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Chapter 551 Military Uniforms
In Zhang Juzheng's mansion, they talked far less than Chen Mu imagined. In fact, before he rushed back to Beijing, other ministries had already talked about these things for some days.

Chen Mu didn't know about this until the next day when he met Qi Jiguang and Tan Lun at the Chen Manor to discuss military matters.

"The Ministry of Officials wants to grasp the appointment and removal of officials in Nanyang, and the Ministry of War also wants to control the martial arts hall and the dispatch of overseas soldiers. Wang Xuefu of the Ministry of Punishment thinks that the law of universal laws needs to be changed. The Ministry of Households must directly grasp Nanyang's accounts and silver. "Tan Lun sat in the upper seat of the Chen Manor's lobby. The old-fashioned general now lost the pride of leading the army to kill bloody wrists. He spoke especially slowly, humming a few lines of libretto from time to time, and suddenly said with a smile: "It's good for you, You still didn't give us the power, but dragged us into your yamen!"

In Tan Lun's view, the Liububutang was very moved by the proposals of the Siyang ministers and the Beiyang yamen. He said: "But this matter must be discussed again. If the Beiyang important ministers are concurrently held by the Liububutang, the power of this yamen will be lost." It’s not only overseas, but overseas and domestic orders are unimpeded, the courtiers are very scared of you now, who knows what you want.”

joke!

I think that Emperor Longqing, who was self-restraining and crazy, gave Chen Mu a superficial power and dispatched him to Nanyang. The whole court was waiting to see his jokes. There were only a few salaries of first-rank officials. Nanyang could get the best money. If you can't get things done, you can come back and continue to serve in the Dusi Ancient Guard Army.

Who would have thought that in the past four years, the Nanyang military government relied solely on the guards in Guangdong to make a great name, integrated the Nanyang countries and pulled out tens of thousands of vassal armies, and forced them to look weak and strong. More than 500 million taels of silver.

The 500 million taels of silver are the achievements of the Nanyang Military Government on the surface, but the discerning people in the cabinet and the Ministry of Finance know that this is the most inconspicuous of all the achievements of the Nanyang Military Government.

The huge overseas commercial trade is not only the war profit and trade of the Nanyang military government. Their total trade volume is not even one-tenth, and the bulk is still private merchants. The commercial taxation of Guangdong and Fujian, and the changes brought about by the concentration of industries in various places, which one can be compared with 200 million taels of silver a year?

Qi Jiguang was late. He went to the Beijing camp this morning, and when he came back, he went to the Arsenal. Zhangwu Bo Yang Bing, the governor of the Beijing camp, wanted to build 140 chariots, plus the firearms and battles needed for the chariots. Some arsenals have to be issued according to the number, and those that are not in the arsenal are immediately estimated and built for training.

Juniper went to lead the horses, Qi Jiguang entered the hall and begged for a bowl of warm tea first, then shook his head and said, "It will be difficult to get chariots for the Beijing camp in a short while. You said that the Xuanfu Military Bureau knows how to make guns?" What about the cannon?"

The instigator, Chen Mu, squinted his eyes and chuckled with Xiaolu in his arms, and then said: "Xuanfu not only knows how to make guns and guns, but also armor, rocket grenades and mines, but they can't make chariots."

Speaking of which, Chen Mu spread his hands, and said helplessly: "Because I didn't use the car camp at that time, I only stayed in Beijiang for a long time. After the Armament Bureau and the Lecture Hall were established, I went to Nanyang, and Mr. Huanzhou was behind me. Yes, but Qi Shuai wants a chariot. The Nanyang Armaments Bureau has a new rocket vehicle called the Shenwei locomotive, which fires rockets. I am improving it before going north, and it is estimated that it will be delivered around May."

"Rocket?"

Qi Jiguang was not very enthusiastic. During the years when he suppressed the Japanese in the southeast, he personally tried almost all the weapons in the arsenal, and even specially equipped them in the Zhejiang army to fight against the Japanese. But it was different in northern Xinjiang. Old Qi shook his head and said: "It's not that Shuai Chen has never fought against the captive cavalry. In a cold place, he has strong armor and thick clothes. There is no need for many rockets. Too many are useless. He kills people with guns."

What Qi Jiguang was talking about was still an old-fashioned rocket, which relies on gunpowder to propel people, and mainly uses arrows to kill people.

This made Chen Mu extremely surprised, and asked: "There is no small flag arrow in Qi Shuai's army?"

"It's too expensive. The small flag arrows are three by two, and the general flag arrows are ten taels. They are very powerful. One arrow will explode ten steps, but it is not very accurate. If you release less, you will not be able to hit it. If you put more than one hundred taels of silver Go out, Qi is not Chen Shuai who has the ability to raise his own military expenses, all the money is allocated by the court, it is better to buy five artillery pieces, and fire them every battle."

As Qi Jiguang spoke, he looked at Chen Mu with a half-smile. He still had something to say in his heart. He had disassembled the small flag arrow and looked at it. The inner structure was not very delicate, and it was worth spending at most four coins for an arrow inside and out. It was purchased from the Nanyang Military Bureau and transported to Tianjin by boat.

However, the southern army all ate this set. The guards in the south had seen the majesty of the Nanyang army in combat, and they went crazy and asked people to dig iron and lead, and sent them to the Nanyang Arms Bureau to exchange ordnance.

He can also make that thing, but firstly, he has hurt Chen Mu's feelings, and secondly, he is not selling arms. Chen Mu can find new sources of income for the Ministry of Industry, such as electric lights, wires, steam engines, motors, and telegraphs. .

Not everyone can be an arms dealer.

"It's so expensive!"

Chen Mu pretended to be confused by pretending to understand, the price was set by him, how could he not know?But he is not willing to give away for nothing at this juncture. As long as Qi Jiguang is here, it doesn't matter if he sends three to five thousand small flags and arrows, but there is also Tan Lun, a big gunsmith here, and the opening can't be closed once it is opened. Yes, he said with a smile: "It's okay, after the Military Weapons Bureau improves the Shenwei arrows and the technology improves, the cost of the small flag arrows and the total flag arrows should be slightly reduced, and it will not be difficult to supply some to Jizhen at that time."

So true!
Qi Jiguang was embarrassed when he heard it, clapped his hands and said: "Chen Shuai is looking for me, please invite Tan Gong to come, he said to discuss new military uniforms and military laws, what is that?"

Tan Lun also turned his gaze to Chen Mu. It seemed that Chen Mu really didn't care about Nanyang's restructuring, and he pretended to listen and said, "What Chen Shuai wants to say, please tell me."

"The two of you also know that Chen has just returned from Myanmar. Before that, he was in Annan, a place where heat and miasma frequently occurred. As soon as he arrived in Myanmar from Annan, many soldiers fell ill with malaria, and the soldiers were almost defeated. The soldiers of the Ming Dynasty are usually For those with beards, ordinary people have short beards or beards like sheep, but only sergeants have big beards and beards, which emphasize majesty and murderousness." Chen Mu spread his hands and said: "But it also emphasizes lice, I want to play the manuscript, Sergeants who are on duty in the tropics are asked to cut their beards and hair short, and the imperial court will set a fixed hairstyle for sergeants.”

Fixed hairstyle?

Qi Jiguang and Tan Lun thought this proposal was good, but he then asked, "Short, how short?"

Both of them had been in the army, and they knew that the sergeant's hair was fine when he was free, but it was difficult to have a chance to freshen up after several months of war, and he was deeply troubled by it.

But the problem is how short Chen Mu wants the sergeant to cut. If you cut it less, it will not be effective; if you cut it more, you will not be a monk. Even if the law allows it, the society will discriminate against it, and the sergeant himself will feel uncomfortable.

"Less than an inch!"

Tan Lun pursed his lips and smiled a little stiffly, and said with his hand: "Chen Shuai can play the handbook, the old man can help you talk, which is very useful, but whether it will happen or not, we can only try it temporarily, there is a lot of resistance, If there is a rule for sergeants' hairstyles, the old style of douhou will no longer be applicable."

"There are also military uniforms. This is a new military uniform prepared by Mr. Chen. Please take a look."

As he said that, Chen Mu put out a few three-dimensional geometric patterns drawn with charcoal on the table, including several hairstyles and several sets of military uniforms, which made the two people's eyes shine.

　Make up for the chapter that was updated the day before yesterday.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)