open sea

Chapter 69 Fishing for profit
Chen Mu's luck has always been good.

Compared with how to get the county government, the governor's office of the five armies, and the military department to give him a real official position that matches his military exploits, fighting bloody battles on the battlefield is an easy task.

Bai Yuanjie worked hard to raise the general flag from the small flag.Just like what Bai Yuanjie said, Chen Xiaoqi just slept in the Anyuan station for a whole winter, and after the hibernation ended, he became the general flag smoothly.

This time Zhang Yongshou mentioned that the three of them teamed up to rely on their military merits in suppressing thieves to take the three most important official positions in the Qianhu Office of Qingcheng, and took over the hundreds of households under their jurisdiction. Bloody thug character.

Sit and reap the profits.

The conversation between Zhang Yongshou and Bai Yuanjie, in Chen Mu's opinion, was a little tricky. At least Bai Yuanjie mentioned that Zhang Yongshou's family opened a mine in Qingyuan, a copper mine.

But there are some things he still doesn't understand, why Zhang Yongshou is only taking a mere town governor, but he wants to hand over [-]% of the copper mines to Qingcheng Qianhusuo, and he readily agrees.

If you don't understand something, you have to ask. Knowing more about things is not a bad thing.

On the third day of the garrison at the foot of the room, Chen Mu took the opportunity of leading troops to return on patrol, and expressed his doubts to Bai Yuanjie, but Bai Yuanjie couldn't stop laughing.

"Do you think what Zhang Yongshou wants is just appeasement? That's not the case." Bai Yuanjie waved his hand, poured two bowls of water, and continued after the smile subsided: "What he wants is also part of the military exploits of you and me in the future. Old Zhang’s family has two large mines in Qingyuan, one for gold and one for copper, although the copper mine is relatively large, it can only burn tens of thousands of catties of copper and soil a year.”

"Thirty percent, it will be used as a cannon in the institute, and it will be fully calculated, two thousand catties of gunmetal."

Chen Mu blinked, although it is bigger than the copper mine?

That is to say, the Zhang family also has a lot of gold mines!
In Chen Junye's view, no mine can compare to a gold mine!Isn't that a mountain of gold and silver?
"Qingyuan not only has copper mines, but also gold mines?"

"Hmph, apart from silver mines, is there anything else in Qingyuan?" Bai Yuanjie drank his saliva and put down the bowl heavily, "There are four mines in Qingcheng alone, the Iron Mountain you have been to, the Copper Mountain in the Zhang Family, the Coal Mountain in the past, and so on." There is a small jade mountain."

But as he said that, the pride in Bai Yuanjie's tone weakened, "Although there are many mines, there are no craftsmen, and they are all filtered and burned. I heard that in some places, official mines are burned with water and fire, and digging mountains to extract stones can be as profitable as clearing the city." ten times!"

Chen Mu seems to have a vague impression of the explosive method, but he doesn't understand the principle, and has only heard of it in general.Besides, he is not interested in this matter, mines, aren't mines blown up with dynamite?

Crack the earth and open mountains, and I am the only gunpowder general!
What interested Chen Mu the most was—Mr. Chen Jun rubbed his hands and revealed a face full of philistines, "Well, Qianhu, you, what mountain does your house have?"

The ancestors were all commanders, and the Bai family was later than the Zhang family. Does the family also hold some gold and silver mountains?
Chen Mu didn't have any idea of ​​exploring, he was just curious.

"My family doesn't have a mountain, what do I need a mountain for?" Bai Yuanjie looked very surprised, "It's like they worked hard digging a mountain, it's better to train soldiers and kill thieves, besides - I just ask them for it."

I just ask them for it.

Just ask them.

Yes, that's fine.

How domineering!
But domineering is good!

Chen Mudang was about to rub his hands even harder, raised his head above his head and clenched his fists apart and said, "Qianhu, the iron armor and swords of the Banner Army are near obsolete, and the iron ore is too expensive to buy. A bird gun costs four taels of silver. When we get back to Qingyuan, how about a few thousand catties of iron? This is a good saying, if a worker wants to do a good job, he must first sharpen his tools!"

Bai Yuanjie rolled his eyes, "As the saying goes, the human heart is not enough to swallow an elephant! If you pay a few thousand catties, you won't be able to use iron. Iron is different from iron. If you want to shoot birds, you must use Fujian's wool iron. Qingyuan Do you dare to use a gun made of pig iron?"

"If you really want iron, it's easy. The iron mountain where you suppressed the miners is still empty. Go dig it yourself, and count as much as you dig—that's something later. Good soldiers are trained well, look at General Qi's soldiers, there is not a penny less than what they should have."

Take this group of banner troops who have eaten their last meal and never stopped, and are rushing to fight to eat two meals a day, wearing armor with iron filings and rotten spears, and comparing them with Qi's army. Isn't this a hooligan? !

There will be no less, that is, General Qi has Hu Zongxian, Tan Lun and Zhang Juzheng's full support. What do you have in Qingyuanwei?
There is a chicken!

Chen Mu pouted, of course he didn't dare to say this to Bai Yuanjie, after all, he got some benefits from hugging, said hello to Bai Yuanjie, and went back to the army tent to sleep contentedly.

Bai Yuanjie let go of the private development right of Tieshan in Qingcheng, and the mine will be considered his Chen family's from now on.It doesn't matter how bad Qingchengtie's taste is, he has plenty of people!

To put it bluntly, the gun iron is the same thing, it can't be too hard, it needs flexibility and elasticity, so as to ensure less explosion.

He, Mr. Chen Jun, was full of ingenuity and wisdom, so he hurried back and got out the hydraulic forging hammer!

But there is a premise for this, he must be the Deputy Qianhu of Qingcheng, as Bai Yuanjie and Zhang Yongshou discussed.Otherwise, if he gets a transfer order and gets him to be the general manager in Guangzhou Mansion, then there will be no place to cry.

At least from Chen Mu's point of view, Deng Zilong's life in Guangdong was not as comfortable as that of Qingcheng General Banner.Don't look at Deng Zilong's leadership is almost ten times that of his, and the supply of military equipment and even the ration of gunpowder is higher than that of the banner army, but the general battalion has no restraint ability except for combat drills, just ordinary officers.

Banner Army is different.

The guards are not only military officers, but also the civil power of the guard. What they hold in their hands is the body and soul of the banner army of the guard. If people squat by the stream to eat, they can't sit and eat in the woods. They are whipping this generation. Even if they die, the next generation will still have to work for the guard.

In order to ensure production and service, and to fill their own pockets, the guards had to let the flag army find a delicate balance between starvation and starvation. Under this balance, a delicate stability was formed.

The stability that the Central Plains dynasty sought at the cost of delaying progress was especially evident in the collapsing Weisuo system.

Even if the guards were oppressed to such an extent, there were still only fugitives and no mutinies.

Thanks to Mr. Chen Jun, who expected at least a hundred households to be in office after the war, he was in a good mood, and the Banner Army relaxed at the foot of Shishan Mountain for a few days, but it was only a few days.

Because after five days, after discussing with Bai Yuanjie, Chen Mu and Bai Yuanjie estimated that the general officer Yu Dayou had led the army across Xinjiang, and General Yu's military strategy would definitely not lose to a rogue like Li Yayuan who ruled the land as king.

From Chen Mu and Bai Yuanjie's point of view, this meant that a small but continuous number of rebel stragglers would pass through Shishan.

Banner Army even prepared the ropes for binding people, and it seemed that everything was ready, but Chen Mu found that he only guessed the beginning correctly, but not the end.

The defeated army came in groups, with leaders, standard bearers, queues, and armored troops, who came to fight head-on with their own guards and bound people on the mountain roads!
(End of this chapter)