Warlords: Conquer the world from the county magistrate

Upon learning that Zhang Guilin had escaped, Li Zhongwu and Zhang Wei were a little disappointed. Li Zhongwu said, "We will each send out several troops to search for Zhang Guilin's whereabouts in the west and south, and occupy the surrounding counties."

"Okay." Zhang Wei had no objection to this.

After arranging the troops to march to the surrounding areas, Zhang Wei looked at the deputy commander of the 1st Division, Jiang Xuanqi, and said, "Commander Jiang, have you calculated the results and losses?"

"According to statistics, the First and Second Divisions lost a total of 1851 people, including 1030 from the First Division and 821 from the Second Division." Jiang Xuanqi quickly suppressed his joy and said solemnly.

"In this battle, 4796 enemies were killed, 4435 captured, 1779 Daxin XI-type rifles, 7435 old sleeve rifles, and 32 box guns were seized."

"The Nanyun City Treasury has more than 88 silver dollars, 1184 large yellow croakers, small yellow croakers, 3000 old sleeves, and countless grains, cloth, and other supplies."

"Zhang Guilin's mansion collected more than 104 million yuan in silver, 2543 large yellow croakers, small yellow croakers, and many antique paintings and calligraphy, as well as land."

Upon hearing about the enemies killed and the spoils captured, Li Zhongwu and Zhang Wei were saddened by the loss of soldiers but very happy about the results of the battle and the spoils.

Wang Wei then stopped smiling and said, "This battle not only destroyed the city wall, but also destroyed many houses in the city, and accidentally injured many civilians."

Not only were many civilians accidentally injured during the shelling, but during the street fighting, many of Zhang's troops also rushed into civilian houses, and many civilians were accidentally injured or killed in the exchange of fire between the two sides.

"Do your best to treat the injured civilians in the city, bury the dead properly, and repair the damaged houses." Li Zhongwu sighed. An exchange of fire between the two sides was inevitable.

In Nanling, Fang Jian received the battle report from Nanyun and was also very happy.

Then, he called Zhuang Jiwu and asked, "Have you arranged the sites for the power plant, military factory, breeding farm, airport, etc.?"

Originally, Fang Jian wanted to arrange for Zhuang Jiwu to go to the capital to establish some connections, but the capital replied by appointing him as the military governor, granting him the rank of lieutenant general, and also sending people to Nanshan Province, so he stopped Zhuang Jiwu from going to the capital.

Soon after Zhuang Jiwu arrived in Nanling, Fang Jian assigned him a lot of tasks, the most important of which was to build various military, industrial and civilian facilities.

Zhuang Jiwu has been very busy these past two days and has dark circles under his eyes.

"Commander, you have too many facilities to build, and we are short of manpower now. Not only workers, but also managers are in short supply." Zhuang Jiwu couldn't help but complain.

Fang Jian's face was embarrassed and his expression was a little unnatural. He said awkwardly: "Jiwu, Nanshan Province is in ruins now. If you work hard now, it will become prosperous in the future."

"The workers' problem is easy to solve. This battle, plus the battle of Nanyun that just ended, captured a total of more than 37,000 prisoners."

"Including the 15,000 prisoners we captured earlier, there are a total of 52,000 people. All of them will go to build power plants, military factories, and airports."

“As for road construction, we can recruit people from all over the country to participate.”

"Ma Jincen had been exploiting people in various places before. He could give food to those who responded to the call, and settle wages and food every ten days."

"Commander, where is the manager? Zhan Chengda can't handle it all by himself." Zhuang Jiwu's face still looked unhappy.

Fang Jian said: "Didn't you train some government management personnel, plus the students from Tao Yunong's intelligence department training class?"

"We will select a group of capable people from among them, give them a simple training by Zhan Chengda, and then dispatch them to various places to organize road construction."

In the first phase of the plan, it is planned to build main roads connecting various cities first, and two routes are planned respectively.

A road starts from Pingshan and passes through Qingchang, Hongxing, Nanling, Nanyun, Huai Chong, Qingshan, Fenglin and Changhuan.

Another road also starts from Pingshan, passes through Zhengshan, Changye, Nanfeng, and then from Jieshan County to Fenglin.

Of course, a road was planned from Nanling to Changye, from Nanling to Nanfeng, and from Nanling to Qingshan.

Now, except Huai Chong in the hands of Cao Bingshen, the rest of the cities in Nanshan Province are occupied by Fang Jian. If the entire province can be mobilized, Fang Jian plans to complete the construction of the first phase of the main road in three to six months.

The second phase of the project is naturally the roads from various cities to county towns. Nanshan Province has 110 counties, so it is a huge project that cannot be completed without several years.

In order to complete these plans, Fang Jian exchanged 500,000 points for supplies, including materials for building roads, power plants, and airports.

It also exchanged for military production lines for mortars, mountain cannons, field guns, and howitzers, as well as gun and ammunition production lines for MG-42 general-purpose machine guns and MP40 submachine guns.

Looking at the remaining 30,000 points, Fang Jian sighed helplessly in his heart: "The points are not enough."

Now that he had his own territory which was easy to defend but difficult to attack, Fang Jian had many things he wanted to build, not only people's livelihood and military industry, but also airplanes, tanks, etc.

However, not only points do not allow it, but talents do not allow it either.

"Commander, if we let these talents go, there will be problems with the management of Nanshan." Zhuang Jiwu felt even more troubled. The talents he had cultivated with great difficulty were not enough to be divided among the huge Nanshan Province, and they had to be used for other things.

Fang Jian shook his head slightly: "Building roads is the most important thing. With convenient transportation, our troops can gather support faster, and the transportation of logistical materials will be more convenient."

“As for political construction, immediately recruit educated people from Nanshan Province and conduct assessment and training.”

"As for now, we will employ the original people first. I will also let Yu Nong secretly investigate these officials and gradually clean them up."

"Okay." Zhuang Jiwu had no choice but to agree.

The two exchanged a few more pleasantries, and then Zhuang Jiwu left, dragging his tired body.

Francis Xavier was also helpless. This was a manifestation of insufficient foundation. Soldiers, officers, and political management talents were all extremely scarce.

It’s not that he hasn’t thought about the system, but the price of exchanging talents in the system makes him only think about it.

It's not that you only exchange one or two. Even if a city only exchanges a mayor, a court judge, a director of the Industrial and Commercial Bureau, a director of the Civil Affairs Bureau, a director of the Finance Bureau, human resources talents, etc.

All in all, there will be more than a dozen senior management talents, not to mention the lower-level managers.

Senior managers must have at least three stars, which means 5,000 points. A city would need more than 50,000 points, and a dozen cities would need more than 500,000 points.

This does not include the county towns. Each county needs two or three senior talents, which is even more.

Even for low-level management talents, only two stars are needed, which costs one thousand points. A county needs at least a dozen or more, and a city also needs a lot of two-star talents.

That adds up to thousands of people, which translates to millions of points.

Thinking of this, Fang Jian could only shake his head vigorously: "I dare not think about it, I dare not think about it."

"We should just focus on cultivating local talents. We need to build schools, which will require a lot of teachers and education talents."

One thing after another made Francis Xavier feel overwhelmed.

Without thinking about it anymore, Fang Jian called Fang Guoxuan and asked, "Guoxuan, how is the recruitment going?"

"Commander, recruiting soldiers is not going smoothly." When it comes to recruiting soldiers, Fang Guoxuan's face looks very ugly.