Chapter 165 The appointment was issued, and he set off north to meet his eldest brother, Yuan Shikai invited him
After the New Deal imperial meeting in Yiluan Hall ended, the functional departments of the Qing government began to operate at high speed.
Orders were issued in the form of imperial edicts to all provinces across the country, and then to prefectures and counties.
Officials at all levels must carry out orders.
At the same time, telegrams were sent to foreign envoys in the name of the central government of the Qing Dynasty to show the results of the Qing Dynasty's reforms.
The New Deal ministers will discuss major issues such as the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Education, and the abolition of the imperial examination, and finally inform the whole country.
Of course, such a big thing will not be accomplished overnight, and it will take at least half a year to polish.
However, many things can be started or prepared in advance.
On April 25, 1903, Li Qiwei received a notice from the Ministry of Personnel.
Ask him to go to Beijing to meet the Holy Spirit before May 15th, and then register and confer with the Ministry of Personnel as Deputy Minister of Management and Education.
There were several situations in which officials were appointed in the Qing Dynasty, but regardless of the method, only the emperor and the Ministry of Civil Service had the power to appoint officials.
The Ministry of Civil Affairs has no say in the appointment of senior officials, such as bachelors, ministers, ministers, governors, governors, and envoys of various provinces.
This power is unique to the emperor and is officially called "special grant". It means that the emperor directly appoints senior officials without going through any procedures. Of course, he can also appoint low-level officials.
Guangxu made Li Qiwei the deputy minister of management and education, using the power granted by special decree.
Another situation is that the Ministry of Personnel compiles the list of officials, and then the emperor decides. This form is called "listing".
If the emperor disagrees with the decision of the Ministry of Personnel, the people on the list will not be able to take office.
Therefore, the power of the Qing Dynasty’s civil service was very limited, and basically it could only appoint middle- and lower-level officials.
There are many middle- and lower-level officials and their composition is complex. If the Ministry of Personnel wants to arrange them in appropriate positions, they must treat them differently according to their different situations.
There are six specific situations, called "six classes".
The first one is off-duty, which refers to the shift when an official enters the official position for the first time. No matter how he enters the official position, he must enter the off-duty and wait for the first appointment.
There are several ways to obtain official status, including imperial examinations, favors, donations, special orders, etc.
Of course, if you are not born in the imperial examination, you will need a lot of inspections, your ranking will be lower, and the official position you will be assigned will also be second-tier.
The second type is make-up work, which means that an official who originally had an official position temporarily left his post due to some reasons, but now he has returned and needs to be re-appointed.
The third type is transfer, which means that the official grade remains unchanged and is transferred to another position within the same yamen. Generally speaking, it is a promotion.
The fourth method is to change classes. Compared with changing classes, changing classes has a wider scope and is not limited to the same Yamen.
The fifth type is promotion, which is easy to understand and is the dream of all officials.
The sixth type is transfer, which refers to certain special positions. If the original employee leaves, a specific official will need to be transferred.
This type of situation usually involves highly professional positions, such as water transportation, river transportation, Qin Tianjian, etc.
Although Li Qiwei was an official specially appointed by Guangxu, he still needed to register with the Ministry of Civil Affairs and go through the process.
In his case, he took up his post through off-duty work, but the position had already been determined in advance.
The reason why Li Qiwei wanted to understand the official appointment system of the Qing Dynasty was to obtain official status for He Yujie and others in the future.
In this way, your own Huangpu University of Technology can reduce a lot of unnecessary troubles.
Although the officials of the Qing Dynasty only had a shelf life of more than 8 years, they were not used in vain.
So, Li Qiwei took Li San, who had returned, on the road north, and he decided to meet Guangxu.
He wanted to see what was so special about the emperors of the feudal era.
As for his own safety, there is no need to worry about it now.
None of the various forces defined him as a dangerous person, just a technical official.
With plenty of time, Li Qiwei decided to go to his eldest brother Li Bokai first after arriving in the capital.
On May 7, Li Qiwei and Li San disembarked from Tanggu, and then the master and servant rushed towards the capital, preparing to go to the location of the new army first.
The so-called New Army of the Qing Dynasty also experienced a series of changes.
In 1894, after the Qing Dynasty was defeated in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1894, in order to maintain its rule, it began to imitate Western methods to reorganize the old army and train the new army.
In the same year, the Qing Dynasty appointed Hu Yan (read Yu) Fen (read Fen), the inspector of Guangxi, to organize and train a new army in Tianjin Machang, called the "Dingwu Army", with a number of 4,750 people.
In October 1895, the Dingwu Army station was transferred from Machang to Xiaozhan, and military training at Xiaozhan began.
In December of the same year, Yuan Shikai took over the supervision and training of the Dingwu Army, re-formulated various new army systems, and hired German officers to serve as instructors.
He reorganized and expanded the Dingwu Army, bringing the number to 7,000, and changed its name to the "New Army".
During the same period, the Qing Dynasty also formed new armies in other places.
Among them are Nie Shicheng's "Wu Yi Army" and Dong Fuxiang's "Gan Army". These two armies, together with Yuan Shikai's newly built army, are called the Three Beiyang Armies.
In order to strengthen the defense of the capital, Cixi decided to form a new army to guard the capital.
In December 1898, the Qing Dynasty appointed Ronglu, Minister of Military Aircraft, as commander-in-chief, organized the three Beiyang armies and part of the old army, and established the "Wuwei Army".
This is also the origin of the Beiyang warlords in later generations.
The Wuwei Army is divided into front, rear, left, center, and five armies in total. Among them, Yuan Shikai's new army was organized into the "Wuwei Right Army", but its internal organization remained basically unchanged.
While the capital was training its new army, each province also began to train its own new army.
For example, the Governor of Huguang, Zhang Zhidong, founded the Self-Strengthening Army, and the Governor of Liangjiang, Liu Kunyi, also founded the New Army.
In 1899, Yuan Shikai's Wuwei Right Army was ordered to be transferred from Tianjin Station to Shandong for defense.
This allowed him to escape the subsequent invasion of the Eight-Power Allied Forces and retain his strength, which became his greatest political capital in the future.
Moreover, in the name of suppressing bandits in Shandong, he greatly expanded the Armed Guard Right Army, bringing its number to nearly 20,000, making it the strongest army in the Qing Dynasty at that time.
In 1901, Yuan Shikai succeeded Li Hongzhang. At the age of 42, he served as acting governor of Zhili and minister of Beiyang, which was a miracle in the political arena of the late Qing Dynasty.
His right-wing military guards also left Shandong with him and went to the capital, stationed in Nanyuan of the capital, and became the imperial guard army.
In 1902, the conflict between Japan and Russia intensified. In order to strengthen the northeastern border defense, the Qing Dynasty ordered Yuan Shikai to expand the new army in order to expand the garrison area.
So, Yuan Shikai sent Wang Shizhen to recruit 6,000 strong men and brought them to Baoding for training, which was called "New Army Training".
In real history, in 1904, the Qing Dynasty established the Prime Minister's Training Office (Yikuan had already made suggestions) to be responsible for training the new army.
The Qing government appointed Yi Kuang as the head of the Military Training Department, and Yuan Shikai as the actual manager.
The military system was also formally demarcated, and the army was organized into three categories: standing army, continuing army, and reserve army, with benefits decreasing in order.
Then, at Yuan Shikai's suggestion, the Qing Dynasty planned to use the Beiyang New Army as the central army and the new armies from each province as the local army to organize and train thirty-six towns of new armies across the country.
The quota of officers and soldiers in each town is 12,512 (equivalent to a division in later generations), consisting of infantry, horse, artillery, engineering, baggage and other arms. And divide the management levels according to the level from top to bottom:
Zhen (control), Xie (association), standard (standard), battalion (management), team (team officer), platoon (platoon leader), shed (shed).
In 1905, Yuan Shikai's Wuwei Right Army was reorganized into the "Fourth Town of Beiyang Standing Army", which was also the core of his later Six Beiyang Towns.
Except for the first town among the six towns, which was controlled by the Manchu Tieliang, the remaining five towns were controlled by Yuan Shikai's cronies.
From then on, Yuan Shikai had a solid foundation for hegemony in the world.
Dingwu Army, Xinjian Army, Wuwei Right Army, and Beiyang Standing Army.
The history of the New Army is the history accompanying the rise of Yuan Shikai.
Li Qiwei's eldest brother, Li Bokai, had already followed Yuan Shikai when he was training troops at the small station.
Now he is stationed with the army in Nanyuan of the capital.
As the leader of the first battalion, Li Bokai spent almost all his time in the military camp and could not travel freely.
Moreover, he is strict with himself and leads by example.
So, even if Li Qiwei returned from abroad and the brothers had not seen each other for six years, he did not ask for leave, but fulfilled his duties.
However, when Li Qiwei took the initiative to find him, the situation was different.
The garrison of the Wuwei Right Army.
“Third brother!”
"Brother!"
Li Bokai looked at Li Qiwei with surprise. Just now the guard reported that someone was looking for him, but he was still confused.
Unexpectedly, it was his third brother who came over.
He has always regretted that he could not go to pick up Li Qiwei and wash away his dust. Now that they meet, they will definitely drink and talk all night long.
It was also the first time that Li Qiwei really saw his eldest brother. It was indeed the New Army, which was completely different from the Eight Banners soldiers of the Qing Dynasty.
Li Bokai is dressed in a handsome military uniform and has short, lean hair. He has a handsome appearance and a powerful momentum.
"Brother, you are so majestic now."
"I am afraid one supervisor has to supervise hundreds of people."
Li Bokai is tall, and his face is marked by his military career. He became resolute and vicissitudes of life, and he laughed loudly, which made Li Qiwei's ears hurt.
"Third brother, when it comes to essays, I'm not as good as you, but when it comes to martial arts, I'm still a little confident, haha."
"I now have about 600 people under my command, all of whom are my good brothers."
Li Bokai's bold character gave him high prestige among the grassroots, and everyone was willing to listen to Li Guandai's words.
Li Qiwei also admired his elder brother very much when he heard what Li Bokai said.
These days, it is easy to be a leader, but it is not easy to make your subordinates trust and obey.
Although Li Bokai did not receive orthodox military education, he also figured out a way to lead troops.
At the same time, Li Qiwei had strange thoughts in his heart.
Maybe a few hundred people from Big Brother can play a key role in the future.
Sooner or later, he will go out independently and build a scientific city overseas, which will be self-contained.
Of course you need a certain strength foundation in the early stage. Maybe you can consider persuading Big Brother.
When troubled times come, everything will be false, only the soldiers in your hands are real.
When a scholar encounters a soldier, he cannot explain why.
Before Li Qiwei had not yet developed absolute force, it was still necessary to have a certain ability to protect himself.
Although in the later stage, he will cooperate with the country and seek asylum.
But when starting a business, no one can be trusted except blood relatives.
Even if they are not relatives, they must be fellow villagers or close friends.
Yuan Shikai also relied on this method when he formed the new army team at the small station.
Xu Shichang, who managed the Staff and Camp Affairs Office, was his childhood friend;
Liu Yongqing, the general manager of the Food and Rating Bureau, was his cousin;
Commander of the Second Infantry Battalion He led Wu Changchun, his old subordinate in Korea, who later served as the commander of the fifth town of Beiyang;
Wu Fengling, the rear team officer of the first battalion of the cavalry, was the son of a servant of the Yuan family, and later served as the commander of the fourth town of Beiyang. ;
Later, more top students who graduated from the Armed Forces Academy joined and became the backbone of the new army. This gave the new army a completely new look and made it truly professional.
But now, Li Qiwei will definitely not talk about this matter with Li Bokai.
Just when he was about to speak, Li Bokai said first: "Third brother, I will treat you to a guest in the Eighth Building tonight. We brothers will not return until we are drunk."
"But now, you have to go with it. I’m going to see someone.”
Li Qiwei wondered, “Who is it?”
Li Bo said with a smile: "Our commander-in-chief invited me."
"When I came out just now, I was summoned by the commander-in-chief and asked me to stay and see him."
"Third brother, you He is so proud that the commander-in-chief can personally invite him.”
Li Bokai also admired his third brother.
In his mind, Marshal Yuan was the governor of Zhili and the leader of the new army. Even if the third brother was a British knight, there was still a big status gap.
If the commander-in-chief had a good impression of his third brother, wouldn't he be able to benefit from it too? Li Guandai began to have sweet dreams.
Li Qiwei was just stunned, without any excitement, Yuan Shikai actually wanted to see him.
I am a scientist and you are the leader of the new army. No matter how we look at it, there is no intersection. We don’t know what medicine the other party is selling.
My current status and honor may not be enough for Yuan Shikai.
Li Qiwei didn’t know what attracted him to him.
However, he was going to meet Yuan Shikai.
When you come to this era, you have to meet those legendary figures in history.
So, he followed Li Bokai and walked towards where Yuan Shikai was.
(End of this chapter)