Chapter 211: New Personnel Arrangements

According to Xu Shiyang's new regulations, each recruit soldier needs to undergo 15 days of special training in a separate recruit camp (the time is tight as the big war approaches, and Xu Shiyang has no choice but to shorten the training time of the recruit camp).

After that, if the recruit can pass the simple assessment and does not make a major mistake during the boot camp, once the recruit is assigned to the field army, his family can immediately get ten acres of land, and the recruit without a family member will be replaced with ten acres of land vouchers.

There is no longer a time limit for the redemption of land vouchers, and the holder can exchange the land for Xu Shiyang at any time, or sell it as land to others.

This is actually a currency guaranteed by Xu Shiyang, and the advantage is that most soldiers who have no relatives (and even many people who have relatives but have no families) may not exchange the land vouchers in their hands for land or sell them for other things for the time being, but accumulate them to prepare for starting a family in the future, so that the land vouchers can be overissued.

In this way, Xu Shiyang can spend only a small amount of land and obtain greater results.

The treatment of the new army did not stop there, and all soldiers, regardless of the branch, were rewarded with an additional two acres of land for each year of service.

If you receive an award for meritorious service during your service, receive a medal, be promoted, etc., there is also an additional land award.

In this way, a soldier of the new army who served in the army for five years could receive at least twenty acres of land.

If you can serve in the team for ten years and become a real veteran, then even if you don't make any merits and get any promotion, you can get at least thirty acres of land.

This is a field entirely at the disposal of the soldiers themselves!

As soon as the news came out, the whole army was excited, in this era when almost all yeoman farmers in Jiangbei had become serfs, a field that could live in peace was worth the blood and sacrifice of everyone!

In order to cooperate with this de facto system of granting land for military merits, Xu Shiyang introduced a new field tax policy - all fields obtained due to military merits will be taxed at a rate of 1 in 10, and no additional taxes such as floating income, endowment, and additional levy will be levied.

The land distributed is based on the mature land of medium fertility, and the best watered land is given at 8 percent, the lower field is calculated at 1.5 times, and if it is wasteland, it can be paid at 2 times.

Moreover, Arada enjoys the preferential policy of three exemptions and two halves as usual.

This kind of treatment, as soon as it was announced, instantly made the people of the entire Qingzhou extremely hot, and the sturdy men who came to the gate of the new army to wait for the conscription were discharged several miles of land in a few days, including not only the people of the original core territory of Juzhou Rizhao, but also the newly conquered Wubao people in the north of Qingzhou, and even some bandits who escaped from the mountains and men who heard the news and rushed over from Laizhou, Dengzhou, Yanzhou, Quanchengfu and other places.

On the contrary, those new Dock Fort residents were probably watched by the Dock Fort Owners, and there were very few people who actually came, and some of them were fugitives.

Now, all these soldiers who come to join the army have only one thought - to become a new army, sell their lives for the Xu family for a few years, earn a share ......of their own land, and marry a mother-in-law to live a good life.

Xu Shiyang is not ready to continue to expand the structure of the new army for the time being—if the soldiers only want to be soldiers, eat food and divide the fields, then the new army is still just an old-style feudal army, which would go against his original intention of forming a new army.

What's more, my father didn't care about the several new battalions he formed before, but he hasn't been able to digest them yet, and his combat effectiveness is still a lot worse than the old battalion.

This issue must be addressed.

After Xu Shiyang took over the new army again, in order to improve the combat effectiveness of the newly formed two battalions of Jiyuan and Weiyuan, Xu Shiyang had to transfer 20 veterans from each of the original five infantry battalions to exchange them with the recruits of Jiyuan and Weiyuan in the same proportion.

He promoted all the veterans to sergeants, hoping that when they arrived in the new unit, they would be able to lead the troops' training work to the right track quickly.

At the same time, Xu Shiyang changed the guard of the officers above the rank of captain in the new army, and also promoted some newcomers who had previously performed well.

Now, the battalion officers of the Forces nouvelles are:

Dingyuan Camp: still led by Xu Shiyang;

Zhenyuan Camp: The newly promoted Xu Da replaced the original Gongsun Sheng;

Jingyuan Camp: Gongsun Sheng replaced the original head of the Changfang family, Wang Yong;

Come to Yuanying: The newly promoted Xie Zhen replaces the original Xu Shisong;

Pingyuan Camp: Xu Shisong replaced the original Zhang Ye (Xu Muhe's brother-in-law);

Jiyuan Camp: It is managed by Xu Shibai, who was originally in charge of the county seat of Juzhou;

Weiyuan Camp: taken over by Zhang Ye;

Zhiyuan Battalion: Replaced with the original mounted infantry battalion commander Sun Li;

Jingyuan Battalion: Replaced by the original regular cavalry battalion commander Luan Tingyu.

Re-enabling Xu Shibai is Xu Muhe's meaning, according to his father, if he can be re-enabled, Xu Mujiang will agree to come out to help the new Qingzhou do some work according to the meaning of the second room, and by the way, he will be a card.

At the same time, Xu Muhe will also support Xu Shiyang's reform and distribution plan for land.

This can be regarded as some kind of political exchange, Xu Mujiang is a jinshi after all, if he is always under house arrest, it may have a bad impact on his future dealings with Jiangnan - before Xu Shiyang came back, some officials of the main battle faction had already asked about Xu Mujiang's current situation.

Zhang Mingyi also hinted that some people in the main battle faction wanted to support Xu Mujiang's forces and balance Xu Shiyang.

Jiangnan's material support, whether it is for the long house or the second room, as long as he arrives at the Xu family, Xu Shiyang does not want to let go, so the apparent peace with the long house must be maintained.

It's just that there is such a thing as military power, which is acceptable for Xu Shizhen to be a battalion commander, but the real command power cannot be allowed!

Therefore, the deputy commander of the Jiyuan battalion is served by Xie Bao, a trusted old subordinate, which can be regarded as a means to check and balance Xu Shizhen.

On the other hand, in order to avoid the formation of a warlord mountain, Xu Shiyang asked all the changing guards, and the personal soldiers were not allowed to take them away, and all of them took office alone!

After they arrived at their new posts, all the original personal soldiers were sent to the front-line troops to serve as non-commissioned officers at the grassroots level.

Although this does not completely guarantee the elimination of mountaineering (it is not possible to completely eliminate it at all), it can delay the development of mountaineering as much as possible.

Whether it is the original long house, or the hill that may appear inside the two-room system in the future.

Of course, the construction of the army cannot only be used in this aspect, and for Xu Shiyang, what is more important is actually the new barracks that will be formed.

Xu Shiyang planned to select about 1,000 of the Ding Zhuang who came to take refuge, and then select 100 veterans from each old battalion to form an instructor group, and first set up the shelves of the new battalion.

The chief officer of the new barracks, Xu Shiyang plans to send Xu Er to take the lead.

This young man is very clever, and he is from Xu Shiyang's first batch of pro-soldiers, and he has also participated in every battle of Xu Shiyang, and there is no problem with his merits.

It's just that Xu Shiyang feels that there is still a small problem that needs to be solved before sending him out to take charge of himself.

"Xu Er." Xu Shiyang called the 19-year-old veteran and asked curiously, "What was your name before you came to me?" ”