After all, for those ordinary Northwest Army, who is the commander does not have much influence on them, and only those officers and subordinates trained by Gray are quite loyal to him, but most of these people have been dismissed from their official positions by Jose, so they do not pose any threat. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Joseph had only one policy to implement for such a subdued Northwest Army: first, a large-scale purge, the so-called "exclusion of dissidents", to remove all those Gray loyalists and henchmen from the army. The rest of the Northwest Army was so organized by him that he couldn't help but feel some people panic, but at this time, Joseph did not exert pressure, but selected a group of obedient and clever officers in this army, and took the opportunity to win them over, which could not only win over those low-level officials who were loyal to him, but also avoid the mutiny of the Northwest Army?

In Gray's original Northwest Army, the officers who were willing to obey and cooperate were given carrots to eat and promoted to management; those who made trouble with their heads were beaten with big sticks and sent to feed the horses and do chores. These Northwest Army, which were originally a little unconvinced, finally stopped after the implementation of Qiao Se's carrot and stick policy. Gray's descendants were dismissed, and the remaining officers in power in the Northwest Army were basically newly selected generals of the Northwest Army and the New Army.

In this way, Gray's authority over the 4,000 Northwest Army was completely disintegrated, and after Joseph's rectification, it could be regarded as a preliminary grasp of the elite veterans of the Northwest Army. After all, in Joseph's opinion, it was the generals of the Northwest Army who made the rebellion, so ordinary soldiers naturally had no blame, and they just obeyed military orders.

After completely subduing this Northwest Army, Sadland was truly in the hands of Jose himself, and after such an expansion, the total number of Sadland's troops had reached more than 20,000 people. Among them, with the addition of Yarok and José's own private army, a total of 20,000 infantry and 2,000 cavalry were pieced together, which would be the greatest guarantee of José's strength against the Northwest Army.

Joseph and Sophia quickly made arrangements for the situation in front of them, and after careful consideration, the 20,000 men were assigned to the Sadland garrison and Chase's private army, respectively. Joseph had wanted to incorporate the 4,000 of the most elite of the Northwest Army, plus the 2,000 Northwest Army of Aloke, into his private army, but Sophia objected to this. The reason for this female staff member is also very simple: although Joseph now has more than 20,000 soldiers, he must not nominally take these soldiers under his own private army.

The reason why the Northwest Army is considered a rebellion by the Empire is that they support their own troops, so the Empire will never sit idly by and watch Jose secretly strengthen its power in the name of dealing with the Northwest Army. The empire would never allow another warlord to grow up in the northwest, so if Joseph formed an army in the name of a private army, needless to say, the Northwest Army, His Majesty the emperor of the empire would not agree to it in the first place.

Only then did Jose realize that he seemed to be a little impatient, and he naturally knew what Sophia said, but looking at Sophia's strange look that seemed to be smiling, it was not difficult to guess the mind of her boss, so Sophia hinted to Jose very smartly- Although Joseph nominally could not form a private army, he could recruit troops in the name of the garrison governor of the county town of Sadland, anyway, Sadland is now his family, and neither the Northwest Army nor the Empire can interfere, and building an army in the name of the Empire can not only avoid the suspicion of the Emperor, but also ask the Sistine for military salaries and supplies.

When José heard her say this, she looked at the girl with some hesitation, but Sophia looked at José with a calm face, but deliberately looked at José with interest and asked, "I said Boss José, in your heart, don't you have any intention of dominating the northwest?"

José was stunned for a moment, and just wanted to refute something, but saw Sophia's strange smile on her face, obviously having guessed José's thoughts. But Jose pondered for a moment, but still shook his head with a smile: "Sophia, what you said is nothing more than that I have any different intentions, I can't talk about how loyal I am to the empire, but I won't be like the Northwest Army." Do you think that now that I have a little capital in my hands, I have begun to start that kind of thinking of cutting off the land and standing on my own?"

Sophia was stunned for a moment, the original interested look on her face also faded, and she looked at her boss in surprise - Joseph's gaze became a little colder when he looked at her, and he even glanced at the girl with some disdain, before he said coldly: "Sophia, you have always given me the impression that you are a very smart guy, from your background, the means of accidents, and the advice you gave me, you have always been a pretty good staff.

However, you are only a 'good staff', not a 'good staff'! It is undeniable that you are very smart and can read people's minds, and compared to those girls of the same age, you have a calmness and wisdom that is beyond superhuman beings, which is also your greatest strength, but ...... Do you know what your biggest flaw is?"

When Jose said this, he looked at Sophia with a disappointed face, shook his head with some disdain and said, "You are too confident, and you are too smart! A really smart person will not always flaunt how smart he is, nor will he always show his edge." Really smart people will only show their value at the right time, they know how to forbear, they know how to suppress themselves.

On the contrary, the biggest characteristic of those fools who think they are smart is that they think that only they are the smartest, and everyone else is a fool! You don't understand this, do you?"

When Sophia heard this, her face had become very ugly, and she couldn't help but show fine beads of sweat on her forehead. She looked at the calm gaze in Jose's eyes with some panic, and finally felt that her boss seemed to be more difficult to deal with than she thought - he was a smart man, at least much smarter than herself!

If Sophia was still a little contemptuous of her boss before, after such a conversation. She suddenly felt that the young Viscount Sadland in front of her seemed to be much more unfathomable than she imagined, and she didn't even look through him at all, no matter from his actions after coming to Sadland, this Viscount Sadland was an extremely calm and intelligent guy!

From the mess when he first came to Sadland, in just half a year, this guy has gathered a large number of displaced people, initially stabilized the development of agriculture and commerce, fought the Northwest Army internally, and supported the grassland forces externally. By throwing a large amount of money and pretending to be stupid in front of the Northwest Army, he not only annexed the Northwest Army, which originally supervised him, but also single-handedly formed an army that was sufficient to protect himself...... These have proven the strength of this boss of their own!