Chapter 138: Great training

The early morning of May 20th, and the war had just ended. The whole city gates had long been occupied by the guards and soldiers. No orders were allowed, and no one was allowed to enter or exit.

The generals of the *** harbor began to organize the masses to clean up the streets, dug more than 100,000 people in the western suburbs of Beijing, buried the bodies nearby, and almost every family was wearing mourning clothes, crying bitterly for the loss of relatives and for the unknown future.

Soon, an unconfirmed news spread. Some Qing Dynasty legacy left in the capital were crying in great pain when they received the news.

The unknown person asked, "Who died in your family? She cried so sadly?"

"It was the Emperor and the Empress Dowager who died. Emperor, the Empress Dowager, you died so miserably! I can't bear to part with you."

"The emperor is not your father, so if you die, there will naturally be someone else to be yours. You cry."

The man wiped his tears and said, "You know, the Empress Dowager said that he would reward me some things the day before yesterday. Now that the Empress Dowager is dead, who do you ask me to find for a reward!"

And more people were confused and at a loss, as if the people who suddenly broke out last night were not them. They turned around and became good people again. The Qing Dynasty was destroyed, Guangxu was dead, and Cixi was dead. Who will care about us now!

At this time, Mr. Wu and Yang Du sent people to spread rumors everywhere!

"Do you know? When Marshal Ye was born, someone saw a white dragon entering the room. Marshal Ye's father saw this and did not dare to take the word "Continu Long" to avoid suspicion, but instead took the word "Continu Yun."

"Have you heard it? General Ye can speak and walk at half a year old, and he is a perfect expression when he is a child. He has great ambitions and is the emperor of the reincarnation of the true dragon."

"Master Ye is the savior of our Han people and the emperor of our Han people. Have you not seen it? Since he had him, China has defeated ***, defeated Germany, and now it has overthrew the Qing Dynasty."

At this time, tens of thousands of Boxers gathered in the capital and had not dispersed. These people were fully utilized by Mr. Wu and told everyone that they had heard of them.

Mr. Wu also specially promoted some of the wise and eloquent people. The task he gave them was to write "The Great Biography of General Ye" written by Mr. Wu himself, so that they could spread these news everywhere day and night.

When I read the book, I read some myths and stories. People who have read some books know that this cannot be believed. However, the little people believe this, not only listen with relish, but also believe it.

The people in the capital were in a state of confusion, and these rumors seemed to have suddenly found a way out for them. The Chinese have always been mentally admiring the strong and following the crowd. This is the case when three people become tigers.

In addition, the guardians at this time not only did not harm the people, but also carried out Ye Zhikui's orders to help the people put out fires and repair houses and all other things after the disaster. These literally won Ye Zhikui a greater reputation.

This move was seen by some scholars, and they secretly called the benevolent and righteous teacher, and thus began to accept Ye Zhikui from the bottom of their hearts.

By noon, there were people in the capital who spontaneously wrote thousands of people, saying that the mountains would be long live, and demand that Ye Zhikui ascend the throne.

Yang Du, Mr. Wu and the butcher were plotting in a house in the Forbidden City.

Mr. Wu first reported to the butcher: "Sir, I ordered the Boxers to be rumored everywhere. I believe that at this time, everyone in the capital has known Marshal Ye's great achievements, and everyone thinks Marshal Ye is the true emperor."

The butcher said with neither joy nor sadness: "You did a good job! If we can promote Marshal Ye to the Nine Five Lords, everyone will follow the Dragon Minister."

It turns out that Mr. Wu’s mastermind is actually the butcher, the person who seems most peaceful on weekdays.

Yang Du said with some concern: "Mr. Ye is famous and powerful enough in the capital and Zhili, but he does not have much power in the southern provinces. I wonder if those governors can support him?"

Mr. Wu smiled and said, "Don't worry, we will launch public opinion offensives in other parts of the country. The governors and governors of all provinces are now unsatisfied, but they have the greatest strength to protect the ***. Even if they are unwilling to do so, they will at least obey on the surface. After all, China cannot be masters for a day, and others do not have this strength and prestige. Marshal Ye is the first choice target of all parties. Even if one or two oppose it, they don't have to care too much."

The butcher suddenly spoke out: "In addition to Marshal Ye, Li Zhongtang also has such prestige!"

Mr. Wu gritted his teeth and said, "Do you want someone to assassinate him?"

The butcher shook his head and said, "It is really unwise to assassinate at this time. Marshal Ye still needs his prestige to stabilize the situation. Besides, he will not have a few years to survive."

"What if the governors and governors of various provinces want to push Li Zhongtang to ascend the throne at that time?"

"I believe Li Hongzhang is a smart person, and he can't control his ******."

"Have the news been passed to newspapers everywhere?"

"Don't worry, sir, I believe that the country will continue to be in full bloom tomorrow."

Due to the timely handling, the palace, the Summer Palace and other palaces were not destroyed, and the gold, silver and rare treasures were not lost. Ye Zhikui asked Shirou to count these things. Some cultural relics and classics Ye Zhikui would not touch it, but some gold and silver objects turned into his capital to recruit soldiers and horses.

After occupying the capital, what Ye Zhikui thought the most was to recruit soldiers and horses. There was no way. Although he was taking the elite soldiers route, he could not withstand other people's offensives. Now he wanted money and guns, and people all over the streets. When did he not attract them at this time?

Although Ye Zhikui was unwilling to proclaim himself emperor, he would not let China split. He was preparing to expand the Guardians to 60,000 people according to the latest organization before the governors of various provinces sent representatives to Beijing to discuss state affairs. Then a large military parade will be held, but the governors can still stand it.

All the generals in the ***, such as Dong Fuxiang, Xu Shichang and others, responded to Ye Zhikui actively. After the expansion, they also had a high water and a rising ship. Therefore, the training and recruitment of soldiers was in the hot hope of everyone, and they were immediately established. Ye Zhikui was personally the prime minister and Wang Shizhen was the organizer to control the assessment, reward and punishment powers, as well as personnel appointment and removal powers, military pay and other matters.

Protect the *** to carry out a series of relatively large recruitment and training work.

First, the surrendered police battalion soldiers were transformed and then absorbed. In addition, they planned to recruit more than 30,000 new recruits, most of whom were Boxers. With the original 30,000 base, they expanded into five towns and two mixed associations. The town was the highest unit of the new army, equivalent to the division level in later generations.

There are more than 10,000 people in a town. Each town has two teams, one horse team, one artillery team, one engineering team, one battalion of baggage team, and one military band. There are 2 standards for each team, one 3 battalion of ball, one 3 battalion of ball, one 3 battalion of ball, one 4 teams of ball, one battalion of ball, three battalion of ball, one 3 garrison, one garrison, one garrison, one garrison, one garrison, one garrison, one garrison, one garrison, one garrison, one garrison, one garrison, one garrison, one garrison, one garrison, one garrison, one garrison, one garrison, one garrison, one garrison, one garrison, one garrison, one garrison, one garrison, one garrison, one garrison, one garrison, one garrison, one garrison, one garrison, one garrison, one garrison, one garrison, one garrison, one garrison, one garrison, one garrison, one garrison, one garrison, one garrison, one garrison, one garrison, one garrison, one garrison, one garrison, one garrison, one garrison, one garrison, one garrison, one garrison, one garrison, one garrison in the town, one 12,512 soldiers.

In addition, the guards also have two units, special forces and heavenly soldiers, but both units are only admitted from veterans and do not recruit new soldiers.

Ye Zhikui knew in his heart that the future generations were not until the fall of the Qing Dynasty, only more than 160,000 new recruits were trained nationwide. Moreover, at this time when the old and new were changed, the governors of various provinces disobeyed the Guangxu recruits' orders to be trained by Guangxu, perfunctorily and perfunctorily, and they were dealt with. The new army they trained were either changed from the Green Camp, the Defense Army, the training of the army, or temporarily recruited at most, resulting in different leaders of the "new army", poor training, poor equipment, and various kinds of varied people, and actually selling dog meat with the title of sheep.

Only last year when Zhang Zhidong appointed the Governor of Liangjiang, he responded to the call and organized a new army in Nanjing - the Ziqiang Army. The 3,000 people were not yet fully occupied. At the beginning of this year, Liu Kunyi took over the Governor of Liangjiang, but did not expand the Ziqiang Army, but there was a decrease.

Ye Zhikui believed that as long as his new army could be established as soon as possible, it was impossible for the world to be invincible, but it was certain that the Qing Dynasty was invincible. Of course, things in the world could not be solved by war, but everyone understood the saying that if the fist was too big, it would be easy to reason.

In Tianjin, Li Hongzhang handled official duties in the Governor's Office. Since he returned to this position that was somewhat similar to the Governor of Zhili (only lacking military power), Li Hongzhang felt that he had a second spring again, but he was a little worried about the situation in the Northeast and the capital. After passing telegrams with the governors of other provinces, Li Hongzhang felt that it was necessary to remind Ye Zhikui to end the battle to rebel as soon as possible. As long as the Lord Lafayette abdicates, the emperor can come out and take power again.

Li Hongzhang was thinking about his thoughts, but his aide Yang Shiqi rushed in.

"Xingcheng, why are you so panicked?" Li Hongzhang was so panicked when he saw Yang Shiqi's face pale and bloodless.

Yang Shiqi said in a trembling voice: "Zhongtang, the capital has called."

"Oh, but has the Congyun army made progress?"

Yang Shiqi's hands holding the telegram were shaking, and he continued to tremble and said in a trembling voice: "Last night, the Boxer Rebellion in the capital broke out, raised the flag of anti-Qing and restoring Han, and turned against each other, and Marshal Ye took the opportunity to attack the capital."

Li Hongzhang asked strangely: "This is a good thing, what's the point of panic about you?"

"Zhongtang, the sky, the sky has collapsed, no, there is no court anymore. Last night, the capital was in conflict with Manchu and Han, with blood flowing, countless casualties, and the emperor, the queen mother and all members of the royal family were killed in the war!"

After Yang Shiqi finished speaking in one breath, he didn't know what expression to express his current mood.

Li Hongzhang's face changed drastically and he said, "You, do you mean the Qing Dynasty is gone?"

"So that's it!"

Fortunately, Yang Shiqi did not forget the serious matter and said, "Mr. Ye wants you to go back to Beijing as soon as possible to discuss state affairs!"

"Will the Manchu royal family be slaughtered? Xingcheng, please send me my orders to the generals of Zhili prefectures to be alerted. Then send telegrams to the Han governors of various provinces to explain the seriousness of the matter."

Yang Shiqi quickly took the order.

Ye Zhikui, you have such courage, you can stop it if you want to stop it! There is no slightest concern. Doing big things is like this. It is indeed much better than me back then. Of course, Li Hongzhang would not believe the news in his heart. He vaguely guessed that this matter must be related to Ye Zhikui. Li Hongzhang lived for a lifetime and had never seen anything, and soon stabilized his emotions.
Chapter completed!