open sea

217 Marriage
Nanyang Weigang, Chen Mu decided to call it Nanyang Weigang.

Chen Mu drove a dozen shark boats all the way across the Lingding Ocean. The prosperous Hong Kong is not even a fishing village on the shore, at most it is a barren land with only a few hundred households living there.

In fact, the defense of the whole Guangzhou coastal defense overlaps. In the past, there was no such thing as a guard station. Guangzhou coastal defense belongs to the Nantouzhai Navy, one of the six villages in Guangdong. It reaches Dawu in the east and Guanghai in the west. In the past, Wei mainly defended land, while Nantouzhai mainly defended navy.

However, this matter was unique when Chen Mu was in charge of Xiangshan Thousand Households. After defeating Zeng Yiben at sea, it changed. The new Nanyang Guard has become a defense for both land and sea. It has both internal and external fleets and shipyards.

The Nantouzhai navy under Chen Lin’s jurisdiction has only 56 warships and more than 1000 standing battalions; After all, the system is not like the Guards, let alone the newly established Nanyang Guards. The main warships are still mostly incinerated weapons.

The world is undergoing earth-shaking changes, and artillery is being used on a large scale in the endless sea, but so far this is only a process, and the undeveloped strong ships and guns are not enough to face the huge number of experienced and heroic gangs and burning ships of the Ming Dynasty. Complete victory.

So even without Chen Mu, the South China Sea in this era is still ruled by these arsonists.

No one cared about the idea of ​​the commander of the Nanyang Guard to build a water fortress in Xin'an. The request from the transmission capital was almost completed on the same day it was delivered. Waiting, not only achieved the goal without resistance, but also said that [-] craftsmen from various guards would be transferred to assist in the construction of the port.

As for the letter to the governor, General Chen was scolded.

Zhang Han said that as long as the Nantouzhai Navy is willing, he can move the Xinhui Shipyard wherever he likes, and build the new port wherever he likes. He is already the commander of the palm print, so don’t bother him with such trivial things——Zhang Han The old man was exhausted by Wei Yinbao's war in Guangxi, and he didn't have the energy to take care of such trivial matters.

Deng Quan's third brother, Deng Zhong, did not come to Nanyang Wei to take up the post at all. He was transferred to Guangxi before his butt was hot. Immediately afterwards, Bai Yuanjie was transferred to Nanyang Wei as a co-prefect, and was authorized to take care of Chen Mu temporarily after he went to Beijing. Nanyangwei has everything.

Yang Yinglong, who observed Chen Mu closely, could see Chen Mu's living conditions clearly. In his letters to Bozhou, he never lacked ridicule, and of course there was no lack of compliments.

"This commander seems to be a hard worker. Although he is a general, he always regards himself as a civil servant. He has few hobbies. There are only three things in his words: one is a goose, the other is a boat, and the third is a cannon."

Of course, Yang Yinglong also discovered an unknown side of General Chen. Although this young general lived a 'simple' life, he was not actually poor. Nanyang also made a lot of profits, and created a huge network of relationships among the generals in Guangzhou headed by him.

The truly talented generals in the entire Guangzhou government were all won over by him, no matter whether it was supplying military supplies or having personal relationships, the generals and schools who were in the limelight were all closely related to him.

With the ability to turn stones into gold, he led Qingyuanwei, Guangzhouwei, Nanyangwei, and Nantouzhaiwei battalions to form an open-source income from silk weaving, merchants, and escorts. He also has close relations with many maritime merchants in Fujian dense.

This can be seen from the fact that the imperial court issued [-] ship guides in Yuegang, and the number of merchant ships nailed to Fujian, Guanghe and Xingxing reached [-].

Of course, many things are just Yang Yinglong’s own opinion. He lived in Nanyangwei for two months, and he just saw the most prosperous April in Haojing, when Hong Kong merchants docked and docked, and Malacca barbarian merchants also came from the West, so it was extremely prosperous. One side was witnessed by the little chieftain.

And it just so happens that the little chieftain knows nothing about overseas, so everything he sees is covered with a veil, so mysterious and so curious.

Who made Bozhou's main relationship network all be in Yangzhou, Suzhou and Hangzhou and the court vassals, but not at sea?

In Yang Yinglong's eyes, General Chen, who first saw the room full of poverty, became a bit taller after Haojing hijacked Fanyi, and this impression of tallness was especially obvious when he lived in Nanyangwei and controlled overseas.

Because he saw that Chen Mu had found a job for Lin Feng and Lin Daogan's old department.

In Yang Yinglong's eyes, this matter is amazing, but in Chen Mu's eyes, it's just meddling in his own business. If he doesn't care about this business, Lin Daogan will rebel again, because Lin Feng always leads people to bully her old department. Since the beginning of the new year He led the fleet to raid chicken coops twice, and the commander-in-chief in Guangdong thought that one thing more is worse than one thing less, and he didn't want to mess with Lin Feng for Lin Dao.

The key is that pirates fight pirates, which is a happy thing for them.

Chen Mu acted as a peacemaker once, and called both Lin Daoqian and Lin Feng to Haojing to try to solve the problem.

He can't understand how Ming people and pirates kill each other, but Lin Feng's people want to eat, they don't want to attack cities, and they have business contacts with Chen Mu, so it's not easy to plunder Hexingsheng merchant ships. hit.

In fact, so many Fujian-based maritime merchants have the name of Hexingsheng, which is also related to Lin Feng. They found that the Fujian-Guangzhou pirates did not snatch Hexingsheng's ships, not to mention that they had known each other for a long time, and they rushed to Haojing to join the company. .

Chen Mu's idea to Lin Feng and Lin Daogan's old department was to set up a card to collect money, and they would escort the route from Luzon to Japan.There is no need to fight, neither taxes nor robbery, but simple employment, which not only integrates the Fujian and Guangxi pirate forces, but also provides them with a livelihood.

The Hexingsheng businessman also just needed this power, and it was almost hit it off.

Chen Mu is a middleman.

But this matter was seen by Yang Yinglong, and it became a proof of the mighty conduct of General Chen, who is not ostentatious.

The merchant from Yuegang brought back Yan Bo's letter. In the letter, Yan Bo didn't agree with Chen Mu's idea of ​​taking Yan Qingyao to recognize his father. Basically, the old shopkeeper and the young shopkeeper made the same decision, and married as a concubine That's it.

On the other side, the Yang family, through Yang Yinglong's letter, once again formally asked Chen Mu whether he should enter into this marriage.

He has nothing to refuse. Yang's rebellion will happen in 30 or 30 years. Compared with the help brought by the marriage, even if Yang Yinglong rebels against Chen Mu [-] years later, it can be ignored.

In 30 years, if he can't even settle this matter, he might as well go back to Qingyuan to feed the geese.

In response to the marriage, the betrothal gift was sent to Bozhou, but regardless of whether it was a big wedding or a concubine, the wedding date was indeed postponed.

Because a letter was sent from the Ministry of War in far away Beijing, the transfer order has been issued, and Chen Mu, the commander of the Nanyang Guard, chose to choose a thousand strong banner troops as a squadron, and escorted the artillery to Jizhen.

(End of this chapter)