Li Jian finally decided to form this special battalion, and the battalion commander was concurrently served by himself, and no one in the independent brigade knew this except him!

Soon Li Jian asked some soldiers of the tenth class to go down to pick people, and all the recruits of the troops, the tenth class has the right to choose first!

You must know that the independent brigade is now a 10,000-person brigade! The specific number of people has not been counted yet, but it should have exceeded 10,000 a long time ago!

And that's not counting cavalry regiments and artillery regiments! Just four infantry regiments, a knife battalion, a special services battalion, a guard battalion, and a few other company-battalion level troops!

Now Li Jian is preparing to form a special battalion, and the strength is still directly more than five hundred!

Now I want to count how many people in the Independent Brigade are estimated to be after the New Year, and the identities of some people cannot be verified in time, maybe the devil's spies have already been mixed in!

But how does Li Jian know! The four regiment commanders below have each expanded, and there are more than 2,000 people at all. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Xu Ming's regiment alone already has more than 3,000 people, the second regiment is also more than 2,050, and the other two regiments are all maintained at about 2,050 troops.

And they are all arranged according to the pattern of the A regiment, there are at least four infantry battalions, an external heavy machine gun company, a reinforced guard company, an artillery squad, and other small formed units!

Li Jian also turned a blind eye to these things, because he was equipped according to the establishment of more than 2,000 people!

He didn't give the rest of the extra people equipment, not that Li Jian didn't want to give it, he did it on purpose, and let those regiment commanders and battalion commanders get it themselves, so that they could be trained quickly!

Otherwise, the fighters below are easy to become dependent on him, the brigade commander, and they can rely on him for everything, and they only need to train seriously!

Many of these are still new recruits, and their consciousness can be cultivated quickly, but it will be difficult to change in the future, like many soldiers in the independent regiment are now somewhat dependent on Li Jian!

This is not a good thing, many things require them to be self-sufficient!

The day passed quickly, and the soldiers of the tenth squad quickly adapted to the new equipment, and each of them had to shoot five hundred rounds of ammunition before they could use it proficiently!

On the day of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, every household is full of lights! Li Jian also took a bag of ocean to the town and bought a lot of things!

Like persimmons, pastries, peanuts, and hemp candy or something, of course, Li Jian didn't eat them himself, so he didn't eat these things!

Everything is for the recruits, and of course there are those female nurses, veterans like Li Jian have never seen anything!

Many times a little biscuit is captured on the battlefield, and it is eaten directly by tearing it open, regardless of whether there are brain plasma internal organs or something on it, it seems that I am still a little unaccustomed to eating such a good thing now!

And Li Jian didn't know what was wrong with the New Year this time, he spent a lot of money in the town, and gave each recruit two oceans to let them go out to buy things!

But the restriction is that it can only be bought in the ancient town, and for a time the soldiers bought shoes and clothes, and some simply tore a few feet of cloth, saying that they were going to send it home to the old lady!

Uncle Gen, they don't understand why Li Jian did this, isn't it the same for the troops to buy them? Besides, Li Jian had already spent a lot of money in the town before!

Like the poultry and livestock in the town, as well as bacon and so on, they were all bought, and Feng Guoqing was not idle at this time.

He set the factories belonging to the government of the Eighth Route Army Border District into operation, like tobacco, shoes, toothbrushes, and rice...... Everything is pulled out on the street and sold!

According to the market price, they are peddling around, of course, the most important thing is the salt they sell, Shanxi still wants mineral salt, but I don't know how to extract it, but Li Jian has talents here!

In an instant, the salt of the Independent Brigade did not need to be transported back from the enemy-occupied area, and it could be sold to the common people, and suddenly the economy of the town became active!

In fact, the reason why Li Jian did not let Feng Guoqing monopolize all the industry and commerce was because he wanted to stimulate those ordinary people to do business on their own!

Otherwise, everything will be monopolized by the government of the border region, and many people will not be able to make use of their ideas, which will be bad and destroy the enthusiasm of labor!

But there were still a few things he decided to hold in his hands, and salt was one of them!

"Brigadier, why are you doing this? That's another big expense! ”

Uncle Lao Gen didn't understand Li Jian's intentions, even Xu Ming and Zhao Yiyi looked at him with questions, and then Li Jian also smiled and said:

"You'll know this later, and invest in this thing! It's for long-term planning, you don't know much, but do you think Lao Feng is against me? ”

After thinking about it, Feng Guoqing really didn't seem to oppose Li Jian, it stands to reason that he is the number one person in the management of Dagu Town, but at this time, instead of stopping Li Jian, he also started a business, and he was busy all day long and couldn't see people!

This is exactly what it means to support Li Jian!

They really couldn't figure it out, and at this time, Li Jian also felt that he needed to explain, otherwise these people would probably be thinking about this for several days!

"Look! The shoes that ordinary people have worked so hard to make, five cents a pair, right! Buy a few pairs and go back for a good year! ”

"Yes! But do we need to buy them all? ”

"Of course not!"

Li Jian also replied to Xu Ming, and finally continued to explain:

"Look! The things made by the people by hand have been sold, and they have to buy firewood, rice, oil and salt when they get the money! ”

"Hmm!"

Several people also nodded, but they didn't understand what Li Jian meant!

"Well, since their money has been spent, will the money obtained by those merchants of firewood, rice, oil, and salt go to buy what they need! Finally the money is in circulation! ”

This time, Zhao Yiyi was the first to understand, and Uncle Lao Gen was almost the same, only Xu Ming, a high-achieving student, was still a little confused!

"Oh, so Xiaojian, the money you invested is to let the people have money in their hands, and then they will have the confidence to continue working next year!"

"Yes!"

Li Jian also smashed his fingers, Zhao Yiyi is still an understanding person!

"With the money I gave to the recruits, they were able to go out and buy things we couldn't think of, which not only promoted the economic development of the town, but also gave the recruits a sense of belonging to the independent brigade!"

I have to say that Li Jian's approach can be described as killing three birds with one stone!

It not only strengthens the economy of the town, improves the lives of the common people, paves the way for future development, but also develops its own business, and appeases the soldiers!

"Little sword, what do you have in your head! You know this! ”

"Of course, the brain is filled with wisdom!"