open sea

Chapter 148
Xiangshan has harvested the first season of grain. After a few rains, it feels like autumn is coming soon. It has not yet entered autumn, but it feels like last winter. I am afraid that the boiled nitrate waste water and fertilizer sent from Qingyuan this year will not be able to save the second season of rice. output.

The matter of Haojing came to an end, the sea was banned for several months, the maritime business transaction had already been completed, and as soon as the business introduction and other matters were completed, they rushed to leave Haojing with their own goods, and the population on the island was reduced by half in a blink of an eye.

The purchasing power of thirty cruzados can equal about 50 taels of silver. The price of buying raw silk from Guangcheng is [-]% higher than that from Fujian. multiple profits.

If one's own ship is sold to Malacca, the profit will be even more astonishing. However, for Ming maritime merchants, it is not easy to do business in Malacca under the control of Portugal.

With Hao Jing's regulations set, the number of barbarians on the island has decreased a lot, and Chen Mu's pressure has also decreased a lot.

He and Zhou Xing called together to discuss matters on the island and returned to Xiangshan together. Of course, the garrison will not withdraw, leaving three hundred households including Shi Qi to take turns to defend and step up drills, while Chen Mu Sun Ao was sent out to recruit soldiers again.

It was not in vain to ask for three hundred extra soldiers from the Governor's Mansion Yamen. He wanted to recruit three more Danmin from one hundred households.Chen Mu no longer dared to think about what it would be like if he was promoted to a commander by chance in the future.

I am afraid that by then the entire Dan people on the Dan River will be recruited by him.

I'm afraid that the recruitment is not enough to fill the vacancy of the Banner Army.

If nothing else, by this time next year he will be able to fully support a full guard with [-] banner troops, because he has received three points of the customs tax.

The tax officer Zhang Han sent to Haojing was none other than Ambassador Ku Zhu Xiang, who had met once when he suppressed the miners in Qingyuan. Since we knew each other and had a little friendship, we can follow the regulations for the rest of the matter. If it doesn’t work out, anyway [-]% of the tax was handed over to the imperial court, and the remaining oil customs and interception have also received a warrant from the Governor's Office. Just waiting for the sea to come back next year will be a large amount of income.

In July, Chen Mugang sent people to buy looms for the guard craftsmen to imitate. Bai Yuanjie led the [-] Banner Army down by boat to move to the Xiangshan Station, along with Zhang Yongshou and the copper and iron ingots mined by his family's mine.

When the three of them got together again, they were naturally drunk, and then the affairs were shared.

Bai Yuanjie practiced the flag army on the water, Deng Zilong practiced on land, Zhang Yongshou was in charge of patrolling the coast of the Xiangshan Station on the land, and the soldiers and horses rotated to drill a small number of soldiers to serve as patrols. The seven drills in ten days was extremely heavy compared to all armies in the entire era trained.

Chen Mu is in charge of everyone, he wants to practice the flag army on the water, and he also has his share in the flag army drill on the road, but the coastal patrols are all handed over to Zhang Yongshou, and he doesn't care about it.

In addition, he often went to the newly built iron workshop on the bank to check the progress of the construction, and occasionally went up the mountain to see Yu Ding's way of picking wood. Wuju is the year after tomorrow, which is the fourth year of Longqing.

Li Tao was admitted to Jinshi, and he wrote a letter saying that he was sent to Quanzhou Prefecture, Fujian Province as a promotion officer. The letter said that he had handled a big case when he first came to office, and Chen Mu had nothing else to help him. I wrote a reply and read it. Da Song was impressed by the handling of the case when he was appointed as a criminal officer, hoping to help him in his official career, so he picked a small gift from the West and sent it to him.

Although the new iron workshop is still under construction, the hydraulic forging hammer and the sawmill have not yet been completed, and it will be approaching Dongyue when these are put into battle, but the production of bird guns in Xiangshan has not stopped.

The output is even higher. More than a dozen craftsmen are making blunderbuss bores in Qianhu Yamen, and they can drill more than a dozen rods in a month. To make barrels that can withstand excessive charge, the pass rate is about [-]%, [-]% In the past month, Curry has collected nearly a hundred qualified gun barrels, and they can be put into use just waiting for the oiled gun bed to be painted.

After experiencing the battle of the meeting square, the flag army of Xiangshan Qianhusuo looked like an old soldier, with well-equipped armor and sufficient firepower.

Not to mention Bai Yuanjie's soldiers, nearly half of them are old soldiers who have participated in the battle to pacify Li Yayuan for several months. Although they look weak, they are not afraid of anyone when they face the enemy, but the firepower is a little weak .

He was also influenced by Chen Mu, and felt that the blunderbuss he bought could not be used by himself, so he could use them at ease, but Qingcheng did not have the military craftsman dispatched by the Guangzhou government, nor did Guan Yuangu's drilling machine, even now he could only maintain a hundred-shot bird The degree of the gun.

With the sharp increase in Chen Mujun's consumption of firearms, the status of gunpowder craftsman Xie Ming has also risen. Now he manages a gunpowder shop near the iron workshop. Seven gunpowder craftsmen and more than 20 military apprentices under his command work every tenth. One day, a batch of nitrous charcoal and shochu needed for granulation were transferred from Xiangshan Institute, which quickly reduced the stock of Nitrogen in Xiangshan Institute.

Artillery is a drug swallowing monster.

Chen Mugang felt that he had a bit of a family background. The planned military academy on the mountain hadn't started construction yet, and the artillery drill started, and the family background seemed nervous and not enough.

"No, I can't do the thing of making most of the flag soldiers know how to use gunpowder. One person lights up a thousand catties of gunpowder and goes out. If the cannon is broken, I can't afford it."

As Chen Mu said, he said to Wei Balang after inspecting the flag army on the shore: "Each hundred households pick two small flags, two cannons at a time, and one small flag is viewed with nine small flags, which are rotated. Learn, read it a few more times."

The anticipated Artillery Exercise Code didn’t even have any regulations. Chen Mu taught Baye the essentials of three-point distance measurement, but most of the flag soldiers were illiterate, and they all memorized the booklets that drew various reference objects and wrote down the size and length. No, this alone is too difficult to learn.

Chen Mu had no choice but to think of other ways, and tried twelve firing angles from fifty paces to six hundred paces with the Francophone. In this way, at least on flat ground, the difficulty of aiming for Chen Mu's artillery can be greatly reduced.

It's just a reduction. This method requires too much precision in distance estimation, and it must be completely flat to be effective. If the sea is calm and the sea is calm, it's okay.

But it's not all bad things. One day in early August, Chen Mu received a gift from the north. I don't know how much better the lens he ground out first.

A gift from Tan Lun, Shangshu of the Ministry of War, in return for him and Bai Yuanjie.

After a lapse of more than a year, the Ministry of Industry of the Ming Dynasty produced telescopes much better than his own—Tan Lun has not forgotten them.

On the third day after he received the telescope, an earthquake occurred in Zhaoqing Prefecture.

At the beginning of September, there were frequent urgent reports from Guangdong. Pirates Xu Rui and Li Mao took advantage of the opportunity to invade Qiongzhou while the defense was in Guangzhou. Guangzhou sent troops to Leizhou.

In November, Zeng Yiben's army attacked Chaozhou, but Yu Dayou stopped him and led his boat into the sea.

(End of this chapter)