open sea

Chapter 127 Landing in Macau
From a private school to an academy is not a simple matter, or you have to be rich enough to be simple.

Because this is not like other academies, those students have the money to do Shuxiu, most of the banner troops in the guard do not have such conditions, and it costs a lot of money to run the school by Chen Mu himself.

But it has to be done.

The idea of ​​running an academy comes from the fact that many schools of Neo Confucianism have their own academies, but what Chen Mu wants to run is not the kind of academy that teaches Neo Confucianism, but a magically modified version of the original military science in the Weisuo.

Xiangshan Military Academy teaches Confucianism, numerology, favorable time and place, maritime affairs and military training, and some of them specialize in craftsman techniques.

It is planned on this land. Although there are only a few dilapidated wooden houses on the mountain now, and even Chen Mu's plan can only allow half of the children in the guard to study in a short period of time, Xiangshan is their cradle, Nanhai is their playground, and Fukuoka is their playground. The boat is their teaching aid.

Chen Mu will become stronger and stronger, and Xiangshan Military Academy will also become stronger and stronger, and one day they will burst out their glory in this era.

The south port of Fenghuang Mountain is facing Haojingao, which is far across the sea. Zhou Xing boarded the lucky boat here, and sailed to the opposite shore with five fast boats and thirty small boats from Xiangshan Qianhusuo.

For this landing in Macao, two deputy thousand households, seven hundred households, and nearly seven hundred banner troops were mobilized. What they would face might be the barbarian merchants who were caught without a fight, or it might be a bigger security battle than the old Anshan. There are more than four hundred sailors or pirates.

Because that is Haojing, the place where Daming transformed into an outsider.

A huge bald-headed frigate bird from the Indian Ocean was flying across the sky, and the humid sea breeze was blowing in. The air seemed to be full of thick water vapor, which made people feel sticky.

Standing on the bow of the Fuchuan ship, Chen Mu leaned on the cannon and looked into the distance. Although this was not his first time on a sea boat, the bumps of the hull still made him feel a little uncomfortable.The Banner Army's skills as sailors are still a lot worse. A lucky boat can only show [-]% of its combat power in their hands, regardless of sailing, steering or gunning.

On the contrary, those small boats can display the greatest fighting power in the hands of the Banner Army. The paddle boats are the old line of the Banner Army in the past, just like Bai Yuanjie's barbarian battalion. They grew up on the boat, Is the most suitable sailor.

It just takes time.

But what Chen Mu lacked the most was time.

Haojing in the distance is lush and green at first glance, there is no white sand, and there are long ferry trestles on the shallow gravel tidal flats. Li Dan explained from the side: "This is the ferry that connects with Xiangshan, and the port is on the other side."

This is not the endless bustling scene in Chen Mu's imagination. The flag army of the brigade creaked as they stepped across the trestle bridge, as if every step made the dust on the bridge shake off into the sea, but in fact this was absolutely impossible, because the bottom of the trestle bridge had already been covered by a piece of green ,decay.

At the end of the tidal flat, along the barely leveled loess road to the low mountains, there are many branches on both sides of the gentle slope mountain road. The mountain road is paved with the granite that is abundant in Haojingao, and the large stones are paved to the distant pass.

That was the gate set up by the officials of the Ming Dynasty in Haojing. Since it is no longer possible to control outsiders from landing on the island, it can only control the people of the Ming Dynasty not to go ashore from here to the island.

Chen Mu couldn't see whether there were troops guarding the gate, but it didn't really matter, because the Australian guard knew that Zhou Xing and Chen Mu were coming, and they had already waited before closing the gate.

There are three officials in charge of Macao, namely Titiao, Beiwa, and Xunji, all of whom belong to the deputy envoy of Guangdong Xunhai Road.

The position of deputy envoy of Haidao is sometimes served as a commissioner, and sometimes as a member of the chief secretary. He has great power in the maritime affairs of a province. The person who is also in charge in person, a name that cannot be avoided when referring to the Ming Dynasty and the Portuguese - Wang Bo.

It was precisely because the Portuguese bribed Wang Bai that they got the right to dry goods in Haojingao, and then they had to build houses, which gradually evolved into what Wu Guifang said was "according to Macao as their home for [-] years".

A few years ago, there was an incident where the Fanyi wanted to attack Guangzhou. After that, Wu Guifang wrote to the imperial court to vigorously rectify Haojing. This is how Chen Mu was promoted to Xiangshan with three first and one outstanding achievements in the battle against Li Yayuan. Thousands of households.

With the orders of the minister of the Ministry of War and the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, even if Wang Bai is the chief envoy, he still cannot control him, Lord Chen.

The seven hundred banner troops were ready to move, but Chen Mu didn't walk over to meet the three guards, and waved to Zhou Xing, "Brother Zhou, please."

After Zhou walked a few steps, he turned to Li Dan and asked, "Are you ready?"

Li Dan nodded with a smile, squinted his long and narrow eyes to look at the officials guarding Australia, pursed his slightly dry lips, and then said to Chen Mu: "Father, don't worry, I will go to find Huayu when I pass the gate, Fran The robot has a meeting square in Haojing, and his adoptive father will be there to meet him in an hour, and he can capture the barbarian merchants without using an army!"

"Everything is careful."

Chen Mu gave Li Dan a word, then raised his head again to look at the mountain fort not far away, showing displeasure, and then walked forward.

As he stepped forward, several hundred households behind him waved their command flags, and the seven hundred bannermen began to tidy up and check their armor and weapons in their hands. Each team had the bannermen next to the bird gunners lighting their torches, and the bird gunners charged the gunpowder. Plug the bullet.

As for the [-] soldiers behind Chen Mu, it was even simpler. Those who carried the guns only needed to load the ammunition, and then five people followed Chen Mu, and the rest were in front of the team.

The long-term practice has given these banner troops who have never participated in the battle a lot of energy. Let alone the strength of the battle, at least they are not weaker than any army in the Ming Dynasty in terms of rectification.

There were not only three Australian guards waiting in front of the gate, but beside them, there were several barbarians, some wearing priest robes and crosses, and some wearing red shawls over shiny plate armor.

No matter what their clothes were, when they saw the Ming army inspecting the ordnance behind Chen Mu, they all showed horrified and nervous expressions. Whether they were old warriors in plate armor or old monks, they all held the hilt of their waists and were on guard. Looking carefully at Chen Mu who was walking towards him, he yelled at the Macao guard.

This sense of uneasiness is too strong. Obviously, the ten or so entourages of the Australian guards are all wearing cloth clothes and holding bamboo spears, standing there weakly. Why are the Ming soldiers coming from the other side by boat all as strong as calves? , The queue stood even more neatly than Portuguese soldiers. There were no ridiculous things called firecrackers, but iron spearheads, and most of them wore iron armor!
And what are those people holding, matchlock guns!
Did the Ming Dynasty still have matchlock guns that would not explode?
"Father, said the yelling bearded man, it was agreed that he was only here to inspect Macau, why did they load the guns with medicine?"

With a cynical smile, Li Dan translated to Chen Mu word by word the words of the Franji men on the opposite side, especially focusing on the old warrior wearing plate armor in the middle, and said: "The one wearing the iron armor is the celebrity of the Franji man in Haojing , named Pei Leiruo, when he was young, he was the sailor of the governor's younger brother of Frangji in Manchuria. He killed people along the coast. They were the ones who fought in the Tuenmen sea battle of the imperial court. After the defeat, everyone else was killed. He spent several years in prison in Fuzhou , stayed in Haojing for more than ten years."

"Shh!"

With a smile, Chen Mu put his index finger on the mouth of the Frangbots, then tilted his head and said, "Don't be afraid, it doesn't take so many soldiers to kill them."

At this time, the middle-aged man who was dressed the most like Mr. Beiwa among the three officers guarding Macao finally plucked up the courage to go forward and asked, "Your Excellency led the troops to Macao, may I ask?"

Chen Mu cupped his fists and raised his chin slightly.

"Thousands of households in Xiangshan, Chen Mu."

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)