Soon all the people came and kowtowed to Yang Chao, and Yang Chao called them up and asked them one by one.

Under the command of the chief military attaché, there are nominally more than 400 soldiers, but now there are only 15 soldiers in the barracks, which is all the soldiers of Yang Chao's general corps.

Among them, there are two officers, two general flags, one has seven subordinates, one has eight subordinates, and each of them has a captain, and this captain should have twelve subordinates according to the regulations, but in fact, the two captains are both bare-bones commanders, and everything is decided by the two banners.

Because these two flags are not only officers, but also parents.

These dozen or so people are all relatives, brothers, and nephews of the two.

The relationship between the two flag officers didn't seem to be very good, and when Yang Chao asked, they rushed to answer, glaring at each other from time to time.

There are seven chief flag officers named Chen Kuan, a man in his fifties, who has been a soldier for more than 30 years, a native of Nanjing, who lives in Shuiximen, and was born in the left guard of the navy.

There are eight subordinates named Li Fu, who are also locals, who live outside the Jubao Gate, and are the military households of the right guard of the navy.

When Yang Chao asked why the barracks were so big, Li Fu replied that this was originally the barracks of the left outpost, and there were 3,000 people at that time, but now it is just the barracks of the general team, so it is so big and empty.

When asked why the barracks were so dilapidated, Chen Kuan said that the Hongwu and Yongli dynasties built the barracks, and later when there was a disturbance with the Japanese invaders, they were renovated once, and after the Japanese were pacified, no one repaired them, and they had not been renovated for seventy or eighty years.

When asked how to practice, the two chief flag officers laughed and said that after the Japanese Kou, it was stipulated that "the general sentinel officers of the north and south will meet in a moderate place every five days, and the generals will also meet on the river twice a month." After that, it doesn't work. In Chongzhen, the lord is appointed to control the river, and it becomes a habit to be lazy, and the sentinel patrol is false, and there is no real thing. ”

In short, after the troubles of the Japanese Invaders, the Jiangfang drill was a mere formality, and Emperor Chongzhen simply let Xun be the commander of the Jiangfang, basically even the form was gone, and no one practiced at all.

Yang Chao sighed secretly in his heart, even his own general manager was bought from Gu Zhaoji, the Hou Ye, and he was not qualified to talk about others.

Yang Chao asked why vegetables were planted in the camp.

Li Fu immediately replied that he had not been paid military salaries for many years, and he had to have a livelihood, and it was not easy to support his family.

He also reported that Chen Kuan was raising pigs.

Then the two chief flag officers quarreled, Li Fu said that pigs should not be raised in the barracks, and everywhere was smelly, and Chen Kuan said that vegetables should not be grown in the barracks, and there were insects everywhere, and the two could not argue.

Yang Chao just entered the barracks, in fact, he saw it, and he couldn't help but be dumbfounded at the time, to be honest, he didn't have hope for the army of the Ming Dynasty, and knew that military discipline was lax, but he didn't expect that to such a point, he could grow vegetables and raise pigs in the barracks, which was too imaginative.

I continued to talk to the two of them, and I knew about the situation in the camp.

One of the two chief flag officers took people to grow vegetables in the barracks for a living, and the other took people to raise pigs for business, not only were they in the barracks, but their families were all here, and their food, clothing, housing and transportation were all solved in the barracks.

And the soldiers under the two of them are also their sons and nephews.

If they are sincere soldiers, it is better to say that they have taken a fancy to the dozens of acres of land and those barracks here.

Yang Chao saw it right, these two people did have a deep contradiction, because Li Fu's vegetables were often eaten by Chen Kuan's pigs, the vegetable fields were arched to sparsely, and Chen Kuan's pig manure was often secretly taken by Li Fu to fertilize the fields.

Therefore, not only did the two not have a good relationship, but they even brought people to fight.

As for the former general, because there was a broken ship, the general manager took a dozen soldiers with him to help the merchants of Jiangkou transport goods to the other side, who knew that he was killed by Jiang bandits, and not a single boatload of people came back.

This matter has been in trouble for a while, because of this matter, no one has come to take office, they all feel unlucky, and no one wants to be the boss.

Yang Chao also knew that when Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di were in power, the camp was indeed relatively strong, and there were tens of thousands of people in the barracks at most times, and tens of thousands at the least.

After the Japanese were quelled, the garrison was small, but there were also 3,500 people, divided into three parts, one part was the local soldiers in Nanjing drawn from the guards such as the left and right guards of the navy, and there were two rotations of squad troops from other places.

But now the squad army has long been unable to rotate, and these local military households in Nanjing are left.

In the past, because there was a broken ship, the predecessor needed manpower to do business with the ship, so he was willing to raise people, so there were more than 30 people, compared to some of them, there were not even 20 people in the general team.

As for the ships in the navy, the warships were on the roster, but they were not actually in the battalions.

There are still 400 on the list of cao boats, but most of them have been directly leased to cao merchants by officials at all levels.

The task of escorting the grain was also handed over to the grain merchants, and some of the sailors simply worked for the grain merchants under the leadership of the officers.

It stands to reason that the ships of the navy are all made by the Longjiang shipyard behind the barracks, and when Yang Chao just passed by, he saw that the shipyard was still thriving, and the large and small docks were full of ships being manufactured.

In fact, they are all made for merchants, and it is the craftsmen and supervisors of these shipyards who privately use the equipment and materials of the shipyards to make money for themselves.

According to Li Fu and Chen Kuan's words, it is called relying on the mountains to eat the mountains and borrowing chickens to lay eggs, just like they grow vegetables and raise pigs.

After asking, Yang Chao did not say anything, but the two chief flag officials said that they would follow the rules and honor Yang Chao a sum of money every month, and Yang Chao had a part of the income from raising pigs and growing vegetables, about one to three taels of silver per month.

Yang Chao did not say that he was satisfied, nor did he express his dissatisfaction, and after asking questions, he sent the two chief flag officers.

Walking around the barracks, I found that the vacant land had been reclaimed for vegetable fields, and many of the barracks had been converted into pigsties.

I heard that the entire Xinjiang Estuary Naval Army Battalion is like this.

In the past, there were tens of thousands of troops, but now there are less than 1,000 people, and they are not trained at all, and many recruits have not seen weapons after serving as soldiers for several years.

Before noon, Yang Chao went home.

The situation of the naval camp is beyond Yang Chao's imagination, especially if there is not even a serious soldier, is this still called a military camp.

Yang Chao knew that it was not that the imperial court could not recruit soldiers now, but that it could not raise soldiers.

If there are to be recruits, those soldiers have to be raised by officers, so no officers ask the higher authorities to fill the vacancies.

Moreover, many local soldiers do not go to the barracks in normal times, but live at home all the year round to do other work to support their families, and the officers not only do not stop them, but even secretly encourage such registered soldiers to flee, because if there is one less soldier, he will eat one more empty salary.

Yang Chao was still enthusiastic, but a scoop of cold water came down, making him extremely unhappy.

I thought that I had to strictly restrain my subordinates, train diligently, and train an elite soldier.

But it turned out that there were no soldiers to train for themselves, and if they really wanted to recruit soldiers, they had to raise them themselves.

In the evening the family eats.

His father Yang Yong was the last to know the news of Yang Chao's official, and he couldn't believe it at all.

In the end, at the request of his mother and the encouragement of his sister, Yang Chao simply put out the seven-grade official uniform again.

Seeing his son wearing an official uniform, Yang Yong had to believe it.

"Dang, really dang, really an official!"

Yang Yong opened his eyes and muttered.

Then he suddenly became at a loss, left and right, couldn't stop, and kept saying 'I'm an official'.

This frightened Yang Chao, and he was happy as an official, but he didn't expect his family to be even happier, and his father was even more happy.

Yang Chao couldn't help but worry, after reading it, he knew that a person in the Ming Dynasty could make a scholar crazy with joy, and if he became an official, his father wouldn't be crazy with joy.

"Dad, are you alright?"

Yang Chao had already picked up the wine jug, intending to spray a sip of wine on his father's face to calm him down.

My father waved his hand, but he couldn't hold back the muscles on his face and giggled.

Reluctantly squeezed out a few words: "It's okay, dad is happy, dad is happy!" ”

Tears squeezed out of her eyes as she spoke.

It has been delayed for more than half an hour before my father can eat at the table, and his face still beats from time to time, hehe.

In order to divert his attention, Yang Chao talked to him.

My father later casually mentioned that he met the housekeeper of the Xu family today, and the housekeeper had a good attitude towards him, and said that if the family was in trouble, the debt was easy to talk about, so there was no need to worry.

The father thinks that this is also a happy event, it seems that his own family has been transferred, not only his son has become an official, but even the Xu family has been polite to his own family.

Hearing this news, Yang Chao was also a little more down-to-earth, and it was not without purpose to invite Xu Zhongxiao to go to Ruan's Hefang.

Among the officials, in addition to inviting Yang Wencong, the civil official, that is, Xu Zhongxiao, a hundred households in brocade clothes.

At that time, the number of places was limited, and if one more scribe could be invited, he would have more influence, and he wasted a place to invite Xu Zhongxiao, not for anything else, just to scare him and make him quiet for a while.

After this period of time, Yang Chao should clean him up, and then he doesn't need to live in the shadow of Jinyiwei's power.

Yang Chao's purpose is clear, that is, to deter Xu Zhongxiao, let Xu Zhongxiao see that he has relationships with many big people, and let him suspend or give up his plan to bully the Yang family.

But Yang Chao didn't plan to do this, Xu Zhongxiao almost beat his father to death, and later dared to ask his sister to go to her house as a servant, this revenge cannot be avenged.

What's more, Yang Chao knows that he is still bluffing now, he does know those big shots, but he doesn't have the slightest confidence to let those big shots stand out for themselves, once he encounters something, let alone Zhang Pu and Zhou Yanru, even Ruan Dacheng may not care about himself.

These people are still only in their own network, and when they find the right opportunity, they will be extremely powerful.

But Yang Chao's own identity is not very solid on this relationship network, to put it bluntly, he is just a name, letting people know that there is such a number one person as him in the circle, but he is still very low in the ranking, and he can't command others on the Internet.

Therefore, Yang Chao can only scare Xu Zhongxiao into temporarily throwing himself into a rat trap, and he does not dare to force the Yang family too much, because Yang Chao knows that he has no actual strength, but Xu Zhongxiao doesn't know, he will definitely care about whether there is any powerful power behind Yang Chao, as long as Xu Zhongxiao does not fully understand the details of Yang Chao, Yang Chao is a bow that does not start, and Xu Zhongxiao must be on guard.

But if Yang Chao can't use this net to increase his strength as soon as possible, climb to a higher position in the circle as soon as possible, and retreat as soon as possible, I'm afraid he will quickly fade out of this net, and then it will be time for Xu Zhongxiao to see through his reality and begin to be like a wolf and get entangled again.

Therefore, Yang Chao must completely defeat Xu Zhongxiao, and he must also beat him as soon as possible in order to remove his threat to his family.

Otherwise, when Xu Zhongxiao reacted, he knew that Yang Chao only had one skin, and it would be Yang Chao who would die at that time.

This time, he not only scared Xu Zhongxiao once, but also cheated Xu Zhongxiao for 10,000 taels of silver, and he had a big enmity with the Xu family.

With Xu Zhongxiao's character and temperament, he will not give up if he does not return it a hundred times and a thousand times.

However, Yang Chao still has to wait, the time is not yet, he must at least receive the news that Zhou Yanru will become the first assistant before he can act.

Because only at that time can Yang Chao take advantage of Zhou Yanru's limelight to climb up a distance on this net.

in order to grasp more powerful power.