After hearing Liu Hai say that each person has 100 bottles of panacea every month, these Hunan Army generals will finally feel happy.
These 100 bottles of panacea can bring in at least one thousand taels of profit, which is a huge sum for these generals.
Even if they embezzle and embezzle, they won't be able to earn so much money in a month.
Zeng Guoquan sat next to him, silently watching Liu Hai's performance, and felt envious and jealous in his heart. With just a few words, this kid had conquered all these decades-old veterans.
Moreover, Liu Hai also sent his confidants to take charge of the army. From now on, the Hunan army will probably have the surname Liu.
After today's meeting, the veteran generals did not leave Nanjing, but waited for Liu Hai's cronies to go with them to recruit soldiers.
This time, with the benefit of his bangs, these veterans no longer want to fight for power and profit with bangs. After all, they are so old, and it would be a joke to start a fight with a young man.
However, they also saw that Liu Hai was a ruthless person and his future prospects were limitless, so they each made an idea to put all the promising children in their own families into the new army after they returned.
If bangs flourishes in the future, these children will also have a future.
After the generals withdrew, Liu Hai immediately discussed with Zeng Guoquan and reported the matter to the court.
This kind of thing cannot be kept secret. With so many generals under his command, who knows which one still has the imperial court in mind, so it is better to inform the imperial court in advance.
Zeng Guoquan did not hesitate at all. He wrote a memorial that night and ordered it to be sent to the capital.
And in these four or five days, Liu Hai secretly prepared more than 500 biochemical people. These people were all army types. It was impossible for them to command thousands of troops. But if we let them
If they command a company of 100 people, their command ability is much stronger than that of normal people.
So a few days later, Liu Hai convened a meeting again, and then took the 500 people back to the veterans.
At the same time, he told these veteran generals that within a month, the Hunan Army's 50,000 troops must be re-recruited.
Then they have to go through three months of training and finally become an army.
Liu Hai also did not readjust the establishment of the Hunan Army. In fact, the establishment of the Hunan Army is still very combat effective.
The Hunan Army uses battalions as its basic combat unit. Below the battalion structure, there are sentries and sentry officers. The number of soldiers is 80, and each battalion has four sentries.
At the beginning, each battalion of the Hunan Army had about 320 men. Later, due to combat needs, each battalion was expanded to 500 men.
After annihilating the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Zeng Guofan reduced the number of his direct troops from 50,000 to more than 10,000 in order to reduce the taboo of the Qing Dynasty.
But Zeng Guofan also kept an eye on it. Although the number of people decreased, his establishment did not.
In other words, as long as Zeng Guofan is willing, he can turn these more than 10,000 people into more than 50,000 people at any time.
And just when Liu Hai took over the Hunan Army and began to expand the number of Hunan Army, the gentlemen in the capital were already in chaos after receiving Zeng Guoquan's weekly report.
In particular, the Qing military aircraft department, the center of the Qing Dynasty, became even more noisy.
Because the Hunan Army has been demobilized for decades, leaving only some old, weak, sick and disabled people. Unexpectedly, the Hunan Army has now changed its leader and started to regroup. If they can be revived, the imperial court's decades of efforts will not be in vain.
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As the foreman of the Military Aircraft Department, Prince Li Shiduo looked at the commotion below and patted the table hard.
"Silence, silence, silence, you are already the military minister of the imperial court, how come you are the same as the shrew in the vegetable market?"
The remaining military ministers finally calmed down when they saw Prince Li Shiduo getting angry.
Prince Li Shiduo took a breath and said to the people below: "We have to discuss this matter quickly and come up with a charter, and then report it to the Queen Mother Lafayette."
Erle and Bu are rare incorruptible people in the military department, and their official conduct among the people is very good.
Therefore, the military aircraft department was quite proud. Now Elhebu stood up first and said: "The Hunan Army has been disbanded for decades, and it should be kept as it is according to the old system. Now Zeng Guoquan has handed over the general to the control of Liu Hai.
I think this young man is young and energetic. So if he breaks the rules, the court should issue an order to reprimand him and ask him to stop his actions."
Xu Gengshen objected, "This is not possible. Although the Hunan Army has been disbanded for many years, it has too many troops and is already spread all over the south of the Yangtze River. If it is suddenly reprimanded and ordered to disband its troops, and if the other party repeats it, what will be done?"
Elle and Bu pondered for a moment, and then said: "The imperial court can be kind to Zeng Guoquan. Although Liu Hai has now taken charge of the Hunan Army, Zeng Guoquan is still alive. As long as he is here, Liu Hai will not be able to truly take charge of the Hunan Army. As long as he is here, he will not be able to take charge of the Hunan Army."
It was Zeng Guoquan who rebuked Liu Hai and ordered him to disband his troops, so Liu Hai would not dare to object."
Xu Gengshen didn't think so, "I think you haven't thought about the current situation clearly. If Zeng Guoquan didn't hand over the power, then nothing would happen. Now that Zeng Guoquan has handed over the power to Liu Hai, with Liu Hai's current wealth and power, I'm afraid
Zeng Guoquan really can’t mobilize many people.”
When Xu Gengshen reminded everyone here, they all remembered that bangs are a matter of money.
Can all the generals under the Hunan Army really listen to Zeng Guoquan's empty words and withdraw money like a mountain of bangs?
Prince Li Shiduo sighed, stood up, walked around the military aircraft office a few times, and then said to the people below: "The national situation is difficult. There are barbarians looking around outside, and there are heroes inside."
Finally, he sighed and said to the people below: "This Hunan Army was originally Zeng Guofan's personal armed force, and now it is in Liu Hai's hands. This young man is very capable. I hope he won't cause any trouble to us."
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"Then what does the foreman mean?"
"I think we can only wait and see what happens, and then find reasons to reduce the military expenditure of the Hunan Army, and at the same time strengthen the Beiyang, so that they can check and balance each other. Maybe we can be safe for a while."
The ministers discussed it again and found that there was really no good way to check and balance these Hunan troops.
Now if you push them into a hurry, these people will soon rebel.
The Queen Mother and Zeng Guofan fought for so many years, and Zeng Guofan slowly reduced the Hunan army. This time, they could no longer act too hastily, but had to plan for it slowly.
In the end, these military ministers only came up with a suggestion to wait and see what happens, and then sent the memorial to the Empress Dowager Lafayette Cixi.
When Cixi received the memorial, her face immediately became clouded. She threw the memorial to the ground and said angrily: "These Han people are becoming more and more unstable. We should kill them in batches just like when the country was founded, otherwise
They can't be quiet."
Li Lianying, who was standing next to him, heard the Empress Dowager Cixi getting angry, and her heart trembled. She wanted to take back the gifts from bangs. Seeing what Lafayette meant, she was already a little tired of bangs.
The Empress Dowager Cixi got angry for a while, but finally calmed down. She thought for a while, and now the court really has no way to deal with these things in Jiangnan, because now the only thing the court can fight is Li Hongzhang's Huai army.
For the remaining Eight Banners and Green Camp, if you let them walk chickens and fight dogs, it's fine. If you let them go to war, I'm afraid even the Empress Dowager Cixi herself won't believe it.
In the end, Cixi could only accept the advice of the Military Aircraft Department and wait and see what happens.
However, what Empress Dowager Cixi now thinks is that Li Hongzhang has gone dormant for the time being, and she can only use Li Hongzhang to check and balance the Huai army in the south of the Yangtze River.
So in the following period, Empress Dowager Cixi frequently summoned Li Hongzhang, and the two discussed Liu Hai's reorganization of the Hunan Army in the south.
Li Hongzhang's attitude was very clear, that is, the imperial court no longer had any silver and needed to organize another strong army.
Regarding Li Hongzhang's words, Cixi immediately understood that Liu Hai is rich, but do you know that the money spent on raising an army is like a mountain of silver? Your little money can really maintain the operation of an army of 50,000 people.
If you add the Nanyang Navy to the mix, you may not be able to operate despite your immense abilities.
At that time, as long as the imperial court cuts off your source of military pay, you may be able to maintain it for a while. When you run out of money, you will have no choice but to disband the Hunan Army.
Cixi fully accepted this opinion, so within a few days a document from the court was delivered to Zeng Guoquan's desk.
That means that it is already very difficult for the imperial court to maintain the Beiyang and Huai armies, and it is no longer able to support the Nanyang Navy and the Hunan Army. The imperial court has stopped the payment of military pay to the Hunan Army and the Nanyang Navy, and they have to raise their own funds.
After Zeng Guoquan received the document, he was silent for a long time, and finally ordered his master to deliver the document to Liu Hai in the yard next to him.
Zeng Guoquan already understood very well that he would not be able to take care of so many things when he was old. Now that Liu Hai was in charge of the Hunan Army, he should handle these difficult things.
After Liu Hai received this document, he looked at it with disdain and thought that relying on funds to suppress him was a daydream.
I can now earn one million taels of silver every month. With this money, I can support each battalion of the Hunan Army. In addition, with the two worlds buying and selling, and transporting some modern weapons and equipment to the Hunan Army, there is no need for the imperial court.
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Now that the imperial court does not care about the Hunan Army at all, this is actually a good thing in Liu Hai's opinion. From now on, the Hunan Army and the Nanyang Navy will be Liu Hai's private army.
After the imperial court, it will probably be more difficult to interfere in the affairs of the Hunan Army and the Nanyang Navy.
After Liu Hai understood the document, he immediately wrote a memorial. The main idea was: Liu Hai understood the difficulties of the court, so the court stopped all funding for the Hunan Army and the Nanyang Navy. Liu Hai agreed with both hands, but Jiangnan also
There could not be no military guard, so Liu Hai decided to use his own money to maintain the combat effectiveness of the Nanyang Navy and the Hunan Army and contribute to the court.
After Liu Hai's memorial was sent to the Qing court, the people at the military aircraft department took a casual look at it and threw it aside. They now know that Liu Hai is young and energetic. Now let you be proud for a few days, and wait for you in a year or two.
After you have emptied your family fortune, it will be time for you to ask the court.