Chapter 10 Military Parade at Small Station
The next day, Lee Gates and Tian Arden began to prepare for the tasks assigned by Tang Jian. Tang Jian said goodbye to the two of them, set off from Weihaiwei through Huanghai and landed in Tianjin through the Huanghaikou to see the new army trained by Yuan Shikai. In fact, he wanted to inspect the progress of the secret troops trained by Zhu Lianjie.
It was the next evening when Tang Jian arrived at the Tianjin Station, and Yuan Shikai greeted Tang Jian at the intersection.
Tang Jian was still riding a tall horse, followed by more than ten followers and guards. Tang Jian did not make any statement. This time he went to Tianjin to strictly take a secret trip. If he was the current status of the first-rank governor of Tang Jian and the imperial envoy, it would cause unnecessary trouble, such as the Japanese Iga Ninja.
Yuan Shikai was also dressed in his usual outfit, and only brought five or six followers. He saw Tang Jian riding a tall horse from a distance, hurried over and said with a smile: "Brother Fuhua has worked hard for a long journey! I have prepared wine and dishes and good foreign wine for my brother to welcome you!" After saying that, he smiled charmingly.
Now Yuan Shikai is not as charming as he can. Tang Jian climbed into a first-rank rank navy admiral in just two years, and the speed of climbing made Yuan Shikai dizzy.
This also made Yuan Shikai, the biggest speculator in the late Qing Dynasty, admire Tang Jian even more and more, and was willing to be with Tang Jian. Only in this way can he benefit from Tang Jian's glory and become rich. He was until his new army president came.
Tang Jian did not refuse. He followed Yuan Shikai to his residence in Xiaozhan, Tianjin. In fact, it was not a residence. It was a larger courtyard surrounded by a few gray brick military camps.
During the meal, Yuan Shikai was close to Tang Jian at the dinner table, and most of them were just saying that they admired Tang Jian and hoped that Tang Jian could promote him more.
Suddenly, Yuan Shikai snapped his fingers, and soon a servant brought a bottle of red wine. Tang Jian glanced at it and it turned out to be French red wine.
Yuan Shikai smiled and said, "Brother Fuhua, try this wine. This is brewed in 1888 by French Lafite, which I have treasured for more than ten years! Taking advantage of this, we two will never stop getting drunk!"
Tang Jian was about to respond with a smile, but suddenly remembered something when he saw a light in his head. He snatched the bottle of red wine from Yuan Shikai. When he looked carefully, he was stunned. The red wine was exactly the same as what he drank on the plane before the explosion. Tang Jian clearly remembered that it was a bottle of French Lafite from 1888, especially a clear gap on the wooden bottle jam. Tang Jian also asked at the time that he would not get angry, so he remembered this gap very clearly. At this time, he saw the bottle in his hand, it was really the same!
Because it is impossible for the same bottle of wine to have exactly the same gap in the same position.
Tang Jian calmed down for a moment, and a strange thought flashed in his mind. Could this bottle of wine be related to his time traveling here? At that time, all five of them drank, and when Tang Jian thought about this, a cold sweat suddenly broke out.
When Yuan Shikai saw that, Tang Jian was holding it in his hand and looked at it in a daze, and said with a smile: "Brother Fuhua, don't be polite to me. Come on, I'll help you!"
At this time, Tang Jian woke up and asked quickly: "Brother Yuan, can you give me this wine? I will keep it well and drink it later."
Yuan Shikai was stunned for a moment at first, then laughed and said, "Haha, it turns out that Brother Fuhua is also a wine lover, so I only have the beauty of adulthood."
Tang Jian said, "Then thank you Brother Yuan!"
"Oh, isn't it just a bottle of wine? Don't be polite to me, haha, I'll just take two more bottles. Anyway, you can have a good drink with you today." Yuan Shikai smiled without mind.
Tang Jian was not thinking about it later. While drinking with Tang Jian, he was thinking about the bottle of wine. Until the end, the Tang family returned to his bed and thought about the bottle of wine and the incident of traveling to the Qing Dynasty. But after thinking about it for half a night, he couldn't think of one. Later, he simply stopped thinking about it. Since he came, he was at ease. The plan is also underway. It is better to honestly make a grand career in this era. Finally, he fell asleep with a deep alcohol.
Early the next morning, Yuan Shikai summoned someone to ask Tang Jian to get up and prepare to go to the small station to see the Beiyang New Army he was patrolling.
Tang Jian quickly finished washing up under the servants' service, and with Yuan Shikai at least arrived at the Tianjin Xiaozhan, the origin of the warlord separatist rule in later generations.
The small station is 70 miles southeast of Tianjin. It was originally named Xinnong Town. It was a railway station between Tianjin and Dagu Station. Because Yuan Shikai's new army was located here, the unknown town of "Xiaozhan" became the cradle of warlords and warriors who were in power and conquering each other in the future.
Of course, when Tang Jian came to this world, will there be warlords fighting in China in the future? This is a later story.
Tang Jian came to the small station with Yuan Shikai. After accompanying Yuan Shikai for inspection, the Beiyang New Army in the small station was indeed different from the original Huai Army and Hunan Army. Most of the Beiyang New Army hired German instructors, adopted the modern German army system to form infantry, horses, artillery, laborers, and logistics institutions. All of them were imported from foreign countries, as well as Krupp cannons and Maxim machine guns, and their combat effectiveness was incomparable to the original Qing army.
If it develops, it can become a military force that will influence the political situation of the late Qing Dynasty, and the history of later generations has also proved this.
Yuan Shikai saw that Tang Jian was thinking about it, but he didn't disturb him. If Yuan Shikai knew that Tang Jian was thinking about how to turn the Beiyang New Army into his own use, he didn't know what Yuan Shikai thought.
Tang Jian came back to his senses from his thoughts, looked at the bored Yuan Shikai and asked, "Brother Yuan, why didn't you see the team that Lianjie Zhu helped me train?"
Yuan Shikai snorted, as if he was a little dissatisfied with the training team of Zhu Lianjie that Tang Jian said, but he did not make it happen. He replied: "Oh, Zhu Lianjie chose almost a hundred people from me. He basically did not train in small stations. He was in the mountains and rarely showed up. Except for asking me for some supplies, he was not here anymore. I asked him what the training was, and he just said survival training in the wild! I notified him yesterday that you would come here today, and he should be back in the afternoon!"
Tang Jian nodded with a smile, thinking that Zhu Lianjie has used even the field survival training. When he comes back in the afternoon, see how the training results are!
Tang Jian blinked his eyes and said to Yuan Shikai mysteriously: "Brother Yuan, do you want to make money?"
Yuan Shikai had seen Tang Jian’s magicality and thought that his introduction must be beneficial to him, so he nodded quickly.
Tang Jian said: "Japan has seized Taiwan, but Taiwan will never let Japan occupy it so easily. Although the Taiwan uprising is basically suppressed by Japan's Taiwan Governor Shiki Kamayama, I believe that the people of Taiwan will not give up Taiwan so easily. Brother Yuan, why don't you take advantage of France's ambition to covet Taiwan? Seeing that Japan's dissatisfaction with Taiwan's seizure, transport weapons to Taiwan with the help of French ships, causing Japan to fall into endless suppression and uprising. This matter is of great merit!"
Yuan Shikai pondered for a moment, as if he was hesitant.
"Of course, these things must be done under a secret situation, and I believe that with France's hatred for the Japanese, they don't mind giving more shells and guns to those who help France. Even if they are discovered, it is France and Japanese dogs who bite the dog, no matter what we do. The guns and shells are given by them, and they are responsible for transporting them. Brother Yuan is only responsible for threading needles and threads, and he can make a fortune from them! This is not only killing two birds with one stone. It not only helps the Taiwanese people make a fortune from them, why not do it? At worst, why do we do together! Haha!"
After listening to Tang Jian’s addition, Yuan Shikai’s eyes lit up. This is indeed a good thing. Is there any risk in making money? Yuan Shikai smiled and said, “Okay, just as Brother Fuhua said!”
At this time, Yuan Shikai's first follower said: "Mr. Yuan, Lord Zhu's army is back!"
Sure enough, following the gaze of the followers, a small army with neat steps but a little embarrassed military appearance came to this side.
As soon as Tang Jian and Yuan Shikai approached, Yuan Shikai covered his nose and said, "It's so ugly!"
At this time, Zhu Lianjie walked over with a dirt on his face, his clothes were striped by the thorns on the mountain, and some soldiers could still see their butts naked.
Yuan Shikai covered his nose and smelled: "Brother Zhu, what strange training are you doing?"
Zhu Lianjie laughed, revealing a row of big white teeth, and said, "Seven days of survival in the wild!"
Tang Jian pointed to Zhu Lianjie's troops and said, "Come on, ask these young men you trained to show me your skills!"
Zhu Lianjie nodded, pointed to the small team of hundreds of people opposite and said, "Wang Jianchuan, get out of the line!"
Hearing Tang Jian's order, a young man with dark skin and muscles walked out of the neat queue, carrying a gun on his shoulder, and walked out with standard steps.
Chapter completed!