Crowned with Pearls

  Because of this, Su Rong was in a very bad mood. He kept his face straight for several days. He felt that he was incompetent, and he hated those soldiers who didn't live up to their expectations. The soldiers who couldn't go to the battlefield might as well die.

   Mr. Cui came out wearing a cloak. Seeing Su Rong standing alone in the porch with a gloomy face, he couldn't help but smile and shook his head: "Who is Hou Ye trying to get angry with?"

Su Rong sighed, Cui Daru is Xiao Heng's think tank, not to mention high morality and wisdom, he has always been very respectful, so he said the truth: "I'm angry with these incompetent soldiers! Such a big Zhejiang, Could it be that I really can't find some hot-blooded men, and let the Japanese pirates bully like this in vain!"

Cui Daru understood Su Rong's meaning very well, he touched the beard on his chin: "It's not like that, it's just that the bad habits accumulated over the years have not been broken. In fact, I want to say that it's not that the soldiers are incompetent, but There is a lack of capable and courageous generals in the army. You must know that a thousand troops are easy to obtain, but one general is difficult to obtain. Therefore, we have to wait a little longer, and wait until Master Qi comes over and ask him what to say."

The Master Qi he was referring to was naturally Qi Tianyou, and Su Rong also heard about this matter from Su Yao, and now that he heard Cui Daru say this, he said, "I have also heard the name of Master Qi, but even though he is in Zhejiang. , everyone is in different places, so I haven't been able to fight with him. If he has a way, that would be great."

   After talking for a while, they heard Fourth Master Cui come over and said that Mr. Qi had already come and asked them to go to the study together.

  Su Rong went to Xiao Heng's study with Mr. Cui.

   As soon as he entered the door, Su Rong saw a handsome and thin young man, and couldn't help but feel a little strange, didn't he say that Qi Tianyou was here? But why only see one scholar?

   Cui Daru stroked his beard thoughtfully: "This is Mr. Qi, right?"

  Qi Tianyou immediately cupped his hands and shouted respectfully, "Mr. Cui, you will be disrespectful at the end."

   This young man who looks like a bamboo pole is actually Qi Tianyou! Su Rong was a little shocked. He didn't know how Qi Tianyou, who was famous in Zhejiang, could be so weak.

   He looked gentle, and he really didn't look like someone who licked blood on the edge of a knife.

   Xiao Heng had already greeted them all to sit down, and said to Su Rong with a smile, "Tianyou mentioned you just now, saying that he knew that you had chased over a hundred people to the beach, and admired you very much."

  Su Rong was a little flattered.

And Qi Tianyou already said with a smile: "Yes, I just mentioned to His Highness that you can chase the Japanese pirates with more than 100 people, which is really rare. Lord Hou has been in Zhejiang for so long, and he should already know the atmosphere here. , Japanese pirates are not difficult to fight, in fact, the more difficult thing is that the atmosphere is broken, and your own soldiers refuse to fight, and the Japanese pirates will naturally be arrogant. It is very rare that you can command so many people."

Su Rong sighed: "Actually, among the more than 100 people, there were more than 20 of my personal soldiers, and the others were brought out because I came here. I really hated that iron could not become steel. I don't know how this happened."

"Actually, this is normal." Qi Tianyou explained: "Since the abolition of the sea ban, the Ningbo Guards and Hangzhou Guards have become very loose. In addition to the decrease in military expenditure, they lack training most of the time, even if they are Later, when Futai took office, he deliberately resumed training and coastal defense, but he was also a little powerless."

   Cui Daru listened quietly, and suddenly asked, "I don't know, what can General Qi do?"

  Su Rong also pricked up his ears very seriously.

  Qi Tianyou scratched his head, although he looks very handsome and weak, but in fact it is not the case, listening to him, you can know that this person has a very fast reaction and clear thinking.

   He said bluntly: "These soldiers are not good enough, they can't continue to use them, they will flee when they encounter Japanese pirates. This is their deep-rooted thinking. It is better to recruit and train a new batch of soldiers."

  Su Rong was a little melancholy: "We have thought of this idea before, but the newly trained soldiers are not much better, they are all the same"

   This can be verified from this incident.

Qi Tianyou was very determined: "No, I mean, I want to recruit thousands of people and start everything from scratch. These people, I want people to choose one by one, not to be able to join the army when they are old, but to start from scratch. request."

   He paused for a while, then said again: "Also, I also pay more soldiers. I will pay them forty taels per month as a soldier."

   That alone is enough to attract people.

   Cui Daru squinted his eyes: "Then you mean to recruit and lead troops by yourself?"

  Qi Tianyou obviously already had a plan, and now he says it loudly: "Yes! That's what I thought. At these times, I want to look around, and then I'll see where to choose."

  Su Rong felt that this idea seemed a bit far-fetched.

  The conscription is to choose the right age, and sometimes it is impossible to even have a good physique. Now Qi Tianyou said that it is really difficult to find according to this standard.

   Xiao Heng thought about it carefully, and nodded: "If that's the case, then General Qi can let it go. This hall will give you time! The conditions you promised, this hall can also discuss with the court."

   This really gave Qi Tianyou a lot of autonomy.

   Even Pang Qingping did not dare to agree to this.

   Qi Tianyou immediately surrendered.

He then told Xiao Heng and Su Rong about the current situation in Dongying. Now the master of Dongying is actually a family called Xichuan, but I don't know how long they will be able to control Dongying, because a while ago , is not the head of the Xichuan clan, but another name, and now Dongying is in the turbulent Warring States period.

  Because of this, the recent Japanese pirates are also very uncontrolled, and there are all kinds of ingredients.

He even said without hesitation: "It is said that they are Japanese pirates, most of them are probably from our Dazhou! It's just that they fled to the sea and became pirates. It is often the most ruthless when their own people beat their own people. , they are like this. They are more ruthless than Japanese pirates when they betray their own country and people, so now we have to eliminate those pirates who have been around for decades, and we must win, otherwise, we will The people will never have peace."

   This battle must be fought and must be won. Qi Tianyou knows this very well.

  Su Rong was dubious about this, he always felt that Qi Tianyou's idea was a little too taken for granted, but for some reason, he vaguely felt that the person in front of him could really do it.