The next day, the big households in the county town consciously took their subordinates to the tax bureau that had just been established to pay taxes.

The wealthy and powerful households are very conscious of paying taxes a little more according to the amount of the right to be elected, while the ordinary rich households pay a little more tax according to the minimum amount of the right to vote, and they regard the amount of tax paid by Chen Xian for the right to vote and the right to be elected as the amount extorted by Chen Xian.

In the eyes of most wealthy households, this amount does not seem to be excessive, and it is much smaller than their psychological expectations, so they naturally pay the money honestly.

After paying the tax, each family sent a child of their own family to Chen Xian's barracks according to Chen Xian's request.

After a few days of commotion, Chen Xian counted the number of people in the county who had the right to vote and to be elected, and there were more than 500 people who had the right to vote and 37 people who had the right to be elected.

Because he was afraid that Chen Xian was collecting money from selling his life, some families in the county who were not rich also gritted their teeth and paid taxes.

Those who really couldn't pay the taxes trembled and sent the children in their families to Chen Xian's barracks, even if it was an only son, they also sent it over with tears.

Therefore, Chen Xian received quite a lot of teenagers this time, and there were more than 1,000 people.

Next, Chen Xian personally organized a lively "election".

Although there were a lot of jokes in the election process, with everyone's "dedication", it was successfully completed in the end.

In the end, the 32 people who received the most votes became members of the first Governorate of the county.

Chen Xian also asked the 32 members of the Governorate to elect a town mayor within themselves.

As a result, no one was willing to sign up for the mayor of the town, so Chen Xian asked them to write three names each, and the person with the most statistics after the group was the mayor.

In the end, the most votes were given to an old official in the county's household, the old official's surname was Shi, and his family had been a small official in the county government since the Northern Song Dynasty.

Hearing Chen Xian read out the results, this shriveled old man in his fifties cried and took office and became the first mayor of the county.

After becoming the mayor of the town, this shriveled old man set up a grass platform team according to the model of the original county government and began his career as the mayor of the town......

After electing the mayor, Chen Xian led his army out of the county seat, and in addition to fifty policemen armed with bayonets, arquebuses, and armor daggers, and a tax inspection team composed of thirty retired horse infantry, Chen Xian also stationed an infantry company in the county.

After returning to Nanzhuangzi, Chen Xian began a military reform without stopping.

After all these years of training, Chen Xian can be regarded as having grown from a half-bottle of Internet military strategist to a qualified and realistic military talent, and he also has some profound understanding of the specious modern military theories that he used to look at on the Internet and in books.

There are two main aspects of this military reform: On the one hand, the improvement of military equipment is the same.

First of all, he had to equip all the arquebuses in the hands of all the soldiers with bayonets.

Secondly, he wanted to completely replace the armor on the soldiers' bodies with plate armor.

After completing the trade with Yan Pingtao, Chen Xian began to stock up on plate armor for redressing.

There are three types of plate armor made by Chen Xian, the first is the armor used by the assault cavalry, this set of armor is composed of a large brim, a cavalry helmet with a gorgeous cockscomb, an integral cuirass, a throat guard, a short shoulder pad, inlaid on the sleeves of the armed shirt, a semicircular armor piece to protect the upper arm, a plate armor arm to protect the lower arm, a hand attached to the sleeve of the armed shirt, a skirt to protect the thighs, a knee pad to protect the knees, and leather boots with steel plates inserted inside.

The Trooper armor was the heaviest plate armor designed by Chen Xian, and this set of armor was simpler and much lighter than the three-quarters armor of later Europe.

In this kind of armor, except for the cuirass and helmet, which are more than two millimeters of steel plates, the other parts are made of thin steel plates of more than one millimeter, and the total weight is controlled at about 20 kilograms.

This is mainly due to the fact that the current armor is mainly designed for the projection of cold weapons, which is less powerful than firearms, but the projection density is relatively large.

In order to maintain the physical strength of the cavalry, Chen Xian adopted a two-section design of the large arm and the small arm when designing the arm arm, the big arm is a light semicircular armor piece inlaid on the armed clothing, and the small arm is the overall thin plate armor armguard, the arm guard is composed of two semicircular armor pieces attached to the leather, the arm guard can be opened, worn on the arm, and then tied by the belt buckle, it is very convenient to wear, and there is a stretched part at the rear end of the arm guard to protect the elbow part.

The second type of armor was the armor used by pikemen in the infantry, which was much more rudimentary and consisted of a high helmet, cuirass, and a wide skirt.

The tall helmet has an odd appearance, but it is very useful, with a high, fish-fin-like armor plate on the top of the head to block blows to the head from above.

In the duel of the infantry phalanx, there is a way to fight with a spear from the top down.

The brim of the high helmet is located on both sides of the head and hangs downward, which is related to the infantry combat posture, and the European infantry phalanx takes a sideways position when fighting at close range, and this drooping brim on both sides can increase the protective area in this position.

Needless to say, the cuirass was a must to protect the ribcage, and the wide skirt not only protected the soldier's lower abdomen and thighs, but also provided some protection for the underside of the soldier during the rat war.

The third type of armor was the armor of the musketeers, horse infantry and reconnaissance cavalry, which consisted of a light cuirass and a light helmet, mainly to protect against long-range bow and arrow throws from the enemy, and the overall weight did not exceed ten kilograms.

In addition to bayonets and armor, Chen Xian also developed a cast-iron grenade.

This kind of grenade is actually a hollow pig iron ball with lattice dents on the outside of cast iron, the iron ball is filled with black powder, and then a fuse is inserted into the mouth of the iron ball, which is a simple grenade, when used, the fuse is lit and then thrown out.

Because the black powder explosion was so powerful that it was quite large, and quite heavy, it required a very strong person to throw it at a safe enough distance.

Chen Xian also "invented" the fixed bullet, which is made of a bamboo tube of basically the same size, which is first dried and then passed through with wax, then the gunpowder is loaded into the bamboo tube, and then the bullet is blocked at the mouth of the bamboo tube, and finally the bullet and the bamboo tube are tied together with a string.

To use it, the soldier only needs to bite the cord, hold the lead bullet in his mouth, put the gunpowder officer into the barrel, then throw away the bamboo barrel, and stuff the bullet into the barrel.

In order to reduce the clearance between the bullet and the barrel, Chen Xian also asked the workers to wrap a layer of paper on the outside of each lead bullet, so that when the bullet is stuffed into the barrel, it is easier to get stuck and not roll out of the muzzle because the gap is too large.