The seeds of ambition in Emperor Tongzhi's heart were planted by Xiao Letian himself. How could he not guess the little brat's thoughts? From the time he decided to join the military training, Xiao Letian knew what he was thinking.

The imperial power is naturally close to military power, which is proven by countless bloody examples over the past thousands of years. Although the young emperor is young, he is quite clear about the history of coups over the past thousands of years.

Coupled with the dazzling performances of the new army in front of the world, these deeply stimulated the little emperor, and the dream of wanting a member of his own army became increasingly out of control.

Xiao Letian shook his head, "Zaichun, I can understand that you want your own personal army that always belongs to you, but you have thought about what the army needs most if you don't always have the most. Have you done all the preparations?"

"I can teach you all the methods of training without hiding my own personal information, but the funding for training is a Western-style army that is completely a gold-swalking monster. Not to mention the foreign guns and bullets, just the auxiliary equipment of the new army will cost."

"Don't underestimate the patent leather big brimmed hat. Without their soldiers, they would not be able to open their eyes in the heavy rain. And with the pure cowhide hand-strap armed belt crossed on their chests, soldiers would not be able to conduct effective long-distance marches without this thing..."

"There are also buffalo leather military boots worth two silver coins per pair. When the battle in Langfang was in the first place, Li Hongzhang's soldiers also suffered the loss of not having good boots. The high-top military boots in the mud can protect the soldiers' feet well, and can also increase the area of ​​the foot's foot, which will make it easier for the waist to exert force..."

"In the assassination battle, the party that uses more power smoothly always takes advantage of it. Li Hongzhang's Huai Army was wearing cloth shoes and straw sandals, and fell into the mud. After the war, our military observers discovered thousands of lost cloth shoes and straw sandals. You said that such equipment could fight."

Xiao Letian took off his pistol holster from the wall and removed a brass shell bullet from the revolver. "Zaichun, this kind of bullet is called a fixed loading bullet, a pure copper shell, and gunpowder is wrapped in the shell. He is not afraid of water or does not need to cumbersome loading procedures, which greatly improves the firing rate of the musket..."

"With this kind of bullet, we have fired three or four shots, but the other party didn't even shoot a single shot. How do you think about the winner or lose? But there is no arsenal in Asia that can make such bullets. I will buy them with Prussia and the United States at a high price. A pistol bullet costs two copper coins."

Xiao Letian touched the head of the little emperor, "Even if we have our own arsenal in the future and can produce ammunition by ourselves, it will be a big hole in burning money. It's so luxurious to use brass to produce bullets. The copper used to cast copper coins in the Qing Dynasty is not enough now. You are willing to use copper to process bullets."

Emperor Tongzhi was stunned. He didn't expect that the money would be needed to arm a new army. He thought that just as the court said, he could form an army with hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.

Xiao Letian's attack was not over yet. He said to Emperor Tongzhi, "Money is only part of all the problems, and the military spirit of your army. Have you thought about it? He still relies on rewards to fight like the Eight Banners and Green Camp in the past. If you don't give money, you won't charge. What's the use of such an army?"

"A army without souls is just a double-edged sword. Even if you are the founder, you can easily command this army, but what about your successors? An army without military spirits will sooner or later become slaves of money and power..."

Emperor Tongzhi rolled his eyes when he was hit by Xiao Letian. An eleven-year-old child could not understand these profound knowledge even if he was against the will of heaven. "What should I do? Master, teach me..."

"Haha, this is not something you can teach. You have to make your own decisions about what path you Manchus will take and where you will go in the future. No one listened to me... Forget it, don't think so much, you won't have too many troops at the beginning. You can just bring your four guards out first, and just turn back from the capital and bring a hundred trustworthy direct descendants..."

"The four guards are qualified to be platoon leaders after military training. One platoon is 30 people in three squads, and the four platoons are exactly one hundred and twenty people in one company. I will spend money to support these masters first, so that they can accompany you to grow together. I guess after you return from a few years of study tour, these 120 people can be expanded into at least one or two divisions..."

"If you have more than 20,000 elite soldiers in your hands, you will have the confidence. Moreover, you should think about these questions carefully in the past few years of study. When you find the answer, it is actually not difficult to cultivate the army..."

Emperor Tongzhi went back to sleep with a lot of doubts. When he talked to the four guards about the beautiful dreams compiled by the Prime Minister, Ma Ming, Dun Cheng, Bai Min and Guan Lu all had their eyes lit up.

"Your Majesty is very happy. If Your Majesty really has 20,000 strong troops in hand, plus the title of Dayi and the Prime Minister's aid on the sea, you can definitely control the government. The prosperity has finally come, and finally..."

From this day on, the four guards no longer had any resistance to military training. They had only one belief in their hearts, that is, to win first place, to strive to enter military academies and to enter the officer training camp.

The emperor's personal army, the four of them are definitely the immediate bosses of the new army. The future military and political affairs of the Qing Dynasty may be controlled by the four of them.

All training was doubled. Originally, they were guards trained by their ancestors, and their kung fu was very good. As long as they tried their best, the training results made the instructor look at each other.

The 50-kilogram giant tree ran back and forth, and even the instructor could only do twelve round trips, and these four animals could actually make fifty.

There are also push-ups. The average number of soldiers is more than 200, and four animals can do 500. There are also gun-holding training. Others have five kilograms of weight hanging at the gun, but four of them have 20 kilograms of arms and still not trembling.

Everyone was convinced, and these four guards gradually integrated into the collective life. The gap in their eyes gradually disappeared. The big-headed soldiers who they had always looked down upon became more and more familiar with each other during the long training.

Everyone trained together, had dinner together, made dirty jokes together, and even gave instructors nicknames together. At that moment, they even forgot their identity as a man of a man, and they had become one with the new army.

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At noon that day, the training camp was served with pig's trotters. Each person and a soft trotters made everyone feel oily. After the meal, everyone drank juice and bragged together to chat and pass the rest time.

"You don't understand. If you want to play with walnuts, you have to say that it is a short lion's head. The lion's head is divided into apple orchards, four buildings and other varieties... Moreover, Emperor Qianlong also loved playing walnuts back then. Every time he walked in the imperial garden, he would rub a pair in his hand. I have seen it in the Office of the Internal Affairs, and it is so beautiful..."

"What did you say, how much is worth? Oh my brother, that was played by the emperor. Do you understand the priceless treasure... Even if His Majesty plays a pair of crooked ones, that's a treasure..."

"Wait, what's the use of you? Oh, I can't talk to you anymore. Play... Do you know what playing is? Rich people will just do this. If you ask you to tell what the use of writing and painting by literati can do, I can't see anything good..."

The Eight Banners in Sijiu City love to talk about the mountains, and the Four Guards are no exception. Whenever they are training and resting, they always listen to the four of them tell stories, which is as good as group crosstalk.

The delicious food, fun, and even ghost stories in the Forbidden City are so popular that they are so fascinated by the people around them. The new army is a honest farmer, and they have seen such a chatty person.

Just as everyone was stunned, a harsh assembly call suddenly sounded, and all the new troops were stunned and then jumped out and ran to the square with no life.

The assembly call is a military order. If you don’t get together for three minutes, then wait for a small meal.

"All the training recruits gathered... Open the camp gate... The enemy appeared in the woods of Nanshan to the west, and the guests attacking the Prime Minister... rescued quickly."

"The enemy is closest to us, and our new army training camp is going to take advantage of this first prize... This is not an exercise... I repeat it again. This is not an exercise..."

Everyone was crazy. They didn't expect that the enemy would dare to act rashly when they defeated the French. Five hundred new recruits in the training camp quickly rushed out of the camp gate and rushed towards the forests of Nanshan.

The recruits were set up at the foot of the Nanshan Mountains, with the sea 1,000 meters west of here. At this time, a small Western flying shear was attacked by three Chinese hard sailboats.

The attack seemed to be initiated suddenly, because the hard sailing ship was not the match for the speed of the flying scissors at all, and now the pirates on the hard sailing ship have completely captured the flying scissors.

There were gunfire and shouts of killing everywhere. In the sea water of the flying scissors, countless foreigners were swimming desperately towards the shore, and pirates behind them were chasing them again.

"What a courageous thing, the pirates dare to come to Ryukyu to commit rebellion. Brothers, come on..." Today, Xiang Ying and Lin Zhen took patrol boats to patrol Naba Harbor. Seeing that the pirates dared to do business in the Prime Minister's sphere of influence, they were so angry that they directly issued a killing order.

The sound of gunfire and cannons rumbled, and the sea was covered with red. Countless pirates were killed, but more than a hundred pirates rushed to the coast and into the jungle of Nanshan.

Ma Ming and the four guards were also nervous and sweating. The gunshots sounded in the mountains and forests were very dense. It seemed that they were equipped with the new army's fire guns. But seeing that they were all new soldiers in military training, they didn't even have big blades in their hands, how could they fight?

The four of them ran all the way, collecting some sharp stones. It seemed that they could only rely on their skills at this moment.

The light in the dense forest was very dim. Searching along the way alarmed countless animals and birds. After more than ten minutes, Ma Ming and the others were the first to discover the results of the battle. Two terrified foreigners ran across from them.

"Save me...we are the Prime Minister's friends...we are from Europe..." The strange Chinese proved their identity, and Ma Ming and his friends quickly ran over to protect the two foreigners.

"What happened? Who is chasing you..." Guan Lu shouted loudly.

"We are from Nobel... Mr. Nobir was attacked by pirates... Go and save him."

Ma Ming and his military training instructors were nothing else, but Zhao Yidao, who had been expeditioning to Europe. When he heard the familiar name Nobel, he was so anxious that he slapped his thigh.
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