Chapter 4 The Double Beads
In the next few days, Xu Yifan was too lazy to go to visit Li Hongzhang. It was not the time to challenge this uncle. He just hurriedly took Yang Shixiang, who was the official in Zhili Road, and hurriedly did his own business.
The yamen where the trial training department was set up in the house left by the original maritime yamen in Dongji. There was a ceremony to open the customs defense, but Xiao Guicao followed. Everyone in the Beiyang officialdom knew the origin of the military training department, and there were only a few people celebrating it, waiting to see when the place would be shut down and the stalls would be closed.
The road was made by oneself anyway.
Xu Yifan comforted himself like this when he was free.
Some of the Beiyang talents who wanted to play the tune were exhausted and gathered a list. It was pitiful to say that he now has such a big name and does not have the power to make a single title. He can only report it to Li Hongzhang, and Li Hongzhang will consider the tune.
But he knew a little bit that Li Hongzhang would give him a person. He was not a serious official in Beiyang. The more people he gave, the faster the possibility of making jokes came.
As for the Beiyang Wushu Academy, he was planning to go there in person. Perhaps it was his true direct line in the future!
As for the military commander Jiang and his team, dozens of people surrounded Du Qilin and returned to the door, preparing to clean up the property. Xu Yifan said that the families of Qilin Village that he had taken from Du Juan were aware of, and he spent a lot of money. He only gave them 10,000 taels of silver. He also agreed to contact him once every three months to help them with food and wages. As for Du Juan, he still stayed with him.
Du Qilin really couldn't bear to let his daughter take that danger. In addition to her, there were also people from Qilin Village No. 20 and 30, so they chose to stay. Those who stayed, who were tired of the career of a horse thief, might be able to use it with confidence...
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Next to the Tianjin Guard Artillery Bureau, the Beiyang Military Preparation School was like a pot today. In the morning, with the German foreign instructors in the morning, the lecture classes in the classroom became like duck ponds. The only 200 students in the Qing Dynasty who received the most complete and latest military training at that time were sitting in the lecture hall, but they didn't know where to fly.
Yang Shixiang sat on the top and told them the thirteen chapters of the Chinese study of Sun Tzu's Wu Jing. He was making the generals unable to raise their troops with anger to derive the scriptures and quote the classics. He just pretended not to see the whispers of the students below.
He was not only the first Taoist in Zhili, but also Li Hongzhang's confidant thought tank, but also taught Chinese martial arts classics to the Wubei Academy.
He also knew in his heart that everyone was not interested in this today. Speaking of which, the Martial Arts School has been open for some time. The plan was to train young officials in the Huai Army, and some of them served as scholars. Replace the old Huai Army officers. Unfortunately, over the years, the Huai Army has long become a nepotism system. Generals and officers from all the battalions would rather use their own personalities than use these students. The Martial Arts School has trained two groups of students, but unfortunately they are all idle and have no place to use them. A few continue to study and go abroad to study. After they come back, they will also teach in the camp and practice with the camp. There is no use.
Most of the others changed their careers, some went to telegraph offices, some went to mines, and some went to school to take the exam. You should know that these students have undergone a complete German-style military officer education! For example, just math used for military measurement, they have learned the level of calculus!
In this era, he is definitely the elite among the elite.
Now that this news suddenly comes, it is likely to be a way out to fulfill their ambitions. Can they not be excited?
In the time and space where Xu Yifan came, the students who studied in the Beiyang Wubei Academy spontaneously formed the student army during the Boxer Incident seven years later. It was the Qing government army that resisted the most powerfully in the entire war, except for Nie Shicheng's Wuwei Army. The first thing he did after he got angry that the Eight-Nation Alliance took control of the Tianjin Wei was to burn the Beiyang Wubei Academy.
These students really need to be used. After the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, Yuan Shikai started a new job and trained a new army at a small station.
Xu Yifan did not intend to keep these talents for Yuan Shikai.
Seeing Yang Shixiang turn a blind eye, the students were talking louder.
"The Imperial Guard... is training a new army! I heard that Lord Xu gave the Tiaochen in the middle hall, who needed twelve camps, three camps, and one camp in the artillery team... How many generals are needed to fill it? He had no one in his bag. If we go, we should have a team official!"
"I'm afraid it's difficult... Where are the equipment for the new army? Where is the salary? Where is the place? Don't let's go, there will be no end in the end!"
"If you don't practice the new army, how can you fight in the future? When the Hunan Army is old, you have to practice the Huai Army. When the Huai Army is old, you still have to practice the new army? I think there is a way to solve the problem. Xu Zhan said that he had a special order to leave the capital, so how can he have no way?"
"Have you read Xu Guan's European Games Movie Record? I've been watching these two days by lighting the lamp and boiling oil. I understand that foreigners are strong and we are weak, but I didn't expect the gap to be so big! How many small countries are destroyed like that is really miserable. The Polish country has divided them up. I heard that their people can only walk in the middle and not walk along the side, saying that they are afraid that inferior nations will steal things... I think that if we don't practice strengthening the army, we will have to lose our country one day!"
"Imperial Guards, Imperial Guards... I said, if we really go over and do it, will the bannermen come to steal this power?"
"Shh! Silence!"
On the two desks behind, there were two young officers, both wearing Huai Jun five-cloud jackets and big hats placed upright on the desk. One of them had agile eyebrows and a tall and thin person. He frowned and looked like he was smiling. Sometimes he could hear the sound of laughter and then he quickly lowered his head to cover it.
The one who leaned against his desk was a serious and handsome young man. His eyebrows were as dark as paint, and the sharpness in his eyes was like a cone in his pocket, as if he was reminding others at any time, the master of these eyes was as sharp as the sharpness of the master.
He sat upright, put his hands on his knees according to the rules of the hall. It seemed that the people around him could not get into his ears at all.
The tall and thin young man secretly touched him and whispered: "Yun Zong, did you hear it? I'm all the time. I'm all thinking about being an official. A guy who has written this book can be able to train a strong army and a strong country? I think, our Qing Dynasty hasn't been born yet..."
His voice was lowered, and the person almost touched the officer named Yun Zong: "Those guys who eat hardcore crops ride on our heads for a day. No matter what we do, the blind man lights the lamp and wastes wax. When we think about studying this school, it's really... According to the Shanghai people, it's called Remnant!"
Sure enough, his tone was also a little bit Nanyin.
The officer named Yun Zong didn't even raise his eyebrows. He didn't move, as if he didn't hear his words.
The actions of the tall and thin young officer were not even Yang Shixiang who was deliberately not to care about it. He stopped the story that no one had heard of him and coughed: "Chu Wanli! Look at how you are like this, are you still the demeanor of the military officers of the court? What is the rules of the hall? I am not a foreign instructor, and I can't control you. But seeing that I am the first in charge of Zhili, and the second-rank red top, you have to respect me, right?"
Yang Hanlin smiled and said, "The young officer who asked Chu Wanli to sit upright quickly, and smiled at Yang Shixiang with a clever smile: "Mr. Yang, I am secretly praising Li Yunzong the martial arts you told us. If it were in the Xiantong period, Lord Yang was not a famous minister in Zhongxing, and he would also be named a uncle? When will Lord Yang tell us about calligraphy of gold and stone?"
Seeing Chu Wanli's lazy look, Yang Shixiang smiled bitterly. To be honest, he had no interest in attending classes in this martial arts lecture hall. However, Chu Wanli's handsomeness was a little bit accustomed to him. As for Li Yunzong, who looked like a model martial arts next to Chu Wanli, he didn't like him no matter how he looked.
He took out Pan Huang's gold-twisted pocket watch in his arms and looked at the time: "I know you are not in the mood today. Waiting for Xu Zhan, the trial committee member of the Imperial Guard, come to the school to read it, and want to curry favor with a lack of future... Then don't be like this duck pond now!"
Well, these students are so enthusiastic that they are under Xu Yifan's hands. According to Zhongtang's thoughts, I'm afraid it will be a waste again!
The listener from the school rang the bell on the playground at this time.
The sound of the gathering of foreign numbers also sounded, and the German command from the German queue to urge the French and foreign instructors came from outside.
The students below were in a commotion. It seemed that Xu Guan was on time!
Yang Shixiang looked at their eagerness and sighed and waved his hand: "Go!"
With a coaxing sound, the student officers put their big hats neatly on their heads, put their five-cloud jackets and brushed their horse boots, and rushed out one by one. Chu Wanli pulled Li Zongyun beside him: "You're not leaving yet? Look at the freshness! Bai Xiang and Bai Xiang are not bad either..."
Li Zongyun stood up straight, glanced at the squishy brother, and walked out with his head held high. Chu Wanli chased him behind and laughed at him: "If you say something more, it will kill you, right?"
The two of them were about to go out one after another, Yang Shixiang slowly called Chu Wanli: "...Is your surname Chu? I heard that he was a scholar? You took the case exam every time. Others thought you were going to take the fame and fortune in the book, but you joined the martial arts school?"
Chu Wanli was still smiling: "A hero doesn't mention his courage back then. My brother Yun Zong is the real talent in Nanyang Academy. Wouldn't he be the big soldier with me?"
Yang Shixiang smiled and shook his head: "Qucai, Qucai, the country has its own way to use scholars... Brother Chu, do you want to come from the curtain?"
Chu Wanli was stunned and looked at Li Yunzong with expressionless face. The sound of the horn gathering outside was tickling tighter. He smiled and performed a military salute with a flat chest of Huai Army: "Sir, I still want to go home and be my eldest son... Wherever we two brothers go, it seems that they are confused and have not found a way out... We can't take it."
The two turned around and left. Yang Shixiang sat there without being embarrassed by the two unknown men. They just frowned and touched their beards: "Wait for the way out?"
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More than 200 student officers were neatly lined up in several long rows in the playground. The German foreign operator holding the command knife walked to the front of the team with a bumpy goose. He stroked the command knife: "augenberichtigen!"
The team suddenly made a neat sound, and everyone looked to the right. Only the ranks of the palm flags and trumpet soldiers stood straight, holding the black flying tiger flag of the martial arts school.
Yang Shixiang walked towards the door with two or three green hats, swaying and swaying towards the door, preparing to welcome Xu Yifan's carriage and horse. According to his actual identity as the first road, welcoming Xu Yifan as the alternate member of the road platform, there is no need to be so polite. But Li Zhongtang's intention was that the money was not given, and he tried his best to be perfunctory. Although he was thinking of him to collapse, he must be polite to these two road platforms in terms of face.
Today I went to Beiyang School to review and select students, and I also gave me enough face according to this purpose.
Chu Wanli in the team did not move his neck, looked at the back of Li Yunzong beside him and whispered: "Let's bet whether Xu Zhan is coming by car or sedan chair. Is he a fat man or a thin man... Is his face smoking big smoker or a prostitute? It's up to you to choose the same thing, five big oceans, gamble and slim, don't bet..."
He couldn't stop talking to himself and he was also talking to himself to relieve his boredom. He didn't expect Li Yunzong, the cold man, to answer. Unexpectedly, Li Yunzong replied coldly: "I'm not as bored as you!"
The sun shines on the small playground of the Martial Arts School, and the students' breathings are connected. They are all looking at the door. Everyone is waiting with their own thoughts.
The guard at the door suddenly held a rifle and saluted the double tubes in his hand. The sound of horse hooves came, and Chu Wanli, who felt tired of standing, suddenly stared at the boss!
Not only him, but even Yang Shixiang was stunned at the door. All the students took a breath of cold air.
I saw a pretty young man who was about the same age as them, riding on a majestic ocean horse and walking into the door with two fully armed guards.
Chapter completed!