As early as June, when Tai Shici led the fleet to leave the party. Zhao Xing sent someone to send a secret letter to Zhao Yun, the governor of Youzhou, asking Zhao Yun to help Tai Shici do a good job in the construction of Quanzhou Water Army City in Yuyang County.

Although Zhao Yun was in charge of the Youzhou soldiers and horses, not only directly commanded the Dingyuan army, which numbered as many as 40,000, but also had the power to temporarily command and transfer the Xiong Zhen army led by Xu Shu and the Xiongwu army led by Li Jinwu, but the commander of the navy Yamen was under the direct control of the Protector Army, which means that Tai Shici was directly under the orders of Zhao Xing himself.

In order to avoid friction between the naval division garrisoned in Quanzhou and the land troops in Youzhou with the continuous development and growth in the future, Zhao Xing specially asked Sun Zhan, the Mugong of Youzhou, to place the area within 50 miles around Quanzhou County under the jurisdiction of the Admiral Yamen, and when it was necessary to coordinate operations by land and water, such as crossing the sea to attack Xiangping, the old nest of Gongsun Du in Liaodong, or crossing the sea and directly landing in Lelang County on the Korean Peninsula, Zhao Yun would be under the unified command and the naval division would be responsible for completing the corresponding combat tasks.

Tai Shici, who successfully arrived in Quanzhou, was welcomed by the 400 shipwrights who arrived in Yuyang in advance. After Zhao Yun, who was far away in Yuyang City, learned the news of Tai Shici's arrival in Quanzhou, he specially rushed to Quanzhou with his men and horses to meet with him, and handed over more than 3,000 Danyang soldiers who had been abandoned by Yuan Shu some time ago.

In the past, Yuan Shu ignored the opposition of his advisers, and had to take 40,000 Danyang elite soldiers to Bingzhou to participate in the battle of besieging Zhao Xing, but he became the object of Zhao Xing's attention, and he tore off several pieces of meat from him and captured more than 5,000 Danyang soldiers on the battlefield. After the round table, more than 1,000 Danyang soldiers asked to return to Yangzhou, while the remaining 3,000 veterans voluntarily stayed in the Jin Kingdom because they were dissatisfied with the ruthlessness and injustice of the lord Yuan Shu and envied the preferential treatment of the Jin soldiers.

Danyang is located in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and the people here are proficient in water, and the soldiers recruited from here are naturally familiar with water warfare and are not afraid of the wind, so they are the best candidates for the soldiers of the water division. Zhao Xing had already set a plan for the development of the water division, and also set the way out for this group of soldiers. Tai Shi Ci set off for Qu County with the front foot, and Zhao Xing ordered Gao Shun to personally take three thousand Danyang soldiers from Pingcheng, the northern transportation hub, into Youzhou and go straight to Yuyang City.

Zhao Xing asked Gao Shun to personally lead the team, not only because of the importance attached to these 3,000 Danyang soldiers, but also because he asked Gao Shun to go to Youzhou to guide the establishment of the Crouching Tiger Training Corps in Youzhou. With the rapid expansion of the power of the Jin State, it was difficult for the Crouching Tiger Training Corps to meet the requirements of the three states for recruit training at the same time, and the formation of a branch was also an inevitable choice.

At the same time, Gao Shun also had to meet with Tai Shici to discuss how to organize and implement the training of the navy in the future. When Gao Shun left, he specially took Zhao Xing's series of thoughts and suggestions on the construction of the naval division, which came from the experience of naval development and construction in later generations, although not all from the mind of Zhao Xing, the elite of land warfare, but for Tai Shici, it also had a role like a guiding light.

After the meeting, Zhao Yun, Tai Shici, and Gao Shun jointly studied some of Zhao Xing's guiding opinions on the development and construction of the Jin State Naval Division, and then exchanged views on the difficulties and problems faced by the current construction of the Quanzhou Water Military City.

Let's talk about it, and in the end, the main difficulties and problems are the "three shortages". First, there is a lack of experience, second, there is a lack of talent, and third, there is a lack of funds. When the water division was first established, the lack of experience was naturally an unavoidable fact, and only by relying on continuous exploration and accumulation in the future can we form something systematic and institutionalized. Lack of talent and lack of experience is a reason, whether it is the Jin State, or Youzhou, Liangguo, are located north of the Yellow River, it is really difficult to find many generals and soldiers who are proficient in water warfare, and in the future can only be solved through actual combat training and peacetime hard training.

The problem of lack of funds is a test of everyone's wisdom and ability. If you use your brains and think of more ways to open up sources and reduce expenditure, the two million taels of silver that Zhao Xing allocated to the water master can still be spent for a while.

The expenses for the development and construction of large warships cannot be deducted, and this has a bearing on the life and death of the sailors; the salaries of the shipwrights, the Danyang soldiers, and the 3,000 newly recruited sailors cannot be deducted, and this has a bearing on the morale of the troops; and the only aspect that can reduce expenditure seems to be the only thing that can be reduced is the cost of maintaining the operation of the sailors and the expenses that the soldiers eat and wear on their bodies.

Recruiting soldiers in other states and counties is like sending out coolies, and the children of poor people try their best to escape. When the Jin Kingdom recruited soldiers, it was selected from the reserves with excellent performance, and now the competition for those who want to enter the reserve forces is very fierce. The reason for this situation is inseparable from the good treatment of the National Protector Army.

According to the recipe formulated by Zhao Xing himself for the Protector Army, it was necessary to ensure that each soldier could eat one boiled egg every day, one meat every day, and drink milk every two days. This kind of food standard is undoubtedly very tempting for the children of poor people who are eager to eat people a few years ago. But the premise of supporting such a mouth-watering meal was the increasingly wealthy and powerful Jin Kingdom.

Zhao Xing's "five-character formula" for commanding troops is to raise soldiers, and after all soldiers are "fed" with sturdy and healthy health, they will then undergo large-intensity training, which is in line with human body functions and the principle of military training. Just imagine, how can an army that is dizzy with hunger and thin with a bitter bag be able to make a head-on duel charge against the ferocious Xianbei people on the prairie?

In a word, just feeding the soldiers of the Protector Army with meat every day is a staggering expense.

Tai Shici studied in the Crouching Tiger Martial Arts Hall for half a year, and was naturally familiar with Zhao Xing's "five-character formula for commanding troops", he had no intention of deducting the soldiers' food funds, but he wanted to use the two million taels of silver that Zhao Xing had allocated to make a big career. Opening his mouth to ask Zhao Xing for money at every turn is not Tai Shici's attitude towards doing things.

On the one hand, there are financial constraints, and on the other hand, the treatment of soldiers cannot be reduced, so how can we reduce expenditure? Tai Shici thought of an idea that he heard.

Before leaving, Zhao Xing had a long conversation with Tai Shi Ci, in which he reminded Tai Shi Ci that the sea contains unimaginable wealth and food in the world, not only a large number of fish to eat, some seaweed and seagrass can provide people with rich nutrients, no worse than the vegetables carefully planted by the farmers, no less nutrients than the beef and mutton produced by the Crouching Tiger Meat Products Factory, and even some of the delicacies that Zhao Xing coveted when he mentioned it.

What kind of seafood does Zhao Xing drool over when he mentions it? That is, large crabs and prawns as long as chopsticks produced in the sea, fresh yellow croaker, and moray eels! In the previous life, Zhao Xing often had to take a battalion of brothers to the desert island in the sea for survival training, and his favorite thing was to organize the soldiers to go to the sea to pound seafood. The plump and creamy crab and juicy prawns are simply a godsend delicacy, which can not only supplement a lot of protein, but also make people have an endless aftertaste.

A heavy snowstorm in the north in late spring caused the Jin Kingdom's meat production to shrink greatly this year, and the price of meat products, especially beef and mutton, soared. Since even Lord Taifu covets the living creatures produced in the sea, it is enough to prove that the fish, shellfish, shrimp and crabs in the sea are all delicious things. Therefore, Tai Shici plans to reduce the supply of meat to the soldiers of the sailor, and organize everyone to go to the sea to catch fish, shellfish, shrimp and crabs, not only to meet the dietary needs of the army, but also to find a way to sell it to the people of Youzhou to earn an extra income!

When the sailor was first established, he didn't organize the training well, and he actually went to the sea to catch fish, isn't this a typical misconduct?

The answer is no, if a sailor doesn't even have the ability to go into the sea to catch fish, how will they conquer the sea and even fight the yellow-haired and green-eyed rakshasas on the sea in the future?

Let the sailors be familiar with the ocean first, be a qualified fisherman, and then they will have the opportunity to become "Lang Libaitiao", no longer afraid and unfamiliar with the ocean, and finally become a new type of sailor that meets Zhao Xing's requirements!

From this point of view, the first admiral of the navy took the lead in going to the sea to catch shrimp and crabs, which undoubtedly won the essence of Zhao Xing's thinking on governing the army.