Hearing that it was just to be released, Prince Gong's heart suddenly relaxed, "He is a top-notch figure in the Hanlin Academy, and it is also possible to let him out, but," he seemed to understand something, "Is Li Shaoquan going to ask him to go to Fuzhou?" ”

"What the prince said is very true," Li Ciming nodded, "I always want to go to Nanyang." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ”

Shen Baozhen, Minister of Nanyang Shipping, passed away last year, and the Nanyang Naval Division, which he has been firmly holding for Zuo Zongtang, is now vacant, this Li Hongzhang is really an official, familiar with the way, and is willing to give up such a position to a Zhang Peilun who doesn't know what position? Prince Gong thought secretly in his heart, "I'm afraid it's not easy to go to this Nanyang." ”

"Oh, my lord, why is this? Could it be that the prince already has a candidate? Li Ciming raised his eyebrows and asked.

"The current strength of the Nanyang Naval Division is not bad, and it has done an excellent job of patrolling the South China Sea several times and visiting Ryukyu and Sulu, but now the French are making trouble in Yunnan, if a person shouting and shouting and killing goes to the south, I am really not at ease, and I act without authorization, sabotaging the current negotiations between China and France, and messing up the position of the center, it will not be good. I need a safe person to preside over now, and if this person is not at ease, I would rather have the governor of Fujian take this position. ”

The meaning of these words Li Ciming understands that Prince Gong is unwilling to take up this position as a tending offensive figure. There was a flash of light in Li Ciming's eyes, "The prince is too worried, if it was the Hongyang Rebellion in the past, these local feudal officials still dared to disobey the imperial court's decree and disrespect the decree, and now Chengping has been doing it for so many years, no one dares to do this at all, such as this Zeng Lao Jiu, he is considered unruly, the prince issued Liangguang not to provoke foreigners at the border, and he is not honestly hiding in Guilin, and he doesn't dare to do anything?" can only take chicken feathers as arrows to toss the South Vietnamese tribes. In the final analysis, this is the benefit of receiving the military power from the center. ”

That's right, today's central authority is about the same as Kang Yongqian's three generations, Li Jin naturally needless to say, just talking about military power, although at the beginning of the establishment of twelve towns, the full count is only 120,000 people, according to reason, there are no elite soldiers in the locality, in fact, it is not, there are regimental training and green battalions in various places, and the green battalion does not care about it, and now it has almost become a police station in various places. Under the management of the governors of various provinces, the regimental training has been prosperous in recent years, and there is a lot of prosperity.

The generals and commanders of various localities are responsible for recruiting local soldiers to go to the regiment for training, and then after training into soldiers of good quality, they will first conduct a competition in each province, and then the governor will organize a competition in the center once every three years to conduct a competition in drills, and the ranking of this competition will be directly used as a condition for the promotion, reprimand, demotion, and dismissal of governors, commanders, soldiers, and generals in various places. Everyone didn't dare not take it seriously, in the past, Zuo Zongtang relied on the Northwest Iron Cavalry Regiment to pacify Kokand and Agu Bai to train elite soldiers in one fell swoop in Guangxu's three-year big competition of 20 items, won six or seven out of ten, and shocked the world, so he took the great achievement of counterinsurgency, and easily entered the military aircraft with the momentum of winning the championship in martial arts, even Prince Gong is not easy to say, the military aircraft department, in the end, it is necessary to deal with the military first. There were also many more people in the Western Regions in Beijing, and they returned to the officers and their families.

The governor will not have the reason to hide the elite soldiers for personal gain, how the regiment is trained, this is related to his own official hat, a governor for a maximum of ten years, when the time comes, the elite soldiers will be left, but the successor will be cheapened in vain. Moreover, with the training of regiments, there will not be any military power at the local level, there will be no emptiness in the local area, and small-scale rebellions can be quickly quelled. The elite soldiers trained are all included in the twelve towns, which is also to expand their influence in the army, although the governors are a little reluctant, they will not say much.

The elite from all over the country continued to be filled into the twelve towns, so although the twelve towns sounded like only twelve teams, but they had expanded several times, and although the troops were used against Beihai for many years, there were not many dead and wounded, in the sixth year of Guangxu, the Sichuan regimental training and the Shandong regimental training were incorporated into the twelve towns, and according to the statistics of the military department, the twelve towns included officers and soldiers, a total of 238,659 people, more than doubled.

This amount is still quite large, although compared with the number of millions of male soldiers in the world in the early years of the dynasty, the difference is huge, but these 230,000 are real elites, all the way from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Twist Army, the Anglo-French War, Bai Yanhu, Agu Bai, the Beihai Battle of the elite is by no means those wine bags and rice bags that can be compared with each other.

The big contest and the extraction of elites, this is the twelve towns to enrich themselves, and strengthen the power of the central means, Prince Gong is naturally very proud, plus in the old days there was this clear boundary, prohibiting the governor from interfering in specific local affairs, the governor of the local area is only in charge of military and local stability matters, other specific affairs have been divided by the governor, the political envoy, the inspection envoy, the academic administration, these are all divided. The position of the governor looks prominent, and when it comes to the inside, it is not as powerful as it was in the Xianfeng Dynasty.

However, this also depends on the characters, characters like Zeng Guoquan and Li Hongzhang are naturally the same in their respective subordinate provinces.

Zeng Guoquan went to toss Baiyue's tribe, presumably to take a bad breath in the big competition, Prince Gong heard Li Ciming's compliment, and smiled slightly, "This Zeng Laojiu naturally doesn't dare, and others naturally don't dare." ”

"Naturally, I don't dare, even if Zhang Youqiao goes to the south, he naturally doesn't dare to disobey the orders of the center," Li Ciming said with a smile, "This Li Shaoquan is staring at the Nanyang Naval Division, and it is also because Shen Baozhen is a famous minister at home, and he has the confidence to order his strengths, and the prince knows why." ”

"There are people in the court who are good officials," Prince Gong sighed, "This is his confidence." ”

"Naturally, Li Shaoquan has been in the Nanyang Naval Division before, and he can't exert his influence, it's nothing more than that Shen Baozhen has someone in the court who is upright, and he is quite capable, and the Beiyang Naval Division is an iron bucket, but now that the world has changed in time, so the prince must also want to move the things left by others, right? Otherwise, why would the prince invoke Master Weng to join the direct military plane. ”

Prince Gong glanced at Li Ciming, these people really can't be despised , he secretly raised his vigilance, Li Ciming is good in the end, knowing that he wants to deal with Zuo Zongtang, he took this thing to ask for his consent, what is even more strange is that Zhang Peilun actually took Li Hongzhang's way, Zhejiang and Fujian local security, and the center agreed, this thing is done, and now it is a relationship of alliance for the time being, but if they turn against each other in the future, these people will not keep their hands. nodded, "What you said is very true, then I know about this matter, you just have to do it, but Master Weng is going to join the military aircraft in a few days, wouldn't it be best for him to do this matter himself?" ”

"The prince and noble people are so forgetful, have you forgotten that Master Weng and Li Shaoquan are not on the right path?" Li Ciming said with a smile, "Master Weng can't do this." ”

"Oh," said Prince Gong with a smile, "I have forgotten about it." ”

"Master Weng is the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and he was supposed to be in charge of the Eight Banners, please rest assured, as long as the military aircraft is advanced, the matter of the Eight Banners, Li and Weng will definitely be the only one who will look forward to the prince!"

Li Ciming quietly came out of Prince Gong's mansion, did not return to the house, went to the Xiangfu Teahouse, here is quiet in the noisy, it is a good place to discuss things to eat, in the private room, Zhang Peilun has already soaked a pot of good Tieguanyin to wait, seeing Li Ciming come in, he quickly stood up, and shook his head to the ground, "For the sake of my brother's future, Brother Lao Fei has worked so hard, and my brother is grateful." ”

"Here's what to do, hurry up." Li Ciming smiled and helped Zhang Peilun up, turned his head and asked Xiao Er to close the door of the private room, and the two of them sat down together, "Youqiao, your business is done!" ”

"Really?" Zhang Peilun hurriedly said, "Shichahai, he agreed?" ”

"Naturally, I have to agree," Li Ciming took a sip of tea, smiled arrogantly, and looked like he wanted to deal with Jin Liang in the center, he had to find allies and helpers, the allies are two teachers, we are naturally helpers, and we have to cut his wings locally, so the position of the Nanyang Naval Master will naturally be given to us." ”

Because it is in the teahouse, it is inconvenient to say the name directly, so he only says the hidden language, Zuo Zongtang claims to be "Zhuge Liang today", so the two of them use "Jinliang" to borrow this Zuo Zongtang, Zhang Peilun's celebrity demeanor, has always been a light and breezy appearance, but it is related to his own future, but he can't help but get excited, his face is flushed, "Plus Li Dutai also has this intention, so Shichahai is not good to say anything." ”

"That's exactly why," Li Ciming said with a smile, "Although this matter has been done, Shichahai is also conditional." ”

"On what terms?"

"You are not allowed to make trouble in the south," Li Ciming said, he was satisfied to see the disdainful expression on Zhang Peilun's face, "It is said that you are in a hurry to negotiate peace with the legal person, and the Nanyang Navy Division is not allowed to conflict with the legal person, but when I see Youqiao's appearance, I know that you have to take these words as the wind in your ears." ”

"I went to Nanyang and didn't listen to Jinliang's orders, and then pulled out all his people, this is already a great thanks, why do I have to listen to his orders for anything else? If this is still a promise in the army, wouldn't it live up to my original intention of going to Nanyang? Zhang Peilun smiled, "But his words are not wrong, now I beg him, I don't have much to say, let's keep a low profile first, and when I take office," he poured a cup of tea for Li Ciming, and his ambition seemed to be hidden in the rising steam, "Then, he won't forget what he said." ”

"That's the reason, if we want to wrestle with Shi Chahai, we must ask about this external matter," Li Ciming nodded and said lightly, "If he wants to fight, we will naturally fight." There is no need to negotiate peace with foreigners, we can only win by fighting, and what we say is useful if we win. That's not just what I mean, but so do the two teachers. (To be continued.) )