Chapter two hundred and eighty-ninth personal battalion
Time flies so fast, one year has passed in the blink of an eye.
Lin Ruhai has been the governor of Xishan for a full year and has completely controlled the administrative power of Xishan.
With Jia Cong's help, he directly sent his commander Sui Wangcai to follow Lin Ruhai's footsteps of inspecting the place, picking up local military camps one after another.
The results are naturally amazing...
With his cultivation at the pinnacle of wealth and dark strength, and the fighting power of a first-class warrior, he went on a scenic journey to defeat invincible opponents in the local military camps in Xishan.
If you are not convinced, fight!
Controlling the local army is actually very simple. As long as you have enough force, you can knock down all the thorns in the army, and they will naturally obey.
Don’t forget, the person standing behind Wangcai is the Governor of Xishan who has the power to control the local defense of Xishan!
If you want to use official methods, a bunch of local garrison generals who have never read books, who is Lin Ruhai's opponent?
No thunderous tactics were used, and a large-scale rotation of defense generals from various places was carried out, which basically solved the problem of sitting on the ground.
At this moment, Lin Ruhai finally breathed a sigh of relief...
"It's not easy!"
In the flower hall in the backyard of the governor's Yamen, Lin Ruhai's close aides, Jia Cong and Xue Pan were all present. Lin Ruhai sat at the head of the table and shook his head.
"Yes, no one expected that the defense in Xishan would be so difficult!"
"This is normal. After all, this is a frontier place, and even the local garrison has a strong fighting capacity. Those garrison generals are naturally arrogant when they have troops at their disposal!"
"Fortunately, the Third Young Master helped and sent out his good men to defeat all the fierce men guarding the military camp. Otherwise, I don't know how long it would have taken?"
"..."
Several staff members were talking incessantly, and the atmosphere was harmonious and had a sense of leisure and creativity.
It's no wonder they were like this. After all, Xishan's situation was special. It was an important border area and there were too many frontier troops stationed there. The entire Xishan Mountain revolved around that military prefecture.
Even the local garrison army has considerable combat effectiveness and influence.
If Lin Ruhai, the governor of Xishan, cannot control part of the military power, no one will listen to his words.
Otherwise, why would they, a group of people who were promoted to civil servants or Jinshi, try their best to help Lin Ruhai control the local defense force?
Lin Ruhai looked at Jia Cong with a smile and asked: "Now is the first step, what do you think should be done next?"
"Reorganize!"
Jia Cong said angrily: "Both the local yamen under the governor's yamen and the local garrison must be reorganized!"
"What kind of rectification method?"
Lin Ruhai smiled and continued to ask: "Do you have any ideas?"
"My father-in-law is doing very well now!"
Jia Cong said leisurely: "Exchange the generals in the garrison, and then strengthen the control of middle and low-level officers, and win over the military morale of the lower-level officers!"
"It's not easy!"
"The key is money and food, and the word fairness. It's not that difficult!"
In a borderland, if you want to completely control an army, in addition to the name given by the court, you must also have sufficient money and food.
"What do you think?"
Lin Ruhai was noncommittal and looked at the close aides around him.
"The third young master is right. If he just intervenes in the defense of the army's money and food, will it cause a strong backlash from the army's generals?"
"Yes, after all, those generals and the officers below them basically rely on drinking the blood of their soldiers to get enough money to enjoy their wealth!"
"We are also seriously short of manpower, and there is no way we can permanently station in the army!"
"..."
The staff were talking all over the place, but they all had the same idea: they were not very optimistic about Jia Cong's suggestion, for fear of triggering a strong backlash from the garrison generals.
After all, he is a literati and is used to using literati thinking...
It’s not that there’s something wrong with the literati’s thinking, it’s just that it’s not very adaptable to a frontier place like Xishan.
Obviously, Lin Ruhai also has such worries...
"Father-in-law, why don't you let me be the commander of the governor's yamen barracks?"
Jia Cong did not refute, and directly asked Lin Ruhai for an important position: "I guarantee that within half a year, my father-in-law will see the results!"
He still didn't believe it, so he turned the governor's barracks into a training center for middle- and lower-level officers. Once a sufficient number of middle- and lower-level officers were trained, the local garrison in Xishan could be transformed.
"so be it!"
Lin Ruhai didn't hesitate at all and nodded directly in agreement.
The matter of the Xishan local garrison has been settled for the time being, and then the administrative issues of the Xishan local area will be dealt with in this way.
Because Xishan is an important border area, the local situation is completely different from that in the hinterland of Daqing.
Except for the city, which is still in the hands of the government, everything outside the city is in the hands of local powerful people.
The local tyrants in Xishan are not simple. They all have built strong fortresses and have a paramilitary presence with a large number of young and strong tenants.
There is nothing we can do about this. In order to deal with the occasional harassment by the barbarians on the grasslands outside the Great Wall, we can only fully mobilize the local powerful and civilian forces to ensure order in the entire Xishan Mountains and avoid major problems.
But in this case, the strength of local powerful people will be too strong.
This is similar to the special manor economy formed during the Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties. It is completely an internal cycle and rarely interacts with the outside world.
In addition, Xishan is rich in resources, and mines of various sizes cannot be ignored.
Behind these mines, there are powerful powerful people who support them, and they don't pay much attention to the orders of local officials.
There are also some chaotic forces involved. In short, the situation in Xishan is quite complicated.
The most important thing is that the economy is very underdeveloped and circulation is full of obstacles.
In those places, powerful people with money, food, and paramilitary armed forces are very unruly and arrogant. It is not uncommon to set up cards to collect fees directly on official roads.
Originally, the circulation of goods in the frontier area was quite insufficient, and the economic vitality was even lower. With checkpoints everywhere, there was no livelihood economy at all.
To put it bluntly, the biggest headache for the governor's yamen and the yamen everywhere is that the place is too poor and the people's poverty leads to a series of troubles.
But it would be a big mistake to say that Xishan is full of poor people...
It is adjacent to the grassland outside the Great Wall. The cattle, sheep, horses and other resources on the grassland are not too rich. Many Shanxi merchants have made a lot of money from this kind of border trade.
There are also Shanxi business bank accounts, just like in a certain period of normal history, they are now very powerful in the Northland, and the owners of each bank bank are extremely rich.
However, such benefits can only be enjoyed by a few people and a few families, while the people at the bottom are still impoverished.
Since Lin Ruhai became the governor of Xishan, he naturally wanted to make a difference.
At least, the lives of the people in Xishan are a little bit easier.
However, the profitable business has long been monopolized by local powerful factions, and even Xishan bosses like Lin Ruhai cannot get involved at all.
The resource monopoly in Xishan is not just about business, but also about culture.
For example, all talented scholars in Xishan, whether they are from powerful local families or from so-called poor families, are all taken over by Xishan interest groups.
Therefore, all officials from Xishan, especially senior officials, are basically members of Xishan's powerful local faction.
Even with Lin Ruhai's strength, he would not dare to offend such a giant easily.
We discussed and discussed, but there was no good solution at all...
Unless the interests of local powerful factions are actively touched, it is simply wishful thinking to find a way out that can make people's lives easier.
At least, Lin Ruhai and his close aides couldn't think of a way...
Jia Cong was not interested in participating in such a discussion, and he and Xue Pan withdrew early.
"Boss, why don't you join in?"
Xue Pan has been trained now. Although his brain is still not very bright, he is no longer the ignorant fool he used to be.
After following Jia Cong for so long, how could you not know what the boss is capable of?
Maybe Lin Ruhai and his close aides can't do anything, but the boss Jia Cong must have something.
"Our main task right now is to take care of the governor's barracks!"
Jia Cong said calmly: "It's not too late to take care of other things when our foundation is more solid!"
It is too easy for him to engage in money-making projects...
But it makes no sense. The powerful local factions in Xishan will definitely pounce on it like mad dogs and use it as part of their monopoly resources.
Jia Cong is not afraid of these local powerful factions in Xishan, but if ordinary people in Xishan, small landowners and businessmen with certain strength can compete with them, it is simply a dream.
To put it bluntly, the strength of Lin Ruhai, the governor of Xishan, has not yet been recognized by the powerful local factions in Xishan, or is not enough to deter these guys who are obsessed with money.
After all, he is an outsider. Even if Lin Ruhai is a dignified governor, how much can he know about the specific inside story of Xishan?
If it were like normal history, the power that the local powerful people in Xishan could mobilize and the evil they could do would be beyond imagination.
In the frontier areas, having troops in hand is the most important thing!
With Jia Cong's ability and Lin Ruhai's support, it was too easy to control the governor's barracks. In less than three days, five hundred of the governor's barracks were completely under control.
Next, there will be non-stop short-term training and mid-term training...
The short-term training lasts for one month to train junior officers; the mid-term training lasts for three months to train middle-level officers.
The time is too short, so it is not mandatory to be able to know more than 3,000 words, but it is necessary to know and write 300 words every day.
Then there are single-person martial arts, small-scale marching and fighting skills, and a series of related knowledge, all of which require the officers and soldiers of the governor's barracks to learn them thoroughly within a time limit.
Jia Cong made it clear that as long as they can learn enough useful knowledge, they can decentralize local garrison troops as mid-level and lower-level officers. Don’t miss this rare opportunity!
For the convenience of teaching, he even brought out a blackboard and chalk. As for books, he spent every day in constant training and learning.
His requirement is to learn in training, improve in learning, and ensure that he can learn enough knowledge within a limited time and get sufficient exercise at the same time...