Gu Xiong was the commander of the navy, and this commander was actually a general name among the people, just because after the founding of the Song Dynasty, in order to strengthen the centralization of power and facilitate the emperor's direct control of the army, he set up regulations so that the generals could not specialize in the army. In the event of war, one of the generals was selected to give him the name of "capital control" in order to control the troops and horses.

This "control of the capital" can be large or small, and the soldiers and horses under control can naturally be more or less, so of course it must be subdivided. Those who can control a group of soldiers and horses are called a box system, and those who can control an army can be called a military system, of course, it is a military system. Maybe the smart magistrate is going to ask, doesn't this control system that controls all the people and horses also have to be called the capital system, isn't it a taboo with the "capital system". Don't worry here, the emperor's direct seal of the "capital system" needs to be added to the text or title of "imperial front", in addition, according to the routine, the subordinates and lower officials will call the highest official title or honorific title of the official, for example, Tong Guan led the army this time and got an official position of the Xuanfu system envoy, but who dares to call him Tong Xuanfu envoy or Tong system envoy, of course, close people please him to call him a concubine, even the lower officials who are not close to him have to call him a captain.

Having said that, the biggest official position Gu Xiong has actually done is the battalion commander, and what is more special to mention is that he was born in the military department, and later rose all the way from a small military training envoy to a capital commander and battalion commander, and has rich experience in soldier selection and training.

This kind of soldier is also selected from the soldiers, the height and posture are quite balanced and qualified, after a short training in sitting and lying down, sent to various places, so that the officials in charge of recruitment in various places can refer to the recruitment of soldiers.

As for how he was evil, although Shangguan had never heard him say it carefully, Lu Er said that Gu Xiong's good luck was because he could train soldiers, and his bad luck was also because he was too good at training.

Now he didn't gossip, so he took out a hand-drawn map from his arms, and listened to him say to Huang Jie: "Da Lang, these days, according to the instructions of Second Brother Lu, I recruited one hundred and twenty men on the water in the head of the water market, and exchanged them for recruiting soldiers, and finally eliminated fifty-three people and saved sixty-seven people. These days I have been practicing on and off the river, but I found a news, that is, thirty-two of the sixty-seven people are from Wuzhou Island, so I thought that if I trained the children's army on Wuzhou Island, it would be excellent. This island is barren, the waterway only leads to the south, if the two ends of the north waterway are dammed, it is an excellent place for naval exercises, just like Cao Cao's Xuanwu Pond in the past. ”

"Today, the chief of Wuzhou Island lives in Xinshui County, and there are only a dozen peasant households and five or six fishing households on the island, so he only needs to use money to buy the thin fields and woods on the island. Now Dalang has the Huangzhou lord Bo Zhaofu, can be used by land and water with the army to transfer the name of the yamen to recruit errands, can be full of a battalion, does not violate the system, and then in the name of the Sun family or Wanjia under the pretext of Huangzhou Futian Yuan relief is not enough, buy land on Wuzhou Island to build Futian Children's Hospital, and can accommodate a battalion of boys. ”

"Wuzhou Island is close to the Yangtze River waterway, so it can only be stationed for training, not practice. I also found this training place, there is a tea mountain not far from Jiangbei, not far from the west of Xishui County, but the mountain is stretching and complex, and now there are still a few bands of thieves who have not been exterminated, after training a battalion of people, they can move to the tea mountain to exterminate these groups of thieves, occupy his cottage and conduct soldiers, and can become an army in three years at most. ”

Huang Jie listened to his explanation, and looked at the map with his gestures, and after a cursory thought, this layout plan was quite detailed.

First of all, Yao Zheng's temporary waterway transfer envoy Yamen does have the authority to recruit errand soldiers, but he has always handed over the canned meat sent to Bianliang, Tokyo to the caravan of Wanjia to transport it, and the Japanese army led by Liu Yu sent people to escort him, so he didn't bother to recruit any errand soldiers, and besides, the army would not bear a penny of money for the levy and food that was recruited, and he had to pay for it out of his own pocket.

Besides, it is this Wuzhou Island, Huang Jie remembers that when he escaped from the boat of Du Zhong, the owner of the village in Yilong Village, he once went to the island to hide all night. Now Gu Xiong proposed to use the two ends of the waterway in the north as a training place like a Xuanwu pool, which is really a brain-opening idea. As for the peasants, fishermen, and woodcutters on the island, it is natural to buy land and forests, but there is no need to drive them away.

Finally, this tea mountain, Huang Jie also heard it in a trance, and after thinking about it, he asked: "Big brother, remember that you seem to have caught Wang Qing's men and horses in this tea mountain, right?" ”

Sun Li replied: "Exactly! ”

Huang Jie asked: "This Wang Qing's people and horses are expelling the people and displaced people in the tea mountain, but the thieves in the tea mountain have all shrunk their eggs and have never come out to speak?" ”

Sun Li nodded and said with a smile: "No wonder those thieves, Erlang and Zongbao have been to explore, in fact, they are all lowly households who have fallen into the mountains and grass, and it is also difficult to beg in the mountains, and there are only ten or twenty people in one group, and those who help the old and the young are rarely dared to do the evil things that block the road and rob the road, how dare to find the bad luck of Wang Qing's people." ”

Huang Jie smiled when he heard this: "Then you don't have to wait for three years, so I will bother the eldest brother to find a good day to collect this gang of thieves, choose a place for the old and weak, select the young and strong, and hand them over to the Gu family brother for training first, and then pull up a big banner in the tea mountain and pretend to be a green forest cottage to cover up for our children's army." ”

When Gu Xiong and Sun Li heard this, they all clapped their hands and applauded, and Yang Zongbao sat in the back row and said loudly: "Da Lang's method is good, but I think that the good can stay, but the vicious people can't be spared." ”

When he said this, Yang Huai snorted in his nose, squinted at Yang Zongbao, and Huang Jie saw it and said, "Brother Zongbao is right, but it is better to ...... I'm going to send someone to investigate in a few days? ”

"Order!" Yang Zongbao immediately got up and hugged his fists and said: "It's better to hit the day than to choose a day, can I go tomorrow?" ”

Who knew that Yang Huai coughed again, and stared at Yang Zongbao with a white face, so that everyone could see that something was wrong, and Uncle Sun Qi was the most anxious, so he said: "Brother Yang Huai, but what's the matter?" ”

Yang Huai simply slapped his thigh and said, "Something's wrong!" It's about renewing the strings with Zongbao, and I discussed with him last night......"

"Uncle!" Yang Zongbao was also anxious, and hurriedly interrupted: "The matter is important at the moment, and this matter must not be mentioned again!" ”

Yang Huai almost jumped up when he was said, glared and shouted, "Hey! Isn't it the right thing to continue with you? You have to speak like this, this eldest uncle is a father, and I will be the Lord today and mention this kiss to you! ”

As he spoke, he got up and came to Uncle Sun Jiu, clasped his fists and said, "Brother Jiu! The thirteen mothers in the ninth brother's family look virtuous and generous, and can be a housewife, I don't know if the ninth brother is willing to marry Ling Yan to my family Zongbao as his wife. ”

Such a sudden thing made everyone stunned, even the boss of Uncle Sun Jiu who was also holding his beard and opening his mouth, Yang Zongbao's face turned red in an instant like a burning cloud, and he even hid his face and jumped off the pergola, as if he wanted to avoid it.

"Yang Thirteen is gone!"

At this time, but listening to a coquettish shout, everyone turned their heads to look, but a beautiful girl in Zhu Yi jumped down from the top of the north corridor of the courtyard, like a milk swallow throwing into the forest, so that the body of the jade foot and the eaves beams and pillars swept four or five zhang away, and then fell in front of Yang Zongbao, and stopped him with both arms, and heard the girl reprimand loudly: "Okay, you Yang Thirteen, now your uncle wants to propose marriage to you, and you want to escape?" If you are a man's husband, now you are talking to your face, where is the difference, but you are not worthy of a widower? ”

When she spoke like this, she was immediately even more stunned, and Huang Jie also saw that this little lady with horseradish was as spicy, but she was afraid that it was the thirteenth lady of Uncle Sun Jiu's family, so she also pursed her lips and held back her laughter, waiting to see the good show.