Three days later, at the Forbidden City Qizheng Hall Conference, the matter of the new army training minister left at the imperial front meeting, which had been shelved for more than eight months, was put on the agenda again. Officials from various factions launched fierce debates on the issue of candidates, but Guangxu seemed to have no excuse to seize the military power of the new army in Zhili, and he could not compromise with Li Hongzhangbiao in the end.

On January 18, Emperor Guangxu issued an edict, announcing Wang Chenhao as the imperial chief of the Qing Empire to build a new 6th army, and to fully train the new army for the court. On the same day, the Military Affairs Office and the Zongli Yamen transferred the Guangxu order, and the official document was sent to the Zhili New Army Office in Tianjin the next day, and ordered Wang Chenhao to submit the training plan to the Military Affairs Office for review as soon as possible.

On January 22, Wang Chenhao went to Beijing to report his duties, went to the Ministry of War to replace the seal of the customs defense, and then went to the Military Affairs Office to receive the imperial envoy's orders, and took the training instructions for review.

Wang Chenhao's specific training strategy is based on the Zhili New Army as the standard and basis. It took three years to train five reorganized divisions in the Jingji area of ​​Zhili. After these five reorganized divisions were trained, twenty reorganized divisions were trained in various provinces across the country, which took five years to train. Among them, five new divisions in Zhili defended the safety of the Jingji, and the other twenty divisions guarded the local border defense. It took a total of eight years to build the 6th army nationwide to train the 25 divisions.

Wang Chenhao formulated this training strategy to take into account the economic capabilities and defense needs of the court. The Qing Dynasty divided the country into 18 provinces, 5 generals, 2 ministers' jurisdictions, and 8 governors, with a total of 25 provincial administrative regions.\\Providing the latest hand-killing in this chapter\\The five divisions in Zhili are safe enough. Each province of 18 provinces has one division, and 5 generals are controlled by the Iron Hat King of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, so there is no new army, and 2 divisions are provided for assistance in the two ministers' jurisdictions. This arrangement is not costly and meets the safety needs.

It costs 70 million taels of silver to be trained all 25 reorganized divisions. After training, it costs 20 million taels to maintain military expenditure and combat effectiveness every year. This expenditure is huge for the Qing government, which is tight in finance, so Wang Chenhao set the standard time for eight years to practice.

The idea of ​​Wang Chenhao's team of staff was the idea of ​​Wang Chenhao's staff, and Li Hongzhang's intention. Wang Chenhao must have the ace of seven inches in his hands, and Zhili is related to the security of the capital. Training troops in Zhili can ensure the safety of Beiyang's interests.

Several ministers Wang and Han ministers from the Military Affairs Office began to discuss. Minister Guoyi, the military affairs officer, was strongly xenophobic and expressed dissatisfaction with Wang Chenhao's approach to completely Westernization during the training of the new army in Zhili. However, due to Li Hongzhang's face, he was not good at scolding Wang Chenhao. He only asked Wang Chenhao to change the name of the army and the rank system to be restored, and to align with the existing Green Camp Eight Banners soldiers. Han ministers Weng Tonghe and Qu Hongsheng were in the same group, and they couldn't stand Li Hongzhang's faction controlling Zhili and supported Gangyi's opinions.

The three ministers, Prince Gong Yi, Prince Li Shiduo and Prince Qing Yili, had ambiguous attitudes. The Han minister Zhang Zhidong was far away in Wuchang and the Han minister was unclear. Although Li Hongzhang was also a minister of military affairs in Han, he could not say three of them, so he had to let Wang Chenhao change them appropriately.

Wang Chenhao didn't want to have an unpleasant relationship with them on this issue. As a compromise, Wang Chenhao said that the name of the establishment could be changed, but the organization could not be changed, which would affect combat effectiveness. The military rank system is related to the military organization and cannot be changed.

Li Hongzhang then communicated with Gangyi based on Wang Chenhao's intention. Although Gangyi was still a little dissatisfied, Li Hongzhang was willing to give in to him to face, so he no longer made things difficult for Wang Chenhao on this issue.

The modified army organization of Wang Chenhao changed from the original army, division, brigade, regiment, battalion, company, platoon, squad to army, town, association, bid, battalion, company, platoon, squad, but changed its name and changed its organization to satisfy the xenophobic psychology of conservatives such as Gangyi.

However, Weng Tonghe and Qu Hongsheng would not give up, in order to cause trouble for Wang Chenhao, they asked Wang Chenhao to train into a new army of 36 towns within two years.

Wang Chenhao knew their purpose. First, the time was urgent to complete the new army of 36 towns within two years, and it was not easy to complete; second, the new army of 36 towns was expensive, and the Ministry of Revenue could hold back the military pay in Weng Tonghe; third, there were not so many new officers in Beiyang, and the quality of the new army trained would definitely be greatly reduced. If the assessment fails, Wang Chenhao may be punished for being unfavorable; fourth, most of the new army of 36 towns would have to be trained locally in various provinces. It is easy to say that Beiyang, but officials in Nanyang would definitely make things difficult.

After accumulating this series of problems, it was too difficult to train the new army of Thirty-Six Towns in two years, and Weng Tong and they obviously had bad intentions.

They could not reason with Weng Tonghe and others, and their copper teeth and iron mouths could only make a tough move. Li Hongzhang focused on the three ministers Wang. Yi was relatively open-minded. After some explanation from Li Hongzhang and Wang Chenhao, he expressed his understanding. As long as Yi Li had money, Wang Chenhao picked up a jadeware worth tens of thousands of taels of silver and gave it to him immediately settled it. Prince Qing Shiduo and Weng Tonghe had a good relationship, and he supported Weng Tonghe.

In this way, the two sides were equal. After a lot of debate, Empress Dowager Cixi and Guangxu finally came forward to give a compromise. Wang Chenhao ordered the eight towns to be trained in Zhili within three years and helped the governors of various provinces to train the remaining twenty-eight towns within six years. However, Guangxu firmly demanded that Wang Chenhao complete the eight towns in two years on the grounds that Russia and Japan threatened the security of the capital. Cixi also felt it made sense and did not object. The result of this compromise was that the court would hold a new army grand ceremony in two years to inspect the eight towns in Zhili within two years. Six years later, the national new army grand ceremony was to test the combat capabilities of the standing army of 36 towns.

Although this compromise is still a bit harsh, Li Hongzhang has tried his best to strive for it. In terms of personnel allocation, it is no problem to train the new army of Eight Towns in two years. Beiyang has talents. However, in terms of funds, Beiyang probably needs to pay for it first, because Weng Tonghe will definitely not pay it happily.

Li Hongzhang is not as rich as Wang Chenhao now, so he is silent and asks Wang Chenhao to pay for it himself.

Fortunately, Wang Chenhao knew his family’s background, far more than what Li Hongzhang knew, so there was no problem with paying for money first, so he finally agreed to this training plan.

After a month of tug-of-war, a group of people from the Military Affairs Office finally reached a compromise, asking Wang Chenhao to train the new army of the eight towns to protect the safety of the capital within two years.

In response to this, Wang Chenhao just smiled bitterly. It was really not easy to secretly ask him to be a military training minister. No wonder Old Yuan turned from a rich man to a poor man after he trained a new army.

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