The 3,000 sets of ready-to-wear clothes produced are not the kind of military uniforms that Zhou Shixiang had common in his previous life, but follow the inherent military uniform style of the Ming Army, but the words "Taiping Army" are embroidered with black thread on the right arm.

This kind of cloth armor military uniform is lighter than cotton armor, and the breathability is also stronger, which is definitely the most suitable for the Taiping Army, which must be fighting in the south in the short term.

Zhou Shixiang did not have any ingenuity to design any new military hats, still using the common hat style military hat of the Southern Ming Army, the hat body is made of bamboo and cloth, and there is a red silk spire inserted above the top of the hat, which looks majestic.

In fact, Zhou Shixiang wanted to get an iron helmet for the soldiers to wear, so as to reduce the probability of head injury on the battlefield, but the Taiping Army did not have the conditions to make tens of thousands of iron helmets for the time being, so they could only use this kind of hat for the time being.

Zhou Shixiang praised Lin Wanfu and the Yang family of Teda Buxing, and expressed his happiness and satisfaction that they could produce this batch of ready-to-wear in a short period of time. He also instructed that the 500 female workers of the Military Uniform Division should be given a commendation, so that they could receive ten pounds of rice and one pound of pork or five eggs from the public treasury set up in various places to improve their lives.

After Lin Wanfu knew that the "son-in-law" was coming, he set up a table of wine and food, but Zhou Shixiang did not stay to eat, but ordered people to send the 3,000 sets of ready-to-wear clothes to Liangzi Township to change the clothes of the left battalion of the infantry army, and asked them to hurry up the production of the next batch, and at the same time put the production of 500 pairs of military boots on the agenda.

After these instructions, Zhou Shixiang went to the Yongle Township Office to inspect the resettlement of local immigrants. This made Lin Wanfu very disappointed. complained that his daughter must not have served the handsome man well, otherwise the "son-in-law" saw his father-in-law so coldly yesterday, and he also took this opportunity to have a good talk with the "son-in-law". Is it to transfer him to the county town to make a fat difference, instead of making clothes in this military uniform department all day long. It's really not okay for him to do his old job, and take care of the money and food for the Taiping Army Treasury. In the matter of his own "son-in-law", is it difficult for him, the old father-in-law, to be able to get up and down and defeat the "son-in-law"'s family?

Seeing Lin Wanfu so lost, Yang Wanquan, the former shopkeeper of the Taida Cloth Store in Luodingzhou City, was happy, as early as Luo Dingshi, he was not ashamed of Lin Wanfu's personality. In order to get some money, he gave his daughter away as a concubine, and then blasted his daughter out of the door for his own life and stuffed it to Zhou Xiucai. It's a shame to be a father. It's good now, Zhou Xiucai didn't pay attention to him at all, and looked at him in the future, he was embarrassed to always show the stinky appearance of a handsome old man.

At the beginning, Zhou Shixiang copied the gentry and big families in Luoding, and took all these families away. It is impossible for Yang Wanquan and others not to hold grudges in their hearts. However, after the battle to defend Xinhui, the minds of Yang Wanquan and others have changed somewhat. At least when these families occasionally meet, they no longer scold any thieves Xiucai, but call Zhou Xiucai.

As soon as Zhou Shixiang arrived at the Yongle Township Office, he asked the people from the office to bring the roster and placement book and read them carefully one by one. Resettlement has always been a matter of great concern to him, because the size of the population determines the development of Xiangshan, and also determines the strength or weakness of the Taiping Army. indirectly determined Zhou Shixiang's own fate.

When he was in Lingshan Town, Zhou Shixiang repeatedly emphasized to his subordinates the importance of population, food, salt and iron to the Taiping Army. Of the three, the population is the heaviest.

The Taiping army relocated more than 30,000 people from Zengcheng, Shunde, Panyu and some villages in the north of Xin'an to Xiangshan, of which only a few thousand were willing to go with the Taiping army, and the rest were forcibly relocated, or taken captive. Of course, in terms of external propaganda, the Taiping Army emphasized that all these people followed voluntarily.

The influx of more than 30,000 new immigrants quickly replenished the urgently needed labor force in Xiangshan, allowing a large amount of land abandoned by the war to be cultivated, and at the same time providing a large number of reserve soldiers for the Taiping army.

Half of the population was resettled in Qianshanzhai and 20 new villages were formed, which were managed by the Qianshanzhai Township Office.

Qianshanzhai Township Office is the largest township of more than a dozen townships in Xiangshan County, and if you talk about the area, it is enough to surpass Zhuhai City in Zhou Shixiang's previous life. However, the area is large, but the population of the former cottage plus these new immigrants is only more than 30,000 people, which is less than a low-class county. The combined population of Xiangshan County is less than 100,000, so the influx of more than 30,000 new immigrants has not triggered conflicts between locals and immigrants over land ownership. The existing arable land in Xiangshan can fully absorb these immigrants.

The two townships of Yongle and Changning were the two townships in Xiangshan County that were most supportive of the Taiping Army, thanks to the more than a dozen massacres that Tie Yi had committed in these two townships.

It was precisely these dozen or so tragic cases that uprooted the landlords and gentry in Yongle Township and Changning Township, and swept away the clan forces, so that the local poor people who served as tenants for the landlords' families were able to lift their personal shackles and get their own land.

The peasants attach the most importance to their immediate interests, and after they get the benefits, they will try their best to keep them, so after tasting the benefits brought to them by the Taiping Army, the young people of Yongle and Changning townships are very enthusiastic about signing up for the Taiping Army. More than 3,000 people signed up, and eventually nearly 2,000 joined the Taiping Army, which also led to the peasant families in these two townships becoming military dependents of the Taiping Army and enjoying the same treatment as those villages formed by the Houying.

More than 4,000 migrants were resettled in the northeastern part of Yongle Township to form three villages, and the villagers who had lived there were originally scattered and relocated to a village with a large local population by the township office.

Zhou Shixiang inspected the rations, farm tools, and cattle provided by the township office to the migrants, as well as the establishment of several village offices. Although there are still some deficiencies and flaws, and even some corruption can be vaguely seen, the organization and mobilization ability of the Yongle Township Office has far exceeded the past, and this alone is enough to satisfy Zhou Shixiang, as for those small sections, it is not the focus of Zhou Shixiang's concern at the moment.

With the existing territory and conditions of the Taiping Army, it is a joke to consider rectifying the rule of officials, and if the scholars in these public offices are rectified, who will do things for the Taiping Army?

Zhou Shixiang is not confused to that point.

In fact, the resettlement of the migrants did not cost the money and food of the Taiping military treasury, because the money and grain used to resettle these migrants were originally collected from them. Even farm tools were brought out of their homes.

With the assistance of township and village offices in various places, the Taiping army did not use much manpower to resettle the migrants. The houses that the migrants live in are built by themselves, and the fields are cultivated by themselves. All the Taipings had to do was keep them safe. Some disputes between immigrants are handled by the public office, and the security teams of each township are also responsible for public security. The Taiping Army just got people over, and then they basically didn't ask.

After seeing that most of the immigrants in the township built thatched houses, Zhou Shixiang suddenly became a little uneasy, because although Xiangshan has a good climate and abundant products, it seems to be affected by typhoons every year. These thatched huts are easy to set up, but once a typhoon hits. The collapse of the house was instantaneous.

After returning to Xiangshan, Zhou Shixiang instructed Liao Ruixiang to immediately organize people to build kiln factories in various townships and make bricks in large quantities. All township offices should plan the construction of brick houses in a unified manner to improve the living conditions of the people. Of course, these brick houses must first meet the needs of the people in the back camp before they can supply the immigrants. If immigrants and local people do it themselves. Participate in brick-making and house building in the form of labor. These people can also be given priority to live in brick houses, so as to mobilize the enthusiasm of immigrants.

The era of kiln firing technology has long been mature, and with some people who have worked in the kiln factory to guide, Zhou Shixiang is not worried that he will not be able to burn bricks.

After careful consideration, Zhou Shixiang instructed Song Xianggong to set up a civil affairs department under the military marshal's mansion, and the subordinates set up four divisions of agriculture reclamation, fishery and animal husbandry, post transmission, and workshop, which were specially responsible for the construction and development of Xiangshan.

Song Xianggong believed that the military marshal's office should be the main management of the army, and civil affairs should be handed over to Xiangshan County. These matters can be dealt with in public houses such as household houses, punishment rooms, and ritual rooms in the Xinhui County Yaya.

This suggestion was rejected by Zhou Shixiang because, in his opinion. The Taiping Army will certainly not only have a piece of territory in Xiangshan in the future, so it is necessary to set up a civil affairs department in the military marshal's office, and if it can seize Guangzhou in the future, then this civil affairs department can be immediately transformed into a Guangdong political envoy, so as to take over the power of the whole province of Guangdong and quickly operate.

Song Xianggong focused on the present, Zhou Shixiang focused on the future, the Ministry of Civil Affairs he wanted to establish was completely a small government structure, and it was also used to train the Taiping Army's own government affairs talent organization, if it was placed in Xiangshan County, it would definitely not meet its own requirements, and it was easy to conflict with the county government, so he strongly promoted this matter. Song Xianggong couldn't resist him, so he had to agree, and according to Zhou Shixiang's opinion, the Ministry of Civil Affairs was established in the Military Marshal's Mansion, and at the same time, the responsibilities of each department were clearly implemented.

Zhou Shixiang asked Song Xianggong to concurrently serve as a civil official, because there was no specific official title, so this civil official was a temporary dispatch.

The responsibility of the Department of Reclamation is to be responsible for agriculture; As the name suggests, the Department of Fisheries and Animal Husbandry is responsible for fishing and raising livestock; The post secretary was responsible for road repairs and the establishment of post stations; The workshop department is responsible for the establishment and unified management of the iron workshop, and is also responsible for the manufacture of ordnance.

Because these four divisions are closely related to people's livelihood, Zhou Shixiang doesn't want those scholars to be responsible, as long as Song Xianggong finds some people related to them to be responsible, and then some readers to assist, so that the layman will not lead the insider.

The person in charge of the Agricultural Reclamation Division is Qian Feng, the chief banner who lost an arm in the Battle of Xinhui, he is illiterate, but before joining the Taiping Army, he was an expert in farming, and he did things steadily, so Song Xianggong guaranteed him to be the head of this division.

The task of the Department of Fisheries and Animal Husbandry is not heavy, but it is not light, and there are one or two thousand cattle, sheep, pigs, horses, and other livestock captured before and after, which requires a very large amount of fodder and grazing. Xiangshan is the land of fish and rice, the water system in the territory is developed, and there are many mountains and forests, so the Department of Fishery and Animal Husbandry has to manage these livestock, and is also responsible for organizing some fishermen to go to sea to fish, and provide fish and meat for the Taiping Army and the people of Xiangshan. The most important thing is that the Department of Fisheries and Animal Husbandry must set up pig farms, cattle farms, and even duck and chicken farms belonging to the Taiping Army, so that the Taiping Army can have its own stable source of poultry meat and reduce the burden on the people. Like Qian Feng, the director of the Agricultural Reclamation Division, Song Xianggong's selection of the chief of the Fishery and Animal Husbandry Division was a fisherman named Song Bao.

The post division is mainly responsible for repairing the official roads in Xiangshan, and is also responsible for the construction and maintenance of military posts. The principal is a small official surnamed Qin elected by Liao Ruixiang, saying that this person has worked as a post man in the past and knows more about this aspect. The head of the workshop is a subordinate of Tie Yi Baoju, who used to build tools for the mine when he was in the Laofengzhuang Copper Mine, and after joining the Taiping Army, he successfully repaired a firecracker. (To be continued.) )