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Looking at the hopeful yet desperate eyes of the remaining people, Li Mu sighed. This world... has shown them another way to survive. Next, he will launch a series of projects, such as the construction of the new military camp of the security regiment, the leveling of roads near the garrison, and the reconstruction of some docks and warehouses along the Baihe River.

These projects require a large workforce, which provides these people with a way to make a living. If they do a good job, they can even save up some money.

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Subsequently, the recruitment drive in Nanyang proceeded relatively smoothly. The recent domestic situation was not good, which obviously affected ordinary people, making their lives even more difficult. The first thing Li Mu did upon returning from Wuhan was to increase the security regiment's pay from three silver dollars per month to five, which was attractive to local young men from impoverished families; it was, after all, a way to survive.

While Li Mu was recruiting and reorganizing soldiers, the Wuhan Muwu Trading Company was also fully cooperating, offering high salaries to poach military talents for the security regiment.

Having fought so many wars and been in chaos for so many years, China is not lacking in military talent.

In the early years of the Republic of China, there were four major military academies, with the Whampoa Military Academy, now known as the Central Military Academy, ranking first.

Next were the Baoding Military Academy, the Northeast Military Academy, and the Yunnan Military Academy.

These four military academies have trained many military talents for the country.

However, the Whampoa Military Academy, which was established the latest, suddenly rose to prominence and became the Central Military Academy. It was also the direct subordinate of the bald man, and all the good things came from this side.

The other military academies gradually declined and have now disappeared. Some of the former instructors and students did quite well, while others became junior officers in irregular armies, unable to rise through the ranks without connections or being part of the inner circle.

Another group left the army; some did well, while others fared quite poorly.

Among these people, a group were poached with high salaries; they're quite capable as instructors for the security team.

As time went by, the recruitment of 2,500 new recruits was completed, and the instructors, through Muwu Trading Company, also successively invited more than 20 instructors.

There were more than 20 instructors, with infantry instructors being the most numerous, followed by engineer instructors (three in total), and artillery instructors (two in total).

Li Mu didn't care whether any of these people were talented or not, nor did he require them to train soldiers well or have high military skills. As long as they could be trained into qualified soldiers, that was enough.

While training new recruits, Li Mu was also adjusting and reorganizing the security regiment.

He planned to reorganize the security regiment into an enhanced regiment of up to three thousand men.

First, the number of infantry battalions will be expanded from the current three to five.

Then, under the regimental headquarters, seven directly subordinate companies were established: guard company, medical company, machine gun company, cavalry company, engineer company, communications company, and reconnaissance company.

Needless to say, the guard company, as Li Mu's personal guard, is responsible for protecting his safety. Next, the existing guard company will be purged of its less capable members, and those with questionable backgrounds will be replaced.

The medical company primarily consists of military medical personnel, specifically responsible for the medical and health safety of the entire regiment. However, this is a highly specialized field, and Li Mu has already instructed Muwu Trading Company to recruit personnel in Wuhan, aiming to recruit and train a group to establish the military's medical system.

Machine gun company: This was established by Li Mu to strengthen firepower. Each machine gun requires one gunner and one ammunition handler to operate. A machine gun company needs a total of forty-five machine guns.

Li Mu purchased a total of 180 Czech-made light machine guns this time, leaving 135 remaining. Each infantry battalion could be allocated 27 machine guns. On average, each infantry company would have nine Czech-made light machine guns.

On average, each infantry platoon can be allocated three guns, and each infantry squad can be allocated one gun.

Each infantry squad was equipped with a Czech-made light machine gun, and in terms of firepower, they were no less than the bald man's elite troops.

Next is the cavalry company: given the current level of transportation in the country, especially in inland areas where there is no train service, cavalry still plays a significant role.

However, cavalry is a specialized branch of the military and requires warhorses. Currently, Li Mu has instructed Muwu Trading Company to find cavalry instructors, and as for horses, he has commissioned a specialized merchant to purchase them from the grasslands.

I believe that forming a cavalry company will not be a problem.

Then there's the engineer company: engineers are still quite important and indispensable in modern warfare. Li Mu established the engineer company to first train a group of relevant personnel and lay the foundation for future expansion.

Fortunately, there are engineering instructors available, so forming an engineering company won't be a problem.

There was also the communications unit: its main function was to relay Li Mu's orders, and they also had to be able to use radios, which was the primary means of transmitting information.

In addition, we will need to learn how to set up telephones in the field in the future, which requires more expertise. Muwu Trading Company is currently recruiting as many as possible. Li Mu is not expecting the communications company to be fully staffed at the moment; we will take it slowly.

As for the reconnaissance company, there's no need to elaborate.

In addition, Li Mu plans to distribute six of the thirty German-made Grw 34 medium mortars purchased this time to each of the five infantry battalions, directly down to the company level.

Each company is equipped with a dedicated mortar squad, armed with two Grow 34 medium mortars.

In this way, the infantry battalion's firepower becomes quite formidable, with each squad equipped with a light machine gun and each company with two medium mortars. Moreover, these aren't the questionable, domestically produced knock-offs; they are all original, high-quality foreign-made products.

Even within the domestic military, this configuration would be considered rare.

According to this plan, with five infantry battalions, seven directly subordinate companies, and the professional personnel to be recruited later, the entire security regiment, when fully staffed, could reach more than 3,200 people.

Having initially clarified the army's structure, Li Mu then focused some of his energy on construction, starting with the barracks. With so many troops and different branches of service, it was impossible to station them all in one place.

Now, within a radius of several dozen miles, besides the headquarters, which is also the location of the regimental headquarters, six or seven other military camps have been built in other places.

To facilitate the army's march and to make things easier for the people, so that those fleeing famine could have something to eat, Li Mu hired a large number of people to repair the nearby roads.

In addition, the Baihe River waterway is also very important for managing Nanyang well, as it is convenient for transporting both supplies and troops.

Moreover, the banks of the Baihe River are also a distribution center for goods within a radius of several hundred miles, and can even extend northward to Shaanxi and Shanxi, making it of considerable commercial value.

Li Mu hired a large number of people to renovate the dock and build many warehouses. In the future, some of the goods purchased from Singapore will be placed here for sale.

In this way, the area within dozens of miles centered on the security regiment's station became a huge construction site and training ground.

Countless migrant workers are busy here, and batches of new recruits are being tirelessly drilled.

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With things settled in Nanyang and everything on track, Li Mu traveled to Wuhan again by speedboat.

More than half a month has passed, and thanks to the efforts of small businesses and merchants from all over the country who have gathered in Wuhan, half of the goods in the warehouse have been sold.

The recovered funds were used entirely to purchase pig bristles and tung oil, and a large quantity has already been stockpiled.

After sitting in Wuhan for a few days, Li Mu read the newspaper that day and found that in addition to the Battle of Shanghai, a new hot topic had emerged: the relocation of universities.

After the outbreak of the War of Resistance against Japan, Peking University, Tsinghua University and Nankai University were the first to relocate.

Even before the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, the situation in Beiping (Beijing) was becoming increasingly critical. In order to prevent any unforeseen adverse circumstances, Tsinghua University secretly prepared to relocate the school to Changsha. The university allocated a large sum of money to start construction on a complete set of school buildings in Zuojialong, at the foot of Yuelu Mountain in Changsha, which is today's Central South University, in preparation for the relocation.

After the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, Beiping and Tianjin fell one after another. Zhang Boling, president of Nankai University, Mei Yi-qi, president of Tsinghua University, and Jiang Menglin, president of Peking University, merged in Changsha to form Changsha Temporary University.

After the fall of Nanjing, in February 1938, the school moved west again to Kunming, which became the famous Southwest Associated University.

Led by these three top universities, in the following two years, major universities across the country, as long as they had the capacity, began to relocate westward.

Many universities, including private ones, were unable to relocate westward due to financial constraints, and also could not find suitable locations. Unable to continue operating, many were forced to close down.

Li Mu sat there pondering for a long time. Talent has always been the primary driving force for development. The relocation of universities to the west was a good opportunity. He didn't need to rely on the top universities in the country; they had plenty of places to accept them. As for those universities that couldn't afford to relocate, could he help them move to Nanyang?

He can allocate funds if there is no money; he can build school buildings if there is no school.

He arranged for Muwu Trading Company to help him find several suitable universities to make initial contact with. Li Mu also recruited a group of designers and architects in Wuhan before returning to Nanyang.

Planting a phoenix tree attracts a golden phoenix. Li Mu had read the data; those universities that moved west had a really tough journey. They would move to one place, and within two months, the job offer would arrive, and they would have to rush to find the next place to settle down.

Many universities relocated several times before finding a suitable location. The conditions were appalling; just look at Fang Hongjian in the novel *Fortress Besieged* – he often went hungry, and the school buildings were dilapidated and barely adequate.

Nanyang has no shortage of manpower, nor does it lack money. This time when Li Mu returns, he intends to find a suitable location in Nanyang to build a suitable school.

Chapter 415 Commander and Bandit Suppression

After Li Mu led a large group of architects and designers back to Nanyang, he established a construction company, which was called a construction factory at the time, not a construction company.

It was specifically responsible for the site selection, design, and construction of school buildings. At the same time, it integrated the engineering teams from military camps and docks, placing them all under the jurisdiction of this newly established construction company, which was fully responsible for all construction projects under Li Mu's command.

By this time, the reorganization of the army was basically completed. Regardless of their military skills, they looked quite professional and had a certain military bearing.

During this period, Muwu Trading Company recruited more than a dozen instructors, including two cavalry instructors. They also managed to buy warhorses through intermediaries, and the cavalry company was finally established.

Dozens of medical personnel were also recruited with high salaries, and the framework of the medical unit was basically established. The seven companies directly under the regiment were essentially all set up.

After a long period of communication, Li Mu and dozens of instructors combined their real-world military training experience with some military textbooks they had previously read.

A preliminary soldier training manual has been compiled.

It possesses the characteristics of the current military while also incorporating the experience of future armies.

Of course, the training manual was not very advanced. Most of it focused on how to train soldiers' individual skills and teamwork. As for how to march and how to fight, Li Mu didn't know either, so it wasn't in the manual.

Even so, the various training methods in the booklet are eye-opening. As long as you follow the requirements in the booklet and complete the individual and team training, you will truly be an elite soldier in this era.

These things sound difficult, but they weren't too difficult for Li Mu. After all, he had been a policeman for five years in the last world, frequently attending police academies for further studies and participating in various training sessions and exercises. To say nothing of other things, he was very familiar with the training methods of the armed police.

Having sorted out the military affairs, Li Mu began to consider another matter: the issue of legitimacy. After all, the security regiment was merely a local civilian armed force, which was both a good thing and a bad thing.

It's considered a good thing because it's a local civilian armed force whose primary mission is to protect the territory and its people. It doesn't have a formal designation or organization, and it doesn't receive a salary or government funding.

Naturally, they wouldn't have to accept the bald man's orders to fight everywhere; at most, they would only help with defense sometimes.

The downside is that the title of "security regiment" also limits development. For example, if military instructors were recruited under a more prestigious title, the high salaries offered would attract far more instructors than those currently employed.

The same applies to recruiting other talent; the name of the security force serves as both protection and restriction.

Li Mu considered this for a long time. He didn't want to lose the local armed forces nature of the security regiment and become a regular army, so that it wouldn't be dragged to the battlefield as cannon fodder before it was fully developed; nor did he want to be restricted in his development by the framework of the security regiment.

After much consideration, Li Mu felt that a suitable name was the Local Security Command.

Both are local armed forces, but compared to security regiments, local security commands sound much better and more prestigious.

Although it is a military unit, it is not a regular military unit and has no official designation; it still belongs to the local armed forces.

In future wars, although there will be certain obligations to send troops, the main task will still be to protect the territory and the people. If troops are sent, they will not be used as regular troops. At most, they will be stationed on the periphery to help with defense and fill gaps.

Moreover, getting this position isn't actually that difficult.

The Republic of China was a time of warlordism and chaos. Although it was nominally unified, warlords still dominated the country.

Many so-called regular armies were actually former small warlords who were given a designation and a title by their superiors, and then they were unified.