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For Lin Dingyi, Zhang Mingliang and others, most of the current flattery is still from the heart.

The prince in front of him, except for training soldiers, hardly goes out of the Houfu Annex, but he is a bright and decisive person who deals with many matters such as convective civilian labor, building docks, and distributing single-pedal machines.

Now the wharf is almost finished, and more than 1,000 houses in the storage area are under construction.

Once it is successfully built, the town of Nan'an is more important than several nearby county seats, after all, it is an important place to communicate with several state armies, and it can be seen from the names of the towns of Nan'an, Shuikou and Gukou, which are very important places.

Xu Zixian can include these places in his pocket, and there are chambers of commerce in addition to the military and government, which can control local commerce, and the wharf, port, and storage areas will definitely be rich and prosperous.

Coupled with the cotton cloth business, and of course, the group training donation, speaking of which, Xu Zixian is afraid that the financial resources he will master will exceed that of Yang Shiwei, the prefect of Fuzhou.

After all, the country has a regular income, and the money collected by the Fuzhou government must be much more than that of the Nan'an regimental training, but most of it has to be reported to the national treasury, and Yang Shiwei himself is afraid that the money he can use is really not as much as Xu Zixian.

"You don't have to be too polite...... "The blood stained on Xu Zixian's body has been almost washed away by the rain, but the bloody qi on his body is still quite obvious.

A group of pure businessmen looked at Xu Zixian on the horse, and saw that blood kept flowing down from the upper of his boots, and the look of awe in their eyes was quite obvious.

Xu Zixian's words were quite gentle, even softer than usual. His eyes were blazing, and he said to the merchants: "This time we can defeat the thieves, the townspeople and the merchants in the town also contribute a lot, if there is no group training donation paid by the past merchants, there is no training fee, how can we defeat the thieves?" The regiment practiced eating well, dressed warmly, and had appropriate weapons, serving the country, killing the enemy and beheading, this is a matter of course, and those who have meritorious service remember their merits, and there is nothing to say. If there is a group training after the war to take advantage of the situation to disturb the people, I will severely punish you, please rest assured......"

The merchants and the people also have such worries, the arrogant soldiers have always disturbed the people, lost the battle, the thieves will harm the merchants and the people in the town, the regimental training soldiers won the battle, and they were afraid of the arrogance of the winning soldiers, Xu Zixian won a big victory, and coerced the anger of his subordinates, and put forward more or less excessive requirements for the town, which is inevitable, and everyone has heard or experienced it more or less.

Unexpectedly, Xu Zi mentioned this matter first, and set a rather stern tone.

Lin Dingyi was thoughtful, no wonder the son of the world was able to succeed, he was really thoughtful and controlled.

He is quite gentle with the military soldiers, undressing and pushing food and food, but when it comes to military law, he is strict and abnormal, and he will never be lenient.

From this point of view, Xu Zixian deserves the big victory at the moment.

At that moment, the merchants were very moved, and Lin Dingyi said first: "The soldiers fought bloodily to protect the local people from poison, if we don't show one or two, it will be unpopular." My Lin family first pledged 1,000 yuan to buy wine and meat for the martial arts brothers. ”

Silk line Yang Shizhi: "Our Yang family also pledged a thousand guan. ”

Of course, Zhang Mingliang will not fall behind these two people, and he also pledged thousands of dollars on the spot.

This is the icing on the cake, of course Xu Zixian will not refuse, dozens of merchants on the spot pledged, and 30,000 yuan was easily scraped together.

This money is quite important, and Xu Zi ordered the merchants and people in the town to help clean up the battlefield, which was originally intended to be so.

Although this great victory was painful, many soldiers were killed or seriously injured in battle, and there were many people who could no longer serve as soldiers.

Caring for the dead, treating and comforting the wounded, and also having to treat the whole army, of course, it's not good food and drink, but at least five yuan per person, these 30,000 yuan can be regarded as saving a lot of expenses for Xu Zixian, and Lin Dingyi and others are grateful after the disaster, so they are extremely generous. In addition, a large area of the trestle port storage area was saved, and hundreds of thousands of dollars were saved, and everyone was overjoyed.

At present, the proprietors and shopkeepers of the trading houses are all turning around and preparing cash, and the homeless people and the strong men in the town continue to help the soldiers clean up the battlefield.

By the time it was light, more than 1,000 headless corpses were placed in one place, and there were many small boats on the river salvaging floating corpses.

This battle also captured a considerable number of ships, Qin Dongyang on the shore to ask people to collect the ownerless ships, after counting and sending people back to report, there are two ships on the water, three ships for fortune, seven ships for black ships, 32 large sentinel ships, that is, 32 ships for eight or four ships, and 110 small ships for small sentinels.

Of course, Xu Zixian was also extremely pleased, as far as the military officer said, raising horses to expand the cavalry, even if he had abundant financial resources, at most one or two would be the limit.

The difficulty of buying war horses is the main restriction, and the regimental training does not need to cooperate with the battle, only the responsibility of protecting the countryside, and too many cavalry will not be understood and supported.

As far as the sailors are concerned, another battalion can be formed, and the ships are enough.

In a place like Fujian, where there are many rivers along the coast, there are no sailors, it is like a strong man with only one arm, and many things can only be thought about but cannot be done, and there is a rather strong feeling of powerlessness.

This time the Pu family in order to attack from all sides, mainly from the inconvenience of land routes, mobilized hundreds of ships before and after, although the big ships are less and the small boats are more, in the end there are still a few decent ships and boats, the ships are also good, the ships are 20 meters long, about six meters wide, the subtle difference between the two is that the ships have two masts before and after, and the ships have a mast, although the mast is only three or four meters high, hanging small sails, but the ability of the ship to adjust the wind is still stronger than the ship at the critical time.

The ship is smaller, 12 to 13 meters long, 4 meters wide, with a single sloop and a single sail, and its long-distance sailing ability is of course far inferior to that of a ship with a water, let alone a ship of fortune.

The big sentinel ship is the eight-slurry boat, ten meters long, at most able to accommodate more than forty or fifty people, the main force of the offshore river division, but the hull is shallow, the bow is not covered with iron, and the serious warship is to deliver food, in fact, it is suitable for transporting food and military supplies in the river, or transporting troops, if you participate in the water war, the power is very small.

A small sentinel boat is a small fishing boat, no mast and no sail, only two pulps, in addition to patrolling on the river, it is suitable for picking up and dropping off personnel and conveying military orders and exchanging news in the fleet at sea.

There are definitely flags for the maritime fleet, but there are some complex command flags that are inconvenient to communicate and cannot be fully conveyed, which requires small sentinel ships to deliver the message.

The Nan'an regiment has nearly 200 ships at once, and it is completely capable of organizing one battalion of officers and men of the naval division, or even two battalions, as long as the Nan'an regiment can afford it on its own.

Xu Zixian was very satisfied in his heart, and the threat of the Pu family was much smaller, but he could not prevent the Pu family from colluding with real pirates to attack, and having a reliable and self-mastered sailor force would be of great help to the future development.

Of course, there are too many small ships and too few large ships, especially for naval engagements, and large ships converted from Fu ships are also needed, preferably Chinese warships, and large ships like Linglong ships that are not commercially designed for naval warfare.

Based on Xu Zixian's understanding of the current ships at sea, it feels like the early days of the Great Voyage, most of the ships of the Celestials and a small number of Europeans were used for commerce, and there were not many warships of pure military significance, even if there were warships, the number of artillery pieces was generally no more than ten, and even crossbow machines and angles of attack were the main battles.

If, in a hundred or two hundred years, the development of firearms catches up, and a warship uses 100 guns and 1,000 sailors, and the sailors who have developed to such a point want to develop with local strength, it will have to have financial resources and corresponding luck.

Xu Zi first wanted to establish a sailor, and even build his own fleet, if it was at the peak of the sail warship, with his current financial resources, it would be almost impossible to do it.

At a time like this, there is still a chance to catch up.

At dawn, everyone was cold enough, and almost all the people of the town rushed to set up dozens of cauldrons on the river embankment, and many women boiled ginger soup to give the soldiers and men who had been fighting all night to drink ginger soup to ward off the cold.

Someone brought a chair and gave Xu Zi to sit on the embankment to rest, and only after dawn did he see that the battlefield was particularly tragic.

There were arrows everywhere on the embankment, and the corpses had been dragged away, but there were still quite obvious traces, broken bushes, arrows all over the ground, long swords and shields lost by the thieves, and tattered shoes and clothes, almost full of devastation.

As for the riverside fire, it was clear that it was still burning in the light of dawn.

The black-brown earth still smells of blood, and the chill of dawn is still strong......

Xu Zixian was also sighing in his heart, this is the real battlefield, the cold, soreness and fatigue on his body, the swelling and pain in his muscles, and the faint pain of being scratched and broken in his calf, and of course, the low moaning of the injured soldier, all of this reminds him that this is a real battlefield, not a movie, nor a battlefield imagined by the literati.

Not to mention anything else, the smell of blood and horses, the smell of feces and urine all over the ground, the moans and wails of people, the severed arms and limbs, and the corpses piled up like a hill...... Ordinary people look at these things, and I'm afraid they really have nightmares!

Of the women who came to the riverside to help, which one of them didn't look pale and frightened?

Of course, they also came voluntarily, and if the thieves had defeated the soldiers yesterday, what would have happened to the town and the nearby villages, I don't know.

In fact, now at least more than thirty percent of the townspeople and the surrounding villagers are nowhere to be seen, yesterday shouted to kill, many people don't care about the result, just take their wives and children to run north, this is understandable, when the disaster comes, there are only a few people who can destroy the family and the difficulty? Besides, the man in charge of the family, of course, takes care of the lives of his wife and children first, and when the thief comes, he kills the old and the weak and rapes women and children.

Most of the people who didn't leave still have some confidence in the group training, and they have been looking forward to getting the news back, and when they heard that the group training was won, they were really happy to fall from the sky, and they came out to help clean up the battlefield and boil ginger soup, which is also deserved.

Xu Zixian sat with a golden knife, and a doctor in the town cleaned the wound for him and bandaged the injured calf.

Xu Zixian didn't pay attention to it, thanks to this doctor's actions, there are not many doctors who know how to treat Jinchuang, Xu Zixian looked at this doctor's hands and feet are quite sharp, and he thought in his heart, if he wants this person to bring a few more apprentices, there will be a lot of wars in the future, and there will be more doctors in the army, and there will be a little more life protection for the soldiers.

After the ginger soup was boiled, someone brought a bowl for Xu Zixian, and then the little sister and Xiuniang also rushed over, and when they saw the zongzi-like calves tied by Xu Zixian, the little sister showed an anxious look on her face, and Xiuniang's eyes were red.

"It's okay." Xu Zixian reassured: "It's just a small injury, the doctor was overly careful." ”

"Always be careful." The little sister asked if it was really a flesh wound, and she was a little relieved, but when she saw such a tragic battlefield, it was impossible not to be worried and afraid.

"Don't worry, I'm the main general." Xu Zi first looked at Xiuniang and Xiaomei, these are the two relatives who care about him the most in this world, maybe Chen Wenjun can be added in the future, it is with them that they are there, as if they have "roots" in this world, not rootless duckweed.

^Remember.