At the very beginning of the reorganization of the army, the composition of the various corps of the Runing Army and the appointment of the commander-in-chief were announced. The armed Liliang of the Runing Army was divided into soldiers, militia groups, and teams to protect villages, roads, and mines. Wu Shigong will become the supreme commander of the armed liliang.

Xue Yongli will be the orthodox leader of the entire Runing Army, and Zhou Xun will be the deputy commander. But they can only command the corps of soldiers in peacetime, in modern parlance, only field troops. Only in wartime, with Wu Shigong's authorization or in a state of emergency, can they command the nearest Runing Army and other armed Liliang.

Here, the soldiers will be fully out of work and paid soldiers, and the weapons and equipment are also the best, and they will be the main force in future operations. This time, the number of soldiers of the Runing Army will increase to 15,000;

The militia regiment has also been upgraded to a second-line army, and it is also completely out of production, but the weapons and equipment are poor, and the military salary is also lower. The main task of the militia is to defend the fortress and maintain the local role, as well as to play the role of transportation and auxiliary in battle. To describe it vividly, it is like a modern armed police force. In the end, 12 militia groups were established, each with 500 members, for a total of 6,000 people.

But there is one militia group that will be more special, that is, the militia of Yu Zilian as the magistrate of the county. The disposition of this militia will be decided by Wu Shigong and Zhang Xuebin after consultation with Yao Yuanwai and the local gentry who returned to Germany;

The village guards, road guards, and mine guards are composed of semi-full-time militias. They will be led by retired veterans, using the obsolete weapons and rudimentary weapons of the Runing Army, and play a role in the control of the Runing Army. Of course, when fighting, it can also assist in combat.

Due to the increase in the number of refugees accepted by Wu Shigong, the Runing Army will allow all the men of working age, a total of more than 53,000 people, to participate in military training, and stipulate that each person will serve for one month a year in the village, road and mine protection teams. Therefore, in peacetime, this militia force will have about 4,500 people. But in wartime there can even be a general mobilization.

In addition, there are 1,500 troops of the Department of Internal Affairs led by Xue Qiang, who will usually play the role of maintaining local law and order and suppressing bandits. Of course, in the process of suppressing bandits, when authorized to do so, the Department of Internal Affairs can let the other armed forces of the Runing Army cooperate.

There are also nearly 500 members of Xue Zhinong's Shanchuan Division Action Team and peripheral fighting teams. This time, Wu Shigong will also officially bring this armed force Liliang under the management of the Runing Army.

As for those military households under the command of Zhao Ming, Wu Shigong was ready to let Yu Ji, these military households who were originally under the command of Dewei, infiltrate through his connections, and strive for the support of as many military households as possible.

There are also allied forces, but now it can be said that the allied forces under the command of the Runing Army are only more than 300 personal soldiers led by Li Lu of Nanyang garrison and more than 1,100 family members of Nanyang private iron ore mine owners.

But this alliance is rather loose. Only in the common interest will these allied forces come under the command of the Runing Army. Moreover, except for Li Lu's own soldiers, the combat effectiveness of the other allies, that is, better than bullying the people, is simply unreliable.

The five major legions of the Runing Army remained unchanged. Wu Shigong announced the list of commanders and deputy regiment commanders and officers of the main units at the military meeting:

Commander of the Teaching Corps: Li Sanhe; Deputy Commander: Yu Ji;

Commander of the Nanyang Legion: He Fei; Deputy Commanders: Zug, Wu Shumo;

These two are full-fledged regiments.

Commander of the Guide Corps: Xue Qiang; Deputy Commander: Qian Qi;

Commander of the Runing Legion: Yang Rusong; Deputy Commander: Liang Hui;

These two are half-formed regiments.

Commander of the Cavalry Corps: Zhang Biao; Deputy Commander: Xue Cunzhuang (formerly Xue Mansion Guard. promotion appointments);

Commander of the artillery team directly under him: Xiong Zhengen; Deputy Head of Delegation: Gong Benshi;

Xiong Zhengen is the deputy commander of the former artillery team. And Gong Benshi is the most haode artillery commander of the original artillery team, and this time he was promoted exceptionally.

Directly under the head of the engineer regiment: Xue Cunyi (formerly Xue Mansion Guard. Promotion appointments. is Xue Cunzhuang's cousin); Deputy Regiment Commander: Guo Ming (former Qianhu Fortress Military Household, promoted and appointed);

And Tao Xin was appointed as the captain of the pro-soldier brigade.

The appointments of the following officers are also not detailed. However, in this reorganization, basically all the officers have been promoted by one rank. However, the four people who were promoted the fastest were Zhou Xun, Qian Qi and others, as well as these people from Liang Hui's artillery team.

It can also be seen that in the Runing Army, the officers who participated in the battle were promoted quickly. Officers of the cavalry and artillery were also promoted quickly. Of course, the happiest thing is Yang Goudan who is listening at this time, he is a son and son-in-law.

The reason why the Nanyang Army set up two deputy commanders was mainly because Shumo also presided over the construction of Longyan Village and Luojiazhen camps, and also formed an effective forward defense line for the Runing Army. So for the time being, I still stay.

Gonzalez, the Portuguese officers, in addition to a few artillerymen and ammunition craftsmen who were transferred to the Workshop Division, left nearly twenty. For the time being, they will first serve as advisers to help with the reorganization, and will not be given real positions.

In this appointment, there are still about 50 officers at the rank of deputy company commander and above, and only after the completion of this reorganization will outstanding officers in the Runing Army, including Portuguese officers, be promoted and appointed.

The next step is to arrange the training of the integrated army. These days, the high-ranking officers of the Runing Army, combined with the proceeds of this expedition recorded by Chi Ming and others, plus the professors of the Portuguese officers, initially formulated the new drill code and new tactical manual of the Runing Army.

In the coming months, the Runing Army will train its soldiers in accordance with this new code of conduct and a new tactical manual. And this time, the tactical content of joint operations from the ten-man team to the entire army will be greatly increased. Of course, if problems are found during training, the content of the new drill code and the new tactical manual will also be revised and removed.

That's basically what it says about the military. Under Wu Shigong's arrangement, except for the senior officers at or above the deputy regimental commander level of the units directly under him and the deputy corps commander and above of the troops stationed abroad, Wu Shigong asked the other officers who participated in the military conference to rush back to their units as soon as possible, start recruiting new soldiers, and step up training.

Wu Shigong confessed that he would leave the Runing Army camp in a month to conduct a comprehensive inspection of all units and check the results of the training, so it was imperative that all officers pay attention to this reorganization.

Then Wu Shigong began a high-level meeting of the civil and military officials of the Runing Army. First of all, Wu Shigong proposed to Deng Qifan that local control should be strengthened.

Wu Shigong and Deng Qifan have discussed several times these days, and found that there are many children of the local gentry who have defected to the Runing Army, but it is difficult to arrange them, but it is a pity to give up these literate people with some backgrounds. In addition, with the expansion of the Runing Army's area and the increase in the number of domestic slaves recruited by Wu Shigong, many civil affairs need to be handled, so the civil affairs system of the Runing Army was simply established this time.

In order to strengthen local control, the entire civil affairs system will be divided into four levels: township, county, government, and Runing Army. Compared to the most basic bureaucracy of the Ming Dynasty, which was at the county level, the control of the Runing Army would be greatly enhanced.

This time, the Runing Army can be said to have completely independent of the Ming Dynasty official system and established a new civil affairs system. If there is a problem, it will immediately become a big rebellion. Therefore, Wu Shigong particularly emphasized that except for these special places in the mountainous areas in the northern part of Runing Province, the civil affairs system of the entire Runing Army should be temporarily confined to the tuntian farms, mining areas, and gathering places of the Runing Army, and should not expand and infiltrate.

The officials of the civil affairs system implement the system of two chiefs and five officials. The chief officer is in charge of the overall situation, and the deputy chief is responsible for finance. There are also three officials in charge of tuntian, school administration and publicity, and one who is also the head of the local department of internal affairs. Major local issues will be decided by a vote of these five officials.

Although it seems that the number of officials is larger, in this way, on the one hand, it can appease and win over the local gentry, and on the other hand, it can train a large number of civil officials. After all, Wu Shigong's ambitions are not limited to his own Tuntian farm and mining area.

However, Wu Shigong also had requirements for the place of office of those officials, and among the five officials, at least three should be appointed in other places to prevent the emergence of independent local kingdoms.

And Wu Shigong's requirements for the performance of civil affairs officials are, first of all, stability, in this troubled era, stability is overwhelming. Wu Shigong didn't want to see any rear fires happen.

The second is fiscal revenue. In the agrarian society of the Ming Dynasty, agriculture must have earned a large amount of money, but Wu Shigong also demanded that these officials pay attention to forestry and animal husbandry. Especially the taxation of industry and commerce. In this regard, in fact, Wu Shigong and these modern officials attach much importance to attracting investment.

The finances of the Runing Army are very tight, and it is always a little inadequate to rely on Wu Shigong to earn income alone, and war money is also an indispensable thing. But dangling their official hats in front of those local officials, they will also exert great energy and add a lot of financial resources to Wu Shigong's Runing army.

Of course, Wu Shigong also asked Zhang Xuebin to cooperate with these local officials to attract investment from the local gentry, and even use Zhang Xuebin's connections to attract investment in areas with developed industry and commerce such as Nanzhili and Zhejiang. Comprehensively promote the development of Runing's military industry and commerce.

To this end, Wu Shigong will also formulate a series of laws to encourage industrial and commercial development, including the Patent Law, so that those businessmen can make money on Wu Shigong's territory with confidence. Of course, these merchants will also pay taxes for the Runing Army, and they can't be like the Ming Dynasty government, and the taxes of industry and commerce are basically not collected.

In addition, Wu Shigong also emphasized to all civil and military officials that it is strictly forbidden to do things that bully the property of businessmen, and that the personhood and property of those businessmen are free to come and go, and cannot be arbitrarily blocked. In a word, the core of the current military and civil affairs in Runing is the all-round development of agriculture, industry, and commerce.

Wu Shigong did not know that his measures had pushed the political system of the Runing Army onto the road of capitalism. (To be continued......)