In the first year of Longqing, Li Yayuan, who had been in Weng Yuan and Heyuan for many years, was captured and killed by Yu Dayou, the chief military officer of Guangdong.

The Yellow River that broke the mouth, the construction of eight tributaries was completed, and the drought was used to help the water, and the waterlogging was discharged into Zhaoyang Lake, and the transportation channel was opened.

A whip law that had been in force for a long time was stopped due to the severe drought in the land of Shandong in Zhili, and it was stopped at the request of Ge Shouli, the secretary of the household department.

In this year, the Ming Empire's Taicang treasury could not make ends meet, and after spending marginal salaries, the deficit was 3.95 million and 400 taels.

The cold winter in the north does not affect Chen Mu who is far away in Lingnan, his winter is as warm as spring, hovering between bending the bow and throwing the bow and dismounting.

Compared with the progress of Chen Zongqi's archery, Deng Qianhu has learned more.

Deng Zilong saw Qing Yuanwei, the guard officers who were like toast better than officers, and also saw clearly the banner army like serfs better than officers and soldiers, especially the farm tools that appeared when Yu Ding harvested double cropping rice, this guy was like a live bandit, and let Chen Zongqi paint him a picture of a few farm tools he had never seen.

Deng Zilong, a deputy Qianhu with an uncertain future, came to Qingyuan to distract on the one hand, but in fact, this is the main purpose.

It was not difficult for him to train the guards, the biggest difficulty was to raise his own salary, he used to be a battalion soldier, and all he needed was to report to the higher officials and ask for the transfer of ordnance money and food.

But the Guards are clearly different.

Chen Mu looked at his anxious appearance and smiled, Deputy Qianhu Deng was far from being as depressed as he appeared, but he wanted to sit in the position of Deputy Qianhu and make meritorious contributions.

He has connections in the battalion system, and he has made meritorious contributions in the guard system, so it should not be difficult to transfer him back to Guangdong to serve as a garrison.

It just so happened that Chen Mu was very happy to help Deng Zilong.

In fact, he thinks that when Deng Zilong tastes the sweetness of the deputy thousand households, he may not want to transfer back to the battalion - the hundred households are richer than the general, and the deputy thousand households are more comfortable than the garrison.

There are some things that he Chen Zongqi is not qualified to say now, and he can only make a good fate, but maybe when Bai Yuanjie comes back, his deputy Qianhu will be a foregone conclusion, at least he can change from a lower official position than the general manager to move forward side by side.

Maybe Chen Mu will also have a time when his official position is higher than Deng Zilong, and when the time comes, this fierce general who is famous for fighting Japanese robbers, must recruit his subordinates to act if he has the opportunity.

In the second season of rice, Chen Mu's harvest is enough to surprise everyone!

The commander did not attach importance to the harvest of the second season, and still harvested five buckets per mu according to the previous forty percent and generally fifty percent; The taxes of the imperial court and the flag officials were handed over to the four buckets. The banner army of the remaining 100 households is all year round, and the last thing that falls into the hands of one acre of land is only eight or nine hundreds, even if there are more, it is not more than two buckets.

Chen Muqi had more than three buckets left, and still gave ten stone of grain to the banner army, and more than 2,000 stone of grain was saved by 100 households, so much so that the granary built could no longer be filled.

Chen Zongqi had no choice but to borrow an ox cart from Anyuan Post Station and transport 300 stone to the 100 Yamen granaries that were idle after Bai Yuanjie was promoted to deputy 1,000 households.

"Chen Erlang, are you saying that the balance of the other hundred households is less than one-twelfth of your own?"

Deng Zilong shook his head, looking at the banner army who had received the grain happily, but he came to Chen Mu's ear worriedly and said, "You should let the flag army seal up, otherwise there will be endless troubles." ”

"You are from Xiaoqi, no matter how small Xiaoqi is, you are also a guard officer, and you yourself say that the flag army is a serf. A guard officer is born a guard officer, and a serf is born a serf, just like the difference between heaven and earth, sun and moon. ”

Deng Zilong's expression was very vague, Chen Mu really didn't understand it at first glance, but after a pause, he understood.

What this deputy Qianhu of the unknown health office of the Guangdong Metropolitan Division wants to express is betrayal.

In Chen Mu's more understandable words, it is to persuade him not to betray his class, let alone touch the interests of others.

"What is the sky, earth, sun and moon, Deng Qianhu talked in a set, the state government asked you to drive away the military dependents, why didn't you go?" Chen Mu shook his head and laughed, "Chen can't look at the flag army who sold his life to go home hungry, the book of soldiers says that for the general, you must love the soldiers like sons." ”

Deng Zilong looked at the flag army that had dispersed, and said to Chen Muxi: "Yes, the guard officer and the flag army are father and son, you love soldiers like sons, but you don't need other fathers to know if you are good to your son, you see, sooner or later you will suffer." ”

The last sentence made Chen Mu's eyes light up, he was good to the flag army, and he really didn't need to let other flag officers know, it was no good.

Then he beckoned to Lou Qimai, who had a terrifying face, and said: "You go door to door to tell the military remnants how much they harvest and how much food they distribute, don't show off everywhere." Otherwise, what will be the result of not respecting Chen's military order, they know. ”

You know what a fart!

Lou Qimai went to pass on this kind of military order, his teeth trembled, okay!

If you don't respect your Chen Junye's order, only the more than 20 people who were killed by the bird gun on the Xinjiang Bridge were killed, and they said that they left a whole body for the first offender.

Just collect some food, but as for murder?

Chen Moucai didn't care so much, clapped his hands to be happy, and said with a smile: "It doesn't matter what the sun and the moon are, it's not all stars, what orange cats and huskies, in the end, who is not a beast." Everyone is suffering, why should we be wicked - go, go and see the Sky Monkey, Chen also opened Deng Qianhu's eyes! ”

After the double cropping rice was harvested, Guan Jiangjiang took the silver to the other two hundred households in exchange for three military craftsmen, all of whom were about the same age as Guan Yuangu.

They are in this profession to eat craft, just like doctors, young people may have more good ideas, but the craft is difficult to be exquisite, and the older the craftsman, the more reassuring it can be.

Chen Junye has four craftsmen and eight or nine apprentices, which can be regarded as a preliminary team of craftsmen belonging to him.

Improving rockets is on the agenda.

This matter is not difficult for experienced military craftsmen, but it is very dangerous to pound gunpowder to make push medicine and explosives.

For more than half a month, Guan Yuangu sent someone to tell Chen Mu that the finished product that met his idea had been made.

Deng Zilong didn't know what the 'Sky Monkey' was, and walked with Chen Mu to the Tiefang Creek in confusion, and saw more than a dozen craftsmen surrounding a few thick wooden pipes placed on the wooden frame, and Guan Yuangu, the leader of the craftsman, trotted over with a smile and arched his hand: "General Banner, it's okay!" ”

"Take it for me."

The wooden cylinder with a thin wrist and a length of more than three feet was handed over to Chen Mu, and the half-inch-thick wall of the barrel had a small trigger inserted into the fire rope on the side, which could be held and launched by a person.

The inside is a rocket similar to the shape of a fixed bullet, the difference is that the arrow at the front of the rocket has been changed to a two-inch long pyramid, the rocket body is one foot and a half long, the charge is very sufficient, and a two-foot wooden stick is used as a balance rod in the middle and backwards.

"How about the range of the charge, how about the killing?"

Guan Yuangu said: "There are twenty-five lead pills in two coins, in order to be stable, the medicine can fly two hundred steps." But the line of fire and explosives will explode between eighty and one hundred steps, and there will be no survivors within a radius of ten steps! ”

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Concentrate:

A whip law was proposed by Gui Cao in the tenth year of Jiajing, and Zhang Juzheng promoted the national unified tax law in the ninth year of Wanli.

Prior to this, each province or several provinces in the Ming Dynasty had different methods of tax collection.