Nine thousand soldiers were to be expanded to 20,000 soldiers, which was a large-scale military expansion for a city. The six hall stewards and the commanders all expressed that they should explain this matter to His Majesty the Emperor in advance to avoid misunderstandings by His Majesty the Emperor.
Qi Feihong promised to report the matter to Yu Wenxian in person, provided that everyone must support his army expansion. Everyone saw that Qi Feihong's army expansion was inevitable, so they had nothing to say.
Qi Feihong contacted Yu Wenxian in front of everyone and explained the necessity and importance of army expansion. Yu Wenxian readily agreed to expand Feihu City's army to 20,000 soldiers, and took the initiative to give Qi Feihong military expenses of 20,000 soldiers, but only asked Qi Feihong to do
Thanks to the good training of the soldiers, if Feilong City is attacked, Feihu City will send troops to help as soon as possible.
Qi Feihong naturally agreed to Yu Wenxian's request. This was his intention. With Yu Wenxian's permission, Feihu City's military expansion was decided.
Qi Feihong ordered people to post notices everywhere in the city, and at the same time set up ten recruiting points in the city. All immortal cultivators above the Yuan Shen realm can sign up to join the army. Of course, after signing up, they must go through a test before their military status can be determined and they become
Formal soldiers were incorporated into the Feihu City guard army to serve.
Qi Feihong entrusted these matters to Qu Hu, the warden of the military hall, Jiang Chaoyuan, the warden of the household hall, as well as the nine commanders and eighteen deputy commanders who were already serving in the army. He himself was only responsible for recruiting additional commanders and deputy commanders.
, because these people must be strong and reliable, he would be more reassured if he came forward in person.
Qi Feihong also had his own ideas. When he recruited commanders and deputy commanders, he first thought of people he was familiar with, such as Jin Min and Nalan Xi, and his senior brother, Jiang Jun, who was now helping Feixianmen.
and others. He immediately contacted these people personally and asked them to consider coming to Feihu City in the Red Dragon Kingdom to help him.
Jin Min and Nalan Xi were the first to reply to Qi Feihong. They did not hesitate to become commanders. Each of them was responsible for a thousand new sergeants and was responsible for the training and management of these sergeants. Both of them were very strong.
, is also reliable, and is indeed a good helper for Qi Feihong.
Immediately afterwards, Jiang Jun replied to Qi Feihong. After he informed the Shangqing Sanren, the Shangqing Sanren ordered him to come to Feihu City with his sword and tea, and the three of them served as commanders at the same time. In this way, the new commander was selected.
With five people, Qi Feihong only needs to recruit a few more people.
Qi Feihong specifically went to ask Yinggu. Because Yinggu wanted to revitalize the Guangming Palace, she declined Qi Feihong. She only said that if something happened to Qi Feihong, everyone in the Guangming Palace would do their best to help, but she would not be the commander or deputy commander of Feihu City.
Qi Feihong did not force it, and he was not in a hurry to find all the commanders and deputy commanders, because the army expansion had just begun, and no one knew when all the new soldiers would be recruited. He had time to slowly find suitable candidates.
This matter took Qi Feihong four days. In the past four days, Huangfu City and Fairy Nihuang came to see Qi Feihong several times, urging Qi Feihong to put down the trivial matters in Feihu City and start practicing quickly. Qi Feihong himself also hoped that he could start practicing as soon as possible.
After some practice, I really put down everything, found an uninhabited palace in the back courtyard, and went into retreat with Huangfu City and Fairy Nihuang.
Qi Feihong's retreat this time is expected to last for three months. He will mainly practice Huangfu City swordsmanship. During this period, he will also practice Nihuang Fairy's alchemy. During these three months, he will not be distracted by anything else for the time being and will concentrate on it.
Practice swordsmanship and alchemy well.
Qi Feihong went into seclusion, and the recruitment of soldiers in Feihu City was carried out simultaneously. Jiang Chaoyuan and others vigorously publicized the recruitment matter, and within a few days, thousands of recruits were recruited. If this continues, in less than a month, enough recruits will be recruited to complete the whole process.
The mission given to them by Feihong.
Feihu City has not expanded its army for many years, and many of the previous generations of immortal cultivators hoped to join the army and make a career, so the recruitment process went very smoothly.
Three months passed in a hurry. On this day, Qi Feihong came out of seclusion on time and left his retreat place with Huangfu City and Fairy Nihuang.
The stewards of the Sixth Hall who had been waiting here for a long time came forward to see Qi Feihong. Qi Feihong responded one by one with a relaxed expression. It seemed that he had gained something from practicing in seclusion.
Qi Feihong was most concerned about recruiting soldiers. After meeting everyone, he asked: "How is the recruitment of new soldiers? Have enough new soldiers been recruited?"
Qu Hu said: "Reporting to the city lord, there are 11,000 new soldiers, all of whom were recruited two months ago. They are currently training in the first three and one in the middle of the city lord's mansion. After they finish the training, they will be incorporated into the guard
The army will be under the direct jurisdiction of the new commanders."
Qi Feihong said: "Manager Qu has done a good job, and you all have worked hard. The new recruits need to be trained well, and you all need to put more effort into it."
Everyone said together: "The city lords praised me, and my subordinates obeyed."
Qi Feihong nodded slightly: "Has anything happened in Feihu City in the past three months? Does Your Majesty have any decrees to deliver?"
Jiang Chaoyuan said: "His Majesty has no decree to give us Flying Tiger City in the near future, but there is really one thing that requires the city lord to make the decision."
Qi Feihong asked: "What's the matter? It's okay for Manager Jiang to speak frankly."
Jiang Chaoyuan said: "For the construction of the Guangming Palace, my subordinates and others have been fully assisting the Guangming Palace. However, the cost has become a bit high. This... my subordinates have sent people to calculate. Since the construction of the Guangming Palace, Feihu City has already
We spent one million spirit coins. In addition to recruiting new soldiers, training new soldiers, building new barracks and other expenses, there are also millions more. Now the spirit coins in our city lord's mansion are no longer enough to support normal expenses. Please let the city lord make up his mind on this matter.
, should we use the combat readiness spirit coins to overcome the current difficulties?"
Qi Feihong asked: "How many combat readiness spiritual coins are there? Feihu City has always had combat preparedness spiritual coins, or are they some of the spiritual coins specially reserved by the previous city lord?"
Jiang Chaoyuan said: "Since the founding of the Red Dragon Kingdom, there has been a practice of reserving war-ready supplies and spiritual coins. All cities in the country, large and small, have war-ready spiritual coins, but the numbers are different. Feihu City's war-ready spiritual coins are 10 million.
, this is the decree of His Majesty the successive emperors, and it has never been less than one spiritual coin."
Qi Feihong smiled: "If you have any spiritual coins, use them first. I will replenish the spent spiritual coins as soon as possible. Apart from this matter, is there anything else?"
Qu Hu, the steward of the military hall, said: "My subordinates also have something to report. Eleven thousand new recruits are not yet equipped with standard armor and weapons. Has the city lord ordered the Ministry of Industry to send people to order them? The training will end in one month, and then we will
It would be inappropriate to distribute weapons and armor without them."
Qi Feihong turned his head and looked at Wu Jiang, the manager of the workshop: "Manager Wu, quickly calculate how many spirit coins are needed for the standard armor and weapons of 11,000 recruits."
Wu Jiang took half a step forward and said: "My subordinates have calculated that each set of standard armor is thirty spirit coins, and each standard weapon is about one hundred spirit coins. If all the recruits order armor and weapons according to this standard, the total
1.43 million spirit coins. Including transportation costs, purchasing expenses, etc., it will cost approximately 1.5 million spirit coins."
Qi Feihong said: "Immediately go to the Hutang Manager Jiang's office to collect 1.5 million spirit coins and order all the armors and weapons. You are required to buy back the armors and weapons before the training is completed and distribute them to every soldier.
, there must be no mistakes.”
Wu Jiang clasped his fists and said: "Please forgive me, City Lord, there are only three of my subordinates at the moment, and there is really no way to complete this arduous task in such a short period of time."
Qi Feihong frowned and said, "Which steward can assist Steward Wu?"
Qu Hu said: "I can send people to assist Guanshi Wu, but I can only send a thousand people at most, because the remaining soldiers have to guard Feihu City."
Qi Feihong asked Wu Jiang: "Is a thousand people enough? If not, we can find another way."
Wu Jiang said: "A thousand people are enough, but everyone must have a space ring. After purchasing the armor and weapons, you need to use the space ring to bring it back to Feihu City."
Qu Hu said: "I will go back and select the person with the space ring, and I will leave it to Manager Wu later."
Wu Jiang clasped his fists and said, "Thank you very much, Manager Qu."
Qu Hu said: "Manager Wu, you are very polite. These are supplies purchased for the soldiers in the military hall. We should contribute a little."
Wu Jiang looks a bit wretched, but there is no sense of wretchedness in his actions and words. Instead, he looks generous and decent. People should not be judged by their appearance. Maybe Wu Jiang's life is not good-looking, but he is also a useful person.