The thirty-first year of Guangxu, 1905.
In November, the autumn wind was already bleak, and on both sides of the Yunlong River, large areas of reeds and dwarf forests had withered and yellowed, and many lands had been abandoned.
Only around some large families with concentrated populations are the fields green, but people are rarely seen working.
It's those big families, except for the high-walled compound, which is quite impressive, and the other houses are dilapidated.
Yunlong Town, although it is the third largest town in Li Wengui's jurisdiction, is also the most serious place for bandits.
"Zhizhi, I've worked hard for you in the past few years."
Li Wengui is fifty-two years old, born as a jinshi, and has no heels in the court. finally mixed up enough qualifications, but unexpectedly, the court still had to change the law after all.
Li Wengui is an old literati and has never been liked by Zhang Zhidong.
If it weren't for Xin Baojiu to pull some connections for him, I'm afraid this black gauze hat would have been lost a long time ago.
He also knew that he couldn't control Xin Baojiu now, and releasing Xin Baojiu was actually a chance to give him.
I didn't expect that after a few years, the reviews were good.
Even the banditry in Jingnan has also stopped a lot.
This time, Xin Baojiu invited him to cut the ribbon for the opening of several new schools in Yunlong, which was completely a new approach.
Li Wengui is unwilling from the bottom of his heart.
Zhang Zhidong's promotion of new learning is not a year or two, but many officials below rely on the imperial examination to eat, and Li Wengui is no exception, so most places have not paid enough attention.
However, in September, the imperial court abolished the imperial examination completely.
All localities had to change the old academy into a new school, but it was also a change of soup and not of medicine.
Only Xin Baojiu is different here in the county, if you want to say where Jingshan County is the most civilized, that is, Yunlong Town, because there are boats leading directly to Hankou, although the river is not very flat, but it is better than the county town in the deep mountains.
"This little doll who is only a teenager has done a lot of things in the past few years."
Li Wengui took a sip of the tea handed over by Xin Baojiu, because the boat was a little shaky, and after stabilizing it, he put it to his mouth and took a sip.
"Zhang Chun, almost sixteen years old, he didn't have a big name before, this spring character was given by himself."
Xin Baojiu reminded.
Li Wengui glanced at Xin Baojiu and said indifferently: "The teenage doll is really as amazing as you say?"
” Xin Baojiu said with a smile: "You didn't go to the ground of Zhang's house, you will know when you see it."
This Zhang Chun fought bandits with a box cannon at the age of eight, he was smart and studious, many people obeyed him, and he was the wife and brother of Lord Wu Sicheng of the Beiyang Arts and Crafts School.
In the Mengxue Hall of the Zhang family, there are four people who stay abroad, and the principal Gu Ming is the third son of the Gu family firm in Shanghai.
Vice Principal Wang Zili is said to have a good family background, and his wife is an Oriental, and both of them are teaching in Mengxuetang.
Gu Ming's wife is the fourth lady of the Yuan family, a rice merchant in Yunlong Town.
The eldest lady of Lord Wu Sicheng is also there, and they are all books studied in the Hankou Women's School.
A total of three new schools have been built in Yunlong Town, except for the Li family, there are several Zhang families. ” "Oh, so many foreign students wear this doll?"
Li Wengui was also taken aback.
Xin Baojiu said with a smile: "Not only that, the Zhang family has a Xinmin commercial house, and the manager is the third son of the Yuan family, and he also studied in the East.
The Zhang family has an oil mill, a distillery, and a textile factory, and hired a master who is engaged in machinery, who went to study in Western Germany and came back, and used to work in the Hanyang Gun Factory.
By the way, there is a Miss Lan Huifang among the teachers in Meng Xuetang, who is the daughter of Lan Xunlan, the former prefect of Xiangyang.
Pastor Julian, a German pastor who had a good relationship with Zhang Zhidong, once taught Zhang Chun for two years. ” Li Wengui frowned and said: "You said that these people will not have a chaotic party, speaking of which, these people are all capable people, how can they be willing to nest in this small place." ” Xin Baojiu shook his head and said: "Most of this chaotic party is friendly with foreigners, but Zhang Chun is not, although Pastor Julian has taught him, he often scolds him for not understanding the doctrine.
Also, he seems to be very critical of Liang Qichao, a reformer. ” "Oh, what do you say?"
"Empty talk misleads the country."
Xin Baojiu said four words.
Li Wengui was stunned, and then laughed: "This Zhang Chun is a bit interesting." ” Xin Baojiu said with a smile: "A big reason why Zhang Chun can gather so many people is because of Lord Wu Sicheng's wife Zhang, you also know that this Zhang family is very worthy of Lord Wu's net weight.
Lord Wu is said to be going to accept the Northeast Railway, and the future is immeasurable. ” Li Wengui nodded and said: "This is the end of the war between Japan and Russia, and the railways occupied by the Russians will always have to be recovered."
It's just that the southern chaos is very fierce, and they are all people studying in the East, so you better be careful. ” "The lowly will pay attention."
Xin Baojiu agreed.
"But you want to set up a garrison in Yunlong, and you want Zhang Chun to study in the training camp of Cao Wu's new army, I'm afraid you want Zhang Chun to follow the path of a military attaché."
Li Wengui also smiled.
"My lord, if you are really worried about the chaos of the party, this kid will be bad, it is better to control it under your own command."
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Li Wengui looked at Xin Baojiu and smiled: "Zhizhi, I haven't been in this position for a few days, and I have to leave sooner or later, the person you are optimistic about, you can arrange it yourself."
I believe in your vision and ability.
It's an eventful time, and I'm just reminding you not to be taken advantage of by the chaos.
Liu Guan from the new army is also familiar with you, so there will be no problems. ” At first, because Yunlong Town was the county deputy office, a military attache was set up to garrison.
However, there was only one Xun under this garrison, that is, a thousand generals, and only 200 officers and soldiers.
The death of the county lieutenant and a military attache below the garrison, and the resignation of the resignation have not been recovered.
Xin Baojiu is the main officer, a civil official, who is in charge of the money and grain cabinet, but there are only more than 20 officials.
Zhang Zhidong should reorganize his armament and build a new army.
Therefore, Xin Baojiu recommended to the newly appointed county garrison battalion Liu Guandao to set up a flood in Yunlong Town, that is, a team as a reserve army.
Because it is a reserve army, at most a team officer will be sent over to help train the recruits for three months, and the team officer can ask Xin Baojiu to recommend it himself.
Xin Baojiu recommended Zhang Chun, saying that although this child was only fifteen years old.
When the Wuxu bandits were in trouble, Zhang Chun killed the bandits with a box cannon at the age of eight, and his brother-in-law Wu Sicheng was also a pipe band in the Tianjin New Army. used to be a staff officer under Lord Zhang in Zhangzhidong, and left it to the Zhang family with ten poles of Hanyang.
This kid is using it very well.
Yihai bandits, bandits did not dare to go to Zhang's house.
The Zhang family captured more than 100 people and took in hundreds of children.
Zhang's family has a Henan village, and those people live there.
After several bandits, no one provoked the Zhang family.
In the past, I invited the master to teach my subordinates to read and write, and now it is even more necessary to build a new school, be educated, be a showman, and be a foreign commissioner.
Xin Baojiu asked Gu Ming to send some silver to dot it, and as a result, the rank of the officer of the Yunlong garrison fell to Zhang Chun.
On the one hand, military attachés are more first-class than civilian officials, and their salaries are half less, and Li Wengui has never paid much attention to them.
On the other hand, the appointment of military attachés is a matter for the county garrison battalion.
Of course, Xin Baojiu's recommendation of Zhang Chun as military attache was more to keep Zhang Chun firmly in his own hands and not let the credit for building ponds and cultivating fields and suppressing bandits go aside.
How could Xin Baojiu tell Li Wengui about these things.
If it weren't for the need for Li Wengui to help build momentum in the matter of Xinxue.
Li Wengui is afraid that he will not have the opportunity to come to Yunlong.
Li Wengui didn't know this, but he knew his own affairs, and now it was the new mission in power, whether it was Lord Li Zhongtang or Lord Zhang Zhidong, it was Lord Yuan Shikai, who had just entered the cabinet, and he took someone who was not sent by the Westerners.
Officials like Li Wengui, who relied on the imperial examination, have fallen one after another, and Li Wengui is ready to leave.
I only hope that my former master will be satisfied if he is willing to take care of himself when the time comes.