Chapter 207: Enterprise Reform, Cavalry Reform, Cavalry Expansion

After this rectification, Chen Xian sorted out all the factories under his command.

In addition to privatizing a part of the cement factory and forging plant, he directly rewarded the meritorious soldiers. The remaining companies that have not been privatized have also paid dividends of 5 to 15 percent to the new management after the rectification.

Among them, those who received 15% dividends were the old management who operated the factory better, and those who got 5% dividends were the old management who were too corrupt and corrupted, and all of them were dismissed and replaced by new management.

In order to effectively supervise state-owned factories, Chen Xian handed over the responsibility of supervising factories to local governments.

He gave a portion of the shares of these factories to the local government, which was responsible for the operation of the enterprises while enjoying the financial income brought by the shares, and the quality of the enterprises was also included in their promotion evaluations.

In this way, the shares of the state-owned factory were divided into three parts, one in the hands of the factory management, one in the hands of the local government, and one and the largest one still in the hands of Chen Xian.

Chen Xian's Hou Mansion will send representatives, together with representatives from the local government, to form a state-run board of supervisors to supervise the company's operation and accounts.

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After completing the pension, Chen Xian was busy with the military and factory reform, and at the same time began a new round of military expansion.

First of all, Chen Xian abolished the establishment of all-round cavalry and transferred all of them to the commando cavalry sequence, and the auxiliary cavalry in the all-round cavalry was transferred to the horse infantry sequence.

Next, Chen Xian made a major decision, he wanted to transform the Turquoise cavalry into cuirassiers, which meant that he had to remove the many armors on the Troopers, only the cuirass and the steel helmet with high roofs and eaves, and more importantly, he wanted to remove the main weapon in the hands of the Troopers, the spear!

This decision was opposed by Yang Miaozhen and most of the cavalry generals, who could not imagine how the cavalry could fight without spears.

To convince this group of cavalry generals, Chen Xian knew that he had to convince Yang Miaozhen first.

Yang Miaozhen has almost the same prestige as Chen Xian among the cavalry, if Chen Xian and Yang Miaozhen insist on one thing at the same time, then the other cavalry generals will implement it even if they oppose it, but if Yang Miaozhen and the cavalry generals are unanimously opposed, then even Chen Xian will be difficult to forcibly implement.

"First of all, the Mongolian cavalry, do not like to use spears, in the Mongolian cavalry, even heavy cavalry, but also mostly use scimitars and iron bones, in the cavalry's melee hand-to-hand combat, the spear is not flexible enough, in the hedge between the two sides, the length of the spear, at most can only fight for less than a blink of an eye, the significance is not great, the spear for the cavalry, mainly for the infantry to stand in formation, and our cavalry, there is no need to deal with the infantry at all, there is enough infantry, our cavalry is to deal with the cavalry!"

"Secondly, you can also see from this battle, our cavalry, the main enemy in the future is the Mongolian light cavalry, you can see their strength very clearly, to deal with such light cavalry, we need a highly flexible shock cavalry, when dealing with this flexible archer cavalry, the impact cavalry is holding a two-foot spear in his hand and holding a three-foot stabbing sword, there is not much difference, and the stabbing sword can also reduce the weight of some war horses."

"It is difficult for a cavalryman to stab an apple hanging in the air with a Zhanger cavalry spear, but it is easier to do this with a three-foot-long bayonet sword, although the attack range of the bayonet sword is shorter, its attack accuracy will be greatly improved."

"For hand-to-hand combat, even cavalrymen armed with spears must be equipped with scimitars or bayonets, and they need to learn not only the use of carbines, but also the use of scimitars or bayonets, and if we abandon the spears, we can train more cavalry faster."

"If it takes only three hours to train a good lancer, then it only takes two years to train a cuirassier who only uses a scimitar or a bayonet, which can save one-third of the time cost."

After a long conversation all night, Chen Xian finally persuaded Yang Miaozhen to give it a try.

The more good a person is, the more difficult it is to persuade with words, and it is difficult for you to use words to influence the thoughts of a smart person.

As the officers and officials under his command grew up, Chen Xian found that they were less and less excited and blind by Chen Xian's words, and they began to have their own will, and today, Chen Xian felt that even if he died immediately, the force he had established would grow and go on with his own will......

Although it was not yet possible to decide whether to abandon the spear, the recruitment of cavalry could not be stopped.

Chen Xian selected a group of the best soldiers from the horse infantry and added them to the cavalry, this time he wanted to expand the cavalry, that is, the future cuirassiers, to thirty-two cavalry battalions, eight cavalry regiments, and two cavalry brigades, a total of 13,000 people!

The remaining horse infantry picked by the cuirassiers will mostly be converted to light cavalry.

The new light cavalry will change its name and will be called the Chasseur.

The difference between the chassars and the light cavalry is that the light cavalry is mainly positioned as an auxiliary cavalry for reconnaissance, pursuit, and food collection, while the chassars can not only do the things of ordinary light cavalry, but they can also be used as horse musketeers, and can be arranged in a relatively dense linear queue for shooting.

In fact, in the previous battle, Chen Xian had the horse infantry line up behind the artillery, fire a salvo at the cavalry attacking the artillery array, and arrange them in a column to meet the cavalry, which was actually the tactics of the chasers.

The Chasseurs were armed with lighter flintlock pistols, lightweight scimitars, and reduced armor to lightweight cuirasses and large brimmed helmets.

The so-called light cuirass is to keep the front half of the cuirass, and the second half is replaced with leather, and the large eaves light helmet is to remove the high roof of the cuirassier cavalry, leaving only the eaves to defend against arrows.

Light cuirasses and lightweight helmets with large brims were not only simpler, but also less thick, with cuirassiers' cuirasses generally being more than two millimeters thick, and light cuirasses and helmets being between one and two millimeters thick.

In addition, the establishment of the chasers will also be changed to the same as the infantry, with more than 200 people in a company, more than 900 people in a battalion, and 4,000 people in a regiment.

After this war, Chen Xian's assault cavalry and all-round cavalry lost more than half, even if there were many wounded soldiers who returned to the team in the follow-up, there were only 5,000 people left in the end, and these 5,000 people were replenished with 8,000 elite horse infantry, and 13,000 people were gathered to form two cavalry brigades, and Yang Miaozhen served as the brigade commander of the first cavalry brigade.

The commander of the Second Brigade was Yang Dingguo, the commander of the original First Regiment of the Shock Cavalry.

The remaining half-horse infantry brigade would be combined with the remaining hussars to form a four-regiment chasseur brigade of 16,000 men.

The brigade commander of this cavalry brigade will be Bai Sheng, the commander of the original 1st Horse Infantry Brigade, as the brigade commander, and Lei Wei, the commander of the light cavalry regiment, as the deputy brigade commander.

This chaser brigade and two assault cavalry brigades together formed Chen Xian's First Cavalry Division, with Yang Miaozhen as the division commander, and she became the supreme commander of the cavalry under Chen Xian.

The last remaining 1,000 men of the horse infantry will be used as instructors and tinder to re-establish and train two new horse infantry brigades.

Next, Chen Xian transferred eight regiments from the six infantry brigades and reorganized them into the new First and Second Horse Infantry Brigades, which were also full brigades of four regiments, with a number of 32,000 men.

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