Chapter 67: Cutting-edge

Chen Mu didn't know that Jinyiwei had gone to Haojing and boarded the ship to Malacca.

Even if Zhang Juzheng wrote a letter to ask, he just thought that the matter had developed to the point where the cabinet ministers knew his thoughts on maritime affairs, which was a good phenomenon, which allowed the ministers to look at the sea to the south with a broader vision, which was enough for Chen Mu.

The real big things will be done by him, and this kind of thing cannot be done by others.

But he did not anticipate the introverted lord of the steadfast lord's great desire to eat the pie freely.

He had no idea that winter was a good time, but all the officials in the northern part of the empire were busy, because they were doing something big - to bring about peace between the Ming Dynasty and Alta.

The dispute in the court has stopped, and Ye Mengxiong, the superintendent of Shanxi Province, has harassed the frontier for many years because of Altan Khan, killing and plundering for many years, "unpredictable enemy situation", not gullible, resisting and opposing the surrender of tribute, and was demoted to the county of Haoyang County, Shaanxi after disobeying the will of the imperial court, and the dispute between the court on this matter stopped.

To negotiate peace, this is what the imperial court means.

Chen Mu was very sympathetic to Ye Mengxiong and sent someone to send Ye Mengxiong letters and swords to comfort his lonely heart.

He also felt unhappy from the bottom of his heart to negotiate peace, when he was in charge of the Xuanfu, all this was tense before, he wanted to do a big job, and even wanted to reach a consensus with Ma Fang to attack the outside of the fortress, and more people, cattle, horses, and lambs came back, but suddenly wanted to negotiate peace.

But he knew that it was right, and at this moment, the best way to deal with it was that no woman would lose her husband, no child would lose her father, and there was peace.

And in fact, his thoughts were meaningless in the general direction of the matter, and whatever he thought, the matter was already settled.

Chen Mucai didn't have time to pay attention to these things, he rarely asked for external help, the Lord relied on internal cultivation, he didn't care about peace or court disputes, he only knew the eternal and unchanging truth - only the strong have the right to show mercy.

When the Xuanfu soldiers were strong and strong, even if they didn't discuss it and the northern captives outside the Saiwai, they didn't dare to harass them in the south; When the people in the Seychelles are doing well, the people outside the Seychelles who fled north in the past because they could not make ends meet will also rush to join in.

Everything comes with a premise and a price.

That's what he's supposed to do.

So he was busy writing a letter to Zhang Han, the old man had promised to provide him with convenience, and the cabinet also made a special trip to the letter to support the manpower needed by the Xuan Mansion, and the Nanjing Ministry of Industry would open the door for him to make it easier.

"The craftsmen in the Sichuan and Shu areas are good at digging and drilling, the Jingdezhen potters can make the best kilns in the world, and the blacksmiths who can build blast furnaces in the Zunhua Iron Factory, the carpenters who make the best looms in Jiangnan, and the jade craftsmen who can make pedal grinders in the Liuli Factory, I need them."

Chen Mu glanced out the window, paused and closed the letter, attached another one, and wrote on it to send it to Nanyangwei, "There is also a class of respect, bring a few young men from Nanyang." ”

There is already a large construction site outside the city of Xuanfu, because winter has come and forced to stop work, it will snow in a few days, the cold wind in the north of the country delays the construction period, and the craftsmen who have just been called here have returned to their guard to do good things in the spring of the next year.

The site is still a river, but fortunately, there is still a big river flowing from the outside of the Saiwai through Xuanfu and then to Jingshi, the Yanghe River, a tributary of the Yongding River, the river is seventy or eighty zhang wide, the water flow is extremely large, and the narrow strip is enough to provide power for Chen Mu's abacus in the future.

Nanyangwei's steam engine has long been on the agenda, the steam engine is not difficult, the practical steam engine is the difficulty, find a way to make it move, after moving, other problems will naturally be solved slowly, there is no need to build it so well, Chen Mu did not plan to use this thing to drive a car.

It's better to have rubber, and it doesn't affect it without rubber, and Watt's steam engine doesn't have this thing, so it didn't delay opening the factory.

But at that time, at least in Chen Mu's thoughts, the Xuanfu Ordnance Bureau will still rely on water power and animal power for a while and a half, any force is good, and productivity progress is a little bit, this time Chen Mu got enough resources for him to show his skills.

With these best craftsmen from all over the world, the best steel materials from the south are transferred, and the lathe system for cutting, cutting, and drilling is upgraded in Xuanfu, and the next thing will be much easier.

The military affairs of the Xuanfu and the affairs of the Ordnance Bureau have not stopped, and the drills of Chen Mu's headquarters have not stopped, in fact, he may be the least of the headquarters in the last few Xuanfu general soldiers, only more than 1,000 family soldiers and more than 1,000 battalion soldiers, which is worth 2,400.

This is still the case when he reported to the Ministry of War that the quasi-Nanyang Guard was overnumbered by 500, and that the 300 households in Haojing were recruited to recruit 200 new households, and the 500 belonged to the banner army of the Xiangshan Thousand Households Office to be temporarily transferred to the headquarters.

However, there are a lot of subordinate troops, more than 40,000 guards and more than 30,000 recruits, Dong Yikui and Dong Yiyuan's task is to streamline more than 30,000 recruits to 24,000, each in charge of 12,000, divided into 6,000 horse infantry and 6,000 car battalions.

"Send this letter to the Governor without delay."

Chen Mu planned to send a letter to Wang Chonggu, asking that the reduced battalion troops and ordnance be sent to Xuanfu, and he wanted to recruit another 4,200 new soldiers to supplement the troops of Deng Zilong and Hu Liangpeng, and personally train all the men, so that Xuanfu would still maintain the number of battalion soldiers at 30,000.

Under the joint planning of him, the Dong brothers, and the second general Deng Hu, judging from the Xuanfu and Wanquan defense lines, at least 55,000 actual troops are needed to be just a baseline, and at least 60,000 troops are needed to do a good job in the defense along the line.

And this number, judging from the current situation of the guards, obviously needs more, so 30,000 battalions are still needed, bringing the total strength to 70,000, in order to prepare for war. Guns can be replenished over time, but the sooner the number of troops is replenished, the better.

Sha eliminated the old and weak, recruited recruits who did not have stubborn diseases, and retrained them to train one day earlier.

However, Chen Mu's letter didn't need to be sent, and before the messenger ran out of the territory of Xuanfu, Wang Chonggu, the governor of Xuanda, had already come.

"General Chen, when you first became the Xuanfu, the old man didn't come to supervise you. I know that you have an elite army in the Juma River to defeat Ji Neng, if you go out of the jam, can it be fought? ”

Wang Chonggulai's momentum is very strong, this is also a famous general who was born in the south to resist the Japanese Wenjinshi, when the army was preparing for the road, he went to sea many times to command the sailors to defeat the Japanese invaders, and later in Shaanxi, Ningxia, Gansu and other areas covered his head and beat Lao Ji Neng, he is a real fierce man.

And these words also made Chen Mu's heart go straight and suddenly, can you get out of the jam and fight, isn't this?

"How many troops will the military gate use to get out of the fortress?"

Wang Chonggu looked at Chen Mu's appearance and smiled, and said: "You don't have to go out of the fortress, but you need to temporarily transfer your artillery team to Datong, the westernmost end of your Wanquan defense line, Yanghe and Gaoshan Erwei, in order to deter the peace between the imperial court and the Great Wall, and exchange Hannaji with the traitor Zhao Quan and others, but he still has concerns in his heart and has not yet negotiated. ”

"I still need to borrow the prestige of the general, General Ma can't go, he is a heavy weapon, not to mention the new defeat, if he goes to discuss this matter, it will not be possible; It's not as good as the general's cutting-edge, but it can also shock him. ”

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