open sea

Chapter 4
Chen Mu hadn't figured out how to get in touch with Bai Yuanjie from hundreds of households, so Bai Yuanjie approached him. Just after the execution was over, he was beckoned to follow by Bai Yuanjie, who was dizzy and frightened.At the same time as he was leaving, from the corner of his eye, he saw Bieqi military households climbed up the high platform, dragging the dead bodies away from the ropes, and the young juniors were dragging on the ground with their broken legs, and they were talking to each other with smiling faces.

Chen Mu didn't dare to look directly, his eyes widened unconsciously, and he turned around nervously. All this happened so fast that he couldn't even react. hanged.Witnessing the execution doesn't make people too scared. What really scares him is that military households smile at the difference between others and him, which makes him feel extremely scared, because he is different and alien.

Feeling alone was the real source of his fear.In this world, in the sixteenth century A.D., there are no family members who always disturb you, no relatives who ask difficult questions, no friends who always cause trouble, and no sense of security.There are all kinds of military households around, familiar enough to call everyone by name, but too unfamiliar to dare to speak.

"Why don't you speak?"

After walking a long way behind Bai Yuanjie, Bai Hu, who was wearing a helmet and armor in front of him, suddenly turned his head and smiled sadly, "It's hard to be happy when someone is dead. It's not easy for an old cripple."

After recovering, Chen Mu realized that he had followed him to the Baihusuo, which was the gate of Bai Yuanjie's official office. After finishing speaking, Bai Yuanjie stepped across the threshold without waiting for him to reply.The Hundred Households House has been in disrepair for a long time, but it is an ordinary government office with a few wing rooms, where there are servants who serve Bai Yuanjie's daily life. Two soldiers of the Bai family at the door salute Bai Yuanjie, without even looking at Chen Xiaoqi who is following behind.

Passing through the screen wall, Bai Yuanjie directly led Chen Mu into the inner house, and ordered the congregation to sit in the first seat after serving tea. Then he casually pointed to the guest seat and said to Chen Mu, "What are you doing standing, instead of turning your head back and sitting? Lian, Yang, Huai, He, Ying, and Qing, the seven generals in military affairs, Mo Chaoyu, died without any illness. In a few days, I will go to the Guangzhou Mansion to express my condolences, and you will draw two of you to accompany me with weapons."

Chen Mu had nothing to say, he clasped his fists in response according to his memory, and said, "It's all according to Baihu's orders."

"You don't need to be so born, just call me Jingchen. The relationship between your family and my family is not those military households." Bai Yuanjie waved his hand indifferently, and when he served the tea on the table, Bai Yuanjie raised his two fingers and said: "Huguang Native high mountain tea, try it, I like to take two taels back."

After finishing speaking, Bai Yuanjie said seriously: "Your bannerman is not bad. You can know how to bludgeon and the brothers of the Shao family can use knives. You should teach that little Hachiro more. The Japanese pirates in Fujian were cleared by Generals Qi and Yu. In Guangdong, the guards have been slack for a long time, and they are unfit for a battle. The whole hundred households can't rely on us as a few banner officers, at least we need to train five... two small banners to be able to do it."

Bai Yuanjie's eyes are sharp, and he knows what's going on in the guard. Not to mention anything else, just talking about Chen Mu's small flag, there are seven people in total, but 58 of them have lost all their teeth, and the bottom is 13-year-old Wei Balang, who is less than five feet old. Apart from Chen Mu and Shao Tingda among the young and middle-aged, there is Chen Guan, who lost three fingers in the winter of the year before last. He lost his thumb and couldn't even hold a knife. Can such an army fight?
It was only now that Chen Mu understood, no wonder there was a firecracker in the room but no one else was taking it, and after a long time, he knew how to fire a firecracker, which is also a technical weapon!
The standard firecrackers in the early Ming Dynasty have been used until now. Chen Mu, who preconceived that the Ming Dynasty was full of birdcracks, never imagined that the iron pipe that looks like a gourd silk with a handle that can turn people is the main firearm of the guards. .Now when Bai Yuanjie mentioned it, he remembered that there was an iron pipe in the house and there were bullets next to it, like a firecracker fired twice.To be honest, Chen Mu was very afraid that this old object would explode into flames and turn into a thunderbolt, so he rubbed his hands and asked Bai Yuanjie: "Baihu, before going to the Guangzhou mansion, can you change the blunderbuss for your subordinates?" ?”

The fire gun is a fire door gun, which should be clamped under the ribs or used by two people. It has a low rate of fire, low range, and is difficult to aim; the bird gun is an arquebus gun, which can be operated by a single person. It is more accurate to walk and equip sights to look at the mountain, because it can aim and shoot birds in the forest so accurately that it gets its name.

The bird gun is an imported product. In the 27th year of Jiajing, the Ming army recovered Shuangyu occupied by the Japanese and Portuguese.This kind of firearm is more convenient to use than the native firecrackers, so it quickly entered the Ming army.

Chen Mu wanted to know if Qingyuanwei had a matchlock gun. If there was a matchlock gun, he would prefer to use a matchlock gun that was heavier and longer than the fire gun.

"You want to use bird guns? Yes, you can, but soil guns are easy to blow up and firemen don't want to use them. There are a few guns in the guard. When you come back, ask someone to find out if there are Japanese guns for you. Although they are not comparable Big and small Spanish guns, but after all they are better than soil guns, those idiots from the Ministry of Industry who have no descendants are just doing bastard things!"

There are many kinds of bird guns. The Western guns are Western guns, the small Western guns are Indian and British matchlock guns, the Atlantic guns are Spanish and Portuguese matchlock guns, and the fire guns mentioned by Bai Yuanjie are fire door guns. Low, but now the Ming Dynasty has been able to manufacture bird guns with similar shapes, and has developed a set of effective production techniques.But now the best firearms are equipped with the troops recruited by generals from all over the country, and only a few of the substandard products that cut corners are sent to the guards in various places. No wonder Bai Yuanjie scolded the officials of the Ministry of Industry.

But when it comes to bombing, muskets and cannons all over the world in the [-]th century were bombing. Before entering the industrial age, all ordnance was built by hand. The advantages and disadvantages are neither good nor bad. , Big brother and second brother don't laugh at anyone.

Just do it seriously or not.

What the officer hates the most is not the enemy, but the officials of the Ministry of Industry of his own court. Chen Mu curled his lips and dared not answer, so he could only ask anxiously: "Baihu, where can I get the Atlantic gun?"

"Is it possible for you to get the objects that come across the ocean? Not to mention my small hundred-household office, even the thousand-household office and commanders will not have it. The good guns allocated by the Ministry of Industry are all in Fujian Province In the general's army, the Qingyuan Guards haven't used weapons for several years, but farm tools are given every year." Bai Yuanjie laughed at himself, and raised his hand to Chen Mu as if telling a joke: "If you really want the blunderbuss, the Guangzhou government merchant Maybe there are smugglers in the city who can sell it, but they don’t have twelve or thirty taels of silver, so it’s impossible to buy it. If you have this money, it’s better to spend it at home, Japanese guns—make do with it!”

Speaking of this, Bai Yuanjie clapped his hands and said: "It doesn't matter whether you buy guns or not, but the strong men under your banner must practice well, and Bai will not ask for many. If Bai takes the lead in trouble, several people under your banner must dare to follow me Same as above. Anyone who dares to fight will be invincible in the end, and Bai will definitely save his life. But if he dares not go up, Bai will say the ugly words first, even if he escapes alive, Bai will definitely not forgive The life of those who are greedy for life and afraid of death!"

Chen Muwei nodded in response, the military households are reliable because of fear.Just like that old cripple in Qi Ding, no one will help him if he says he will die.But military households are unreliable, and Bai Yuanjie knows it well, otherwise he wouldn't have to be so stern.

Chen Mu clasped his fists in response, thinking of Shao Tingda's entrustment, he was also anxious to find out if the cave was suitable for cooking salt, and immediately asked Bai Yuanjie: "Baihu, I will go with you when you go to the battle, but Qiding has not been trained. If you can't even catch a knife and go into battle, it's free. In this round of cultivation, can my subordinate Xiaoqi be on duty in the city, so that I can practice a little bit, and the battle formation can help hundreds of households?"

Bai Yuanjie picked up the tea bowl, nodded and said, "It should be like this, practice hard, and Bai will not treat you badly."

Note: 'Stupid dick' - from Yuan Dynasty Ma Zhiyuan's "Midnight Lei Hong Jian Fu Bei"

'Hybrid'——from Jiang Nan's "Essays on Throwing Urns" in Zhengde Period of Ming Dynasty

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