open sea

Chapter 263
Chen Mu didn't even know that Jin Yiwei had gone to Haojing and boarded the boat to Malacca.

Even if Zhang Juzheng wrote to ask, he just thought that the matter had developed to the point where the cabinet ministers knew his thoughts on sea affairs. enough.

The real big thing will be done by him, and this kind of thing cannot be left in the hands of others.

But he didn't expect the great desire of the reserved and conservative master to eat pie freely.

He didn't know about all this, winter was a good time, but all the officials in the northern part of the empire were very busy, because they were doing a big thing - to facilitate the peace talks between the Ming Dynasty and Alta.

The disputes in the court have ceased. Ye Mengxiong, the censor of Shanxi Province, has been harassing the frontier for many years because of Alta Khan, killing and looting all the time. He was appointed as the magistrate of Heyang County, Shaanxi Province, and the court's dispute over this matter ceased.

To discuss peace, this is what the court means.

Chen Mu sympathized with Ye Mengxiong very much, and sent someone to send letters and swords to Ye Mengxiong to comfort his lonely heart.

He also felt uncomfortable with Yihe from the bottom of his heart. When he was in charge of the Xuanfu, all of this was on the verge of breaking out. He wanted to fight a big fight, and even reached a consensus with Ma Fang to attack outside the Great Wall, so that more people, cattle, horses and lambs would come back. The result was a sudden peace.

But he knew it was right, at this moment, the best thing to do, no woman to lose a husband, no child to lose a father, peace.

And in fact, his thoughts are meaningless in the general direction of this matter, no matter what he thinks, the matter has already been settled.

Chen Mucai has no time to deal with these things. He seldom seeks externally and mainly relies on internal cultivation. He doesn't care about peace negotiations or court disputes. He only knows the eternal truth-only the strong have the right to show mercy.

When the Xuan government was strong and powerful, they would not dare to go south to harass the northern captives even if they did not talk about it.

Everything has a price.

This is what he should start with.

So he is busy writing letters to Zhang Han. The old man has promised to provide convenience for him, and the cabinet has also sent a special letter to support the manpower needed by the Xuanfu. The Nanjing Ministry of Industry will open the door for him. What do you need? , just speak up.

"Craftsmen in Sichuan and Sichuan are good at digging and drilling wells, potters in Jingdezhen can make the best kilns in the world, blacksmiths in Zunhua Iron Works can make blast furnaces, carpenters in Jiangnan can make the best looms, Liulichang can make pedal grinders jade cutters, I need them."

Chen Mu stared out of the window, paused to close the letter, and attached another letter, which said to Nanyangwei, "There is also Guan Zun's class, and bring a few young men from Nanyang."

There is already a large construction site outside the city of Xuanfu, because the winter is coming, and it will be snowing in a few days, and the cold wind from Saibei will delay the construction period. Do good deeds next spring.

The location of the construction site is still a river. Fortunately, there is still a big river flowing from the outside of the Great Wall through Xuanfu to the capital. Mu's abacus provides power.

The steam engine of Nanyangwei has long been on the agenda. The steam engine is not the difficulty, but the practical steam engine is the difficulty. Find a way to make it move. After moving, other problems will naturally be solved. There is no need to build it so well, Chen Mu I don't even intend to drive a car with this thing.

It is better to have rubber, and it does not matter if there is no rubber. Watt's steam engine does not have this thing, and it still does not delay the opening of the factory.

But that's something later, at least in Chen Mu's mind, the Xuanfu Armament Bureau will still rely on water power, animal power, whatever power is good for a while, and a little bit of productivity improvement. resources to show off.

Using the best craftsmen from all over the world to transfer the best steel materials from the south, and upgrade the lathe system for cutting, chipping, and drilling in Xuanfu, the next thing will be much easier.

Xuan Mansion's military affairs and the affairs of the Military Weapons Bureau did not stop, and the drills of Chen Mu's headquarters did not stop. In fact, he may have the least number of staff in the headquarters among the recent Xuan Mansion generals, with only more than a thousand soldiers. , There are more than a thousand battalion soldiers, totaling two thousand and four hundred.

This is when he reported to the Ministry of War that Zhun Nanyang Wei had over-numbered [-], and recruited [-] new households in the past from [-] households in Haojing, and temporarily assigned the [-] banner troops belonging to the Qianhu Office of Xiangshan to the headquarters.

However, there are a lot of troops under them, more than 4 guards and more than 1 recruits. The task of Dong Yikui and Dong Yiyuan is to reduce the more than [-] recruits to [-], each in charge of [-], divided into [-] horses and infantry. The Six Thousand Chariot Camp did not follow Chen Mu's idea of ​​the guards, but only asked them to use the tactics commonly used by the Nine Sides in the past to practice and train as a standing mobile force in the Xuanfu.

"Send this letter to the governor without delay."

The letter Chen Mu intends to send to Wang Chonggu is to request that the reduced battalion and military equipment be sent to Xuanfu. He wants to recruit another [-] recruits to supplement Deng Zilong's and Hu Liangpeng's troops. The number of battalions still remained at [-].

Under the joint planning of him, the Dong brothers, and the second general Deng Hu, from the point of view of the Xuanfu and the Wanquan defense line, at least [-] troops are needed to be just a baseline, and at least [-] troops are needed to do a good job of defense along the line. .

And this number, judging from the current situation of the guards, obviously needs more, so [-] battalions are still needed to bring the total strength to [-] in order to prepare for war.Items such as guns and cannons can be gradually replenished over time, but the sooner the number of troops is replenished, the better.

Sha eliminates the old and the weak, recruits recruits who have no stubborn diseases, and let them retrain, so that if you practice one day earlier, you can use it one day earlier.

However, there is no need to deliver Chen Mu's letter. Before the messenger ran out of the boundary of the Xuan Mansion, Wang Chonggu, the Governor of Xuan, had already arrived.

"General Chen, when you first took office in the Xuanfu, the old man did not come to supervise you. I know that you have a fine army that has suffered a great defeat in the Juma River. If it goes out of the fortress, will it be able to fight?"

Wang Chong has always been very imposing since ancient times. He was also a famous general who was born in the south to fight against the Japanese. He went to sea many times to command the navy to defeat the Japanese pirates when he was in the army. Yes, a real savage.

Moreover, these words also made Chen Mu's heart straight, whether he can go out to fight a war, isn't this bullshit?
"How many troops will the military gate use to get out of the fortress?"

Seeing Chen Mu's appearance, Wang Chonggu smiled, and said: "There is no need to go out of the fortress, but you need to temporarily transfer your artillery team to Datong, the westernmost point of your perfect defense line, the two guards of Yanghe and Gaoshan, so as to deter Alda outside the Great Wall—the imperial court." The peace agreement with I Da was exchanged with the traitor Zhao Quan and others for Han Naji, but he still has concerns in his heart and has not yet reached an agreement."

"I still need to borrow the name of the general. General Ma can't go, he is a heavy weapon, not to mention the newly defeated one. If he goes to discuss the peace, the negotiation will fail; it is not as good as the general Xinrui, who can also shock him."

(End of this chapter)