At the beginning of October, the autumn harvest ended, and the basic training for the third batch of soldiers entered its hardest stage.
Of the three batches of soldiers in training, the first batch had three thousand men, the second batch had four thousand, and the third batch likewise had four thousand.
This meant that once the three batches of soldiers completed their training, the Tenglong Guard would have more than eleven thousand men who had finished basic training, while over three thousand had also passed selection and become camp soldiers.
As the military households supplemented by the Central Military Governor's Office arrived at the Tenglong Guard one after another, the Tenglong Guard's military households had basically reached full strength—more than twenty-two thousand military households.
Among them, the Tenglong Left Guard, Right Guard, and Rear Guard had roughly sixteen thousand eight hundred military households, with more than sixteen thousand eight hundred soldiers.
The Tenglong Vanguard had more than five thousand six hundred military households and more than five thousand six hundred soldiers, and at present, more than a thousand men were already participating in naval force training.
With the military households replenished, the population of the Tenglong Guard had also approached one hundred thousand.
A population of one hundred thousand—in Da Rong, that had already reached the scale of a county. Some lower counties did not even have a population of one hundred thousand.
Now, under Yang Zhengshan's command, he could be said to have both people and soldiers. Within the yamen, there was money and grain, and he even held a great road to wealth like the salt field in his hands.
More importantly, this replenishment of military households had brought a large number of scholars to the Guard Division Office.
Under the great drought, the common people's lives