Chapter 176 Inland Sea
Empress Li was full of sorrow in the Forbidden City. In her heart, Chen Mu had to untied the bell, but she had almost the same emotions on the other side of the ocean.
During the period when Emperor Wanli was preparing for the military parade, Chen Mu was not idle in Yazhou. The peace talks were left to Zhao Shizhen to the border to preside over the presidency. He and Xu Zhenming took a boat one after another and sailed north and south.
Xu Zhenming had been sorting out local survey data of Panama in the past 30 years ago. However, due to different measurement methods and because he could not believe in the measurement methods of Westerners, Xu Zhenming had to go on-site inspections.
Chen Mu first took a boat north and landed in Jie County and Jincheng in turn to investigate the training of the garrison and the governance of the magistrate. Jie County was still the same, and the lack of population made it still a barren land when Shao Tingda was stationed.
Aimu raised hundreds of sheep in the county, and more than 3,000 local people were located, which almost had no impact on the environment of the narrow peninsula.
Jincheng was much better. Tribes in the south, north and even east gathered there. Countless soldiers and horses of vassal states practiced here, learned Chinese, and a large number of immigrants, who wanted mines, mines, fields and fields. They led to the valleys in the east and also brought back one by one.
In Wu Zhongxing's words, Jincheng County is a blessed land. In the future, regardless of who the successor is, it is considered guilty if it cannot be punished.
Chen Mu felt that the magistrate who was exempted from the court was a little inflated. Why did he think he would not be re-elected for three magistrates?
However, Chen Mu's main purpose for 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 older these two boys change, the bigger the banditry spirit in Li Dan has almost disappeared. Chen Jiujing is not as powerful as Chen Lin, but has a bit of Confucian general temperament.
When the two were ferrying to the east, they commanded thousands of troops. Li Dan had an elite Japanese samurai team and soldiers carrying chaotic flags from Daming offices in various places; Chen Jiujing went to North Korea to pick up troops from Ashikaga Yoshiaki to join the Ming Dynasty after he entered the Ming Dynasty for tribute.
After arriving in Jincheng, their subordinates studied Chinese while dispersing some of their troops to various places. Now they still have about 3,000 troops left.
However, the main purpose of dismantling the troops was to worry that they were too large to gather people to rebel against the Heavenly Army and had no idea of weakening their combat power. For example, sending Japanese soldiers to southern Peru.
Therefore, after reducing the troops, the two subordinates still had strong combat capabilities. Therefore, the Eastern Military Office set up three battalions outside each garrison, and the second battalion was their two men.
Li Dan's army was named Fusang Camp, which was the elite of the two countries, Japanese and Ryukyu.
Chen Jiujingmen was named Baishanying, and he was the elite of the Jurchens and North Korea.
There is also an army that is Baizi Camp, and the general is Ma Fang Changsun Ma Ran, leading the Mongolian infantry and cavalry. Chen Mu did not move this army. Under the order of Magui, Baizi Camp and the "Northern Yuan remnants" mentioned by the black cloud dragons of Hulun tribe were divided into various teams under the leadership of Beiyang officers, and swept eastward in the vast northern part of Yazhou.
In this land under the Meiji land, there were no natural enemies of the Mongolian infantry and cavalry, and no one could endure hunger, cold and rushing than them.
After the transfer order was issued, the second battalion, who had been in full swing for a long time, boarded the lucky ship and followed Chen Mu toward Panama.
"Entertainment Father, should I go to Saicheng?"
On the boat, Li Dan asked Chen Mu that the city of Seville that he mentioned was naturally Seville in Spain, and the leased land in the agreement signed after a war in Mingxi.
"Well, last month I have sent someone to send a letter to the King of West, telling him that he is going to send troops to take over Seville. When he sends the letter back, you will go there again. No matter how you will get it next year."
Chen Mu nodded thoughtfully and raised his hand and asked, "How is your second camp's morale recently? I heard that someone has caused trouble in Jincheng a few days ago?"
Li Dan and Chen Jiujing looked at each other, and nodded with a wry smile. He bowed and said, "The Jurchens are not good at sailing, and the Japanese soldiers are not good at sailing far away. When they crossed the east, they all had to sink before they could reach Wangxiazhou. Those who had not sunk were replaced with the guards and the guards were replaced with the lucky ship."
"They feel that they have no hope of returning home, and they are here and ask them to learn Chinese all day long, which will inevitably be irritable and uneasy." Li Dan smiled and shook his head, "If they had come to catch up with the war earlier, they would not have had so many things."
People cannot be idle, they will grow grass in their hearts when they are idle.
Chen Mu agreed with Li Dan's words and nodded, "I think so too, so I plan to send you to Panama first, go from the west coast along the road built by the Western people to the east coast, and fight a few battles there, and the morale of his subordinates should be restored."
His words caused the two adopted sons to look at each other, and Chen Jiujing asked, "The Ming Dynasty and the Western Barbarians have not agreed to, and the war is about to start again?"
Chen Mu shook his head and smiled, "If you really start a war, you can't let you go out to sea to fight the Western Army. Their insurgency formation is still very powerful. They helped the Western countries clear the pirates on the route. I see that there are a lot of firearms on your ship and a lot of Francs."
"Yes, after the war ended, the king ordered the confiscation, and the Tianjun helped collect some, and most of them were brought to the east. The Fusang Camp now has more than a thousand Japanese guns, fourteen large flanks made by Portugal, and eight small flanks made by Japan."
It is not difficult to imitate the small cannon of Fran. In Europe, the Fran cannon was knocked out with iron rolls and iron hoops, which were like making muskets. Even so, it was enough to surprise Chen Mu: "I thought the Fran cannon was made by the Ming Dynasty, so amazing they are."
"The adoptive father didn't know anything. There were princes in Japan named Shin-hen. The man made the "Kazhou Law" to describe his birth in the Central Plains Warring States Period. The princes were in chaos for the war and ruled the country. After the war alone, they collected more than 10,000 yuan. This is not the case with the magistrates and defenders of various places who were unwilling to hand over."
Li Dan said, "Xiao Ba left three thousand pieces. The Li family took the capital to send 4,600 iron cannons to Liaodong. If it weren't for them, the child would have a firearm when he came here."
"Distributed to Liaodong? What do the Li family wants so many guns to do... Just give it to him." Chen Mu calculated that Xiaoba and Xiaojiu and Li Dan did not suffer any losses: "The Li family has contributed their talents and efforts, and it is worthwhile to share some things after the war."
Of course, the main reason why the petty donkey man who was so generous was nothing else. He suddenly realized that the iron cannons were all fuse guns, which was useless to him. Even if he gave up, he could only resell them to other countries.
It is not a bad thing to add some firearms to Liaodong.
"Let's get off the boat from the west coast of Panama. I'll go see General Deng's army, mainly to explore the difficulty of building a canal. When you go east, the ship will go around the southern part of Asia. General Deng's fleet is also transferring the main force to the east coast. At that time, he will send a few gunboats to support you."
"Take this opportunity, we can reach over there, and the East is sooner or later our inland sea!"
Chapter completed!