"Do I have 2,500 men under my command now? That's two armies and one battalion. So many men and horses, as well as grain, grass, baggage, weapons, etc., must be counted one by one, and it is even more necessary to prevent the subordinate officers, all heads, and deducting military salaries and the like. It's ten times more than that!"

In a barracks on the southwest coast of Jinghai Province, Hong Yi sat on the chair of General Bearskin, and in front of him was also an iron case, on which were piles of documents, as well as military talismans, tokens, and so on.

Looking at the documents one by one, Hong Yi let out a long sigh and rubbed his forehead, feeling a little burnt.

After coming out of the Jinghai camp and returning to the green camp, Hong Yi received a military order from the marshal's office, appointing him as the general of the Fifth Army, commanding 2,000 soldiers and horses to be stationed in the southwest defense line of the Jinghai camp, and strictly controlling the territory within a radius of 100 miles on the sea and land and along the coast.

The barracks of the Fifth Army were separated from the main camp of the Jing Navy by more than 200 li, that is to say, now Hong Yi was completely guarding the coastal defense line, and within a radius of 100 li, he was the real boss, the emperor of the soil, who could completely arrest merchant ships at sea and inspect pirates in coastal towns, and the magistrates had no right to control them.

Except for the 30,000 to 50,000 jīng rui stationed in the barracks within a radius of dozens of miles from the commander's camp, more than half of the rest were led by various generals and distributed along various points along the coastline to prevent pirates from coming ashore and being exhausted.

The coastline in the south of Daqian is thousands of miles along the way, and it is impossible for the 100,000 or so soldiers of the Jing Navy to be concentrated in one place.

"Brother Hong, you are completely lacking now! Are you still worried about the food, grass, and military salaries when you used to train the green camp?"

"Why don't you worry? Although Yan Zhen said that Yan Zhen will not deduct my military salary, how much can the military salary be? To train a male soldier, the reward, ten times the military salary is not enough, in the past, there were only more than 300 people in a green battalion, and I can still afford to reward them, but now how many people? It is a full 2,005 people! This is a large expense. ”

Hong Yi raised his head.

"Why does Brother Hong only think about paying for his own soldiers? There has always been no reason for the children of the nobility, the army is a bottomless pit, and no matter how much money you have, you can't fill it!" Chi Chaiyang said with a smile: "We are now guarding the coastal defense line of two hundred miles in the southwest, and there are dozens of officials and county commanders along the way, all of whom have to look at our faces, and every year during the New Year's Festival, they all have to come to the labor army to give gifts, as well as those big merchants, those who transport tea, salt, porcelain, silk, and those merchant ships? Otherwise, when our warships patrol the sea, we will dare to confiscate their goods! Look for their ballast! I asked yesterday, it turns out that this is the amount of filial piety that the generals of the Fifth Army guarding the southwest defense line receive every year.

Chi Chaiyang flipped through his five fingers: "Fifty thousand taels, fifty thousand taels of silver! It is equivalent to the income of ten manors, which is still private, not counting the income of those big businessmen and laborers during the New Year's Festival, nor the fact that these generals went to the sea to secretly rob the merchant ships of other countries under the pretext of suppressing bandits." I estimate that those generals, as long as they find a group of merchant ships from other countries, find an excuse, slander them as pirates, rob them relentlessly, and kill people to destroy their mouths, they will immediately become rich! Over the years, our authentic merchants in Yunmeng have transported slaves, horses, and bows and arrows from the sea to sell, and I don't know how much they have been secretly hacked! Otherwise, this maritime trade would not know how prosperous it is. ”

"Is there such a thing?" Hong Yi muttered: "I thought that the Jing Navy was quite strict, and Yan Zhen was also quite prestigious. I can't imagine that there are also dirty people under his command who are bandits and rob merchant ships, so in this case, what is the difference between soldiers and bandits?"

"A soldier is a bandit, and a bandit is a soldier. Brother Hong, how many books have you read, and you still don't understand this truth? Moreover, they robbed other merchant ships and falsely accused merchants of other countries as bandits, but they did not violate the law of the Great Qian. After the military department found out, it could only turn a blind eye. Chi Chaiyang sneered.

"That's right, some of the big merchants of Yunmeng, nominally merchants, after landing, and seeing the prosperity of the towns around the coast, they became bandits, robbed a fortune, and ran away on the ship. These things can't be ignored either. "Hong Yi thinks about it, it's really hard to measure, these things, even if they are measured by reason, it is difficult to figure out the innocence.

"Things in the world are originally confused, even the sages can't measure it, the heaven and the earth are so big, the Tao is so deep, how can it be measured with a ruler? Hahahaha....... Hong Yi, it's good that you are with the light. ”

Just as Hong Yi and Chi Chaiyang were discussing, a laugh walked in from outside the door.

Hong Yi saw that it was actually the First Military Division of the Jing Navy, the sect master of the Qi Soul Sect, Mr. Duan Da walked in. Mr. Duan Da was followed by nine silver shark leather jackets wearing silver shark armor and helmets, only revealing two eyes, and silver shark leather boots under their feet. A man dressed in all silver and gray sè.

At a glance, these nine people look like the silver gods condensed by mercury in Taoism.

All but two eyes of the nine people were wrapped in the silver shark armor, and they were simply invulnerable. They carried war knives, the same style as Hong Yi's rebar war knives, and they were obviously the highest level weapons in the army.

In addition, everyone is holding a famous horse with a treasure yellow horse, and immediately hangs an ironwood ebony war bow and quiver. A pair of light horsemen attacked, smashing the posture of the Yellow Dragon.

However, these Hong Yi were not surprised, what shocked him was that the breath of these nine people was all long breathing! They were all innate level masters! The whole body was wrapped from head to toe, and the innate masters with silver shark armor were all worth fifty or sixty thousand taels of silver. In other words, these nine people are equivalent to all the taxes in one province and one year just for equipment!

What is this concept?

"This is our Jing Navy's real jīng rui, a 'Split Whale Dead Soldier' who is one level higher than the Blood Shark Guard, Split Whale, Split Whale, which means that they are in the sea, and they have the power to tear apart the sea whale. Mr. Duan Da looked at Hong Yi's surprised gaze and shook his fan and smiled slightly.

"Of course, this is just an exaggeration, the whale is the king of the sea, unless it is a martial saint can compete with them in the sea. ”

"How many people are there under the big marshal, how many of them are there who have cracked whales?" Hong Yi asked tentatively.

"There is nothing to hide, there are eighteen Cracked Whale Dead under Da Shuai, this is the strongest force that Da Shuai has cultivated in ten years, and it is as famous as the 'Eighteen Fire God Taibao' of the Imperial Forest Army Shenji Battalion in Yujing. Mr. Duan Da looked at Hong Yi, and after a while, he said a real number.

"Is the 'Eighteen Fire God Taibao' of the Imperial Forest Army Divine Machine Battalion?" Hong Yi's heart moved, the Imperial Forest Army Divine Machine Battalion was the commander of Hong Xi, originally Hong Yi thought that he had Lei Lie, Shanqiu, Wen Feiyan, Chi Chai Yang, Shen Tiezhu, Xiao Mu, after these six congenital masters, the power around him swelled, not to mention anything else, and vaguely had the capital to compete with the Zhao family and even his father.

It was with this confidence that he brought his master to the Dashuai camp to shine and shake his face.

Now it seems that he is really a frog at the bottom of the well.

Is the commander who commands hundreds of thousands of soldiers a person who does not have a strong foundation?

Not to mention the other strength of the handsome Yan Zhen, even if this one Mr. Broken Big, plus eighteen Cracked Whale Dead Soldiers, can kill all his strength!

"Hong Xi has eighteen fire god Taibao under him, are they all congenital masters? But Lei Lie, Wen Feiyan, and the hills are all innate superlative of the unity of spirit and flesh, fighting alone, dealing with ordinary congenital masters, you can use one to two or even three, I don't believe it, these Split Whale Dead Soldiers, what Fire God Taibao, are all innate superbs of the unity of spirit and flesh, you must know that it is difficult enough to step into the innate nature, but it is even more difficult to integrate the spirit and flesh, I didn't see that Chasing Yang followed me and got so many adventures, or was it almost a little bit of unity of spirit and flesh?" Hong Yi pondered in his heart.

At first, he was shocked, but after thinking about it so carefully, he regained his flexible mind.

"However, Yan Zhen's foundation is strong, so the foundation of Wei Taicang, the governor of Nanzhou, is only stronger, and the foundation of the Daluo faction is even stronger! Not to mention the Marquis of Wuwen's mansion......."

"By the way, Mr. Duan Da, as the First Military Division of the Jing Navy and the head of a sect, why did he bring such a powerful jīng Rui as this Split Whale Dead Man to my Fifth Army camp today?"

Hong Yi thought about it for a long time, and suddenly thought of what Mr. Duan Da was doing in his barracks.

"Left and right, Shangxiang Tea! Invite the Nine Guards to the guest room and serve the new Wusè Cloud Tea, which is a new tea just picked in early autumn, strong and mellow. Hong Yi hurriedly greeted.

"Oh, that's not necessary, the Split Whale Dead have rules, never drink other people's water, never eat other people's food, and don't take other people's things, this is the death rule set by the big marshal, more than 300 young people have been trained since childhood, and they didn't survive if they violated this rule of the big marshal, and now there are eighteen left. Hong Yi, don't embarrass them! Just treat them as wood. ”

Mr. Duan Da said a few words lightly, although there was no fierce language, but Hong Yi listened to it with horror, and it was self-evident that it contained bloody things.

"Is the new Wusè Yunwu Tea?This is only produced in Yaochi Yulian Mountain in Yinzhou, and the Wusè Stone Peak, the new tea is all used as a tribute to the palace, even if it is handsome, it is difficult to enjoy the blessing of the mouth!" Mr. Duan sat down, shaking his fan and looking at Hong Yi in surprise.

He surprised Hong Yi just now, but now Hong Yi really surprised him.

Hong Yi smiled and said nothing, and after a while, a person wearing a power suit, arrow boots, and a samurai dress, but no Adam's apple, obviously a woman, held three cups of fragrant tea.

Among the three cups of fragrant tea, they are all held in crystal cups, the roots of the tea leaves are suspended in the middle, and they do not float or sink, and the tea reflects the sunlight in a circle, showing red, blue, green, purple, and yellow five kinds of faint faces, as if it is a rainbow in the sky.

When Mr. Duan saw it, he hurriedly put the fan on the table, and couldn't wait to pick up the crystal cup, so he took a sip directly, and then let out a sigh, as if he was reminiscing.

"Good tea! Good tea! If you can drink this tea every day, it will only be worth living for ten years less!" Mr. Duan Da After reminiscing, his eyes flashed with fascination, not pretending, but from the heart.

"In that case, I will give Mr. Duan a catty. Hong Yi chattered.

These five sè cloud tea only grows between the cracks of the extremely high five sè stone mountains on the Yulian Mountain of the Yaochi School, and on the cliffs, it grows by sucking nectar, and it is extremely difficult to pick. And the quantity is scarce, no less than the thousand-year-old Ganoderma lucidum.

This time, when Hong Yi rescued the flowers and the Yue sisters, in the car fleet, there were three catties and five sè cloud tea for Prince He, and they were all accepted by Hong Yi with a smile.

"That's true!" Mr. Duan almost jumped up, his eyes staring at Hong Yi.

"Really, Yinyue, go get a pot of tea. Hong Yi commanded, and the silver moon arrow boots holding the tea twisted and went out.

"Nine songs in a row. Is she from the Yaochi Sect?" Mr. Duan's eyes were puzzled again, and Hong Yi naturally wouldn't answer him again.

After a while, Yinyue brought a small jade jar over and placed it on the table. Hong Yi stretched out his hand: "Mr. Duan, this is Wusè Cloud Tea." ”

"It's five sè cloud tea! Mr. Duan Da was a little trembling, opened the lid of the jade jar, looked at it and smelled it, and then held it in his arms like a baby for fear of running away, like a Mr. Dongyan.

"I owe you a favor!" After Mr. Duan Da accepted the tea, his eyes instantly became clear, and he picked up the fan and played with it.

"Mr. Duan has not yet told me that this time the labor division mobilized the people, what is the reason for coming to my barracks? Or do you have any new instructions? Hong Yi said.

"No, it's that I want to communicate with Hong Yi about Taoism!" Mr. Duan Da fanned the fan, covering his face, snapped, and put the folding fan away, "Besides, if you kill Wei Lei, Wei Taichang will definitely not give up, so I came to you to guard against some things." ”

"Well said, I'm afraid... I'm afraid that in addition to this meaning, there is also the meaning of spying on me, right? That Yan Zhen is sure enough, it is not a fuel-efficient lamp. But what is the communication technique......" After Hong Yi heard Mr. Duan's words, he instantly guessed a lot of meaning in his heart.

"Is it just what I want, my cultivation is still shallow, and Mr. Duan Da is a sect leader with rich experience, I just want to have a Taoist technique to ask Mr. In the Marshal's Mansion, Mr. Duan Da took the soul ** with one hand, and directly pumped people's souls, which is really powerful, I don't know if you can talk to me?" Hong Yi said with a smile.

As soon as Mr. Duan grabbed his hand, Hong Yi felt as if his divine soul was about to be captured and taken out of his body, this kind of method was really weird, even if it was the Black Demon Crow Array of the Xuantian Pavilion, it was only to suppress the divine soul, and forcibly took the divine soul out of the human body, it was really too unbelievable.

Hong Yi intuitively felt that this magic power was a super powerful spell!

"Soul dementoring**? The Xuan yīn slashing ghost dementoring ** of my Qi Soul Gate is a secret tradition, even if it is a disciple, it will not be taught. Unless it is a mantle, it will have to wait until the assessment of loyalty. It's the biggest killer of my Qi Soul Sect. Mr. Duan Da looked at Hong Yi as if he was stunned, "I want you to say that you are too upper, the Taishang Dan Sutra, the Nine Flame Dragon Technique, will you explain?"

"Oh?" Hong Yi's mouth opened, as if it was a fish out of the water: "As long as there are enough benefits, then there is nothing that cannot be done, if Mr. Duan Da takes the past, present, and future three scriptures of the Great Zen Temple, it may not be impossible to exchange the Taishang Dan Sutra." ”