How could Liu Guoxuan not react at this time, this "shopkeeper Su" must be an officer and has a lot of background, no wonder he is so brave and good at fighting.

"Are you true?" He cautiously confirmed.

Su Chengyu nodded, "Naturally." ”

Liu Guoxuan raised his own salary to train the clan brave, just to become a real officer, and now the opportunity is in front of him, he immediately nodded on one knee, "I am willing to serve Lord Su!" ”

Su Chengyu helped him up, "Actually, with your ability, you shouldn't just be a hundred presidents, and when you make achievements, you will have a more suitable position." ”

Liu Guoxuan was overjoyed, hugged his fists and said, "Lord Xie!" Subordinates go to clear the thieves first! ”

He turned around and walked out of the county office, only to feel that the blood was boiling all over his body, and he waved his hand vigorously at the brave clan, "Work hard!" Today, each person will be rewarded with three taels of silver! ”

Su Chengyu looked at Liu Guoxuan's back and secretly said that he had made a lot of money this time. Liu Guoxuan: That's the top general in the late Ming Dynasty! Just now, Su Chengyu listened to this morning's report on the battle situation, and Liu Guoxuan commanded 150 people to attack and kill more than 300 bandits in a single attack, and his military talent can be seen. Of course, this is far from his later record of breaking tens of thousands of Qing troops with thousands of troops in Kinmen and Xiamen.

What's even more rare is that he is also a genius in naval warfare, and in history he has commanded fleets to defeat Qing army sailors at sea many times. Moreover, he created his own amphibious combat tactics, and used the method of landing warfare and naval warfare to defeat the Qing court, and he almost never tasted defeat in fighting the Qing army in the coastal area. In the next few decades, I am afraid that only the more demonic Shi Lang will be able to compete with him at sea.

The ocean is the focus of Su Chengyu's future development, and Liu Guoxuan will definitely be a trump card in his maritime strategic layout in the future!

In addition, in history, Liu Guoxuan was limited by money and food, and could only deal with the Qing army in Fujian, but if he could give him enough material support and let him play that set of "marine" tactics in the northeast, it would be able to casually storm the chrysanthemum of the Qing court! It's sour to think about.

In Qingliu County, the news of Ye Li's death spread quickly, and the White Lotus Sect members suddenly lost their fighting spirit and began to flee in panic.

The clan gentry in the county have taken their clansmen and family members everywhere to clear the remnants of the sect and bandits. By noon, the city gates, treasury and other important places had all returned to the hands of the gentry of Qingliu County.

"A total of 120 military horses, 200 birds, 32 pairs of armor, and 67 pairs of leather armor were captured......"

Shi Lin held the list and reported to Su Chengyu the seized loot. These things don't seem to be much, but it's really a big expense to let Su Chengyu buy them himself.

Horses cost more than ninety taels, birds are about five taels, and armor ranges from four to ten taels, and these alone add up to more than 10,000 taels!

"One hundred and seventy bows, rattan ......" Shi Lin continued to read, when he heard someone outside the county hall speaking in vinegar Chinese: "I want to ask to see your lordship." ”

Su Chengyu looked out, it was the three foreigners who had helped defend the gate of the county yamen before. He said with interest to the guards who were blocking the three, "Let them in." ”

"My name, my name is Serio. First of all, I want to thank you for saving me from that damn place. A short man in his forties with few hairs on the top of his head rushed to say, "I hope you can give me back what those robbers robbed me, thank you from the bottom of my heart!" ”

"What is it?" Su Chengyu asked him.

"My clock, and my tools." Serio said, "It's so big, there's a lot of gear in it......"

Su Chengyu looked at Shi Lin, "Is there such a thing?" ”

"Hui Ye, I seem to have seen it."

"How do you prove something is yours?" Su Chengyu asked Serio.

"The clock is my unfinished work." "I know where each of its parts is. ”

Su Chengyu motioned to Shi Lin, "Give it back to him." ”

"Yes!" Shi Lin gave a few orders to one of the guards and asked him to take Serio to collect the lost property, and another blond-haired young man bowed to Su Chengyu and left.

Then a tall middle-aged man with chestnut curly hair came over and bowed deeply to Su Chengyu, "May the Lord bless you, my lord." ”

His Chinese was so pure that he could barely hear his voice, "I'm a priest, you can call me Qiao Weili." First of all, I want to express my gratitude to you, the infidels burned down my church and almost killed me. "I have to do something for you to repay you for saving your life." ”

Oh, talent! Su Chengyu immediately remembered what Tang Ruowang, Nan Huairen and other missionaries, all of them were people with excellent skills and knew astronomy and geography. Su Chengyu was not polite to him, and immediately thought of his maritime strategy, so he asked, "Do you know how to navigate?" ”

"Won't ......"

"Charting?"

"Won't ......"

Su Chengyu was a little disappointed, so he had to retreat to the second, "Will the cannon be cast?" "Maybe he can help when he builds his own cannon in the future.

"Won't ......"

"Alchemy?" This will teach him how to do chemical processing.

“……”

God, you dare to learn to be a missionary if you don't know anything? Su Chengyu was completely helpless, "Then, just thank you verbally." ”

He looked at Qiao Weili standing there awkwardly and seemed very unwilling, and suddenly remembered that this foreigner had good shooting skills, so he smiled and said, "You are quite good at guns, why don't you stay with me as a soldier?" ”

"Soldiering?" Qiao Weili was stunned, "You want to fight?" ”

Su Chengyu nodded, "There will be a big battle soon." He thought to himself that it was probably the largest war in the world in this era.

"But I'......," Qiao Weili's voice was almost inaudible, "it's a priest." ”

"Just say thank you verbally."

Qiao Weili suddenly thought of something, looked up and said, "I don't know what you think of mercenaries?" ”

"Mercenaries? Where? ”

"Right in Macau, the Franc mercenaries. I know their head of the Bougalo. If you're willing to pay some......"

Su Chengyu's eyes lit up, yes, why didn't you think of European mercenaries before?

Of course, he couldn't hire them in large numbers to fight in the Ming Dynasty, but the Europeans were very good at standardized training, and they were used to training every soldier in a systematic textbook way. The ranks of different officers in the same country can basically be seamlessly integrated.

Although he is familiar with the battle formations, types of troops, and tactical use in the musket era, and even the knowledge of military drills has been learned from the experts of the forum, he still has a lot of things that he is not clear about when it comes to the details of military training.

For example, how can the troops form the fastest formation? How are the orders of the commanders at each level communicated? How do you control the tempo of speed when a cavalry charges? How can formation changes not lead to confusion...... Too many details require an experienced professional.

If a group of officers who are familiar with the standardized training system in Europe can carry out their advanced training concepts, they can help the troops complete the training as quickly as possible and form combat effectiveness as soon as possible. Although he can also train Ming officers from scratch, he doesn't have a lot of time at the moment, so naturally the sooner the better.

Su Chengyu made up his mind and said to Qiao Weili: "I do need mercenaries, but my requirements are special. ”