Chapter 22: On the Road of Hope
A few days after the public shooting of the former Xufu Steward Li, the new adjutant of Xujiazhen announced a new order to clean up the army.
No matter what era, the army is the top priority, not to mention the current era of war and chaos, the army is the lifeblood.
Everything about the army must be cautious.
Originally, some interest groups in Xujiazhen still wanted to watch jokes, and even Xu Dashuai didn't dare to make a decision easily, and a yellow-haired boy who had just arrived not long dared to risk the world's disapproval?
However, not long after Adjutant Huang's order was issued, Xu Dashuai came forward to confirm that this order was his instruction, Huang Sheng was fully responsible, and had the right to cut first and then play, and Xiao Bu, the military and political officer, assisted from the side.
At this moment, some people in Xujiazhen couldn't laugh.
The first thing Huang Sheng did in rectifying the army was to count the soldiers.
Although Xu Dashuai in Xujia Town is known as a marshal, he is only a battalion of soldiers, at best he is just a battalion commander.
It's just that not long after the founding of the Republic of China, people from all walks of life in China are mixed, so there are no tigers in the mountains, and Xu Dashuai, a monkey, is called the emperor of the lower soil.
What's even more excessive is that the soldiers of Xu Dashuai's battalion are not complete, and officers at all levels are full of airspace pay and eat soldiers' blood.
The full strength of the first battalion should be 659 people, and there are four teams in total.
But one battalion of Xu Dashuai has only three detachments.
The first team is also known as Xu Dashuai's personal team, and the best equipment in the whole battalion is given priority to this team, and the military salary is also the most, and the staffing is the most complete of several teams, with more than 120 people, divided into three rows.
The officers of this team are relatives of Xu Dashuai's clan and are loyal to Xu Dashuai. Under the orders of "Xu Dashuai", the captain of the pro-soldier also obeyed Huang Sheng's instructions.
The second team is the team under the jurisdiction of the military and political officers, also known as the security team, which is mainly responsible for the security of Xujia Town and its vicinity. It is currently under the jurisdiction of Xiaobu. The phenomenon of officers eating the blood of empty salaries and soldiers mentioned earlier is the most serious in this security force. A team of 164 people was full, and the last person in this security team was less than 100 people, and a large part of them were old, weak, sick and disabled, which made Huang Sheng shake his head.
The third detachment is scattered in several villages under the jurisdiction of Xujia Town, which is under the jurisdiction of Chen Village, Li Village, Cai Village, Santian Village, and Pingyang Village, and each village is divided into 20 soldiers stationed to assist in the security of the village, so this team is also called the security team.
Nominally, 20 soldiers were stationed in each village, but in reality, the largest number of security teams in the village was only 14 people, and the total number of people was only 86, which was less than the number of security teams.
However, there are also good aspects, that is, they are basically young and strong, which is much stronger than the security team.
In the end, Huang Sheng counted that Xu Dashuai's battalion should have 659 people, but it actually reached 300 people, not even half.
Huang Sheng shook his head at this result, he had known the chaos of the warlord army of the Republic of China from books before, but he didn't expect it to be such a chaos.
But no matter how chaotic it is, Huang Sheng can only harden his head when he reaches this point, otherwise his previous efforts will be in vain, and he also wants to temper a team that belongs to him to solve the things that he uses zombie ghosts in reality, which are difficult or impossible to do.
Therefore, the second thing Huang Sheng did was to check the quality of the soldiers.
Huang Sheng announced that the soldiers who had been summoned should do a simple five-kilometer cross-country run, and if the soldiers did not meet the standards, they would be given severance money and re-recruited.
This stone can stir up a thousand waves!
On the spot, many soldiers of the security and security forces expressed their opposition.
Huang Sheng didn't say much, he had already passed the angry pro-soldier team and pressed it directly, so he said, "It's okay if you don't run, you can get out of the firearm!" ”
And the new military and political officer of the security corps took the lead and ran.
When the other soldiers saw that the company commander was so leading, they naturally couldn't say much, and reluctantly took steps and ran.
So, on that day, for the first time in history, Xujiazhen saw several teams from Xujiazhen racing separately on the road outside Xujiazhen.
The physical fitness was too poor to run, and the people of the pro-soldier team were handed over their guns on the spot, and they were given 20 oceans severance pay, and they were directly told to get out. Although the dismissed soldiers were indignant, for the sake of the soldiers of the pro-soldier team who were watching from the sidelines, they had to reluctantly leave.
At the end of that day, the number of pro-soldiers who were removed was the smallest, only 8, and because there was an agreement, these eight people were arranged by Huang Sheng to work in Xu Mansion. The remaining security team has removed 32 old, weak, sick and disabled people, and smoking guns, leaving only 62 soldiers, and the security team has removed 18 soldiers, leaving 68 people, which is actually more than the number of security forces.
In this era of war and chaos, the army is the foundation of its existence, and an army with insufficient numbers has no sense of security in this era.
Therefore, the third thing Huang Sheng did was to replenish the troops.
But before that, he first adjusted the military system.
For a long time, Huang Sheng felt that the management of Xujiazhen was very chaotic, but he had never been available, so he delayed it.
Taking advantage of this rectification, Huang Sheng merged the security team and the security team into a public security bureau like Renjia Town, which was responsible for the security of Xujia Town and the villages under its jurisdiction.
After the merger, the public security bureau was divided into a town bureau and a township office in each village. The position of military and political officer was revoked, and Xiaobu was transferred to the first director of the Xujiazhen Public Security Bureau, with jurisdiction over all 130 public security personnel.
Then, with the original pro-army as the skeleton, it was recruited to supplement the establishment and expand it into the external armed forces of Xujia Town.
In this way, in the absence of an army establishment in the provincial capital, Huang Sheng not only expanded the number of soldiers, but also clearly divided his responsibilities.
In order to distinguish the members of the Public Security Bureau from the soldiers of the army, the new quartermaster Huang Million, with the money given by "Xu Dashuai", has used his business network to customize a batch of light green military uniforms.
The soldiers still wore light blue uniforms.
Under the orders of Huang Sheng, Tian Ding entered the army.
Because the original name was no longer suitable for the expansion of the pro-soldier team into a battalion, Huang Sheng privately gave it a new name, called the Zhongyong Battalion, "Xu Dashuai" was the first battalion commander, and Huang Sheng was the deputy battalion commander.
The Zhongyong Battalion has four companies, the former captain of the pro-soldier team is the commander of any company, and the two squad leaders of the previous pro-soldier team are promoted to the second and third company commanders, and Tian Ding is the commander of the light pole, and the commander of the fourth company without soldiers under his command.
There are platoons under the company, each company has four platoons, each platoon has one platoon leader, two deputy platoon leaders, and each platoon has four squads. The class is the most basic unit, with 10 people in each class, and one principal and one deputy squad leader.
After the military system was adjusted, Huang Sheng sent people to recruit troops in Xujia Town and several villages under his jurisdiction, claiming to give 10 oceans a month to eat and live.
In these years, five oceans can buy 50 catties of glutinous rice, one ocean can buy 30 catties of rice, and few warlords can pay 10 oceans.
After recruiting soldiers for five days in a row, after a simple physical fitness screening, Huang Sheng finally completed the establishment of the loyal and brave battalion. Of course, during this period, a lot of the ocean was also spilled out.
After the soldiers were replenished, what Huang Sheng did was not to start training the soldiers according to what was written in the novel, but to invite experienced masons, and let Huang Million buy a large number of gray bricks, and let the masons lead this group of new veterans to start repairing the dilapidated barracks outside the east of the town.
Dilapidated houses were torn down one after another, and new square houses were built.
Under Huang Sheng's plan, a house was a dormitory unit for a soldier's squad, and every four squads were equipped with a large bathhouse and toilet for washing and excretion, as well as a large canteen large enough to feed hundreds of people.
On the front and back sides of these houses, there should be two large open spaces, the front open space is paved with ash and turned into a cement pavement for daily training of the army, and the open space behind is planted as grass, when the time comes, some sports activities such as playing football can be introduced, so that soldiers can play here and relieve stress after training.
The barracks were to be enclosed by a large wall.
The construction of the barracks takes a while, of course Huang Sheng will not be stupid every day in the barracks to share weal and woe, he asked the captain of the pro-soldiers to command on the spot, Tian Ding secretly monitored, and he went back to the inn.
The inn has been bought by Huang Sheng, and it is gradually being converted into a residence during this time, and Huang Sheng uses this relatively leisurely time to accompany Ren Tingting, and by the way, continue to cultivate spiritual power to make up for the upper limit of spiritual power consumed at the beginning.
In addition to the repair and reconstruction of the barracks, what Huang Sheng surprised the townspeople of Xujia Town was that he proposed a new construction plan - Village-to-Village!
Huang Sheng announced that he planned to build a gray road to Xujia Town in each village, and then a gray road would also be built between each of the towns to facilitate people to walk and trade roads.
The construction of these roads does not require the contribution of the village and the people, and is all paid by the marshal's government, and after the roads are completed, checkpoints will be set up in key places, and the people who use these roads will be charged a low road maintenance fee.
All road construction personnel are recruited from the whole town and each village, and meals are provided and salaries are paid monthly.
As soon as this order came out, the "upper class" in the entire Xujia Town were discussed, and many squires secretly ridiculed Huang Sheng's whimsy and naivety, and they really couldn't understand how Xu Dashuai, who had always been "wise", made such a fool's decision?
After all, this is not a problem that can be decided and solved by patting the head.
It costs a lot of money.
If you want to talk about recruiting troops and repairing the barracks, these squires can barely understand that Xu Dashuai encountered a mutiny, and he valued the soldiers in his hand.
But what is the reason for building roads?
Isn't the original dirt road impassable?
It's nothing more than a rainy and windy day, and it's just a little harder to walk!
Wouldn't it be better to spend your money in a better place and have fun?
The whole town was full of remarks, but Huang Sheng didn't care, because a dilapidated and ruined town, the decision would not be in line with his values, only a steaming town could form a virtuous circle, which would not delay his cultivation time, so that he could afford to raise more soldiers, bring a greater sense of security, and be able to protect himself in a bigger wave in the future!
For this, what is the little time investment now? What's the money invested now?
Anyway, it's the people's fat and people's ointment that the handsome man forcibly snatched!
Take it from the people and give it to the people!
Therefore, in the eyes of others' disbelief and doubts, Huang Sheng announced the start of construction.
The first road built first was from Xujia Town, passing through the mass grave in Chen Village, and arriving at Chen Village.