Qin Dongyang said: "If this is the case, the army will be expanded to more than 20,000 people next year, seven or eight armies, and when the time comes, the giant thieves will come again, and there will be no worries." ”

Fang Shaoqun suddenly laughed a few times, first chuckling, and then laughing.

Everyone was a little displeased, a long time has passed, everyone has accepted this first-class think tank of former governors, Fang Shaoqun is also quite remarkable, and he is very good at giving advice and advice in Nan'an Hou Mansion, and most of the current development is due to the credit of this think tank.

But at this time, the atmosphere was tense and depressing, and Fang Shaoqun suddenly laughed like this, which made everyone a little unhappy.

Xu Zixian smiled and looked at Fang Shaoqun, of course he wouldn't ask "Why is Mr. laughing", this is a stalk of the Three Kingdoms, and it is not suitable for use now.

Xu Zixian will not be angry, he has to tolerate his shortcomings with one person, these people in front of him, Chen Zuocai is not there, he is old and steady, Li Yi has the overall meticulousness of the prime minister, and he is also elegant. Kong He's seriousness and calculation, and Fu Qian's all-round talent, are quite important. But you also have to endure Li Yi's old qualifications, as well as Kong He's stinky temper and confrontation, Fu Qian's calculations are all in it, no one is perfect, no one is perfect, no gold is enough, take Qin Dongyang as an example, among the many military attachés, he is the latest one to move his family.

It's not that Qin Dongyang doesn't trust the Nan'an Hou Mansion, Xu Zixian understands that Qin Dongyang visited friends everywhere to practice martial arts, owed a lot of debts, and his family was not much implicated, and now the situation has just improved, and his family lives quite comfortably in Fuzhou.

Later, the development momentum of the Eastern Domain was good, and Qin Dongyang moved his family to live in his mansion near the courtyard.

It was in this way that Xu Zi consolidated the loyalty of his subordinates step by step, which was not easy, of course, including tolerating Fang Shaoqun's crazy temper.

Fang Shaoqun lived in a house outside the courtyard, a fine house, a small courtyard, two servants, and even a maid and servant were useless.

Yu Lu or something was also left at will, there was no place for him to use money in the Eastern Domain, and Fang Shaoqun was not interested in these things.

There are many people who want to be a matchmaker for Mr. Fang, after all, although Fang Shaoqun came late, his role in the Eastern Domain's Nananhou Mansion is obvious to all, and everyone also knows that Fang Shaoqun is deeply relied on by the monarch and marquis.

But Fang Shaoqun is not sensitive to this kind of thing, and he seems to have the noble feelings of the Huns who have not been destroyed.

In fact, Xu Zixian knew in his heart that Fang Shaoqun, a scholar who was extremely smart and had a crazy spirit, unless he could meet a very smart woman, Fang Shaoqun would not be interested in marrying a wife just for the sake of passing on the ancestry.

Fang Shaoqun looked at everyone calmly, not minding the angry eyes of everyone present, and after laughing for a while with his own temperament, he said to Li Yi and the others: "I know that the prince has just seen the fields, do you know how many days there is still to harvest?" ”

Li Yi's heart jumped suddenly, and when she looked at Kong He, Fu Qian and the others, their faces also changed.

Fang Shaoqun sneered: "Yes, there are still ten days to harvest, and that time is also when the pirates are about to arrive." May I ask you, if we lead the army to avoid and fight the enemy in guerrilla warfare, then it will be difficult for these hundreds of thousands of acres of cotton fields and tens of thousands of enemies to harvest or burn them all? There are also hundreds of thousands of acres of bean fields, sorghum, sweet potatoes, many vegetable fields, raised livestock, 200,000 war horses worth 200,000 yuan in pastures, as well as thousands of miscellaneous horses and mules, donkeys, and more than 1,000 cattle, as well as more than 10,000 mansions, as well as the courtyard in front of us, as well as the salt works that have been built, as well as our wharves, ship yards, various kilns, textile factories, and oil mills, we have spent more than 2 million yuan. With the marriage of the prince and the previous prestige, it attracted tens of thousands of immigrants. At present, the salt works on the island employ more than 3,000 people, and the mines and coal mines are being explored...... If, at this time, our cotton fields, our mansions, our ports, our shipyards, and our factories are all destroyed, and you do not dare to defend our harbors and fight the enemy, what can you do when they destroy their fields and houses and destroy everything? ”

Fang Shaoqun stood up and said to Zhang Huchen: "When Brother Zhang rushed into the Great Counselor's Mansion with the prince and marquis to kill people, I felt that Brother Zhang was still a man, how did he become like this?" ”

Zhang Huchen's face turned red, the scars on his face seemed to be squirming like living creatures, and the murderous aura appeared on his face, but Fang Shaoqun had no fear and stood calmly in front of Zhang Huchen.

After a while, Zhang Huchen lowered his head, and then raised his head and said: "I didn't think about it well, and now my opinion is that I need to fight with the enemy in a righteous and upright battle, and drive the enemy into the sea in a battle." ”

"That's what I mean." Qin Dongyang got up and hit the table, and said in a deep voice: "You must not let a pirate go over." ”

Ge Cunzhong, Ge Cunyi, Jin Baoyi, Liu Yi and others also stood up and hugged their fists, and they all said: "The only way to do this now is to face the enemy head-on." ”

Everyone present and their families were on the island, and they woke up after being reminded.

The ideas and proposals of the right talents are all timid and faint words for a while.

Xu Zixian did not express his position at the first time, but let Fang Shaoqun stimulate everyone, and he didn't want the generals to be embarrassed.

In fact, Xu Zi first understood a little, and did not blame everyone too much.

In the battle of Jiangtan, although there were fewer strikes and more attacks, they detected the enemy situation in advance and knew that most of them were hired scoundrels, and such people had no combat power at all.

Attacking Chen Yutai was also a sneak attack over the mountains and mountains, which was unexpected, not a dignified formation, and did not fight.

At first glance, when tens of thousands of pirates attacked, the first thing that came to the general's mind was a surprise plan.

Suddenly, as in the battle of the river beach, the cavalry was suddenly attacked on the enemy's flank.

Defeat the enemy half-crossing.

Guerrilla harassment and fighting.

Everyone didn't expect that everything now, the foundation, the mansion, the family, the people, the factory, the port, the acres, all of this has taken more than half a year, more than two million yuan, and the credibility of the Hou Mansion has been overdrawn to the point where it is now. Now, if we avoid fighting and the guerrillas consume the pirates' logistical reserves, we can certainly use the method of clearing the wilderness with the least number of troops to make the pirates retreat, but if we hand over all the inheritance of the Eastern Domain, and wait for the pirates to retreat, you can imagine what will happen.

The countryside was destroyed, leaving only ruins.

No one wants to see such a scene, even if it's just imagining, it's heart-wrenching.

"Then settle down." Xu Zixian said: "We must preach our decision to the military attaché above the sentry officer, and tell them: take a step back, and everything will be destroyed." Acres, mansions, our hundred households, our cotton fields, our water conservancy and textile mills, salt farms, our future, everything we have, will be destroyed by man. Pirates are inhumane, they destroy everything, kill everyone they see, men, women, young and old. This is the most vicious enemy of our Eastern Domain, the most vicious enemy of the Nan'an Hou Mansion, and the most vicious enemy of all people. All soldiers must have the consciousness of sacrifice, but they must also have the courage to face the enemy head-on and the confidence to defeat the enemy. The enemy is not very strong, more than twice as many as us, but they are frankly a rabble, they have never carried out, and cannot carry out battle formation training of more than 10,000 people, and most of them are not our Great Wei people, on the contrary, they owe a lot of blood debts to the people of Zhangzhou and the coast of our Great Wei, kill them all, kill them on the beach, kill them on the edge of the official road, kill them on the edge of the fields, kill them outside the villages, and don't give them any chance to destroy our homeland......"

In the ears of the cavalry battalion, the First Army, the Second Army, and the sailors of Penghu, and the ears of all the officers and soldiers of the Nan'an Army, Xu Zixian's voice was proclaimed.

The soldiers looked solemn, holding their swords and standing solemnly, in every barracks, every hundred households, and every factory, Xu Zixian's voice was preached by the officials and officers.

"The duty of a soldier is to protect his homeland, the factory workers work hard, the peasants sweat like rain in the fields, and the expenses for raising soldiers are all drawn from the industrial and commercial trade and the work in the fields. The salaries of the soldiers will be increased after the next month, and each foot soldier will receive three monthly salaries, and at the end of the year, an additional monthly salary will be paid. Each sailor will have four monthly salaries and annual rewards, and each cavalry battalion soldier is equal to the water battalion soldiers, archers, crossbowmen, all according to the cavalry battalion and the water battalion receive monthly salaries and annual rewards. In order to reward the sweat of the soldiers and inspire the soldiers' sense of responsibility to protect their homeland, they were announced in advance to all the soldiers of the government. Our Nan'an Hou Mansion is about to usher in a severe test, Yan Qi and Li Dan, these are extremely vicious pirates, who have killed countless people, and owe a lot of blood debts in Zhangzhou, I don't know how many good people in my Great Wei were killed and mutilated by them and their subordinates. They kill the elderly, women, and children, if our Nan'an army cannot break it and defeat it, then the tragedy of Zhangzhou will be repeated in the Eastern Domain, and not only in the Eastern Domain, today they can invade our Eastern Domain, and next year they can go to Zhangzhou, Quanzhou, or Fuzhou, the coastal land of my Fujian Road, there will be no peace, whether it is today, but also your family, wives and children, parents, brothers, sisters will be threatened, your neighbors, clan relatives, your friends, may die under the fierce pirate knife. You will not see such a scene, the villages are burned, the towns and villages are destroyed, the wealth is plundered, and the hard-earned income of our Wei people is easily taken away. We Wei people don't like to invade, not to kill, and not to rob, but we must not give up martial virtues, hold on to thieves, keep fit, strengthen our minds, and treat them very well. If everyone is afraid of death, then everyone will die. For the sake of the present and for the sake of future generations, I ask that the soldiers hold their swords and wait for the day to enter the highest level of readiness. And all the people of the Eastern Domain, they must be armed, organized, and ready to meet the chai wolf from the sea, and if the husband does not meet him with a fight, he will die. If the husband fights and wins with a mortal heart, he will live. Gentlemen, reluctantly! ”

Where the announcement was made, there were young men with hot blood pouring everywhere.

Regardless of whether it is a soldier or an ordinary citizen, and even the saltworks workers who have just arrived in the Eastern Domain, they all have the blood to fight with the enemy.

Every person on the Fujian Road cannot escape the shadow of pirates, the residents near the shore, the merchants who run to the sea, the sailors, and the fishermen who fish in the near sea, even the mountain people who live in Shao Wujun, are very likely to have relatives and friends who have been killed by pirates.

Xu Zixian's words resonated strongly, and people's emotions were sublimated in this long proclamation, which had never been so straightforward and emotionally strong before, and people felt the sincere emotions and strong will in it, and were moved by it. People also felt the threat of pirates to themselves, their relatives and friends, and to the cause of the Eastern Domain.

Those endless cotton fields, bean fields, and salt fields that created miracles were not created by Nan Anhou alone, but also by everyone's hard work and sweat.

Anyone, including ordinary officials in every hundred households, shuddered and burned with anger at the thought that everything they had and everything they had now would be destroyed.

On the second day of the proclamation, all the 100 households and factories began to organize.