Zhao Hu, who was officially appointed, shocked all the five southeastern provinces. Look at Haiquan, the two seaside provinces fell into Zhao Hu so quickly. Everyone knows Zhao Hu's strength. Look at Zhao Hu's easy annexation of the two provinces in the name of the two provinces. Everyone knows that the five southeastern governors must have a veritable governor of the five provinces.

Two of the five provinces have confirmed the situation, and the remaining three provinces are believed to fall into the hands of Zhao Hujun. Not only are the provinces in the southeastern region extremely resistant to Zhao Hujun, but even the surrounding provinces, or the powerful, are extremely alert to Zhao Hu.

There is no way not to be vigilant, because even if Zhao Hujun accepts the other party's effectiveness or surrender, he will eat the other party and digest it in his stomach. He will definitely not allow the other party to have an independent consciousness.

Think about it, no matter who comes to power, you can still beat civilians and rob a civilian girl and blackmail merchants. Life is very conscientious. But in the territory of Zhao Hujun, if you are not in a position, you can't even go on the street!

If you commit a crime, you will be captured directly. Those of you who defected to the past can only get up from the bottom, and the hard work of your ancestors for hundreds of years is gone. Who can accept such a thing?

Therefore, the powerful and powerful people of vested interests will never be willing to surrender to Zhao Hu like this unless they have no choice.

Since the powerful and powerful in other provinces have such a mentality, let alone Haiguang, which has been integrated for many years, Haiwu Province.

Through the overseas trade of the Imperial fleet and the sales of sea ships monopolized by manufacturing technology, these two provinces are really rich. Because the imperial turmoil has many people from other places, the smallest powerful people in these two provinces have formed a large army of armed forces.

It can be said that just calculating all the powerful private soldiers in the two provinces will reach a terrifying number. Coupled with the Imperial Marines that are many times more than conventional, it is even more terrifying.

Haibin Provincial Governor's Office

"Lord, this is the information of Haiping, Haiguang and Haiwu."

Zhou Wen handed a stack of information to Zhao Hu.

Zhao Hu didn't answer, so he directly chopped his sword, turned around and kicked it sideways, and said at the same time: "You read it."

Zhou Wen knew that his master didn't care about these things, so he took out his documents and said, "Yes, Haiping Province is the province with the most plain farmland among the five southeastern provinces. Now, most of the provinces have shortage of food. The grain of Haiping Province is also enough to support it. However, except for not having to worry about food, there is no other specialty product in the entire province.

There are no foreign warlords, and the twelve warlords in the province are all local tyrants. Because they are all local tyrants and have sufficient military resources, each warlord can pull up more than one division at once.

However, because he was a native of a rich man, there was a great shortage of officers, and there were no grassroots officers, just a general, a few deputy generals, and dozens of side generals, with tens of thousands of people.

Because of the status of a local tyrant, there is also a great lack of equipment. A warlord can only use inferior weapons made by himself. Therefore, the Secret Guard confirmed that although Haiping Province has sufficient military strength, it is the weakest among the five southeastern provinces."

Zhao Hu said: "So our first step is Haiping Province. Although we have made great efforts to manage agriculture, the time has been short and there is no result yet, and it is still as short as other places. The grain is supported by the Southeast Peninsula. In order to avoid accidents, even if Haiquan Province is annexed, Haiping Province must be taken down!"

Zhou Wen laughed and said, "Master, this sea-level province will definitely make us easily take it. If even these Wutai people cannot defeat them, all the commanders of our army will buy a piece of tofu and kill them!"

Zhao Hu couldn't help but smile when he heard this: "Okay, just let them not be careless, and then continue."

Zhou Wen immediately said: "Yes, Haiwu Province has full-time manufacturing warships. The first and second fleet stationed in Haiwu Province is the strongest fleet in the navy. The two ships have the same number of warships, both of which are 320, which means that Haiwu Province has a total of 640 warships and more than 200,000 sailors!

The first and second fleets each had three brigades of marines. In addition to the private soldiers in the officers' manor and the private soldiers of local tyrants, the private soldiers in Haiwu Province were even 300,000, but the strong land soldiers were only the marines of nearly six brigades.

Haiguang Province is dedicated to manufacturing merchant ships, so the Fourth Fleet and the Fifth Fleet are both armed merchant ships, which are definitely not opponents compared to real warships, but the number is definitely more than Haiwu Province. The Fourth Fleet has more than 540 armed merchant ships, and the Fifth Fleet is nearly 1,000 armed merchant ships from the general public.

The sailors exceeded 400,000, and because Haiguang saved a lot of money, the Marine Corps had eight brigades and all of them were the best equipment. Although the officers and local tyrants had only about 200,000 private soldiers, because of the high money, the combat effectiveness of private soldiers in Haiguang Province was definitely much stronger than that of Haiwu Province." Zhou Wen said.

Zhao Hu frowned and asked, "According to your calculations, Haiwu Province has 640 standard warships, 200,000 sailors, 600,000 marines, 300,000 private soldiers, 1,500 armed merchant ships, 400,000 sailors, nearly 100,000 marines, and 200,000 private soldiers. The permanent forces of these two provinces are all about 1.3 million. What population is the two provinces? Aren't all men a soldier?"

"Yes, because Hai Guang and Hai Wu are rich and powerful, the males in the province either join sailors or become private soldiers, and the outstanding ones become marines." Zhou Wen nodded and said.

Zhao Hu said: "In other words, the women, children, young and old in the province are the families of the enemy. If we attack Haiguang and Haiwu provinces, then the whole people are enemies? In this way, it is not easy to attack these two provinces with soldiers and wealth and people."

"The Lord does not need to worry, just need the Secret Guard to destroy the commanders of the four major fleets and make them messy, so we can naturally easily conquer the two provinces," Zhou Wen said without hesitation.

"It's easy to conquer, but what should we do then? According to the rules, all the people in these two provinces will become slaves. There are millions of slaves, which are more than the people under our command now. If they rebel, how can we solve it? Kill them all?" Zhao Hu shook his head and said.

"Uh." Zhou Wen frowned, and he said it was right. It can be said that according to the rules, everyone in Haiguang and Haiwu provinces will be demoted to slaves.

Because they are all families of the enemy and have less surveillance from the local vested interests, these millions of slaves are really a troublesome.

"First send the First Infantry Division to attack Haiping Province, the Second Infantry Division is on guard. The First Cavalry Division is on the border Jinghou to see if it can seduce a group of enemy troops from both provinces to come out, and fight a few victories first and destroy the morale of the enemy. It is said that before the general attack is launched, some people will surrender to us in advance." Zhao Hu said.

"Yes, I will also send secret guards to sow discord and agitate to see if I can absorb a group of local forces to join us before the war."

Zhou Wenfuran knew what Zhao Hu meant was to make the two provinces lose their expectations of victory, and to make them frustrated, they realized that they could only fall into the hands of Zhao Hu's army in the end, so that they could choose to become slaves or Shangren in advance. As long as there was a certain base of people, these vested interests could be allowed to monitor the blinking slaves.

At this moment, a secret guard suddenly appeared in front of Zhao Hu and said, "The main, the four major fleets of Haiguang and Haiwu provinces suddenly mobilized half of the ships to prepare for war, with the targets of Haiquan and Haibin provinces, and the third fleet is ready to intercept."

"Oh, they took the initiative? Did Liu Ming not cause trouble for the Imperial Navy during this period?" Zhao Hu asked with a relaxed expression.

"The Chief of the Navy has been busy training the troops for a while. Not only has he not caused trouble for the Imperial Navy, but he has not even blocked the Imperial Navy's maritime trade routes, let alone collect taxes."

Zhao Hu did not care about it, but instead sighed: "We don't understand the navy. Since the chief of the navy has been practicing, it means that our navy has not yet reached the point where we can compete with the Imperial Navy. However, it is difficult not to confront each other this time, after all, they have come to us.

"Yes, how powerful is the Third Fleet now?"

"The Third Fleet has 75 Helmet-class armed merchant ships, 145 large warships, 320 medium warships, more than 1,000 small speedboats, and a brigade of the Marine Corps, with a total of more than 100,000 sailors."

"so much?"

Zhao Hu was stunned for a moment. He had not paid attention to the navy on his side for a long time. He did not expect that it had reached this number, especially the number of Jiqiao-class armed merchant ships. Zhao Hu knew very well how powerful this modified armed merchant ship was.

"Yes, our navy's strength is so great. The Navy Chief is not satisfied and has been training troops." Zhou Wen said dissatisfied.

Zhao Hu waved his hand and said without any attention: "Although I don't understand naval warfare, I also know that it is either a ship or a navy. It is estimated that it will be difficult for the captains of these 75 armed merchant ships to find a suitable candidate, and sailors are not just soldiers who know how to use water."

Seeing that Zhao Hu still trusted Liu Ming so much, Zhou Wen had to nod, but he secretly decided in his heart that if Liu Ming dared to let down his master's trust, he would definitely want him to live or die!

Zhao Hu pondered for a moment and began to order: "The Imperial Navy has already gone to war, so transfer the Second Infantry Division back to the coast to garrison, order the First Infantry Division and the First Cavalry Division to capture Haiping Province in one go, and order the reserve troops in various places to enter a state of alert. Order the secret guards to speed up the collection of intelligence."

"yes!"
Chapter completed!