The Spanish phalanx is more flexible in the use of musketeers, and in decades, they have basically won all foreign wars except for the Ming Dynasty. If they win, they have the opportunity to clean the battlefield, which means that musketeers are not consumables, musketeers are.

Armor is rarely seen on ordinary musketeers, but musketeers who operate heavy muskets often wear breastplate. Even so, they have extremely high requirements for flexibility. They should be suitable for changing formations during marching, expanding quickly in confrontation, advancing and retreating during shooting, and sometimes they have to quickly transform from small square formations to large square formations.

The Ming army's bird gunners had to bear much less mission. When the enemy had cavalry activities, they would defend under the protection of the trench. If the Burmese infantry would slowly approach the enemy. Wearing armor would allow them to avoid being injured by stray bullets within seventy steps, and even within thirty to seventy steps, it would be very likely to save their lives.

There is a prerequisite for such tactics to be properly implemented. General Fu, who was eager to promote the heavy armored musket company, ignored that the Ming army often had an advantage in the quantity and quality of field artillery in positional warfare.

The bird gun team will not be knocked over by a few enemy cannons, so it will have the possibility of perfect operation of tactics.

Of course, for Duke Alva, this "Mingjiao Company" is for nothing. Anyway, it was given by Chen Mubai. As for whether it is easy to use or not, no one will think it is not easy to use.

When Alva went back, he asked the troops to take off the armor... It was not for another reason, it was just that it was too hot. The iron armor on cloth similar to the plate armor was not breathable. It was covered with breastplate outside, and the ribs were tied with leather straps. But if you think about it, you would sweat all over. Alva didn't want his subordinates to have heatstroke.

Just as Duke Alva was testing the protective ability of this armor in the basin, he received another letter from Chen Mu, which mentioned two things, both of which were related to money.

Monk Acosta read to the old duke with a letter and said, "After checking the border trade last year, the Ming army found that we exchanged a lot of Wanli Tongbao, but they did not use it for trading. When they finally checked the accounts, they found that one million and four hundred million Tongbao were missing, and he thought it was our merchant who took it."

"Apart from that, they also received counterfeit coins, like this one."

Acosta took out a silver dollar with Philip's emblem from his wide monk's robe and said, "After comparing, they said they received more than 500 silver coins in white copper bags, thinking that we were deceiving him with counterfeit coins."

Duke Alva, who was holding a heavy musket, was stunned for a while when he heard the monk's words. He took the coins and looked at them again and again. He paused and asked, "White Copper, what is it?"

Acosta also shook his head: "I only know these two words, white white, copper ore, combined together... I don't know what it is."

"This is silver, and it's even silver coins of very good quality. Does Chen Mu think that just making up an excuse can blackmail my money?"

Alva observed the silver coin carefully and he was very sure that this was a silver coin, which was no different from other silver coins in terms of weight, color and material. If you really want to tell the difference, it was just that this silver coin was too deliberate in its edges and corners, and did not look like something crudely made by the Spanish Mint.

When Duke Alva replied angrily across the border and delivered it to Chen Mu, the Eastern Military Office was also surprised by it: "Do they don't know what white copper is? Or they still talk lies with their eyes open, and they actually said that this is silver!"

Chen Mu knew very well that these coins that looked like silver coins were not silver, but copper-nickel alloys. Although they looked very similar to silver, they could tell that they were not silver with a slight stroke with a needle. Silver was very soft and could leave scratches, but white copper was not.

White copper is a specialty of Sichuan and Yunnan provinces. It was first recorded in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Chen Mu intercepted the export of this kind of goods when he was in Qianhu Station in Xiangshan.

Could it be that the problem was caused by myself?

Once this idea came to my mind, I couldn't stop guessing, and finally I had to order the village lieutenants from all over the country to investigate the private minting of coins.

This kind of thing cannot be resisted. One checked and one after another. In just ten days, a village lieutenant reported it and found that there were signs of privately minted silver coins in the neighboring village, and he also sold the silver coins to Western merchants on the other side of the border to make profits.

It made Chen Mu feel dull.

I thought there was a thief in the Spanish, but I didn't expect that the people who made the counterfeit coins were the people on their own, and they were also making counterfeit coins from others.

Chen Mu was so angry that he scratched his head in the military office. He walked and asked, "Since he is planning to make counterfeit coins, why don't he make Tongbao and have to make fake Spanish?"

Speaking of which, it is much easier to make private Tongbao technically than to make silver coins with white copper. Not to mention that the furnace temperature required for copper smelting is higher than that of iron smelting. The key is where did you find nickel from the New World?

The person who came to report was Xu Jin, a small household on the border. The incident happened in his village. Naturally, he looked dejected as if he had come to confess his guilt and reported in a low voice: "The general has an order and has privately built a Tongbao gun and killed him, so they dare not violate the order..."

"Then I have to thank them for being obedient, right?" Chen Mu was so angry that his head hurt. He rubbed his head and asked, "Where did they get Bai Tong?"

"When they went back to the Grand Marshal, they brought some fake silver in white copper when they went out from home. They thought they could get away with it here, but they didn't expect that Asia did not use silver and did not dare to exchange for Tongbao in the Pass. They had to follow the border. Later, they found that the Western Yi used silver coins... Grand Marshal, Lin Qianhu asked Bei Zhi to ask, what to do with it?"

The combination hit it off.

How to deal with it?

Chen Mu also wanted to know what to do.

The Ming Dynasty law did not stipulate how to deal with the regulations on imitating counterfeit currencies from other countries. Chen Mu stretched out his arm and blocked him and Xu Jin: "Don't talk to me first, it's a headache!"

But after sitting for a long time, Chen Mu said slowly: "First of all, the stolen money is confiscated and confiscated, and there is no need to punish such as sticks. The mint in Changsheng County is being built. They are filled with all the mints and are not allowed to leave for eight years."

"They can do fake coins well, so Alva can't see it, and it's okay to make real coins."

Chen Mu's departure made Xu Jin, a hundred households breathe a sigh of relief. Before he could wipe the sweat from his forehead, Chen Mu turned his head and stared at him viciously and said, "How did you be a hundred households? And those village lieutenants, you don't know whether the common people minted coins?"

As he said that, Chen Mu pointed to the personal soldiers in the room and ordered: "Go and tell Lin Hu'er that he will be fined one year's salary and ask him to investigate it for me. From above, someone who accepts bribes will be killed on the spot. Those who know the situation but do not report it will be dismissed immediately. Those who do not know the situation will be fined for half a year."

Chen Mu rubbed his head, and the more he thought about it, the more annoyed he became... How should he tell Alva? Could it be that he had read it wrong? This thing is silver coins?

He neither wanted to admit that counterfeit money was taken from him nor did he want to help Europeans understand what white copper is.

"well!"
Chapter completed!