Chapter 40 Expansion
Amid the tsunami of the mountains and seas, Chen Wen, forbiddenly, put the badge of the official member of the China Revival Society, and asked him to go to the statue of Huangdi of Xuanyuan to burn incense.
Next, the commendation of the reserve members continued, but only two people were particularly promoted, one was An Youfu's subordinates during the war, and the other was from Yiwu camp. All three were from the left wing of the Ming army that was attacked by the Supervisor Battalion. At that time, the left wing battlefield was indeed the most difficult. With their own efforts, they led the soldiers to strictly guard the battle formation and bought valuable time for the central army and the right wing to defeat the enemy in front of them.
Such examples are not missing, but non-members will naturally not be commended in internal gatherings, but will be conducted in the army, so there is no need to take up a limited time here.
In addition, there are also some reserve members who have been confirmed and approved at the end of the review period. After becoming a formal member, they can participate in internal affairs of the association and obtain the right to recommend other personnel to become reserve members. Naturally, they will also gain more trust in both open and secret.
The scale of the Huaxia Fuxing Society is still very small, but if it continues to develop at the current rate, it will not take long before Chen Wen can start to further strengthen his control over the Ming army in Zhejiang through this organization.
If you want to succeed, you have to make efforts. This is the truth that Chen Wen firmly believes in. Nothing can be achieved overnight, but it is still possible to achieve using some special methods to speed up this process.
Thinking of this, Chen Wen suddenly had the idea of developing Kong Yanzhen into the Chinese Revival Society. A 17-year-old boy is the most likely to incite. He would not take too much effort to develop it. Once Confucius's grandson joins, it can strengthen the weight of the Chinese Revival Society in the hearts of Confucian scholars and ordinary people, and is conducive to absorbing more ideal and aspiring Confucian scholars to join.
By then, let alone the eunuch party, even the Donglin Party, which is very powerful in the southeast, would have no longer been qualified to be compared with the Chinese Revival Association as a classmate.
Putting aside these thoughts, in fact, there are more important things to do now.
The Zhejiang Martial Arts School has already started the course of formal training of military officers in the garrison. Unlike the private school-style education method, Chen Wen did not intend to teach a group of Confucian scholars, nor did he plan to create a group of all-round players. Just like literacy and training staff officers in the army, a large class of 50 or 60 people can complete basic courses and have the ability to execute the assigned work.
In this way, through this industrialized process, the urgently needed garage officials in the new and old occupied areas can be mass-produced. As for whether they have the needs to further expand their knowledge and improve their required abilities through learning, it is their own business.
By the same token, Chen Wen also planned to do this. However, at present, the relationship between teachers and students is a big killer weapon, martial arts has never been taken seriously, and the traditional idea of military generals still exists. There is still a possibility of following the power in the martial arts school, but Chen Wen is in the name of the principal of a school that trains civil servants. After all, although the occupied area of the Ming army in Zhejiang is high and far away, Chen Wen does not intend to do things that are too taboo, unless it is particularly necessary.
Since this is the case, Chen Wen went to discuss with Sun Yu that the department for training civil affairs officials was nominally responsible for the Jinhua Prefectural Office. His tasks were also impossible to carry out the imperial examinations. The vast majority of scholars with fame were unwilling to serve the Ming court. Today, when the Ming army's new occupation area was trained for the Ming army, in order to rule, strengthen the strength of the Ming army, and further expand the occupied area.
However, in terms of training, the same way as when training officials of the Zhejiang Martial Arts School uses large classes to teach. At the same time, the teaching content is more focused on practice, rather than Confucianism, eight-legged essays, etc., and even the distribution work will be distributed according to the results of money, grain, lawsuits, etc.
However, training takes time, and Chen Wen did not intend to send a group of sour scholars who knew nothing to let the big tribes and officials everywhere play tricks on them.
Before the training is completed, the newly occupied areas of Quzhou and Chuzhou will inevitably be helped to share the pressure, and even implement military control. The reason is that the occupied areas will expand from nine counties to twenty counties in one go, and the stalls will suddenly become too large. Coupled with the internal friction of the Cao Conglong Rebellion, this is no solution.
It was mid-November. Since it was discovered that the Qing army in Chuzhou did not retreat into Wenzhou, but gathered in Qingtian County adjacent to Wenzhou and guarding the Oujiang River. Chen Guobao was still waiting for reinforcements to join in accordance with the order before moving forward. As the occupied area was further expanded, the expansion of the army must also be put on the agenda.
The occupied areas will soon be expanded from nine counties to twenty counties. Each county must have at least one infantry post and a small number of cavalry and artillery defenders. The key points with relatively high strategic positions must also increase the defenders significantly. For example, in the previous Dongyang County, such as Anhua Town on the northern line, there are still many such places in the newly recovered areas. The Ming army needs to control the important areas of each county to ensure the safety of the people on one side.
Even without calculating these, the weight of the Ming and Ming dynasties in the Ming and Qing dynasties in the balance of the ruling power of this fertile land has become heavier, and it has even surpassed the weight of the Lujianguo Group when the two regrouped after the collapse of the Jiang Shangshi. The large-scale encirclement and suppression of the Qing army would inevitably be launched. In order to deal with the Qing army with a larger number and stronger combat effectiveness, Chen Wen must do his best to expand the army.
According to the plan, the garrison will be expanded in counties, while the combat barracks will be expanded from three to six to seven in one breath. By then, the strength of his Zhejiang Ming army will be nearly doubled, reaching an astonishing 20,000 troops!
Some of them will be the main trunk of the town's direct battalion and the four infantry bureaus that participated in the Battle of Shentangyuan. In addition, some officers and soldiers will be drawn from the first three battalions, so that these new battalions will always form combat effectiveness as soon as possible. There is no hurry to break up the old troops. Chen Wen planned to put the recruited recruits into the recruit battalion for basic training, and then gradually carry out mixed arrangements to prevent the Qing army from taking advantage of loopholes during this period.
In this way, the vacancies will be as high as 10,000 people. Orders to recruit soldiers have been issued, some of which will be selected from the original military households, while the rest will be directly recruited in the newly occupied areas.
Chapter completed!