Jia Ke is now thinking about next year, if the Tatars come again, with his troops and the Manchu Eight Banners, he will definitely have no return. If they don't come, but bypass Xuanhua and Kaiping two towns, they will lead these Eight Banners and the cavalry of the two towns into the grassland, and sweep all the nearby tribes, so that they can not only get the population, but also expand the territory. Let the Manchus under his command truly become an independent nation, and then he will be able to compete with Arslen Khan on the steppe.

In this way, even if the Central Plains can't stay any longer, it can also be the king in the grassland.

At this time, Jia Ke had already risen into a greater ambition in his heart. He doesn't want to be controlled anymore, he wants to be a chess player.

After Jia Ke arranged the matter of the Tatar captives, he began to deal with the affairs of the two towns of Xuanhua and Kaiping, and he had already thought about the general arrangement. Now it's just a matter of gathering a few important people to discuss the details together, and then arrange things down.

Now Jia Ke is most concerned about the issue of military power, and he wants to firmly control these 40,000 people in his own hands. It is not a decree that can deprive oneself of power. As for the method of brainwashing, he will comprehensively implement it. Every soldier and every hundred households must study hard and shout slogans every day, so that they can unconsciously hypnotize themselves, so that they can completely control these people psychologically, so that these people have a strong sense of identity with Jia Ke.

At this point, Jia Ke admires that Yuan is able to train the recruits of the Six Towns as his own private soldiers under the nose of Lafayette, and his ability is inquisitive. Therefore, in addition to promoting modern brainwashing, Jia Ke also implemented many methods of Yuan to control the new army in his own troops.

A few days later, Jia Ke summoned the three imperial guards of Qianhu, Fan Kang, and Chen Xi to his study for a meeting.

After the five of them arrived, the guests and hosts sat down, Jia Ke coughed, and then said, "We have done a good job this year." The emperor already knows our merits, and I am now the commander. After saying this, he himself laughed, his commander controlled a lot of troops than Wang Tao's temperance envoy, and his power was greater, and the people under him laughed with him, and everyone knew what the specific situation was.

Jia Ke coughed, put away his smile and continued: "You people are all going to follow the light, I have already reported your merits to the Ministry of War, I think it will be not long before you arrive at the official documents, all of you three thousand households will be promoted to garrison, all the ordinary thousand households below have been promoted to imperial guard thousand households, and deputy thousand households have been promoted to thousand households." ”

The three thousand households were overjoyed when they heard this, they followed Jia Ke for only a year or two, and they were promoted from ordinary hundred households to garrisons, which they couldn't think of before, and now their loyalty has been transferred from the current emperor to Jia Ke. I'm afraid that now they can't command them except Jia Ke's orders.

After Jia Ke finished talking to the three of them, he said to Fan Kang: "Fan Kang will be the prefect in the future, responsible for all administrative affairs in the two towns of Xuanhua and Kaiping. ”

Fan Kang also stood up with a smile on his face and thanked Jia Ke, although he didn't care about these official positions. But to be honest, which person will be unhappy if he is promoted.

Jia Ke finally said to Chen Xi: "You are still the master bookkeeper, but the master book of the entire commander, and you are responsible for the logistics of our entire army." ”

Chen Xi also hurriedly apologized, although he was also the main bookkeeper, his official rank had been upgraded by one level, and there were many more people in charge, and the corresponding powers had also expanded a lot.

After Jia Ke arranged their official positions, it was time to arrange the defense of the two towns. Jia Ke first said to Feng Mo: "Feng Mo, you go to Xuanhua to serve as a garrison, bring the trained archers and square soldiers, and let the cavalry Qianhu Ma Zuo take his cavalry Qianhu, and then bring two thousand ordinary cavalry with you." After arriving in Xuanhua, these two thousand cavalry were trained. Xuanhua will depend on you at that time, and you think you can do it yourself. ”

Feng Mo has never liked to talk, this is listening to Jia Ke's question, and only said one word, "Okay." Then he shut up. But with a resolute expression on his face.

Jia Ke is still relieved of Feng Mo, although this person doesn't like to talk, but he is very safe. And the character is very resolute.,The talent who can take charge of himself.。

After Jia Ke finished instructing Feng Mo, he said to Huang Baifeng and Zheng Kai: "The task of the two of you is very heavy, Feng Mo took away all the veterans, leaving us with nearly 30,000 remnants of the soldiers, and these soldiers rely on you to train." I sent all my guards down, and they served as a hundred households among them. Help you train, to train this unit this year, and I will be foolproof next year. ”

After instructing these words, he thought for a moment and continued: "You pick out all the good seedlings among these recruits, and our officer training class will continue. It is still up to me to give lectures in person, and we must ensure that all the officers at the grassroots level are trained. ”

Huang Baifeng asked, "How many people do you want to pick?" ”

Jia Ke roughly estimated and said, "We have a lot of people now, so let's pick three hundred people first." It is better to have more people to be promoted in the future, than to have no one to use them at that time. Last time, there were fewer people we trained, and now some of them can't be used. ”

Huang Baifeng immediately bowed his hand and said: "Anyway, don't worry, I will send people over to adults in a day or two." ”

After Jia Kehuang nodded to Huang Baifeng, he instructed Chen Xidao: "The production of paper armor must not be stopped, now make 100,000 pieces first." You come and tell me that we have captured a lot of Tatar money this time, which is just right to make our troops better equipped. ”

Chen Xi said with some doubts: "My lord, isn't 100,000 pieces of equipment a bit much?" ”

Jia Ke didn't think about it and said: "I have the rest of my own use, you don't care, you just need to make all the paper armor for me before next summer, it will be a great achievement." ”

Chen Xi said proudly: "Don't worry, adults now that our workshop has expanded nearly tenfold, everyone's treatment is better, and the children of craftsmen also have a way to make money." So it's no problem at all to make 100,000 pieces of paper armor before the summer. ”

"Don't be proud, I have one more thing for you to do, although our paper armor has good defense, but after all, it is damaged relatively quickly, and it is still inferior to iron armor in terms of defense. This time, you go back and gather skilled craftsmen to try to build iron armor, I want more than 100 generals in our army to wear iron armor. Jia Ke instructed Chen Xi with a solemn expression.

Chen Xi was a little embarrassed at this time, "My lord, the manufacturing technology of the iron armor is not trivial, and the iron used is not ordinary wrought iron, it is made of real steel, with the strength of their Kaiping Town, if it is only repaired, it can barely be reached." If you want to make iron armor, it will cost a lot. And our craftsmen are afraid that the steel made is somewhat unqualified. "The imperial court has very strict control over the elite army, and the craftsmen at the border pass are only able to make minor repairs, and the real skilled craftsmen are all in the Ministry of Industry in the capital.

Jia Ke didn't care about this, "Since you won't, let's try a few more times." I don't believe that it's all two shoulders and one head, others can do it, but we can't. Go down and tell the craftsmen, If you can make steel that can be used to make armor, I will reward you with five hundred taels of silver. ”

Jia Ke is a brave man under the heavy reward, he sent such a big player, those craftsmen with a skill are not desperate to study, as long as one of these people succeeds, then the steel material for armor will not have to worry.

Chen Xi could no longer cheer up, since Jia Ke trusted himself so much, then he was living in the craftsman camp this time, and he had to train the steel to repay Master Jia for his kindness.

Jia Ke finally said to Fan Kang: "I don't have much experience in government affairs, and my experience is still shallow. In the future, I will rely on you to help, and you will have to worry about the selection of officials at all levels. ”

Fan Kang nodded and said, "Don't worry, my lord, I will do my best." However, I am afraid that we don't have to call the shots in many things, Kaiping, Xuanhua and the county orders of the two towns, the imperial court is afraid that the imperial court will send personnel to take over. ”

Jia Ke snorted when he heard this, "We are here at the border gate, and we are fighting every year during the war, if the county order that has come over is still interesting, let him stay." If we are not interested, we will be attacked by Tatars at any time, and weak scholars like this are probably the most popular targets of the Tatars. ”

Fan Kang had nothing to say when he heard this, and what Jia Ke said was also reasonable, before Jia Ke came, several thousands of households were assassinated in office. What's more, these weak scholars who came to be county magistrates.

After arranging these things, Jia Ke finally said to them: "The troops must not relax in their studies, and the pamphlets I have distributed must make them study hard." As long as you study this booklet, you will be able to roughly understand the application of our Kaiping Town tactics. ”

After arranging these things, Jia Ke asked them to go down to do things.

After they left, Jia Ke secretly summoned Wei Kun and asked him to make every effort to strengthen intelligence work, strengthen the monitoring of officers at all levels, and in addition, increase efforts to attack the intelligence system of the imperial court. It is better to drive out the imperial forces in the two towns. It is necessary to be so seamless that people think that it is a Tatar revenge, and if it is not foolproof, it is better not to take action, and it is also necessary to select suitable people among the captured Tatars to serve as spies and spy on the Tatars.

However, Jia Ke's arrangement for Tang Kuo was to make every effort to investigate the Tatar tribes near the two towns of Xuanhua Kaiping, to find out how many people they had and where they migrated every year? Where are the nearby water sources? Prepare for Jia Ke's northward trip to the grassland next year.

Jia Ke has already made up his mind that if the Tatars do not come to monitor next year, then he must go north to the steppe and give the Tatars a powerful hand. Let them know that Kou can go to me, and I can go.

Jia Ke was busy in the next ten days, although he had arranged things, it didn't mean that he could be a hands-off shopkeeper. In the end, many things were decided by him, and the signing of many documents had to be completed by him personally, and he had to look everywhere every day, and when all these things were arranged, Feng Mo also took his men and horses to Xuanhua to take over the defense.

On the day Feng Mo left, Jia Ke specially took the time to take all the generals of Kaiping Town to see him off, and this time Feng Mo's departure represented a large-scale expansion of Jia Ke's power.

After Feng Mo went to Xuanhua Town, Huang Baifeng and Zheng Kai also started a large-scale military training in full swing, and the training of 30,000 people leveled the grassland outside Kaiping Town.

And the training of tens of thousands of Tatars also began at this time, but the Tatars did not directly conduct military training, but began a long period of brainwashing. Only after this step is completed can they be considered a qualified slave. The next step is to train while creating profits for Jia Ke.