Wang Chaozuo was a merchant from Linqing. He did a businessman with bamboo strips and mats to make a living. He didn't buy much and had no sea boats. He didn't catch up with the grand occasion of five hundred sea boats going to the East when the Eastern Military Palace set sail.

However, last year, the sea ships were launched in coastal provinces and the business of river boat renovation was booming. His shop took on many mat-weaving jobs and made real efforts to earn more than 200 taels of silver a year with his brothers and nephews of the same clan.

Generally, sails are good, but there are also civilian ships that use mats as sails. In the early years, even military ships used mats. After all, although mats are more bulky, they have the advantage of being cheaper, which is much cheaper than canvas made of thin and thick.

After doing this business, Wang Chaozuo also had the idea of ​​going out to sea to see. His logic is very simple. In these days, any business that relies on sea can make money, so why not just go out to sea directly?

The Eastern Banner Army is so strong that it is safe to go anywhere.

With this idea, he and his brothers from the same clan hired a young man to build a sea boat with his nephew. He did not send a letter through the pass, and together with more than 30 young man from the clan, he hired an old boat bow from Fujian and planned to go out to sea.

As the disaster year came, many farmers lost their livelihoods and took their families with their families as they thought, so they all boarded his boat - to be honest, this was like having a life-threatening job.

"I have good luck in my life. When I go to North Korea, I don't care. He dares not ask me to go ashore, nor dares to drive me away. He rushed to the Korean soldiers who went to Japan and helped transport a ship of wounded soldiers from Jeju. Their generals heard that I was carrying mats and said that I could make a profit if I sold them to Japan, but there was no difference between north, west and west there and every day."

Wang Chaozuo was just over the Chinese New Year, and he was wearing a thick winter jacket when he went out to sea. He supported his already tall figure even more burly. However, his words looked honest and smiled at Chen Mu in the official hall, "I dare not go, so I sold the two ships of mats and asked him to sell them."

"You must believe me, you have to believe me. Those Japanese soldiers and armor were really picked up. I don't know how far I went from North Korea to dock east. I saw a small boat stranded on the shore. We took the courage to stop to save people and found out that it was a Japanese ship. The mast was broken, and the Japanese soldiers on the ship died for several months."

"There is a small house on the shore. Two Japanese men were alive like savages. When they saw us pulling their swords, they would come up. I went ashore with more than ten strong men and could not ask him to kill them, so I worked together to kill him. I found these armor tools in the house, and I was afraid that the back would be in danger at sea, so I took them on the boat."

"Although I have nothing to do with defense, I have checked the wards along the way, and I have told them all, and I have never been cheating on them. Then I arrived here safely."

As he said that, Wang Chaozuo showed a little fear, but he still stubbornly said, "Whether killing the Japanese or going to sea without seals, I will be the leader of the person. If you want to kill me, killing me will be better than implicating others."

Chen Mu nodded slowly. It was not that he believed in Wang Chaozuo, so there was nothing to doubt. The wars everywhere in Japan were the truth. He knew better than anyone else, let alone the hairstyle, outfit, and words were difficult to fake.

As for the Japanese soldiers, Chen Mu's personal soldiers inspected the armor and weapons on the ship. They were all broken swords and broken armor for ordinary feet, and the iron cannons did not have gunpowder or bullets, and the gun tubes were rusted inside without maintenance.

A dozen strong men met a samurai who had been practicing martial arts since childhood and were well-equipped, and might have been killed in anger when they met two people. However, it is not surprising that when they met a strong man from Qilu, a merchant who was also relatively satisfied with food and clothing, they were not surprised to be taken away by the strong man from Qilu, who was also accused of food and clothing.

Hearing Wang Chaozuo's last words, Chen Mu smiled and said, "You are lucky enough to meet Chen. There are not many people who dare to speak in front of me. In the future, there will be officials from the Commerce Bureau to register for you. If you want to go back, you can just ask the Commerce Bureau to issue a certificate."

"I'm just here, I think you have the responsibility. You four ships will be in charge. The canyons and seas in the east are still fighting. Don't leave if you have nothing to do, just settle here first. What do you think?"

"Chen, Chen..."

When Wang Chaozuo heard Chen Mu's claim, he was stunned. He never thought about who the person in front of him was. He only knew that he was an official who was bigger than the Qianxiong Baihun. He was called the general before, so he only thought he was a general like a general.

But at this time, when he heard Chen Mu claim to be Chen, he was obviously the controller of everything in words. His eyes straightened up and he fell to the ground with a clang, saying, "I don't know if it was Chen Daojun on the way. The year of Shandong last year was not good. Thanks to the fleet's expedition, my life has improved. Thank you, Daojun!"

The sudden change made Chen Mu's mouth twitch. What's this... Thank you for creating tens of thousands of jobs for the Ming Dynasty during my expedition?

"Okay, get up. If you don't have any objections, let your more than 100 people settle in the county. You can pick a piece of idle land not far from the port. Each household will reclaim 20 acres of less and 50 acres of more. You will reclaim plough and plant. You can't even care about farming and farming at the moment. Your people will just weave some straw mats for me."

The dynasty came just right. Chen Mu needed straw mats to cover the dead flag army, and the local people also needed straw mats to sleep. Spain's plundering colonization did not bring a better life to the local people. On the contrary, it pushed the indigenous people to the brink of death.

In the past, almost all the Aztecs who advocated war were soldiers, and every adult man had to receive military training, but smallpox and war caused their ethnic group education to be divided, and now they have nothing but pray to God.

"straw mat?"

As a practitioner, it is not difficult for Wang Chaozuo to imagine the use of these straw mats. He looked up at Chen Mu and asked in disbelief: "The government army is fighting... the grass people are talking too much. How many straw mats do Taoist want?"

Chen Mu didn't know that with the Fujian-Guang merchants and navy, his reputation had spread across the coastal areas. People's understanding of him was no longer limited to expanding the seas, but there were more news about him, such as the name of Dragon and Tiger Daojun.

Because the people in the city really don’t know what to call him, his official title is not a general, and the governor, and Asian strategies have not spread all over the coast, people’s understanding of his official position is still in the strange official titles of the ministers of the South China Sea, the ministers of the East China Sea, and the important ministers of the North China Sea.

Minister Chen?

It feels like the exclusive title of emperor.

Therefore, people are more willing to call him by the name of Taoist Lord, which sounds strange and powerful.

"Our war is very smooth. The war on land can end within half a month. Put your heart in your stomach. This is already the land of the Ming Dynasty."

"But wars will always kill people. I don't have enough life expectancy, and I don't have time to prepare. I can only prepare a straw mat and a pot of clay pot. You can do it according to a thousand pieces first. If you have any questions, go to the magistrate of Zou. He can help you."

Chen Mu had already stood up as his personal soldiers told him in his ear that except for Fu Yuan on the front line, the remaining few generals had rushed to the command room upstairs.
Chapter completed!