My Apprenticeship to Uncle Jiu: I Was a Warlord in the Republic of China

As for why there is a crowd, it is naturally because they all want to be the first to recruit soldiers, otherwise when others have picked out the leftovers, only some ugly ones will be left.

Jiang Li had already given orders, asking them to select 8,000 honest and dutiful soldiers from these 30,000 men.

Then they were taken to carry out the public trial, and with the participation of these 8,000 surrendered soldiers, the public trial started smoothly.

During this period, some large families tried to connect with other gentry and rebel, but naturally they were quickly suppressed.

Although his possible family members did not die, a large number of them were killed. Except for the elderly, the weak, women and children, the rest were sent to build roads.

This public trial lasted for half a month. After it was over, Jiang Li asked the remaining 20,000 prisoners to participate in the bandit suppression.

In this way, another half a month passed and the mission of suppressing bandits was finally successfully completed. He also took the opportunity to select another 7,000 people to join his army.

This made his troops expand to 26,000 people in an instant, and it was only then that Jiang Li had completely annexed the territories of Chen Xueming and Ma Baoguo.

As for the other prisoners, they were sentenced to three months of hard labor to atone for their crimes. This time is of course a bit short, but Jiang Li was afraid that the sentence would be too long and these people would cause trouble again.

After all, there are 15,000 of them, all veterans who have fought in the battlefield. If there is any trouble, there will definitely be a lot of casualties.

So they might as well just lift it high and then put it down gently. At least they can still get 15,000 free laborers. As for their past mistakes, if someone names them and complains about them, they will of course be tried.

But if no one complained, he didn't have the energy to try them one by one. The worst that could happen was that they would commit crimes again in the future and he would deal with them then. After all, a dog will always eat shit, and if they were really a villain, they would never be so quiet.

Jiang Li was listening to Jiang Youchi's report at this time. "Master, this public trial has been successfully completed. The data reported by various villages, towns and counties have been summarized!"

"This time we occupied a total of 21 counties, 380 towns, more than 4.9 million people, and obtained about 600,000 catties of grain, 68 million dollars, 237,600 catties of gold, 50,000 heads of cattle, horses, pigs, sheep and other livestock, as well as countless jewelry, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, silk and cloth."

Jiang Li's heart nearly jumped out when he heard this. These numbers were so huge that he had never dared to imagine them before, but now they truly belonged to him.

How could he describe the excitement in his heart in words? But he knew that this was not the time to be excited. He had more important things to do, which was to vigorously develop industry.

And we should spend money on infrastructure so that the money can circulate and not turn into a pile of useless metal.

Thinking of this, he immediately stopped smiling and asked Jiang Youchi, "Have you verified the map Han Yong gave me before? Are the mineral deposits marked on it accurate?"

Jiang Youchi immediately replied respectfully upon hearing this, "I have carefully calculated it, and most of the mineral resources above are quite accurate."

"We now have two salt mines, one copper mine, four iron mines, six lime mines, 12 clay mines, two coal mines, two kaolin mines, one quartz mine, one tin mine, one silver mine, one pyrite mine, and one lead-zinc mine under our jurisdiction."

"The above are the ones currently being mined. There may be more in other places, but it is difficult for us non-professionals to find them."

"So if you want to explore all the minerals in the country, you may have to find a specialist!"

Jiang Li nodded and said, "I understand. I will find a professional prospecting team later. What we should consider now is not this, but to continue mining these mines. I will purchase a batch of transportation and mining equipment later to strengthen transportation capacity."

"Okay, you go down here first, I'll think about the next arrangements!"

Upon hearing this, Jiang Youchi bowed and left.

But Jiang Li couldn't hold it in any longer and laughed wildly, "Hahahaha..."

After laughing for a while, he finally stopped and began to plan his development path.

The first is the issue of talent. Now that there are more people and a larger territory, it is definitely not possible to manage it well with only the few people we have now.

Therefore, it is necessary to recruit talents from all walks of life, but this is not safe. We also need to build schools to train talents ourselves, so that we can be sure of success.

The second is that all kinds of minerals must be utilized. Coal mines provide fuel, kaolin can be used to make porcelain, quartz sand can be used to make glass, pyrite can be used to make sulfuric acid or something, and tin ore can be used to expand the scale of the canning plant.

As for the salt mines and silver mines, there is naturally no need to say more. With these clay and lime mines, he can build a few more cement plants.

In other words, as long as he can get enough technology and production lines from William, his industrial level will be quickly upgraded.

All of this is naturally based on a strong army, so continuing to recruit, train and reorganize the army must be carried out simultaneously with recruiting talents.

After thinking it over, he took out a pen and paper and started making detailed plans.

When he came out of the study, it was already a whole day later. Although he had not slept all night, he did not feel too tired.

So he went directly to the Infrastructure Bureau and assigned the task of building various factories, schools and other buildings, as well as roads.

Afterwards, Jiang Youchi issued an announcement to recruit various professional talents, including teachers, doctors, craftsmen, officials, chemists, etc.

Then they headed to Caoping Mountain without stopping. Since they had obtained tens of thousands of livestock of various kinds last time, except for most of the cattle that remained there, most of the other livestock were driven back.

Among them were 800 horses of medium quality. After checking that they had no stress reactions, they left with peace of mind.

After looking at the horses, he came to the military camp with his soldiers and a large amount of money, distributing rewards to officers and soldiers of all levels, and promoting them and awarding them medals.

That's right, his officers can be promoted again, because he has promoted himself in advance, and now he is the army commander.

Normally, an army should have 2-4 divisions, with to people. Although it is not fully staffed now, I think as long as some time passes, the number of his troops will soon reach the standard.

It was precisely because of this that he had the confidence to promote all officers by one level, and then came up with a relatively complete set of standards and selected some junior officers.

Only then did he breathe a sigh of relief. "Now the expansion of the army has basically been completed. I just need to get some more cannons to expand the artillery unit, and wait for a while to expand the cavalry battalion, and get some trucks to support logistics. Then I can concentrate on developing industry."