As Deng Zilong expected, the shooting level of the Beiyang Flag Army under the huge amount of gunpowder consumption did not improve significantly, but all indicators other than the final results were greatly improved.

In the process of charging and loading and cleaning the chamber after shooting, it can be seen that the Beiyang Banner Army has endured hardships during this time.

After the shooting competition, the wealthy businessman and magnate were entertained by Zou Yuanbiao, who was ordered by Changsheng County, and Chen Mu called the Spanish San'a and had some dinner on the second floor of the military yamen.

Far from the level of a banquet, he simply ate a few servings of military rations, and Chen Mu was still more particular about eating in China, but in Asia, he ate military rations every day.

Of course, he eats a little better than most people, and the East does not prosper in the officer's stove, and he eats one more dish of cavalry food than the infantry.

But this does not mean that it is simple, the best cooks in the New World are all in the Oriental Military Mansion, like the Banner Army, the Small Flag Officer, and the Propaganda Officer, the Oriental Military Mansion has a complete set of evaluation indicators and promotion routes, and there are also rank rewards.

Just as the banner army has excellent combat skills, it can get double salary, three salaries, and even five salaries in theory; If the flag officer obeys orders and commands his subordinates, he can get official promotions; preach and publicize properly, and many of them can also become flag officers in wartime; The guy can also get ahead.

Although it is relatively more difficult for the men to be promoted, after all, it is difficult to reconcile the mouths, but once they get enough promotions, their highest honor is what he orders all the men to do today, and the Minister of the East has to eat.

It is not easy to become a first-class governor-level chef, in fact, from the command level chef, the value of skills is no longer measured by cooking, but also by finding ways to use new ingredients that can be found everywhere in Asia, thinking about how to make new dishes, and compiling a book to teach junior chefs.

It's not good to be able to cook, not to innovate, not to be lazy, not to be literate, and not to know the nutrition of ingredients.

Of course, it is the nutrition within the intellectual framework of this era.

But fortunately, the best cooks in the East today are basically those who carry a black pot behind each small flag march in the era of Xiangshan Qianhu, and most of the flag troops with them are guards, and these people have good cultural skills.

The Oriental Marshal cared too much about what his subordinates ate, because he knew too well that as long as the Chinese soldiers were well fed, they were not afraid of any enemy.

Chen Mu's meal was served in a red and black lacquered wood double-layer food box carried by the Beiyang Army, and when the main food box was opened, there was a piece of fried sweet potato cake and two small pieces of yellow and clear soft corn tortillas.

The main dish box is divided into four columns, and the amount of dishes is not large, but it is definitely enough to eat together, namely six slices of Majiagang pastrami in garlic sauce, a pair of steamed shelled crab and crow meat with four Changsheng golden shrimp powder, a large spoonful of stewed soybeans in appetizing tomato sauce and a plate of lamb enema with green onion and lamb.

In the middle of the case, a red Deng Deng's Jincheng salted duck egg was also put in.

Alva led the Jincheng San'a does not have this standard lacquered wood food box, they use a standard separation of large round pottery plates, which is slightly heavier than the lacquered wood food box, and the Beiyang Flag Army sometimes uses this, in the station, the pottery is better than the wood to clean.

These pottery are not burned by immigrants, and the brick and tile factories under the Toyo Military Government are now too busy to specialize in bricks and tiles, not to mention that immigrants who want to set up factories need to be reviewed by the Toyo Commerce Bureau and Changsheng Branch, and there is a direction for them to open factories and take the route of high added value.

Zou Yuanbiao very much encouraged the aborigines to build factories and purchase industries, although they are not as familiar with the business as immigrants or government-run factories under the military government, but they are willing to learn everything from the imperial court, as long as the court teaches, they will learn, and they will buy it in a prosperous manner after an order.

They had a simple affection for the Ming Dynasty, not only because the Ming army did not come, and many of them would die in the mines of the Spaniards, but also because the Ming allowed them to be different.

The Oriental military government never forbade them to speak the aboriginal language, never forbade them to perform aboriginal sacrifices, and never forbade them to do anything that was permitted by the law.

Because no matter what they do, Yang Tingxiang's disciples and grandchildren will search for clues from the long history: look, three hundred years ago, this province of the Central Plains Dynasty used such things; See, two thousand three hundred years ago, the Central Plains Dynasty, a prince, had this custom; See, three thousand years ago, priests used the same masks.

The more they worked, the more they were discovered that the two continents separated by the vast ocean had almost the same customs and utensils...... In fact, not to mention the two continents, even if there are many similarities in the world, the pirates of Northern Europe still have dragon ships.

Da Ming, Da Ming may be their hometown that they once couldn't go back to, or they may have no connection with them.

Some people are incapable of discernment, and they try their best to accept everything instilled by Yang Tingxiang's disciples and grandchildren; Some people have the ability to discern, so they worked hard to erase the controversial parts for Yang Tingxiang.

There are still a few people who know what the truth is, but they hold the wooden statue of the dragon and tiger Daojun and smile silently, and encourage their children and grandchildren to go to the county government to borrow an official robe from the county order at the time of the wedding, saying: Our family should also repair the ancestral hall.

Either way, the aborigines who had nothing to rely on found a backer, and they did their best to become one with the mountain.

These things are too simple for Chen Mu's Oriental Military Mansion, so simple that they don't need Chen Mu to bother, if you have a heart and mind, how complicated can things be?

But the Duke of Alva behind the table was different, a pair of chopsticks stumped him, much more difficult than the galloping Tulong in the French knights.

He silently tried his best to pinch out a soybean soaked in tomato sauce, but perseverance was always more joyful than giving up the pain, and sometimes giving up was more reaping.

It's like now, Alva, who is no longer competing with soybeans, holds chopsticks and sticks two slices of Majiagang pastrami dipped in sauce and puts them in his mouth, and his taste buds can finally feel the spiced bison tendon mixed with soy sauce and garlic in his mouth.

Until the maid of the military palace silently lifted a napkin on the table from behind, revealing the spoon on the clay frame underneath.

Although the two sides have passed many letters and even signed a number of treaties together, they have never met, this is the first time Alva has met Chen Mu, and it is also the first time Chen Mu has met Alva.

However, for Alva, they are already very familiar, he did not propose whether the meal is good or bad, and no one cares about the meal at this time, he smiled: "In every country I have traveled to in the past, if they have unique etiquette habits, they will specially pick out a special person to teach it for half a day before the banquet starts, but not in Daming." ”

"This is not a palace, let alone a banquet, this is ...... Home cooking. Chen Mu was really embarrassed to say that he didn't plan to invite Spain San'a to dinner, he first frowned and thought for a while, and then nodded very seriously: "If Spain needs it, I will send someone to Iberia to teach all nobles to use chopsticks." ”

Duke Alva and Acosta glanced at each other and said helplessly: "Let's talk about something else, this sounds like the Moors of eight hundred years ago." ”

Chen Mu put down his chopsticks and wiped the corners of his mouth, clasped his hands together on the table in front of him, and said with a smile: "What does the duke want to talk about?" ”

Actually, he hadn't eaten yet, but Alva's tone made him feel like a customer coming to his door.

"Talk about a promise."

The Duke of Alva also put down his spoon and said, "Your Excellency is of noble birth and integrity, and you should not go back on what you promised, so when I am about to lead my army out of New Spain, I hope to get your personal promise." ”

"Don't attack New Spain and Peru anymore."

Chen Mu repeatedly chewed on 'noble birth' and 'integrity', feeling that the old duke was scolding.