open sea

Chapter 365
Before the arrival of the Seventh Year of Longqing, Xiangshan and Nanyangwei Shipyard rushed to send the Liujia battleship to Sailugong, counting the six Ding Liujia gods together.

Half of the twelve large ships were sailing in Manila Bay, and the other six were patrolling the islands with troops. They were led by Bai Yuanjie who came all the way from Nanyangwei.

As the new year approaches, Guangdong's maritime affairs are safe, because of the deployment of generals, the Nanyang Army has been on the expedition for more than half a year, but the handsome Bai Yuanjie has been watching the sea in Weigang for half a year, and he can't sit still for a long time.

Even though the battle was over, he still wanted to come over to see Chen Mu's results with his own eyes. On the one hand, it was this, and on the other hand, he brought Chen Shuai's other brother-in-law, Yang Zhaolong.

Yang Zhaolong did not come empty-handed. Under Chen Mu's order, he hired, bought, and exchanged more than 1000 skilled miners and mountain chiefs from Sichuan. They landed on Mindoro Island with kiln gods and tools, mules and horses, and took soil for prospecting.

Along with Lou Qimai and Chen Mu were [-] students who had borrowed from Lu Ting, the head of the navy lecture hall. Chen Mu deprived these students of their holidays and said that they would have an extra-curricular class lasting two and a half months. Internships', in fact free labor, to survey and map the topography of Mindoro.

Whenever Yang Zhaolong explored the mines, the students under Lou Qimai had to draw the terrain. At the same time, Chen Mu also sent more than 500 banner troops to Mindoro Island to learn these professional skills from them.

Chen Mu wants to explore the mineral deposits and forests on the Luzon Islands island by island, and draws the topographic map island by island.

As for the development, Chen Mu didn't intend to worry about it himself. He believed that when these things were sent to Zhang Juzheng's desk, the elder Ge who held the power of the empire would settle all difficulties.

However, the matter of clearing land and mu taxes was much slower than Chen Mu imagined, because it was Hai Rui who did it.

The progress of Hai Rui's Qingzhang Tianmu and registered household Qimin is much slower than that of Zhao Shizhen before, but his political achievements are ten times higher.

The Banner Army working with Hai Rui has expanded to 200 people, and nearly three 200 people have been used. For this stubborn and weird old man, Chen Mu can be said to be obedient in his professional field. Hai Gangfeng He and his men fully explained what democracy is.

Even Hai Rui disliked the Banner Army, and the Banner Army also disliked Hai Rui.

From the time when Hai Rui brought two small flags all the way northward, while Chen Mu received the progress of Tian Mu's population, he also received complaints from Hai Rui and the flag army.

Hai Rui couldn't stand the tiredness of most of the bannermen, God is sorry, if the bannermen brought up by Chen Mu were all lazy and rash, there would not be many people in this world who could catch Hai Rui's eyes.

The fact is exactly the same, and the Banner Army couldn't stand Hai Rui's harshness. Smoke rose from a mountain with no road, and several families on the mountain never went down the mountain in their entire lives, because there was no way to go down the mountain.If it was Zhao Shizhen who was doing the work, he would skip them, and at most write down the sentence 'there is smoke from cooking on the top of the mountain in such and such a place'.

Hai Rui is not like this. He asked the Banner Army to climb the mountain, and he wanted to count the population and acres of land on the mountain.

The Banner Army didn't climb because it was too difficult to climb up, and Hai Rui didn't bother with the Banner Army. The 60-year-old man took off his official uniform and climbed by himself-who wouldn't be afraid of that?

If something happens to him, will the banner army following him still survive?

As Hai Rui went farther and farther north, and the people around him were dismissed again and again, Chen Mu finally got annoyed after replenishing staff again and again, so he simply sent 700 people to Hai Rui to pick and choose, but now there are only 200 left. people.

Some were directly sent back by Hai Rui, and some fled back by themselves and cried and kowtowed outside the Nanyang yamen, saying that they would not do anything with Hai Rui anymore, even if Chen Mu came out with the military law—how could Chen Mu really treat himself like this? The old soldiers under him who were skilled in battle were slaughtered, and they were beaten with army sticks.

In this way, Hai Rui divided Luzon Island, where Chen Mu estimated that there were only 22 households, into three prefectures and 880 counties according to a rough estimate. Only north of Manila, there were more than 1 households in the Yellow Book. , set up [-] village chiefs, and elected more than [-] village elders and more food chiefs.

It's no wonder that Hai Rui's progress is slow. This old man's favorite thing is trial. Every time dozens or hundreds of miles are set up, he orders the people to be summoned for a hot trial.

There is a reason for this number. In fact, most of the time, it is carefully checked how many people there are under the local tribal leader, and then the Lijia is established according to the law of the ancestors.Immediately after that, there will be a hot trial. The first trial will be the local leader to see if he has treated the people under his rule unfairly. If he has, he will be detained and escorted to Manila.

Because of this incident, Chen Mu and Hai Rui's flag army lost dozens of staff.

That is to say, the local leaders either did not dare to fight, or the fighting power of those who dared to fight was too weak in front of the bird gun breastplate, or there were green shoots growing on the grave of Mr. Hai.

But Chen Mu was very supportive of Hai Rui's doing this. He felt that this kind of thing was too cumbersome, so he left it to Zhao Shizhen to do it at the beginning. If he did it himself, it would probably be more thorough than Hai Rui.

Overthrowing the old grassroots rule and using the lijia and village elders system, although it will lose the ability to rule the village and cause the so-called "imperial power does not come down to the county", but this is also the easiest way to divide and rule the village.

But Hai Rui is much more upright. Those tribal leaders with good reputations were all recommended to Chen Mu by Hai Rui, saying that in the future, after getting a good name and learning Chinese, they could be the county chief secretary, county magistrate, patrol inspector, etc. .

Chen Mu looked at the letter sent by Hai Rui and laughed, and said to Xu Wei: "Haigong understands what Chen means, and he cut it for others without even eight grades. Originally, Chen wanted to pick some people." To be the county magistrate."

"Both have pros and cons." Xu Wei said concisely, and it was obvious that Madman Xu also agreed with Hai Rui's approach, and said with a smile, "It's not easy for Hai Gong. He has taken risks with his own body many times, and he is worthy of the name of Gangfeng."

"In particular, Chen thinks that he doesn't blame Haigong at all for the fight. Think about it, how do the local people feel when they see them?" Chen Mu spread his hands and said, "He used to live well in the wilderness, but he suddenly came here. A man who can’t understand a word, even after climbing mountains and crossing seas, he also came here to measure the land of his home, and he also said that he would have to pay taxes to the king every year in the future.”

"This means that there is Suleiman. Otherwise, if we let people hand over the taxes to us, I am afraid that we will directly raise troops."

Speaking of this, Xu Wei regained his spirit and said, "Chen Shuai really doesn't plan to ask Suleiman to withhold taxes? Don't lie to Xu, if you ask him for taxes, Luzon Island will reignite the flames of war. What you did before is all for Luzon." Made a wedding dress."

Although Chen Mu had promised many times that he would not withhold Luzon's taxes, Xu Wei still had some disbelief in Sai Lugong's noble nature, for fear that he would force Suleiman to turn against him.

"No, no, these grain chiefs will hand over the taxes to the magistrates in the future. Some of the magistrates will be used for road construction and bridge irrigation, and some will be sent to Manila. Chen will not hold back the slightest bit. Why are they withholding it?"

Chen Mu put his fingers on the tea case, and said sincerely and profoundly: "We are doing good deeds, collecting taxes for Lu Song Qingzhang's land, if there are things that people can't use, such as ores, we can just mine them. It must be expensive, and I'm not stupid, can I grab it from others?"

"I'm just going to give some suggestions on money and food expenses." Chen Mu stretched out his hands to the distance, raised his eyebrows and closed his hands to stroke his chest, saying, "Don't care if he wants to make a rich country or a strong army."

"Chen has all the orders."

　Recommend a new book "Wu Shuang Guo Shi" by a friend of the author, the word count is still small, and the quality is good.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)