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"The last general will wait to see the son!" Ma Jiuyu and Zeng Yangxing, deputy generals of the Tiger Army, and Wang Zhenbang and Huang Dazhong, commanders of the Mawei Navy, respectively led the infantry and navy armies on both sides of the hall to welcome Geng Jingzhong's arrival in unison.

Geng Jingzhong just nodded and walked directly to his special seat in the innermost. "Everyone, sit down, I just want to meet you today, many brothers haven't seen you for a long time, I miss you!"

"Hahaha!" The crowd burst into laughter.

"Just kidding, let's get down to business. It's been another month, what's going on now? Uncle Ma, you talk about it first. ”

Ma Jiuyu immediately stood up and hugged his fist: "Shizi, our Tiger Army is not just a tiger now, we can not only fight land battles now, but also water battles." In the past month, more than 10,000 brothers have been practicing swimming and diving every day. Our soldiers are now all all-rounders! ”

Zeng Yangxing also stood up and said: "Shizi, our soldiers are full of food and drink every day, and they are growing strong, and each of them is training seriously; If you want to talk about combat effectiveness, the last general can be sure that if the world's elite foot soldiers, if our Tiger Army retreats to the second, no one will dare to call it the first. ”

"That's it!"

"That's it!"

The following commanders, Qianhu and others echoed for a while, most of them followed the Geng family all the way, and they had seen the power of the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry, and they had also seen the power of the Guanning Iron Cavalry, and they had fought with the Ming Army and Li Zicheng. This is said to be the starting army, and they have the absolute right to speak. The hard training in the daily days made the soldiers unusually strong, coupled with strict discipline, so that the whole army advanced and retreated in an orderly and uniform manner; It's definitely a first-class infantry army, but it's a little less numerous.

"Hey, don't be proud of the generals, the soldiers of the Eight Banners and Wu Sangui are not vegetarians, we still have to insist on training. By the way, do you know all the holy decrees issued by the imperial court? ”

"I know the son, that's it, we can't figure it out!" When it comes to this holy decree, Ma Jiuyu is really a fire in his belly, and if a good infantry army has to be incorporated into the navy, then won't his Tiger Army be gone? "The imperial court doesn't know what to think, so it cut off our infantry army like this, I'm really angry!"

"General Ma, don't be angry, anyway, there are no bandits in Fujian, and no matter how strong the brothers of the Tiger Army are, there is no place for them. It just so happens that now all the brothers are in the water, and they can show their skills when they come to the ship, the pirates on the sea, the Zheng family on the other side, some of them are fighting for you! Wang Zhenbang welcomed this holy decree very much, and he hoped that the Mawei Navy would continue to grow.

"Commander Wang, you don't have a backache when you stand and talk, and try to withdraw all your navy?" Zeng Yangxing looked at his smiling face unpleasantly, and said outright. Wang Zhenbang was far less prestigious than Ma Jiuyu, and after being said, he shrank back stupidly and stopped talking.

"Uncle Ma, Uncle Zeng, the court said that the army would be abolished, but I didn't say it, I still have the final say here. Rest assured, the LTTE will not withdraw; However, on the surface, the Tiger Army is no longer stationed in various parts of Fujian, and all of them have been moved to Mawei, and the military camp here is about to be expanded. ”

The Tiger Army generals sitting on the left couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, in the past few days after receiving the holy order, they couldn't eat or sleep well. If the Tigers were to be cut off and put into the navy, many of them would have to give way. After all, the navy and the army are different, and each large ship in the navy fleet has a captain who commands the officers and men of the whole ship; They don't know naval warfare, they don't know the direction of the wind, they don't know the currents, and they certainly can't do it.

"I mean, according to the decree of the imperial court, there is no longer a zài in the army. But we can't really dismantle the Army, and from today onwards, the LTTE will be changed to the Marine Army. The Marine Corps is specifically responsible for land operations, and although it is nominally part of the Navy, it is self-contained and is still under the command of Uncle Ma and Uncle Zeng. The last battle report was presented to the imperial court, and the imperial court gave a lot of rewards, and many of the generals here were promoted, but don't be proud, all the troops still have to train as usual. ”

"Yes!" The admiral on the right is indeed smiling. Now they can expand the navy in a bright way, and for them, the future is great!

"Commander Wang, how is the training of the navy now? Did all the sailors agree to join the Navy? ”

"Back to the world, all the naval officers and men are training hard day and night. We now have a total of eighty-five warships, large and small, of which sixty have captured the Zheng family and are intact; Twenty captured pirates, repaired and ready for use; Plus our own five of the largest. Eighty-five ships were numbered at a full capacity of 12,000 according to Captain Steve's arrangement. Most of the sailors and fishermen who were recruited last time were willing to join us, and the others who were unwilling were sent to Yinliang to let them go home. At present, there are 11,542 soldiers in the navy, including me and Commander Huang. Wang Zhenbang stood up and reported loudly to Geng Jingzhong, such strength really made him full of confidence.

"Well, yes, the Navy should train well and learn from Steve. We haven't played Sailor before, this navy is also a start-up, we don't understand anything, and there are too many places to learn. "At this time, nearly 100 warships are already a very strong fleet, but their own family knows their own affairs, and the current Mawei Navy has its form but no god, and it is not vulnerable to a war at all; Once in the sea, it is almost at the mercy of man.

"Shizi, there will be something to say at the end!" Huang Dazhong then stood up and said. Geng Jingzhong nodded and motioned for him to continue. "Shizi, recently, the following soldiers came to report that after a month of training, many artillery pieces were damaged and the gunpowder in the warehouse has been used for less than half a month, so the last general implores Shizi to allocate artillery ammunition, otherwise the next training will be difficult to continue."

"Oh, this thing, the ammunition is ready-made, just transfer it from Fuzhou City. There is not much of this artillery now, so the soldiers below should pay attention to it when they train, and fire fewer cannons every day. At least two months there was no replacement of artillery. Geng Jingzhong is also anxious about this problem, he just inspected the cannon casting workshop the day before yesterday, and it is definitely impossible to produce a batch of artillery in a short time!

"This time I'm here not only to see how you're doing in training, but also to have an important thing for you to do. As you may have heard, a commercial port is being built on Monkey Island, not far from here. It was built by me in collaboration with the major families of Fujian Province in order to develop maritime trade. Then why does Zheng Jing in Taiwan have so many warships? Isn't it all earned by his grandfather and his son from developing maritime trade! In the future, our Mawei Navy will be the backing of the Fuzhou Ocean Trading Company, and the trading company will be our God of Wealth, and the whole army will depend on this trading company to feed us in the future. Geng Jingzhong saw that these soldiers didn't understand this, so he said directly: "Your task in the future is to escort the trading company, and the trading company will give everyone silver." I have already reserved shares for all the generals of 100 or more households in the trading company, and the minimum annual benefit must be 1,000 taels, and the maximum is about 6,000 or 7,000 taels! ”

"A thousand taels?"

"Six or seven thousand taels!"

So many? All the generals and officials present were very surprised, you must know that the most of them, Ma Jiuyu and Zeng Yangxing, the two of them, from the second rank of the deputy general, officially set a year of only 60 taels, an additional 240 taels, vegetables candle charcoal silver 70 taels, lamp red paper silver 100 taels, Lu rice 80 stones, all folded into silver is 500 taels, 100 household officials a year is only a little more than 100 taels. Since last year, Geng Jingzhong has greatly increased the salary of generals, but it is less than double that of the official. One thousand taels can be said to be more than six years of income for 100 household officials, and the higher the level, the more dividends you get! Such a benefit is something they can't think of, and their current net worth is estimated to be so much!

"Shizi, just say what we should do now. No matter what, we'll do it for you! He Kui, a thousand households in the Kuizi camp, first stood up and said loudly, he usually spends a lot of money and has little money in his hands, and his eyes are green when he hears Geng Jingzhong's words.

"That's right, you will command. We've done our best to do it for you! ”

"Shizi, say it!"

The generals below are full of emotion, there is a way to be an official for thousands of miles only for money, although they are military attachés, but they also have to live, and they also have to feed their families. Since ancient times, no one has thought that they have a lot of silver, let alone fair and honest silver.

Geng Jingzhong stretched out his finger and waved it, motioning for everyone to return to their seats. "The task given to you now is to train well, and when you go to sea in the future, you will be their protector. If the merchant ships are robbed by pirates in the future, you won't get a penny! ”

Each of the following generals didn't care about the word pirate at all, and in their minds, they were still afraid of those stragglers? That's really a joke, if they can't even deal with pirates by then, they will be disbanded now, what else to practice!

"Tomorrow morning, a shipment of silver will be delivered here. Ten days ago I ordered you to build a cellar for the purpose of storing silver! That's 22 million taels in total, enough to fill those cellars! ”

"Twenty-two million taels! Oh my God, that's a mountain of silver! ”

"With so much money coming to Fuzhou from all over the country, it's impossible to hide it. The lowest official position here is also Qianhu, but in the barracks, I don't want anyone else to know. Now this silver cellar is in the middle of our barracks, and every day I send heavy troops to guard it, and a dozen of you take turns to replace it. ”

"The last general commands!"

"Alright, sit down. This silver will be put under our noses in the future, and if it is not tight, I think this Fujian territory is still everyone's attention to it. Now there is one last thing left to command. Geng Jingzhong looked at more than a dozen generals and smiled: "The last thing is the most important thing today, that is, ---- expand the army!" ”

"Expand!"

"The army has finally been expanded," the generals were immediately overjoyed when they heard the news. Today's happy events are coming one after another, first to get rich, and now to be promoted! Hahaha, it's really fun, it's not okay to be happy.

"Since the imperial court has issued a holy decree for us to expand the water division, then let's expand it! From tomorrow onwards, I will send people out to recruit people from all over Fujian. Now we have silver, and no matter how many people can afford it. As he spoke, he pulled out a piece of paper from his sleeve and wrote it all over it. This one is the selection criteria I listed last night. In this large-scale expansion of the army, we must strive for perfection and recruit the best. When I went down to recruit people, I was given publicity in place, especially our food standards and living meals, and the people recognized this! The total quota is 20,000 people, congratulations, you have more and more soldiers! ”

"Die for the Son!" The generals shouted in unison.

"Uncle Ma, this is for you, I'll leave first, everyone is gone, let's get busy!" After speaking, he handed the paper with the selection criteria written on it to Ma Jiuyu, and let him walk out first.