Some people in the court are easy to be officials. Originally, a small sixth-rank official like Wu Chaoyue asked for a group training to be held. After being sent to the Military Affairs Office, it was not surprising that the military affairs minister could be seen by the military affairs minister for a period of one or two before he could give a reply. However, because Lord Su said casually, Shao Can, the military affairs minister who had just entered the Military Affairs Office, specially asked someone to find this memorable piece of writing in the hills, looking at the beautiful writing style and sufficient reasons, and it was a small good thing that benefited the country and the people. Shao Can wrote the five words "Send the Ministry of Personnel to the approval" in the memorial.

It is precisely because of these five words that Wu Chaoyue quickly obtained the second official position in his life in the Ministry of Personnel - the Songjiang Prefecture Troupe Training Supervision of Jiangsu Province of the Qing Dynasty. Although this was just a part-time job with no grade and no salary, Wu Chaoyue regarded it as a treasure. He smiled so hard that he couldn't even close his mouth. Without saying a word, he ran to the Ministry of Rites to deliver the errands and notified Wu Dasai and others to pack their luggage and prepare to return to Shanghai.

In the second year of Xianfeng, on the 28th day of the seventh lunar month, Wu Chaoyue, who had been in charge of the Ministry of Rites for only one month, said goodbye to the person who should say goodbye. He led Wu Dasai to wait for his dog legs and set off impatiently. After saying goodbye to Li Hongzhang, the only one who came to see him off, Wu Chaoyue looked back at the dark Beijing walls and muttered in his heart: "Farewell forever, a conservative and closed broken place occupied by mites. I said I didn't want to come back."

After returning home, Wu Chaoyue, who had gone south along the canal, successfully returned to Shanghai City, which he had long missed for a long time, and also met his comprador grandfather Wu Jianzhang, who had been away for a long time. When he saw his baby grandson suddenly appear in front of him, Wu Jianzhang's first reaction was of course very surprised. However, after holding his baby grandson in his arms and cried a few times, Wu Jianzhang came to his senses and wiped away his tears and asked, "Chaoyue, why are you back? You have been the head of the Ministry of Rites for a few days. What's the leave for visiting the family?"

"I don't like the ghost place in the capital. I miss you, grandpa, so I asked Lord Su for help and got me a mission to supervise the Songjiang Prefecture Group Training Commission."

Wu Chaoyue explained casually and told Wu Jianzhang about the past and after his return. However, Wu Jianzhang complained repeatedly when he heard this, and kept complaining, "Little ancestor, I won't stop you if you don't want to stay in the capital, but why do you have to come back with the excuse of organizing a group training? This supervision of the group training not only requires raising money and food to offend people, but also has to take the risk of taking the team training to the battlefield to fight. Once the errand cannot be done well, your official position will be lost. Why don't you use your brain to think about the pros and cons?"

"It's okay, it's okay." Wu Chaoyue comforted grandpa and said, "Grandpa, don't worry, I'm back to handle the group training this time, the main purpose of my return to handle the group of unruly grain-resistant unruly people in Qingpu. It's not very difficult to do errands. And I heard that the leader of the unruly people in Qingpu is Zhou Lichun. He and my uncle Ayuan are brothers who are worshippers. I still have hope to let Uncle Ayuan come forward and recruit him to surrender."

"It's not as easy as you said!" Wu Jianzhang was furious when he heard this, and slapped the table and said, "Do you know how big Zhou Lichun is now? Do you know that Li Chuqi, the magistrate of Qingpu and Zhong Dianxuan, sent troops to encircle and suppress the enemy twice, but they were all defeated by him? Uncle Ayuan and him had already been flirting with each other. You still want to count on him to surrender Zhou Lichun, are you dreaming?"

Wu Chaoyue really didn't know how much Zhou Lichun was making a fuss now. When he asked Wu Jianchang about the situation, he realized that Zhou Lichun had now formed a team of more than 2,000 people, repelled the attacks of officers and soldiers twice in succession, and grabbed many swords, guns and weapons used by regular soldiers in the battle, as well as the most advanced front-mounted mecha guns (commonly known as bird guns) in the Qing Dynasty. The strength and momentum increased sharply. Not only was there a huge chaos in Qingpu County and Kunshan next to it, but there were signs of thieves in Jiading County, Taicang Prefecture. Local governments and Jiangsu Governor Yang Wending, who was in charge of Suzhou, were helpless with Zhou Lichun, and could only let Zhou Lichun entrench in the Huangdu Town area at the junction of Qingpu, Kunshan, Shanghai and Jiading, and was at ease with the law.

After listening to Wu Jianzhang's introduction, Wu Chaoyue also understood that it was almost impossible to kill Zhou Lichun with the newly formed troupe training, but it didn't matter. Wu Chaoyue, who was unwilling to be a slave to the Qing Dynasty, was most afraid of being dismissed from office. So not only did not worry or regret, he also said to Wu Jianzhang with a smile: "Grandpa, it's okay, at worst it's just suppressing Zhou Lichun. The court took my head off in anger. No one could die. I also happened to come back to serve you."

When Wu Chaoyue met Wu Chaoyue, a treasure grandson who was not motivated, Wu Jianzhang had nothing to say. In a rage, Wu Jianzhang could only scold his treasure grandson, threatening that Wu Chaoyue would not recognize his grandson once he lost his official position, and asked Wu Chaoyue to take a broken bowl to the street to beg for food. Wu Chaoyue, who knew that his comprador would never do this, was still smiling, and made Wu Jianzhang angry enough.

The road is already done, no matter how much he hates his grandson's unimprovement, he has no choice but to do so. For the sake of his career prospects, Wu Jianzhang still taught his experiences and experiences of helping Lin Zexu to his group training as much as possible, so that his grandson would have to start the group training even if he was perfunctory. He first gave the court an explanation, and then slowly found ways to solve other problems. Wu Chaoyue agreed, but in his heart he regarded Wu Jianzhang's words as windy, and he cared about the textile factory he opened with British merchants.

The Shanghai textile factory jointly opened by Wu Chaoyue and British businessman Billy is progressing faster than Wu Chaoyue expected. The factory has been built and the equipment has been installed in place. It has entered the debugging stage. Wu Xiaohua, the nephew of Wu Jianzhang, who replaced Wu Chaoyue with British businessmen, also recruited enough workers with the help of Liu Lichuan and was receiving guidance and training from skilled British technicians. What made Wu Chaoyue even more overjoyed was that his uncle Wu Xiaohua was still a foreign student who had studied foreign books in Hong Kong. He could also speak English. He also interned in a foreign factory for a while. He was better at factory management than Wu Chaoyue, which was cheaper. Wu Chaoyue was less concerned about factory management.

What Wu Chaoyue was less worried about was not only factory management. After a party with foreign friends in the concession, he just heard that Wu Chaoyue was back to handle group training. Foreign priests from various countries immediately expressed their willingness to contact their arms dealers for Wu Chaoyue to help Wu Chaoyue buy the most advanced weapons at the lowest price. Brown, a business representative of the Colt Company in the United States who had known Wu Chaoyue for a long time, even delivered the arms list and quotation to Wu Chaoyue the next day, and brought many sample demonstrations on-site, urging Wu Chaoyue to buy more and buy big and buy special.

Unfortunately, when he contacted the Joint Fleet, Wu Chaoyue had already learned in detail about the weapons and equipment of the Western army, and knew the future development direction of the gun, so he was not such a fool. Therefore, Wu Chaoyue only purchased forty Minnie guns, fifty revolvers and corresponding ammunition accessories from Brown, using American weapons as auxiliary equipment, and flatly rejected the two main rifles, Hall M1819 and Hall M1833 that Brown vigorously promoted, and decided to purchase 260 Dresse M1841 from the Prussians as main rifles.

The Dresey M1841 rifle, which used paper-packed bullets, was a firing gun that the Prussians only announced in 1848. It was equipped with a smoothbore in the rear. Although it had the impressive advantage of all rifles in the world when the bullet loaded at a long speed, it was not valued by European and American countries. Even in Prussia, it was not very popular. Many Prussian generals and soldiers prefer the front-loaded smoothbore guns they were used to, and their sales were not very good.

So when he suddenly received Wu Chaoyue's order, which was barely small, Prussian Consul Ahuawei was overjoyed and not only immediately gave Wu Chaoyue a preferential price and promised to ensure the supply of ammunition, but also immediately contacted his warships and asked them to take out 260 M1841 and supporting bayonet ammunition from the spare weapon to sell it to Wu Chaoyue. At Wu Chaoyue's request, he also helped Wu Chaoyue hire a Prussian soldier who could skillfully operate the Dresses rifle to help Wu Chaoyue train soldiers to operate and maintain the Dresses rifle.

The talk was too far and back to the point. Seeing that Wu Chaoyue chose to use Prussian rifles as the main combat weapon, Brown, an American who was determined to explore the Chinese market, was of course very dissatisfied. In addition to constantly criticizing the various shortcomings of the Dresses firing gun, he also tried his best to persuade Wu Chaoyue to buy more American weapons from him. He also asked Wu Chaoyue directly: "Wu, why don't you buy more? Just purchase these weapons and ammunition, at most, it is only enough to equip the army of two companies. Are you only planning to form an army of two companies? What can this army do?"

Originally, he planned to perfunctory the Qing court, but Wu Chaoyue was certainly unwilling to waste the money that his grandfather had corruption with great effort. He used the excuse that he had never had military experience, so he did not dare to make the army too large at once. However, Brown slapped his chest and said, "Wu, don't worry about this. I can help you train the army. I participated in the US-Mexico War and received medals. I can train your army for you!"

When someone was sleepy, someone gave him a pillow. When Wu Chaoyue heard this, he decided to hire Brown as his military instructor on the spot. He promised to purchase a large number of American weapons from Brown after expanding the team in the future. Brown, who was bored in China, was very happy and immediately rolled up his sleeves and formulated a training plan for Wu Chaoyue. As a result, it was at this time. Wu Chaoyue, who had felt something was wrong before, finally remembered a big problem and asked Brown: "Mr. Brown, where is the grenade? Why are there no grenades in your weapon list?"

"Grenade?" Brown was stunned, and then said: "Wu, although I admire your understanding of Western weapons, you still don't know one thing. With the decrease of castle offensive and defensive wars, grenades have gradually been eliminated in the Western army in the 1910s and 20s. It has neither fired far away from guns nor has the power of artillery shells. Therefore, our Western army rarely uses this weapon."

"That's in the West!" Wu Chaoyue almost vomited blood and said: "In the current Chinese army, weapons are still mainly swords, guns, bows and arrows. The most advanced guns are just primitive mesh guns. There are still many castle offensive and defensive wars, so grenades are of great use on the Chinese battlefield. I also need this weapon to make up for the lack of firepower."

Brown was in trouble when he heard this and said that he did not have such weapons in the warehouse of the concession. If Wu Chaoyue wanted to buy it, he had to wait for him to report to the country and deliver the goods from the country - it may not be possible. After hearing this, Wu Chaoyue had no choice but to decide to purchase such weapons from other countries in the concession, which resulted in Brown's complaint again, "Wu, your army should adopt unified equipment. Don't buy some weapons from this country or from that country. Accessories and ammunition cannot be exchanged, and maintenance and repairs are even more difficult, and it will exhaust your logistics department."

At the same time, as Lin Ruzhou said, Wu Jianzhang, who had certain experience in handling group training, also helped Wu Chaoyue in another direction, and personally convinced the wealthy businessmen and gentry in Shanghai to agree to provide food, grass and military pay for the group training formed by Wu Chaoyue. When Wu Jianzhang, who was disappointed, asked Wu Chaoyue about the scale, when he learned that Wu Chaoyue only planned to form two groups of two hundred people, Wu Jianzhang's nose was almost pissed, and he shouted and asked his baby grandson what the purpose of only two groups of team training was? Wu Chaoyue

Helplessly, he had to continue wasting his mouth and explained to Wu Jianzhang what it means to be more important than to be more important, and to list the expensive costs of forming a Western-style army. However, Wu Jianzhang didn't listen at all. He just roared and asked how the regiment training that had only held two posts to explain to the court. Wu Chaoyue was helpless and had to take a step back and agreed to expand the scale of the regiment training to more than 500 people in one battalion - but the other 300 people asked them to carry their knives and use their spears to pretend to be a spear, and they just tried to persuade them to trick the money from Wu Jianzhang to buy weapons from foreigners.

In this way, without paying much attention to it, Wu Chaoyue finally took the banner of Songjiang regiment training in Shanghai and posted notices to recruit soldiers. However, at this time, Wu Chaoyue had another conflict with Wu Jianzhang. Wu Jianzhang asked his baby grandson to recruit only Guangdong soldiers to form an army. The reason was that Wu Jianzhang believed that Guangdong people were hard-working and were their fellow villagers, and their loyalty was guaranteed. But what Wu Chaoyue was most disgusted was that the village party army insisted on opening the recruitment door to all qualified soldiers and never gave in. The grandparents and grandchildren also quarreled for the first time. In the end, Wu Jianzhang was furious and left with his sleeves while leaving, "Don't care! I will never care about your regiment training! How do you do it!"

In other words, it was impossible for Wu Jianzhang to be the only grandson like Wu Chaoyue, and it was impossible for him to not care about his grandson anymore. So on the day Wu Chaoyue recruited soldiers, Wu Jianzhang quietly sent someone to inquire about the news. However, in the afternoon, the sent eyeliner quickly ran back to the customs office and said to Wu Jianzhang, who was busy with official business: "Master, go and have a look. Master Sun's place is very lively. Everyone said that he had never seen such recruiting soldiers."

"I won't go! Just tell me how he did it!"

Wu Jianzhang answered unhappily, and he had no choice but to report Wu Chaoyue's recruitment situation to Wu Jianzhang, saying that Wu Chaoyue's recruitment conditions were very harsh. First, the age must be between the ages of seventeen and twenty-five, and he cannot be the only son in the family. Second, the height must be more than five feet and three inches tall. Third, the children of farmers must not be urban residents, and must not smoke smoke. Fourth, the vision and teeth must be checked by foreign doctors, and the fifth is that they must go into the room to take off their clothes and check their bodies. The more Wu Jianzhang heard, the more angry he became, and he asked, "Why do you need to go into the room to take off your clothes and check your body?"

"I heard from Wu Dasai that Mr. Sun should not practice bravely with tattoos on his body, and not have flat feet." Speaking of this, his eyeliner couldn't help laughing and whispered: "Also, don't have soldiers with too small penis."

"Why?" Wu Jianzhang was completely stunned.

"I heard from Wu Dasai that Mr. Sun said that it was too small and that it was not enough hormones, and it was too timid and unreliable." Eyeliner replied with a wry smile.

With a bang, Wu Jianzhang punched the table hard, knowing that his family will not only become a laughing stock in Shanghai, but the wealthy businessmen and gentry who promised to bear the money and grain may also have recurrences. The eyes that were not long-lived were still chattering, and said: "There is something even more outrageous. Young Master Sun must not be a soldier or a green camp soldier. Anyone who had worked as a soldier or a green camp soldier before or had a criminal record should not be allowed, so he has only picked up about a hundred people."

"Enough!" Wu Jianzhang couldn't bear it anymore and shouted: "Don't care about him! Just do whatever he wants, I won't care anymore!"

As Wu Jianzhang expected, in the evening of that day, the wealthy business gentry who had promised to pay for the grain to help the group training came to visit Wu Jianzhang collectively, and asked Wu Chaoyue whether the recruitment conditions of such absurdity? What is the use of the group training that they paid for the grain? Wu Jianzhang had no choice but to continue the good habit of wiping the butt of the baby grandson, explaining that his grandson used the method of foreigners to build the army. To be honest, the wealthy business gentry was as big as the foreign army. As a result, the wealthy business gentry was as unconfidence as Wu Jianzhang. Although he was embarrassed to say that he would regret not paying money and food due to Wu Jianzhang's affection, he also asked to give a portion less. Wu Jianzhang had no choice but to reluctantly agree to reduce the scale of the Shanghai group training by half, which fulfilled the baby grandson's wishes, and then sent these wealthy business gentry away.

After receiving the news that the wealthy businessmen and gentry were only willing to bear 250 brave men and food, Wu Chaoyue breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that he finally didn't need to raise half of the idle people in vain. But after thinking about it, Wu Chaoyue felt extremely depressed and thought to himself: "Pang Qingyun's name is Lushan, his troupe is called Shanzhiying, his lord is called He Kuiying, and the troupe is called Kuiying. I only recruited 250 soldiers for the first time. I will not be called 25th Battalion in the future, right?"

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Not to mention, there are people who call it that. After Wu Chaoyue finally picked out 250 qualified soldiers, he reported the scale of the organization according to the rules and sent the official documents to the Jiangsu Governor's Office. His disciple Yuan Zuqian had been taken to Beijing to question the crime. He was happy when he saw the number and immediately said: "Two hundred and five! It's really two hundred and five! After all, he is a sixth-rank chief. He went to the local area to handle group training and assist the suppression, but he only recruited 250 soldiers to form a brave army. First of all, he would never be able to escape if he was a perfunctory crime!"

"Futai, will you submit an impeachment?" The master who knew Yang Wending's mind was right next to him asked immediately.

"You can't be anxious, you can't make the mistakes you made in the first two rushes. At this time, I impeach him, and this little 25 has the opportunity to immediately expand the team training." Yang Wending shook his head and said with a grim smile: "After a while, after a while, I will first transfer this 25 to Qingpu to participate in the quelling rebellion. When this little 25 is defeated, I will report to impeach him and be most sure."

There is also Zhou Lichun who calls this. Wu Chaoyue returned to Shanghai to organize a group training and assist in the suppression. The primary goal was Zhou Lichun's Qingpu Uprising Army. Zhou Lichun, who heard the wind, also sent his eyes to secretly monitor Wu Chaoyue's every move. When he learned that Wu Chaoyue was going to use such a little training to deal with him, Zhou Lichun of course laughed and mocked Wu Chaoyue for being a little 25, and sweared to give Wu Chaoyue a good look on the battlefield and avenge his previous revenge!
Chapter completed!