Chapter 328 Fifth Army Camp, Personal Guard Camp

After the houses and shops in the Acropolis were sold or rented out, the Acropolis soon became lively again.

Each family sent people to decorate their houses and shops.

For a while, the carriages entering and leaving the city gate formed a queue. There was no other way. Now Tenglongwei did not have many things. For example, if they wanted to buy some furniture for the mansion, they could not find suitable ones in Tenglongwei.

And since they were going to open a store, they naturally had to transport the goods over and arrange for a store manager and clerks to come over.

At the same time, the market in the city was also opened. Many military households in the garrisons around the Acropolis received the news and rushed to the Acropolis to attend the market.

Some military households simply wanted to buy things, while others wanted to sell things.

Tenglongwei actually doesn't have any special products. The land within its jurisdiction is almost all flat fields. There are neither large forests nor large rivers. The only advantage may be that it is close to the sea.

However, the military households still have some things that need to be sold, such as dried goods, such as dates, hazelnuts, peanuts, chestnuts, mushrooms, fungus, etc.

Some people also come to sell poultry and livestock such as eggs, chickens, ducks, pigs and sheep.

Since the beginning of spring this year, the Weisi Yamen has bought a lot of chickens and piglets and distributed them to some military households for them to raise.

Of course, these things all cost money, but they could be bought on credit. At that time, most military households were relatively poor, so they bought from the government on credit. However, after the autumn harvest, the military households paid off the money they owed to the government, and the poultry and livestock became theirs.

In addition to poultry and livestock, some military households would catch a couple of rabbits and run to the yamen to sell them. It only cost one penny to rent a stall in the market for a day, so even if they only sold two rabbits, they would not lose money.

The opening of the bazaar caused quite a stir in Tenglongwei. Many military households did nothing but come to join in the fun. For a while, the Acropolis was crowded with people and it was a bit too lively.

However, the most profitable business is the Luo family's cloth shop.

The Luo family got the shop earlier. When the other families got the shops, the Luo family's cloth shop had already opened for business.

It was now the middle of winter, when cotton cloth was the most popular. As a result, as soon as the Luo family's cloth shop opened, it was sold out by the soldiers of Tenglongwei.

It is not that the military households of Tenglongwei are very wealthy.

Many of the new military households who had just moved in did not have much money, but the old military households had a lot of silver.

Over the past year, Yang Zhengshan has spent tens of thousands of taels of silver through work-for-relief, so the military households have money in their hands.

Previously, the business activities in Tenglongwei were very depressed. The military households couldn't buy anything they wanted to buy, so they could only keep the money in their hands.

Now that Luo's Cloth Shop is open for business, and the goods they sell are cloth, which everyone needs, it naturally triggered a buying craze among the military households.

"Don't rush, dear guests, please don't rush. We still have more goods in the back. Please take your time!"

In Luo's Cloth Shop, the shopkeeper and his clerks, who had just arrived in Tenglongwei a few days ago, were busy and sweating. They did not expect such a situation to occur.

Seeing the crowds of people and the huge sea of ​​customers in front of their shop, they felt frightened and confused.

Not to mention them, even Yang Zhengshan did not expect such a situation to occur.

Yang Zhengshan knew that some military households had silver and money, but he did not expect that they were so keen on cotton cloth.

But think about it, although the government distributed a batch of cotton cloth to military households for free last year, in reality the clothes and bedding in the hands of the military households were still very thin.

Standing in front of the yamen, looking at the dark crowds on the street, Yang Zhengshan frowned slightly, but his brows soon relaxed.

Because two teams of soldiers in charge of city defense and public security came to maintain order.

"Don't push, line up, line up!"

"I'm talking to you. Why are you pushing? If you push again, I'll beat you with a military stick!"

The soldiers scolded.

"Wang Erlang, you still want to hit your third uncle with a military stick!" Someone in the crowd teased the soldier who was shouting.

The soldiers in charge of city defense and public security in the city were all battalion soldiers selected from the military households, and the military households who were crowding here to buy cotton cloth were all military households from the surrounding garrisons and garrisons, and naturally many of them knew each other.

The soldier named Wang Erlang had a solemn expression on his face. "Do you know what's across the street? That's the Weisi Yamen. The generals and the adults are all working in the Yamen. If you make any more noise, not to mention my third uncle, even if my own father is here, he will be beaten with a military stick!"

When everyone heard this, they immediately became quiet. Most of them were visiting the Acropolis for the first time and did not know where the government office was, nor did they know the situation inside the government office, so they dared to play around.

But now they knew that the Wei Si Yamen was right across the street, so they dared not continue making noise and lined up obediently.

At this time, Luo Zhen also came with seven or eight men to help.

"Everyone, don't crowd. Our store just received 2,000 rolls of cotton cloth two days ago. It's enough for everyone to buy. Even if this is not enough, we will have another batch of cotton cloth shipped in two or three days!"

While Luo Zhen was comforting the military households, he asked the servants to help cut and move the cloth.

Seeing this, the surrounding shops couldn't help but speed up their renovations.

You should know that nowadays the Luo family is not the only one doing cloth shop business in Weicheng. The Wang family, Zhang family, and Lin family in Jing'an Prefecture are all doing cloth shop business.

Seeing that the military households of Tenglongwei were so enthusiastic about cotton cloth, they were eager to open for business.

Unfortunately, their goods have not been delivered yet, and it will take two or three days at the earliest to open the store.

However, this also proves that Tenglongwei still has certain business potential. At least opening a store here would be a loss-making business.

In fact, the commercial potential of Tenglongwei is far more than that. You should know that those who can come to the Acropolis to buy things are the garrisons and garrisons around the Acropolis. Those garrisons and garrisons that are thirty or forty miles away from the Acropolis will never come to the Acropolis to buy things.

If the commercial potential of Tenglongwei can be fully tapped, it will actually be no worse than a county town.

As for those garrisons and garrisons that were far from the Acropolis, Yang Zhengshan also had arrangements to set up markets in the major garrisons. There was no need to build commercial streets in the garrisons, and they could just set aside a piece of land to set up the markets.

One market is enough to radiate to the hundred-household units and garrisons within a radius of six or seven miles, and Tenglongwei has twenty thousand-household units, which is enough to radiate to the entire Tenglongwei.

These markets are sufficient to meet the shopping needs of military households.

Of course, if the military households want to build a shop or a shed in the market, that is also possible. They just need to pay some rent.

Yang Zhengshan decided to let the market develop freely, and there was no need for the Weisi Yamen to manage every detail.

The bustle in the Acropolis continued, and even a heavy snowfall at the end of the year did not dampen the enthusiasm of the military households.

As more and more shops opened and more and more goods were shipped to the Acropolis, it finally began to prosper.

Of course, amid the hustle and bustle, many conflicts are inevitable. People bargaining in the market suddenly start quarreling, and bumping into each other on the streets is inevitable.

Few people dared to fight, but many people quarreled.

To this end, the Wei Si Yamen also specially increased the number of soldiers patrolling in the city.

In such a noisy and prosperous environment, Tenglongwei ushered in the new year.

The thirty-first year of Chengping!
This is the ninth year that Yang Zhengshan came to this world, and also the second year that Yang Zhengshan came to Tenglongwei.

If Yang Zhengshan's first year at Tenglongwei was about laying the foundation, then the second year was a period of rapid development.

Just after the New Year, the Weisi Yamen fell into a busy state.

With the addition of a large number of clerks, all departments and offices of the Weisi Yamen were gradually enriched. With sufficient manpower, work progress became more efficient.

Before the end of the first month of the year, the Wei Si Yamen had already issued six or seven documents to the Qianhu Suo under it, covering various aspects such as building schools, setting up markets, and constructing roads.

Of course, it also includes soldier training and battalion soldier selection.

In early February, a new batch of soldiers entered the camp for basic training. This was also the last batch of soldiers who needed basic training.

When this group of soldiers completes basic training, it means that the 22,000 soldiers of Tenglong Guard have completed basic training and have the basic abilities of a soldier.

Perhaps their fighting ability has yet to be tested, but they are already qualified soldiers.

Don't have too high hopes for the soldiers in the garrison. Even Yang Zhengshan cannot require all the soldiers to be elite.

By mid-March, the soldiers' basic training was completed and all the soldiers of the Tenglong Guard had been selected.

Twelve people form a team, four teams form a sentry, four sentries form an officer, and there is a sentry general leader. Four officers form a captain, and they are led by a captain.

There were five captains in the camp, with a total of four thousand soldiers.

The five captains led the front, rear, left, right and center battalions respectively, collectively known as the five military camps.

Tenglong Vanguard specially set up a naval camp, which required about 3,000 naval soldiers.

The Navy Battalion is still in training and will certainly not be able to complete the reorganization in a short period of time.

Similarly, the organization of the five military camps is also temporary, and Yang Zhengshan plans to expand it in the future.

The navy camp was led by Yu Tonghai, with Wu Chongzhe and Xue Ping as his assistants.

In the fifth military camp, Xie Yuan served as the commander of the rear military camp, Song Dashan served as the commander of the central military camp, Yang Mingzhi served as the commander of the front military camp, Luo Feiyu and Yang Mingzhen served as the commanders of the left and right military camps respectively.

In addition, a personal guard battalion was set up, and the soldiers who originally served as clerks in the yamen were transferred out to form a separate personal guard battalion, with Yang Minghao as the commander of the personal guard battalion.

Han Fei was promoted to the position of Zhenfu of the Zhenfu Division of the Weisi Yamen, Zhou Ren was promoted to the position of experience of the Experience Division, Lu Wenhua was promoted to the position of chief governor of the Governor Division, and six other clerks were selected to be promoted to governors, each of them was responsible for two to three departments.

The positions in the Wei Si Yamen were adjusted and the structure also underwent some changes.

The reason for doing so is, firstly, because the Tenglong Vanguard has become independent, the Weisi Yamen must make some adjustments; secondly, because of the balance between the Wei Suo and the Five Military Camps, Yang Zhengshan does not want the Five Military Camps and the Wei Suo to be separated too clearly, otherwise it may make his subordinates dissatisfied.

Just like Xie Yuan, he was mainly responsible for the garrison and construction of the garrison, and hardly interfered in the selection of soldiers and battalion soldiers.

If the Fifth Army Camp needs to go to the battlefield in the future, does that mean Xie Yuan won't have to go?

How can you make achievements without going to the battlefield?

How can you get promoted without making any achievements?

Previously in Anyuan City, Xie Yuan did not get a promotion because he did not go to the battlefield. Now in Tenglong Guard, is it going to happen again?
How could Xie Yuan not have any complaints at that time?

This was true for Xie Yuan and others as well.

That was why Yang Zhengshan asked Xie Yuan and others to concurrently serve as the commanders of the five military camps.

As for the personal guard camp, there is nothing we can do about it.

Previously, the clerks in the yamen were all soldiers from the Anyuan City Garrison Battalion. These soldiers had long since stopped wanting to stay in the yamen and do clerical work. Now that the yamen's clerks have been replenished, it is just the right time to transfer them out.

Yang Zhengshan still has twenty personal followers around him, and the temporary task of the personal guard battalion is to guard the yamen.

These soldiers would rather stand guard than sit in the house doing clerical work, and Yang Zhengshan has no idea what to do.

(End of this chapter)