How humble is everything in the world compared to the height of the mind.

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

In the arms fight between the middle and senior officers of the Yanhuang Standing Army and the gendarmes, no matter who is at fault and who makes the first move, Bai Feng must severely punish those officers of the Yanhuang Standing Army who dare to do something to the gendarmes, because the gendarmes represent not only themselves, but also the face of the Yanhuang family!

If Bai Feng is indifferent to the fact that the gendarmes are beaten today, then tomorrow the authority of the gendarmes will plummet; when the time comes, the use of the gendarmes to rectify the military discipline of all armies will be a complete formality, because no one will take the dignified gendarmes in their eyes at all!

In view of this, the first decision Bai Feng made after learning about this incident from Sanada Nobuyoshi was to let Sanada Nobuyoshi arrest all the officers of the Yanhuang Standing Army who participated in the fight, and Bai Feng personally went to appease the military police.

Regardless of whether Nanfang Lizhi and Quanshan Masayoshi have a communiqué and personal vendettas, at least what they do on the surface has no loopholes; not to mention the rest, take those Yanhuang Standing Army recruits who were punished as examples, which of them did not first violate the military discipline of the Yanhuang family?

Since the recruits violated the military discipline of the Yanhuang family, then they should be punished, this is a matter of principle, and what the officers of the Yanhuang Standing Army are doing now is precisely violating this principle, which Bai Feng cannot tolerate under any circumstances.

The gendarmes who fought to defend the military discipline of the Yanhuang family should be commended, even if they have the problem of being too heavy in the process of enforcing military law, but under the premise that the officers of the Yanhuang Standing Army violated Bai Feng's bottom line, they naturally became the objects of commendation.

The pensions of the three gendarmes who unfortunately died were increased tenfold by Bai Feng, and the wounded gendarmes were also treated in the most timely manner; in addition, all the loyal gendarmes of the three gendarme squadrons received verbal commendations and material rewards from Bai Feng.

On the afternoon of the day when the fighting broke out, Sanada Nobushigeru arrested all the officers of the Standing Army of Yan and Huang who participated in the fighting, and when he came to the city in the evening to report his life, Bai Feng summoned all the important ministers of the Yan and Huang families in the three cities in front of him.

How to severely punish the hundreds of officers of the Yanhuang Standing Army who violated military discipline was a topic for Bai Feng to summon his retainers to his city overnight for a meeting; from Bai Feng's mouth saying the word 'severe punishment', the retainers of the Yanhuang family, all of whom were human spirits, instantly understood the attitude of the family governor.

So much so that after the meeting officially began, Nanbu Toshinao first proposed a three-month fine, and then Numata Yumitsu proposed a more severe punishment for half a year, and Hattori Yasaki, who had always attached great importance to military discipline and military law, even put forward a proposal to whip officers who violated discipline in public.

Among the seven elders of the Yanhuang family, the most ruthless one was Hattori Kangcheng, but as soon as Tanda Tantai opened his mouth, what he said shocked everyone present; it turned out that the severe punishment proposal he put forward was to expel all these hundreds of officers who violated discipline from the Yanhuang Standing Army!

Sanada Nobuyoshi, who had heard the change in color, showed an angry look in front of the elders for the first time; if it hadn't been for reason to restrain his anger, maybe Sanada Nobuyoshi would have 'committed the following offenses' on the spot, and he would have angrily scolded the ill-intentioned Tantai Tanta.

In fact, the reason why Sanada Nobuya's reaction was so big was not because he was prejudiced against Kantai Tanta, but because the advice of other family elders was at best a punishment, and only Tanta's suggestion was that he really wanted to kill the officers in the fight.

You must know that those officers who violated discipline in the armed fight were all loyal and brave men cultivated by the Sanada family little by little, and if they were expelled from the Yanhuang Standing Army, with the consistent style of the family governor, these people probably would not even have a chance to return to the Sanada family!

Sanada Nobuyoshige, who was trying his best to suppress the anger in his heart, had not yet had time to plead for the officers under his command who had violated discipline, and Bai Feng, as the family governor, had already made a decision; Bai Feng's severe punishment measures for the officers who violated discipline were: An officer at the squadron leader level was fined three months with 20 lashes, an officer at the rank of captain with a term of 40 lashes for half a year, and an officer at the rank of wing commander with a sentence of 60 lashes for one year.

Needless to say, this was a punishment that was unexpected, but reasonable, and that the public flogging of officers who had violated discipline would undoubtedly establish the authority of the gendarmes and serve as a warning to the generals of the other armies rather than to understate the punishment.

After the meeting, while allowing the elders of the family to leave one after another, Bai Feng left Nanbu Shinao and Sanada Nobu Shishi, and the reason why Bai Feng left the two of them alone was not because of their status, but because of the internal contradictions within the family exposed by this fight.

In the relatively stable stage of development of the Yanhuang family, Bai Feng really didn't mind maintaining a moderate competitive relationship between the Sanada family and the southern family, but the current Yanhuang family would never allow the Sanada family and the southern family to use open and secret battles to consume their strength for no reason.

Nanbu Shinao and Sanada Shinshi are both smart people, Bai Feng just nodded a few words, and they swore to Bai Feng that incidents similar to this weapon fight would definitely not happen in the Yanhuang Standing Army, Sanada Standing Army, and Southern Standing Army in the future!

Bai Feng, who had achieved his goal, didn't say anything more, and after instructing Sanada Nobuyoshi to be sure to carry out the punishment measures for the officers who violated discipline, Bai Feng let the two of them leave on their own; tonight Bai Feng still had many other important things to deal with, and he couldn't waste time on this matter, because Bai Feng, who had a limited amount of time, had already wasted too much time on this matter.

The Yanhuang family's large-scale recruitment has not stopped, and the recruits they have been directly added to the standing armies waiting to be expanded, while undergoing not strict initial training, have been directly supplemented into the standing armies waiting to be expanded; so far, 10,000 recruits have been added to the Standing Army of Quanshan, 5,000 recruits have been added to the Standing Army of the South, and 7,000 recruits have been sent to the port of Mutsu.

The 15,000 recruits who have been replenished into the Quanshan Standing Army and the Southern Standing Army are all untrained recruits; therefore, the commander of the Quanshan Standing Army, Quanshan Gukang, and the commander of the Southern Standing Army, Nanbu Shinnao, must shoulder the heavy task of raising the combat effectiveness of their respective standing armies as soon as possible.

As for the 7,000 untrained recruits sent to the port of Mutsuno, they would be combined with the 3,000 old units of the Yanhuang Standing Army who remained at the port to form a new port garrison, which was personally named the Mutsunoku Standing Army by Hakuho himself, and the commander was Moritsuna Nobumoto.

Mori Tsunade Nobumoto, one of the three elders of Oura, must have the ability to command 10,000 standing ashigaru, plus he has been idle by Bai Feng for two or three years without giving birth to any dissent, and he is also trustworthy in terms of loyalty;

For any other family other than the Yanhuang family, commanding 10,000 standing soldiers as the elder of the family is a heavy responsibility, no matter how it can be counted, it is a heavy responsibility; except in the special situation of the Yanhuang family, there are many people who command tens of thousands of troops as generals of the family department, and the appointment of commanding 10,000 soldiers as the elder of the family naturally seems rather unreasonable.