Xiangshan harvested the first season of grain, after a few rains did not take long to feel that it was about to enter autumn, it has not yet entered autumn, but it feels like last winter, I am afraid that this year's nitrate and wastewater fertilizer sent from Qingyuan can not save the yield of the second crop of rice.

As soon as the matter of Haojing came to an end, the sea was forcibly closed for several months, and the transaction of the maritime merchants had already been completed, and as soon as the business and other matters were completed, they hurriedly carried their goods away from Haojing, and the island was more than half less populated in a blink of an eye.

The purchasing power of 30 Cruzaduo can be about 50 taels of silver, and the price of buying raw silk from Guangcheng is 20% higher than that from Fujian, but even if you buy silk in Guangcheng, you can still make several times the profit when you sell it to Haojing next year.

If you sell your own ship to Malacca, the profit is even more amazing, but it is not easy for the Ming maritime merchants to do business in Malacca, which is under Portuguese control.

Haojing's charter was set, and there was a lot less Fanyi on the island, and Chen Mu's pressure was much less.

He and Zhou Xing convened together to discuss the affairs of the island and then returned to Xiangshan together, of course, the garrison will not be withdrawn, leaving Shiqi and other three hundred households to defend and step up drills, Chen Mu sent Sun Ao out to recruit troops again.

He invited a supernumerary of 300 soldiers from the yamen of the governor's palace, but he had to recruit another 300 households. Chen Mu didn't dare to think about what it would be like if he could be promoted to commander due to fate in the future.

I'm afraid that the entire people of Jiangshang will be recruited by him at that time.

I'm afraid that recruiting is not enough to fill the gap in the flag army.

If nothing else, he will be able to afford to raise a full 5,600 banner army by this time next year, because he has received three points of sea tariff.

The tax officer sent by Zhang Han to Haojing is none other than Zhu Xiang, the ambassador of the library who had a relationship with the miners in Qingyuan in the past.

In July, Chen Mugang sent someone to buy a loom for the craftsmen of the Wei Institute to imitate, and Bai Yuanjie led the 800 Banner Army to go down by boat to move the Xiangshan Institute, along with Zhang Yongshou and the copper and iron ingots made out of his mine.

When the three of them got together again, they were very drunk, and then the affairs were shared.

Bai Yuanjie drilled the flag army on the water, Deng Zilong practiced on land, Zhang Yongshou managed to patrol the coast of Xiangshan on land, and a small number of soldiers and horses were rotated to patrol and defend, and seven exercises in ten days were extremely heavy training compared to all the armies of the entire era.

Chen Mu is in charge of everything, he has to train the flag army on the water, and he also has his share in training the flag army on the road, but the coastal patrol is all handed over to Zhang Yongshou, and he doesn't care about this.

In addition, he often went to the newly built iron workshop on the shore to explore the progress of construction, occasionally went up the mountain to see the Yuding wood picking road, and at the same time dedicated himself to practicing archery and horses to learn the strategy of last year's martial arts, he did not catch up, and the next martial arts was the year after tomorrow, that is, the fourth year of Longqing.

Li Tao was admitted to the Jinshi, and wrote that he was sent to Quanzhou Mansion in Fujian Province as a magistrate, and the letter said that he had handled a big case when he first arrived, and Chen Mu had nothing else to help him.

Although the new ironworks are still being built, and the hydraulic hammers and sawmills are not yet ready, and it will be close to the winter moon when these are all in battle, the work of Xiangshan to make bird guns has not stopped.

The output is more, more than a dozen craftsmen in the thousands of households in the yamen to build a drill bore, a month can drill pipe can wear more than a dozen, to create a pipe that can withstand the overcharge, the pass rate is about ninety, in March in the past library and nearly 100 qualified guns, just waiting for the oil after the gun bed paint can be put into use.

After the battle of the Senhu Square in Xiangshan, the banner army of Xiangshan Qianhu House had the appearance of an old pawn, and the armor was complete and the firepower was sufficient.

Not to mention Bai Yuanjie's soldiers, nearly half of them are veterans who have participated in the pacification of Li Yayuan for several months, although they seem to be full of money, and they are not afraid of the barbarian army when they go into battle against the enemy, but the firepower is slightly worse.

He was also influenced by Chen Mu, and felt that the guns he bought were not used by himself, but Qingcheng did not have the military craftsmen transferred by the Guangzhou government and did not have Guan Yuangu's drilling machine, and even now it is only to maintain the level of a hundred bird guns.

With the great increase in Chen Mujun's consumption of firearms, the status of gunpowder craftsman Xie Ming has also risen, and now he manages a gunpowder shop near the iron workshop, and his seven gunpowder craftsmen and more than 20 military apprentices have transferred a batch of nitrate yellow willow charcoal and granulated soju from the Xiangshan Institute every ten days, so that the stockpile of nitrate in the Xiangshan Institute has dropped rapidly.

Artillery is a drug-swallowing monster.

Chen Mugang felt that he had a bit of a family background, and the military academy planned on the mountain had not yet started, and the artillery drill would seem to be tight and not enough to spend in the blink of an eye.

"No, you can't do what most of the flag army can do with artillery, one person will go out after lighting a thousand catties of gunpowder, and then the cannon will be damaged, Lao Tzu can't afford it."

Chen Mu said this, and said to Wei Balang after inspecting the flag army operating cannons on the shore: "Each hundred households pick two small flags, two cannons at a time, one small flag is used to look at nine small flags, take turns to learn, look at it a few more times." ”

The expected artillery drill code did not have any regulations, but Chen Mu taught the eighth master the essentials of three-point ranging, but most of the flag soldiers were illiterate, and they couldn't remember the booklets with the size and length of the various references, and this alone was too difficult to learn.

Chen Mu could only think of other methods, and used the Franco machine to try the fifty steps distance as the standard up to six hundred steps and twelve firing angles, and asked Guan Jiang to make a wooden horn device on the gun carriage to adjust the angle at the end of the gun, so that at least on the flat ground, the difficulty of Chen Mu's artillery to aim can be greatly reduced.

It is only reduced, this method is too accurate for the estimation of distance, and it must be completely flat to be effective, if the sea is calm and calm, once the wind and the hull shakes, the probability of accuracy is very small.

But it's not all a bad thing, one day in early August, Chen Mu received a gift from the north, and the fast horse of the military department sent a wooden box, which contained two beautifully made telescopes, and the lenses made of transparent glass he first grinded out I don't know how much better.

A gift from Tan Lun, the secretary of the Ministry of War, was given back to him and Bai Yuanjie.

After more than a year, the Ministry of Industry of the Ming Dynasty built a telescope much better than him, and Tan Lun has not forgotten them.

On the third day after he received the telescope, there was an earthquake in Zhaoqing Province.

At the beginning of September, there were frequent reports in Guangdong, and the pirates Xu Rui and Li Mao took advantage of the fact that the garrison was in Guangzhou to invade Qiongzhou, and Guangzhou divided its troops to Leizhou.

In November, Zeng Yi's army attacked Chaozhou, but was blocked by Yu Dayou and led his ship into the sea.