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Chapter 44
To make a small object to give as a gift and spend all his money, what else can Bai Yuanjie say other than courageous.

Bai Yuanjie is very clear about how much money Chen Mu has. After all, the source of Chen Mu's money is the reward for fighting with him. Hei Ling got 20 taels, and Qingyuan got 120 taels. Guangcheng spent 140 yuan, and the 20 taels were used to buy crystal chips, so the remaining 120 taels may be only 60 taels.

No wonder the newly promoted General Banner didn't buy a house in Qingyuan City, but asked Jun Yu to build a wooden house in the forest of the territory... He was reluctant.

Fortunately, money was not a big problem for Bai Yuanjie, so he went to Guangzhou Mansion to visit the idle Yu Dayou with a wooden box containing a telescope, and then brought back several crystal chips for Guan Yuangu to polish into mirrors, and then looked for opportunities to present them. To Tan Lun.

Bai Yuanjie, who returned to Qingcheng, kept talking to Chen Mu about luck. Yu Dayou was famous for his incorruptibility. If it weren't for the military utility of the telescope, it would be impossible to send him this thing successfully.

In addition, Bai Yuanjie also brought back a piece of news that he should study and shoot arrows like a traditional warrior.

If you want to get ahead in this year, you must either make meritorious deeds or have a reputation.Merit determines whether the position can be promoted, and fame determines the difficulty of promotion.To be honest, it's not that Chen Mu has never thought about taking the martial arts or writing exams, but he feels that even if he takes the exams, he may not be able to pass the exams.

400 years later, the soul who has come here, playing tricks and making some small inventions, and finding a few thighs to hold them, it is not difficult.But you want him to take the martial arts and liberal arts exams?This is too difficult.

Needless to say, the difficulty of liberal arts, martial arts...Chen Mu only needs to think of those antiques in the past, like some martial arts champions who use weightlifting swords to beat their strength, and feel daunted.

Chen Mu expressed his concerns about martial arts to Bai Yuanjie, but he didn't expect to make Deputy Bai Qianhu laugh like a joke, "What are you talking about, martial arts doesn't test bravery, and you don't need to fight. The key test is the theory of military tactics, if you have a flexible mind, it is no problem to read some of the most important theories in military books, but it is about bow and horse—martial arts does not test gun skills, you have to practice archery."

"Don't you need to raise a big knife?"

"What a big knife!"

"Don't use the dancing stone lock?"

"Dance what stone lock!"

Chen Mu smiled, he wanted to try, "Then, Qianhu, what are the requirements for archery and bow horse?"

"If you shoot ten arrows on horseback, you will pass four, so the more the better; if you shoot ten arrows on foot, you will pass the four, so the more the better." Bai Yuanjie tapped on the table, and said: "The key is the theory. The chief officer has the final say, do you understand what that means?"

Riding, archery and foot shooting made four out of ten count as qualified?
In Chen Mu's opinion, this shouldn't be too simple!He can hit eight out of ten shots in sixty steps with a birdcage!
"Hehehe, it would be great to be able to come back from the martial arts examination!"

Bai Yuanjie looked at Chen Mu with a smirk, and lost the idea of ​​continuing the conversation. She told him everything she wanted to say, patted him on the shoulder before leaving, and left a sentence, "Good people can't be officials, and bad people can't be officials. Think about it."

Chen Mu didn't take it to heart, his mind was full of martial arts, and he wished he could immediately practice his excellent archery skills, and test him as a martial arts master or even a martial arts scholar!
But... Mr. Chen Jun fell two bows on the first day of practicing riding and archery.

"This shit can't shoot at all!"

At a distance of 25 steps, Chen Mu shot [-] arrows out of a quiver, and his wrists and fingers were so tired that they cramped, let alone these trivial things.Gong Xianbeng had two blood blisters on his arm, fell off the horse once when drawing the bow, only aimed at riding the horse, jumped into the river, and hit the pigsty once each, but the hit rate remained at a miserable level... It doesn't exist, where is it? What hit rate, he didn't hit a single arrow.

Martial arts exam?
There is a dead end in the martial arts exam, okay?
To be honest, this is quite a blow to enthusiasm, but Chen Mu has nothing to be discouraged. After all, he also knows that practicing bows and arrows is not an easy task. Can be a good archer?
It is said that there is no time in the mountains, and Qingyuan Guard is relatively closed. It usually takes a few days for the outside news to come in, and the people inside will not go out if they have nothing to do. It seems that there is nothing new in Qingyuan after the Japanese pirates retreated.

Chen Mu rested for two days to heal his arms. After that, he was busy practicing archery and horse for more than half a month. In his free time, he played with the bird gun team. Apart from these, the only thing left to do was to read military books.However, the most difficult thing to enter the country is not bowing horses but reading military books, because his cultural level is still at the level where he needs to go to Shi Qi for advice with a book in his hand.

It was only after he became the general banner that he realized more deeply why the military system of the guard under the Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang gradually collapsed, because the cultivation of military fields was very easy for a full number of military households.Chen Mu, who has fifty regular men and more than 200 men under his command, never went to work in the field at all!

More than 200 military surpluses are enough, and this is still the case where there are only farm tools and a large buffalo borrowed from the post house.

In this situation, not to mention the rough officers in the guards who didn't know anything about it, even Chen Mu wanted to find something to do for the flag army under his command, because people can't be too idle, and grass grows in their hearts.

Fortunately, Chen Mu knows what he will face in the future. As the only armed force in his hands, Chen Zongqi gritted his teeth and urged them to practice. There is nothing to say about the routine skills practiced by Xiaoqi under his command. There is only one strict requirement. ; Every three days, one day will be set aside for Chen Zongqi to personally practice the queue, for nothing else but to train these idle military households to obey orders.

At the same time, this is also to make it easier for him to deploy troops in the future after he understands some military strategies of this era.

In a blink of an eye, half of the spring is over, and it is almost time to transplant the seedlings. The seedlings in the seedling field have grown to two inches, and it is really beautiful to look at the greenery from a distance.The caves in Kinki, Anyuan Station, are already hard to boil out saltpeter. In the past six months, seven or eight laborers have worked together to boil out nearly two thousand catties of saltpeter.

It's not that Chen Mu doesn't want to continue to boil. Boiling saltwater is a lot of physical work. Old man Zheng is exhausted and sick, and the other Yu Ding can't bear it either, so they have to rest for a month.

The left and right nitrate holes couldn't produce anything, so Chen Mu simply asked Yu Ding to go home to rest, and ordered them to take all the nitrate to the newly built small warehouse in the Zongqi Yamen for storage.But those two Japanese pirates made him a little sad. It took three or four months for their hair to grow four inches long. Fortunately, men in the Ming Dynasty wore hats or net scarves, and they wore big hats after Chen Mu brought them net scarves. Afterwards, it didn't look too weird.

Chen Mu felt that it was time to give these two pirates military status.

However, Fu Yuan, who came back from the Qianhu Yamen with the military status of the two men, brought back another unusual news. Bai Yuanjie once mentioned to Chen Mu that Li Yayuan, who caused chaos in Shaozhou Prefecture, had become an unstoppable trend, and tens of thousands of people gathered to attack him. Heyuan and Wengyuan counties.

"Bai Qianhu asked the humble official to tell the general flag that he is going to go on an expedition. Governor Wu Guifang conscripted [-] troops. The order has been sent to Qingyuan, and the expedition will begin immediately!"

Note: The reform of martial arts in the Ming Dynasty will not be completed until the end of Wanli. At that time, the martial arts will become more complete. Skill tests such as guns, knives, halberds, fists, and stabs will be added. There will also be camps, landmines, gunpowder, and chariots. And other projects, the theory has also become a test of the art of war, astronomy, geography and so on.

However, although this reform was approved by the emperor, it was not fully implemented.

(End of this chapter)