This short notice made the whole county boil, and each notice would be preceded by a literate soldier who would read it out, and if there was anything you didn't understand, you could also ask, so that the people present would know the meaning of it.

At the same time, in the countryside, Han Zheng also arranged for people to go down to the townships to publicize, Wang Xian and others took their subordinates, each responsible for a region, and they personally led the team, and tried to let all the peasants know about this matter.

Regarding the recruitment conditions set out by Han Zheng, with the prestige that Han Zheng had erected before, no one doubts this.

In this way, the treatment of being a soldier has attracted a large number of young people, especially those who have just come out of the countryside, for whom being a soldier has become an honor, and they will no longer be forced to be strong as before, nor will they worry about their families and military salaries being swallowed up as before.

When Wang Xian, who came down to publicize, said everything that should be said, groups of people gathered in each village to discuss the matter of the people becoming soldiers, and some even went home to discuss with their families.

As Han Zheng said, this time there will never be an embarrassing situation like conscription in Hebei.

On the afternoon of the day of recruitment, the people who got the news hurried to the registration office, and almost everyone who participated in the registration was red-faced, and squeezed forward excitedly, until Han Zheng saw that it was not a way, and sent Han Qiang to bring the guards over to maintain order, which was fine.

Han Zheng looked at the scene in front of him, and couldn't help but think of the situation when he was in Hebei before, and sighed a little embarrassed, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he had to admit that "those who win the hearts of the people win the world." This sentence will never go out of style at any time, and it also has a deeper understanding of the wisdom of the great man in later generations.

By the time the registration ended that day, the number of people had reached 400, but at this time these people were not selected, but they were registered, and after the five-day registration period was over, the qualified among these people were carefully selected.

The next day, the number of people who came was really an eye-opener for Wang Xian and a few people, there were more than 700 people registered, these people are all those young and strong young men, this is a source of good soldiers, no wonder these areas in the north have always been strong, from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom period to the present, there are really a lot of strong soldiers who have come out here, this time Han Zheng can come to this place is really lucky.

This continued for three days, and it was only slightly better on the fourth and fifth days.

After the registration time ended, seeing the number of more than 2,100 people who had signed up, many officers in Han Zheng's army could not hide the joy in their hearts, everyone was full of red faces, and they admired the vision of their battalion commander.

However, this is only the first step in recruitment, and the next step is more complicated.

Han Zheng and the others devoted themselves to this matter, so they did not let everyone wait longer, and the day after the registration ended, they began to personally lead people to screen whether the soldiers were qualified, which was the most complicated matter, and it was not until four days later that this matter was finally determined.

And Han Zheng's next step in front of Han Zheng and others is how to let these still immature peasants become qualified soldiers, and the real army has just begun.

After screening these soldiers, the final result was that more than 1,200 of the 2,000 people fully met the standards set by Han Zheng.

For this, after Chen Feng and others consulted Han Zheng, they also kept the extra 200 slightly weaker people, although it was a little difficult to raise these soldiers financially for the time being, but they could still bear it.

As for the settling-in allowance for these soldiers, it is also a lot of expenses, and tens of thousands of oceans have been spent at one time! However, Han Zheng sold the captured gold bars and other things in the camp, plus the remaining silver money in the original camp, and gave the newly recruited soldiers a settling-in fee of ten yuan per person, and gave them a day off to send the money home.

After that, Han Zheng officially began to organize these soldiers, and a total of five new soldiers were organized into five recruit teams, and all the veterans were temporarily led by Wang Xian.

However, the low-level officers under Wang Xian and others who had participated in the evening training were all asked by Wang Xian to come over, and he personally led the officer team of more than 20 people into the recruit team for training.

This time, Han Zheng didn't have so much time to give these soldiers too much military basic training as usual, but he didn't miss the morning exercises and runs every morning.

Although these recruits were selected, they could only be considered good, not strong enough. In addition, they did not go through this kind of military training with a strong purpose, so they were not suitable for this training method at first, but they persevered under Han Zheng's personal demonstration and leadership, and after a week, they finally slowly saw the effect.

In addition to the two basic training methods, the half-day in the morning is almost a queue operation to strengthen the understanding and execution of orders of these recruits.

At the same time, Han Zheng took out all the guns in the army's inventory, including the 300 rifles and 300 broadswords that were originally in the army's inventory, as well as more than 200 rifles that had been smuggled in recently, and the 100 rifles brought by Lin Xiang and others, and a total of nearly 700 rifles were brought to the school without reservation.

Although it can't be one per person, Han Zheng's Huaiyan and cotton textile mills and the expanding flour mills continue to provide funds for his army expansion, especially the profits from Huaiyan, so the gun smuggling has never stopped, and it will not be long before it will be replenished.

Even Han Zheng was thinking about whether to get a rifle production line, but of course it was not possible now, and he would have to wait until the funds were sufficient in the future.

As for the guns and bullets, Li Yiru didn't know where to get the bullet production line for Han Zheng, but it had already arrived the day before yesterday, and under Han Zheng's arrangement, a group of literate soldiers who were interested in machinery had been put in.

This production line is expected to be assembled in these two days, and trial production, as far as a few skilled masters who came with said, this production line is one of the latest production lines of the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, as long as the manpower, resources are sufficient, can produce about 1,000 bullets per day.

However, this also brought more financial pressure to Han Zheng, and due to this, the current trial production stage is only expected to be around 300 to 400 rounds of ammunition per day.

Han Zheng was helpless about this, although he was sad, but he could only wait slowly for the next year to produce vigorously after the autumn.

With these conditions, so this training, Han Zheng will not live a little calculating life as before. Especially some time ago, the guard who came back with the ship that went out to buy told him that the north and south did not rest because of Yuan Shikai's inauguration, and even after friction began, Han Zheng's sense of urgency became more and more great, and under the pressure of this sense of urgency, Han Zheng made great efforts to train recruits.

These efforts were not wasted, with the joint efforts of Han Zheng and these middle and lower-level officers, these 1,200 recruits grew rapidly, and even Wang Xian and others had to admit that once the recruits were trained this time and saw blood, they would definitely be no worse than those veterans.

Therefore, these people would go to Han Zheng's side together a few times every day, eagerly waiting for Han Zheng to assign these soldiers to his command.

In this way, the days are full day by day, and these recruits have slowly adapted to the life in the army and grown into a qualified soldier.

And in this process, with the strengthening of training, some recruits who could not keep up with the intensity of training also began to appear, and for these recruits, Han Zheng did not drive these people out of the barracks.

Although these soldiers can't keep up with the training intensity of the troops, they are already basically qualified soldiers in other armies, and they can shoot anything.

Therefore, Han Zheng divided these people separately and became a team on their own, and was incorporated into the police guard that Han Zheng had envisioned a long time ago, and the only difference from the idea was that the number of police guards increased from the original forty to eighty, and forty of them patrolled the countryside in various places.

The remaining troops of the 200 people who were still allocated were handed over to Li Feng 30 people, and the rest were arranged into the engineer team by Han Zheng, and these people were completely arranged.

Those who are still training with Han Zheng are still about 900 people, which is exactly in line with Han Zheng's original idea.

At this time, it was already the beginning of April, and there were still more than two months before the autumn harvest, and the wheat in the fields had begun to grow ears.

Han Zheng, who was preparing to reintegrate the troops, didn't know that the Hui Party in Fuyang and other places seemed to have begun to wait to make a move against Han Zheng.

In a big mansion in Fuyang County, here is Bai He, the current principal of Fuyang County, who was born in the Hui Party, and he also saw Chen Duxiu and Bai Wenwei and others in the early stage of the Wuchang Uprising, that is, at that time, he got in touch with the Hui Party in Mengcheng Bozhou and Wuyang Taihe County, and this connection has not been broken.

"Big brother, we can't delay any longer, although we now have more than 700 brothers and more than 800 steel guns, but the young Han ruthless man who came from Vortex Yang has now recruited more than 1,000 people, I heard that they are now in the wind recently, especially the benefits of Huaiyan, let them make a lot of money, once they develop, it will be unimaginable for us!"

At this time, it was Bai He's younger brother Bai Liang who spoke, and the Han ruthless person that the other party was talking about was naturally Han Zheng.

Ever since Han Zheng caught those water bandits and opium dealers, the news of shooting without blinking spread that Han Zheng had earned this nickname among the surrounding parties.

Bai Liang saw that his eldest brother didn't nod, but he was even more dissatisfied and said: "Let's not talk about anything else, let's just say that our people in Vortex Yang were also killed by him at one time, our current opium is difficult to get in from Vortex Yang, and a lot of income has been lost in turnover costs, if we let the other party go on like this, our financial road is likely to be cut off, it is better to take advantage of the fact that the other party's recruits have not yet been trained, let's just start first!" ”