open sea

Chapter 421 Set sail
In fact, talking about these matters between Chen Mu and Gao Gong is not decisive. Gao Gong has no power in his hands now. Chen Mu said these things only in the hope that Gao Gong can use his wisdom to help Chen Mu correct his not-so-correct thinking.

Change it if you have it, and encourage it if you don't.

In terms of talent, Daming has countless virtuous ministers, but Chen Mu thinks that when all of them are sent together, Gao Gong can squeeze into the top three.

Gao Gong may be a little narrow-minded, he is arrogant and willing to love and hate, lacks the bearing of a virtuous minister, and lacks the mind to set an example for all officials, which also lays a hidden danger for him to dismiss his prime minister.But it can be said that he has a personality problem, and he is not bad at all in terms of talent.

The central purpose of Zhang Juzheng's six affairs is the same as that of Gao Gong's Chen Bashi. Even Zhang Juzheng's subsequent series of reforms are actually a continuation of Gao Gong's thinking, which is the result of the cooperation between the two of them.

The only difference is that when Zhang Juzheng was alive, no one could object to him doing these things.

It would be different if the arch was high.

Chen Mu is worried!
How could Lin Ahfeng hit the wrong person?
The well-endowed Majapahit country is there, and there is only Bali, which is less than half the size of Mindoro, with thousands of troops stationed in it. How simple is it, huh?

How could Lin Feng fight with Java next door?

What a mess!
"Lin Feng asked me to send someone to take over Bali and deliver some food to him. He said that he won three battles there, occupied two islands including Bali, and attacked a place called Surabaya. The local leader surrendered. He promised to help Surabaya The leader attacked other leaders, and there were many Han people who followed him, and there was not enough food and grass."

Chen Mu was quite helpless. He really didn't want to let Lin Feng go there to open up territory. It would be fine if he wanted to change the country. He sent someone to make peace and resolve the misunderstanding. When the four sides are at war.

But the key point is that the country of Java has never been a unified dynasty. The local population is large, with no fewer than one million households, and it is divided into hundreds of tribes, fighting each other. The situation is extremely chaotic.

By relying on trade alone, they can get everything they want, and there is no need to use stupid methods such as war to contact them.

Now he just wants to make peace, with whom to make peace?

Chen Mu discovered that in this era, the Minguang Lin clan's fighting power overseas is in a mess. The military chaos in Guam made the fleet land on Lin Manjue, who was in a hurry.

These three people are not related to each other, but they are more fierce than the other when they go to war overseas.

"Master, this may not be a bad thing."

"Boss Lin wants food and grass." Xu Wei didn't think so much about it as Chen Mu did. He looked at the map and found Surabaya in the northeast corner of the big island, then raised his head and said to Chen Mu: "Then the general will transport the food and grass, and you can also write to him. Don’t help a country achieve success, assign cronies to support the various ministries on the island in series, let the countries on the island open up territories, but the largest area does not exceed a county, and instigate the countries to fight on their own.”

As he said that, Xu Wei raised his hand to order some tea, and said: "You can also ask the vassal king of the court to seal the country and divide it."

Chen Mu had already told Xu Wei about the idea of ​​inviting the vassal king to go to sea to become a vassal. His staff all agreed. Without a local governance foundation, it is basically impossible to govern with bureaucrats. If you want to govern a huge country, you need to divide it .

The most reliable person in enfeoffment, the most loyal is of course the Ming clan, not to mention that they spend rations in the middle school, it is better to get them out.

Xu Wei smiled and said, "One Java is enough to divide hundreds of clans."

The clan has a lot of disadvantages. More than [-] clans have to receive a salary of [-] stones a year at least, which is actually only a small number.The Chinese people are more reasonable, the world was brought down by the clan ancestors with their heads up, and it is understandable that people are born with good treatment.

The key is that the clan is not satisfied with this. Those who enclose land in Zhuangtian make the people have no land to cultivate, and those who collude with the emperor and merchants monopolize the salt law.

Even though there are only a small number of criminals, the government and the central government are all aware of this problem, but they have no better solution except to treat the symptoms rather than the root cause.

In the end, it caught up with public grievances and internal and external troubles. Once the king rebelled against the king and entered the city, the streets were full of princes and princes, and almost no princes from all over the world could survive.

"They will come here sooner or later. Only the chief minister of the court can do this."

Chen Mu nodded heavily, this matter may only be done by Zhang Juzheng.

"Isn't it possible for Lin Daoqian to build his own small shark boats? Get twenty or thirty small shark boats from him. There should be no shortage of knives, spears, bows and crossbows on Lin Feng's side. A thousand matchlocks from the Guangdong Dusi Banner Army For bird guns, let the Nanyang Military Bureau supply Guangdong with [-] flintlock guns."

The exchange of flintlock guns for matchlock guns was slow. In the past two or three years, most of the battalions of the Guangdong Banner Army alone still used matchlock guns, but this was indeed not something that could be done overnight.

He served as the commander of the Nanyang Guard, and the guard was full of matchlock guns. It was already the best guard for firearms in Guangdong, and there were even a large number of old-style fire guns in other places.Nowadays, most guards in Nanyang, Qingyuan, and Guangzhou are equipped with flintlock guns, but the rest of the guards have just replaced them with matchlock guns.

Asking the Banner Army to exchange matchlocks for firecrackers is very motivated. After all, the increase in range and power is obvious at a glance.

But it is more difficult for the commanders of the guards to use flints for matchlocks. The range and power are not directly improved. The speed of fire is only a little faster, and there is also the risk of a small number of bird guns not firing occasionally when shooting. They are not so happy.

Unless a death order is given, the progress of installing flintlocks is very slow.

Only generals who have actually used flintlocks to fight the enemy in front of the battle hope to use flintlocks... Daming's fighting method with birdcracks is nothing more than Lin Manjue's. Bursting rounds of shooting, he insisted on firing the gun.

The biggest advantage of the flintlock is not in the rate of fire, but in the fact that it can save the sergeants who are prone to mistakes before the battle from the risk of not being able to connect to the match again and again due to shaking hands.

It doesn't matter if you don't get angry, just hit the faucet on the board again.

When Xu Wei said this, Chen Mu also thought about it, so he let Lin Feng go to trouble him. He asked Zhao Shizhen to embellish the letter, and said, "Tell Chief Lin that Chen will give him some food, grass, and bird guns to support him, but this is not the case. The war in Ming Dynasty was a local scuffle, and Chief Lin was only invited to help, and he should be divided among other countries and serve as his backing."

"In response to aid, except for the [-] bird guns given to the leader Lin and the food and grass needed by [-] sergeants for June, the rest must be purchased by Javanese countries at a par price. The par price is the same as the price in Sulu and Borneo."

Zhao Shizhen kept the main points in mind, and looked up when he heard Chen Mu's cheap price. He knew Chen Mu's "cheap price". many.

"In addition, as the war progresses, the island's gold, silver, copper, iron, pearls, spices, and spices are found, and local needs such as cotton and silk are also found out. The merchant ships are about to set sail."

(End of this chapter)