So now the strength of the Sea Wolf's army has surpassed that of the navy by a large margin, which makes the army personnel feel a little arrogant, and feel that they can compete with the navy in all aspects.

In the past two years, the Sea Wolf's army has tried to compete with the navy in terms of recruitment and budget, but because of the difference in technology, the army's budget has never been able to exceed the navy, which makes the army a little unhappy.

For this reason, Yu Xiaotian recruited the army's chief general in front of him and reprimanded him in person, explaining to his face that the structure of the army and navy is different, and the technology and equipment are different, which means that the navy will definitely occupy greater resources during this time.

After all, although the navy is now inferior to the army, but the navy has to equip ships and a large number of artillery, and the logistics and maintenance also have to cost a lot, and the army is relatively speaking, it is naturally far from it, after all, in addition to the war horse, the army's individual equipment is not too valuable, a set of armor plus a flintlock pistol, as well as military uniforms and daily necessities, and does not cost much.

And because the number of horses is currently Yu Xiaotian does not want to reveal too much hidden strength, most of the horses are still placed on Haitan Island and Jeju Island for training and private breeding, and the actual number of horses equipped by the army is still very small, which also limits the army from equipping more artillery.

Therefore, although the army has a large number of people, it cannot catch up with the navy when it spends money, although the army is not very convinced, but this is also a fact, after all, the rich navy and the poor army, this is a fact that cannot be changed, the navy is only armed with the most ordinary warship, and the silver consumed is at least enough to arm a battalion of the army.

Although the Seawolves have begun to gradually shift to focus on the development of army strength, for the current stage, the navy is still their foothold, and no one can change the current reality.

Although the Seawolf Group has invested heavily in military funds, the two armies are not just consuming resources and not producing anything.

Let's talk about the navy first, since the navy officially established the three major fleets, Yu Xiaotian has completely controlled the entire coastal area of Fujian, although he did not blatantly send the navy to expand the territory on the sea, but it did not prevent him from secretly manipulating.

First of all, the navy is responsible for anti-smuggling operations along the coast of Fujian, and every year it can catch many ships that do not pay for the road and try to secretly go to sea to do business, and every year it confiscates a lot of goods and ships; in addition, each fleet secretly sends some of its men and ships to the north or south to Zhejiang, Nanzhili, Shandong, and the coastal areas of Guangzhou, and even to the sea in the Nanyang area, disguised as pirates, and do some black work.

The scale of such an operation is quite large, in addition to keeping the navy in a state of intense rotation training at all times, maintaining navigation skills and combat capability, the annual income brought back is also extremely considerable, and the profits they earn are almost enough to feed the entire navy, and there is even a considerable surplus.

As for the army, it is slightly worse than the navy, and the army discipline is very strict, and of course it cannot be like the navy, which makes a big noise and disguises itself as a pirate and runs outside Fujian to become a bandit.

However, this does not mean that the army has no income, and the army has carried out many military operations on the land in Fujian in recent years, and although they have strict military discipline and do not easily disturb the people, it does not mean that they do not want to find a way to get money.

Through the suppression of bandits, after each victory, they can still have quite a lot of captures, in addition to providing Taiwan with prisoner status of immigrants, they can also obtain a lot of goods.

Even if it is to be handed over to the Fujian government, Yu Xiaotian will not be stupid enough to be selfless and hand over all the confiscated seizures, and he will definitely intercept most of the property and keep it for his own use.

In addition, there are really a lot of big players in Fujian who are hostile to sea wolves, after all, Yu Xiaotian and his subordinates have been robbing business everywhere on land over the years, taking away many of their vested interests, so Yu Xiaotian's behavior is very hateful.

Therefore, many big families naturally have to secretly oppose Yu Xiaotian, and there are always some blind guys who steal Leng Zi, in order to make a fortune, they stumble over filial piety angels, and even do not hesitate to hire murderers to assassinate Yu Xiaotian.

Yu Xiaotian is definitely not the kind of good man and woman, he will definitely not sit idly by and ignore such an opponent, and it can even be said that he will definitely repay such a person.

Sending troops to kill them will definitely not work, but Yu Xiaotian doesn't mind using some shady means to deal with these people.

The best way is to find out that someone is against them, and soon there will be bandits near these big families, and it won't be long before the bandits and bandits will raid the villages and forts of these big families, or simply tie up meat tickets for extortion, which can often make these big families against him ruin their families, and some people will simply evaporate the whole family for some reason.

Once these big families who are against him are knocked out, soon these bandits and bandits will be quickly "exterminated" by Yu Xiaotian, and Yu Xiaotian's subordinates will immediately appear on the territory of these big families, and swallow up the remaining fields and mansions of these big families with both soft and hard methods.

As long as Yu Xiaotian's subordinates intervene, very few people dare to sing against Yu Xiaotian, as long as someone tries to take advantage of the opportunity and wants to make a fortune, then his family is destined to be unlucky.

Therefore, in the past few years, the army has used this method to defeat many gentry who opposed Yu Xiaotian in the entire territory of Fujian, and reaped a lot of benefits.

Although many people once suspected that this was secretly instructed by Yu Xiaotian, and had jointly put pressure on the government to conduct a thorough investigation, the final results of the investigation seemed to be completely incompatible with Yu Xiaotian, so they had to be stopped.

After a long time, many people are not stupid, even if they know that Lu Dao is done by Yu Xiaotian in secret, but they can't grasp the handle of others, they can only knock out their teeth and swallow blood in their stomachs, so those who are hostile to Xiaotian gradually don't dare to go against Yu Xiaotian anymore, but whenever Yu Xiaotian's subordinates rob their business, they can only stare dryly, and they don't dare to make any small moves, and they will confront or retaliate against Xiaotian or the Seawolf Group.

So now that Yu Xiaotian is in Fujian, he can almost walk sideways, and few people dare to stroke his tiger whiskers, and the army has also obtained a lot of resources, and there is basically no big problem in feeding the army.

This time, Yu Xiaotian's layout of Denglai and other places in Shandong, with the gradual feedback of intelligence, Yu Xiaotian felt that there was no deviation in the development of history, so he began to prepare secretly.

He handed over this matter to the General Staff Headquarters to take specific responsibility, and only a few core staff members were specifically aware of the situation and were specifically responsible for the formulation and implementation of the plan.

And Fang An is currently very serious in his work, and he is more alert, and he is also literate, in recent years, Yu Xiaotian has given him a lot of military books and strategies, and asked Lin Yiyang and some strategists to be responsible for explaining to him, and from time to time he will discuss with him, Fang An now does not dare to say that he has read all the military books and war strategies, but at least compared with before, there has been a huge improvement.

Whether it is his vision, or the degree of thoughtfulness, or even the control of the overall situation, Fang An has now improved many times more than before.

Therefore, Fang An no longer continues to be in charge of local affairs in Tamsui, but has been appointed by Yu Xiaotian as the chief of staff of the General Staff.

And Fang An also officially became the second person in the Seawolf Army, except for Yu Xiaotian, and was fully responsible for the command of the entire Seawolf military system.

Under his subordinates, dozens of young and nimble-minded staff officers were gathered to assist him in his work, and this time the planning of Denglai's layout was handed over to Fang Anlai to be specifically responsible for arranging and planning.

And Yu Xiaotian set the name of "Dark Thorn" for this plan, and the entire plan is called the Dark Thorn Plan, which means that this action will be the first time that the sea wolf will officially lay a dark thorn in the north.

Time passed day by day, and the giant hand that controlled history in the dark continued to push the vehicle of history forward.

During the preparation period of the Seawolf Group's secret and intensive preparations, a small village located on the shore of Yangma Island, which is located in the northeast of Ninghai Prefecture, Dengzhou Prefecture, is by the sea, but in the past few months, it has suddenly become lively.

A large number of peasants, especially bricklayers, in Ninghai Prefecture and even further afield, have heard that it will take a lot of labor to build a wall and a fishing port wharf on the shore in Xishan Village, Ninghai Prefecture.

In the past few years, Dengzhou has suffered from natural disasters, the temperature in winter is extremely low, there is little rain in summer, many places are green and yellow, there are already signs of catastrophe, many farmers are in hunger all year round, I dare not say that Dengzhou is now starving everywhere, but from time to time there will be the corpses of starving people who fall on the roadside.

People are poor and think about change, some hungry people can't survive, naturally some strong people come out, occupy the mountain for Wang Xiao to gather into bandits, plus in the past two years from Liaodong, crossed the sea and fled back to Denglai Han people are really a lot, these refugees who fled back from Liaodong have no land under the roof on Denglai, and their arrival has also increased the pressure on Denglai.

The local people in Shandong naturally rejected these refugees who fled back from Liaodong, and these refugees who fled back from Liaodong were themselves quite strong and had no way to make a living, so they naturally had to take risks and do some businessless business.

Therefore, the situation in the entire Denglai area has been very tense in the past two years, and it can be said that there are many bandits in large and small groups, and today this gang of bandits has just passed, and tomorrow the gang of bandits will attack and disturb again, so that everyone in many villages in Shandong is in danger, not to mention all parts of Dengzhou Prefecture in the whirlpool.

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