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The strategy of using the Ainu tribes to surround the pavilions and then conquer them separately by the Zheng army saved the Zheng army's small garrison in Ezo on the one hand, and on the other hand, it also demonstrated force, effectively deterring those Ainu tribes who participated in the siege. Of course, since there was only a narrow strait between Ezo and Honshu, and the commercial strongholds of Wajin even penetrated into the Kuril Islands such as Kunashir and Hamai, the Beiyang Detachment of the Oriental Fleet of the Zheng Army's naval division also participated in the period.

However, due to the limited berths at Ishikagawa Port and the distance between Ezo and Seogwipo, the Beiyang Detachment eventually dispatched only four 3,000 ships to block the Tsugaru Strait in turn. The situation of having nowhere to do it made Han Bai, the commander-in-chief of the Beiyang Detachment, a little annoyed. When it comes to the relay point between Seogwipo and Ezo, Sado Island is the most suitable for the Noto Peninsula. But Noto is already the mainland of Japan, and Sado is also the heavenly domain of the Tokugawa shogunate, which is not suitable for the direct occupation of the Beiyang detachment. After thinking about it, Han Bai reported to him that the matter should be made bigger in order to distract the shogunate.

"Occupy Tsushima and the Goto Islands?" The report took Zheng by surprise. "Approved by the Privy Council?"

"Returning to the king, the Privy Council thought that with the current size of the garrison in Seogwipo, it would not take much effort to capture the two places."

Zheng Kezang's answer made Zheng Kezhang a little uneasy, and he must know that although the Qing and Zheng were still arguing over the withdrawal of troops from Korea, in fact, the various departments of the Longxiang army stationed in Korea had quietly begun to rotate.

Among them, the Fourth Division of the Longxiang Army, which was originally subordinate to the Yangtze River Fleet, will be transferred to the Nanyang Fleet and moved to Dongning; The 3rd Division of the Longxiang Army, which was originally subordinate to the Oriental Fleet, will be reassigned to the Yangtze River Fleet and moved to Taiping, Zhenjiang and Xinchang to defend the three prefectures; The 2nd Division of the Longxiang Army in Dongning will be transferred to the Dongyang Fleet to North Korea, of course, only one brigade of the division will be stationed in Haizhou, the other brigade will remain in Seogwipo, and the last brigade will be stationed in Ningbo; Only the 1st Division of the Longxiang Army of the Western Fleet did not participate in this round of transfer because of the imminent attack on Annam.

At this time, according to the rotation plan, the third division of the Longxiang army had begun to move south, although the fourth division had not yet been mobilized, but the second division also did not go north, and part of the fourth division was transferred to participate in the offensive of expelling the Matsumae domain to monopolize the entire island of Ezo by the Ezo Prefecture Metropolitan Gofu, so the actual combat power that the Beiyang detachment could mobilize was very limited.

"This matter needs to be cautious." Zheng Kezhang was not afraid of a small number of soldiers, speaking of which, the Japanese adopted a vassal system, and the shogunate monitored the local daimyo a lot, so in fact, one brigade or two regiments on the Beiyang side was enough. "Although it was easy to conquer the two places, the foreign trade between the domain and Japan would inevitably be affected." Foreign trade is the foundation of Zheng Fan's maintenance, so Zheng Kezhang is a little hesitant. "If we can't force the shogunate to change in an all-round way, and only occupy one or two of its margins, I am afraid that it will be harmful to the overall situation."

Hong Gongzhu frowned and asked suspiciously: "Does the king mean to prepare for a big attack on Japan?" ”

"Let's just say that I can't hide it." Zheng Kezhang nodded. "But across the sea, you have to fight the rabbit with a lion, now the matter in the north is undecided, and there are waves in the south, in the case of financial resources, this domain is at war on three sides, not a good sign."

Hong Gongzhu's brows tightened: "The minister understands, and after the minister goes back, he vetoes the Beiyang side." ”

"Not only that, but Qing also wants to reprimand Han Bai." Zheng Kezang's expression was very strict. "Without a relay port, it will be impossible to support the use of troops in Ezo, this is nonsense, how far away is the cruising route of the South Sea and the East Ocean comparable to that of the North Ocean, is it possible that the East Ocean Fleet has degenerated to such a point?" Han Bai may have casually found a reason to start a war, but Zheng Kezhang couldn't help but express his worries about it. "If it doesn't work, then let Gu go whaling again."

Because Hong Gongzhu was not a general promoted in the boy camp system, his face was quite embarrassed when Zheng Kezhang angrily reprimanded Han Bai and other descendants, but just as Zheng Kezhang used Sun Youlao and others to share the authority of Lin Sheng, a group of Liu Guoxuan's contemporaries, Zheng Kezhang also used him to suppress the excessively growing ambitions of Mao Hongyan and He Qian, the boy scout teachers, so he had no choice but not to be a lonely minister. Of course, if he complains about the army, Zheng Kezhang will not worry about the Hong family and the Chen family.

"By the way, how is Yue Shenglong's recent cousin in the Privy Council?"

Finally, Zheng Kezhang changed the topic, which made Hong Gongzhu sigh back slightly: "Yue Shenglong has been inspecting schools and observing exercises in various places recently, and his subordinates think that he may be familiar with the military system and combat power of his domain. ”

"The Ministry of War will send people to visit and inspect the military administration of Fujian, Gannan, Guangdong, Guangxi, and Hunan provinces, and let Yue Shenglong go with him, take a look at it, and write a submission to Gu when he comes back." Yue Shenglong is a general, so it is naturally impossible to reach out and take power, and having such a table is already above Zheng Kezang's expectations. "Anything he thinks is good or bad, write it, Lone and you are all fans of the authorities, he is a new bystander, and the bystander is clear!"

"When the minister returns to the Privy Council, he will arrange it." Hong Gongzhu didn't care about Zheng Kezang's attention to Yue Shenglong, in his opinion, this was just a kind of expression of Zheng Kezang's golden bones, nothing more than a benchmark figure, so as to continue to tempt the Qing court green camp generals to attach to Zheng, his real opponents were Sun Youlao and He Qian. "But there may be a war in Guangxi, so there is no need to arrange for Yue Tongzhi to go?"

"Is Qing afraid that Yue Shenglong will seize the military power as a privy colleague?" Zheng Kezhang smiled dumbly. "Why did Yue Shenglong seize the power of the army, did he have a foundation in his own domain, or did he command the troops of his own domain to fight and have great achievements." Zheng Kezhang shook his head and said. "Don't worry, Cai Yuanshu." Zheng Kezhang said that this was a sudden pause, and Hong Gongzhu reminded him that Cai Yuanshu, the deputy chief soldier of Guangxi, was also a general, and it was difficult to guarantee that he would not be shocked by Yue Shenglong. "Cai Yuanshu is not enough, but Yue Shenglong will never have this thought."

Zheng Kezhang has woken up on his own, in fact, he is still a little worried, although the military power is good, but it is of little use to the current Yue Shenglong, he can neither stand on his own feet with this, nor can he encourage the division, brigade and regiment level three and more grassroots soldiers to oppose Zheng Fuqing, and he is not even ready to use the 6th Division in the Battle of Annan, and even the Water Division has limited participation, why is he worried that Yue Shenglong dares to talk nonsense and even collude with Cai Yuanshu.

"There is no suspicion in employing people, no suspicion is needed, no matter what Yue Shenglong says, he will have a great contribution to this domain, and he should let him have a good end."

Since Yue Shenglong has a good end, naturally, the old courtiers who came out of Dongning will not have no results, this is Zheng Kezang's vague hint, and Hong Gongzhu can understand this: "The minister understands." ”

Zheng Kezhang waved his hand, Hong Gongzhu retreated knowingly, as soon as he retreated, Chen Kejun, the cabinet minister and the secretary of the school, walked in under the guidance of the inner servant, but before he could stand firm, Zheng Kezhang asked with a sloppy face: "Chen Qing, you tell the widow, as far as Jiangnan, Jiangbei, Zhejiang and Dongning are concerned, how many mathematics teachers can be provided this year." ”

Zheng Kezhang could not immediately deny the status of Confucianism in China, so he could only find another way to save the country, and the only way he could think of it was to improve the status of mathematics in the name of restoring the six arts of the pre-Qin gentlemen, and put forward the policy of making numbers official. The so-called digital official is to start from the county school, and comprehensively restore mathematics education, and those who fail in mathematics cannot become officials.

Although this policy can eliminate the so-called money and food friends (masters), it has also caused a large shortage of mathematics teachers, so the school department once ordered local businessmen to send arithmetic workers to the county school to teach algorithms and bookkeeping, but because of the inherent discrimination, the effect is not good. After that, the school department promoted some small officials in terms of money and food to become teachers, but it caused delays in local government affairs, but finally trained the first batch of qualified mathematics teachers. However, with the widespread implementation of the government going to the countryside in various provinces, these mathematics teachers are far from being allocated, and all localities can only arrange for them to enter the government first, and then surprise training in batches to solve the contradictions. Rao is like this, and the provinces still have the ambition to complain to the central government wholeheartedly.

"Taixue in the three provinces is expected to have 200 mathematics teachers this year, and Dongning Taixue can also provide another 50 people." This number is far from enough, not to mention anything else, and each locality itself has to withhold a part of it. "The minister has already figured out a way to adjust, and it is expected that after the opening of Wuchang Taixue this year, he will be able to graduate fifty more mathematics teachers next year."

"That's right." Although Zheng Kezhang knew that the school department had done its best, a large number of officials with mathematical knowledge were needed from the Gezhi Academy, the yamen of various ministries and institutes, and down to the provinces, prefectures, and counties. "Is there anything else Qing can think of?"

"There is nothing the minister can do, unless, unless there is a request for some officials not to mention the number for the time being."

"That's the way to do it." Zheng Kezhang thought about it, the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Water involve a large number of construction, so it is naturally necessary to master mathematical knowledge, and the Ministry of Planning, the Ministry of Springs, the Ministry of Auditing, the Horse Administration, the Customs, and the Treasury of course also need to master mathematics, and the Ministry of War is the same, it is a big money-eater, and it needs to have mathematical knowledge to sit in charge, and the Criminal Department, the Supervision Yuan, Fanyang, Dali Temple, and the Tongzheng Yuan are also more or less related to numbers. "The standards can be relaxed for the Ministry of Rites."

Zheng Kezhang added: "In the future, the Ministry of Rites can be held alone, and there is no need to require a certain mathematics pass, but the mathematics test questions can appear as additional test questions, and those who pass both can enter the Fanyang Yamen to serve, otherwise they can only stay in the Ministry of Rites." ”

Although the Ministry of Rites has the power of the council, it is basically a Qingshui Yamen in general, that is to say, Zheng Kezhang thinks that mathematics does not know, and there is no chance of corruption.

Chen Kejun was still thinking about it, and Zheng Kezhang said again: "Since the Ministry of Rites has taken a separate examination of the Ministry of Rites, it seems that the Dali Temple can also list the Ministry of Law Examination, and you can take the subjects of "Collection of Grievances", "Daming Law" and "Preliminary Mathematics", and the Criminal Department should also participate in the Ministry of Law Examination, but the two should focus on each other. ”

Zheng Kezhang This is to show that Zheng Baiguan is gradually becoming professional, and Chen Kejun, who is a little overwhelmed by this, has no choice but to look at Zheng Kezang stupidly, but the first thing to be an official is to be aware of the will, since Zheng Kezhang has issued a request, Chen Kejun can only obey, not only obey, but also do a good job

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