile bitterly!

In the early years of the original body, there was no doll or anything like that, and during his studies in Tianjin Wubei Academy and studying in Germany, he focused on studying and didn't care about these things, but as soon as he came back from Germany, he was robbed of his body.

And Zhao Dongyun himself, after coming to this era, his mind is full of things like controlling the new army and fighting for domination of the world, where he will think about whether he is still married!

After reading the letter, Zhao Dongyun glanced at Zhao Dongping, who was still sitting stiffly, and then said, "Your father said that I would help you find an errand, and this matter is not difficult!" Speaking of this, he paused slightly and said, "Have you ever gone to school?" ”