In the early summer of Jiachen, the snow that had melted a few months ago had already melted, and even the spring cold had passed away, and the people on the streets had already changed into cool and light clothes with the south wind coming overnight.

However, in the Third Town Headquarters, among the people who came and went, especially a group of officers, most of them were still wearing a coat, especially those who were waiting for Zhao Dongyun to meet a few officers, in order not to lose their honor in front of Zhao Dongyun, they were all wearing a full set of officer dresses.

Zhao Dongzhi's forehead was also slightly sweaty, and after taking out a handkerchief and gently wiping his forehead, he also looked at several other people in the waiting room, one of them sitting opposite him was about the same age as him, only about twenty-two or three, and the epaulettes and armbands on his head indicated his identity as an infantry platoon commander.

And at the head of the young deputy military academy, there is an assistant staff leader who is about thirty-five or sixteen years old, and the rank of major is about to be changed to the military rank of later generations, this person Zhao Dongzhi knows a little, named Lu Jiantang, who was born in Tianjin in the early years of Wubeisheng, and is now the assistant director of the Supervision and Exercise Office.

At the top left of Zhao Dongzhi sat a regular military academy with red epaulettes and collar badges indicating his class and the unit to which he belonged, this person was an infantry officer, and then he was also an artillery officer who was also a regular military academy.

Now the military uniforms and rank identification of these people have been much more perfect than before, just like the military uniforms, last year Zhao Dongyun deeply felt that the military ranks of the troops belonging to them in the anti-bandit operation were not much different, causing a great obstacle to the command, so at that time he also proposed to Yuan Shikai to improve the military rank system, of course, this is not Zhao Dongyun proposed and perfected, in fact, Yuan Shikai was already engaged in these things, and now with Zhao Dongyun's influence, it is only a few months in advance.

Therefore, in May, the latest military uniforms, military ranks, and establishment of a series of regulations for the formation and training of the new army in the country, formally stipulate the military rank system, officers are three classes and nine levels are superior, medium, and secondary, and each class is divided into three levels, at this time the new army ranks and Western-style military ranks are roughly similar, the specific comparison is: Zhengdu Tong (general), deputy commander (lieutenant general), Xiedutong (major general), chief staff leader (colonel), deputy staff leader (lieutenant colonel), assistant staff leader (major), military academy (captain), deputy military academy (lieutenant), Allied Military Academy (Second Lieutenant). In addition, there are 'extra officers' (warrant officers) under the regular officers, as well as non-commissioned officers of the third class, which are sergeant, sergeant, and corporal.

In addition, it is worth noting that at the end of the Qing Dynasty, the New Army, especially the Beiyang New Army, adopted a strict position of one officer, which can be said to have a position first and then have a matching military rank.

At the same time, it is worth mentioning that the official ranks of military attachés, especially officers of the New Army, in the late Qing Dynasty were rather chaotic and complicated.

Taking Zhao Dongyun as an example, the 'Alternate Daoist of Zhili' is his own official, the 'plus second rank' is his official rank, the third town commander and the Jinzhou patrol battalion supervisor are his dispatches, and the second-rank/deputy commander is his new army rank.

In addition, there is also the line of 'Getong Governor and Governor concurrently serve as the squire of the military department, and he is the second product'. However, this line of words does not have practical significance, Getong means that the officer is treated as an official of a certain level, simply put, in some treatment and etiquette, Zhao Dongyun can be treated as a governor, governor and military department attendant, but it does not mean that Zhao Dongyun is the governor and governor and military department attendant.

Similarly, in the series of complex official titles of Zhao Dongyun, it can be seen how influential the political system of the new army in the late Qing Dynasty was.

If you don't consider Zhao Dongyun's age and qualifications, then if the imperial court considers promoting him to a level after a few years in office, it is estimated that he will serve as the governor of a province if he is unlucky, and in terms of the sphere of influence that the Beiyang system can control, it is either the governor of Jiangbei or the governor of several northern provinces, but now the new army is the most important, whether it is Yuan Shikai or the imperial court, neither Yuan Shikai nor the imperial court will transfer a young and promising new army officer to a certain province to serve as the commander to lead the green battalion and the defense army.

Therefore, the most likely thing is to continue to serve as the chief envoy of a certain division of the training department as the commander of the third town, such as Duan Qirui, who concurrently serves as the chief envoy of the military order department of the training department as the commander of the fourth town.

If the character is bursting and the operation is good, then you can be able to serve as a provincial governor with the title of Jiashilang, and after a few years as governor, you will be able to watch one of the nine governors like Yuan Shikai.

Of course, the above possibilities are too small, let's not talk about it for the time being, according to the practice of officialdom in the late Qing Dynasty and the influence of Beiyang, the most likely thing for Zhao Dongyun in the future is to add a part-time errand with Duan Qirui in the military training department, and then add a military squire or something, and the actual promotion is unlikely.

However, just the hope of being the governor and governor is enough for countless officials, and I have to say that the advantage in Beiyang is too great this year, as long as you have the ability, the promotion speed is very fast, and the most important thing is that the road has even been paved in front of you.

Don't worry about what kind of middle and lower class you are and have no interpersonal relationships, let alone don't worry that the Manchu nobles don't like you, as long as your ability is valued by Yuan Shikai, and Yuan Shikai also trusts you, then it is not uncommon for any provincial governor or even several provincial governors.

In the historical Beiyang New Army system, from the rise in 1900 to the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1911, in addition to Yuan Shikai, the leading boss, there was a Xu Shichang, who had been the governor of the three eastern provinces and served as a number of scholars, Duan Zhigui, who had served as the governor of Heilongjiang and the acting governor of Huguang, Jiang Guidi, who once served as the governor of Zhili during the Xuantong period, and Liu Yongqing, Feng Guozhang and others took turns to sit in the position of Jiangbei Governor.

In the early and middle stages of the rise of the new Beiyang system, a group of Beiyang bigwigs were quite extravagant.

Among this group of bigwigs, although Zhao Dongyun is the youngest and has the least qualifications, he can barely step into the ranks of the bigwigs, plus Zhao Dongyun has vigorously attracted the officers of the Shaozhuang faction and the officers of the study abroad faction in recent years, and has formed a faction with the officers of the Shaozhuang faction and the study abroad faction as the core, although the faction is far less influential than Duan Qirui, Wang Yingkai and others, but it is supported by a third town, so it is not too bad, at least in many conflicts of interest can make their own voice.

Zhao Dongyun, who is barely one of the bigwigs in Beiyang, has been relatively nourishing recently, especially after the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War in 1904, his status in Beiyang and in China has risen sharply.

After the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War, many people who studied abroad even returned to China directly to find Zhao Dongyun's subordinates and wanted to join the army.

However, unlike many other people who returned to China to join the army after entering foreign military academies, although Zhao Dongzhi only returned to China last month, he did not study military affairs!

He only went to Japan to study after the Gengzi year, but he didn't study the military, but a self-financed student who studied medicine, and went to Japan to go to a local middle school in Japan, and failed to apply for Kyoto Imperial University last year and was forced to return to China.

The famous universities in the early stage, such as Tokyo Imperial University and Kyoto Imperial University, were all famous schools in Japan, and the difficulty of applying for Lu Shi and Navy was about the same, and among those many international students in China in the late Qing Dynasty, there were basically not many people who could be admitted to the Japanese Imperial University and Lu Shi, and they basically studied in some local schools, and some were not even universities. It's just that I went to middle school like this with Zhao Dongzhi......

Therefore, during the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, don't think that students studying in Japan are very good, in fact, there are only those international students from famous schools, such as graduates of several imperial universities or Lushi, and most of them are vulgar people, many of them have been staying in language schools like Zhenwu School for several years, and it is estimated that they have not even learned Japanese after returning to China in two or three years.

Zhao Dongzhi is the second son of the Zhao family, one year younger than Zhao Dongyun, and the fourth among Zhao's many cousins.

Zhao Dongyun returned to China after Gengzi years, although he was not developed at that time, but he was considered to have entered the Beiyang system, at that time he persuaded his mother to send his younger brother Zhao Dongquan to study abroad, because he was not an official derivation, it was difficult to enter famous schools in Europe and the United States, especially military schools, so he chose to go to Japan, first to Japan, to study in middle school for a few years, and then try to apply for several imperial universities or Lushi in Japan.

At that time, Zhao Dongzhi was also sent by the long house, so the two brothers went to Japan to study together, and today, a few years later, although Zhao Dongyun's younger brother Zhao Dongquan was not able to be admitted to the Japanese Lushi as Zhao Dongyun expected, nor was he admitted to one of the two imperial universities, but he was finally admitted to Waseda University, which had just been established for a few years, and studied at the School of Economics.

Because Zhao Dongquan was only admitted to a private university that had just been established for a short time, this made Zhao Dongyun quite disappointed, and at the beginning of the year, he even wanted to take his younger brother Zhao Dongquan back to China, first study in the Beiyang Army Accelerated Military Preparation School, and then send him to Lu Shi to study in a few years, but considering that Zhao Dongyun is not young, it is estimated that he will have to return to China after five or six years to join the military circles, and Zhao Dongquan himself called to say that he wanted to study politics and economics, and he was not interested in joining the army.

So I dispelled this idea, so at the beginning of the year, only Zhao Dongzhi, who was not admitted to any university, returned to China, and Zhao Dongquan went to Waseda University this year.

If Zhao Dongzhi's resume is more vague, this will be put on the encyclopedia of later generations as a student studying in Japan, and he can pretend to be an elite in a serious way, but in fact, he is only a high school graduate......