Chapter 279 New Camp

In the end, Yu Xiaotian accepted Yan Siqi's lesson at Lin Yiyang's suggestion and chose not to continue to expand the territory of actual control for the time being, so as not to cause the hatred of more peers, so that he became the target of public criticism before his wings were not abundant.

If his peers come to find trouble one by one, he is not too worried about his current force. What he is afraid that once these colleagues form a common hatred against him and gather together to attack him, even if his brothers are tens of thousands of enemies, they can't stand the ants to bite him to death. Elephant.

Therefore, although the sea wolf practically snatched the territory north of Quanzhou from Chu Cai, it did not put this new territory into the previous territory, but controlled it as a semi-actually controlled site.

After the actual increase in the toll collected by 30%, the sea wolf did not continue to increase the price, and the area that the sea wolf actually promised to ensure their safe passage was only expanded to the Meizhou Island area than before, and did not completely include the Quanzhou Bay area within the actual control of the sea wolf.

That is to say, although the sea wolf actually snatched the sea territory north of Quanzhou Bay to Meizhou Bay from Mr. Chu Cai, it has not been completely included in the actual control and acquiesced that some peers can act in this area. In special circumstances, the sea wolf does not provide commercial ships with the promise of safe passage in this area. .

This avoids the dissatisfaction of other peers due to the significant expansion of the sea wolf's territory, so as to avoid attracting more people to envy them.

After ending the dispute with Mr. Chu Cai, Yu Xiaotian rewarded the subordinates and distributed half of the 40,000 taels of silver blackmailed from Mr. Chu Cai as a reward to the subordinates. Among them, whether they are direct participants or logistics assistants, there are rewards, but the amount is different. .

According to Yu Xiaotian's understanding of human nature, if you want your subordinates to work hard for him, you can't be reluctant to spend money. What ideals and goals are useless in this era. Only real benefits are the motivation for you to work hard.

That's why he developed a set of incentives in accordance with his system of the British navy at the beginning. One of the most important principles is that he eats meat and must let his men drink at least a mouthful of soup, and even eat meat.

Otherwise, the sentence that he must fight when he meets the enemy will completely become a dead letter, and no one will give Yu Xiaotian to fight desperately when there is no benefit.

After this incident, Yu Xiaotian completely fell into a more busy situation and almost couldn't even find time to sleep.

He has to deal with a lot of things every day. In addition to personnel adjustment, Sea Wolf changed his previous practice of deliberately limiting the growth rate of the number of people in the department, and began another expansion after the end of April.

In addition to converting the group of subordinates captured by Chu Cailao into the sea wolf masses for his use, another batch of subordinates will be recruited to enrich the fleet and soldiers.

Now, through this war with Chu Cailao, the sea wolf has basically formed a naval division dominated by fleet crews and a land division dominated by the original battle barracks, forming two relatively independent combat systems that can cooperate when necessary.

And the excellent performance of the soldiers this time also made them win a position where they could basically be on an equal footing with the water division, which made those sailors who used to look down on the soldiers look at the soldiers with some new eyes.

After this battle, although the navy still played a decisive role, the soldiers won more on the island, killing and injuring a large number of Chu Cai's men, seriously weakening the strength of Chu Cai's men, which made the sailors defeat Chu Cai's old man after a sudden return.

This includes that after landing on the island, the members of the marine division looked at the bodies of many old Chu Cai's men discarded everywhere, as well as the battered wall and the number of casualties of soldiers. They knew the tragic situation of the war that had happened here, and they had to admit that the battle camp was indeed very beautiful. Moreover, in order to defend the wolf's cave village, the soldiers paid a considerable price, so the soldiers also completely played their golden signboard through this battle and won the respect of everyone from all over the sea wolf.

This time, due to the great loss of the personnel of the barracks, the expansion of the sea wolf should be supplemented. In addition, in order to cooperate with the strategic deployment of the island, the barracks also needs to be expanded to cope with the future use of troops on the island or other things.

In short, this expansion of the sea wolf has exceeded the previous several expansions. Yu Xiaotian attached great importance to this matter. Considering that due to the existence of the commercial stack area and the increase of islanders, as well as the limited area of Nanri Island itself, it is difficult to prevent outsiders from peeking into the secrets of sea wolf training, so he decided to use the sea wolf exclusively for The new camp for training Xinding moved to the area of Danshui Village for resettlement.

This decision has aroused some objections among the internal members of the sea wolf, especially the director who is now responsible for the logistics of the sea wolf.

The reason why the council opposes this is very simple, that is, if the new camp moves to Danshui, the pressure on their council will become greater.

There are already some old camp facilities on Nanri Island. Although Chu Cailao's attack destroyed most of the new barracks and facilities outside Dazhai, it is not very troublesome to rebuild here.

However, once the new camp is moved to freshwater, everything will be needed, and the investment may be greater. Moreover, there is no real self-sufficiency in the area of Danshui Village, especially in terms of grain, 3,000 people have been relocated there, because the farmland has just been reclaimed, and the harvest of the first year is still It has not been harvested, and most of the newly reclaimed farmland is the land. In the first two years, the grain output is very low. Only after the land is mature can the grain output be gradually increased.

Suddenly, one or two thousand new Ding were sent to Tamsui for training, and the council needed more ships and manpower to provide them with food and other needs. It consumes too much and is really not cost-effective.

In addition, such a large-scale change involves many aspects. For example, so many people moved to Danshui Village, the training of sea wolves is very strict, and corporal punishment and accidents will continue to occur. Medical officers will definitely turn over a batch, as well as the construction of camps, where does the manpower come from, and the manpower to build a village in Danshui Village. It is already very tight, but now it is necessary to build a workshop area and a new boat house, which makes the shortage of manpower.

What about these things? Therefore, a group of people led by Zhao Mazi and Li Gouzi tried their best to oppose Xiaotian's behavior. In the discussion in front of the Wolf's Cave, it was inappropriate to do so on the spot.

As for the sailors and soldiers, they also have different views on this. They think that it is actually okay to practice Xinding on Nanri Island. Once they move to Danshui Village, they will also need to draw considerable manpower to help. Originally, they are now stretched out of manpower, and it is not worth the loss.

After listening to the opinions of these people, Yu Xiaotian considered them again and again, and finally insisted on his opinions.

There are several reasons why he insists on moving the new sea wolf camp to Tamsui Village.

First, there are many people on Nanri Island now, and they are too close to the land. If there is a little wind blowing, it will soon spread to the land government, and the number of soldiers he recruits this time is relatively large. If he trains on Nanri Island, he will soon be informed by the land officials, so even to avoid suspicion and avoid the government from thinking that he wants to To rebel, it is not a good choice to train Xinding in Nanri Island.

Second, Danshui Village is far away from the land, and Taiwan Yuan Island is not a big territory so far. Where the sky is high and the emperor is far away, he can do whatever he wants, and the government will not care about where he is doing.

Third, most of the main waterways of the Taiwan Strait are currently close to the land. Only when fewer ships go from the two Guangdong and Guangxi to Japan can they take the route close to Taiwan Yuan Island. Therefore, he basically doesn't have to worry about training troops there. He will leak information and cause worries from the government.

The fourth is to let Xinding train troops in Danshuizhai, so that Xinding can have an intuitive understanding and identity of the big rear Taiwan member island of their sea wolves in the future, which makes them feel that Taiwan Yuandao will be their territory in the future and have a sense of belonging there. Once they need to defend Danshui Village or chickens in the future. When they are caged, they will work harder and harder.

Of course, there are also shortcomings in doing so, that is, it increases the difficulty and consumption of logistical support. There must be a considerable number of people and ships to supply these newcomers with food, clothing, weapons and other materials. In addition, it also increases the pressure on the recent construction of Danshuizhaizhai, which puts more pressure on Fang An and others there.

However, Yu Xiaotian felt that even if there were these problems, moving the new camp to Tamsui Village would be more beneficial than staying on Nanri Island.

After listening to Yu Xiaotian's explanation, the opposition of the crowd became smaller, and Lin Yiyang, as a staff officer, also thought it was right for Yu Xiaotian's decision.

So in the end, the relocation of the new camp to Tamsui Village was confirmed and immediately began to be implemented. The first batch of new people, who were captured this time, were immediately shipped away and went to Tamsui Village as laborers to build a new camp. After this group of people built the new camp, Then he stayed and began to receive training.

There are also 100 soldiers sent together. In the future, this group of soldiers will be responsible for taking care of the prisoners and supervising them to establish a new camp. Next, they will stay in Danshuizhai and serve as the instructor of the new battalion in the future. In addition, before the new camp starts training, the sailors will also dispatch corresponding personnel to the new camp in Danshuizhai. As the head teacher, where do you train the new people?

The new battalion is divided into two adjacent, one is used to train the marine recruit training camp, and the other is used as the future recruit training camp of the soldiers.

Moreover, the new camp requires to be set up on the banks of the Tamsui River, and a temporary wharf will be built by the river as a docking place for training and supply ships in the future.

The amount of work of such a new camp is quite large, but Fortunately, the number of prisoners this time is also large. After screening, 500 or 600 people are finally left. If these people concentrate, with the help of some craftsmen and sufficient local wood resources, they should be able to complete the construction of the new camp within two months. Set up work.

In addition, some prisoners served as slaves will also be sent to Tamshai Village, which will be used together in the construction projects there. In addition to the local conscripted people, various construction projects of Tamsui Village can be completed in four to five months at the earliest.

(Today, I would like to thank the stdx brothers for their reward!)