Compared with the busy government affairs from chaos to governance, the military aspect of Qingzhou can only be described as step-by-step.

The theme of the whole year is military expansion and training.

In addition to the Wind and Fire Cavalry, several major military departments have undergone large-scale expansion. As of December, all armies had basically completed their reorganization and were undergoing arduous drills under the auspices of the commanders-in-chief of the armies.

After the expansion of the army, the largest is Xu Huang's Taishan Army, with 18,000 soldiers alone, plus reserves and auxiliaries, Xu Huang's soldiers and horses alone are already comparable to the Qingzhou Army before the Hebei War.

The expansion of the Yulin Army was only started after Bai Bo arrived. Among Bai Bo's tens of thousands of soldiers, only less than 10,000 really met Wang Yu's requirements, and taking into account factors such as personal wishes, in the end, more than 8,000 Bai Bo supplemented the Yulin Army, more than 10,000 people entered the Chengguan Brigade, and the rest of the people picked up their hoes again.

In this way, the number of soldiers of the Yulin Army also exceeded 15,000, becoming the second largest military system after the Taishan Army.

Huang Zhong's Thunder Army was originally the smallest, and it is still the same, the expanded Thunder Army has only 5,000 soldiers, but the auxiliary troops have reached 20,000!

The reason for this is mainly because of Wang Yu's positioning for this unit, Wang Yu believes that this army should have a tradition of mainly long-range troops. For long-range troops, the number of auxiliaries needed was already the most.

Of course, there are only bows and crossbows now, but certainly not in the future. With the development of Qingzhou's craftsmanship level, all kinds of long-range weapons and siege equipment will continue to appear, and the Thunder Army. He is the best person to operate these weapons.

Wang Yu didn't bother to study things like muskets and artillery, because the Han Dynasty's force was strong enough. It doesn't matter if you have those things or not. In addition, there is not enough basic industrial support. Even if it is barely built, it will not be able to spread it on a large scale.

However, if these weapons came into being in the war, Wang Yu would not deliberately avoid them. He himself imagined that if the smelting process could be improved in the next few years, artillery could still be studied.

The lethality of this thing is not what he values the most, what he values most is the audio-visual effect of the artillery, and it is not very powerful to scare people with this thing by pretending to be a ghost? Besides. Artillery siege is also a good tactic.

Zhangjaw's army missed the Gaotang Alliance, but it did not wander outside the Sixth Army, and Wang Yu assigned it to the Yulin Army series to fight alone. After the end of the Langya War, Zhangjaw's army has also been expanded to a certain extent, and now it has 8,000 troops, guarding one side, so that many generals have completely put down their minds.

With the addition of open jaws, the size of the Yulin Army is still the largest. It's just that the two forces won't merge for the time being.

The Hidden Mist Army is now divided into three parts, and the spy part is under the command of Jia Xu, and continues to fight in the darkness of the enemy territory, the specific number. Except for Jia Xu, Wang Yu and Minchan, no fourth person knows; The special combat team, led by Xu Shu, Pan Zhang, and Ma Zhong, crossed the Taihang Mountain. launched a ** attack on Bingzhou, which made Gao Gan and Yuan Tan miserable.

Finally, there is the newly expanded part. Now. The three thousand recruits, together with their new general Wei Yan, were trained in the devilish style of Wang Yu and Jia Xu in Gaotang. According to Wang Yu's prediction. The elimination rate of training should be one to three, and in the end only a thousand or less will be left.

The smallest action is the two cavalry, since the war, Zhao Yun's wind light cavalry has only been replenished by more than 1,000 people, and now the scale will reach 5,000, and the fire heavy cavalry as Wang Yu's personal guard army has only been replenished by 200 people, barely enough to make up the number of 1,000 people.

The scale of such a cavalry army is actually quite considerable, except for Dong Zhuo, Ma Teng, and Gongsun Zhan, no prince has a cavalry army of such a scale, but compared to the drastic expansion of several other major military systems, the wind and fire cavalry does seem too calm.

Despite this, the Qingzhou Army after completing the rest is also a very terrifying force. The number of troops in the battle sequence alone has exceeded 50,000, plus the auxiliaries, militia and security forces, according to the habits of this era, it is not an exaggeration for Wang Yu to claim to have one million soldiers.

Compared with the army with huge strength, but it has been standing still, in the three years of the first peace, the naval army in Qingzhou was the most beautiful.

The naval army mentioned here is, of course, not the navy that has just seen the beginning.

Regarding Wang Yu's plan to cross to the east, which has been in full swing, the princes basically scoffed at it. Some people think that this is Wang Yu's plan to hide from the sky and cross the sea, and the so-called eastward crossing must be to calculate a certain coastal prince; There are also people who think that he was carried away by the victory and began to get nervous, in short, there is nothing to say, and few people believe it.

Even Gongsun Chan sent an envoy to confirm the matter to Wang Yu, and advised Wang Yu that although the Central Plains seemed to be very calm, there was a huge storm hidden under the calm, and he thought that Wang Yu should still focus on the Central Plains.

This is the trouble of Qu Gao and Widow, Wang Yu will not deliberately explain anything, anyway, no one will understand. Even within Qingzhou, there are many people who have reservations about this, including even important ministers such as Tian Feng and Guoyuan.

No way, who let China have no tradition of sailing?

Not to mention in the Han Dynasty, even in the Song Dynasty, which was extremely prosperous in later generations, and the Ming Dynasty, which went to the West seven times and had the strongest fleet in the world at that time, did not put much effort into navigation.

For the Central Plains, where the land is vast and abundant, people have no enthusiasm or motivation to explore the ocean. Wang Yu had been allowing the reclamation order to continue without taking any action, and it was out of this consideration that if there was no land left in the Central Plains, would he be motivated to explore outward?

The South Seas are far away, and you can't count on them in the near future, but what about those two places that are relatively close? The peninsula in Liaodong is better served as a rehearsal for colonial policy than to allow it to breed bacteria; The island country to the east, which is full of gold and silver, should set off a gold rush instead of letting those treasures sit like that.

It was because of Dongdu's plan that Wang Yu tried his best to complete the initial planning of the business first. After a period of commercial operation, it will be relatively mature, and the exploration fleet should also bear fruit. When the time comes, the tide of colonization and gold rush will be set off, won't it be seamless?

A new monetary system is about to be introduced. It can also be said that the financial system will also grow up on this trend. Only at that time can Qingzhou's rest be completely completed, and Wang Yu can also rest assured that he will launch the Central Plains strategy.

Because at that time, the political and economic system centered on the New Deal would automatically accommodate and infect the newly occupied areas, disperse or transform the old forces, and eliminate local resistance in the shortest possible time, making it a help to the hussars, rather than a resistance.

These thoughts. It is not enough for outsiders, even for Tian Feng and others, Wang Yu can't explain it, and it is difficult to explain it. It's too complicated, it's too advanced, it's too predictable.

Anyway, he can control the overall situation, and there is really no need to explain everything to his subordinates, Wang Yu thought very clearly, and waited until the day when it came to fruition. Let everyone sigh at their foresight.

However, it is precisely because of this that Wang Yu must stay in Gaotang and cannot fight everywhere like before. I can only watch the generals recklessly.

Fortunately, there are no major battles this year, and the most beautiful generals in the Qingzhou Army are not the five generals, nor are they Xu Shu and Zhang Jaw who are Fang Xianzheng. It's Zhou Cang.

Zhou Cang was the commander of the naval army in Qingzhou, although he was drained by the navy. But he still had hundreds of warships and thousands of sailors under his command. This naval army carried the majesty of a great victory in Hedong. Under the banner of escort, it travels to and from the Yellow River Basin, including various tributaries of the Yellow River, which can be described as majestic.

Zhang Yang's navy was all copied in the first battle of Mengjin, and Lü Bu's relationship with Qingzhou is now very ambiguous, as long as the Qingzhou navy is not a key pass town in Luoyang, he can't raise troops against him. What's more, the Bingzhou Army also has no tradition of naval army, and it may be humiliating to fight if it really starts, and of course Lu Bu will not do such an unwise move.

Of course, the most important reason is that the Qingzhou Navy is beneficial and harmless to the princes.

Once commodities are in circulation, they will be followed by the prosperity of the territory and the fall of prices, which is especially evident in Hedong and the Sanfu area.

Before the merchant group in Qingzhou arrived by water, the price of goods in Chang'an had risen to a very terrifying level, a bucket of rice was 100,000 yuan, a load of salt was a million yuan, and the life of the ministers of the DPRK and China was very embarrassing, not to mention ordinary soldiers and civilians.

The salt in the Central Plains is almost monopolized by Qingzhou, and the bold businessmen who are not willing to die pass through the war-torn land of the Central Plains and sell it to Hedong, Sanfu, the price of salt is naturally very high, coupled with the inflation caused by Dong Zhuo's money, the price of salt is high to the sky, what is the wonder?

The reason why Li Dao and Guo Yan wanted to fight Bai Bo in the east of the river was because they wanted to seize the salt lake controlled by Bai Bo, which was the largest salt producing area west of Hangu Pass, in order to alleviate the crisis of salt prices.

Salt and rice are necessities for human survival, and Dong Zhuo has to be cautious.

When the Qingzhou business group came, these crises were greatly alleviated. Among the goods carried by Qingzhou merchants, there are not only luxury goods such as paper and handicrafts, but also scarce materials such as grain, and most importantly, these people are willing to accept the small money minted by Dong Zhuo!

Although they will keep the price of a small amount of money very low, as long as someone collects this thing, it is good, who still has the heart to pick and choose the fat and the thin?

What's more, the price given by Qingzhou people is also relatively fair, and it is calculated according to weight. You must know that the copper content in Dong Zhuo's small money may be less than half, and the people of Qingzhou are already very kind.

It is not for nothing that Qingzhou merchants regard them as fat sheep, mountain bandits and water bandits, plus all the forces pretending to be mountain bandits and water bandits, are all in this list, which can be described as a group of wolves.

This is the time for the navy to exert its might, and Zhou Cang will speak with a big blade to these ghosts. There is not much difference between the navy and the army in this era, and fighting on the water is also a hand-to-hand fight with a jumping boat, and there is no doubt about the fierceness of the Qingzhou navy.

Pan Zhang and Ma Zhong in Wei County will also come to make a cameo appearance from time to time, the real and false thieves hit Zhou Cang, they may just be repulsed, if they are unlucky and bump into these two, then they can't survive and die.

According to the statistics of a year, the navy army fought the most battles, and thousands of enemies were killed before and after.

Of course, no one will ignore the huge hussar army because of the scenery of the navy.

Of course, the combat effectiveness of the expanded unit cannot be compared with that of the past, after all, many veterans have retired and many new recruits have joined. But no one doubts what terrifying destructive power the Hussar Sixth Army, once mobilized, will bring.

Fortunately, the lion had been dormant and waiting, without showing its teeth and claws, so the princes were not too nervous.

However, the hidden dragon is in the abyss, and one day it will soar in the sky, in order to accumulate enough strength before this day, Wang Yu and all the princes are working hard in their own way.