Zhou Wen divided the development of Lishi into three aspects: politics, military and business.
The county government first adjusted its personnel, and all officials who were not locals from Lishi were dismissed. Recruit the nephews and nephews of the bosses of the Lishi Chamber of Commerce and famous squires. As long as they have studied, they will all be trained to work in the county government. If you encounter big or difficult problems, you can ask the Lishi Chamber of Commerce to work together to solve them.
Zhou Wen's move was to unite and participate all the local industrial and commercial forces in Lishi and mobilize their enthusiasm. With the help of these forces, Wang Chenghao can hold the position of county magistrate firmly and for a long time.
In addition to daily management and completing tasks assigned by the provincial government, the main work of the county government is to first establish the county party headquarters. This is to support the work of Liu Ruoshui, the eldest brother. The director of the county party office is concurrently served by Wang Chenghao, and the personnel are all from the county. The officials and staff here serve concurrently. A branch of the county party headquarters was also established in the chamber of commerce. All villages and towns under the jurisdiction of the county government must be established. All branches have only one focus and purpose - poverty alleviation.
The county government and the county party headquarters are not involved in political activities. In fact, they are selling sheep's meat to dogs. It will take five years to solve the problem of food and clothing for the 150,000 people in Lishi County. After all, in this era, even in the county town, there are still only a few families who have no worries about food and clothing, let alone those villages and towns scattered in the mountainous areas.
To this end, chambers of commerce must be established in all parts of the county, and chambers of commerce are obliged to help the county government and county party headquarters solve poverty alleviation issues. The county party headquarters must conduct in-depth investigations in various places. Those landlords, squires and profiteers who have been maliciously exploiting the people in Fish and Meat Township for many years have been extremely indignant. Those who still refused to repent despite the order handed over the list to Zhou Wen for processing.
In terms of the military, the county security team needs to be expanded in size. In the future, Zhou Wen will expand the security team into a security regiment. Prepare your own Zhouwen to ask for it. But the number of soldiers will start to increase from now on. The number is tentatively set at five hundred. The expansion of recruitment mainly focuses on the Orions in the mountainous areas within the jurisdiction. Any young man aged 18 to 25 who lives in the jurisdiction of Lishi County, as long as he is an Orion or has military experience, can join the security team. Salaries are paid on time every month, and the soldiers' income is calculated according to local living standards, which at least ensures that a family of four will not go hungry.
Zhou Wen had no worries about recruiting so many people and whether any of them would be willing to join the army. According to the eldest brother Lin Dongping, there are many villages in the mountainous area that rely solely on hunting to make a living within the jurisdiction of Lishi. Basically every village in the mountains has several families that rely solely on hunting for a living.
Not to mention that after the defeat in the Central Plains War, the Jin army was ordered to draw down. The Jin army that had previously reached a maximum strength of 300,000 was now reduced to less than 200,000. Where did everyone else go? They were all disbanded and sent home. According to county documents, there were more than a thousand soldiers from Lishi County who returned home this year.
As for the question of whether you are willing to join the army, hey! Where can you look across the country to find soldiers’ pay that can keep a family from going hungry? Zhou Wen believed that if the news was spread to other counties, the soldiers on staff would be jealous, and some would even desert and come to Lishi to serve as soldiers.
The security force's military expenses come from two sources, with the county government and the chamber of commerce each sharing half. Of course, Fuyuan Company takes the lead in the Chamber of Commerce. As the boss, we must have the responsibilities and responsibilities of the boss. The equipment will be trained using the previous and recently captured equipment, and Zhou Wen will gradually solve it in the future.
In fact, Zhou Wen wanted to build the Lishi County Security Team as an affiliated force of the mercenary group. Because in Zhou Wen's vision, if a war breaks out in the future, the mercenary regiment, as a strategic mobile strike force, needs to be deployed on battlefields across the country at any time. Then there must be an armed force in the rear responsible for protecting the territory and the people, and guarding the base camp of the mercenary group.
This is the reason for the expansion of the security team. Zhou Wen feels that five hundred people are not enough. It is best to reach a scale of one thousand people, which is barely enough. There is no rush now, because Zhou Wen is planning to set up a provincial party headquarters guard team in Taiyuan to free up the manpower of the mercenary group. In the future, there will also be an armed force in Taiyuan that Zhou Wen can directly control. Zhou Wen had already decided on the candidate for the captain of the guard, Zeng Erniu, who had defected to him not long ago.
Zeng Erniu has many years of experience in the military, is relatively stable in his conduct, and is a smart man with discernment. Otherwise, he would not have resolutely given up his career in the military to join him. In addition, he is a foreigner and has no roots in Shanxi. He has no other choice but to follow him wholeheartedly.
As for whether he will command the war? Not to mention his previous combat experience, wouldn't he be able to learn other things with the help of Zhou Wen and the others?
In Zhou Wen's heart, reliability is the first priority. As for talent, just learn it. This is why he arranged for his cousin to be the county magistrate and agreed with Zhang An to be the security captain.
Since it is an affiliated unit of the mercenary group, its combat effectiveness cannot be weak. Although it is impossible to train to the level of the members of the mercenary team, they must be elite soldiers far beyond the average army. Therefore, Miaohua was entrusted with an important task by Zhou Wen and temporarily stayed in Lishi County to be responsible for the selection and training of security team personnel. Now Miaohua is called the chief instructor.
As for equipment, Zhou Wen has also considered it. The security team's future battles will basically be defensive battles, blocking battles and annihilation battles with obvious advantages. Equipment should be considered based on these aspects of combat needs. It is necessary to focus on heavy firepower and long-range strikes, and deploy an appropriate amount of precision shooters to provide cover.
Heavy machine guns, mortars, and mountain artillery, which are not suitable for mercenary groups to equip in large quantities, will be the main equipment of the security forces in the future. All tactics and training revolve around how to maximize the advantages of these heavy firepower. Among the 500 people in the security team, Zhou Wen planned to select 150 strong people to form a mountain artillery company. Form another heavy machine gun company composed of 150 people. The rest formed two infantry companies of 100 men, equipped with rifles, submachine guns and light machine guns.
The party guard in Taiyuan is preparing to form a heavy machine gun company and a mortar company, as well as two infantry companies.
With this development, when the two teams joined forces, Zhou Wen had a formidable force such as a mountain artillery company, a mortar company, two heavy machine gun companies, and four infantry companies. . This does not include the mercenary group itself.
Such a force will be more than enough to guard the mercenary regiment's base camp in the Luliang Mountains when the Anti-Japanese War breaks out in the future. Unless the Japanese attack with troops of brigade level or above. But mountainous areas are not plains. Tens of thousands of troops go deep into mountainous areas with rugged and steep mountain roads and crisscrossed ditch walls. Not to mention the issue of whether the troops can be deployed, even those heavy weapons are difficult to carry. hey-hey! Am I still afraid of you if the Japanese soldiers don’t have heavy weapons?
Zhou Wen is still very confident. As long as the troops he has trained fight in the hometown environment that the soldiers are familiar with, even if you come with ten thousand troops, I can drag you to death and exhaust you to death, unless you build the city on the mountain.
