Guan Zhuofan still doesn't know how the government and the opposition will react to him using Tian Yongmin, a "demoted person", to be the "general office" of the army military school? However, there must be some people who don't think so—including his lineage, and even within the Xuan Army, there will probably be people who mutter to themselves.

Also, Guan Zhuofan will never know, but what he is very curious about is: If the people of the original time and space knew that he used a naturalized Japanese to be the principal of China's first army military school, what would be their reaction and evaluation?

It is not uncommon to entrust the "demotion" with heavy responsibilities. However, most of these kinds of things happen under two special circumstances: first, the war has entered a state of stalemate, the victory and defeat are inseparable, and the enemy who surrenders favorably can play a major role in breaking the enemy's military morale; Second, at the beginning of the establishment of the regime, there was a shortage of talents, so he was naturally thirsty for talent, so how could he care about his whereabouts?

When the overall situation has been decided and the regime has been stabilized, it is no longer possible to reuse "demoting people" lightly. The first is that the political demand for favoring "demoting people" no longer exists, and the second is that its own talent echelon has been established, and there is not enough personnel demand for reusing "demoting people", and it is also necessary to prevent "airborne cadres" from having a negative impact on the normal talent promotion mechanism.

Guan Zhuofan's use of Tian Yongmin, of course, is not to "break the enemy's military heart" - against the Changzhou Domain, the Xuan army has always maintained an overwhelming advantage, the war has never been "stalemate", and there is basically no political need to "disintegrate the enemy's military heart", not to mention, his reuse of Tian Yongmin is just now, and it has been half a year since the end of the expedition.

Then, it has been more than 200 years since the founding of the Qing Dynasty. The big picture is predetermined. The regime has long been ...... Solid...... Get down. Uh, "own talent echelon"......

Uh, something doesn't seem right......

At the time of great changes unseen in a thousand years, the empire is like an old and decaying giant ship, plunging headlong into the raging storm and using all its might, and can survive the dangerous shoal with the most rapid wind and the highest waves, the current situation. It can only be said that Kankan came out of the "wind and rain" and saw a ray of sunshine in the sky.

The empire's talent training and selection mechanism is also decrepit. Guan Zhuofan lamented that China's "talent pool" is only rich on paper, or at most, it is only a "potential stock", which cannot be truly realized until the empire's talent training and selection mechanism is fully and thoroughly reformed.

"Talent echelon" of Shenma. It's not at all.

That is to say, the situation that Guan Zhuofan is facing. It is an out-and-out "grass creation".

Therefore, it is necessary to use talents in an eclectic manner.

In this era, Tian Yongmin-Masajiro Omura is one of the best talents that Guan Zhuofan can find and can use for himself.

Japan's "Orchid Studies" has a long history and has its origins. Omura is both fluent in Sinology and Orchid Studies, and his "Tong" is really "Tong" - not necessarily how "fine", but he knows the background and knows the advantages and disadvantages of the gains and losses, not a glimpse of the light, not a superficial view.

In this regard, the vast majority of people in China who are engaged in "foreign affairs" cannot compare. Even those who are most familiar with "foreign affairs" in China, such as Guo Songtao and Li Hongzhang, can only be said to "know the nature of Western civilization" at most, but they "do not know why it is true" in their backgrounds and foundations.

Omura's Lanxue is not only "pragmatic", but also "pragmatic". In addition to the old profession of Lan Medicine, Omura has a considerable amount of experience in ships, machinery, and civil engineering, and they can all be called a "tong" character.

In military affairs, Omura was not only a genius in commanding operations, but also a master of theoretical writings, and he wrote such works as "Soldiers' Combat Techniques", "Soldiers' Tomb Battles", "Typical City Construction", and "Instructions for Shippers".

This kind of practice and theory is unique in China at that time, and even Japan at the end of the Bakudo period, which was advancing rapidly and producing many talents, was also extremely prominent.

At this stage, it is impossible for Guan Zhuofan to hand over the army to Tian Yongmin's command, but when it comes to the principal of the army military school that "focuses on me", Guan Zhuofan really can't think of a more suitable candidate than Tian Yongmin.

When Omura was just captured and surrendered, he was naturally still isolated from the system, system, and operation of the Xuan Army, but after being a logistics staff officer and operational staff officer for half a year, with the ability of Omura Masajiro - Tian Yongmin, not only did he know everything clearly, but he also understood it deeply and grasped it accurately, and he came out on top, surpassing most of the Xuan officers and soldiers.

As a matter of fact, even if he does not command operations, Tian Yongmin's ability is not something that the "general office" of a military school can limit.

The reform of the military system that he presided over in the Choshu Domain was not only a rebirth of the military system, but also an extremely important political and social change.

One of the most important was Masajiro Omura's abolition of the millennium-old system of "horse and horses" in Japan.

The so-called "horse guards" are the pro-soldiers who ride horses around the lord. The daimyo was called "Ma Dai Zhong", and the shogun was called "Hachimoto". The Choshu Domain's "Ma Dai Clan" system, also known as the "Eight Groups System", was a "Ma Dai Clan" in which the eight important vassals were hereditary feudal lords—in fact, the children of these eight families monopolized the official positions at all levels of the feudal army for generations.

Therefore, for the Choshu Domain, the "Eight Groups System" not only determined the pattern of the military system, but also the foundation of the entire political and social structure: the daimyo were in the center, and the eight great families surrounded the Gongwei and jointly ruled Choshu.

The old feudal army was composed of the private soldiers of these eight families, and with a wave of his hand, Masajiro Omura disbanded all of them, even the feudal lord Mori's family. Then, with the "Odd Soldiers" and other "teams" as the backbone, the elite of the old feudal army was selected and reorganized into a new feudal army with unified military and political and military orders.

On the selection of officers, Takasugi Jinsaku, who single-handedly promoted Omura, first broke the boundaries of Shinong industry and commerce, but he also made an armband of "samurai" and "horseman" to show the difference. But Masajiro Omura went one step further, and even didn't want this armband, completely breaking the restrictions between classes, and promoting and selecting, regardless of background, all depends on ability.

As a result, not only did the military system completely change, but the entire political and social interest pattern of the Choshu Domain was also reshuffled.

Merchants, low-level samurai, small workshop owners, farmers, and streams of fresh blood roared into the body of Choshu, and Choshu was reborn.

In the original time and space, Choshu was able to defeat the shogunate with the power of a feudal domain, and the reform of Masajiro Omura was the most important reason.

Masajiro Omura did not have much interest in politics, but his abolition of the "Ma Xiazhong" system was tantamount to quietly completing the extremely significant political and social changes for the Choshu Domain in the name of "strengthening the army" under the pressure of a strong enemy.

Even, Guan Zhuofan thinks that it can be said that the abuse of modern Japan is also due to the abolition of the "horse and man" system by Masajiro Omura.

Such a talent, as long as it can guarantee his loyalty, why not reuse?

In addition to running an army military school, in Guan Zhuofan's mind, Tian Yongmin is positioned as a "military advisor" - a counselor, not limited to the military.

So, can his loyalty be guaranteed?

Yes.

Guan Zhuofan's "loyalty" does not mean that Tian Yongmin will go up the sword mountain and go down to the sea of fire for himself, but whether he can abandon the remaining Japanese ethnic identity and serve China wholeheartedly?

Yes.

First of all, Masajiro Omura was not a samurai.

And it's not just about his origins – Masajiro Omura came from a family of doctors. More importantly, it refers to his thinking and behavior.

Masajiro Omura once said, "When you lose a battle, it is better to retreat early than to continue to resist in vain." ”

He didn't have the "way of the samurai" string in his head at all, which was extremely unusual among the crowd of fanatical cattle at the end of the shogunate.

In Japan at that time, without a self-identification of samurai identity, it was unlikely that there would be a clear political position—because there was no clear object of allegiance.

Masajiro Omura thus became a "silent man on the political zhì".

He basically did not express his stance on the "major issues of right and wrong," such as "respecting the king," "fighting the throne," "supporting the curtain," and "toppling the curtain."

He was a native of Choshu, but he joined the Uwajima Domain. In the strict and antagonistic political pattern of the gate at the end of the Edo period, Masajiro Omura did not express any obvious "view of the gate".

Omura is a "warrior", but not a "samurai", he is more like a "wanderer" of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States period. It's just that he doesn't live by his mouth.

Or, in today's parlance, Masajiro Omura is a very pure "technocrat".

At this time, Japan's national identity is far from being formed—and perhaps never will be. In this context, a person like Masajiro Omura may not only change his family, but also change his nationality: from a "quasi-Japanese" to a real Chinese.

This proves it.

Of course, this is not something that happens overnight.

In order to make a good start, Guan Zhuofan has done a lot of work. He first suppressed and then promoted, and studied Omura Masajiro for more than half a year, until all of Omura's unrealistic ideas were grinded away, and finally woke up and really "lost sincerity", so he resigned, entrusted him with a heavy responsibility, and was rewarded generously.

Well, with such a double heaven of ice and fire, this Tian Yongmin from Masajiro Omura should be really cool, right? From now on, you should die down, saddle up the horse, and work for me, right?

Okay, that's enough, that's enough.

Tomorrow, it's time to check out my new ship.

*(To be continued......)