If Grand Duke Constantine only cried when something happened, he would definitely not be where he is today. Although this little fat man has many disadvantages, he still has some advantages. For example, he really wants to be cheerful and feels that since Sevastopo
This place has turned into a huge pit, so instead of crying like a little girl here, why not hurry up and get out of the way, and wait to PK with the real Menshikov before leaving?
But he didn't just leave. Soon he remembered the suggestions of Viscount Prozolov. Since Viscount Prozolov believed that the Volunteer Army would be their focus next, then his boss should pay attention to this and focus on this.
Focus on making a fuss.
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Naturally, we want to find ways to establish a volunteer army as soon as possible. So what is the most lacking thing to establish a volunteer army?
Grand Duke Constantine thought it was talent, and there were stragglers, cannon fodder, or gray animals all over the streets. You could pull them over for a few bucks. But no matter how many of these people were gathered together, they couldn't be called an army.
You don't just wear a military uniform and have a broken gun to be called a soldier! Soldiers have a unique soul. Grand Duke Constantine felt that if he wanted to go to Moldavia, the most lacking thing was officers!
Although Moldavia has no shortage of nobles and nobles who have attended military academies, most of these people are local gangsters.
There is no way the local gangsters are of the same mind as him. If a volunteer army is to be established, these grandsons must be employed on a large scale. Grand Duke Constantine feels that it is better not to build it, because there are too many local gangsters, and it is absolutely impossible for this volunteer army to just listen to him.
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Grand Duke Constantine also hoped to use the volunteer army to deter those dishonest local snakes, so how could he let those local snakes be the leaders of the volunteer army?
According to Viscount Prozolov's estimation, and based on their existing financial resources, the scale of the volunteer army cannot be too large, and it cannot exceed 20,000 people at most. How many officers are needed for 20,000 people?
Without further ado, hundreds of officers must be needed!
The question is where do these officers come from?
As mentioned earlier, local local snakes cannot be used, at least not too much, which determines that most of the officers have to be found from Russia. The problem is that it is not the graduation season of the military academy at this point in time. Where did Grand Duke Constantine come from?
How about finding hundreds of officers to enrich your own team?
What's more, the cadets of the Russian military academy cannot actually meet the needs of Grand Duke Constantine. What use can a group of recruits who have never fought in a war only have to study for a few years?
Therefore, Grand Duke Constantine is more inclined to poach. He hopes to poach some capable officers from the Russian army to enrich his own team. These people must have experience and means, which is the most suitable to scare the new recruits. Moreover, Russian officers
They will definitely not betray Moldavia's local snooks, thus ensuring the loyalty of the volunteers.
But the problem is that it is not easy for so many officers to poach. Although the treatment of the Russian army is very bad, it is difficult to retain junior officers. As long as they are given enough money, there are many officers who want to go to Moldavia to make extra money.
But there is also a matter of skill in harvesting wool. Now that the conflict with Turkey is intensifying, any officer with a little bit of political sensitivity will know that the next war may be imminent.
At this time, the generals in the Russian army must be actively preparing for war. It is simply unrealistic to try to steal from them. If they give you all their officers to Grand Duke Constantine, then who will help them command the troops in battle!
Grand Duke Constantine contacted several veterans with old connections in Kiev and used their connections to contact some military officers. When these people heard that they were going to Moldavia now, they shook their heads like rattles.
Anyway, Archduke Constantine spent a lot of effort and increased his salary by nearly 50%, and then managed to find dozens of officers. More than half of them were retired officers in their fifties, and only they had the interest and freedom.
Go to Moldavia to make money.
These few heads are definitely not enough, and Grand Duke Constantine can't break the rules and go around spending money to rob people, which will definitely annoy the military generals. And now the Black Sea Fleet just makes him lose face, so naturally he is not afraid
Offending Kornilov and Nassimov, since these two guys didn't give him face, you can't blame him for taking advantage of others.
The angry Archduke Constantine immediately issued a "recruitment advertisement" within the Black Sea Fleet in the name of acting commander, tempting those experienced and mature officers with no hope of promotion to go to Moldavia to work illegally for him.
I have to say that this move is ruthless enough, because even among gold-medal units such as the Black Sea Fleet, Russian officers who are short of money are still the mainstream. Especially those who are close to fifty years old and have not been able to get a school-level military rank.
The officials are very interested in this.
After all, they have no room for advancement, and they are older, so they cannot compete with those young people. Now they are old and young and have no future, and the pressure of money is not as great as usual.
Now Grand Duke Constantine has issued a conscription order, and the salary is three times that of the Black Sea Fleet. Who can not be tempted by such a good thing!
Anyway, on the day they saw the conscription order, nearly two thousand junior officers came to Grand Duke Constantine to inquire about the relevant situation. These people were obviously tempted.
This naturally made Grand Duke Constantine overjoyed. At first, he thought only a few hundred people would come! Who would have thought that two thousand people would come all of a sudden? These people are all treasures!
Why does Grand Duke Constantine think these officers are treasures? Not only because these people can solve his urgent needs, more than 2,000 people are interested, so picking a few hundred people shouldn't be a big problem, right?
And please note that these two thousand people are officers of the Black Sea Fleet. In a sense, they are all the humerus of Kornilov and Nassimov. Grand Duke Constantine just used a little trick to make nearly two thousand Black Sea Fleet officers.
Isn't it a good thing that the fleet officers have a good impression of him?
He felt that as long as he could really implement the relevant benefits, and with those officers who set examples, these two thousand people would definitely have high expectations for him. Although these grassroots officers could not play a decisive role, it also opened a new chapter in the Black Sea Fleet.
The hole made all the officers know about him as the acting commander and the benefits of following him.
If he can become a regular in the future, he may soon be able to compete with Kornilov and Nassimov if he works steadily. When that day comes, Grand Duke Constantine vows to settle all the old and new grudges.
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So, he became more and more enthusiastic about this matter. He personally met with those interested officers in the auditorium of the Black Sea Fleet, and took the trouble to talk about the relevant treatment and benefits...