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The recruitment process took only a few days, and after the registration at the recruitment stations was completed, the selection was completed in just one day. Anyway, there are only a few things in the assessment, and it is too chaotic for more than 1,000 people to gather together for the assessment, so they start the assessment in batches. Depending on the number of people, they were divided into several batches, and finally the best one hundred and fifty people were selected. In fact, the end result proves that opportunities are reserved for those who are prepared.

Of the 30,000 reserve troops that have passed the pass, more than half of them are related to the current Mawei Army officers and soldiers. is either his relatives or his relatives, Geng Jingzhong did not make any other indications on this point. Anyway, this group of New Army Reserve Corps will still have to be trained, and then it will be disrupted, and then it will be transferred into three infantry divisions of the New Marine Army. It doesn't matter if they are relatives of current military personnel, as long as they meet the assessment requirements and are loyal to him.

In this month's time, he has been paying attention to the situation in Guangdong all the time, and detailed information about Guangdong has been sent to his desk every day. Geng Jingzhong only cares about it, not whether Sun Yanling in Guangxi took the opportunity to march into the army, nor how much silver he copied from his family, he just cares about the reaction of the people in various prefectures and counties in Guangdong, to put it bluntly, it is a matter of people's hearts. Although Guangdong was occupied by him, it does not mean that the occupation of a place is finished, only when it has won the support of the people and won the hearts of the people can it be regarded as a complete achievement, otherwise, it can only be called military occupation!

Judging from the current reaction, the prefectures and counties in Guangdong are okay. The officials under the command of the Mawei Army are in full swing in various places, and there will be one or two big families in every place who are more or less troubled by the locality. In addition, there are also stubborn underworld forces in various places. The task of the Ponytail Army is to get rid of all these social pests. Give the people a bright blue sky. Not to mention, this method is the most direct and effective. In just one month, not a single place in the place occupied by the Mawei Army showed resentment, but more people applauded.

What's more, in Meizhou and Chaozhou, which were first occupied by the Mawei Army, a large number of mountain bandits entrenched in the mountains were all wiped out by the soldiers of the Mawei Army without fear of hard work, and the bandits were eliminated. It also made the surrounding people truly realize the difference between the Mawei Army and the original Guangdong Army. And in the process of suppressing bandits, the Mawei Army also lost a lot of soldiers. Especially in the southwest of Dapu County, there is a bandit that has been entrenched for more than 10 years on the four Kang Mountains near the Hanjiang River, and the four Kang Mountains not only have dangerous terrain, but also set traps everywhere on the way into the mountains, although the Mawei Army has also undergone jungle combat training, but the number of times is not much, and they are not familiar with this place, and finally although they exterminated this group of 200 bandits, they lost more than 30 soldiers in the battle.

The Mawei Army did not lose a single person when they took Dapu County. However, there were so many casualties during the suppression of bandits, which indeed attracted the attention of the division commander Jiang Yuanxun. The Mawei army attacked the city and pulled out the fortress, which was quite sharp. And with the help of artillery. But in the jungle, muskets work, but artillery is completely useless, and even if there are muskets, unfamiliarity with the jungle will kill a large number of innocent soldiers. Therefore, after the completion of the task of suppressing bandits in various places in his charge, in addition to continuing to cooperate with the work of the officials of the Ministry of Political Affairs, he also pulled the soldiers under his command to the jungle for special training.

In addition to purging the localities, Geng Jingzhong also ordered preferential treatment to the honest family. In particular, the Ministry of Government was instructed that when the officials below were working, they should not make the whole of Fujian the same as the white terror of later generations, so that all the big families were afraid. If all the large and small families in Guangdong are provoked to unite against him, then even if the Mawei Army can be suppressed in the end, it will be more than worth the loss. For those families, there is no one who has not done business, and these days the commercial depression in Guangdong has also had a great impact on the business of their families, so Geng Jingzhong also specially sent the talents of the General Administration of Customs and the ocean trading company to Guangdong to restore local trade.

According to the current situation, it will not be long before Guangdong Province will completely become Geng Jingzhong's territory, and the mark of the Shang family will be erased soon. This is also in line with Geng Jingzhong's strategy of taking one place to govern one place and thoroughly digesting one place. In fact, there is still a very important thing that has not been done, this time to take Guangdong, Geng Jingzhong has gained a large piece of territory, especially the largest spoils of war - land, this thing has not yet reached the time of free distribution.

At this moment, it is the spring ploughing season, and we can't just let that large amount of land be abandoned. However, they could not just give away the land, so they had to build large farms. There were also advantages to building large farms, where all the land was temporarily under Geng Jingzhong's name, and all the people who worked in it became farm workers, and the Mawei Army paid the workers on time every month. Taking the industry under Geng Jingzhong's name in Fujian as an example, the wages of the work in each workshop or shop are very high, and basically there is an income of nearly two large silver dollars every month, which is only slightly inferior to the ordinary soldiers of the Mawei Army. By the way, the Mawei Army also has a lot of preferential policies than them.

In Guangdong, when the farms were first set up, the wages of the workers were not as high as those in Fujian, and it was very good to be able to give a big silver dollar every month, and for those landless people, it would be a year of death, and the income would be much better than renting the landlord's land. In fact, with the current yield of the land, the wages paid to farm workers are somewhat large, and basically seventy percent of the harvest of a farm is paid. The reason why Geng Jingzhong set this standard was that he didn't want to earn the money of these poor people, and his idea was that he would still distribute these lands to these people in the future.

Not to mention the situation in Guangdong, Fujian Mawei has ushered in a big training boom. This recruitment accounted for 6,000 people in Fuzhou alone, and these 6,000 reserve troops were concentrated in the Mawei barracks to begin training. By this time, the Mawei Army no longer had to hide, and it was displayed in front of the world in such a bright way. The training ground of the reserve army is not all limited to the large school field in the battalion, only this large school field can be used for training queues and standing in military posture, and other training projects are still a little too small to carry out here.

The training and other projects of the reserve army were placed on the edge of the Min River, and the spacious roads were full of teams of Mawei army reserves. With the squadron as a unit, a phalanx of 100 people is divided into training, and the requirement is that everyone will be assessed at the end of the month. This assessment is important not only for the reserve soldiers, but also for the instructors of each team.

There is no war in Fujian at the moment, and in addition to training reserve soldiers, the veterans of the Mawei Army in the Mawei military camp are not idle. Geng Jingzhong also walked out of the barracks office from time to time, and while relaxing, he supervised the training of the army by the way.

On this morning, although the sun was rising, the weather still felt a little cold. It's not enough to just wear a piece of clothing, you have to wear a jacket. There are still a lot of clouds floating in the sky, which makes the sunlight seem very weak and cannot make people feel a little warmth. But all the fighters didn't feel anything, they were only wearing training clothes, all of them were single, but everyone's heads were sweaty.

The number of marines left in Mawei was not large, and the number of soldiers in the escort battalion was only 4,000, but the number of naval soldiers was quite large. The patrol soldiers are a little accustomed to such work, and every time Geng Jingzhong walks by, the soldiers will immediately change from a short break to a standing upright, and then salute. At the same time, they all held their heads high and their chests straight, trying their best to show their high spirits in front of Geng Jingzhong, hoping that Geng Jingzhong would remember them.

And if the soldiers are training, they will not pay attention to anyone next to them at all, even Geng Jingzhong is no exception, Geng Jingzhong will not be able to disturb them, just take a look from afar! At this time, Geng Jingzhong stood at the highest point of the barracks again, and the watchtower overlooked the entire school field and the training point by the river.

"Knock knock!" With the sound of drums, the month-end drills of the Mawei Army Marine Corps began again. The group, which had been scattered, immediately formed a formation, and after steadily advancing for some distance, they raised their new flintlock muskets and prepared them. This is the end-of-month drill, and it is different from the training in the past, there is an assessment in it, so if the appearance is not good, it may be their turn to clean the toilets in the camp next month, such as cleaning the toilets and helping other troops wash their smelly socks. The soldiers are loaded with guns at the moment, and they have to assess their shooting level and array shooting level. The fighters only have the opportunity to train with live ammunition four times a month, and on weekdays, the soldiers carry their guns but do not give them bullets, which is also due to safety concerns. The horsetail warriors in daily training are not issued with mini bullets, and when the fighters are training, they just pretend to have bullets, shoot, reload, and shoot again, which is a lot.

The training of the reserve army was only a little distance from the shooting range, and the movements of the Mawei Marine soldiers could be seen by the first two rows of people standing on the colonel's field.

"It's so fierce!"

"That's fast!"

Although some instructors criticized the reserve soldiers who spoke, they did not stop the discussion of the reserve army for a while. They had only been in the barracks for a few days, and they had not yet had a chance to touch the guns with their own hands. But in the past few days, they have also seen the training of the Mawei Army, but at this time they are still shocked by the power of the musket.

Geng Jingzhong also noticed on the watchtower that the horsetail soldiers were really fast in reloading, especially the escort battalion, which basically reached a rate of fire of more than five rounds per minute. Looking at the sergeants who were training in full swing below, Geng Jingzhong's pride arose. Just as he was watching, a horse rushed over from the direction of the western military port, and it seemed that some news had arrived, so Geng Jingzhong immediately stopped appreciating the performance of the soldiers and returned to the camp office. (To be continued......)