open sea

Chapter 692 Fishing
Fu Yuan still understood Chen Mu.

On the endless sea, hordes of warships sailed eastward.

The temperature changed rapidly, and orders from the Great Wall at sea were issued to each ship, ordering the officers of each ship to replace the lookouts on the mast every half an hour.

The temperature in the cabin is not too high, and Chen Mu is probably the best one. Although the flagship command room also has a fireplace made of refractory bricks, the sailor room is too big, not to mention that the flag army has to take on the duty of the ship. Fleet commanders are the happiest.

Fortunately, they are well stocked with food and heating to deal with the cold.

This has greatly improved the work efficiency of the staff on the ship. In order to keep warm, they all like to get into Chen Mu's cabin, and entering Chen Mu's cabin means entering the working state.

"The Dongyang Military Government is a local department with three powers of finance, government, and military. In order to fully control everything in Asia, five divisions under the Eastern Ocean were established according to the needs of the Military Government. My staff, the pro-army regiment."

"The Department of Military Affairs has two bureaus under it. The Bureau of Staff has two Chiefs of Staff, two Zhengci, and no fixed number of staff. They are in charge of staff affairs, set rewards and punishments, and whether they can. , in charge of the private affairs of the ministers of the military mansion, and receive the salary from the fifth rank to the ninth rank."

When Chen Mu said this, no one else dared to intervene, let alone the staff bureau, Chen Mu of the Military Affairs Bureau, everyone knows that there are two people in Zhengji and eight in his entourage. .

"The Department of Military Affairs is in charge of the formation and organization of the various ministries. There is one military commander, and three bureaus of the Army, Navy, and Intelligence."

"Army Bureau is mainly concerned with peacetime and wartime organization, troop replenishment, large-scale drills, change of guard stations, road and bridge construction, military conferences, military music, school grounds, training, lecture halls, documents and statistics."

"The authority of the Navy Bureau is similar to that of the Army Bureau, including naval guns, ships, routes, and transportation."

"The intelligence bureau is responsible for scouting and monitoring, surveying, mapping, and reconnaissance. It collects and sorts out all the military, cultural, economic, geographical, and weather information of the tribes in Asian countries, collects and sorts out all the information on the Asian military government's own side, and evaluates and studies what has happened in this land. battle."

"The Military Department temporarily has 51 posts, with salaries from the third rank to the ninth rank."

The military department has a higher salary than the military affairs department, which is quite pertinent in the eyes of Zhao Shizhen, Xu Zhenming, Xu Wei, and Yang Tingxiang.

Yang Tingxiang nodded secretly, and did not interrupt Chen Mu. Although Chen Mu said that the Dongyang Military Mansion has finance, government, and military, Chen Mu would never reveal it in terms of personnel, let alone the entire Dongyang Military Mansion except Chen Mu. No personnel authority.

He estimated that the rest were also military-related.

What Chen Mu said later did not exceed his expectations: "The Department of Military Weapons, under which there are seven bureaus of guns, armor, artillery, warships, horse administration, miscellaneous weapons, and research. Ordnance Bureau."

"Military Medical Department, set up military doctors, veterinary schools, and manage the deployment of military doctors in the guards in the future."

"The last is the Department of Operations, which is in charge of customs, commerce, and international transportation. It has a Finance Bureau to manage customs, commercial transportation, payment of salaries, and gold and silver exchange."

"The Bureau of Commerce is in charge of mines, forest lands, hunting grounds and all business affairs in the future."

"The Baggage Bureau, shipping and dispatching of baggage, rice and grain."

"Personnel Bureau, the deployment of new recruits every year to reserve soldiers, the employment of graduates from lecture halls, and the employment of retired Beiyang soldiers, the work arrangements for disabled officers and flag soldiers who are transferred to staff and research."

After Chen Mu finished speaking, he pushed forward the official document on the table in front of him, then raised his head and asked everyone: "Do you think there is anything to add?"

When Chen Mu raised his head, several people were still lowering their heads to record. Yang Tingxiang was the first to raise his head. He looked around and said with a smile, "Don't you have anything to say? The student will add something to the commander."

Among these people, only Yang Tingxiang was born in a major in the Guangzhou Martial Arts Hall. He has more knowledge about military affairs than others. suject."

"Looking up the past battles, the Nanyang Army rarely encounters siege. Even if it needs to attack a strong city, it does not siege. It uses heavy artillery firepower to attack. This is the case in the battle of the Baigu three-eyed gun."

"My subordinates have seen many castles in Western Portugal on their return voyage. Most of them are solid stone cities, and it is difficult to attack them by force. The Beiyang Army has not trained to besiege. Once something happens, you can't expect to bombard the stone castles with artillery every time, let alone strong. Even a rock is hard to break."

"Since the Military Division is in charge of combat training, the Intelligence Bureau has so many investigative affairs, and the Armament Division still has research, why not add a siege section, the Military Division's Army and Navy Bureau trains sieges, the Intelligence Bureau trains spies, and the Armament Division studies city-breaking weapons. "

specialized!

"The siege department is very necessary."

Chen Mu and his staff all thought that what Yang Tingxiang said was necessary. They really needed such a department to increase their ability to siege the city.

"Nothing else?"

Chen Mu was persuasive, and finally said: "The military government must establish its respective duties when it arrives in Asia. Right now, the fleet should be passing through the Blackwater Mohe Islands. There is still a [-]-day voyage, and there is still time, but there are more problems that need to be solved right now."

"Where does the wealth of the Eastern Military Mansion come from, and where does the expansion of the Eastern Military Mansion start?"

As soon as Chen Mu's voice fell, Zhao Shizhen said: "The Nanyang military government has enough experience in forestry, mines and tariffs. From Majiagang to the south, next year it will gain a firm foothold. Merchants will enter Asia, explore ore in the vast land, and use silk to communicate with Spain. in exchange for silver."

Zhao Shizhen has a good understanding of Nanyang, and Yang Ting has a better understanding of Asia. He shook his head and said: "Forestry is not difficult. There are giant trees over a hundred years old everywhere in northern Asia that can be used for planning forest farms. The land is also vast enough. Even if a forest farm is only cut for five years, Based on the existing maps, there are enough to plan [-] places, which can be used for hundreds of years to obtain good materials."

"The customs can say that only minerals, the original intention of the establishment of the Eastern Military Government is to obtain silver mines in Asia, but this is already in the pocket of Spain, and besides, there is silk weaving in Mexico, and the scale is very large. What they need most is not silk, but silk. Raw silk or even spun silk."

"In Mexico, they have silk weaving factories with tens of thousands of people, just like Chen Shuai's silk weaving factory in Xiangshan, Guangzhou, but it only uses manual labor, the looms are not good, and the output quality is slightly inferior."

"Long-distance transportation costs at least one tael per catty of raw silk, and at least eight cents per catty of spun silk. Even if it is sold for two taels or two yuan, the biggest profit is still made by Westerners."

"Comparatively speaking, the sale of jewellery, porcelain and incense, musk, and metal utensils is more acceptable, and high profits can be obtained."

Do Jinshi know how to do business, or do Jinshi know everything?
Chen Mu looked at Yang Tingxiang with some surprises. At least in his opinion, Yang Tingxiang seemed to know everything. If he was more greedy for money, he might be another Yin Zhengmao, and given him ten years of growth, he would be better than Yin Zhengmao.

The goods he said were nothing special. The biggest difference was that they were all processed products. In modern terms, they had high added value, and they were high-tech industries and luxury goods in this era.

It is different from the hard work of selling raw silk and spinning silk.

"There is no rush to sell any goods. If I can get what I want, even if I send them silk and give them free money, I can make concessions."

When Chen Mu said this, Yang Tingxiang didn't react, but Zhao Shizhen and others, who had a deep understanding of his greed, showed something strange-it is impossible for Chen Erye to change his sex, how could he say the word "concession"?

And it sounds like it's happy to suffer.

"The Potosi silver mine is here, and I want to acquire a piece of land, here, this long coastline."

Chen Mu first pointed to Bolivia on the Asian map used as a tablecloth, then covered the west coast of Asia from Peru to Chile, and then clicked at the narrowest point connecting North Asia and South Asia, saying: "This coastline is to For four hundred miles, including this place, everything else can be compromised."

Yang Tingxiang's head grew big, and this literati who was born as a Jinshi had an extremely ugly expression. He reminded in a low voice: "Chen Shuai, that is all the land of Spain in Asia, except for silver mines and Mexico, you want it all?"

"And you just exchanged land with them. What do you get in exchange? The land north of Mexico has been painstakingly managed by Ma Shuai, and further east, it is all Portuguese land, and the Spaniards have nowhere to go."

"Change land? What land?"

Chen Mu took it for granted and said: "I don't want the capital of the Aztecs, the most prosperous Mexico City, do I? I don't want the Potosi silver mine, the pillar of the Spanish economy, do I? What else do I want? The army of the Celestial Dynasty came across the ocean and didn’t eat? What’s the matter with fishing on the coastline? I’ve traveled thousands of miles and he doesn’t care about the food?”

　Good morning!This chapter has a lot of descriptions, and today there are three more chapters.

　　
　
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