Of course, you have to spend money. Putting the silver in the warehouse and getting moldy is not Zhou Shixiong's character. "Give Gong Liu 100,000 taels, tens of thousands of taels of silver is probably not enough." Tens of thousands of taels are not enough, Li Fusheng said in his heart. He took several letters from Gong Liu asking for money. He just needed to build a dock, just build a few wooden boards by the river. Digging deep into the river to facilitate large ships to enter and exit. It costs money to build a solid dam and large warehouse by the river. The tens of thousands of taels of silver were already spent.

"Hongchang, there are many places in Xiangzhou that need to use silver. Shenglong Mansion is just laying the foundation, so there is no need to invest so much." Guan Chongguang understood Li Fusheng's difficulties, and the large households in Xiangzhou that spend money are three thousand households. As the governor, Guan Chongguang needs to leave some of his family's assets for himself.

"Have you ever thought about it? If we have our own foreign fleet, we don't have to look at the faces of those Folang Ji people. The most important thing is that with our own fleet, we can open a market outside Shenglong Mansion to avoid the interests in Jiaozhi being controlled by the Northern Vietnam or the Li Dynasty." Zhou Shixiong thought for a long time, but he did not tell Guan Chongguang and Li Fusheng that building an ocean fleet was the way for him. If he was unable to resist the southward invasion of Jiannu in the future, Zhou Shixiong could take a boat to sea. As for whether to grab an island in the South Ocean to be the island owner, or to establish a continental kingdom in North America to rewrite world history, that was the future.

"But now all the neighbors are enemies, and the Governor of Guangxi is determined to rely on Xiangzhou. If the military force is not strengthened as soon as possible, it may not be maintained on the day the fleet is built!" Li Fusheng, the person who proposed the military expansion request. Zhou Shixiong shook his head as he looked at them, "The more we move, the more dangerous we are. Even if we expand the military, we cannot do it in Xiangzhou. Are you afraid that someone will be labeled as holding private soldiers to rebel?"

Guan Chongguang smiled and pulled out a mansion report from his sleeve, "Hongchang didn't know that the court had allowed local governments to organize military training. As long as they did not ask for money and food from the court, there would be no limit on how many people." Zhou Shixiong took the mansion report and saw that Guan Chongguang was talking about a government order that when Emperor Chongzhen issued a decree to the whole country for the royal service, the provincial government could form a mansion training on its own, and each province could directly manage the military training. The generals of recruitment were set up according to the number of military training personnel. The military pay was raised and the military armor could be applied for transfer from the military training.

"Is this thing useful?" This edict of King Responsibility was issued to deal with the entry of Jiannu into the pass. It should be a state of emergency. The group training was formed at this time in Xiangzhou, and Zhou Shixiong was worried that someone would be slandered.

"The court has not issued a separate edict to ban it, and this thing has always been useful, and no one can take our fault." Since Guan Chongguang and Li Fusheng both said it was OK, of course Zhou Shixiong was fine, "How many people are planned to get?"

"Ten thousand." Guan Chongguang didn't need Li Fusheng to be the pioneer this time, so he casually reported a number.

"The food and salary of ten thousand people is at least 50,000 taels. Even if I am willing to pay this silver, do you think Wang Zunde will give it to us 10,000 sets of military armor?" Zhou Shixiong's doubts were very reasonable. He had seen the two most powerful troops under Wang Zunde, Zuojiang Camp and Youjiang Camp. Although these two battalions were under the banner of naval army, at least half of them were pure army. But except for a very small number of people with standard military weapons and armor, most of them had only a red battle jacket and a wooden gun. Even the two most important battalions under their command could not equip the full set of military armor. Zhou Shixiong did not believe that Wang Zunde could equip the Pingxiangzhou regiment with full equipment.

"Hongchang, what we want is legitimate. It doesn't matter whether he or Wang Zunde gives him or not." Li Fusheng was still crying and poor just now, but now he looks like a tycoon again, as if his family has put a lot of money on his back and has nowhere to spend it.

"I agree with the expansion of the army, but I'm going to draw 10,000 young and strong people. How many people are left in Xiangzhou to do things? I don't want you to have a peasant army that has cultivated land and fights." The military camp seems very advanced. In fact, in addition to the high efficiency in the early stage, military camps are the most incompetent method of raising troops. Of course, there is evidence that Zhou Shixiong could say such words. The military guard system of the Ming Dynasty was developed from military camps, allowing soldiers to farm and support themselves, and at the same time they had to bear the responsibility of defending the country. The result was that they could not support themselves and could not bear the responsibility. Both sides must be good.

It is just a slogan to grasp both hands and be strong. No one in history can do this. Cao Cao set up military camps because the number of refugees in Qingzhou is large, so he used military control to resettle these refugees, and then transferred young and strong men from the refugees to help him fight. The reason why Cao Cao was able to create a military camp model is because the population base and the ratio of military recruitment is very reasonable. Unlike Zhu Yuanzhang, a godly man who drew one resident in each household, which means that a family raises a professional soldier and a family that can only make a living by farming. How much food can he prepare for this professional soldier? It is considered God's blessing to not starve to death.

"Hongchang, you don't know that we wanted to do this group training because of population problems. In the past two years, it is not considered that the chieftains sent them to make a living from other places because of the wealthy people in Xiangzhou. It is only a big place in Xiangzhou. Each village has absorbed more than 20,000 refugees and was unable to collect the population. The remaining 20,000 engineers have recruited 5,000, and more than 10,000 have been temporarily organized to open up roads to clear rivers and raise them by using the method of labor-for-relief. I can't find a way out for them. I can't do anything about it." Guan Chongguang complained, and Zhou Shixiong realized that Xiangzhou seemed prosperous, but undercurrents were surging below.

"Why didn't you say it before?" Zhou Shixiong remembered that when he first came back, neither of them had mentioned this matter, and he felt a little unhappy.

"In the middle of the year, harvesting and sowing requires a lot of manpower, and these people are not a problem. Moreover, we both thought that Lang Sang Mansion would need a lot of manpower, and spending a little money to support them was nothing. Unexpectedly, such big setbacks would occur. Now good things have turned into bad things, which is unexpected." Li Fusheng quickly explained that he could not make Zhou Shixiong unhappy.

Speaking of Lang Sang Mansion, Zhou Shixiong's eyes lit up. "Let's do this, recruit 10,000 soldiers and pick 5,000 best ones to stay in Pingxiangzhou for training. The other 5,000 soldiers and the remaining Min Zhuang went to Lang Sang Mansion to build roads, so that the people of Lang Sang Mansion were used to having a Ming army in the mansion. After the New Year, I will build a city in the enclave that Lang Sang Mansion gave me. These people can do a lot of work." Assisting the attack on Bei Sang Mansion in exchange for an enclave belonging to Pingxiangzhou, Guan Chongguang and Lee Fusheng knew about this. When they heard that Zhou Shixiong was going to build a city in the enclave, Lee Fusheng found that all the silver in the warehouse had flew away, and his life would be even more intense in the future.

After spending all the money you just got, Zhou Shixiong wanted to find a place for himself. "I always feel uneasy to stay here. I'd better go to Li's Villa. I'll ask you two for the matter of Xiangzhou." Regarding this, not to mention Guan Chongguang and Li Fusheng had no choice but to have any objections, even You Min and Shimazu Nan were not able to say anything against each other. The two women could only watch Zhou Shixiong resentfully and leave Pingxiangzhou under the protection of Wan Qi'an.

When they arrived at Li's Villa, Liu Wang and Zhou Si secretly met Zhou Shixiong once, and then sent him to the craftsman camp, which was the place where Zhou Shixiong temporarily lived in seclusion.

A few days after he arrived at the Jiangzuo Camp, Ruan Phuket came to see him. Zhou Shixiong didn't understand what this woman meant, and he didn't understand who disclosed the news to her.

"Are you really Ziqi?" Ruan Phuket Ah Jiang did not enter the craftsman's camp, but instead used Zhou Si's famous post to find a man named Ji Hongchang.

"Who told you?" Zhou Shixiong had to figure this out. He could not bear to have such a big thing he had done and was easily seen through.

"It was Tiaotiao who told me, why, do you have any objections?" Ruan Phuket Ah Jiang has been with Li Jie in Ping Xiangzhou, hoping to relieve her pain of losing her husband, but Li Jie can still act decently outside, and she can't hide her happy mood when she returns home. Her husband will live in Lang Son Mansion for a long time in the future. You Min and Shimazu Nam will play widows in Ping Xiangzhou. How can this huge contrast not make Li Jie excited? So, her godmother saw the flaws. When Ruan Phuket questioned that she had raised a wild man outside, she couldn't help but say it.

Zhou Shixiong sighed to the sky, it was really hard to keep a woman's secrets. The ancients really didn't bully me! Since they were exposed, Zhou Shixiong had to admit that he was not dead because he could not kill Ruan Phuket to silence him. Doing so would be worth the loss.

"Mother-in-law, this matter is related to the lives of my family. I hope my mother-in-law cannot reveal it to others, and my uncle cannot do it either." Zhou Shixiong, regardless of whether Nguyen Phuc Ah Jiang would tell Nguyen Phuc Bao, he must emphasize the importance of this matter. He hoped Nguyen Phuc Ah Jiang would use this opportunity to blackmail him. In that case, there would be no obstacles in Zhou Shixiong's killing.

"Why do you do this?" Nguyen Phuc Ah Jiang was not interested in blackmailing Zhou Shixiong, or Zhou Shixiong didn't know how to seduce a woman to blackmail a man. Anyway, Nguyen Phuc Ah Jiang was only interested in the secret itself.

"It was me who had some friction with the Emperor of Ming Dynasty. In order to avoid the situation worsening, I could only take this method." Zhou Shixiong could not do it even if he wanted to make it clear. Could it be that he told Ruan Phuc Ajiang that I knew the Ming Dynasty was about to perish and that he did not want to accompany Emperor Chongzhen to die in the capital? Zhou Shixiong was willing to say that Ruan Phuc Ajiang could believe it. The Jiaozhi people's impression of the Ming Dynasty was huge and powerful, and that the Ming Dynasty would perish at the hands of Jiannu, who had only a population of hundreds of thousands, and Jiannu himself would not believe it.

"Since Ziqi pretended to die to avoid disaster, what should I do if the alliance between Lang San Mansion and Ping Xiangzhou?" Ruan Phuket did not ask the details. She only cared about whether her elder brother would be affected by this incident.
Chapter completed!