Zhang Xi actually didn't think about it so much, if you give him a Cai Mao now, Zhang Yun and other generals of the navy, Zhang Xi can be happy, not to mention that Yang Wei himself is actually very versatile.

Yes, after a detailed chat with Yang Wei, Zhang Xi found that Yang Wei knew a little bit about everything.

Of course, it's not Zhuge Liang who "understands everything", Yang Wei is true, he can understand a little bit in civil affairs, agriculture, Xing Prison, military strategy and so on.

Relying on this alone, Yang Wei is enough to be the chief secretary or other adjutant at the state and county level, but in Jiangdong, he can only be a prince guest who is not reused, which will indeed make Yang Wei feel aggrieved.

Of course, in terms of water warfare, I don't know if it's because I've been in Jiangdong for a long time, or if Yang Wei has a talent in this area, when it comes to water war tactics and key points, Yang Wei is really gushing.

This is what Zhang Xi needs most today.

Therefore, Zhang Xi asked Yang Wei if he would like to take up the post of commander of the Jiangling Naval Army.

Yang Shu was a little hesitant about this.

Originally speaking, Yang Wei is more willing to go to the state and county, starting from the adjutant, and step by step to take the civilian route to be promoted. But in these years, it is actually impossible to take the civilian route without understanding military strategy, and when necessary, the state and county adjutants also need to lead the troops into battle.

There is not much difference between civil and military.

And now, Zhang Xi directly gave himself a military position, and he is the commander of the first army and the number one, which is more important than letting himself go to the state and county as an adjutant.

The state and county adjutant officials are just grass-roots officials who assist in dealing with the Taishou and the state pastor to deal with government affairs, although the grade is not low, but the real power is not large.

The commander of the first army, whether in rank or power, is much larger than the state and county adjutant.

So, strictly speaking, Zhang Xi is reusing himself.

As soon as he came up, he was the commander of the first army, which made Yang Wei feel deeply reused, and at the same time, he also clearly pointed out his shortcomings to Zhang Xi - he did not have any experience in leading the army before, and rashly served as the chief general of the first army, for fear of delaying Zhang Xi's major events.

When Zhang Xi saw that Yang Wei was so honest, he was even more satisfied.

The Jiangling Navy is now just a grass creation, whether it is Wen Dai or Zhong Limu, in fact, they don't have much experience in leading troops to fight, and one more sheep is actually not a big problem.

Zhong Limu is too young, from the perspective of age, it is impossible to meet the standards of the commander of the first army more than Yang Wei, and Wen Dai, he was only borrowed by Zhang Xi from Wen Ping, and sooner or later he will return Wen Ping does not think that Wen Dai has the ability to command a naval army all the way, rather than doing bad things here, it is better to go home and stay, and inherit Wen Ping's position and marquis in the future, which is safer.

Therefore, Zhang Xi is actually not worried about bad things at all, after all, the main purpose of the Jiangling Navy now is to become an army, and Yang Wei has time to grow up with the Jiangling Navy Army.

In this way, with the full support of Zhang Xi, Yang Wei officially became the commander of the Jiangling Navy as the general of Jingzhou Louchuan, responsible for the formation, drill, and war arrangements of the Navy Army.

As for Zhang Xi, in addition to keeping an eye on the construction of warships, he also has to continue to find candidates suitable for water warfare.

Zhang Xi also didn't know whether Yang Wei could support the Jiangling Naval Army, and the reality that the Jiangling Naval Army now only had three naval generals was not enough to support a large-scale operation.

At the time of the Battle of Chibi, Zhou Yu only had less than 20,000 soldiers and horses in his hands, but there were as many as a dozen generals in the water war, although Zhang Xi did not know how many generals were needed for the normal combat configuration of the water army, but according to Zhou Yu's combat standards, it should not be wrong.

Now there are only three generals in the navy, where is it enough.

Therefore, Zhang Xi had to continue to look for generals who knew how to fight water warfare tactics and had a certain degree of military strategic command ability.

But. It's really hard to find.

Zhang Xi has been looking for the Mid-Autumn Festival in August from the early spring of March to the Mid-Autumn Festival in August, and he has not found a fourth general with the ability to fight water warfare.

Of course, this has a lot to do with Zhang Xi's distractions from other affairs.

Wang Ji can help Zhang Xi share his worries in government affairs, but he can't replace Zhang Xi's function as a state pastor.

Not to mention anything else, the issue of population migration in the four southeastern counties of Jiangling requires Zhang Xi to make the decision personally.

In that place, Dingkou was moved away by Soochow, leaving a large area of ownerless land, so it was definitely necessary to move the people from other parts of Gangneung County to take root and survive, and it was impossible to let the land be wasted.

Among them, it is also necessary to prevent the family from reaching out indiscriminately and wantonly annexing land in the four southeastern counties, but at the same time, Zhang Xi also needs to use the power of the family to complete the migration of Dingkou as soon as possible and save the state's financial expenditure.

It has never been a trivial matter to migrate to Dingkou to enrich the place, and it took half a year of busy work to get this thing done.

And after Zhang Xi has done this, he will go back and inspect the construction of the Jiangling Naval Army. But I found that the sheep was quite decent.

And after Zhang Xi has done this, he will go back and inspect the construction of the Jiangling Naval Army. But I found that the sheep was quite decent.

Yang Wei not only relied on his knowledge of the navy to convince Wen Dai and Zhong Limu, but at the same time, in this small half a year, he quickly expanded the Jiangling navy from 10,000 to 20,000.

In fact, there is no special means, that is, the money and food are enough. The military salary, grain and grass allocation of the Gangneung Navy Army is the best among the entire Gangneung armies.

As for this, when Yang Wei first took office, he asked Zhang Xi, and Zhang Xi considered that Yang Wei was also a new official and recruited by himself, so he had to give some preferential treatment, so he didn't think much about it at the time, so he agreed directly.

And it was by virtue of this hand that Yang Wei not only gathered the military heart of the original Jiangling Navy, but also relied on the generous military salary to quickly expand the Jiangling Navy.

After all, the people living near Gangneung rarely have pure landlubbers, and if the people really can't survive, they should be recruited as a sailor, and it seems that it is a way out to use the generous military salary and conditions of the navy.

This is not a special means, it is something that can be done as long as you have money.

Next, it's where the true abilities of the sheep are revealed.

Yang Wei, who has been in Jiangdong for ten years, knows very well how the Soochow Navy started, so he also relied on the gourd to draw a scoop and began to clean up the surrounding bandits.

On the one hand, this kind of actual combat can be used to quickly accumulate combat experience of the water army, and at the same time, the combat effectiveness of the water bandits is not high, and there is no need to worry about too many battle losses.

On the other hand, Yang Wei can also quickly increase the strength of the Gangneung Navy by recruiting water bandits.

On the Dongwu side, the water army started, didn't it rely on this hand Jiang Qin, Zhou Tai, Gan Ning, Dong Xi and others were not born as water thieves in the Yangtze River.

Of course, Gan Ning is more special, he is strictly a child of the Bajun family, but at that time he was on the run, relying on water thieves to make a living, and it is not a big problem to say that he was born as a water thief.

All in all, the co-optation of the water thieves is the second step of the sheep.

However, the sheep also underestimated the difficulty of survival of water thieves in this era.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, when the world was in turmoil, the common people could not survive, and most of them were "relying on water to draught." Water thieves on the Yangtze River were really everywhere, but it was just a matter of scale.

But now, the situation in the world is gradually stabilizing, and the forces of the three countries are trying their best to govern the place, although the people are still living very hard, but it is no longer so that they have to rely on robbing their homes to survive.

It can't be said that there are no more water thieves in the Yangtze River, but indeed, compared with the late Han Dynasty, there are many fewer of them.

Especially from the generation of public security to Lukou, there are two large fleets of different forces stationed, who has such a big courage to dare to hang around in front of two regular armies, and dare to rob in front of the water?!

Therefore, Yang Wei can only find a way to go up the Yangtze River from the Yangtze River, in Yidu County, and even in the area near Patong County, to encircle and suppress water thieves.

Let's do this, Zong Pre and Chen Zhi are quite supportive.

Zong Yu is because the Yidu County he guards is too small, there are five counties in total, and the troops are insufficient, and Chen Zhi's main purpose is to guard Padang County, and he mainly focuses on land defense, and the naval army is indeed not Chen Zhi's strength.

Therefore, when these two people saw Yang Wei's writing, they said that they were going to come to the place to clean up the water thieves, and they didn't need two places to provide food and grass, so what else was there to say, and they fully supported it.

In this way, the water thief who went from the public security to Yufu was unlucky.

Originally, the scale of the water thieves was not large, there were more than 100 people, and they were considered large water thieves' dens in this era, but you had to let them face thousands of soldiers and forty or fifty people to encircle and suppress. Not to mention fighting, I can't even run.

There are more than a dozen water thieves along the river, more than 100 water thieves who are larger, and twenty or thirty water thieves who are smaller, all of them have not run away, and they are all let the sheep lead the army.

One thing to say, the current water thieves really can't be compared with the Jinfan thieves in Ganning back then. Ganning's Jinfan thief, that is actually a wandering Yizhou naval army, with a total strength of thousands, every time they come out to rob, it is the scale of more than 1,000 people, and there are more than 20 warships, so that even the Jingzhou naval army does not dare to provoke them head-on.

But today's water thieves are really just water thieves.

After clearing all the water thieves and finding that the actual combat effect was not great, Yang Wei was somewhat dissatisfied.

It didn't have much of a training effect.

Yang Wei pondered for a while, and had a relatively bold idea, but it happened that the two generals of the navy under him were not the masters who were afraid of things.

In addition, Zhang Xi gave Yang Wei enough autonomy to command the naval army. And then these things really made a big news for Zhang Xi.

(End of chapter)