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Back at the barracks, Mo Yuanwei, Miao Heguang, Nangong Qiang and others were already waiting.

This is the barracks left by Xia Bomin's old fourth battalion, and it is also on the east bank of the Qinjiang River, not far from Mo Yuanwei's thousand households, but Mo Yuanwei's subordinates are almost all scattered and stationed in the following counties and important towns as "police", and now he is almost a thousand households, and there are only about 100 people left around.

This time, Lin Xiao brought a reconnaissance battalion, a guard company (missing a platoon, led by Qin Shuya to guard the Baisha Island base), a special operations team, and the only remaining machine gun company in Duan Zhenghong's hands, a total of more than 900 people were all camped in these two barracks.

At the beginning, Xia Bomin left a main company and a baggage platoon here, mainly to guard against the Qing army in the direction of Beihai County, as well as to guard the grain warehouse.

Although Beihai has now been recovered, this company is still responsible for maintaining law and order here, and the baggage platoon is still left to guard the material warehouse by the Dalan River in the west of the city.

When the army was reorganized, Xia Bomin's family had a great cause, and Lin Xiao assigned his soldiers to Li Hanzhi, which was an important material transfer station on land, and also set up several factories.

Unexpectedly, Yu Gui also came, he mainly came to visit Yu Cheng, these two brothers naturally had something to say after a long absence, Lin Xiao signaled Yu Cheng to invite Nangong Qiang and Yu Gui to sit next door to the command first.

Mo Yuanwei was very happy to see his old friend Yu Cheng, but he was also faintly disappointed, now Yu Cheng has become the squadron leader, although there are only a few dozen people under him, but Mo Yuanwei knows that those are extremely powerful soldiers, as long as he follows Lin Xiao to fight in the east, the future is naturally limitless.

Not to mention anything else, just looking at Yu Cheng's equipment draped all over his body made Mo Yuanwei greedy.

Although he is a thousand-household, he can be regarded as a serious military attache from the fifth grade, but he still manages more than 1,000 old soldiers, and he is only worthy of doing some miscellaneous work such as banditry, public security, transportation, etc., and he is a scum when he really fights.

Lin Xiao sent someone to find the garrison company commander, accompanied Mo Yuanwei and Miao Heguang to drink tea together, chatted casually for a while about military and political chores, and then turned the topic to the things that Lu Hua mentioned to him during the day.

"Recently, what public security incidents have occurred in Qinzhou City and surrounding towns?"

Lin Xiao asked casually.

This matter is the duty of the prefect's yamen, and Miao Heguang's general judgment and arrest in various places are eating this bowl of rice, so this question is answered by Miao Heguang.

As a result, according to Miao Heguang's statistics, as Lu Hua said, in less than two months, there were more than 10 cases of street fires, burglary and robbery, and the disappearance or murder of township officials.

These cases, although each movement is not too big, but also affect the stability of people's hearts to a certain extent, so that Lu Hua, who is in the academy, is shocked.

"In your opinion, what kind of people did these things do?"

Lin Xiao touched his chin and said playfully.

"Back to the Hou Ye, judging from the various signs found during the investigation of the arrest under the subordinate officials, some of them seem to be done by mountain bandits, which are nothing more than some acts of seeking wealth or revenge,"

Miao Heguang looked at Mo Yuanwei and wondered, "However, cases such as the disappearance of officials and even the killing of the chief of the armor are not likely to be committed by mountain bandits...... There are a few missing people who have no blood enemies, and no one has come forward to extort money, according to the lower officials, it seems that someone did it intentionally. ”

Lin Xiao nodded slightly and didn't answer, just turned his gaze to Mo Yuanwei.

Although this matter should have been under the control of the prefect's yamen, but now there is no Qing army around, Lin Xiao has already set the responsibility of public security for Mo Yuanwei's officers and soldiers, so the bandits on the mountain still dare to enter the city to commit crimes, and Mo Yuanwei can't get out of it.

Seeing this, Mo Yuanwei sneered: "Master Hou, the mountains between Qinzhou and Lingshan have been swept through all villages and towns, and there is no major banditry in that area, but ...... From Qinzhou to the west to the Siming Mansion, there are 100,000 mountains, which have been sparsely populated and flooded with bandits since ancient times. ”

"This matter, I will inform Battalion Commander Li when I turn around, you can prepare to work with him to suppress bandits again," Lin Xiao frowned and said slowly, "This is our base camp, how can we sit back and watch the frequent harassment of small groups of mountain bandits, and we must ensure that the peace is stable." ”

Although Lin Xiao, as a general ordered by the imperial court, was ordered to open a shogunate in Qinzhou, and had the right to control all local military and political affairs, Mo Yuanwei and Miao Heguang were not his direct subordinates after all, so they still had to save a little face.

There was nothing polite to the company commander under him, Lin Xiao turned his head and said to him in a deep voice: "Your subordinates are all veterans, and the firearms and armaments are also first-class, can't you prevent a few bandits?" Give me some energy, starting tomorrow night, your people will patrol in shifts all night, and special personnel will be sent to guard key areas such as government offices, schools, and factories. ”

"Yes! Commander! ”

The company commander's face was slightly red, and he hurriedly got up and saluted, and answered loudly.

"Also, what Master Miao said just now is very reasonable, I am worried that there are indeed traitors sent by the Tartars who have infiltrated all parts of Guangxi...... If this is the case, they will inevitably make some moves, this is your chance, you have to use your brains more, think more about how to find clues, and strive to invite you into the urn, all in one net. ”

Lu Hua's words during the day reminded Lin Xiao of the Nanning arson case, and the suspicious swordsman who was killed next to Sun Kewang made Lin Xiao faintly worried, and he always felt that the Qing court really sent a group of ill-intentioned internal responses to this side.

"Yes! Mission completion guaranteed! ”

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After sending these people away, Lin Xiao invited Nangong Qiang and Yu Gui over, and sat down again to taste tea.

Nangong Qiang brought all the good news, his first batch of military uniform production has been successfully completed, just waiting for Lin Xiao to accept and issue, after getting the news of Lin Xiao's arrival, he brought a few sets of samples of military uniforms and quilts, and rushed over overnight.

Lin Xiao took the military uniform handed over by Nangong Qiang's entourage, and after a closer look, he found that the fabric was quite strong, the workmanship stitches were also very dense, and the shoes, hats, leggings, armed belts, etc. were also readily available, and immediately called Zhang Chenfeng and Duan Zhenghong in to try on the military uniforms.

When the two of them walked in next door after spending the boss's effort to change their costumes and stop and walk in, Lin Xiao's eyes lit up, and a sense of intimacy arose in his heart.

But after a closer look, I always feel that something is wrong?

Lin Xiao blinked and looked at it, it turned out that although the style of the military hats worn by these two people had not changed, they were obviously much taller than the military hats of the Eighth Route Army, so they looked a little awkward.

"Bun ......" Zhang Chenfeng pointed to his head when he saw this, and whispered.

Lin Xiao suddenly smiled self-deprecatingly when he heard this, why didn't he think of this stubble in the first place.

It seems that the owner of this Nangong Village is a caring person, and he must have called someone to try it out during the trial production, so he made some modifications to the pattern given by Lin Xiao.

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