After dealing with external threats, Yuan Shikai began to turn his attention to the Beiyang Army around him. After years of reorganization and expansion, the total strength of the Beiyang Army has reached 1.2 million, and this huge force is divided among dozens of generals.

Yuan Shikai felt deeply uneasy knowing that those armies had almost become the "private armies" of those generals.

After the "Rebellion of the Republic of China", Yuan Shikai was afraid that his generals would not be able to escape from becoming a personal force. This personal force was mainly Feng Guozhang and Duan Qirui. Duan Qirui had been focusing on military education in the Beiyang Army. All officers of the Beiyang Army

He was Duan Qirui's student. Duan Qirui and Yuan Shikai were suspicious of him. As for Feng Guozhang, because Feng Guozhang was close to the powerful people of the Qing Dynasty and had good popularity, Yuan Shikai was also suspicious of him. He gradually realized that Duan Qi

Rui had some great skills and shocked the master, but he couldn't lose his tail. In Duan Qirui, Yuan Shikai seemed to see his former self, so he began to try to weaken Duan Qirui's power. The purpose of establishing the Command Office was to restrict the Beiyang elders headed by Duan Qirui.

of military.

In addition to restricting the military power of several Beiyang bosses headed by Duan Qirui, Yuan Shikai also quickly established a model army of officers for the Beiyang Army, selected elite military personnel from various Beiyang ministries and was well-equipped. At the same time, after the establishment of this army

The most important purpose is to be loyal to the head of state and not join the party committee. Yuan Shikai hopes to re-create a military force that is completely loyal to himself in addition to the Beiyang Army.

"In establishing this model regiment, President Yuan successfully regained at least part of the military power by appointing himself as the regiment leader and Chen Guangyuan as the deputy commander. When establishing this unit, his son Yuan Keding

It can be said that the Model Regiment is, to a certain extent, Yuan Shikai's "Forest Guards". The Model Regiment was established in September last year, expanded in October, and officially became the Border Guard Army in November.

Four divisions have been trained. Although it is a bit hasty, it is still Yuan's class. If nothing else happens, after this second model regiment is established, by next year, the direct troops in the hands of the President will not be less than thirty.

Ten thousand!"

Although he talks about three hundred thousand, Li Zicheng knows very well that if an agreement is reached to send troops to Europe before the end of the year, and the border guards reorganize and join the war, by then, let alone three hundred thousand, it will be an army of one million.

It's not impossible.

"If the expectations are correct, the scale of this second phase of the Officer Model Corps will be far greater than that of the first phase. The expansion of the scale will make it different from the first phase, except for the middle and lower-level officers drawn from each division and the students from the Baoding Military Academy.

, I’m afraid we will also recruit a group of educated young people from the society to enrich the grassroots. In this case, our opportunity will come!”

Looking at Xiao Xiao with a smile, Li Zicheng took out a document. The document was a list of officers and assistants of the Ministry of Internal Affairs prepared for him by Han Wu. There were nearly three thousand people in total. Although there were three thousand people, those three thousand people were not.

All of them are young officers or young sergeants carefully selected from the 200,000 Jiangsu Army. If necessary, relying on this team, an internal affairs force of no less than 150,000 people can be raised within half a year.

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"Xinren, this time, you have to cut off my love!"

"gentlemen……"

Looking at the document, Xiao Xiao immediately understood his husband's intention. He wanted to take the opportunity to insert "one of his own" into the model group.

"Tian Ren has prepared 3,000 people for me. This time, I want to take away 800 people. How about that?"

"gentlemen,"

He frowned slightly. Although he had no objection to recruiting people to join the model group, Xiao Xiao still had some other concerns.

"They are not from the CSKA. If they join the model regiment, will they be suppressed? If so, the gains may outweigh the losses!"

His personal experience of serving in the CSKA made Xiao Xiao extremely disgusted with "suppressing dissent", and he also knew that this was the tradition of the CSKA.
Chapter completed!