Wu Duan's death touched Chen Mu a lot, and the feeling of being the sole leader of the guard was fundamentally different from when he was in Qingyuanwei, more free and more restrictive.

Freedom is because there is no past boss like Bai Yuanjie, and restraint is because of the prudence that comes from the heart, and the promotion of official status does not change the danger of doing wrong things.

On the contrary, an increase in official position will make him more dangerous.

With the 300 banner troops in Xiangshan County being hooked into the 1,000 households, it greatly boosted the sense of power in Chen Mu's heart.

In addition to money, he has more to want, which can be put on the agenda.

He wanted to build a shipyard and repair a cannon factory in Xiangshan, and change Guan Yuangu's past state of building bird guns like a small workshop in the general banner yamen, which was too childish for him.

How angry is the little family?

When he saw Guan Yuangu clanging and banging on the pipe in the yamen of a thousand households, he felt uncomfortable.

However, in the Ming Dynasty, there were no civilian gun factories and shipyards, and guns and cannons were all done by the War Bureau; Even if it is a military craftsman of the guard, in fact, all he has is the power to repair the ordnance, just like Guan Yuangu, who makes a gun, is actually going to be imprisoned.

It's just that the amount is small, and it can be concealed, and even if it is discovered, no one has enough to support it to denounce.

But Chen Mu still took the waist card and went to the Governor Zhang Han's mansion to cry poor.

From morning to noon, Zhang Han left him to eat two pieces of dim sum, which was considered to be 800 spearheads, 200 waist knives, and 100 fast guns.

Originally, Zhang Han also said that he would allocate dozens of firearms to the Xiangshan Guard, but Chen Mu didn't ask for it.

The bird gun he wanted, and the profits of the battle of Wengyuan Heyuan were all divided up by the Guangdong battalion soldiers, and the replaced fire gun had no meaning to him.

The fast gun is for Deng Zilong, this old boss likes to use the fast gun on the battlefield to do a blow and then charge, and he is transferred to the guard system coldly, Deng Zilong of the province is not used to it, so he first get something old-fashioned for him to use.

In addition, it is gunpowder and lead pellets, but this is not under the control of the yamen, and you have to ask for it from the capital.

He disappeared before he finished his weapon, and the governor Zhang Han asked him some questions such as the situation of the Xiangshan guard, Chen Mu answered fluently, and then walked around the governor's yamen after saying goodbye, and when he saw a familiar official, he went up to greet him in a five-rank military attache uniform.

Regardless of whether it is seven or eight grades, he must be a brother if he is a brother, and even the governor's porter let him talk for a while, and at the end he handed over two taels of silver.

When he came out of the governor's yamen, the sky was dark, and he went out of the city with the gate closed, and went to the drum belly building where Yan Qingyao took care of him to have some food.

When he went out in the morning, he made a special trip to let Long Junxiong carry more than fifty taels of silver, and when he returned to the thousand households, he was relaxed, and there were only five taels left.

Chen Mu has no other way to deal with people, the eight grades and above give respect in words and deeds, and the eight grades will chat first, and then give some small favors at the end.

This means is actually useless, it is nothing more than to make a good fate, so that people can think of him when they need it, and do a gesture.

"Chen Qianhu, three hundred households of the flag army, the official is handed over to the thousand households."

The last hundred households of the banner army were handed over to the thousand households, and Wei Balang led the team to assemble outside the yamen, and Zhou Xing said to Chen Mu: "Huangliang is a thief, when will Chen Qianhu be able to clear it?" ”

Zhou Xing wanted to eliminate the thieves in Huangliangdu as soon as possible, so as to board Haojingao and inspect the extralegal land that belonged to the border of the Ming Dynasty, which was the original intention of the former governor Wu Guifang to transfer him to Xiangshan to serve as the county commander, and after he took office, this also became what he had to do.

"I can only ban Hong Kong for one month, if I let the Yiren businessmen take my Ming people away, Zhou will no longer have the face to serve as the commander of Xiangshan County!"

"Cut off the grain, cut off the grain in Jingao, and ban Hong Kong for three months, can you?"

Zhou Xing is in a hurry, Chen Mu is more anxious than Zhou Xing.

In the past, he didn't know, and if he knew, he couldn't take care of it, but now he has the ability, if he let the Yiren merchants take away the women of the Ming Dynasty like trafficking livestock under his nose - he will live a life in vain!

"Huang Liang is not to mention eight hundred thieves, you took them to Chen Mou and handed them over, and you sent them to death in a month." Chen Mu gritted his teeth and said: "Three months, one day will not be more, and one day will not be less." ”

"The weapons of the state government have not been adjusted, the training of the flag army is not good, the supply of grain and grass is not good, and there is no soldier and food skills, how can you let Chen take them to fight the thieves?"

If you don't teach the people to fight, you are abandoning it.

Chen Mu's eyes swept over the hundred banner troops assembled outside the yamen, and their expressions were still filled with the horror and uneasiness of suddenly becoming military households, such soldiers were not enough to fight, so let them hold the best weapons of this era, and they could only fail in battle.

Zhou left, and the state government didn't even allocate weapons to Xiangshan Qianhu, and he had no choice but to negotiate with the Portuguese in Haojing Macao according to Chen Mu's proposal.

With the threat of food shortage, he tried to ban Hong Kong for three months, and the merchants who were resident in Haojing came to hold those merchants who were eager to leave the port hostage.

This is not difficult, because there is still an endless stream of Fujian merchants who go to Guangzhou, which has become a rule in Haojing Ao, and every June is the time when the merchants can earn enough goods to sail away, and there are still two months.

At the same time, the Xiangshan Thousand Households Office was even more vigilant against the merchants who went to Guangzhou.

The 300 Household Banner Army was organized under Shi Qi, Wei Balang, and Lou Qimai, and was stationed in the 100 households of the capital, the 100 households of the East Bank, and the 1000 households. The Flag Army conducted two-day rotational training to ensure that three general flags practiced outside the yamen of the Thousand Households every day, and the other three general flags served as patrol and ship escort missions respectively.

Their warships docked in the east bank of the river, and there were countless Japanese in Xiangshan, leaving a general flag to guard the fleet, and Qi Zhengyan also trained the flag army to become sailors there.

Tianshi monk is capable, although the great monk's behavior of meat and vegetarian behavior has attracted many people to gossip, but his ability to use guns and spears is nothing to say in the whole Qianhu Office, and Long Junxiong taught the flag saber technique in the practice of the Qianhu Yamen, which is neither Shao Tingda's Ming knife technique nor his sword technique.

Time was pressing, and under Chen Mu's suggestion, Monk Tianshi and Long Junxiong only taught the flag army one move - stabbing and splitting.

The rest of the time was for Chen Mu to personally lead them to teach the queue.

Taking advantage of the interruption in traveling, the Fujian merchants let Shi Qi and Lou Qimai, who led the team to patrol the territory, gain a lot of money, and almost every day they were able to catch one or two merchants who led the smuggling of the team, and the people were escorted to the Xiangshan County prison, and the grain, saltpeter, sulfur, iron, and copper escorted were detained and sent to the warehouse of the yamen of the thousand households.

In just over a month, more than 200 stones of rice and grain were deducted.

Approaching May, the Fanyi businessmen of Haojing finally couldn't sit still, and repeatedly asked Xiangshan County to buy grain and go to sea.

Chen Mu sent a message to Chen Luan, who was in charge of coastal defense, asking him to transfer a general to Xinhui Port and inspect the sea after Zhou Xing informed the Yiren merchants of the news of the opening of the port in July.

At the same time, he sent Fu Yuan to Macao again and invited Dieniang to come to the yamen of the thousand households.

He needed that team.