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As far as Yang Fang is concerned, he definitely can't tell Li Yongji the ins and outs of the matter as it is, but uses a little Spring and Autumn brushwork.

For example, Li Zhengxiang asked people to demonstrate the process of the Sharps rifle, he did not say that Li Zhengxiang was drunk, but said that he had a similar temperament with Li Daotai (Li Zhengxiang is already an alternate Dao, and can be called a certain Daotai), and listened to Yang Fang's curiosity about the muskets of his subordinates, so he asked Yang Fang to practice it, and afterwards gave Yang Fang a long gun and a short gun as a gift.

Another example is the case of Wall, Yang Fang said that he didn't know much about firearms, so he specially invited a foreigner who taught him how to operate a gun.

As for why he came to buy arms, he said that it is not peaceful everywhere now, and he hopes that he will also run a regimental training to defend Sangzi. But after all, he didn't have much experience before, so he asked his fellow villager and friend, Su Song, to learn from Master Wu Xu and ask how to practice in a group.

Then, Su Songtai was prepared to say that Lord Wu heard that he was going to run a regimental exercise, so he said that there was an elite army in Qingpu County nearby, and it was said that the regimental training was impressive, so that he didn't have to go near and far, but he could come here to actually learn from the experience and ask for advice on how to run a regiment.

After the other party said this, he also issued a warrant, that is, a letter of introduction, the purpose of which was to allow him to enter the barracks directly when he came to see Li Yongji, so as to avoid some misunderstandings, and at the same time let Li Yongji of the Jingwu Army understand his sincerity.

After all, normally speaking, the regimental training is also the army, and the military camp where the regimental training is stationed, in the absence of a special order, it is also a crime for outsiders to trespass into the military camp.

It should be said that what Yang Fang said is very reasonable, especially the part involving Li Zhengxiang, except that he didn't say that the other party was drunk at the time, everything else can be right, and other statements can't be wrong, but the statement has changed slightly, and some things have not been said.

In short, after Yang Fang said this, it immediately became a seeming fact that he and Li Yongji's father hit it off at first sight, and then through the double introduction of Li Yongji's father and Master Wu Xu, he came to buy arms.

Yang Fang thought that what he said was very level, and he gave Li Yongji a lot of face, but Li Yongji only heard one thing from it: that is, the other party was holding a letter of introduction from the so-called Su Songtai Bingdao Master Wu, and he was able to pass through the military cordon he had demarcated at the beginning, and came all the way to the depths of the barracks, and then drank tea leisurely in the lobby of the more vigilant Yangxinju, that is, where he lived, and he could also send someone to notify him directly to rush back!

Before, Li Yongji had a dry mouth because he talked about high-yield rice, and he didn't understand it for a while, but now that he came back to his senses, he immediately found the problem.

It's very simple, that is, his seemingly tightly closed battalion can only prevent ordinary people, and a candidate with a warrant from a certain soldier can actually rely on this warrant to lead people here unimpeded!

It seems that the officers and soldiers under these subordinates are still very in awe of the authority of the government, and the political education has been strengthened.

Just when Li Yongji was thinking this, that Wall suddenly spoke in a somewhat broken Chinese: "This Lord Li, while we were waiting for you, we heard the sound of gunfire outside, and the scale was very large, I asked someone, and they said that this was a routine shooting training." Is this the case for you all the time here? Is there such a high-intensity and large-scale live-fire training every day? ”

"Why, it's just because it's a military exercise today, so the gunfire is a little stronger." Li Yongji smiled, but he kept scolding in his heart, and he wanted to find out this talkative guy and clean it up.

But after thinking about it, I don't seem to have strengthened this education too much before, and it is said that I am more at fault, so the most important thing is to strengthen the discipline of confidentiality in the future, which is the correct solution.

"Oh, I see." Wall nodded thoughtfully, "No wonder, the place where I heard the sound of gunfire is a little far away from here, and I thought that since it was shooting training, why didn't I do it in the big camp, I had to run so far, and such a large-scale shooting, I'm afraid it couldn't be just ordinary shooting training, it turned out to be a military exercise, then it's not strange." ”

"Hehe, yes, yes." Li Yongji smiled.

In fact, the sound of gunfire seems to be far away from here, it is not a military exercise at all, it is a normal shooting training, and not all the soldiers of the army are shooting, only a small part, but only about 3,000 people are playing shooting at the top of the sky.

In the early days of the construction of the camp, due to the relatively high intensity of the shooting training, the sound of the horn and the noise of the guns were relatively loud, and Yan zhòng affected Li Yongji's rest, and also affected him to teach the group of young guards that even if heavy soundproof cotton was added to the outer wall of Li Yongji's residence, it could not completely eliminate those noises.

At the beginning, Li Yongji was anxious to train a group of qualified soldiers, so he endured this noise torture, and could only rely on the wall of the soundproof color steel room, and then install soundproof cotton and soundproof panels to alleviate it. Originally, after the soundproofing modification, the soundproofing effect was not bad, at least into the soundproof room, almost no sound outside, but later after the expansion of the recruitment again, the number of people increased, and the noise became larger, and then it was not good.

Therefore, in order to have a better learning environment, Li Yongji rebuilt a large training ground five kilometers away after the troops were recruited again.

That is to say, in the future, the shooting training and drill training of the elite army will be done at the large training ground five kilometers away, and as for the core camp of Yangxinju, it is just a place to eat, sleep and learn cultural classes.

In this way, shooting lessons are often linked to drill classes, and if soldiers want to shoot or drill, they have to run to a new training ground and come back, which is also a physical exercise.

Because the camp is originally a forest, shooting and drilling five kilometers away, the noise is much smaller after the distance and the weakening of the woods, but it is impossible to completely eliminate it, and you can still hear the faint sound of shooting, but the noise intensity is smaller.

In addition, the new horse farm was also around the new training ground, and after the reorganization of the division, the range of the horse farm and the training ground was expanded.

So far, there are three training grounds and five horse farms, and in addition to the training grounds, which are basically running at full capacity, two horse farms are empty, in order to prepare for the new horses, after all, there are more than a hundred horses here every day.

Of course, when Wall and Yang Fang came in, they were just waiting in the lobby, and they were not allowed to go to the soundproof room at the back, if they went there, the sound of guns was almost inaudible, but it was an inner house, and it was also a place for children to study, and it was guarded by the Youth Guards Corps, so it was impossible for them to enter casually.

"In short, since I also bought the arms from others, I can't give you a letter for the time being, and I can't give you an answer immediately."

Li Yongji didn't say anything to death, but planned to discuss it with Zhang Xinda again, but he was already a little impatient that these people would continue to stay here, so he picked up the teacup on the table and hinted that he was going to serve tea to the guests.

"Of course, since you are my father's friend, I will do my best to help you ask. Well, when I say hello, whether I can sell you a firearm or not, I will let my father inform you, what do you think? ”

"Oh, that being the case, that couldn't be better." Seeing that Li Yongji deliberately picked up the teacup and kept shaking it, no matter how dull Yang Fang was, he knew that the other party had ordered the eviction.

Thinking of this Li Yongji's stunned rumors, in order not to spoil the atmosphere and not to block himself, Yang Fang took the initiative to stand up and say goodbye: "It's not too early, I see that Lord Li is busy with military affairs, so I won't stay and bother anymore, how about leaving first?" ”

"Haha, it's rare that Lord Yang is so understanding, then I won't send it." Li Yongji didn't have any politeness at all, relying on his young age, he directly raised his hand to indicate that he was sending off the guest.

However, just as Yang Fang was about to be polite again, and then take people away, Wall suddenly spoke again: "This Lord Li, since you have a lot of foreign guns and cannons here, you must want to use Western-style exercises to train the army." In this case, you definitely need officers who are familiar with Western military training methods, can you let me stay and help you teach this group of soldiers? You must know that only foreign guns and foreign cannons cannot train a qualified Western-style army! ”

"You want to stay as an instructor?" Li Yongji asked.

"Yes." Wall nodded without hesitation, with a look of eagerness, "I have formal military training, and I have participated in many famous battles in many places!"

Believe me, I definitely have a wealth of actual combat experience in military training and combat. In contrast, I was the first mate on a ship, and that was a pity because of my talent, and my real talent was to command the army! And not to be some first mate on a ship!

Trust me, as long as you hire me to teach and command this army you have taken, I promise you won't be disappointed! ”

"It's kind of interesting." Li Yongji smiled, "But do you know that I am just a regimental training here, that is, the militia in your mouth, not a regular army, do you know this?" ”

"It's okay, I can take the initiative to lower the treatment a little." Speaking of this, Wall hesitated slightly, "Of course, you can't treat me as an ordinary soldier, I want to be an officer, and I want to be treated like an officer!" And as far as my ability is concerned, eighty taels of silver a month is indispensable in peacetime, and in wartime I have to have an additional allowance and subsidy, which cannot be less than thirty taels, and if I win a big battle, I must also have a bonus, and the bonus cannot be less than one hundred taels...... I know I'm asking for a bit more, but trust me, it's definitely worth the money! ”

"Thirty!" Li Yongji stretched out three fingers, "I have here, a company commander will pay thirty taels of silver a month, not more, and there is no wartime subsidy. You are here, for the time being, you are treated as a company commander, and you will be treated the same as other company commanders, if you agree, you will stay, and if you don't agree, there is no way. ”

"This ......" Wall struggled for a moment, looked at the guard standing next to him and the Sharps rifle on his body, "Thirty taels is too little, I used to ......"

"I don't care about you before." Li Yongji waved his hand, "If you want to stay with me, it will only be thirty-two months." Of course, this is the basic salary, and if you make meritorious contributions and get promoted in the future, your salary will also be improved. In addition, I have food and lodging here, three meals a day, and four meals a day when training is strong.

Let's put it this way, the ordinary soldiers here are full of rice, greens, vegetables and tofu, and they can eat meat once a week. If you are a company commander-level officer, in addition to the above food, add an extra egg a day, and there is fish to eat almost every meal, except that you can't drink, the food is still very good. In addition, you don't have to worry about clothing, I issue military uniforms here, and even ** and toiletries, so your thirty taels are pure earnings, minus consumption, it is definitely better than your previous eighty taels, because I have a lot of things here, and you can't buy them if you have money outside. ”

"What you said is true?" Hearing Li Yongji say this, Wall's eyes also lit up, and his throat swallowed involuntarily.

You know, although Wall is the first mate, he is not a senior officer after all. And the conditions here in China are limited, it is impossible for him to eat steak all at once, let alone steak, pork chops are difficult to eat once, and it is difficult to buy them with money.

He used to be the first mate on the gunboat Confucius, that is, he could eat fish once a few days, and he usually ate steamed rice with green vegetables, and bread was rare to eat once.

As for meat, it's good to eat pork once a month, because he is often on the boat, and secondly, meat is hard to buy here, not only because of the lack of problems, but also because of his own identity.

Wall is a foreigner, and the Chinese will not sell them things such as pork and eggs at this time, and even if they do, it is a super high price, after all, the Chinese at this time still have the psychology of avoiding foreigners.

Therefore, the price of Li Yongji's offer, not to mention anything else, just the food made Wall very interested.

"Naturally, it's true, can't I lie to you?" Li Yongji smiled, "And if you can't get used to eating rice steamed buns, I can also provide bread here." Well, I actually like bread myself, and when I usually eat, breakfast is bread. ”

"This, this...... If I stay, will I be an instructor? Will I be in command of the troops I teach? Wall continued, "First of all, let me be an instructor, no problem, but when it comes to fighting, my men must obey my command, and at least let me command five hundred men!" ”

"No problem." Li Yongji smiled, "However, my current troops have a fixed training and learning system, and your set cannot be directly copied, so if you want to command people, you can only recruit yourself, that is to say, you can recruit foreigners like you, and I will command you as much as you recruit, of course, it is best to be a cavalryman, and the treatment is preferential." ”

"Recruit myself?" Wall raised his eyebrows, "Will the treatment be the same as mine?" Are they dealt with the same weapons as your soldiers? ”

"The weapons must all be similar." Li Yongji smiled slightly, and didn't say anything full, "In terms of treatment, I can only say that the foreign soldiers you recruited have a higher salary than my soldiers because they have more experience." As for you, because you are the first to join our army, I gave you special preferential treatment and directly let you enjoy the company commander treatment, so your treatment is calculated according to the company commander level on my side, but the newcomers you find in the future will not continue to be like this, of course, if the person you find has a good level and strong ability, I will naturally give him the treatment corresponding to his own ability. ”

"Then if I recruit foreign soldiers, how will the specific salary be calculated?"

"Ordinary white people who have never been soldiers, I will give eight taels of silver a month." Li Yongji said, "If you have fought in the past and have actual combat experience, I can give ten taels of silver for a month, if you have been a grassroots officer, like you, I can directly give thirty taels of silver for a month, if you have been a cavalryman and know cavalry tactics, then I will give forty taels of silver for a month...... Don't cry poor with me, don't be like I don't know, you white Americans who are sailors on ships have a monthly salary of only 5 US dollars, less than 8 taels of silver! ”

"The sailor is covered with food and lodging, and there is accident insurance, that is, settling-in allowance, and there is also a year-end dividend!"

"I'm the same here, it's also food and lodging, and there is a settling-in allowance." Li Yongji said with a smile, "I don't have a dividend at the end of the year, but I have a bonus here, and my food here is better, isn't it." ”

"In that case, I can think about it." Wall nodded, "As you said, I will command as many people as I recruit?" ”

"That's right, I plan to set up a foreign gun team, all of which are composed of foreigners, with a tentative number of 1,000 people, so you can only recruit a maximum of 1,000 people now, and we will talk about it later depending on the situation." Li Yongji said, "And the subordinates you recruit must all be whites, you can't fool me with Indians, Nanyang natives or blacks!" ”

"Why does it have to be white? Are you racist? Wall really began to struggle, indicating that he planned to recruit Indians from the beginning, after all, there were not many whites in China at this time, and it was better to recruit one or two hundred, but it would be a little difficult to recruit a thousand whites. Since Wall is quite an officer, it is natural that the more people under him, the better.

"If I want to be racist, even you white people don't want it." Li Yongji smiled and shook his head, "The reason why you want white people is because you white people usually have a higher level of education, and your heart is also relatively high, and your combat effectiveness is usually stronger, and you can scare people more on the battlefield." This kind of force is what I need. Okay, that's my condition, accept it or not accept it, anyway, now it's you begging me, not me begging you. ”

"This, well, I accept!" Wall nodded, "However, you must write the terms of treatment for me, you must sign the contract according to your fingerprint, and the food must be written in and written clearly!" In this case, I will have an explanation for recruiting talents. ”

"No problem!" Li Yongji smiled again, "In terms of contracts, we have a template here, um, but you are a foreigner, I will give you an English version of the contract when I go back, and I guarantee that you will be satisfied with it." ”