A man lives consciously for himself, but he is an unconscious instrument of the historical ends attained by all mankind. The actions of people are irreversible, and the actions of one person and the countless actions of others occur at the same time, which has historical significance.

- Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy (one of the most outstanding writers in the history of world literature)

Fortunately, Mori Tsunade Nobumoto was not a greedy and inadequate careerist like Kantai Tsuna, who thought he was going to be idle for the rest of his life, but when Bai Feng asked him if he would like to be the commander of the Mutsu Standing Army, he was so grateful that he almost didn't shed tears.

At the same time as sending new recruits to the Southern Standing Army and the Quanshan Standing Army to organize the Mutsu Standing Army, Bai Feng was further expanding the military police brigade of which he himself was the captain; this time, Bai Feng, who was determined to rectify the military discipline of the various standing armies, expanded six military police squadrons in one fell swoop to ensure that every standing army or every combat division and regiment would have at least one military police squadron responsible for reorganizing military discipline.

Even though the size of the gendarmerie brigade was doubled, the principle of Hakumine's appointment of the commander of the gendarmerie squadron remained unchanged; the newly established 7th Military Police Squadron was led by Kanehira Tsunori's son Kanehira Junta, the newly established 8th Military Police Squadron was led by Yosuke Moritsuna, the son of Moritsuna Nobumoto, and the newly established 9th Military Police Squadron was led by Sanada Nobushige's brother Hideki Sanada.

After the sons and heirs of the core retainers of the Yanhuang family were appointed as squadron leaders of the gendarmerie squadron, the authority of the gendarmes naturally no longer needed Bai Feng to worry about in the future; in order to make the nature of the gendarmes more pure, Bai Feng also specially appointed three people with no background as squadron leaders.

Senior samurai Kei Nakajima Tani, who served as the squadron leader of the 10th Military Police Squadron, Takuma Ishigaki, who served as the squadron leader of the 11th Military Police Squadron, and Daisuke Nagasawa, senior samurai who served as the squadron leader of the 12th Military Police Squadron, all three of them were direct retainers of the Yanhuang family who were ordinary civilians, and they were lucky people who grew up to become high-ranking samurai by luck and strength, and did not have any other family backgrounds.

After joining these three squadron leaders from civilian backgrounds, the composition of the military police squadron leaders is basically more balanced; there are both descendants and bloodline members of various powerful families within the Yanhuang family, as well as people with no family background who represent the civilian class, this kind of military police squadron composition in which all forces participate, is the more perfect composition in Bai Feng's heart, because at least there will be no situation where one side suppresses the other.

On the basis of the six old military police squadrons, two of the 12 military police squadrons were sent by Bai Feng to the Quanshan Standing Army to rectify military discipline, two were sent by Bai Feng to the Southern Standing Army to rectify military discipline, one was sent by Bai Feng to the Mutsu Standing Army to rectify military discipline, six were sent by Bai Feng to the Yanhuang Standing Army to rectify military discipline, and the remaining one was responsible for rectifying the military discipline of the trained recruits.

The expansion of the Sanada Standing Army, the Iwashimizu Standing Army, and the Kunohe Standing Army, which were far away from the southern front line of Mutsu, and the reorganization of military discipline had to wait until the end of the war; before that, Hakumine's priority was how to end the war as soon as possible.

After seizing the time to deal with the most important things at hand, Bai Feng asked Bai Yi to go out and summon Nams, who had been waiting for him for several hours in the assessment room, to the study to listen to the operational report of the First Fleet and the Governor's Guard on the capture of Sado Island.

Bai Feng was still a little curious about why the First Fleet and the Governor's Guard would take so long to capture Sado Island, which was not strong overall, but this curiosity quickly turned into an accident in Nams's explanation.

In the entire battle of Sado Island, there was more than one thing that Bai Feng expected: first, it was Nams who successfully used the army to form a Sado naval army directly belonging to the Yanhuang family; second, it was the birth of a rookie general with the title of 'Ghost God of War' in the Governor's Guard; finally, it was the destruction of the First Fleet and the death of Brent that shocked Bai Feng.

If the first two things that Bai Feng expected were surprises, then the last thing that Bai Feng expected was self-evidently distressing, although Bai Feng knew that this loss could be avoided, he still warmly praised Nams.

Because Nams only lost four double-lined battleships and four three-column battleships, while the Sado Naval Army he formed for the Yanhuang family had five Anzhai warships, eight large customs ships, nineteen customs ships, and seventy-four small early ships.

Of the eight warships lost by the First Fleet, Bai Feng directly transferred eight warships of the same specification from the Roman Navy to him; it was already February, and Bai Feng used the February recruitment quota that he had not yet decided to recruit eight warships of the same specification for the Roman Navy.

January Financial Report (January 918 AH)

Agriculture: income 3,600 gold, expenditure 0

Mining: income 350 gold, expenditure 0

Trade: income 359,000 gold, expenditures

Taxes: 90,500 gold in income and 63,600 gold in expenditure (100 gold each per month for prosecutors, tax collectors, civil protection officers, and patrol guards)

Fortune: 2,700 gold (100 gold per month for each general)

Army Maintenance Cost: 0

Recruitment: 45,850 gold (temple summoning generals is also included in the recruitment and special training costs)

Construction: Spend 0

Entertainment: 0 payouts

Diplomacy: 0 income, 0 expenditure

Corruption: 0 income, 900 gold

Last month's total: income 453,450 gold, expenditure 113,050 gold

Last month's surplus: income 340,400 gold

Total amount of treasury at the beginning of the month: 4427230 gold

Rome City (City)

Governor: White Peak

Income: 453,450 gold/month

Population: 1143288 (the temple adds 2000 people per month)

Social security: +215%

Population growth: +7%/month

Tax Rate: Low tax rate

Treasury: 4767630 gold

Barbarian region: 45 towns directly under the jurisdiction of 4904265

Yamato area: Nine castles (3536528)

Vassals: Esine Kingdom (1021837) Lucy Kingdom (1001542)

Existing buildings: Archon's Residence, Stone Wall, Temple of Apollo, Urban Barracks, Market, Crop Rotation, Deep Cave Mine, Cavalry Stables, Armor Shop, Square Avenue, Shooting Range, Sewer, Public Bath, Shipbuilding Workshop, Arena, University, Shogunate Hall

Under construction: Temple of the Apollo Giant

Buildable buildings: large city walls, legion barracks, hippodromes, catapult ranges, large markets, shipyards, elevated aqueducts, irrigation, libraries, amphitheaters

Shogunate Hall Attribute Table

Shogunate area: Mutsu Province (1,410,000 stone), Sado Province (20,000 stone)

Shogunate assets: 43,700 stones

Shogunate income: 14,300 koku (1% of the ruling stone high)

Shogunate Figures (1751): Priest (1st level, 600), Spy (1st level, 650), Secret Envoy (1st level, 75), Ninja (2nd level, 300), Geisha (4th level, 30), Battlefield Ninja (4th level, 4th team)

Shogunate Army (78,000): Notai Sword Samurai (3rd Rank, 100 teams), Monk Soldiers (4th Rank, 30 teams), Infant Sword Samurai (3rd Rank, 20 teams), Spear Samurai (2nd Rank, 200 teams), Spear Ashigaru (1st Rank, 200 teams), Iron Gun Spearmen (3rd Rank, 100 teams)

Shogunate Generals: Goto Kiji (Junior Heavenly Samurai), Yubu Nobu (High Special Samurai), Anto Ietada (High Special Samurai)