On the second day after Zhao Xing gathered several "finance ministers" for a meeting. As a congratulatory gift to congratulate the king of Pingxi, several congratulatory gifts were regarded as temporary additional military expenses, and the Crouching Tiger Command quickly allocated them to the Youzhou Legion, the Liangzhou Legion and the Jin State Water Division.

Among them, the Liangzhou Legion, which had the most serious consumption of strength some time ago, received one million taels, which was mainly used to compensate the casualties and subsidize the training regiment.

Now the vanguard army is still enough to defend Baishui Pass and Jiameng Pass, but if it is obviously difficult to launch an attack on Shuzhong in the next step, Zhao Xing allocated Zhang He this additional military expenditure, naturally hoping that Zhang He will seize the time to train a group of elite soldiers with strong combat effectiveness and suitable for mountain and jungle operations.

The Youzhou Legion received 500,000 taels of military expenses, but the main purpose is inconvenient to say. Zhao Hu and Zheng Donglai secretly tried to open the two gaps on land and sea in Liaodong, and took advantage of the time to do business with Gongsun Du's two sons, just in time to quietly transport a batch of equipment and materials into Liaodong, waiting for the opportunity to transfer to Fuyuguo, just to solve Zhang Xiu's urgent need.

The Jin State Naval Division also received 500,000 taels, which was mainly used for the development of large warships. From the beginning of his tenure as Admiral of the Navy, Tai Shi Ci was constantly instilled by Zhao Xing with the idea of forging an invincible fleet across the ocean, and if you want to cross the ocean, you must first have advanced and durable large warships. Now the sailor has begun to take shape, but it is still a long way from Zhao Xing's requirements, and he has not really received the baptism of naval warfare, so he is still in the stage of large-scale money burning and groping for development.

Now the military funds allocated by the Crouching Tiger Command to various armies no longer need to send a force to escort the convoy of gold and silver as it did back then, and it will take a long time to complete. As long as there are branches of the peasants, soldiers, merchants, and gold banks stationed in the prefectures and counties, the local troops can go to withdraw cash with a large amount of internal redemption bills. The advantages of this are obvious, as it can save the expenses incurred in escorting the two troops, and it can also prevent the logistics officers of the troops from fishing in troubled waters.

On the road from the Jin Kingdom to Youzhou Water Master City, there was a small team of ordinary clothes and no more than forty people. Because they rode too fast, they occasionally let out shouts to remind the pedestrians in front of them to give way, and the places they passed aroused a burst of rolling eyes from passing merchants. This phenomenon is very similar to the cars taken by the troops in later generations rushing to run red lights, but it is indeed difficult to strictly control.

For example, this team on horseback did not deliberately violate the "traffic rules", but because they needed to rush to their destination as soon as possible with important letters and a large sum of money, they had to keep "overtaking" and "grabbing the road".

The leader of this squad is named Xu Hui, the word Guangzu, is a native of Qu County, Donghaihai, and there was a very famous figure named Xu Fu on his ancestors. The story of "Xu Fu's eastward crossing" was widely praised in later generations, but at this time Xu Fu was still regarded as a monk, and the rumor that he once took five hundred boys and girls on a boat to seek the elixir of life is pure nonsense.

It doesn't matter whether Xu Hui is a descendant of Xu Fu or not, the important thing is that he was born in the East China Sea, and he has been begging for a living at sea since he was a child, and he has a good water nature. Because of his poor family, Xu Hui followed the old fishermen to go out to sea to fish for a living since he was a child, and when Tai Shici came to the East China Sea to recruit sailors, he did not hesitate to sign up for the sailor.

In the past few years, Xu Hui has followed Tai Shi Ci to chop waves at sea, and gradually revealed his unusual endowment, not only can skillfully command and control a "Sea Dragon" type warship, but also has unique insights on how to train the navy and how to give full play to the firearms on the warship, so he has won Tai Shici's appreciation.

At the end of last year, Tai Shici, who was suffering from the lack of generals available to his subordinates, specially selected a group of loyal and reliable young captains with flexible brains from among the 30,000 officers and men of the Naval Division, and sent them to the Crouching Tiger Martial Arts Hall for further study and training. In addition to learning the general tactical command subjects, they also set up a separate class to study the textbooks specially written by Zhao Xing for the sailors, and now that the training is over, they just follow the squad leader Xu Hui back to Quanzhou Sailor City.

Xu Hui was carrying a huge redemption bill of 500,000 taels in his arms, as well as a letter of appointment from Gan Ning, and the pressure on his heart was not small. For Zhao Xing, 500,000 taels of silver is nothing now, and Wei Zhen sent a one-time gift worth 200,000 taels in order to make amends to him, but this is based on the accumulation of wealth for more than 10 million people. At present, the annual military expenditure of the Jin State Navy Division is 6 million taels, of which more than 4 million taels are used to manufacture warships and experimental firearms, and only 2 million taels are really spent on daily expenses.

The military expenditure of 500,000 taels of silver is simply an unimaginable amount for Xu Hui, a battalion-level captain who can receive ten taels of military pay every month. If this military expenditure is a little worse, Xu Hui feels that his death and apology are not enough to repay the value and cultivation of the Taishi Admiral.

However, Xu Hui's worries were obviously a little too much, on the way from Jin Guo all the way to Yuyang County in Youzhou, their group of classmates and friends did not encounter any trouble, except for the hard journey, the whole trip can be described as smooth sailing.

The former Montenegrin thieves have now become the Montenegrin Army, and they are also fighting overseas, and it is even more unlikely that there will be any bandit road tyrants between the Jin Kingdom and Youzhou. The common people have something to do and money to make, who will risk being surrounded and suppressed by officers and soldiers to do the murderous business?

After rushing to Quanzhou with the forty captains who had returned from their studies, Xu Hui hurriedly went to the official office where Tai Shici lived. The guards guarding the door have watched Xu Hui go in and out of the Admiral's Mansion many times in the past few years, so after seeing Xu Hui who had returned from school, he did not stop him, and directly told him that Admiral Taishi was competing with people in the backyard, and he went to find it by himself.

Xu Hui then went straight to the backyard, and heard the sound of weapons intersecting from afar. After entering the backyard, Xu Hui saw that Admiral Taishi was wearing a set of black tight-fitting martial arts training uniforms, and he was fighting with a strong man in the field who was also shirtless with his bare hands, and he didn't know how many rounds you had been fighting back and forth.

Xu Hui whispered to the sailor brother who was watching the battle next to him, "What is the origin of this guy who is fighting with the Taishi Admiral? Why have I never seen it before?"

The brother who was asked was also acquaintances with Xu Hui, and replied softly: "This guy is Gan Xingba, a Jinfan thief caught by General Ma Mengqi in Hanzhong some time ago, and he is very unruly. If he loses, he will serve in the sailor in the future, and if he wins, he will ask the commander to let him go back to Yizhou!"

When Xu Hui heard this, the expression on his face became a little exciting, and he was carrying a letter of appointment about Gan Ning in his arms!

Xu Hui asked again with some nervousness: "I don't know how many fights have you had now?"

"This is already the last battle! The first game is that the commander of the Taishi army has served as the commander of the blue wolf army before, and Gan Xingba was naturally repaired by the commander of the Taishi Commander; in the second game, the two of them are compared to the water kung fu, although this guy is known as the Jinfan thief on the Yizhou River, and he is quite water-oriented, but how can he compare with the Taishi Commander who is used to seeing the windy giant Lang? As a result, he was naturally repaired again! Hey, hey...... , this guy was naturally not convinced, so he made an appointment to fight on the ground today. ”

Xu Hui nodded, and said with a thief's smile: "It is estimated that this guy will have to eat deflated today, but Admiral Taishi can fight with Guan Dudu, General Zhang and others, no matter how powerful he is, he can still be stronger than those fierce people?"