A few days after returning to Lin'an, Yang Congyi received an appointment from the imperial court, and reappointed him as the supervisor of the Huiyi Guard, and the superintendent of the Jingwu Army to escort the Huiyi trip.

Soon, he received an order from the Privy Council, with which he could transfer the Jingwu Army from the Yiwu garrison to the Xuanwei Army garrison in Changguo County.

However, Yang Congyi did not want the Jingwu Army to be stationed in Changguo, after all, it was a place that belonged to the Xuanwei Army, many people in the Jingwu Army had been subordinate to the Xuanwei Army before, and the two armies were stationed in a small Changguo County, I don't know how much trouble it would cause, where could I train with peace of mind?

So he immediately proposed to the Privy Council whether he could let the Jingwu army be stationed in Liuqiu County, opposite Quanzhou. There are three reasons, one is that the fleet should start from Quanzhou, and the escort army can familiarize itself with the sea conditions in the vicinity of Quanzhou in advance; the second is that the warship is under construction at the Quanzhou shipyard, and the escort army is stationed in Liuqiu, and the warship can be quickly received after it is built; third, Liuqiu is located in the south, and the climate is similar to that of Nanyang, so the escort army can familiarize itself with the water and soil in advance, so as not to adapt to the water and soil, and affect the task of escorting the return.

Dozens of days later, the Privy Council replied that the place where the elite army was stationed for training should be requested to return to the place, and agreed to change from Changguo County, Mingzhou to Liuqiu County, Quanzhou, and the food and salary required during the training and escort of the return to the exchange should be borne by the return office, and the imperial court will not allocate it separately.

With the consent of the Privy Council, Yang Congyi immediately set off to the Yiwu Jingwu Army station.

In the past few years, the old land of the Su Xixuan General Camp has been a little dilapidated, and the barracks houses have grown weeds and begun to decay because they are uninhabited and uncared for, and most of the wide and flat school fields on the river bank have grown weeds and trees, and it may not be long before they will return to barrenness, and there will be no traces of military training again.

Walking all the way from the outer camp to the inner camp, Yang Congyi had mixed feelings in his heart, the morale was high and the general camp was in full swing, but the situation changed abruptly in a few days, and the smoke disappeared, which lasted for more than half a year, consumed a lot of food and salary, countless energy and painstaking efforts, and all efforts and sweat were finally played with applause, and became a worthless farce.

Who is to blame?

To this day, Yang Congyi can't say clearly, and he doesn't want to delve into it, because he knows that if he delves deeper, he will find that the truth is cruel, and it is useless and meaningless except for heartache.

Looking at the flowing river, he quickly dispelled the negative emotions in his heart, and let the past pass, because the road ahead has to be taken step by step, maybe the road ahead is different, and there will be bright scenery in the end.

In the inner battalion general school, Yang Congyi finally saw the figure of the soldier training, but it was a little lifeless, in stark contrast to the vigorous early spring, and it could not be compared with the period of the general camp, it can be seen that they have lost their spirit.

In the former Shuaiying Chamber, Yang Congyi met Li Ge, the commander of the Jingwu Army, the other party was a middle-aged man in his forties, with a full beard and unkempt appearance, he was not the person who took over the Jingwu Army from Yang Congyi a few years ago, and should be the successor commander later.

After a few words of greeting, Yang Congyi immediately took out the court appointment document and the Privy Council appointment order, read it out, and handed it to the other party for review.

Li Ge was dissatisfied with the transfer of the Jingwu army to Quanzhou, but the appointment documents of the imperial court and the appointment order of the Privy Council were true, and he could not refute them, so he could only accept them.

When he saw that all the generals and colonels of the Jingwu Army were very familiar with the new prison army, and they were quite excited, he knew that there must be an inside story about the recruitment of the Jingwu Army, and the outspoken Li Ge immediately asked the reason.

Yang Congyi told him that the imperial court attached great importance to the ocean-going return to the Yi this time, and the responsibility of the Huiyi Department was very heavy, and whether the Huiyi was successful or not depended on whether the fleet was safe at sea, if the safety of the fleet could not be guaranteed, the Huiyi would naturally not succeed, and there were four commanders in the Jingwu Army who successfully escorted the Huiyi fleet a few years ago, and the Great Song Army could no longer find an army with more experience in going to sea than them, and he happened to serve as a supervisor in the Huiyi Guard a few years ago.

After some explanation, Li Ge's doubts disappeared a lot, but then he had concerns, because his generals and subordinates were very familiar with the prison army, which made him quite uncomfortable.

What does the supervising army do, he knows very well in his heart that under normal circumstances, it should be the commander of the unified army and a group of subordinates to overhead the supervising army, so that the other party becomes a blind man, unable to find the problem of the army, and not causing trouble for the army, and looking at the current situation, it is very likely that the supervising army will unite with a group of subordinates to overthrow his command and let him stand aside in the army.

The other party has made it very clear that the purpose of transferring the elite military army to Liuqiu for training is to train them into a strong maritime escort army and take them to the South and Western Seas to make meritorious contributions.

Although Li Ge was unhappy, he did not dare to openly express his dissatisfaction with the orders of the imperial court, let alone oppose them.

After consulting with the general schools, the itinerary was determined.

The whole army commanded six troops, assembled within five days, and left Yiwu after three days of intensive training, the troops first rushed to Mingzhou by land, and then boarded ships from Mingzhou and entered the sea, went south to Quanzhou, rested a little in Quanzhou, took the necessary military supplies, and directly crossed the sea to Liuqiu.

In the Yiwu camp, Yang Congyi followed the Jingwu Army throughout the whole process, ate, lived and trained together, and won the favor of ordinary soldiers and low-ranking officers in just a few days.

In the blink of an eye, it was time for the whole army to be drawn out of camp as before, but Li Ge, the commander of the command, suddenly fell ill and could not make the trip, so it was recommended to postpone it for a few days.

Yang Congyi had no choice but to postpone the trip by three days.

However, after three days, Li Ge's condition still did not improve, and he asked to wait for a few more days.

Time is precious, where can it be wasted in Yiwu, Yang Congyi politely refused, he told Li Ge that he could lead the Jingwu army to take the first step, the march of the large army was slower, if Li Ge's illness was cured, he could meet in Mingzhou, if he did not get better in the near future, it would not be too late to go to Quanzhou after his illness was cured.

Immediately announced that the whole army would pull out the camp, and Yang Congyi personally left the Yiwu camp with nearly 3,000 people and headed for Mingzhou through Dongyang County.

Just after the Jingwu army left Yiwu, Li Ge, who was still in the camp, received a reply from Lin'an, saying that all the affairs of the Jingwu army were temporarily in charge of the return to the office, and warned him not to act rashly to avoid disaster.

Li Ge's illness was cured, but he had no intention of chasing the Jingwu army that had already left the camp, because there were still a lot of assets in the Suxi camp that had not been disposed of, which was a lot of money, and now that the whole army had left, he didn't know if there was a chance to come back, and this batch of property naturally belonged to him.

Blessings and misfortunes depend on each other, the elite army was requisitioned back to the Yi Department, for him personally, whether it is a blessing or a curse, he can't figure it out, and he doesn't need to sort it out, as long as he has money, isn't it just for money?

Li Ge quickly disposed of the assets left by the Jingwu Army, and then enjoyed himself in Yiwu and Jinhua, day and night.

Since the Jingwu army left Yiwu, it has not stopped for a day, and after half a month of continuous marching, it finally arrived in Mingzhou.

The whole army rested in Mingzhou for three days, and within three days requisitioned and leased more than 20 large ships, and after a little preparation, the whole army boarded the ships and went straight to Quanzhou.

A few days later, more than 20 ships carrying 3,000 elite troops docked at Quanzhou, procured a batch of food and materials in a short time, recruited a group of construction craftsmen, and the fleet set off again, arriving at the west coast of Liuqiu in one day and night.

This is a completely strange place, with a total army of 3,000 people, no one has reached Guoliuqiu, and the same is true for Yang Congyi.

Led by a guide, a fleet full of elite soldiers and craftsmen finally found a port on the long coastline where large ships could dock.

Yang Congyi ordered the whole army to immediately land ashore to rest and recuperate, but they must not be two miles away from the coast, they must not disturb the people, and they must not go into the sea to fish.

And he himself found the Liuqiu County Government for the first time, saw the old Liuqiu County Order, explained his intentions, and then took out the Privy Council appointment order for the other party to inspect it visually.

Liuqiu's official position as the county commander was much lower than Yang Congyi's, and the Jingwu Army's garrison training Liuqiu was an order of the imperial court, so he had no objections to Yang Congyi's requirements and proposals, all of them were approved and all supported, and there was only one proposal, not to let the garrison go to the mountains, so as not to cause turmoil and casualties.

This proposal of the county order, Yang Congyi agreed, the mountain people have their own living area, any outsider stepping into their territory, will be regarded as an invasion, this is the limitation of their vision and thousands of years of life experience, can not be changed in a short time, besides, he has no intention of dealing with the mountain people, the Jingwu army is only stationed here for training, the well water does not interfere with the river water, the two do not intersect best.

The Jingwu army garrison training to delineate the camp, the county order is old, inconvenient to move, so sent a subordinate to accompany Yang Congyi on the west coast from the county seat dozens of miles away, delineated a five-mile radius of wasteland, as the Jingwu army camp, there is a good harbor nearby, if you want to dock the big ship, you have to spend some effort to rest.

The camp was circled, and the whole army of the elite army immediately went to the camp and set up camp on the spot.

Almost all of the 3,000 people in the army have experience in building camps, of which 1,000 have participated in the construction of the camp of the Xuanwei Army of Changguo, and have led the construction of the Yiwu General Camp throughout the whole process, with rich experience, and others have also participated in the construction of barracks and the leveling of the site.

The entire elite army was soon divided into several parts, and with the help of the construction craftsmen of the army, according to the past experience and requirements, they assigned errands one by one, such as felling and reclaiming materials, requisitioning vehicles and transporting, leveling the ground, tamping the foundation, burying pillars and erecting beams, and planing wood to seal the house.

When the whole army began to carry out construction in full swing, Yang Congyi was not idle, he found the old county order, and asked the government to come forward to recruit a group of manpower to help in the camp of the Jingwu Army, in order to complete the construction of the camp in the shortest possible time.

The craftsmen were recruited in place, and the old county order coordinated the grain procurement and requisition, but the old county order could not do anything about this matter, because Liuqiu County was far away from the mainland, the population was scattered, the jurisdiction was inconvenient, and the taxes were not abundant, and it was spring, and last year's tax grain had already been paid, and the granary was empty, leaving only about 1,000 quintals of grain in case of emergency.

Seeing that it would not work to find the county government to solve the problem of grain for the elite army, Yang Congyi turned his attention to the big landlords, who had been seeking a place to avoid the scourge of war for thousands of years, and the taxes were relatively light, coupled with the fertile soil on the west coast, which had accumulated over several generations, and there were many large landlords and wealthy households who owned hundreds of acres of land.