Talent is the most fundamental. The day after the craftsmen arrived in Tianjin, the craftsmen who had the skills in prospecting were divided into several teams by Chen Mu and sent to various places in Kaiping, Yongping Prefecture to explore coal mines and iron ores.

The delivery of silver has given Beiyang's many plans to have the most solid backing.

Du Song and Xiang Fei led their men to Xuanfukou City, one for purchasing military horses, the other for recruiting military soldiers, and the third for recruiting grassroots officers from the graduates of the Xuanfu Martial Arts Hall this year.

The recruitment conditions of the Beiyang Military Office are more stringent than those of the recruitment army at the same time. The main reason is that they have the conditions for the education level of the new recruits. They must at least go to social studies, be able to recognize some words and understand part of the calculation, but there are not many rigid conditions in their physical condition. They have no physical problems between the eighteen and twenty-five years, but they are tall or short. By signing a five-year contract, they can receive relatively generous military pay.

The recruitment contract that Du Song brought was planned by Chen Mu himself, which is similar to the recruitment contract, and it clearly states the obligations and treatment of recruitment.

Their basic salary is only a pitiful five cents of monthly silver, which is almost negligible compared to the Beijing Army’s 18 taels of grain and salt a year. However, the contract also states various reward and punishment systems, such as long-range shooting, off-roading, counterattack, and bullet exchange, each reward of half a cent for each school meeting the standards. When you reach the A-level, you will get half a cent. At the end of the year, there will be a year-end bonus due to the annual assessment.

This means that an excellent Beiyang infantry can get more than the Beijing army without considering profits and rewards - this is tempting enough. The contract only lasts five years. After five years, you can choose to take the money home or renew the contract for another five years. If you make meritorious contributions in the process, you will also have the possibility of being promoted to an officer.

Not everyone can be the Beijing Army. Now the Beiyang Army is obviously the best way out for young men.

Chen Mu calculated when writing this recruitment contract that it is difficult to get the highest military pay, but it is not difficult to get the military pay that exceeds the Beijing Army. If a person can receive military pay that exceeds the Beijing Army in the Beiyang Military Prefecture, it means that he has military skills that far exceed the Beijing Army. If he has the chance, Qi Jiguang will rush to get it.

This is a business, and Chen Mu will never lose money in business.

Chen Mu asked someone to do equipment such as barbells, dumbbells, single and double bars to train soldiers' strength, and placed them on the edge of the Beiyang Military Government Office. The huge schoolyard was divided into three parts, namely the infantry schoolyard, the bird gun schoolyard, the cavalry schoolyard, and the large infantry barracks connected to the left of the infantry schoolyard have begun to be built, while the cavalry barracks on the right only enclose a large area of ​​woodland.

Under the construction of a large number of craftsmen and civilians step by step according to the design drawings, infantry barracks with mixed bricks and wood were built like mushrooms after a rain. The barracks were not only equipped with bathhouses and toilets, but also walls for winter heating. The cement-bonded bricks made the barracks more solid. The barracks that were erected first entered the tiling stage.

Before the construction of the yamen began, most of the infantry barracks had been completed, and a continuous long street was formed on the east side of the schoolyard.

Yin Zhengmao stayed in Beijing for longer than Chen Mu. When he returned to the Beiyang Yamen, he was extremely surprised by the changes. When Chen Mu led him through the schoolyard and climbed to the bell and drum tower in the middle of the cavalry schoolyard, overlooking the entire Beiyang Military Mansion planning site, he pointed to the infantry barracks and asked: "Jing Haibo has built many houses, and so many barracks, how many soldiers can he live in?"

"There are infantry barracks east of the school ground, and after completion, there are six thousand infantry households. To the west of the school ground, there are cavalry barracks, and four thousand cavalry households." Chen Mu took back his arm that crossed the battlement of the bell and drum tower and said to Yin Zhengmao: "I don't plan to recruit so many soldiers yet."

"What a big project, where is the north?"

Yin Zhengmao asked Chen Mu with emotion, and the yamen was facing south. The gate of the Beiyang Military Mansion was also on the south. In addition to the yamen land where piles were laid, there was also a large area of ​​land that had been fenced and started to cut down trees. Chen Mu did not say in detail, but said: "The various facilities of the military mansion, warehouses, medical institutes, officers' classrooms, canteens, etc. of the military mansion."

In Yin Zhengmao's eyes, this was a total expense. A military camp was not worthy of such a large-scale construction. He shook his head and said, "It's too expensive, Chen Shuai."

"The Beiyang Military Mansion is not a place like the North-South Military Hall. There is no need to train troops."

Chen Mu understood what Yin Zhengmao wanted to say. He shook his head and smiled: "This is a new attempt. I think a huge military camp is worth it compared to what it can achieve here in the future."

Yin Zhengmao disagreed and said, "I hope to hear the details."

"The positioning is very important, just like the Siyang Military Palace is to make money and strengthen the army for the court, and Xu Ge Lao's Lecture Academy trains six officials for the court. I advocate setting up a martial arts hall in the north and south, and using the best veteran retired generals in the world as teachers, and the in-service generals compile military books and teaching materials, not to train grassroots officers in the country."

"It is a waste of resources to use them as grassroots officers, but now there is no good environment. After graduation, some of them have the means to be commanders, and those who have no means can only be small flag officials and general flag officials. This has nothing to do with their talents. Moreover, at this time, any garrison has brought a student to a thousand households, and he cannot play 30% of his talents."

Yin Zhengmao deeply agreed that every student who went out of the Navy Martial Arts Hall was a talent, and he knew this.

But in a short period of time, those people dispatched places to be very useful, just like what the students from Xuanfu Martial Arts Hall do the most often? No general dares to ask them to lead troops to guard the border, they can only practice troops and survey and map.

The environment needed by these people was to fully dispatch chariots, cavalry, infantry and artillery workers and the five departments of the 5th department. In a conventional combat, there must be 440 bird guns, sixteen tiger squat cannons, and one hundred small flag arrows were shot. Not to mention two artillery soldiers and 122 general Zhenshuo guns, which were directly under the artillery teams of 100 households.

Even if the commander, who is talented and stubborn, what can he say when he sees such an aggressive and aggressive subordinate?

The reality is that it would be nice to be able to match him with five Weiyuan cannons. If you don’t have to do it, there are only three bowl cannons, and the small flag arrows cannot be afforded. If you replace the bird gun with a fast gun and a musket, you can barely get three hundred pieces. The tiger squat cannon cannons can match two hundred households. This is the ultimate righteousness.

Not every thousand households are called Xiangshan, and not every guard is called Nanyang, so there is no money.

This is the embarrassing thing about students from the North and South Martial Arts Hall after graduation. After learning the dragon-slaying technique for three years, they learned to train soldiers after graduation. The ability to draw can come in handy immediately. Although they are obviously better in all aspects than others, they don’t even have the chance to perform.

Often, I will be ridiculed by others: "I really have the financial resources. I can win without graduating from the martial arts school. Do I have the financial resources? No!"

"The general arrangement of guns, cannons, armor and equipment is not enough to achieve the country with huge forces and vast territory. Guangdong's mechanical manufacturing capabilities are hard to reach. Now the Guangdong-Guangzhou Banner Army has not been replaced yet, and the governments in various places will be mixed, and it will take many years. Yin Gong must also know it very well."

With Yin Zhengmao nodding, Chen Mu continued: "But the quality of soldiers is different. As long as the graduates of the martial arts lecture hall have suitable soldiers, even if the guns and cannons are insufficient, they can still fight better than others. As an officer, as long as he can lead his subordinates to win battles, the court will have rewards, and if he has rewards, he will have money, and if he has money to change his clothes, he will be able to win battles even better."

"In the next two years, the Dongyang Military Office will lead the first batch of soldiers to go on an expedition, leaving behind some veterans and absorbing graduates from the North-South Military Academy, serving as new recruits, paying military salaries in Beiyang, and practicing in Beiyang. Five years later, a batch of outstanding soldiers will be retired. Beiyang can recommend them to go to the garrison offices in various places in the world to serve as small flags and general flags. They will be the best small flags and general flags."

"well……"

Yin Zhengmao sighed long and raised his hand to pat Chen Mu on his shoulder, who was working hard. He might not feel it was appropriate. His movements were hanging in the air but he didn't pat him. He looked at Chen Mu and said, "Shuai Chen, the most difficult thing is not training soldiers and selecting generals, but money... All local guards have good flag officials and good military officers, but what about this money?"

"The martial arts lecture hall teaches good generals, Beiyang trains good flag officials, and they train good soldiers. Then they lead troops across the Great Wall from the Pamir Mountain to Changbai Mountain. Where can the court get the money to reward these tiger and wolf troops?"

"Hahaha!"
Chapter completed!