Chapter 12 Military Uniforms
At Zhang Juzheng's mansion, they talked much less about it than Chen Mu thought. In fact, before he rushed back to Beijing, other ministries had already talked about these things.
This was only known when Chen Mu dated Qi Jiguang the next day and Tan Lun went to Chen's mansion to talk about military affairs.
"The Ministry of Personnel wants to arrest the appointment and removal of Nanyang officials, and our Ministry of War also wants to arrest the martial arts lecture hall and overseas military dispatch. Wang Xuefu of the Ministry of Justice believes that the laws of all countries need to be changed, the Ministry of Revenue wants to directly capture Nanyang accounts and silver, and the Ministry of Rites also wants to join in the fun." Tan Lun sat in the lobby of Chen Mansion. The famous general who showed his old attitude has now lost his enthusiasm to lead the army to death and his wrists. He spoke very slowly, and he hums a few lines of lyrics from time to time, and suddenly laughed: "You are okay, but you still haven't given the power to us, but you have pulled us into your yamen!"
In Tan Lun's opinion, the Six Ministry of Departments were very moved by the proposals of the Siyang Ministers and the Beiyang Yamen. He said: "But this matter must be discussed again. If the important officials of Beiyang are serving as the Six Ministry of Departments, the power of this yamen will not only be overseas, but also be carried out overseas and overseas. The court officials are very scared of you now, and who knows what you want."
joke!
Thinking about the fact that Emperor Longqing, who had been self-defeating and crazy, gave Chen Mu a vain and sent to Nanyang. The entire court was waiting to see him laugh at him. He was only a few of them who could get money from first-rank officials. It would be best if Nanyang could get money. It doesn't matter if it couldn't be done. If the matter was not done, then he would just serve as the Dusi Retro Guard.
Who would have thought that in the past four years, the Nanyang Military Palace relied on the guards in Guangdong alone to make a huge name, integrate the countries of the Nanyang to create tens of thousands of vassal troops, and act like a weak trunk and strong branch. In the four years, the capital transported more than five million taels of silver.
The five million taels of silver are the achievements of the Nanyang Military Office on the surface, but the discerning persons from the cabinet and the Ministry of Revenue know that this is the most inconspicuous among all the achievements of the Nanyang Military Office.
The huge overseas commercial trade is not just the profits of the Nanyang Military Administration. Their total trade volume is not even one tenth. The big one is still in the customs tariffs of private merchants, Macau, Yuegang and Tianjin Port. Which of the changes brought about by the concentration of commercial taxes in Guangdong and Fujian Provinces in various places is comparable to that of two million taels of silver a year?
Qi Jiguang was late. He went to the Beijing Camp this morning. When he came back, he went to the Arsenal Department. Yang Bing, the governor of the Beijing Camp, wanted to build 1,140 chariots, plus the firearms and weapons required for the chariots. Some of the arsenals had to be sent as the numbers, and those without the arsenals would be immediately estimated to be built for practice.
Du Song went to lead the horse, Qi Jiguang entered the hall to ask for a bowl of warm tea, then shook his head and said, "It will be difficult to get all the chariots in the Jing camp for a while. How do you think the Xuanfu Military Weapon Bureau know how to build guns and cannons?"
The initiator Chen Mu hugged Xiaolu and squinted his eyes and chuckled, and continued: "The Xuanfu not only can build cannons and guns, but also can build armored rocket grenades, mines, but he can't build chariots."
As he said that, Chen Mu spread his hands and said helplessly: "Because I was useless at that time, I had only been in the northern border for a long time. The Military Weapon Bureau and the Military Lecture Hall were established and then headed to Nanyang. Mr. Huanzhou was in charge of the back. However, Qi Shuai wanted a chariot. The Nanyang Military Weapon Bureau had a new rocket car, Mingshenwei Machinery Vehicle, which was casting rockets. I went north and was improving it. It is estimated that it will be delivered in a fixed manner around May."
"Rocket?"
Qi Jiguang was not very enthusiastic. During the years when he suppressed the Japanese in the southeast, he had personally tried all the weapons that could be transferred from the arsenal, and even rushed to specially equipped them in the pacifying Japanese and Zhejiang Army. However, it was different when he arrived in the northern border. Old Qi shook his head and said, "Supervisor Chen had never fought with the cavalry. In a cold place, his strong armor and thick clothes did not need to be many rockets, and it was useless to kill people with guns and cannons."
Qi Jiguang is talking about old-style rockets, relying on gunpowder to help, and the main one is relying on arrows to kill people.
This surprised Chen Mu and asked: "There is no small flag arrow in the army of Qi?"
"It's too expensive. A small flag arrow is three or two, and a total flag arrow is ten or two. It's very powerful. One arrow is put into use and explodes ten steps, but it's not very accurate. If you put it in less, you can't fight. If you put it in a few seconds, you can put out a hundred taels of silver. Qi is not Chen Shuai's ability to raise military expenses by himself. The silver and money are all assigned to the court. It's better to buy five cannons and release them every time you fight."
Qi Jiguang said as he looked at Chen Mu with a smile. He didn't say anything in his heart. He had taken apart the small flag arrow and saw that the inner structure was not very exquisite. One arrow cost at most four cents of silver inside and outside. It also included the money for the boats purchased from the Nanyang Military Weapons Bureau and transported to Tianjin.
But the Southern Army all took this trick. The guards in the south had seen the majesty of the Nanyang Army's combat, and they were crazy about digging iron and lead, and sent them to the Nanyang Army Weapons Bureau to change their weapons.
He would also make that thing, but he was considering the concern that Chen Mu was hurt, and he was not a reseller of arms. Chen Mu could find new sources of wealth for the Ministry of Industry, such as electric lights, wires, steamers, motors, and telegraphs. He did not have the ability.
Not everyone can do the arms dealer.
"So expensive!"
Chen Mu pretended to be confused, and he set the price. How could he not know? But he was not willing to give it to you at this critical moment. If Qi Jiguang is there, it doesn't matter if he sends three or five thousand small flag arrows, but there is also a big gangster Tan Lun here. The opening will not close as soon as the hole is opened. He smiled and said, "It's okay, after the Military Weapon Bureau improves the Shenwei Arrow and the technology will improve, the cost of the small flag arrows will be slightly reduced. It will not be difficult to provide some to Jizhen at that time."
It's the same as true!
Qi Jiguang was embarrassed when he heard this, clapped his hands and said, "Shistor Chen is looking for him and asked Mr. Tan to come. He said he was discussing 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 the Nanyang restructuring, and he listened and said, "What does Chen Shuai want to say, please say it."
"You two also know that Chen had just returned from Myanmar. Before that, he was in Annan, where the hot and hot malaria were high. As soon as he came to Myanmar, many soldiers suffered from malaria and almost suffered defeat in the fields. The Ming sergeants usually had beards, while ordinary families had short beards or like sheep whiskers. Only soldiers had long hair, big beards, and strong beards, with great majesty and murderous aura." Chen Mu said as he spread his hands and said, "But they also weigh lice. I want to report the script. Please cut the beards and haircuts on the tropical duty to cut their beards and haircuts short, and the court set a fixed sergeant hair style."
Fixed hairstyle?
Qi Jiguang and Tan Lun thought the proposal was good, but he continued to ask: "Cut short, how short?"
Both of them have led soldiers and know that the sergeant is fine when he is idle, but once he is unable to have the opportunity to clean up for several months during the war, he is deeply disturbed.
But the problem is that Chen Mu wants the sergeant to cut shorter and less, which will not work; if he cut more, he will not become a monk. Even if the sergeant permits, society will discriminate against him, and the sergeant himself will not feel good.
"Not an inch!"
Tan Lun pursed his lips and smiled a little stiffly, and reached out and said, "Shishou Chen can write a book. I can help you talk. This is very useful, but if the matter is successful, I can only try it out for now. There is a lot of resistance. If the sergeant's hair style is determined, the past pocket will not be suitable."
"There are also military uniforms. This is the new military uniform prepared by Chen. Please take a look."
Chapter completed!