When Geng Jingzhong, the prince of Jingnan by the canal, was shocked and moved by a prophecy that had been circulated out of nowhere, the "creator" of this prophecy was reorganizing the army in Jingzhou.

Regarding when the prophecy of "Son of Heaven's doppelganger Huo'er" appeared, Wang Wu really didn't know, anyway, it was certain that Geng Jingzhong began to deliberately oppose the Qing Dynasty after listening to this prophecy.

Relevant historical materials in his previous life show that Geng Jingzhong's determination to create a rebellion against the Qing court may have preceded Wu Sangui.

And Shang Zhixin was obviously influenced by Geng Jingzhong.

Because when the two were hostages in Yanjing, they formed an unbreakable friendship.

Even both of them may be unhappy with their fathers.

Or that these two "second generations of kings" are still men in their bones.

However, it cannot be ruled out that this prophecy is Geng Jingzhong's own creative achievement.

It is not excluded that this prophecy was secretly planned by other people who have restored their sight.

But these are not important, the important thing is that Wang Wu successfully passed this message to Geng Jingzhong's ears in advance.

Regardless of whether this original time and space was created by Geng Jingzhong, it has now added the aura of "the chosen son" to it.

If you don't want what the heavens give you, you will go against the heavens and want the heavens to thunder.

When he saw from the Tang newspaper that the Qing court had allowed Geng Jingzhong to return to the domain to study military affairs, Wang Wu knew that the general trend of history was already stirring.

Wu Sangui was already in the throne, Sun Yanling was in place in Guangxi, and Geng Jingzhong was in place in Fujian, and there was only one Shang Zhixin left.

In my impression, Shang Zhixin's father Shang Kexi didn't seem to like this eldest son, and intended to set up the second son as the son of Pingnan, so he kept dragging on not playing the Qing court to let the eldest son return to the domain, so that Shang Zhixin might have to follow the steps when he was in place, and he could return to Guangdong after a few years.

So if possible, we have to push the time when Shang Zhixin is in place.

It's just that Wang Wu in Guangdong has no power, and there is no possibility of interfering at all, so this matter is a bit troublesome.

Let's see if there is a chance to push it later.

At present, Wang Wu only needs to do five things.

First, build a base area in Jingzhou and train a strong army of no less than 30,000 people;

He's already doing it.

The first is to reorganize the three Han army cattle records given by the Qing court into pro-military camps.

This pro-soldier battalion was commanded by Xu Lin, who had performed well since Guishun, and was subordinate to the third assistant leader and seventh staff leader of the Zhengbai Banner of the Han Army in the Eight Banners sequence.

On the surface, it was the salary of the Eight Banners, which was drawn from the salary of the Jingzhou Garrison Banner uniformly allocated by the Yanjing Household Department.

This pro-military battalion is also a pure cavalry unit, specializing in horse combat.

Although there are less than 1,000 people at the moment, Wang Wu hopes that this pro-military battalion is the prototype of his cavalry and serves as a teaching team.

That is, in a few years, a thousand cavalry can be expanded to 5,000, 8,000, or even 10,000.

This gave him the ability to compete with the Qing army on the battlefield of the Northern Plains.

It also set the three standard battalions under the jurisdiction of the Jingzhou General Army, namely the left battalion, the right battalion, and the middle battalion in Jingzhou.

The left battalion was commanded by Zhao Jinzhong, the right battalion was commanded by Tian Wen, and the middle battalion was commanded by Zhang Tianfang.

Each battalion has 1,000 men according to the green battalion military system, equipped with weapons such as firearms, knives, spears, bows and crossbows, etc., and each battalion is issued with 200 iron armor, 800 cotton armor, and 400 shields.

Most of the iron armor and cotton armor issued were captured Manchu Eight Banners, all of which were of high-quality quality, not the inferior goods used by the original Ming army.

The officers are all served by the old team from Wushan, and the proportion of soldiers is 40% of the original Ming army, 30% of the surrendered army, and 30% of the people.

There was also an artillery battalion and two baggage battalions, each with a fixed number of 1,000 soldiers.

Only the existing green battalion military system could not provide the corresponding establishment, so Wang Wu put these two battalions in the Jingzhou water battalion establishment.

Barracks and training grounds were also outside the city to hide from the public.

The quota of the Jingzhou Water Battalion was 3,500, but the actual number was 7,000, which was twice the establishment of the Qing court.

Therefore, on the books, Wang Wu could only get 3,500 people from the Qing court, and the rest were all "hidden households", and all expenses were provided by him.

Fortunately, the Qing court could not send someone to check his roster, otherwise the supernumerary would definitely cause trouble.

How to settle the rest of the personnel, Wuchang's Lao Zhang gave an idea.

Some of them went to work in local organizations such as the Ferry Patrol Division, the City Patrol Division, the Oil Patrol Division, the Salt Patrol Division, and the Iron Patrol Division, which were similar to the Ming Dynasty's Inspection Division, and belonged to the local armed forces.

It can also be said to be the tax department.

Detect smuggling and collect taxes from passing traders.

It can roughly digest about 2,500 people.

The other part was sent to the six counties of Jiangling, Gong'an, Shishou, Jianli, Songzi, and Zhijiang, or as government officials, or as catchers, and local fast hands.

That is, the role of the local patrol officer.

It can also digest about 2,000 people.

However, the establishment can be digested, but if people are scattered, there is no way to conduct organized training, nor can they carry out systematic military study, and when there is a real war, these scattered troops are at most the nature of the second- and third-line troops in a locality, and it is difficult to use them as the main force.

It is even possible to stay in the place for a long time, completely miscellaneous fish, and rot to the end.

After all, these institutions are all oily and watery, and they will form intricate interests with the local government.

Wang Wu hopes to train a group army in Jingzhou, an army that can fight with the Qing army and the Wu army!

Therefore, Lao Zhang's suggestion is not in the interests of Wang Wu.

It's useless for him to be anxious about only some things, and the most important thing at the moment is the issue of resettlement first.

Because the issue of resettlement involves substantial control over the locality.

Only when he had complete control over the human, material, and financial resources of the counties under the jurisdiction of Jingzhou Prefecture could he have the resources to organize and train the new army.

The chicken or the egg.

Lao Zhang's meaning, you have to have chickens first.

Jingzhou's territory and hundreds of thousands of people are chickens.

If you don't hold this chicken, where will you get the eggs?

Wang Wu is right to think about it, he wants to expand the army and train the army, and the source of troops can only come from Jingzhou locally, since this is the case, he must first hold Jingzhou firmly in his hands.

Same as the "Slaves" program.

One is administrative control, and the other is interest control.

With a two-pronged approach, even if you can't build a strong army in this year's time, with this completely basic disk, I'm afraid that there will be no soldiers available.

In the current situation, if there are 5,000 soldiers who dare to fight, no one in Huguang will dare to touch him Wang Yaowu.

What's more, there is also an old Marfa who is scared to death.

second, spared no effort to push the gentry to suppress the hope of restoring vision on Wu Sangui, and even let these gentry who hated Wu Sangui in the past clear Wu Sangui, so that the Qing court's suspicion of Wu Sangui reached its peak and forced Wu Sangui to start an incident in advance;

Third, it is to speed up the pace of cutting feudal domains through all means through the "old Marfa" worship.

Didn't Ao Bai always say that Wu Sangui was a rich man, and he didn't dare to oppose him.

Then the son-in-law had to prove to old Marfa that he was wrong.

If Lao Marfa was still unwilling to cut the domain in advance, Wang Wu had to give up Lao Marfa and throw an olive branch to Xiao Mazi instead.

If necessary, you can even tell Xiao Mazi that you don't need thousands of troops to deal with Aobai, as long as a dozen teenagers who are not afraid of death.

Of course, this is the last step.

Deep down, Wang Wu still hopes to add a piece of clothing to Old Marfa.

Fourth, it is to protect the Maolu Mountain to resist the Qing army and civilians, and smash the encirclement and suppression that Prince Kang Jieshu may have organized.

Fifth, of course, it is to build the Jingzhou Eight Banners Detention Center.

Jingzhou General Babur arrived, and he arrived in Jingzhou three days ago.

Wang Wu met with Babur in his injured left arm, and the "talks" between the two sides can be said to be unimaginably friendly.

In the words of Daotai Jin Guansan afterwards: "Those who don't know still think that Du Tong is a general." ”

Wang Wu didn't expect Babur, the Jingzhou general, to put his identity so low, so polite that he didn't want to be the chief, so he had to ask Ebu to be the chief.

The fundamental reason is, of course, that his identity is doing something strange.

A Han army is in charge, how can Babur put it in his eyes.

But for the identity of the son-in-law, Babur has to look at it with a magnifying glass.

In order to show his support for the Elu, the next day, the tower was ordered to be controlled by Babur, on the grounds that the tower was suspected of assassinating the Han military commander.

This reason is very sufficient, so sufficient that the tower did not make any excuses for himself.

Wang Wu also kept his promise and did not interfere in the case.

Babur did not put the tower to death, but only sent him and the Manchurian soldiers who participated in the assassination of Wang Wu to the Beijing Central Criminal Department for interrogation.

It is the instruction of the Ao Worship.

Wang Wu guessed that after they were escorted to Yanjing, a big prison against Suke Saha would inevitably be set off.

In other words, he is worshipping, and he will not let go of this hard-won opportunity.

If you can't get Sukh Saha to finish it early.

From the time he was caught in the tower to the time he was sent to Yanjing, Su Ke Saha's nephew Wu Muna never looked for Wang Wu, and he never even appeared, as if he had evaporated from the world.

Wang Wu knew that this kid was secretly investigating the case.

The truth about Chatuhai's death.

How did Tuhai die?

Wang Wu was killed by his own hands.

Therefore, this truth must not be found out by Wu Muna, so people have been secretly monitoring Wu Muna, and if necessary, it is not excluded to invite Wu Muna to swim in the Yangtze River.

At the same time, prepare for the secret of going to Jiangnan.

It is definitely faster to go to Jiangnan by land than by water, but there are too many places to pass by land, and they are all "enemy-occupied areas", which is easy to expose your identity.

The general army of Jingzhou, who had just surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, did not stay in Jingzhou, and suddenly ran to the south of the Yangtze River, and there must be articles.

Therefore, Wang Wu finally decided to take the waterway, slow to slow, but it is better to be safe.

Two months is enough.

You don't have to bring many people, just a few big ships and a hundred or so guards.

But suddenly disappeared for two months, Babur would definitely be suspicious, and Yanjing's old Marfa couldn't explain when asked.

After thinking about it, he found Babur and said that he was going to go to Jiangnan.

The purpose is to invite some skilled craftsmen to Jingzhou to build a Jiangnan garden-style general's mansion, and the other is to purchase some equipment for the construction of the city.

In the end, he said that he planned to do the Yangtze River water transportation business, which was not owned by his Wang Wuyi, but by him and Babur.

Very simply, a large number of goods were purchased from Jiangnan to be sold in Jingzhou, and the profits were increased by 21 to 5, and the general and the capital were privately divided.

"If you have money, everyone earns it together."

As he spoke, Wang Wu took a list and handed it to Babur, which was full of the best-selling goods on the market in Jingzhou, as well as the selling prices of these commodities and the selling prices of their origins.

Thorough market research has been done.

If this business becomes bigger and stronger, the annual profit is quite considerable.

I didn't want Babur to look embarrassed, so he squeaked: "There are regulations in the imperial court that the garrison of the Eight Banners is not allowed to do business. ”