In Zhao Hao's vision, the future Tamra Garrison will be directly under the Jiangnan Group's board of directors.

But there can only be one voice in the army, so he must personally serve as the highest commander of the garrison area. This is the only way to ensure that no board member can dictate matters to the navy.

In fact, the so-called garrison area is the military area, but Mr. Zhao does not dare to call it by its name yet.

Therefore, the main function of the garrison is to organize joint combat operations and exercises of all armed forces in the area under the leadership of Mr. Zhao and the group's board of directors in accordance with the group's overall strategic intentions. Directly lead the organization and construction, military training, administrative management and logistical support of the garrison bases and sub-bases. Unify the command and management of all fleets, bases and water police stations in the area.

The Water Police Bureau under the garrison area is similar to the coastal garrisons of the Ming Dynasty. It is responsible for garrison tasks within the waters under its jurisdiction and provides service support for the fleets stationed in the area, and has the functions of both a squadron and a sub-base.

The Marine Police Bureau is responsible for coastal artillery, infantry and light ship units, as well as supply ships and shore personnel. Its number and size depend on the strength of the navy and the needs of the mission.

Zhao Hao hopes to equip the Gapado Marine Police Station with 20 medium-sized blacktail boats, 20 patrol speedboats, and several service boats by the end of the year. This scale has exceeded the current Coast Guard, and it can almost be called the "big brother" in Northeast Asia. Even if the southern sea lord or the Portuguese galleon comes, they can be entangled and wait for the main fleet to arrive.

In addition to Gapado Island, there will also be a Chengshansu Police Station at the garrison area, which will be responsible for protecting the security of the base and the home port, patrolling the route from Tamra to Kyushu Island, and guarding against Japanese pirates coming from the east.

This water police station is also very important. Zhao Hao plans to let Tong Zigong temporarily serve as the director and concurrently as the instructor of the garrison area.

In terms of troop deployment, Chengshan Water Police Station focuses more on coastal defense forces, and its maritime forces are not as strong as those of Gapa Island, but it will be equipped with two artillery squadrons and a patrol battalion to protect the large garrison base.

The third Marine Police Station will be located on the west island of Oki Island, which is closest to Iwami Ginzan, but since it is impossible to get the Ginzan in a short time, it is only necessary to build a forward base on the island to provide supply support for the transit fleet. Therefore, it will temporarily appear as the Oki Police Station of the Shiroyama Marine Police Station.

When the time is ripe for the "Strategy for Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine", it will not be too late to upgrade it to a Marine Police Bureau.

The fourth marine police station was located on Sado Island. Its mission was naturally to control the entire island, protect gold mining, guard against enemy attacks from the shore, and provide supply guarantees for the passing fleet.

Although the Sado Water Police Station is very important, it can only be opened after the garrison area dispatches its main fleet to complete the Sado Island attack and occupy the entire territory. Zhao Hao allowed Jin Ke to wait until next year if he was too busy.

The Fifth Marine Police Station is located on a small island at the western exit of the Tsugaru Strait... Well, the name of this island is Xiaodao, but Mr. Zhao thought it was too strange, so he changed it to the "Zhenyuan Island" with special significance.

The mission of the Zhenyuan Water Police Station was naturally to control the Tsugaru Strait, help the Ainu people fight against Japanese invaders, and provide supply guarantees for the transit fleet.

Although Zhenyuan Island is located at the northernmost part of the garrison area, it is an uninhabited desert island, so construction work can be started before Sado Island.

Obviously, the main tasks of the five water police stations are defensive. The real deterrence and combat effectiveness of the Tamra Garrison still depends on Wang Rulong's directly affiliated Coast Guard Corps.

Zhao Hao plans to equip the Coast Guard Corps with ten large Wuwei ships, twenty thousand-ton Dafu ships, forty medium-sized Wuwei ships, and fifty supporting ships of various types within two years - this is almost the level that can compete with the sea masters of Fujian and Guangdong.

In addition, it will be equipped with a marine brigade of 1,000 people. Once the Coast Guard Corps is formed, Zhao Hao will be able to achieve almost all of his strategic goals for Japan.

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"In total, the entire garrison area will have 30 medium-sized ships, 140 small ships, and about 200 small boats of various types in the future," Zhao Hao put down his hammer and calculated briefly. "That's enough to control the entire Northeast Asian sea surface."

The current assets are really shabby, and it is boring to classify the ships in a serious manner. Zhao Hao only generally classified the large Wuwei ship and the thousand-ton Dafu ship as medium-sized ships, and the medium-sized Wuwei ship as a small ship. The ships below it are not even ships, but only boats.

Fortunately, there are no decent opponents in the waters of Northeast Asia, so this little strength is enough to sweep across the ocean.

Jin Ke was sweating when he heard this. He also calculated that with so many ships provided by the young master, it would take at least 20,000 sailors and police officers to keep them running normally.

He originally thought that with one garrison area, five marine police stations and a marine police corps, there would be only about 10,000 people at most...

But Jin Ke thought again. First of all, Japan is not weak. If you want to suppress them and take whatever you want from them, you can't do it with too few troops.

Secondly, the prince's target is the South Sea, where the sea lords and the red-haired people's fleets are not comparable to those here. So looking to the future, we must also prepare more warships and naval forces. In this way, when the main force moves south, the Tamra Garrison will not be left with only an empty shell.

"It seems that the navigation school really needs to open quickly." Jin Ke said with a wry smile, "Otherwise, we won't even have enough people to drive the boat."

"Well, on the one hand, I will ask the group to step up recruitment in the country. On the other hand, we should also look at things more broadly." Zhao Hao stood up and said with a smile: "We can also recruit people from the Joseon Dynasty. I think the 40,000 official slaves and exiles on Jeonra Island are very good soldiers."

"Those low-class people of the Li Dynasty?" Jinke Wang Rulong was stunned.

"What do you mean by lowly people and noble people? Aren't they all just two eyes, one mouth, a pair of hands and two legs?" Zhao Hao said calmly as he walked down the mountain, "Our policemen and sailors are born to fight. They can't do dirty, tiring and dangerous work all day long. Find a way to hire some strong and healthy official slaves and let them do what they want. Even if we pay them half of the wages, I believe they will be grateful."

"Of course." Wang Rulong nodded and said, "Didn't you hear what Old Pu said? The slaves and servants of the government work for them for free. Not to mention being paid, they don't even provide food. They have to find food on their own. Otherwise, where do all the sea girls come from?"

"Hmm." Zhao Hao could already smell the smell of charcoal fire and could not help but quicken his pace. "As long as they become our employees, even if they are temporary workers, our garrison will protect their basic rights. I don't believe they won't be completely loyal to us."

"That's for sure. Isn't the status of the hired workers in the Celestial Empire much higher than that of the common people in the Li Dynasty?" Jin Ke also laughed and said, "Just for this reason, they will flock to it. But they are all people without official records, so I'm afraid they can't be independent."

"It's okay, let him handle it." Zhao Hao pointed at Park Chengxing who was fanning the flames under a big maple tree in the valley.

While Park Sung-sung was preparing the barbecue, he kept his eyes on the mountain road. When he saw Zhao Hao pointing at him, he quickly waved his hand with a big smile on his face and said loudly:

"Sir, everything is ready, let's start grilling!"

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Park Sung-seong really knew how to enjoy himself. The barbecue spot he chose was in the leeward side of a valley, and the dense shade of a large maple tree blocked the scorching sun.

Zhao Hao sat comfortably on a bamboo chair covered with silk cushions. Although the mountain was not high, it was still tiring to climb. It seemed that taking a boat for too long would really make people physically weak.

Qiaoqiao brought him some iced honey water made with Jeju Island honey.

She was worried about others taking care of Zhao Hao's diet, so she came over halfway through riding her horse. She checked all the ingredients and tableware, discarded all the ingredients she thought were suspicious, and then supervised the other party to scald all the tableware with boiling water before she felt relieved.

Qiaoqiao asked the guard to fetch an ice bucket from the boat and prepare a cold drink for Zhao Hao. Zhao Hao was thirsty after chatting with King Jin and the others. He drank a mouthful of the ice honey water full of floral fragrance and felt refreshed.

He felt that he couldn't be separated from his two sisters for a moment.

Drinking the iced honey water made by Qiaoqiao and looking at the peaceful harbor sparkling with waves below the hillside, Master Zhao felt in a very good mood. His appetite, which had been ruined by the voyage, finally recovered.

On the dining table covered with a white tablecloth, there were more than a dozen plates of various kinds of kimchi, such as cabbage, radish, kelp shreds, tofu, bean sprouts, and dried fish, which were in line with Korean cuisine hundreds of years later.

Looking at the pork belly on the baking tray, which was already sizzling with oil, Mr. Zhao actually felt a little excited.

"Sir, thank you for waiting. The roasted pork belly is ready." Pu Chengxing put on apron sleeves and a cloth hat as requested by Qiaoqiao, and used copper tongs to pick up the golden roasted pork belly and put it on the white porcelain plate in front of Master Zhao.

"Sir, please try my cooking skills." Park Sung-seong wanted to demonstrate how to eat Joseon barbecue as if he was presenting a treasure.

But Master Zhao picked up a piece of barbecue skillfully, dipped it in some soybean sauce, paired it with cucumber strips, wrapped it in lettuce and took a bite.

"So you've eaten it before." Park Chengxing said embarrassedly.

Young Master Zhao thought that he had eaten it in his previous life.

He ate a few pieces of barbecue and felt less hungry, so he picked up the soju cup and drank it all. He frowned for a while, then relaxed his brows and said, "Well, it tastes good. You can open a Hallasan barbecue restaurant."

"Hehe, thank you for the compliment, sir! It will definitely open, it will definitely open!" Park Youshi's face was full of smiles, and suddenly his whole body felt lighter.

In fact, the Korean barbecue technique is secondary, and the main thing is the ingredients. The black pork from Jeonra Island is really good, the meat is thick but not greasy, and the more you chew it, the more delicious it becomes.

Seeing that the young master liked this, Park Chengxing was greatly encouraged and served Zhao Hao roast lamb and roast beef one after another. They were all freshly slaughtered animals, the meat was extremely delicious and the taste was naturally impeccable.

But Master Zhao was almost full, and there was no sign of the roasted pork skin he boasted about, let alone roasted beef tongue, beef bone marrow, or the like.

After hearing Mr. Zhao's question, Park Chengxing was embarrassed and glanced at Qiaoqiao. It was obvious that she regarded those things as suspicious ingredients and rejected them all.

But how could Park Chengxing dare to offend the young master's beloved personal maid again? The day before yesterday, he wanted to invite the young master to get off the boat to visit a prostitute in Chaotianpu, and Qiaoqiao almost stabbed him with a fire hook...

Lao Pu then forced an explanation: "Maybe the pig hair hasn't fallen off completely yet. I'll go check it out now."

"Forget it." Zhao Hao lost his appetite when he heard that. He waved his hand and asked him to sit down and talk.

Zhao Hao asked Qiaoqiao to get a cup for Park Chengxing, and then poured him a glass of wine himself.

Park Chengxing trembled as he held the wine glass. He was flattered but also nervous. He knew that Mr. Zhao was going to make a condition to him.