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Chapter 36 Overwatch
It was only later that Chen Mu realized what supported Bai Yuanjie's daring to implement his own reforms involving five hundred households in Qingyuanwei, because the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi was replaced last year.The name of the new governor who was replaced was well-known in the southeast at that time. Perhaps the name Qi Jiguang could never be avoided in the southeast during the late Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of Longqing period, because the current governor of Guangdong and Guangxi is also the man standing behind Qi Jiguang—in the southeast anti-Japanese war Tan Lun, who is also called "Tan Qi" together with Qi Jiguang.

Wherever Tan Lun was, Qi Jiguang led the Qi family army.

Now that Tan Lun is the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, it means that Qi Jiguang, a well-known hero in later generations, is also here.But even if Tan Lun is here, Chen Mu still thinks that it is risky for Bai Yuanjie to block the military affairs of Qianhusuo at this time.Because this year, the Ministry of Industry and Engineering recommended to Wu Shilai that Tan Lun, Yu Dayou, and Qi Jiguang transfer to the soldiers of Jizhen in the north. Who will take shelter?

What's more, Chen Mu knew that Qi Jiguang would indeed lead troops north to Ji Town for training in the near future.

The new General Banner, Chen Mu, really wanted to find an opportunity to see General Qi's demeanor, but...he had a bad debt to settle.

The general banner has no yamen, and Bai Yuanjie has no plan to build another [-]-household yamen on the ruins of the Qingcheng Qianhusuo that was burned by the Japanese pirates, because the [-]-household yamen above Chen Mu's head will never take office, and the [-]-household yamen to which Chen Zongqi belongs Only his general banner and his military households, no one else.

It means that although he is called General Banner, his real power is exactly the same as Bai Yuanjie from the previous hundred households.

This is the reason why Bai Yuanjie asked his banner army to cultivate fifty hectares of land, and there were no more than [-] hectares in the hundred households.

It doesn't matter if there is no yamen. After the beginning of spring, Anyuan Post Station has been busy for a while, but in just half a month, Lianzhou handed over documents and transported them almost, so Chen Zongqi did not regard himself as an outsider. The next piece of land will be used as the 'Zongqi Yamen' where he lives temporarily.

It's not really like Bai Yuanjie said that he is greedy for enjoyment and likes to eat and live for free.This kind of thing is far from being called "enjoyment" in the eyes of the soul after 400 years, and he gave money.The reason why I live here temporarily is that not far from the big rock cave discovered by Shao Tingda seven miles away, in the forest, the military households under Mr. Chen's banner are cutting wood to build houses and build their own village. Before this is completed, Chen Mu needs a place to come. To sort things out, Anyuan Station is the best choice.

Ever since the story with Bai Yuanjie at Qianhu Office in Qingcheng, Chen Mu always had a headache.

"Put down the washbasin, I'll wash my face myself!" Wei Balang, who had a pole in his back to recognize the flag, was ordered to put down the copper washbasin and stood beside him with the front handle of the Japanese sword slanted in his waist, like a loyal little guard. , but Chen Mu pinched his face and pulled him to him, and said helplessly with a straight face: "Wei Xiaogui, you are Xiaoqi now, do you know that, if you serve Chen like this, you will be laughed at?" , how can you command the ten military households under your banner?"

Wei Balang's promotion to Xiaoqi was probably the most troublesome thing for Chen Mu recently.

Chen Mu never thought that Bai Yuanjie wanted to implement military household reform in Qingyuanwei, and even if he knew that he had no say in this matter, Bai Yuanjie really affected him.Bai Yuanjie reported the feats of beheading the Japanese pirates honestly, and did not wipe out Chen Mu Xiaoqi's merits. Of course, Chen Mu was grateful to Bai Yuanjie, but the problem was that besides his own first-level merits, how many were more than his promotion to the general flag? Some of them were exchanged for silver, and all the achievements under his command were promoted by Bai Yuanjie.

As a result, all those under his command who have the first rank of Japanese pirates are promoted to Xiaoqi.

Shao Tingda will not talk about it, if Chen Mu has a choice, he will definitely be promoted to Xiaoqi, which is exactly what Chen Mu wants; Shi Qi and Fu Yuan are a little bit off, but they are loyal enough to him, no matter whether it is a dog-headed military adviser or a chicken-crowding dog thief , can barely be called some 'talent', and can help manage dilapidated military households.

What's going on with Wei Balang, Xiaoqi, who just turned fourteen?That's right, Kohachiro got a head and stabbed to death a real Japanese who was kneeling and begging for mercy with a Japanese gun, but this stupid boy couldn't control the ten old fried dough sticks under his command at all!
Don't look at Xiao Hachiro standing majestically with a Japanese sword, but in front of his bannermen, after all, he is a child whose age and mind are no more than 14 years old, and he has been played around by those bannermen!
Hmm... Now those ten bannermen are following Yu Ding to build a house. Under the order of Chen Zongqi, all the hard work such as carrying logs and smashing wooden piles is left to them, and the small banner Lou Qimai is specially sent Overseer.

Lou Qimai is the only one of the five small banners under Chen Mu who was not his own before. He also won a head in the war against the Japanese, or he won the same head with five people, but Bai Yuanjie He looked down on the military household who won the first rank with him, so he gave him the credit, and now he is promoted to Xiaoqi.

He was one of the six gunners who were assigned to Chen Mu by Bai Yuanjie in the previous battle. The others retreated and panicked before the battle, and he was the only one who squatted on the spot and fired the gun. winter.

Although he escaped a life from the blast, Lou Qimai's face was ruined, half of his nose was sliced ​​off by a piece of iron, and several hideous scars were pierced on his face.Because of this, his efficiency in supervising work is better than that of the reckless Shao Tingda!As long as he appeared on the construction site, Yu Ding's movements around him would be swift without saying a word.

In the field outside the post station, there will be a sound of firing guns every few moments. It is the new Xiaoqi Shi Qi and Chen Mu's ten gunners and bannermen who are practicing, and the sound of crisp or dull bird guns can be heard endlessly. , now Chen Mu has fourteen bird guns under his command.

In addition to the earliest Japanese gun and bird gun that belonged to Chen Mu, the military craftsman Guan's father and son repaired the earliest Japanese gun in winter to make a new gun bed.Later, after more than a month of use, Chen Mu and Chen Mu privately purchased forty catties of Fujian wool iron from the guard to punch out a gun barrel, and drilled out a smooth, flat and straight bore.

Later, Bai Yuanjie found out about the second homemade blunderbuss as soon as the barrel was finished and the barrel hadn't started drilling.Deputy Bai Qianhu made a generous move, and directly gave Chen Mu ten blunderbuss and three barrels of gunpowder and lead pellets of nearly a hundred catties from Qianhu Office in Qingcheng for him to practice.But everything has a price. Last autumn, Bai Yuanjie tasted the sweetness of Chen Mu's long scythe and rice bed, and asked him to exchange it with the farm tools needed for spring planting. There were no farm tools and no bird guns.

For this reason, Chen Zongqi could only think hard, and summoned his father and son of the Guan family and several old farmers to study for five days, and then he managed to make a hand-cranked wooden cart to scatter rice seeds. Although the efficiency of wooden stamps may not be comparable to the most advanced agricultural tools in the Ming Dynasty, they are undoubtedly the best in Qingyuan.Seeing that Lin Chungeng was just over a month away, the Guan family, father and son, were all busy working on this big object. After finishing a borrowed buffalo and tried it, they hurriedly sent it to Bai Yuanjie along with the blueprint, and then rushed to the No. Erjia—spring plowing is coming, and Mr. Chen himself still has [-] mu of land to sow.

Can't wait for this.

Chen Mu took Wei Balang to inspect the construction site for a while, and then heard someone riding a post horse to report that Shao Tingda had returned, so Chen Zongqi hurriedly pulled down the rider and got on the horse by himself, and galloped along the ridge road in the field towards Anyuan Post. , Kohachiro ran behind and couldn't catch up!
As soon as he entered the post house, he heard Shao Tingda complaining nervously, "Brother Mu! Don't let me go if you have such a valuable thing. You dare not sleep on the road for a long time, for fear of being spoiled by thieves! You said why you bought this thing, if you can’t eat or use it, I’ll give it to you baby.”

With that said, Shao Tingda took out a small cloth package from his bosom, and Chen Mu quickly and carefully took it, opening it with eyes full of light!

(End of this chapter)