Chapter 21: Second-line troops
The battlefield was not cleared until the next day. The bodies were concentrated and buried on a small hill. After cleaning the battlefield, Xia Jun led the team back to Xixiang.
Behind the team, more than 500 captured Qing troops were escorted. These Qing troops were naturally unwilling to let them go. This was free labor. I was arrested for two years of road construction and then renovated the labor!
In the afternoon, Xia Jun returned to Long Village and immediately called his secretary-general You Zhengbin and asked him to write a letter to the magistrate. In the letter, Xia Jun threatened the magistrate and threatened to invade Xixiang again, so he rushed into the county town to take his head.
Xia Jun didn't take these officials seriously at all. These local officials all wanted to make money, so how could they really give the Qing court a peaceful place?
Moreover, if such chaos occurs in this place, they are responsible, which will affect their careers. These officials generally do not report it if they can.
They will report it only when they can't hide it.
Anyway, after the term of office, I saved up enough money and bought a fat guy, and then patted my butt and left. Any trouble would happen, that would be the next one.
If Xia Jun could be more at this time, the magistrate and the magistrate would naturally be more at peace.
In addition to threatening the magistrate, the letter also had the intention of not violating the river water between the two sides. After writing the letter, Xia Jun handed it to Zhang Sigou and asked him to send it to the magistrate.
At the same time, Xia Jun asked someone to send the victory to the gentry in various villages to give them peace of mind.
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The news that the security team defeated the official army soon spread. The gentry in each village was very confident when they received the news, and it would be better for the security team to have the ability to make Xixiang autonomous.
However, some gentry were worried that Xia Jun would continue to challenge the limits of the government, so they hurried to Long Village and persuaded Xia Jun to start autonomous in Xixiang in peace and not to cause trouble for the government.
Obviously, these gentry could see clearly that Xixiang Autonomous Government had no changes at this time. The only thing to beware of is that Xia Jun was messing around everywhere. If Xia Jun made too much trouble and the government could not hide it from it, the Qing court might have sent troops to fight.
Xia Jun nodded on his face to agree, but thought about the plan to erode. In fact, no matter how big the matter is, as long as it is maintained on autonomy, the Qing court would never be able to mobilize troops from the north to fight against the enemy. At most, the soldiers from the province were in the province.
In the local area, people usually advance to suppress the enemy first, and they will be recruited if there is no chance to attack.
Xia Jun thought that this would not change the historical process, so he planned to eat up a few more towns in the near future and establish an autonomous region like Xixiang.
If there are more people under the rule, the people will get points faster.
The population in Xixiang is not known at present. It must be included in the territory system before the people's heart system can display the population in this area.
However, judging from the population reported by each village, the population of Xixiang should exceed 15,000. If each person contributes 5 points per month, it will only be 75,000. That is to say, it will take nearly a year to build a level 1 high-yield rice cultivation base. In addition to high-yield rice, there are also high-yield feed corn, high-yield cotton, and high-yield wheat... These things require 1 million points to build a cultivation base.
If you want to get more points, you can only suppress bandits and Anmin. The first batch of soldiers have been trained almost the same, and now you can train the second batch of soldiers.
Xia Jun once again asked someone to post a recruitment notice and sent a notice to the gentry of the villages, asking them to organize young and strong people in the village to come to apply for the recruitment.
Xia Jun’s plan was to train a group of second-line combat troops and then put them outside to suppress the bandits. The plan was decided, but Xia Jun still lacked a supervision team to maintain military discipline, and also lacked radio stations and telegraphers.
However, since Xixiang Autonomy, the gentry in each village began to recruit talents for the security team. Many of the gentry had clans, while many clans in Xixiang had good educational atmosphere, and some children also passed the Juren or Jinshi. For this reason, these gentry found some literati.
At the same time, Xia Jun also ordered Zhang Sigou to go outside to recruit people, and all cultural people would want.
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The new round of recruitment of the security regiment has begun, but this time, the salary of the security regiment has been reduced a lot, with only two silver dollars a month in military pay.
At this time, the security team had already gained a foothold in Xixiang and formed a certain force. Many people even coveted the good treatment in the group and wanted to join the security team.
There are many benefits to joining the security team. Not only do you have a military salary of six silver dollars a month, but you can also eat meat, white rice, steamed buns every meal, as well as a mighty military uniform and an excellent steel gun.
Therefore, the security team has formed a "seller market" and the initiative is in the hands of the security team.
In order to save money, Xia Jun reduced his salary to two silver dollars per month. However, as long as he performed outstandingly in training or made military achievements in combat, the security team would give him a higher military salary.
Xia Jun established a soldier hierarchy system, and he divided the soldiers into first-class private, second-class private, third-class private, and third-class private only had two silver dollars per month military pay, second-class private had four silver dollars per month military pay, and first-class private had six silver dollars per month military pay.
After determining the level of soldiers, Xia Jun promoted all soldiers to first-class privates, but Xia Jun said first. If anyone violated military law, the level of first-class privates would be reduced at any time.
In addition to the military law of five guns, there are more than a dozen military law. For example, you cannot harass the people, borrow things and have to pay back, speak politely to the people, and you cannot take the people one by one...
Anyway, the three major disciplines and eight points of attention of a certain party were basically copied by Xia Jun. At this time, he wanted to win people's hearts, so he naturally wanted to copy a certain party.
Although the security team has reduced the salary, the young and strong people who come to the task have not decreased.
This time, Xia Jun recruited a total of 400 people and exchanged 400 Springfield rifles from the system. Springfield rifles are American equipment and use 7.62x63mm rifle bullets, the same as m1 Garland. Therefore, using Springfield rifles can prevent the supply system from being complicated.
The Springfield Rifle is a equipment from World War I and is of the same level as the Mauser Rifle. The characteristic of the Springfield Rifle is that it has a great lethality and its rate of fire is no different from that of the Mauser Rifle.
The redemption price is very cheap. Just 10 points per piece, and the points required by M1 Garland can be exchanged for three Springfield rifles.
At this time, Xia Jun had already gained a foothold and just equipped the main force in his hands with m1 Garland and motorized. There was no need for those troops sent out to suppress bandits to use extravagant weapons like m1 Garland. It would be a waste to deal with bandits and Qing army's m1 Garland.
This time, Xia Jun began to reduce expenses in terms of funds and points.
After the 400 people were recruited, Xia Jun's monthly expenses should be around 3,500 silver dollars, and he still has 60,000 silver dollars.
This is military expenditure and administrative expenditure. Those cultural people are invited by high salaries, and they are estimated to have to budget thousands of silver dollars a month first. With the funds in hand, it is no problem to support it for a year, but after this recruitment, they are unable to expand their troops on a large scale.
Chapter completed!