Zeng Guofan understands very well that for these big-headed soldiers, the great truth of loyalty and righteousness can be said, but ordinary people come out to serve as soldiers and work hard, just to seek wealth, if it is unprofitable to join the Hunan army, no one will come to recruit, and no one will not be able to recruit good generals and soldiers, the reason why the Eight Banners Green Battalion has no will to fight is that the court gives them too low a salary, not only can not support their families, but also often themselves are hungry! So he decided to use a higher salary than the Green Battalion to attract people to come and join the army!

Thinking of this, Zeng Guofan found Peng Yulin and asked, "When you were in the Green Camp, what was the maximum monthly salary for ordinary soldiers?" ”

Peng Yulin was confused, and said honestly: "If there is a war, a month's salary adds up to about four taels of silver." ”

Zeng Guofan silently calculated that a strong man could get up to ten taels of silver a year for farming at home. If it is a green battalion soldier, it will be about fifty taels of silver a year, and the income of a soldier should be five times more than that of farming, so I will have to pay them about four taels a month, which is just slightly lower than the income of the green battalion soldiers. When the court asked, there was an explanation.

"How about I position the usual military salary at three taels and eight cents, and the wartime military salary at four taels and two cents?"

Peng Yulin thought for a while, nodded and said, "In this way, I'm afraid that many green battalion soldiers will come to participate in the township bravery!" ”

The Spring Festival of 1852 was approaching, and Zeng Guofan deliberately returned to his hometown Xiangxiang.

After he was full of wine and food, he invited his father Zeng Linshu to the study to give some explanations.

Zeng Guofan was the first to speak: "Dad, the child will lead the troops to Hubei next month to fight against Changmao, and his life and death are uncertain, do you have anything to say to the child?" ”

Zeng Linshu thought for a moment and admonished: "Now that anti-thieves are rampant, it is not easy to do things for the imperial court. ”

Zeng Guofan said respectfully: "The child understands, some people have accused me recently, saying that you rely on the power of the child to interfere in local affairs too much, and the child will go to the blessing and misfortune, so you should not easily ask about the affairs of the government in the future." ”

Listening to his son's meaning, what he has done recently may affect his official reputation, Zeng Linshu said embarrassedly: "I will pay attention to it in the future!" You must take care of your body when you go out. ”

Early the next morning, Zeng Guofan returned to the Hengyang military camp, reorganized the soldiers, horses, grain and grass and set out for Hubei.

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Since Li Yunzhong set up the Sixth Division, he has been completely idle, remembering that he has not seen the foreign gun team for a long time, and on a whim, he took a few guards and went in the direction of the school field.

When Jack heard that King Han was inspecting the foreign gun team, he put down everything in his hand and took a few foreigners to the school gate early to greet him.

"Your Highness, please allow me to introduce you, this is Milton, a graduate of the Royal Army Officer School, and I wrote to call him from England." Jack pointed to a blonde foreigner on the left and introduced it to Li Yunzhong.

Li Yunzhong stretched out his right hand and said with a smile: "Hello to you, Mr. Milton, it's a pleasure to meet you here!" ”

Milton stretched out his hand and said solemnly: "Your Highness, it is a pleasure to serve you!" ”

Jack introduced a foreigner on the right: "This is William Hippo, a brave captain!" ”

Li Yunzhong greeted as usual, "Hello, Mr. William! ”

William saluted Li Yunzhong and said, "Your Highness, Captain William reports to you!" ”

Jack led Li Yunzhong into the school grounds, and his ears were full of "bang" and "bang" gunshots, among which the row of guns was the most dense.

Looking at the red and white colors all over the eyes, it is different with military uniforms! Li Yun's center was relaxed, and he had a hunch: he would rely on this army to fight against the great powers in the future!

Jack proudly said to Li Yunzhong: "Look at Your Highness, they can compare to the armies of third-rate countries in Europe, and they are invincible in Asia!" ”

Li Yunzhong corrected: "What I want is an army that can fight against a first-class country!" ”

Jack shook his head, "It's so hard, it took me a long time to get them to tell the difference." It took another half a month to teach them to familiarize themselves with foreign guns, God! Four thousand, and we have only eighty! One of the Ping soldiers had to teach fifty people. ”

Li Yunzhong also had a headache, most people in this era are illiterate and rigid in their thinking, "I really want to establish a military school, what do you think?" ”

Jack was embarrassed: "This is my best work, military school is beyond my ability!" ”

Li Yunzhong seduced: "I can promote you to major general and chief of education, what a position you think this is, if you do a good job, I can also make you a nobleman!" ”

Jack had to admit that he was attracted to these conditions, Major General! Education Chief! Aristocrat! Any one of them was an honor that he had not dared to hope for before.

William whispered to Jack, "Dear Lieutenant Colonel Jack, what are you worried about in such good conditions?" Promise him quickly, a military school is not so difficult! It is important to know that there were many unemployed soldiers in Britain, France, and Prussia. ”

Jack's eyes rolled, and he said to Li Yunzhong: "If you give me enough money, I will find more partners to serve you, and it is not impossible to establish a military school!" ”

Li Yunzhong put his mind at ease, as long as the problem can be solved with money, it is not a problem, and he said ruthlessly: "If you can summon an officer, no matter how big or small, he will be given three hundred taels of silver to settle in, and the salary is five times that of his own country, what do you think?" Of course, for every instructor I summoned, I will reward you with fifty taels of silver! ”

Jack, Milton, and William were excited, what did they come to the Far East for? Not yet lured by gold and silver!

William immediately continued: "I can find ten people, plus the settling-in fee, you have to give me three thousand five hundred taels." "I have decided in my heart to be greedy for half of their settling-in expenses.

Milton calculated how many people he could summon, John's drunkard would come, Harry's pervert was not necessarily, and I told him that there was a beautiful angel in the East who admired him, yes, that's all! Rowland......

"I can summon twenty men, of course there may be more, do you have that much silver? Don't let me down. ”

Li Yunzhong raised a finger, "I can transfer one million taels of silver at any time, you have to believe me!" ”

Jack swallowed his saliva, with so much silver, not to mention one military school, two or three are not a problem! He swore to Li Yunzhong and said, "Your Highness, don't worry, I will definitely help you manage this military academy." ”

Li Yunzhong nodded with satisfaction, "Jack! You must pay attention to the fact that you have to draw 300 of the best performers out of the 4,000 foreign spear team and make them the first batch of students of the military academy! ”

Jack nodded and asked excitedly, "Has the name of this military school been decided?" Thinking that he could name the name of a country's military academy, Jack was excited, and when he returned home, he could brag about it with his classmates.

Name? Li Yunzhong is really not sure, "Do you have any good suggestions?" ”

Jack said, "How about the Royal Army Officer Academy?" Oh God? It's the same as ours in the UK, that's called the Royal Military Academy? ”

After speaking, he looked at Li Yunzhong expectantly.

Li Yunzhong shook his head, he was really not interested in the word 'royal', after thinking about it, he said solemnly: "It's still called Nanjing Army Command College!" I will use the entire inner city of Nanjing as the site of the college. ”

Li Yunzhong walked to the shooting range and looked at it for a while, estimated that it was lunch time, took out his pocket watch and looked at it, and sure enough, it was almost 12 o'clock, put the pocket watch back in its place, and turned to leave.

"Your Highness, your things have been dropped." A soldier picked up Li Yunzhong's pocket watch that he had thrown in the school yard, chased after him and handed it to Li Yunzhong.

"You're a company commander! What is your name? Li Yunzhong took the pocket watch, and when he saw that this person was only sixteen or seventeen years old and was the company commander, he asked with interest.

Liu Chongyue's face turned red with excitement, "The last general is called Liu Chongyue, and he will be a company commander under Captain Chen!" ”

It turned out to be Chen Yucheng's subordinate, Li Yunzhong was in a good mood today, and put the pocket watch in his hand, "This watch will be given to you, I hope you can use it!" ”

Watching Liu Chongyue trot away, Li Yunzhong said to Jack: "A clever and brave young man like this should be reused!" ”

Li Shiqi looked at the indifferent Wang Qinglu and complained: "Zichuan! King Han is so unfair to you, look at Zhao Liewen is just a role model! was named a waiter, you are the champion and there is no reward! At the very least, this should also be a squire. ”

Wang Qinglu persuaded: "These highnesses have their own proportions, let's talk about something else!" ”

Li Shiqi couldn't cry or laugh, they took such a big risk to join the King of Han, didn't they just hope that a certain official and a half-job would use what they had learned in their chests! Why doesn't Wang Qinglu care about it?

"Zichuan, listen to my advice, don't offend King Han in the future, just like the other day! How dangerous! Now that you have even obtained an official position, it's not that King Han holds a grudge against you in his heart. ”

Wang Qinglu said with a smile: "King Han is not the kind of person who will repay him, you think too much, His Royal Highness is a figure like Tang Zong and Song Zu!" How can you blame a courtier for his outspoken advice! Your Highness must have other arrangements for me! ”

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