Hearing the Empress Dowager Cixi's question, Rong Lu, who was behind the Minister of Military Aircraft, stepped forward and stood up, his upper lip with two short beards, his expression was calm, and he was promoted from the military department to the governor of Zhili and in charge of the Beiyang Naval Division, and then from the position of the governor, he entered Beijing, and served as the position of the military department Manshang Shu vacated by Jiashen Yishu before, because the southern war was about to break out, and he needed to be ready for central consultation at all times in military affairs, so today the military aircraft department called up, and he was also here. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"The Ministry of War has ordered conscription." Rong Lu took a step forward and said, "Although there is no war with the legal person yet, but the twelve towns have sent out three towns, and there are three towns stationed in Beihai, and there is no rush to come, there is a trend of cult rebellion in Shanxi, and the third commander of the fifth town has been patrolled and deployed in the past, although there are still soldiers in Beijing, in order to prevent the war in the south, it is still necessary to prepare in advance." ”

"Conscription?" Empress Dowager Cixi frowned slightly, "Not really, right?" ”

"It's not that these recruits want to go into battle to kill the enemy, they should be prepared and trained first, just in case they need it from time to time, if they don't succeed, they can also be put on the battlefield to assist, and it's good to see the world."

Empress Dowager Cixi nodded, "That's the best, just recruit according to the standards of the twelve towns, and," she also thought of another thing, "If the local regimental training is meritorious in battle, it should also be paid according to the standard of the twelve towns." "The average soldier in the twelve towns has a salary of five taels of silver a month, and they don't need to spend money on food, housing, and transportation, and there are more than 200,000 people in the twelve towns, and according to the salary of ordinary soldiers, they will need 1.5 million a month, and about 20 million a year, this number is amazing, and last year, the entire financial revenue of the Qing Dynasty reached 140 million taels of silver, and only the expenses of officers and soldiers at all levels accounted for about one-seventh of the state revenue. Nor will military spending be maintained at such a high level. This does not include the expenses of other arms and the purchase of warships, and the accounts of this money are not known except for the chief officers of several important departments of the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Households, and even the Minister of Military Aircraft, who is not in charge of the affairs of the two ministries, does not know this accurate account, to be honest, the Empress Dowager Cixi has been hiding it, and it cannot be seen on the table, let alone for foreigners to see.

China's land is huge, last year's Times evaluation, China's domestic territory occupies the second place in the world, only after Tsarist Russia, the gap is only a little bit, this is certainly a commendable thing, but it is really put forward some strict requirements for national defense, more than 20 people in 12 towns, if they are all in Fengtai camp, it is indeed enough, but so scattered, to the locality, I am afraid that the slightest wave can not splash, stationed in Xinjiang, Beihai, Gansu Shaanxi, and Zhili, so many places change the garrison all year round, It is already full of personnel, plus the garrison of Fengtai Battalion and Jingshi, since the change of the Old Summer Palace Palace, there is a town of people stationed on the side of the emperor and queen all the year round to prevent changes from time to time. Now it is impossible to mobilize the people of the three towns again.

The treatment of the twelve towns is indeed excellent, the total above, are arranged in Beijing to live in a house, ordinary soldiers in the army for ten years, immediately change jobs, even if there is no great merit, to eat a bowl of yamen rice in the local area has errands to do, it is extremely simple, the police departments in various places like the new army veterans the most, bullet can hold the place, if they make great contributions, naturally not to mention, transfer to the job, maybe can directly become a county lieutenant.

If your province has money, it is willing to spend money, then after approval, no one will interfere with the 180,000 regimental training to interfere with you, if there is no money, then I'm sorry, your regimental training is called Huazi, and you deserve it. Not to mention the good thing that you can go to the local area to retire after many years, the local governor is fighting with the military department, and at least some positions must be released to the local regimental training, otherwise the center will eat meat, and the local soup will not be able to drink, which is also unreasonable, you must know that in recent years, the new army has all selected elites in local regimental training, except for the officers who will teach martial arts, and has not recruited new recruits by itself, and local regimental training is the source of soldiers for the new army.

This is all according to the treatment of the new army, and the regimental training of Liangguang Yungui will naturally be moved.

"In addition, next year is originally the year of the big competition in the provinces, so it is better to let the provincial regiments train and send elites to fight in Vietnam, and use the actual results as the evaluation criteria, so that not only can the elites be selected into the new army, but also can make the war in Vietnam go smoothly." ”

Hearing Rong Lu's suggestion, the Empress Dowager Cixi thought of a word, "Crowd tactics? She muttered to herself, "This is good! There are too many ants to bite the tiger, our army is all over the mountains and fields to fight the French, and the pressure is also crushed to death, then let the provinces go, well, in addition to Zuo Zongtang Qincha is in charge of a few provinces, there are also a few provinces in the north are too far away, the provinces in the Central Plains, Jiangnan and other places must send troops to assemble, whether to participate in the big war or not, let's look at the posture in the south first. Yan Jingming wanted to speak and stopped, "I know that there is no silver for the time being, but the Seventh Master is loyal to the country," she said indifferently, stopping Yan Jingming's words, "Take the initiative to propose to me to suspend the distribution of the Eight Banners Ding Yin, this is a little intention of the Eight Banners for the country, I can't refuse, so let's take the silver there and use it first." ”

"Yes." This is also a helpless thing, demolishing the east wall and making up the west wall is the best thing for the household department, Yan Jingming responded, "There are still two million stones of grain in Beijing, if the queen mother has no other use, she can also send it to the south first." ”

"This road is too far, let the local government raise its own funds, let's give the silver," the Empress Dowager Cixi shook her head, "This grain, the people who are close to the Eight Banners first, if they want silver, then they don't, if they want food, they can pay in full." ”

"Feng Zicai's Cui Army, don't worry about it, Rong Lu, I didn't expect him to have any success, it is best to stop the legal person, no matter how bad it is, it will be successful to drag the legal person, and there is no need to interfere in the affairs of the Cui Army, but other people, from now on, must be punished in strict accordance with military discipline, who dares to delay and not enter, abandon the city and leave, the national law is like a furnace, you must not let go of these starters, you keep an eye on me first, if necessary, you personally go south and help Zuo Zongtang to press the formation together!" (To be continued.) )