lied to Kangxi

Chapter 248 Expansion
"The cabinet issued a decree that Ma Qi, a scholar of the Wuying Temple and the Minister of the Household Department, was the official envoy of the imperial envoy, with full authority to handle all matters related to the suppression of the Raksha Kingdom. The foreign spear team was expanded into the Wuwei Camp, with a fixed number of [-]. Yu Zhu was appointed as the imperial envoy. The deputy envoy, who is also in charge of the Wuwei battalion, led the troops to Yaksa to take out the thieves. E Min, the deputy commander of the firearms battalion, acted as the deputy commander of the Wuwei battalion, and led [-] artillery armors as assistants, I admire this."

After Liang Jiugong finished reading the imperial edict, Yuzhu secretly heaved a sigh of relief. Part of the military power was in his hands, which shows that he has initially gained Kangxi's trust.

More importantly, after the foreign spear team was expanded into the Wuwei Battalion, it became the imperial court's economical army.

From then on, the officers' seeds cultivated by Yuzhu were all paid and supplied by the imperial court in full monthly.

To put it bluntly, after following Yuzhu, these mud-legged people became masters who eat the emperor's food in just one year.

Yuzhu is also the battalion management belt, not the fourth-rank battalion capital, which shows that Kangxi initially approved the new military system proposed by Yuzhu, which is of great significance as a pilot.

Seeing that Yuzhu took the initiative to come over after receiving the order, Kangxi couldn't help but smiled, and directly said his arrangement.

"I have ordered General Guangzhou to order [-] flintlock guns from foreign merchants, with some bullets and gunpowder, which should be enough for you, right?"

Yuzhu smiled embarrassedly, the old emperor had already mastered his characteristics, and he directly stated the conditions before he could bargain.

Now that Kangxi finished all the conditions first, Yu Zhu had nothing to say.

Ma Qi is in charge, Yuzhu is the commander of the army, and E Min is the deputy of the commander and in charge of the artillery armor.

Before the "Sino-Russian Treaty of Beijing" was officially signed, the territory of more than 60 square kilometers in the north of Heilongjiang and the south of the Outer Xing'an Mountains, including Yaksa City and Sakhalin Island, belonged to the territory of the Qing Dynasty.

However, in the late Qing Dynasty, the once-prosperous Qing Dynasty became a big cake for the great powers to carve up.

Lost power and humiliated the country, ceded land for compensation, burned the Old Summer Palace, the Eight-Power Allied Forces entered Beijing, and the Queen Mother went hunting west, all of which were played over and over again.

"After returning to Beijing, recruit healthy soldiers from the banner, expand the military guard battalion, and train them into an army. In the coming year, after you get married, go to Yaksa to suppress bandits."

Kangxi's words clearly told Yuzhu that military power can be given to you, but you must use bannermen.

However, Kangxi said something again, which lifted Yuzhu's spirit secretly.

"After you have wiped out the little Khabarov gang, you will lead your troops to the Burhasutai Palace to escort you. I will wait for your good news there."

Although Burhasutai Palace is located in Mulan Paddock, it is not very famous.

However, Yuzhu knew very well in his heart that when Kangxi abolished the prince, it was here.

Hey, 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 request of the old emperor, Yuzhu will hurry back to Beijing to recruit and train soldiers.

As for Xiuyun, who was pregnant, she could only stay in Jiangning temporarily.

After five to six months of pregnancy and the fetal phase stabilized, Xiuyun returned to Beijing by boat.

Yuzhu bid farewell to Kangxi and Qingtai, went to Cao's house and said hello to Cao Yin, then took Lu Wu and others, and returned to Beijing by boat.

After arriving in the capital, the flintlock guns, bullets and gunpowder that General Guangzhou was in charge of purchasing also went to the warehouse of the Armed Forces Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The Armed Forces Institute is in charge of the weapons, saddles and bridles, armor, quilts and other things used by the court.Wubei Academy, Fengchen Academy, and Shangsi Academy are collectively referred to as the Inner Three Academy.
Kangxi has always been considerate in his work, and Yuzhu's barracks were set up in the parade ground in Nanyuan.

According to the rules of the Qing Dynasty, every three years, the place where the emperor personally participated in the "Grand Military Parade" was on the parade ground in Nanyuan.

The barracks in Nanyuan has all kinds of facilities. Yuzhu and his men can live in it directly.

Kangxi only asked for the recruitment of bannermen, and did not limit them to Manchurian bannermen, which gave Yuzhu an opportunity to take advantage of it.

Yu Zhu was originally a nobleman under his banner, he knew better than anyone else that most of the Manchurian Banners had become trash like birds in cages, eating and waiting to die.

After the recruitment notice was posted, as expected by Yuzhu, most of the people who came to sign up were Yu Ding from the Eight Banners of the Han Army.

Yu Ding, among the people under his banner, is an idler who has no errands to do.

According to the rules of the Qing Dynasty, it doesn't really matter whether you are Manchu or not, the key is the bannerman.

To put it bluntly, the bannermen whose names are on the roster of the Eight Banners and who are under the jurisdiction of Zuo Ling are the true members of the Qing Dynasty.

For example, among the Sauron tribe in the Heilongjiang area, except for a very small number of people who had made military exploits and were raised the flag, most of them were not bannermen.

Sauron's people who are not bannermen are not their own people, it's as simple as that.

Yuzhu's recruitment requirements are actually very simple. There are only three requirements: one is a bannerman, the other is between the ages of eighteen and twenty, and the third is that he can run circles.

In the TV series "Bright Sword", Li Yunlong asked the captives to run in circles, and found out Chang Naichao's approach from it, which gave Yuzhu a lot of inspiration.

Bannermen who are over 20 years old are likely to be contaminated with the bad habits of many banner men, so what's the use of it?

Of course, what Yu Zhu couldn't say was: the older the bannermen, the less obedient they are, and the harder it is to fool them.

The younger the age, the stronger the plasticity, the easier it is to brainwash, and the blood is still there. It's just right to bring the mercenaries to the Northeast and Mao Xiong to fight hard!
According to Yuzhu's instructions, the officers' seeds headed by Lu Wu specially selected the bannermen of the Han army who were poor and had no strong backing to join the army.

In order to decorate the appearance of the powerful Eight Banners, Yu Zhu went out in person and recruited a few idle children from a small noble family in Manchuria.

How to put it this way, it is actually the same logic as Zeng Guofan deliberately reused the Manchurian bannerman Taqibu.

At that time, Qingde, deputy general of the Hunan Green Camp, was very jealous of Taqibu, and urged the admiral Bao Qibao to insult Tazibu many times.

Seeing the flaws and opportunities, Zeng Guofan impeached Qingde and strongly recommended Tazibu.

"Taqibu can be of great use. If the battle is not good, I am willing to share the same crime with him." This is the original text in Zeng's head-shaving memorial.

To put it bluntly, Zeng Guofan just wanted to reassure the Qing court of him by reusing the bannerman Taqibu.

Today's Yu Zhu, who has learned Zeng Wenzheng's old skills, is also pretending to want Kangxi to feel at ease with him.

The recruits in the Wuwei camp were paid 3 taels of silver and 3 dendrobium rice per month. They did not need money for food and lodging, and their military uniforms were made with funds from Yuzhu.

Then, these three taels of silver and three dendrobium rice belong to net income.

What is this concept?
After the Qing Dynasty took over the Central Plains, everything began to be institutionalized, including being a soldier of the Eight Banners and having to take the "deficiency" exam.

The content of the exam is mainly archery and lifting stone locks.If you pass the exam, then you can serve as a banner soldier and eat the emperor's food, which is often referred to as hardcore crops.

In the Kangxi Dynasty, in the forward battalion with the best treatment, a bannerman received a monthly salary of four taels of silver.In addition, there are 46 dendrobium rice per year.

As for the barracks with the worst treatment, Qi Ding also has a salary of 1.5 taels of silver per month, and 22 dendrobium rice per year.

The poor households under the Han army, a family of five, only need two taels of silver if they live frugally every month.

However, under the Han army, there is usually only one son who is eligible to have a hard-core crop.

Objectively speaking, modern people have obvious misunderstandings about the so-called banner people who take iron crops.

Under the Eight Banners system, the bannermen who were short-listed and defeated as soldiers could only serve as reserve soldiers, that is, "Yu Ding".And "Yu Ding" has no income.

That is to say, except for the child under the banner who is a soldier, the rest of the idle children will have a very difficult life.

The generous treatment that Yuzhu won from Kangxi was very attractive to the poor Yu Ding under the Han army.

However, those old men under the Manchurian flag who are used to carrying cages and birds, eating together and waiting to die, look down on them at all.

Such a small amount of food and salary is not enough for them to pay for a trip to the brothel.

Because the time was extremely tight, within three days, after recruiting all the soldiers, Yuzhu distributed the officers' seeds under his command.

According to the ratio of one to four, the old and the new are used for training.

In other words, each officer seed, in addition to the original four heads, is responsible for training four new recruits in the name of deputy head (deputy squad leader).

Yuzhu governs the army, and pursues the principle that those who can go up and those who can't go down.

In front of all the old subordinates, Yu Zhu has spoken first, and the fast-training and high-level sub-commanders can be directly appointed as the main team, or even the sentinel (platoon leader).

Kangxi only gave an establishment of 300 people, which is a battalion, and Yuzhu is the leader of the battalion, which is equivalent to the battalion commander.

If there is no accident, Lu Wu, the former sentry officer, will serve as the assistant (deputy battalion commander).

However, the original four Zhengmu (squad leaders) were more troublesome.

If the organization standard of three teams and one battalion is followed, an old Zhengmu must be won.

The problem is, no matter who is removed, it will make people feel uncomfortable.

Power is something that everyone will be addicted to once they get used 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 four capable old subordinates were arranged.

A team of 300 people is divided into four teams with 70 people in each team.The remaining 20 people serve as Yuzhu's personal sentries.

When the recruits were training, Bai Xing acted as the military judge.He held a military stick in his hand and led several subordinates, who were responsible for enforcing military laws.

Speaking of Bai Xing, Yuzhu was a little disappointed.

This kid Bai Xing is simply a lumpy head, clinging to the idea that cavalry and archery are the best, and he refuses to learn the new tactics of line infantry.

Anyway, Yu Zhu is now considered a small army leader, and there is no shortage of Bai Xing as an officer commanding the battle, so he will be a military judge with him.

Unlike Bai Xing, Niu Tai's pro-soldier sentinel did it with gusto, and his soldiers practiced every day to scream.

As the saying goes, everything is difficult at the beginning!

Now it is different from the past, the more than fifty officers who have basically matured are training recruits according to the requirements of the drills, and the pressure on Yu Zhu himself has been greatly relieved.

The Wuwei Battalion, which has not yet been tested in actual combat, is still very weak, with few men and guns, and is filled with a large number of Han army bannermen, which cannot be regarded as a team that Yu Zhu has fully mastered.

However, as long as the right path is followed, how far is the future Wuwei Youjun, or even the new army?
(End of this chapter)