open sea

Chapter 85 Drawing
Chen Mu thought the rocket made by the blacksmith and the carpenter was okay.

The improved rocket flew three steps to the left of the intended target with a shrieking sound, and exploded with a bang beside the skinned scarecrow. The hole in the scarecrow showed that what Guan Yuangu said was true.

Extremely fast speed, convenient ignition, and terrifying damage, basically it has all the advantages of a rocket in Chen Mu's imagination.

There are also many shortcomings.

Not counting labor costs of one or two or four dollars, the cost is relatively high.

Shorter range, only flat shooting or slight adjustment of angle, restricts rockets to be used only before hand-to-hand combat in field battles most of the time.

Not being able to match the accuracy of artillery at the same distance means that there are not enough numbers to form effective combat power.

Various characteristics determine that this is only an auxiliary weapon used to disrupt the front, kill the enemy, and damage morale, supplementing the means of attack.

"Make a strap and call it Xiaoqijian."

Chen Mu named it lightly, as if the slightly weaker name could make the improved rocket more intimidating, but what he said next made people feel horrified.

"For each small flag, there are two barrels for flag armament. Next, to ensure the quality, make twenty barrels and forty arrows first."

It is true that the small flag arrow is very powerful, but it has a fatal flaw.

Chen Mu was born as a blunderbuss player. He knew what the lethality of the blunderbuss was. Eighty steps to a hundred steps was the maximum shooting range of the blunderbuss.It means that if his flag army wants to launch rockets in front of the formation, it has to enter the maximum range of the bird gunner.

But as far as he knows now, there may not be anyone in the entire Ming Dynasty who is so good at playing bird guns. This thing is designed to fight rebels and Japanese pirates!

As for the future—at worst, I will make general flag arrows, hundred household arrows, and thousand household arrows again!
General Banner Yamen.

"Chen Erlang, give me a craftsman, and I want one!"

Deng Zilong couldn't help it when he saw the little flag arrow exploding beside the scarecrow. He couldn't imagine that the weak child-like rocket could exert such great power in Chen Mu's hands!
Even when Chen Mu named the rocket, he discovered Chen Mu's ambition.

There are five small flags under the general flag, and the five small flags are equipped with two small flag arrows. The enemy is charging towards the battle, and the ten small flag arrows in front of the formation are fired in a row. What is the scene?
The first ten steps of the enemy's formation are directly cleared!
"If Deng is still in charge, the archers in front of the battle will be mixed with small flags and arrows, and the arrows will not be more than three shots. The enemy will fire rockets at a hundred paces, and lead the charge. The rockets will explode and they will run away fifty paces away from the enemy!" Referring to the war , Deng Zilong said with great vigor, with a sense of reprimanding Fang Qiu in his gestures, "Thirty steps will see their backs, fifty quick guns will shoot in volley, and you will be leveled if you charge them with spears!"

Chen Mu had been listening to Deng Zilong with a smile on his face, he had seen Deng Zilong's tactics, so it sounded full of pictures at this time, as if he saw the scene where Deng Baozong leveled into the enemy's formation and was surrounded by the enemy's large forces.

Of course, to encircle a strong general like Deng Zilong, the rebels had to use seven or eight times as many troops as him to complete the encirclement.

After Deng Zilong finished speaking, Chen Mu laughed even harder, raised three fingers, and said, "Everyone is a good brother, five liang."

"Huh?" Deng Zilong was stunned, looked at him and stretched out three fingers and asked, "What five taels?"

Chen Mu lowered his head and glanced, spread his five fingers quickly, smiling as it should be, and the philistine came just right, "Five taels of silver and a small flag arrow, both money and goods, no deception!"

"The craftsman can't give it to you, but the rocket can still sell it to you."

Deng Zilong leaned against the table slightly, as if he realized for the first time that Chen Zongqi still had such a profiteering side, he stretched out his fingers and couldn't speak, and after a long while, he yelled: "You are a fool like Deng!" Dick! Listen to me, the price is only one or two taels, and you asked me for five taels, and you said you were a brother!"

"Did you hear?"

Chen Mu basked in the sun for a while, then put on a formulaic smile, pointed his fingers and said: "Then three taels, it can't be lower, and the craftsman's salary can't be for nothing! If you pay 30 taels, Chen will give it to you again." One, eleven rockets will be sent to Qianhu Office when you take office!"

Deng Zilong stopped talking, seeing that it was impossible for Chen Mu to give him the craftsman, and the rocket was indeed too expensive.

After all, Deng Zilong was a battalion general in the past, and even if he was a guard, not everyone had Chen Mu's heart to prepare for himself.

30 Liang can buy a five-room house outside the city of Guangzhou. How can an officer sell a house to buy weapons for his soldiers? In the entire Guangzhou government, only Bai Yuanjie and Chen Mu are willing to do so.

To put it bluntly, Chen Mu is a complete warlord, but he didn't realize it himself.

Take the land of the imperial court and train your own soldiers.

"You can keep it for Deng. There will be a war in the future. Maybe Deng will come to you to buy rockets because of his heart."

Chen Mu smiled and said nothing, he didn't have the idea of ​​selling rockets to make a fortune, but simply used this to block Deng Zilong's desire for a craftsman.

Shi Qi reminded him last time that he was right. He should not do anything before the official position is settled. The current craftsmen are also preparing for the future. If the dust of the Deputy Thousand Households is settled, these craftsmen will play an even more important role .

For example—hydraulic forging hammers, flintlock guns, glass kilns, and even making iron yourself are all conceivable.

"Don't be discouraged, you are Deng Qianhu, and you will be rich soon!" Chen Mu smiled wickedly, and said to Deng Zilong: "When the craftsman makes a few rockets, I will give you five or more For emergency use, come here, I need your help with something right now!"

Hearing what Chen Mu said, Deng Zilong smiled happily on his rough face, stood up quickly and said, "What's the matter?"

"follow me."

Chen Mu didn’t say it directly, and spread a large piece of paper that almost covered the table when he entered the room, on which he drew simple mountains, rivers and rivers with charcoal pencils. He said: "You have fought in naval battles, and you have seen a lot in Guangzhou. If this is a seaport, and you want to build a shipping department, what do you think will be done with the merchants, camps, and defenses in the seaport?"

Chen Mu showed his hand and asked Deng Zilong to draw.

On this map, most of the houses and farms that Chen Mu asked Shao Tingda to buy were located outside the city by the sea. Others didn't know that Yuegang was going to be opened as a port, and they only thought that he wanted to honor his ancestors.

In fact, even if someone knew that Yuegang would be used as a switch, they still couldn't figure out what Chen Mu was thinking.

Chen Mu naturally has a way to sell part of the land to make money after the switch, but this is only one of them. For him, buying land is easy, and how to give away the land in his hand and give it meaningfully is the key.

For example, give a piece of land that is most suitable for a port market to Tu Zemin, the governor of Fujian.

What about the one that was given to the government together with the title deed, plus the construction map of the Moon Harbor and the rules of maritime affairs that he drew and wrote by himself?

He doesn't want much, as long as he can speak and leave a name, that's enough.
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Shock: frighten or frighten XX.From—Han Sima Qian's "Letter to Ren Shaoqing": "The emperor of Zhanqiu, the salty shock.

　Good morning friends, it's Friday again, so excited!

　　
　
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