When Xiao Jie returned to Panyu City, he told Tao Han that she would be in charge of making glass in the future. Tao Han was naturally very excited and excited, and finally felt that he had a little use for himself.

Xiao Jie also told her that glass craft products can be made by pouring molds first, but the layout must be arranged in advance, and a group of craftsmen should be trained to learn how to blow glass bottles. After all, many things in the future will be indispensable to such important containers as glass bottles. .

Tao Han is born with a keen sense of business, and now feels that a brand new industry is about to be created from his own hands, so he immediately resigned excitedly, and went back to his boudoir to plan and lay out the blueprint of the glass industry.

And Ye Qiu also reported to Xiao Jie that they had successfully recruited 5 soldiers in all the counties of Nanhai County, and asked Xiao Jie whether they should continue to recruit until they reached [-].

In the fourteen prefectures of Daning, Sili is the Department of Xiaowei, Jiaozhou, Liangzhou, and Youzhou are the Department of Governors, and the remaining ten prefectures are the Department of Governors.Although the three prefectures are all in the Department of Governors, the treatment is very different. Because Liangzhou needs to face the Qiang people in the southwest, the Western Regions in the northwest, and the Dihu people in the north of the Mobei, Liangzhou faces the greatest strategic threat and pressure. Therefore, it can have a standing army of 20 infantry and [-] cavalry; Youzhou needs to face Dihu in the west and Donghu in the northeast.

As for Jiaozhou, which is located in the south of the Lingnan, because it is facing a bunch of small countries and small states, although it invades Daning from time to time, it does not pose any threat to Daning in essence, so Jiaozhou only has a standing army of [-].

But even these 5 people are not all led by Xiao Jie, the governor of Jiaozhou. Only 5 of the 3 people belong to the army directly under the governor's mansion, and the other [-] are led by different generals, so as to prevent the governor's family from dominating. Unable to restrain and check and balance.

This is not just aimed at Xiao Jie alone, even in Liangzhou, where there are many soldiers and generals, Wang Cheng is nominally the commander-in-chief of the 30 Northwest Frontier Army, but in fact he can directly command only the 27 Metropolitan Governor's Mansion For the direct subordinate army, the remaining [-] troops will be commanded by different generals to prevent Wang Chengwei from getting lost.

Now the 3 people Ye Qiu recruited for Xiao Jie are all the troops directly under the Jiaozhou Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, so he needs to ask Xiao Jie whether the other 2 people are recruited by Xiao Jie now, or wait for the new generals appointed by the court to arrive in Liangzhou. The state then recruits them themselves.

Xiao Jie didn't comment, just asked Ye Qiu with a smile: "General Ye, how many Yue people are there among the 3 people you recruited?"

Ye Qiu was stunned for a moment, but then shook his head and said honestly: "Reporting to Your Highness, all the thirty thousand recruits I recruited are Han Chinese, and none of them are Vietnamese."

Xiao Jie shook his head and smiled, as if he had expected this result a long time ago.

Ye Qiu was a little puzzled and said: "Your Highness, in fact, this subordinate also can't figure it out, the Yue people are much poorer than the Han people, our recruits are treated so well, and the recruiting notice we sent people to post has never said not to be more than people, but I don't know why But none of the Yue people came to sign up for the draft."

Xiao Jie smiled slightly and explained: "It's actually very simple. Jiaozhou's standing army is mainly used to suppress the rebellion of Yue people and chieftains. These Yue people naturally think that joining our Jiaozhou army is to deal with them. Naturally, no one wants to be this traitor. "

Ye Qiu suddenly realized, and he couldn't help but secretly sighed.

But Xiao Jie immediately laughed and said, "So, for the vacancy of 2 people, I will recruit [-] Yue people to fill the vacancy."

Ye Qiu froze for a moment, hesitated for a moment, and couldn't help but persuade: "Your Highness, twenty thousand Yue soldiers are too many. If you know that they are not of my race, their hearts must be different..."

Xiao Jie shook his head helplessly, Ye Qiu was already considered a relatively enlightened person in this era, but even he was so wary of the Yue people, it was no wonder that the gap between the Han people and the Yue people was so deep.

"Lao Ye, have you ever thought that they are not only Yue people, but also the people of Daning. Since they are the people of Daning, they should have the same national treatment."

Ye Qiu sighed silently, his expression was a little gloomy. Of course he understood the reason, but freezing three feet was not a day's cold. The barriers and conflicts between the Han people and the Yue people had existed for hundreds of years, and the two sides had strong mutual I am afraid that those Yue people may not be able to feel the sincerity of His Highness who treats everyone equally.

His Highness may recruit Yue people to join the Jiaozhou Army without discrimination, but these Yue people may be more devoted to their clansmen, and they are very likely to run away at critical moments, or even turn against each other.

Xiao Jie seemed to see Ye Qiu's worry, so he just smiled and said, "I know what you're worried about, but don't forget, even the Yueren of Cochin can handle it, let alone the Yueren of Lingnan."

"Besides, you also know the situation in the west of Lingnan. There are deep mountains and old forests, wild beasts are everywhere, and miasma is dense. Fighting in such an environment, the Yue people have an advantage over us Han people. I naturally thought of this when recruiting Yue people as soldiers."

Ye Qiu still looked hesitant: "I also know that these Yue people are indeed better at fighting than us in the mountains and forests. The subordinates are just worried that they may not be reliable."

Xiao Jie smiled mysteriously: "It's not that there are Yue people in Jiaozhou. The Yue people in Jiaozhou are unreliable. We can recruit Yue people as soldiers."

Ye Qiu was taken aback for a moment, and then seemed to understand something. It seemed that His Royal Highness already had a plan in mind, but he was too worried.

Ye Qiu's thinking was indeed correct, Xiao Jie had indeed already had an idea in his mind, and this was also an important part of the strategy of overcoming control that he proposed to his father before he left.

In fact, there are not only Yue people in Jiaozhou, there are also many Yue tribes in southern Jingzhou and Yangzhou, and their customs are very different from those of Jiaozhou. Although in the eyes of Han people, they belong to Yue people, but they are different from each other See each other as aliens.

Xiao Jie planned to take advantage of this, and sent people to go deep into the deep mountains and old forests of Jingzhou and Yangzhou to recruit Yue people with a lot of money, and organize them into the Jiaozhou army. Rebel. ,

Xiao Jie only needs to stipulate that the land and food of the rebel tribes should be rewarded to these Yue soldiers as spoils of war. In order to obtain land and food, they are naturally particularly brave in fighting.

More importantly, although these people are also Yue people, they are not natives of Jiaozhou. Even though they have acquired a large amount of land through war, they still need to guard against other Yue tribes around them. Therefore, most of them are loyal to the imperial court in order to survive. Geng Geng, because they know that only by cooperating with the Jiaozhou government and officers and soldiers can they keep the land they fought so hard for.

Xiao Jie asked Ye Qiu to hurry up and train [-] new recruits now, because according to the news from Zhao Ming, the Secretary of Qilin Guard Jiaozhou, the chieftains of Yue people from Guilin County, Xiang County, and Yulin County gathered frequently recently, and there seemed to be some gatherings The beginnings of a rebellion.

Ye Qiu took the order to resign, and Xiao Jie immediately wrote a letter to Xie Yu, the governor of Yangzhou, and Lu Xu, the new governor of Jingzhou. The more people are soldiers.

Xiao Jie believed that the two of them would be willing to help him even if they didn't look at him as the prince. After all, the troubles caused by the Yue people were also a headache for them. Now that Xiao Jie is willing to abduct these Yue people, Strong, weakening the power of the Yue tribe, they are naturally happy to see it.

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