Zhou Lang's Northern Expedition is next year's affair, and a large number of military supplies will be hoarded in the autumn and winter of this year to make preparations for long-term operations.

Various military industries were expanding, and technicians were mobilized to build a new shipyard in Huangpu and a new arsenal in Foshan, which was even larger in scale than in Fuzhou, because Foshan could recruit more skilled craftsmen, and even many parts and components could be directly entrusted to local handicraft workshops to make them.

Encourage the people to develop various minerals, especially iron ore, copper ore, lead ore, etc., and give loans to support.

At the same time, the army must be reorganized again.

Zhao Wen's army has reached 50,000 people, and the Hakka armed forces brought from Guangdong have 30,000 people, and the strength of the three armies has increased by 20,000 when they arrived in Guangxi, and some Hakka forces have been brought in, as well as the recruited Tiandihui armed forces. But most people, even the 20,000 Hakka group training that Zhao Wen brought over from Wuyi, did not conduct formal training.

Therefore, Zhou Lang asked Zhao Wen to maintain 10,000 troops in Guangxi, hold the place, and send the other 40,000 back to Guangdong for training.

In addition to these people, the army has to continue to expand, the main force will not continue to expand, the elite troops of the 15 armies are enough to fight a campaign of any scale, the Manchu Qing Dynasty has not fought a general battle of hundreds of thousands of people in the world, most of them are fought by the elite Eight Banners of 1,000 people, and there are few major battles of more than 30,000 people.

But the garrison can still be formed, after all, Zhou Lang can use the field army to fight all over the world, but it is too wasteful to use the field army to deploy defenses, these sharp knives are used to conquer cities and conquer difficulties.

So he immediately set about forming garrison troops, which, according to tradition, should be called auxiliaries, and field troops were called warriors. The number of soldiers is fixed at the current thirteen corps plus commander battalions, as well as artillery corps, of which the soldiers of each corps are replenished, plus all kinds of necessary logistics personnel, and the strength of each corps is about 12,000 men.

The size of the artillery unit was not expanded, because Zhou Lang found that unless the attack on a particularly strong city, the artillery attached to each army was enough to be promoted to the siege mission, so the artillery scale was maintained at 10,000, and at the same time more artillery units were sent to each infantry corps, each army was equipped with 50 infantry guns, which was higher than Napoleon's army, Napoleon's army had only 3 guns per 1,000 people, and the French army was already a strong army with more firepower in the European army.

In addition, each army was also equipped with a cavalry, through the exploration of the Battle of Beijing, Zhou Lang felt that the power of the cuirassier was still worth looking forward to, at least enough to deal with the Manchu cavalry, and the Sikh cavalry trained by the British in history defeated the Mongol cavalry in the Opium War.

Because thousands of horses were captured in the Battle of Beijing, after the Battle of Guangzhou, there were thousands of soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty in Guangzhou, Zhou Lang equipped them with cuirasses, and after regular training, they were sent to various armies to serve as horse teams.

The strength of the auxiliary army, Zhou Lang planned to recruit 300,000 people, which was roughly twice the number of soldiers. Because China is a big country, too complex mountains and rivers, and too many people, it is necessary to be stationed. In Fujian and Guangdong, because there were favorable conditions, they relied on the regimental training of the landlords to maintain local stability, but if Zhou Lang wanted to launch a national war, it was impossible to let the landlords run regimental training for ten years, so the local security still had to rely on these auxiliary soldiers.

In addition to the difference in the purpose of the two arms, the combat weapons and salaries are also different.

Through the first battle in Beijing, Zhou Lang found that the transportation pressure of different weapon standards was too great, and the power of the Indian brown bess was enough to deal with the cold weapon troops, and there was no need for well-made but complicated legal rifles. For the sake of logistical consistency, Zhou Lang gradually eliminated those French rifles and replaced them with brown bass rifles that were easy to use and easy to produce.

The auxiliaries were also equipped with Indian brown bes, and after the occupation of Guangdong, the Foshan Arsenal was established, so that the number of workers under Zhou Lang to make rifles reached 100,000, and the production of 30,000 rifles per month, which was 360,000 rifles a year, was more than enough to meet the needs of the soldiers, and now it has accumulated a stock of more than 200,000 rifles, which is enough to provide standard weapons for all armies.

However, the number of cannons in the auxiliary corps was extremely small, and a corps was only equipped with 5 6-pounder infantry guns, because their combat purpose was to garrison, and there was no need for siege heavy artillery, and small-caliber guns were equipped to deal with possible sneak attacks by small groups of troops, and for such a sneak attack, a few small cannons were sufficient.

The military salary treatment is also very different, the soldiers used to have ten silver dollars per month, but now after Zhou Lang carried out the currency reform, he directly gave ten taels per person, which was equivalent to an increase of three taels compared with the past; And the auxiliary soldiers only have three taels of silver per month, which is already much higher than ordinary hiring.

According to the notes of some literati in the Jiaqing period of Qianlong, the monthly salary of a laborer at this time rarely exceeded one or two silver, for example, in the second year of Jiaqing (1797), Liao Wencai in Runing, Henan Province, opened a shop and hired Jin Guangji as a clerk, saying that "the annual money is 7,000 Wen". In the same year, Xu Tiande, who was directly affiliated to Chengde Mansion, opened a hotel and hired any helpers, "with a monthly salary of 750 Wen".

Zhou Lang gave a military salary of 3 taels of silver to each auxiliary soldier who did not know how to meet a fighter, which was enough to attract unemployed people from all walks of life. And the members of the Heaven and Earth Society, the White Lotus Sect rebel army, the bandit army, and most of these armed forces embarked on the road of rebellion because they were poor and helpless, so this salary can definitely absorb these people to become Zhou Lang's auxiliaries.

But that's all for later, Zhou Lang is now expanding the auxiliary troops, mainly absorbing the existing forces of Fujian and Guangdong provinces. That is, those landlords are training, with the resumption of production, not to mention Fujian, Guangdong has gradually stabilized, many industries, especially mining, the technical requirements for workers are not high, wages are OK, absorbing a large number of idle labor, and with the development, will continue to absorb more social surplus labor, social order will only become more and more stable. Therefore, Zhou Lang boldly recruited those landlords for regimental training, and these people had undergone a certain amount of training, or at least lived a disciplined life, and with formal training, it was not difficult to form an army with a certain combat effectiveness.

Moreover, Zhou Lang's army was outside, leaving a large number of landlords armed in the countryside, and he was not at ease. Who knows that there are those people who are loyal to Zeng Guofan of the Qing Dynasty, waiting for the opportunity to give Zhou Lang a fatal blow.

I don't know if there is a Zeng Guofan Zhou Lang in Fujian and Guangdong, but there is one in Zhejiang, and it is this Zeng Guofan who forced Chen Zhouquan into a desperate situation.

This person's name is Ruan Yuan!