open sea

Chapter 859 Inland Sea
Empress Dowager Li is full of sorrows in the Forbidden City. To untie the bell in her heart, she needs to tie the bell with the medicine Chen Mu, but she has almost the same emotions on the other side of the ocean.

During the time when Emperor Wanli was preparing for the military parade, Chen Mu was not idle in Yazhou. Zhao Shizhen went to the border to preside over the peace negotiation. He and Xu Zhenming took boats and sailed north and south.

Some time ago, Xu Zhenming has been sorting out the local investigation data of Panama in the past 30 years. However, due to the different measurement methods and the lack of confidence in the measurement methods of the Westerners, Xu Zhenming still has to go to the field for investigation.

Chen Mu first took a boat to the north, and landed in Jie County and Jincheng in turn, to check the garrison drills and the governance of the magistrate.

Aimu raises hundreds of sheep and more than 3000 registered residents in the county, and it is difficult to have any impact on the environment of the long and narrow peninsula.

Jincheng is much better. The tribes from the south, the north, and even the east all gather there. Countless soldiers and horses of the vassal states practice and learn Chinese here. There are also a large number of immigrants who want mines and fields. There are also nitrates being pulled back cart by cart.

In Wu Zhongxing's words, Jincheng County is a blessed land, and it doesn't matter who the successor is in the future.

Chen Mu felt that the county magistrate who was exempted from the imperial staff was a little swollen. Why did he think that he would not be re-elected as the magistrate for three consecutive terms?
However, Chen Mu's main purpose of coming here has nothing to do with the magistrate, he came to pick up his son.

Two adopted sons, Li Dan and Chen Jiujing.

The two boys grew up and changed more and more. Li Dan's innate gangster spirit has almost disappeared now, and Chen Jiujing is not as powerful as Chen Lin, but he has a bit of a Confucian temperament.

The two each commanded thousands of troops when they sailed eastward. Li Dan had elite Japanese warriors under his command and soldiers with chaotic banners conscripted from various daimyo places; North Korea received soldiers and horses from Baishan Heishui in response to the call of the Son of Heaven.

After arriving in Jincheng, their subordinates learned Chinese, and at the same time dispersed some of their troops and distributed them to various places. Now there are about [-] troops left in their hands.

However, the main purpose of disbanding the troops is to worry that they are too numerous to gather together to rebel against the heavenly army, and they have no intention of weakening their combat power, such as sending Japanese soldiers to southern Peru.

Therefore, after reducing the number of troops, the two subordinates still have strong combat capabilities. Therefore, the Dongyang Military Government set up three separate battalions outside each guard post, and the second battalion consisted of these two troops.

Li Dan's army, named Fusang Camp, is the master of the Japanese and Ryukyu elites.

Chen Jiujing's department is called Baishanying, and it is the elite of Jurchen and North Korea.

In addition, there is another army called the Baizhu Battalion. The battalion general Ma Fang's eldest grandson Ma Ran led the Mongolian cavalry. Chen Mu did not move this army. Under the leadership of Beiyang military officers, the "Northern Yuan Remnants" mentioned by Yunlong were divided into various teams, and together they swept eastward in the vast and boundless northern part of Asia.

In this piece of land under the rule of the Ming Dynasty, except for the bison, the Mongolian infantry had no natural enemies, and no one could endure hunger, cold, and raids better than them.

As soon as the transfer order was issued, the Second Battalion, who had already recharged their batteries for a long time, immediately boarded the blessing boat and followed Chen Mu to Panama.

"Father, shouldn't it be time to go to Saicheng?"

On the boat, Li Dan asked Chen Mu. The city he was talking about was naturally Seville in Spain, the leased land in the treaty signed by Mingxi after a war.

"Well, last month I sent someone to send a letter to the King of the West, informing him that he was planning to send troops to take over Seville. You can go there after he sends back the letter. You will get next year anyway."

Chen Mu nodded thoughtfully, raised his hand and asked, "How's the morale of your Second Battalion recently? I heard that someone was causing trouble in Jincheng a while ago?"

Li Dan and Chen Jiujing looked at each other and nodded wryly. He cupped his hands and said, "Jurchens are not good at sailing, and Japanese soldiers are not good at long-distance sailing. When they crossed the east, they sank before reaching Wangxia Prefecture. The ones are also replaced by Fuchuan with the Shouyu Guardhouse."

"They feel that they have no hope of returning home, and they are asked to study Chinese all day long here, so they will inevitably be restless." Li Dan shook his head with a smile and said: "If they came earlier to catch up with the war, they would not have so many troubles."

People can't be idle, and grass grows in their hearts.

Chen Mu took Li Dan's words seriously, nodded and said: "I think so too, so I plan to send you to Panama first, from the west coast to the east coast along the road built by Westerners, and fight a few battles there. The morale of your men should recover."

His words caused the two adoptive sons to look at each other, Chen Jiujing asked: "Da Ming and Xi Yi haven't reached an agreement, are we going to war again?"

Chen Mu shook his head and said with a smile: "If you really start a war, you won't be allowed to go out to sea to fight the Western Army. Their formation is still very powerful. They helped the Western Kingdom clear the pirates on the route in the past. I think you have a lot of firearms on board, Fran There are many machines."

"Yes, they were confiscated under the order of the king after the war. The Tianjun helped to collect some, and Dongdu brought most of them. There are now more than a thousand Japanese guns in the Fusang Camp. Made eight small guns of Frang machine."

It is not difficult to imitate the Franco cannon. In Europe, the Franco cannon is made of iron rolls and iron hoops, which are like making muskets. Even so, it is enough to surprise Chen Mu: "I I thought that the Francophone was made by Daming, they are amazing."

"My foster father didn't know that there was a prince named Shingen in the Wa country, and the "Jiazhou Law" made by him used the Central Plains Warring States to describe the time when he was born. The princes each led the country in chaos. I collected more than ten thousand, and this is not counting those left behind by the magistrates and defenders who are unwilling to hand them in."

Li Dan pouted and said: "Xiaoba left three thousand cannons, and the Li family took the route of the capital to send [-] iron cannons to Liaodong. firearm."

"Transferred to Liaodong? What does the Li family want so many guns for... just give it to him." Chen Mu made up his mind, Xiaoba Xiaojiu and Li Dan did not suffer: "The Li family has both people and efforts, and the war It’s also worth sharing something later.”

Of course, the main reason why the narrow-minded Sailu Gong is so magnanimous is nothing else, but that he suddenly realized that iron cannons are matchlock guns in the middle of his complaint, which is of no use to him, even if he puts them down, he can only use them. It may be reselling to other countries.

It is not a bad thing to add some firearms to Liaodong.

"Let's disembark from the west coast of Panama. I'm going to see General Deng's army, mainly to investigate the difficulty of building the canal. When the time comes, you will go east, and the ship will go around the south of Asia. General Deng's fleet is also transferring its main force to the east. At that time, he will send a few gunboats to support you."

"Take this opportunity, we can stretch our hands over there, and the East Ocean will become our inland sea sooner or later!"

(End of this chapter)