On the fifteenth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar, this is the day of the monthly market in Xixiang, and the place where the market is held is Dragon Village.

On this day, the villagers of each natural village carried their prepared goods to the market in Longcun early in the day, including eggs, kitchen utensils made of bamboo, furniture, cloth shoes, straw sandals, and some fruits and mushrooms from the mountains.

The morning market is undoubtedly very lively, and the villagers take advantage of this day to sell their goods and exchange them for their daily necessities by bartering or buying them with money.

This kind of market rush is an important part of China's rural natural economy, but at this time, China's rural natural economy has been affected by the capital economy, and there are many foreign goods in the market.

For example, cloth, matches, etc., are basically imported goods, and it can be seen from this phenomenon that China's national industry is very declining at this time.

Just as people were trying to bargain, suddenly a group of uninvited guests came to Dragon Village.

I saw that it was a group of people without braids, wearing 'flowery and green' clothes, and holding guns in their hands, one in front of them holding a black flag, and two banners in the middle and on both sides.

One of the banners on both sides reads 'Suppress Bandits,' the other reads 'Security Jingmin,' and the middle one reads 'Jianzhou Security Corps.'

Behind them, there was a group of people who were turned into sugar gourds with ropes, the leader was Lu Lao Continent Haoshen of Lujia Village, and then there were human heads one by one, who were hung by this group of people with several wooden sticks, and the two of them resisted a wooden stick to advance.

This group of people is Xia Jun's Jianzhou Security Regiment, Xia Jun took people and openly came into Long Village.

The township chief of Long Village panicked for a while, and immediately gathered some militia.

Soon the township chief sent someone out to negotiate, and Xia Jun pushed Zhang Sigou up, Zhang Sigou is the only subordinate he is now a little literate and more clever.

Before and after Zhang Sigou went up, the township chief immediately recognized him, isn't this a bandit from this village? After some conversation, the township chief saw that it was a group of bandits, so he agreed to let them into the township.

The township chief didn't care whether this group of people had braids or not, and he didn't care at all about whether they were reactionary, but he cared about whether this group of people came to the township to rob.

However, after seeing Lu Haoshen and Lu Haohu's heads, the township chief hurriedly changed his face to flattering and greeted him.

This Lu clan is notorious in Xixiang, and this group of bandits has become more and more bold and presumptuous since the Manchu Qing Dynasty's control over the local area became weaker and weaker.

The township chief saw that the Lu clan had been cleaned up by this 'Jianzhou Security Regiment', and he was not sure to resist this group of strongmen, and at the same time, if Lu Haoshen and those heads in the hands of these people were handed over to the government, it would be a great achievement!

After the negotiation was completed, Xia Jun swaggered into the township with people.

Xia Jun suddenly ordered the township chief to be controlled, and the township chief didn't know what was going on! was put in front of Xia Jun, Zhang Sigou is a native of Benlong Village, and he knows the situation in Longcun Township well, according to Zhang Sigou's confession, the township chief is called Li Wancai, and the villagers call him Li Wangba.

"Township Chief Li, from now on, Xixiang will be under the control of our Jianzhou Security Corps." Xia Jun's first sentence scared Township Chief Li half to death, only to see him stammer: "Head Xia, this, this, it's not good!" ”

"What's wrong, on the surface you are still the head of the township, don't be afraid." Xia Jun said to him with a smile, "Our Jianzhou Security Regiment specializes in fighting bandits and does not rob the people, you can rest assured." ”

"Yes, yes, that's what Head Xia said." Li Wancai said, his eyes kept looking out. As a result, the scene he saw made him half angry.

I saw that the more than 100 militiamen he gathered had already mingled with Zhang Sigou at this time, most of those militiamen were young and strong in the township, and the relationship with Zhang Sigou seemed to be very good, and those militiamen were very happy to see Zhang Sigou.

"Our regiment commander said that those who are willing to join the security regiment will be given six silver dollars a month, all inclusive food groups, meat to eat, two sets of military uniforms, and a steel gun......" Zhang Sigou gushed endlessly to introduce them to the treatment of the security regiment, and those militiamen were extremely hot when they heard it.

The enthusiasm of the militia was so great that Zhang Sigou was almost overwhelmed, Zhang Sigou raised his hand and shouted: "Wait, wait, after a while, our regiment commander will start picking people, you four dogs still have something to do." ”

"Brother Four Dogs, you have to help the head of the regiment intercede! We grew up wearing a pair of pants. ”

"Four Dogs......"

Zhang Sigou squeezed out of the crowd, ran back to Xia Jun's side, and saluted, "Report to the head of the group, the task is complete." ”

"Okay, good job, let's go to the market." Xia Jun said that the group coerced Township Chief Li to go to the market, and the closer they got to the market, the more people came, and soon the villagers in each village saw the security group and the group, and they all scratched.

But seeing that they didn't do anything, they watched from afar.

Soon, the security regiment beat gongs and drums to publicize it, and the villagers of all villages applauded when they heard that the bandits in Lujia Village had been defeated.

The reputation of the Jianzhou Security Corps was established in this propaganda.

After walking around the streets of the township, Zhang Sigou came to the stage again to announce the news of the recruitment of the Jianzhou Security Corps, and announced the treatment, and announced that if the scholar comes to the security regiment to work, the salary will not be less than ten silver dollars per month, and the following can't help but be amazed.

That's a staggering amount of money.

Xia Jun didn't believe in the effect of propaganda at all, there are people who came to the township to catch the market in every village today, and now as soon as the treatment of the security group is announced, I believe that it will not be long before the news spreads throughout Xixiang.

On this day, Xia Jun's Jianzhou Security Regiment officially occupied Long Village, and the township chief was controlled by Xia Jun, and he was locked up in the house to do ideological education work at this time!

And the headquarters of the security regiment was also transferred from Shiniu Mountain to Longcun.

However, the security group does not disturb the people, and does not interfere in the administration for the time being, and the villagers have no resistance to the security group, but feel that a group of security groups that do not rob can make them safer in the township.

On the same day, Xia Jun hung up a recruiting office in Longcun, and then began to recruit soldiers, and entered the security regiment to cut braids, which scared away a group of people, but there were still many people who came to sign up for high treatment, among which five scholars came that day, including the township clerks.

These documents are nominally from the government, but the government does not pay them money, and these people usually make a living by collecting fees, but they only make ends meet.

For these literati who can write, Xia Jun accepts them all, according to his thoughts, even if these people have no ability, they can always be used to keep accounts.

In the following days, the number of young people who came to apply for the recruitment gradually increased, and these people came from various natural villages, and Xia Jun personally selected them one by one.

The standard is still like that, don't smoke a lot, don't be an unqualified age, don't be a ruffian in oil, and don't have a good physical fitness.

Among them, the requirements for physical fitness are not too high, the Chinese in this era generally live in poverty, nutrition is not very up, the security corps can improve their nutrition, the problem is not big.

In just one week, Xia Jun's Jianzhou Security Corps expanded to 200 people, and he needed to spend 1,200 silver dollars a month on military salaries, and at the same time, about 600 silver dollars per month for food, plus miscellaneous expenses, he had to spend about 2,000 silver dollars a month, and an average soldier needed to consume about ten silver dollars a month.

At the same time, Xia Jun also recruited fifteen literati in this week, and these literati had different levels of education, some were only at the level of children, and some were at the level of Xiucai.

Xiucai level is the highest, among them there is a Xiucai named You Zhengbin who is the most knowledgeable, and he is only twenty-three years old this year, he was originally a literati who was expected to be admitted to the Juren and Jinshi, but since the Manchu Qing Dynasty abolished the imperial examination system, he also completely lost the opportunity to become a master of the imperial examination.

When the Xinhai Revolution broke out, the provinces were able to read their strengths, which was also related to the inability to legalize the imperial examinations after the Manchu Qing abolished them, after all, Confucianism was the main force for maintaining social stability, and Confucianism had no legal status, which also caused the centrifugation of Confucian literati.

Coupled with the monthly salary of 150 silver dollars for these literati, Xia Jun has to spend about 2,300 silver dollars per month, which is 27,600 silver dollars a year.

After defeating Lujia Village, Xia Jun tortured 30,000 taels of silver from Lu Haoshen's mouth, and if it was exchanged for silver dollars, it would be nearly 45,000, plus the previous 20,000 silver dollars, Xia Jun already had 65,000 silver dollars in his hands, and at the same time he had more than 5,000 catties of grain in his hands, which was financially rich.

If he wants, Xia Jun can expand the strength of the security regiment to 500 people, but at that expansion speed, Xia Jun may not be able to produce any demon moths, and the most important thing is brainwashing...... On the issue of ideological education, Xia Jun can't train so many people at all.