open sea

Chapter 80 Moon Harbor
In the early morning, when Fu Yuan and Lou Qimai came to say goodbye, Chen Mu was woken up by Xiao Hachiro, washed up and waited in the yamen, and the two small flags led the flag army to take the silver from Chen Mu and set off for Guangzhou.

Then came Shao Tingda and Shi Qi.

"I was too tired to come back last night. You have waited for a long time. I have nothing else to do with you." The back cook of the yamen cooked goose porridge. The roast goose is cut up and cooked with rice porridge, and it is very comfortable to eat with small salt vegetables.

Chen Mu greeted the three of them while eating and said: "The iron mountain in the east, Qianhu asked me to dig it, which of you two is willing to do this?"

There were three people sitting, but they were only asking two people. It was impossible for Chen Mu to let Wei Balang lead the banner army to dig in the mountains. His childish nature would not be able to do such a thing.

Shao Tingda quickly finished a bowl, raised his hand and handed the bowl to the soldier, wiped his mouth and said, "Go and fill another bowl. Brother Mu, it's nothing for you to let me open the mountain, just spend some time to recruit the refugees who have opened the mine. Yu Ding, the Banner Army, will go there, training soldiers and digging mines will not be delayed, let the storyteller count with you, I will go!"

Shi Qi, the dog-headed military adviser, is very competent, and he has taken over the missions that hundreds of households count. Chen Mu didn't want to end it himself, so he had to ask Shi Qi to do it for him.

"General Banner, this matter, I think we need to think about it in the long run."

Hehe, looking at the gentle and long-term plan, this is really taking himself as a military adviser!
Shi Qi was silent for a while before opening his mouth. Seeing Chen Mu motioning him to continue, he said, "The big thing is undecided. Although Qianhu and Zhang Baihu go to Guangzhou, they may not be able to guarantee Zongqi to get the post of Deputy Qianhu in Qingcheng. If someone else Gaining power, Mang Chong went away to increase the incident, let alone making wedding dresses for others, it is not a pleasure."

"Don't worry too much! Deputy Qianhu of Qingcheng is the biggest official now, how many of the next hundred households dare to rob mines with Chen?"

To be honest, Chen Mu can see through the behavior of those few hundred households at a glance. He is a man with a fierce style on the battlefield and Bai Jingchen is behind him. If he doesn't fight them for food, he will Already burning high incense.

"But you're right."

Chen Mu paused, and said to Shao Tingda: "Then don't dig for now, there will be fields to guard the city for a while, and there is money in the office, so don't rush to mine. What if, what if you don't become a thousand households."

He didn't worry at all whether he wouldn't be able to become a deputy thousand household, as long as Bai Yuanjie could become a principal thousand household in Qingcheng, even if his meritorious service was promoted to a hundred households, he would still be in a humble position.

I'm afraid that Bai Yuanjie's own official position will not be completed, if the imperial court transfers another Zhengqian household, or if the commander installs his cronies and relatives in Qingcheng, that would be interesting.

Worry when you have no money these days, worry about having no money.

But when you have money, don't you worry about it?
No, Chen Mu found himself even more worried.

Worried about where to put the money.

During the Battle of Heyuan, the Banner Army cleaned up the battlefield and got a hundred taels of silver and a lot of copper coins. The handed-in was exchanged for 44 ingots of good quality ten taels of silver in Yingde; the profit from saving the people was sold in Heyuan for 34 ingots Ten ingots are divided and there are [-] ingots left.

Not counting future rewards from the imperial court, this battle brought him 550 taels of silver. Today, Fu Yuan and Lou Qimai took people to take five ingots of silver to Guangzhou to buy cattle and horses. The remaining 500 taels of silver in the yamen do not know where to put .

Do you want to dig a hole and bury it like a landlord?

How stupid!
In addition to his own harvest of more than 400 shimi in the granary, and more than 4000 catties of nitrate in the iron workshop, he made a fortune of thousands of households this year.

"Mang Chong, do you want to go back to your hometown?"

Chen Mu didn't speak, and none of the three small flag officials dared to speak. Seeing him contemplating for a long time, he suddenly raised his head and said this sentence, which stunned Shao Tingda and said, "Go back, go back to your hometown?"

"Yes, go back to my hometown, Yuegang."

Now it is the year of Longqing, not far from Emperor Longqing opening the customs, and Chen Mu happened to know that the place where Emperor Longqing opened the customs was Yuegang, which was later Haicheng County.

Yuegang is the only port in the Ming Dynasty that allows private individuals to go to sea to sell goods in the East and West.

"Brother Mu, do you want me to bring something to relatives, or do you want me to bring someone from my hometown?"

"Not at all." Chen Mu shook his head and said, "How much is a house in Yuegang City, how is it compared to Guangzhou Mansion?"

Shao Tingda's eyes widened and he couldn't think of what Chen Mu wanted to say, "Buy a house? Hey! Brother Mu, if you have money, you can buy a house in Guangzhou Mansion. Our commanders all have houses in Guangzhou Mansion, Yuegang's house, even if Even the middle of the city is not as good as the outside of Guangzhou Fucheng!"

Chen Mu nodded knowingly, and asked, "Not as expensive as Guangcheng, what is the price of a house in Yuegang City, outside the city, on the street near the sea?"

He asked Shao Tingda, Shao Tingda's eyes were wide open, and it took him a long time to turn his head stiffly to look at Shi Qi, "Storyteller, how do you sell the house in my hometown?"

Shi Qi was even more confused, eating porridge with his head down, ignoring him, and when he was called out impatiently, he covered his head and face: "You stupid bastard, I'm not a fortune teller, how can I know Yuegang, Fujian in Guangdong? No matter how the house is sold, I have never been to Yuegang!"

"no!"

Shao Tingda was not in a hurry to be scolded, and pointed out: "Think about it, you read the letter for me. When the Japanese riots broke out, how much did the pharmacy outside the city sell? One or two?"

Chen Mu almost spit out the water he drank in his mouth, "One or two?"

"It seems to be one tael. It was only a shop for two taels of silver." Shao Tingda rubbed his stubble and asked, "Why does Brother Mu want to buy a house in Yuegang?"

Chen Mu counted with his fingers, and his memory of the Ming Dynasty was nothing more than Jiajing and Wanli, with an unknown Longqing sandwiched between them. It was only a few short years, and there were not many major events in Longqingnian, except for Longqing's peace talks. It was the Longqing switch, and then Zhang Juzheng began to take power to create Longwan Zhongxing.

Other than that, there is no other memory about the Longqing period.

Zhang Juzheng is out of reach, he doesn't even know if he has made the connection with Tan Lun, and Long Qing has no idea who is negotiating with whom, and the only opportunity he can seize right now is the Longqing switch something happened.

Right now, his people are in trouble, and he can't stay in Yuegang for a long time to operate, but it is still very meaningful to seize the opportunity.

For example, occupy the land first.

"500 taels, 500 taels is outside the city of Yuegang, near the sea, how many shops and houses can be bought, and it is best to buy a few acres of land on both sides of the official road. How much can you buy?"

When Chen Mu asked this, everyone had different expressions. Shi Qi was surprised by Chen Mu's handwriting, but it was a private matter involving Zongqi's hometown and had nothing to do with him, so he kept silent.Shao Tingda asked as if listening to a joke: "Brother Mu, do you want to buy two streets in Yuegang? 500 taels, after you buy a house for 500 taels, you will be Chen Bancheng in Yuegang!"

But Qi Zhengyan and Long Junxiong standing behind Chen Mu are different from the former pirates. They keenly grasped a key word in Chen Mu's words, which is near the sea.

The two old Japanese pirates looked at each other, and they both saw the joy and surprise in each other's eyes.

(End of this chapter)