The New Army Garrison in the West Garden.

Cao Cao was reorganizing a battalion of the New Army, first of all, a queue. Cao Cao had seen the ranks of the Republican Army, and they were able to assemble in a very short time. And it's very responsive.

"Report sir. 1st Battalion. Assembled. "Wang Er is the acting battalion commander of the first battalion, this is a veteran, who climbed up from the bottom, and he is nearly forty years old this year. At this age, in my hometown, the children are married. It's a pity that Wang Er hasn't married a daughter-in-law until now, being a soldier is hard, being a soldier is wronged, no one knows about it, and no one has ever thought about such a thing, because there is no money and no land. Therefore, it is impossible to marry a daughter-in-law.

"Take a break." Cao Cao ordered. Then check the ranks of the soldiers, dress.

Wang Er's ability may not be very outstanding, because the officer's command ability is also related to his experience, experience, and learning ability, for which the Republican Army has a special evaluation report, and then recommends the position according to the corresponding evaluation report. Wang Er knew a maximum of 200 words. That's pretty impressive. Because there were less than 500 people in the whole camp, very few knew how to read, and only a few could write their own names. Most are illiterate.

But such a soldier has an advantage, the idea is simple. If you are really good to them, they will be really good to you, and they are all children of good families. Their hope is very simple, go home, have dozens of acres of land, pay less taxes, and have a hot kang head for their wives and children. The most real, but also the most unpretentious idea. Even if you marry a widow, it's good. It's a pity that there are no such conditions.

But now Cao Cao gave them such conditions, and Cao Cao took out his own land and gave it to a battalion. Wang Er could have been given two hundred acres of land, because he was an officer, and there were many officers, but in the barracks, there were too many people in the same situation as him. They are too bitter. Being a soldier is just a last resort, and at most they are just eating with a mouthful of food. As long as you don't starve to death, it's fine.

Land is a very luxurious way. But now, they have so much land, everything is too much. But Wang Er didn't ask for it, he gave the land to others, he only needed thirty acres of land, not because he was generous, but because he knew the important value of land too well. Cao Cao is very good to him, but he also needs to pay attention to a conscience. He gave the land to other people, so that the number of loyal soldiers would become more and more, and Cao Cao only gave some money to this, and he did not have much for his own troops.

The queue was very neat, and it was clear that the soldiers were very attentive. Their spirits are refreshed. Very simple. With the encouragement of the land, their will to fight has also risen rapidly, and in such a situation, many of their situations are incomprehensible to others, and even cannot be accurately faced.

The queue is very neat, but the appearance is really unreasonable. Cao Cao personally sorted out their clothes for them, and they still had lice on their bodies, and the smell was very bad. The Republican Army will not do this, and every soldier will be given soap. And it is necessary to take a bath for a certain period of time. Because in the traditional ranks, non-combat attrition is more powerful than combat attrition. Malaria. Dysentery. And a wide variety of infectious diseases are the greatest weapons of destruction. The non-combat attrition they inflicted was far worse than the combat attrition, and many soldiers did not die on the battlefield, but mostly from these diseases.

But for a long time, the army has not been able to change such a situation, and everyone knows very well that this kind of transfer is very difficult to change, unlike the Republican Army, they are simply perverted existences, they will become extremely clean from medicines, clothing, and even barracks, and the fortifications can not be repaired. Barracks can not be built, but toilets will solve the problem first, because they know that if they do not keep them clean, their situation will collapse completely, and in such a case, they will first ensure that they are clean and tidy.

Because only in this way can non-combat attrition be drastically reduced. The Republican Army has reached a very perverted level of attention to disease.

On the contrary, the imperial court has not done enough, even if it is an elite unit like the Xiyuan New Army, it is difficult for them to achieve such a degree, and the non-combat attrition is still very large, but compared with other local troops, it is much better. But this is still unavoidable. Cao Cao knew that such a situation existed, and he was also very helpless.

Immediately checked their weapons and equipment, and their condition was not very good. Even if they were armed with arquebuses on a large scale, they still needed a certain amount of maintenance. It is not very difficult to learn and use, it is difficult to maintain, the reason why the new army in the West Garden has to buy a large number of firearms, and even spend a lot of money to manufacture them themselves, the problem is here, what they manufacture, far from being able to meet their own needs, an important reason is that their soldiers will not maintain, firearms are very simple for them, but the maintenance work is too troublesome, and the barracks teach them another thing, laziness. Their lazy maintenance, naturally the weapons are rusty, and there are more inoperable ones, and such situations abound.

This is also why the imperial court is constantly replenishing firearms, and constantly producing, even if they are manufactured, they cannot meet their own needs, if they learn to maintain their weapons, they will definitely not have such a situation.

There is rust inside the barrel, and there is already a lot of dirt inside. The amount of residue is also very high. I really don't know what they used such weapons.

Cao Cao returned the weapon to the soldiers, and there are still many problems, but how to solve these problems is still relatively difficult. He believed that instructors should be hired directly from the Republican Army, so that they could be trained directly.

On the other side, Yuan Shao controlled far more troops than Cao Cao, he already had 3,000 men and horses, and even his own cavalry team, although the number was only more than 100 people, they were strong in combat, and the weapons they were equipped with were still cold weapons. However, they used stirrups, which greatly increased their combat effectiveness. Maybe that's a good thing.

However, Yuan Shao still proceeded according to their old method, which seemed to work, but in fact played a limited role, that is, Yuan Shao did not actively improve, on the contrary, he only followed the previous method, Yuan Shao completely lacked the ability to reform and innovate, such a lack of ability, for him, is not a good thing. Because this situation will directly lead to his situation is not too favorable.

But in such a situation, who cares about such a thing. As long as one's own strength rises, this situation can naturally change such a situation. What Yuan Shao lacks is such a courage to conform to the trend of the times.

Li Jiazhuang, inside the War Department.

"There have been a lot of annexations in various places, factories and convoys that have been built in various villages, and to some extent, we should see the positive side of them. The merger has brought about the enterprise becoming more competitive, taking Luzhou as an example, the transportation team there has used four-wheeled ox carts, and their transportation volume has increased significantly, which can greatly meet the local demand for iron smelting, they can transport more coal, iron ore, and the local factories have also been merged and reorganized, and their situation has been greatly optimized. In such a situation, their advantage will become much more advantageous, compared to some of our previous situations, which will be in an extremely unfavorable situation. Such enterprises can get more orders, and their development situation will be in an extremely favorable situation, such a situation is actually extremely beneficial to us, and many of our things can be carried out smoothly. Jia Xu said.

There are benefits of mergers, for example, the efficiency of enterprises, banks will be higher, their productivity will actually be greatly developed, such benefits are obvious, the speed at which they produce products will increase dramatically, and such an increase will have great benefits for them. They reduce some energy consumption, improve production efficiency, and greatly increase the competitiveness of enterprises.

"But we also need to pay attention to some of the disadvantages that mergers may bring, for example, mergers will inevitably bring about the bankruptcy of some local economies, and they also need to re-establish some order, but such order has certain destructive factors, in such a situation, they are in many cases, they are unable to accomplish such things, in such a situation, their development will form a great disadvantage." Shang Wu said.

"We should be aware of some situations like this, mergers may bring some losses, such losses are some losses for some of our local economies, and some workers are in a state of idleness, and we should see the disadvantages of mergers." Shang Wu said.

"But mergers are generally beneficial, we shouldn't do such things because of mergers, and abolish such things, it's still very big trouble for us, we can't do some things like this, it will cause us a lot of trouble, such a good thing, we naturally can't do this kind of situation. This will be very bad for us. Jia Xu said.

"Well, but we should take into account some vulnerable groups and slow down the occurrence of unnecessary contradictions when we merge, which is also what we should do, and we must introduce a merger law." Shang Wu said.