If a storm called "Imperial Power" swept through the Ming Dynasty at this time, then Nanhaiwei's side would undoubtedly be one of the quietest places in this storm.
After the storm swept over, a big drama was going on in the court hall, where you sang and I appeared. However, this drama had little to do with Nanhaiwei.
For Nanhaiwei, military expansion is the most important thing at present. Compared with the struggle for power above Cai Chaotang, it is low-key and practical.
Now there are three thousand households in Nanhaiwei. Xu Jian and Feng Wanli each control one thousand households, and Gao Jin controls one. The team around them have also become the middle and lower-level officers of their respective thousand households. The boy who originally came from Tingyulou
, were dispersed by Jiang Wan and assigned to each thousand households to serve as official posts such as the general banner of hundreds of households.
As long as a team has these officers as its skeleton, it will be easy to expand, and its combat strength will also be easy to ensure.
Basically all Zhouzhuang's manpower has moved to Nanhaizi. However, Jiang Wan did not dismiss the instructors who originally trained Tingyulou Twelve Rooms or join the army, but continued to maintain them.
Even the practice of recruiting people from leftover soldiers has been maintained. In Jiang Wan's vision, the entire Twelve Rooms of Tingyu Building in Zhouzhuang should exist as a junior officer training school.
In the future, as long as the personnel who can successfully graduate from these twelve rooms will be the source of Nanhaiwei's officers, and with these officers continuously entering Nanhaiwei's command positions at all levels, Jiang Wan will not worry about him being ignored in Nanhaiwei.
, even the entire Nanhaiwei was plucked from peaches and made into other people's wedding clothes.
Regarding the recruitment of troops, Jiang Wan did not intend to do it personally, but instead delegated power to three thousand households.
Xu Jian and Feng Wanli naturally recruited soldiers from the military, and their backgrounds determined their choice. Moreover, recruiting soldiers from military households has always been a Ming Dynasty tradition and the main source of troops for the Ming Dynasty.
Gao Jin was much more stringent in recruiting troops. As for his status and background, his Qianhu family might not be as strict as Xu Jian and Feng Wanli's requirements, but his requirements for personal skills and martial prowess were obviously higher.
Jiang Wan did not interfere with their actions, and was even looking forward to seeing what kind of subordinates he would have after seeing Nanhai Wei form an army.
After the recruitment notice was posted, Nanhaizi was crowded with people every day. The few small schools left behind by the Jingjun were now put to use. Three thousand households put up their own recruitment flags and watched them with joy every day.
Crowds came from all over and finally joined their ranks.
"These are your troops!"
Catherine and Jiang Wan stood on a small hillside, looking at the bustling scene in the school ground below the hillside. There, dozens of people were testing the physical fitness and fitness of the recruited people according to Tingyulou's method of selecting people.
Skills, these things, further away, there is a mass of human heads sitting in the dark, all of them are young men in their 10s and 20s.
They waited quietly for the officer's assessment, and once they passed the assessment, those who passed were placed on the other side of the school grounds, where they waited for hundreds of families to pick them away.
"It's His Majesty the Emperor's army!" Jiang Wan said with a slight smile: "I'm just commanding on his behalf!"
"Then why am I still here?" Catherine said with a smile. Even she had personally experienced the storm in the Ming Dynasty, but she also knew that Jiang Wan in front of her had already stood on the side of the winner.
One side.
For him, now should be the most energetic time.
Therefore, she does not reject Jiang Wan's invitation at all. It is normal for a successful man to invite a lady to show off his strength at this time. However, if there is no woman with a special status in his heart, I am afraid that he has not yet.
this qualification.
"I want to know something about the infantry in your kingdom!" Jiang Wan said: "I know that in the Kingdom of Folangji, the infantry are now basically equipped with firearms and even artillery. But this is not the case in the Ming Dynasty. Infantry is infantry.
Artillery is artillery, completely different!"
"It doesn't matter if you don't understand. I believe that your chamber of commerce will have retired officers or soldiers. I want to hire such a group of people!"
"I know that the Ming Dynasty has an army all equipped with firearms. Since we already have it, why do you bother so much?" Catherine did not refuse Jiang Wan's request, but raised a question: "Besides, it should still be the Ming Dynasty's army.
Ace unit!"
"The Shenji Camp is the Shenji Camp, and the Nanhaiwei is the Nanhaiwei!" Jiang Wan shook his head: "If we go forward a hundred years, the Shenji Camp can indeed be called the Ming Dynasty's trump card. However, I don't know much about it now.
Watch them!"
He looked at Catherine: "Guess, if our Ming Dynasty's Shenji Battalion and your kingdom's infantry regiment fight with the same strength, who will win in the end?"
"This, it's hard to say!" Catherine didn't want to answer this topic: "The enemies we face are different, and the combat power of the army is also different. Simply comparing it like this is meaningless, and the Ming Dynasty's Shenji Battalion will never face
The infantry regiment of our kingdom, Jiang Wan, you are thinking too much!"
"Of course I didn't say that Nanhaiwei will face an army like your kingdom's infantry regiment in the future!" Jiang Wan said: "If your kingdom does not have a fixed stronghold in the Far East, and it really wants to conflict with the Ming Dynasty, then the war will
It will only happen at sea. This is the most fundamental reason why I want to hire your retired soldiers and officers. We have no conflict of interest with each other!"
"Are you worried that your army will one day be sent out to face the barbarian invasion from the north?" Catherine asked.
Jiang Wan nodded slowly.
"Urge your emperor to step down. If the cannon trade can be confirmed, you don't need to ask me for help with these matters. You can solve them yourself by going to Haojing'ao!"
Catherine smiled and shook her head: "Retired soldiers, pirates, villains, exiles, all kinds of people will be found in Haojing'ao. As long as you pay them a reward they can't refuse, let alone train your soldiers and barbarians.
Fighting means going to hell to fight the devil, and they will move forward indomitably!"
"Well, I'm afraid that your mission will take the initiative to remind our Emperor!" Jiang Wan thought for a while: "Our Emperor is very busy now, but I think no matter how busy he is, it will not matter to our Daming Border Town
Regarding safety matters, he should still have timely instructions!"
"In that case, will you go back to Haojing'ao with me?" Catherine looked at him with a smile: "You seemed to have promised me when we were in Wu County!"
"If I can get results by going there in person, of course I will go!" Jiang Wan nodded: "Don't forget, I still have my shop in Haojing'ao. I haven't known this for so long.
How is the shop? Of course I have to take a look in person to feel at ease!"