Baoshan Acropolis.

Seeing that the emotions of the officers in the audience became excited, Zhu Daolin waved his hand, signaling everyone to be quiet, his eyes swept over the father and son of the Yuan family whose faces were constantly changing, he secretly sneered in his heart, continued to look ahead, and said loudly:

"Everyone, please be quiet! We didn't know each other before, and I guess a lot of people have heard rumors about me, so I don't want to explain too much here, but I just want to tell you one thing, one thing that few people know......"

"I, Zhu Daolin, joined the army at the age of 17, although I was a soldier overseas, but I really became a soldier for 3 years, and I really trained hard for 3 years, and then I converted to Taoism and traveled the world. Therefore, in essence, I am a martial artist like all of you, and since I am a martial artist, I should speak and do things in the style of a martial artist, and there is no need to learn from the rotten Confucianism of the literati. ”

"Now I will tell you why you are invited to the meeting, and after saying that, I will give two orders."

All the officers in the audience immediately became nervous, and more than 20 officers of Baoshanwei, including Shi Qingyang, all sat up and pricked up their ears to listen carefully.

Zhu Daolin regained his usual indifference, and his loud voice was not hurried or slow, and it was very steady: "There are three reasons why I invited everyone to come, one is that as the commander of Baoshanwei, I need to meet my subordinates; Secondly, I want everyone to know what kind of official I am Zhu Daolin; Third, inform everyone to recruit troops as soon as possible, restore the structure, and then according to the actual situation of each 1,000 and 100 households, redivide their respective defense areas, clarify their respective responsibilities, gradually replenish warships and weapons and equipment, restart training, and reinvigorate the military prestige of our Daming Naval Division! ”

"As for military spending, including the purchase of warships and weapons and equipment, I Zhu Daolin is responsible for it, and from the end of this month, in accordance with the military rank system stipulated by the Ming army. Pay the military salary in full, and no longer let you and our soldiers suffer and be unable to feed your family. ”

When the words fell, the hall was silent, followed by thunderous cheers and excitement, and all the officers were excited and shouted in celebration. Dancing and saying that the hard days have finally come to an end.

Zhu Daolin glanced at the father and son of the Yuan family who were full of shock with his afterglow, and saw that the 28-year-old Yuan Laosan of the Yuan family suddenly stood up, and was so excited that he waved his fist hand again and again, and felt a little strange in his heart, and couldn't help but look at him more.

After a full two minutes of hustle and bustle, the officers in the audience slowly quieted down, and most of the officers who were looking forward to it looked at Zhu Daolin with blazing eyes, looking forward to the order he was about to issue.

Zhu Daolin saw that the time had come, and nodded slightly. He announced loudly: "I now announce two orders: First, the current setup of each institute and the positions of all officers shall remain unchanged, and within five days, each institute must report the existing officers and men, warships, barracks, docks, number of military fields, and weapons and equipment to the newly promoted Baoshanwei commander Chai Cheng'an for storage. ”

"According to the situation reported by you, this officer will formulate a plan for the purchase of warships, supplement the missing weapons and equipment of the officers and soldiers of each institute, and allocate a special fund according to the actual situation of each institute. It is used for the construction of barracks and the farming subsidy for military households. ”

With a "boom", the audience boiled again.

The vast majority of officers rejoiced and rejoiced. Only a few officers who encroached on the land of the military households and turned them into their own slaves had complicated expressions.

Zhu Daolin signaled everyone to be quiet, and then issued a second order: "The second order: Within five days, the Baoshanwei special training camp will be formed, and all officers under the age of 32, or outstanding soldiers who are in the prime of life and have experience in operating warships, can sign up for a five-month special military training. ”

"The training includes basic military training, artillery and musket operation training, and on-board practice operations. Those who pass the training will be promoted to one level in military rank, and will be given priority to serve as officers at all levels of the fleet of the Baoshan detachment that will be formed! ”

"Please note that this is not mandatory, but voluntary. Officers and men who are willing to sign up for the training camp will receive double their salaries from the date of registration, and if they are killed, injured or disabled in the rigorous training, their families will receive a pension of 200 taels of silver until the end of the training and other posts will be arranged! ”

The audience was shaken, and Zhu Daolin sat down slowly, and instructed Chai Cheng'an, the 29-year-old commander that Wei Guogong had given him, to serve the food as soon as possible.

After the two thunderous orders were announced, where could the officers and soldiers present eat? Even if you serve phoenix liver and dragon meat at this moment, it is not as important as your future.

The father and son of the Yuan family are even more unhappy in their hearts.

Zhu Daolin's seemingly generous actions are actually a one-shot deal, clearly telling them that they must make a choice within five days, otherwise no matter how big the force and how many people and horses there are, in the end they will still not be able to get rid of the fate of being excluded and isolated.

Zhu Daolin's hospitality lunch is a standard three meals and one soup, and the three bowls of dishes on each table are braised fish pieces, boiled white meat and stir-fried shrimp with choy sum, and the soup is tofu and seaweed soup.

The officers of the guard station, who had their own concerns, finished their lunch in only half an hour, put down their bowls and hurriedly left.

Zhu Daolin instructed more than a dozen firehead soldiers to put off tidying up, wandered around to check the remaining meals on each table, and finally found that there was not much food left on the 40 tables on the right and back, and the boiled white meat with plenty of oil and water was basically eaten, while the remaining meals on the 20 tables on the left were more than half, and the Yuan family's father and son's table except for tofu and seaweed soup, other meat and vegetarian dishes were basically untouched.

The general of the Baoshan Institute, who accompanied Zhu Daolin to inspect together, quickly understood what it meant, and the commander Chai Cheng'an also felt a big headache, pointed to the table of the Yuan family father and son and the leftover meals on the side table, and said helplessly:

"Chongming Thousand Households are richer than we expected!"

"I have long heard that the Yuan family father and son and Jiangbei salt merchants have colluded, and if the private salt from the coastal area of Yangzhou and even Shandong Lingshanwei wants to go up the river, they must go to the Chongming Houdao to worship the wharf, and the Yuan family father and son sent warships to escort them to various places upstream, and they have accumulated millions of family wealth over the years, and their lives are naturally extremely nourishing."

"It takes ten days and a half for soldiers like these soldiers to eat a good meal, and it's normal for them to look down on it."

All the generals nodded frequently, knowing that what Chai Chengan said was still polite, and the real situation was far more serious than what Chai Chengan said.

In addition to colluding with salt merchants and smugglers, the father and son of the Yuan family are also the bosses of the rivers and lakes within a radius of 200 miles.

Most of the bandits on more than a dozen small islands in the coastal waters have long-term contacts with the Yuan family and his son, and the nearly 5,000 people living on the island after Chongming are the domestic slaves of the Yuan family and his son, and less than 400 officers and soldiers have been retained for a long time to be non-productive.

Even if the 5,000 house slaves who rented land for cultivation and rented boats for fishing handed over to the Yuan family 50% of the land rent and fish tax, they still lived a good life, and over time, the Yuan family became a powerful party that could not be splashed by water.

If it weren't for Zhu Daolin's fame, and the new official taking office and issuing a stern order, the Yuan family's father and son would definitely not be present today, and according to the usual practice, only Zhu Daolin came to the door to ask for their share.

However, the generals admired Zhu Daolin's response very much today, and while not touching the existing interests of the Yuan family father and son, he weakened the influence of the Yuan family and his son by supporting several other health offices, which was undoubtedly the safest, but no one could guess what Zhu Daolin would do next.

Facing the expectant eyes of the generals, Zhu Daolin ordered the Huotou Army to withdraw from the table, and then told Shi Qingyang a few words, and then walked out of the courtyard with Chai Cheng'an, the commander of Baoshanwei, who had not been in office for a few days, and continued to inspect the various resettlement sites for the victims.

As soon as Zhu Daolin and Chai Chengan walked through the courtyard gate, a group of hundreds of households immediately surrounded Shi Qingyang and asked what the general meant?

As Zhu Daolin's confidant general, Shi Qingyang naturally knew what it meant, but before Zhu Daolin's drastic measures were launched, he would never say it, but just shook his head and said that he didn't know, leaving only a vague sentence of "wait and see" for everyone under his command.

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