Conscription.

Suleiman's orders began at Tortoiseshell Harbor, where the well-traveled sergeants marched through the dense forest to the settlements north and east of Hawksbill Harbor, bringing with them a small number of new warriors and previously routed stragglers.

To the east of Hawksbill Harbor, thousands of sergeants were busy cutting down trees to clear a large area of woodland outside Bansylan for a new barracks, where recruits and existing Hawksbill Harbor sergeants would be trained in the use of bird guns and spears as future reserves.

There were two roads from Manila to Tortoiseshell Harbor on land, one through mountains and the other through dense forests and rivers, and the garrison was changed from pirates to a 500-banner army led by Shao Tingda, who erected artillery and fortified fortifications on the key roads of the passes.

Although the garrison has become smaller, the blocking force has increased more than a little.

Shihe's pirates only have a small number of old-fashioned mortar cannons and Francos, and the firearms are even more firecrackers, bird guns, and fast guns, even if the number of scattered firearms is pitiful, the firepower of five hundred people is not as good as a hundred households, even if they only use cold weapons, they may be able to resist without forming a formation, and once the flag army is formed, two hundred households can crush them.

The pirates are too easy to be defeated, and although they are fierce and unusually fierce on their own, they are the first to flee if the battle situation is slightly unfavorable.

To the west of Tortoiseshell Harbor and not far from the shore is the camp of Chen Mu's banner army, half of the troops on board are either in the port or patrolling the open sea, and only less than a thousand households of banner troops remain in the camp.

Chen Mu's first official position was Banshilan Qianhu Chen Bazhi, who is now an instructor of thousands of troops in Banshilan City.

There is no one who is as proficient in artillery and artillery tactics as Hachiro, who has been trained by Chen Mu's training and has also commanded and trained Qi's army, and he is more suitable to be a recruit instructor.

Qi Jiguang had a great influence on Hachiro, Chen Mu made him change from a dead child to a dead child who could use artillery to drive ships and lead soldiers, and Qi Jiguang let him complete the change from a dead child to a soldier and a general.

The Qi family's army is much stronger than his father.

If it was in the past, he would definitely not be happy to let him lead the recruits, everyone knew that he wanted to charge at the forefront. But now it is different, Hachiro, who received the order, handed Chen Mu a training plan starting from the formation of the army the next day, so that Chen Mu was happy and took the seal of the Minister of Nanyang to build him a Banshilan Thousand Households.

Silly son is sensible!

"According to your plan, the army will be organized as a guard, and the first small flag to be promoted will be selected from the Han and those who know Chinese, and if the Luzon people know Chinese, the Luzon people will be given priority. Mr. Chen will bring in 2,800 bird guns for you to use in the near future, which is a long-term plan. It can be as little as three months or as much as a year, depending on the merits of the war, if all goes well. ”

Chen Mu said to Wei Balang: "In a year and a half, I want you to train 5,600 reserve soldiers who are proficient in guns, spears, and military formations, and order them to be prohibited. ”

This is a guard's army, and there is no artillery, because Chen Mu's army is not rich in artillery. With limited transportation capacity, they carried very few field artillery, and the whole army only had 20 2-kilogram guns and 10 5-kilogram guns.

Of course, if the situation is in a crisis, the naval guns can also be dismantled, and the two-pound guns can be quickly used for city defense to reach hundreds of scales.

There is no need to think about the artillery that exceeds five catties, and the few pack horses on the grain ship are only enough to fight a small battle of 1,000 people, so they can only be transported to Manila again and again by the fortune ship that is now returning to Nanyang Port.

And what about his artillery now? Pirates and maritime merchants, as well as conscripted local Livlaira.

In addition to the defense along the land and sea, the scouts were not idle, and the two scouts, composed of locals and flag troops, approached Manila, and their missions were different. Local scouts scouted the military and the Spaniards, while flag scouts surveyed the terrain and surveyed the terrain.

In addition, Chen Mu and Lin Feng's people set off with the scouts, and they needed to infiltrate Manila and find Li Dan and Zhuang Gong.

"Next time, Nanyangwei needs to transport saltpeter and Xu Erjin to the tortoiseshell port, and at the same time, the empty fortune ship will transport the sulfur back to Nanyang, the price of sulfur in the Ming Dynasty is six taels per stone, and a fortune ship can transport a thousand stones."

Chen Mu held a strange short sword in a wooden sheath in his hand, drew on the map and frowned: "Locally collected sulfur, how much can be mined in a month, and what is the selling price?" ”

Sulfur is a special product of Luzon, which is neither expensive nor profitable, but Chen Mu needs to exchange this for saltpeter, simply from the price of one catty of yellow can be exchanged for two catties of nitrate, Chen Mu's logistics baggage in addition to the Guangdong Dusi self-produced must rely on private supply, so he can't count it.

"The island is full of places, if the marshal is willing, he will use the Ming craftsmen on the island rich in yellow to recruit locals to pick yellow, and he will know how much he can pick within half a month."

Li Yuxi is a big businessman, his mind is not a joke, he directly plans to do business without capital, just open a mine and pay wages.

"Okay, the yellow mining is yours, and the sulfur will be transported to the port, and a ship will give you four hundred taels of silver, of which one hundred taels will be for the workers, and the Luzon people will be given priority in recruiting workers, which will ensure that each worker will be paid at least one tael a month. Don't steal or rob the work, this money is what people deserve, but don't ink. ”

Li Yuxi felt that he had a toothache, even if he had already learned Chen Mu's domineering style in Haojing when he was still a military master, he still felt very uncomfortable at this moment.

This person actually told him the profit of each ship after transporting Daming, and then told him that one ship would make him three hundred taels, which was clear.

It's not that he doesn't make much money, even if a ship is three hundred taels, if he can get forty ships of sulfur every month, he can still earn more than ten thousand taels, one hundred thousand taels of silver a year, and only needs to recruit a bunch of miners, which is not so easy to earn in Daming.

Especially when sulfur is forbidden to be sold at sea in the Ming Dynasty.

But what's the problem?

The problem is that the selling price of sulfur in Daming is 6,000 taels, and even if the price is low, there is a profit of at least 4,000 taels. What Shuai Ye needs to do is to take the baggage ship that was originally going to return to Nanyang Port empty, load more goods at the port, and find a place to sell it.

also kept saying that people deserve to take money for their efforts, and they can't be black; But let's Zhang Luo don't make any effort in this matter, don't we deserve to make money?

What did he hear?

Chen Mu ignored his expression at all, and took the weird short sword on the wooden table on the outer edge of the map, muttering to himself: "Ship it to Taiwan, let the shippers of Hexingsheng go there to get it, a boat of three thousand taels, and Chen doesn't care about anything else." ”

"Haojing, handsome man, transported to Haojing, Li Mou can sell it for 4,000 taels in a boat!"

"Oh! Four thousand taels still has a lot to earn. Chen Mu looked at Li Yuxi in surprise, nodded and said, "Okay, then it will be shipped to Taiwan, a boat of 4,500 taels, 4,500 taels, do you still have to make money?" ”

Li Yuxi's expression was like eating a fly, but he still expected to follow Chen Mu, and said helplessly: "Yes, there are others, but they really can't go up anymore, and if they go up again, they won't be able to sell them." ”

"Okay, then it's decided, you have a boat in Taiwan for four thousand three hundred taels." Chen Mu smiled with satisfaction, took out a short sword that was one foot six inches but looked like a two-handed hand from the wooden sheath, took the bird gun from his hand, stuffed the short sword from the mouth of the gun and handed it to Li Yuxi, and said: "Hao Shang will do me a favor again, send this gun to the Tianshi monk in the port, and ask him to make up a set of gun stabbing techniques for Chen." ”