Chapter 501 Construction of Xuzhou

Although most of the generals he was familiar with were transferred, but because he was also promoted at the same time, Huang Wenyuan, He Fu and Li Nong did not express any dissatisfaction, plus they also knew that on the battlefield, they could not defeat the enemy independently with their original troops, and now the commander transferred other troops into his own troops to upgrade the troops, which will only make the troops led by himself stronger!

After the reorganization of the troops, because the forward brigade has also been changed to the Xuzhou Army by Xiao Yao, the names of these three battalions must of course be renamed!

However, after the arbitrary and tyrannical Xiao Yao decisively vetoed Huang Wenyuan's proposal for names such as the Flying Bear Battalion, the Fierce Leopard Battalion, and the Tiger Battalion, Xiao Yao, as the commander, directly changed Huang Wenyuan's cavalry battalion to the first brigade, He Fu's musket battalion to the second brigade, and Li Nong's artillery battalion to the third brigade!

Such a simple name made Huang Wenyuan and the others stunned and unable to understand.

In the face of their doubts, of course Xiao Yao would not tell them that this was the naming rule of the army number in later generations, and then casually found a few reasons, saying that on the battlefield, the name is not important, only the strength is the most important! As long as you win the battle, your simple name will be remembered! But if you're defeated, even if your name is domineering, it's just a joke!

And the name of the unit is simple and advantageous, that is, when assigning tasks, it is convenient for superiors to convey orders, if the name is too awkward, then in case of emergency, it is possible to write a typo and lead to wrong information!

Therefore, under Xiao Yao's various reasons, coupled with his majesty as the commander of the Xuzhou Army, Huang Wenyuan and the others could only silently accept the names of these troops with numbers as their numbers! However, Xiao Yao saw that they had also been promoted to brigade commanders, and still gave them a certain freedom of naming, that is, in their respective units, the names of the various battalions under their jurisdiction could be named by their brigade commanders!

After solving these problems that had been encountered in the early stage of the army reorganization, the army reorganization officially began, and the three brigade commanders officially led their new subordinates to begin to form the various battalions under their command and train those new soldiers.

For this reason, Xiao Yao also deliberately appointed cronyism, and directly appointed Gao Yuan as the deputy commander of the Xuzhou army, specifically responsible for guiding the training of recruits in various units! Because Gao Yuan is also mainly responsible for training recruits in Jiangzhou, and has also cultivated a large number of soldiers who are loyal to Xiao Yao, and have excellent military ability and combat quality!

For Xiao Yao's nepotistic decision, the entire Xuzhou people have no opinion, because all the officers in Xiao Yao's forward brigade are basically members of the original Fire Dragon Battalion, and these people were trained by Gao Yuan, and even He Fu and Li Nong are Gao Yuan's students, and when the two of them see Gao Yuan, they have to respectfully call the coach!

And Huang Wenyuan, the second generation of officials, has long admired Gao Yuan's strong martial arts, plus many officers in his cavalry battalion are also Gao Yuan's disciples, and Gao Yuan has the identity of Xiao Yao's senior brother, which naturally makes Huang Wenyuan respect him even more, so Huang Wenyuan is also convinced that Gao Yuan will be his boss and become the deputy commander of the Xuzhou army!

As for the veteran Lu Guangda, although he had long heard that Xiao Yao had a senior brother with strong martial arts, but now Xiao Yao suddenly appointed this little-known senior brother as the deputy commander of the Xuzhou army, and he was on an equal footing with a veteran with deep qualifications, which made Lu Guangda a little unconvinced.

But when Gao Yuan and Lu Guangda went to inspect the training of various troops, they found that the three troops, up to the brigade commander, down to the squad leader and platoon commander at the grassroots level, all of them respected and respected Gao Yuan very much, and even surpassed his attitude towards himself as a veteran in the army, he knew that this Gao Yuan was also a hidden master!

Then during the training, Gao Yuan also showed a few hands to Lu Guangda, from hand-to-hand combat, to the dazzling knife technique, and even the sniper technique of piercing Yang in 100 steps, which made Lu Guangda stunned and shocked!

It turned out that the soldiers respected this mysterious man named Gao Yuan so much, not because he was the commander's senior brother, but because of his own strength, which really deserved everyone's respect!

So, Lu Guangda suddenly dissipated all the dissatisfaction in his heart, after all, he himself was also a military general, and he was an upright person who only recognized strength and did not recognize nepotism, so after seeing Gao Yuan's strength, Lu Guangda also had a sense of awe for Gao Yuan, and admired the three masters and apprentices with miraculous skills even more!

It was this method of cronyism that Xiao Yao placed those who were loyal to him in various important posts in the military and political system of Xuzhou, and then built Xuzhou into an unbreakable base.

At the same time as the reorganization of the army, Zhou Chao had also begun to open an iron workshop in Xuzhou to produce all kinds of musket and artillery weapons for the Xuzhou army in accordance with Xiao Yao's instructions!

Because the three brigades in Xiao Yao's hands are all different from the contemporary cold-weapon armies, they are all modern musket units that use all Mini rifles and Sui muskets, and in addition to the musket battalion of more than 1,000 people in each brigade, they have established a cavalry battalion and artillery battalion of more than 2,000 people, so the demand for firearms is very huge.

And because Chen Shujian, the assassin of Jiangzhou, had all kinds of coercion and temptation of Jiangzhou Iron Workshop in Chen State, so Zhou Chao moved the main production line of Jiangzhou Iron Workshop and a large number of craftsmen to Xuzhou, which was presided over by Xiao Yao.

Now in Xuzhou, the army is being reorganized, the people are also resuming production, restoring the population, and the general firm is also vigorously developing trade with Qi as the reason, but also began to move the iron workshop and the general sugar mill on the outskirts of Jinling City to Xuzhou one after another, and the shift of the center of gravity of the general firm has also driven those who have been following the general firm of other wealthy businessmen have moved to Xuzhou, which made Xiao Yao immediately recruit a large number of migrant workers, and began to carry out overall urban planning and construction of Xuzhou.

From urban defense design to street planning, Xiao Yao personally checked: renovated the old city in the city, and built various large buildings and housing areas; In the new industrial areas outside the city, and then build various workshops and workshops on them, and slowly build Xuzhou into a modern city!

And in terms of funds, Xiao Yao also used crowdfunding, convened Chen Guo, and even the big family of Qi and Zhou, and the rich people to hold a meeting, and then promised that as long as they invested money, they could get the equity of various emerging industries in Xuzhou City, and they could share a lot of profits every year.

In addition, he has the mighty Xuzhou army to defend Xuzhou, these various factors make these rich people very optimistic about the various projects built by Xiao Yao in Xuzhou, so they all support Xiao Yao, have money to pay, some people to pay, and food to pay, so that Xiao Yao has concentrated a large number of manpower and materials in his hands at once to carry out the construction and transformation of Xuzhou!

And there is also a hidden benefit of this crowdfunding practice, that is, Xiao Yao has a good relationship with the rich people of these noble clans in various countries, and then when he begins to seize power and dominate the world, these people who are closely related to him, for the sake of interests, will naturally stand on his side and help him stabilize the forces of all parties and consolidate his own power!