Part 3 Chapter 10: Thoughts on Further Study

The three thousand new recruits recruited from Guangxi were stationed in a temporary barracks north of the city. Chen Congyun got up early that morning, and this was the first time Chen Congyun appeared in the barracks after returning from Guangning.

Chen Congyun stood quietly on the side of the playground in the morning mist. After watching the training of the recruits for most of the day, his face was a little amused. To be precise, Chen Congyun was extremely disappointed with the performance of these recruits who had been training for half a month.

The recruits seemed to have no idea of ​​left and right. Every time the team turned, there was always a little trouble and often made a lot of laughter. A group of soldiers in the middle of the playground was walking in the practice queue. The formation of the lost formation looked gloomy. It was in sharp contrast to the good weather in the morning. Aftershocks accompanied by Shen Congyun showed a sense of shame and panic on his face.

"After shock, are you the new recruits you have been practicing for half a month?" Chen Congyun finally got angry, and he endured it gloomy and did not get angry.

Aftershock looked ashamed, and stepped forward and stood up and said, "Duke Chen! I'm sorry! My subordinates have dereliction of duty."

"I don't need to listen to you, I'm sorry. What I want is you officers who have received regular military training to at least train an army that looks like an army." Chen Congyun's voice increased a few degrees. To be honest, relying solely on these student soldiers would want to train a new army, which was a bit joking. What Chen Congyun asked was to make these new recruits look a little military, and not be like farmers who were going to the market when they were pulled out.

Aftershocks were really hard to say at this time. Most of these recruits were illiterate, which was a trivial matter. The most fatal thing was that most of the recruits spoke Guangxi dialect one by one, and they couldn't understand the official language at all. The student soldiers mainly came from the north, and it was very difficult for the officers and soldiers to communicate. Many times, when the student soldiers were drooling at the soldiers, they were talking to the chickens and ducks. While speaking, they were dry and speechless, they were not sure what they said.

"Please rest assured, Director Chen, you must bring out a decent team." Aftershock quickly stood at attention and promised that Chen Congyun was in a bad mood. He hummed twice, without any intention of blaming Aftershock.

Aftershocks and the others followed Chen Congyun recently. Chen Congyun was not good at fire and looked at the still chaotic training scene on the playground in a depressed manner. At this time, Li Yaozu, the punching bag, came.

Li Yaozu, wearing a new military uniform, ran into the military camp panting. Last night, Li Yaozu was still sleeping and was woken up by soldiers who came from the palace to report the news and reported the stroke of the Vietnamese king. Li Yaozu was sleeping in a daze at the time and didn't take much heart. He signaled the soldiers to guard the palace strictly, and then continued to go back to sleep.

When Li Yaozu woke up in the morning, he remembered this incident and hurried to Chen Congyun to report. He heard that Chen Congyun had come to the recruit camp, and Li Yaozu rushed over again.

"Sir!" Li Yaozu looked like a salute and muttered to Shen Congyun, naturally to show that he was Chen Congyun's close subordinate.

"Last night..." As soon as Li Yaozu finished speaking, Chen Congyun suppressed his anger for a long time and finally found a place to vent.

"Pig! Stupid pig! How can you wait until now to report such a big thing? Dog Damn Li Yaozu, you kid is called dereliction of duty! Go and go to the playground and run ten laps." Chen Congyun's hands and feet were cold. Although the palace was under his control, it took six or seven hours. If the people around the King of Vietnam handed out the news, what trouble would happen? After all, this was on the territory of other countries. If it was reported that Qing officials deliberately planned to murder the King of Vietnam, then the fun would be great. How could Chen Congyun not get angry?

Li Yaozu was stunned by the scolding. Chen Congyun had no intention of talking nonsense with him. He turned around and walked out of the barracks and headed straight to the city barracks where Wan Shusheng was stationed. Li Yaozu looked at Chen Congyun's angry back, and after a while, he was covered in dust and ran to the playground with his head hanging down.

The Sanqiancui Army immediately moved, and all the city gates were set up on the road. The palace was surrounded by heavy troops to block all the news. Chen Congyun did make people secretly add some seasoning to the food of King Nguyen Phuket, but he didn't expect that the King of Vietnam was so incompetent that he could not withstand it in just a few days.

Sandbags were set up in each gate of the imperial city, and the seized Hachikas machine guns were set up, and all the rifles were bayonets. The patrols on the streets all indicated that something big happened in Hanoi. Ordinary people were so scared that they hid at home and dared not go out. Occasionally there were people on the streets, and Vietnamese officials rushed towards Zicheng surrounded by soldiers' bayonets.

Zicheng, a symbol of Vietnam's supreme power, is even under the tight defense of a thousand soldiers. Soldiers stood in front of each gate. Vietnamese officials entering, tremblingly walked past the cold light of the bayonet.

Outside the main hall where the matter was being discussed, the machine gun was placed at the door, and a scepter of soldiers carried guns and live ammunition. After all Vietnamese officials arrived one after another, Nguyen Phuchyung walked to the main hall under the guidance of his mother.

Chen Congyun did not come forward, but just took Ruan Xiaozhen into the palace urgently in advance. When he met the "mother-in-law", everything he should say was conveyed by Ruan Xiaozhen. Chen Congyun's meaning is very simple. The new king is young and can imitate Cixi and rule the country from behind the curtain! Chen Congyun did not care what the Vietnamese ministers thought, but Chen Congyun wanted only an obedient Vietnamese king. As for what political system, Chen Congyun was too lazy to spend time and copied Cixi's tricks.

In the afternoon of that day, the new king successfully ascended the throne with the support of all officials, and the country was named Xiangtai! On the night when the new king ascended the throne, the old Vietnamese king died in the harem, and the next day, the whole country was in great destruction.

In the evening, Li Yaozu, who had been busy for a day, dragged his tired steps and came to Chen Congyun's temporary headquarters in the imperial city with uneasy. Chen Congyun assigned Li Yaozu in a task, just one sentence, "I stared at the main officials in Vietnam to death." For this sentence, Li Yaozu arranged manpower all day long, and after checking from door to door, he had time to report to Chen Congyun.

This day made Chen Congyun very tired. Ouyang Quan was sent to Guangzhou by Chen Congyun to meet Gangyi. Ouyang Quan was gone by Chen Congyun's side. For the first time, he felt the importance of this aide. There were too many things. Leaving the aides, he would be exhausted.

"Sir!" Li Yaozu stood at the door, looking anxious and restless. Chen Congyun couldn't help but feel embarrassed when he saw it. He was indeed a bit too much for scolding this morning.

"Come in!" Chen Congyun nodded, his face still gloomy. Li Yaozu twisted his body uneasy and came to Chen Congyun. Seeing that the teacup on the table was empty, he took the teapot and poured it all over.

"Pour yourself a cup, see that your lips are dry and cracked, are you busy this day?" Chen Congyun's tone of concern, Li Yaozu couldn't help but feel a soreness when he heard the eyes, and quickly turned his head over.

"It's all my subordinates' job not to be busy." Li Yaozu answered vaguely.

Chen Congyun snorted and said, "Do you know why you scolded me this morning?"

"I didn't report the affairs of the King of Vietnam as soon as possible, so..." Li Yaozu said no. Chen Congyun frowned and interrupted: "It is certainly a mistake to not report it as soon as possible, but the root cause of your mistake is that you don't know Vietnam at all, and you didn't expect to understand it. I really doubt whether it was a mistake to let you serve as the director of the police department."

Li Yaozu felt aggrieved on his face, and he stood attentively with his chest: "What sir has taught me is the lesson."

Chen Congyun saw him like this and couldn't help but laugh and said, "Don't you agree? Okay, I'll analyze it for you, listen to me." After Chen Congyun said that, he walked to Li Yaozu, looked at Li Yaozu's face and said, "The Vietnamese Ruan Dynasty was established by the Ruan Dynasty in Shanxi in 1802. The French have been in Vietnam for many years, and the Vietnamese dynasty and the country, and how many people are close to France, you and me, don't know at all. Now the French are in the south, as long as there is a little excuse, the French are just secretly supporting them. Some Vietnamese who support pro-France may lead to a nationwide unrest. Have you ever thought about this? Look at how many troops can be pulled on the battlefield on our side? Three thousand new recruits will not even use guns! There will be a real disruption. What do you think I will use to maintain the stability of Vietnam? At present, Liu Yongfu has only 3,000 troops in Saigon. If there is chaos in the south, what will I use to reinforce? Relying on those new recruits who can't even fire guns? It's light to say you are a pig!"

Li Yaozu was scolded for a long time and said nothing, but from his expression, he looked convinced. At this time, Wan Shusheng and Aftershock appeared in the hall. Chen Congyun put away his anger and whispered: "Okay, if you know the mistake, please correct me. Don't look so sad that people can see the joke, so that others can say that they are too mean to treat their confidants."

No matter how stupid Li Yaozu could understand the meaning contained in Chen Congyun's words, Li Yaozu really deserves it.

"grown ups!"

"Duke Chen!"

The different names of Wan Shusheng and Aftershock show the degree of closeness between them and Shen Congyun. Chen Congyun heard the secretly strange feeling in his heart, and couldn't help but be shocked: "This is not possible. At least it still needs to be a unified title on the surface. It seems that he has to secretly say hello to these close old people."

"It's been hard work, how are the things going? Orderman, pour tea." Chen Congyun didn't show his thoughts on his face, and he greeted him with a concerned smile.

"According to your instructions, the three thousand sacred troops are guarded by the imperial city, and the three thousand new soldiers are placed in the outer city. The new soldiers are not good, and they can do anything else." Aftershocked when Wan Shusheng said, his face turned red. Chen Congyun saw it and hurriedly smiled: "Haha, this is also impossible. The new soldiers are like this. Without half a year of training, they are not very useful. When Hanoi was blocking, the recruits recruited various groups of trainees usually had a lot of training. When they went to the battlefield, wouldn't the French make a mess of cannons?"

Chen Congyun's words were considered to have lowered the stairs of Aftershock. Aftershock stepped forward and said, "Sir, please rest assured, I will definitely train the recruits well."

Chen Congyun smiled and comforted, "After Shock, you don't have to feel guilty. Although you have received regular Western military training, you haven't had any actual experience in leading troops. The new recruits will not be able to train well for a while. It's not your fault. I'm too hasty." Chen Congyun said, stretched out his hand and patted Aftershock's shoulder and smiled, "By the way, I have a plan to divide you, the student soldiers into three batches and send them to the regular German military academy to receive a three-year military education."

Chen Congyun is now the time to hire people. These student soldiers have received regular training at least. They are gone, who will train them?

Aftershock was also confused and asked, "Sir, we are all going, what should we do if the recruits?"

Chen Congyun smiled and said, "This is a plan for the time being, so let's talk about it later." In fact, Chen Congyun had an idea in his heart, but he just didn't want to say it out. Chen Congyun's idea came from Stephen. Two days ago, Stephen saw the training of the recruits and came to Chen Congyun overnight. Stephen's words were very unpleasant. He said, "Those soldiers who even walk in a mess, and a group of officers who don't have a few beards on their mouths, no matter how they practice, they are a group of mobs."

The words were ugly, but it made sense. Chen Congyun immediately accepted Stephen's suggestion. After Zheng Guanying arrived, Stephen personally went back to Europe and hired some retired officers from Germany with high salaries. Stephen was very unwilling to Chen Congyun's view of having a special liking for German officers at that time, and felt that it would be more than enough to find some officers in any country to train these farmers. As a result, Chen Congyun insisted repeatedly and invited German ones.

Chen Congyun has always been glad that it is only 1885 and there is still time. Just now, Chen Congyun lay on the desk and wrote quickly, and the idea of ​​creating a military trainee was initially taken. Once the new army has become a scale, there are no large number of low-level officers who have received formal training. On the battlefield, they will fight with real swords and guns, and the result can be imagined.
Chapter completed!