Zhu Youxiao specially arranged the recruitment method of the soldiers to ask the commanders of the Imperial Guards to directly take their imperial edicts and money to recruit new soldiers from all over the country.

He did not want the governors from all over the country to take charge of this matter, because in this way, senior civil servants would inevitably participate in the Imperial Guard system, so that the Imperial Guard system would not be able to maintain purity.

The commanders of the seventh battalion are different. They all use their own money and names to recruit soldiers, and most of them are relatively low-qualified. Compared with civil servants who are involved in various interests, they are undoubtedly much purer.

Even if they really become power groups in the future, they can only be power groups centered on themselves, because without themselves, they are nothing.

Why choose to recruit more troops instead of recruiting troops in one place is naturally to break the military system of family connection.

Although a military group composed of family as the basic unit will form a shared hatred for the enemy when fighting on the battlefield because of the killing of relatives, it will also form a small group of forces. Even as long as the commander is the patriarch of his family, the emperor's right to speak in the army may not be as good as the patriarch of the family.

Like the Hunan Army in the late Qing Dynasty and the later Huai Army, although their combat effectiveness was stronger than that of the Qing army's green camps, the central government of the Qing Dynasty could no longer command these military systems established by blood-related relations.

If the Qing court wanted to pacify the Taiping Army, it could only reuse Zeng Guofan or Li Hongzhang. In the end, the governors and governors from all over the Qing Dynasty could directly establish a five-provincial autonomy, completely ignoring the central court.

From the perspective of an imperial ruler, Zhu Youxiao did not want this situation, so he had to recruit soldiers from multiple places to break the way of maintaining collective unity and sense of honor by relying on blood ties. His imperial guards must maintain collective sense of honor by loyalty to His Majesty's supreme belief and strict discipline.

Moreover, these places are places where strong soldiers and generals are produced. If the Imperial Guards want to become a complex army, they must integrate various specialties.

Of course, there is no need to worry that the people in these places are unwilling to join the Imperial Guards.

In addition to giving the Guanning Army soldiers twice as high as the Guanning Army soldiers, Zhu Youxiao also asked the Ministry of War to formulate a complete welfare system for the Imperial Guard. Basically, every officer and soldier of the Imperial Guard did not have to worry about whether their families had to support them, whether their children could go to school, whether they were disabled or not, whether they would not receive pensions and commendations after their death.

What's more, among these places, the people in Qin and the capital have always been raised by Zhu Youxiao, who bought the silver from the eight major Shanxi merchants, and spent a million taels of silver almost every month, but the tax was directly exempted to the level of 30 and one in the previous period. In some places, they have been exempted even since the fourth year of the Apocalypse.

Even though in the past, many people might not enjoy the favor of the emperor or did not know the favor of the court, but now, due to the severe crackdown on corruption by Sun Chengzong, Lu Xiangsheng, Sun Chuanting and others, and deliberately promoting Zhu Youxiao for the court, the people in Qin and the capital would not be unwilling to be grateful to him, His Majesty, and in this way, Zhu Youxiao did not have to worry that they would not want to join the army.

There is naturally no need to worry about other places. These places are also places where disasters occur frequently. The court's relief is now timely than before, and the people's hearts have naturally not yet dispersed.

However, Zhu Youxiao reminded the commanders of each battalion: "Chang Yanling went to Sichuan. The first thing I remember was to visit the veteran General Qin Liangyu. Without her help, you would not be able to recruit good soldiers. What's more, the most brave and good soldiers in Kuizhou are her sons and nephews. In addition, when Qin Botong went to Xuzhou and Lu Jiayu to Guangdong and Guangxi, he could also recruit some people who were good at swimming along the coast. Although my Imperial Guard will not be able to reach the sea battle for hegemony in the future, he must also prepare in advance."

After hearing this, everyone nodded with agreement.

Next, Lu Xiangsheng said the specific recruitment plan: "Before mentioning the specific recruitment plan, I need to disclose to you in advance that the subsequent changes in the Imperial Guard organization will not only be a single military category in the future. For example, the cavalry battalion will be upgraded to a cavalry town, but it will be equipped with a heavy artillery battalion and a light artillery battalion, a firearm battalion, and other auxiliary functional teams such as baggage and engineers. They are all preparations for fire strikes before cavalry charges, but the main combat method is cavalry charges; and the infantry battalion will naturally be cavalry battalion, and the same is true for other battalions. Therefore, this time you don't have to be limited to recruiting cavalry or only recruiting firearms. You must summon all kinds of talents into the Imperial Guard system as much as possible."

As Lu Xiangsheng said, he unveiled the booklet: "Aobai was responsible for recruiting 15,000 soldiers this time, Qin Botong was responsible for recruiting 15,000 soldiers, Chang Yanling and the commanders of the other two infantry battalions were each responsible for recruiting 20,000 soldiers, and Fu Dahai was responsible for recruiting 10,000 soldiers. This number is not strictly limited, but elite soldiers must be recruited. Do you understand?"

"Understood!"

After the commanders of each battalion answered loudly, Zhu Youxiao also stood up and walked around the conference table and said, "The specific recruitment rules will be distributed to you later. Here, I put forward several principled requirements: first, not to recruit traitors or arrogant people; second, not to recruit people who like gambling and drinking; third, not to recruit children of gentry; fourth, not to recruit people who fail the physical examination; as for how to conduct basic physical fitness tests, you know, that is, to train in the wild, eliminate people with weak will and weak physical fitness; but in the end, I have to put forward a few priorities. Those with these special talents can be admitted directly, regardless of the above conditions, one is to be able to read and read, two is special talents with strong talents in numbers or shooting, and three is descendants of famous generals such as Qi Shaobao and Yu Dayou."

"As long as your Majesty's orders!"

After the commanders of each battalion answered, Zhu Youxiao didn't say anything more, but the subsequent military meeting of the imperial front was not over.

Since we are going to expand the army, we naturally need a large number of basic commanders before a large number of recruits are trained, and Zhu Youxiao has to arrange the training of officers.

In response, he announced the establishment of the Royal Military Academy at this imperial meeting, and actually carried out the first phase of enrollment of officers. The thirty officers trained earlier were regarded as early graduates during their lifetime. Among these thirty officers, except for those who would leave Beijing to recruit soldiers with the commanders of each battalion in the future, the rest will work with Lu Xiangsheng to carry out the first phase of enrollment of officers and take on the instructors of the future training courses. Of course, Xu Guangqi and others will also be appointed as instructors.

In addition, Liu Ruoyu had to start purchasing a large amount of logistics supplies, from foot basins to various equipment, so he was naturally busy.

Technical officials such as Xu Guangqi also had to step up the ordering and manufacturing of various weapons and equipment. It can be said that as long as the army is expanded, the economic operation of the entire empire will be stimulated.
Chapter completed!