After hearing Zhou Ancheng's simple report, Lin Ziran said: "Is there a way to solve the problem of modifying the old Fuyuan musket?" And when will the production capacity of the South China Sea rifle and the production capacity of the rear-loading artillery be increased? ”

Zhou Ancheng said: "The modification of the old Fuyuan muskets, there is no way for the time being, the quality of the barrels of those old muskets is not up to par, and the forced modification is not usable, but we have begun to conduct large-scale testing of the Fuyuan smoothbore guns in service and inventory in various units, and strive to pick out more modifiable Fuyuan muskets, and we are also preparing to carry out a second modification of the previously modified Mini rifles, but even so, I am afraid that there will still be a shortage!" ”

Lin Ziran said: "In this case, then modify as much as you want, and increase the investment in the Luo'an Arsenal, the current output of one hundred per day is too low, and the output will be raised as soon as possible!" ”

Zhou Ancheng said: "I understand that equipment has been ordered through various channels, but it will take some time to increase the output!" ”

"We are also doing the same to increase the production capacity of the South China Sea rifle and rear-loading artillery, but it still takes time!"

After Lin Ziran heard this, his fingers once again habitually tapped on the table.

In terms of the current technical level and scale of Qingshan Machinery Factory and Luo'an Arsenal, it is actually very good to be able to achieve this level, and to be honest, it can also meet the current use of the Luo'an garrison.

But Lin Ziran's ambition is big!

He still hopes that his troops can be fully equipped with rear-loading rifles as soon as possible, preferably the improved South China Sea rifles, and at the same time, a certain number of rear-loading rifles must be reserved for the next expansion and operations.

As for rear-loading guns, the gap is even greater.

According to the current production capacity, after three months, only three field artillery battalions and one 150-mm howitzer battery will be obtained, which is far from enough, especially the production of 150-mm howitzers is too low.

Lin Ziran was prepared to use the 75-mm field gun as the main artillery of the division, and the 150-mm short-barreled howitzer as heavy support firepower.

If this is really calculated, the artillery regiments of the five divisions will need 280 75-mm breech-loading guns, and if the strategic reserves are added to replenish them in time in wartime, at least 300 guns will be needed.

With the current capacity, it will take at least fifteen months.

The demand for 150 mm howitzers is very important, Lin Ziran pondered, with the current scale of the Luo'an garrison, at least about 60 of these heavy howitzers are needed to completely replace the current smoothbore heavy guns, according to the current output of three per month, it will take 20 months.

So after a while, Lin Ziran said: "In this way, we will mobilize another one million expansion funds for the arsenal to increase the production of South China Sea rifles and rear-loading artillery as much as possible, especially the output of rear-loading artillery, the current after-loading production is still too low!" ”

After a meeting on the integration of the troops, the various matters for the integration of the troops for the next three months have basically been decided.

Next, the Luo'an garrison officially entered the stage of reorganization of the whole army, and during this period, it also began to rectify all kinds of chaotic militia groups, bandits, patrol battalions and other local legal or illegal armed forces throughout the county.

Following the example of the previous case in Lianguan County, the regular army began to eliminate bandits on a large scale, and at the same time cut down various guards and patrol battalions in various counties and towns.

Some of those who passed the quality test were directly transferred to patrol police, and those who were too poor were directly arranged to work in various factories, and as for not being directly dismissed, it was to prevent them from becoming unemployed vagrants and then evolving into new bandits.

As the so-called three fires for new officials to take office, Lin Ziran became the guard of Luo'an County, and the first fire was burned on all kinds of small and medium-sized armed forces in the chaos in Luo'an County.

From now on, there will be no second army in the entire Luoan County, except for the Luoan garrison.

No matter what kind of regular army or local militia it is, there will be no second one!

In this regard, Lin Ziran's attitude was very resolute, and even for others who were worried that after the local militia was gone, it would be easy to be attacked by bandits, Lin Ziran personally ordered all units of the garrison army to carry out a large-scale bandit clean-up operation in the whole county while stationing.

On the one hand, it is to eliminate bandits and protect the territory and the people, and on the other hand, it is to take this opportunity to practice various tactics.

This kind of low-intensity anti-bandit combat is very suitable for training in combat and enhancing the combat effectiveness of the troops.

In addition to ensuring the uniqueness of the armed forces, another purpose of eliminating local militia groups is to regain local financial power.

You must know that the militia groups in these places, except for a few that are funded and armed by local tyrants, most of them are actually armed by local governments.

The previous patrol battalion in Qingshan Town and the town guard in Sanyo Town are very obvious examples.

After the elimination of these local militias, a lot of money can be freed up for the military expenses of the regular army.

This is also one of Lin Ziran's specific measures in order to further consolidate the local financial rights of counties and towns.

And collecting the financial power of local counties and towns has also become the most important government affairs after Lin Ziran returned to Luo'an City, and it is also the first government affairs to be handled personally.

When Luo'an County was first taken before, because of the tense war, and even the government affairs team in Guan County had not been relocated, Lin Ziran at that time actually dragged down a lot of government affairs.

But now, it's late June, and it's been nearly two months since the county was taken, and it was also a complete unification of Luo'an County.

It's time to deal with the many government affairs of this huge Luo'an County.

So not long after the army reorganization meeting, Lin Ziran summoned his subordinate civilian officials and started his first government meeting after becoming the commander of Luo'an County.

On June 28, in the huge conference room of Linjiang Manor, the heads of various institutions in Luo'an County are now seated together.

Most of the chief officials of various institutions are people from the former county guard of Lianguan County, a small number of them are new officials who have recently joined the county, and some are officials from the original county guard office.

However, it is worth noting that the county guard of Lianguan County in Lin Ziran's era was actually not a pure county yamen, because at that time, it was also in charge of the six towns on the east bank of Lingchang and the six towns of Nan'an in the north.

Even the office of these people is not in Lianguan County, but in Sanyang Town.

Therefore, to be more precise, these people are the staff team under Lin Ziran, and they have nothing to do with the Lianguan County Yamen, but they are just names.

Among these people, it is naturally headed by Lin Ziran's henchman Ding Quankun.

And the rest of the people are from quite simple sources, some of them are the original officials in Lianguan County, and some are simply the original relations of Lingchang East Bank, Nan'an Six Towns and other places, basically they are civilian officials who defected to Lin Ziran in the early days, and the other part are officials in the army after they were transferred.

He didn't directly accept officials at all levels in the county guard mansion like Jian Minggang before, let alone the county guard officials, even if it was a local county and town official, Lin Ziran didn't intend to accept it originally.

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