Zhou Shixiang, the village chief's candidate, did not appoint all the people from the Taiping Army, but chose some of the formerly dismissed Chief A, who had a good reputation, and the local villagers elected themselves. Because of the strength of the clan power in this era, the landlords and gentry took advantage of the loopholes recommended by the village chief. All village chiefs elected by the villagers were mostly gentry people. Even if they had nothing to do with the local gentry, they were people who were more brothers and more arrogant in the village on weekdays and were afraid of the villagers. Basically, one or two of the ten village chiefs elected by the villagers were at most honest people who were more convincing to the villagers, and the others were recommended by the villagers because they were afraid of pressure.

Zhou Shixiang was of course dissatisfied with this situation, but seeing that these people knew that the knife was in the hands of the Taiping Army and was quite cooperative with the Taiping Army. Most of the grain tax tasks issued by the villages could be completed, so they also agreed to this situation and did not intend to conflict with local clan forces at this time. Of course, Zhou Shixiang's hands would not be soft for those who were seriously corruption in the process of grain tax payment.

The people of the former Houying who were resettled in each township had separate villages. Thanks to the military disasters in Guangdong in recent years, the population of Xiangshan has also decreased a lot, which has led to a lot of land left by the escaped landlords in each township, so that the people of the resettlement in each township can be allocated enough land and enough land to repay military merits. In addition to some of the former Houying who were in charge, the village chiefs of these villages were disabled soldiers who retreated from the army.

When resettling the old and weak in the Houying camp, Zhou Shixiang specially asked Duke Xiang of Song to resettle according to his original region and bloodline, which made the new villages scattered in various townships very strong cohesion. In addition, with the support of the Taiping Army, the locals did not dare to bully these outsiders.

Establish a new administrative region, form a security team, organize new villagers to carry out spring farming production, and refine the specific duties of each township office, strengthen the connection between each township and village and counties, and implement a new mobilization system and take stock of the materials and various affairs in each township... all kinds of matters are all in a short time.

Zhou Shixiang was also a hand-off manager. He only explained the major policies and measures against Liao Ruixiang and Duke Xiang of Song, and he would not ask about the specific implementation. He only asked about it every ten days. This made Liao Ruixiang and Duke Xiang of Song suffer. Not long after the New Year, the two of them had more white hair.

Liao Ruixiang had the official official position and seal of the Yongli court and became a seventh-rank official, but Duke Xiang of Song was still called the official of the general affairs of the Taiping Army. He did not have the official position of the Yongli court, which made Zhou Shi very guilty. Duke Xiang of Song was open-minded and did not care whether he had a formal position or not. The more he didn't care about Zhou Shixiang, the more he felt guilty. So he used the title of the registered Chaozhou general given to him by the Guangdong Governor Lian Chengbi to reorganize and expand the Taiping Army, and also officially formed a military force.

Establishing the head of the camp is to establish the head of the camp, and forming an army is to establish an army. Nowadays, any of the Southern Ming army can build a new camp. Some bandits in the mountains can establish a camp as long as they are willing to accept the recruitment of the Ming army. However, the camp is of many names and has its names. The number of people varies, not institutionalized, and it is also optional in the eyes of the Yongli regime. The army is much more formal than establishing the camp. First of all, the ones who can form an army must have the least one rank of generals granted by the Yongli court, rather than just one guerrilla, and the Dusi can pull it out to form an army alone.

The Yongli court did not give Zhou Shixiang the official rank of general, but the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi Lianchengbi gave Zhou Shixiang the title of general Chaozhou for expedient measures. The general officers of the Ming Dynasty had no fixed rank and were also very appointed, and the commander was not determined. Generally, those who could serve as general were mostly commanders of Duke Shixun or commanders of the garrison. The Ming military system was based on the commander of the commander, commander of the guard, commander of the guard, commander of the guard, thousands of households, hundreds of households, general flags, and small flags as officers. When encountering wars, they were appointed as general officers. Under the general, they were appointed as deputy generals, generals, guerrillas, garrisons, and Qianzong. For example, Wu Sangui was appointed as general generals of Liaodong as commander.

During the Chongzhen period, even though wars inside and outside the pass continued for years, there were only more than 30 generals from all over the country, and few were called "General Town" or "Master General". After Jiashen, generals became rampant, with more than ten generals from all over the coast of Guangdong alone, and many registered generals were flying into the sky. The title of general is really worthless.

However, it is not worth much. With the title of the registered general, Zhou Shixiang and Taiping Army are soldiers and horses within the Yongli court, and they are no longer the kind of camp that is dispensable. If Lianchengbi hadn't been powerless, I'm afraid that the supervisor would have sent to Xiangshan as usual.

The Taiping Army stationed in various townships are now recruiting soldiers. As the team expands, the original 100 households and general flag system is definitely not suitable, so Zhou Shixiang decided to implement a new command system in the army with the title of registered general. In other words, Zhou Shixiang is going to be promoted to his subordinates.

Before the promotion, Zhou Shixia ordered the battalions to report the recent recruitment situation. Although the people of Xiangshan did not join the army in groups, the numbers reported by each battalion still satisfied Zhou Shixia.

The one who recruited the most was the camp stationed in Yongle Township and Changning Township.

Tieyi cruelly cleaned the landlords and gentry in the local area, and it can be said that he killed all the gentry who originally rode on the peasants of Erxiang. Not only that, he also uprooted the local clan forces. Although this action made the Taiping Army famous and made the local big surnames extremely hate the Taiping Army, it received support and support from farmers who were not from Daxian. After they had the best land and the wealth of the landlords who had never dared to imagine, they saw the excellent treatment enjoyed by the newly resettled Taiping Army family, the farmers in Yongle and Changning were extremely enthusiastic about joining the Taiping Army. As of the end of the first month, the camp recruited a total of 1,950 new recruits.

Secondly, the Hujie Camp stationed in Longyan Capital recruited the most soldiers. Because Longyan Capital is close to Tanjiang, the local people are not unfamiliar with the war on Xinhui across the river. They all know that the Qing army was defeated in Xinhui, and they saw that the river was covered with Ming naval troops, so their fear of the Qing army was greatly reduced. The land consolidation of Song Xianggong personally took charge of Longyan Capital gave these people sweetness. Qin Zhisheng tried his best to restrain military discipline and did not violate the local villagers. Therefore, although the local clan power was still there, the clan did not object to the villagers' participation in the Taiping Army, which allowed Qin Zhisheng to successfully recruit 1,200 new recruits, of which more than 400 were fishermen who fished by the river all year round.

Xiongwei Camp stationed in Liangzidu also recruited 600 new recruits, Zhenlu Camp stationed in Renhoufang recruited 700 people, and the guard camp stationed in Qianshanzhai recruited more than 900 people. Each battalion was recruiting soldiers, and Qi Hao was not idle. He also recruited more than 500 new recruits while training artillery. In addition, the remaining Ming army soldiers who came out of Qiniang Mountain and Wutong Mountain joined the Taiping Army one after another, which expanded the number of Taiping Army's troops from more than 4,000 after crossing the river to 12,000.

There were many soldiers recruited, but the new recruits were not trained, and they had almost no combat power. What's important is that the Qing army's food and grass seized by the Taiping Army from Xiangshan was constantly consumed. Before the new grain was collected, the shortage period of food for two months was given by Duke Xiang of Song. At the same time, he reminded Zhou Shixiang that fighting these days is not the fighting power of both sides, but whether they can eat enough. (To be continued.)
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