Lu Bu held a special graduation commendation meeting in the auditorium of the Shaling Military Academy, and 840 graduating cadets attended the meeting, and 10 of them failed two or more subjects and had already returned to their original units.

Lu Bu awarded Yu Ban a gold medal, and Yu Ban himself chose Xu Rong's First Brigade of the Trap Camp, and returned to his old unit, but this time he directly served as the battalion commander.

Tian Yu and Zhao Zhao also accepted the silver medal issued by Lu Bu, and Tian Yu chose to go to the second brigade of the Rong First Division, because the second brigade was still on the front line, so there was a battle.

The choice of the move is a bit unexpected, and even Lu Bu wants to cancel his independent choice, he chooses to go to the Xiongnu servant army, ha, he himself said that there are two reasons, one is that he can fight with foreign tribes on the grassland, and there are more opportunities to fight than in the Bingzhou army.

The second reason is that when an officer of the Han army goes to the servant army, he will be promoted to one level, and he can be promoted from deputy battalion commander to battalion commander.

Lu Bu is very sorry for such a talent in fifteen games, but he still has to respect his personal choice, and besides, he can be transferred back when he needs it in the future, and it would be good to have more actual combat experience.

As for where the others came from, there were also some people who were intercepted by Lu Bu because they were going to be supplemented with a newly formed unit, the 3rd Brigade of the 1st Division.

The brigade commander is Zhang Liao, and Lu Bu finally put Zhang Liao outside the field army to serve as the chief officer, such a talented person who is both civil and military cannot be wasted.

The officers of the 3rd Brigade were drawn from the 1st Brigade and supplemented by the graduates of the first batch of military academies. The soldiers were selected and supplemented by the wounded officers and soldiers of the Yellow Turban Battle, the recruit training camp of the old battalion in Yunzhong, and the troops in Tuntian.

The recruit training camp of the old battalion in Yunzhong has been in operation, and the composition of personnel includes enthusiastic young people who have come from all over the country to join the army, as well as militia regiments from Bingzhou and Duliao counties, and the Tuntian troops and nomadic troops have been sending soldiers here, selecting the best to enter the supplementary brigade, and the rest returning to the original troops.

These immigration measures are bearing fruit, especially since most of the country is mired in the wars and famines of the Yellow Turban Uprising, and the stability of Bingzhou and Duliao attracts everyone like a paradise.

No matter how far the road is, it can't stop people's pursuit of life and yearning for a happy life.

The business of Bingzhou was also thriving, and the money village that Lu Bu had studied with Jia Xu, Fu Zhu, Jia Kui and others soon began to operate after receiving large sums of money from the big businessmen Zhang Shiping and Su Shuang.

Prior to this, sound operational measures and specific rules and regulations had been developed. Because it is the first of its kind, it adopts a government-run model, but private equity participation is allowed.

During the preparatory period, Lu Bu, Ding Yuan and others personally invested a large amount of gold and silver, and also called part of the official funds of Bingzhou and Duliao.

At the same time, a large amount of money was raised from big merchants, Xiongnu nobles, and even large landlords from all over the country, and Qian Zhuang paid money to acquire a large amount of land, and then these big landlords invested in shares with the money from the sale of land.

The government then stepped forward to lease the land of Qianzhuang to landless peasants and displaced people from outside the country and charged reasonable rents, which not only solved the problem of excessive concentration of land, but also ensured the original interests of the landlord class as much as possible, making the whole exchange process very harmonious.

As soon as the money village opened, it first undertook a large number of business from the government and the military, and the acceptance silver bills issued by the money bank were very convenient and safe, which solved the worries of many businessmen and large transactions, and the response was good.

The land leasing business and commercial loan business launched by Qianzhuang immediately afterwards have helped many farmers who want to farm but have no money or land, and businessmen who want to do business or expand their business but lack capital.

Qianzhuang's business is booming, but also feeding its many investors, huge profits stimulate more rich people want to join in, Lu Bu and Fu Zhu, Jia Xu and others as early as the beginning of the preparation, has already formulated a plan to gradually sell official shares and increase capital and shares, just waiting for a suitable time.

Lü Bu's idea was to lead those Xiongnu nobles and Han landlords to the road of making money with money, no longer paying attention to their low-level slaves, cattle and sheep and those fields, and also firmly tied them to the chariot of the Bingzhou Legion.

The larger the territory controlled by the Bingzhou Legion, the more resources and population they occupy, the greater the benefits they can obtain, and the more fanatical they will support the Bingzhou Legion to expand, fight and conquer, which is the kind of cycle that Lu Bu wants to see.

Now the entire area controlled by Lu Bu is in a relatively peaceful state, and the battles in Jizhou are all below the brigade level, and the right to train troops is right.

On the grassland, the conquests with the Xianbei, Wuhuan, Xiongnu, and Dingling tribes were also small fights at the level of small tribes.

The brigades of the Xiongnu servant army and the nomadic troops took turns to fight, and the cavalry brigades often took turns to fight, and they were all to conquer the small tribes that were adjacent to them, conquer them, and eat them.

The Xianbei people themselves are fighting inextricably, Bu Dugen and Ke Bineng have formed an alliance to deal with Helian together, and Lian has gradually lost the upper hand, and the royal court of Danhan Mountain has been lost, Kebi Neng and Bu Dugen have publicly stated that they no longer recognize the status of Helian's Xianbei commander.

Since there was no major war, Lu Bu believed that the training of the army should be strengthened while developing agriculture and commerce, and that the Shaling Military Academy should also continue to recruit and select the second batch of cadets.

This time, the enrollment of the Shaling Military Academy is no longer limited to meritorious personnel and junior officers within the state army, but also openly recruits cadets from all over the country and from all walks of life, as long as they can pass the examination of the three most basic subjects, namely physical fitness, culture, and interview.

The physical fitness test is a simple cross-country running and strength test, and people with special skills such as archery, equestrianism, swordsmanship, etc., can get extra points.

The cultural test is a test paper, very simple some common sense, illiterate this time do not want, no education can go to the army first, and there are literacy classes in the state army.

The interview will be conducted by a jury of instructors from various disciplines of the military academy to ask some specific questions, such as why did you apply for the military academy? What do you want to do after being admitted to a military school? What do you think about the Merge State Army? How much do you know about General Lü Bu? Etcetera.

Sometimes Lu Bu, Gao Shun, Jia Xu and others will also participate in the interview. Even with such a complexity, there is a constant stream of people taking the registration exam.

There were also many officers in the military who were not able to participate in the first phase of study, and they found that their former colleagues who graduated from the military academy knew too much more than themselves, and many new things they had never heard of, and some of them were outdated, so they asked to participate in the second phase of study.

Even many regiment commanders and battalion commanders also had to participate in the study, in fact, many brigade commanders also expressed their desire to study, Lu Bu was very happy to see this situation, and only by studying can people make progress.

The officers of an army must be encouraged and supported in their pursuit of advancement, and Lü Bu reassured these officers that for the time being, only the officers below the battalion commander could sign up for the second phase of study. For senior officers above the regiment commander, Lu Bu will hold a small-scale senior officer refresher course at an appropriate time to give lectures to them.

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