Chapter 123 Route
Fortunately, Chen Mu could do Wu Shouli's request.
However, the procedure cannot be wrong. Wu Shouli first wrote a letter to the court to offer boats and woods. The court approved it and gave Wu Shouli's family three free official positions. Only then did Chen Mu dare to accept such a reward.
Moreover, it is beneficial for Hui merchants to enter He and prosper, and it is of great benefit.
Although they are all merchants, the habits of Hui merchants are very different from those of Fujian and Guangzhou merchants. Fujian and Guangzhou merchants are brave enough to make trouble, and although they are thieves, they are not afraid of storms. They often have poor children with only pillows, felts, and quilts. They go abroad alone. They are employed for several years to pursue independent careers. In a few years, they will be overseas giant merchants.
Hui merchants are good at operating, have a high average level of education, like to make friends with powerful people, and take the win-win route of the class; Fujian-Guangzhou merchants are good at maritime trade and freight, mostly poor and have been suppressed by court policies for a long time, without any moral burden. Excellent Fujian-Guangzhou merchants can not only do business, but also protect themselves - for example, in this era, their way of protecting themselves is to have their own ships, guns, and cannons.
Therefore, the merchants in Fujian and Guangxi are natural treasure ships, or they are the kind of armed merchant ships. When Hui merchants arrive in North Asia Melica, they will operate handicrafts, manufacturing, construction, pawn shops and other industries there. There is a large population, and they will soon develop one town after another and independently operated plantations, forest farms, and mountain farms.
Especially Wu Shouli, Chen Mu really hopes that he can own his own industry in Melica, North Asia.
"Like him, he showed his wealth in front of the entire court, and he was not a clan official and businessman. When the court had no money, he would think of him and would sooner or later fall."
Chen Mutai knew this truth. It was not until Gao Gong officially joined the Nanyang Military Office that he dared to make the real account book known to the Nanyang Military Accounting Book. And all the knowledge that the imperial court still knows is still retained, but it is not reserved on the books, because the previous entry of the Nanyang Military Office, which is now the Fujian-Guang Customs Customs, has nothing to do with the Nanyang Military Accounting.
"The situation is not so bad as the commander. With the Fourth Army Mansion, the court will not be out of money." Zhao Shizhen chuckled and pushed two official documents and a letter on Chen Mu's desk, saying: "These are two official documents sent by Shandong and Nanyang Guards. Shandong has handed over two thousand materials, ten thousand materials, a total of twelve warships. The first phase of the flag army left Qianhou Ministry has taken a boat to Jinzhou Guard for long-distance training."
"This is the last Ministry of Revenue sent to a long voyage. When they return one after another, they must have enough supplies and the Eastern Fleet will be able to set off one after another."
The fleet's long-range voyage training was at the Jinzhou Guard's Zhongzuo Qianhu Station, located in Dalian in later generations. It was said to be a long-range voyage training, but in fact it was only from Tianjin, Jinzhou Guard, North Korea's Huanghai Road, and Shandong Laideng. The total voyage is more than 2,700 miles, which is only one-tenth of the long-range voyage across the East Ocean.
Besides, the sailing areas, different climates, and different coastal situations can only be regarded as a little boat training for his subordinates before the real long voyage.
After all, the ocean they were sailing was Cangming Sect, and the sea called the Pacific Ocean in later generations was not peaceful at all.
On Chen Mu's desk, two documents submitted by Chen Ju, who was returned to Majiagang and Yang Tingxiang, who returned to Spain, were almost ruined by Chen Mu. Chen Ju's official documents stated the difficulties he encountered on the northern route, including reefs, undercurrents, ice floes and the ice age of the Black Water Marine Islands, and even provided how long a pot of water would be frozen into ice on the open deck when the Black Water Marine Islands freeze.
Yang Tingxiang's official documents are more comprehensive, with the focus on describing the typhoons suffered in summer and autumn along the southwestern coast of Melica, North Asia.
This is a very bad route, and Chen Mu's next job is to draw conclusions on all matters after he left the Beiyang Military Palace, such as when the annual baggage fleet will set sail.
While quickly checking the official documents, Chen Mu quickly introduced the situation to the generals participating in the military discussion. In addition to the two official documents, there was also a private message, which was sent by Xu Jue who returned to Beijing. Chen Mu pushed the private message aside and browsed the second letter from the Nanyang Military Weapons Bureau, which said that they had already finalized the experiment of the new rocket and could equip the troops.
In the fifth year of Wanli, the Shenwei mechanism was divided into two categories: sea and land. There are four models: sea ship mechanism, sea craft mechanism, land stepping mechanism, and land vehicle mechanism. They still use pushing drugs, explosive drugs, and projectiles as lethal forces. The arrow shaft was cancelled using the spiral plate booster proposed by Chen Mu two years ago, which greatly improved the range and stability, and could also load more gunpowder, but the disadvantages of extremely poor accuracy were still not eliminated.
In the letter, the Nanyang Military Weapons Bureau has sold 500 machine arrows of various types at a price of 3,400 taels of silver. The purchaser is Li Xi, the general officer docked in Goa under the Western Military Office. At the same time, they also purchased 1,400 flint guns, 600 small flag arrows, 230 general firearms of General Zhenshuo and various types of ammunition to arm the fleet of Qi Jimei, the commander of the bird gunners in Zhejiang East.
The order was over 30,000 taels of silver. I heard that it was Li Xi's Huizhou fellow merchants who served in military service.
Hui merchants contributed to the fire in the war.
Chen Mu didn't say anything, but just shook his head gently and pressed the document to the table. He took the bamboo whip from Du Song and pointed it at the navigation chart behind him and said to the Beiyang generals in the hall: "In order to ensure that the sea water did not freeze when the baggage fleet passed through the Heishi Maruhe Islands, the best time to set sail is in late March. After two to four months of near-shore navigation, he arrived at Majiagang on the other side of the ocean. He could avoid the most maritime risks and ensure that the baggage was intact."
"After arriving at Majia Port in summer, continue sailing south along the coast. At that time, Chen will set up ports, water villages, and land villages where the coastal matters are surviving, and are supplied by the logistics fleet along the way. Because there are many typhoons in summer and autumn, they can only sail towards Mexico after autumn, and return to the northern route of the equator in southern Mexico, with the destination of Guangzhou Prefecture."
"In winter, sell the goods carried by ship in Guangzhou Prefecture or unload the required supplies on the Nanyang Military Prefecture Guard Island, collect the new phase of supplies along the way to Dagukou. Here, the ships in good condition set sail again."
"This is our standard logistics route, and the north and south routes are left for four months to deal with accidents. If there is no accident, the logistics team will get enough rest time." Chen Mu said, turning around and said to everyone: "But a standard route alone is not enough. Once a conflict occurs, our headquarters' consumption of logistics will increase sharply. No one can wait for a year, so there must be a second more adventurous route."
Chapter completed!