lied to Kangxi

After the morning run, the boys 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 sausage, bread, fried shellfish with foie gras, salad platter and so on.

For Chinese food, there are mainly fish paste noodles, Tianjin small buns, fried dumplings, multigrain porridge and so on.

Yuzhu chose to eat western food with Xuewei.

Seeing him, with the left fork and the right knife, cutting the steak like paper, the food was extraordinarily sweet, and the kids were dumbfounded on the spot.

The rules of Chinese food and Western food are different.

The little boys buried their heads in eating one by one, not daring to say a word, for fear that the chopsticks in their hands would touch the edge of the bowl.

While enjoying the fried scallops with foie gras, Xuewei held up a rum glass and clinked glasses with Yu Zhu frequently.

"Daddy, I love you!"

Yuzhu glanced at Xuewei, and sighed slightly in his heart. This child didn't like to drink the royal wine of the French court—Farapin cognac, but he liked the strong rum that poor sailors only drank.

Rum is divided into two styles: light type and strong type. It doesn't matter whether the wine is aged or not, it mainly depends on whether the place of origin is Cuba.

"Little one, I love you too."

Yu Zhu raised the goblet and lightly touched Xuewei's wine glass, "Dang." The crisp sound of clinking glasses shocked the youngsters.

At Old Tong's house, who dares to clink glasses with Yu Zhu, you little ones?
After breakfast, Xuewei and Yuzhu sat side by side, each holding their favorite books, reading with relish.

The British "Daily Mail" serialized Xuewei's novel "Gulliver's Travels", and it was sent together with the newspaper, and there was also a remuneration.

In 1719, the Englishman Defoe published "Robinson Crusoe" in the "Daily Mail".

After seeing the serialized novels, Yuzhu encouraged Xuewei to contribute to the "Daily Mail".

You guys, where have you seen newspapers? They were all dumbfounded and their jaws dropped.

The semi-monthly "Review", "Craftsman", "Inspector", and "Daily News", as long as Yuzhu is in Dagukou, they are must-reads.

Especially the "Review", which is one of the important public opinion tools for the struggle between the Whig Party and the Tory Party.

Although what Yu Zhu sees is old news, it still has very important reference value.

It is no exaggeration to say that the No. 1 Qing dynasty in 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 cubs are not broken enough, they are all dumbfounded!

Immediately afterwards, the cubs were invited away by their respective tutors and missionaries who acted as translators.

In the capital city at the beginning of the eighteenth century, Western missionaries successfully passed the one hundred mark.

Among them, the famous foreign missionaries are: Ba Duoming, Dai Jinxian and Ma Guoxian and others.

It is worth mentioning that these foreign priests also cultivated an outstanding Chinese communicator, Fan Luosi.

It's just that Fan Luosi has a shortcoming, he doesn't know Latin.

Yuzhu's sons are of different ages, so it is just right for the tutor to teach alone.

Objectively speaking, if you can't read foreign newspapers or scientific literature, how can you learn from the strengths of foreigners and come up with a steam engine?

With the steam engine and the development of industry, there will be revolutionary qualitative changes.

Today's British guys have built more than 4000 tons of sailing battleships, five decks, and more than 100 guns, of which the largest caliber naval gun has exceeded 64 pounds.

The single-sided naval guns only need one volley to smash the low-level warships of the Daqingshui Division.

Yuzhu is not in a hurry, anyway, let the youngsters get in touch with Western knowledge as much as possible and become interested.

At present, a more realistic idea is to steal from the British and produce big iron cannons and flintlock guns with less impurities.

Due to the serious backwardness of metallurgical technology, the iron cannons cast by the Qing Dynasty were very easy to explode.

In addition, try to find a way to get the production workshop, equipment and technicians of the dog lock flintlock gun to Dagukou.

Building is worse than buying, and buying is worse than renting. This is definitely not what Yuzhu wants.

Buy first, steal technology if you can't buy it, steal artisans, and finally make it yourself.

Anyway, Yuzhu has caught up with the good times, as long as he is willing to pay, the machines and equipment of the British can be imported back.

What is more troublesome is that the British craftsmen who have mastered the core metallurgy, shipbuilding, gun-making, and gun-making technologies have to spend a lot of money in a roundabout way to find a way to get it back.

Alice had a business date with the foreign merchants. When she was parting, she kissed Yu Zhu and said affectionately, "Honey, 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 he went on for a long time, he would definitely be squeezed dry one day.

Everyone has something to do, and Yuzhu is no exception. He rode a horse to the camp where he was stationed in the first town.

In the big camp, recruited recruits have already settled in one after another.

According to Yuzhu's close observation, Shandong soldiers are the main ones.

After all, the distance from Shandong to Dagukou by boat is very short, and it is very convenient to get on and off the boat.

According to Yuzhu's deployment, almost all the officers and non-commissioned officers who went out to recruit troops were company commanders and platoon leaders.

When a platoon is fully recruited, the platoon leader will take up his post immediately after passing the acceptance test.When a company is fully recruited, he immediately becomes the company commander.

Even the soldiers were dissatisfied with recruiting, so what's the use, the company commander and platoon leader dismissed get out of class on the spot.

The military salary of recruits is also surprisingly high, ten taels of silver per month.This treatment is much higher than that of the vest soldiers of the Eight Banners in the Beijing Camp.

If 5 people are fully staffed, the monthly military salary alone will be 80 taels.

However, Yuzhu didn't feel distressed at all, but felt that there was still a lot of room for improvement in the future.

High salary, full salary, and timely payment are the most critical steps to stabilize the morale of the army and make the soldiers willing to work hard.

I want the horse to run fast, but also want the horse not to eat grass, hehe, it's only in my dream!
Because, in the countryside of Shandong, many young and middle-aged people suffer from long-term malnutrition.The recruits recruited are generally around 160 centimeters in height.

However, according to Yuzhu's knowledge, the height of warriors in Japan in the same period was generally below 140cm.

160 cm is the recruiting standard set by Yu Zhu himself, and it is better to be short than to be indiscriminate.

These years, Shandong and Henan provinces along the Yellow River suffer from floods almost every year.

Simple peasants who can't get enough to eat can get twelve taels of military pay every month, and it is conceivable that they flock here.

There are too many people, and the introversion is extremely serious!
The first thing a recruit does after entering the camp is to throw away his old clothes, take a shower, and put on new military uniforms.

The recruits, stripped of their clothes, were forced to go into the lake to take a bath under the stick of the non-commissioned officer.

Yuzhu stood with her chest folded, looked at the dense crowd in the lake, and couldn't help smiling.

The recruits don't know what military discipline is, and the necessary punishment with sticks is a matter of course.

Lu Wu, the governor who accompanied Yuzhu, salivated and said, "Shan Zhang, are you tired? Drink some water and sit for a while!"

Yuzhu said without turning her head, "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 organization 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 department under the leadership of the chief of staff.

The town staff department consists of combat staff, ration staff, military supplies staff, confidential staff, map staff, etc.

The existence of these professionals has greatly reduced the management pressure on the township.

The non-commissioned officers are responsible for the training, and the staff officers are dedicated to planning and fighting, dividing labor and cooperating, each with its own emphasis.

According to the rules, the township and Xiehebiao, the three-level organizational system, have set up standard staff organizations.The difference is that the standard belongs to the staff officers, called the Staff Office.

Now, Yuzhu's biggest headache is not weapons and equipment, nor military pay and food, but the quality of the map at hand, which is abnormally poor.

In order to obtain high-quality maps, Yuzhu was forced to hire foreign technicians to help draw military maps with contour lines.

For the work of drawing maps, when the old emperor was still alive, Yuzhu secretly conducted a little experiment.

However, Yuzhu didn't dare to spread it out on a large scale, lest the old emperor be alarmed, but the gain outweighed the loss.

Yuzhu wandered around the headquarters seemingly without bounds, but Lu Wu knew that the head of the mountain was secretly observing the work of the officers.

When it was time for dinner, Yu Zhu led Lu Wu and others to queue up for dinner with the recruits.

In the armies of various European countries at the same time, the ranks were extremely strict. Soldiers, non-commissioned officers, officers, and senior officers were clearly distinguished and should not be confused.

In the new army, no matter the officers and soldiers, they all eat big pots.

The main purpose of Yuzhu is not to remember bitterness and sweetness, nor is it that officers and soldiers are equal, but to prevent chiefs at all levels from colluding with military officers to deduct everyone's food expenses and take the opportunity to fill their own pockets.

To be honest, if the chief secretary and the kitchen purchasers don't take it easy, they really dare to empty the food expenses of the soldiers.

Anyway, the ordinance clearly stipulates that as long as there is a case of corruption, the officers or non-commissioned officers in the cooking system and logistics system will be beaten with a hundred military sticks at the lightest level, and then they will be dismissed from the army.

Nima, if you hit it with a solid hundred army stick, your bones will be smashed, which is worse than beheading your head.

Yuzhu is an old bureaucrat. He knows better than the fourth brother that if the management of military supplies is loosened, there will inevitably be large-scale embezzlement.

There is no way, for more than 2000 years, the soil of the whole society is that being an official means making money.

Holding the bowls and chopsticks, Yuzhu lined up for dinner, then randomly mixed into a group of recruits, and squatted down to eat with them.

"How's the food here?" Yuzhu took a bite of the pork belly, his mouth was full of oil, and he couldn't speak clearly.

However, no one paid any attention to Yuzhu, everyone was holding the big bowl, like a starving ghost, struggling to cook rice and meat.

Yuzhu thought for a moment, then understood.

It is rare for recruits to eat meat once a year.During the slack season, you can only eat thin rice, how can there be white rice to eat?
Seeing that everyone was gobbling, Yuzhu was too embarrassed to disturb them too much. Just as he was about to get up and leave, he suddenly heard someone muttering in a low voice, "It would be even better if there were scallions to go with the noodles."

Yuzhu's heart moved slightly. Shandong people love green onions, garlic, and pasta, but they don't really like white rice.

Only when you are full, eat well, and eat well, can you participate in training better!