Zhang Xi actually didn't think that much. Now if you give him a navy general like Cai Mao or Zhang Yun, Zhang Xi will be happy and happy, not to mention that Yang Di himself is actually very versatile.
Yes, after Zhang Xi had a detailed chat with Yang Di, he found that Yang Di knew a little bit about everything.
Of course, he is not like Zhuge Liang who "knows a hundred million points" about everything. Yang Xi is true. He knows a little bit about civil affairs, agriculture, Xing prison, military strategy, etc.
With this alone, Yang Di is qualified to serve as the chief registrar or other assistant officer at the state and county level. However, in Jiangdong, he can only be an unreused guest of the prince, which really makes Yang Di feel aggrieved.
Of course, when it comes to water warfare, I don’t know if it’s because he has stayed in Jiangdong for a long time, or if Yang Di already has a talent in this area. When talking about the tactics and key points of water warfare, Yang Di really can’t stop talking. Absolutely.
This is what Zhang Xi needs most now.
Therefore, Zhang Xi asked Yang Xi if he was willing to serve as the commander of Jiangling Navy.
Yang Di was slightly hesitant about this.
In his heart, Yang Di prefers to go to the prefectures and counties, start as an aide-de-camp, and work his way up step by step through the civil service route. But these days, taking the civil service route does not require a lack of understanding of military strategy. When necessary, he can become an aide-de-camp. It is also necessary to lead troops into battle.
There is not much difference between civil and military affairs.
But now, Zhang Xi directly gave himself a military position, and he was the commander of an army and the top leader. This was more important than letting himself be an assistant officer in a state or county.
The prefecture and county assistant officers and the like are just grass-roots officials who assist the prefects and the prefectural pastors in handling government affairs. Although their ranks are not low, they have little real power.
The commander-in-chief of an army, both in terms of rank and power, is much greater than an officer in a state or county.
Therefore, strictly speaking, Zhang Xi is reusing himself.
He was appointed as the commander-in-chief of an army from the beginning. While Yang Xi felt deeply valued, he also clearly pointed out his shortcomings to Zhang Xi - he had no previous experience in leading an army, so he rashly assumed the role of commander-in-chief of an army, fearing that it would delay Zhang Xi's development. event.
Zhang Xi felt even more satisfied when he saw Yang Xi being so frank.
The Jiangling Navy is just a start-up. Neither Wen Dai nor Zhong Limu has much experience in leading troops in combat. One more Yang Di will not be a big problem.
Zhong Limu is too young. Judging from his age, it is impossible for him to meet the standards of a commander-in-chief than Yang Di. As for Wen Dai, he was just borrowed by Zhang Xi from Wenpin. Sooner or later, he will have to return it to Wenpin. He didn't think Wen Dai had the ability to command a navy army. Instead of doing bad things here, it would be safer to go home and inherit Wenpin's position and marquis in the future.
Therefore, Zhang Xi is not worried about bad things at all. After all, the main purpose of the Jiangling Navy now is to become an army. Yang Xi has time to grow up with the Jiangling Navy.
In this way, with Zhang Xi's full support, Yang Xi officially became the commander-in-chief of the Jiangling Navy as the Jingzhou Louchuan General, responsible for the formation, training, and war arrangements of the navy.
As for Zhang Xi, in addition to keeping an eye on the construction of warships, he also has to continue to look for candidates suitable for water warfare.
Zhang Xi also didn't know whether Yang Xi could support the Jiangling Navy. Moreover, the fact that the Jiangling Navy currently only had three navy generals was not enough to support a large-scale battle.
At the time of the Battle of Chibi, Zhou Yu only had less than 20,000 troops and horses, but he had as many as a dozen generals for water warfare. Although Zhang Xi did not know how many generals were needed for a normal naval combat configuration, he equipped them according to Zhou Yu's combat standards. , there should be nothing wrong with it.
There are only three generals in the navy now, so there is not enough.
Therefore, Zhang Xi must continue to look for generals who understand water warfare tactics and have certain military strategic command capabilities.
But it’s really hard to find.
From the early spring of March to the Mid-Autumn Festival in August, Zhang Xi could not find a fourth general with the ability to fight with water.
Of course, this is somewhat related to the fact that Zhang Xi is distracted by other affairs.
Wang Ji can help Zhang Xi share his worries in government affairs, but he cannot replace Zhang Xi's function as a state pastor. Some things require Zhang Xi's own intervention to truly solve them.
Among other things, the issue of population migration in the four southeastern counties of Jiangling requires Zhang Xi to make his own decision.
In that place, all Dingkou were moved away by Soochow, leaving a large area of unowned land. The people who must move to other places in Jiangling County must take root and survive there. It is impossible to let the land be abandoned.
Among them, it is necessary to prevent the aristocratic family from reaching out randomly and annexing land in the four southeastern counties. However, at the same time, Zhang Xi also needs to use the power of the aristocratic family to complete the relocation of Dingkou as soon as possible and save the state's financial expenditure. Wang Ji There is something unjust and unreasonable about coming forward, so Zhang Xi can only take the initiative to argue with the Jiangling family.
Moving to Dingkou to enrich the place is never a trivial matter. It took half a year of hard work to finally complete this matter.
After Zhang Xi settled this matter, he went back to inspect the construction of the Jiangling navy. Only to find that Yang Di did a decent job.
After Zhang Xi settled this matter, he went back to inspect the construction of the Jiangling navy. Only to find that Yang Di did a decent job.
Yang Xi not only relied on his knowledge of the navy to impress Wen Dai and Zhong Limu, but also quickly expanded the Jiangling navy from 10,000 to 20,000 in just half a year.
In fact, there are no special means, just enough money and food. The Jiangling navy's military pay and food allocation are the most generous among the entire Jiangling army.
As for this point, it was requested by Zhang Xi when Yang Di first took office. Zhang Xi considered that Yang Di was also a new official and was recruited by himself, so he had to give him some preferential treatment. He didn't think much about it at the time. I agreed immediately.
With this hand, Yang Xi not only gathered the military morale of the original Jiangling Navy, but also relied on generous military pay to quickly expand Jiangling's Navy team.
After all, there are very few pure landlubbers living near Jiangling. If the people really can't survive, it seems to be a way out to be recruited as a navy army, with the navy army's generous military pay and conditions.
This is not a special method, it is something that can be done as long as you have money.
Next, is where Yang Xi’s true abilities are shown.
Yang Di, who had stayed in Jiangdong for ten years, knew very well how the Soochow Navy got its start. Therefore, he followed suit and began to wipe out the surrounding water bandits.
On the one hand, this kind of actual combat can be used to quickly accumulate combat experience of the navy. At the same time, the combat effectiveness of the navy bandits is not high, and there is no need to worry about excessive battle losses.
On the other hand, Yang Di can also quickly expand the power of Jiangling Navy by recruiting water bandits.
Over at Soochow, wasn't it because of this hand that the navy army got its start? Jiang Qin, Zhou Tai, Gan Ning, Dong Xi and others were all Yangtze River water thieves.
Of course, Gan Ning was special. Strictly speaking, he was a descendant of a Bajun family, but at the time he was on the run and earning a living as a water thief. It was not a big problem to say he was a water thief.
All in all, recruiting water thieves is the second step for Yang Di.
However, Yang Di also underestimated how difficult it would be for water thieves to survive in this era.
When the world was in chaos at the end of the Han Dynasty, the people could not survive, and most of them "lived on the water." Water thieves in the Yangtze River were really everywhere, but it was just a matter of size.
But now, the situation in the world is gradually stabilizing, and the forces of the three countries are trying their best to govern the place. Although the people are still living a hard life, they no longer have to rely on robbing their homes to survive.
It cannot be said that there are no more water thieves in the Yangtze River, but it is true that they are much less than in the late Han Dynasty.
Especially from the public security to Lukou, there are two large fleets of different forces stationed there. Which water thief has such courage, dares to wander around in front of two regular armies, and dares to rob on the water? !
Therefore, Yang Di could only think of a way to go upstream from the Yangtze River to encircle and suppress the water thieves in Yidu County and even in the area close to Badong County.
Zong Yu and Chen Dao both support this matter.
Zong Yu was because the Yidu County he was guarding was too small, with only five counties in total, and there were insufficient troops. Chen Dao's main purpose was to guard Badong County, and his main experience was in land defense. The naval army was indeed not Chen Dao's Director.
Therefore, when these two people saw Yang Xi's writing, they said they were coming to the local area to eliminate water thieves. If they didn't need two places to provide food and grass, what else could they say? They would give their full support.
In this way, the water thieves from the police to Yufu were out of luck.
Originally, the scale of the water thieves was not large. There were more than a hundred people. In this era, it was considered a large water thieves den. But you have to make them face thousands of soldiers and forty or fifty walkers. Don't say that. After being beaten, I couldn’t even run away.
There were more than a dozen water thieves' dens along the river, including the larger ones, which numbered over a hundred, and the smaller ones, which ranged from twenty to thirty.
One thing to say is that today's water thieves really cannot be compared with Ganning's Jinfan thieves. Ganning's Jinfan thieves were actually a wandering Yizhou navy with a total strength of thousands. , every time they came out to rob, there were more than a thousand people and more than 20 warships. It was so noisy that even the Jingzhou navy did not dare to provoke them head-on.
But today's water thieves are really just water thieves.
Yang Di was somewhat dissatisfied after clearing out a group of water thieves and finding that the actual results were not very effective.
It didn't have much training effect.
Yang Di thought about it and came up with a bolder idea. But it happened that the two naval generals under him were not afraid of trouble.
In addition, Zhang Xi gave Yang Xi enough autonomy to command the navy. Then these guys really made a big news for Zhang Xi.
(End of chapter)
