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The more than 700 people in Xin'anzhuang are also busy.

Everyone has a job to do, that is, all streets and alleys have arranged for the old and weak to clean up and transport garbage to the outside of the village, which is also the reason why the village is clean every day.

The blacksmiths, Jiang Fuhai and others were all assigned matters, and the two carpenters, because one could make wheels, arranged to make the wheels of the shield car, and the other specialized in making the wooden body of the firecracker.

There are also Gu Jiu and other bricklayers, those potters, billet masters, repairing the city tower, building bathhouses and toilets, the reservoir near the mill, the brick kiln under the west mountain, etc., etc., a large number of public buildings are waiting for them, Yang He recruited these people, naturally they will not let them eat in vain.

It's just that at present, the weather is freezing and there are few people, so they can't do much work, but the foundation can still be laid.

The market is still under construction, and it is estimated that it will open at the end of the month, and about a dozen carpenters, stonemasons, and bricklayers in each village are busy there, and when the market is over, Yang He will also recruit these craftsmen.

In the midst of the hustle and bustle, the time flashed to the 15th of November.

After exterminating the Jiaoshan bandits, Yang He asked the villagers to return to their hometowns and wait, saying that half a month later, the recruitment of township warriors would be assessed, that is, today.

The weather was good on this day, although the temperature was low, there was no cold wind splitting the surface, and the sun was even shining high in the sky.

Early in the morning, the people and men of each village came one after another, and everyone wanted to be recruited as a village warrior.

Xin'anzhuang all kinds of rumors, the life of the people in the village has long been spread out, that kind of food and shelter, is the people dare not think, Xin'anzhuang is stronger and very, this piece can stop the children crying at night Jiaoshan bandits, they were wiped out by them, who doesn't want to enter such a Zhuangzi?

Of course, Yang He is very concerned about the recruitment, he personally assesses that in addition to being strong and honest, those who have a family are even more preferred, basically according to the requirements of the Qi family.

Of course, there are some slightly special classes that can relax the requirements.

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After a day of assessment, Yang He recruited 400 people, which can be described as very strict, you must know that the population of this area is tens of thousands, and there are as many as 2,300 young people, but only one-sixth of the number of people was selected.

The chosen ones were elated, their families cheered, and the unsuccessful ones were dejected.

However, the masters of the villages who came to observe were relieved, and the brave people in the village, those archers, were basically not recruited.

Although they hope that this piece of land can be peaceful after the Xiangyong training, they will not pin all their hopes on Xin'anzhuang, and they do not want to weaken the protection and combat effectiveness of the village.

Of course, Yang He also noticed that the archers of each village, as well as some brave people, when exterminating the Jiaoshan bandits, the one hundred and sixty archers of each village contributed a lot, and he did not want to let go.

It is said that if there is a war in Xin'anzhuang in the future, these brave people and archers from each village can go to war with the army, bring their own dry food, and have their own harvest.

Some of the unrecruited people showed a smile of understanding, and when the Jiaoshan bandits were exterminated, some people had to go to battle, and by collecting the bandits' pockets, all of them had their waists full.

They also heard that the management of Xin'anzhuang is quite strict, and they may not be used to it, or they may be the best choice to join the army at the same time.

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The recruitment lasted for a day, and after the recruitment of new recruits, Yang He immediately carried out the formation.

He had a good idea of the establishment, and he was composed of recruits and veterans, which were roughly divided into several major parts, such as the killer team, the firearms team, and the baggage team, as well as some squads such as military law, assault, guards, and sentinels.

These young men were recruited, and Yang He's army was impressively five hundred, and in addition to the baggage and other teams, the pure soldiers were divided into two generals.

There are four teams in total, five in each team, and ten people in each team, one of whom is the first captain, one is the first deputy and the captain, and there is another captain.

The top five are a team, with a captain, two team vice-presidents, a team of 53 people, a flag bearer, a flag guard, a team of 55 people.

Then the four teams are one total, the first and second teams are the firearms teams, and the third and fourth teams are the killer teams, all of which are pure teams.

The firearms team, for the time being, is all using bird guns, and the fourth class fights in two rows during the war, and the fifth class is used as a reserve.

The killer team is composed of two armor sword shields and three armor spears, one armor sword and shield covers the two armor spears in wartime, and the last armor sword and shield man and spearman serve as a reserve.

There was also one general commander, two deputy commanders, a standard-bearer, a golden drummer, and five escorts, a total of two hundred and thirty men.

Because there were too many recruits, all the original soldiers became officers.

The proportion of officers in Yang He's army is very high, and the captains of each class are all veterans, so that there are three veterans in one class, one team is eighteen, one is seventy-five, and two is one hundred and fifty, and there are other types of soldiers, and Yang He's original veterans are not enough.

This is staffed.

Minister Yang is the first general manager, and Han Guan'er and Yang Qian are the deputy generals.

A total of four teams.

The first team, captain Luo Xianjue, team deputy Yang Han and Zhang Chujing.

The second team, captain Dong Shicai, team deputy Lai Kunyou, Zhang Chuxun.

The third team, captain Lin Guangguan, team deputy Zhang Zongxiang and Lei Qingbo.

The fourth team, captain Gao Jinzhong, team deputy Shi Xianwei and Ning Shaolian.

The first and second teams are the firearms teams, and the third and fourth teams are the killer teams.

With Han Daxia as the second general manager, Mi Dagu and Zhang Chugong as the deputy generals.

The second total is also divided into four teams.

The first team, captain Ma Xiang, deputy tiger squatting cannon, Guan Feng.

The second team, captain Yang Tianfu, team deputy Li Wenchang, Hu Yansheng.

The third team, captain Yang Zuwen, deputy Zou Qinmeng, Li Cao.

The fourth team, captain Zhang Dong, team deputy Deng Luan, Yan Chengcha.

The first and second teams are the firearms teams, and the third and fourth teams are the killer teams.

Cui Lu was also the captain of the grenadier team, and Chang Rusong and Huang Jianzhong were the deputy members of the team, and there were 20 people in the team temporarily.

With Minister Yang as the captain of the military law team, commando team and escort team, and Chen Qiuao and Zhang Songtao as the deputy of the team, the team is temporarily set up to 20 people.

With Han Daxia as the captain of the sentry team, Zeng Youyu and Hu Employment as the deputy of the team, the team is temporarily set to ten people.

The baggage team is still captained by Sheng Santang, with Yang Brother and Li Xueyi as the team deputies, and the team is temporarily set to 50 people.

Now the baggage team is young and strong, and the number of people has increased a lot, especially Yang He plans to equip wheelbarrows to transport more supplies.

Before the Industrial Revolution, the wheelbarrow can be said to be the best way to transport goods by land, its cargo capacity is better than manpower, but also more than animal power, if with the help of animal power or wind power, its carrying capacity can reach up to 600 catties of goods.

Generally speaking, many men who transport wheelbarrows carry 300 to 500 catties of crops by themselves with ease, brisk pace, and difficult to follow.

This is also the result of the excellent design of China's wheelbarrows, the large wheels are in the center of the body, unlike the Europeans who put the small wheels in front of the car, half of the weight of the cargo has to be borne by the cart person, and the result is that the load capacity can reach three to six times that of the European cart.

Unicycles are very common in the north of the Huai River, basically every village has them, the wheelbarrows in Xin'anzhuang were collected by bandits earlier, but after breaking through Jiaoshanzhuang, a lot of unicycles were seized, even if they are not enough, they can also be purchased from the surrounding villages, especially the kind of unicycles with sails.

The only drawback, Huaibei a river network and lakes too much, if there is a water network in front of you, even the wheelbarrow is inconvenient to walk.

The equipment of the baggage team will be a mixed mode, with two armor firearms, two armor swords and shields, and one armor spear.

Li Jiale is the captain of the medical team, and Huang Yingxuan and Wu Chen are the deputy of the team.

Hu Zhiyi is the instructor in Zhuangzhong, and Wang Zhizhi, Lai Yuangao, Li Wenchuan, Deng Xian, Wu Jinghuan and others are the teachers.

Except for Hu Zhiyi, the rest are disabled veterans, but it is enough to train new recruits in peacetime.

If the soldiers pour out, they will also be responsible for the defense of Zhuangzhong with Qi Youxin and others.

The women in the village should also be trained, and in the future, the firearms will be sufficient, and everyone in the village will have a new gun.

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After the final formation, the young man of one color stood solemnly on the theater square, looking at this army, the people behind Yang He were very excited, and Yang He also had a warm current in his heart, his own strength was growing, and he had the capital to survive in the troubled times.

The newly recruited people all lived in the village, and the southeast and southwest of Xin'anzhuang were set up as military camps.

The treatment arrangement for them is to include food and lodging, supply military uniforms and weapons, and then ordinary soldiers are brave, and after each of them is issued a sum of settling silver, each person will be paid five yuan per month, six yuan for the captain, seven yuan for the first deputy, and eight yuan for the first chief.

The deputy of the team is nine dollars, the captain is one or two, the deputy is one or five dollars, and the total is two taels.

This treatment is very good, after all, it includes food and housing, as well as military uniforms and weapons.

As for food and accommodation in Xin'anzhuang, five or six taels of silver per month in other places can't come down.

If you send troops to fight, there are various gains, such as touching your pockets and some rewards after the war.

Therefore, the average soldier's five cents of silver per month may seem small, but it is a pure income.

Compared with them, Xin'anzhuang's monthly salary is more real consumable money.

After the treatment of soldiers came out, Yang He also formulated the treatment of each villager, from men to women, from old to young, all of them implemented a salary system.

The basic treatment of praise and deputies is two taels of silver, one or two and five dollars for the general manager, and one or two silver for the supervisor.

Everyone has a corresponding treatment, that is, children who work and study, and they also have two dollars of silver per month.

Compared with the soldiers who have gained from going to war, they have bonuses for doing a good job, especially the original Xin'an villagers, who have food and shelter, and no taxes, compared to some recruited villagers, the monthly military salary and harvest may be sent home, and they can spend without scruples.

Don't be afraid if your monthly salary runs out, after all, there is always a place to eat and sleep.

This is also Yang He's deliberate cultivation, the future will be driven by domestic demand, there is no market, but also to create a market.

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After the army is formed, it will first undergo a month of training, during which Yang He will also carry out a series of regularization measures.

For example, the implementation of a strict waist card system, Zhuang Zhong travel are shown waist cards, especially a long waist card is larger, on which to remember the name of all the people.

The defense of Xin'anzhuang is to arrange two general guards and vigils every day, and the roads leading to the village should also be arranged to be guarded.

The banner and drum must be formulated.

Yang He thought that the simpler the army's banner and drum, the better, so there was only one golden drummer for each one, and then there were two around him, and there was another trumpeter.

There are a lot of ideas about the flag Yang River, but for the time being, let's replace it with the Yang character flag.

At present, the main problem facing Yang He is the shortage of firearms, and now there are 200 firearms soldiers in the two generals, but he only has 100 bird guns that he bought.

On the side of the munitions station, the Zhang Zhugong brothers are still busy making drill bits, lathes and other things, and the specific production may not be until the end of the month, or even the beginning of next month.

There is also a shortage of military uniforms, Sun Zhaodi and others easily made a set of winter clothes for all the old and young in the village, and two hundred women and four hundred men came, and I don't know when it will be completed.

After all, it is impossible to be fast by hand-sewing.

There are also all kinds of miscellaneous equipment, such as oilcloth bags, coconut scoop bags, sashes, gloves, etc., which are more labor-intensive.

Layue is coming, and Yang He also plans to sew a large number of masks, which makes Sun Zhaodi and others even more skilled.

For the time being, Yang He let the recruits train in mixed clothes, and if they are well trained, the military uniforms will be given priority.

But this is not a thing, as the population of Zhuangzhong increases, the demand for uniforms will increase.

In the future, there will be spring and summer military uniforms, which will require a large number of manpower.

Therefore, Yang He thinks that it is better to purchase unimportant things from the surrounding areas.

Some fabric materials will be sent to the surrounding villages, and under the condition of strict quality and standards, let the villagers of each village help them to manufacture, and later form an order way.

There are many villages in this area, with a population of tens of thousands, and thousands of women of all kinds, and it is no problem to sew military uniforms and certain equipment.

Give these villagers some benefits, and you can also better tie them to the chariot of Xin'anzhuang.

Judging from the matter of collecting nitrate, the effect is still very good.

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In the midst of the hustle and bustle, on this day, a guest visited.

However, it was Wang Feng, the organizer of the Ordnance Bureau, who sent the newspaper of the past few days, and Yang He was overjoyed and entertained Wang Shuban in the study.

Then I can't wait to watch the Di newspaper, which is full of recent events in the Ming Dynasty, as well as some movements in the court.

In September of this year, Fu Zonglong was defeated and captured to death, and the court's pension had come down, and he gave the prince and the prince a prince, who was loyal and strong.

After Fu Zonglong's army was defeated, the thief Li Zicheng took advantage of the victory to attack Yexian, and the deputy general Liu Guoneng died.

At this time, Li Zicheng was strong, after the defeat of Fu Zonglong, he won 20,000 horses, and tens of thousands of Qin soldiers, after Xiaye County, he took advantage of the victory on the fourth day of November to encircle Nanyang, and fell in a few days, the general army was as fierce as a tiger, and the deputy general soldier Liu Guangzuo was killed, and the king of Tang was killed.

The general soldier was as fierce as a tiger and so on, and the imperial court had its own posthumous gifts, but now the Beijing division is making a lot of trouble, and it is the controversial eunuch Liu Yuanbin who led the army not to save it.

So there was a lot of discussion.

There is also something not far from Pizhou, the rogue Li Qingshan intensified the robbery, gathered tens of thousands of troops, and it seems that he is going to attack Shouzhang, Yuncheng, Dongping, Zhangqiu and other cities, and the imperial court has repeatedly interested Liu Zeqing to attack and suppress.

Talking about the Ming Dynasty, Wang Feng sighed, only worried about the situation.

Yang He was silent, the situation in Daming is very bad now, and it will be even worse in the next few years.

At present, I only have a few hundred soldiers, and I have not trained well, so I have no time to take care of myself.

Wang Fengju is in Pizhou City, so he is naturally well-informed, and talked about the recent death of the Zhihekou inspection.

The death of an inspector is not a simple matter, it is rumored inside and outside Pizhou, and even Zhizhou Su Chengxing was shocked.

Judge Song Zhiyuan personally led people to investigate, preliminary survey, and inspected Jia Hu is a bandit, and then there was no way to do it, and all parties fell into a quarrel.

After all, suppressing bandits is not a simple matter, otherwise inside and outside Pizhou City, they would not pretend to be deaf and dumb and turn a blind eye to the slaughter of "Li Zhuang".

Wang Feng sighed: "There are bandits everywhere, what's wrong with this Daming?" ”

Yang He also sighed: "We can't report to our family and country, and we can't settle the people, I'm ashamed." ”

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Han Daxia took Pei Pochuan out to spy and never came back.

And two days later, on the nineteenth.

Inspector Deng came to visit with a smile on his face, a deep middle-aged man beside him, and two soaps.

After the introduction, it turned out that this middle-aged man was actually the staff master of Gao Qifeng in Suining Zhi County, Tian An. (To be continued.) )