After dealing with external threats, Yuan Shikai began to turn his attention to the Beiyang Army around him. After years of reorganization and expansion, the total strength of the Beiyang Army has reached 1.2 million, and this huge force is divided among dozens of generals.

Under his name, Yuan Shikai felt deeply uneasy about the fact that those armies had almost become the "private armies" of those generals.

After the "Rebellion of the Republic of China", Yuan Shikai was afraid that his generals would not be able to escape from becoming a personal force. This personal force was mainly Feng Guozhang and Duan Qirui. Duan Qirui had been focusing on military education in the Beiyang Army. All officers of the Beiyang Army

He was Duan Qirui's student. Duan Qirui and Yuan Shikai were suspicious of him. What about Feng Guozhang? Because Feng Guozhang was close to the powerful people of the Qing Dynasty and had good popularity, Yuan Shikai was also suspicious of him. He gradually realized that Duan Qi

Rui had some great skills that shocked the master, but he couldn't lose his tail. In Duan Qirui, Yuan Shikai seemed to see his former self, so he began to try to weaken Duan Qirui's power. The purpose of establishing the Command Office was to restrict the Beiyang elders headed by Duan Qirui.

of military.

In addition to restricting the military power of several Beiyang bosses headed by Duan Qirui, Yuan Shikai also quickly established a model officer regiment that was completely independent of the Beiyang Army. It selected elite military personnel from various Beiyang ministries and was well-equipped. At the same time, this unit

, the most important purpose after its establishment was to be loyal to the head of state and not join the party committee. Yuan Shikai hoped to re-create a military force that was completely loyal to himself in addition to the Beiyang Army.

"In establishing this model regiment, President Yuan successfully regained at least part of the military power by appointing himself as the regiment leader and Chen Guangyuan as the deputy commander. When establishing this unit, his son Yuan Keding

It can be said that the Model Regiment is, to some extent, Yuan Shikai's "Forest Guards". The Model Regiment was established in September last year, expanded in October, and officially became the Border Guard Army in November.

Four divisions have been trained. Although it is a bit hasty, it is still Yuan's class. If nothing else happens, after this second model regiment is established, by next year, the direct troops in the hands of the president will not be less than 30.

Ten thousand!"

Although he talked about three hundred thousand, Li Zicheng knew very well that if an agreement to send troops to Europe was reached before the end of the year, and the border guards reorganized into war armies, by then, let alone three hundred thousand, it would be an army of one million.

It's not impossible.

"If the expectations are correct, the scale of this second phase of the Officer Model Corps will be far greater than that of the first phase. The expansion of the scale will make it different from the first phase, except for the middle and lower-level officers drawn from each division and the students from the Baoding Military Academy.

, I’m afraid we will also recruit a group of educated young people from the society to enrich the grassroots. In this case, our opportunity will come!”

Looking at Xiao Xiao with a smile, Li Zicheng took out a document. The document was a list of officers and assistants of the Ministry of Internal Affairs prepared for him by Han Wu. There were nearly three thousand people in total. Although there were three thousand people, those three thousand people were not.

All of them are young officers or young sergeants carefully selected from the 200,000 Jiangsu Army. If necessary, relying on this team, an internal affairs force of no less than 150,000 people can be raised within half a year.

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"Xinren, this time, you have to cut off my love!"

"gentlemen……"

Looking at the document, Xiao Xiao immediately understood his husband's intention. He wanted to take the opportunity to insert "one of his own" into the model group.

"Tian Ren has prepared 3,000 people for me. This time, I want to take away 800 people. How about that?"

"gentlemen,"

He frowned slightly. Although he had no objection to recruiting people to join the model group, Xiao Xiao still had some other concerns.

"They are not from the CSKA. If they join the model regiment, will they be suppressed? If so, the gains may outweigh the losses!"

His personal experience of serving in the CSKA made Xiao Xiao extremely disgusted with "suppressing dissent", and he also knew that this was the tradition of the CSKA.

"Then it depends on who will be the leader of the second batch of officer model corps!"

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Chapter completed!