open sea

Chapter 359 Three Guardians
Soon, Chen Mu saw another side of Hai Rui.

The [-]-year-old old man arrived in Luzon on the third day and asked Zhao Shizhen for his official uniform in Luzon. His mobility was stronger than that of a young man like Zhao Shizhen. In just a few days, he took two small flags to Hong Kong , All the way to investigate the people's sentiments, his final destination is Chen Lai Island, where he will take a boat and bring back all the information in the northwest of Luzon Island.

Full of energy.

Zhao Shizhen followed at first, and when Hai Rui set off from Panshilan City to Chenlai Island, he came back by himself, confused with doubts about life.

"Duke Ming, student... is that stupid?"

During the few days they left, Chen Mu even slacked off on military affairs, leaving it all to his cronies to train soldiers and prepare for bandits, and to rest and reorganize ships. He was busy with his wife, Ru Madam.

Shopkeeper Xiaoyan came with potatoes, and the sweet potatoes stayed at Chen's house in Nanyang Port to serve his wife.

Chen Mu's original intention was to bring both of them here, but Yang Qingluan wrote to say that Chen's house needs someone to take care of it. She and the shopkeeper Xiaoyan came over for half a year and took turns serving Master Chen's daily life.

"What do you do when you buy a field and land? You can sell it later. No, let's keep a few hundred acres."

Zhao Shizhen came back just in time for Chen Mu to ask the shopkeeper about the changes in the family. There were no major changes, but there were a lot of small changes.What concerned him the most was that Yang Qingluan had bought two thousand acres of fertile land for him in Nanyang Port.

Chen Mu felt that the land was useless, and it was easy to be impeached. He wanted to sell all the land, but he planned to keep a few hundred mu when he got the word out.

"Leave a thought for others, don't make it seem like we have abandoned our country and family."

"It's not that Madam is busy buying land, people in Guangcheng are busy working, and the land is going to be deserted."

Chen Mu nodded. This was as he expected. Seeing Zhao Shizhen enter the hall in a daze, like sleepwalking, he waved to the shopkeeper Xiaoyan and said, "You rest first, there is a hot spring on this mountain, and you can take it with you later." You go to play—Chang Ji, what are you looking for, Master Hai beat you?"

"Ming Gong, student, are you really stupid?"

"Sit and sit, what happened to you, potatoes come to serve tea." Chen Mu was very surprised, looking at Zhao Shizhen who was out of his mind and asked: "Didn't you go to Ban Shilan with Master Hai, why did you come back by yourself?" ?”

Zhao Shizhen seemed to have just come back to his senses at this time, shook his head and said: "In my next life, I have never received so much reprimand."

"Because the land was less than seven acres, Mr. Hai was able to re-measure the land of the entire county, and the flag army was miserable. In the end, there were more than 700 acres." Zhao Shizhen was hit hard these days, pitifully Looking at Chen Mu, he said, "When I passed by the tribe, I decided things for the people. Mr. Hai said that I was unfair. I settled more than 70 cases that satisfied the people a day. Later, I simply opened a hot trial in the wilderness."

Chen Mu asked, "How?"

"Let the tribe that broke the matter first spread the news, and call the people of the seven or eight neighboring tribes who have something to say, and break things up one by one, alas."

Zhao Shizhen sighed and said to Chen Mu: "Duke Ming, I'm afraid I really don't have the talent and learning to be an official and benefit one side. I'd better come back and see what good things you can do around you."

Chen Mu got up from the chair, walked two steps, looked at Zhao Shizhen and said with a smile: "Hai Gangfeng is 60 years old, although he has never been to an imperial school or a Jinshi, but he has been an official for most of his life, how can you compare? "

"Cleaning up land and acres, leveling taxes, punishing corrupt officials, settling unjust, false and wrong cases, pleasing the people, attacking local tyrants, dredging rivers, and building water conservancy, there are few people in the world who are worse than Haigangfeng. He, this is a very normal thing. Letting him govern Luzon is an overkill in itself, and he was transferred from Yingtian when he was the governor, not because he did not do well in government affairs, but because he offended all the superiors and subordinates."

"In Luzon, he doesn't have superiors and subordinates, it's all because of his arbitrary actions. I believe Luzon has him to make the officials clear. As for you, help me escort the boat." Chen Mu flipped through his notebook and glanced twice. , said: "In a few days, there will be a lot of baggage from Nanyangwei to the tortoise port, you go to check and accept, and then distribute the baggage that Balang needs, and the rest will be transported to Macheng."

This batch of supplies was specially extracted by Chen Zhi from the Xuanfu Armament Bureau in the north and the Nanyang Guard Armament Bureau in the south. It is almost the same as the Chen and Qi two armaments. Regardless of long knives, boring handles, bird guns, and artillery, Hachiro has all of them. It can be said that it has a great appetite when equipped with it.

Of course, his arrangement of blunderbuss and artillery was not like that of Chen Mu. The blunderbuss soldiers under his command had been arguing for more than half of them to march, while the blunderbusses that Chen Zhi called up accounted for only a quarter of the ordnance.Considering that the damage rate of bird guns is lower than that of other ordnance, his gun soldiers accounted for roughly one-third of the number of flag troops under his command.

It has been several months since Luzon set up a new guard post for military training, and when the armaments are ready, they should be able to catch up with the big battle next year.

"After the Luzon Zuowei has selected the ordnance, the allocated supplies will be sent to Macheng. He brought Shen Lian. He has learned a lot from Qi Shuai, and now he has experience in the Zuowei. Let him set up the Luzon Zhongwei in Macheng and practice. Banner Army, Luzon wants to set up three guards. As for the right guard, set it up in Mindoro and let Shao Tingda go."

Only the three guards on Luzon Island can prepare basic supplementary troops. In this way, after the training is completed in the coming year, the strength of the Nanyang Army can reach a little over [-], which is enough to deal with most situations in the east, west and south in the future.

Zhao Shizhen still likes to do these things, especially dealing with munitions. He is interested in this himself. Even if he just came back from Panshilan City, he immediately cupped his hands and said: "I know, let's go prepare the ship and set off."

Chen Mu nodded, and added: "By the way, Nanyang Port may bring over a dozen craftsmen this time, and the Luzon Arms Bureau will be established here at that time. You are most concerned about this, and you will take care of it when you come back. Choose the right one. A hidden location, a place where it is convenient to transport materials and use water power."

"The guns still have to be made in Nanyang. The main purpose here is to make firearms such as guns and arrows, as well as swords and spears and armor, so as to share some of the burden of the luggage and make the three guards self-sufficient." Chen Mu said with emotion, shaking his head and said: "At first, I wanted to get the Portuguese to transport more Burmese iron, but a few days ago, Guan Jiang wrote to say that there are always people selling good iron from them to pretend to be Burmese iron. After searching, I found that it was actually produced in Qiongzhou."

"There are copper and iron mines dug by the common people. After several investigations, not only a large amount of iron and copper, but also gold and silver ores are found. The scope is very large. There may be no shortage of iron for a long time in the future."

"A reward has been issued to the merchants to search for the big island in the south. After they enrich the sea chart, some of your artisans will be dispatched to the big island to explore all the raw materials and minerals on the island. Let me tell you this first, then you go Bar."

After Zhao Shizhen left, Chen Mu called the family soldiers and said, "Go to Ban Nai Island and ask Lin Feng and Qi Zhengyan to come back."

Looking back, Chen Mu looked at the island country in the east on the huge map in the hall.

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)