One meal lasted two hours. Coming out of the governor's yamen, Long Qian and the half-drunk Tang Shaoyi were sent back to the hotel. He promised Zhou Xuexi to inspect the Luoyuan Academy (Shandong University Hall was built on the site of the college) that was being expanded tomorrow, and also planned to pay a visit to Feng Guozhang, who took over as the governor of Shandong. Therefore, the date of Long Qian's return to Lunan will be postponed by a few days.

Tang Shaoyi decided to live with Long Qian, and sent someone to the Jinan Mansion to inform Ding Governor that he would not go back, so he fell asleep in the guest room. Long Qian settled Tang Shaoyi and sat alone in the courtyard thinking about his next task.

Jiang Yun and Long Qian's guards saw that he was thinking about things alone, and they didn't come to bother, but just brought him a teapot filled with tea and a teacup.

The task of coming to Jinan this time was basically completed, but I didn't expect to get Zhou Fu's support unexpectedly today, even if Feng Guozhang hated himself, it didn't matter the overall situation. According to Jiang Yun's report, Yuan Shikai's Wuwei Right Army has been drawn into Gyeonggi one after another, and it is estimated that there will not be too many troops left for Feng Guozhang, if it is just the vanguard of the Wuwei Right Army adapted from the patrol battalion, Long Qian does not need to worry at all. After Yuan's army leaves, the strongest force on the ground in Shandong will be the Mengshan army! It should be Feng Guozhang who worries about himself, not Feng Guozhang.

Feng Guozhang didn't follow Yuan Shikai to Zhili! This surprised Long Qian. It is difficult to estimate whether Feng will break away from Yuan Shikai. In history, Feng followed Yuan Shikai to Zhili, what role did he play, but Long Qian didn't know what to do. The history of what he knew had changed completely. In that history, Li Hongzhang is still alive, and he is still busy with the signing of the Xinchou Treaty and the withdrawal of the Eight-Nation Coalition from Beijing. Cixi also did not return to Beijing. Still staying in Xi'an. But now that Cixi has returned to the palace, Li Hongzhang died of illness a few months earlier, and the content of the Xinchou Treaty has changed a lot, at least in terms of the amount of indemnity paid much less than the history of his knowledge of the Dao.

Is it all because of me? Long Qian was deeply confused.

What is certain is that I have stood still after coming to this era! By the time they left Lunan, the troops had successfully taken over the two states and completed the strategic development. Recruitment has also officially begun. By the time German weapons arrived, the strength of the troops would be greatly improved. With this soldier in hand, it is enough to deal with the general situation.

Long Qian knew that since the Qing court declared war on all nations last year. The apparent unification of the Qing court has also come to an end. Local powers will be further strengthened. In fact, for a long time it will be the time when the barrel of a gun speaks. As long as you control your own army, whether it is the governor or the imperial court, you must take care of your own existence. Even look at your own face.

Among the celebrities of this generation. Yuan Shikai is the most aware of the importance of military power. This is the fundamental reason why he climbed to the highest peak in the late Qing Dynasty. Don't doubt it at all. This person will definitely continue to strengthen his military power in Naoli. There is no news that he is also the Minister of Beiyang Commerce. However, according to the custom, the governor of Zhili will also serve as the minister of trade in Beiyang. At that time, Yuan Shikai's small station soldiers should be called the Beiyang Army, and then it should be the formation of the six towns of Beiyang__ This is similar to the mixed force in his own hands. What the result will be, I really don't know what it will be.

Whether Yuan Shikai will establish a military academy in Baoding, Long Qian is a little uncertain now. To this end, Jiang Yun has already made arrangements according to his instructions, and the specific plan has been approved by him. Two days later, after Jiang Yun established the Jinan station, he would go to Baoding to direct the operation nearby. Because he demanded a high degree of secrecy, this group of spies who were ready to break into the military and political system of the Beiyang Army. The fewer people who know their identity, the better. So Jiang Yun personally selected the personnel and reported to him alone. As a result, Long Qian selected three of the eight people selected by Jiang Yun, one of whom was a member of the intelligence department, one was a soldier of the logistics department, and the last one was the squad leader of the combat unit. The characteristics of these three people are that they all have a cultural background, their ancestral hometowns are not from Shandong, two are from Henan, and one is from Baoding, Zhili, and they can basically speak fluent hometown. After the candidates were decided, the three of them secretly received training from Long Qian and Jiang Yun, and now they are still following Chen Chao in the base area to strengthen their study of ancient literature. Of course, Chen Chao didn't know what Lu Dao's mission was, and Long Qian didn't worry about leaking secrets, because except for Jiang Yun and himself, no one knew what Lu Daotuo was doing together, and even they didn't know what they were doing.

In order to choose not many people, Long Qian guessed that the imperial court must attach great importance to the reconstruction of the Army Military Academy, and the number of students in the first class will not be many. In addition, the bad habits of the Manchu Qing Dynasty are difficult to get rid of, and the big men will definitely shake out a lot of "designated admission" children of the powerful in their pockets, and it will be useless to send more people to refer to them. Fortunately, if a military academy is opened, it will never be one term, and it will naturally continue to be held every year, and as long as the secret spies who are mixed into the first class are not exposed, it is not impossible to send them in year by year in the future.

The base area took the lead in starting a social survey presided over by Chen Chao, and the three people were nominally assigned to assist Chen Chao in conducting the rural survey. But only Chen Chao knew that they might have another mission, because Long Qian deliberately asked Chen Chao to tutor the three of them in ancient texts, and required them to meet the standards of Xiucai. Chen Chao said that it is impossible, is the show so easy to get in? I don't believe you can just pick three talents on your team! Long Qian took a step back, well, at least he could successfully write a passable article - yes, it was Baguwen.

The imperial court has not abolished the eight shares yet, and it is not a novelty for the eight shares to appear in the cultural class examination of the military academy.

At the time of the primary election, Long Qian was satisfied with the basic situation of the three final candidates, the family was basically unburdened, the military veteran had fought but had not been injured (there could be no war wounds on his body), his superiors evaluated him very well, and there should be no problem with his loyalty. After being selected, before Long Qian left the base and went north to Jinan, he gave a few lectures to three people in a row, except for the common sense of espionage, Long Qian talked more about loyalty to what was right or wrong. They were required to be loyal to the Mengshan army in all circumstances.

All three of them thought that they were accepting an important person, but they did not know that they would be sent into the Beiyang Army to lurk for a long time.

If all goes well, these three young people with a higher level of education will go to apply for Yuan's military academy, even if they are admitted to two, it will be a great achievement. As far as Long Qian's understanding of history is concerned, he is deeply impressed by the fact that the phenomenon of seniority in the military circles of the Republic of China is very serious. It is conceivable that the first graduates of military schools were reused from above.

At this time, the means of espionage were still very primitive, and many generals had no knowledge of modern espionage methods at all. Long Qian believed that the methods he gave to Jiang Yun were estimated to be difficult for his opponent to see. As long as there are a few more years, he will be full-fledged, and he will not be afraid to turn his face with the court.

But what if Yuan Shikai doesn't run a military school? Long Qian smiled bitterly in his heart. In the midst of the historical trend of losing his trajectory, he himself felt lost.

Now, at last, another more important problem has arisen, and the revolutionary party has jumped out!

As far as Long Qian knows, history. Sun Wen, Huang Xing and others until the Xinhai period. During the decade-long period, he stubbornly and unyieldingly launched armed uprisings aimed at overthrowing the Manchu Qing Dynasty again and again. But they never realized that the practice of using overseas fundraising and mercenary parties as the main force of the uprising would not work at all! In exchange for the sacrifice of a large number of hot-blooded young people! Even the old-school bureaucrat Zhou Fu had realized the terrible way for the revolutionary party to liaise with the army. But it seems that Sun Wen has always been reluctant to do military work. But. If the Alliance-Long Qian couldn't figure out if the Alliance was established now. What should I do if I find myself?

Just like Rong Hong, Yan Fu, Zhang Binglin and others who have joined the anti-Qing camp mentioned by Zhou Fu at noon, they are all famous figures in later generations! Yan Fuxing was one of the founders of China's first modern navy. Rong Hong is the first pioneer to open his eyes to the world, Zhang Binglin is even more remarkable, he is worthy of the master of Chinese studies, this person is definitely the last one. Long Qian hadn't read Zhang's article, but the fame of "Mr. Taiyan" was too big, so big that anyone with a little culture should have heard of it.

How pleasant it would be if these people were used for their own purposes! But this can't be. To a large extent, they had only heard of the Xigu Victory, and the name Long Qian may have been branded as Cixi, and they regarded it as a post-party representing the stubborn power of the Manchu Qing Dynasty! It is estimated that he will not fight his own idea, and if he wants to find himself, eighty percent of them will send bombs.

Thinking of Sun Wen's assassination methods, Long Qian couldn't help but smile bitterly.

The back party is the back party, anyway, now there is no capital to wrestle with the Manchu Qing. And no matter how the domestic situation changes, the most important thing is to strengthen your own strength! When you have a strong army and an industrial base under your control, whether it is a revolutionary party or a royalist, it is not under your own words! As for the Manchu court, it has been a bunch of walking dead since last year, and no matter whether it is a new policy or a constitution, there will be no good ending. As long as the Manchu nobles refuse to really take the initiative to withdraw from the stage of history, what awaits them is destruction! There will never be a British ending. Perhaps without doing it himself, Yuan Shikai will complete the mission of subverting the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

So, the key is yourself. Two things, one is to do a good job of the troops, and the other is to rely on Lunan coal and iron to build an industrial base beyond Hanyang, and the others are secondary. Long Qian sorted out his thoughts and thought that his choice was correct.

How to do a good job in the army? Long Qian had a headache again. The Mengshan army is becoming more and more feudal. Or, she was originally a feudal army and never changed its nature. What Long Qian brought to them was only to surpass the organizational discipline and advanced tactics of the time, and did not make any changes in nature.

However, Long Qian clearly realized that if he continued like this, not to mention whether it was his original intention, the key was that the nature of the troops remained unchanged, and he would not raise his combat effectiveness to the extreme of this world! The feudal army is devoid of doctrines, it only follows individuals and a team, and its horizons cannot be opened at all. Without ism, there will be no ideals, without ideals, there will be no spirit of sacrifice, and without the spirit of sacrifice, an army will not be a strong army ahead of the times! Moreover, the feudal army must be xenophobic. If we do not open our minds and recruit a large number of intellectuals into the troops, it will be very difficult to remodel the troops and improve their tactics! The rejection of Situ Jun that has appeared proves this, in his old team, he has always regarded Situ Jun as an outsider and has not really accepted it, and Feng Guozhu's question just represents a common view. If you are here, you can suppress those "elders", if you are gone, it must be the result of the death of the people.

This is enough to cause alarm. If you rely on seniority and seniority to expand the army, even if the Mengshan Army becomes an armed force that can compete with the Beiyang Army, it will not realize the ideal in your heart.

In order for the army to have its own ideals, it is necessary to build a party organization that is ahead of the times. Arm your own backbone with an advanced program. But what kind of political party to build? Which stand? Which class or strata are represented? How to untie the land to the peasants? Is it to average wealth by violent means or to achieve reform by moderate means? These are all that have been thought about but have not been concluded. The other is the question of timing, starting to build a political party now, and any way except blatant royalism will come into conflict with the current regime. It is not the best policy to confront the current regime too early. The last thing is the problem of talent, I don't have a civilian team in my hands who is as loyal to me as the generals of the Mengshan Army, what can I use to form a political party? It was concluded that there can be no political claims now.

In that case, let's do it first. Let him keep the poison of feudalism first. Concentrate on economic construction and strive to build an industrial base in ten years!

Long Qian pondered intently, until the twilight shrouded, and the guards couldn't help but remind him that it was time to eat. Long Qian came out of his meditation. (To be continued......)