The land reform has been carried out for half a year, and the policies are basically on the right track, although on the whole the reform has been successful, but there are still some discordant voices coming out, if someone deliberately makes trouble, it is easy to do, make up a reason to arrest it, but some unintentional mistakes have to be taken seriously.

In the course of land reform, the responsible persons of some localities were anxious for quick success and quick profits, in a vain attempt to completely resolve the land issue in a short period of time, resulting in some unstable factors in some areas where the situation was already complicated, and there were even incidents of disputes between peasant unions and trade unions until the end of mass fighting. Although it was quickly subsided due to the intervention of the people from the Great Marshal's Mansion, the hidden harm made Zhu Hao a little uneasy.

Agrarian reform is a high-stakes undertaking that cannot be done in a few months, but takes a long time, a year, two years, or even a decade or more. It will take generations to get the new land system in the hearts and minds of the people.

Zhu Hao convened a meeting of key members, frankly admitted his mistakes, and pointed out that the land reform work should be done step by step in a down-to-earth manner, and should not be rushed.

Wang Fuzhi also made a self-examination, believing that the Ministry of Government Affairs did not have enough awareness of this cause and did not work meticulously enough. At the meeting, under the leadership of Wang Fuzhi, some details of land reform were discussed again and the steps of reform were improved.

Zhu Hao also imitated the parliamentary system of later generations and announced that he would soon set up a people's joint conference, or the Democratic League for short.

The NLD was composed of progressives from all walks of life, with roughly equal proportions of workers, peasants, merchants, and enlightened gentlemen, and people from the Grand Marshal's Office and the New Army system could not participate. Among them, the General Association of the Democratic Federation is stationed in Xuzhou and is responsible to the Dashuai Mansion, and branches are set up in various localities to be elected every three years. The All-China Democratic League is not a government organization, but a mass supervision organization led by the Grand Marshal's Office. Although the NLD does not have the right to make decisions on the decrees promulgated by the Marshal's Office, it has the right to make suggestions and supervise them, and the implementation of local policies and the integrity of officials are all under the supervision of the NLD; if a certain number of members of the NLD jointly raise objections, and the majority of the members support them and the congress adopts them, then the implementation of a certain local decree must be suspended until it is perfected.

However, in order to prevent some people with ulterior motives from making trouble behind their backs, Zhu Hao stipulated that the Marshal's Mansion has the final decision on all local decrees, but the final decision power cannot be used lightly.

After more than a month of preparation and deliberation, in June of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, the general meeting of the Xuhuai District People's Union was officially established, which was called the prototype of China's modern democratic parliament by later historians and sociologists.

The first general meeting of the Democratic Federation is expected to have more than 50 members, all of whom are elites from all walks of life in the Xuhuai region, and the first president is Wang Yinzu, the former prefect of Xuzhou, who has just retired. Wang Yinzu has cooperated with Zhu Hao for a long time, and under his influence, his thinking has been quite enlightened. Moreover, his reputation in Xuzhou is not bad, and under Zhu Hao's instructions, Wang Yinzu was elected with a high vote.

Within a month, the All-China Democratic Federation found out more than 10 unreasonable local administrative facts and complained about five county-level officials and more than a dozen town-level officials. Another gratifying phenomenon is that many people who were not originally concerned about political affairs have also actively participated in and cared about the people's livelihood after becoming members of the Electoral League. A big businessman in Xuzhou who lives at home for a long time also initiated the establishment of a public hospital, and received a lot of support, and raised enough funds in less than half a month, and Xuzhou Charity Hospital was also included in the development plan for the second half of the year.

Chen Xiyao and other handsome wives also established women's federations and charity federations under the persuasion of their husbands, calling on women to join the construction of the New Deal, and calling for the reform of bad habits and the abolition of foot binding. This has little effect, after all, Chinese women have been in this state for thousands of years, and the efforts of several generations will not work. However, many cardamom girls began to refuse to bind their feet, and many open-minded women also abandoned foot binding, which made Zhu Hao very happy.

The ladies contacted the wives of the gentry and the wives of officials in various places, and jointly donated funds and efforts to build a shelter for orphans and widows who could not work, as well as several hope primary schools to give poor children a chance to enroll.

A large number of water conservancy projects have been built in various localities, especially in Yanzhou, with a total investment of more than 500,000 taels of silver, and as of September this year, a total of five large-scale water conservancy facilities, more than 20 small reservoirs, and more than 50 are under construction, basically covering the Yannan region. The first batch of various types of students of the workers' school have already left the campus, and a large number of new-style talents have taken up jobs in various places, which has directly stimulated the prosperity of all walks of life.

Zhu Hao also discussed with Wang Fuzhi that in order to better control the population and land, implement the population census and a new household registration system, and issue household registration certificates to those who have been confirmed to be official residents of the local jurisdiction, and temporary residents to be issued temporary residence permits according to the situation, and temporary residents will not enjoy the policies of formal residents for the time being.

In terms of the navy, there are a total of 20 warships in service, equipped with 40 crew members, 100 sailors, and 30 naval guns. There were five large 2,000-material warships, 70 crew members, more than 200 sailors, and 50 naval guns, which were enough to fight a small-scale naval battle.

Zhu Hao instructed the General Staff Headquarters to select elite soldiers to form a Marine Corps and conduct rigorous training so that they could conduct landing operations in the future.

On the army side, the Fourth Division has been formed, so that the New Army has a total of more than 40,000 people in four divisions of the regular army, but it still claims the size of one division to the outside world. Among them, the first division was stationed in Xuzhou, the second division was stationed in Huai'an, the third division was stationed in Peixian, and the fourth division was stationed in Jining.

It is expected that all the new rifled guns will be replaced in the first half of next year, and the old smoothbore guns will be reloaded for the use of the reserve forces and the garrison troops.

The cavalry has grown to the scale of 4,000 people, and the Green Guards also have an establishment of 1,000 people, seeing that these young men have no place to vent their energy, Zhu Hao simply sent them to various places as an independent force to maintain local law and order, and by the way, monitor the situation in various places.

This arrangement had an unexpected effect, because the public security forces in various places had become corrupt, and as soon as these new blood joined in, they burned three fires, and the people of the Green Guards did not have the bad habits of those old oilmen, and they were also handsome and pro-army, and no one was afraid, and in a short period of time, the large and small hooligan forces in various places were swept away, and the public order in various places also took on a new look.

Disabled servicemen and veterans have also introduced a detailed resettlement policy, with severely disabled servicemen admitted to military sanatoriums to be provided for for life by the Marshal's Mansion; mildly disabled servicemen who are willing to remain in the army according to their own wishes will be arranged to various departments or reserves, and those who do not want to stay will be sent to their hometowns, allocated land, and served as militia instructors in various localities to help train the militia.

Every day, a large number of young and middle-aged people from all over the country come to the conscription office to sign up to join the army, and except for a few who have passed the examination to become full-fledged soldiers of the new army, most of them are organized into reserve forces, and by the end of the year, there are more than 100,000 registered reservists and 500,000 militia members from all over the country. Many open young women also came to sign up for the army, at first only a few people secretly came to sign up, and then more and more people looked at the admitted people wearing new female military uniforms and envied, and followed to sign up, but unfortunately the number of female soldiers is limited, most of them are medical soldiers and literary soldiers, and the requirements are very high, so there are not many female soldiers in the new army, only a few hundredths.

The medical team of the army has also basically completed the establishment, each company has a small medical team including three medical soldiers, each regiment has a small field hospital, each division has a regular field hospital, a large number of new-style female soldiers flooded the field hospitals, but also stimulated the fighting mood of the officers and soldiers, some excellent female soldiers were incorporated into the division headquarters art team, specifically responsible for propaganda and literary and artistic work, the influence of beautiful women is unparalleled, in Zhu Hao's view, He took the trouble to talk for an hour, and it was not as good as the charming eyes of these literary and artistic soldiers! In order to win the favor of female soldiers, countless single soldiers have trained desperately, and their sense of war has also been greatly strengthened.

Lianyungang District has been built into a large-scale dual-use port, and Zhu Hao's large private cargo ships have increased to more than 100, transporting more than 1 million tons of goods annually and a trade surplus of millions of silver. There are two large trade routes, one is North Korea, Japan, and the other is the newly opened Taiwan, Southeast Asia route, because the southern route is controlled by Zheng Zhilong in Fujian, Zhu Hao has to pay a certain amount of "protection fee" every year, fortunately, Zheng Zhilong has been recruited by the imperial court, Zhu Hao is in a high position, he is not very embarrassed by Zhu's merchant ships, and the protection fee charged is lower than others.

Zhu Hao remembered the naval wizard Shi Lang, and immediately sent someone to Fujian to visit Zheng Zhilong, at this time Shi Lang had already participated in Zheng Zhilong's team, but there was no chance to get ahead, Zhu Hao's messenger lied that he was a distant relative of Shi Lang, Zheng Zhilong did not know why, of course he would not take a small soldier to heart, so he asked the messenger to take people away. In this way, Zhu Hao easily poached this future famous naval general, and a few years later, Shi Lang shined, and Zheng Zhilong regretted it.