"County man! It is also possible to choose where the fief is chosen, and the Great Song Dynasty did not have the nobles who received the fief on the spot, and you are also clear about this. "Zhao Zhen has no opinion on the title of a county man, although the county man is a stepping stone to enter the aristocratic and scholar class, and the kings in the moat of this kind of title are all bigger than his officials.

Zhang Fangping said: "Wasn't there the example of a man in Ding'an County last time? What he needs is that title, and he himself knows that there will be no territory, but the emperor doesn't have to worry about this, just find a place that no one knows about and seal it. ”

Bao Zheng said: "It's better to put it on the side of Liao or Xixia, he wants to grab it back by himself, isn't it better." ”

Zhao Zhen didn't expect that this Bao Zheng looked upright, and he was not a human being when his belly was black, he was even more ruthless than himself and Zhang Fangping, there were too many bad people in this world, and it was better for him to stay away from them.

Zhang Fangping said: "I don't know why the emperor called us over today? ”

Zhao Zhen said: "There are two things to call the two of you over today, one for each of you, here in the third division, you can count how many money I sent to the officials last year, Bao Zheng, you go to investigate and explore the water level of the moat, I still have palpitations in the heavy rain last year, the rise in the water level of the moat is related to the lives of millions of people in the capital, you have to treat it as a major event." ”

Zhang Fangping said: "Does the emperor have other thoughts about investigating Yulu? Doing so will cause panic. ”

Zhao Zhen said: "You think too much, I just want to know how many Yulu are sent out every year, it is all, as long as I receive a grain of rice in the Yamen, at least let me understand how many people do things in the Great Song Dynasty." ”

Out of the palace, Zhang Fangping looked at Bao Zheng and sighed and said: "What does the emperor want to do, I'm too anxious, this is not the best time, I mentioned it last year, and several Zaifu denied it at the time. ”

Bao Zheng said: "The emperor should have seen it a long time ago, there was no way when the Empress Dowager Liu was in power, and now the power is back in his hands, normal, they have been deeply rooted in a hundred years, really you and I are also one of them, as courtiers, we do our duty, and leave the rest to the emperor, right?" ”

Zhao Zhen's patience is still relatively good, otherwise it is impossible for the future generations to give him such a high evaluation, he is now a little inflated in the popular words of the twenty-first century, he wants to be a benevolent monarch, and he wants to do the same thing as the Qin Emperor, Han Wu, Sheng Tang and several monarchs, so that future generations will always remember him in their hearts for the eternal Ming Jun, he wants to reform, he wants to remove the cancer on the body of the Great Song Dynasty now, and the statistics of the officials This is a precursor, he wants to see the reaction of the courtiers.

Cao Feng's classmates, who are thousands of miles away, are about to scold his mother, Die Xiucai deceived himself to come to such a far place, even if he is far away, he is still remote, even if he is remote, he is still poor, even if he is poor, he has no one, he finally found the Quanzhou Yamen, and the few people brought with him are Han Chinese, and no one can understand the Cantonese they speak, and finally found a Han people, and the translation is not right, even the finger finally came to the barracks, Cao Feng looked at it, and almost didn't kneel.

Are these soldiers soldiers? A group of farmers who have put together on an improvised basis! Many people don't wear the right clothes, the older ones have gray hair on their heads, and the younger ones don't say they wear open crotch pants, but the snot in the nose drills up and down in the nostrils, God, you spare me! At least you don't have to suffer this sin in the capital, you have been with Xiucai for a long time, and the problem of loving cleanliness is contagious, first of all, it is difficult to accept this dirty yourself.

Cao Feng looked at the prefect of the Quanzhou Yamen and said, "Lord Chen, are we in the wrong place, the military camp of the Ping Navy is not here, right?" It's a refugee camp and it's pretty much the same. ”

Master Chen said: "Cao Xunjian, the order above is to let you select soldiers in the Ping Navy and the Xinghua Army, the Ping Navy is a little better, and the Xinghua Army is estimated that you will not be able to pick a suitable soldier." ”

Cao Feng said: "In June and July next year, the emperor wants a soldier who can be pulled out to fight, and now in this situation, do you think you and I can deal with each other?" Mistakenly, no one in Quanzhou from top to bottom can escape responsibility. ”

Master Chen said: "Since the ancestors, Quanzhou and Zhangzhou have always been this status quo, if you want good soldiers, I will give you a truth, impossible, but there are many old sailors here, you can use them if you go to sea." ”

Cao Feng said: "How many people are on the roster of the Ping Navy and the Xinghua Army? ”

Master Chen said, "There are two battalions, one battalion with 1,000 people, and a total of 2,000 people. ”

Cao Feng said: "Then can I recruit some people myself, I think there are not a few people who eat empty meals, right?" ”

Master Chen said: "Yes, yes, but this military salary yamen can't afford it, the strong ones are the pillars of the family, and there will not be many people who are willing to be soldiers. ”

Cao Feng said: "I will solve the matter of military pay by myself, you can tell me to recruit good soldiers there, and it is best to understand water." ”

Master Chen said: "As long as you can pay a salary, Quanzhou is located by the sea, these children have grown up in the water since they were young, you put a hundred hearts in the water, you recruit people yourself, my yamen still has something, you can come to me at any time if you encounter any difficulties here." ”

Qian Caofeng has, Lu Zifei gave him a silver ticket of 100,000 yuan when he came, he was afraid that he would encounter today's situation, and it was his original plan not to use these old soldiers, Xiucai said that these thousand people would dare to die, cultivate their ambition and bloodthirsty heart, he didn't have to think about the ship, Li Lin was doing it, he could train his soldiers and wait for Xiucai to come.

Cao Feng took out a silver ticket and said to these old, weak, sick and disabled: "This is five thousand taels of silver tickets, I will put it here today, and any of you who has the ability can take it today." ”

Money can indeed stimulate a person's nature, and when a person is so poor that they want to have it when they see so much money, a soldier with calloused hands says, "What do you mean by the ability of the commander?" Fishing, at the helm doesn't count. ”

Cao Feng said: "Count, even if you are a fish killer, if your craftsmanship satisfies me, you can do it." ”

The soldier said: "I can repair the hull of the ship, I can also fish, I am familiar with the habits of the fish, I can catch any fish you want to eat with a big boat, and I can see the weather and discern the direction at sea." ”

Cao Feng said: "One hundred, I can give you one hundred now, can you still find someone like you?" As long as you come and give 100 yuan immediately, you will pay 50 yuan of silver every month in the future, and you can't do it. ”

The soldier said, "Sir, there are many such people, and you are sure you want them all." ”

Cao Feng said: "You heard it right, it's all wanted, by the way, tell the young and strong young people in the neighborhood that as long as they come, they will not be less than 100 times a month, until they recruit enough 1,000 people, and those with skills are preferred." ”

The soldier took the silver ticket of 100 yuan in his hand and looked at it for a while before confirming that it was true, and shouted and said to the people behind him, this is a hornet's nest, people like you can get 100 yuan, then we who go into the water and the people at the helm are not more, these people have a little change in the expression of life, and the people behind them flocked to it, after continuous selection, the entire military camp selected more than 200 usable people, and the rest of the people Cao Feng asked them to build a military camp and do some hard work.

Xiucai told himself at that time that these people had never experienced war, and they had a natural fear of war, and if they really wanted to use it for their own use, they could only use money to smash it, and when they could not satisfy their ambitions, the devil in their hearts would be released, and at that time, death would not be as attractive to them as money, and their combat effectiveness would be formed.

In the following days, there were many young people who came to sign up, Cao Feng saw their dark skin and knew that this was because they were at sea all the year round, the Cao family has been a land general for generations, and it was the first time to lead troops at sea, but he had read the small book that Xiucai gave him, and he could do it at sea according to the book, and a thousand people were quickly recruited under the temptation of money, and the people behind left disappointed.

Cao Feng divided a thousand people into ten squads, made a roster, and sent it to the prefect's yamen, Lord Chen saw it, and approved it without thinking about it, the people sent by the emperor do not have to pay the military salary in Quanzhou, the more you recruit, the happier he is.

All this is ready, Cao Feng took people to the warehouse of the Ping Navy, there are several building ships in this warehouse, so they are built on the seaside, and the soldiers who just came in saw these five brand-new building ships and touched them, so look, if they use these boats to fish, how much should they be able to catch, and they can't eat all the fish in their lives!

That's what Cao Feng wanted, he was holding a hundred thousand silver tickets at the time, and he thought that he could spend so much? Just drew an account, a thousand soldiers plus the logistics staff's salary is more than 10,000 a month, ordinary life, buy materials, the 100,000 yuan will be spent in three months, this is also where he admires Xiucai, he didn't come to Quanzhou, he thought of all these things, and also thought about the main thing for him, take the soldiers to fish first, in addition to food, the money sold is definitely enough for the expenses of a thousand people, maybe there is a surplus.

Cao Feng cleared his throat and said, "Do you see these five ships?" He is our future food and clothing parents, and now the quartermaster asks what we need to go to sea, and we are ready to go to sea to fish. ”

The adjutant appointed by Cao Feng, the soldier on the first day, shrank his head and said, "Lord Cao, isn't this okay?" These five building ships are the common property of the Ping Navy and the Xinghua Army, they don't dare to drive out to fish secretly, you are letting us go out blatantly, they will have opinions, the war is also said in the past, fishing will not have an accident. ”

Cao Feng said: "I'll ask you, can you drive this kind of boat?" ”

The adjutant said: "Lord Cao also looks down on us, we are also a navy, but there is no naval battle so that we are idle." ”

Cao Feng said: "Then what do you want to do so much, I'm not afraid, what are you afraid of, let them go to the Quanzhou prefect Yamen theory, I don't have time to chirp with them." ”