Chen Shiqi was abolished, and the princess's illness was cured. She has stopped fighting with the prince recently, and her mood seems to be much better. On the day of the March 3rd Festival, Zhu Pingjin accompanied his mother to visit the Qingyang Palace on the bank of Huanhua River outside the West Gate. The mighty team, looking at the strange crowd, made the whole Xicheng chickens and dogs jump. In order to maintain local order, Wu Jishan, the magistrate of Chengdu County, jumped up and down and sweated. Zhu Pingjin saw that the county magistrate was really hard, so he hurriedly asked Li Sixian to seal a big red envelope and send it.

Wangzhuang's restoration, reconstruction and reform have been fully launched. After that, Zhu Pingjin declared himself a surrogate mother, but in fact, he took advantage of his rare free time to begin to improve the organization of the army, adjust the deployment of the army, and expand the military force, focusing on using the dotted Wangzhuang to strengthen his military presence near the provincial capital.

The first is the separation of the two major military systems, the village guard and the caravan.

As the name suggests, caravans are mobile field armies; The village guards are the local troops stationed there. However, except for the difference in the combat missions they undertake, the main body of their soldiers is the same: either the domestic slave of the royal palace who signed the deed of sale, or the farmer of the royal mansion and the village. There are recruited, even rented soldiers, such as Wang Daniu's special service company soldiers and Ning Chuanwei and Chengdu guard's guard sergeants. But their treatment was no different from that of a soldier from a family slave household. At present, the recruited soldiers in the caravan are generally grouped in a centralized group, but the general trend will be to break up the mixed group.

According to Zhu Pingjin's idea, the brigade of each county is equivalent to the battalion-level establishment, and the squadron is equivalent to the company-level establishment. The captain is at the county battalion level, at the same level as the steward of Dazhuang; The squadron leader is at the level of a township company, at the same level as the manager of Zhongzhuang.

The village team is responsible for the defense of the Wangzhuang where it is located, and the Wangzhuang is responsible for supporting the village protection team on the source of soldiers and food, so the village protection team has formed a military-local joint management collective leadership mechanism that is different from the caravan. The captain of the village is in charge of the army, Wang Zhuang is in charge of the army, and the training and transfer of the team are directly under the Shizi Mansion. In this way, the village protection team and the Wangzhuang where it is located are closely linked through institutional arrangements and become a whole with strong vitality.

Obviously, the organizational system of the village protection team was formulated by Zhu Pingjin in imitation of the local military system in his previous life. It is characterized by the integration of military and civilian. Although the organization is slightly bloated and the leadership is a little complicated, it is extremely suitable for the campaign and tactical requirements of attrition and retardation of the enemy in the stage of local strategic defense.

More importantly, the organizational system of the village protection team can realize Zhu Pingjin's political and military strategic goals of "bringing soldiers to the people." If more than 100 prefectures and counties in the province set up Wangzhuang, then these Wangzhuang can build more than 100 brigades to protect the village, under the jurisdiction of hundreds of squadrons to protect the village, after a month of mobilization, the local strength will reach about 100,000!

With the cooperation of 100,000 local troops and 50,000 mobile field troops, it will be enough to resist the simultaneous attack of Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng, and there will also be a certain amount of military strength to suppress and quell the rebellion in the province. With the cooperation of 100,000 local troops and 50,000 mobile field troops, the Shu domain will occupy a pivotal corner of China's political map, and Zhu Pingjin will become a strong contender for the imperial throne!

The second is the adjustment of troop deployment.

The 100,000 local army and the 50,000 mobile field troops were, of course, only Zhu Pingjin's long-term plans. This plan will be difficult to accomplish in three to five years. The main goal in the near future is to rely on the existing Wangzhuang, use the six companies of the caravan that have been in actual combat as seeds, and complete the redeployment of troops through the initial formation of the basic Huzhuang squadron, especially near the provincial capital of Chengdu.

The third company was transferred to Xinfan County, and also served as the Xinfan County Guardian Brigade; The sixth company was transferred to Peng County, and the Peng County Huzhuang Brigade was also under the unified command of Song Zhenzong.

The second company was transferred to Shuangliu County, taking over the defense of the third and sixth companies, and also the Huzhuang Brigade of Shuangliu County; The first company continued to stay in Pengshan County, and concurrently served as the Pengshan County Huzhuang Brigade, and these two companies and the Huzhuang Brigade were under the unified command of Shu Guoping.

The fifth company was originally formed by the expansion of Chen Youfu's platoon, and it was formed not long ago, so the fifth company will continue to stay in Yazhou and serve as the Huzhuang Brigade in Yazhou.

The Fourth Company has completed the training of recruits, leaving a platoon of troops to form the Mingshan County Cadre Huzhuang Squadron to garrison the Bifengxia base. The rest of the troops of the fourth company are marching towards Renshou County under the leadership of Song Zhensi. After arriving in Renshou County, the Fourth Company will be combined with Zhuang Ding, who was trained by He Zengjiao and others in Renshou County, to form a new Fourth Company and the Renshou County Wangzhuang Huzhuang Brigade. The royal guards who volunteered to protect the caravan also completed their politico-military training, and they will arrive in Renshou County with the 4th Company to await their work assignment.

The officers and non-commissioned officers of the Xinfan County, Peng County, Shuangliu County, Pengshan County, Renshou County, Yazhou, and Mingshan County Jiganhuzhuang Squadron will continue to follow the effective method and be selected by officers and soldiers together. Zhu Pingjin believed that a large number of officers and non-commissioned officers who had performed well in actual combat would be promoted and used to become the new backbone of the squadron.

The only unit in the caravan that is recruited into an army is the special service company that is still stationed in Feixian Pass. According to the simple and mysterious information sent by Luo Jingyun recently, the special service company has completed the task of recruiting and replenishing soldiers and transferring the wounded, and has recruited "Dong Buman, a large number of Han people in the border areas." How many people were recruited, and what proportion Dong Buman accounted for, Luo Jingyun didn't say, he sold it.

Luo Jingyun's will to be transferred to the Fifth Company to partner with Chen Youfu has been issued, and Zhu Pingjin is not worried about any changes in Wang Daniu. The wife will rush to Yazhou to sit in the town, with Wang Guochen and Hong Qihui assisting, and Tianquan Tusi to do strong reinforcements, Yazhou can be described as stable as Mount Tai.

However, placing an army that has been trained in actual combat at Feixian Pass is not conducive to the general policy of army deployment of the army of gathering troops near Chengdu Prefecture. Once something happens in Chengdu, there is a feeling of not being able to save the emergency. Therefore, Zhu Pingjin decided to transfer the special service company that had completed the recruitment to the vicinity of Chengdu for reorganization, and to act as a reserve force to cope with the actions of the Chengdu side. And Feixian Pass, an important pass connecting Sichuan and Tibet, Zhu Pingjin is ready to fulfill his promise and hand it over to Tianquan Tusi Gao Jitai. In exchange, Zhu Pingjin will take back the Huangnigang at the mouth of the gorge.

As a very effective force in the eyes of Liao Daheng, the governor of Sichuan, Gao Antai led the 200-day Tusi infantry and continued to stay at the north gate of the provincial capital according to Liao Daheng's order.

Zhu Pingjin acquiesced to Liao Daheng's interference in Tianquan Toast. He believed that as long as the interests of the royal palace and Tianquan Tusi were connected, the tea and horse smuggling trade was not interrupted, Tianquan Tusi was still in his hands. And whoever controls Yazhou controls the Sichuan-Tibet tea horse smuggling trade.

Tianquan Tusi has already sent three hundred reinforcements and will arrive at Renshou together with Xu Hanqing's troops and the fourth company. The two hundred Tusi cavalry suffered little losses in the early battle and replenished quickly. As the only formed cavalry unit that Zhu Pingjin could absolutely control, they would remain between Wenjiang County and Chongqing Prefecture to monitor Chen Huainian's movements.

With the establishment of the Guardian Corps, the military training program also needs to be adjusted. Each squadron will be responsible for the training of all recruits of the caravan and the village. Zhu Pingjin planned to open two new regiment-level tactical training bases in Yazhou and Renshou, and three more in northern Sichuan, western Sichuan, and southern Sichuan in the future, as the base camp of his caravan before the rebellion. The Bifengxia base will continue to exist, but its functions will need to be adjusted. As a secret military base for Zhu Pingjin, it undertakes some special training and weapons development tasks.

Again, there are three new military systems: the Guard Forces, the General Staff, and the Intelligence and Communications Department.

Previously, the guard had been filled by officers and sergeants of the Wangfu Honor Guard and the Chengdu Left Guard. As some of the guards were willing to join the caravan to enter the Bifeng Gorge for training, the rest were unwilling to join the caravan for various reasons. It is obviously inappropriate to keep this group of people by their side for a long time. Even if a gag order has been issued, they still can't be guaranteed to return to Chengdu, and they may be publicized all the way for various reasons, so Zhu Pingjin plans to transfer them out of the provincial capital and temporarily arrange them to serve in the team of protecting the village.

The new guard establishment was only one platoon, and Zhu Pingjin personally named it the Shizi Guard Platoon. The guards will be selected from among the warriors of the caravan, and the criteria for selection are not height and looks, let alone martial arts and rank, but political loyalty. It is necessary to choose the kind of person who has a deep hatred for the old society, who is grateful to Zhu Pingjin, and who is willing to go up the sword mountain and go down to the sea of fire for the sake of the leader.

Zhu Pingjin handed over the task of selecting people to Shu Guoping. Shu Guoping did not dare to slack off, and immediately selected a hundred people from the five companies around Chengdu, and talked to them individually one by one without stopping. After the conversation, 40 people were eliminated, and after Zhu Pingjin was reported, 15 people were eliminated, and in the end only 45 people remained.

The platoon commander of the guard platoon is a key candidate, and Zhu Pingjin personally circled Wei Chen, the platoon commander of the second and third platoons. According to secret rumors, Wei Chen and his eldest brother Wei Shen became candidates for platoon commander of the guard platoon at the same time. When the prince summoned them separately, he asked three questions.

The first question is, "Do you dare to kill someone?" Both of them agreed;

The prince asked again, such a person is the prince and princess, do you dare? Both of them agreed;

The son of the world asked again, if this person is your parents, do you dare? Wei Shen replied that he dare, and Wei Chen replied that he did not dare.

Shiziqi asked why. Wei Shen replied that the son of the world is my parents, and there are no parents; Wei Chen replied that the grace of parenting and the virtue of re-creation of the son of the world are the same as the blue sky, and they dare not surpass. As a result, his younger brother Wei Chen was elected as the commander of the guard platoon, and his rank stood still; Brother Wei Shen was promoted to the deputy company position and was promoted to a village protection team in Xindu County to be the deputy captain.

The establishment of the General Staff Headquarters is an inevitable requirement for the expansion of the armed forces. At present, the battalion-level units of the caravan have appointed chief and deputy chiefs of staff. Cheng Xiangfeng, the accompanying military secretary, actually performs the role of a staff officer by the side of the chief officer. With the establishment of the Guardian Brigade and the exaggeration of the area under its control, it was obvious that the practice of appointing the chief of staff of the Caravan Protector as the chief of staff of the whole army could not adapt to the new situation, so it was imperative to establish a general staff.

The establishment of the General Staff is not simply the establishment of an organization and the appointment of a leader, but the key lies in finding and training qualified staff officers.

The drafting and issuance of military orders, the analysis and application of intelligence, the establishment and training of the armed forces, the survey and mapping of terrain and features, and the construction and management of military projects are all within the responsibility of the General Staff Department. The high degree of development of modern military science began with the study of military staff.

The education level is the basis for the selection of staff officers. Zhu Pingjin felt bitterly that there was a shortage of scholars in the army, and while taking up the local law, he appointed He Youyi and Liu Hongting as chief and deputy chiefs of general staff. Hong Qihui's third brother, Hong Qixin, has completed military training and is marching to Renshou County with the Fourth Company. He will be the first midshipman staff officer in the General Staff. On the other hand, Zhu Pingjin was ready to borrow the old method and openly recruit poor scholars in society in the name of the copywriter of the Shizifu, and establish a reserve of military staff cadres through inspection and training.

The intelligence and communications department is essentially a confidential department of the military. Its first chief, Zhu Pingjin appointed Liu Mingsheng. Liu Mingsheng has a life-saving grace for his wife, and he is witty and brave in the fight against bandits in Renshou County, and has repeatedly performed miraculous feats. The most important thing is that he does not forget his old master and is loyal to the Liu family. Even to Miss Liu, who had never met before, he was very respectful.

Zhu Pingjin believes that since his master, Liu Hongting, works for him, then her domestic servants must also be loyal to him. Zhang Guangpei, the sixth master of Niujiaozhai, became Liu Mingsheng's deputy, in charge of the intelligence of thieves, bandits, and rioters. The focus of the recent task assigned to him by Zhu Pingjin is to collect the situation of the 13 Huang families in eastern Sichuan.

However, the information about the remnant bandit Chen Huainian is not within the scope of Zhang Guangpei's business.