When Li Jing was busy establishing the first capital market of the Ming Dynasty, a fleet of hundreds of ships slowly stopped at the Hankou wharf, Wang Gui stepped off the ship, and a group of Wang Gui's old subordinates hurriedly caught up.

"Marshal, you're here."

"Don't call it a big handsome, we only have a big handsome, call it Zongzhen" Wang Gui said with a straight face.

"Yes, yes, you always look at my cheap mouth, Lord Zongzhen, our soldiers in Kaohsiung Town have been recruited. A total of five regiments, a total of 7,500 people, and the town headquarters of a thousand people. 5,000 auxiliaries. ”

"Well, it's going well,"

"Smooth, such a good treatment, who doesn't want to go, and pay three months' military pay first. And all the soldiers had nine taels of silver. That is, the selection of the conscription office is relatively strict, not only to be in good health, but also to look at character and character, idleness, stealing chickens and dogs, molerating women, splashing skin, tigers, and unfilial parents. There must be a neighbor to protect the family, and it proves that it is a good family. A sentry said.

"Yes, Lord Zongzhen, this time many eligible soldiers are given priority to the selection of regular soldiers and headquarters soldiers, and the rest of the auxiliary soldiers, in this way, there are still tens of thousands of qualified soldiers, all clamoring to join the army, life in the mountains is too hard, the population has increased a lot over the years, and the materials in the mountains are not enough, and they can't support these little cubs. Originally, some young people were also going to be driven out to fend for themselves, but this recruitment not only solved the redundant population, but also brought additional income to the family. The villages almost didn't fight for the places. Another old ministry said.

At this time, a young officer in his twenties stepped forward and saluted, and said: "Report to the lord of the town, and the standard is strictly selected according to the rules set by the commander, and the whole army is fully manned." "This is the cyborg officer that Li Jing bought on the platform, Li Jingping, the director of the conscription department in charge of recruitment.

"Okay, I don't have to worry about what you do, the ones you choose must be good seedlings. Hahaha," Wang Gui laughed and patted him on the shoulder.

"Let's get on the boat when we're ready, let's go back to Kaohsiung as soon as possible, start cultivating land as soon as possible, and build dock forts, we have too few people, except for those sent back to recruit troops this time, there are more than 100 people left, where are we too chaotic, we can't suppress it, and we don't dare to go out of the camp at night." Pirates everywhere. This time, Lao Tzu's army of more than 10,000 arrived, and he immediately established the regime according to the instructions of the commander. “

At this time, Hongfu, the treasurer of the Li family in charge of the fleet, said: "Mr. Wang, since everyone is ready, let's get on the ship, but we can't leave immediately." And our brother troops will also come here to join us on the boat and go to Dayuan Island together. ”

"There are also brother troops, I don't know which one." Wang Gui said suspiciously, he knew that there was Keelung Town on the Keelung side. It is the same establishment as its own Kaohsiung Town.

"This brother unit is called Taichung Town, and it is stationed in the middle of the western plain of Dayuan Island, that is, between Keelung and Kaohsiung, and that place has been named Taichung. These soldiers were recruited earlier than you, and they are all mountain people from Phoenix City, Xiangxi, and they seem to be called Zhenxiao soldiers. ”

Wang Gui gasped, ordinary people don't know the inside story of the two lakes, he has Mao soldiers all the year round, of course he knows where these people come from, the most fierce mountain people in the Ming Dynasty are three points more fierce than the wolf soldiers in Guangxi. The marshal recruits troops and horses quietly, and they are all this kind of fierce mountain people that few people know, and they must be plotting greatly, and they are even more determined to follow the marshal to make contributions.

Kaohsiung's recruit, Dan/Zi, had been in Hankou for about ten days, and while waiting for the ship, he was staying in a makeshift camp outside Hankow. In Hankou, there was a caravan formed by Li Jing's manpower, which has now expanded to about 5,000 people in Hubei. The cities where the two lakes can be transported by water will open a branch of Wumart, and where the water transportation is inconvenient, they rely on a gang of twenty or thirty people to bring the goods to various cities and villages for sale.

The local caravan headquarters in Hankou was responsible for receiving these new recruits who were arriving one after another, leveling a camp for them in advance, setting up tents, and when the recruits arrived at the camp, the cyborg officers immediately began simple drills, mainly queues and housekeeping. After these days of training, I finally have the appearance of a soldier, and my spirit has come out.

In addition, eat well, Nanyang rice tube is full, the two lakes area is rich in vegetables and vegetables, in addition, every day dinner will kill ten pigs, make braised pork, according to the day's training performance evaluation, with the whistle as a unit, with the newly issued thin steel lunch box lined up to eat, the evaluation in front of the first rice, in the back of the row may not necessarily have meat to eat.

As a result, the greedy eyes of these young men who haven't seen meat all year round glow with a wolf-like green light, and they can't wait to practice with their lives. The Military Training Department adheres to Li Jing's "three from one major" policy and trains them to the death. You can't be reborn as a qualified soldier without shedding a layer of skin in the boot camp. Difficulty, seriousness, strictness, and a large amount of exercise are the general principles.

Three days later, a large number of ships entered the Yangtze River from the Xiangjiang River, and after merging with the Hankou fleet, a fleet of nearly 300 ships went down the river and went straight to the Ma'anshan wharf near Jinling, where the sea boats had been waiting for their positions, and after changing ships, they set sail from Ma'anshan to the mouth of the Yangtze River.

Ma Xiaoming looked at the rough sea outside the ship and shivered. The waves were six or seven feet high, and he was a landlubber in the mountains, and he couldn't swim at all, and these hairy soldiers were like this, and they were all seeing the sea for the first time. According to the regulations, the soldiers on the ship went to the deck in batches to breathe, go to the toilet, wash and eat. When it was their turn to take to the deck this morning, they were all stunned, though they felt the shaking in the boat. But when I came out, I saw that I was already on the vast sea, surrounded by monstrous waves.

"Brother, you said you wouldn't capsize, why do I feel so scared?"

"Shut your crow's mouth, let the boat boss hear, and throw you into the sea to feed the fish." His eldest brother glared at him, when he got on the boat, the sailors took care of him, don't talk nonsense about the taboos on the boat, you can't turn over when you eat fish, you can only take the fish bones away and continue to eat the next side.

Since getting on the ship, the food has changed, every day is a steamed bun sandwiched with braised sea fish, a day a person gives a very small orange, sour can lose teeth. They must all be eaten, or soaked in water to drink, and the sentry chief checked them one by one, saying that if they don't eat, they will get sick. These recruits prayed silently in their cabins during the violent shaking of the ship that they would never capsize.

Three days later, in the morning, Ma Xiaoshan took Ma Xiaoming and stood on the bow of the boat to breathe and watch the scenery, and he was no longer very afraid. Suddenly, a large flock of seabirds flew in the distance. The sailors were excited to say that Keelung Port was coming.

In the distance, there is a single-story gun bay with a flat deck, cruising and patrolling, looking at the slender hull, the bow of the ship is moving forward in a scissor-shaped wave, looking fast. This is the first time that Chen Zhong has participated in the design of a small flying clipper port cruiser.

In addition to seeing the Yangtze River and river boats for the first time, the two brothers also saw the sea and sea ships for the first time. It was the first time I saw the warship of the naval division. This kind of gunboat with mixed sails. On the broadside there were six twelve-pounder cast steel cannons. Due to the small size of the ship and the narrow hull, in order to ensure combat effectiveness, a small number of relatively heavy steel cannons were installed. All six guns were arranged longitudinally in the center line of the gun compartment, mounted on a rotating device with bearings, and in peacetime the muzzle was facing the bow of the ship, which could be rotated left and right during battle, and the gun windows on both sides could be fired

Half an hour later, this fleet of hundreds of rushing boats docked in Keelung. Supplies were sent from the shore, and at the same time new orders were received. After the town headquarters and town soldiers of Taichung Town and Kaohsiung Town were replenished, they went directly to Taichung and Kaohsiung to go ashore. The 10,000 auxiliary soldiers of the two towns disembarked at Keelung and were responsible for building the official road from Keelung to Taichung and then to Kaohsiung.