On the second day after Zhao Xing gathered several "Caishen" to hold a meeting, as several gifts and silver congratulations to King Pingxi, it was regarded as temporary additional military expenditures, and was quickly allocated to the Youzhou Legion, Liangzhou Legion and Jin Navy by the Commander-in-Chief.**《》*

Among them, the Liangzhou Legion, which had the most severe strength consumption some time ago, received only one million taels, mainly used to pay for the casualties and subsidize the cost of the training team.

Now the vanguard army is still sufficient to guard Baishui Pass and Jiameng Pass, but if it is obvious that it is difficult to launch an attack on Shuzhong next step. Zhao Xing allocated Zhang He this additional military expenses, so he naturally hopes that Zhang He will seize the time to train another group of elite soldiers with strong combat power and suitable for mountain jungle combat.

The Youzhou Legion received 500,000 taels of military expenditure, but its main purpose was inconvenient. Zhao Hu and Zheng Donglai secretly found ways to open up two gaps on land and on sea in the Liaodong region. While doing business with Gongsun Du's two sons, a batch of equipment and materials could be quietly transported into Liaodong and wait for an opportunity to transport it to Fuyu Kingdom, which could solve Zhang Xiu's urgent need.

The Jin Navy also received 500,000 taels, mainly used for the development of large warships. Since he was the admiral of the navy, Taishi Ci was constantly instilled by Zhao Xing with the concept of forging an invincible fleet across the ocean. If he wanted to cross the ocean, he had to have advanced and durable large warships. Now the navy has begun to take shape, but it is still far from Zhao Xing's requirements, and has not yet received the baptism of naval warfare, so he is still in the stage of large-scale money-burning and exploring and development.

Now the military expenditure allocated to each army by the Wohu Command no longer has to send an army to escort a convoy with gold and silver like in the past, which took a long time to complete. As long as there are branches of the peasants, soldiers, merchants and gold banks, the local troops can take large amounts of internal cash withdrawals. The benefits of doing this are obvious, which can save the expenses caused by the escort silver troops, and can also prevent the army's logistics officials from taking advantage of the troubled waters.

On the road from Jin State to Youzhou Naval City, there was a small team of ordinary clothes and only 40 people rushing to the road. Because their speed was too fast, they occasionally made a shout of reminding the pedestrians in front of them, which caused a wave of passing business travelers to roll their eyes. This phenomenon was very similar to the cars taken by later troops who were taking photos of cars snatching the road and running a red light, but it was indeed difficult to strictly control.

For example, this team riding a horse was not intentionally violating the "traffic rules". They just needed to rush to their destination as soon as possible with important letters and a huge sum of money, so they had to keep "overtaking" and "grab the road".

The leader of this team was named Xu Hui, whose courtesy name was Guangzu, and was from Qu County, Donghai. He had a famous figure named Xu Fu from his ancestors. The story of "Xu Fu Flying East" was widely praised in later generations, but at this time Xu Fu was still regarded as a alchemist. As for the rumors that he once took 500 boys and girls to seek the elixir of immortality on a boat, it is purely nonsense.

It doesn't matter whether Xu Hui is a descendant of Xu Fu. What's important is that he was born in the East China Sea and has been living at sea since childhood. He has a good life. Because of his poor family, Xu Hui has followed the old fishermen to fish in the sea since childhood. When Taishi Ci came to the East China Sea to recruit sailors, he signed up for the navy without hesitation.

In recent years, Xu Hui followed Taishi Ci to cut through the waves on the sea, gradually showing his talent that is different from ordinary people. He was able to skillfully command and control a "sea dragon"-shaped warship, but also had unique insights on how to train the navy and how to use the firearms on the warships, so he was deeply appreciated by Taishi Ci.

Taishi Ci, who had no generals under his command, specially selected a group of loyal and reliable young captains from 30,000 naval officers and soldiers at the end of last year and sent them to the Wohu Martial Arts Hall for further study and training. In addition to learning general tactical command subjects, they also set up a separate class to learn the textbooks specially compiled by Zhao Xing for the navy. Now that the training has ended, they happened to return to Quanzhou Naval City with the squad leader Xu Hui.

Xu Hui had a huge redemption ticket of 500,000 taels in his arms and a letter of commission from Gan Ning. The pressure in his heart was quite high. For Zhao Xing, 500,000 taels of silver is nothing now. Wei Zhen sent a gift worth 200,000 taels in one go in order to apologize to him, but this was based on the accumulation of wealth for him by more than 10 million people. The current military expenditure of the Jin Navy is 6 million taels per year, of which more than 4 million taels are used to make warships and experimental firearms, and the actual cost of daily expenses is only 2 million taels.

The military expenditure of 500,000 taels of silver was simply an unimaginable number for Xu Hui, a battalion-level captain who could receive ten taels of military salaries every month. If the military expenditure was a little bit worse, Xu Hui felt that his apology for death was not enough to repay the honor and cultivation of Admiral Taishi.

However, Xu Hui's concerns were obviously too much. On the way from Jin State to Yuyang County, Youzhou, their classmates and friends did not encounter any trouble. Apart from the harder journey, the entire itinerary was smooth sailing.

The former Black Mountain bandits have now become the Black Mountain Army and have also gone overseas to fight. It is even more impossible for any bandit road tyrants to appear between Jin and Youzhou. The common people have work to do and money to make money. Who would risk being surrounded by officers and soldiers to do that beheading business?

After rushing to Quanzhou with the forty captains who returned from school, Xu Hui hurried to the official office where Taishici lives. The guards guarded at the door watched Xu Hui enter and exit the Admiral's Mansion many times in recent years, so after seeing Xu Hui returning from school, he did not stop him and told him that Admiral Taishi was competing with others in the backyard and went to search for him.

Xu Hui then went straight to the backyard, and from a distance he heard the sound of weapons intersecting. After entering the backyard, Xu Hui saw Admiral Taishi wearing a black tight martial arts uniform, fighting with a strong man who was also shirtless in the field, and he didn't know how many rounds you had fought back and forth.

Xu Hui whispered to the water brothers watching the battle next to him, "What is the origin of this guy fighting with Admiral Taishi? Why have I never seen him before?"

The brothers who were asked were also familiar with Xu Hui and replied softly, "This guy is Gan Xingba, the Jinfan thief who was caught by General Ma Mengqi in Hanzhong some time ago. He was very rebellious and unruly. He and Admiral Taishi proposed to determine the outcome of the victory and defeat. If he lost, he would serve the navy wholeheartedly in the future. If he won, he would ask Admiral Taishi to release him back to Yizhou!"

When Xu Hui heard this, his expression became a little more exciting. He was holding a letter of appointment about Gan Ning in his arms!

Xu Hui asked again nervously: "I wonder how many games have you fought now? How many games have you won in Admiral Taishi?"

"This is the last battle! The first battle between the Admiral Taishi and this guy was a quick kung fu. This guy didn't ask about it. Our admiral had worked as the commander of the Canglang Army before, so Gan Xingba was naturally severely repaired by the Admiral Taishi. The second battle between the two was water kung fu. Although this guy was known as a Jinfan thief on the Yizhou River, he was quite well-versed, but how could he compare with the Admiral Taishi who was used to the strong winds and waves? As a result, he was naturally severely repaired again! Hey, hey..., this guy was naturally not convinced, so he made an appointment to fight on the ground today."

Xu Hui nodded and said with a thief smile: "I guess this guy will be defeated today. Admiral Taishi can fight with General Guan, General Zhang and others in no way. No matter how powerful he is, can he be stronger than those fierce men?"


Chapter completed!