Near the start of the competition, Chang Sheng's workers and factories worked overtime to decorate all the necessary facilities for the school stands a few days in advance, and the temporary stalls on the side of the road were also sold by the county government, and almost the whole city was preparing for that day.

Although the game has not yet started, the number of grandstand tickets sold in Changsheng County has changed every day, but more than 600 tickets were sold in three days, and then the county government simply issued a standing ticket of 50 tongbao.

The terraces are on the ninth floor, and the grandstand tickets are only sold for eight floors, with 300 seats on the bottom floor and 700 seats on the top floor.

Because the middle of the third or fourth floor is the most open and comfortable position with the widest field of vision, he added his own small house, called the Military Pavilion, which is used to entertain the chief military officers and commanders who came from all over the country to lead the troops to participate in the competition.

Of course, there is also a place for Zou Bald in the room.

The left and right floors of the Junfu Pavilion are divided into 100 compartments and occupy part of the space, all of which are open rooms with low walls and low tiles, and tables are also prepared, and tickets that sell 10,000 yuan on the west side of the border and 50,000 yuan on the east side sit here.

In addition, there are four tickets for each seat on each floor, one seat and three standing seats, with a total capacity of 2,800 seats and 8,400 standing passengers.

Thanks to the blessing of the aborigines, Chen Mu does not need to arrange his subordinates to do anything big with such a large-scale project, and only needs a little decoration, and the 10,000-person viewing platform can be put into use.

Although the largest exports were silk and porcelain, they were not produced locally, and the best commodities that could be produced on a large scale were pottery, wood, leather, paper, cotton textiles, and food processing.

The number and scale of employees in other manufacturing industries are too small.

But even these factories with extremely strong production capacity have received orders softly, and the inventory is almost out of stock.

First clay pots, wooden boxes, and then oiled paper, almost all the utensils that could hold things were bought out by merchants piecemeal, and Zou Yuanbiao didn't know how to collect taxes from the shops outside the school on the day of the competition.

Because those who lease shops are not merchants, some of them are workers, some are immigrant farmers, some are hunters, most of them have no experience in trading in the past, but they smell the news of the county government opening a rental shop that can make money, and then they rush into it, and lease the shop first.

This was followed by the making of goods, most of which were food, water and drinks.

Not to mention the food and fish in clay pots, fried beans, fried sunflower seeds, fried peanuts, cocoa beans and various fruits, and cigarettes.

The people who prepared everything.

Where has Zou Yuanbiao seen such a situation, the key is that it is very difficult for the people to have such a state of freedom in a country where various systems and laws and regulations are complete, and there is also no such thing as Changsheng, where most of the people are workers.

The vast majority of immigrants are excluded from this, as they are yeoman farmers on the outskirts of the city who own vast tracts of land and small landowners who own land and hire farmers.

In the end, there was really no way, Zou Bald ran to the military government and begged for an order, and the tax exemption was exempted on the same day.

If you can't settle the account, you just don't collect it, anyway, the rent and tickets have made Changsheng County get a higher income than the past few months of taxes, and it is rare for the people to have a holiday, and the whole world will have fun.

But they still underestimated the enthusiasm of the people.

On the day the competition began, the crowding in the arena that Chen Mu was most worried about did not happen at all, because everyone was blocked on the road and couldn't get in at all.

The merchants and most of the people waited with torches the first night, and the roads were congested until the roosters crowed and the flags marched out of the barracks, and even then the start of the contest was delayed by an hour and a half.

It's not that Chen Mu instructed the people to wait, he thought so, but the decision was not at all him, he didn't have the experience of holding large-scale activities, and the discipline of the immigrants was slightly better, and the discipline of the aborigines was inferior, not to mention that there were more than 10,000 people, and the flag army was all sent out to maintain law and order.

Chen Mu was busy and idle, the people still recognized the word avoidance, and the military generals and colonels who avoided entering the entrance were reminiscing about the old days, and many prosperous businessmen came to salute in turn after entering, and he was full before the competition began.

Deng Zilong, who came back from Panama, drank a few glasses of wine, his tongue grew wide, and he waved his hand: "Dashuai, your idea of this competition is really good, Deng Mou doesn't know how much the shooting skills of the flag army have improved, and the flag army is already very good in shooting in Beiyang!" ”

What Deng Zilong said was the consensus of all the generals, not only because of the complete training in Beiyang, but also because the standard musket of this era has a low ceiling.

The Beiyang Banner Army is not bad at shooting, and after training, put five guns on it, most people can have four guns to hit the humanoid target, and there are three guns on the target at sixty steps, which is very good.

Even after this month of special shooting training, the ability of the flag army to improve is extremely limited, and those who used to be able to hit the target with three guns may now have four guns on the target; He used to have four guns on target, and he may still have four guns.

Want to be more accurate? The killer gun can't come, and the killer gun can only let the flag army see the target farther away, but the bird can't change it when he waits for that breath, and the wind and grass can't be corrected, which is almost the limit of human shooting accuracy.

But then Deng Zilong got to the point: "More skilled, they are more proficient in putting medicine into the cartridge, from the cartridge to the chamber, they are more proficient, which is very useful when they are in battle, and wait for the east to start the ......war."

Chen Mu originally listened to Deng Zilong with a little self-contained smile, and when he heard this, he raised his index finger and put it on his lips: "The wall has ears, we don't plan to start a war with Spain, don't let people misunderstand." ”

"Hahaha!"

Speaking of starting a war, not to mention Deng Zilong, even Fu Yuan smiled.

The relationship between Ming and Xi, Fu Yuan, who is on the border line, knows best, it is difficult to say what the attitude of the Spanish soldiers is towards their flag army, and the lower-level officers can't spare the stunned young people who are looking forward to fighting with the Ming army again.

But the upper-class nobles were very afraid of the Ming army, and seeing that these officers didn't even dare to come out, for fear that something would make them unhappy and start the war again, he waved his hand and said: "Don't worry, the marshal, you can't fight." ”

Shi Xiaolou, who was smiling with a wine glass on the side, glanced at each other with his fellow businessmen, since he talked about the war, he took advantage of the cold topic, and when these fierce generals didn't speak, he asked Chen Mu: "Chen Shuai, the villain heard that the military government wants to allow us and other businessmen to set up a company, and also allow the formation of an official army to escort the army, this matter is ......."

"Heartbeat? Want to get two battleships next to you? ”

Hexingsheng businessmen are all their own people, in fact, when Shi Xiaolou came back from Qilinwei, he knew that it was the businessmen who wanted to come back to ask about the matter, and he was also deliberately trying to get to the bottom of the merchants, and said with a smile: "You know this matter by buying a ship and recruiting troops to escort with the tax amount, right?" ”

Shi Xiaolou nodded hurriedly when he heard that there was a play: "I know, I know." ”

"The escort fleet is set up to protect the safety of merchants, it is not that you are allowed to have warships and recruit troops, everything is voluntary, if the merchants do not need to escort, even if the tax amount reaches Chen, it is not forced."

"But if you need to, the ship is bought by the company, the soldiers are raised by the company, and even the training is also the military government from the officers and the old flag army, but the food and food are all managed by the company, and the escort fleet that was finally trained is not a company, can you understand when I say so?"

Shi Xiaolou had a guess in his heart, but he didn't understand it very well, or he wasn't very willing to accept it, so he paused and said, "Please show it to the big marshal." ”

"Let me tell you that."

Chen Mu changed his posture, his body moved a little closer to Shi Xiaolou's direction, and said: "All the escort fleets, the officers are Beiyang officers who have been promoted and transferred, the flag army used to be a small flag, and the general flag used to be a hundred households, they are all the establishment of the Oriental Military Government, and they are official soldiers rather than private troops. ”

"But for the trade of the imperial court, they are used by the company, when there is no war in the Great Eastern Ocean, the company's merchant fleet goes to sea, they follow the sea, the company sets up a merchant station on land, they set up a military station next to it, you Hao Shang Brother Shi walks in any country in Europe, and the officers and soldiers of the Ming Empire follow behind you with guns."

"Where are you going to do business, except for Daming's company, as long as you comply with Daming's law and China's reason, they will ensure that no one can stand in the way of your company's profit."

"If anyone gets in the way, he's a duke, and they'll let the territory change to a duke; He was the king, and they gave the kingdom a new king, and whoever had a castle filled the windows with bundles of gunpowder, and whoever had a wall threw down the walls with cannons. ”

Chen Mu said, wiped his hand on the table, and raised a finger at Shi Xiaolou: "But they are not the company's private soldiers, if a businessman tries to control this army, they will kill that person first; And in the event of a war in the Great Eastern Ocean, all escort fleets must obey the orders of the military government, so you understand? ”

Shi Xiaolou pursed his lips and swallowed his saliva, he looked around at the fellow businessmen left and right, looked at the officers sitting around him, and finally looked at Chen Mu and nodded: "Xiaomin understands, I ...... I want to donate some money to the imperial court. ”