It's a big deal to lure them into being instructors first, then let them be staff officers or something, and finally let them enter the army little by little.

The battlefield has always been the most attractive place for men, believing that they will not leave the battlefield after a few battles, crying and shouting that they will stay in the army.

It is also that the army is becoming more and more professional, especially naval officers need to have superb mathematical ability and rich written knowledge, and it is not that a political commissar leading a few peasants can be invincible as mentioned on TV, otherwise they don't have to work so hard.

On the other hand, Yang Weili left the machinery factory and went to the pre-arranged residence in Dinghai, with a wry smile in his heart, he really suffered a heavy loss on this trip, and he was afraid that he would be immediately put into the cold palace by Zhao Dagui in the future, and the words "never used" are not known.

If he agrees to Zhao Dagui's request, that is, to enter the security group to take charge of this armed force organization, his status in the Dagui department will immediately soar, and as the leader of the most powerful force in the commercial bank, he will inevitably become the fifth giant comparable to Sheldon, Li Xinlan and others, but unfortunately he will inevitably help Zhao Dagui kill people, so he can only miss it.

It's just that, while secretly feeling pity, Yang Willy inevitably found himself thinking back to the terrain of Peach Blossom Island he had just seen, and was still thinking about how to surround it with ships and how to send troops to land in order to completely destroy the enemy according to the military knowledge taught by the British.

After thinking about it for a while, Yang Weili couldn't help but shake his head, although the Japanese were very hateful, but it was still a little beyond imagination for him to become the leader of the Raushzi Security Regiment and bring a group of people to exterminate him.

"It's okay to be a captain in the future, but if you stop there, can you be willing?" Yang Weili thought about it and felt that it was difficult to make up his mind, so he had no choice but to give up.

Zhao Dagui was busy in Dinghai for nearly two months, and it was not until the affairs here were on the right track that he returned to Shanghai in early March.

There are also many things to do in Shanghai.

There are more than 200 teachers in the Oriental College, but there are very few students, less than 100, because the rich families do not want to send their children to schools that are not for the purpose of the imperial examination, and the poor families do not have the habit of sending their children out to study.

In this case, Zhao Dagui can only make a big move, that is, all teenagers between the ages of ten and fifteen who go to school to study will be exempted from tuition fees, the school will cover room and board, and then give a stipend of five dimes every month.

However, this condition is too good, and many people feel that this matter is boring, but they dare not send their children over.

In the end, it was the former Chen shopkeeper who came up with the idea that all the students who went to school should be trained as apprentices in the shipyard, and they usually had to work.

Regarding this situation, Zhao Dagui could only be speechless.

On the other hand, there are nine big ships to be built on the Dinghai side, and many ships to be built on the Shanghai side, and there are still many legal and illegal things to do, so we have to continue to recruit workers, recruit workers in Shanghai and Dinghai, and send people to various places to recruit skilled blacksmiths, coppersmiths, carpenters, and shipbuilders, etc., in short, the more the better.

Zhao Dagui is not short of money now, so he will recruit more than 1,000 people first, anyway, after recruiting workers, he will have to ask British officers to conduct engineer training for about a month, and even if there is an oversupply in the future, at least he can be used as construction workers.

Seeing that there were more and more people in the concession area in the north, the officials in the county town were a little nervous and kept sending people to monitor the situation, but Zhao Dagui had no intention of taking care of the feelings of these officials.

In addition, the most important issue is the formation of the security corps.

With Zhao Dagui's current power, there is no big problem in forming a security team of hundreds of people, and there is a precedent for the factory to be burned down, Gong Mujiu and others also understand Zhao Dagui's eagerness to establish a factory protection team to protect the safety of the factory.

From the knowledge of the Qing court officials, this security regiment is only a few hundred people, and with a population of as many as 500,000 in Shanghai County, it is actually inconspicuous; of course, they could not imagine how luxurious the weapons and equipment that Zhao Dagui prepared for this security regiment were, let alone understand what kind of combat capability the security regiment could reach.

At the beginning of 1845, Zhao Dagui held a military training among his newly recruited workers, and selected more than 50 young men and six scholars (Yang Weili and others) to work on the Dongfang to learn the navigation methods of Western-style ships and the use of guns and other weapons.

Because the sea area was not calm in this era, the ships that Westerners sailed to Shanghai were all armed merchant ships equipped with six to eight guns, and even the Dongfang, which was a passenger ship, was also equipped with six powerful military guns, so Gong Mujiu rarely found fault, knowing that these people would learn to use guns and artillery under the guidance of Westerners, and he had no intention of interfering.

In addition to these people, Zhao Dagui also has an armed force in his hands.

It turned out that when Zhao Dagui visited Leizhou in the past, he recruited dozens of fishermen with whaling experience from Leizhou to go north, and after arriving in Shanghai, he gave these people simple military training, and equipped them with Western-style whaling ships equipped with whaling cannons, so that they could provide whale oil for Dagui Commercial Firm.

Theoretically, these whale oils are to be sold as fine oil, but everyone knows where it actually goes, so I won't go into detail here.

According to Zhao Dagui's understanding, these fishermen only hold harpoons and other rudimentary weapons to dare to fight with whales like behemoths, courage and combat ability are not to say, this year also used Western-style whaling guns to hunt a large number of whales, that is to say, with the experience of irregular navigation and the use of firearms at sea, it is naturally a very good source of soldiers, and it is easy to train into a navy.

Therefore, he summoned all the whaling teams to Shanghai, intending to train them for a period of time and then convert them to the navy.

In addition, at the beginning of the year, Zhao Dagui asked the shopkeepers of the firm to recruit young people in the two places, because the Dagui firm has a high reputation and influence in these two places, and there are many young people who are willing to work in the Dagui firm, so it is easy to recruit more than 600 strong men, all of whom are young people between the ages of 20 and 30.

Of course, most of them thought that this security team was just a look of the home and nursing home, and soon Zhao Dagui would teach them how to behave.

In this way, more than 800 members of the security corps were easily recruited, and Yang Willy returned to Shanghai from Dinghai, and couldn't help but smile bitterly after knowing this situation, and he didn't know what he felt in his heart.

After Zhao Dagui returned to Shanghai, he had a good talk with the six scholars led by Yang Weili several times, and sure enough, he found that these scholars only wanted to work and get paid, and did not want to lead soldiers to fight and kill.

Zhao Dagui originally wanted to train these people to become captains or senior officers, and he couldn't help but be a little disappointed when he saw this, but when he thought that this was in line with the characteristics of this era, it was almost impossible for a scholar who was willing to kill people and set fire to them from the beginning, so he could only comfort them with kind words, and made an agreement with them not to let them go to the battlefield, but needed them to help train recruits for the security regiment and the like.

The six scholars were also relieved to see Zhao Dagui so good at talking, so they all patted their chests and promised that as long as they were not allowed to go to the battlefield, everything else was easy to say, they would definitely help Zhao Dagui lead good soldiers and cultivate a qualified army.

However, if they knew Zhao Dagui's actual thoughts, I am afraid they would not be so happy.