The 3,000 sets of ready-made clothes made were not the kind of military uniforms that Zhou Shixiang had commonly seen in his previous life, but followed the style of the Ming army's inherent military uniforms. However, the three words "Taiping Army" were embroidered with black thread on the right arm.

This kind of cloth armor uniform is lighter than cotton armor and has stronger breathability. It is definitely the most suitable for the Taiping Army, an army that must be fighting in the south in the short term. If you really want to get some thick and heavy military uniforms, the soldiers will probably complain.

Zhou Shixiang did not design any new military caps ingeniously. He still used the common hat-style military caps in the Southern Ming army. The hat was made of bamboo and cloth, and there was a spire tied with red silk on the top of the hat, which looked majestic.

In fact, Zhou Shixiang wanted to wear an iron helmet for the soldiers, so that the probability of head injury can be reduced on the battlefield. However, the Taiping Army did not have the conditions to make tens of thousands of iron helmets, so they could only use this kind of hat for the time being.

Zhou Shixiang praised Lin Wanfu and the Yang family of TEDA Buxing. He was very happy and satisfied that they could make this batch of ready-made garments in a short period of time. He also ordered to reward 500 female workers in the Military Uniform Department once, so that these female workers could receive ten kilograms of rice, one kilogram of pork or five eggs from public warehousings set up in various places to improve their lives.

After Lin Wanfuda knew that the "son-in-law" was coming, he arranged a table of food and food. However, Zhou Shixiang did not leave for dinner, but ordered people to send these 3,000 sets of ready-made clothes to Liangzi Township to change the clothes for the left camp of the infantry army. He asked them to make the next batch as soon as possible, and at the same time put the production of 500 pairs of military boots on the agenda.

After giving these instructions, Zhou Shixiang went to Yongle Township Office to inspect the resettlement of local immigrants. This made Lin Wanfu very disappointed. He complained that his daughter must have not served the general well. Otherwise, when the "son-in-law" saw his father-in-law so cold, he took this opportunity to have a good talk with the "son-in-law". Was he transferred him to the county town to make a fat man instead of making clothes all day in this military uniform department? If it really doesn't work, he would have done his job and handled money and food for the Taiping Military Treasury. Could his father-in-law be able to do his own business and defeat his "son-in-law"?

Seeing Lin Wanfu so disappointed, Yang Wanquan, the shopkeeper of the TEDA Bushang in Luodingzhou City, was amused. As early as Luo Dingshi, he was not ashamed of Lin Wanfu's character. In order to make some money, he actually gave his daughter to someone as a concubine. Later, he knocked his daughter out for his own life and forced him to Zhou Xiucai. He was really ashamed of being a father. Now, Zhou Xiucai ignored him at all. Seeing that he was still embarrassed to always look like a handsome father-in-law in the future.

When Zhou Shixiang was in Luoding, he confiscated the gentry and wealthy families, and took them all away. It was impossible for Yang Wanquan and others to hold grudges. However, after experiencing the Xinhui defense battle, Yang Wanquan and others' thoughts changed a little. At least when these families occasionally met, they no longer called the thief scholar, but called Zhou Xiucai.

As soon as Zhou Shixiang arrived at the Yongle Township Office, he asked the people from the office to bring the list and the placement books and looked at them carefully. Immigration and resettlement have always been something he was very concerned about, because the number of people determines the development of Xiangshan, and the strength and weakness of the Taiping Army. It also indirectly determines Zhou Shixiang's own destiny.

When he was in Lingshan Town, Zhou Shixiang repeatedly emphasized to his subordinates the importance of population, grain, salt and iron to the Taiping Army. The three are the most populous.

The Taiping Army migrated more than 30,000 people from Zengcheng, Shunde, Panyu and some villages in northern Xin'an to Xiangshan. Only thousands of them were willing to follow the Taiping Army, and the rest were forcibly moved, or it was more appropriate to be captured. Of course, in external propaganda, the Taiping Army emphasized that all these people were voluntarily followed.

The influx of more than 30,000 new immigrants quickly supplemented the urgent labor force in Xiangshan, allowing a large amount of land abandoned due to war to be cultivated, and also provided a large number of reserve troops for the Taiping Army.

New immigrants were resettled in accordance with the Taiping Army’s rear camp model, with half of the population being resettled in Qianshanzhai, and 20 new villages were formed, which were managed by Qianshanzhai Township Office.

Qianshanzhai Township Office is the largest township in more than a dozen towns in Xiangshan County. In terms of area, it is enough to exceed Zhuhai City in Zhou Shixiang's previous life. However, the area is large, but the population of Qianshanzhai plus these newly moved immigrants is only more than 30,000, which is less than a lower-class county. The total population of Xiangshan County is less than 100,000, so the influx of more than 30,000 new immigrants did not cause conflicts between locals and migrant populations in land ownership. The existing cultivated land in Xiangshan can completely digest these immigrants.

Yongle and Changning are the two townships that support the Taiping Army in Xiangshan County, which are the most favorable to the Taiping Army, which is due to the dozen family massacres that Tieyi had in these two townships.

It was these dozen family tragedies that led to the uproots of landlords and gentry in Yongle Township and Changning Township, and the clan power was wiped out, allowing the local poor people who served as tenants to the landlords to be freed from the personal shackles tied to their bodies and also distributed to their own land.

Farmers value immediate interests the most, and after getting the benefits, they will try every means to save them. Therefore, after tasting the benefits brought to them by the Taiping Army, the young and strong people in Yongle and Changning were very enthusiastic about signing up for the Taiping Army. The number of registrations reached more than 3,000, and in the end nearly 2,000 people joined the Taiping Army. This also led to the fact that every farmer's family in these two townships became a family member of the Taiping Army and enjoying the same treatment as the villages formed by the Houying.

More than 4,000 immigrants were resettled in Yongle Township, and three villages were formed. The villagers who were originally scattered there were moved to a village with a large number of local residents by the township office.

Zhou Shixiang checked the rations, farm tools, plowing oxen, and the establishment of several village offices that the township office paid for immigrants one by one. Although there are still some shortcomings and flaws, and you can even vaguely see some corruption happening, the organization and mobilization capabilities of Yongle Township Office are far beyond the past. This alone is enough to satisfy Zhou Shixiang. As for those sub-sections, it is not the focus that Zhou Shixiang should care about at the moment.

Taking the existing territory and conditions of the Taiping Army, it is a joke to consider rectifying the administration. If the scholars in these offices are rectified, who will do the business for the Taiping Army?

Zhou Shixiang is not so confused yet.

Resetting immigrants did not actually cost the money and grain from the Taiping Military Treasury, because the money and grain used to resettle these immigrants were originally collected from them. Even the farm tools were brought out from their homes.

With the assistance of township offices and village offices in various places, the Taiping Army did not use much manpower to resettle immigrants. The houses where the immigrants lived were built by themselves, and the fields were cultivated by themselves. What the Taiping Army had to do was to ensure their safety. Some disputes between immigrants were handled by the public office, and security teams from each township were also responsible for public security. The Taiping Army just brought people over and basically didn't care.

After seeing that most of the immigrants in the township built thatched huts, Zhou Shixiang suddenly became a little worried because although Xiangshan has a good climate and abundant resources, it seems to be affected by typhoons every year. These thatched huts are easy to build, but once the typhoon hits, the house collapses in an instant.

After returning to Xiangshan, Zhou Shixiang instructed Liao Ruixiang to immediately organize people to build kiln factories in various townships and make large quantities of bricks. The township offices will uniformly plan and build brick houses to improve the living conditions of the people. Of course, these built brick houses must first meet the needs of the people in the back camp, and then they can be supplied to immigrants. If the immigrants and local people do it themselves and participate in brick making and building houses by labor, then these people can also be given priority to living in brick houses to mobilize the enthusiasm of immigrants.

The kiln firing technology has long been mature. I would like to find some people who have worked in the kiln factory to guide me. Zhou Shixiang is not worried that he will not be able to burn bricks.

After repeated consideration, Zhou Shixiang instructed Duke Xiang of Song to set up a Ministry of Civil Affairs under the Military Commander's Office, and his subordinates also set up four departments: Agricultural Reclamation, Fisheries, Posts, and Workshops, which were specifically responsible for the construction and development of Xiangshan.

Duke Xiang of Song believed that the military commander's office should be the main management of the military, and civil affairs should be handed over to Xiangshan County. Public housing such as household houses, punishment houses, and ritual houses can be set up in Xinhui County Government to deal with these matters.

This suggestion was rejected by Zhou Shixiang because in his opinion, the Taiping Army would definitely not only have only a piece of territory in Xiangshan in the future, so the Civil Affairs Department must be established in the Military Commander's Office. If Guangzhou is captured in the future, the Civil Affairs Department can be immediately replaced with the Guangdong Provincial Administration and Commissioner's Office to take over the power of the entire Guangdong province and quickly operate it.

Duke Xiang of Song focused on the present and Zhou Shixiang looked at the future. The Ministry of Civil Affairs he wanted to establish was completely a small government structure and was also used to cultivate the Taiping Army's own government talent organization. If placed in Xiangshan County, it would definitely not meet his requirements and would easily conflict with the county government, so he strongly promoted this matter. Duke Xiang of Song could not resist him and had to agree. According to Zhou Shixiang's opinion, the Ministry of Civil Affairs was established in the Military Commander's Office, and at the same time, the responsibilities of each department were clearly implemented.

Zhou Shixiang asked Duke Xiang of Song to serve as a civil servant. Because he did not have a specific official title, the civil servant was a temporary dispatcher.

The responsibility of the Agricultural Reclamation Department is to be responsible for agriculture; the Fisheries and Animal Husbandry Department, as the name suggests, is responsible for fishing and raising livestock; the Post Office is responsible for road repair and establishment of post stations; the Workshop Department is responsible for the establishment of ironwork workshops and unified management, and also assumes the responsibility of ordnance manufacturing.

Because these four departments are closely related to people's livelihood, Zhou Shixiang does not need those scholars to be responsible. As long as Duke Xiang of Song finds some relevant personnel to be responsible and provides some scholars to help, so that the layman will not lead the insiders.

The person in charge of the Agricultural Reclamation Department was Qian Feng, the general flag with an arm in the Battle of Xinhui. He was illiterate, but before joining the Taiping Army, he was an expert in farming and was steady in his work. Duke Xiang of Song protected him as the head of the department.

The Fish and Animal Husbandry Department's mission is not heavy or light. There are 1,000 cattle, sheep, pigs, horses and other livestock captured from the front and back, which requires a large amount of feed and herbs. Xiangshan is a town of fish and rice. The water system in the territory is well developed and there are many mountains and forests. Therefore, the Fish and Animal Husbandry Department must manage these livestock well, and also be responsible for organizing some fishermen to go out to sea to fish and provide fish to the people of Taiping Army and Xiangshan. The most important thing is that the Fish and Animal Husbandry Department must establish pig farms and cattle farms belonging to the Taiping Army, and even ducks and chicken farms, so that the Taiping Army can have its own stable source of poultry and reduce the burden on the people. Like Qian Feng, the head of the Agricultural Reclamation Department, Song Xianggong was selected as a fisherman named Song Bao.
Chapter completed!