Seeing that his goal had been achieved, of course Liu Liangzuo would not pester Zhang Qiang anymore, and immediately got up to say goodbye to Zhang Qiang.

Zhang Qiang looked at his tiredness, but also shook his head silently, waved his hand, wanted to drive him away, let him contribute to the Huaxia Army, now the militia is enough, and there are many local people who are young and strong have been organized into new militias, and are being trained, these militias will become garrison troops, labor troops, construction troops, as well as territory patrols, surveillance, and law and order maintenance armies.

When the work of the Ministry of Civil Affairs is done well, and the personnel transferred from the Ministry of Civil Affairs are completely infiltrated into these units, the militia units will become reserve candidates for the regular garrison units, and they will become the basic backbone of the militia after they have undergone training, fought against bandits, and fought wits and courage with the enemy's hidden personnel, and after being inspected and guided by the intelligence personnel of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, they will become the basic backbone of the militia.

They will be sent to supervise the work of the captives and servants, and those who pass the political examination and have no problems will be sent to the local recruit camp for new military training.

Qualified personnel will be sent to the army, follow the army for garrison, attack, battle, after completing the task, immediately for the second round of review, after the review, they will continue to carry out firearms training, cavalry training, with the combat training of the firearms unit, and then they will be sent to the garrison, become a recruit in the garrison, serve in the garrison, at this time, they will really become a soldier of the Chinese army, the regular army.

These regular armies would be organized into hundreds of combat units, sent to the newly occupied towns to take up garrison and combat duties, and when they were redeployed or reorganized, they would become the backbone of the garrison battalions.

The good and loyal will be selected into the field brigade unit by the elite soldiers who will be sent to become a new recruit in the combat unit.

It can be said that as the strength of the Huaxia Army becomes stronger and stronger, and the selection of soldiers and the training of soldiers are becoming more and more systematic, an ordinary person who wants to become a soldier of the regular army needs to go through several tests, not only testing courage, skills, and physical fitness, but also testing patience, carefulness, experience, loyalty, and skill, which are tested from all aspects, and then are divided into countless levels.

Those who are incapable, those who fail to pass the test, retire, go back to be your common people, and those who pass a little bit will continue to stay in the militia.

Those who pass two are promoted to the backbone of the militia ranks, and those who pass three are promoted to petty officers in the militia ranks, focusing on training.

After entering the recruit camp for training through the four items, the training in the recruit camp is completed, and then going to the battlefield to assist the regular troops in combat, showing bravery, and passing one of the remaining tests will be sent to the garrison unit, and most of the people will reach this point, and it will be closed.

They could only move around in the garrison and in the small group of 100 households until they were discharged from the army and became ordinary people again.

Only elites like elite soldiers can enter the field brigade, if they want to enter the Guards Brigade, they have to be elite soldiers, and if they want to get an official and a half position, they must reach the level of professional officers trained by Zhang Qiang's previous coaching skills, and now is not the time for the Huaxia Army to be rough.

At that time, as long as you participated in battles and had combat experience, you could join the field brigade casually, and after a period of time, you could join the Guards Brigade, and now the Guards Brigade is the elite of the elite, which is why the Guards Brigade has only expanded to four brigades so far.

It took more than ten years to accumulate four guards brigades, and the strength of the army is only a little more than 30,000.

Although the 1st and 2nd Guards Brigades had fewer troops, they were only equivalent to the strength of a D-class field brigade, but one such Guards Brigade could defeat at least four first-class field brigades, and the first-class field brigade was 9,500 troops.

It can be said that there are not many soldiers who are expensive.

After talking about the militia, talking about prisoners, the previous prisoner camp is the biggest reliance of the Huaxia Army in fighting with the enemy, and they can be used as cannon fodder to offset the enemy's strength advantage, and later the prisoners are an important source of troops for the Huaxia Army, in the early cold weapon, many troops are transformed from the prisoners, as the Huaxia Army is getting bigger and bigger, more and more to the development of firearms, and more and more attention to loyalty, the prisoners have rarely been placed in important places, they can only be transferred to the militia troops, to supplement the huge gap in the militia forces.

The previous two million captives have now been transformed into prisoners of a second-class field brigade, these captives are Taixi people, forming a loyal Taixi field brigade, and now serving the Huaxia army, playing the front station, and the twentieth field brigade led by Tong Dawei, monitoring the movements of the Ming army of Hong Chengchou Lu in the east on the border.

That was the 23rd Field Brigade.

Most of the cold weapons units in the newly formed 24th, 25th, and 26th Field Brigades are prisoners of the large army of prisoners who have been imprisoned for six or seven years, and they have already defected to the Huaxia Army and have been serving as militiamen for a year or two, so they were transferred to the newly formed field brigade and the third-class field brigade as soldiers.

The four field brigades were clearly not sufficient to house the large army of converted prisoners, and as a large number of militias were drawn from the periphery areas, newly occupied areas for a year or two, the backbone of the militia in those places was quickly filled with these converted prisoners, and the garrison and surveillance of the correctional battalions were taken over by these converted prisoners.

In this way, a large number of captives who were idle due to the completion of the construction of the territory were consumed, and about 300,000 captives were digested and converted.

Then, with the arrival of the militia units escorting the prisoners, another 200,000 prisoners were resettled in the newly liberated Huguang and Hubei Prefectures, and took on part of the militia's work, defending and building the territory.

These captives will be converted into militia in large numbers, and then there will be 300,000 captives in the future, and these captives will be stubborn or refuse to be saved, and their fate will be tragic, and they will become the main force of the construction army and continue to serve the Huaxia army.

In this way, 700,000 captives will become soldiers, garrison soldiers, militiamen, or civilians, and 300,000 captives will remain guarded captives, and a total of 1 million captives will be consumed to contribute to the construction to reduce the financial expenses of the territory.

With the increase in the number of prisoners and prisoners, the prisoner camps and hard labor camps will become a major financial burden for the Huaxia army, so this time Zhang Qiang took advantage of the time to march into the new enemy territory to get them over, let them continue to contribute, consume some prisoners, and reduce the financial pressure.

Two million captives, just to give them food and drink, will consume a large part of the food, and the Huaxia army does not want to bear this part of the burden anymore.

Some of the captives were released and left to be people and self-reliant, about 100,000 people.

Get 1 million people, 700,000 people to become soldiers, and when this battle is over, some of them will die, some of them will be disabled, and some of them will be eliminated, and maybe they will be able to convert 200,000 people into new territories, which will not only enrich the population defects of the territory, but also reduce the financial pressure, food pressure, and population pressure, and also obtain a part of the elite soldiers to enrich the troops.

This is the plan proposed by the cabinet to Zhang Qiang after careful consideration.

Zhang Qiang gladly accepted.

The newly formed brigades are actually to make room for these prisoners, making these prisoners a helpless choice for soldiers and civilians.

What is a headache is that through this battle, more than 30,000 Qing army prisoners were captured in Huguang and Hubei Prefecture, raided homes, suppressed the enemy, and captured another 70,000 prisoners, cleared out bandits, and captured another 100,000 prisoners, and the number of prisoners rose to one million.

In addition, with the continuous expansion of the territory and the steady development of the Huaxia Army, there are more criminals in the territory, and the criminals are thrown into prisoner camps or hard labor camps, and there are 300,000 of these people.

At present, Lin Yangcheng is mainly stationed in Jiangxi Prefecture, and most of the prisoners are in Jiangxi Prefecture, with 500,000 prisoners and 200,000 prisoners of hard labor, and the punishment camps for re-education through labor are mainly in Zhejiang Prefecture, the core area, with 300,000 re-education through labor detainees.

After talking to Liu Liangzuo about Gao Zhixiang, Zhang Qiang opened the chapter about the captives jointly reported by Lin Yangsheng, Mi Chun, and Zhou Congee, thinking about how to solve this problem.

Zhejiang Prefecture has been stabilized, even if there is some hard work, only a part of the criminals in the punishment camp and some of the criminals in the hard labor camp can be undertaken, the number of these people will not exceed 100,000, Zhejiang Prefecture can also afford it, Zhang Mingzhen, the newly appointed governor of Zhejiang Prefecture, the governor, in the song, the local can only bear the burden of 100,000 of these people, grain and grass, how long will it not work, let the cabinet quickly get rid of the vacant posts, such as building roads, digging rivers, repairing bridges, and some other work, he has to keep for the people, These people can't be allowed to occupy these jobs anymore.

Zhang Qiang smiled bitterly, Zhang Mingzhen is really a good official for the country and the people.

As soon as he took office, he had such a problem for himself and the cabinet.

And Jiangxi Prefecture, which has just turned into the fast lane, does not need so many people, let them be transformed into ordinary people, and they will endanger the place again, Mi Chun also does not want to bear such a large population, if possible, he also wants to digest only 100,000 prisoners, or to behave well, it is possible to convert into the manpower of the people, and he does not want any of the 200,000 in the hard labor camp. The cabinet also felt that it was not a solution to bear such a large number of people, so they left the problem to him.

At the same time, the cabinet transferred this issue to Wei Wuji, the secretary of the Ministry of National Defense, Wei Wuji really wanted these people, but he was afraid that they would defect to the battlefield, and he would not need so many people, so he only promised to send 100,000 well-behaved people to the border to serve as soldiers of the army, transport grain and grass, build fortifications or something, and do not want anything else.

Liu Liangzuo looked at Zhang Qiang's wry smile and asked, and Zhang Qiang told him about it.

Liu Liangzuo said: "Why don't you use these captives to make a deal with the Southern Ming Kingdom, the Ming army is not good at anything, but they have many ways to use the troops and generals, or they all wish they had more troops." ”

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