Mengshan Army

It took two hours to eat a meal.Coming out of the Governor's Yamen, Long Qian and the half-drunk Tang Shaoyi were sent back to the hotel.He promised Zhou Xuexi to inspect the expanding Luoyuan Academy tomorrow (Shandong University Hall was built on the former site of the Academy), and also planned to visit Feng Guozhang, who took over as Admiral of Shandong.Therefore, the date of Long Qian's return to Lunan will be postponed for a few days.

Tang Shaoyi decided to live with Long Qian, and sent someone to the Jinan government office to inform the prefect Ding that he would not go back, fell asleep in the guest room.After Long Qian settled Tang Shaoyi, he sat alone in the yard thinking about his next task.

Jiang Yun and Long Qian's guards saw him thinking about things alone, so they didn't come to disturb him, but just brought him a teapot filled with tea and a teacup.

The task of coming to Jinan this time was basically completed. I didn't expect to get Zhou Fu's support unexpectedly today. Even if Feng Guozhang hated himself, it didn't matter to the overall situation.According to Jiang Yun's report, Yuan Shikai's Wuwei Youjun has already marched into Gyeonggi one after another. It is estimated that there will not be too many troops left for Feng Guozhang. If it is just the vanguard of Wuwei Youjun adapted from the patrol battalion, Long Qian will not need it at all. Worry.After Yuan Jun leaves, the strongest force on the ground in Shandong will be the Mengshan Army!Feng Guozhang should be worried about himself, not himself worried about Feng Guozhang.

Feng Guozhang did not follow Yuan Shikai to Zhili!This surprised Long Qian.It is hard to estimate whether the Feng family will leave Yuan Shikai in this way.Historically, the Feng family followed Yuan Shikai to Zhili, but Long Qian didn't know what role he played.The history he knew had been completely altered.In the history that happened, Li Hongzhang is still alive, and he is sick and continues to be busy with the signing of the Xin Chou Treaty and the withdrawal of the Eight-Power Allied Forces from Yanjing.Cixi did not return to Beijing, but stayed in Xi'an.But now that Cixi has returned to the palace, Li Hongzhang died of illness a few months earlier, and the content of the Xin Chou Treaty has changed a lot, at least the amount of compensation is much less than what he knew in history.

Did all this change because of myself?Long Qian was deeply confused.

What is certain is that after coming to this era, I can be regarded as standing firm!When leaving Lunan, the troops had successfully taken over the two states and completed the strategic deployment.Recruitment has also officially started.When the German weapons are delivered, the strength of the troops will be greatly improved.With this soldier in hand, it is enough to deal with the general situation.

Long Qian knew that since the Qing court declared war on all nations last year, the apparent unification of the Qing court had come to an end, and local powers would be further aggravated.In fact, for a long time to come, it will be the era of speaking with the barrel of a gun.As long as you control your own army, no matter whether it is the governor or the court, you must be scruples about your own existence, and even look at your own face.

Among the celebrities of this generation, Yuan Shikai is the one who understands the importance of military power the most.This is the fundamental reason why he reached the highest peak in the late Qing Dynasty.There is no doubt that this person will continue to strengthen his military strength in Zhili.There is no news in the Shangyu that he concurrently served as Beiyang Minister of Commerce.However, according to the usual practice, the Governor of Zhili will also serve as the Minister of Commerce of Beiyang.At that time, Yuan Shikai's small station soldiers should be called the Beiyang Army, and then it should be the formation of the Six Beiyang Towns﹍﹍ I really don't know what the outcome of this military force similar to the Mixed Association in my hand will be.

Whether Yuan Shikai will establish a military academy in Baoding or not, Long Qian is not sure now.For this reason, Jiang Yun has made arrangements according to his instructions, and the specific plan has been approved by him.In two days, Jiang Yun will go to Baoding to direct the operation after the Jinan station is established.Because I asked for a high degree of secrecy, this group of espionage personnel who were about to break into the military and political system of the Beiyang Army.The fewer people who know their identities, the better.So Jiang Yun personally selected the staff and only reported to him.As a result, Long Qian selected three people out of the eight selected by Jiang Yun, one of whom was a member of the intelligence department, one was a soldier of the logistics department, and the last one was the squad leader of the combat unit.The characteristic of these three people is that they all have a cultural background. None of their ancestral home is from Shandong, two are from Henan, and one is from Baoding, Zhili. They can basically speak their hometown dialect fluently.After the candidates were confirmed, the three of them secretly received training from Long Qian and Jiang Yun, and they are still studying ancient prose with Chen Chao in the base area.Of course, Chen Chao didn't know what their mission was, and Long Qian didn't worry about it, because apart from Jiang Yun and himself, no one knew what to call these three people together, even they themselves didn't know.

Why not select more candidates? Long Qian guessed that the imperial court must have attached great importance to the reconstruction of the Army Military Academy, and there would not be many students in the first class.In addition, the bad habits of the Manchu Qing Dynasty are hard to get rid of, and there will definitely be a lot of "designated admission" rich and powerful children in the pockets of the big men. It may be useless to send too many people for reference.Fortunately, if a military academy is opened, it will definitely not be one session, and it will naturally continue to be held every year. As long as the secret spies who infiltrated the first session are not exposed, it is not impossible to send them in year after year.

The base area took the lead in starting the social survey presided over by Chen Chao, and these three people were nominally transferred to assist Chen Chao in the rural survey.But only Chao Chen knew that they might have another mission, because Long Qian specifically asked Chao Chen to guide the three of them to write ancient prose, and to meet the standard of a scholar.Super Chen said it was impossible, is it so easy for a scholar to pass the exam?I don't believe that you can randomly select three talents in your team!Long Qian took a step back, well, at least he can write a passable essay—yes, it's stereotyped essay.

The imperial court has not abolished stereotyped essays yet, and it is not a novelty for stereotyped essays to appear in the cultural examinations of military academies.

At the time of the primary election, Long Qian was satisfied with the basic situation of the three final candidates. The family basically had no burden. The senior military officer had fought in battle but had no injuries (no war wounds on his body), and his superiors all spoke very well of him. , loyalty should be no problem.After being selected, before Long Qian left the base area and went north to Jinan, he taught the three of them a few consecutive lessons. Apart from common sense and things about espionage, Long Qian talked more about loyalty.They are required to be loyal to the Mengshan Army under all circumstances.

All three of them thought that what they accepted was an important person, but they didn't know that they would be sent into the Beiyang Army for a long time to lurk.

If all goes well, these three highly educated youths will apply for Yuan's military academy. Even if two of them are admitted, it will be a remarkable achievement.As far as Long Qian's understanding of history is concerned, what impresses him deeply is that seniority is a serious phenomenon in the civil society.

The espionage methods at this time were still very primitive, and many generals had never seen modern espionage methods at all.Long Qian believed that the methods he handed over to Jiang Yun would probably be difficult for his opponent to see through.As long as there are a few more years, and his wings are full, he will not be afraid of falling out with the court.

But what if Yuan Shikai doesn't run a military academy?Long Qian smiled wryly in his heart.In the historical trend of losing track, he himself felt confused.

Now, another more important issue finally came before us, and the Revolutionary Party jumped out!

As far as Long Qian knew about the history, Sun Wen, Huang Xing and others stubbornly and unyieldingly launched armed uprisings aimed at overthrowing the Manchu Qing for ten years until the Xinhai period. , can sing and cry.But I never realized that using overseas fundraising to hire the party as the main force of the uprising is simply not going to work!In exchange for the sacrifice of a large number of passionate young people!Even Zhou Fu, an old-school bureaucrat, has realized the horror of the revolutionary party's liaison with the army, but it seems that Sun Wen has been unwilling to do military work.However, if the Tongmenghui——Long Qian couldn't figure out whether the Tongmenghui was established now, and found himself, what should he do?

Just like Zhou Fu mentioned in the afternoon, Rong Hong, Yan Fu, Zhang Binglin and others who have joined the anti-Qing camp are all famous figures in later generations!Yan Fu can be regarded as one of the founders of China's first modern navy, Rong Hong was the first to open his eyes to see the world, and Zhang Binglin is even more remarkable. He is definitely the last one who is worthy of being a master of Chinese studies.Long Qian has never read Zhang's articles, but the reputation of "Mr. Taiyan" is so great that anyone with a little culture should have heard of it.

How pleasant it would be if these people were for their own use!But this is impossible.To a large extent, they had at most heard about the great victory in Xigu. Perhaps the name Longqian had been branded as Cixi, and they were regarded by them as the queen party representing the stubborn forces of the Qing Dynasty!He probably won't make up his own mind. If he wants to find himself, it's probably sending a bomb.

Thinking of Sun Wen's assassination methods, Long Qian couldn't help laughing bitterly.

The queen party is the queen party, anyway, now there is no capital to wrestle with Man Qing.And no matter how the domestic situation changes, the most important thing is to strengthen your own strength!When you have a strong army and take out an industrial base under your control, whether it is a revolutionary party or a royalist party, it is not under your own words!As for the Manchu Qing court, it has been a pile of walking corpses since last year. Whether it is a new deal or a constitution, it will not end well.As long as the Manchu nobles refused to truly withdraw from the stage of history, what awaited them was destruction!There will never be a similar outcome in the UK.Perhaps Yuan Shikai would complete his mission of overthrowing the Manchu Qing without doing it himself.

So, the key lies in yourself.Two things, one is to do a good job in the army, and the other is to rely on Lunan Coal and Iron to establish an industrial base beyond Hanyang. The others are all secondary.Long Qian sorted out his thoughts and thought that the choice was correct.

How to grasp the army?Long Qian had a headache again.The Mengshan Army is becoming more and more feudalized.Or, she was originally a feudal army, and her surname had never changed.What Long Qian brought to them was to surpass the organizational discipline and advanced tactics at that time, without making any qualitative changes.

However, Long Qian clearly realized that if he continued like this, not to mention whether it was his original intention, the key was that the nature of the troops would remain unchanged, and the fighting power would not be raised to the extreme in this world!The feudal army has no principles, it only follows individuals and a team, and its vision cannot be expanded at all.Without ideals, there will be no ideals, without ideals, there will be no spirit of sacrifice, and an army without the spirit of sacrifice will not be a strong army ahead of the times!Moreover, a feudalized army must be exclusive.If you don't open your mind and recruit a large number of intellectuals into the army, it will be very difficult to refit the army and improve tactics!The rejection of Situ Jun that had already appeared proved this point. In his old team, he always regarded Situ Jun as an outsider and did not really accept him. Feng Guozhu's question only represented a common opinion.If I am here, I can hold down those "veterans". If I am not here, it must be the result of death.

This is enough to cause alarm.If you rely on seniority to expand the army, even if the Mengshan Army becomes an armed force that can counter the Beiyang Army, it will not realize the ideal in my heart.

For the army to have its own ideals, it is necessary to establish a political party organization that is ahead of the times.Arm your backbone with advanced programs.But what kind of political party to build?Where do you stand?Which class or class does it represent?How to free the land from the shackles of the peasants?To average wealth by violent means or to bring about improvements by gentle means?These are things that have been thought about but have not come to a conclusion.The other is the timing issue, starting to build a political party now, except blatantly protecting the emperor, any path will conflict with the current regime.Confronting the reality prematurely is not the best policy.Finally, there is the issue of talents. I don’t have a civilian team as loyal to me as the generals of the Mengshan Army. What do I use to form a political party?The conclusion reached is that there can be no political claims now.

That being the case, let the troops do this first.Let him keep the poison of feudalism first.Concentrate on economic construction and strive to build an industrial base in ten years!

Long Qian was thinking intently until dusk, the guard couldn't help reminding him whether it's time for dinner?Only then did Long Qian escape from his meditation. (To be continued.)