"Upper, middle and lower three villages in Qizhou, there are more than 3,400 soldiers in the camp of the box, more than 500 people in the first battalion of the upper village, more than 1,000 people in the two battalions of the middle village, and the number of the three battalions in the lower village, less than 2,000 people, of which the cavalry is less than the number of one capital, which is used as a horse, a horse, and a message between the villages. Qizhou place is not big, is a big island near the mouth of the river, more than 30 miles from north to south, more than 60 miles from east to west, there are more than 17,000 people at the mouth, more than 4,000 Ding, because there is less flat land on the island, there are many mountains, more than half of the places from east to west to north are surrounded by mountains, there are only more than 60,000 acres of cultivated land on the island, most of them are mainly vegetable fields, Qizhou islanders, most of them make a living from fishing, less than half of the vegetables are sold in Fucheng, the islanders are not rich, and they are not poor, if there is no Qishan bandits, the islanders can go to the mountains to open up wasteland and farm, hunt animals and hunt, and sell vegetables without having to take a detour. I'm afraid it's going to be much better...... These are matters of people's livelihood, and it is up to Lu Zhizhou to worry about them. What I have to worry about is the more than 3,000 troops and how to exterminate Chen Yutai. According to the Great Wei military system, each soldier of the Xiang army has an iron helmet, a hand, two pairs of armor per army, eight archers per team, a longbow with a foot bow, two strings, three arrows, and a set of double inserts. In this way, there are eleven iron helmets, eight bows, three long swords, eight obstacles, iron armor for the officers, and leather armor or iron cloth inlaid with cloth for each team. As far as I know, the Qizhou Xiang Army, each team only has a helmet, cloth armor or not, each post only has one or two pairs of iron armor or leather armor, each armor is less than ten, the rest of the bow and arrow, strings, horns, lacquer, feathers and other things, are all short of most of the amount. Each battalion should have a sentry divine arm bow, ten crossbows, and a bed crossbow according to the situation, and the Qishan garrison should not say a bed crossbow, and the divine arm bow is also not ......"

Xu Zixian's mouth was dry, Lin Douyao was shocked, and he was really jealous of the young man of the clan in front of him.

First of all, in a few words, he talked about the number of troops stationed in Qizhou, and then pointed out the civil affairs of Qizhou that Chen Yutai suffered, and then talked about the military system of the dynasty, the coordination of armaments, and the current situation of Qizhou.

"Nan'an Hou invites tea ......" Lin Douyao didn't speak for a while, but asked his subordinates to serve tea.

Xu Zi took a sip first, put it aside, and said to Lin Douyao Zhengse: "Cutting Qi Mountain Bandits, the water camp is not prepared, no, the soldiers and horses are not trained, no, the equipment is not fine, and it is not allowed." This thief is not comparable to the rabble of the river beach war. ”

"Nan Anhou is so well prepared, what else can I say?" Lin Douyao frowned and said, "It's just that it's unsustainable in Changping's arsenal......"

"Forget it," Lin Douyao continued: "It's no point to complain, this thief has been entrenched in Qizhou for many years, threatening the port and ships at sea, the people of Qizhou think it is bitter, and the gentry of the people of Fuzhou and Zhangzhou on the other side hate it even more. To make up for the lack of ordnance in the Qizhou Xiang Army, it is a trivial matter to allocate eight oxen crossbows, I am only worried about one point, after Pu Xingfeng and other thieves heard about it, what should I do? ”

"Wang Zhi has already made an envoy for my Great Wei Festival, and Kang Tianqi has mastered trade in the Wa Kingdom, and he is reluctant to raise swords and soldiers when he is idle. Pu Xingfeng, Yan Qi, and Liu Dan are fighting against the Taixi countries in the Nanyang and Mughal Seas, and at the same time support the Manchurian and Manchu annexation of the Srivijaya and Lanfang countries, and their strength is used there, how many people can reach my Great Wei? In a few years, I'm afraid that if they don't come to me, I'll go to them! ”

Such bold words, ordinary people will be fierce when they hear it, but Lin Douyao was expressionless, thought for a while, and said: "Can you order the Jing Navy to send some ships, officers and soldiers of the naval division, to the Penghu area to assist in defense for a period of time?" ”

"If you want to calm people's hearts, it should be after the destruction of Qishan robbers." Xu Zixian said: "Before this, General Wang will not come. ”

"I understand."

Before and after Wang Zhi's caressing, the thieves restrained Chen Yutai and other thieves from being troubled, and everyone had a tacit understanding, of course, it was also related to Pu Xingfeng being involved in the Nanyang area.

This matter was successfully completed, and Wang Zhiruo sent troops to Fujian, and there was a suspicion of turning his face into an enemy and falling into a stone, and this old fox would definitely not agree.

If Chen Yutai is exterminated, then the previous involvement will be over, and Wang Zhi will be able to send some soldiers and horses over, which is estimated to be symbolic, and he will not really contribute.

"If that's the case, this official will pass on the good news."

"I will not disappoint the marshal."

After talking about the matter, Xu Zixian and Lin Douyao had no selfless friendship to talk about, and they each hugged their fists and saluted at the moment, which was the end of the meeting.

One of Lin Douyao's staff members came out and said with a worried face: "My lord, this person has come to ask for many benefits, but I'm afraid he still won't contribute." ”

"What am I anxious about?" Lin Douyao laughed at himself and said: "Originally, I didn't have much hope, if there is a battle Jie Fei, it will be a surprise for this official, and if not, he will not suffer any loss...... Xu Zixian was weaker than King Zhao, and the official helped him, and then he lay in the mansion and waited to see the excitement. ”

If the staff has any gains, Lin Douyao's arrangement is probably also related to the situation of the Beijing Division.

Han Zhong in the Jingshi has completed the cleaning of Liu Zhiyuan's old department, and he can be regarded as taking the initiative for the time being.

Next, Han Zhong may not think about just waiting for the abdication so honestly, the Son of Heaven has already ordered people from all walks of life to enter Beijing to serve, Chen Dujing's Hanlin Bachelor Zhizhi is one of them, Han Zhong of course knows the plan of the Son of Heaven, which is nothing more than to support another Liu Zhiyuan to come out.

Han Zhong is not a person who sits still and waits to die, but he wants to maintain the current situation, and it is obviously impossible to confront the Son of Heaven head-on, and even the Northern Expedition must be carried out according to the order of the Son of Heaven.

King Zhao still stared at Xu Zixian and didn't let go, who would have expected the praying mantis to catch cicadas and the yellow finch behind?

The staff felt a chill, these big men in the political arena really moved their whole bodies, the previous enemies became allies in a blink of an eye, and the former allies became enemies in a blink of an eye, what kind of people can be like fish in water in such a situation?

……

On the sixth day of the first month of March, after Li Yi and others checked the yellow calendar, Xu Zixian took Chen Zuocai, Chen Daojian and more than a dozen other officials from Nan'an to Qizhou to take office.

Here in Qizhou, Xu Zixian could not appoint an official position on his own, he could only punish, suggest resignation or arrest, and the new official position still needs the consent of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion and the pacification envoy before he can take office.

This is different from the regimental training, the civil and military official positions of the regimental training can be promoted as long as Xu Zixian is promoted, and the military state official position, even if it is from the master of the village supervisor of the nine products, Xu Zixian has no right to appoint, above the seven products, the pacification envoy and the metropolitan governor's office also have no right to appoint, and they need to report to the two governments of the Beijing Division, which is decided by the political hall and the Privy Council.

With these people, it is just to ask them to increase their experience, and at the same time, Xu Zixian cannot be without one around him.

The identity of everyone, in addition to retaining the official position of regimental training, even if Xu Zixian's side praises the painting staff, the salary can be spent from the minister's money of the defense envoy, in fact, the minister's money of many military state chiefs is partly the envoy fee for hiring and hiring staff.

If an official spends all of his money on repairing the official office, eating, drinking, and feasting, it is easy to be impeached, and if it is all taken back to a private house, it is quite a taboo, and it is even easy to be reprimanded and dismissed.

When Xu Zixian was strolling in the mansion of the defense envoy, when he looked at everything he knew in his memory, what suddenly popped into his mind was the past when Xu Yingbin privately took the minister's money and kept it for his little sister as a dowry.

"Do you see this pillar?" Xu Zixian pointed to a pillar of the second hall, most of the red paint has fallen off, and there are obvious traces of knife slashing, Xu Zixian smiled and said: "I was more than ten years old at the time, and lived here with the first gentleman, the little sister was younger at the time, and the first gentleman doted on her more. ”

On the side, Wu Weisan nodded and said: "The prince cut down a grape in the back garden back then, and the old marquis punished the monarch for standing there, but he asked me to supervise the timing at that time." ”

"It was many years ago." Xu Zixian squinted at everything in front of him, Qizhou had two defense envoys after Xu Yingbin, both of whom were conservative and unenterprising, of course, Xu Yingbin's experience also gave them a lot of vigilance, Xu Yingbin was a clan jinshi, and after serving as a defense envoy, he was strongly supported by the king of Qi, although he still commanded the box army, but there was also a battalion of forbidden troops, and the transferred box army was also a variety of elites, even so it ended in a fiasco, and the career was frustrated, and the successor defense envoys were of course unwilling to do much, and it would be good to be able to keep the current situation.

There was a faint murderous intent in Xu Zixian's eyes, now he is not Wuxia Ameng back then, he has experienced so much, he has seen a lot, he has heard a lot, how can Xu Yingbin's things back then be as simple as it seems, it should have been designed by someone, the unstable morale of the front army led to a mutiny, there was a problem with the logistics in the rear, and the supply was suddenly cut off, and the soldiers lurked in the mountains for many days, and the food style slept in the open, plus some people instigated, many mutinies, when Chen Yutai led people to raid, the army suddenly collapsed......

All indications are that someone secretly did something that led to the fiasco.

An official came in and reported: "Lu Zhizhou is invited to a banquet in the state government, does the prince want to go to the banquet?" ”

Xu Zixian said: "The commanders, deputy commanders, battalion commanders, deputy commanders, village supervisors, and supervisors have all arrived?" ”

"Except for the two commanders of Zhongzhai and Xiazhai, the rest of the people have arrived."

Xu Zixian shook his head and smiled, sure enough, Li Xingwu and Dong Ruixiang did not arrive, obviously because the two of them were proud of their old qualifications and did not want to show up at such a welcome banquet.

The old soldiers in the Xiang army are generally like this, thinking that they are old, and they look down on the newly appointed chief officials, especially young clans like Xu Zixian, it is normal for them to be despised and excluded.

King Qi must have explained, but the two commanders had not dealt with Xu Zixian before, and King Qi intended to order Xu Zixian to subdue these two people by himself, so he must not explain too much, and it is quite normal for the two to have this posture.