"Okay, well done." Wang Xu said: "Each of these warships can carry more than 1,000 soldiers, and a hundred can bring 100,000 troops across the river, but you try to build as many as possible, we still have a lot of food and equipment and other things to carry, not just 100,000 troops." ”

"My subordinates are awake."

The warship slowly sailed towards the middle of Xiaoting Lake, and after a while, it came to the water army camp, this camp was built on the water, there was a huge ship floating here, it was Zhao Long's former territory, each giant boat could live about 5,000 people, but this kind of boat was fixed and could not be moved.

In addition to the giant ships, there are hundreds of small ships and more than 30 medium-sized warships, and it is very spectacular to surround the large ships.

At this moment, 20,000 sailors are practicing on the boat, posing in various formations and walking through the lake, Zhao Hu and Zhao Li are commanding, although they are not as clever as Zhao Long, but they have grown up on the water since they were children, and they are nurtured by Zhao Long's side, and they also have a set of training soldiers.

Wang Xu looked at it for a while, nodded again and again, with Zhao Long here, the water army of Hexi County was not afraid.

Wang Xu said: "General Zhao, have you found out the situation of the Hexi County Water Army?" ”

Zhao Long said: "A month ago, the general sent someone to investigate, Hexi County is mainly based on war cavalry and naval forces, among which the naval army is the best of the best, they now have eight large warships, fifty medium-sized warships, more than 100 small warships, and more than 50,000 sailors, all of which have been trained for a long time. ”

Wang Xu himself knows these data, he not only knows the combat power of the naval army, but also knows the combat power of the cavalry, Hexi County has a total of 80,000 iron cavalry, and these 80,000 iron cavalry are stationed at the border pass.

In the west of Hexi County, there is a race called the Snow People, the Snow People are born to ride and shoot, extremely brave, and often gather people to offend Hexi County, but since the prince of Hexi County formed such an elite iron horse. Those snowy people will be much more restrained, otherwise the border pass of Hexi County will be slaughtered by the snowy people every year.

Wang Xu said: "Then do you have the confidence to defeat the Hexi County Water Army?" ”

Zhao Long didn't have the confidence he had before at the moment, and he didn't dare to release the kind of bold words he had before, so he had to say: "King Wen." Zhao Long will go all out. ”

Wang Xu smiled: "I'm asking you if you have confidence in the God of War Navy, you don't even have this confidence?" ”

Zhao Long closed his tiger mouth tightly, his eyes rolled wildly, and he was very embarrassed: "King Wen, it's not that Zhao Long has no confidence. It is really not possible to train this training navy overnight, with 20,000 cutting-edge sailors against 50,000 elite sailors of Hexi County, this is not a small difficulty, but I am afraid that no one will dare to speak outrageously. ”

Wang Xu nodded, this is indeed the case, Wang Xu said: "Then how long will it take you to train these 20,000 newly recruited soldiers into elite soldiers?" ”

Zhao Long arched his hand and said: "Three years is enough!" ”

"Hehe, in three years, the imperial army is approaching, and the western capital is in danger, how can I sit and wait for three years."

I talked to Zhao Long for a while about training the navy. Wang Xu and his entourage left Xiaoting Lake by boat.

Zhao Long kept sending Wang Xu a few miles away before returning, his expression was very respectful, and from this point of view, Wang Xu was still very satisfied; As for the talent of Zhao Long's water army, Wang Xu has already investigated, and he is indeed a good hand, as for whether he can defeat the water army of Hexi County, it depends on the will of God.

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East County.

It is located in the easternmost part of the empire, the eastern border of the empire, east of the North County and Baoan County.

There is also a Yangtze River here. Like Hexi County, it is also the barrier of East County; In fact, it is the same source as the Yangtze River in Hexi County, and the entire Yangtze River is thousands of miles long, diagonally passing through the Hongzhou continent; However, the Yangtze River in Dongjun is located in the most downstream. However, the Yangtze River in Hexi County is in the upstream.

The prince of Dongjun is the only king with a different surname, he is not a member of the royal family, and the reason why he has this honor is because of his ancestors, nine hundred years ago, a general named Yang Ye. Outstanding meritorious service, sweeping the Quartet for the emperor, was the first general under the emperor at that time.

At this time, a large number of water thieves appeared in the east of the Yangtze River, the emperor sent Yang Ye to take command of the expedition, Yang Ye lived up to the holy hope, and finally made immortal merits, and then, the emperor was overjoyed, and Yang Ye was named the king of Dongjun, Yongzhen Dongjun, hereditary replacement.

The Yang family has been inherited to this day, and the current prince's name is Yang Ming, who was twenty-five years old at the time, a handsome son, and can be called a talent for a while, and Dongjun Wenwu is also all admired.

In the court hall of the Dongjun Wangcheng, Yang Ming gently shook the folding fan in his hand and said, "Your Majesty has a decree to let me provide 20,000 taels of gold and 200,000 quintals of grain from Dongjun, which is twice as much as in previous years." ”

As soon as Yang Ming's voice fell, He Li, who was in charge of the treasury, said: "Lord Wang, although my East County is a big county, but in the past two years, natural disasters have continued, water thieves are rampant, thieves are wanton, last year we added 20,000 new sailors and 20,000 cavalry, and we really can't get so much gold and food for a while." ”

"Joke, doesn't the dignified Dongjun even have this kind of family background?" Yang Ming sneered twice, and then came to the throne and sat down.

Yang Ming said: "As I remember, there are still 130,000 taels of gold and more than 500,000 deniers of grain in the treasury, do you think this king will not know?" ”

He Lidao: "Lord Wang, what you see is the taxes in the account books, and they are painted cakes on paper, and you want to turn all those taxes into real money and silver, into grains of grain, and there are less than one or two left." ”

Huo Yan, the general of the navy, came out and said: "Lord Wang, why is this year's supply twice as much as in previous years?" Even if you want us to turn it in, you have to say something, otherwise, isn't that too wrong? ”

"Furthermore, the last general heard that Hexi County, Guxi County, North County, and Qingyuan County, they didn't pay, why should we pay double, isn't it too much of a deception?"

Yang Ming also felt very aggrieved, but this was a holy decree that could not be violated, and he could only knock out his teeth and swallow blood.

"Now the disaster is everywhere, thieves are everywhere, and the four counties you just mentioned are all rebels and thieves, so the roads are blocked, and the offerings cannot be delivered, Your Majesty has a special decree to let them make up for it later."

Yang Ming said: "As for letting us double the supply, it is understandable, after all, the imperial court sent troops to beg for thieves, and he urgently needed food and ordnance, he didn't ask for us, who did he want?" ”

"Okay, let's discuss it here, collect more from the people, gather enough money and grain, and transport it to the imperial capital."

Yang Ming waved his hand, and then walked towards the apse.

As soon as the court dispersed, all the civil and military officers walked out of the main hall, but among these dozens of civil and military officials, there were two officials wearing county official uniforms who were very eccentric, they did not look like literati at all, and they walked vigorously.

After leaving the palace, the two did not go back to their county office, but walked briskly towards a restaurant, which was called 'Thousand Wounds Restaurant', which was extremely luxurious and extravagant.

Coming to an upstairs room, the two saluted a middle-aged man; "See Lord Banner."

The person sitting was named Dong Lian, who was the general banner of Jinyi Wei arranged by Ye Xiong here, Dong Lian said: "How is it, what did Yang Ming say today?" ”

The two county orders are also Jinyi guards, both of them are small flags, and the position of this county order was bought by Dong Lian for the two of them, in order to install eyeliner in Dongjun.

The two of them talked about what happened today from beginning to end, and finally said: "Lord Zongqi, our opportunity has come!" ”

"What chance?" Dong Lian frowned. (To be continued.) )