History has proven that in order to maintain their rule, rulers are not as stubborn and conservative as outsiders think, on the contrary, they often resort to various methods to maintain their rule, and the Qing court is no exception.

The Westernization Movement, the Hundred Days Restoration, and the subsequent New Deal reforms in the original time and space have all fully proved that the Qing court was also unwilling to sit and wait for death.

It's just that in many cases, reform will bring great damage to the original interest class, and thus be hindered in various ways, because most of the time, reform may be a good thing for the country and the nation, but it is not a good thing for the ruling class.

Now that the Qing court says that it wants to run a new army, that's it!

The imperial court wants to set up a new army, and it also wants to position this new army, which has not yet had a name, as the imperial court economic army!

Is this to abandon the soldiers of the Eight Banners? Abandon hundreds of thousands of Green Battalion soldiers?

There are also countless Manchu magnates beating their chests and pounding their feet: My Qing Dynasty is invincible in the world with cavalry and archery, and now the new army wants to get a pure firearms army? How embarrassed are you to let the ancestors who relied on cavalry to shoot into the pass two hundred years ago and plundered Shenzhou Jiuding!

Of course, these are all superficial reasons, and the reason why many Manchu magnates are dissatisfied with the new army is because it was Li Hongzhang who prepared the new army, and it was planned to recruit troops in the Jianghuai land!

Who is Li Hongzhang? Han!

Who were the soldiers he recruited in the land of Jianghuai? Han!

These two points alone are enough to make countless Manchu magnates write against the preparation of a new army!

In addition, it is not only because of these reasons that he opposes it, but also if a new army is organized, what will happen to the children of the Eight Banners in the future? The imperial court law stipulates that the children of the Eight Banners can only be soldiers and officials, and cannot farm and do business, etc., if you want to run a new army in the future, but the Eight Banners soldiers are abolished, and you let countless Eight Banners soldiers drink the northwest wind?

It was not only the Eight Banners generals who were opposed, but also those Green Battalion generals who complained out of the same fears.

Regarding the opposition of these people, Emperor Xianfeng and his confidant Qi Liaozao and others did not hesitate, but quickly announced it to the government and the opposition. In addition to recruiting soldiers to train the Jianghuai army near the Jiangnan battlefield, the imperial court will also select the best soldiers from the Beijing camp of the Eight Banners to form another army.

He also ordered the Green Battalions in all localities to follow the regulations of the New Army. The best soldiers were selected from the green battalions, and each selected soldiers to train the new army.

In other words, this time Emperor Xianfeng wants to set up a new army, not only to let Li Hongzhang form a new army, but also to start the existing Eight Banners. Among the soldiers of the Green Battalion, the new army was selected on the basis of merit.

The momentum of the imperial court to run a new army is so great that even Lin Zhe, who is far away in Shanghai, can't help but be stunned, where does this Xianfeng Emperor get so much money?

The Jianghuai New Army, the Eight Banners New Army, and the Green Battalion New Army, all at once to engage so many new troops?

He Xianfeng Emperor was not afraid of bragging, and he flashed his waist. Not to mention whether Emperor Xianfeng can solve the contradiction between the interests of all parties, it is impossible to solve the massive military expenditure alone.

The cost of running a new army, especially following Yu Shengjun's example, is huge, and Lin Zhe has worked hard to find money everywhere to pull up Yu Shengjun, who has a scale of 10,000 people. If the imperial court starts from scratch, it is estimated that there will not even be a splash if there is no million taels of silver thrown in the early stage.

But now the court is poor, the household department has not a dime, before the Jiangbei and Jiangnan battalions of more than 100,000 Qing troops relied on the Su Songtai area and northern Zhejiang's defense funds, especially the tax silver of the Jiang Customs, but now the tax silver of the Jiang Customs has been withheld by Lin Zhe, and not a dime has been given to them.

It is extremely difficult for the imperial court to mobilize military funds from other directions to supply the camps in Jiangbei and Jiangnan, and if it can still throw out millions of taels of silver at once to run a new army, unless those Manchu magnates use their own money to paste it upside down, otherwise Emperor Xianfeng is estimated to be able to resell the treasures and antiques in the Forbidden City.

Except for money. Talent is also a problem, Lin Zhe's Yu Shengjun is slowly developing, and his talents are slowly cultivated by foreign coaches, and now there are more than ten foreign instructors in the camp school alone.

Because Yu Shengjun continued to expand the army, the number of officers was required. At the same time, the requirements for officers are also relatively high, so the current school system of the Suiying School is relatively special.

After applying for the examination, the first month is a full-time study, and after the completion of one month of study, they are assigned to serve in various units, but if there is no combat duty, they have to continue to study in the camp academy on weekdays. This situation lasted for about half a year, and then it was considered a real graduation.

It is precisely with this mechanism of the camp academy that Yu Shengjun was able to obtain a certain number of officers in a short period of time, and at the same time, the abilities of these officers could continue to increase.

Maybe the imperial court will also invite foreigners to be teachers, but this takes time, don't think about becoming an army without a year or two of effort, this is still a qiēshun lì situation, if you take into account the low efficiency of the imperial court, considering the attitude of those officials towards foreigners, Lin Zhe estimates that they will train a large number of qualified basic officers, at least three or four years later.

As for the remaining guns, they are the simplest, they can buy anything if they have money, as long as they pay a high price, foreigners will come over and send a large number of foreign guns and cannons, but don't count on Mini rifles, only the British Army and Yu Shengjun are equipped with Mini rifles in batches around the world.

And one of these two is to build a new Enfield 1853 by themselves, and the other is to modify the old smoothbore guns themselves, and neither of them has a surplus production to sell to others!

It seems that I accidentally pushed the historical process forward by a big step!

Lin Zhe knew that if there was no influence from his own, the Qing court would not have made up its mind to run a new army, and anyway, the Hunan army could destroy the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but he was so arrogant in his recent time, and even shot Gil Hang'a, he almost directly and publicly said that he planned to rebel.

Later, instead of punishing him, the imperial court added him to the rank of knight, Lin Zhe could guess that this was a delaying plan of the imperial court, and it is estimated that now Emperor Xianfeng is eager to swallow himself alive.

Lin Zhe even guessed that it should not be a secret that he wanted to rebel, but everyone didn't dare to say it and expose this skin.

But that's okay, the court doesn't dare to force him to rebel now, Lin Zhe is also short of strength for the time being, although he has expanded the army by 10,000 people, but half of them are still in the recruit training period, but the battle soldiers are still only 5,000, only when his 5,000 recruits are trained and have tens of thousands of troops, Lin Zhe's confidence will be more sufficient.

Now. Continuing to maintain the superficial layer of skin is the best choice for both parties.

The imperial court vigorously said that it was going to run a new army, what to do, and how to do it, let's not talk about it. Lin Zhe in Shanghai was not idle, recruiting new soldiers, buying guns and expanding the army, not to mention.

In recent days, Lin Zhe has focused on the business and trade zone, Shanghai County, Jianghaiguan and other affairs, with the dismissal of Gil Hang'a, the previous Shanghai county order is naturally reinstated. Although this Shanghai county is not from Yu Shengjun, but people are smart enough, they have long known that Lin Zhe is the overlord of Shanghai, and they have taken refuge in Lin Zhe early, Lin Zhe said that he never said two.

The officials of Jiang Customs who came in from Gilhang Asai were also cleared one by one, and the officials under his hands were also reinstated one by one, and more importantly, Lin Zhe still held the tax silver of the old customs at the east gate of Jiang Customs and the rated tax silver of 60,000 taels of the new customs in the business and trade zone!

For this reason, the newly appointed governor of Jiangsu, Huang Zonghan, came to meet Lin Zhe before going to Suzhou.

Huang Zonghan was transferred to Jiangsu as governor, which was also a well-intentioned move of Emperor Xianfeng. Who is Huang Zonghan? He is the first person to promote and reuse Lin Zhe, without the support of Huang Zonghan at the beginning, Lin Zhe's Yu Shengjun would not have been able to reach this point at all, and it is not an exaggeration to say that Huang Zonghan is Lin Zhe's Bole.

So Lin Zhe can not give face to Gilhang'a, but he can't not give Huang Zonghan face, otherwise he will be ungrateful.

Otherwise, Huang Zonghan did a good job in Zhejiang, and he would not come to Jiangsu to take office, you must know that the governor of Jiangsu in this year is not a good position.

From last year 1853 to now, just over a year. Four governors of Jiangsu have been replaced, and the three governors in front of Huang Zonghan have all ended up tragically.

The first Yang Wending, who was dismissed and arrested for trapping Jiangning and Zhenjiang, was sentenced to a big deal. That is, the death penalty of beheading, although it has not been executed now, but it is still in prison and may be executed at any time.

The second Xu Naizhao died in battle when the Taiping army captured Suzhou, in fact, if he had not died in battle. With his great achievements of burying nearly 10,000 troops, so that Zhenjiang, Changzhou, and Suzhou were trapped, it is estimated that he was killed by the imperial court in the footsteps of Yang Wending.

The third Gilhanga, this one is even more tragic, he has only been in office for a month, that is, he was dismissed and arrested because of the conflict with Lin Zhe, although he has not been formally convicted at the moment, but the end is estimated to be no better, not to mention anything else, just forcing Lin Zhe to almost rebel This article is enough for him to die ten times eight times.

What's even more tragic is that Gilhanga came to Shanghai to check the tax and silver of the Jiang Customs and Trade Zone and fight with Lin Zhe, which was completely at the will of the imperial court, and as a result, Emperor Xianfeng slashed the big knife at this unlucky guy in order to appease Lin Zhe.

The fourth is Huang Zonghan, as for the outcome of this person in the future, it depends on when Lin Zhe officially raises the flag and rebels.

Huang Zonghan obviously did his homework before coming to Shanghai, when he came to Jiangsu, he took up his post with more than 3,000 Fubiao battalions, but these 3,000 people were sent directly by him to Suzhou to fight against the Taiping army, while he himself only brought a dozen followers to Shanghai.

He was also quite polite to Lin Zhe during his conversation with Lin Zhe, not claiming to be a benefactor or boss, nor exerting obvious coercion, but talking about some trivial things, and talking about how to exterminate the Taiping Army, he invited Yu Shengjun to fight side by side with the green battalion under his command, and marched west from Suzhou to recover Changzhou Mansion and force the thief army back to Zhenjiang!

Although Lin Zhe did not agree, he still gave Huang Zonghan more face.

In the face of Huang Zonghan's request to return the Jianghai tariff silver, Lin Zhe said that there was some chaos some time ago, and the tax and silver were greatly reduced, but if he encouraged him to borrow money, he could still pull out 20,000 taels of silver to the governor's yamen.

If it weren't for Huang Zonghan to talk in person, Lin Zhe wouldn't have given a dime, but since Huang Zonghan was here, and he also needed time to accumulate strength, he was relieved and gave Huang Zonghan 20,000 taels of silver.

As for more, Huang Zonghan is naturally not satisfied with this, you must know that even when Xu Naizhao and Lin Zhe reached an agreement, the governor of Jiangsu, Yamen, was able to get about ** thousand taels of silver per month from Jiang Customs, but now they were all detained by Lin Zhe, but they were only given 20,000 taels at one time, and they may not be given next month.

But Huang Zonghan knew what his mission was in Shanghai, he didn't come to provoke Lin Zhe, he came to appease Lin Zhe, so he didn't put on a face.

The conversation between the two can be regarded as a very happy conversation, but after Huang Zonghan left Shanghai, he sighed: "A beautiful woman, why be a thief!" (To be continued.) )

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