Hu Zhongxian took out a large map of Jiangnan. This map depicts maps related to Japanese pirates, including Jiangnan, Jiangbei, Shandong, Fujian, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, and Guangxi. These places are not completely under his control. In fact, he only manages the seven provinces in Jiangnan, but most of them are related to him.

"First of all, the military preparations." He drew a line from above on the coastline. From Suzhou to Quanzhou, he drew almost the entire coastal defense line in Jiangnan in the Ming Dynasty and said seriously: "I decided to start armament from three aspects in this anti-Japanese war. The first aspect: gather the manpower and material resources of the seven provinces in Jiangnan to build 59 military storage forts on the coastline. Each fort has 100 troops stationed in each fort, and each fort is prepared with beacons and other objects. If the Japanese pirates land at any point on the coastline, they will immediately ignite the beacons and send a quick warning... In this way, the coastline can be stable."

"So many soldiers' forts? How much does it cost!" officials were talking.

"How much money can I spend?" Hu Zhongxian glared at his eyes: "It's not as good as the empty salary you've eaten!"

The officials immediately didn't dare to say anything.

Hu Zhongxian said again: "The second aspect: recruiting soldiers! Recruiting a large number of soldiers! I can't believe in the messy guards under your command. They may be used to fill the scene and shout and scare the enemy, but when they really fight with the Japanese pirates, they are all soft-boys."

As soon as he finished speaking, a group of civil servants shouted again: "Mr. Hu, the soldiers recruited may not be better than the current soldiers. Jiangnan has been peaceful for hundreds of years, and he really cannot recruit any decent soldiers."

Hu Zhongxian shook his head and said, "I also know that Jiangnan cannot recruit decent soldiers, so this time I invited Mrs. Va."

He waved to the middle-aged and minority woman Yi Yun had just met and said, "Madam Wa, please tell me..."

Everyone turned their heads and Yi Yun looked at her carefully. She saw that Mrs. Wa is about fifty years old, with dark skin and bright eyes. She is really not beautiful, but it makes people feel shrewd and capable. She is wearing a Zhuang ethnic costume, which looks very different from ordinary Han women. There are two Pu swords hanging around her waist, and it seems that she is still playing with double swords.

The woman stood up and said, "Mr. Hu plans to recruit wolf soldiers from our Guangxi chieftain territory this time."

"Wolf soldiers?" The civil servants were shocked again and shouted anxiously: "Master, no... The wolf soldiers are so scary. This thing is even more spoof than the Japanese pirates..."

It turns out that the so-called wolf soldiers are the so-called poor and bad people from the Zhuang people in Guangshui. This sentence applies not only to the Yiwu soldiers, Sichuan soldiers, Yunnan and Guizhou soldiers, but also to the wolf soldiers of the Zhuang people in Guangxi. These wolf soldiers were born in the mountainous areas of Guangxi and were under the jurisdiction of chieftains. The ethnic minority areas of the Dameng Kingdom have not yet been civilized. Unlike the 56 ethnic groups in later generations, there is no tourism industry to drive the economy of the ethnic minority areas. Few Han people even went to those mountainous areas.

Most of the ethnic minorities in the Dameng Kingdom are no different from savages. The soldiers selected from a group of savages are the combat savages among savages, and their ferocity can be seen. These wolf soldiers have very strong combat power and are completely destined to fight. They only need to use their military achievements in exchange for rewards.

Their eyes of the enemy were not looking at people at all, like lions and tigers in the mountains. Either you die or I die. Therefore, the combat power of the wolf soldiers is extremely strong. In terms of not being able to live, they can compete with the Yiwu soldiers. When encountering Japanese pirates, they will not be afraid of the formation, and they will not retreat in the face of the battle.

Why don’t the officials in Jiangnan like such a strong soldier?

It turns out that the wolf soldier also has its shortcomings, and his shortcomings are - wild.

The Wolf Soldiers are real wild soldiers. Their military discipline is very chaotic, or there is no military discipline at all. When the Wolf Soldiers go to war, they not only do not regard the enemy as humans, nor do they regard people from other ethnic groups as humans... Wherever they pass, no matter whether you are a Japanese pirate or a people from a cute country, they will kill all the things that don’t like, and they will take gold, silver, treasures, and food utensils without hesitation.

A few years ago, the court of Dameng Kingdom also called for the wolf soldiers once, but wherever the wolf soldiers passed, they plundered, robbed, raped women, destroyed houses, and were even more terrifying than bandits. Moreover, these guys didn't know that they were doing bad things. They snatched all the way from Guangxi to Nanjing, and actually took the women they snatched from Nanjing to Nanjing for sale... and put on a posture of "This is the property I picked up on the road"... which made the government of Dameng Kingdom laugh and cry.

The inspector of Guangdong and Guangxi quickly wrote a letter to the court: This thing is too terrible, so don’t use it in the future, let them continue to be savages in the mountains of Guangxi.

At that time, a well-educated fake Japanese among the Japanese pirates also wrote a ridicule letter to the court of the Dameng Kingdom: "Our Japanese pirates have come, and they can only burn, kill, loot a few small places, and often only rob property but not kill people. They take things and leave. However, the wolf soldiers are more thorough than our Japanese pirates. They pack all the people and things. I think the court might as well call the Japanese pirates to help eliminate the wolf soldiers, how about it?"

So this time when Hu Zhongxian said he wanted to transfer the wolf soldiers, the officials were sweating profusely.

After hearing the protests of everyone, Mrs. Wa quickly said, "My lords are over-concerned. This time, General Hu said that we would transfer our wolf soldiers, and we have considered the military discipline of the wolf soldiers. As long as you take more money, I will explain to them before the wolf soldiers come out. Don't rob and burn them randomly after taking the money. It is generally possible to restrain it. But the military salary must not be less than half of us, otherwise the wolf soldiers will not be sure what will happen to them."

"Scared, you still need money?" The officials knelt: "How can we have so much money? And why do we have to pay this money? We should write to the court and ask the emperor to send money."

Hu Zhongxian snorted coldly and said, "The emperor is using money now. The battle between Luzhou in the southwest and the northeast resists the Qing Dynasty. Which one does not need money? Jiangnan is also asking the emperor for money. Can the emperor take it out? You are usually greedy for a lot of money that should be given to the emperor, so why not spit it out now? Otherwise, the Japanese pirates will break through your city and you will die."

A group of officials looked frowning... with depression...

Hu Zhongxian didn't bother with them and said, "The third aspect: the Japanese pirates come from the sea, and we can only let them attack, but we can't counterattack. Every time the Japanese pirates attack, we can only passively defend, which is very unfavorable. I decided to spend money to build a navy, including fifty giant warships, two hundred medium warships, and five hundred light warships... It is definitely too late to build ships by myself. We can buy these ships from the sea merchants in Ningbo... With ships, we can form a navy, break the thief at the sea, be mobile and flexible, and defend the enemy outside the country..."

As soon as he finished speaking, the civil servants in the hall screamed in unison: "You want money again? Oh my God, kill us!"

"Stop talking!" Hu Zhongxian extended his hand and said, "My three armament plans are finished, everyone should come up and donate."

The civil servants couldn't sit still and refused to move their butts.

At this time, Zhao Yunxuan smiled again: "Donate money, right? I'll take the lead!" She took off a cute little purse from her waist, and two butterflies were embroidered on the purse. It was very delicate. She fumbled in the purse for a while, and finally touched a copper plate, carefully held it in her hand, and smiled: "This is all my pocket money this month, donate it to you!"

After saying that, her hand flicked, and the copper plate drew a beautiful arc in the air and fell into Hu Zhongxian's hand. She also added: "Don't underestimate the copper plate, you can buy a bun, I'm bleeding now."

Officials in the hall: "…"

Although Zhao Yunxuan was the King of Jinling, she never took any greed. She used all the monthly money given to her by the court to distribute to the poor, so she only had a copper coin on her, but no one dared to laugh at her.

But she can't donate money like this. What can this copper plate do? Not to mention buying a ship, recruiting soldiers, and building castles, it can't be done with dozens of millions of taels of silver. If you put them all together, you can't handle it without tens of millions of taels of silver.

Yi Yun sighed and thought: Forget it, although I am usually very obsessed with money and Jiashan also needs money to develop, the people of the cute country are also from my Chinese lineage. I cannot only care about my own small oasis, but should take care of all the talents. At this time, it is not easy for Hu Zhongxian to come out and take the lead and do some good things. Moreover, the overall situation of anti-Japanese war in Jiangnan is also related to the safety of his territory.

He took out a silver note from his arms, slapped it into Hu Zhongxian's hand, and shouted: "Jiashan Oasis, donate 100,000 taels of silver." He was so proud that he was bleeding in his heart. Damn, a thousand muskets flew like this... My caravan had to run several times to make so much money, forget it! I'll endure it.

Hu Zhongxian was overjoyed: "Prince Xie Jiashan, I read that right, you are indeed a good person..."

Yi Yun took action and immediately put other civil servants on fire. His Jiashan oasis was only a small oasis as big as mung beans, but he actually donated 100,000 taels. How can I not donate more other oasis? Everyone was sweating all over.

Yi Yun's eyes pointed and found a familiar figure in the crowd. He immediately jumped over, grabbed the man, and dragged him to Hu Zhongxian. It turned out that this man was the unlucky 32nd father-in-law.

Yi Yun smiled and said without a smile: "Thirty-two Father-in-law, as the admiral of the East Factory, you are not short of money, right?"

"This... I am not an official from Jiangnan!" The 32nd father-in-law was shocked: "I am just here to pass the imperial edict and will return to Beijing tomorrow..."
Chapter completed!