The Xiao Yang case involved a lot, affecting thousands of people, and even half of the officials in the county government agencies participated.

Li Weiguo, based on the principle of law not ruling the public, eventually only severely punished the culprit Xiao Yang and his best friends. As for other accomplices, they were given lighter retribution, confiscated property, fined property, or blamed them as a warning to others.

As for the original public servants, except for the household placard Wu Yong and the working house placard Huang Liang, all the other four household placard officials were fined for one year and were kept for their posts.

But Li Weiguo did not dare to believe them completely. At least after returning the official document of sentenced Xiao Yang and others to death, and after chopping Xiao Yang's head, these people had no heads and dared to use them when they could not see hope.

At the same time, there were more than 200 people in the original three yamen runners, and Wu Yong and Huang Liang selected a group of reliable people to stay in the county yamen for use, and all the others were fired.

After Li Weiguo visited Wu Yong's injuries, he learned that most of the county soldiers were Xiao Yang's people, so he asked Li Weiguo to be more careful.

It happened that Xiao Saner, the military officer, was imprisoned, and the military officer was vacant. So Li Weiguo appointed Zhang Xiaoliu as the military officer, and recruited Chongming County soldiers to guard the city, arrest the thieves, patrol the city, and maintain public order. Only with military power in his hands did Li Weiguo feel safer.

Chongming County is located at the estuary of the Yangtze River and is an important customs border defense site. According to the Qing law, the county town military units should have 50 horse soldiers, 119 infantry guards and 508 infantry soldiers.

After the First Raven War, the coastal forces were adjusted. The Chongming County military garrisons were equipped with 50 horse soldiers, 150 infantry guards, 300 infantry soldiers, 500 river patrol sailors, totaling 1,000, with one commander and one water and land camp officer.

However, after Xiao Saner became the military clerk, he kept secretly vain salary, compressing a thousand officers and soldiers to only about two hundred. Most of them were from the Xiao family slaves. It was okay to bully the common people and had no combat power. This is also the real reason why Zhang Xiaoliu and Huang Liang were able to capture Xiao Saner with one hundred guards. Otherwise, if Xiao Saner had a thousand troops in his hands, the one who was suffering now would probably be Li Weiguo.

Seeing the war in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom descending, Li Weiguo knew the truth about the emergence of power from the gun and decided to restore the entire military unit of Chongming County. If the staff were not enough, he would choose the strongest among the refugees and be honest.

Li Weiguo felt that in the chaos, there were still too few soldiers in a thousand counties. Anyway, there were more than 100,000 victims in Chongming County, and there were many young and strong people. Their left and right used labor for relief. Why not take the opportunity to recruit team training?

Of course, the Qing government does not allow local governments to form groups and practice privately, otherwise it is the same as rebellion. Only when the Taiping Army successfully breaks through Yong'an, Wuhan falls, 100,000 Qing troops are destroyed, the Taiping Army is unstoppable, and the Qing government is unable to suppress bandits, will it allow local governments to form groups and practice themselves to protect themselves.

However, Li Weiguo was not afraid. Since he knew that this historical moment was coming, he naturally would not wait. Although the Qing government did not allow the formation of a group training now, there were policies and countermeasures from above, and Li Weiguo only needed to change it.

So, Li Weiguo ordered Zhang Xiaoliu to recruit another 3,000 young and strong men, and train him with a thousand county soldiers to implement militarized management, and to the outside world called the disaster relief security team. Li Weiguo served as the captain and Zhang Xiaoliu deputy. If the court asked, it would be said that the county government officials had too few staff members and could not manage the hundreds of thousands of disaster victims in Chongming County. In order to prevent civil chaos, a disaster relief team was forced to set up. The disaster relief team not only assisted the county government in maintaining public order, but also participated in the post-disaster reconstruction work. When the disaster situation stabilized, it would be disbanded on its own.

Of course, it would be best if the court did not ask.

During natural disasters, recruiting soldiers is the easiest thing to do.

The people of Chongming County heard that the county corps recruited 1,000 soldiers, and rushed to participate in the registration. There were tens of thousands of people. Zhang Xiaoliu first selected young and strong people, without hidden diseases or disabilities, and the most important thing was those who did not smoke big smoke. Of course, there were very few poor people who smoke big smoke big smoke.

After a simple "physical examination", more than 10,000 people were left, and these people were asked to run around the county town and select the four thousand strong people who finally persisted.

Among them, the first three thousand were organized into the disaster relief security team, and the last one thousand were organized into the county soldiers.

Although the victims did not understand what the disaster relief security team did, who made Li Weiguo the most famous in their hearts? As long as Li Weiguo needs it, these people are willing to participate.

In less than half a day, one thousand county soldiers and three thousand "public security soldiers" were recruited and were taken to the barracks for unified training.

Those who were not selected shook their heads and sighed, but were not disappointed, because Li Weiguo also gave them job opportunities, and still used work for relief to form a post-disaster home reconstruction team, regardless of gender, age, as long as they had the strength to work.

In the barracks, Li Weiguo personally wrote the training instructions, including the modern military training charter and military rules and regulations. Of course, the modern people's set is not all suitable for soldiers in the Qing Dynasty. For example, modern soldiers have good food and good medical conditions, so they can be trained at high intensity without fear of injury. But it would be different for soldiers in the Qing Dynasty. Their food standards are low and their medical conditions are extremely poor. If they are trained according to high-intensity modern soldiers, not only will they not be able to keep up with their physical fitness and easily self-harm, but they will also easily become fatal or have lifelong disability due to poor medical conditions or timely treatment.

Therefore, after careful consideration, Li Weiguo selected some suitable training subjects in a targeted manner to reduce the training intensity, and thus compiled a training note suitable for soldiers in the Qing Dynasty.

In terms of military rules and regulations, Li Weiguo would not copy modern military rules and regulations, because military rules and regulations are formulated according to the times and the needs of the development of the times. Different era environments require different military rules and regulations and cannot be copied and copied.

Of course, the basic military rules and regulations are eternal. Li Weiguo directly copied the three major disciplines and eight points of attention of the People's Liberation Army.

You should know that the three major disciplines and eight points of attention played a crucial role in the Eighth Route Army's victory in the entire War of Resistance Against Japan and the War of Liberation. Li Weiguo implemented it as military rules and regulations. He believed that in the near future, he would also have a strong army with a good style and courage to fight and fight.

After entrusting the military training rules and regulations to Zhang Xiaoliu, Li Weiguo adjusted his 100 guards.

Youdao means that one person can achieve the Tao and the chickens and dogs ascend to heaven, and Li Weiguo cannot escape the customs. Following his 100 personal guards, he turned into veterans at this time. He was appointed as officers at all levels, controlled the entire army, acted as instructors, and began training for new recruits.

In this way, Li Weiguo easily controlled this 4,000 army as his capital and guarantee for starting his career.

The next day, the heads of the four families of Su, Zhou, Zan and Yan came to ask for Li Weiguo.

Li Weiguo knew that it was time for him to fulfill his previous promise.

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Chapter completed!