If you don’t fight, you will have to decide the winner in the past two years once the fight starts... In this case, any long-term plan will not come in handy! Qingdeng must improve his combat power in a short period of time!

This is why his recruitment plan was designed very restrainedly and did not insanely explode soldiers.

If it is a crazy violent soldier, it will take a long time to form combat power.

To sum up, Qingdeng is currently making three-hand preparations at the same time.

First, try every means to improve the combat power of the newly selected group. Whether it is a war or a peace talk, you must support it with strong strength.

Second, continue to lobby the Western vassals and divide them as much as possible.

Third, carry out large-scale anti-corruption work, eliminate bad policies, liberate the productivity that the shogunate should have, and use the "deposits" of corrupt officials to enrich the treasury.

First, both items are in full swing.

As for the third item... Qing Deng decided to entrust this important task to Tianzhangyuan after repeated consideration.

Anti-corruption and elimination of corruption is a very offensive job, and it requires a strong man with high power to take the lead - Tianzhangyuan is the most suitable candidate.

Faced with Qing Deng's request, she agreed readily.

"Sheng Qing, just leave it to me! I'm just bored in this house every day!"

Eradicating corruption, innovating systems, and making the world look new - this is her always wish.

Previously, due to her limited strength, she could only sigh.

Now she finally has the opportunity to realize her long-cherished wish, so she is particularly motivated, her eyes are bright, and even her spirit is different.

Tianzhangyuan is the kind of person who cannot be idle.

If you let her spend her leisurely every day, she will be listless; if you give her a lot of work, she will become energetic.

On the day when Qinghai took over the important task, she quickly formed an "anti-corruption and innovation task force" and officially started working.

In this way, with Qingdeng's full support, Tianzhangyuan returned to the top of power and controlled the power of life and death of countless officials, just like Qingdeng's incarnation.

Don’t underestimate Qingdeng’s current prestige.

Repel the Faqi coalition and save Edo... the real rebuilding of the shogunate!

After expelling the "Yiqiao Sect", he completed the high unity of power and monopolized the power of the "Southern Shogunate".

To be honest, in the face of the anti-corruption work initiated by Qingdeng, the corrupt officials of the "Nanshufu" had no means of resistance, so they could only clamp their tails and secretly prayed that Tianzhangyuan would not find them on their heads.

When moving the capital to Otsu, Tokugawa Ishimaki and the private soldiers and intelligence agency of the Tenzhangyuan - Shinyutingban - also moved here together.

The scholars of the new Yuting Festival are all well-trained and trustworthy ninjas, which are suitable for being anti-corruption pioneers.

In this way, Qing Deng's endorsement, Tianzhangyuan's hard work, and the dedicated cooperation of the Xinyutingfan, a corrupt element was successively dismissed.

Unfortunately, these guys are all "flies" without power.

Those "tigers" care for each other and form an extremely exaggerated network of interests. They cannot be surrendered by just stumble on their mouths and chopping a head or two.

It’s not that I can’t deal with them, but this will disperse a lot of energy and resources.

More importantly, hitting the "tiger" at this critical moment may trigger civil strife in the "Southern Shogunate".

There is no way, so I can only let these "tigers" be free for a while.

Although the series of anti-corruption work currently carried out by Tianzhangyuan cannot fundamentally rectify corruption problems, it is better than nothing.

At most, arresting corrupt officials will enrich the treasury and shock the "survivors" so that they will not dare to be presumptuous in a short period of time.

In contrast, innovating the system is a powerful way to truly liberate productivity!

Tianzhangyuan naturally knew the interests of it, so he focused his work on reforming the system.

One by one, the backward systems that could no longer keep up with the times - such as setting up South and North Endorsement offices in Edo, and working alternately on a month basis - were abolished one by one.

With the demise of the backward system, the current situation of redundant officials and redundant personnel has been greatly improved, saving a lot of manpower and material resources.

With the size of the "Southern Shogunate", even if it is just a little bit of productivity, it is enough to form a significant advantage for the Western countries!

The current top priority is to win the next "East-West War".

Any business at this stage must be concessions for this goal!

Eliminate the "tigers" and reform the system from the root... These extremely troublesome tasks can be left to be dealt with slowly later.

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Compared with the last "first major recruitment", the scale of this recruitment is much larger.

Qingdeng has drawn out five major areas: Gyeonggi, Nongwei, Kafei, Kanto and Ouyu, and has a test-off point in each area! In the widest range, the most elite soldiers are selected!

At this moment, in the southern suburbs of Otsu, the selection of the "Gyeonggi Region" has officially begun.

Looking up, the selection site was crowded with people, very shocking.

The person responsible for coordinating the recruitment work of the "Gyeonggi Region" is Nagakura Shinba.

At this moment, Nagakura Shinba slowly walked onto the high platform for inspection.

After Nagakura Shinhara appeared, it caused an uproar.

"It's Nagakura Shinhachi, the captain of the second team!"

"He is one of the strongest swordsmen in the Xinxuan group! It is said that besides Nino and Tianjian, the strongest one is Nagakura Shinba!"

"So strong... I am worthy of being the captain of the second team of the newly selected team. This physique alone is daunting."

After following Aoden and his death for many years, Nagakura Shinhata became much more calm, with a more determined face, and no longer exuded a irritable aura like before.

Nagakura Shinhata pursed his lips, held the sword around his waist, and looked around the audience.

"You guys listen!!"

The sudden loud shout spread throughout the audience and into everyone's ears.

The noise gradually faded and soon it became audible.

A bunch of eyes focused on Nagakura Shinhata, and everyone at the scene listened to his next speech intently.

Nagakura Shinhata was not good at speaking, so he directly saved the greetings and gorgeous words and said loudly:

"Ninwang assigned 1,500 admissions to the 'Gyeonggi Region'!"

"But so far, 6,000 people have arrived to participate in the selection! And this number is still rising!"

"There are at least 230,000 people who came to the enlistment in the end!"

"That is to say, only 1,500 out of tens of thousands of people are fortunate enough to become Ninoko's comrades!"

"People who want to join the new selection group! Those who want to fight side by side with Niko! Those who want to win fame and fortune! Treat this selection as a battle! Use your all your strength!"

Although Nagakura Shinhata doesn't know how to speak, he is not a fool.

He knew very well that most of the candidates present either admired Qingdeng and wanted to fight side by side with Qingdeng; or they were eager for fame and fortune, trying to achieve a class leap.

Therefore, in his speech just now, he cleverly chose words such as "Niwang's comrades-in-arms" and "winning fame" to inspire the fighting spirit of the candidates.

As it turns out, the effect is significant.

At the moment when he finished speaking, a tsunami broke out on the scene! Even Otsu Town could hear this amazing shout and feel this abundant heat!

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While carrying out conscription work steadily, the supply and reserves of materials are also in full swing.

After achieving a breakthrough from "0" to "1", it is much easier to increase production in the Otsu military factory.

The output of muskets and cannons is increasing steadily and rapidly.

Qingdeng placed a large order to the Jiafei, Donghai, Qianwei, and Aoyu vassals - the production of grain from the thick tail; the production of salt from the Donghai ; Jiafei, Aoyu equips - military horses, sugar, salt, medicine and other strategic materials, and they were also purchased in large quantities.

Rin Kinoshita is worthy of being the biggest financial supporter of Aoden, and he still spreads coins as usual.

Not only did he provide material support for money and food, but he also continued to help Qingdeng connect with overseas arms dealers to purchase weapons in large quantities and fill the vacancy of muskets, cannons and ammunition.

In fact, Kinoshita Rin is no longer Qingdeng’s biggest funder now - now Qingdeng himself is his own biggest funder!

The same thing is true, Qingdeng’s current authority is terrifyingly high.

It is no exaggeration to say that he is now in a state of "having a fairy in his mouth, and having a single person in the cabinet, and he can write the imperial edict"!

The resources that Qingdeng can call now are no longer limited to the Qinjin Ifan, he can call the resources of the entire "Southern Shogunate"!

He gathered the strength of the "Nan Shogunate" to develop military industry and set up a scientific and technological tree.

It is a dream to catch up with the Satsuma vassal state in just 1 or 2 years. However, the gap can be narrowed as much as possible.

Not only the gourd houses, the vassals, and the "Nanshufu", all the power that can be borrowed must be used in place - so Qingdeng took a look at Miss Mary Anna.

【Note · Marie Anna: The National Symbol of France】

Since there is information currently showing that Satsuma is related to Britain, in order to fight against the Japanese Empire, Qingdeng believes that it is necessary to rely on the power of France.

Let "overseas forces" deal with "overseas forces"!
To be continued...