After reviewing the officers and soldiers of Daming Town in Green Camp, Jia Liu set off from Daming Mansion to Tianjin.
He did not make any personnel transfers to Daming Town and replaced the main officers with his own people, because he found that the overall combat effectiveness of Zhili Green Camp was relatively low and the quality of the soldiers was also very poor. To put it bluntly, Daming Town Green Camp
He, Jaturu, can beat every one of these people.
Therefore, instead of wasting energy on adjusting and reorganizing the Zhili Green Battalion, it is better to start from scratch and train the new army.
It is planned to train the new army in two places, one in Tianjin and one in Baoding.
This will strangle the capital from both sides.
At the same time, a military armament school was opened in Baoding, and formalized military school education began, living like a principal.
He had prepared the inscription and was just waiting for the ribbon cutting to open the business.
If the golden phoenix brings good luck, the boss will make a fortune.
With a gun in your hand, money will come rolling in.
Of course, this is also about respecting history. Baoding, the capital of Zhili Province, was originally the birthplace of China's modern military.
It is initially planned to train the new army in three towns in Tianjin, with 6,000 people in each town;
In Baoding, the new army was trained in two towns, with 6,000 people in each town.
In fact, it means one town is one brigade.
The total number of new troops in the five towns is 30,000, plus more than 10,000 guard troops. They can control the direct force of the two armies at once.
Compared with building roads, commerce and industry, training a new army actually costs the least.
The current fixed pay for Green Camp soldiers is no more than ten taels per year. Therefore, even if we double the pay for new recruits in order to improve their treatment and morale, and provide them with supporting weapons, uniforms, food supplements, etc., each soldier will only spend about forty taels a year.
Thirty thousand people are equivalent to 1.2 million taels.
Jia Liu can completely bear this expense.
The question is under what name the new army should be trained.
The old man agreed that during the Beiyang trade period, Jia Liu, the governor of Zhili, could build an army to protect trade, but that was a navy system, not an army system.
So Jia Liu organized an army of 30,000 people with great fanfare, and the old rich people in Beijing were blind and only allowed him to do this.
Therefore it must have a name.
Another issue is how to place the flag soldiers among the more than 30,000 troops in Zhili's original camp.
It was obviously impossible to abolish them all, and it seemed that continuing to maintain them was not a long-term solution. I was worried about this all the way, until I entered Tianjin, and suddenly I slapped my head and cursed myself for being confused.
The vast amount of ready-made experience is there, so just transfer it over.
That is to select some of the elite green battalions to join the new army, reorganize the remaining part into local police, and the other part into auxiliary units such as engineering and road soldiers.
As long as the treatment of soldiers is improved and senior officers are given a better future, there is no need to worry about the rebellion of Governor Jia caused by these green flags.
Jia Liu gave the general idea to Li Ping'an, Ding Qing and others who were accompanying them, and asked them to draw up a specific charter in the next few days.
Regarding the name of the New Army's formation and training, he looked back and carefully considered whether it was a case of selling sheep's meat to dogs' meat, or whether there was some civil unrest in Zhili.
I went to Tianjin mainly to get the full support and cooperation of Xu Ji, the governor of Tianjin.
The governor of Tianjin was nominally under the control of the governor-general of Zhili, but in fact there was no clear superior-subordinate relationship between the two that restricted each other, because the governor-general was a feudal lord, and the governor was also a vassal-brief, and both had the power to be directly responsible to the emperor (court).
Before Yongzheng, there was no governor-general in Zhili. Instead, there were governors of Zhili, governors of Xuanfu, governors of Tianjin, governors of Baoding and governors of Shuntian.
Until Yongzheng established the governor-general and retained the governor of Tianjin, all other governorships were abolished.
Therefore, Jia Liu could not use the power of the governor-general to force Xu Ji, the governor, to cooperate. He could only induce him to go on the road and make the cake together by sharing the benefits.
Just like sharing cake on the bank of the Grand Canal.
On the way, I inspected the river by the way. I was also an amateur, and I just pretended to take people for a walk on the river embankment to listen to local officials' constructive opinions on the river.
There is no way, who allows him, the governor of Zhili, to also serve as the governor of Beihe River.
In the seventh year of Yongzheng's reign, in order to further strengthen the management of the canal, the Qing government divided the entire Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal into three river governors, namely the governor of Jiangnan River (also known as the governor of Nanhe), who managed the affairs of the Huang, Huai and canal in Jiangsu and Anhui provinces and was stationed in Jiangpu in the Qing Dynasty.
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The Governor of Henan and Shandong River, also known as the Governor of Hedong River or the Governor of East River, manages the Yellow River and canal affairs in Shandong and Henan provinces and is stationed in Jining;
The Beihe River Channel Governor manages the affairs of the rivers and canals in the Haihe River system. This river channel governor is also the governor-general of Zhili.
Jia Liu's predecessor, Zhou Yuanli, was previously transferred from Governor Nanhe.
Although the Beihe River Governor's Office merged with the Zhili Governor's Office, it still had a branch office in Tianjin whose members were mainly water conservancy experts of this era, equivalent to an organization like the Water Conservancy Commission.
After listening to the reports from local officials and water conservancy experts, Jia Liu gave some symbolic instructions on river management and continued on his way to Tianjin.
During the stopover in Qing County on the way, I changed into casual clothes and paid a private visit in private.
Baozhu, who was in charge of security work, brought dozens of personal guards into civilian clothes to protect them secretly.
I walked around the county and found that the people's livelihood and economy are relatively good. This is because it is along the canal economic zone and the people's living standards are higher than in other areas.
He didn't encounter any scoundrels or gangsters who bullied men and women. This made Jia Liu a little disappointed because the story about the Governor's solving of crimes in the "Qing Daily" had recently been stopped due to lack of material.
In order to cooperate with the governor-general's Qingtian image construction project, the prosecutor's office is conducting intensive inspections throughout the province, hoping to find some major cases for the governor-general's personal review.
When we returned to the camp and were about to take a rest, Shuan Zhu came back.
Jia Liu looked a few kilograms heavier than when he went there, which made Jia Liu realize the seriousness of the problem and couldn't help asking with a straight face: "Have you been bribed?"
Shuan Zhu hurriedly said no, the conscience of heaven and earth would confiscate not a penny.
"Accept the arrangement?"
"No."
"Bringing souvenirs?"
"nor."
"Um?"
Jia Liu's brows suddenly furrowed slightly, "It's impossible. How could that guy Wang Fu, who is such a good person, not win over and corrupt you?"
Shuan Zhu had a look of injustice on his face: "Master, please don't think that we think the same as you, okay?"
"Is not it?"
Jia Liu showed a happy face and did not judge a gentleman with a villain's heart. He asked Shuan Zhu to explain the situation in Huguang in detail.
Listen from time to time and look at the map from time to time.
Shuan Zhu said that Wang Fu planned to let Chongqing Town surrender collectively as a pilot, and then let Chengdu Town surrender. This would set off a wave of Qing army surrenders and take the anti-Qing struggle to a new level.
"This is Zu Yingyuan's plan. If the young master thinks it will work, they will start making preparations."
Jia Liu took a closer look and found that Zu Dashou's great-grandson actually wanted to have Chongqing suppress the enemy at the critical moment during Fengsheng's "key attack" and put Fengsheng's death to death.
This damn craftsmanship is really passed down from generation to generation, as if it had reappeared in the late Ming Dynasty.
"If Feng Sheng'e dies, who can preside over the Huguang war? Will the situation become more serious?"
Jia Liu was unable to write the word "agree" with his pen. He was not worried that Wang Fu, Zu Yingyuan and others would not be able to kill Feng Sheng'e, but he was worried that Feng Sheng'e's death would have worse consequences than Chen Huizu's surrender to the enemy.
Seeing this, Shuan Zhu reminded: "Young master, if we don't use Feng Sheng'an as a certificate of surrender, the people over there may not trust our past people."
"This is the truth, but the price is too high. Feng Sheng'e was a loyal minister of our Qing Dynasty. Although his talent was second only to me, he was younger than me. He sacrificed himself like this. I can't help but laugh."
Jia Liu sighed slightly, and finally approved the word "agree" on Zu Yingyuan's request report and submitted it to the Hu-Guang Joint Development Committee for implementation.
When he raised his head again, he had a kind smile on his face: "Zhu Sang, tell me honestly, how much benefit did you get from this time? If you tell me honestly, I only want half. If you don't tell me honestly, you will lose everything."