open sea

Chapter 787 Conferred God
Acosta waited for two days but did not get the terms of the contract that Chen Mu promised to send him.

Not to mention him as a Spanish monk, even the people in the village and the middle and lower ranks had not seen Chen Mu two days after the Duke of Alva's messenger arrived.

The mourning hall is still there, as is the battalion of wounded soldiers, but Chen Mu just worships and visits the wounded soldiers on time every day, and does not show up at the port at all other than that.

Acosta was very curious about the mysterious whereabouts of the commander-in-chief of the Ming army. According to his observation, Chen Mu called dozens of people into the port office that was not very spacious every day. Some people left the Yamen here and there.

But the affairs in the yamen cannot be unimportant, because there are only two things that can make these low-level officers leave, either to go to the wounded barracks or to eat, and when eating, sometimes their subordinates directly enter the yamen to deliver food, and they go to the wounded barracks After visiting his subordinates, he would return to the yamen again.

In Acosta's eyes, the officers of the Ming army were too busy drilling into the wounded barracks. Let alone seeing them, they had never heard of an army where low-level officers like the Ming army cared for the wounded soldiers.

The monk was very moved by the firm relationship between the low-level generals of the Ming army and the soldiers under them—these people ran to the wounded barracks almost every day and visited their subordinates every day. With such low-level officers, the Ming army broke out in battle. Extraordinary combat power does not seem surprising.

What Acosta didn't know was that the Beiyang Military Law had strict regulations on flag officers visiting wounded soldiers.

Banner soldiers are wounded, the principal and deputy Xiaoqi, and preaching three banner officers work in three shifts a day to accompany them day and night. Each of the above visits was not less than a moment.

As for Chen Mu, the commander-in-chief, the commander, and the officers who did not lead troops, they visited the wounded soldiers under their command once a day.

The adjutant in command of the matter will register at the wounded barracks. In addition to asking for leave from Zhao Shizhen and getting approval, he will be fined half a month for the first violation, thirty military sticks for repeated violations within three days, and demoted to one level for three violations within nine days.

The low-ranking officers of the Ming army that Acosta saw were preachers, not officers to be precise. Unless the small banner and the deputy banner were killed or unable to command during the war, they would have the right to command the remaining banner troops of the small banner. In terms of remuneration, they are paid more than Zheng Xiaoqi.

Chen Mu wants to do something big.

"As far as the army is concerned, religion is a strong medicine for military discipline and rewards and punishments. But in Beiyang, you are not allowed to believe in religion during your lifetime. You must convey this order to the army's robes on my behalf, so that they know."

Life... Can't believe in religion during life?
It sounds like the standard has been relaxed, but can you still believe it after death?
The handsome will use this to fool people!
The crowd preached that the officials were humble, and they didn't dare to open their mouths when they heard Chen Mu's obviously illogical words, but the old lunatic Xu Wei applauded: "I was born imprisoned in this body, and my soul is free after death. That's wonderful, Marshal!" !"

Chen Mu glanced at Xu Wei. Sometimes it’s good for someone who is too smart to be crazy. After all, you don’t know if he’s laughing at you or really crazy, so even if you know he’s laughing at you, you can still be calm As if he was talking crazy.

For example, Xu Wei, he knows what Chen Mu has been doing quietly these two days, and he is still drawing in the yamen with a large brush of paper. There is still a line of small characters on the unfinished painting, which Chen Mu can't read clearly.

"In the past few days, there are two main things. One is that in the past, although the preaching officer received two military salaries, if he made meritorious service and was promoted to be a banner officer, the salary did not spend as much time as the preaching. It is unfair for you to fulfill your duties, so these two days We have formulated an upwardly-rising official position. From now on, the small banner propaganda will be renamed the small banner guidance, and after meritorious service, it will be promoted directly to the general banner guidance, and then promoted to the hundred household guidance, thousand household guidance, and command instruction."

"It's not just to supplement the officers to take care of life and teach culture. From now on, you will be dedicated to the courage, will and culture of the bannermen and officers. You will let every one of my bannermen brothers who died bravely know what he is fighting for."

"It's not just about serving as a soldier, getting promoted and getting rich for yourself. The salary is used to support the family, so it is for parents, wife and children; defending the enemy overseas without being killed by pirates, it is for the father and fellow villagers; it is only natural to be trained to kill the enemy and serve the emperor. , for the Ming Dynasty to dominate the world, it is loyal to the emperor and patriotic; no one can turn a blind eye to the suffering of the colonies, and liberating them is to let everyone live in a better world."

While Chen Mu was speaking, some soldiers handed out papers for each lecturer. The printing factory in the port village is too small. At present, these papers are still manuscripts, hand-copied by Zhao Shizhen, Zou Yuanbiao and other clerks, but fortunately they all use imperial calligraphy , It is written in print, which is pretty good.

There are seven points clearly written on the paper: self, home, township, country, world, and life and death.

"Life, Chen will equip each Banner Army with the most sophisticated weapons and armor, and will lead you to beat the most vicious enemies. Let the Banner Army know that Beiyang is the top army in the world; if you die, I will not let anyone People leave a little bit of regret."

"Many of Chen's brothers died in foreign countries in this battle, and there will be more in the future. In addition to the salary, Chen will also find a home for each of the fallen brothers——Chang Ji put down the picture."

As soon as Chen Mu finished speaking, Zhao Shizhen, who was standing behind him, pulled down the wall map. It was a clear map of the New World, with all the land marked in three colors.

Chen Mu raised his hand and pointed to the Portuguese land, the West Indies, and Potosi on the east side of the south, and said, "In addition to this, this, and these three places, I plan to ask Spain in the agreement. land."

"But they won't agree to this, so it's okay to leave this, this, and this to them."

Chen Mu then pointed to the south of Mexico City in the north of Panama, the south of Lima to the northwest of Poto, and the wide coastline in the east of the north, and said: "I have been calculating these two days, such a large land should have more than five thousand villages and four thousand mountains."

"If you can build [-] City God Temples and [-] Earth Temples, there are [-] gods in one temple, and there are [-] gods. Chen wants to make the banner soldiers become gods after they are killed in battle, and they will be worshiped by the world and receive incense forever." .”

As Chen Mu said, he took out a letter from the table and handed it to Zhao Shizhen, saying, "Chang Ji, you can give Brother Acosta my contract now, and send two riders to escort him into Mexico City along the way."

"Let's start from the north. Every hundred households and every village will enshrine the fallen flag army in the future. Every point of their military exploits will be recorded in stone. From entering my Ming Beiyang's command, from life to death, Chen I will help everyone think clearly."

Chen Mu took a step forward as he spoke, and stopped when he was close to Xu Wei, because he finally saw clearly the small characters in Xu Wei's mural.

"Jinghai Fengshen Picture"

(End of this chapter)