Under the strong pressure of the Qin army, three days after the recovery of Taiyuan City, more than a dozen prefectures and counties under the jurisdiction of Taiyuan Prefecture were all recovered.

All the forces of the Dashun army were uprooted, and the Dashun army was routed for thousands of miles and fled in all directions.

The entire area east of the Taihang Mountains fell into the hands of the Qin army.

On the one hand, Baishan sent people to report the victory to the imperial court, and on the other hand, appointed officials and generals at all levels on the spot, and organized and trained the township brave regiment to train the garrison place.

After leaving a man and horse to garrison Taiyuan City, Baishan continued to march westward after five days.

After Jiangchuan in the capital received the good news from Baishan, although he was overjoyed, he was not too surprised, after all, the strength of the two sides was there, and with the help of new muskets and artillery, it was normal to crush and push all the way, and it would be abnormal if he did not win.

The complete defeat of the Dashun army was only a matter of time.

When the good news came, the court officials also wrote to congratulate Jiang Chuan.

There is a voice of praise for virtue between the government and the opposition. The prestige of the regent Jiang Chuan grew grand.

Even many people who had complained a lot about Jiang Chuan's various thunderous methods before had to keep their mouths shut.

After the emperor, the queen mother and others in the palace heard the good news of Taiyuan Mansion, they were even more silent and relatively speechless.

If this kind of victory was achieved in their hands, then of course they would be excited and happy, but now that Jiang Chuan, the regent of the rebellious ministers and thieves in their hearts, the greater Jiang Chuan's achievements, the slimmer their hope of turning the tables around, of course they can't be happy.

After this period of training, Jiang Chuan also slowly has the basic qualities of a politician.

On the one hand, he sent people to post notices all over the capital announcing Taiyuan's victory, and on the other hand, he also selected and transferred officials from the imperial court to Taiyuan Mansion to serve as temporary officials in various counties and prefectures to stabilize local order.

and declared that these newly restored places would be exempt from any taxation for three years.

This series of measures has made Jiang Chuan's prestige continue to rise.

Not only is his prestige rising in reality, but in the fortress base, Jiang Chuan's prestige is also skyrocketing every day.

A series of measures in the front and rear quickly stabilized these newly recovered areas.

At the same time as Baishan marched westward, as the first pure firearms unit of the Qin army, the new First Army with an experimental nature was also formally established.

In order to distinguish it from other troops, the New First Army was completely different from other units of the Qin Army in terms of military system, ranks, and military uniforms and weapons training content.

For example, in terms of military uniforms, the other firearms units of the Qin army are equipped with the kind of red military uniforms provided by the base.

But today's new army all use gray-green short military uniforms, large-brimmed hats, Y-shaped armed belts, leather boots, etc.

The specific image is basically the same as that of the British soldiers in World War I.

And the above is mainly the regular uniform of the army, in addition to the matching short-sleeved shorts for training uniforms, socks, etc.

As for the stricter distinctions, such as winter clothes, summer clothes, training clothes, and even formal dresses, these Jiangchuan do not plan to make it now.

The first is that it is not necessary at present, and the second is that the industrial level of the base is not up to now.

Thirdly, the budget is limited, so I can only use regular clothes and training clothes in one for the time being.

The advantages of adopting the military uniform of the modern army naturally do not need to be mentioned.

But with this military uniform, there is a problem.

This problem is the problem of hair.

After all, the Han people in this world still retain the habit of growing their hair, and all men wear their hair in a bun on their heads.

If you want to keep your hair in a bun, you will inevitably not be able to use the large-brimmed hat that comes with the new military uniform.

It's a real headache.

Jiang Chuan knows what the bun means to the Han people.

The so-called body hair and skin, the parents who receive it, dare not destroy it, and the beginning of filial piety is also. This concept. It has been in the blood of the Han people for thousands of years.

It's easier said than done to change overnight.

In the original history, the Qing army attacked the Central Plains and ordered the people to shave their hair, and shouted the tough slogan of keeping hair without hair, and keeping head without hair.

What is the result? As a result, it triggered a vigorous anti-Qing movement among the people in the south of the Yangtze River.

This is how the tragic historical tragedies such as the three massacres in Jiading on the 10th day in Yangzhou and the massacre in Jiangyin happened in this way.

After decades of slaughter and repression, most of the Chinese people have completed shaving.

Of course, there are also a small number of them who have forgotten their ancestors and are bent on clinging to the national scum of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. He automatically shaved off his hair and kept it like the Manchu money rat tail.

Jiang Chuan was not Dolgon, and the imperial court was not the Manchu government, so he naturally could not adopt the Manchu government's forced order to keep his hair, but fortunately he did not want the whole world to cut their hair.

All he wanted was for the 10,000 men of the New First Army to cut off their long hair and keep the kind of small flat heads that were common in the army.

And the hair is long, and there is indeed a lot of trouble in reality.

The benefits of a flat head, as a modern person, are well understood.

In the end, Jiang Chuan proposed a plan after discussing with Bai Mu and Liu Ji.

This plan is very simple, that is, let the soldiers of the fortress base who serve as officers and non-commissioned officers at all levels of the New First Army take the lead in cutting off their long hair and cutting their heads flat.

With officers at all levels taking the lead, there will be little resistance from other recruits recruited from among the civilian population.

Moreover, Jiang Chuan also issued a royal order: all soldiers who are willing to take the initiative to cut off their long hair and keep their heads flat will be rewarded with ten taels of silver per person by the imperial court.

If the soldier does not want to, he will not be reluctant, but he must withdraw from the new army, and he will never be allowed to join the army.

The soldiers of the fortress base were naturally obedient to Jiang Chuan.

Soon, Bai Mu, the commander of the new First Army, took the lead in cutting off his long hair and keeping it flat.

The ancients did not have the habit of cutting hair, so there were no barbers in the entire capital at all.

So the officers helped each other with their hairstyles and cut them with scissors for needlework.

Hair cutting is a technical job, there is no doubt about it, so many people cut their hairstyles similar to those gnawed by dogs, with uneven potholes.

In the end, Jiang Chuan thought of a way to transfer some military doctors and nurses from the army to help these new soldiers cut their hair.

Because in the war, many people will hurt their heads, so military doctors and nurses also have to learn the skills of cutting hair, but I didn't expect it to come in handy here today.

In short, a vigorous hair-cutting campaign was launched in the New First Army.

Under the leadership of the officers, and the stimulation of the silver taels, the rest of the recruits of the new army were recruited from among the common people. also cut their hair and kept their heads flat.

However, the New First Army was going to adopt closed training, so there was no rumor about the New First Army's hair-cutting movement, so it did not cause waves in the capital.

Wait until the New First Army has all finished cutting their hair.

The soldiers put on brand-new crisp gray military uniforms and tied up their armed belts, all of them heroic and mighty, and the awkwardness brought by cutting off the long hair that had been left for many years in many people's hearts was also alleviated a lot.