Combined with the above various population sources, according to the statistics of the Ministry of Households, by the end of the third year of Long Dao, the actual registered population under the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Governor's Office was:

Civilians and above, less than two million;

The common people, including those who had just been promoted from slavery and those who had come to serve in Goryeo, totaled about 200,000 people.

Slaves, including various Tartars newly captured from Liaodong and Jinghu Dongman, sent by Xu Shiliu, totaled 400,000 people.

The total population of all classes is 2.6 million.

Qi and Hebei provinces have always been the most populous provinces in China, and now the total population is only 2.6 million, and even if the population of Hebei Province is added to those who have not yet been registered as Qi people, it will not exceed 3 million.

However, for the Governor's Office, there was no problem in feeding the 100,000 standing army of this population - no more than 4 percent of the total population, and for a gradually modernizing regime, it would have little impact on the production and life of the people.

In other words, the standing strength of the Qi army can be expanded by two and a half times on the existing basis.

The specific expansion plan is:

At present, 10 brigades of the new army have been expanded into division-level units, and each division has two brigades, and each brigade still has the original establishment of 3,000 personnel.

In addition to the two brigades, each division is organized into a division headquarters that includes a divisional staff organization, a guard unit, a signal unit (including drummers and heralds), a cooking unit, and a medical unit, and a division is a ten-pound field artillery battalion; A company of gendarmerie and a company of engineers.

Each infantry division has a strength of 7,000 men and 48 field guns of four to ten pounds.

In terms of cavalry, the cuirassiers with men and horses maintained ten companies, but the number of chasseurs and dragoons increased to thirty each, and ten companies of flying artillery, for a total of eighty independent cavalry companies with 8,000 men.

In terms of artillery, the army maintained a separate battalion of siege heavy artillery, and at the same time formed eight independent artillery companies directly under the command of the new army, each company was equipped with eight newly produced six-pound bronze guns.

Xu Shiyang's Chinese Guard, officially named the Zhiwei Army, consisted of six infantry companies, two artillery companies, and two light cavalry companies.

The official field force of the new army has a strength of 80,000 men, in addition to the usual two cold-weapon units, the Blue Army Brigade and the Trap Brigade, which have been expanded to 3,000 men each.

The Army Recruit Training Camp system will be abolished, and all recruits who will be recruited into the Army in the future will be trained by all receiving units.

In this way, the total strength of the Qi army can reach 86,000 people.

On the naval side, several shipyards such as Lushun and Dengzhou began to try to build new sail warships.

This kind of ship was designed exactly according to Xu Shiyang's requirements:

The ship as a whole is very different from the traditional Chinese sailing ship, but it is closer to the modern Western fast sailing ship, but unlike the early Western warships, this new type of ship has no bow and stern, and the deck architecture is very simple, and the center of gravity is very low.

With an aspect ratio of more than 4:1 and twin masts, the displacement is around 200 tons, which is roughly the same as that of a medium-sized Fuku, but with faster speed and more agile steering.

This kind of ship is a special warship, with a gun bay below the deck, equipped with 8 10-pound cannons, and 8 god machine guns are installed on the deck for anti-docking.

Each new warship has a crew of 80 people, and a total of 10 ships will be built in the first phase.

With the addition of the original naval ships, marines and naval heavy artillery units, the total strength of the Qi Navy will be expanded to 8,000 people.

In addition to the navy and army, Xu Shiyang planned to establish a military academy directly subordinate to the Ministry of War.

The military academy system consists of the Cadet Soldier School, the Navy and Army College, and the Navy and Army University.

The cadet academy is mainly composed of orphans who lost their parents during the war, supplemented by a small number of children who are willing to enroll in school, male or female, as long as they are Han Chinese, they can be enrolled, and in essence it is both a junior military school and an orphanage.

The nature of this kind of school is closer to the orphanage system implemented by one of the founders of the Red Haired Son of another plane, "Felix of Steel", Xu Shiyang is both the adoptive father and their mentor of the students, and the students who come out of these schools will surely become Xu Shiyang's staunchest supporters in the future.

At present, the army academy will include engineering, artillery, cavalry, and infantry, while the navy will have two subjects: navigation and ship technology.

The trainees are mainly veterans with a certain military foundation, as well as applicants who have better academic performance in new-style schools (including junior military schools).

After graduation, they will serve in the corresponding units as middle and lower-ranking officers or sergeants.

The Navy and Army University will be the highest military academy of the Qi Army, mainly to train senior officers of the Navy and Army, and the cadets are mainly those with better grades in junior colleges or middle and lower-level officers on active duty who will be able to obtain higher military ranks after graduation.

In this case, the total number of active troops of the Qi army will reach 94,000, and the cadets of military academies will be counted separately.

In terms of the military service system, Xu Shiyang planned to roughly copy the Prussia of the previous life, requiring all male civilians and citizens over the age of 18 in Qi Province to serve in the military, and all soldiers below the rank of professional non-commissioned officer served for five years, and retired and converted to reserve after five years until the age of 45.

For women, there is a system of voluntary military service, and adult women over the age of 18 can volunteer for the same period of five years, and women who have served in the military are also transferred to the reserve.

Veterans who have been turned into the reserve are assigned post-retirement jobs by the Ministry of War - if they do not want to return home to farm, they will become one of the main sources of junior officials under the Governor's Office.

The most disturbing aspect of this military service system was the five-year retirement system – six years after the formation of the new army!

That is to say, while expanding the army, theoretically there are many veterans who have reached the service period and can be retired!

Of course, Xu Shiyang also thought of this, but he had a way to avoid this problem for the time being, and that was to raise the rank of soldiers who had completed their five-year service.

Five or six years ago, the size of the field army was only a few thousand people, some of them had already died, and some of them were disabled and retired, and other veterans who had served for so long could always accumulate some merits, and it was not too much to take advantage of the opportunity of the great expansion of the army to raise their ranks, so that they could postpone the postponement.

If some people are fed up with war life and would rather retire without promotion, then there is no need to break their hearts, there are certainly not many such people, retire and retire.

What's more, these people can also prove to the world that the Metropolitan Governor's Office is honest in doing what it says - when it is fighting for the world, it allows veterans with combat effectiveness to retire with honor and go home to live a stable life, which is unprecedented in this kind of policy.

The issue of the military system was thus decided, and when Xu Shiyang submitted this proposal, he had already reached an agreement in the Ministry of War, and with his status, with the support of the metropolitan governor, he could directly implement it.

However, Xu Shiyang still plans to present this report at this year's regular meeting of the Metropolitan Governor's Office, and strive for the support of as many delegates as possible - this is not only a kind of procedural justice, but also a necessary process.

Because the military service system involves all aspects of Qi Province, it requires the full cooperation of the majority of people in order to implement it smoothly.

What's more, the troop cannot be formed after the expansion of recruitment, and in addition to the strength of troops, it also involves the more troublesome issue of military spending.