The bank's affairs were all left to Hu Weiyong, a financial genius. He was reassured that the supervisory matters would be taken care of by the representatives assigned by each company's directors.
After leaving the bank, Dong Shuheng and his party arrived at the Xiejia Town military camp. This military camp has now built walled barracks and is no longer the original temporary military camp with tents. The Army Lecture Hall is also temporarily located here.
Today Dong Shuheng is coming to attend the graduation ceremony of the first batch of graduates of Jiangwu Hall, the awarding ceremony, and the induction ceremony of new recruits.
The first batch of graduates from the Jiangwu Hall will become company-level or above-level officers of each new regiment. They are all selected from the original 1,500 people with outstanding performance and talents in leading troops. This time, Huaihai has also been established
There is a tradition that officers above the company level must undergo military academy training or graduate from a military academy.
Dong Shuheng believes that military schools are not just a place to teach combat command skills. Since the establishment of the martial arts hall, Dong Shuheng has placed ideological education in an important position. In this era, the national consciousness of the people at the bottom is not very sound. Similarly, they are also very simple.
Outlook on life and values are easily shaped.
The graduates of this first batch were extraordinary. Among them, there were finally 7 marshals and 15 generals. These people who followed Dong Shuheng for the first time became Dong Shuheng's most loyal fighting partners.
"Everyone is here, take a break and stand at attention..."
Liu Qingnan, as the temporary commander of this army of officers, ordered, "Report, under the presidential system, there should be 150 students in the first phase of the martial arts hall, but there are actually 150. Please give your instructions."
"Take a break!" Dong Shuheng returned a military salute to Liu Qingnan and ordered.
"During this period, everyone has been studying very hard. Your instructor Hua Er told me that you are the hardest-working officer cadets he has ever seen. But I want to say that you are still far from the strongest army in the world.
The difference is not that you didn’t work hard enough, but that the time you spent studying was too short, because the war left us too short a time. Our capital city of Yangzhou is still in the hands of the bandits, and we will take Yangzhou back next."
"Take back Yangzhou! Take back Yangzhou!" Everyone shouted in unison, and then the recruits in the school field also shouted. There were more than 10,000 people, and the shouts were loud.
"Although the first phase of training is over, I hope that your study will not end. You should be like a nail and squeeze out time to study and explore new tactics and techniques."
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Next came the investiture and title ceremony. There was an viewing platform not far behind Dong Shuheng. Representatives from Wei Yuan and the major families in Gaoyou, as well as staff from the General Administration and the Coordination Office who were to be stationed in various places, as well as senior executives from Huaihai Company attended the ceremony.
Wei Yuzhen and Yang Ximei were also among the crowd.
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"I announce that Liu Qing will be awarded the title of Chief of General Staff of the Nanhuai Navy and Army and Head of the Teaching Group, with the military rank of Colonel."
"Wang Congzhi serves as the commander of the 101st Regiment of the Huai Navy Army, with the rank of lieutenant colonel."
"Yang Bingchun serves as the commander of the 102nd Army Regiment of Huaihe Navy, with the rank of lieutenant colonel."
"Cai Shusen serves as the commander of the 201st Huai Navy Army Garrison Regiment, with the rank of major."
"Wang Xiao serves as the commander of the Huaihai Navy Army Garrison Regiment 202, with the rank of major."
"Zhang Dabiao serves as the commander of the 203rd Huaihai Navy Army Garrison Regiment, with the rank of major."
"Gu Keli serves as the commander of the 204th Huai Navy Army Garrison Regiment, with the rank of major."
"Wang Zhenyou serves as the commander of the 205th Huaihai Navy Army Garrison Regiment, with the military rank of major."
"Du Chaoqun serves as the commander of the 206th Huaihai Navy Army Garrison Regiment, with the rank of major."
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In this way, the Huai Navy Army now has a total of 6,000 mobile field troops and 6,000 local garrison troops.
These six regiments will be stationed in Xuzhou, Haizhou, Huai'an, Yancheng, Gaoyou, and Haimen respectively. These six garrison regiments will immediately go to the local areas together with the administrative personnel of the Association Office. They will occupy strategic locations in their jurisdictions and coordinate with the Association.
The organization will be launched to recruit and disband the original local armed forces. The establishment will eventually be expanded to 2,000 people.
The field troops will accompany Dong Shuheng to the Yangzhou battlefield.
This was followed by an oath of office for officers. Under the leadership of Liu Qingnan, all officers swore: "I volunteer to join the Huaihai Navy, be loyal to the people, loyal to the nation, and support the leadership of the presidential system..."
Every word spoken by this group of officers was so sonorous and powerful that even the people on the viewing platform couldn't help but stand in awe.
Next, all the officers returned to their ranks, gathered their soldiers, and formed square formations. The last step was carried out - the formation drill.
Dong Shuheng was on the rostrum reviewing every passing square formation, as if in this way he was signing loyalty contracts with the soldiers.
The person with the most complicated emotions on the viewing platform was Yang Ximei. She had never seen such a well-disciplined army. It turned out that the army could be so neat and tidy. The momentum of ten thousand people gathered together was stronger than that of a hundred thousand people.
.Compared with these soldiers, the only thing the Taiping Army could do was that they were not afraid of death. She knew that the Taiping Army in Yangzhou would definitely lose. The reason why she set off with the escort team last time was because the Taiping Army was ready to give up.
Yangzhou. The King of the East is planning to put all his troops on the Northern Expedition and the Western Expedition. I hope Uncle Zeng and the others can withdraw before the Huai Navy encircles Yangzhou.
In Wei Yuzhen's eyes, Dong Shuheng on the rostrum was tall and straight, majestic and heroic. She unconsciously felt spring-like and intoxicated. At this time, Dong Shuheng was the king in her heart.
All the family representatives were secretly glad that they had won the bet. Following Dong Shuheng, the family would surely prosper.
The ceremony in Huaihai Navy lasted all afternoon. The reason why it was so cumbersome was that Dong Shuheng wanted to enhance the sense of honor of the soldiers through this method, and at the same time strengthen his own connection with the army.
In Jintan County, Changzhou Prefecture, Huang Dashao was imprisoned in a prisoner camp in embarrassment. His regiment training team was sent to the front by Yang Wending as cannon fodder every time. The most abominable thing was that when the Qing army retreated, there were no
Notify them.
As a result, Young Master Huang San became a prisoner of the Taiping Army. At this time, he was thinking about his life while squatting in the prisoner camp.
He combed through the past carefully, and it seemed that he had been unlucky ever since he met Dong Shuheng. First, the training team met with a bad person, and then his home was robbed, his father was killed, and his brother stole the position of the head of the family. He had always thought that everything was wrong.
His brother did it, and he planned to go back to his brother to take back the Huang family when he had the strength. But now thinking about it, these things may have been done by Dong Shuheng, because he has this ability. Coupled with the jealousy of Dong Shuheng in his heart, it is even more
Let him recognize this.
"Dong Shuheng, I also want to destroy your family!" Master Huang San's eyes were red, and he gritted his teeth and said silently in his heart.
But now he is just a prisoner, so how can he take revenge?
At this moment, a hairy officer found him.
"Are you the leader of this regiment? Are you willing to surrender to my kingdom of heaven?" the leader asked. This man was a general under Yang Xiuqing named Liu Dingqing.
When Yang Xiuqing heard that the Yangzhou escort team had been robbed and his sister Yang Ximei was kidnapped by the Qing army, he was furious. Later, the spies reported that it was Yang Wending who sent the navy to raid. So he just squeezed out 3,000 people from Tianjing's tense troops.
Liu Dingqing led the army and cooperated with Luo Gang to attack Changzhou.
Liu Dingqing and Luo Daguang advanced towards Changzhou from the south and north. Yang Wending occupied strategic positions and resisted, while at the same time deploying troops from the rear of Suzhou. Most of the defenders on the south road of the Qing army were regiment drills, while most of Liu Dingqing's troops who attacked the south road were from Taiping.
The army was old, so the Jintan line of the South Road was the first to be broken through. At this time, the Qing army's South Camp was still unable to retreat.
"General, Huang Hao, I am willing to surrender to the Kingdom of Heaven." Huang Hao was greedy for life and feared death, and now he wanted revenge, so he surrendered simply. He is not afraid of his family being implicated now, that family already belongs to his brother, he even
He was not able to go back to attend his father's funeral. His brother also told others that he was unfilial, but only he knew that as long as he went back, he would be put under house arrest by his brother to observe his father's mourning for three years.
"Okay, as long as you are willing to believe in Heavenly Father, you are my brothers and sisters in heaven." According to the usual practice of the Taiping Army, Liu Qingding also sent people to teach and reason with these regiments, so that they could be truly integrated into their ranks. The Taiping Army came all the way from Guangxi
As time goes by, the team gets bigger and bigger. In this way, prisoners are absorbed, preached and brainwashed, and these people will become the berserkers of the Taiping Army.
In Gaoyou City, Dong Shuheng sent back Yang Ximei and Wei Yuzhen. He came to the headquarters of Huaihai Group in Gaoyou. Here he met Ji Mingshan, whom he had not seen for many days.
Inside the office.
"Presidential system, our people recently discovered that several people from the capital came to Gaoyou and seemed to be inquiring about the author of the book "A Brief History of the West."" Ji Mingshanhui reported.
"Oh, let them spy. You can send someone to reveal the information to them. Just say that it was written by this president." Dong Shuheng thought for a while, and there was nothing taboo in his book. It would be better to let these spies complete their mission and go back early.
, to avoid extraneous problems.
"What's the news from the Taiping Army?" Dong Shuheng asked again.
"Beginning in April of this year, the Taiping Army began its Western Expedition. Tianjing City sent Chun Guan, Prime Minister Hu Yihuang, and Xia Guan, Deputy Prime Minister Lai Hanying. On the left side of the palace, Zeng Tianyang commanded more than 1,000 warships to sail up the Shuo River to begin the Western Expedition.
, captured Anqing in May, entered Jiangxi from Hukou, and are now besieging Nanchang."
“In May, Tianjing City dispatched more than 20,000 troops including Lin Fengxiang, deputy prime minister of Tianguan, Li Kaifang, deputy prime minister of local officials, and Ji Wenyuan, deputy prime minister of Chunguan, from Pukou to Anhui, passing through Chuzhou, Fengyang, Huaiyuan, and Mengcheng
, Bozhou and other places, entered Henan. On June 13, they occupied Guide Prefecture (today's Shangqiu). Since there were no boats to cross the ancient Yellow River, they moved westward along the south bank, passing through Ningling, Suizhou (today's Sui County), Qi County, and Chenliu
(Southeast of today's Kaifeng County), Zhongmou, Zhengzhou, Xingyang, to Sishui (northwest of today's Xingyang), Gong County (now Gongyi), they should be crossing the river at the moment. The latest news has not been received yet."
"Well, you did a good job. Now we have three directions to pay attention to, one is Tianjing, one is the imperial court and one is the foreigners in Shanghai." As he said, Dong Shuheng handed Ji Mingshan a colored drawing.
Ji Mingshan looked down and saw that this was a car with two large wheels. The main body of the car was just a seat with a roof on it. In front of the car were two long armrests and a crossbar in front.
"President, is this a kind of carriage?" Ji Mingshan asked.
"No, I call it a rickshaw. This kind of car can be pulled by one person and can carry up to two passengers. You see, it uses bearings and rubber tires, so it is very labor-saving to pull. Our machinery factory in Taipei has already
Can build this kind of car. Now I will give this profitable business to your Intelligence Department."
"Thank you, President, for your care. Our Intelligence Department is poor and has to support so many idle men..." This time Ji Mingshan began to cry about poverty again.
"Stop, I haven't finished speaking yet. You immediately go to Shanghai and Beijing to set up rickshaw agencies, and use the rickshaw act as a cover to build our intelligence station. Shanghai should pay attention to cooperation with gangs, and Beijing should try not to have us come forward on our own.
, find a prince or minister to cooperate with us, it doesn’t matter whether we make money or not, the key is to spread our people through the car dealership.”
"I understand, President. Most of the people who ride in these cars are high-ranking officials. This makes it easier for us to collect intelligence. And the rickshaws travel through the streets every day, so the scope of surveillance must be very wide." Ji Mingshan has been working on intelligence for such a long time.