One of the most bitter things for the people at the end of the Qing Dynasty, like most of the people at the end of the dynasty, was the issue of land annexation. Pen ~ fun ~ Ge www.biquge.info some landlords have more and more land, and ordinary people have less and less land, and eventually become tenant farmers of landlords. Although the Qing Dynasty promised never to raise taxes, there was no restriction on the landlords' rents, and the good-hearted landlords received 50 percent of the rent, the government received 10 percent, the peasants left 40 percent to feed their families, and the bad-hearted landlords received 60 or 70 percent, which was already difficult to support themselves. In a disaster year, the landlord will reduce the rent, but the rent of the government must be paid, which causes the people to have to borrow money from the landlord to pay the rent, and then wait for the next year to repay this year's money. The land tax was collected by the Qing court, but the local tax exceeded the tax of the imperial court, and those who fished had to pay the fish tax, and those who drove the boat needed to pay the ship tax.

The land tax in Jiangbei is not heavy, but the commercial tax is heavy, which is also the reason why the people in Jiangbei are not starving to death, but the people are not very rich. After Wang Yongan visited and investigated, he deeply felt sad for the people living in this era, but he knew that compared with now, the human disaster of selling children and daughters ten years later, today's life is nostalgic.

After returning to the Jingfa Temple barracks, Li Yao reported that all the other wounded soldiers were able to study in peace, except for the blind soldiers, who were blind. This time, seven blind soldiers were retired, and they were already desperately preparing to beg for food en masse. Wang Yongan immediately thought of a popular project in later generations - blind massage, which was not the kind of performance shop massage service on the street in later generations, but a real blind massage. Before the crossing, Wang Yongan went to the blind massage parlor twice, forty-five yuan at a time, forty yuan discount for the card, and a massage for forty-five minutes.

Wang Yongan immediately discussed with Yue Wenzheng to let these blind soldiers learn massage, he knew that it was difficult for the outside world to accept massage services, so he hoped that the Yangzhou Military Hospital could not set up a sports recovery department. Originally, Yue Wenzheng, a scholar obsessed with Western medicine, strongly opposed Chinese medicine, but in the face of these blind soldiers, he had to accept it. Wang Yongan then hired two traditional Chinese medicine doctors who knew how to massage, and took seven blind apprentices to set up the sports recovery department of Yangzhou Military Hospital, which was specially designed to train soldiers who had strained muscles to recover their bodies.

Gradually, many officers discovered the benefits of massage for the blind, and from time to time some people went to the sports recovery department to ask the blind doctor to massage to restore their bodies, and some people even massaged once a day, making the army more humane.

Wang Yongan also sent his subordinates to find matchmakers to do matchmaking for retired soldiers or active soldiers, and several retired veterans got married within half a month, and the retired soldiers who got married took the pension for the wounded soldiers and the resettlement fee for retirement, bought land and houses in the north of Yangzhou City, and lived a peaceful life.

After the veterans recuperated and studied, Wang Yongan began to arrange for them to work, some were placed in their own factories, some people mastered the craft and returned to their hometowns with silver, and some wounded soldiers with limited mobility were also placed by Wang Yongan in some easier jobs such as watching, standing guard at the dock, signal guidance, etc.

Almost all the injured and very injured veterans have their own lives after retiring, maybe no longer so exciting, maybe very dull, but it makes many people envy and yearn, and Wang Yongan has gradually spread a good reputation for loving soldiers like a son in Yangzhou City.

Compared with Wang Yongtai's fierce and tough, Wang Yongan has some mothers-in-law and mothers, who are not so neat and neat, especially in the placement of wounded soldiers, who do it himself, as if a mother must bow down to everything. But it is precisely because of his attitude towards retired wounded soldiers that this army, which has experienced bloody battles and civil strife, has reunited together, and even those officers distributed by the imperial court have to admit that they are relieved to have such a commander who loves soldiers like a son.

On behalf of more than 20 officers and cadets, he signed a letter of determination to Wang Yongan, saying that he would never join any revolutionary party or spread any ideas in the army.

Wang Yongan considered that these people had also been trained, knew the severity, and that his control over the army was increasing day by day, so he did not need to be afraid of them causing chaos, so he re-released their house arrest and returned to the army to continue to lead the troops. More than 20 officers returned to the army to lead the troops, which relieved many officers and relieved their tired work.

The resettlement of Wang Yongan's wounded soldiers was rewarded by Yuan Shikai in Henan Province, who sent a telegram to Wang Yongan saying that this was a model for Beiyang and should be emulated by the generals. It can be seen that Yuan Shikai is the real old fox, and Zaifeng has done all his tricks and tricks, but it is not as effective as Yuan Shikai's words.

After the resettlement of the wounded soldiers was completed and the statistics were recounted, there were still more than 3,800 people in the 24 Mixed Formation Association, but some troops had more people, some troops had fewer people, and some units had become empty shelves. Feng Heng suggested reorganizing the army, and suggested that the original cavalry and artillery standards should be changed to cavalry battalions and artillery battalions, but the battalion commander could receive the rank of commander.

Wang Yongan agreed to the reorganization of the army, and began to discuss with the generals the reorganization of the army, they abandoned the Beiyang Army and the Qing Army's 22 system, and changed to the 33 system of the later army. That is, three sheds and one row, three rows and one team, three teams and one battalion, three battalions and one standard, and three standards plus four battalions are mixed associations.

The introduction of the three-three system catered to the standards of the mixed association, and the new army mixed association at the end of the Qing Dynasty actually did not have too specific regulations, the scale of a mixed association can be large or small, the money is more to raise some soldiers, the money is less to raise some soldiers, and the military salary of the imperial court is still 100,000 taels per year, you can do it yourself.

In Wang Yongan's re-formulated standard for the preparation of the 24th Mixed Association, the Shed Queue Camp Standard Association stipulates: 14 people in one shed of the Mixed Association including the chief and deputy head of the shed, and 44 people in a row of three sheds including the chief and deputy platoon leaders.

The company is organized into a team of three platoons, of which the first platoon and the second platoon are infantry platoons, and the third platoon is a mixed arrangement, including a fire shed, a communication shed and a cooking shed, and the company's command system is the captain, deputy captain, and confidential clerk, and the chief and deputy captains are each equipped with a guard, and the company has a full strength of 137 people.

In the battalion-level establishment, in addition to commanding the three teams, the battalion headquarters directly governs the firepower platoon, the recruit supplement platoon, the special operations platoon, the engineer platoon, and the confidential platoon, and in addition to the battalion headquarters, there is also a full battalion commander, a deputy battalion commander, a battalion chief of staff, and a number of battalion staff officers, and the full strength of the infantry battalion is 640 people.

In addition to the same configuration as the battalion headquarters, the standard headquarters guard and medical team have been added, and the infantry is 2,700 people.

The 24th Mixed Association is still the first standard of infantry, the second standard of infantry, the third standard of infantry, the baggage battalion, the cavalry battalion, the artillery battalion, the guard battalion, the prisoner of war battalion, and the field hospital, of which the prisoner of war battalion and the field hospital are temporary establishments in wartime, and are not in the sequence in non-wartime, and the remaining four battalions such as the baggage battalion are directly under the co-command headquarters, and the full number of the association is 11,000 people. (To be continued.) )