After the morning run, the cubs had breakfast with Yuzhu, Alice, and Xuewei.
There are two types of breakfast, a combination of Chinese and Western.
Western food here mainly includes broth, grilled lamb chops, black pepper steak, grilled sausages, bread, pan-fried scallops with foie gras, salad platters, etc.
For Chinese food, the main dishes are fish lake noodles, Tianjin dumplings, fried dumplings, multigrain porridge, etc.
Yuzhu chose to have Western food with Xuewei.
I saw him, with his fork left and his knife right, cutting the steak like paper. He ate it so deliciously that the kids were dumbfounded on the spot.
The rules for Chinese food and Western food are different.
The little boys were immersed in eating one by one, not daring to say a word, for fear of touching the rim of the bowl with the kuaizi in their hands.
While Xuewei was enjoying the pan-fried clams with foie gras, she held up a rum glass and clinked it with Yuzhu frequently.
"Daddy, I love you!"
Yuzhu glanced at Xuewei and sighed slightly in his heart. This child didn't like drinking French royal wine - Farabin Cognac, but he preferred the strong rum that only poor sailors drank.
Rum is divided into two styles: light and strong. It doesn’t matter whether the wine is aged or not, it mainly depends on whether the place of origin is Cuba.
"Little sweetheart, I love you too."
Yuzhu raised the goblet and touched Xuewei's wine glass lightly, "Dang." The crisp sound of clinking glasses shocked the little ones.
In Lao Tong's house, who among the kids dares to clink glasses with Yuzhu?
After breakfast, Xuewei and Yuzhu sat side by side, each holding their favorite reading material and reading with gusto.
The British "Daily Mail" serialized Xuewei's novel "Gulliver's Travels", which was sent along with the newspaper and included royalties.
In 1719, the Englishman Defoe published "Robinson Crusoe" in the "Daily Mail".
After Yuzhu saw the serialized novel, he encouraged Xuewei to submit an article to the "Daily Mail".
The kids, who had never seen a newspaper before? They were all dumbfounded and their jaws dropped to the floor.
The fortnightly magazines "Review", "Artisan" and "Examiner", as well as "Daily News" are must-reads as long as Yuzhu is in Dagukou.
The Review, in particular, was one of the important public opinion tools in the struggle between the Whigs and the Tories.
Although what Yuzhu saw was old news, it still has very important reference value.
It is no exaggeration to say that the first person in the Qing Dynasty who opened his eyes to see the world must be Yuzhu.
After drinking tea, it's time for class.
Xuewei didn't want to leave, but was scolded by Alice, so she reluctantly kissed Yuzhu goodbye.
Good guy, the glasses of the little cubs are not broken enough, they are all as dumb as a chicken!
Immediately afterwards, the little ones were sent away respectively by their respective tutors and the missionaries who acted as translators.
In the capital city at the beginning of the 18th century, Western missionaries successfully exceeded the one hundred mark.
Among them, the famous foreign missionaries include Ba Duoming, Dai Jinxian, Ma Guoxian and others.
It is worth mentioning that these foreign priests also trained an outstanding Chinese general, Fan Luosi.
However, Van Ross has a shortcoming, he does not know Latin.
Yuzhu's sons were of varying ages, so it was just right for their tutors to teach them individually.
Objectively speaking, if you can't read foreign newspapers and scientific literature, how can you learn from the strengths of foreigners and build a steam engine?
With the steam engine, the development of industry will undergo revolutionary qualitative changes.
Today, Britain has built a sailing battleship of more than 4,000 tons, with five decks and more than 100 guns, among which the largest caliber gun exceeds 64 pounds.
The single-sided naval gun only needs one salvo to smash the inferior warships of the Great Qing Navy.
Yuzhu is not in a hurry. Anyway, let the little ones get in touch with Western knowledge as much as possible and become interested.
At present, the more realistic idea is to imitate the British masters and create large iron cannons and flintlock guns with less impurities.
Because of the serious backwardness of metallurgical technology, the iron cannons cast in the Qing Dynasty were very easy to explode.
In addition, we should find a way to bring the production workshop, equipment and technicians of the dog-lock flintlock gun to Dagukou.
It is better to buy than to build, and it is better to rent than to buy. This is definitely not what Yuzhu wants.
Buy first, and if you can't buy it, steal the technology and craftsmen. In the end, you will definitely make it yourself.
Anyway, Yuzhu has caught up with the good times. As long as he is willing to pay, old British machines and equipment can be imported back.
What's more troublesome is that the British craftsmen who mastered the core metallurgy, shipbuilding, cannon-making, and gun-making technologies had to spend a lot of money in roundabout ways to find a way to get it back.
Alice had a business date with foreign businessmen. When she was leaving, she took the initiative to kiss Yuzhu and said affectionately: "My dear, last night was great. I am very satisfied. Let's continue tonight."
Yuzhu had mixed feelings in his heart. He was like a cow. If it goes on for a long time, it would eventually be drained dry.
Everyone had something to do, and Yuzhu was no exception. He rode to the camp in the first town.
In the camp, new recruits have already settled in.
According to Yuzhu's close observation, the majority were Shandong soldiers.
After all, the distance from Shandong to Dagukou by boat is very close, and it is very convenient to get on and off the boat.
According to Yuzhu's deployment, almost all of the officers and non-commissioned officers who went out to recruit troops were company commanders and platoon commanders.
When a platoon is recruited and passed the inspection, the platoon commander will take office immediately. When a company is recruited, the company commander will be taken up immediately.
The company commander and platoon commander were dismissed on the spot as they were not satisfied with the recruitment of soldiers.
The military pay for new recruits is also astonishingly high, with a monthly salary of ten taels of silver. This salary is much higher than that of the cavalry soldiers of the Eight Banners in Beijing.
If 50,000 men are fully recruited, the monthly military expenditure alone will be 800,000 taels.
However, Yuzhu is not distressed at all. Instead, he feels that there is still room for improvement in the future.
High salary, sufficient pay, and payment on time are the most critical steps to stabilize military morale and make soldiers willing to work hard.
I want the horse to run fast, but also want the horse not to eat grass. Hehe, it only happens in dreams!
Because many young and middle-aged people in the countryside of Shandong suffer from chronic malnutrition, the recruits recruited are generally around 160 centimeters tall.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! However, as far as Yuzhu knows, in the Japanese country at the same time, the height of warriors was generally below 140cm.
160CM is the recruitment standard set by Yuzhu himself. It is better to lack than to overdo it.
These days, floods occur almost every year in Shandong and Henan provinces along the Yellow River.
The simple peasants who had nothing to eat and could receive a military salary of ten taels per month, it is conceivable that they came in droves.
There are too many people, and the involution is extremely serious!
The first thing new recruits do after entering the camp is to throw away their old clothes, take a shower, and put on new military uniforms.
The new recruits took off their clothes and were forced to take a bath in the lake, driven by the sergeant's stick.
Yuzhu stood with his arms crossed, looking at the dense crowd in the lake, he couldn't help but smile.
New recruits don't understand what military discipline is, so the necessary punishment with sticks is a matter of course.
Lu Wu, the commander-in-chief who accompanied Yuzhu, said with a salivated face: "Captain, are you tired? Have a drink of water and sit down for a while!"
Yuzhu didn't even turn his head and said, "I'm not tired!"
The recruit training was boring. Yuzhu watched it for a while and then went to Lu Wu's first town headquarters.
The internal structure of the headquarters is roughly similar to that of the German army before World War I.
However, in the first town, Yuzhu specially set up a staff organization under the leadership of the chief of staff.
The town staff department consists of combat staff, rationing staff, military supplies staff, confidential staff, map staff, etc.
The existence of these professionals has greatly reduced the management pressure of the town government.
The non-commissioned officers are responsible for training, and the staff officers are dedicated to planning and fighting, dividing their work and cooperating, each with their own focus.
According to the rules, standard staff organizations have been established in the three-level organizational structures of town, Xiehe Biao. The difference is that Biao belongs to the staff officers and is called the staff office.
Now, the biggest headache for Yuzhu is not weapons and equipment, nor military pay and food, but the abnormally poor quality of the map at hand.
In order to obtain high-quality maps, Yuzhu was forced to hire foreign technicians to help draw military maps with contour lines.
Regarding the work of drawing maps, when the old emperor was still alive, Yuzhu secretly conducted some small experiments.
However, Yuzhu did not dare to do it on a large scale, lest he alarm the old emperor and end up losing more than he gained.
Yuzhu seemed to be wandering around the headquarters aimlessly, but Lu Wu knew that the commander was secretly observing the work of the officers.
After meal time, Yuzhu led Lu Wu and others and lined up with the recruits to get meals.
In the armies of various European countries at the same time, the hierarchy was extremely strict. Soldiers, non-commissioned officers, officers and senior officers were clearly distinguished and could not be confused.
In the New Army, both officers and soldiers eat from big pots.
The main purpose of Yuzhu is not to remember the bitterness and sweetness, nor to make officers and soldiers equal, but to prevent the division chiefs at all levels from collaborating with the officers to deduct everyone's food expenses and take the opportunity to line their own pockets.
To be honest, if the chief of staff and the food purchasers were more careful, they would really dare to spend money on the soldiers' food expenses.
Anyway, the doctrine stipulates very clearly that officers in the cooking system and logistics system or