left the method of military training, and Wang Xu did not participate in the specific training matters.

He is not a professional after all, and some things cannot be figured out by watching two TV series, and rashly interfering will only backfire.

What Wang Xu needs to do is not to shout slogans to the recruits, but to let them know who their boss is.

In this regard, he started from two points, one of which was to learn from Yuan Shikai and pay the soldiers with his own hands, and the other was to go to the barracks every day to ask for warmth and chat with the low-level soldiers.

For middle-ranking officers, he ate and lived together, and he would eat dinner in the barracks every day, and he would also stay in the barracks at night.

There are more than 200 officers at the rank of lieutenant in the barracks, and each lieutenant leads a battalion of 2,000 men and a battalion of 500 guards.

Downwards, there were five hundred officers of the rank of thousand-tier, and five thousand officers of the rank of centurion.

Lieutenants, commanders, centurions, are mid-ranking officers in the army.

For these people, Wang Xu will even take the initiative to help and write letters to their families for them.

At the same time as writing the letter, if someone sent money, Wang Xu would send the same amount to their family in the name of the chief.

If there is no money, Wang Xu will also add some appropriately, and let these people's families buy some firewood, rice, oil and salt.

As for the upper-level officers, Qin Yun and Qin Wu, as well as those partial generals in the forbidden army, Wang Xu did not give favors, but only appropriately improved the food, so that they could eat, wear, and use better than ordinary soldiers and middle- and lower-level officers, so as to reflect the feeling of superiority.

In terms of money, Wang Xu is a dime.

It's not that he is stingy with money, but these generals from the forbidden army, all of them are generals, even if they are not rich, they will not be as short of money as middle and lower-level officers.

And these people are all famous families, and Xiao En Xiaohui is ineffective against them, but it is easy to be sued to the emperor, saying that he has bad intentions for winning over the generals in the army.

As for the government affairs of Ishikawa Prefecture, Wang Xu basically delegated power.

There are only two kinds of things he mainly focuses on, one is to promote the cultivation of corn, sweet potatoes, and potatoes, and the other is to vigorously grasp border trade.

The former is food, the latter is money.

With money and food, plus a large army, no one in Ishikawa Mansion dared to fight him.

In the border trade, Wang Xu not only escorted the merchants, but also provided them with certain loans in the name of the government.

There is only one request, he wants the information of the barbarian tribes.

The barbarians are a whole, but in concrete terms, they exist in the form of individual tribes.

Which tribe this tribe is friendly with, and which tribe has enmity with which tribe are the focus of Wang Xu's attention.

Similarly, the population gap between the tribes, the gap between the rich and the poor, the geographical location, as well as the number of warriors in the tribe and the reserve of armor, are all the basis for these merchants to explore.

It's not difficult, the barbarians are martial and have the habit of boasting about their strength.

The Terran caravans went with their goods, exchanging precious salt, cloth, wine, and luxury goods for animal skins and medicinal herbs that they did not need, which they considered themselves to have earned.

Whenever a caravan visits, especially one of a certain size, various tribes hold bonfire festivals.

Sing and dance around the campfire, and invite the caravan to watch the warriors of the tribe perform, a few glasses of spirits down, you don't ask them, they will tell you the old bottom, you don't want to listen to it.

The barbarians did not have the habit of concealing their strength, and he said that there were 5,000 soldiers who could fight, that is, there were 5,000 warriors who could fight well.

The human race is different, for example, the flower planters in later generations said that they only had 1,700 fighters.

As a matter of fact, there are more than 800 fighter planes at the Qingdao Air Base alone, and half of the planes in the whole country are placed in Qingdao.

Thinking about it, I also know that it is impossible, and judging from the urine of the flower growers, doubling or tripling on an official basis is probably about the same as the actual number.

Therefore, the barbarians who do business with the human race are often inexplicable.

For example, a caravan carrying salt to trade wants to exchange a pound of salt for twelve furs.

The barbarians said too much, and then the shopkeeper of the Terran caravan would say, salt is precious, and if you want to exchange a pound of salt for ten furs, I will simply lose money.

When the barbarians heard this, this deal must not be done, and the other party can't lose money in exchange for themselves.

As a result, the Terrans said again, alas, I'll lose money in exchange for you, let's make friends, you say it's not angry.

The barbarians say no, that's no, they just take the things and leave, and the people don't change them.

The Terran said no, not necessarily no, he will also change you, and say how much money he lost while changing.

In fact, did he lose money?

It is impossible to lose money, he just makes less money, and the loss is not the capital of the loss, the loss is the part that earns you.

A pound of salt is worth two furs, and if you sell it for twelve, you will earn ten furs.

Ten pieces were sold to you, and he said that he lost money, but in fact he still earned eight sheets, but he made two less sheets from you, and ordinary barbarians with one head can't tell what the so-called loss of money means in the mouth of the human race.

Of course, ordinary barbarians are easy to fool, but those leaders can't.

The more powerful the tribe, the more the leader knows and the wiser it becomes, especially the tribes with shamanic sacrifices, and those who believe in barbarian gods are no worse than the most savvy merchants.

The good news is that shamans are the attendants of the gods, and they do not easily interfere with the tribal regime, and their status is transcendent.

On weekdays, those who deal with Terran caravans are generally the cronies and heirs of the tribal leaders, so there is room for maneuvering.

While training his troops, Wang Xu instructed those caravans to provoke confrontation between different tribes as much as possible.

The effect is remarkable, in the face of interests, if you retreat, I will advance, if you are less, I will more, and it is impossible to be 100% fair.

The tribes in the west asked for 500 jars of wine, but when the caravan was in the tribe in the east, the wine sold to the tribes in the west was snatched up and bought by the tribes in the east, and there is no doubt that this is a contradiction.

If it is two alliance tribes, there is room for reconciliation, and if it is two rival tribes, this is an excuse for war.

Grievances accumulate little by little, and when one person, one does not fall, and the dissatisfaction with the other, the other tribe reaches its peak, it is bound to take force action.

In modern times, some tribes in Africa have been able to break out in genocide in order to compete for the amount of humanitarian relief.

Speaking of barbarians, they are also composed of large and small tribes, and in order to compete for the interests of human caravans, they also don't mind fighting.

Even without provoking, some tribes that have profited from caravan trade and become rich and powerful will themselves increase the demand for territory due to the increase in strength.

The big tribes are all small tribes that devour each other and develop little by little.

With strength and opportunity, these small and medium-sized tribes will also learn from each other, plus many tribes have been hostile to each other for thousands of years, which is a vendetta in itself, making it very easy to break out a big war.

What Wang Xu needs to do is to add fuel to the fire, so that some tribes that are hostile to each other will become hostile to each other, and some tribes that are friendly to each other will become distrustful.

Similarly, he is also deliberately trying to win over some tribes, such as the tribes on the periphery of the barbarians, because of their proximity to the territory of the Terrans, they will also be somewhat contaminated with the atmosphere of the Terrans.

These barbarians yearn for the life and civilization of the human race, but they don't have the strength to fight it, as long as the corresponding conditions are given, it is easy to become a spy of the human race.

In this regard, we can compare it with US imperialism.

The elites of the whole world are running towards the US imperialists, shouting for freedom, and these people don't even want their parents.

In comparison, the appearance of the barbarian and the human race is more similar to the human race and the demon race, and it is always easier to win them over than the demon race.

There are one and there are two, and it is completely possible to rule the barbarian with brute.

At that time, it may be like a certain period, with two barbarian soldiers by the side of a human soldier.

In the end, the barbarians fought the barbarians, and the human soldiers were a minority.

However, just when Wang Xu was happy and ready to play slowly with the barbarians, a bad news appeared.

In Jiaozhou, there are remnants of the White Lotus Sect who are unwilling to fail, gather believers to resurrect and capture Tianshui County.