Three days later, Queen Zhou's health had improved significantly and she could start walking down the ground.

According to this state, as long as she carefully recuperates, recovery will not be a problem at all.

Haicheng is indeed not as rich as the capital in terms of its supplies, but its huge seafood advantage in the sea completely crushes the capital. Zhu Cilang and Zhu Mai are all relieved at this time, but they have also begun to adapt to Haicheng's life.

The news of Queen Zhou's recovery was quickly spread in Haicheng. Among them, Xu Changqing's "ancient recipe", especially Xu Changqing's "secret medicine", was even more rumored, like a magical medicine that can lead to life and death, human flesh and bones.

Xu Changqing was also happy to let it spread and develop, after all, this was very beneficial to the spread of Xu Changqing's reputation.

At this critical link, nothing is more important and valuable than reputation.

There was no problem with Queen Zhou, and one of Xu Changqing's biggest hidden dangers was removed, which also gave Xu Changqing more time and energy to concentrate on the military.

The war is imminent, and the world is in chaos.

The model army expands its army again and reorganizes it is urgent!

"Lord, my model army has recruited more than 14,000 auxiliary soldiers, more than 18,000 reserve soldiers, and nearly 20,000 reserve soldiers. If regulations are formulated, within three days, the auxiliary soldiers can be directly charged into the combat soldiers sequence..."

"Lord, regarding military weapons, the Military Weapons has produced more than 4,000 iron armor, 18,000 pairs of leather armor and more than 9,000 pairs of cotton armor in recent days. In addition, the first batch of bird guns from the Zheng family have been in place..."

In the official hall, military and political leaders such as Li Yan, Li Hongyun, and Xu Zhong reported in detail the results of this period to Xu Changqing.

Xu Changqing kept nodding.

This time, Tongguan and the battle in the capital, the Model Army's efforts were extremely heavy, with more than 4,000 casualties, and nearly 2,000 casualties alone.

This is also the most painful time since the Model Army was formed.

However, at this time, Xu Changqing was no longer the same little chicken as before.

At this time, the population around Haicheng alone had exceeded 500,000, and most of them were young and strong. If the surrounding areas were added, Xu Changqing's directly controlled population at this time had exceeded one million, which was more than the Guanning Zu family and Wu family combined.

Moreover, because of Xu Changqing's reputation, refugees come to join Haicheng almost every day. When the weather gets warmer next year, the population of Haicheng will surely increase further.

So even though the model army paid a huge price at this time, Xu Changqing felt very distressed, but he could no longer hurt Xu Changqing's muscles.

"Well, thank you all, the military is the root of my Shandong Left Alliance, my Haicheng, and my model army. It must be of great importance! Let's go tomorrow, and the army will officially start to expand tomorrow! The specific organization should be based on the original structure and directly charged into each thousand corps, each thousand corps, reaching a scale of 2,500 people. To lead the new army with the old, it is necessary to integrate the new army and the old army in the shortest time to form combat power as soon as possible!"

"yes!"

Everyone hurriedly said yes respectfully.

The big guys retreated and planned in detail, and planned to be officially implemented tomorrow. Xu Changqing also came to the sand table in the inner study and began to make overall arrangements.

Before going to the capital, the number of soldiers of the Model Army was about 20,000, divided into more than a dozen thousand corps. However, when the capital returned to this battle, except for the fallen soldiers and seriously injured retired soldiers, the number of soldiers was about 17,000.

It is barely enough to defend against Haicheng at this scale, but as the situation begins to change, the front line of the Model Army begins to lengthen, so this is not enough.

Even if Xu Changqing feels sorry for military expenses, he must grit his teeth and force it!

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According to the current situation, not to mention that there were only 30,000 people after the expansion of the army, it was 80,000, 100,000, or 150,000, not many.

But Xu Changqing was not blinded.

With Haicheng's current fault tolerance, productivity and potential, 50,000 combat soldiers are already the limit. After all, the Model Army is not the old Ming army that has lost its salary and consumes blood. This is a real army with a complete organization.

The 30,000 army, the monthly expenditure on military pay, food pay, weapon consumption and other aspects is already a terrible astronomical figure.

Before, when the capital was not destroyed, even though the court's food and salary were delayed again and again, there was still a little bit, but at this time, everything was solved by Xu Changqing himself, and Xu Changqing could not be careless.

Fortunately, although the auxiliary soldiers of the Model Army received all-round training like war soldiers, they can temporarily use the treatment of auxiliary soldiers to resettle them.

This is the benefit of Xu Changqing's reputation.

In this way, although the model army had nominal 30,000 people, the real war soldiers had reached a scale of 50,000.

Specifically for each thousand team, the number of people can reach 4,000 or even 5,000, and it can be established.

However, after thinking about it, Xu Changqing decided not to set up a camp for the time being.

After all, being low-key is the king. At this time, the queen and the prince are all in his own hands. If they establish more than a dozen battalions at once, how could they still sit still in Nanjing?

I'm afraid they have to open their eyes when they sleep.

This is obviously not chosen by the wise.

After the scale of 50,000 people a year is reached, the model army will have more strength to defend Shandong, centering on Haicheng, including Wudingzhou and Shanghe, and will continue to expand to Jiyang and Zibo.

Unfortunately, it was still late winter at this time, and it was too cold to build a large-scale construction, but the defense line of Xiaotunbao that should be available must be in place.

This thing doesn't cost too much money, just adobe. The key is to get stuck in the position, create and make reasonable use of the favorable terrain.

Even if these defenses may not be effective when facing the main force of the Qing army in the future, they still need to shrink their defenses and even clear the world. However, Xu Changqing must take this worry, the department!

It would be fine if the dogs and Tartars didn't come. As long as they dared to come, they had to get fucked and hurt them so that they would not dare to easily invade his Xu Changqing's territory!

...

Just as Xu Changqing was busy organizing his army in Haicheng.

Outside Qufu City.

Many southern soldiers who had been patient for a long time finally couldn't help but become this pioneer and mutiny.

The cause of the matter is very simple.

These soldiers have been reunited for more than half a month, and have gathered for two or three months. The New Year is approaching, but everyone cannot go home for the New Year, so they will definitely not feel happy.

Finally, someone broke up at night and ran to the city to visit the kiln.

But Qufu is a hometown of Confucius and Mencius, a prosperous place. In addition, the market changes, all aspects of the New Year are expensive. A small handkerchief always drinks it and orders a little courtesan. After finishing, he can't get the money. He was scolded and looked down upon by the woman. In an impulse, he directly cut off the head of the courtesan.

The little flower court is well-known in Qufu and has a certain reputation in Jining City. Now it can be a hornet's nest.

Originally, this little man always wanted to count on his boss, a guerrilla from Songjiang, and spent some money to avoid disaster, but he didn't expect that the guerrillas could not stop and were ready to hand him over to calm the situation. However, this little man always acted very righteous on weekdays, and someone revealed the news to him in advance.

So, just like Daze Township in the past, he directly brought a group of people to rise up and slaughtered a surrounding village.

Immediately, the chaos began to go crazy!

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The suppression of the suppression, and the like, the same thing, Shi Kefa didn't have time to pay attention to Xu Changqing's side, and was completely overwhelmed.

When the news reached Haicheng, Xu Changqing was inspecting the military reorganization work of Hongniangzi's 13th Thousand Corps. When he heard this news, although Xu Changqing was not concerned, Hongniangzi, Feng San and others were all stunned.

Feng San said speechlessly: "No, isn't it? Shi, Shibutang is a 300,000 army. How could it be that even a few hundred or thousands of people could not be dealt with? Isn't this a joke?"

The other confidant of Hong Niangzi, a one-eyed man, Ma Biao, was amused and scratched the back of his head silly, saying, "Third Master, don't take those people seriously. I, a sworn brother, brought hundreds of people to kill under their noses for several years, but they were stunned. In the end, I still recruited him."

"this……"

Everyone was immediately talking.

The red lady frowned and bit her red lips lightly and looked at Xu Changqing and said, "Master, this, nothing will happen, right?"

In private, although she has no rank and inferiority with Xu Changqing and is extremely casual, she has always been respectful to Xu Changqing in this public place, and she will never be able to lose all her face.

At this time, seeing that the Hongmao was obviously different from the generals watching the fun and laughing, and had already begun to look at the overall situation, Xu Changqing couldn't help but nodded in appreciation: "The problem should not be big. We should still believe in the methods of Shibutang. Moreover, with so many nobles' support, they don't have to worry about food and drink. Once this bird is destroyed, there should be no problem."

Looking at Xu Changqing's admiring eyes, the red lady's pretty face couldn't help but blush. She couldn't help but look at Xu Changqing and smiled: "Let's not mention these for now. Grandmaster, come, please review the newly entered battalion of our 13th Thousand Corps!"

"Swish!"

When everyone heard Hong Niangzi's words, everyone stopped talking and stood up like a javelin.

The Hongniang seemed very satisfied with her children's performance. She suddenly pulled out the sword from her waist and shouted: "I am a model army--"

"Magnificent, majestic, majestic..."

In an instant, there were nearly 5,000 people in the Thirteenth Thousand Corps, like a red ocean, and everyone shouted wildly without thinking.

"Master--"

"Ten thousand victories, ten thousand victories, ten thousand victories, ten thousand victories..."

Seeing that the Hong Niang changed the slogan and replaced the Ming Dynasty with her, Xu Changqing was a little funny and helpless, but he still accepted it happily!

This is not the time to be pretentious!

...

After finishing work at the Hongniang Department, Xu Changqing was about to go back to the official hall to have dinner with his wife and children, but as soon as he arrived at the door of the official hall, Ergou came over quickly and said in Xu Changqing's ear: "Master, Mr. Wu is here..."

"Um?"

Xu Changqing frowned immediately.

The one who can be called "Master Wu" by Ergou is definitely not ordinary people, but Xu Changqing's old Taishan Wu Xiang!

But during this period, due to the general trend, Wu Xiang has been living in Haicheng's house and has never shown up. At this time, he suddenly came to find him...

"Where are people?"

"The old man is not in the official hall, he is waiting for you at Fengji Restaurant on the corner of the street."

Even Ergou didn't dare to breathe at this time.

"call."

Xu Changqing couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. I'm afraid that the Wu family has made a choice!

But as the old saying goes, "It's going to rain, and my mother wants to get married!" Can you still stop it? What's more, can you stop it?

"Go and go and have a look!"
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