Daming pirates

So now Seawolf's army strength has surpassed that of the navy by a large margin, which makes the army personnel feel quite proud and feel that they can compete with the navy in all aspects.

In the past two years, Seawolf's Army has tried to compete with the Navy in terms of recruitment and budget. However, due to technical differences, the Army's budget has never been able to exceed that of the Navy, which made the Army quite unhappy.

For this reason, Yu Xiaotian summoned the army's chief general in front of him and reprimanded him face to face. He explained to his face that the army and navy have different structures and different technical equipment, which means that the navy must occupy greater resources during this period of time.

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After all, although the navy is not as powerful as the army now, the navy needs to equip ships and a large number of artillery, and it also requires a lot of logistics and maintenance. The army is naturally far behind. After all, in addition to war horses, the army

, individual soldier equipment is not too valuable, a set of armor plus a flintlock gun, as well as military uniforms and daily necessities do not cost much.

Moreover, because of the current number of horses, Yu Xiaotian does not want to expose too much of his hidden strength. Most of the horses are still placed on Haitan Island and Jeju Island for training and private breeding. The actual number of horses equipped by the Army is still very small, which also limits

The army was equipped with more artillery.

Therefore, although the army has more people, it cannot keep up with the navy in spending money. Although the army is not convinced by this, it is also a fact. After all, the navy is rich and the army is poor. This is an unchangeable fact. The navy is only an armed force.

The most common warship consumes enough money to arm an army battalion.

Nowadays, although the Seawolves have gradually begun to focus on developing the strength of the army, at this stage, the navy is still their foundation, and no one can change this reality.

Although the Seawolf Group has invested heavily in military resources, the two armies are not just consuming resources without producing any output.

Let's talk about the navy first. Since the navy officially established its three major fleets, Yu Xiaotian has completely controlled the entire Fujian coast. Although he has not blatantly sent out the navy to expand territory on the sea, it does not prevent him from doing tricks secretly.

First of all, the navy is responsible for the anti-smuggling operations along the coast of Fujian. Every year, it catches many ships that try to go out to sea secretly for business without paying the passage money. Every year, it confiscates many ships with valuables. In addition, each fleet secretly dispatches some subordinates and ships to go north or south.

They went to Zhejiang, South Zhili, Shandong, and the coastal areas of Guangdong and Guangxi, and even sailed south to the waters of Nanyang, pretending to be pirates, and doing some dirty work.

The scale of such an operation is quite large. In addition to keeping the navy in a state of intense rotation training and maintaining navigation skills and combat capabilities, the income brought back every year is also extremely considerable. The profits they earn are almost

Enough to feed the entire navy, and even have a considerable surplus.

As for the army, it is slightly worse than the navy. The army has very strict military discipline. Of course, it cannot be like the navy, where they dress up as pirates and go out to be robbers outside Fujian.

But this does not mean that the Army has no income. The Army has conducted many military operations on land in Fujian in recent years. Although they have strict military discipline and do not easily disturb the people, it does not mean that they will not find ways to make money.

By suppressing bandits, after each victory, they can still make quite generous seizures. In addition to continuously providing Taiwan with immigrants with captive status, they can also obtain a lot of property.

Even if some were to be handed over to Fujian officials, Yu Xiaotian would not be so stupid as to be selfless and hand over all the confiscated property. He would definitely retain most of the property for his own use.

In addition, there are quite a few large households in Fujian that are hostile to Sea Wolf. After all, Yu Xiaotian and his men have been grabbing business everywhere on land over the years and taking away many of their vested interests. Therefore, Yu Xiaotian's behavior is inappropriate.

Very hateful.

Therefore, it is natural that many large households secretly oppose Yu Xiaotian, and there are always some blind people who are trying to steal the money. In order to make a fortune, they will even hire murderers to assassinate Yu Xiaotian.

Yu Xiaotian is definitely not the kind of good man and believer in women. He will definitely not let such an enemy sit idly by and ignore them. It can even be said that he will definitely retaliate against such people.

It was clear that sending troops to kill them would definitely not work, but Yu Xiaotian didn't mind using some shady means to deal with these people.

The best way is to verify that someone is working against them. Bandits will soon appear near these wealthy families. It won't be long before bandits and bandits raid the castles of these wealthy families, or simply kidnap meat tickets for blackmail.

, he can often destroy these big families who oppose him, and some people simply disappear from the world for no apparent reason.

Once these big families who oppose him are knocked out, these bandits and bandits will soon be "annihilated" by Yu Xiaotian, and Yu Xiaotian's men will immediately appear on the territory of these big families, using both soft and hard tactics to annex them.

Get rid of the remaining properties and houses of these wealthy households.

As long as Yu Xiaotian's men intervene, very few people dare to play against Yu Xiaotian. As long as someone tries to take advantage of the opportunity and want to make a fortune, his family is destined to be unlucky.

Therefore, the army has used this method in recent years to kill many gentry who were against Yu Xiaotian throughout Fujian, and gained a lot of benefits.

Although many people had suspected that this was Yu Xiaotian's secret instigation, and had jointly put pressure on the government to conduct a thorough investigation, the final investigation results seemed to be completely unrelated to Yu Xiaotian, so they had no choice but to leave it alone.

After a long period of time, many people are not stupid. Even if they know that Yu Xiaotian did it secretly, they can't grasp the handle of others and can only knock out their teeth and swallow the blood in their stomachs. Therefore, those who are against Xiaotian

People who were naturally hostile gradually no longer dared to go against Yu Xiaotian. Whenever Yu Xiaotian's men robbed their business, they could only stare blankly and did not dare to make any small moves. To Xiaotian or Hai

The wolf group fights or retaliates.

So now Yu Xiaotian can almost walk sideways in Fujian, and few people dare to stroke his tiger beard. As for the army, it has also obtained a lot of resources. There is basically no big problem in feeding the army. If you add

In terms of commercial interests, Yu Xiaotian's support of so many soldiers is basically a business that only makes money but does not lose money.

This time Yu Xiaotian's layout for Denglai, Shandong and other places, as the intelligence was gradually fed back, Yu Xiaotian felt that there was no deviation in the historical development, so he began to prepare secretly.

He handed over the specific responsibility to the General Staff Headquarters. Only the core staff members were specifically aware of the situation and were specifically responsible for the formulation and implementation of the plan.

As for Fang An, because he is mature and prudent, quite alert, and also literate, Yu Xiaotian has prepared a lot of military strategies for him in the past few years, and invited Lin Yiyang and some counselors to explain them to him, and from time to time.

After discussing with him, Fang An no longer dared to say that he had read all the military books and strategies, but at least he had made huge improvements compared to before.

Whether it is his vision, his meticulousness or even his control of the overall situation, Fang An has improved countless times compared to before.

Therefore, Fang An no longer continues to be in charge of local affairs in Tamsui, but has been appointed by Yu Xiaotian as the Chief of Staff of the General Staff.

Fang An also officially became the second-ranking figure in the Sea Wolf Army, besides Yu Xiaotian, and was fully responsible for the command of the entire Sea Wolf military system.

He also gathered dozens of young and flexible staff members under him to assist him in his work. This time, the plan for Denglai's layout was handed over to Fang Anlai to be responsible for the specific arrangements and planning.

Yu Xiaotian gave this plan the name "Secret Thorn". The entire plan was called the "Secret Thorn Plan", which meant that this operation would be the first time that the Sea Wolf officially laid a secret spear in the north.

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As time passes day by day, the giant hand that controls history continues to push the vehicle of history forward slowly.

While the Sea Wolf Group was secretly making intensive preparations, in the past few months, a small village that was usually inconspicuous was located in the northeastern part of Ninghai Prefecture, Dengzhou Prefecture, on the coast across the sea from Yangma Island.

, but suddenly it became lively.

A large number of farmers, especially bricklayers, in Ninghai Prefecture and even further afield have heard that Xishan Village in Ninghai Prefecture is now building a village wall and building a fishing port on the shore, which requires a lot of labor.

In the past few years, Dengzhou Prefecture has suffered from natural disasters one after another. The temperature in winter is extremely low, there is little rain in summer, and many places are in drought. There are already signs of major disasters. Many farmers are suffering from hunger all year round. I dare not say that Dengzhou is now

There were people dying of hunger everywhere, but from time to time there would be corpses of people lying on the roadside.

When people are poor, they want to change. Some hungry people see that they can no longer survive. Naturally, some strong men come forward to occupy the mountains and gather them into bandits. In addition, the Liaodong Han people who have fled across the sea from Liaodong in the past two years and returned to Denglai area are really helpless.

Unfortunately, these refugees who fled from Liaodong have no place to stand in Denglai. Their arrival has also increased the pressure on Denglai locals.

Naturally, the local people in Shandong are extremely repulsive to these refugees who fled back from Liaodong. These refugees who fled back from Liaodong are quite tough themselves. With no way to make a living, they will naturally take risks and engage in some business without capital.

Therefore, the entire Denglai area has been very tense in the past two years. There are so many bandits in large and small groups. Today this group of bandits just passed by, and tomorrow the group of bandits will attack again, causing everyone in many villages in Shandong to

We are in danger, not to mention the entire Dengzhou Prefecture that is in the midst of a whirlpool.

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