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Chapter 250 Appreciation
One leaf knows autumn, Nanyangwei is not what it used to be.

The day when Chen Mu left Nanyangwei coincided with the period of rapid development of Nanyangwei. The customs tax withholding of Nanyang trade made Nanyangwei extremely rich, and the prosperous sea-going trade made Bai, Chen and others extremely rich.

The good relationship with Banzhou Xuanweisi enabled Nanyang Wei to obtain sufficient timber, fur and a huge amount of minerals in the half-sell and half-give trade. Because these things that depend on the sky are inexhaustible to the emperor, even if they only exchange for half the value of silver, they are still profitable.

What's more, you can also earn favors from each other.

Nanyang Chen's trade philosophy is another extreme. Nanyang Wei, which is branded by Chen Mu, is eager to buy things for less money and sell things for several times the profit, so their business with Bozhou is very harmonious.

Those who want face have face, and those who want face have face.

Through the textile mills of Xiangshan Qianhusuo, the five institutes have developed similar textile industries, and due to overcapacity, they have begun to weave leather goods other than silk and satin. Just like the biggest impression that this new-style portable equipment brought to Chen Mu—he Propose the direction, and the next thing will be done by a dedicated person.

Actually what they did was not bad.

Everything proposed by Chen Mu is like the style of objects when he learned from his neighbors in the north at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China. They are simple and heavy, but lack a little beauty.

Everything about General Chen is not artistic enough, but Mingren has no ideas, but he is more artistic than him.

The armor he instructs the craftsmen to make is the armor, and the carrying equipment is the carrying equipment, and the armor and the carrying equipment that the craftsmen figured out are not only the armor, but also the carrying equipment. They are more beautiful and are works of art.

Even though some widgets are non-functional and merely ornamental, this is necessary.

In fact, even if the time is pushed back another 200 years, when the world's military struggles have completely entered modern times, soldiers active on the battlefield in various countries will still have the decoration style of ancient warriors in their attire and decoration to deter the enemy.

This is also a practicality.

Fortunately, Chen Mu now has enough money and status to show his strengths.

The daytime drills of Xiaoxiying will always attract the attention of the generals under Yang Siwei, the chief soldier of Changzhen, and many sergeants will poke their heads to watch their drills in their spare time. It seems that since General Chen's wife came to Changping... The army is getting better and better.

Although those generals were always snickering, thinking that General Chen's banner army seemed to be doing useless things, they followed orders from east to west, from west to east, and even raised guns halfway through, During the firing of guns and cannons, sometimes they even shouted a few slogans that no one could understand, such as one, two, three, four.

Whenever the shopkeeper with his hair up in a bun brought honey water, General Chen, who stuffed his pipe back into his waist, would always cast a disdainful look at the laughing camp soldiers outside the school grounds: "In a few days, they will know how to respond." It's okay, just wait and see."

If Chen Mu hadn't been listening to his long-time cronies, the Banner Army, this military training specially for the military parade would have brought great trouble to the Banner Army, especially the laughter from others.

Fortunately, this confidant's mainstay banner army is enough to prohibit orders. They even trust General Chen more than trusting gods and Buddhas, because when the friendly army was defeated for thousands of miles, only General Chen led them to build the most solid line of defense in the empire to stop the northern soldiers. Take off their heads.

Many people firmly believe that General Chen is Zhao Gongming, the God of Wealth riding a black tiger. Even the two big geese guarding the gate of Nanyangwei have a little divinity, and they are jokingly called Zhaocai Lishi—their elder brother is Zhao Gongming. Bao Balang and Nazhen Li Dan.

Chen Mu knew about this, but he just smiled. From a certain point of view, if his banner army trusted him, the chances of getting promoted, making money, and winning battles were much better than worshiping Zhao Gongming.

Although temporarily losing the authority to directly command the three guards, Jiang Yuelin and Hu Xingyun continued to send people to Xiaoxiying to report on the reorganization of the guards.

Yu Gong and General Chen’s reorganization allowed everyone in the guard to have a sense of participation from the muddled situation and regain their position in the guard. arrived.

In private, the imperial court issued very few rewards, and the Yanqing Three Guards Banner Army made very few contributions in the war, and naturally the money they received after the imperial court's initial rewards was also small.Not to mention that Chen Mu is likely to change to a higher official position to control them in the future, and more importantly, even if Chen Mu no longer controls them, who knows whether the court will hand over the rewards to Chen Mu for distribution.

Besides, there is Xu Jue's assist.

Fatty Xu was favored by Feng Bao because he handed in the regulations for the big reading book. He stood out among those godsons and was entrusted with an important task.Feng Bao knew that the book was not written by Xu Jue, and that it was written by Chen Mu. Who cares who wrote it?The important thing is that Xu Jue got him this thing.

This is effective.

Xu Jue got what he wanted. Don't look at Fatty Xu who looks like a cannonball, but he is very energetic, and he has the posture of keeping his promises and doing what he wants. He is in charge of the mining affairs in Yanqing Sanwei vigorously.

In fact, it wasn't a big deal. Xu Jue didn't move at all, and I don't know what method he used. Those who occupied the mine and opened the kiln privately, whether they were guards in Jinyi or local dignitaries, among them, the high-ranking ones took the lead in a few days. All the people were withdrawn from the mine, and they even took the initiative to inform the commander of the guards to let them take back the mine, and the local flag army who had been enslaved was also returned.

Moisturizing things silently, but in the eyes of Chen Mu, Jiang Yuelin and others, it was vigorous and vigorous. Those high-status people returned the mine first, and the rest of the little ones would naturally have to talk, and they didn't even know what happened. In the next few days, the mine should be paid back almost.

In fact, these people are the real people with clear eyes and ears, and the slightest disturbance can be rumored for dozens of miles.

"So, what method did Xu Jue use?"

Chen Mu asked this, and Jiang Yuelin, who was sitting opposite him, looked around, as if he was afraid of something, and then whispered: "There is a family of Jinyiqian in Yanqing, and a family of more than [-] people were found hanged in the house a few days ago. There, when Wu Zuo went to see it, the stench was so bad, there was a book in the study written by thousands of families in fear of crime, and after comparing the handwriting, it was written by myself."

Jiang Yuelin shook his head and said, "No one knows what this has to do with it, but that thousand households own the Eighth Kiln, the largest silver mine in Yanqing, and that was three days before Commander Xu went to Yanqing."

Chen Mu could imagine the scene of that man's family being forced to hang himself on the beam of the house, and at the same time, Xu Jue's smiling face with eyes narrowed into a line like a Maitreya Buddha also appeared in his mind.

Chen Mu had never heard of such cruel methods.

This is a deterrent, not only to deter the Yanqing pirates, but also to deter him, Commander Chen.

On October [-]th, under Feng Bao's single-handed plan, the commanders-in-chief and capitals from all over the country selected good generals and strong troops to gather in the capital, and Commander Chen's reward arrived.

This time, the ones who came were neither the officials of the Ministry of War nor the generals of the five armies, but the eunuchs, and Chen Mu had to bow down because it was an imperial edict.

Wanquan commanded the envoys to do things, and Shiyin Nanyang defended hundreds of households.

A second-grade flying fish suit, eight coats of satin material embroidered with various lions, 100 taels of platinum, and thirty bottles of sheep three-pin wine are given as rewards for meritorious service.

Give four slaves and maidservants, a mansion in the capital, a hundred acres of Zhuangtian, and a sable fur coat; give a horse with a red saddle, a precious knife, a pair of folding fans, a pair of boots and socks, and a pair of Korean silk scarves that have just been paid as tribute, as a token of intimacy treat.

General Chen felt that this was like a royal gift package bursting out from beating the captives.

(End of this chapter)