Of course, the purpose of the establishment of the lecture hall is to quickly cultivate human resources that can be utilized.

Li Xingzhi also ordered Song Guangkun to open the Laizhou Military School after the completion of the preparations for the construction of the lecture hall, mainly to recruit school-age cadets between the ages of eight and thirteen so that they could learn military and cultural knowledge.

Let Song Guangkun be in charge of these affairs, Li Xingzhi has no choice, the reason is that there are too few talents in his bag.

This problem must wait until the first batch of trainees of the Jiangwutang can be trained in order to relieve the pressure on the personnel of the Jingbei Army.

Of course, the purpose of opening the lecture hall and the Leyden Military Academy is also to win over the hearts of the officers and men of the Jingbei Army, so that the officers and men know that joining the Jingbei Army will not only get real benefits in terms of treatment, but also their own children can also enjoy the benefits of the military marshal's mansion.

Free education, free room and board, and rewards from the Military Marshal's Office for outstanding performance.

After the Military Marshal's Office officially promulgated the news of the opening of the Lecture Hall and the Laizhou Military Academy to the whole army, the entire Jingbei Army was in a sensation.

In this era, reading and literacy was a luxury for the common people and military households, and the only thing they could do was to dig in the soil for generations, or work the battlefield, but no matter how hard they tried, their descendants still worked in the soil to eat and work for those hereditary military leaders on the battlefield.

Now Li Dashuai has not only improved the treatment of the soldiers, but is also ready to pay for his brothers and nephews to study and write, and the most important thing is that as long as he studies well, he will get the opportunity to be promoted, and he can even become an official.

Li Xingzhi's purpose is very clear, that is, to recast the spirit of martial arts in China and strive for more and greater living space for the people of the Han family.

Because Zhang Xianzhong's uprising was imminent, the expansion of the Jingbei Army was also put on the agenda, and now the Jingbei Army nominally has three towns and a water division town and green flag soldiers, but in fact there are only more than 14,000 land divisions and more than 4,000 water division towns.

Such a force is more than enough to defend, and it is still insufficient to occupy the whole of Shandong.

According to Li Xingzhi's assumption, the entire Jingbei Army must be expanded to at least 50,000 land divisions in 10 towns in order to occupy a dominant position in northern China in the next great changes.

It's just that now Laizhou and Dengzhou only have a population of more than 300,000, and Li Xingzhi can't go to Shandong to recruit troops on a large scale for the time being, so he can only retreat to the next best thing, and use the method of one belt and one belt to recruit 10,000 new soldiers and expand the Jingbei Army to four towns.

"On the border of Henan and Shaanxi, rogue is rampant; In the land of Gyeonggi, the eastern captives were raging, the former entered the eastern captives, why were millions of victims in the land of Ji and Qing, in order to protect the place and secure the people, the town of Penglaibo, the commander of Shandong, and the commander-in-chief of Liaodong Li Xingzhi told the people of Laiden. ”

"The commander is only the system of the ancient counties and counties, recruiting Ding Zhuang of Leiden, setting up military towns to protect the place, the Shang and Zhou dynasties, there is no distinction between soldiers and peasants, since the Han and Tang dynasties, the military power is attributed to the imperial power, and the soldiers and peasants are separated, and then it becomes the rule of recruitment."

"The East is based on the ancient system of this dynasty, considering the old system of the Qin and Han dynasties, setting up the law of recruiting troops in Leiden, and wanting to establish the foundation of protecting the place, all those who are over 16 and below 40 can apply, but Leiden grass creation, the recovery of the township still needs labor, so the enlistment is based on the number of 10,000 people, I hope you will take the safety of Leiden as the thought, and actively recruit in order to protect the territory and the people."

This conscription order was written by Lu Liangzhi, and bluntly stated that the treatment of the Jingbei Army was two taels of silver per month, one stone of grain and rice, and the school-age children of the family were given priority to enter military schools and lecture halls.

The former Li Xingzhi's large-scale distribution of silver bounties in various towns obviously stimulated the people of Leiden, and the generous treatment of the Jingbei Army also made them covetous.

When the conscription notice was posted at the four gates of Laizhou, thousands of young men came to enlist that day, most of them were people who followed Wang Zhong to fortify Daze Mountain.

"Name? Age? How many people are in the family? How many workforces are there? ”

Outside the Tianqi Mountain military camp, the young men who came to apply for the draft lined up in a long line.

Lei Liangzhi, who was in charge of recruiting soldiers, took more than a dozen clerks to register outside the barracks.

"Official, the villain's name is Zhou Ting, there are six people in the family, my father and eldest brother can all work in the field, do you think I can be recruited?"

"Yes, yes, alas, don't call us officials, everyone is serving Li Dashuai, where is there any respect and humility, that kid in my family, when the conscription order was issued, he signed up, and I can't say that I can still catch food with you in the future."

The bookkeeper who enthroned Zhou Ting was a Xiucai who migrated from Jinan, whose real name was Wu Mu, and he was originally very dissatisfied with his eldest son secretly signing up for the army.

However, the marshal said that his old man respected Confucius and Mencius and emphasized Confucianism, and to emulate the sages, all officials in Laiden Town in the future must be proficient in the six arts of gentlemen, and the martial arts hall and military school that are being built are to cultivate grassroots talents for Leiden Town, and priority is given to the children of the army.

His eldest son is not very good at reading, and he may not be able to pass the Xiucai exam in this life, and joining the army to fight for a place in the martial arts hall for his youngest son can be regarded as leaving a little hope for himself.

There are many people with this attitude, so there are also many young people who apply, but what makes Lu Liangzhi depressed is that Li Bangjie, the commander of the personal guard, is holding a stone mill in front of the barracks, recruiting iron soldiers, saying that the handsome personal guard is only 600 people, which is too cold, and he has to recruit a thousand people.

The so-called Xiucai encountered soldiers, it was unreasonable, Lu Liangzhi had no way to deal with him, fortunately, there were a lot of conscripts, and Li Bangjie could only toss around.

The three towns of the Jingbei Army, the first town general Yang Biao, the deputy generals Tang Shao and Qin Ying, the second town general Wang Zhong, the deputy generals Lang Shaozhen and Mu Wenshou, the third town general Li Rui, the deputy generals Liu Zhongwu and Ma Sande.

Judging from the soldiers recruited this time, Lu Liangzhi estimated that 10,000 may not be available, but there must be 7,000 or 8,000 people, so the establishment of the fourth town is already an imminent matter.

The fourth town general, Li Xingzhi belonged to Zhang Shaoqian, the deputy general Yuan Xin'an garrisoned Liu Zhongwu, and the other was selected from the team officers named Zheng Qian, who also followed Li Xingzhi in Lijiashan.

Of course, in order to bring the old with the new, these four towns must be broken up and reorganized, and the number of people in each of the newly organized towns is still the same as before, with 10 infantry teams set up in each, but the specific establishment Li Xingzhi has made changes.

In the newly organized towns, each town has three infantry teams of mandarin duck soldiers, three infantry teams of long-range soldiers, three infantry teams of white pole soldiers, and one infantry team of artillery teams.

The recruitment process took three days, and a total of 8,194 soldiers were recruited, and it would take time to break up and regroup, and there was a shortage of about 2,000 men in the fourth town.

After all, there are many families who are not willing to let their children serve as soldiers to eat food, although Li Dashuai is benevolent and righteous, but there is only one son in the family, in case of death in battle, the incense will be broken.

What should I do if there are not enough soldiers, Li Xingzhi's eyes were aimed at Liu Zeqing, the general of Shandong Town, just kidding, the holy decree of the governor of Shandong has been made clear to the world, you Liu Zeqing actually didn't come to Laizhou to pay homage to Ben Shuai, this is not to put our Penglaibo in his eyes!