Songjiang Mansion, which is 3,400 miles away from Beijing, is the key to controlling the Jianghuai River.

Songjiang Prefecture is governed in Huating City (Songjiang District, Shanghai), with a household of 1,685 li, and about 210,000 people with a household registration (this is the number of the second year of the Apocalypse, and more than 280,000 people in the second year of Wanli).

Huating City is more than nine miles in circumference, it is circular, open the land gate, the water gate is four respectively, the ring city is a moat, and the width is ten zhang. The city is crisscrossed by waterways, which is a typical water town in the south of the Yangtze River, with residential houses built along the river, and bluestone roads lined with shops.

The Songjiang Prefecture is located in the north of the city center, adjacent to the Huating County Government. There are several entrances to the government office, from south to north are the wall, the head gate, the soap room, the second door, the six class rooms, the lobby, the sandwich room and the back house.

After Yuan Keli went to the mansion and handed over the people, money and grain of the whole mansion to the former prefect, he ordered people to call Jin Ruzuo, the general of Jinshan Wei, the commander of Wei, and more than ten people such as Hou Chengzu and Wu Juzhen to Fu Qiao Huan.

Jinshanwei is one of the four famous guards of the Ming Dynasty (the other three guards are Tianjin, Zhenhai, Weihai), in addition to the left and right middle and front five institutes, increase the front (Shouqing Village), the middle and rear (Shou Nanhui), Chuansha (Shou Pudong, for the thousand households), a total of eight, more than 350 hectares of Tuntian, in addition to the Wei commander, another staff general is set up to command, usually patrol the salt thieves, impact the big chest; If there is a police, they will be caught in danger and follow the enemy to block and suppress.

In the lobby of the mansion, Yuan Keli wore a round-collared regular uniform to supplement Yunyan, sat behind the case, and did not look at the list of Jinshan guards and generals reported by Jin Ruzuo, glanced at the generals on both sides of the lobby, and asked, "The current ships of Jinshanwei are full?" ”

Jin Ruzuo, who stood at the head of the left, was originally the capital of Guangxi, and was transferred to the Jinshan general in May of the forty-sixth year of Wanli, tall and fat, if he was not wearing armor, he would have thought that he was a rich man in the countryside, he held his thick palm, "Benwei saw six ships in the building, and each ship had sixty soldiers; fifteen sand boats, according to the old practice of coastal defense, each ship uses fifteen soldiers; Ten trumpets bluff boats, fourteen each. ”

According to the system, Jinshanwei should prepare ten ships, each with 100 soldiers; Thirty sand boats, twenty-five soldiers per ship. This shortage of ships and soldiers is not only here, but also in the Tan Giang Battalion, which originally had 15,280 soldiers, but now only 5,200 remain; The original number of warships was 300, but now there are only 160 large and small ships, and it is known to the government and the opposition that the soldiers have fled and the ships have been damaged for a long time.

Yuan Keli saw that the military equipment was as relaxed, although it was like a few treasures, there was no slightest smile, and said with a straight face, "Songjiang is full of water on three sides, covering sails in and out, thousands of miles in an instant, and Qiantang is instilled in the south, Changhuai and Yangtze are instilled in the north, and the mouth of Songjiang is all radiating seashores, and they are mutually reinforcing. ”

Yuan Keli looked around at the faces of several people and continued, "However, there is not a single mountain or island outside the whole mansion as an obstacle, and the police of the past dynasties have been frequently reported. This official is now ordered by Qin, knowing the affairs of Songjiang Prefecture, and must focus on preparing for the Japanese, so each station in Jinshan must increase the number of ships and soldiers, and make up the original amount to strengthen the enemy. From now on, Jin Shanwei and his subordinates will be controlled by their own officials, and they hope that the public will do their best to assist. ”

Jin Ruzuo and others had already received a letter from the Ministry of War, and they all clasped their fists and said, "The last general will obey the order." ”

"If you increase the number of ships, you need a special person to take care of it...... Calm Qiao Heng can be there. ”

"The end will be." A seven-foot strong man wearing a phoenix-winged helmet and a half-length waist-length armor came out of the ranks.

Yuan Keli got up, took out a piece of Kanhe with the military department from the brocade box on the case, and read out, "After investigation, in the battle of Salhu last year, there was a Zhenjiang guerrilla Qiao Yiqi who threw himself into a cliff and broke his head, and died in battle. ”