open sea

Chapter 84
In the first year of Longqing, Li Yayuan, who had been a bandit in Wengyuan and Heyuan for many years, was captured and killed by Yu Dayou, the commander-in-chief of Guangdong.

The Yellow River broke through, and eight branch rivers were built and completed. When it is dry, it will be used to save water, and if it is flooded, it will flow into Zhaoyang Lake, and the transportation route will be opened.

The whip method that had been practiced for a long time was stopped due to the severe drought in Shandong Province in Zhili, in response to the memorial of Ge Shouli, Minister of the Ministry of household affairs.

This year, the Taicang treasury of the Ming Empire was unable to make ends meet, and after spending side salaries and salaries, the deficit was 390 taels.

The cold winter in the north can't affect Chen Mu who is far away in the south of the Lingnan. His winter is as warm as spring, and he hovers between bending the bow and setting the arrow and getting off the horse and throwing the bow.

Compared with Chen Zongqi's improvement in archery, Deng Qianhu learned more.

Deng Zilong had a clear view of the Qingyuan Guards, who were more like chieftains than officers, and also saw clearly the banner soldiers who were like serfs better than officers and soldiers, especially the farm tools that appeared when Yu Ding was harvesting double-cropping rice. Being a bandit, Chen Zongqi asked Chen Zongqi to draw him a picture of all the agricultural tools he had never seen before.

Deputy Qianhu Deng Zilong, whose future is uncertain, came to Qingyuan to relax on the one hand, but in fact this is the main purpose.

It is not difficult for him to train the Guards Army, the biggest difficulty lies in raising his own salary, he was a battalion soldier in the past, all he needed was to report to his superiors to ask for the allocation of military equipment, money and food.

But the Guards were clearly different.

Chen Mu laughed straight at his anxious look. Deputy Qianhu Deng was far from being as depressed as he appeared, but was trying his best to sit in the position of deputy Qianhu and make meritorious service.

He has contacts in the battalion system and has made great contributions in the guard system. It should not be difficult for him to be transferred back to Guangdong to serve as a garrison.

It just so happened that Chen Mu was very happy to help Deng Zilong.

In fact, he thinks that when Deng Zilong has tasted the sweetness of deputy thousand households, he may not want to transfer back to the battalion - a hundred households are richer than generals, and deputy thousand households are more comfortable than guards.

There are some things that Chen Zongqi is not qualified to say now, and he can only form a good relationship, but maybe when Bai Yuanjie comes back, his deputy Qianhu will be a foregone conclusion, at least he can change from an official position lower than that of the general manager to go forward side by side .

Maybe there will be a time when Chen Mu will have a higher official position than Deng Zilong. At that time, this fierce general who is famous for fighting Japanese pirates will definitely recruit him to work under his subordinates if he has the opportunity.

In the second rice season, Chen Mu's harvest was enough to surprise everyone!

The command envoy didn't pay much attention to the second season's harvest, and still collected five dou per mu according to the previous [-]% and generally [-]%;The banner troops of the remaining [-] households were all year round, and no more than eight or nine dendrobium per mu of land fell into their hands, and even if there were more, it would not exceed two buckets.

However, Chen Muqi had more than three buckets left, and distributed ten stones of grain to the banner army as usual, and a hundred households saved more than 2000 stones of grain, which was so much that the built granary could not hold it.

Chen Zongqi had no choice but to borrow an ox cart from Anyuan Post Station, and transported three hundred shi to Bai Yuanjie's idle granary of a hundred households after he was promoted to deputy thousand households.

"Chen Erlang, are you saying that the balance of other hundred households is less than one-twelfth of yours?"

Deng Zilong shook his head, seeing the happy Banner Army after receiving the rations, but he leaned into Chen Mu's ear worriedly and said, "You should let the Banner Army shut up, otherwise there will be endless troubles."

"You are from Xiaoqi. No matter how small Banner is, you are still a guard. You said yourself that the Banner Army is a serf. A guard is born to be a guard, and a serf is born to be a serf. It is like the difference between heaven and earth, and the sun and the moon. "

Deng Zilong's expression was very vague, Chen Mu really didn't understand at first, but after a pause, he understood.

What this deputy Qianhu of the unknown guard of the Guangdong capital wants to express is betrayal.

In Chen Mu's easier-to-understand words, it is to persuade him not to betray his own class, let alone touch the interests of others.

"What about the sky and the earth, the sun and the moon? Deng Qianhu talked in a cliché. The state government asked you to drive away the military family members. Why didn't you go?" Chen Mu shook his head and laughed, "Chen can't show it to himself. Banner soldiers who have sacrificed their lives will still be hungry when they return home, as it is said in the military book, a general must love his soldiers like his sons."

Deng Zilong looked at the Banner Army who had already dispersed, and taunted Chen Mu: "Yes, the guard and the Banner Army are father and son. You love soldiers like sons, but you don't need to let other fathers know that you treat your son well. Just wait and see, sooner or later you will suffer."

The last sentence made Chen Mu's eyes light up. He is good to the flag army. It is really not good for other flag officers to know.

Then he beckoned Lou Qimai with a terrifying face, and said, "You tell the military from door to door, how much they have harvested, and how much food they have given out, and don't show off. Otherwise, they will know what will happen if you don't respect Chen's military order."

I know what a fart!
Lou Qimai's teeth chattered when he passed on this kind of military order!
If you don't respect your order of Chen Jun, there are only more than 20 people who were beaten to death by bird guns on the Xinjiang Bridge, and they said that they wanted to leave a whole body for the first offender.

Just collecting some food, as for killing people?

Chen Moucai didn't care so much, clapped his hands to feel happy, and said with a smile: "Whatever the sun and the moon are, they are not all stars, such as orange cats and huskies, who is not a beast in the end. Everyone is suffering, we Why bother to be a villain—go, go and see the Monkey King, and Chen will also open Deng Qianhu's eyes!"

After the double-cropping rice was harvested, Carpenter Guan took the silver to two other hundred households in exchange for three military craftsmen, all of whom were about the same age as Guan Yuangu.

Their job is to rely on craftsmanship, just like doctors, young people may have more good ideas, but it is difficult to be exquisite in craftsmanship, the older the craftsman, the more reassuring they are.

Master Chen Jun has four craftsmen and eight or nine apprentices under his command. It can be regarded as the beginning of a team of craftsmen belonging to him. As usual, he signed the contract with the silver, the manpower increased greatly, and the productivity also increased.

Improving the rocket is on the agenda.

This is not difficult for experienced military craftsmen, but it is very dangerous to make gunpowder into pushing powder and explosives. The example of Zunban was mentioned before. Chen Mu sent people to remind Guan Yuangu to pay attention to safety. Throw out ideas and let the military craftsmen continue to experiment.

After more than half a month, Guan Yuangu sent someone to tell Chen Mu that a finished product that fit his idea had been made.

Deng Zilong didn't know what a 'Sky-Switching Monkey' was, so he followed Chen Mu to the edge of Tiefang Creek in a daze, and saw more than a dozen craftsmen surrounding a few thick wooden pipes placed on a wooden frame. The head craftsman Guan Yuangu smiled He trotted over, cupped his hands and said, "General Banner, it's done!"

"Bring me to see."

The wrist-thin, three-foot-long wooden barrel was handed over to Chen Mu, with a half-inch-thick wall and a small trigger for a matchstick on the side, which could be held and fired.

Inside is a rocket similar to the shape of a fixed bullet. The difference is that the arrow on the front of the rocket has been changed to a two-inch long pyramid. Wooden sticks for balance bars.

"How about the range and damage of the charge?"

Guan Yuangu said: "There are 25 two-dollar lead pills. In order to be safe, you can push the medicine for [-] steps. But the explosive powder of the fire wire will explode between [-] and [-] steps. There is no life in a radius of [-] steps." By!"
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Note:
The one-whip method was proposed by Gui E in the [-]th year of Jiajing, and Zhang Juzheng promoted the national unified tax law in the [-]th year of Wanli.

Prior to this, each province or several provinces in the Ming Dynasty had different methods of tax collection.

(End of this chapter)