Those who aspire to the top will never stop climbing because they are nostalgic for the exotic flowers and plants halfway up the mountain.

- Gorky (proletarian writer of the former Soviet Union, founder of socialist realist literature)

All the big and small affairs of Sado, Bai Feng originally planned to hand over all the affairs of Nams and Wendell to handle them, but whether it was Wendell or Namus, they were very pure military generals, and they couldn't handle many government affairs properly.

The reason why Roman military commanders like Caesar were able to rule the army and the people with ease was not because they were born to be all-powerful people with both civil and military skills, but because they all had a team loyal to them.

In this team, there are not only generals who are strategizing, but also fierce generals who charge into battle, prodigies who are full of wealth and wealth, and envoys who are full of words.

The generals of Rome, who had almost no team to speak of, even if they had abilities that were not inferior to Caesar, could not achieve the legendary hegemony of Caesar, and this was the reality! The reality that could not be said to be good or bad, the advantage that Bai Feng brought was that he did not have to worry about the people under his command supporting his own troops or forming his own forces, and the disadvantage was that he had to spend more time and energy in the development of his own forces.

This is just like an unfixed law in Chinese history: if an emperor governs the country diligently, his empire will inevitably prosper, but the emperor himself will find it difficult to survive his old age because of overwork;

With the system as an auxiliary, Bai Feng can naturally devote more time and energy to the operation of his own forces without any worries without worrying about the premise of not having to think about his health and longevity; this is Bai Feng's advantage, and it is also the fundamental reason why he must do everything himself.

After some very careful consideration, Hakumine decided to appoint Hattori Yasaki, who was both loyal and capable, as Sado Taimori, responsible for all the affairs of Sado Province, and at the same time, Wendell's Governor's Guard and Nams's First Fleet would also remain on Sado Island in the short term, but the two of them were in charge of the army and the other in charge of the navy, and belonged to the military governor rather than the political governor.

The position of Sado Taishou was a new internal position of the Yanhuang family established by Bai Feng himself, and his power position was similar to that of the official appointment of the Yamato Empire; compared to the low-status Kunisuke, Taishou had greater political power and higher status, and compared to the Guoshou, who was in charge of the military and political power of a country, Taishou's political independence and military power were all abolished.

As long as the envoys sent by the Yanhuang family to Kyoto and the Oda family can successfully complete the task, the Mutsu Kingdom that was merged from the five kingdoms of Oshu will be redivided into five, and then Hakumine will officially implement the Taishou system within the Yanhuang family.

Because of the special status of Sado Island, Hakumine's appointment to Hattori Yasuki was carried out in secret, and even Hattori Hanzo and Hattori Heiji, the two sons of Hattori Yasuko, did not know; as the only retainer of the Yanhuang family who knew about Sado Island, Hattori Yasuki would leave Oshu on the pretext of going to sea, and he would not be able to return to Oshu openly until the Yanhuang family finally destroyed the Uesugi family.

In addition to appointing Hattori Yasujo as Sado Taishou, Bai Feng also officially appointed Ito Yuhiro as the commander of the Sado Navy as the governor of the Yanhuang family, under the direct command of Oms, and Obwano as the commander of the Sado Standing Army, under the direct command of Wendell.

The battle of the Higashiyama Road that Bai Feng has been preparing for will soon kick off, and he has no time to go to Sado Island, so he can only learn about the situation on Sado Island through the mouth of Namus, and then formulate a development plan for Sado Island and hand it over to Namus to bring back to Sado Island.

With Hattori Yasujo, who was about to go to Sado Island with Nams to serve as Sado Taishou, Bai Feng could directly talk to him about the specific construction and development of Sado Island, so what Bai Feng asked Nams to bring back was actually the development plan of the Sado Navy and the Sado Standing Army.

For the existing Sado Navy with five Anzhai warships, eight large customs ships, nineteen customs ships, and seventy-four small early ships, Bai Feng gave them a two-year development task of building four new ironclad ships, twelve large customs ships, 21 customs ships, and 26 small early ships.

The combat effectiveness of the large ships and ships was far stronger than the large but poorly maneuverable Ataka warships, which was the professional judgment given by Nams as the commander of the First Fleet;

The number of warships may not be the decisive factor in the strength of a naval force, but it must be one of the most important influencing factors; in the development of the navy, Shiramine, who believes that quantity is quality, believes that quantity is quality, and the first way to improve the strength of the Sado naval force is to build new warships.

As for the ironclad ships that are unique to the Oda family at this stage, whether the Sado Navy can build four in two years depends on Ito Youheng's ability; anyway, Bai Feng himself has no hope for this matter, after all, the construction process of ironclad ships is not ordinary.

The formation of the Sado Standing Army is nothing more than giving the army under the command of Obwano a regular name, whether the number of this standing army is 10,000 or 20,000, it depends on Obouino's own ability, this time Bai Feng gave him a lot of autonomy.

It is undoubtedly unrealistic to support the four armies of the First Fleet, the Sado Navy, the Governor's Guard, and the Sado Standing Army on an island in Sado Province, and even if the First Fleet returns to Rome City with Hakumine in the future, the remaining three armies cannot be supported by Sado Province.

For this reason, before Nams and Hattori Yasuki left Sanhe Castle, Hakumine specially instructed Hattori Kangcheng that all the income of Sado Island should be invested in the construction and development of Sado Island, and all the expenses needed to support the army would be provided by the Roman city.

The daily rations for the soldiers of the various armies, the gold and silver for the payment of salaries and the purchase of timber to build warships, and the necessary weapons and equipment for the soldiers were all provided by the city of Rome, and the First Fleet of Nams was responsible for transporting them back and forth.

After dealing with these important matters related to Sado Province, Nams and Hattori Yasujo left Sanhe Castle, and Bai Feng, who had just been free, was busy again before he had time to catch his breath, because the envoy sent by the Yanhuang family to Kyoto and the Oda family returned!

Emperor Shokincho, who nominally ruled the Yamato Empire, and the Oda family, who actually controlled Kyoto, were of great significance to the Yanhuang family's next strategic layout, and the reason why Shiramine did not send troops south for a long time was to wait for the return of the envoy.

Now that these two teams of emissaries have finally returned, no matter what the outcome of the results they bring back, the fierce tiger of the Yanhuang family, which shows its fangs, will have to make a move against the enemy; blindly waiting for a better situation to emerge is not Bai Feng's style.