The soldiers of the Qingzhou battalion are living a much better life now than before, and Cao Xiong, as the commander, in turn, wants to have a good relationship with Chen Ze.

Chen Ze is really rich and gives!

For such a thing as infrastructure construction for the Qingzhou camp, looking at the entire Dachu, I am afraid that only the Qingzhou camp can enjoy this kind of treatment.

Now the soldiers of the entire Qingzhou battalion are thinking about the kindness of the prince of Zhennan to them, whether it is the powerful or the bureaucrats on weekdays, how many of them have paid attention to the life of the soldiers below?

It's already a good thing not to deduct military salaries, and you still expect to provide logistical support so that soldiers can be well fed and clothed?

Since coming to Qingzhou, the soldiers feel that life is really different, the cement houses have begun to be built, and there is no longer a need to live in those broken camp tents that are cold when the wind blows at night, and many soldiers do not have to wear torn clothes and shoes, because they can change a batch of new clothes and shoes soon.

Anyway, Chen Ze did not interfere at all in the command of the Qingzhou battalion, nor did he interfere in the internal power struggle, he was mainly responsible for providing a good logistics support for the Qingzhou battalion.

It's not okay to pay the military salary, because judging from the living conditions of the soldiers that Zhou Zheng and Li An learned from their mouths, the military salary will soon be squandered in their hands, and only about 30% of the military salary will be sent home, and the rest will either go to the Qinglou to drink flower wine and gamble, so in this case, if Chen Ze wants to win the hearts of the people, he still has to find a way to make the lives of these soldiers better.

After all, the safety of Qingzhou City and the handling of the victims need to be guaranteed by the Qingzhou battalion, at least before the construction of their own new army to suppress bandits, they can only rely on the soldiers of the Qingzhou battalion, in order to reduce unnecessary contradictions, these soldiers must be taken care of.

As for the internal contradictions, they must not be mixed blindly, and Chen Ze basically only deals with Cao Xiong.

And Chen Ze's series of behaviors are the greatest for the interests of the soldiers at the bottom and Cao Xiong, Cao Xiong is currently the supreme commander of the Qingzhou battalion, naturally hopes that his troops will have extremely strong combat effectiveness, in addition to the usual training, it naturally needs strong logistics support.

And now that Chen Ze has solved the problem of logistics support for him, so that his troops continue to exude vitality, no one is more happy to see the current situation than Cao Xiong.

Of course, this is not to say that Cao Xiong really treats soldiers as family, Cao Xiong must not be so conscious, but the Qingzhou battalion is Cao Xiong's foundation, Chen Ze's vigorous feeding has raised Cao Xiong's foundation, then Cao Xiong must be the one who benefits the most, the stronger the combat effectiveness of his troops, the heavier the right to speak in the army, this is also the method that Chen Ze can think of to bind him and Cao Xiong together to the greatest extent.

His interests are now the interests of Cao Xiong and the Qingzhou Daying, and in this case, once Chen Ze's interests are damaged, Cao Xiong will definitely be the first to refuse.

The bundling of interests is definitely a relatively stable way for both parties to be able to work together in the same boat, and on this basis, it is natural to cultivate feelings well.

Chen Ze is now among the nobles of the royal palace, and the relationship with the Cao family can be said to be the best, so when he returned to Qingzhou, he took the initiative to visit Cao Xiong, and by the way, he brought back some Hanzhou specialties for Cao Xiong to try, talk about the changes in Hanzhou, and cultivate feelings.

After going back and forth, Chen Ze could also feel that Cao Xiong's attitude towards himself had obviously changed, and under this premise, the negotiation of increasing the number of guards and patrol forces was very smooth, and a specific plan was quickly determined.

The number of post stations was expanded from the original four to twenty, and a large number of posts were added at the same time, changing every three days, with 500 people each time.

Of course, Chen Ze is more worried about the discipline of the soldiers, and now the soldiers in the Qingzhou camp will not have much impact on the people, but once they are put on patrol on the official road, they are afraid that some soldiers will start to oppress the people, and if there is a conflict with the people, it will be troublesome.

Even the Cao Jiajun, who has strict military discipline, may have a similar problem, after all, this thing is like an ideological steel seal, which cannot be erased all at once.

Therefore, Chen Ze put forward a new idea here, that is, to increase picketing.

Cao Xiong was very interested in this picket, and after listening to Chen Ze's explanation, he decisively adopted Chen Ze's suggestion.

It is the people in the army who are used, but they are only responsible for Cao Xiong.

If you want to pick out the right candidates, you can directly find them from the bottom soldiers, and you can use which people can serve the public, and set up a picket group to supervise all the soldiers, including the generals.

But in fact, Chen Ze is not sure that this picket will definitely work, it depends on what Cao Xiong does, if he really wants to improve the quality of his troops, then this matter will definitely be done seriously, in fact, Chen Ze plans to use the Qingzhou battalion to do a test, to see if this picket can have a certain impact and effect on the army of these feudal dynasties.

However, Chen Ze will definitely not interfere in this matter, so as not to cause any contradictions, anyway, the coordination work that should be done has been done, and then Chen Ze notified the Qingzhou Office as soon as possible, so that they could start preparing for the construction of the post station and sentry.

The whole work should be completed in about half a month, and during this time, the tent can only be used for a temporary transition.

The next day, the Qingzhou battalion allocated 500 men and horses to start the first phase of patrol arrangement, how to bring this more than 170 miles of roads into the scope of monitoring is also a big job, which is very particular about the arrangement of the time for changing guards and assisting in defense, how to be able to achieve seamless connection, to ensure that there will be no accidents on this road, it is also a big test for Cao Xiong.

However, it is enough for Cao Xiong to agree to this matter, because Chen Ze mainly wants the deterrent effect, so that these bandits can know that there are always soldiers patrolling the official road, so that the bandits will most likely not dare to do anything on the official road in Qingzhou, and they may be directly arrested by the soldiers if they are not careful.

And these post stations and sentry posts are not useless, they were originally arranged by Chen Ze in advance.

Now they can play the function of post stations and sentry posts, and the role of the future is not only post stations and sentry posts, because all post stations and sentry posts are basically established in the transportation hub connecting the counties and places of Qingzhou, to assume the function of a transit station, the future will be promoted to become a piece of commercial area, radiation throughout the territory of Qingzhou Prefecture, speed up the circulation of goods.

In addition, it is also an advance layout for Hezhou, so that Chen Ze can quickly take control of Hezhou in the future.