At the same time, in order to be able to train qualified officers by himself, Lin Zhe set up a camp school, originally he planned to directly select qualified soldiers from the army to enter the camp school to study, but he really overestimated the literacy rate of this era, out of more than 500 people, only thirteen people were selected to know how to read, and all of them were people who could read no more than 100.

The low literacy rate in these years made Lin Zhe unable to even select a few people from the army as clerks, so he had no choice but to continue to dig the corners of his own commercial firm, and directly transferred a few stewards from several commercial bank warehouses in Yuyao and Ningbo to help deal with the clerical affairs in the camp.

As long as he came over, then in the early stage, he would be paid a monthly salary of 16 taels of silver per month according to the standard of the platoon commander, and after the training of military skills in the early stage, he would be appointed as a company commander and deputy company commander on the basis of merit, so the salary would increase to more than 20 taels of silver per month.

Such a salary is not low for this era, but the number of people who come to recruit is actually not much, because this recruitment is to represent the army to fight, this era is still heavy on literature and light on martial arts, many scholars would rather coarse grain steamed buns continue to study hard in order to pursue the imperial examination, rather than give up the pen and follow the Rong.

So that only seventy or eighty people came to apply, and some of them were too old or physically poor, and finally about a dozen people were selected from them.

Although these dozen or so people have different family backgrounds, they have the same characteristics, that is, none of them have a meritorious reputation, and all of them are scholars who have studied hard for many years and have not even been admitted to Xiucai, and their age is generally between 20 and 30 years old.

These dozen or so people formed the earliest students of this Suiying Academy, and for them, Lin Zhe had considerable expectations, planning to let them learn military technology and practice at the same time, and the future company commander would have to be selected from these people.

When Lin Zhe trained soldiers, established a camp school, and carried out the preliminary preparations for the Yong Camp in Yuyao County!

Huang Peizhi, as a corrupt official with a sense of responsibility and conscience, fully carried forward the principle of doing things with money, and spent more than half a month with the hard work of more than 1,000 taels of silver given by Lin Zhe, and finally ran Lin Zhe's official down.

When he put on this official robe with the identity of a four-grade Taoist and looked in the mirror, Lin Zhe felt like the kind of zombie jumping in Hong Kong movies.

However, the subordinates next to him looked at it with praise on their faces, and even Mrs. Lin on the side said with a happy face: "My son is handsome when he wears an official uniform!" ”

Along with the government, there was also an appointment document issued by the governor of Zhejiang Province to 'supervise the affairs of the Yongying in Yuyao County', and at the same time, Huang Peizhi also obtained the appointment document of the 'handling of the Yongying affairs in Yuyao County'.

It is worth noting that this appointment document was not a holy decree issued by Xianfeng himself by the imperial court, but was directly issued by the governor of Zhejiang, which was regarded as an internal appointment in Zhejiang Province, and was far from being comparable to the official appointment of the imperial court like Zeng Guofan.

With the documents of the above permission, the 'Yuyao County Yongying' was officially established, and the battalion headquarters was set up in the school field in the east of the county, which had been abandoned for a long time in the early years, and Huang Peizhi took this place as the stationing and training location of the county Yong Camp half a month ago.

After having an official name, Lin Zhe quickly set up a series of institutions, after all, although the number of county Yong battalions is small, as an army that has always been independent, it must be done well, although it is small, it must also be complete.

Two days later, Lin Zhe handed over to the governor of Zhejiang the 'Regulations for the Preparation of the Yong Battalion in Yuyao County', which explained in detail the organizational structure of the battalion.

"The battalion headquarters has a supervision and training office, a battalion office, a food and salary bureau, an ordnance bureau, a military medical bureau, and a camp school;

There are six companies of the infantry team, each with a company commander and a deputy company commander, and eight platoons of infantry under the company, a platoon commander and nine regular soldiers. The battalion has a total of one supervising officer, one battalion officer, three members of the general office, six company commanders, six deputy company commanders, 40 platoon commanders, and 432 regular soldiers.

In addition, it has a team of personal guards, with a captain and 20 horses.

Then it has an artillery platoon, a platoon commander, and 30 artillery soldiers.

The total number of the battalion is 583"

The infantry part of the Yuyao County Yong establishment that Lin Zhe finally reported was a very typical British small infantry regiment, and it was also very similar to the establishment of the Hunan army, but the difference was that the Hunan army in the official establishment of later generations had four outposts under one battalion, and each outpost had eight teams with ten people each. Compared with Lin Zhe's imitation of the small regiment of the British army, there are two companies and sentry posts less.

Of course, Lin Zhe's county Yong battalion is also very different from other pure infantry regiments and Hunan military camps, that is, there are cavalry and artillery directly under the battalion, although the artillery now only has three old small cannons, but it is not a cannon, although the cavalry is used as a personal guard, but it is also a cavalry that can be used to charge and kill.

In addition, the above are all soldiers and battalion personnel, and in wartime, like the armies of other eras, it is necessary to hire a long-term man or a special logistics unit to provide logistical support, and such a battalion also needs to hire at least 200 long-term men to undertake logistics and transportation tasks in wartime.

Such a detailed charter can be said to be a complete explanation of the preparation of the Yongying camp in Yuyao Township!

And such an establishment, coupled with the Minnie rifles that Lin Zhe planned to purchase, laid the most basic tactical idea of this army, that is, to play in line and shoot!

Using the establishment and weapons of the British army, if you don't learn from the British army to play and line up to shoot, this is not a waste!

Eight days after the establishment of the Yongying camp in Yuyao County, the steward of the Lin family and Anders returned to Yuyao and brought back a large number of Mini rifles.

The steward of the Lin family, who had obtained all the authorization of Lin Zhe, purchased up to 600 Mini Bu' guns at one time, which were used to equip this county Yong battalion and subsequent battle damage replenishment.

And with them came another foreigner, an Englishman named Hunter William, about thirty-five years old, very tall, and wearing a shabby military uniform, according to himself he was a glorious lieutenant in the British army, who had been dismissed and resigned because of a conflict with his superiors, and when he heard in Shanghai that the Lin family in Yuyao was going to form a purely Western-style army, and was recruiting Western officers everywhere, he ran over and tried to get a position.

After a brief conversation, he discovered that the Scotsman was really a former officer, at least able to speak of some of the detailed infantry tactics of the present day.

Although Lin Zhe is not a military professional, the knowledge of later generations is there, and ordinary people really don't want to fool him, and the two ordinary French soldiers in front of him have not been able to fool him.

However, there is no doubt that the Hunter William in front of him has succeeded in attracting his attention.

Although the expression on Lin Zhe's face remained quite calm, the bearded Hunter William felt Lin Zhe's attention from Lin Zhe's frequent questioning of him.

He knew that he had come to Yuyao this time, and if he could get the employment of this young man, who was said to have a fortune of millions of pounds, then he could end his wandering life for more than a year, and maybe make another fortune.

Born in the slums of Wales, England, he joined the army as a teenager and followed the British army to Africa, the Middle East, India, and the Americas, and slowly rose from a small soldier to a lieutenant.

But two years ago, when I was serving in India, I had a conflict with a lieutenant colonel, and this conflict was very old-fashioned, because a woman was still a **. Hunter William, who had drunk too much, and the lieutenant colonel fought for this **, and it didn't matter who won in the end, the key was that he was kicked out of the barracks the next day after he offended the senior officer.

Since then, he has been wandering in various ports in the Far East, trying to find opportunities to make a fortune, but as a retired officer who knows nothing but war, there are not many opportunities to find a fortune, and when he spent almost all the pounds left on his body in Shanghai and heard that people want to hire military instructors with high salaries, he couldn't care so much, and went directly to Yuyao.

Looking at the frequent inquiries of the young man in front of him, Hunter William knew that his opportunity had finally come, and it should be no problem to get a job, and now Hunter was thinking about how to make the young man in front of him give him a higher salary.

It's just that when he proposes how much salary he needs, he has to let Lin Zhe see where his value lies!

"In the years of service, I have trained thousands of recruits, and if you give me three months, I promise to train your soldiers from peasants to real soldiers!" Hunter continued:

"And just now I also found out that you are extremely short of qualified officers, from a professional point of view, all of your officers are unqualified, General, I can personally teach them all the skills and honors required to be an officer!"

Hearing that Hunter William recommended himself so hard, Lin Zhe didn't plan to continue to idle with him, it was so difficult to find a qualified foreign officer, Lin Zhe would not say that he would let him go, and he would immediately make a decision.

Officially hired him as his personal military adviser, and in terms of monthly salary, Lin Zhe generously gave a salary of one hundred taels per month.

And said that this is only the salary of the probationary period, and after three months, if Hunter William shows his value, then Lin Zhe promises to give a salary of up to 150 taels per month

To be honest, this salary level is actually quite high for this era, and the salary of Steward An, who is in charge of most of the business of the Lin Mansion Commercial Bank, is only one hundred taels per month.

Compared with other officers and soldiers in the army, it is also very high, in the salary regulations of the Yongying in Yuyao County, the monthly salary of the company commander is 30 taels of silver, the deputy company commander is 25 taels of silver, the platoon commander is 16 taels of silver, and the soldier is 4 taels of silver, which is generally similar to the salary of the Hunan army.

Hunter William took a full hundred taels of silver during the probationary period, not to mention that the salary was as high as one hundred and fifty taels after the probationary period.

However, what do you have to think of the salary, if it is naturally higher than the salary ratio of the domestic army, but if it is compared with the salary of the Huaer foreign gun team in the sixties, that is, the salary of the foreign officers in the Changsheng army, it is about the same, the salary of the ordinary Chinese soldiers in the Changsheng army is nine silver dollars per month, and the captain among the foreign officers takes about two hundred silver dollars per month, which is about one hundred and fifty taels when converted into silver taels.

At the same time, Lin Zhe also gave Hunter William another promise, that is, as long as he trained his troops to his satisfaction and let the troops win, then Lin Zhe would give him a large number of additional cash rewards, and said that this reward was at least five hundred taels and went up.

Hearing the high price offered by Lin Zhe, Hunter's heart was already surging, although the level of salary was within Hunter William's expectations, but the additional reward that Lin Zhe said later made him swallow his saliva secretly, starting with five hundred taels, if he won a big battle, the reward would not be thousands of taels, so how much would it be converted into silver dollars? How much is it converted into pounds?

Spurred on by the money, Hunter Wilhelm took office the next day and began his career as a mercenary.

PS: This is the first time this book has hit the new book list, I don't expect how high the ranking is, but at least I have to go up and show my face, brothers, it's up to you whether you can go up or not!!