Nangong Hou has always been a reasonable person, so after some reasoning process, he quickly decided not to leave and continued to work on his perpetual motion machine in the laboratory.
However, he still often murmurs about funding for perpetual motion machines.
For this reason, Lin Ziran naturally ignored him.
They are so poor now, how can they have the money to build a perpetual motion machine for them?
However, Lin Ziran was very generous when it came to Nangong Hou's research on petroleum, especially on improving the process of refining kerosene, and provided him with all the equipment he could get.
And in addition to the original two assistants, Lin Ziran has assigned him another assistant in the past two days.
However, these assistants were all personally told by Lin Ziran: "Study hard when you go there. If you succeed in your studies, I won't treat you badly!"
On the surface, the person sent here was working as an assistant to Nangong Hou, but in fact, he was more likely to steal someone's guidance.
After all, Nangong Hou is not very reliable. Even if he has no other problems, Lin Ziran can't stand the perpetual motion machine every three days.
Nangong Hou's matter is just a small episode in Lin Ziran's many daily affairs. He is busy with many things every day.
For example, Boss Wang has been working almost every day these days. At first he only asked for money, but later he just lay on the floor and asked for money...
That look is worse than a shrew!
Lin Ziran had a headache, and finally asked Ding Quankun to scrape together more than 500 yuan for him, which made him calm down for a while.
However, none of these things, like military affairs, gave Lin Ziran a headache and made him feel troublesome.
Judging from the previous battles of the Patrol Battalion, the current Qingshan Patrol Battalion is really difficult to take on the important task. If it were not for the Mini rifle with a long range, it might not have been able to complete the task of containing the rebels fleeing south of Guang'an.
The tactical ability of the troops and the commanding abilities of the officers are really poor.
In order to change the current predicament, Lin Ziran officially set up a crash course for officers, intending to train officers on his own.
Although there is not even an instructor yet, it is not important. We need to find the students first.
The first batch of academies are naturally composed of existing military officers, including four company commanders, four deputy company commanders, and more than a dozen platoon commanders.
In addition, more than ten soldiers who were literate and had flexible minds were selected from the army.
In addition, seven or eight young people with a certain level of education, good physical fitness and good work style were recruited from the private sector.
In the end, there were more than forty students in the crash course gathered by Lin Ziran.
But it’s not enough to just have students, you also have to have instructors. Originally, Lin Ziran wanted to teach in person, but after trying a few lectures, he found that he was not qualified to be a military instructor, not even a teacher.
material, so I had to give up.
At the same time, the time for the prisoner-of-war officers Lin Ziran wants to recruit is still relatively short. Luo Mazi has not even completed the preparation work. This kind of thing cannot be rushed in a day or two. In Luo Mazi's words, he has to fight slowly.
boil!
So don’t expect it in the short term.
But it's not a problem to wait like this forever, and it's not possible to use all prisoner-of-war officers, so Lin Ziran also plans to hire military instructors from outside with high salaries.
Although these are troubled times, the best job prospects are for high-quality military officers.
An officer who has received a perfect military education will be a hot cake no matter where he goes, and a lot of feudal lords and towns are rushing to get him.
After all, everyone is smart and knows the importance of talents.
Compared with those big feudal towns, Lin Ziran felt that he had no advantage, so it was impossible to invite those outstanding talents, but Lin Ziran did not set his sights on the active officers in the feudal towns.
He focused on those officers who had retired and were idle at home.
Among the people, there are many officers who do not continue to join the army due to various reasons and are idle at home. There are such people even in Qingshan Town and several nearby towns.
Therefore, Lin Ziran asked Qingshan Trading Company to find out where there were free officers, and then invite them.
This matter for an officer is like digging a well to extract oil, there is no rush!
Under such circumstances, Lin Ziran could only start from other aspects.
The first step is to organize the few hundred soldiers who have just been recruited and are still undergoing the most basic adaptive training.
At the same time, in order to allow the newly formed troops to form initial combat effectiveness as soon as possible, instead of requiring several months of training before they could barely take shape, Lin Ziran adopted the model of veterans leading new recruits.
Although the soldiers of the original infantry companies were not very good in combat effectiveness, they were mostly at the level of officers. As for the soldiers, they could actually reach the ordinary level. At least they could still perform loading and shooting, basic formations, etc.
Therefore, Lin Ziran planned to let these veterans train with the new recruits, so that the troops could quickly form initial combat effectiveness as much as possible.
For this reason, he directly divided the first muskete company, the second muskete company, and the third muskete company into two, split each company in half, and then added half of the recruits.
This means that three companies have become six companies, and more than half of the soldiers in each of these six companies have been trained for several months, and have experienced wars and fired guns to some extent.
A veteran who has seen snow.
As for the Fourth Chasseur Company, it is still no longer included in any of Lin Ziran's reorganization and reform plans. Those old oil sticks cannot be thrown away or used. Lin Ziran now treats them as a second-line force, transporting kerosene and patrolling intersections.
It's like that, it's considered waste recycling.
Even in order to free up the designation, Lin Ziran canceled the designation of the Fourth Chasseur Company and renamed it the Petroleum Security Team, which was separated from the existing patrol battalion and managed independently.
Try not to let these old fritters affect the style of the patrol camp as much as possible.
Even Scar was transferred out by Lin Ziran and served as the company commander of the newly established Fourth Musketeer Company, and concurrently served as the second battalion.
The second battalion is also a newly established establishment, because the musket company has expanded from the original three to the current six, and the musket companies of the Qingshan Patrol Battalion are all establishments with relatively large numbers of people.
There are more than 130 combatants alone, and there are also cooks and grooms who are not combatants on weekdays.
In order to facilitate management on the battlefield, Lin Ziran established the first battalion, the second battalion, and the new battalion.
Among them, the first battalion is responsible for the first, second, and third musket companies, and the second battalion is responsible for the fourth, fifth, and sixth musket companies. As for the recruit battalion, it is only responsible for recruiting and training new recruits, and does not go to the battlefield.
The commander of the first battalion is Wu Dajiang, the commander of the second battalion is Dao Scar, and the commander of the new recruits is Luo Mazi.
In addition to these three battalion-level organizations, there are also cavalry companies, artillery companies, baggage companies, and Lin Ziran's guards.
The cavalry company actually only has about fifty cavalry, and they can only be regarded as infantry who can ride horses, but they cannot charge with sabers. They can only be regarded as dragoons.
The artillery battery is a little better. There are currently four five-pound artillery pieces, and two more will be added in the future. Finally, there will be six five-pound field guns.
Adding up all the above personnel, the full capacity will reach 1,200 people.
This means that Lin Ziran has completed or even exceeded the small goal of 1,000 people he originally set.