Many Penghu gentry are suspicious, and today's Penghu is like a child with gold, without military protection, and it is dangerous.

It was not until the Nan'an Regiment trained two battalions of soldiers that this doubt was dispelled.

On 17 April, Ge Cunzhong and Ge Cunyi led two battalions of the Nan'an Regiment to Penghu.

The soldiers suffered from seasickness, and at the beginning of disembarkation, many people still vomited on the shore.

Many Penghu people had smiles on their faces, looking at these people from the other side of the sea.

Fujian people do not necessarily have all taken a boat, even if they take a boat, most of them are small boats that cross rivers, and there are many people who go to the sea, but there are tens of millions of people all the way, and those who have not been to the sea have not been on the sea, and those who have taken the sea boat are the majority.

In the drizzle, the soldiers gradually cheered up to the sound of drums and trumpets, and then lined up, counted the numbers, and began to straighten the queue.

In the eyes of many Penghu people, including the officers and soldiers of the Nanyang Naval Division, this is a strange scene.

There are not too many armors for military soldiers, and only those who are above the rank of captain can get a leather armor or chain mail, and the deputy leaders have a piece of iron armor.

After all, there are more and more people, and the gap in armor is getting bigger and bigger.

The weapons are good.

During the attack on Qizhou, Lin Douyao, at Xu Zixian's request, allocated a large number of swords, shields, bows and arrows from the arsenal of the pacification envoy, including a small number of divine arm bows.

In the first battle of Qizhou Port, Li Xingwu and Dong Ruixiang's subordinates held the forbidden army bows and arrows from the arsenal and the divine arm bows and fired back, effectively suppressing the pirates' archers, otherwise the losses of the Nan'an regimental training in that battle would have been even greater.

The Nan'an regimental drills quickly lined up an array, one column for every five people, one battalion lined up more than 100 columns, and two battalions lined up into two fairly neat square columns.

With the sound of drums, the banners of the two battalions of the Chinese army were tilted forward, and all the soldiers either pressed the swords, held their shields, or held high their swords, and the neatly arranged ranks began to move forward steadily.

Neatish, solemn, and an invisible aura permeated.

No one laughed, no one spoke, and no one looked left and right, and the Ge family brothers and other military attachés also walked in the queue with their knives, their gait was unusually calm and neat.

This is a silent army, although it is nominally a regimental exercise, but for the Penghu people who are accustomed to seeing loose, lax, and no military manners, the regimental training of more than 1,000 people in front of them gives them the feeling that it is an elite and strong army composed of a group of fierce tigers, which is a real army, full of murderous spirit and strict orders.

"I don't see such a strong army today."

An old gentleman's eyes were scattered, his expression was extremely shocked, and he muttered: "Wenzong, no, the forbidden army during the Wuzong period is only rare to see the shadow of this regimental training in front of him, Nan'anhou, it's really amazing." ”

"The ability to train soldiers is far from the ancients, and the people of today are even more out of reach." Wei Yi was also observing the garrison that was about to enter Penghu County at the head of the city, and with the garrison of these two battalions coming in, the hearts of the people in Penghu would be settled.

Although there are only more than 1,000 people, but the usefulness of elite soldiers is beyond the reach of ordinary people, with the army of more than 1,000 people stationed, plus the mobilization of the people, even if there are more than 10,000 pirates to attack now, Wei Yi is confident that Penghu County will be safe and sound, and will not fall.

As a magistrate, the peace of mind is the first, although he trusts his friends, he has also seen the Nan'an regimental training, and knows the great exploits of the regimental training, but only when such a strong army really appears in front of him, Wei Yi really put his mind at ease.

More Penghu people looked at Nan'an Tuanlian with strange and complicated eyes, especially the women.

The average height of the army in front of us is a little taller than that of ordinary people, and most of them are men in the prime of life between the ages of eighteen and thirty. They are tall and well-proportioned, with no excess fat, and their gestures are uniform, which makes people feel pleasing to the eye, and has an overall beauty that makes people break their hearts.

When thousands of similar men gather together, the impact on people is quite strong.

More than 1,000 robes are brand-new, the design is excellent, and when the warriors who give people a capable, neat, and brave feeling appear in Penghu County, how strong the impact is on the Penghu people, you can imagine.

Chen Zuocai and others posted a notice to recruit the Penghu Xiang Army in a timely manner.

Penghu recruitment, of course, can no longer use the name of Nan'an regimental training, directly use the name of the Nan'an Hou Mansion soldiers.

The notice said that since it is a soldier of the Hou Mansion, on top of the treatment given by the imperial court, you can also enjoy everything that the Nan'an regiment has to do.

Food, additional rewards and rewards, and monthly salary are also two yuan of money paid in full, which is not much improved on the surface, but with the complete set of welfare subsidies and treatment of Nan'an Tuanlian, it is higher than the treatment of the imperial court.

Xu Zixian's water battalion soldiers, including the sailors on the battleship Fu ship, have a very high income, in comparison, ordinary infantry soldiers still receive two times of monthly money, in fact, this income is not low, after all, compared to farming, two times a month is a net income, planting ten acres of land, a year's net income is at most six dollars, and the annual income of each soldier can be regarded as the net income of planting dozens of acres of land.

The monthly money of the Xiang army is also two, of course, this is nominal, there will always be deductions, delays, or have to take out to bribe the boss, and the food of the Xiang army is extremely poor, and there are many affairs, where there are major projects, rejuvenating the army, suppressing bandits, arming, catching thieves, fire prevention, fire extinguishing, these jobs are all done by the Xiang army, so all the Xiang troops that Xu Zi saw first are weak and dead.

And even with such a meager income, the van army can barely support their families...... This is also the will of the Great Wei Dynasty, the minimum degree of pay, to win the stability of the place, to avoid trouble.

Everywhere the list went, there was a sensation everywhere.

Penghu is too small to accommodate the current population, and now is not the period of industrialization, it is easy for a large factory to accommodate hundreds of thousands of people, Penghu is not as good as the current Jiangnan, and the weaving factory in Jiangnan has thousands of people working at the same time, but Penghu does not have this condition.

The oil mill that Xu Zixian planned to set up was also in the Eastern Domain, and the Eastern Domain needed it more.

The middle-aged men in Penghu, Xu Zixian's plan is to absorb part of the army into the government, so that he can support them and his family, recruit two thousand people in four battalions, and feed 10,000 people to live a good life.

A large amount of money enters the barracks, and then flows out into the people, there will be a large number of shops to meet the needs of the soldiers, and the place is rich, and in turn, Xu Zixian can also obtain huge profits, which is a virtuous circle.

There are already many middle-aged men holding their arms and standing under the notice to watch, Dawei's literacy rate is okay, many people can recognize words, even if they can't recognize them completely, they can explain to each other, and they can almost understand the meaning.

"A soldier under the command of the Marquis of Nan'an?"

"Our government army is the same as the Nan'an regimental training? That's kind of interesting. ”

"The food in Nan'an is really good, I have relatives in Nan'an, and I have said it a long time ago."

"There is also a nursing home to help support the lonely and widowed elderly, I want to be a soldier, and the old lady will have a place to live."

"It's really fake, aren't these nobles bragging?"

"Nan Anhou hasn't deceived anyone, didn't you watch his group training just now, if it weren't for the good treatment, these men could be so fierce? Three more points more than the forbidden army. ”

When it comes to comparing with the forbidden army, the people in Penghu all nod their heads and say yes, it is true, the treatment of the forbidden army is good, and the benefits are also good, far above the box army, and the treatment of the two is very different.

Fujian has dozens of van armies equal to the forbidden army camps, but the forbidden army only has five armies, and even so, the forbidden army consumes more than ten times more money and food than their van army.

The arrogant posture of the forbidden army is very obvious, and most of them are outsiders, mainly northerners, and only a few local people in Fujian have been recruited into the forbidden army, so it is naturally difficult to get close.

And the army in front of him is not only not as strong as the forbidden army, but even faintly above the forbidden army, after all, even the current forbidden army can't do such a strict queue, and the high-standard golden drum banner command, but the forbidden army is slightly better in equipment, and many Penghu people have now used a very positive tone, thinking that the forbidden army is not the opponent of Nan'an regimental training.

Now Nan Anhou is recruiting government troops in Penghu, and the amount is four battalions, which has already made many men tempted.

However, there is a clear statement under the text list that half of the four battalions of soldiers recruited now will be transferred to the Eastern Domain after passing the three-month recruit training.

This makes many people hesitate, Penghu is not very good, but I heard that the Eastern Domain is even worse?

Chen Zuocai and others began to vigorously publicize the development plan of the Eastern Domain, and began to post the list of immigrants to the Eastern Domain.

There are still 4,000 official households in the Hou Mansion, and this time Xu Zi first planned to focus on Penghu, supplemented by Fuzhou and other towns.

After all, many people have been taken away in the Nan'an area, and the local surplus labor force is not much, and the large-scale removal of households, soldiers and related family members will seriously affect the development of the Nan'an area.

As for recruiting elsewhere, Xu Zixian didn't want to make too much noise for the time being.

After all, in the eyes of the imperial court, the Eastern Domain is still a barren land, and Penghu is also very poor and lonely, which is the reason why the imperial court has always given Xu Zixian an official household in the Eastern Domain.

If he knew that Xu Zi had such a fanfare development plan, I am afraid that the two mansions and the Son of Heaven would be uneasy in their hearts.

The Eastern Domain has not been successfully developed for more than 200 years, but what is Xu Zixian like? How many impossible things has this Nan Anhou done so far?

Once the court has doubts, then what credit Xu Zi will make in the next step, and the ghost knows what kind of disturbance the court will make.

If the next official household is sent to Tingzhou, or Shao Wujun and Xinghua Army are in a remote place, Xu Zixian's loss will be too great.

It doesn't matter to ordinary princes, as long as the increase in official households means an increase in income, this is enough.

For Xu Zixian, the 10,000 official households of the Eastern Domain were an unexpected joy, a kind of legal and practical separation, and this was enough.

Because of this, he was able to show his strength on the Eastern Domain, including a series of Eastern Domain Observers, and was in charge of Fujian Ma Zheng and other official positions.

This is called unintentional willow insertion, willow shady.

Under the commotion of the Penghu people, the Ge brothers took their subordinates quite coquettishly and walked into the temporary military camp prepared by Wei Yi for them.

After these two battalions, two battalions of sailors will be transported over to operate and familiarize themselves with the thirteen warships of the Nanyang Navy.

Coupled with the original seven Fujian and water ships, the Dragon Spirit ship, and the eleven warships of the Qishan pirates, plus the thirteen naval division warships, the Nan'an regiment Lianshui Battalion has a total of thirty-one ships and warships, which is already quite a good strength.

If all 31 ships are full, 3,100 sailors and battalions will definitely not be enough, and large warships, warships with a displacement of 400 tonnage, will need at least 200 people, including sailors, ballista crews, and all members of the battle crew.

A medium-tonnage, a warship of about two hundred and fifty tons, one hundred and fifty people is needed.

Small warships and dragon spirit ships also require twenty sailors and twenty ballista crew members plus thirty soldiers to be fully functional.

As for the large and small sentry ships, more than 200, which are only used for communication, inshore guards, and patrols, Xu Zixian's plan is to set up a nearshore patrol battalion, and most of these small boats are used to patrol the Minjiang River and the Eastern Domain, and the coastal waters of Penghu, not counting the establishment of the Eastern Domain and the Penghu Naval Division.

The expansion of the Sailor Battalion can only be postponed until next year, when the financial pressure eases after the development and feedback of the Eastern Domain.

At that time, more than ten large warships ordered by Xu Zixian will be in place one after another, and it is estimated that the posts of the naval division will be vacant within two years.