"It's no harm to go left and right to see each other. Besides your cousin, you also have your ninth uncle there..."

Huo Wu said, with a look of nostalgia on his face.

Huo Bao was a little curious: "I heard that there are many uninhabited lands overseas, but Uncle Jiu didn't expect to occupy a large area..."

Huo Wu did not talk about his early life in detail, but according to the news that Huo Bao already knew, the "old man" took in a total of nine people, Huo Wu and Huo Dong and Wu, Ma Kui and Liu, Du Lao Ba and Wu Fei and Jiao, Xue Biao and Liu, and the generous "Jiu Master" was nine.

Xue Biao, the old seventh brother, was also miserable. He was not the earliest old seventh brother, but the grandson of the old accountant under the old man, and the old seventh brother who was missing after the first generation of the old seventh brother. Therefore, even if he talked to everyone about the ranking, his relationship was much worse.

The "Boss", "Second", "Three" and "Fourth" in front seemed to have ended up tragic because of the betrayal of the first seventh generation, so the youngest "Jiu Ye" who stayed on the island in the end.

Long before Huo Wu and others left the island, Jiu Ye personally dealt with the traitor Lao Qi in order to avenge the previous brothers.

That incident should be the cause of Huo Wu and his brothers leaving the sea and returning to their hometown to live in seclusion.

Calculate the time, the time when Huo Wu and others separated should be after Ma Juzi remembered, before Huo Wu returned to his hometown to get married, about fifteen or six years ago.

Among Huo Wu's brothers, Huo Wu, Ma Village Master, and Xue Biao are all in their early forties. Du Laoba is seven or eight years younger than Du Laoba. The ranking of "Jiu Master" is even lower, and he will only be older than Du Laoba.

According to Huo Wu and the Ma Village Master before, when they first met, they were about the same age as Huo Bao, at the age of thirteen or fourteen. The next year, the "Jiu Ye" in his infancy went to the island. After three, four, eight or nine years old, Du Laoba was the last to land on the island.

According to this calculation, "Jiuye" is thirteen years younger than Huo Wu, Mazhaizhu, five years younger than Du Lao Ba, and six years younger than Deng Jian. He is about thirty years old.

Fifteen or sixteen years ago, when "Jiu Master" cut off his enemy, he was still a young man and had no success.

Having revenge on blood and taking charge of the family business, Huo Bao was very curious about this "Jiu Master".

Previously, Huo Bao guessed that "Jiu Ye"'s nest was near the Zhoushan Islands, but remembered that Du Laoba and Zhu Qiang brought back a dozen carts of meeting gifts and a box for Ma Juzi last year. He also felt that the place where "Jiu Ye" was located would not be a remote area with natural dangers, but like a place where wealthy and maritime merchants gathered, so that those rare objects could be purchased.

Huo Wu curled his lips and said disapprovingly: "What is the use of a place in a big way? It's just a barbarian land. The natives talked about barbarians and were rumbling, making people unable to understand it. It's not easy to be a slave, but it's just a place to be a transit at sea..."

After hearing this, Huo Bao did not continue to ask questions, but he also excluded Wanwan and Ryukyu.

According to his knowledge, Chinese people had already been going to these two places and had Confucian education.

The rest are islands to the north or southeast.

The climate in the north is harsh, so the road to Beihai is different; on the south is a transit to the Western countries.

The specific location should be the south of Quanzhou, far away from the mainland.

As for the island near Songjiang Mansion that Zhu Qiang followed last year, it should be a small transit island, otherwise he would not easily take outsiders to the island.

...

In early February, the child soldiers began to prepare for war, and Huo Bao was forced to go to the child soldiers camp.

"Master Bao!"

"Master Bao!"

"Bao Master..."

When the child soldiers received the news, they rushed over to welcome him.

Huo Bao looked around everyone, Hou Xiaoming, Qiu Wei, Li Yuan, Shi San, Zhu Qiang and others in front, and next to them were middle-level leaders led by Wu Yuan, Song Qianzhi and others. In the back row were An Changsheng and Li Yu, two companions, Jia Daihua and Jia Daishan brothers.

Among them, Hou Xiaoming, Zhu Qiang and others were the first group of old men of the child soldiers. Although Li Yuan and Shi San joined later than them, they were not much later. Wu Yuan and Song Qianzhi were Huo Bao’s companions when he was in Chuzhou, and Qiu Wei’s process of joining the child soldiers was a little complicated, but he was also subdued by Huo Bao; An Changsheng and Li Yu were his companions after he arrived in Jinling, and Jia Daihua and Jia Daishan were representatives of the children of Jinling.

The entire child soldier system has determined Huo Bao’s unique status.

When Huo Bao was there before, he was Huo Bao's nephew, and Hou Xiaoming were Huo Bao's right-hand man.

When Huo Bao was away, both of them could take charge of the entire child soldier on behalf of Huo Bao.

With Huo Bao leaving, Qiu Wei and Shi San's rise, the child soldiers and soldiers were three times more divided, and the pattern changed again.

Hou Xiaoming is still valued by Huo Bao, but it is not unique.

Such a situation...

Huo Wu transferred Huo Bao to the firearm camp not only because the firearms and heavy weapons need to be trusted, but also mainly to transfer Huo Bao out of the child soldiers to further determine Huo Bao's irreplaceable status among the child soldiers.

Huo Bao didn't expect this before, and later he thought about it.

Speaking of which, he transferred Liang Zhuang to Huo Bao as his deputy, with similar purposes.

Because Liang Zhuang was too old, he was one of the first five children's soldiers. He was the captain of the spearmen and was on par with Huo Bao, Hou Xiaoming, Zhu Qiang and Zhu Gang.

However, the qualifications were limited. As the child soldiers expanded, everyone was in charge of a group of people. Shi San and Li Yuan came from behind, and Liang Zhuang was a little lacking.

But Liang Zhuang has a qualification here and is under others' hands, so it is difficult to manage.

Huo Bao called him out just to prevent Shi San, Qiu Wei and other war generals from being restrained.

...

Everyone got the news and knew that they would start preparing for war today and wait for military orders.

"Master Bao, are we going to follow Deng Shuai's 'Eastern Expedition'?"

Shi San asked excitedly.

Everyone has the desire to admire the strength. Although as a student in Class 2 of War Generals, he has the name of a teacher and student with Shui Jin, the one he admires most in Shi San's heart is Deng Jian.

Qiu Wei also asked, "If it weren't for the 'East Expedition', then it was Marshal Shui's side? Marshal Shui's side also began to move." As he spoke, he also looked forward to it.

But he is a student from the First Class of War and Monk Feng's student.

It was interesting that teachers and students did not want to follow the teacher to conquer the class guide next door.

Huo Bao was funny, but he was also slightly complicated.

Whether it is Deng Jian, who has only exposed three sides after ten days, or the monk Feng, Shui Jin, Master Lin, and Master Ma who have personally transferred the teaching staff, are all sensible people.

In two months, without deliberately getting close to anyone.

Therefore, teachers and students are more familiar than before, but there is no obvious distance or distantness.

Speaking of the major marshals of the Chuzhou Army, except for the foreign monk Feng, others had a close relationship with Huo Wu and his son, but when it comes to the relationship with the child soldiers, the Shui Jin tribe was the closest.

The closeness to the Shui Jin tribe was the battle to go north to aid Bozhou last year, and the incident of entering Luzhou.

There is also Shui Jin himself and Huo Bao’s previous brothers, and most of them are familiar with the child soldiers and elderly people.

Huo Bao nodded to Shi San and said, "Well, I am following Deng Shuai to fight the 'East Expedition', with the targets of Changzhou, Suzhou and Songjiang. I guess it will set off in the late month." As he said that, he looked at Qiu Wei again: "Shui Shuai's men and horses set off for Luzhou Prefecture on the fifth day of the day. Ma Shuai's men and horses were in the same army, and the targets were Shuzhou and Shouzhou."

After receiving the accurate letter, everyone was excited.

Five state prefectures?

You should know that the Chuzhou Army currently has only seven provinces.

In the past, the expeditions were all in one state and one prefecture, but now they are indeed directly in the five states.

But no one thinks this goal is arrogant.

Last Mid-Autumn Festival, when the Chuzhou army entered Hezhou, the total number of people was only ten thousand,000, but now there are more than 200,000 new and veteran soldiers.

If the Chuzhou army marched, the target would be a place of one state and one county, it would be a joke.

Among the teenagers, Zhu Qiang had gone to Songjiang with Du Laoba, and Hou Xiaoming and Li Yuan had gone to Changzhou.

After confirming that the child soldiers were going to "expedition in the east", Zhu Qiang and Li Yuan talked about the overview of the two places with everyone.

"There is a very wealthy place in Songjiang. Next to the beach are salt fields. The places far away from the beach are piled with paddy fields. Rice is planted, and dry fields are rare."

When Zhu Qiang talked about Songjiang, his eyes shone: "Now, the prefectures of our Chuzhou Army have the most fertile land in Luzhou. But if you really have Songjiang, Luzhou will not be as good as Luzhou."

"Changzhou has the largest pig iron ore in Jiangnan. Half of our previous weapons used were pig iron from Changzhou."

Li Yuan mentioned Changzhou and looked at Hou Xiaoming: "In May last year, Brother Hou had been ordered by Master Bao to go to Changzhou. Later, I also went to help Brother Hou, but fortunately I did not humiliate my fate."

Huo Bao listened with a smile, remembering what happened last year, only half a year later, but it seemed like it had been a long time.

At that time, the Chuzhou Army was still the leader of Tu San. Huo Bao, the nephew, was a visitor from another world. He was not close to Tu San, his uncle, at heart, but was wary of him.

He actively intervened and intervened in the three items of "grain, salt, and iron", and his purpose was several.

Thinking about it now, my original plan and ideas were a little rough, and I couldn't help but think about it.
Chapter completed!