Yuan Shikai was currently in charge of the Qing Army's Camp Office, followed Wu Changqing's troops east to Korea, and then led his old troops to cooperate with the operation, killing dozens of participants in the Renwu Military Rebellion. During the battle, Yuan Shikai put his gun all the way and took the lead in rushing to the front, his perseverance and bravery infected his subordinates, and the mutiny was quickly quelled. Wu Changqing praised him in his report to the Qing court, saying that he "governed the army strictly, made good arrangements, fought to attack and suppress first, and was particularly brave", and repaid the first credit. Yuan Shikai, who was 23 years old at the time, was stationed in the vassal state of Korea as an assistant to the DPRK military affairs to assist the DPRK in training the new army.

Wang Yi took Yuan Shikai's information, and said in his heart, Yuan Datou has also appeared now.

"The captain seems to care about this man." Wu Xiaozheng was opposite him, and there was also Deputy Chief of Staff Wang Xiaoxiao next to him.

"I've heard that he made a poem when he was a child, but he can't remember all of it, only one of them, 'Dayno Dragon Fang sting, Central Plains Lu is fat.'" ”

"Ahh Wu Xiao said with a smile.

"Yes, it's not an ordinary person!" The king nodded. "This person is also capable, and he can't talk nonsense."

"Do you want to bring him over?" Wang Xiao said with a smile.

"Recruit him? Forget it, there are a group of Qing Dynasty officials behind him, his uncle Yuan Jiasan is the governor of Caoyun, his father Yuan Baozhong is a local gentry, and his uncle Yuan Baoqing is the Jiangnan Salt Patrol Road. We are a group of ordinary people, and we can't pee in a pot with him, don't bother with that. Wang Yi shook his head in denial.

"That's my opinion, too." Wu Xiao nodded in agreement, he believed in the students trained by the Dashang Army Non-commissioned Officer School and the Navy Non-commissioned Officer School.

A few people mentioned Yuan Shikai a few words, and then moved on to other things.

However, at this time in North Korea, Yuan Shikai was more concerned about the insurance team of Dashang. Today, he specially invited Jin Zhiying and Xi Benxiong to dinner, and according to Xi Benxiong's wishes, he simply didn't come, but he still listened to Jin Zhiying's persuasion. After all, in North Korea, building good relations with the Qing army is also one of the tasks of the Great Business.

Yuan Shikai is only in his twenties now, has read, is educated, and is a bold person. It's not tall, but it doesn't have a lot of momentum. When he was studying in Beijing, Li Hongzhang was serving as governor of Zhili. For Lee's prominent position, I can't admire it. Under the influence of the Westernist school's idea of "training troops to be strong," he "read military books well," "paid attention to current affairs," often made military arguments, and talked extravagantly about military training "inside and outside."

Yuan Baoling was quite appreciative of his discussion, and couldn't help but say that the Yuan family "has a lot of heirs, and they can also be comforted". Due to the above reasons, after Yuan Shikai's hopes in the field were dashed, he burned his poems and essays, determined to emulate Li Hongzhang's Huai army. He said: "The eldest husband should serve the field, and he should be safe inside and outside, how can he be filthy and trapped in the pen and inkstone for a long time." At that time, most of Li Hongzhang's shogunate were from people or jinshi. Yuan Shikai was only an unknown tribute, so he did not defect directly to Li, but in May 1881, he led "dozens of people from his old family" to Dengzhou, Shandong, and defected to Wu Changqing, the commander of the Huai army.

Wu Changqing and Yuan Baoqing "order brothers". When Yuan Baoqing was in Nanjing, Wu Changqing led troops to be stationed in Pukou, and the two had a close relationship. When Yuan Baoqing died, Wu Changqing crossed the river to see the coffin, "holding the coffin and crying bitterly" to help take care of the funeral. Therefore, when Yuan Shikai came to Dengzhou, Wu Changqing not only "believed it", was willing to take it in, prepared to take care of it, and then promoted and reused.

It is precisely because he took the right path that Yuan Shikai now has a way to soar. He is observant, delicate, and does not rub sand in his eyes. Originally, he had heard of the name of Dashang, but he didn't care about it, but after arriving in North Korea, he really discovered the difference of Dashang. Compared with others, his own soldiers are too much worse. On that day, Jin Zhiying and Xi Benxiong visited Wu Changqing, Ding Ruchang, Ma Jianzhong, and Yuan Shikai's status could not accompany each other in the camp tent, but he saw the big merchant guards outside the camp gate from a distance in the barracks. He liked it immediately, and he wanted to get them all under his command, and of course, he knew that he was purely daydreaming.

Because of the momentum on the Dashang guards, the people around them were very uncomfortable, even if they were very ordinary, but the others could still feel a heavy coercion. Therefore, whether it was the Qing soldiers guarding the camp gate or the Korean people passing by nearby, they all consciously distanced themselves from the escorts. But Yuan Shikai is a very person after all, after thinking about it, he went to his barracks, found his subordinates to boil a pot of tea, and after it was slightly cool, he walked out with a bunch of large bowls. When they met, they smiled and couldn't see the official frame at all, and said: "Brothers, it's hot, get off the horse and drink tea." ”

The leader of the escort team, named Pan Feng, also smiled when he saw Yuan Shikai like this, and hugged his wrist on the horse and said, "Thank you!" ”

Yuan Shikai was very happy to see that people didn't refuse, but he just watched the posture of people drinking water...... It is really different, ten people dismount to drink water, thirty people to guard, and when these ten people finish drinking, it is the turn of the next ten people to dismount and drink water, and the ten people who drank water before get on the horse to escort.

Yuan Shikai nodded secretly, and said in his heart, look at the training of other people's soldiers, it is really a fairy fart, extraordinary! And he also discovered another point, that is, immediately each guard only focused on a specific direction, apparently giving his back to his comrades.

"What a soldier!"

With this pot of tea, Yuan Shikai also talked to Pan Feng.

"Who's my brother?"

"Mukden!"

"Do you have any brothers at home?" Yuan asked with a big head.

"Yes, I have a younger brother and a younger sister, and they are all studying in the school affiliated to Dashang."

"Girls are in school too?" Lao Yuan has never seen this kind of thing.

Pan Feng nodded and said, "Our boys and girls all study, starting at the age of six or seven. In the early years, the chairman also bought students into the school and signed deeds of sale, but now parents are lining up to send their children inside. Of course, although they are in the same school, the boy and the girl do not attend classes together on weekdays. ”

"Can the girl keep up?" Yuan Shikai hadn't heard of this, so he was very curious.

"Can you keep up? I don't know about other people's families, anyway, my little sister is much better than my younger brother, it is said that he can easily be admitted to the high school affiliated to our big business, and my brother said twice, it is likely that after graduating from junior high school, he will go to work in the factory. ”

Yuan Shikai thought in his heart, Dashang really has all kinds of strange things.

"I heard that there are a lot of foreigners over there?"

Pan Feng nodded and said, "Many!" Citigroup, German, English, French, Austro-Hungarian, ......"

"Heh, my brother knows a lot!" Yuan Shikai was secretly surprised, to be honest, he didn't know anything about foreign countries before. If it weren't for the fact that when he was in Beijing, he felt that the Westernization Movement started by Li Hongzhang was a way to save the country and strengthen the country, and he carefully looked for a book and read it, otherwise he probably wouldn't know most of the countries Pan Feng talked about, except for a few people.

"I didn't expect you to have such knowledge, brother, my little brother is really ashamed." Yuan Shikai was sincere when he said this.

After hearing this, Pan Feng laughed and said, "This brother, these things of mine are well-known in Dashang, so what is there to be ashamed of. When we have nothing to do, in the afternoon or evening, a teacher will come to teach us. ”

"Oh? Why is that? ”

"I didn't know it myself, but then the teacher said that there must be a goal in the war, so that everyone can think together and work together. And if the soldiers are illiterate and don't read, the leader can only tempt them with money and beauty, but you can give these things, and others can also give them, so later everyone actually has no goal. But the soldiers have read the book and know the reason, so it is different. We know our place in the world, we know the goal of the chairman, we know that if we don't work hard, our parents, wives and children will be punished and bullied by foreigners......"

Pan Feng said it was actually very fragmentary, but Yuan Shikai understood it, and the shock in his heart was beyond measure.

"Listening to your words is better than reading for ten years. Chaowen said, you can die at night! The brother's name is Yuan Shikai, the word is Weiting, dare to ask the eldest brother's surname? ”

Pan Feng was stunned for a moment, and then smiled and said: "I can't call it a noble word, my name is Pan Feng, there is no word, but the brothers all call me Fengzi." ”

From this day on, Yuan Shikai became friends with Pan Feng. Of course, friends are friends, but Pan Feng has always been tight-lipped about the internal secrets of big businessmen. Although Yuan Shikai is young, he is not so reckless. When the people who followed the big businessmen mixed together, most of the time they talked about some new things inside the big business, such as telephones, trains, and other novelties that Yuan Shikai had never heard of or seen.

Recently, he invited two leading figures of Dashang in North Korea to dinner, also to make friends. However, Kim Zhiying and Xi Benxiong really agreed, which made him overjoyed.

"Thank you Manager Jin and Camp Commander Xi for appreciating their faces, and under Yuan Shikai, I gave the two of you a gift."

"Yo, we don't dare to do that. Lord Yuan, you are a big member of the imperial court, and we Dashang are just grass people. If Lord Yuan doesn't dislike it, just call it a brother by name. Call us managers and battalion commanders, that's really unacceptable. Kim Sik Young said with a smile.

Yuan Shikai was stunned for a moment, and when he thought about it, he said: "Brother Jin, Brother Xi." ”

"Look at how good this is, and it's nice to listen to."

The place where everyone eats is an old Korean restaurant, Haeunjeong, and the food inside tastes good.

Yuan Shikai smiled at this time: "Hey...... What do you say about things on the North Korean side, except for kimchi, that is, kimchi, and when you eat a meal, you can put a small bowl on the table, but there is really not much of it. ”

"I guess it's also for the sake of savings, so I will arrange it like this." Kim Sik Young said casually.

"That's exactly what I think is." Yuan Shikai is very talkative, a group of people sit together, and he is also active in the atmosphere. Speaking of which, he finally got to the point and said, "Today, the little brother invites you to dinner, in fact, there is also a matter of asking for something. ”

"Please."

"That's right, I saw that the brothers of the insurance team were extraordinary, and I admired them very much. I don't know if any of you can spare time to teach in our camp and help train the soldiers, my little brother has his own gratitude! ”