"The cabinet issued an order to appoint Ma Qi, a bachelor of the Wuying Palace and the Minister of Household Affairs, as the imperial envoy, with full authority to handle all matters of suppressing the Rakshasa Kingdom. The foreign gun team was expanded to the Wuwei Battalion with a maximum strength of 300. The imperial envoy was appointed with a jade pillar.
The deputy envoy, who is also the commander of the armed guard battalion, leads troops to Yaksa to suppress the bandits. The deputy commander of the firearms battalion, E Min, acts as the deputy commander of the armed guard battalion, and leads three hundred artillery armor to assist him. I hereby express my gratitude."
After Liang Jiugong finished reading the edict, Yuzhu secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Part of the military power was obtained, which showed that he had initially gained Kangxi's trust.
More importantly, after the foreign gun corps was expanded into the Wuwei battalion, it became the imperial court's economic and military force.
From then on, the military officers cultivated by Yuzhu were paid full monthly salary and supplies by the imperial court.
To put it bluntly, these mud-legged people, after following Yuzhu, in just one year, they became masters who eat the royal food.
Yuzhu was also responsible for the management of the camp, not the fourth-level camp commander. This shows that Kangxi initially recognized the new military system proposed by Yuzhu, which is of great significance for the pilot.
Seeing that Yuzhu took the initiative to come over after accepting the order, Kangxi couldn't help but smile and directly told him his arrangement.
"I have ordered General Guangzhou to order 600 flintlock muskets from foreign merchants, as well as some bullets and gunpowder. It should be enough for you to use, right?"
Yuzhu smiled sheepishly. The old emperor had already grasped his characteristics and directly stated the conditions without waiting for him to bargain.
Since Kangxi had finished all the conditions first, Yuzhu had nothing to say.
Ma Qi is in charge, Yuzhu is the officer leading the troops, and E Min is the deputy leading the troops and is in charge of the artillery armor. This is the leadership team that went north to encircle and suppress the Rakshasa thieves.
Before the Sino-Russian Beijing Treaty was officially signed, more than 600,000 square kilometers of territory in the north of Heilongjiang and south of the Outer Hinggan Mountains, including the city of Yaksa and Sakhalin, belonged to the territory of the Qing Dynasty.
However, in the late Qing Dynasty, the once prosperous Qing Dynasty became a big cake divided among the great powers.
They lost power and humiliated the country, ceded territory to pay compensation, burned the Old Summer Palace, the Eight-Power Allied Forces entered Beijing, and the Queen Mother went on a hunt to the west.
"After returning to the capital, select strong soldiers from your banner, expand the military guard camp, and train it into an army. Next year, after you get married, go to Yaksa to suppress the bandits."
Kangxi's words clearly told Yuzhu that military power can be given to you, but you must use banner men.
However, Kangxi said something again, which made Yuzhu secretly refreshed.
"After you wipe out the little Khabarov gang, you will lead your troops to the Burkha Sutai Palace to escort you. I will wait for your good news there."
Although the Burha Sutai Palace is located in Mulan Paddock, it is not very famous.
However, Yuzhu knew very well that once Kangxi deposed the prince, he would be here.
Hehe, waste prince, how can Yuzhu not get involved in such an important matter?
If you don't get involved, how can you reap huge political dividends?
"Hey." Yuzhu suppressed the joy in his heart and respectfully accepted the order.
According to the old emperor's request, Yuzhu must rush back to Beijing to recruit and train troops.
As for Xiuyun, who is pregnant, she can only stay in Jiangning temporarily.
After she was five to six months pregnant and the fetus was stable, Xiuyun took a boat back to Beijing.
Yuzhu said goodbye to Kangxi and Qingtai, went to Cao's house to say hello to Cao Yin, and then took Lu Wu and others directly back to Beijing by boat.
After arriving in the capital, the flintlock muskets, bullets and gunpowder that General Guangzhou was responsible for purchasing also arrived at the warehouse of the Armed Forces Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The Wubeiyuan is responsible for the weapons, saddles, bridles, armor, quilts and other items used in the palace. The Wubeiyuan, Fengchenyuan, and Shangsiyuan are collectively referred to as the three inner courtyards.
Kangxi always considered everything carefully, so Yuzhu's barracks was set up in the parade ground of Nanyuan.
According to the rules of the Qing Dynasty, every three years, the "Grand Military Parade" attended by the emperor in person was held on the parade ground in Nanyuan.
The barracks in Nanyuan is fully equipped with all facilities. Yuzhu can just move in with his men.
Kangxi only asked for the recruitment of bannermen, and did not limit the recruitment to Manchu bannermen, which gave Yuzhu an opportunity to take advantage of.
Yuzhu was originally one of the great nobles under his banner, and he knew better than anyone else that most of the Manchurian bannermen had become trash in cages, eating and waiting to die.
After the recruitment notice was posted, as Yuzhu expected, those who came to sign up were basically Yu Ding from the Eight Banners of the Han Army.
Yu Ding is an idle person who has no errands to do in his family.
According to Tatar rules, it doesn't really matter whether you are Manchu or not. The key is that you are a bannerman.
To put it bluntly, the bannermen whose names are on the Eight Banners roster and who are under the jurisdiction of their subordinates are the true Taqing people.
For example, most of the Sauron tribesmen in the Heilongjiang region are not bannermen, except for a few who have achieved military merit and were carried the flag.
Sauron's tribe who are not bannermen are not our own people, it's as simple as that.
Yuzhu's recruitment requirements are actually very simple. There are only three requirements: first, they must be bannermen, second, they must be between eighteen and twenty years old, and third, they must be able to run circles.
In the TV series "Bright Sword", Li Yunlong asked the prisoners to run in circles and found out what Chang Naichao did, which inspired Yuzhu a lot.
Banner people over twenty years old are likely to be infected with the bad habits of many of their elders. What is the use of them?
Of course, Yuzhu's little thought that he couldn't say was that the older the bannermen were, the more disobedient they were and the harder it was to fool them.
The younger you are, the more malleable you are, the easier it is to be brainwashed, and you still have a bloody spirit. It is just right to take him to the Northeast and fight against the mercenaries of Mao Xiong!
According to Yuzhu's instructions, the officers led by Lu Wu specially selected Han bannermen who were poor and had no strong backers to join the army.
In order to embellish the appearance of the powerful Eight Banners, Yuzhu personally took action and recruited several idle children from Manchuria's small noble families.
How should I put this? It is the same logic as Zeng Guofan deliberately re-using Manchu bannerman Taqibu.
At that time, Qingde, the deputy general of Hunan Green Camp, was very jealous of Taqibu and repeatedly encouraged the admiral Bao Qibao to insult Taqibu.
Zeng Guofan saw the flaws and opportunities, so he impeached Qingde and strongly recommended Taqib.
"Taqibu can be of great use. If the battle is unfavorable, I am willing to share the blame with him." This is the original text in Zeng Shatou's memorial.
To put it bluntly, Zeng Guofan just wanted to make the Qing court feel at ease with him by reusing the bannerman Taqibu.
Today's Yuzhu has learned Zeng Wenzheng's old tricks and is also pretending to make Kangxi feel at ease with him.
The monthly salary standard for new recruits in the Wuwei Camp is 3 taels of silver and 3 hu of rice. There is no charge for food and accommodation, and the military uniforms are made with funds from Yuzhu.
Then, these three taels of silver and three tons of rice are considered net income.
What is this concept?
After the Qing Dynasty took over the Central Plains, everything began to be institutionalized, including those who served as soldiers of the Eight Banners and had to take a "deficiency selection" exam.
The content of the exam is mainly archery and stone lock lifting. If you pass the exam, you can serve as a flag soldier and eat the royal food, which is often called a hardcore crop.
During the Kangxi Dynasty, in the vanguard camp with the best treatment, a flag officer's monthly salary was 40 taels of silver. In addition, there was 46 hu of rice per year.
As for the military camp with the worst treatment, the bannermen also received a salary of 1.5 taels of silver per month and 22 hu of rice per year.
A poor family under the Han army, a family of five, only needs two taels of silver every month if they live frugally.
However, families under the banner of the Han Army usually only have one son who is qualified to be a hard-core farmer.
Objectively speaking, modern people have a clear misunderstanding about the so-called banner people who only work hard for crops.
Under the Eight Banners system, bannermen who failed to serve as soldiers could only serve as reserve troops, that is, "Yu Ding". And "Yu Ding" had no income.
In other words, except for the children under the banner who are soldiers, the rest of the idle children have a very difficult life.
The generous treatment that Yuzhu obtained from Kangxi was hugely attractive to the poor remnants of the Han army.
However, those Manchurian men who were accustomed to carrying caged birds, eating and waiting to die, looked down upon them at all.
Such a small amount of food and salary is not enough for them to pay for a trip to a brothel.
Because time was extremely tight, after recruiting all the soldiers within three days, Yuzhu distributed the seeds of his officers.
According to the ratio of one to four, the old ones will be trained with the new ones.
In other words, each officer seed, in addition to the original four main officers, is also responsible for training four new recruits in the name of deputy commander (deputy squad leader).
Yuzhu governs the army by adhering to the principle of superiors to those who are able and inferior to those who are unable.
In front of all the old subordinates, Yuzhu said first that the deputy commander with fast training speed and high level can be directly appointed as the main commander or even sentry officer (platoon leader).
Kangxi only gave an establishment of 300 people, which was a battalion. Yuzhu, the leader, was equivalent to the battalion commander.
If nothing goes wrong, Lu Wu, the original sentry officer, will be appointed as the assistant battalion commander (deputy battalion commander).
However, the original four principals (squad leaders) were more troublesome.
If we follow the establishment standard of three teams and one battalion, we will definitely win a Lao Zhengmu.
The problem is, no matter who is removed, it will make people feel psychologically uncomfortable.
Once you get involved in power, everyone becomes addicted to it.
Therefore, Yuzhu simply copied Beiyang's military system. One battalion was divided into four teams (companies), which happened to be four team officers (company commanders), and arranged four capable old subordinates.
The team of three hundred people was divided into four teams, each with seventy people. The remaining twenty people served as Yuzhu's personal sentinels.
When the new recruits were training, Baixing acted as the military judge. He held a military stick in his hand and led several subordinates to enforce military law.
Speaking of this guy Baixing, Yuzhu was a little disappointed.
This guy, Baixing, is simply a blockhead. He clings to the idea that cavalry and archery are the most important, and refuses to learn the new tactics of line infantry.
Anyway, Yuzhu is now considered a small military commander, and there is no shortage of officers to command the battle, so he is appointed as military judge.
Unlike Bai Xing, Niu Tai's role as personal sentry officer was very interesting, and the soldiers under his command were drilled every day until they screamed.
As the saying goes, everything is difficult at the beginning!
Now it is different from the past. There are more than fifty officers who have basically matured and are training new recruits in accordance with the requirements of the training code. The pressure on Yuzhu himself has been greatly reduced.
The Wuwei camp, which has not yet experienced actual combat testing, is still very weak, with few men and guns, and is filled with a large number of Han army bannermen. It cannot be regarded as a team that Yuzhu fully controls.
However, as long as we embark on the right path, how far will the future Armed Guard Right Army, or even the new Army, be?