The affairs of the Nanhai Gang's rebuilt militia were handled very smoothly, and to everyone's surprise, Jiedu made Li Zhen order to open the armory and distribute 800 sets of armor and weapons to the latest militia rebuilt by the Nanhai Gang in three batches. Of course, this decision was vigorously opposed by Cao Zheng, the envoy of the Observation Mission, and Tian Gaolang, the envoy of the city, but Li Zhen responded by explaining the matter to the imperial court, and at the same time said that he had applied to the imperial court for a banner, and it was necessary to expand the Nanhai Gang into an army to protect the Guangzhou Prefecture and the port of Fuxu in the South China Sea.

As for Cao Zheng and Tian Gaolang's question again about why they did not choose the Chaozhou Gang, which was first reorganized as a militia group, Li Zhen responded that the reputation of the Nanhai Gang among the people of Guangzhou was not comparable to that of the Chaozhou Gang at all. However, for this reason, Li Zhen also had to agree to Cao Zheng's request to equip the militia of the Chaozhou Gang with 300 sets of standard equipment. Of course, after the fact, these 300 sets of standard equipment, Cao Zheng was able to pit a large amount of money from the pockets of Liu Sanye of the Chaozhou Gang, as for whether it was equipped or sold in the end, Li Zhen didn't bother to ask, as long as he didn't continue to entangle the Nanhai Gang.

The Nanhai Gang was established very quickly, and the overall speed of development was also unexpected, especially under the special policy, the militia was expanded with an absolute reserve army, and in less than 10 days, the number of registered militia members had reached more than 5,000. According to Xu Hong, who is in charge of counting these, he said that many of them came from the area of Fuxu Town, and many of them rushed to Guangzhou Prefecture one after another after settling down at home.

I don't know what Zhang Kuang and Yang Ru said to Li Yuan, the messenger sent by Li Zhen actually traveled back and forth between Guangzhou Mansion and Chang'an, Kyoto in less than 20 days, and it is said that he took the ancient lychee road during the prosperous era of Emperor Tang and Ming. However, these are not important, what makes the entire Nanhai Gang excited is that the banner of Li Yuan's application has been approved by the imperial court, and the messenger said that the imperial court's envoy team will arrive in Guangzhou Mansion in about ten days, and as for the Jingjie and other things, they will follow the mission, and the messenger only verbally granted the Nanhai Gang a new banner, the Southern Navy.

The Southern Navy has one chief general, one Kong Mu officer, three deputy generals, and seven scattered generals, and has four Manchurian regiments, each with 200 people and a lieutenant. A regiment is divided into two brigades, each with 100 people, and a brigade rate. There are two teams in each brigade, and one team of 50 people is set up. Each team is divided into five groups, and ten people are set up as a group leader.

Although the official mission appointed by the imperial court has not yet arrived, the establishment has been clearly distributed, and it is organized according to the 800 sets of standard equipment distributed by Li Zhen, and others don't need to think much about it at all, and they almost instantly understand Li Zhen's intentions, which is obviously to take the Southern Navy into his own tooth army.

However, this made Ding Li difficult, first of all, he had never formally led so many people, and secondly, there were only 800 people in the establishment, and in just a few days, the number of people who signed up for the Southern Navy had exceeded 8,000, and if the number alone exceeded the entire city defense army of Guangzhou Prefecture.

This does not bode well, and even a new army with no formal training is bound to be the target of public criticism. In the temporary yamen of the Southern Navy, basically every time Ding Li burns incense, there will be an extra report on the table in front of Ding Li, and the personnel of the Southern Navy who are in or outside the establishment under his command have an accidental conflict with a certain force in the city, or accidentally offend a certain powerful family in the city.

Of course, with Ding Li's temperament, he didn't take these things to heart at all, and he was interested in opening them to take a look at them at the beginning, and even asked the reason on a whim. But in less than a day, Ding Li directly asked his soldiers to sort out similar reports on the side of the table, and he didn't even know how to report anything, and when he left the yamen in the afternoon, the copywriting of the same conflict incident was already piled up in two large stacks.

"Send it to the room and burn it!" After going out, Ding Li glanced back at the large pile of reports on the table, and raised his head at the soldiers who were following him, his face full of indifference.

Ding Li's response is extremely wise, if so many incidents really have to be dealt with one by one, I am afraid that they will not be solved even by the end of the year, not to mention that there will definitely be a series of incidents in the future.

On the second day, a recital from the Southern Navy was presented to the Jiedu Mansion, and there were not many words, but Li Zhen watched it for half a morning, and finally nodded at the tooth soldiers who had been waiting by his side, and whispered to the request in the recital.

In the afternoon of the same day, the entire 800 men who had been incorporated into the Southern Navy moved and left the city directly, about fifteen miles away from Canton Prefecture, and settled down at a place called Giethoorn. Ding Li is not a stranger to camping, but Yang Hongwen led people to help in a timely manner, and the outline of the camp of the Southern Navy had already appeared that night.

The predecessor of the Southern Navy was the South China Sea Gang, and its reputation in the area of Guangzhou Mansion was indeed good, and there were even people in Giethoorn Town who sent ready-made food to the South China Navy that night, and several local tyrants visited Ding Li in person, and they insisted on sending their children and grandchildren to Ding Li of the Southern Navy with a bunch of money, so that they could get ahead in the future with military exploits and the like.

Ding Li has his own principles for treating all this, not to take a stitch from the masses, let alone money and food, after refusing one by one, Ding Li also received one of the young men named Zhang Han under the account, first, Zhang Han's elderly grandfather pleaded hard, and secondly, Ding Li also saw Zhang Han in person, although he didn't look like a man who immediately took fame, but with that pair of blazing eyes, Ding Li thought that it was good to keep the other party by his side as a personal soldier, usually responsible for running errands and passing on messages, and then sorting out documents and the like.

In fact, Ding Li was a little forced to accept Zhang Han, after all, the people of Giethoorn Town were too enthusiastic, if he completely refused to be kind, Ding Li was worried that he would hurt everyone's hearts, so that accepting Zhang Han would make other people see some hope, at least he could think of it, maybe he would find an opportunity to send his children and grandchildren back into the Southern Navy in the coming year or when.

However, Ding Li actually didn't let go of the wine and food brought by the people of Giethoorn, but Ding Li asked Xu Hong, who was in charge of the money and grain, to pay all the money to the people according to the market price, which can be regarded as pursuing the principle of not taking a stitch from the people in vain. Of course, it was mainly due to the fact that the camp had just been built, and Ding Li actually knew that it was not a glorious thing to take everyone out of Guangzhou Mansion to this Giethoorn Town.

In the eyes of the people of Giethoorn Town, it is naturally good, after the Southern Navy is stationed, the town will at least be much safer, whether it is a bandit or a rogue, if you want to come to Giethoorn Town to sweep and take advantage, then you have to weigh the strength of the eight hundred Southern Navy, even if it is a new army, but one-third of the combat power equipped with short crossbows is not something that ordinary rogues can resist, hundreds of crossbow arrows fly out together, and the battle can be solved without the contact between the two sides.

But that was only what the people of Giethoorn Town saw, and Ding Li's side, including the eight hundred soldiers of the entire Southern Navy, actually understood that the Southern Navy was forced or driven out of Guangzhou Mansion, that is to say, there was no place for these 800 people in the Southern Navy.

Therefore, at present, Ding Li urgently needs to do something to stabilize people's hearts, especially at the moment, such an enthusiastic new army, if it can strike while the iron is hot, the training will naturally be twice the result with half the effort. But if everyone's hearts are cold, I'm afraid that even if you train for an extra hour every day, you will still be a weak army after three months.

And the first thing Ding Li did was to have fun with the whole army, the reason is, of course, to establish a new camp and have its own military camp of the Southern Navy, and this reason is very convincing no matter who it is in front of.

However, when Ding Li expressed his concerns in the Zhongjun tent, the dog, who didn't drink well but was happy to drink a few more bowls, waved his hand and interrupted Ding Li nonchalantly: "Brother Li! I think you're overthinking! What do you mean by that? What a strong general, a strong general. ”

"There are no weak soldiers under a strong general!" Xiao Lizi stretched out his hand and pushed the dog to add words for the other party, and then dragged the other party again, and ridiculed the other party with a displeased face: "If you can't drink it, drink less!" I didn't see Brother Li talking about business, if you drink too much, just talk, just listen! If you can't do it, go back to the tent and sleep, and don't talk nonsense! ”

"You, me, why can't I say me!" The dog was a little unconvinced, but in the end, after seeing the rest of the people with serious expressions, he finally had to pout, shook his head and sat up straighter.

"That's right, but it's only half right!" Seeing this, Ding Li waved his hand to signal that it was okay, first smiled at the dog, and then swept his eyes over everyone, and his tone suddenly became much more solemn: "There are no weak soldiers under the strong general, and the strong general is not the only one who refers to me, but including you, all of you present must be counted!" Only if we are all strong, the brothers below will not be weak! ”

As he spoke, Ding Li suddenly thought of something, turned his head to look at Xu Hong and said, "Xu Hong, the establishment of our Southern Navy is not yet sound!" At present, there are almost no civilian jobs in the army, and I have thought about it, the position of treasurer joining the army is the most suitable for you! Although it is only a petty officer of the ninth grade, it is related to the grain and grass problem of our entire Southern Navy! As for the salary, there are indeed not many civil officials in Jiupin, but you don't have to worry, after all, we still have the income of the Nanhai Gang at the dock, which will be calculated according to the original salary plus 30%! What do you think? ”

"Brother Li! Engong! You are my Xu Hong's reborn parents! Hearing this, Xu Hong's body shook and fell directly from behind the table, and he didn't have time to get up and tidy up, so he bowed directly to Ding Li behind the main table, and his tone suddenly choked up, and then it turned into sobbing: "I, Xu Hong, have studied hard for ten years in order to win fame one day!" But I never thought that the DPRK and China would be traitors, and I, Xu Hong, had almost given up my plan to step into the official career! But I didn't expect God to let me meet Brother Li, and I can follow Brother Li to serve before and after the saddle! In just a few months, he even wore a nine-rank official hat! This kindness cannot be repaid, and I am willing to swear to serve! ”

After that, Xu Hong seemed to be waiting for Ding Li's instructions, not only did he not get up, but he also fell directly to the ground and kept sobbing, and kept wiping his tears with his arm during the period.

In addition to Xu Hong, there were no people who studied to gain fame, Heizi was adopted by the Zhang family since he was a child, and even the people were Zhang's, so the future was naturally not what he considered. Gouzi, Xiao Lizi and Wang Huan and Wang De brothers were born as coolies at the dock, and they couldn't understand Xu Hong's wishes as a scholar. Even if Wang Ling, a newcomer, looks a little elegant, but the whole person has nothing to do with the reader, at most he knows a few words more than the dogs.

Among them, the only one who can understand Xu Hong's feelings is Ding Li, in later generations, Ding Li has seen many similar situations, and has studied hard for more than ten years, in order to have the same dream as Xu Hong, to gain fame, enter the national system to receive a fortune, and take this as a lifelong wish, nothing else.