An army of 3,000 people, the military salary alone costs tens of thousands of yuan every month, but fortunately, Chen Xian lacks everything at this time, that is, there is no shortage of copper coins.

broke the West Zhuangzi, and the other harvests were just down, and the harvest of this copper coin was really a lot.

The copper coin has always weighed about six or seven catties in a thousand pieces, and it weighed sixty or seventy thousand catties in ten thousand.

The copper coins left by the two families added up to eighty or ninety thousand yuan, of which half were high-grade copper coins.

Coupled with Chen Xian's own savings, the copper coins in his hand are 100,000 yuan, in addition to the salary, enough for Chen Xian to cast another twenty copper cannons.

After having a large number of recruits, Chen Xian completely broke up the original two battalions.

He selected 100 people from the scattered infantry to join the artillery company, expanded the original 300 artillery company to 400 people, and then divided it into two artillery companies.

After that, Chen Xiancai reorganized the remaining 2,400 people into four infantry battalions.

After the expansion and reorganization of the army was completed, Chen Xian transferred a part of the old militia to replace the regular army to garrison Xizhuangzi, liberated the regular army from daily affairs, and transferred all of them out of Xizhuangzi to enter the humble new barracks located in the southwest of Xizhuangzi, on the edge of the Yi River, and began a six-month intensive training.

In addition to the regular army, the new militia recruited by Xi Zhuangzi, as well as the new apprentices recruited by Xi Zhuangzi, will also accompany the regular army to train for three hours every morning.

In order to motivate the militiamen, Chen Xian built a large canteen outside the barracks and provided the militia with a free breakfast every day.

Chen Xian leveled more than 200 acres of high-quality farmland on the edge of the Yihe River and built a large school field for the training of the new army, apprentices, and militia.

Every day, there will be scouts from Tangjiazhuang or Laiwu County, or somewhere else, peeking at the training of Chen Xian's new army.

Chen Xian sent out one of the few hundred or so cavalry under his command to hunt down these scouts, which could be regarded as training.

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In order to break through the predicament, although Chen Xian focused most of his energy on the army, he could not put down the civil affairs because there was no one to replace him.

Because of the severance of trade routes, there was no source of coal and iron, and the products produced could not be sold, and most of Chen Xian's factories were suspended, which is why he dared to transfer a large number of workers.

Fortunately, Chen Xian was afraid of being cut off from the trade route a long time ago, and he was thinking about countermeasures in case the trade route was cut off, so he had been hoarding coal and iron.

After discovering that the trade routes had been cut off and that it would be difficult to reopen in the short term, Chen Xian first stopped the production of all cement factories, and also stopped the construction of the two new Zhuangzi near Dongzhuangzi, which had already been half underway, and at the same time stopped the production of most iron tools, retaining only a small part of the production capacity of muskets, armor, weapons, and heavy ploughshares.

In addition to coal and iron weapons, Chen Xian also hoarded a large amount of sulfur, and the production of fire and nitrate did not stop, but Chen Xian, the fuel for boiling nitrate, was changed to firewood.

The production of soap was also drastically cut, and the fuel was changed to firewood.

Chen Xian planned to invest all the coal saved in the refining of copper and the casting of copper cannons.

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Compared with the exhaustion of the industrial population, Chen Xian is much more cautious about the allocation of the agricultural population.

Chen Xian set up a new agricultural company in Xizhuangzi, and in order to facilitate management, Chen Xian exchanged 5,000 mu of land in Dongzhuangzi for the Li family's land in Xizhuangzi, and at the same time, through the method of replacement, the small number of yeoman farmers in Xizhuangzi were relocated to Dongzhuangzi.

In order to alleviate the resistance of the yeoman farmers in Xizhuangzi, Chen Xian even vacated part of the land and houses in Qingyazhuang, which had the best housing and land conditions.

Chen Xian assigned the newly built Bai family house to the Li family who had moved to Dongzhuangzi, and divided a whole piece of the original Bai family's land and distributed it to the Li family to replace their land and house in Xizhuangzi.

As for the Bai family......

In the process of receiving Baifu, a soldier brought Chen Xian something that surprised him and was what he expected.

It was a letter, and the letter was not signed, but judging from the content of the letter, it should have been written by one of Chen Xian's apprentices who had access to secrets, because the letter described in considerable detail the principle and power of the cannon, and some quite important experimental data.

This letter would appear in the Bai family's study, which naturally indicated that there was a traitor under Chen Xian's subordinates.

Chen Xian was not surprised by this, and he had long thought that gunpowder, artillery, muskets and other technologies would leak out sooner or later, but he never expected that this day would come so early.

With letters and notes, Chen Xian didn't spend much effort to find out the spies.

It was a young non-commissioned officer named Bai Yuanliang, who had already been promoted to squad leader in this expansion at this time.

After some hesitation, Chen Xian handed over the people and letters to the Xizhuangzi Police Station and the court, which had just been established by him as a backbone.

The police station found out Bai Yuanliang's father and brother who participated in Bai Yuanliang's case as quickly as possible, the head of the Bai family in Dongzhuangzi, and the steward, a total of more than ten people.

In the spirit of simple hatred for traitors and the contempt for life of the people of this era, the court not only sentenced all those involved in the case to be beheaded, but also the families and relatives of the two families.

In the end, Chen Xian couldn't stand it anymore and corrected the court's joint verdict.

What Chen Xian didn't expect was that his intervention actually won the gratitude of Bai Yuanliang's family, and even Bai Bingwen's father and son, which surprised him very much.

In the end, in Bai Yuanliang's confession and Bai Bingwen's thanksgiving, more than ten people involved in the case were all hanged on the spot, and the Bai family's property was confiscated, and the house originally built for the Bai family was naturally confiscated.

In order to prevent the Bai family from holding grudges, Chen Xian split up all the Dong Zhuangzi Bai family clans and dispersed them into the five large and small Zhuangzi that he had at this time.

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During the construction of the administrative structure of Xi Zhuangzi, Chen Xian was still centered on the central school of the town, and dozens of teachers of the school also served as the governor of the West Zhuangzi Metropolitan Government.

This has invisibly raised the image of the metropolitan officials.

The mayor of the town, the president of the court, the chief prosecutor and other important positions are appointed by Chen Xian, and then the mayor of the town appoints the chief of taxation, the finance bureau is in the town, the deputy director of public security of the police station is appointed by the mayor of the town, and the chief of the police department who is also the deputy director of criminal investigation is appointed by the chief prosecutor.

Next, the Commissioner of Taxation, the Commissioner of Finance, and the two Deputy Directors of the Police Department recruit and appoint their own staff......

The town governor is only responsible for supervising a limited number of highest-ranking officials, such as the mayor of the town, the president of the court, and the chief prosecutor, and the governor has no authority over the specific affairs of the following officials......