When Pan Kewei left, Li Qinglin immediately called Dong Zhao, Ding Goudan and Guo Zilin.

After the three of them sat down, Li Qinglin spoke to them and said, "Since we arrived here yesterday, there have been many people in our team, and the three cavalrymen have already joined the cavalry platoon leader Dong."

Speaking of this, Li Qinglin asked Dong Zhao: "How are these three people performing?"

Dong Zhao said: "Li Fuhe is a cavalryman. These three people are old cavalry in his army. There is absolutely no problem with the cavalry skills and tactics. After contacting them yesterday, I see that the character of these three people is not a problem."

"That's good. Your cavalry platoon will take them first and let them do a good job in our cavalry." Li Qinglin continued, "What remains are the infantry and new soldiers who came yesterday afternoon and this morning."

Li Qinglin said to Ding Goudan: "You draw some people out of the guard squad, and all of our people are squad leaders and squads. All newly recruited veterans are incorporated into these classes. If there are still people coming in the future, we will add another class to a new class. However, these people need to be carefully identified. This matter is the responsibility of Dong Zhao and Goudan. After these people are trained, they will be responsible for this matter. The platoon leader and squad leader must not be allowed to bring in their original bad habits."

Li Qinglin said to Guo Zilin again: "From today's momentum, I estimate that there will be more and more recruits in the future. I decided to set up a recruit platoon and you will be the platoon leader."

Guo Zilin said: "I have never been a platoon leader, I'm afraid it won't work."

Li Qinglin cursed: "What's wrong with it? I haven't been a squad leader before, but now I'm also a squad leader. You can always train new recruits? If you draw people out to be the squad leader, if there are not enough people in the guard squad, you can draw from the cavalry platoon. As long as you can train these new recruits according to the requirements of our troops, you, the platoon leader, will be basically qualified."

Li Qinglin then said to Ding Goudan: "The new recruits who voluntarily joined the army today must not lose any penny of the family. You must pay them all in their hands according to regulations. This money is their life-long money, and we must not deduct a penny, otherwise it will make the hearts of the people cold."

Ding Goudan nodded and said, "I know this, I will definitely send it to them with my own hands. If the development continues today, there may be a lot of people coming in the future, and these money is a large amount. Besides, we still need food and drink, and horses also need for forage. The money we bring this time may not be enough."

With people, you have to spend money, and the amount is not a decimal. Li Qinglin thought that he had the gold bars that Xiao Liuzi had previously divided, and he estimated that these gold bars alone would probably be able to withstand for a while, so he said to Ding Goudan: "I will find a way to do money, just do it well."

Then, Li Qinglin said to the three of them: "We have 79 people now. It seems that we will have to live in Sangyu Town for a long time. We are soldiers, and it is not suitable for so many people to live in big car shops. It is not safe. Goudan will take me to the town to find people to see if there is a suitable place outside the town. We must move out today."

Li Qinglin

After arranging the task, Ding Goudan and the others naturally would not give it a discount, so they immediately turned around and went out to execute it.

Ding Goudan took out the funds he carried with him and paid the settlement fee to the six farmers who joined the army. Then he divided more than 30 former Li Fu and the troops into three squads. All of these three squads were staffed by the guard squad as squad leaders and belonged to the guard platoon.

Ding Goudan then drew three veterans from the guard squad as squad leader and ordered the three of them to train these personnel as soon as possible. Guo Zilin also drew one veteran as squad leader and organized the six young farmers who had joined the recruits squad. In order to convert these farmers into a qualified soldier as soon as possible, Guo Zilin ordered the squad leader of the recruits to start training the recruits from today.

After Ding Goudan did all this, Li Qinglin took out a few gold bars he carried with him and took Ding Goudan to the town to visit the president of the Business Association.

During the Republic of China, in addition to local governments, clan forces and gentry in rural areas maintained social order, while guilds from all walks of life organized and managed the normal competition of merchants, maintaining the normal operation of the market. At this time, local governments had long since disappeared. If Li Qinglin wanted to find a place outside the town, he could only find a way from the business association or the local clan leader.

Sangyu Town is a small town, with not many merchants and not much financial resources. Therefore, all merchants merged together to establish a general business association. The president of the business association is the largest pawnshop owner in the town, and he is also the richest boss in the town, Pi Xianqiong.

Pawnshops, also known as pawnshops, are also called pawnshops. They are a very ancient industry. Pawnshops emerged with the development of the economy, and their specific origins are no longer verified. After years of development, pawnshops generally use clothes and valuables as collateral, and then lend money to people who urgently need money. Therefore, the pawnshops are essentially engaged in loan business for modern banking at this time.

The shop in which Li Qinglin entered was called Yumin Pawndang, and the owner was named Pi Xianqiao. Pi Xianqiao was originally from Shanxi. He started to do business in Sangyu Town in the early years of the Republic of China. After years of hard work, Pi Xianqiao earned a considerable amount of property. He is currently the president of the Sangyu Town Business Association. The only shop in the town, Yumin Pawndang is his property.

Unlike other industries that need to open shops in bustling and lively main streets, pawnshops are generally set up in places not far from the street, with convenient transportation and relatively secluded traffic. Because most of the people who pawn items are poor lower-class people, there are also people with declining families, poor gentry, officials, businessmen, or thieves and robbers. The people in the front are concerned about their influence in society, and are afraid of losing face by being seen by acquaintances; the people in the back are even more shameful, and most afraid of being recognized and being imprisoned. Therefore, each pawnshop is open in relatively remote places.

Yumin Pawnshop is located behind the street, and there is a big bamboo forest next to it. It is indeed a relatively secluded place. When the Kuomintang major Li Qinglin entered the pawnshop, he was naturally welcomed by the boss Pi Xianzhi the most enthusiastically. As soon as Li Qinglin stepped into the pawnshop, he was introduced to the pawnshop by the boss Pi Xianzhi the pawnshop.

During this time, the young man immediately brought the fragrant tea and snacks.

The pawn shop is engaged in pledge and loan sharing business. This kind of business makes a lot of profits and is also very dangerous, because the people they come into contact with are mixed, and sometimes there are bandits and other personnel. Therefore, the owner who runs a pawn shop must have a good relationship with all the local forces to ensure their own safety. In today's era of chaos, a powerful officer like Li Qinglin who holds military power is naturally the person that Boss Pi Xiancai wants to curry favor with.

After a greeting, Li Qinglin asked the boss two things. The first thing was to pawn the gold bars in his hand in exchange for some urgent military expenditures recently; the second was to ask Boss Pi to help him find a suitable location outside the town so that the third brigade could establish an independent military camp so that these soldiers would not be stationed in the middle of the town to disturb the people.

Pi Xianqian had seen a lot of experience in the national army. A school-level officer came to pawn shop with gold bars, which surprised him. In his impression, the Chinese army always took out for free, or pledged a worthless broken thing, and then borrowed a large amount of money from the pawn shop. This was the first time Pi Xianqian had met an officer like Li Qinglin who had real money and silver.

Pi Xianqian thought that Li Qinglin was just making a gesture, but in fact he wanted to break some money from him. When Pi Xianqian finally found out that Li Qinglin did not have the intention of extortion, but was sincerely pawning, so Pi Xianqian became excited. Pi Xianqian didn't say that he was pawning. He called the shopkeeper at the front desk and directly replaced the gold bars in Li Qinglin's hand with oceans according to the market price. At the same time, he immediately sent someone to contact a clan leader with a big surname in the town and asked the clan leader to lend a vacant house outside the town to Li Qinglin and others as a temporary military camp.

After completing these things, it was almost ten o'clock. Pi Xianlin enthusiastically tried to keep Li Qinglin for lunch. For people like Pi Xiancheng who were involved in both black and white, Li Qinglin would not offend him, nor would he get too close to him. Therefore, Li Qinglin finally politely refused because of his busy military affairs.

Back at Shunfu Big Car Store, Li Qinglin handed over the ocean exchanged from Pi Xiancai to Ding Goudan for safekeeping, and then urgently sorted out the team and took the soldiers to the empty house outside the a while.

This place is not far from the town. In the past, several families lived in it, and were composed of several families with small yards, like a small village. For some reason, these houses seemed to have been abandoned for a long time, the walls of the yard had collapsed, the yard was covered with weeds, and the wheat grass on the roof seemed to have not been covered for several years, and there were still several bushes of weeds on the roof.

Before Li Qinglin and the others came, some sparrows jumped and played on the roof in the yard, and the empty yard seemed particularly desolate.

After the team arrived here, Li Qinglin ordered the soldiers to immediately organize the yard and repair the yard walls. At the same time, he asked Ding Goudan to bring money to the people's house to buy sour straw and wheat straw that could flip the roof, and everyone started flip the roof together.

Li Qinglin's army's military discipline is very good, and many nearby people came to help spontaneously

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These small yards are ready-made and the earthen houses are basically intact. All we have to do is to organize and repair them. With the help of the people, the soldiers weeded, repaired walls, and built roofs.

Before dark in the evening, a simple military camp transformed from a farmhouse was sorted out. The officers and soldiers cleaned up a little and bought some essentials. The vanguard troops of the third brigade led by Li Qinglin had their own place to settle down, and the officers and soldiers finally really stationed...
Chapter completed!