The Tenth Town was successfully formed and Feng Lun's headquarters quickly moved westward to Guangxi, and the rising contradictions between the imperial court and Long Qian were temporarily subsided. Before the arrival of the New Year in 1908, the Qincha team left Guangzhou and returned to Beijing by sea.

Fifth Town began recruiting troops on a large scale to replenish the weakened troops. Around the time of the Spring Festival, conscription notices were plastered all over the streets and alleys of various towns and cities, and the military salaries in the fifth town had always been high, and the form of calculating and paying military salaries was also very different from that of the new army in China. The money is placed in the logistics department or the logistics department, and the interest is calculated according to the survival of Shandong Commercial Bank. If necessary, it can be withdrawn immediately. The veterans of the Mengshan Army were accustomed to this approach, but the recruits recruited in Guangdong were apparently not convinced. When new recruits join the army, they are immediately paid a month's salary, which is also the rule of the Mengshan Army, and most of them immediately take out all their salaries from the logistics department, and feel relieved to find that there is no barrier. But they all have the same problem when they withdraw their salaries, what are you doing with your money? If it is sent to parents, there will be no obstacles, and someone will help you send it after registration. If it is used for personal consumption, they will be admonished, and they will not have to worry about food and clothing in the army, and the military discipline regulations prohibit smoking and prostitution, prostitution, and gambling, and even drinking alcohol is strictly restricted.

Most of the recruits are fresh to this. A small number of literate recruits felt that the troops were very humane. The core secret behind it is to save a lot of money and increase the cohesion of the troops.

The new Guangzhou general Fengshan had not yet arrived, and Long Qian instructed Wang Mingyuan to continue the reorganization of the Guangdong patrol battalion. Since Huizhou. Wang Mingyuan began to rectify the patrol battalion of Shaozhou Mansion, completely ignoring the warning of the imperial court that the patrol battalion should not be moved again.

As far as the renovation of the patrol battalion is concerned, the situation has actually changed from two months ago. After the Guangzhou Security Corps and the Zhaoqing Security Corps were formed, most of the soldiers came from the original patrol battalions, and only the officers who drank the blood of the soldiers and the soldiers who were weak in constitution and had a big addiction to cigarettes were eliminated. The salary of the security regiment was twice as high as that of the original patrol battalion, and it immediately attracted ordinary soldiers from the patrol battalion. The full amount of military pay also offset the pain caused by the sudden increase in the amount of training. The officers of the Fifth Town were all good at training, and the instructors had conquered the hearts of most of the ordinary soldiers by taking the lead, and the situation might have been better if it had not been for certain difficulties in verbal communication.

In addition to military salaries and officers, the Fifth Town's investment in the two newly formed security regiments in terms of weaponry, military uniforms, and medical system construction has also changed the attitude of the officers and men of the original patrol battalion. I don't think there's anything wrong with adapting it.

The Fifth Town has already formed a set of effective training methods. Long Qian also allocated a special fund for Wang Mingyuan's military training, and immediately rewarded the officers and men who had good results in military training and promoted their official posts. Most of the soldiers in the patrol battalion were children of poor families, and they only wanted to support their families with money, which naturally stimulated the upsurge of training in the security regiment.

The strict military discipline was praised by the local gentry. In addition, the local garrison has strict military discipline and effective anti-bandit operations. Civil-military relations have been greatly improved. Shaozhou is the defense area of the 17th standard of the main force of the Mengshan Army. As soon as they arrived, they raided and exterminated a group of bandits who had been plagued by the local area for many years, rescued four "meat tickets", and won the praise of the local gentry. It greatly eased the tension between the local and guest troops.

The patrol battalion was originally a system, and the changes that had taken place in Guangzhou and Zhaoqing were quickly learned of by the rest of the state capitals, and Wang Mingyuan had much less resistance when he started to rectify Shaozhou, which was extremely important.

Shaoguan is the northern gate of Guangdong, and Long Qian attaches great importance to it. The Shaozhou Security Regiment was instructed to organize according to the main target of the Fifth Town, and to allocate a batch of stockpiled committee rifles purchased from Lihe Foreign Bank. Before the Spring Festival of Wushen Year (1908), the Shaozhou Security Regiment was formally established, with a total of 2,600 people, a large establishment of three battalions and twelve companies, and equipped with a machine gun company, a cavalry company and an engineer platoon.

The establishment of the Shaozhou Security Corps was a turning point. Originally, the imperial court explicitly ordered Long Qian to suspend the rectification of the patrol battalion, but Long Qian seized the assassination of Fu Qi and the word "suspended" and resumed the incorporation of the Guangdong patrol battalion.

Fengshan, who was to be appointed general of Guangzhou, arrived in Guangdong by land after the Spring Festival, and his first stop was Shaozhou, where the 17th Standard and the Shaoguan Security Regiment lined up to welcome the Manchu general, who was extremely reluctant to come to Guangzhou.

It was raining lightly that day, and Feng Shan paid special attention to the appearance of the security regiment that had been waiting in the rain for a long time, and felt very satisfied. Asked the magistrate who accompanied him on his inspection, how long has the security corps been in existence? The prefect of Shaozhou proudly said that it was a month. Feng Shan nodded again and again, "Not bad, not bad." It's a lot of use. ”

"It's all the support and training of the Fifth Town. As soon as they came to Shaozhou, they exterminated a huge local gangster, and the people were very happy. The prefect of Shaozhou replied truthfully.

This is completely different from what Jingshi has learned. It seems that Shaozhou is not disgusted with the fifth town. Feng Shan felt a little puzzled. However, the harmonious relationship between the Fifth Town and the local government is not a bad thing, and Fengshan, who was afraid of Guangzhou because of Fu Qi's assassination of the assassins, even had a sense of Jing Ke Xiaoxiao and easy water before leaving Beijing. The imperial court pinned high hopes on him, not only to extinguish Sun Wen's rebellious party, but also to deal with the fifth town of Longqian, which was manifested in the opposite way, and the burden was extremely heavy.

From the perspective of Shaozhou, the situation in Guangdong is not as serious as the imperial court imagined. That's good, Fengshan, who is in his last years, is really willing to do more than less.

Perhaps the Imperial Court's strategy to split the Fifth Town has worked, right? Feng Shan is a veteran general who has led the army for a long time, and he cannot be said to be a layman in military terms. I really thought that there was an army that served him in Guangdong, so he stopped in Shaozhou for two days to watch the military drills held for him by the security regiment, and felt that it was really not easy to do this in a month. The old general was still a bureaucrat, and he didn't know that forty-one officers in the Shaozhou Security Regiment were sent by the Fifth Town to support the troops.

When Fengshan arrived in Guangzhou, he immediately received the news that the 100,000 mountains of the 10th Town and the 19th Association had crossed the border between the two provinces, and that the surprise soldiers had copied Huangxing's back road, Fengshan was extremely happy and thought it was a good start.

In accordance with the practice of officialdom, Zhou Fu held a grand banquet to welcome the arrival of Fengshan. Feng Shan didn't see Long Qian as he wanted to see. Zhou Fu said that Long Qian, Jiaying, and Chaozhou inspected the defense affairs. It will probably be a few days before I return. Feng Shan nodded expressionlessly and didn't say anything.

Zhou Fu briefed Fengshan on the situation in Guangxi, saying that after Zhou Yi's troops occupied Ningming and Longzhou, the back road of the rebellious party had been cut off, and it would soon be peaceful.

Fengshan didn't care much about the rebellion in Guangxi, and he didn't even implement whether the rectification of the patrol battalion that caused the Guangdong incident really stopped. The restoration of the old system is an empty word, and the Shaozhou Security Corps is there.

The first thing Fengshan needs to understand is the death of Fu Qi. He felt that his own safety was at stake.

There are different versions of the Guangzhou incident in Beijing, and some people say that Fu Qi did not die in the assassination of the chaotic party, but that the murderer was someone else. Who else is that? Naturally, there is no need to explain it anymore. Because the one who benefited the most from that incident was Long Qian. Fu Qi, who had impeached him, was killed, and the imperial court terminated his transfer. Instead, it took a more conciliatory approach. It was just half of his troops. Of course, it remains to be seen whether the half that was taken will fall into the bag of the imperial court. At least now everything is going well, isn't the Tenth Town obediently ordered to send troops to Guangxi and work very hard?

Feng Shan reviewed the file of Fu Qi's assassination with Zhou Fu's cooperation. The two Japanese arrested at the scene have been handed over to the Japanese Consulate in compliance with the order. Now it is said that he has returned to his homeland. One of the remaining Cantonese Assassins was severely punished. Soon after, he died in the prison of Guangzhou Prefecture. The confession he left acknowledges that he is a revolutionary. But it is unclear how many shots were fired and at whom. There were many eyewitnesses at the scene, including the testimony of Zhou Fu's guards. There are also testimonies from Long Qian's guards, and even more of Fu Qi's guards. Some of them are the same, some are different. The common denominator is that the scene is very chaotic, Fu Qi was assassinated, Long Qian rescued Zhou Fu and was injured, but there are inconsistencies in how many shots were fired, some said three shots, some said two shots or even four shots. And Fu Qi's two bullets in his body are undoubtedly conclusive, but unfortunately he has been buried, and he will never be able to examine the wound with scientific means.

If two shots were really fired, it would be difficult to explain Long Qian's injury.

Fengshan expressed dissatisfaction with the imperial court's release of the two Japanese suspected of plotting assassination. If the interrogation had been harsh, the remnants of the revolutionary party hidden in the city of Guangzhou might have been found. However, the imperial court is becoming more and more cowardly to foreigners, including Orientals, and people say that carrying weapons is self-defense, that is self-defense, and people say that they have not fired a gun, which is the truth. Thinking of the number of outlaw assassins lurking in the huge city of Guangzhou, Feng Shan shuddered.

On the third day after arriving in Guangzhou, Fengshan personally sent Cixi an excerpt reporting that he had arrived in Guangzhou and that everything was going well. He reported what he had seen and heard after entering Guangdong, and especially praised the Shaozhou Security Corps, saying that it was indeed a great improvement over the patrol battalion he knew, and that the rectification had indeed been effective. He reported to the imperial court that it was not for nothing that the Fifth Town had sent instructors to reorganize the patrol battalion, and that it was only for those who were in control! Guangdong's geographical location is extremely important, and it must be heavily armed. Considering that the Fifth Town will inevitably be transferred to the north, it is better to concentrate on reorganizing the patrol battalion now, and as soon as the conditions are met, the Guangdong army can be reorganized into a new military town. In this way, it is necessary to send a number of reliable officers from Beiyang, especially the first town, to Guangdong to help in this matter.

Fengshan also reported the news he heard from the Tenth Town, believing that the Tenth Town could still be called a solid business, and the 19th Association of the Ministry had gone deep into Guangxi, cutting off the back road of thieves, and there would be good news in the near future.

After the report, Feng Shan once again talked about the Fu Qi case. In his report, he officially expressed the dissatisfaction of the imperial court with the release of the two Japanese suspects, believing that the Japanese must have participated in it, "Cha Sunwen has used Japan as a lair for many years, which shows Japan's sinister intentions to subvert our Qing Dynasty. As soon as the slave arrived in Guangzhou, it was rumored that the people who plotted to assassinate Fu Qi were hired by the Japanese to do it, and they must have been instigated by the Sun thief behind it. Japan must not be trusted, may the Queen Mother beware of ......"

Fengshan's report made no mention of Long Qian and his Fifth Town, which had been cut by half of its strength. Probably because he didn't see Long Qian. And Han Ce, an important figure in the Fu Qi case that Fengshan has never forgotten, was getting off the ship from a sea ship bound for Tianjin from Guangzhou and taking a train to Beijing. He was to join the personnel sent to the northeast in Beijing and go to the 18th Town to serve as an intelligence officer for the Lonely Hanging Outer Force. Han Ce really wanted to go to Shandong first to visit his parents, who he hadn't seen for nearly three years, but he was not allowed.

After the Fazheng Road assassination case, Long Qian personally met with Han Ce and had a long talk with him. Wang Zhifeng believed that Han Ce was not completely exposed, and intended to send him back to Japan to continue to lurk. But Long Qian thought it was extremely dangerous and decided to end Han Ce's undercover career. Due to the need for long-term secrecy of the Fazheng Road incident, it would be inappropriate for Han Ce to stay in Guangdong or Shandong, so Han Ce was appointed as the deputy director of the Intelligence Department of the 18th Town and ordered him to leave the customs.

Before leaving, Long Qian explained Han Ce's instructions to the Lushan troops and the requirements for vigorously developing intelligence personnel among the North Manchurian Russians. For the sake of insurance, Long Qian just dictated and was conveyed to Lu Shan by Han Ce. In order to prove Han Ce's identity, Han Ce needed to go to Beijing first, and then to Shenyang, accompanied by Tian Shubang to Jilin.

"Good job! In a few years, we will meet in the Central Plains! Long Qian patted Han Ce on the shoulder, "The future is immeasurable, so cherish yourself." (To be continued......)