In the process of recruiting a large number of troops in Shandong and Zhili, some people are not idle, and they are also recruiting according to their own means. And these people also have their own networks, for example, some officers also went to those Manchu Green Battalion soldiers.

"You green battalion soldiers, are you interested in fighting foreign devils with Lord Wang?" An officer asked.

Immediately, some of the green battalion soldiers said lazily: "My lord, do you Lord Wang fancy us?" We, the green battalion soldiers, are probably a bunch of garbage in your eyes, and we don't value them at all, do we? ”

"Who said? Although you are green battalion soldiers, although you have relatively little training, you still have a basic sense of discipline. Moreover, we are still willing to accept you, you have all been soldiers, as long as you are willing, and you do not have any bad habits, then we are also willing to accept you to come and be soldiers. When we come to us, we must abide by military law and all kinds of discipline. We can give you ten dollars a month's salary, which is equivalent to five taels of silver in the past. If you are willing to serve as a soldier or not, we can guarantee that you will be hired first under the same conditions. ”

When the soldiers of the Green Battalion heard this, they were also quite moved, because the actual salary they received every month was only one tael of silver, and now if they could get five taels of silver, it would be good. Therefore, this military salary alone is enough to attract them.

And the Taiwanese army also hopes to recruit some people from these green battalion soldiers and then join their new army. Because as the saying goes, there are three pounds of nails in a rotten ship, although these green battalions are unbearable, but this is due to many reasons. There are weapons reasons, military system reasons, tactical and ideological reasons, corruption reasons, and so on. There are many reasons for this. It's not that these soldiers can't do it, if you treat them as ordinary soldiers and bring them back to the furnace for training, then there is still salvation. The low combat effectiveness of the green battalion is actually due to the perennial peace, which makes their combat effectiveness weak. This is an inevitable phenomenon. If there is no war all year round, the deterioration of the army's combat effectiveness is inevitable. Even the Chinese army in later generations is actually undergoing decay, and its combat effectiveness will gradually decline. This is the practice of all dynasties, and the decline of the army caused by a long period of peace cannot be blamed on a certain soldier or even a certain official. Later generations of China have also experienced this kind of process, perennial peace, and insufficient economic investment in the army. There have also been many experiences of military decline.

However, there is another advantage of later generations compared with this era, that is, the level of science and technology has improved, and the decline of combat effectiveness is not as serious as in ancient times. However, after a long period of peace, the decline of the army's combat effectiveness is inevitable, and it is not any ideology or doctrine that can stop this process. However, as long as they can be reinvented and reformed, these people can continue to be rescued after joining the new army. At that time, the troops of the People's Party came into the army of our Party. Aren't they getting better one by one? Even, the vast majority of the PLA in the later period of our party were captured by the enemy or defected for various reasons. This is especially true of Ichino's troops. Therefore, the collective is the biggest basis for influencing the individual, and if a bad soldier becomes a good army collective, it can be made into a good soldier. A good soldier goes to a bad army, then he will also deteriorate. So these green camps are not terrible, and Wang Guorui is not worried that they will not be able to use them, the key is to smash their rotten collective. It will be enough to reintegrate them into this new collective.

And these people, although they participated in the decadent green battalion, but the green battalion was also a professional army of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. A professional army of off-duty workers has great advantages over an army of ordinary peasants. No matter how little training they have, they have been trained. Especially the sense of discipline. There is no way to compare with ordinary farmers who have just put down their hoes. The cost of correcting these green camps is much lower than training from scratch from a single farmer. During the War of Liberation, our party actually liked the soldiers who came from the Kuomintang very much, because they had received military training, and once they came over with a little training, they could be used. If you train from a peasant to an army, it is not only the economic cost, but also the time cost. Therefore, in terms of cost, it is best to "dig the wall" directly from the other party. This method is also innumerable in the business struggles of later generations, and the hard work of cultivating a talent is finally poached, and the reason is the same.

"However, those of us who were born in the Green Camp, will we be looked down upon by you Lord Wang? When the time comes, after we have made meritorious contributions, will we be able to enjoy the same rewards as others? Especially for promotion, will those of us who come out of the green camp be discriminated against? A younger-looking man asked.

"That's a good question, you can rest assured that we won't discriminate against you soldiers from the Green Battalion. You may not know that the earliest batch of our troops in Taiwan were also born in the green battalion. A large part of the first batch of troops under our Lord Wang were the Green Battalion troops brought by Hu Daren. Even our chief of the General Staff, Hu Weiren, used to be the general manager of Taiwan's Green Battalion. So, do you think we would discriminate against people in the Green Camp? You people have joined our army, and you are all our brothers. And those of us are also a big collective, and it is up to us to protect your interests! ”

Hearing that many people in the current Taiwan army are also from the green battalion, this made them completely relieved. Because since everyone else can do this, then what do you have to worry about? The same background can make them naturally united, so that they can all hug each other to warm up and form a huge faction.

On the other side, some other recruiters were saying similar things to the Cao Gang.

"Brothers of the Cao Gang, you are all from the branch of our Heaven and Earth Society. Miss Zheng Hong, the chief helmsman of our Heaven and Earth Society, who is now the wife of Lord Wang, is now also a lieutenant general of our Taiwan army. And now we are going to expand the army in large quantities, so we Mrs. Zheng specially came to hope that you can enthusiastically join our army in Taiwan. Everyone is a troubled member of the Heaven and Earth Society, and you are all from the Heaven and Earth Society, so there is no problem in joining us together. ”

At this time, those officers from the Taiwan Tiandi Association also began to pull people in the Cao Gang. These Cao Gang are actually the people who are responsible for Cao transportation in the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and they are the earliest transportation personnel. And the Cao Gang is actually the Green Gang, and the Green Gang and Hongmen are both from the Heaven and Earth Society. The Taiwan Heaven and Earth Society is nominally the helmsman of all the Heaven and Earth Societies, but in fact it has long been divided, and those Hongmen Heaven and Earth Associations on the mainland will not care about Taiwan's Heaven and Earth Society at all. But now it does not prevent Zheng Hong's subordinates from using this opportunity to get close to them.

"Next, you can join our army, we will definitely have a lot of people to help you, you don't have to worry about the future."

"Yes, my lord, we are willing to join the army!"

Wang Guorui was in the general headquarters of the capital and received a report from Li Zhanfeng, the director of the chamberlain.

"Lord Wang, the news reported by the Investigation Department of the Grassroots Construction Bureau of our Attendant Office shows that the major factions in the army are also expanding their manpower on a large scale. The Green Battalion led by Hu Wei mobilized everyone to join in the Green Battalion of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the past, mobilized the soldiers of the Green Battalion to join the army, and then formed a gang. And Li Yuanhong of the Marine Division was not idle, and was pulling people in the new army of the imperial court everywhere. As for the final ......" Li Zhanfeng suddenly hesitated.

"You're saying that Hong'er isn't idle, are you?" Wang Guorui asked.

"Yes, Mrs. Zheng also asked people to recruit people in the Youth Gang in Shandong, obviously because she didn't want to let go of this opportunity." Li Zhanfeng said.

Wang Guorui sighed and said, "It seems that Shantouism is still not small!" ”

At present, Taiwan's armed forces actually have quite a lot of mountaineering, so don't think that there is no politics in the military. Whenever three people are together, politics is generated. Wang Guorui's army also inherited a lot of mountains from the beginning. Especially the original green camp system, headed by Hu Wei. The first line of the Heaven and Earth Society is headed by Zheng Hong, and the new army is headed by Li Yuanhong. The navy is in a league of its own, and the navy is the "purest" on the contrary.

In fact, strictly speaking, the Taiwanese army and the Manchu army are in the same line, and all kinds of mountains have been inherited. Although Wang Guorui can control the grassroots level of the army through the Red Police soldiers, these Red Police soldiers are only battalion-level officers at the highest level, and they are not influential at all for this army of hundreds of thousands. Wang Guorui can only maintain the army from large-scale betrayal, but he can't prevent the major mountains among those officers from taking the opportunity to "support the army and respect themselves" to gain benefits. Not to mention that Wang Guorui's army had this problem, our party's revolutionary army was not also a mountainous area, and it still existed until the 21 st century. This military expansion can be said to be an important channel for the major factions to increase their strength. If it is recruited from within Taiwan, then the background of the soldiers in Taiwan is not so complicated, and the soldiers in Taiwan are all from workers, neither the Green Battalion nor the Hongmen Tiandi Association, let alone the new army of the imperial court. So they don't have complicated backgrounds and don't have natural factions.

However, this time the recruitment of troops on the mainland made the major factions take the opportunity to develop manpower ruthlessly. The mainland's army, the Green Battalion, the New Army, and the canal in Shandong have a large number of Cao Gangs, all of which give the major mountains the opportunity to expand their manpower.

"It looks like we're going to cut the mountain." Wang Guorui thought. (To be continued.) )