I have to say that the officials of the Ming Dynasty were slow to deal with such things, and after the sea wolf actually took control of the Zhoushan Islands, the officials of Ningbo Mansion, Shaoxing Mansion, Jiaxing Mansion and other prefectures did not react much to this, but after the interests of some people were infringed upon, they made a fuss for a while, but seeing that the matter was irreparable, they could only acquiesce in this situation.

Zhejiang's officials and troops have experienced few wars over the years, and the sailors are also in decline, for this kind of thing, they are more than willing and not enough, but fortunately, after the sea wolf took control of the Zhoushan Islands, they did not do anything wrong over there, on the contrary, it also made the local coastal area a lot calmer, and the number of pirates attacking the shore is decreasing day by day. On the contrary, the local Ningbo government felt that the pressure suddenly decreased a lot, so after two years, the officials in Zhejiang actually became accustomed to it.

In the Zhoushan Islands, the Second Fleet also stationed a detachment, which was mainly responsible for controlling the sea in Hangzhou Bay and the Yangtze River estuary, which was equivalent to bringing the coastal area of Nanzhili into their jurisdiction.

As for the Third Fleet, it has now become the Southern Fleet, mainly responsible for the control of the Liangguang and Nanyang areas, including the control of Qiongzhou, that is, the sea surface of Hainan Island, and the home port is directly located in Hong Kong, so that Yu Xiaotian is now the three major fleets officially formed, and each of them truly deserves its own name, and controls its own control area.

Although he has not been able to eliminate all the pirates along China's coast so far, he can basically control the important shipping lanes, the areas where merchant ships enter and exit, and the key coastal islands, but at present, he has not invested enough in the navy, and has been controlling the scale of development of the navy.

In addition to the regular naval establishment, now he is also temporarily under the navy, divided into two departments of fishing supervision and anti-smuggling, but temporarily under the management of the navy, these two departments, also have considerable combat strength, can fully cooperate with the main ships of the navy, carry out operations, and do their own special things in peacetime, either patrol the fishing grounds set up by the sea wolf, or carry out anti-smuggling activities on the main channel, these two pieces can bring huge profits to the sea wolf every year, so they are two income-generating departments.

For example, since Yu Xiaotian came up with a way to demarcate fishing grounds on the sea for fishermen to operate, the development of the coastal fishery has entered the fast lane.

In the past, fishermen along the coast, short of money, mostly used some very small fishing boats or sampans to fish in offshore places, and the harvest was very dangerous, and from time to time they would be attacked by pirates, either forcibly coerced to join the pirates, or simply killed.

In addition, their boats are too small and their ability to resist wind and waves is very poor, and many fishermen will die in the belly of the fish if they suddenly encounter strong winds and waves on the sea.

But since the demarcation of the fishing grounds, these fishermen have a much better life, they can go to the designated fishing grounds to carry out fishing operations, although they have to pay fishing taxes to the sea wolves, but the sea wolves' patrol boats are in the fishing grounds, can provide them with protection, in addition to driving out small groups of pirates in the fishing grounds, but also when the sea is stormy, rescue wrecked fishermen, over the years, just the fishing monitoring boats in the fishing grounds around the country have rescued at least thousands of fishermen.

And fishermen fish in the fishing grounds, the catch can be sold directly to the fishing department of the sea wolf, without being exploited by those fishing tyrants, the purchase price given by the fishery department of the sea wolf is much higher than the price given by those fishing tyrants, many fishing tyrants do not know the power of the sea wolf at first, trying to fight against the sea wolf, but immediately swatted to death by the sea wolf like a fly, which also solves the fishermen's worries.

In addition, Seawolf's money village also provided low-interest loans to fishermen, so that they could buy larger fishing boats and better fishing nets and fishing gear, so that fishermen quickly realized the benefits of fishing in Seawolf's fishing grounds, making fishermen in many places live a much better life.

And the seawolf's fishery department has also become a very good income-generating department, they buy all kinds of fish and self-fishing, salted or air-dried, or even simply frozen, and supply them to the land for sale, or for the military to eat, on the one hand, to generate income, on the other hand, to provide abundant protein and various nutrients for the seawolf's subordinates.

Of course, Yu Xiaotian's sea power is not limited to the navy, and now the merchant fleet of the sea wolf, the scale is large, and it has long been jaw-dropping, the sea wolf is only a variety of medium and large sea ships, there are more than a thousand, all kinds of sailors and crews, but also more than tens of thousands of people, all day long in the shipping lanes of Asia, back and forth trafficking all kinds of materials and commodities, every year to Yu Xiaotian The benefits brought to him are also eye-popping.

Moreover, the seafarers of these merchant fleets are all under semi-military management, and they can be converted to a formal naval establishment at any time as long as necessary, and even if they are not converted to a naval establishment, they can cooperate with the navy at any time to carry out various transportation and even combat operations.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian's current personnel strength at sea alone has reached nearly 100,000 people, and among these people, the vast majority of them are not pure consumption, but personnel who can bring him huge profits, so that they can feed so many people and ships without any pressure.

However, the army is different from the navy, and the army is inferior to the navy in terms of revenue-generating ability, and only some special combat teams or special personnel can bring profits to Yu Xiaotian in peacetime, and the rest of the army can only reap war dividends when it is in military operations.

However, the cost of arming the army is much lower than that of the navy, and an ordinary infantryman, even if you count the most expensive armor and muskets, will not cost much money to arm an infantry.

Therefore, the size of the army has been expanding in the past few years, and now the army is armed with more than 30 standard infantry battalions alone, and one infantry battalion is as high as more than 40,000 according to the strength of 1,300 people.

In addition, in the army of the family army, there are not only standard infantry battalions, but also cavalry, artillery, baggage troops, engineers and other formations, plus special combat teams, the number is even more.

At present, the Yujia army has been armed with five field artillery battalions and two siege heavy artillery battalions, in addition to artillery, each battalion is also equipped with 200 to 300 mules and horses, which are used to tow artillery and tow ammunition vehicles.

In addition, there are baggage battalions, a total of eight baggage battalions, each baggage battalion, with 40 to 50 standard two-wheeled carriages and four-wheeled carriages, which can transport a large amount of supplies for other branches of the military at a time.

As for the engineers, there are only two engineer battalions, and they are divided into ten engineer companies, which are mainly responsible for blasting or digging tunnels during the storm, and mainly cooperate with large-scale military operations in peacetime.

The cavalry is currently the focus of the Yujia army, which is now armed with a total of three cavalry battalions, mainly thanks to the opening of trade channels with Jiannu, and the occupation of Jeju Island, so that they can obtain a large number of war horses, which can equip three cavalry battalions.

The main soldiers of these three cavalry battalions are mainly from the north, of which the Liaodong soldiers and Shandong soldiers account for the vast majority, some of these northern soldiers were captured prisoners when Denglai suppressed the rebellion, after brainwashing and transformation, they were subjugated to the Yujia army, and after careful screening, they were absorbed into the army as cavalry.

These Liaodong people, many people have been in contact with horses since childhood, are familiar with horse nature, are good at riding horses, have strong mobile combat capabilities, and dare not say that they can directly confront the cavalry of Jiannu, but according to the equipment and training of the Yujia army, at least there is a fight with the Guanning army, not to mention the cavalry of the Yujia army, which is mainly responsible for the frontal charge, but mainly used as light cavalry, responsible for reconnaissance, harassment, pursuit, cover and other operations.

Their mode of warfare is mainly to cooperate with the main force to carry out activities, so they will not be concentrated and carry out large-scale cavalry group operations.

At present, Yu Xiaotian is armed with three cavalry battalions, which has made him a little unbearable, these cavalry are too expensive, the war horse looks very majestic, but in fact it is very squeamish, you have to be careful to serve, and you have to eat a lot, the consumption of a war horse in a day has caught up with the consumption of ten infantry, and there must be special personnel to serve them, otherwise there will be problems.

Even if Yu Xiaotian now controls Jeju Island, obtains a large number of horses, and arms so many cavalry, artillery, and baggage soldiers, he really feels unbearable, and after all, just these types of troops are equipped with more than 10,000 war horses, pack horses, horses, and many mules, in the short term, he is not capable of equipping more horses.

However, the army still felt insufficient, and was still clamoring all day long to continue to expand the cavalry establishment, this kind of voice reached Yu Xiaotian's ears really a lot, and Yu Xiaotian slapped him to death, scolding this army, because they don't know the price of firewood and rice.

As for the army, after the collection of all the establishments, the number has now reached as many as 50,000 people, and in addition to some of these soldiers stationed in Fujian in the capacity of officers and soldiers, the rest are divided into Taiwan Island, Jeju Island, Haitan Island, Fushansuo, and Zhifu Island, and some of the soldiers will be stationed in the capacity of regimental training and village bravery.

In addition, in the area of Ha Long Bay, Yu Xiaotian also left two non-full infantry battalions, including two artillery companies, to guard the area of Ha Long Bay to prevent the counterattack of the Li Dynasty army.

It seems that this number is not small, but it is a bit too small for the area where the sea wolf actually controls zhì at present.

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