Chapter 708: Reorganizing the Three Fires of Beiyang
【Second update】
Langweili and Ding Ruchang are not fools. The Beiyang navy also needs to go out to sea to train frequently, but the scope of going out to sea is limited to the Bohai Sea and the East China Sea coast. After all, if you run far, it is not easy to replenish supplies. When the ironclad ship runs outside, it will burn all the money.
This time, Lu Han is really a new official, so he went straight to the right horse. Where is the right horse? The Russian Navy's throat in and out of the Pacific Ocean. He was just saying that the Sino-Russian battle would not happen, but now he pulled the training to the door of others. In the words of the Chinese, Sima Zhao's heart!
Both of them looked at Lu Han and wanted to hear the explanation of this person. Lu Han naturally understood the general meaning of these two people. He was ordered to reorganize Beiyang. If there were no fires, how could this military force be controlled. Chapter 708 Reorganize the three fires of Beiyang. He immediately explained: "Ding Junmen, Admiral Lang, this will be a multi-task training, and will conduct actual combat confrontation and escort training. In a few days, a supply fleet will replenish supplies to Jilin in the north through the Mahaistrait, which is also one of the important tasks!"
Lang Weili put down the teacup in his hand and looked at the head of the new government's Navy Department who was calm at this moment. "General Lu, I think we are not just ordinary sea training this time, right? You are carrying 11 warships, three of which are large armored ships. Are you just going to do some strait combat drills on horses?"
When Lu Han heard Lang Weili's doubts, he just smiled slightly, "Admiral Lang, the combat effectiveness of the fleet comes from training. I don't think you will question this, right? Of course, before training at sea, I have another more important thing. I need to discuss with the two admirals. According to the new army construction plan of the Navy, we will add a military police organization to the Beiyang Navy, which will be managed by the Officers' Training Corps directly under the Ministry of Military Affairs, and be responsible for the management of military discipline. I want to hear your opinions."
Langweili is naturally very familiar with the term "Military Police". The war field supervision system has been popular in Europe since the Napoleon era in the 16th century. It is the predecessor of the reorganization of the Three Beiyang Firefighters in Chapter 708 of the Modern Constitution. In modern warfare, the British team has long been familiar with the military police organization known as the military police.
However, in China, among the Beiyang Navy, he could not find such a permanent organization in the army. In his conversation with the officers, he knew that the Chinese army had a battlefield supervision team, and the common punishment for deserters was to behead the front line... This method was too barbaric for Lang Weili, who thought he was a gentleman.
In his pursuing of Beiyang military discipline, he actually discussed the issue of military discipline and punishment with Ding Ruchang. However, this is obviously not popular among the newly established Beiyang Navy. Some officers of the Fujian Division even had a confrontation because of his strict discipline. Fortunately, Li Zhongtang, Ding Ruchang and most senior generals were on his side, so the overall military discipline of the Beiyang Navy is also considered good now.
Therefore, he was welcomed by Lu Han's naval military police organization, but after hearing this proposal, Ding Ruchang was somewhat surprised that the Beiyang Navy was now a abandoned son of Li Zhongtang, and the navy spent a lot of money. With the reorganization of the Huai Army, the competition for interests within the Huai Army system has become a bit fierce. If Liu Mingchuan, who was responsible for rectifying the Huai Army, could suppress it, I wonder how much trouble would cause.
The reason why he chose not to return to the Huai Army was because he was not the direct line of the Huai Army. Although Li Zhongtang attached great importance to him, after leaving the navy, he became a navy admiral and he had nothing to do! Fortunately, it seemed that his friendship with Qin Kai had been useful in the past. This time, not only did his salary increase, but this position was not reduced at all. Of course, it was not realistic to want to take the real power of Beiyang. However, it seems that Lu Han is still on the road to work...
However, when he talked about setting up the officer teaching group and the military police, he was still a little confused. He was also an old military officer of the previous dynasty. To put it bluntly, who would not make some private goods and some money in private? He was the same. After the construction of the Lushun Military Port, he built a piece of land outside the Lushun City and built a house. He made a lot of profits by renting it out. If the newly dispatched military police were found out, what should he do?
As for other senior officers in the army, they all relied on Lushun Port to make some money. Originally, they were all here to cover up the situation, and turned a blind eye to these things. That's it. Now, such an organization has been created! The officer teaching group came earlier than Lu Han, and they all came with the appointment of the Ministry of Military Affairs. He had met with them in person. Almost all officers from the Guangdong Army in the South. Many of them were proficient in naval divisions. They were familiar with the officers below, but they sent someone to test them. They were simply the ones who were not in the air.
Thinking of this, it was obvious that this could not be said on the surface. Ding Ruchang also bowed to Lu Han, "Sir Lü, since it is the order of the Ministry of Military Affairs, the subordinates naturally have to cooperate with them with all their strength. However, in the past, there were some old rules in the army that did not conform to the current military system. Do you think?"
Hearing this, Lu Han was very generous. "Ding Junmen, Lord Qin has made it clear that the old things before the reorganization will not be blamed. Any new army must be strictly enforced in accordance with the regulations after reorganization. The Navy Military Police will strictly enforce the military rules... Of course, if there are any problems, you can report them directly to the Navy!"
Lu Han naturally knew what was going on. The Intelligence Department learned some superficial information, but obviously Admiral Ding still had a lot of private goods. However, this is not the focus of his rectification now. After all, under the old system, it was not something that he was in a hurry to do under the current situation. Moreover, to put it bluntly, he cared more about the middle-level officers who accounted for the majority of the Beiyang Navy. As for the leaders, the Nanyang Navy had a large number of qualified young people capable of being competent... Of course, the best in the Beiyang Navy would not simply reject it!
After some discussion, the three admirals each obtained the information they needed, and Lu Han was also arranged to rest in the side courtyard of the Admiral's Office that day. Later, he summoned senior officers of the Beiyang Navy one by one, including Liu Buchan, the Dingyuan commander, and Lin Taizeng, the Zhenyuan commander. These officers brought the responses of the officers and soldiers below after the issuance of new military pay. It was obvious that there was still some responses below towards the sudden military pay, but they were still under control.
On that day, Chen Ying, deputy admiral of the Nanyang Navy, was not idle. He was on the cruiser "Taishan". Several "Shanghai-class" destroyers were sent out to the port to cruise in two groups. On the warship, he received Cheng Yu, the leader of the special officer teaching regiment of the Beiyang Fleet, who had earlier been stationed in the Beiyang Fleet. After this outstanding student from the first batch of military and political officer teaching regiments, he really worked hard to do some homework.
After seeing Chen Ying, Cheng Yu immediately took out a stack of sorted materials, "Mr. Chen, this is our teaching regiment who contacted the officers and soldiers in the Beiyang Navy and obtained some information. In addition, after we preached "Nationalism" and soldier ethics, we also received the recognition of many officers and soldiers. The materials contained the materials of these people. According to the plan, we will select the best in it to form the "New Youth Branch" as an organization for military ideological propaganda!"
Chen Ying was also surprised that the officers' teaching regiment opened up a new world in the Beiyang Navy so quickly. He looked through the information and immediately asked the staff to sort it out and report to the Beijing Military and Political Department. At this moment, Lu Han was obviously still discussing the issue of Beiyang reorganization with the senior navy. What he needed to know was naturally the problems that the officers and soldiers of the Beiyang Navy after the implementation of the new military pay were naturally the problems that the Beiyang Navy officers and soldiers had a chance to have.
"Cheng Yu, you should have heard of the new military pay plan. We need to understand the turbulence that the Beiyang Navy may have after the implementation of this military pay system? You will arrange for your new members to understand the military dynamics later. Lord Qin from the Ministry of Military Affairs is very concerned about the reorganization of the Beiyang Navy!"
Cheng Yu heard this and gave a conclusion that was contrary to Chen Ying. "Mr. Chen, our teaching team's contact and work are very smooth here. In fact, there is a congenital factor that is particularly important. Among the members of our 20 officer teaching teams, 15 of them came from the Mawei Academy. In the guerrilla, Dusi and garrison of the Beiyang Navy, they also came from the Mawei Academy. That's a lot, so when it comes to this Mawei, it's almost there! Moreover, before I came, I also asked some young officers. Although the military pay was less on the surface and the difference was not too big in general, they were very concerned about the merger of the North and South and the formation of a large fleet..."
When Chen Ying was closely collecting the information brought by the officers' teaching regiment, the "Yuheng" armored cruiser pilot, and the Brigadier General Tang Qingshan brought destroyer commanders Liu Ye, Ma Zhen and other young newcomers to visit the Beiyang pilot. The first visit was Lin Taizeng, the Zhenyuan ship's pilot.
As a family with a strong reputation in the old system, and Lin Taizeng's uncle Shen Baozhen was the Minister of the Mawei Shipbuilding. It can be said that these Beiyang Fujian and Guangdong officers who came from the Mawei Shipbuilding Academy all have close relationships with their Lin family.
Although Lin Taizeng himself was not brave enough, he was a person who was very careful. Therefore, after meeting, Tang Qingshan also explained his purpose directly. One was to visit and study with the Nanyang Navy's management gate to Zhenyuan, the first-class ironclad ship in the Far East. The other was to bring a private message from Qin Kai, the head of the Military and Political Department.
"Brother Kaishi (Lin Taizeng's name), after parting with Ryukyu, five years later, he joined hands to defeat the Japanese navy and witnessed the starting point of the glory of our Chinese navy..."
Qin Kai's letter was completely inferior to the arrogance of the superiors, and it was completely a reminiscent of the tone of friends, which moved Lin Taizeng. Back then, he and Liu Buchan and Deng Shichang attacked Ryukyu under the instruction of Zhang Shusheng. Although he failed to catch up with the capture of Ryukyu, he then defeated the combined fleet of Japanese Hiei, King Kong, Fusang and Zhuzi, which was also his brilliant record.
With Qin Kai's letter as an introduction, the talks between the two sides were obviously more harmonious. Later, Lin Tai once came forward and visited many officers of the Beiyang Navy one by one. Among them, Ye Zugui had an old relationship with Xu Shoushan, deputy admiral of the Nanyang Navy, and Deng Shichang and Qin Kai also had a good relationship. After a day, the reorganization of the Beiyang Navy had already been promoted rapidly and silently.
In the next two days, Lu Han was not idle either. He pulled Admiral Ding Lang and other admirals to discuss the establishment of the naval military police. The leaders below, under the guidance of Chen Ying, Tang Guoan and others, were also busy visiting each other to find out the news. Among them, with the active threading of Lin Taizeng, Liu Buchan, Deng Shichang, Ye Zugui and others, there were fewer roundabout tests.
Soon, the managers had no objection to accepting the Nanyang reorganization. In addition to following the new rules on military pay and obeying the military rules of the Navy, these Fujian- and Guangdong-based officers were all given the treatment of military personnel in the Nanyang military system, except for retirement funds, which was undoubtedly a very generous treatment for these officers from Guangdong and Fujian.
On the afternoon of July 6, 1887, while Qin Kai was discussing the situation in the Far East with the visiting British Counselor Ball, Hong Hai hurried in from outside and handed him a telegram shot from Lushun Port. The telegram was very long and mainly composed of some names, but what he said was very simple. The process of reorganizing the Beiyang Navy was unexpectedly smooth.
Lu Han called to report that among the senior officers of the Beiyang Navy and above, five of them chose to leave the Navy and return to the Huai Army. He had issued a letter of recommendation to submit it to Liu Mingchuan. Most of these officers recommended officers and civilians to come to the Beiyang Navy to supervise the defense of the fortress. However, in the list of officers left behind, Fang Boqian and Qiu Baoren, in the familiar history, these two seem to have some unexplained and unknown things. This time, these two remained in the army...
Seeing Qin Kai's contemplative expression, Counselor Ball was a little surprised. He came today, so he naturally came to communicate with Qin Kai about his promise to the British government that he was willing to take action to curb the expansion of the Russian Empire in the Far East. However, the premise is that the British naturally need to make some good-willed expressions.
However, after Ball wanted to convey the suggestion of Qin Kai, the old imperialist Bashali, who had always been a strong opponent in the British Empire, a land power power power of hundreds of years on the European continent, although the Slavs suffered a loss under the Governor of Qin, with China's current national strength, it is obvious that such expectations are really hard to satisfy!
Ball obviously does not want to give up his opportunity to achieve diplomatic mediation. He had previously lobbyed London senior officials through his Clarence family. What surprised him was that London is now very interested in his proposal. Prime Minister Gladston's important assistant, Foreign Minister Sir Cameron, has transferred the news that the British government really wants to see sincerity from China. The house is hand-to-hand, and the house is provided with the book download.
So, Ball just asked Qin Kai a question, how can the new government show enough sincerity to gain the trust of the London cabinet.
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