The area that Li Qinglin's troops are now absolutely controlled by the area of ​​more than seventy miles north and fifty miles east and west. There are two business roads in this area. The bandits used to survive by relying on these two business roads.

Since the late Qing Dynasty, there have been many bandits here, but merchants can still transport goods to keep the business roads open because of the common interests of bandits and merchants.

For merchants, safety is the first priority, and they would rather spend money to buy a way. For bandits, survival and wealth are their goals. If the business road is cut off, they will also cut off their livelihoods. If they only rely on local robbery, they will only make a living, and force the farmers to get angry and then lead the army to clear them out. The bandits will have no place to stand here.

After learning about the situation, Li Qinglin immediately made a decision, which was to set up a card and protect the business.

The task of protecting merchants was handed over to Dong Zhao's cavalry platoon, and the task of setting up checkpoints was handed over to local gentry. Regarding this move, Li Qinglin learned from the Japanese methods.

After the Japanese devils occupied this place, they knew that they had absolutely insufficient control over the countryside, so they worked with the puppet local government to support local armed forces and turned these armed forces into traitors or semi-traitors. These armed forces usually stayed in the countryside in the name of self-defense forces, security groups, and militia groups. They set up checkpoints in the name of maintaining public security to provide information to the Japanese and puppets. When the Japanese and puppets needed it, they could also send troops to them as helpers.

Li Qinglin took this a fancy to this point, so he took out some of the guns and asked the gentry in his jurisdiction to form a militia. In the era of chaos, everyone hoped that they would have a strong armed force. Li Qinglin's proposal won the warm support of the gentry.

The members of these militia are all villagers. The gentry usually feeds the grain to raise them in their own farms. Li Qinglin sent people to conduct regular military training for them. Li Qinglin took turns to draw them to set up checkpoints at various intersections to check. These members are all locals and are very familiar with the local situation. Therefore, it is even more difficult for a stranger to sneak in.

In order to strengthen control over the militia and even secretly transformed the militia into its own semi-armed force, Li Qinglin also let his people participate.

In early August, Li Qinglin's vanguard recruited a group of local soldiers who volunteered to join the army in Sangyu Town. Here were four local young students, namely Li Qifan, Ma Chunchang, Tang Yun, and Gan Yuanbin. Li Qinglin once asked Xiao Liuzi and others to carefully disperse these people. All four students passed the strict inspection. Now, all of these four students who have undergone military training came in handy.

Li Qinglin secretly established a military intelligence team, which is temporarily in charge of Han Jizhong. The core figure of this intelligence team is these four students, and he also absorbed some local people from the outside to join.

Han Jizhong asked these four students to go deep into the militia of the gentry in the name of military instructors, conduct military training for the militia members, and also conduct a thorough investigation of each village and village.

After a period of investigation, under the auspices of Han Jizhong, these people registered all the personnel in their jurisdiction under the pretext of re-establishing Baojia, and they really re-established the rural Baojia.

The re-establishment of Baojia was established by Han Jizhong to Li Qinglin.

Han Jizhong believed that the gentry and patriarchs valued their own interests the most. At present, the national army has an absolute advantage in the local area, so they will naturally support the third brigade. If the Japanese really attacked, these gentry might not be completely unreliable. They are likely to rely on the Japanese and puppets. Regarding this, the facts of the occupied areas have long been proven.

The security chief and the armored chief are different. If the Japanese fight, they will definitely suffer. Therefore, they must rely closely on the power of the national army and become a local regime that Li Qinglin can truly control.

Li Qinglin was greatly inspired by Han Jizhong's suggestion, so he made the decision to agree with Han Jizhong's suggestion on the spot, and also proposed that after the establishment of Baojia, it must be strictly controlled by the third brigade, and it must be collected in rural areas according to the previous methods and quotas for local county governments to collect food and wages. The income of Baojia chiefs is handled completely in accordance with the previous methods.

Because the food and salary are relatively sufficient at present, Li Qinglin asked the Baojia Chiefs to collect relatively small amounts of food and salary this year, and even only have symbolic meanings, and the strong men do not need to force the levy. However, Li Qinglin particularly emphasized that as long as it is a penny, a grain of grain must be received. If anyone refuses to pay it, the third brigade will be punished for the crime of "destroying the anti-Japanese war" and will be severely punished. Li Qinglin did this to convey a message to the gentry and the people, that is, Li Qinglin's third brigade is currently representing the government, and the Baojia Chiefs are now working for the government.

The Baojia, chaired by Han Jizhong, was soon established, which also made local gentry and clan leader concerned. Because of the existence of Baojia leader, the third brigade can fully control the countryside and understand the local situation at any time. Once the place changes, the third brigade can clear the local forces at any time and maintain stability. Therefore, local forces are increasingly approaching the third brigade.

Dong Zhao's caravan protection team also achieved good results and earned a lot.

Because the security in the jurisdiction is excellent, merchants only need to pay a small part of their money to the caravans. The caravans can obtain absolute safety on the two business roads controlled by the third brigade. Therefore, merchants gradually began to choose to follow these two business roads. The increase in caravans not only did Dong Zhao and others receive more protection fees, but also the cavalrymen rode horses to protect merchants every day, and they also obtained more information from the merchants from the merchants.

However, another thing that Li Qinglin expected has not yet been settled, that is, the safe rescue of Yan Boling.

After Li Qinglin sent that letter to Nokawa, he had been entrusting Pan Kewei to closely monitor the situation of the First Army. After a while, Pan Kewei sent someone to tell Li Qinglin that the First Army of the Puppet Army seemed to have been rectified and the situation of the Japanese and puppet confrontation had been slightly alleviated.

Saito, the only surviving adviser in the August 7 Uprising, was detained for his dereliction of duty. It is said that he will be escorted to Kaifeng soon and will be punished by military law. Because Nokawa wrote a letter to protect Yan Boling, Yan Boling has been released from close custody by Japanese spies. However, Liang Dagong, the new commander of the First Army of the puppet army, took a fancy to his communication skills with the Japanese because of Nokawa's strong support and forced him to stay in the First Army. It is even more difficult for Yan Boling to leave the First Army.

Although Li Qinglin has now established an intelligence system within the defense zone, it has only strengthened internal control; the third brigade does not have a radio station, so no superiors give them any information from Japanese and puppets.

In order to prevent himself from fighting unprepared battles, Li Qinglin must establish his own intelligence system as soon as possible, so Yan Boling must leave the First Army as soon as possible.

At present, the internal affairs in his jurisdiction are basically arranged, and Li Qinglin decided to go to Wan'an in person to rescue Yan Boling...
Chapter completed!