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Chapter 204 Adopted Son
Chen Mu afraid of trouble?
Deng Zilong went back and thought for a long time, but he still couldn't understand what Chen Mu meant.

The Acropolis of Guanghai, which stood in the South China Sea for nearly 200 years, let you push a coffin and blow it up. Now you are asked to marry a woman with a high dowry, do you think you are afraid of trouble?
Deng Zilong didn't believe anything.

No one can understand this matter.

In fact, Chen Mu himself didn't even think about whether it was a good thing or a bad thing. Although Yang Yinglong would rebel, it was more than 20 years later. Hailongtun has not yet been built, and he has not even been able to inherit the official position of Bozhou Propaganda Envoy. Worrying about things that haven't happened is just too much to worry about.

But the thing is there, and he can't help but think about it.

But it's not all trouble, at least compared to marriage, whether it is building Guanghai City or Nanyang City, it has become a trivial matter.

"The big deal is to demolish Guanghai City, transport the city bricks to Nanyang, and only build this city."

Those things that disturb people's worries and let them take their course, why bother to think about them?
Chen Mu still likes to be comfortable, take his apprentice, Hachiro, his son, and his geese to walk on the endless sandy beaches of Nanyang, blowing the sea breeze to adjust the gun positions, and smashing the sea surface with the deafening sound of the guns A floating target.

When the sunset shines on the beach, and the golden red is reflected on the sparkling sea, the beautiful women dance lightly, the musicians play the flute, accompanied by beautiful women, wine and beautiful scenery, which can make people forget all the troubles.

The Ordnance Bureau has something new to ponder.

The armor craftsman invited from Foshan Town taught the Armor Bureau how to make armor and lock armor. Carpenter Guan asked for 42 taels of silver to purchase a full set of utensils for pulling iron wires. During the game, he felt that the skill points of the entire Nanyang Weijun Bureau were taken a little by him.

Half of Fragrant Hills is close to the estuary of the sea, except for the Shilei Fort, there are all kinds of waterwheels in the Military Weapons Bureau, large or small, far or near, providing continuous power for the Military Weapons Bureau. Yang Yinglong is right, he The craftsman is so lazy!

With the help of water power, the Ordnance Bureau has entered the era of semi-automation.

Water is used to beat wrought iron; to drill the bore and pull the wire is to use water; even the iron locks that hang the cannons use water power, but they don't use manpower if they can do without manpower.

The tall wall locks Nanyang Wei, which is completely different from the hydraulic monsters of this era. It may not even be this era. Even in the memory of Chen Mu's soul, which is gradually covered up and belongs to another era, there seems to be no period or area that is suitable for hydraulic power. produce such a huge dependency.

They are forging steel, buying Sugang by ship at a price equivalent to wrought iron, and imitating the plate armor obtained from Haojing in the Military Weapons Bureau. Although there are only a few pieces, it is not difficult for the craftsmen. Like making cannons, it is not difficult to make cannons, but the difficulty lies in how heavy and thick they are.

Selecting the middle point between protection and burden requires a lot of experiments and data support.

When he ordered Guan Jiang's finished products for the first time, Chen Mu felt that he was an awkward person-the plate armor was originally a Western thing, but he asked for the plate armor to have the symbol of the East.

Some have the mentality of being a bitch.

Later, he realized that he was worrying too much. His craftsman was much more awkward than him on this point. Guan Yuangu had positioned this new steel armor as a general armor early on. The armor used as the lining serves as the chest, so he painstakingly designed the carvings and paintings. The finished product he dedicated to Chen Mu could not be seen as a set of military equipment of Western origin.

The tiger's head pattern is engraved in the center of the breastplate, and there are two mountain tigers on the shoulders. According to Guan Yuangu, it can guard against stray bullets fired from the bird's gun thirty steps away.The entire armor is nailed to the inner lining of a pair of leather robes. The real armor outside is the lacquered green mountain armor.

Shanwen Armor has a high level of protection against hacking and stabbing attacks, but the only flaw is that when the arrow and crossbow nails are fired, the angle of the Shanwen piece will be at the relatively weak joint of the armor piece. Zijia is used to protect the arrow clusters. Generally, less than three points can be penetrated into the mail armor, and it will not hurt the vitals, but it still hurts.

The foam nails on the Shanwen corner are very different. Firstly, the impact of splitting will be transmitted to the large breastplate, and secondly, it is difficult for the arrow clusters to penetrate the foam nails.

Combining two and two, it is beautiful and practical, but it is a bit heavy.

The breastplate weighs [-] catties, together with the mountain armor and a full set of protective gear, it weighs over [-] catties.

The weight is about the same as the inner lining mail armor in the past. If it is a naval battle, you can still only wear the inner lining to fight.

This set of armor was recommended by Chen Mu to be customized for the command envoy, Qianhu is a breastplate lined with cover armor, Baihu is a cloth-faced breastplate, the small flag general flag is a breastplate mandarin duck battle jacket, and the ordinary flag army is a single-sided breastplate. Armor jacket.

Ming people had much higher requirements for clothing and etiquette than Chen Mu.

After the regulations are formulated, the rest is to be built slowly. It is estimated that it will be the end of next year if the armor is to be equipped with the whole army.

Chen Mu is busy with one thing, recruiting soldiers.

Because General Chen, who is not yet married, has two more sons, one of whom even changed his surname to Little Baye.

The reason was that Chen Mu wanted Balang to take the imperial examination. Although Wei Balang commanded the artillery team under the city of Guangzhou to make meritorious service, Chen Mu did not recommend him to a higher official position to Zhang Han. Teach him the scriptures, this bastard doesn't want to learn life and death, and he still says that a man should make meritorious deeds, and ten years later he will be the commander of the Nanyang Guard, so what's the use of learning to compose poetry!
"Li Dan is your son, he calls you daddy and you don't invite him an old gentleman, and I call your daddy too, so don't invite me an old gentleman!"

Chen Mu was so anxious that he couldn't do anything about it. The old Juren invited them and couldn't let other pigeons go. But after searching through Nanyang Wei, there was no boy who was qualified to complete the enlightenment. With a fire stick, he whipped Ba Ye all over the house, and wrote a letter to Chen Lin when he was done.

Chen Lin's son, Chen Jiujing, was a little younger than Baye, and he was familiar with horse bows and horses.

Later, the two of them simply recruited guests to call friends, set up wine and held a banquet. Chen Lin and Chen Mu became brothers, Wei Ba changed his name to Chen Zhi, and called Chen Bazhi. He recognized his adoptive father Chen Lin and adoptive father Chen Mu, and Chen Jiujing also recognized Chen Mu as righteous Father, the two families simply got married.

What was originally a trivial matter for the kitty to study, has been manipulated into a major event.

The eighth master is still the eighth master. If you don’t like taking the classics and history exams to get fame, you don’t take the exams, but you still have to read the books.

Chen Mu's handwriting is big, let Ba Ye go out to recruit talents and brave men from Guangdong and Guangxi to serve as Chen's servants, he does not have such a big heart as Li Chengliang, not to mention that this is not Jiubian. Wei, with a snake tattoo on his left arm to avoid water, and a tiger mouth tattoo on his right hand with the word Zhongyong, was assigned to a newly built warship and gun armor. He personally practiced and was led by Baye.

According to historical records, in the winter of the third year of Longqing, it snowed in Guangdong, and the vegetation in Xiqiao Mountain was frozen.

What should come will come after all.

The Drum Belly Tower outside the city of Guangzhou was closed.

　The state is very good today, and the writing is slow. There are two chapters today, and I will update it at a fixed time tomorrow.

　　Note: In the Ming Dynasty, there was a set of procedures for the recruitment of family members, which was different from the private accumulation of force. The generals in border towns not only had land, but the family members were also paid by the court.

　　
　
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