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Chapter 188 Reply
Chen Mu didn't expect that, in his opinion, it was just a small profit, but it was enough to make Xiangshan military households happy.

Because ordinary women are not qualified to make money, they can work in the fields or weave silk for thousands of households, but they never expect to get paid.

Moreover, there was actually a weird thing about Chen Mu's handling of this matter. He did not pay the military households any silver taels.Because there is not much land in Xiangshan, and the cultivated land is only [-] mu of land. There are few upper fields and more lower fields. After paying the guard's land tax and taking away the guard's salary, there is less than [-] shi left.

According to the usual practice, some of them still have to go into the guard treasury, some of them are retained by the thousand households, some of the hundred households are retained, and the hundred households themselves are retained. The military households have expectations for their own food supply.

Three to five stone.

Chen Mu handed over another ten stones to each of them.

Of course, now he can no longer hold hands like in the past. Instead, he sends an order in advance to Baihu to summon the Banner Army at the Baihu Station. The order includes the family members of the Banner Army, and the small banners will take the distribution of food, while he talks on the sidelines. .

To be precise, this year each bannerman in the Xiangshan Station received twelve shi in salary, of which two shi were paid for silk weaving, Chen Mu said emphatically in front of their families.

Neither Banner Army nor Mrs. Yu Ding could have imagined this.

In three years, Chen Mu has been the leader from Xiaoqi to Qianhu. It can be said that as a senior guard officer, he has a mature theory. The food rations provided by Chengqi Army's family.

And the extra two stones will allow them to obtain daily necessities such as winter clothes, without having to sleep in a pigsty or use dogs as hot water bottles.

Another two stones of rice can be obtained by weaving silk, so that they can eat some meat and provide the nutrition they need.

This is not the nutrition of the Banner Army, but Yu Ding's supplementary nutrition. The nutrition of the Banner Army includes the pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks raised by thousands of households, and the old line of the Banner Army goes fishing. On this point, the nutrition of the Banner Army can still be guaranteed of.

It's just that because the pigs are raised in military households, many problems will arise, such as whether the pigs will be fat.

In Xiangshan Kinki, as long as the life is decent, the pigs can be raised to about [-] catties all year round, but the pigs raised by the military households in Xiangshan can only be raised to [-] to [-] catties even if they are carefully cared for.

No matter how Chen Mu thought about it, he couldn't figure it out. It was Zhou Xing who told the Xiangshan people's flag army who had come to him why—because the military households were poor.

Being poor is not just short-sighted. If a person is poor, he will not be able to raise fat pigs.

Every hundred households must keep food in case of emergencies, but the banner officials of Xiangshan Thousand Households don’t need to spend any more on hoarding grain except for their salaries, because they have a huge amount of silver rewards.

Going to buy a boat, 7000 bolts of silk and satin were exchanged by Li Dan for more than [-] taels of silver, which is far more than the imperial court's original record of rewarding silver for meritorious service.

Guangdong has been using troops year after year, and its money has accumulated less and less. Even Haojing commercial tax has become an indispensable part of Guangdong's capital, so there are fewer and fewer rewards for Japanese pirates.This time they only received a reward of 700 taels in Xiangshan, but in exchange for 700 taels, they handed over more than 600 real Japanese heads from Guanghai and more than 2000 pirate heads from Zeng Yibu. It's only one or two down.

Chen Mu didn't give the Banner Army more rewards, he only gave rewards of 50 taels for a thousand households and 3000 taels for a hundred households. The same is true, a total of more than [-] taels were distributed, which was only more than the silver taels he gave to the guards than the purchase rewards given by the imperial court.

Calculated, he has more than 3000 taels of private property, and the Thousand Households has an extra 500 taels of silver.

The money will be used sooner or later, but it must be used on the right path. Chen Mu wants to build a textile factory in Xiangshan, and use the limited looms to work intensively for four hours to maximize the efficiency and increase production. It is indeed feasible after discussing with the Banner Army.

The Banner Army did not object to this form. It could also be escorted by the Banner Army in terms of safety, and it would give each household an extra income. The only thing that made Chen Mu feel troubled was whether to give the governor a handbook.

"Qianhu, let the higher-ups know about this matter. If you approve it, someone will definitely profit from it; if you don't approve it, you can't do it." Deng Zilong and Shi Qi, a few trustworthy men, came down to advise Chen Mu, and Shi Qi said: "If you want to say it directly Come on, it will be troublesome if people find out.”

"Let's go to the book, Qianhu." Deng Zilong thought for a while and said, "Not only Xiangshan, but if Qianhu is promoted to command in the future, then the whole guard will have to do the same. Even if others don't know it now, they will know it in the future."

Chen Mu thought about it, and he couldn't hide it, so he simply sent a manuscript to Zhang Han in Zhaoqing, and then sent it to the commander of the capital after Zhang Han agreed.

It is expected that Zhang Han will scold himself. In order to avoid scolding, Chen Muzai first stood on the moral high ground and wrote the article "Poor Army Yu Dang Brocade" in accordance with the stereotyped writing style. There are four chapters on household poverty, and four sentences in the middle, and then repeat the four chapters of "When Weaving Brocade", collect four sentences again, and then make a conclusion.

Among the four strands, one is negative and the other is positive, one is empty and the other is solid, one is shallow and the other is deep.

When mentioning the poverty of military households, you have to mention the safety of the world, and the words and sentences are on the line, but let alone... As long as you don’t follow the imperial examinations, you have to take sages from ancient books to write, the writing is quite comfortable, and it is full of reading. It's full of grandeur.

The result was unexpected, Zhang Han didn't pay attention to what he mentioned at all, even if the brocade was not brocade, would Zhang Han care about such a thing?

Mr. Zhang sent him back a stereotyped revision opinion, which stunned Chen Mu.

According to Zhang Han, this level of composition is not enough to submit to the imperial court or take the imperial examination.

No matter what, when Chen Mu sent the revised manuscript to Guangdong Dusi, he got a lot of praise—still no one paid any attention to his mention of building a silk weaving factory in Xiangshan, and ordered the envoy to write back Praise him for being both civil and military, saying that the Commander of the Guangdong Metropolis has finally produced a military officer who can match Chen Lin in composition.

I hope he will continue to work hard and surpass Yu Dayou as soon as possible.

None of these uncles care about the most fundamental things at all.

In short, the weaving factory under the jurisdiction of Xiangshan Office has been well established, employing [-] weavers, [-] looms on a two-day shift, and [-] old ladies with excellent weaving skills in Xiangshan were selected to teach weaving, forming a standardized management of weaving. factory.

After finishing his training and civil affairs, Chen Mu was finally at leisure. His injury hadn't healed yet, but he was ready to start the next work.

Chen Mu wants to write a book, starting with "The Manual of Shooting the Guns".

Compiled a book of tips for the practice of gunfire belonging to the flag army under his command. After finishing this book, he continued to write the "Banner Army Drill Manual" distributed to the flag officers under his command.

When he recovers from his injuries, there will be Guangdong Wuju Township Examination waiting for him.

(End of this chapter)