Chapter 297 Reckoning (4) Friction
How much awe of imperial power was left in the hearts of the soldiers, Yang Hao was not completely sure.
In addition to the people who came from the old camp, whether the seven or eight thousand people recruited from Tianjin and Liaodong have changed their thinking still needs to be verified by practice.
Today, he asked at least 2,500 or 600 people who had gone out here to come back to test the results of training in the past half a year. At least for now, it looks good.
Until the decree was recited, not a single soldier moved. Even if there is a long list of seemingly rich rewards, such as a yellow coat, a one-eyed flowery feather, a sealed official position, or even a reward of silver, there are hundreds of numbers on a soldier, and no one is seen to move the color for it.
When the official finished reading, the sweat on his body soaked his feet and face. Shane's voice could not be heard, and his panicked and helpless pestle was there not knowing how to get off the stage.
Yang Hao opened his voice again: "All the honors you have earned with your blood, and the imperial court should share these things." The logistics department worked hard and went to negotiate with this adult. ”
Guan Zhongwan came to the official with a wicked smile, his two eyebrows trembled, and he waved his hand at the person: "This lord, please?" Hurry up and finish this errand, and the little brother will go back and ask you to go to the concession to rest and recuperate. How is it? ”
The coolness in his heart was mentioned.
The official standing in front of him is also a Beijing official with a three-grade top, and no one has always been arrogant and arrogant in his eyes. Originally, he was just a downward child, and he didn't even have the qualifications to kowtow in person. Today, you can be on an equal footing with each other, and you can even talk as you like, without worrying about being picked up by the other party.
This is a sudden change in status. It made him seem like a dream for a year. But the dream is so real. It's so refreshing. He can't bear to wake up!
The official couldn't care less about getting angry with Guan Zhongkuan, in such an atmosphere, he just wanted to hurry up and run away. After returning to Jingshi, he must immediately pretend to be sick and never go out, otherwise he will definitely be a punching bag scapegoat! The holy decrees are so despised by people, the emperor and the court have lost face!
Wang Wenshao didn't say a word from beginning to end, and he was so angry that he almost fainted. was carried back to the yamen by his entourage in a sedan chair, and he immediately wrote a book of 10,000 words with great enthusiasm. Impeachment of Yang Hao and the New Army for ignoring the rebellious actions of the imperial court.
Yang Hao led the troops to the horse factory first, and after distributing their respective rewards, they were disbanded on the spot and gave them a three-day holiday. Those who are close can go home and have a look, and those who are far away can only go around.
In the next few days, the area around Beijing and Tianjin will naturally be full of chickens and dogs. The big war that many people expected did not start, which made Yuan Shikai's new army in Xiaozhan Town, and Nie Shicheng's Wu Yi army in Lutai save up enough strength, but there is no target to fight!
It was followed by several other regiments that were returning one after another. They also arrange to return to their hometowns in an orderly manner, or take a holiday to rest. One by one, in good order. The rhythm is orderly.
Those who are interested can see the problem, from beginning to end, there is always at least one regiment that maintains a complete formation and survives, followed by two or three. On the Bohai Sea, there has always been at least one "Weihai-class" frigate patrolling. said that Yang Hao was defenseless at all, who would believe it.
For half a month, the arrival of a large number of troops made the surrounding area of Tianjin much more lively, especially in anticipation of the possibility of accidents, the number of people who applied for relocation and stationing in the British, French, and American concessions increased sharply many times. The large commercial building complex built by Li Hongzhang's third son in partnership with Yang Hao was sold out when the main body of construction began! In addition, the large area of land adjacent to the concession and sandwiched between Peiyang University is also in full swing for development.
At this time, people suddenly discovered that those lands had already been bought by Yang Hao. As long as the development is completed, it will form a large area of small cities with a radius of a few ordinary kilometers, which will be under the protection of its temporary barracks.
The people who discovered this truth no longer admired Yang's business methods, but scolded him for being greedy and shameless. Your left hand stirs up disputes, and your right hand occupies land and sells the house, and all the benefits inside and outside are earned for you.
At the same time, I also envy, jealousy and hatred of Li Hongzhang!
Originally, they all laughed at their third son for not doing his job properly and not following his father, but now they all beat themselves up. The ability to make money made the family a multimillionaire with a raise of their hand - this is a silver number! The speed of making money is no faster than this, how can it be compared!
Yang Hao personally went to the dock to greet the soldiers every time, delivered a speech, and destroyed the imperial court's holy decrees and rewards again and again. Emperor Guangxu was angry, and he couldn't come up with any practical methods, so he had to keep urging Yuan Shikai and Nie Shicheng to step up the army. But this unit cannot be trained in three or two days. If the equipment is in place, it will take time, right?
By the end of July, the weather became more and more hot, and after a heavy rain, Tianjin was flooded again. However, this time, because Yang Hao dredged the Haihe River in advance for the convenience of his own boating, it did not cause a catastrophe. However, the low-lying British Concession and the French Concession still inevitably became Zeguo. Yang Hao was still bad, the ground from the American Concession to the university was raised by two meters, and the water was stored in the two concessions and the excretion was not timely, even if their buildings and main roads were raised foundations, they couldn't go out.
The U.S. concession simply monopolized all business, which made people grit their teeth with hatred!
The U.S. Concession, which has a complete drainage system, is not in the mess after the heavy rains. Yang Hao overlooked an isolated island surrounded by Zeguo from his high office, and his ears seemed to be able to hear the sound of money flowing into his pocket all the time, and his heart was relaxed.
Zhou Jianhao no longer knows what words to use to describe his admiration for Mr. Yang Da. He came up with the results of the analysis of the summarized text.
After Yang Hao looked at it, he nodded with satisfaction: "It seems that our ideological education work is still in place." The Qing court sent so many people to coerce and lure, and few soldiers were moved by what they said. The correctness of the branch building on the company has been verified again! ”
Zhou Jianhao didn't know why he said "again", and said excitedly: "Our squad platoon company third-level officers are in place, so that the soldiers can experience what is home-like warmth and collective honor, which the Qing court can't give anyway." Moreover. Our resettlement measures for the families of military martyrs are unique. What did the Qing court do to meet their rigid needs? Not only were these soldiers not instigated by them. On the contrary, there are more people who have been influenced by them and have come to sign up for the army! ”
Yang Hao laughed: "As long as the conditions are right, accept them all." We are recruiting troops under the noses of the Manchus, and I want to see how long they can endure it! ”
Zhou Jianhao hesitated for a moment and hesitated: "Sir, the second phase of university enrollment has begun, and experts and scholars sent from various countries have also started to work. The number of our comrades is already quite large. Do you have to wait for the Qing court to take the initiative to turn around? ”
Yang Hao didn't answer and asked: "Has the Qing court never given an explanation about the siege of the concession and the sending of troops to fight the old camp?" ”
Zhou Jianhao was stunned for a moment and replied, "No." They only gave half of the military expenses and allocated the resettlement sites for the troops. ”
Yang Hao knocked on the table: "Then start here." Drive Li Bingheng out of Shandong first! Oh, I should have been a little more ruthless when I asked for money, but I was still too soft-hearted. ”
The corners of Zhou Jianhao's mouth twitched, and he said tactfully: "Sir, 40 million taels is not a little!" That's silver! ”
Yang Hao snorted coldly: "Compared to the compensation of 200 million taels, it is already too cheap for them!" I should have asked for 100 million at the beginning, and now they are spending so much money to train desperately. So decided, let the old camp move first. Swallowed Zhang Gaoyuan's Songwu Army for me! ”
"Yes!"
Zhou Jianhao agreed excitedly, and couldn't help but wave his fist in the air when he turned to go out. I waited a long time. It's finally time to get started!
In the sound of tick-tock telegrams, cipher telegrams quickly poured across the country.
In Qingdao, the old lady of the Yang family, who was still supervising the construction of the industrial base, then received a telegram, and laughed with a cigarette bag and pot: "The little guy finally can't help it, it's okay." Lao Tzu had already seen a group of fucking fucking things unpleasant, so I cleaned them up as soon as possible! ”
He grabbed the phone, wanted to go to the security office, pinched his waist with one hand and shouted at the top of his voice: "Xiao Zhang, have you received your commander's order?" Received it, Nacheng, hurry up, and clean up Zhang Gaoyuan's guy. Always making trouble, so that the railway could not work. ”
The Xiao Zhang he was talking about was Zhang Ping, who was sent as a guard at the beginning. He was wounded in the battlefield of Goryeo, and later arranged for two advanced studies at the officers' accelerated school, and now he is the company commander of the Qingdao battalion guard company.
At this time, he held the secret telegram sent by the headquarters in his hand, and when he saw that he was going to do it, he almost screamed excitedly, but he still asked Mrs. Yang on the phone: "Old man, do you want to go on the boat to settle down first?" I'm afraid I'll ...... fight later. ”
The old man scolded angrily: "Get out of the ball, Lao Tzu has seen more guns and cannons than your kid has eaten, and those thousands of broken things can't touch a single hair of Lao Tzu!" Hurry up and get to work! Lao Tzu is in charge here, and no one can make trouble! ”
Zhang Ping hurriedly agreed, turned his head and rushed out of the guard office to gather people, and it didn't take long for the soldiers of the entire Qingdao battalion to swarm in, and thousands of people gathered together!
The so-called Qingdao battalion is a kind of self-distinguishing name that has been formed within the army. For example, the best people who came out of the Mashan base in the first phase claimed to be "old battalion". Later, the naval camp was called "Rizhao Battalion", and later it was successively called Jiaozhou Battalion, Yizhou Battalion, Qingzhou Battalion, Tianjin Battalion and Qingdao Battalion. It doesn't matter how many people there are, in fact, it is the nature of Chinese people to find fellow villagers and hold together.
At this time, half of the Qingdao battalion were wounded soldiers returning to the team, and the total number was about two battalions, and Zhang Ping's entire guard company commander was actually the real commander-in-chief.
He conveyed the order as quickly as possible, and then personally led a battalion of men and horses to surround Zhang Gaoyuan's general army yamen with lightning speed.
The soldiers of the Songwu Army stationed in the arch guard were caught off guard and were so frightened that they were urinating. The eldest son of the Zhang family, who has always cooperated well in business, hurriedly rushed out to intercept him, and shouted at Zhang Ping, who had a good face in the past: "What's the matter, you use knives and guns?" We have something to say! I'm Brother Zhang, what kind of trouble are you making here? ”
Zhang Ping didn't smile at him, and said solemnly: "Lord Ling Zunzhang led his troops to besiege us that day for no reason, and there is no explanation to this day." The brothers can't bear this breath, today, I'm going to talk to the chief soldier! ”
Grand Master Zhang was dumbfounded, didn't we all collude in this matter earlier? How can you say that if you turn your face, you will turn your face! (To be continued......)
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