Chapter 386

On a mountain outside Xiangyang City, a magnificent Taoist temple stands on the top of the mountain. Standing on the top of the mountain, it looks like looking up from the north, rolling Han River and panoramic view. Xiangyang City dozens of miles away from the East is also looming. This mountain has the highest altitude, but the mountain is extremely gentle. At the end is a geomantic treasure land.

On this day, all the officers above the colonel of the Chinese army arrived. In addition, there were nearly 1000 wounded veterans ready to retire and countless onlookers.

With the sound of salute, a huge white cloth at the foot of the mountain slipped slowly from the top of a huge monument about 30 feet high, and five blood red characters gradually appeared in front of everyone.

Tomb of the great Qin scholars!

The shock of this huge tombstone is still very great, because the smooth surface is not carved at all, and the neat one is also like uncanny workmanship. Everyone is amazed at it.

What's more amazing is that the pedestal under the tombstone is square, three feet long and one foot high. I don't know where to find such a large stone, and the ground of the small square where the tombstone is located is also ridiculously smooth, almost half an Mu wide.

Only those who know the truth know that this huge monument and base are not one or several stones at all, but are cast with cement, and the square ground is also built with cement.

Three rows of stairs extend from the square to the Taoist temple on the top of the mountain.

After the salute, Qin Yu, dressed in a reckless robe, took a group of generals and officials to the tombstone and kowtowed three times. Qin Huan took three columns of outrageous incense and inserted it into the huge tripod in front of the tombstone, looking solemn and solemn.

Xiang was specially made. There was a lifelike dragon pattern on it. In order to reflect his identity, Qin Huan was hollowing out his mind.

This tomb was prepared by him for the soldiers and officials who died in the state of Daqin. Everyone will have a memorial tablet and enjoy the incense of the state of Daqin forever.

In the future, all kings of the Qin Kingdom will come here to worship on the Qingming Festival, and others can come here to worship spontaneously. However, the incense can only be burned in the eight small tripods on both sides of the big tripod, and the dragon incense is the emperor's special product, which no one can surpass.

As the mausoleum has not been completed, the memorial tablets of the Chinese soldiers and soldiers who died in previous wars can only be placed in the Taoist temple for the time being, so that those Taoists can worship every day.

After the incense was served, Qin Huan went up to the high platform and read the memorial. While reading it, Qin Huan looked at the thousands of soldiers and countless people kneeling below. He found that everyone looked very excited and excited. He knew that the tomb had not been built in vain, and the effect was good.

No way, the ancients ate this set.

The huge worship ceremony lasted from the morning until noon. The people dispersed and returned to the city. Qin Huan immediately held a military meeting.

The military conference was just a purely military expansion and rewarding meritorious soldiers, and there was no institutional reform.

Now that the territory of the Chinese army has reached a province and is in a four war position like Hu Guang, its troops are really not enough.

From this simultaneous war between the north and the south, we can see that the regular army of seven independent battalions in six towns is far from meeting the needs of wartime.

Qin Huan planned to expand four towns and seven independent battalions at one time, recruit tens of thousands of local boys based on the first and second towns in Wuchang, Hankou, add the seventh and eighth towns, and add the ninth and tenth towns based on the fifth and sixth towns in the north.

Two more firearm battalions and four cannon fodder battalions were expanded. The cannon fodder battalions were mainly demobilized, with 6000 people per battalion.

Of course, it can't be called cannon fodder camp on the surface, but replaced by numbers, such as independent first battalion, Second Battalion

The last one to be added is the naval battalion, which is under the direct jurisdiction of the military and political yuan. In addition to Xiaoqi battalion, feifeng battalion and artillery battalion, the Chinese army will have 14 independent battalions and 10 towns in the future, with a total of 240000 combatants and a staffing of about 300000.

This is already the limit that the Chinese army can reach now. If it expands again, its weapons and equipment will decline, and there will be a shortage of supply in wartime. Even if these 200000 people want to have complete weapons and equipment, I'm afraid it will take a year.

Of course, as long as the Chu army and Chuang army have a long gun and a set of military uniform, even if the soldiers are millions, he can pull them out.

But the fact is, except for more than 20000 troops from four cannon fodder battalions, other demobilized soldiers do not even have the qualification to be stationed in the army. They will be dismissed to farm. Regular Chinese soldiers must be innocent and simple minded farm boys. It is best to be 18 or 19 years old.

After the military meeting, a group of generals returned to their respective stations one after another, ready to recruit soldiers, then reorganize and finally train.

As for the unified recruitment and training distribution, the temporary conditions are not allowed, so the staff headquarters can only send people to various places to preside over it.

In the following days, all departments were busy except the metropolitan police station. As the States and counties in the south of Xiangyang began to annex, the Government Council and the courts continued to send officials to accept governance.

The military and political academies are also busy recruiting and training troops to build weapons and armor. Commercial banks are busy expanding while collecting grain and storing.

As the people of Nanyang began to sell grain to commercial banks, there was another scene in Xiangyang last year. Countless shops were popular and all businessmen were crazy. The merchant ships on the Han River and the Yangtze River were like crucian carp crossing the river.

Various prices are also rising in a hurry.

Although they had a bumper harvest and carried a large number of treasure bills in their pockets, the people in Nanyang were not happy because the mayor's wives were leaving.

A famous lady with her servant girl and concubine was reluctant to get on the carriage and slowly left the town where she had lived for a year, followed by countless tearful people who did not want to leave for a long time.

"Father, fellow villagers, go back quickly!"

"Madam, take care!"

A woman saw that the people didn't want to leave for ten miles, so she had to get out of the curtain again, waved and shouted in tears, while the other women in the car were sobbing.

After all, thousands of people stopped and knelt on the ground until the carriage disappeared at the end of the official road.

Although the mayor's wife left, a new mayor was elected before she left, which was jointly elected by all villages. In the future, she will be elected every two years. With this example and the wives' daily publicity, these people know the importance of the village head and the mayor, what kind of person to choose, and their rights and obligations.

Most of the landlords and gentry in Nanyang live in the city, and their influence on villages and towns is close to nothing. Land can not be bought and sold. In the future, it is difficult to reach out to the countryside. In addition, more than half of the population are migrated, live together, and the clan power is not large, so they have truly achieved autonomy.

On weekdays, contradictions can be solved by themselves. If they can't be solved, they go to the Yamen to file a lawsuit. As long as they pay taxes on time every year, no one will manage them. The village head and town head don't have much power. The main thing is to publicize and mediate contradictions. At least it won't change for a long time in the future. This is also the reason why Qin Yu dares to transfer these wives.

Because compared with Nanyang, other states and counties in Hunan and Guangzhou, they are almost intact, the people are ignorant, the clan rules are greater than the law, and the gentry lords are superior. They urgently need these ladies to emancipate their minds.