Since September last year, the construction of the eastern part of Sinanseong has begun, and as in the past, the pier was repaired first.

At that time, Xiao Pingguo led the labor force of the naturalization camp to build four small wooden wharves on both sides of the Xin'an River in one go, and then built a naturalization village near the small wharf on the east bank to house the male and female labor force in the naturalization camp.

Immediately afterwards, he began to build the road in the eastern district, and wherever the wooden fence wall on Brother Hou's side was repaired, he repaired the road along the inner side of the wall.

At the same time, a 20-meter-wide gravel road leading to the west gate of Dili City will be built to turn into a concrete pavement after the cement plant in Si'an City is put into operation.

At present, there are four naturalization camps and one naturalization village in Sinan, with more than 4,100 men and women who were brought to Sin'an by the slave trader Lefik from the Indian subcontinent, the Arabian Peninsula and East Africa.

As a result, the personnel structure of the camps and villages was complex, with people of all colors and ethnicities---- from black captives from the tribal wars of the East African jungle, persecuted and marginalized heretics from the Arabian Peninsula, many untouchables from India, and even Gypsies and Jews from Eastern Europe, the Near East, and the Middle East.

Among them were down-and-out pirates, bankrupt peasants and small craftsmen, and those who had been reduced to debt slavery for various reasons, and of course many fugitives and fugitives were among them.

In short, the naturalization camp and naturalization village in Xin'an City are a melting pot of the world's ethnic groups, where people of all kinds of religions and nine streams are all-encompassing, and there are no surprises.

For Xiao Pingguo and Wei Hong, this group of people is not only a treasure trove of labor, but also a treasure trove of talents, and they gladly accepted the strong advice of their friends in the Huotang Club to select fighters from this group of people.

So since the first half of last year, Wei Hong has openly recruited soldiers from the garrison among these people.

As a result, the composition of the Sinseong garrison has changed significantly.

At present, the garrison has a total of 1,873 guns, of which 1,263 soldiers are from the naturalization battalion, and the former Han and Japanese ronin soldiers have basically grown into the commanders of the platoon and the military backbone of the training battalion.

For the trade laborers of the Naturalized Battalion and Naturalized Village, as long as they have passed the medical examination, are in good health, and have no obvious physical defects, they may become a recruit in the garrison.

Wei Hong first incorporated these recruits into the boot training camp, and then began to train these people in severe physical fitness and military elimination.

Therefore, for the recruits who have just left the naturalization camp and entered the training camp, the army has very strict control over people, and the intensity of labor and training on weekdays is very harsh, and many of them will quit after less than a week in the training camp, so the personnel turnover of the recruit training camp is very large.

Fortunately, every few months, hundreds of fresh blood will enter the naturalization camp, so although the attrition rate is a bit high, there are often new recruits coming in here, and a dynamic balance is basically maintained.

In fact, less than half of the people will eventually insist that it will be three months later---- at which time they will be put on a formal garrison uniform, assigned to a squad platoon, become a full-fledged garrison soldier, and receive a second-class private salary of one or two and a half cents of silver per month---- free of charge.

Obviously, with the promotion of military ranks, the soldiers who have survived will receive rich rewards, first of all, soon, as long as there are no major mistakes, the second class will be promoted to the first class, then the military salary every month is more than that earned in the naturalization camp, and on weekdays, they eat well, live better than the naturalization camp, and are also issued with uniforms.

The most important thing is that serving in the garrison can get the treatment of "points settlement" in advance, and it is obviously more beneficial than those who have a career future in life as an ordinary trade labor force in the naturalization camp, if they have made war achievements during the service, they will continue to be promoted to the rank of Taoist officer and shorten ----the time of "points settlement", there are so many benefits, and there are many people who sign up.

Of course, there's another attraction – the garrison is completely oblivious to the origins of these soldiers, and the officer in charge of recruiting them doesn't care about anything other than your age and physical condition, and even your name can be resigned to random nonsense.

Obviously, this point is very attractive to many people who have "ex-convictions", here I don't ask about the past of soldiers, only require that from now on, you must strictly follow the requirements of the garrison to do training, and you must strictly follow the military discipline of soldiers, for many people, this is equivalent to giving you a chance to be a new person.

Therefore, in the garrison, there are indeed many fugitive criminals, pirates, bandits, and people who can't get along in their hometown for various reasons, and Wei Hong knows this.

However, the brothers didn't care about this, they thought that the army was a melting pot, and these people would eventually integrate into the collective and grow into combat-ready soldiers.

They also believe that these people will not become an unstable factor in the army, men, through getting along day and night and running in life and death, the friendship between comrades-in-arms will exceed the strongest feelings in the world, and even stronger than the feelings between husband and wife.

For this reason, Wei Hong often hangs on his lips a sentence: The love between men and women is just for the sake of inheritance, and the love between people of the same sex is true love......

Well, hearing Wei Hong's words, the friends of the Huotang Club all thought that now that Wei Hong had grown up, he was no longer the young high school student who was less than eighteen years old when he just crossed over to the new world.

Wei Hong also firmly believes that relying on superior material treatment, promotion prospects, a sense of honor and belonging, coupled with strict training, the vast majority of them can become excellent soldiers.

For this reason, Wei Hong also set up a wooden drum at the gate of the barracks, anyone, if you can't stand the harsh training of the garrison, can't stand the strict discipline, you can go there at any time to beat the wooden drum, and then an officer will take you out of the barracks and send you back to the camp, becoming an ordinary "trade laborer", of course, if you do this, you will never have anything to do with the barracks from now on.

Facts have proved that Wei Hong's ideas and practices have achieved quite good results, and the soldiers of the garrison are treated equally in the army, no matter who they were in the past or what their status is, and here, only the military discipline, honor, and training achievements of the soldiers are the evaluation criteria, and nothing else.

As Wei Hong emphasized when he gave a recruit training to the new recruits: In this collective, your value is judged only by the level of your character and military skills, not by the color of your skin and your past identity.

It is precisely because of this that the Xin'an Cheng Garrison, later known as the Second Brigade of the Federal Army, became a powerful force in the Australian Federal Army, and these young people from all over the world were finally gathered under Wei Hong and became excellent soldiers in this armed force.

Of course, in fact, all these practices are not entirely Wei Hong's idea alone, after all, he has a large number of military enthusiasts in the Huotang Club behind him to give him advice, although most of them are on paper, and some are still bad ideas, but Wei Hong is very studious and hard-working, and finally made his Xin'an Garrison grow into a powerful force - the "Foreign Legion" of the Federal Army, known as the "No. 1 in combat power".

When the telegram from Macao about the Leizhou Peninsula reached Xin'an City for the first time, Wei Hong was very excited, even if he thought about it with his toes, he knew that his garrison would play a key role in transporting immigrants this time, and maybe he could even fight with the Tartars.

Since Wei Hong led the garrison to defeat the attack of the natives under the wooden walls of Xin'an Fortress at the beginning of last year, every time he heard that there might be a fight, he would have a feeling of unbearable skill.

In fact, this is not only the case for Wei Hong, but also for all the officers and men of the Xin'an City Garrison, who have been training for a long time.