When Li Yongji led the main force back to New Orleans, his life actually began to become leisurely.

In terms of the discipline and training of the troops, Li Yongji has already handed it over to Sun Xiangbing, asking him to reintegrate the troops with a high standard attitude, including not only motorized troops, but also the pure infantry division brought by Shi Dakai.

Although in his heart, Li Yongji had already made a plan, that is, when he had time in the future, he would gradually update the soldiers of the motorized unit of the Dream Division, and recruit a group of high-quality personnel with younger age, better physical fitness, and stronger academic qualifications to serve as soldiers in China to replace the current batch of low-level officers and soldiers, but at present, Li Yongji is not able to do so.

After all, judging from reality, for a motorized unit, it is very time-consuming to let soldiers master all kinds of technical weapons, and Li Yongji spent half a year in order to pull up this unit in the past, so the motorized unit is not a branch of the army that can be quickly completed in a short period of time.

As far as the current situation is concerned, although the Chinese Expeditionary Force has established great martial arts in North America, it can be said that it is powerful in all directions, and no one dares to take it lightly, but the main reason for this is the power of the motorized force.

Therefore, in any case, Li Yongji will not disband or replace a large number of soldiers of the motorized unit at this time, on the contrary, he must also strengthen the combat effectiveness of this unit.

Although it is said that due to the problem of the quality of the soldiers, the officers and men of this unit have the gene of stealing and playing tricks in their bones, but this is not impossible to correct, and as for the solution, it is very simple, that is, to strengthen military discipline and increase the intensity of punishment.

Just like a child with a stubborn nature, his nature cannot be changed, but management and education can be strengthened externally. That way, at least on the surface, or when needed, get the naughty guy to behave.

It is precisely because of this that Li Yongji will take advantage of the fact that the troops are concentrated in New Orleans and are convenient for management, and ask Sun Xiangbing to strengthen training intensity and discipline education. It is to keep these people from causing trouble while waiting for their return, and at the same time to restrain their temperament.

After giving him full authority, except for a slight confusion in the troops at the beginning, in less than a month, the entire army quickly took on a new look, and the atmosphere and outlook have undergone obvious changes, and there is already a feeling of advancing and retreating as one.

This change surprised Li Yongji himself. Because when he personally led the troops, even when he pulled the pole to build an elite army in the early days, he had never seen such an immediate effect.

In this regard, Li Yongji specially took the time to summon Sun Xiangbing and asked him how he trained the army.

Sun Xiangbing has only one answer, and that is to strengthen drills!

To put it simply, in terms of training programs, Sun Xiangbing did not change the plan that Li Yongji had originally formulated. It's just that he has greatly increased the intensity of his training, and he has also increased the intensity of punishment. Whenever someone makes a mistake, even a small mistake, it is punished with high standards.

In this way, these soldiers were miserable, and they originally had personal time to rest freely, but now they were tossed by Sun Xiangbing. There is no personal rest time at all, and after training that has been strengthened by three times the intensity every day, when I return to the barracks, I almost always fall asleep!

To put it bluntly, they simply don't have the energy to cheat and cheat. Because this is an overall exercise, there is no chance to be lazy and slippery.

Of course, there were people who were lazy at first, but what they got was a downright cruel punishment.

In terms of punishment, Sun Xiangbing does not play with confinement, nor does he play corporal punishment such as whipping, perhaps in his opinion, these punishments are too cheap for them.

Sun Xiangbing's punishment strategy is not complicated, that is, the two tricks of fining money and not giving food, but his punishment is not aimed at individuals, but at the collective.

To put it simply, once one person makes a mistake and fails to meet the standard, the entire platoon will be punished, which is the so-called responsibility to the platoon.

In this way, there is no need to go to the door to strengthen supervision, and each platoon will strictly strengthen its own requirements, after all, no one wants to suffer because of others' mistakes.

For this reason, at the beginning, the thorns of mistakes were cleaned up, and even people who were very authoritative before lost their role in the face of this naked punishment of interests.

After all, the fundamental reason why everyone chose to be a soldier at the beginning was because they could eat well and be treated well, and as for the honorary gods, they all appeared later, which is the fundamental reason why the Dream Division is gradually arrogant.

But now, when Sun Xiangbing reintegrated military discipline, he not only increased the intensity of training, but also directly took the most core treatment, and it was not aimed at individuals, but directly took the platoon as a unit, which made everyone begin to consciously supervise, not only supervising themselves, but also supervising their comrades-in-arms.

In this way, when everyone is strict with each other and others, the appearance of the army immediately becomes different, coupled with the intensity of high-intensity training, they have no time to complain, and sure enough, within a month, the whole mental outlook will completely change.

After listening to Sun Xiangbing's method, Li Yongji clicked his mouth and shook his head again, but he didn't say anything more.

Because Li Yongji understood that Sun Xiangbing's training method was a bit like the training method of the Japanese army during World War II, that is, it did not pay attention to human rights, and used ultra-high-intensity training and a high degree of collective punishment to erase individual will, so as to make the entire army obedient like a machine.

In this way, although the discipline of the army as a whole will be strong, the soldiers will also become numb as a result, lose their individual autonomy, and gradually become truly collective creatures.

Of course, this does not seem to hurt for now, after all, these soldiers themselves are not highly educated, and it is not beneficial to give them too much personal space, and the major negligence in the previous Seven Days of Smithland's bloody battle is not unrelated to this aspect.

However, this does not mean that the plan formulated by Li Yongji before was wrong, but Li Yongji mostly copied the training plan of modern society, and the training plan of modern society is actually quite humane, giving soldiers a lot of free time.

However, the training program of modern society is actually not very suitable for this world, especially the Chinese in this period, once they are given too much autonomy, they will only subconsciously cheat and play tricks, and will not improve themselves.

In simple terms. The Chinese in this period still belong to the period of strengthening control, once someone strictly controls them, they will bear hardships and stand hard work, and they will be disciplined, but once they relax their control. Even a little relaxation can expose their laziness and treacherous habits, causing great damage to the entire organization.

What's even more bizarre is that after being treated with such a high intensity of rough treatment, none of these Chinese soldiers had any complaints, and none of them had a grudge against Sun Xiangbing who had done all this, but they were more grateful to Sun Xiangbing one by one, and they were in awe, and even respect was far greater than fear.

on this. Li Yongji didn't know what to say, although he didn't want to admit it, but he felt that it really seemed to be related to the inferior roots of the nation and something, after all, the facts were in front of him.

In any case, seeing that the appearance of the entire army has improved, Li Yongji no longer asks for anything else, and simply continues to hand over the training and military discipline to Sun Xiangbing, while he himself continues to accompany Soho leisurely to give birth. By the way, let's pay attention to business at home and abroad.

After August 1864, many things were still happening every day in the Chinese Empire. However, because of Prime Minister Shen Shiming's superb governance methods, mercantilist policies, and the armed deterrence of the National Defense Force, the Janissary Guard, and the police force, the country's new bureaucracy has also been almost run-in, and the country as a whole has shown a thriving scene.

Other words. During the period when Li Yongji was not in China, Prime Minister Shen Shiming implemented a relaxed management model with laws to follow, but lax law enforcement, to minimize the burden of the new imperial laws on ordinary people who did not understand the law.

For example, spitting is a flogging sentence, except near the palace. In other places, this law is basically a decoration, and no one really implements it seriously, and if it is really true, it is estimated that half of China will be boiled with public resentment.

To put it bluntly, Li Yongji was too hasty during the founding of the People's Republic of China, and then without the discussion of the people below, he got a batch of laws from modern times, and then asked Zhang Xinda to find someone to delete and modify the part, which became the constitution of the Chinese Empire, in addition to strengthening the monarchy, many of the contents actually did not match China's national conditions at this time.

It's like punishing spitting and defecating, which seems to be very good to manage in a punitive way, but in fact, if it is really strictly enforced, it can only become a bad law, which will be opposed by most people, and may even lead to riots.

In addition, it is impossible to strictly enforce the compulsory education law, which is not only a problem of funding, but also involves a problem of social atmosphere.

As early as the beginning, Li Yongji had thought of increasing domestic investment in education and striving to complete the eradication of illiteracy in China in a short period of time, with the initial goal of enabling three adults to be literate within 20 years.

Not to mention the significance of eradicating illiteracy, which is not only a question of improving the overall quality of the people, but also an important condition for the success of the country's industrialization, but the problem is that the Chinese Empire at this time is different from the early period of Red China in another time and space, and the two cannot be copied.

During this period, many of China's traditional forces were completely destroyed in various wars and their strength was greatly reduced, while the system mastered by the revolutionary ancestors had strong organizational and controlling power, especially a large number of grassroots bureaucrats who went deep into the grassroots, so that the literacy could be eliminated in a short period of time.

However, in this time and space, Li Yongji rose too fast, although he quickly defeated the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and seized power in China, but did not shake the essence of China.

In other words, China's traditional forces such as the landlord class and clan forces were not greatly damaged, and were even strengthened by the late Qing war, and there was no suitable environment for reform.

In addition, when Li Yongji seized power, he only had a strong army and a serious shortage of administrative personnel, and after seizing power, he did not want the old bureaucrats and had to build a new administrative system on his own, which caused a certain amount of confusion and made many ordinary people at a loss about it, not knowing who to turn to if something happened.

For example, if some people have grievances or want to file a lawsuit, they still go to the head of the county magistrate and mayor, and they don't go to the court to find any judge or the like, because in their minds, the judge is the judge, and they are under the county magistrate and mayor, and if you want to talk to them about the level of the magistrate, they don't understand.

In other words, Li Yongji did not have a large number of handy administrative officials, nor did he have the so-called god-level theory that could quickly grasp the people, and it was impossible to fundamentally break the cage of the so-called old society. The yoke of traditional forces.

The simplest example is simplified Chinese characters and pinyin letters. This thing is indeed a good thing, but it can only be promoted in Nanjing, Shanghai, Suzhou, a few cities where Li Yongji has the strongest control, and the promotion is more of a poor person and speculators. Simplified Chinese characters are nondescript vulgar characters that only the next generation can learn.

With the exception of Nanjing, Shanghai, and Suzhou, it is difficult to promote simplified Chinese and pinyin alphabets in other cities, because even if you send troops to forcibly suppress them, those who read would rather be arrested than teach these new fonts, even if they were created by the emperor.

Although children from poor families do not object to this in order to allow their children to go to school for free reading and eating, because of the resistance of readers, there is a large-scale shortage of teacher resources.

Other words. The government is not short of money, classrooms, textbooks, or students to teach simplified Chinese, but there is a lack of sufficient teachers, because the readers have united to resist teaching these things.

Of course, the reason why these readers resist simplified Chinese characters and pinyin letters. It's not entirely about eating the old, in fact, there are also reasons for the change of the New Deal. Who made the new government introduce a series of unbelievable new policies, especially the abolition of the imperial examination system, which cut off the promotion path of these people?

The government has violent institutions such as the army and police, and the bloody education that has been used as a rebellion to forcibly suppress the protests, and they dare not openly oppose the government's new policy. I don't dare to openly oppose the emperor and ministers, but I can resist in these small places.

In other words, they can choose not to be teachers, not to cooperate with the education department, and if you have the ability, you can train teachers yourself.

And that's just for education. In many other places, scholars and local clan forces contradicted many of the policies of the empire, and overt and covert rebellions emerged one after another.

That is, the combat effectiveness of the empire's army is too strong, plus all kinds of internal and external wars are victories without exception, resulting in prestige, so that everyone is also honored, plus the government is not short of money, where there is a riot, it can be suppressed in time at the first time, which does not make the country a big mess, but if it is like this for a long time, it will definitely get worse and worse.

Fortunately, during this period, Li Yongji went abroad early, and all political affairs were handed over to Shen Shiming, and Shen Shiming, after discovering this situation, simply implemented a set of reforms to rule by doing nothing and increasing mercantilism.

To put it simply, Shen Shiming ordered officials in various places to minimize contact with the local people, and did not care about anything other than the collection of taxes and the trial of cases that the people took the initiative to request.

In this way, after there are so many legal constraints, the officials are idle, the common people are also idle, but they are happy, and there are voices shouting long live everywhere, and even the scholars have begun to change their minds and think about new ways to enter the body.

At this time, Shen Shiming stepped up his support for private enterprises, persuaded large domestic banks to provide low-interest loans to scholars, let them learn to open factories and do business, and took the initiative to help contact foreign buyers to stimulate exports.

In this way, business is easy to do, and because the social status of businessmen has been improved, a wave of going to the sea to do business has gradually hung up among scholars, and even under the instigation of Shen Shiming, the way of doing business, especially exporting to make foreigners' money, has been raised to the height of serving the country and the people, cultivating one's self and leveling the world, and has made various interpretations.

In short, Shen Shiming's method is to simplify everything in administration, reduce the interference of local officials in the people, and make many complex laws become decorations, but make them more recognized by the people with low education level.

After doing so, the people were peaceful, and the administrative expenditure was greatly reduced, especially the high education expenditure, which was simply embezzled by Shen Shiming and used as a government commercial loan, specifically to help the scholars do business, not only making a lot of money, but also making the scholars praise.

However, the most important point is that these arrangements made by Shen Shiming were all hidden from Li Yongji, and they were all cut first and then played, until the initial results were achieved and Li Yongji was ready to return to China, so he took the initiative to inform him.

As for why Li Yongji didn't know about it for so long, the reason is simple, after all, Li Yongji is not in the country, he can only be remotely controlled by phone, and it is impossible to cover everything, and Shen Shiming's improvement plans are also very hidden, and they do not involve the army, they are all private orders between government officials, everyone can get benefits, basically no one will take the initiative to report, or even if someone wants to report, there is no way.

Although there are still a few spy agencies, such as the Central Intelligence Agency, these agencies mainly focus on the military and big businessmen, but they don't pay much attention to officials in various places.

Even if there are spies who pay attention, they will not feel strange about this kind of inaction in the general inaction of slackness, after all, this kind of thing is too common, and the main purpose of the spies is to monitor and arrest anti-thieves and rebels in various places, and prevent rebellions and rebellions and other major events that shake the national system. (To be continued......)