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In Liu Sheng's opinion, the composition of Xiao's bandits is relatively simple.

It has the Dahe Baoxiao clan as the absolute core, the local bandits from Dahe, Zhuzhuang, and Xinji in the western remnants of Tongbai Mountain as the backbone, and the young and strong people absorbed from the refugees in the past one or two years as the periphery.

There are more than 6,000 young adults alone. If you include the families of these young adults, there are more than 10,000 people!

It is equivalent to the population of some small counties.

Xiao Yingxun was "protected" by Shengjie Guards and three battalions of rebel soldiers. After going into the mountains to persuade the remaining Xiao family bandit leaders to surrender.

On the 24th of February, he brought more than 6,000 of the Xiao family's remaining bandits to Biyang to meet Liu Sheng and express their submission.

Among the Xiao family's bandits, all young and strong men are minions.

Therefore, Xiao Yingxun actually brought all the young men of the Xiao family bandits from the mountainous area this time.

Outside Biyang City.

A large open space in front of the rebel camp.

Under the organization of the leaders of the Xiao family, these more than 6,000 young men managed to form a few crooked square formations, which looked quite impressive.

This time when he entered the mountains, Xiao Yingxun was under the "protection" of the rebel army Shengjie Wei. He had a deeper understanding of the fighting power of the Yibu rebel army and no longer dared to have other thoughts.

At this time, unlike when he first met Liu Sheng, his hands and feet were no longer shackled.

Seeing that thousands of his men were barely forming a square formation, he came to the wooden platform, bowed to Liu Sheng, clasped his fists and said, "All my soldiers and horses are here, please read, Commander-in-Chief!"

Liu Sheng said calmly: "There is no need to click to read, just register and create a register."

Xiao Yingxun was slightly stunned after hearing this, and couldn't help but wonder: "Is it right here?"

Liu Sheng nodded affirmatively, "Right here."

Xiao Yingxun thought to himself: There are six thousand or hundreds of people. How long will it take to register them one by one here?

After a while, some of the pricks under his command became impatient and started to make trouble.

When the time comes, it will be a small matter for these thorn heads to be killed, and Liu Sheng may be tempted to blame him.

Xiao Yingxun was hesitating whether to risk a word of advice when he saw a scene that stunned him.

Only hundreds of rebel soldiers were seen. Under the leadership of dozens of sentry-level military and political officials, everyone took paper, pens and wooden boards, divided into ten teams and began to register the young men and women.

The pen they used seemed to be a hard pen, which clamped the paper on the wooden board and wrote quickly.

In this way, in less than half an hour, the registration of more than 6,000 people was completed!

At this time, not only Xiao Yingxun was shocked.

The big and small bosses under his command and some young men with a little knowledge were also shocked.

Among the hundreds of rebels responsible for registration, only a few dozen were military and political officers, and the rest were mostly low-level officers or even ordinary soldiers.

They are all capable of doing paperwork!

After coming back to his senses, Xiao Yingxun couldn't help but admire: "I didn't expect that there would be so many civil servants in the Marshal's army!"

Liu Sheng smiled when he heard this and said, "They are not civil servants, just ordinary soldiers of the standing army."

"Ordinary soldiers?" Xiao Yingxun couldn't believe it.

"In our spare time after training and fighting, our rebel army will be taught literacy and arithmetic by military and political officers.

After the thousands of young men in front of us are reorganized and those who are able to join the standing army will do the same. "

After hearing this answer, Xiao Yingxun didn't know what to say for a moment, and his face was filled with shock.

What I was thinking was: I, Xiao Yingxun, am not unjust to lose to such a person and such a rebel army...

With the assistance of dozens of military and political officials and some backbones of the standing army, Liu Sheng completed the registration, screening, and reorganization of the Xiao bandits in just two days.

There are more than 3,000 young adults among the Xiao bandits who were born as refugees, and most of them are single young adults without family members.

Liu Sheng selected those with better physical fitness from these people and organized them into four civilian brave camps.

The remaining few hundred young men were classified as common people in Biyang County, and were allowed to farm the public fields of the Wei tribe in Biyang. Previously, the Wei tribe had also publicly tried several evil gentry and bullies in Biyang, and confiscated the confiscated fields. Quite a few.

Most of the more than 3,000 people left by Xiao's bandits are local bandits or mountain people - there is actually not much difference between the two. Many mountain people usually farm, but when the opportunity comes, they will turn into bandits and take advantage of them.

Liu Sheng selected more than a thousand young men with families and good conditions among these people and organized them into two Mingyong camps.

At present, none of the civilian warriors in Weibu have food and salary, but the food rations and basic clothing are provided by Weibu.

This is not a long-term solution.

When he returned this time, Liu Sheng was ready to further improve the system of people's bravery in the Kuei tribe.

The initial idea was to draw on the experience of later generations of local army construction and combine it with the actual situation faced by the Kuei tribe to further divide the civilian brave troops into two levels of troops.

First, they are still called people's braves, but they are actually similar to the rural warriors at this time and the peasant soldiers of later generations. They were busy farming and only practiced when they had time in their spare time.

Combined with the grassroots administrative system selected by Liu Sheng for the Hua Department, each natural village should select and train at least one Shimin Yong, each community (similar to later administrative villages and brigades) should select and train at least one Sentou Mingyong, and each township should select and train at least one battalion. People are brave.

Min Yong did not receive any food or salary, but could receive a 10% reduction in land tax.

That is to pay 90% of the taxes of ordinary people.

Second, select outstanding people from among the brave people to join the garrison.

Each county has at least one battalion of garrison troops, which are mainly responsible for county defense and assisting patrol police in clearing out bandits.

The rations and pay were lower than those of the standing army, and were distributed by the Ministry of Military Affairs. They are under the command of both the military and local administrative officials, but they give priority to military orders.

Veterans of the standing army can also join the garrison after returning to their hometowns if they meet the conditions. They are usually at least junior officers at the rank of Shiwu.

This can not only solve the problem of training and officer selection of the garrison, but also improve the combat effectiveness of the garrison. It can also serve as an arrangement for retired officers of the standing army.

Get more in one fell swoop.

Out of consideration for the people's bravery and the garrison system, Liu Sheng selected 600 people from four people's bravery camps and formed the Biyang Garrison Battalion based on two factors: physical fitness and whether they had family members.

In this way, the garrison can suppress the Minyong, and among the Minyong there is one more person who is a refugee than a member of the Xiao family.

Coupled with the battalion of civilian warriors trained by the standing army when they stayed in Biyang, it was enough to suppress the civilian warriors who were originally Xiao family bandits.

In addition, Liu Sheng also selected a dozen people from the surrendered Xiao bandit leaders, such as Xiao Yingteng, Xiao Yingxuan, etc., and took them to Runing Mansion.

It is planned that after they study, they will serve as officials in the administrative system in Runing or as grassroots officers in the standing army.

As for the Xiao family bandit leader who was captured along with Xiao Yingxun, that was a different treatment.

Those who committed the most heinous crimes were beheaded if they deserved it; the rest were sentenced to at least one year of hard labor.

This is to tell those local armed forces who may be hostile to the Yi tribe in the future: if you surrender early, you can still serve as an official; if you resist stubbornly, you will have to undergo labor reform after being captured, even if you are not killed in the battle.

Finally, Liu Sheng promoted Huang Gan, deputy commander of the second regiment, to command the ninth regiment of the standing army, leaving four standing army camps to guard Biyang.

A battalion with relatively good training performance was selected from the civilian warriors recruited in Xiangyang and added to the ninth regiment to make it full.