Li Shijing was bored at home, and on this day she was admiring the flowers in the garden, when suddenly her maid stuffed a letter painted with fire paint and returned to the room to open the letter.

To Li Shijing's surprise, the letter turned out to be sent by Xia Jun.

In the letter, she saw that Xia Jun's situation was so 'bleak', and she spent this winter without relatives, so she couldn't help wiping a few tears, took out a pen and paper, and wrote a reply to Xia Jun with a hard time.

In the reply, Li Shijing talked about her situation, and didn't know why her father didn't let her go out, and explained that she wanted to go to Xia Jun......

At the same time, Li Shijing also inquired about the situation of the security group in the letter.

Although Li Shijing stayed at home, the news was not closed, and she still knew that the Qing army stationed in the county town was defeated and returned, but she didn't know how far the security regiment had developed, so she asked curiously.

Soon Li Shijing's letter was sent to Zhang Sigou through her maid, and the maid passed the letter once and got 10 silver dollars, which made the little girl smile from ear to ear.

This letter was immediately sent back to Xixiang by Zhang Sigou at the speed of 'eight hundred miles expedited'.

Xia Jun was very happy after receiving the letter, Li Shijing was willing to reply to the letter, and the channel of communication by letter was established secretly. Xia Jun opened the letter and read it, and saw Li Shijing asking about the development of the security team, Xia Jun called You Zhengbin and began to take pictures in the group.

Xia Jun posed a lot for You Zhengbin to take a photo, and this posture was like a photo.

Xia Jun put the washed photos in his reply, and introduced the development status of the security regiment, which is nothing to be classified or unconfidential.

In addition, Xia Jun also told Li Shijing about repairing the toilet.

Li Shijing saw those photos after receiving the letter, which greatly surprised her, and what she didn't expect was that the security regiment actually had a unified military uniform, a unified weapon, a heavy machine gun and a three-wheeled motorcycle. Seeing Xia Jun mention the matter of repairing the toilet, Xia Jun's miser appearance in the article made her stomach hurt with laughter.

The correspondence between the two was very frequent, sometimes even two letters a day. This can turn the maid next to Li Shijing overturned, and Xia Jun paid her a high hush money in order to hide it. For this reason, his contact with Li Shijing has been very secretive, and no third person in the Li Mansion knows.

The relationship between the two has grown by leaps and bounds, and the title has become very intimate, Li Shijing's name for Xia Jun has only one word - Jun, and Xia Jun's name for Li Shijing is two words - Xiaojing, whose numbness has reached a certain level, but that meaning has never been pierced.

The most in the letter of the two is to confide in their feelings, Li Shijing is not in a very good mood at home, in the letter many times complained that her father did not know what was crazy, and began to raise her in the attic like those traditional daughters, for Li Shijing, who has studied abroad, this is very sad.

Xia Jun's side reported good news but not bad news, and the situation was very good. Therefore, every day when Li Shijing reads Xia Jun's letter, she will smile, obviously very happy, and never worried.

The situation on Xia Jun's side is really good, since the six platoons were sent out to suppress the bandits, the points have come up in an uproar, Xia Jun asked each platoon to suppress the bandits to be efficient, not quality.

Efficiency is to kill or capture the largest number of bandits in the shortest possible time, and quality is to deal with a group of bandits, whether to catch them all, or catch their bandits, and force them to pay for money.

Although these bandits are cunning, they are more of those bandit leaders, and the whereabouts of those ordinary bandits are easy to find, just ask around.

These ordinary bandits are large in number and have large targets, and they are easy to suppress without intention.

However, there are 35 fighters in one platoon, and the quality of the suppression of bandits naturally cannot keep up, and it is basically impossible to encircle and annihilate them.

Anyway, the points of the bandits will never be as much as the people's hearts, but at present, they urgently need points to establish a seed cultivation base for high-yield crops.

So let the platoons sweep like a comb, anyway, China is so big, bandits are everywhere, the bandits in this place are gone, just transfer the position.

For this reason, the platoons fought or prepared for combat almost every day, either to attack the bandits, or to ambush the bandits, or to station in the villages that the bandits wanted to attack.

In Xixiang, Xia Jun's points are rising day by day, and the seizures of bandits in each platoon are also more or less, but they add up to a very considerable amount.

In just one week, Xia Jun's points have risen by more than 70,000 points, and after nearly four months of training, these second-line troops have practiced their combat skills every day, and their combat quality has generally improved well.

The bandits were in trouble, and each platoon, with their sophisticated equipment, specialized in attacking the largest bandits in the area, and the platoon in charge of the Zhenghe area killed more than 200 bandits in a week.

The seizures were huge, and the money collected from the bandits amounted to more than 100,000 silver dollars within a week.

Because of the launch of the bandits, Xia Jun's financial resources skyrocketed.

There were also some casualties among the bandits, and Xia Jun began to continue to recruit the security regiment, and the scope of this expansion expanded the townships and towns of Jian'an.

As a result of the suppression of bandits in various platoons, all towns and towns in Jian'an County have a certain understanding of the security regiment.

For this reason, Xia Jun has a larger recruitment area, and the second recruitment is scheduled to recruit another 500 people, and then form three infantry companies, as well as a logistics company.

This recruitment is still a second-line unit, and it is also equipped with Springfield rifles.

The soldiers of the 21st Company, which had not been released to suppress the bandits, were used to supplement the casualties of the two companies that had been released, and the 500 recruits would also participate in the suppression of the bandits during training, but under the direct command of Xia Jun.

With so many troops, we can vigorously encircle and suppress bandits in various places. When the training is almost over, it will be divided into platoon levels and released to suppress bandits.

At this time, Xia Jun found that there were economic problems restricting the development of the security regiment, and they were not all economic problems, but also talent and internal problems.

The economic problem is very simple, although the security regiment has enough money, but the security regiment does not have a stable economic source, the agricultural tax is obviously not a top matter, the agricultural tax in Saigo is set very low after the autonomy, and the exchange of seeds for high-yield crops is not cost-effective, once the security regiment is financially bankrupt, the consequences are very serious. However, in the short term, there is still no big problem in terms of finances, because the security corps still has enough money in hand.

Under the circumstance that there are sufficient financial resources to support the expansion of the army, the lack of qualified personnel and internal ideological education has become a constraint to the expansion.

Without a teaching regiment, without an army with qualified officers, any mess can arise.

The security regiment, which has been expanded to 1,100 people, has been expanded to the limit at this time, but fortunately, the 500 recruits are still under the jurisdiction of the headquarters, and military discipline can be guaranteed, and at the same time, the command is also under the direct command of Xia Jun. In order to train officers, Xia Jun opened an informal 'Jianzhou Army Academy' to supplement military knowledge to officers in the regiment every day.

The points obtained because of the bandits increased faster than Xia Jun expected, so Xia Jun began to think about the plan to start a factory.

With the current conditions, the paper mill is the first plant to be built.

The product must have packaging, right? This requires a variety of packaging paper, at the same time paper is a popular commodity, there is a vast market, Fujian is not short of papermaking raw materials.