Heilongjiang overseer Wang Mao ordered the elimination of all Heilongjiang bandits, horse bandits, and cooperated with the police to eliminate bullies, village gangsters, hooligans, and black-hearted businessmen, black-hearted gentry, and black-hearted landlords, which immediately attracted applause from the gentry and the people. This bandit is indeed too hateful sometimes, even if they were poor people who could not survive before, but when they became bandits, they never showed mercy when they persecuted the poor. What thieves and Taos are all lies, which bandit has not burned, killed and looted?

As soon as the order came out, some bandits immediately ran to Jilin and Liaoning, or Rehe, and after resisting for a while, they were also dressed in strings for new recruits to practice bayonets.

In addition to cracking down on bandits, Wang Maoru also strictly ordered that within one month, all land in Heilongjiang Province must be re-registered, newly opened land must be registered, and the phenomenon of secretly cultivating land must be curbed. The new "Heilongjiang Land Measures" stipulate that starting from October of the fifth year of the Republic of China, the maximum land area owned by an individual shall not exceed 1,500 mu, that is, 100 hectares. This law stipulates that from now on, Heilongjiang Province will not be allowed to have new landlords other than the existing landlords. This provision took into account both the government's resumption of land and the interests of the original landlord class, so it did not cause much conflict. Although Wang Maoru stipulates that the newly opened land is exempt from tax for three years, and the tax will be drawn out of ten after three years, many people do not have to pay any tax before the newly opened land, and they have to pay taxes after three years, who can want to? As a result, many people attacked the government, especially more than 300 women in Tangbayan County, who stormed the county government and smashed the government and county government.

Wang Maoru unceremoniously ordered Li Pinxian's Fifth Infantry Brigade to scoop up all the women who participated in the smashing and looting, and send them to the opium farm in the Erkena Right Banner to resist violence. All of them are killed. If Wang Mao is not a bodhisattva, what he has to do within his jurisdiction is to respect the law. Since ancient times, the Chinese people have a tradition of not abiding by the law, and he wants to cultivate the habit of abiding by the law among all people, and he must not rule the country according to law as a mere slogan.

And the continuous suppression of bandits and the elimination of bullies, but the entire land of Heilongjiang is in turmoil, the northeast is already dominated by bandits, it can be said that bandits are all over the world, like leeks in autumn, cut stubble after stubble. Every town, every hill, don't you have to hang a few heads? This is still Heilongjiang Province. If it is placed in Jilin Province, where the bandits are the strictest. The situation is definitely more intense.

The purpose of suppressing bandits is to train soldiers, of course, it is also to create a better living environment for the people of Hei Province, as for those bandits who want to be human again, Wang Maoru did not kill them all. It was ordered that as soon as they surrendered to the government forces, they could form a new force, which would be led by Xu Zhengyi, nicknamed the white-faced killer.

This Xu Zhengyi was originally from Wuhu, Anhui Province, and when he was a teenager, he ran to Zhili with the red gun, and then the red light would be dispersed by the Beiyang Army, and he fell into the grass. When Xu Zhengyi was twenty-four years old, the old owner woman in the cottage took a fancy to him and married her daughter Xu to him to inherit the cottage. But the original second leader of the cottage quit, and the two had many disputes. After that, Xu Zhengyi led his men to leave the cottage in a fit of anger, first defected to Gai Tianjiu, and then joined the official army with Gai Tianjiu. Now that Xu Zhengyi has become the commander of the main regiment in the Fourth Brigade, it can be regarded as a positive result.

From September to December, there were constantly bandits who could not stand the encirclement and surrender, and there were many other bandits who saw that they could not survive the winter, just when Wang Maoru was recruiting troops and buying horses. Wash it off. Look, the king of the people is now a major general and brigade commander, and the beards under him are all regiment commanders and battalion commanders, although Wang Dashuai was born in a literati, he does not reject bandit beards, let's follow him, and there is no need to drill the mountains and forests in the future.

In Wang Maoru's plan, Xu Zhengyi's independent regiment adapted from bandits should have more than 1,000 people at most, but he didn't want to recruit more and more people, so he has recruited more than 3,000 people, from old to young. Wang Maoru felt amused, and said that at the end of December, if you can gather 6,000 people, you will be the brigade commander.

When Xu Zhengyi heard this, he said: "Xiushuai, as an overseer, you have to talk and talk, if I can really get six thousand bandits down the mountain, really let me be the brigade commander?" ”

"There is no joke in the army." Wang Maoru thought, there are not many people in Heilongjiang, how can there be 6,000 bandits, generally more than 300 people with older locks, 6,000 bandits, how many locks do you need?

But he didn't want Xu Justice to have his own way, so he wrote to the bandit leader in the pass, saying that he had already become the brigade commander Yunyun, and if you came early, brought a lot of people, and came before the end of December, everyone could be the regiment commander and battalion commander. A few bandits in the customs discussed it and felt that this matter was reliable, this Xu Zhengyi was a small character in Zhili at the beginning, and now he can be a major general and brigade commander (Xu Zhengyi deceived, in fact, he is only the colonel's regiment commander), why can't we? Nesting under the nose of this Beiyang Army, it is better to go away and fly high, so he ran to Heilongjiang with his men and horses, and almost wiped out the cavalry of the Heilongjiang Army at the border.

Before the end of December, Xu Zhengyi, this kid, really gathered 6,000 people, and all of them brought guns to throw, Wang Maoru was very surprised, and said in his heart that this kid usually doesn't show signs and doesn't leak under the cover for a long time, but he didn't expect to be such a thoughtful person. Wang Maoru then said: "How can I lie to you, okay, your current brigade is our 11th Infantry Brigade in Heilongjiang, and you will serve as the brigade commander." I'll give you a deputy. Director Liu Zheliu, the former director of the Translation and Telecommunications Division, once graduated from the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer Academy, and he was the deputy brigade commander, and he took the class with you, and you two gave me this 11th Infantry Brigade a good belt, you know? ”

"Yes." Xu Zhengyi said happily, he naturally knows Liu Zhe with these seven fingers, but he is not familiar with it, but it is said that Liu Zhe does not like to talk and is restrained, although this kind of person is boring, it is better than sending others over, after all, Liu Zhe has never led troops to fight before, and his prestige is not as good as his own, if Zhao Qing or Xiong Bingtao comes, good guy, he has to give up the position of brigade commander. It's just that Liu Zhe will be the handsome man who spies on himself?

When Wang Maoru saw that he was puzzled, his heart was like a mirror, and he said: "You have become a brigade commander all of a sudden, what do you think of King Gaitian?" If you don't let Director Liu suppress you, they will have to vomit to death for you one by one. Xu Zhengyi thought about it, Wang Maoru was a joke at the beginning, he took it seriously, and now he has been promoted to brigade commander, from a small regiment commander to a brigade commander, how can he not be hated by others, with Liu Zhe's banner here, he is rarely swoon.

The 11th Infantry Brigade is a miscellaneous army, almost all of the soldiers are from bandits, and there is no one who graduated from a regular military academy, Xu Zhengyi has worked a lot to suppress them, some have been co-opted, some have been suppressed, and some have been shot, and finally the 11th Infantry Brigade has begun to train seriously, knowing that he is a soldier, not the disorderly bandits. It's just that the military discipline of this brigade is not very good, so the 11th Infantry Brigade has a nickname called the Bearded Brigade, which is similar to the nickname of the Tartar Brigade of Gong Xiaoqi's cavalry brigade. More importantly, in the subsequent battles, the bearded brigade and the Tatar brigade burst out with extremely strong combat effectiveness, repeatedly made meritorious achievements, and were frequently praised and rewarded.