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Chapter 607 I Can't Laugh
After inspecting the officers and soldiers of Daming Town in the Green Camp, Jia Liu set off from Daming Mansion for Tianjin.

He did not carry out any personnel transfers in Daming Town, and replaced the main officers with his own people, because he found that the overall combat effectiveness of the Zhili Green Camp was relatively low, and the quality of the soldiers was also poor. To put it bluntly, the Green Camp in Daming Town This group of people, he Jia Tulu can beat one by one.

Therefore, instead of wasting energy on the adjustment and adaptation of the Zhili Green Camp, it is better to start anew and train the new army.

It is planned to train the new army in two places, one is Tianjin and the other is Baoding.

This is strangling the capital from both sides.

At the same time, he opened an armed forces school in Baoding, started regular military school education, and became addicted to being a principal.

He has all the inscriptions ready, and is waiting for the ribbon-cutting to open.

The golden phoenix sends happiness, the boss will make a fortune.

With a gun in hand, the money comes from the source.

Of course, this is also a respect for history. Baoding, the capital of Zhili Province, was originally the birthplace of China's modern army.

It is initially planned to train new troops in three towns in Tianjin, with 6000 people in each town;
In Baoding, the new army was trained in two towns, each with 6000 people.

In fact, it means that one town is one brigade.

With a total of 30,000 people in the new army of the five towns, plus more than [-] guards, they can control the direct force of the two armies at once.

Compared with road construction, trade and industry, the cost of training new troops is actually the least.

At present, the salary of the green battalion soldiers is only a dozen taels a year, so even if they are doubled to improve the morale of the recruits, and add supporting weapons, uniforms, food supplements, etc., a soldier only spends about 40 taels a year.

30,000 people is one hundred and 200,000 taels.

Jia Liu can fully bear this expense.

The question is in what name to train the new army.

Lao Fu agreed that Jia Liu, the governor of Zhili during the Beiyang trade, could build an army to protect the merchants, but that was the organizational system of the navy, not the army.

So Jia Liu organized and trained [-] troops with great fanfare, and the old Fu in Beijing was blind to let him do it.

So there must be a title.

The other is how to arrange the more than [-] battalion soldiers and banner soldiers in Zhili.

It is obviously impossible to abolish them all, and it seems that continuing to support them is not a long-term solution. I have been worrying about this all the way, until I entered Tianjin, and suddenly slapped my head and scolded myself for being confused.

The bulk of the ready-made experience is there, just move it in.

It is to select a part of the green battalion elite to join the new army, the rest will be reorganized into local police, and the other part will be reorganized into auxiliary arms such as engineering road soldiers.

As long as the treatment of soldiers is improved and senior officers are given a better way out and future, there is no need to worry about these green flags rebelling against Governor Jia.

The general idea Jia Liu gave a general explanation to Li Anan, Ding Qing and others who accompanied him, and asked them to draw up a specific charter in the next few days.

As for the name of the new army's editors, he turned his head and pondered carefully whether it was a gimmick or some civil uprising in Zhili.

This trip to Tianjin is mainly to get the full support and cooperation of Tianjin Governor Xu Ji.

The governor of Tianjin was nominally under the control of the governor of Zhili, but in fact the two did not have a clear relationship between superiors and subordinates that mutually restricted each other, because the governor was a feudalist, and the governor was also a feudalist, and both had the power to be directly responsible to the emperor (court).

Before Yongzheng, there was no governor in Zhili, but there were governors in Zhili, Xuanfu, Tianjin, Baoding and Shuntian respectively.

Until Yongzheng ordered the establishment of a governor, the Tianjin governor was retained, and the other governors were all abolished.

Therefore, Jia Liu couldn't use the power of the governor to force the cooperation of Xu Ji, the governor. He could only lure him to go on the road, and everyone made the cake together by sharing the benefits.

Just like sharing cakes on the banks of the Grand Canal.

On the way, I inspected the river channel by the way. I was also a layman, just pretending to take people for a walk on the river embankment, and listened to the constructive opinions of the local officials on the river channel.

No way, who let him, the governor of Zhili, concurrently serve as the governor of Beihe River.

In the seventh year of Yongzheng, in order to further strengthen the management of the canal, the Qing court divided the entire line of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal into three river governors, that is, the governor of the Jiangnan River (also known as the governor of Nanhe), who managed the affairs of the Yellow River, the Huaihe River and the Canal in Jiangsu and Anhui provinces, and was stationed in Jiangpu, Qing Dynasty. ;

Governor of Shandong River in Henan, also known as Governor of Hedong River or Governor of Donghe, manages the affairs of the Yellow River and the Canal in Shandong and Henan provinces, and is stationed in Jining;
The governor of the Beihe River Channel manages the affairs of the rivers and canals of the Haihe River system. The governor of the river channel is also the governor of Zhili.

Jia Liu's predecessor, Zhou Yuanli, was transferred from Governor Nanhe.

Although the Governor’s Yamen of the Beihe River was merged with the Governor’s Yamen of Zhili, there was a sub-yamen in Tianjin. The members were mainly water conservancy experts of this era, which was equivalent to an institution like the Water Conservancy Committee.

After listening to a report from local officials and water conservancy experts, Jia Liu gave some symbolic instructions on how to control the river, and then continued his journey to Tianjin.

During the stop in Qing County on the way, I deliberately changed into casual clothes and micro clothes for a private visit.

Bao Zhu, who was in charge of the security work, brought dozens of personal guards to covertly protect him in plain clothes.

Walking around the county, the people's livelihood and economy are relatively good. The reason is that after all, it is along the canal economic belt, and the standard of living of ordinary people is higher than that of other areas.

Jia Liu was a bit disappointed that he didn't meet any thugs who bullied others, or bullies bullying men and women, because "Daqing Daily" recently stopped updating the story about the governor's solving the case due to lack of material.

In order to cooperate with the Governor-General's Qingtian image construction project, the Procuratorate's Yamen is intensively conducting inspections across the province, hoping to find some major cases for the Governor-General to personally interrogate.

Back in Xingyuan, just about to take a rest, Shuanzhu came back.

Looking at his appearance, he gained a few pounds more than before, which made Jia Liu realize the seriousness of the problem, and couldn't help asking with a straight face, "Are you taking bribes?"

Shuan Zhu hurriedly said no, he confiscated not a penny of the money.

"Accepted the arrangement?"

"No."

"Bring local specialties?"

"nor."

"Ok?"

Jia Liu frowned slightly, "Impossible, that boy Wang Fu is such a good man, how could he not win over you?"

Shuan Zhu looked unfair: "Master, don't think of us as you do, okay?"

"Is not it?"

Jia Liu put on a smile on his face, and instead of judging a gentleman's heart with a villain's heart, he asked Shuan Zhu to explain the situation in Huguang in detail.

Listen to it from time to time, and look at the map from time to time.

Shuan Zhu said that Wang Fu planned to use Chongqing Town as a pilot to vote collectively, and then let Chengdu Town vote there. This would set off a wave of Qing army surrenders and bring the anti-Qing struggle to a new level.

"This is Zu Yingyuan's plan. If the young master wants to make it work, they will start to prepare."

Jia Liu took it and took a closer look. Zu Dashou's great-grandson actually wanted to make Chongqing Zhen turn against him at a critical moment during Fengsheng's "key attack" and put Fengsheng to death.

This fucking is really an ancestral handicraft, as if reappeared in the late Ming Dynasty.

"If Feng Sheng is dead, who can preside over the Huguang battle? Will the situation become more serious?"

Jia Liu couldn't write the word "agree" for a long time. He was not worried that Wang Fu and Zu Yingyuan could not kill Feng Sheng'e, but that Feng Sheng's death would cause worse consequences than Chen Huizu's defection to the enemy.

Seeing this, Shuan Zhu reminded: "Young Master, if you don't take the Fengsheng Quo as a vote, the people in the past may not trust us."

"That's the reason, but the price is too high. Feng Sheng'er is a loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty. Although his talent is only second to me, he is younger than me. I can't laugh at such a sacrifice."

Jia Liu sighed slightly, and finally approved the word "agree" on Zu Yingyuan's request for instructions, and handed it over to the Huguang Gongjin Association for implementation.

When she raised her head again, she had a friendly smile on her face: "Zhu Sang, tell me honestly, how much benefit did you get this time? You have to tell me honestly, I only want half of it. If you don't tell me honestly, everything will be confiscated."

(End of this chapter)