This is the team of the Nan'an regiment, and it is also the core military attache group of the military officers under the Nan'an Hou Mansion of the Eastern Domain.

After the death of King Qi, many generals of the Xiang army also expressed their allegiance to the Nan'an Hou Mansion, but Xu Zixian had no intention of putting them in the Eastern Domain for a while.

Including their hundreds of soldiers, they also stayed in Nan'an.

First get through the three-month training period, integrate into the Nan'an regimental training system, and then talk about allegiance.

After King Qi, Xu Zixian was not in a hurry about the expansion of his group, rather than being huge and complicated, it was not credible, it was better to maintain a state of few but fine.

Even if the army is expanded, it is an expansion within the original system.

For example, the expansion of the army and the two battalions of the land division in Penghu must also be carried out within the system of Nan'an regimental training, and even after the expansion of the army, most of the new soldiers will move to the Eastern Domain, and then conduct deeper training under Xu Zixian's nose.

In addition to physical training, spiritual training is more important.

What Xu Zixian is doing now even understands the dog raised in the Houfu Courtyard, which is to train his own private army.

Anyway, now that Xu Zi has the final say in the Eastern Domain, the number of generals in the Hou Mansion can also be said by Xu Zi first, and it is obvious that Xu Zi has to start from scratch first, which is like self-reliance.

The imperial court had no choice, and the civil and military officials on this side of Fujian Road would not object or pierce this layer of window paper, not even King Zhao...... There is no way to pierce the Son of Heaven and the two mansions, King Zhao will not be stupid enough to embarrass himself for the Son of Heaven.

"I've seen the prince."

A group of military attachés saluted Xu Zixian with a fist, there have been too many things that have happened in the recent period, which is dizzying, from the defeat of Qizhou Port and the killing of Chen Yutai, to the death of King Qi, the power of the entire Nan'an Hou Mansion began to transfer to Penghu and the Eastern Domain on a large scale, everyone with different tasks on the sea and land, by this time, it is generally gathered.

Only Zhang Huchen and Wu Wei were ordered to return to Nan'an, where there was a half-capital cavalry to wait for the ranch to be built, and then bring hundreds of good sons and daughters with a riding foundation to move to the Eastern Domain, the new cavalry was at least a battalion, Zhang Huchen was very excited about this, his task in Nan'an was to slowly select new soldiers into the camp, and finally bring back the cavalry of a battalion that had been selected.

Wu Weisan stayed in Nan'an with a group of middle-level military attachés, who had a battalion of troops, responsible for supervising the collection of regimental training donations and protecting key places such as the storage area and the military camp of the annex.

As long as Xu Zixian was in the Eastern Domain, no one in Fuzhou would dare to attack Nan'an, and after Chen Yutai was cleared, there were no large-scale pirates on the Fujian Road, and a battalion of garrisons should be enough.

With the signboard of Nan'an group training, tens of thousands of donations a month and hundreds of thousands of donations a year can continue to be collected, which is also the bottom line of Lin Douyao, Zhao Wang and Xu Zixian compromising with each other.

Otherwise, the last time King Qi was killed, Xu Zixian was completely able to ignore the first trouble, if King Zhao planned to kill them all, Xu Zixian would certainly not stick his head over to cooperate, after the two sides made a fuss, it was really unpredictable.

The only result was years of fighting, and in the end it was the people of Fujian Road and the prestige of the imperial court that were damaged.

At this critical moment when the Northern Expedition was imminent, it was unlikely that the imperial court would mobilize the main force of the forbidden army to go south, so King Zhao was also quite aware of the opportunity and took a step back, and under the tacit understanding of the three forces, the current pattern was formed.

Nan'an remains, Xu Zixian can not only continue to obtain wealth in Nan'an, but also continue to exert a certain influence and maintain his presence in Fuzhou, in addition, he can also go to Jianzhou, Xinghua Army and Shao Wujun continue to recruit Zhuang Ding as an army, which is also a kind of latent strength that has been retained.

"Excuse me." Xu Zixian looked at the sentry tower more than three zhang high, and said to Qin Dongyang: "Brother Qin, now that the two battalions of soldiers have settled down?" ”

"Yes, the barracks is just south of the annex, near the port and storage area." Qin Dongyang replied: "Now it is the port, the courtyard, the storage area and the factory area, as well as the shipbuilding area are the most important. Going down, the cotton fields are in patches, and the periphery is also quite important. ”

"The Penghu side is already recruiting, and the two battalions of soldiers have been recruited in an instant." Xu Zixian said: "The Ge brothers took two battalions of veterans to Penghu, and here are two battalions of soldiers who are new pawns, and when the two battalions of soldiers in Penghu arrive, the four battalions of soldiers will train together." ”

Qin Dongyang frowned and said: "Summer is the period when the indigenous people are active, and it is also the time when our cotton fields are growing. The fourth battalion was still a new recruit by then, and I was a little worried. ”

Xu Zixian smiled and said: "After the Penghu 3,000 Sailor Division is fully staffed, the Ge family brothers led the Zhongzi Battalion and the Yizi Battalion to rush over, and the Penghu Sailor Division and the New Battalion are stationed, and your Xinzi Battalion can only stay in Nan'an and bring it to Wu Weisan, you and the rest of the people, hurry up and train the nine battalions of recruits for me within half a year." ”

Qin Dongyang's face was slightly excited, and in an instant, there will be eighteen battalions of soldiers under the entire Nan'an Hou Mansion, including six battalions of sailor soldiers, eleven battalions of foot soldiers, and one battalion of cavalry.

"Eighteen battalions are nothing." Xu Zixian said with a smile: "There are only more than 9,000 people, and our goal is to recruit sixty battalions by the end of next year." ”

Qin Dongyang was quite calm, but his eyes flickered, and Liu Yi, who was beside Xu Zixian, let out a strange laugh, Jin Bao snorted, and the rest of the generals had different performances, and the military attaches who were born as young generals such as Gao Shilai and Tian Heng shouted excitedly.

With the rest of the idle Ding Zhuang in Penghu now, if Xu Zixian is willing, he will be able to recruit fifty or sixty battalions of troops within this year, which is not difficult.

If we don't talk about quality and only talk about forming an army, then it is not difficult to set up an army of about 30,000 people at the end of the 14th year of Chongde.

But Xu Zi didn't plan to do it first.

The income of Nan'an is one million guan, if you remove Chen Yutai's fleet, there are now 1.5 million yuan of available funds, before that, Xu Zixian has invested at least 300,000 guan in the Eastern Domain, and the capital invested by the Changwen Marquis Mansion is also 600,000 guan, if you count Chen Dujing's personal dowry to his daughter, the investment of the Changwen Marquis Mansion has exceeded one million guan.

For the rest of the funds, Xu Zixian planned to recruit only nine battalions of new soldiers, plus the maintenance of the old nine battalions, the military expenditure was already quite large and heavy.

The eleven ships in Nan'an can be used as merchant ships and armed ships and transport ships, and the maintenance costs can be deducted from future commercial activities and transportation costs.

The warships of the Nanyang Naval Division and the warships captured by Chen Yutai were removed, and the four old and unusable ones that could only patrol along the coast were removed, and there were still twenty capital ships.

Eleven of these 20 ships were small warships, about the same size as waterbow ships, with a tonnage of about 100 tons, and could only be used for patrolling and defending the coastal waters.

Of the remaining nine battleships, five medium-sized ships and four large ones, all battleships had stern towers and angles of attack, and were equipped with eight-ox crossbows and bed crossbows.

This is the real sea power that Xu Zixian mastered, in fact, if the dilapidated ships and warships are counted, there are now nearly fifty large ships of more than 100 tons in Nan'an Houfu, but obviously, this kind of ship can only be used as a target at sea, and there is no problem in transporting freight people in peacetime, and the real naval battle begins, this old ship rotates slowly, and there is a danger of sinking if it is slightly damaged, and it may be a trivial loss for some pirate leaders, but in terms of Xu Zixian's concept, the ship is nothing, Personnel with experience in naval warfare and years of maritime experience are the most valuable assets.

Twenty warships, nine capital ships, and four large warships, this is the real family of the Nan'an Naval Division, more than 3,000 officers and men of the Naval Division, except for the sailors, most of the personnel will operate on the capital ships.

By next year, the number of capital ships will increase to thirty, and the ten warships ordered from the Lin family will be distributed according to the ration of four, three, three, four small 100-ton warships, three medium-sized 300-ton warships, and three large 500-ton warships.

In terms of the Lin family's shipbuilding capacity, it is not a problem at all to build a 500-tonnage Chinese warship-style warship.

These ten warships have been given an order of 100,000 yuan, but they have to pay at least 1.5 million yuan in the future.

Because the Lin family cooperated with Xu Zixian quite happily in Nan'an, the preferential conditions given were to be paid in three years, that is, 500,000 yuan a year.

In addition to the hull, a large number of crossbows and bows should be installed, which can be ordered from the imperial court's weapons supervisor in the name of the Nanyang Naval Division...... The people of the two provinces are not fools.

In addition to the daily expenses of the officers and men of the naval division, plus the salaries of the captains and boatswains, as well as the military attachés, foot soldiers, cavalry, and pastures of the land division, in terms of military expenses alone, more than 9,000 people have to pay tens of thousands of yuan a month for military salaries alone, tens of thousands of dollars for eating and drinking clothes, shoes and socks, 1 million yuan a year for raising 9,000 soldiers, and 1.5 million yuan a year for the expenses of the fleet.

Of course, the current income level of Nan'an is far from enough, and after next year, after the increase in various incomes such as cotton fields and textiles, it can meet the military expenditure of 3 million guan a year, and Xu Zixian will expand the army to 30,000 or more people.

The size of the fleet, of course, is also to be expanded!

For Xu Zixian, his daily expenses can be saved, and his official treatment is also maintained at a normal level, at most he is given various subsidies and rewards, and for military expenses, it is also cost-effective to earn millions of yuan and 900,000 yuan to raise soldiers.

As a person who knows the future direction of history, there is absolutely no way to save military spending.

For military attachés, of course, they like the expansion of the size of the army, and they also like the increase in military spending, and they prefer that there will be wars to be fought in the future.

Only in this way will they gain greater power, a stronger voice, and their status within the system will rise.

But in any case, Xu Zixian will grasp the degree of it, and not make the status of the military attache above the civilian officials, the equal emphasis on civil and military is the royal way, the civil suppression of the military force, resulting in the military equipment not being repaired, and the military suppression of the civil government, is the militaristic feudal town system, and the harm is also great, even above the civilian official power.

"In front of it is the Eastern Domain Courtyard of the Hou Mansion."

After passing through the cotton field is a simple wooden fence isolation, a large number of houses are shrouded in darkness, in a sparse forest, a huge building appeared in front of everyone's eyes, the gate, the side door, the arrow tower is lit with lanterns all around, a team of armor soldiers stand on the arrow tower to guard, after seeing Xu Zixian and others appear in front of them, the guards quickly opened the gate of the Hou Mansion Courtyard.