Throughout the development process of the Mixed Yuan Sect, it has gone through the following stages:

At the beginning, it was Chen Qian and Li Xian who supported the façade of the Mixed Yuan Sect and opened a soap workshop, until Li Xian entered the Sanyuan Blessed Land for trials and returned from learning martial arts. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

After returning to the Mixed Yuan Temple, Li Xian set out to establish an escort team, using the musket team members of the Fuwei Dart Bureau as instructors, and trained about a hundred team members.

However, during this period, Li Xian actually didn't pay much attention to the construction of the escort team, and wanted to use it more to confuse Zuo Lingchen and make him think that his hole card was the escort team.

Therefore, the real establishment of the escort team should be the beginning of the re-recruitment of the escort team after the end of the Battle of Moby Dick, Li Xian's return to the Mixed Yuan Temple, and the elimination of Hai Yanluo.

The first batch of recruited escort team of about 100 people, after about three months of training, encountered Zhu Jiu's attack, and after a big battle, eliminated Zhu Jiu, becoming the most powerful armed force in the entire Leizhou Bay.

After that, Li Xian immediately took advantage of the situation to expand the escort team, and within three months, the escort team was expanded to about three hundred people, which was the second batch.

It was not until the peace talks with the Governor's Mansion in Guangzhou progressed and Shen Baozhen and other prisoners were released that Li Xian recruited another 200 escorts, which had expanded to 500 by the time of the attack on the Cambridge, so that he could send 300 troops to Macao to carry out the battle plan.

Therefore, until the capture of two ocean-going merchant ships and the acquisition of a large amount of money, Li Xian's troops consisted of more than 500 escorts, and more than 100 non-combatants, such as workers and men in soap workshops, blacksmiths, carpenters, and gunpowder craftsmen recruited by himself (specializing in the production of bullets and grenades), as well as members of secret intelligence organizations led by Zhao Hujiang and Qian Dafu.

In addition, the Mixed Yuan Sect also has some indirectly controlled armed forces, such as the Tiger Hunting Team formed by the Orions and the whaling team formed by the nearby fishermen, the Mixed Yuan Sect provides weapons, ships and funds for these people, but these two organizations are more peripheral organizations engaged in production, and the nature of the escort team that is trained under Li Xian's nose all the time, there are more than 300 people.

In addition, the Mixed Yuan Sect also has a large number of foreign aid, that is, the village armed forces spontaneously organized by the villagers along the coast of Leizhou Bay, which are mainly formed to fight against the original many pirates.

Most of the armed forces in these villages are composed of young and strong people from their own villages, and their actual combat effectiveness is not strong, but they are extremely numerous, and they can pull up 3,000 to 5,000 young and strong laborers at any time.

When Lin Zexu, Shen Baozhen and others calculated the strength of the Mixed Yuan Sect, they counted these village armed forces as the forces under the Mixed Yuan Sect, so that they felt that the strength of the Mixed Yuan Sect in Leizhou Bay was unfathomable, and they could mobilize thousands of armed young men and women at any time, so they would throw a rat trap and dare not persecute Li Xian too much.

However, Li Xian made the Guangzhou officials jealous mainly because of the other party's ignorance of the situation in Leizhou, and used deceitful words, after snatching two thousand-ton merchant ships and having enough funds, they were indeed capable of forming an extremely powerful armed force.

This time, Li Xian went to Macao and Foshan to purchase and recruit personnel on a large scale, and worked hard to turn the funds in his hands into actual strength.

Among them, taking advantage of the slump in Macao's shipbuilding industry, about 300 shipbuilders were recruited, and it is easy to understand how much significance these industrial workers who have mastered the most advanced shipbuilding technology and metalworking technology of the Qing Dynasty today, as well as relatively good organization and discipline, to the industrial development of Donghai Island.

In addition, Li Xian also recruited a large number of craftsmen in Foshan, through the relationship between the Fuwei Dart Bureau and the Sanyuanguan, including about 200 blacksmiths, about 100 craftsmen with experience in the production of gunpowder in the Qing military factories, and 50 or 60 warriors recruited from Guangzhou and Foshan, as well as literate stewards and associates.

As long as these nearly 700 new recruits can be absorbed and digested, the military, industrial, and various soft powers of the Mixed Yuan Sect will take off greatly, and it will truly have the military industrial strength that the entire Guangzhou Prefecture is afraid of.

Qiao Daqing and Ling Huzhan also brought two hundred boat gang members, they are allies, and they belong to cooperative organizations like the whaling team and the tiger hunting team.

This was not enough, after returning to Donghai Island, Li Xian announced a new round of army expansion, to continue to expand the escort force on the basis of the original more than 500 people, recruit more than 500 to 700 people, and expand the army to 1,200 people.

According to the pace of training of the escort unit in batches of three months, the newly recruited escort members will be able to initially form an army within three months, and then they can go out to carry out some military tasks.

It's just that, in this way, the Mixed Yuan Sect will expand from more than 600 people to more than 2,000 people in a short period of time, an expansion of more than three times, and the various administrative and military affairs involved are very complex and huge.

What's more noteworthy is that this time the recruitment of talents to the purchase of materials, etc., cost Li Xian a lot of money, especially in order to complete the order of Sanyuanguan to buy tens of thousands of catties of gunpowder, it cost more than 30,000 yuan of silver dollars, and the original very rich funds immediately became tight, making Li Xian sigh that the money was not enough to spend.

In this regard, Li Xian did not have any good methods, first announced military training for all new recruits, conducted military training for all the guards and recruited craftsmen, carried out military management, and first completed the run-in between personnel and then considered how to climb the scientific and technological tree and build an industrial base.

In addition to these ordinary people, what Li Xian wanted most was actually the addition of martial arts people who went to Donghai Island this time.

If these martial arts people can join the sequence of the escort team, then the Mixed Yuan Sect will suddenly have eight or nine more grandmasters, twenty or thirty second-order martial artists, plus more than fifty first-order martial artists, and with the original more than five hundred guards and artillery, rifled guns and other weapons, the combat effectiveness shown will be far beyond imagination.

It's just that there are relatively independent forces standing behind each of these martial artists, and some of them are far beyond the current level of the Mixed Yuan Sect, and Li Xian wants to let these idle martial artists work for themselves, which is extremely difficult.

"I still have to think of a way to fool these warriors in. Li Xian secretly pondered: "Zuo Shaoqing has such a big cause and effect as me, and now he is also working for me, I don't believe that I can't find a way to let these people work in the escort team." ”

After returning to Donghai Island to deal with some administrative affairs, Li Xian took Wang Jiuxuan to visit the military factory of the Mixed Yuan Sect and briefed him on the situation.

Although Li Xian has always paid great attention to the development of industrial strength, because the time of rise is too short, the military industrial strength of the Mixed Yuan Sect is still extremely weak, in terms of personnel, there are only ten blacksmiths, ten carpenters, and ten gunpowder craftsmen (that is, craftsmen who handle gunpowder).

With the current level of technology of the military factory, it is also possible to produce paper-wrapped bullets, grenades and whaling shells, and other things from artillery to muskets and even artillery shells are not capable of producing.

What is even more worrying is that the military factories do not have the ability to produce gunpowder on their own, so they can only rely on purchasing Western gunpowder from outside and processing it with supplied materials, which is a very obvious shortcoming.

However, this level of technology is much higher than that of many military factories in the Qing Dynasty, and it is also more suitable for the current development of the escort force.

The entire military plant has quite strict and meticulous regulations from the storage and assembly of raw materials to the transportation and storage of finished products, the most important of which is the workshop for assembling paper-wrapped bullets and grenades.

The workshop was made of tall and large bricks, and it cost a lot of money to buy large pieces of glass from Western merchants and install large glass windows for the workshop, so that the light inside was bright and suitable for the treatment of some explosive and flammable materials.

In the assembly workshop and military factory, iron pillars about two meters above the ground are also installed in many places, and the workers inside can put their hands on the iron pillars at any time to eliminate static electricity.

In addition, iron tools are forbidden in the munitions factory, and all tools are made of wood or stone, and it is even more unthinkable for outsiders to bring in something that ignites fire, and it is necessary to carry out a triple inspection at the door.

Between buildings, and even in workshops, water and sand are used to extinguish fires, and a large number of trenches are dug to effectively avoid the chain effect of fires and explosions.

In the production process, strict rules and regulations are also enforced, and after a certain number of bullets and grenades are produced in the workshop, they are immediately moved out of the workshop and stored in the arsenal.

The workers who assemble the bullets and grenades are called gunpowder craftsmen, and there are also outer disciples of the original Mixed Yuan Sect, workers who have worked in soap workshops for many years, and craftsmen recruited from firecracker workshops all over Guangdong.

These people are disciplined and organized, have enough respect for gunpowder, and have the ability to abide by the rules and regulations set in the factory, so as to minimize the possibility of safety accidents.

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