On January 5, 1852, snowflakes fell quietly. The snowflakes flying all over the sky, one after another, looked like dandelions, and countless young and indescribable lives, trembling and floating in the vast night sky,

Rippling.

Li Yunzhong looked so happy, quietly admiring the snow scene in the morning, as if he felt a giant white wing covering the earth in the dark, and before he knew it, it was already a vast white area in front of him. The heavy snow had no chill, leisurely

Snowflakes instead bring a poetic tranquility to this quiet palace. The smoke houses in the half city, the ragged roof tiles and the canopies of trees are dyed white by snowflakes.

Lin Daji, Zhang Suimu and Zuo Zongtang came to the Han Palace early in the snow.

Zhang Suimu asked Lin Daji in a low voice: "It seems that the heavy snow will not stop for a while. I wonder if the military academy will open as scheduled."

Lin Daji was afraid of the residual snow left on his body, so he replied: "Your Highness pays much attention to the military academy than we imagined. Not to mention snow or heavy rain, I don't think the King of Han will change his mind!"

Zhang Suimou has devoted all his energy to the formation of militia in the past few months, and he doesn't know much about the military academy. Hearing Lin Daji's affirmative tone, he aroused his interest and asked: "Except for the size of the inner city."

What else is worthy of the Han King’s attention when assigned to the military academy?”

When Lin Daji saw Zuo Zongtang walking in front, he slowed down and whispered: "Do you know who the principal of this military academy is?"

Seeing his cautious expression, Zhang Suimu was just a trivial matter about the principal, Sesame Mung Bean, and asked back: "A mere college, any commander can take on this important task. Can you still have to take on the Minister of War personally?"

Seeing Lin Daji laughing at himself and shaking his head to deny it, Zhang Suimu became serious and looked at Zuo Zongtang who was happy in front of him and worriedly said, "It's not Zuo Jigao, he is the Minister of War. It's more than enough to be the principal, but this is the same thing.

It’s a problem. Will we use or not to graduate from military academy in the future?”

Seeing that he was doing a big problem, Lin Daji told the truth about the problem he thought about last night and thought about it all night. "This military academy not only has the subtle choice of address, but even the appropriation of funds has been personally asked about it. As for the content taught by the military academy, all the equipment used is

Your Highness and the foreigners personally discussed, do you think His Highness will choose someone else in the position of principal?"

Zhang Suimu said in surprise: "You mean that Your Highness serves as the principal! These students are amazing, the emperor's disciple!"

Lin Daji and Zhang Suimu looked at each other, and they were all shocked. One was the Minister of War and the other was the Chief of Staff of the Han Army. The two could be said to have controlled all the Han forces.

Your Highness is so nervous about a military academy, not to mention a regular army of more than 100,000. In the future, you must remember to report the military situation to Your Highness, so as not to be inscribed into the "cold palace" in an unknown way.

"This heavy snow is so good. It indicates a good harvest! The people's day will be better this year." Li Yunzhong waved his hand to stop Zuo Zongtang and others who were about to bow to greet him.

Zhang Suimu lives in a landlord family and knows the situation of the tenant farmers. Seeing that Li Yunzhong praised that there would be a good harvest this year, the people would have a better day. He sighed and showed a dissatisfied look. Seeing Li Yunzhong looking at him in confusion, he explained:

"The tenant farmers work hard, and they always go hungry and freeze in the years of good fortune. Food and clothing have become their only expectations in life! This is because the landlords and officials are very cunning.

In the good times, the landlords will forcefully collect land rent, leaving only a little food for the tenant farmers, so that they will not starve to death! The grain shops in the city will also take the opportunity to suppress the price of food.

In the year of disaster, landlords were unwilling to reduce rents and regarded the rent owed by tenants as usury. The profits often forced tenants to be desperate, and they sold their children and daughters in the end, even themselves were sold as slaves! The city grain shop took the opportunity to make the food

Sell ​​at sky-high prices.

What’s even more hateful is that the servants in the yamen did not care about the good times and the disasters, forcibly collected the food of the people. They beat and kicked them in the yamen and locked them up. They knew that the people had borrowed usury and released them..."

Li Yunzhong heard Zhang Suimu talk, and the more he heard, the more he felt uncomfortable. He never thought that in the world, there were people who had such hardships in addition to charcoal workers. He calmed down and asked, "Is there such a thing under the rule of our great man?

Is it happening?"

"It is difficult to return to the burden. Even if you have ordered the exemption of taxes for three years, most of these are cheaper landlords and annihilation merchants." Zhang Suimu also believed that the people's lives were too hard and should be changed, so he told the truth, "It's better to ask your highness to force the landlords to reduce the rent!"

Looking at the snow-white scenery all over the sky, Li Yunzhong was no longer in the mood to appreciate it. He remembered that six ministries had been established and it was inconvenient to interfere in their actions. He said, "Let the Ministry of Revenue solve these problems!"

Zuo Zongtang, Lin Daji and Zhang Suimu saw Li Yunzhong walking into the snow and hurriedly followed him.

Inner city, former residence of General Jiangning.

Jack walked back and forth between the doors and windows, cursing loudly about the weather, William and Milton were baking fire by the charcoal stove, bragging in a low voice, and feeling completely opposite to Jack.

Jack came to the stove and complained, "You are not worried at all? The weather outside is so bad. If the military academy causes trouble at the opening ceremony, then we will be famous. It may become those when it comes to London.

Remember the laughing stock of a girl?”

"Dear Jack, you pulled us out of the warm bed early in the morning. We can forgive you, but please think carefully about it. The weather outside is so bad, do you think Your Highness will hold the opening ceremony as scheduled?"

William complained and looked at Jack who was restless, and laughed again, "You are the only one who is so serious about this military academy, General? Haha... Do you really think that the Chinese Highness will grant you the defeat after you first went to the battlefield.

You guys are generals? Don’t dream! It’s better to calculate how much gold and silver we can earn.”

Jack blushed and denied, "It's not my fault to defeat the war, it's the guide who got us lost, and he actually encountered the enemy's main force! And you don't understand the Eastern people, they have a saying that gentlemen say a quick horse.

Whip! Since he made a promise to me, he would definitely grant me the Major General!”

Liu Chongyue ran in panting and said to several foreigners: "Your Highness is almost here, and our students are already lined up in the field."

William and Milton looked at each other. They couldn't understand Chinese and could only look at Jack together.

"Okay, you go back first, I'll be there soon!"

Jack showed excitement. Although he felt that this kind of weather was not suitable for the ceremony, this indirectly refuted William, confirming that what he said just now was right, and he had a heightened face in front of the two friends, which made him treat Li Yunzhong's

Trust has deepened another layer.

...

Seeing that there were only 50 people on the field, Li Yunzhong looked at Jack in confusion and asked, "Didn't I ask you to choose 300 people? Why are there only 50 people here? You won't cut corners, right?"

Although Jack didn't understand the meaning of cutting corners, he still explained to Li Yunzhong: "Your Highness, you must know that a good start is half the success. I plan to recruit only 50 people in the first phase, 100 people in the second phase, and 0 people in the third phase!

We still lack instructors, especially those who are familiar with the Chinese war style. The students you don’t want to teach are all fakes!”

"Don't you have more than 80 coaches, and how could it be insufficient for dozens of people coming to Nanjing from Europe?" Li Yunzhong asked in confusion.

Jack shrugged, criticizing others for not forgetting to show his merits: "Not all of you contribute all your energy to your career like me. They also need to drink and have fun. They don't want to go from getting up to bed for a day.

rest."

Li Yunzhong nodded, expressing his agreement with what he said. He felt relieved when he remembered that there were only a dozen of the first batch of students from the famous West Point Military Academy in the United States in his previous life.

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Jack secretly complained that Li Yunzhong was talking big, saying that you obviously care about everything in school, so why is it my turn to make decisions?
Chapter completed!