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The East-West Route Detachment took away more than half of its troops, and now the only regular troops staying at Yask are Zhao Qiang's Divisional Guards and the two brigades of the Second Infantry Regiment, with a combined strength of only 400 soldiers. 【】In addition, there is the newly established Yask security team with 300 soldiers.

The two spear brigades left behind in Dingyuan City and Gulihe City have been assigned to the westward detachment according to the order, and now only the security team remains in the second city.Because the residents in Gulihe City were too Russified and still had a closeness to Russia, Zhao Qiang ordered Wei Ji of Shouyi City to draw 500 people from the Department of Public Security and the left-behind soldiers of Shouyi City, and temporarily organize them into a battalion. Go to Gulihe City to deter those residents.Calculated in this way, there are 800 irregular troops stationed in Gulihe City. All the young and strong men in the city have been recruited, and the ones left behind are old and weak women and children. There are [-] people stationed, which is definitely safe.The residents of Dingyuan City welcomed the arrival of the Guanning Army very much, and with the assistance of the Han people, although there was only one security team, they did not worry about losing their defense.What's more, according to the news from Dingyuan City, more and more Han people are going to Dingyuan City with their families. The feeling of fishing and water, if people with different ideas want to make trouble in Dingyuan City, I am afraid it is a dream.

As for Shouyi City, more than 1000 people from various ethnic groups have recently come to vote. Guo Fei selected 900 men from among them to organize and train, and added the Department of Public Security.Wu Si's teaching brigade is the only Guanning regular army in Shouyi City. There are more than 500 trainees, but most of them are sergeants who have just been on the battlefield once or twice, so the combat effectiveness is not too high. Little use.Therefore, it was originally planned to transfer the Cossack team to Shouyi City to prevent the attack of the Manchu Qing, but Zhao Qiang temporarily changed his mind, because Shouyi City is too empty now, sending the Cossack team there will increase hidden dangers to some extent, so he sent the Cossack team stayed.

After Wei Ji and Liu De received Zhao Qiang's order, on the one hand, they speeded up the reception work in various places and dispatched civil affairs personnel to deal with it. On the other hand, they were also busy preparing warm clothes and food for the army to spend the winter. They were extremely busy. .Liu De still needs to spare some time to go to Wu Si's teaching brigade to implement Zhao Qiang's intentions, so he can take some time off.However, according to secret reports from those who monitored him, Liu De seemed to be very satisfied with his current life, and he was very careful in handling his errands, as if he had already regarded himself as a member of the Guan Ning Army.The secret letter also mentioned one thing, that is, after Zhao Qiang left, Liu De organized the children of Wu Jun's family and vacated two classrooms in the Shouyi City Translation School to teach them.Because it is only a scholar's fame, so the teaching is simple.Such as "Three Character Classic", "Thousand Characters", etc., and occasionally tell the children a passage of the Three Kingdoms.

Liu De's performance made Zhao Qiang quite satisfied. From his education of the children, Zhao Qiang also realized that he should increase investment in education. This investment does not refer to money investment, but related teaching materials.Zhao Qiang wanted everyone to read it, but in the entire area controlled by the Guanning Army, except for some Russian scriptures and tadpole-like Russian, there was no Chinese at all, and there was no printing equipment, so it was difficult to popularize knowledge. educate.When Duo Lun Chan is taken down, can someone be sent to North Korea to buy some printing equipment and registration cards, Zhao Qiang thought so.

In the past few days, Zhao Qiang has been busy with Yask's affairs. He wants to send people to the surrounding areas to order those small tribe residents to vote, and also to restore Yask's production and life, so he is very busy.Zhao Qiang didn't rest until the personnel of Mincao and Juncao came.Ji Ahua, the director of the Animal Husbandry Department, came to Yask under the order of Wei Ji. He reported to Zhao Qiang the work of the various departments of the Civil and Cao Department. Finally, he took out a letter and asked Zhao Qiang to read it.

The letter was written in Wei Ji's name, but after Zhao Qiang passed by, he knew that the content of the letter was mostly Liu De's intention.The content of the letter was nothing, except that Wei Ji asked Zhao Qiang to immediately appoint officials from Dingyuan, Gulihe, and Yask to coordinate the affairs of each city. Finally, he also asked Zhao Qiang to decide where the Guanning Army would be located as soon as possible.Because Zhao Qiang once clearly stated that Shouyi City is not suitable for serving as the base camp of the Guan Ning Army, because there is no buffer zone, once the Qing army attacks aggressively, the Guan Ning Army will fall into a situation of losing its foundation.

"The general used to have only one city, with more than a thousand troops, but now he has several cities, nearly ten thousand troops, and tens of thousands of people under his rule. It is only governed by the people of the general government, which does more harm than good. The general's intention is to go south. It lies in Guan Neihua, from which the officials say that the general should set up officials to govern the yamen, and use the system of the Han people to govern the people of all ethnic groups, so that when he goes south in the future, he can be justified and won the hearts of the people of the world."

"Is this Wei Ji's words, or Liu De's words?" Zhao Qiang chuckled, put the letter on the table, and glanced at Ji Ahua who was nervous in front of him.

Ji Ahua's left arm was cut off by the Qing army in the Battle of Tuerling. After he recovered from his injury, he became the director of the Animal Husbandry Department. He is from Guangyuan, Sichuan. He voted for Wu Jun in the 14th year of Kangxi. He is only 36 years old this year, but he is old. Much more, the wrinkles on the forehead are clearly visible, and the stubble of the newly grown hair can still reach the gray hair.Hearing the division head's question, Ji Ahua hurriedly said respectfully: "Respond to your lord's words, the letter was given by lord Wei to your subordinates, and other subordinates don't know about it."

"After you go back, tell Wei Ji that the matter of setting up officials to govern the yamen is very important, and it can't be easily decided for a while. Let him do his own thing in peace, and don't worry about it."

It is good to set up officials to govern the yamen, but where can Zhao Qiang find scholars to become officials, the army has a total of two and a half hangers-on, it is difficult to find Russians to be the magistrate of the county.Besides, the Dingyuan campaign has not yet ended, and it is not yet possible to determine how much land and population will be obtained after the war.So it is too hasty to start Dingyuan County, Shouyi Prefecture and so on.

When Ji Ahua came here, besides reporting his work, he just handed the letter to the head of the division, and then reported the meaning of the head of the division to Wei Ji. As for the head of the division agreeing with him, he had nothing to do, because he didn't understand this official rule at all. What are the advantages of the Yamen to the Guanning Army and to the old brothers.In his eyes, Wei Cao Guan's suggestion is really bad, and setting up officials to govern the yamen is nothing more than conferring several county magistrates.The county magistrate in his hometown is really not very good. Except for the people who fish and meat, Ji Ahua really can't think of what this county magistrate has brought to the common people.