In this era, in addition to weapons, the most important thing in the army's equipment is actually military uniforms.

Because most of the textiles at this time can be used as currency, it is a valuable material, and the textile industry is also an important indicator to prove a country's economic strength.

Moreover, a unified and gorgeous military uniform can effectively improve the morale of soldiers, so an army that can provide a unified and gorgeous military uniform must be a strong army.

The Corsican dwarf, for example, had been concerned about the uniforms of the French army on numerous occasions - and he was particularly fond of designing his own uniforms.

And Xu Shiyang felt that the marking of the red military uniform was already very strong, and the morale of the strongest army in the world was also played, so the practicality of the military uniform was far more important than other reasons.

Especially in the future, the Qi army will continue to advance in the north and northwest directions, where they are bitter cold places, and the practicality of military uniforms is even more important.

Fortunately, the textile industry of Qi is developing very rapidly, and Xu Shiyang hopes to obtain several styles of military uniforms.

For example, the woolen coat, which reaches the calf, gives a sense of straightness and makes the soldier look more energetic.

Moreover, the material is solid and the cloth area is large.

The coat itself can be seen as a blanket, which can be cushioned during rest and can be placed on the body during birth; Two unbuttoned woolen coats support a few wooden sticks, which can be used as improvised tents; Buckle the buckle and insert two sticks to make a stretcher.

The practicality is very good, but woolen material is still a very expensive material, and it can only be equipped with officers for the time being.

Ordinary soldiers are issued with short cotton military uniforms, single clothes in summer, and cotton clothes filled with thick cotton in winter, which are very warm and much warmer than all kinds of leather clothes or cloth clothes filled with ura grass often worn by the savages of Liaodong at this time.

In addition to the color, the style of the military uniform is relatively close to the military uniform of the other plane of the eighth master, the soldier's jacket has two small pockets, and the officer's four uses a cowbone button.

The previous cloth armament belt was replaced with a cowhide armament belt, the cartridge box containing paper packs was also changed to a leather one, each box stored 20 rounds, and the rifleman's ammunition base was increased from the original 60 rounds to 80 rounds.

Leather boots were still not a standard piece of equipment, and soldiers wore cotton or cloth shoes and leggings depending on the season.

In terms of military caps, the infantry still used wide-brimmed iron helmets, and in winter, soldiers were issued dog skins or roe deer fur hats. When the weather is warmer, a new military hat similar to the Fan Yang hat (more like a Penny) is issued.

After the military reform, the Qi army will be completely new from the inside out, and it will become a force that can be regarded as a strong army even in the modern army.

In fact, the Qi army after the military reform is somewhat similar to the army during the Midi Civil War, both in terms of weapons and equipment and tactical literacy.

The only difference may be that the foundation of Qi is too weak, which is actually a "fattened" army.

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Military reform will not only involve the field army, but also the reserve army, the militia, and the foreign army must be reformed simultaneously.

In order to strengthen the combat effectiveness of the reserves, the Ministry of War plans that when field soldiers are discharged from the army and become reserves, they are allowed to take away weapons such as rifles and pistols, and civilians and above who have served in the army can get preferential treatment when purchasing weapons and equipment.

The purpose of this is to prevent reservists from feeling that the price of weapons is too high and not willing to bear them, and instead resorting to the next best thing, which ones are cheap but outdated.

In fact, this has happened so often before - poor reservists and militias, even in places as dangerous as emigration to Liaodong, rarely buy expensive flintlock pistols.

Most people's choice is a shotgun, or even a musket or a cold weapon.

The new policy is in fact equivalent to the Ministry of War bearing the cost of weapons in order to raise the level of equipment of the reservists and militias.

Xu Shiyang hoped that after the military reform, when the country needed it, the reservists could directly carry their weapons and rush to the nearest field army unit to report for duty, so as to effectively improve the efficiency of mobilization.

As for the militia, Xu Shiyang's expectation is that in the future, a village with more than 100 strong men will be able to gain a foothold in Tartar gathering places such as Liaobei - just like the Boers, or the Mi people of the Westward Expansion Movement.

To be more precise, the militia will be tasked with using swords and muskets to open up living space for the Han people.

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By far the most important Waibo state in Qi was Goryeo.

At this time, Goryeo was under the supervision of Qi advisers in the military and diplomatic fields, and the customs were directly controlled by Qi people, and the two countries were deeply involved in the economic, trade and political fields - including Xu Shiyang, everyone in the Xu family had a concubine from the Goryeo royal family.

As a result, Goryeo was a very trusted state among the foreign forces of the Qi State.

At the same time as the military reform of the Qi army next year, the Goryeo army will also undergo a similar restructuring.

On the basis of the existing two infantry brigades, the regular and the odd soldiers, Goryeo will expand the new army to almost the size of a field army.

The armament of the Goryeo army will be at least one generation behind that of the Qi field army: flintlock pistols and shotguns will be the mainstay, and the artillery will only be equipped with the oldest iron cannons, and then increase the fire output by raising the guns.

The strength of the new army of Goryeo was to be expanded to 23,000 men (compared to the lack of artillery and engineering units in the field army of the Qi Kingdom, and the size of the cavalry was relatively small).

Finally, there are some Liaodong and Mengwu tribes who have taken refuge in the Qi State.

After the Qi expedition arrived at the Molongjiang River and the Jin State fell, many small tribes in eastern and northern Liaodong took the initiative to join the Qi State, and Xu Shiyang counted all of them as commoners and temporarily allowed them to live in the same place.

After last year's Northern Sweeping War and Zamuhe's defeat by Wanyan Zongwang, some small Mengwu tribes also took the initiative to take refuge in the Qi State.

At the end of this year, a census was conducted of the Household Department, and these Tartar tribes came from more than a dozen ethnic groups, totaling more than 40 tribes, and about 12,000 men or half tribes.

It's a dangerous force.

Because these Tartar tribes defected to the Qi State because the Qi State was the most powerful, they had to rely on the strong, not have any sense of identity with the Qi State.

But Xu Shiyang can't purge them directly, because they took the initiative to take refuge, and purging without a suitable reason will only make more people doubt themselves.

Therefore, Xu Shiyang planned to adopt a policy similar to the Tui'en Order, and to divide these Waibo tribes into as few pieces as possible.

The plan was that none of the sons of the tribal chiefs would be eligible to inherit the tribes and family property equally, and as long as each tribe had fewer than a thousand males, the threat of the Tartars would be much smaller.

In order to avoid concatenation, the redivided Tartar tribes will be resettled, but not in the traditional Han lands, where Xu Shiyang intends to migrate the surplus Tartar tribes from Liaodong and Modong to the Western Regions in the near future.

In this kind of resettlement, they are not familiar with the place, and they can only rely more on the support of the Qi government to continue to survive.

Those Tartar tribes who remained in their hometowns could not develop steadily, and Xu Shiyang would force them to migrate north as far north as possible to compete with the Tartars who had no refuge for living space.

The land they left behind would become the property of Han Chinese immigrants.