More than a month has passed since the new training method officially began, and the entire elite army has gradually begun to adapt to this new training or teaching mode.

Because this teaching method is only a theoretical thing that Li Yongji and Zhang Xinda have concocted based on the information of later generations, and no one has ever really used it, and the military foundation of these Qing Dynasty people is very thin, so there are many problems in the process of practice.

The cultural class and the first aid class are the least problematic, which may be related to the relatively small danger, but because these two courses have to be memorized, and they have to write homework after class, and even have to take exams, and if they don't do well, they will be punished, so after spending the freshness at the beginning, they soon began to have laziness and disgust with learning, and had to re-sacrifice sharp weapons such as whips and sticks to maintain classroom discipline and enthusiasm for learning.

Compared with the cultural class and the first aid class, there are more problems in other courses.

For example, it is common to distinguish between left and right in the procession, even if the red sleeves are added to distinguish and the leather whip and stick are supervised, it took more than half a month for everyone to get used to it.

The same is true for the bayonet fighting project in the drill class, when the bayonet is fought collectively, someone often mishears the password, and as a result, the bayonet is stabbed elsewhere, causing others to be injured or making the whole team jump and jump, and when practicing the bayonet with a wooden stick, there are often people who miss their hands and the other party is injured.

Another example is the shooting class, even the Sharps and Colt Navy revolvers are rear-loading guns, and they are all fixed-loading bullets, but at the beginning, there were frequent accidental injuries, but fortunately, due to the good protection measures in advance, no lives have occurred, but it has contributed to the birth of new regulations for shooting training. That is, to formulate a strict shooting process, everyone must first learn shooting theory, and then follow the process of loading and aiming at the shot, when a person shoots, there must be someone next to him to supervise the study, in short, it is to cultivate shooting habits first, and then talk about others.

Although the total number of casualties in the cavalry class was relatively small, the proportion was the highest, mainly because Wang Sanwu was too eager to succeed and the way of training cavalry was too rough, which caused many people to fall from their horses and be injured at the beginning. And the only two fatal incidents in the Jingwu Army also appeared in the cavalry company, and they all fell from their horses and died.

However, after Li Yongji carefully assessed the problem of cavalry training, he found that the horse fall incident was not because of the problem of the training draft itself, but the main problem was that Wang Sanwu was in a hurry, after all, this group of young men who studied cavalry had never ridden horses much in the past, and at most those who had ridden mules and donkeys were two different things from riding horses, so if we wanted to reduce casualties, we could only reduce the intensity of training and strengthen more theoretical education.

In addition, coupled with the attrition of frostbite and cold due to the cold weather, more than 50 people were abnormally reduced at the beginning of the training, but fortunately, because of proper protection, the later care and medicines were kept up in time, and the loss was not too big.

Of course, the most important thing is that this group of people has signed a contract to sell themselves, stating that once they join the elite army, whether they live or die, their families cannot be held accountable, otherwise, in modern society, this kind of casualty can already make a school close down immediately.

You must know that most of the soldiers in the Jingwu Army are not unconcerned vagrants, but nearby homesteaders or wealthy tenant farmers, and only with such a background can they pass the test when they were selected at the beginning, after all, being familiar with 300,000 is not something that a poor person with nothing can afford, and height usually means nutrition, at least a full meal, so those who can be more than 1.65 meters tall are often also well-fed.

Although there are many problems, with the efforts of Li Yongji and others, especially the emergence of Li Yongji's full material support and newer and stricter additional discipline, these abnormal casualties have been rapidly reduced, and the time for everyone to adapt has become shorter.

The so-called material support is mainly due to Li Yongji's reduction of some economic tonnage, that is, the inversion of gold and jewelry and other things, and the increase in the tonnage of supply materials.

In order to make good use of each crossing tonnage, but also subtract the exchange of copper coins and gold, and only put pearls and collect jadeite in the Qing Dynasty in the future, that is to say, mainly support Dai Mengde Jewelry Company, CITIC Money Bank temporarily gave up the measure of collecting gold at a high price, first do normal business, and then talk about it for a period of time.

Li Yongji did this, making it clear that he wanted to go up to the pearl and the business of buying jadeite, and he wanted Qingpu to form a whirlpool, and gradually monopolize the pearl business and the jadeite purchase business in the surrounding area, so as to make huge profits in the early stage.

According to Zhang Xinda, the price of jadeite in modern society is rising, the selling price is good, on the contrary, the price of gold has been falling sharply, and he has found a large jewelry company in South Africa, which can purchase jade agate and other jade products in unlimited quantities and regardless of the source, and the price will follow the market, and the auction house can be taken for him, which is very cost-effective.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that Li Yongji and Zhang Xinda's jade smuggling volume is too small, and it is not able to impact the jade market in modern society. For example, the inversion of modern cultured pearls, modern stainless steel jewelry and Qing Dynasty jade is currently the most cost-effective and profitable inverted method, and at present, the market is very large. Compared with these, what gold and bronze ware, the profit is much less, from the point of view that the purchase of modern materials requires modern money, it is more reliable to get pearls and jade first.

The empty tonnage has become modern supplies, for example, because of the cold weather, the number of color steel houses has been increased, and cotton clothes and quilts, antifreeze paste and other items have been added.

As for heating, they did not purchase heating stoves or coal fuel oil from modern times, but made the kind of earthen fire kang in modern rural areas, burning nearby firewood, which was to reduce tonnage consumption, after all, Li Yongji and Zhang Xinda are now very tight every day, and they can't waste it, so they don't need to do it from modern times.

Moreover, because the firewood was purchased with silver from a nearby village, and even hired many of them to make a special fire, it was also possible for the people of that village to earn a few more livelihoods, which was a happy thing.

In order to maintain the general caloric consumption of soldiers in training and study, it is unrealistic to transport meat, Li Yongji's method is to purchase brown sugar, chili pepper and vegetable oil from Zhang Xinda, plus domestic vitamin supplement tablets, so that the soldiers can eat a large number of sugar oil chili peppers and vitamin tablets, almost all of the dishes are oil and sugar and chili peppers, but this group of Qingpu people ate the recipes of later generations of Shanghainese in advance.

In terms of gunpowder consumption, fortunately, the ammunition used is the potassium perchlorate gunpowder of the modern firecracker factory, and the bullet is lead bullet, plus oil paper, which is cheap and sufficient, and the weight is small, which allows the Jingwu Army to maintain three to four classes of live-fire training every day, after all, even if it is consumed, the tonnage of ammunition required by the Jingwu Army per day is less than three tons, which is not a big problem.

Of course, the tonnage of ammunition is only one aspect of the problem, and the biggest problem is the production of munitions; for this reason, Zhang Xinda has long acquired a firecracker factory in China and three small and medium-sized machinery foundries, all of which are township enterprises with relatively loose supervision, specializing in the production of customized paper shells, solid artillery shells, scattered bombs, and other ammunition in the name of producing handicrafts. The same is true for firearms, which are specially purchased with CNC machine tools and special molds, and directly processed and produced by modern steel, all of which are streamlined operations.

Ammunition aside, as for the guns, they are simply produced parts, and then they are sold in the name of a South African company, and these parts are exported individually. The parts themselves are not prohibited, but once assembled, they are formed firearms. Similarly, ammunition is also exported to South Africa in the name of firecrackers, which is not a problem.

However, this process is very time-consuming, so the batch of firearms provided to Li Yongji before are all assembled in China, and because large machine tools have not been used, they are all processed in small workshops, the quality is not good, and the price is quite high. However, as long as the guns do not flow out of the market and are discovered, then the general government departments will not simply check what many township enterprises are doing, and the so-called black market guns are mostly reversely investigated from the field of circulation.

Of course, this is not a long-term solution, so Zhang Xinda wanted to engage in a South African company, and bought three domestic foundries, which only produce different spare parts, and only export spare parts. As long as it is not assembled into weapons in the country, there is no problem with the export of spare parts and simple ammunition. Since the parts are standard, it is no problem to reassemble the parts at the factory in South Africa.

The material support has completely kept up, and the discipline of the barracks has also been constantly improved, or strict, and the reason for the stricter discipline is related to the personal quality of the cadets, or the soldiers, and the fading enthusiasm for learning.

At the beginning of the formal training, everyone was still enthusiastic because of curiosity, but because the training intensity was very high, and the personnel were uneven, it only started two weeks, and some people were tired of learning.

Moreover, the people of the Qing Dynasty in this era, don't expect to have a high level of personal quality, even if they were ordered at the beginning and the toilet had already been prepared in advance, but spitting, and even open defecation were repeatedly prohibited. In addition, incidents of stealing chickens and dogs and private fights are also endless, and there is even a vicious incident of three people stealing guns and horses and trying to escape from the camp in a muddle.

In view of this, as soon as Li Yongji discussed with Wang Sanwu, Zhang Wei, and others, he specially selected a group of young and highly conscious people from the ranks to set up a discipline picket team, and these people wore red hats and held red notebooks, and walked around every day to randomly check the discipline of the troops.

With the introduction of discipline supervisors, the content of training discipline has also been revised, and the new training discipline has strengthened the punishment and placed great emphasis on overall punishment. To put it simply, if a person makes a mistake, if he is discovered by the discipline picket, the first mistake, the whole squad will suffer, and it will be recorded, the second time he makes the same mistake, the whole platoon will suffer, the third time he makes the same mistake, the whole company will suffer, if the same mistake is made for the fourth time, the prisoner will be directly killed in public, and the whole company will be beaten with 30 sticks!

This makes it clear that it is necessary to use strict punishment and strict laws to restrain you, and as soon as this policy is introduced, the atmosphere of the army immediately improves, and many times people who do not need to discipline pickets find out that if you want to make a mistake, your commander or companion will immediately stop it, and if you dare not listen, a group of people will immediately come and beat you, and you will not be able to get out of bed first.

According to the new regulations, this is an accidental injury, and if the same accidental injury occurs three times in a row, it will be demoted to a baggage unit, and the treatment will be greatly reduced.

In addition to the harsh punishment law, in order to relieve the tense nerves, some positive items have also been added, specifically six main points:

First, Li Yongji installed loudspeakers around the barracks and began to play modified classic songs of later generations.

Second, Li Yongji began to take part of the time to take advantage of the opportunity of the evening class to give lectures or speeches on a tour to personally answer difficult questions for everyone, which not only solved everyone's problems, but also increased his exposure and affinity, so that everyone recognized him more as a leader.

Third, big-character posters were posted in conspicuous places all over the barracks, saying that what is not abandoned or given up, and what unity is strength, courage in public war, cowardice in private fighting, hygiene and politeness, and so on, and constantly preaching that this is the spirit of the elite martial arts, and everyone should keep in mind that it should subtly arouse the soldiers' positive competitive psychology.

Fourth, a batch of bamboo armor filled with cotton was ordered from modern times, and American football was started. Generally, every two weeks, there is a competition between the whole army and the company, and the winner will be richly rewarded. Rugby usually does not need special training, only when you are on the field, you can just hit and rush, in order to vent everyone's energy and anger, and cultivate everyone's martial and offensive spirit.

Fifth, every Sunday night there will be a bonfire party, at which a large amount of meat and liquor will be served, that is, everyone can drink, during which there will be a company singing party, and you can also sing and dance, and completely indulge.

Sixth, in the future, you can invite the troupe to come in and perform opera for everyone, and the time is generally once a month, but this invitation to the troupe is just a plan, and it has not been officially implemented.

In addition, in terms of the payment of soldiers' salaries, because soldiers could not leave the barracks, all food and accommodation were covered by the barracks, and there was nowhere to spend the money, so Li Yongji specially issued small bank tickets. That is, each soldier was given a kraft paper passbook.

This kind of passbook is a small book made of kraft paper like a later passbook, with your name and handprint on it, in triplicate, one for yourself, one for the barracks, and one for CITIC Qianzhuang.

When it is time to pay the salary, you take your passbook to the quartermaster office and have someone stamp stamped, and at the same time you put a handprint on the copy of the quartermaster office to indicate that you have received the money.

However, this money is only on paper, if you want to get real money, you also need to take the passbook and the certificate issued by the Quartermaster Department, go to CITIC Money Bank to withdraw money, and then CITIC Money Bank will truthfully release the money and make your withdrawal records.

In addition, if you are unable to leave the barracks but want to send money to your family, you can also go directly to the Quartermaster Office, write down the amount to be remitted, and ask the Quartermaster Department to issue a remittance slip to CITIC Bank, and then ask someone from CITIC Money Bank to send someone to deliver the money to your family.

Naturally, according to the distance of the journey, this will charge a certain amount of errand fees, and the errand fee is not charged according to the proportion of your deposit, but a fixed fee according to the distance of the journey, so it is better to save more money and send it to your family at one time.

There is no doubt that although this new method of payment of salaries is complicated, it has received the payment of military salaries to CITIC Money, and has put an end to the phenomenon of layers of deductions. And this also has a buffer, so you don't have to pay a lot of real money on time and in accordance every month, after all, not every soldier needs to withdraw money every month.

In addition, this also prompted another fashionable behavior, that is, writing family letters.

Since they could not leave the barracks without permission before the end of the training, that is, they could not go home, but most of these soldiers had families, in order to reduce the feeling of longing, Li Yongji specially stipulated that each person could write a letter to his family every month.

When the time comes, you can send this letter to CITIC Money through the logistics staff of the Jingwu Army, along with the remittance slip, and then use the network of CITIC Money to send the letter and real money to your family. Moreover, this process can also bring greetings from your family, and if no one in your family can write, the person who sent the letter can also ghostwrite, and this ghostwriting is free.

In this way, it can not only alleviate the homesickness of the soldiers, but also allow them to train with confidence, after all, this is equivalent to not cutting off from the outside world, and it also proves that the military salary can be paid truthfully.

This is also Li Yongji who doesn't want to be too advanced for the time being, after all, he can actually directly engage in radio communication, but that kind of thing that is too advanced is not something he can afford at present, so he will not consider it for the time being, and only use it as a technical reserve, so that the members of the Youth Guards Corps can go to a small area to contact and learn.

In this way, Li Yongji's military training life went on in a state of bumps and bumps, and everyone in the barracks spent almost every day in a busy and busy manner, and they also made progress almost every day, and after getting through the initial chaos, the process of learning and training became smoother and smoother.

With the deepening of cultural classes, especially with the increasing understanding of ancient and modern Chinese and foreign history, coupled with private discussions on some current affairs, more and more soldiers have begun to learn to worry about the country and the people, and turn this anxiety into motivation, and spontaneously devote themselves to training and learning with more enthusiasm.

Unconsciously, the thinking of the people in the entire barracks began to change, although these changes are still relatively small, still within the constraints of traditional thinking, but there is no doubt that the pace of change in their thinking can not be stopped, and their sense of identity with the whole team, especially Li Yongji, who brought this qiē, is getting stronger and stronger, and the cohesion is getting higher and higher, and their desire is no longer just to satisfy food and drink, but has a higher pursuit, and has vaguely had the concept of nation and state.

To put it bluntly, in this Qing Dynasty, they are a group of pioneers who are stuffed in the barracks, but they have begun to open their eyes to the world and see more clearly than ordinary people.

Such days passed day by day, and in a blink of an eye, we entered 1860 AD, and soon passed the traditional Chinese festival, the Chinese New Year's Eve of the lunar calendar.