Make a small object to take out and give a gift and spend it all over the body, what can Bai Yuanjie say in addition to having courage.

Bai Yuanjie is very clear about how much money Chen Mu has, after all, Chen Mu's sources of money are all rewards for fighting with him, Heiling got twenty taels, Qingyuan got one hundred and twenty taels outside the city, a total of one hundred and forty taels inside and out, twenty taels spent seven seven hundred and eighty-eight in Guangcheng, and this one hundred and twenty taels bought crystal pieces, I am afraid that there are only fifty or sixty taels left.

No wonder this new general banner did not buy a house in Qingyuan City, but let the military remnants build a new wooden house in the territorial forest...... He was reluctant.

Fortunately, money was not a big problem for Bai Yuanjie, and he personally went to Guangzhou Mansion to visit Yu Dayou, who was idle, with a wooden box containing binoculars, and then brought back a few crystal pieces for Guan Yuangu to polish into a mirror, and then find an opportunity to present them to Tan Lun.

Bai Yuanjie, who returned to Qingcheng, kept talking to Chen Mu about luck, Yu Dayou is famous for being honest, if it weren't for the military utility of the telescope, it would be basically impossible to send him this thing.

In addition, Bai Yuanjie also brought back a piece of news, he should read and shoot arrows like a traditional martial artist.

If you want to get ahead in these years, you must either make meritorious service or have meritorious fame. Merit determines whether the position can be promoted, and fame determines the difficulty of promotion. To be honest, Chen Mu didn't think about taking the martial arts or Wenju exams, but he felt that even if he did, he might not be able to pass the exam.

Four hundred years later, the soul who has come here is not difficult to play clever tricks to make some small inventions and find a few thighs to hold. But do you want him to take the martial arts and liberal arts exams? It's too hard.

Needless to say, the difficulty of liberal arts is ...... Chen Mu only needed to think of those antiques in the past, like the hundred-pound broadsword that Wu Zhuangyuan used to lift weights to fight his strength, and he was afraid, don't dance the broadsword but crush himself to death.

Chen Mu expressed his worries about martial arts to Bai Yuanjie, but he didn't expect to make Bai Deputy Qianhu laugh like a joke, "What stupid things do you say, Wuke doesn't test bravery, and you don't need to fight in battle, the key test is military strategy, you have a flexible mind, and the most important strategy to read some military books is not a problem, but it is a bow horse - Wuke does not test martial arts, you have to practice archery." ”

"Don't you need to lift a big knife?"

"What a big sword!"

"Don't use the Dancing Stone Lock?"

"What a stone lock to dance!"

Chen Mu smiled, he wanted to try, "Then, Qianhu, what are the requirements for this archery bow horse?" ”

"Ten arrows are eligible, and the more the better; Ten arrows in step shooting are also qualified for the middle four, and the more the better. Bai Yuanjie knocked lightly on the table and said: "The key is still in the strategy, the text is beautiful, and it is up to the chief official to have the final say, understand what this means?" ”

Is it considered qualified to ride and shoot four out of ten?

This is not too simple in Chen Mu's opinion! He can shoot eight out of ten in sixty steps with a bird gun!

"Hey, hey, it's cool to be able to take the martial arts exam and come back!"

Bai Yuanjie looked at Chen Mu and smirked, then lost the idea of continuing to talk, told him everything he wanted to say, patted him on the shoulder before leaving, and left a sentence, "Good people can't be officials, bad people can't be officials, think about it yourself." ”

Chen Mu didn't take it to heart, his mind was full of martial arts, and he couldn't wait to practice his excellent archery skills immediately, and test him as a martial artist or even a martial artist!

But...... On the first day of practicing riding and archery, Chen Junye dropped two bows.

"This won't shoot at all!"

Twenty-five steps away, Chen Mu shot a quiver and fifteen arrows, not to mention the trivial things such as wrist and finger cramps. The bowstring broke and drew two blood blisters in his arm, fell from his horse once when he opened his bow, and only aimed at jumping down the river and hitting the pigsty once on horseback, and the hit rate remained miserable...... It doesn't exist, where there is any hit rate, he didn't hit a single arrow.

Martial arts test?

It's a dead end in the martial arts test, okay!

To be honest, this is quite demoralizing, but Chen Mu has nothing to be discouraged about, after all, he also knows that practicing bows and arrows is not an easy thing, and others have been familiar with archery for two or three years, why can he become a good archer just by touching the bow?

It is said that there is no time in the mountains, Qingyuanwei is relatively closed, and the news from the outside usually comes in for a few days, and the people inside are okay and do not go out, it seems that there is nothing new in Qingyuan since the Japanese retreated.

Chen Mu rested for two days to raise his arms, and then he was busy practicing bow horses for more than half a month, and he was idle to follow the bird gun team. However, the most difficult thing to enter the country was not to bow horses but to read military books, because his cultural level was still at the level where he needed to hold a book and go to Shiqi for advice.

After he became the general banner, he felt more deeply why the military system of the guard under the system of Zhu Yuanzhang, Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, gradually collapsed, because the cultivation of military fields was very easy for the full number of military households. Chen Mu, who has fifty or more than two hundred dings under his command, has never worked in the field at all!

More than 200 military surpluses are enough, and this is still only a farm tool, and the farm animals can only borrow a large buffalo from the post house.

In this case, don't say that the officers in the guard station who didn't understand the four or six in the past were coarse, even Chen Mu wanted to find something to do for the flag army under his command, because people can't be too idle, and grass grows in their hearts when they are idle.

Fortunately, Chen Mu knows what he will face in the future, as the only armed force in his hands, Chen Zongqi gritted his teeth and urged them to practice. Every three days, a day will be set aside for Chen Zongqi to personally drill the queue, if nothing else, to train these military households who used to be idle.

At the same time, it will also be easier for him to transfer troops after he understands some of the military strategies of this era in the future.

In the blink of an eye, half of spring has passed, and it is almost time to plant seedlings, and the seedlings in the seedling field have grown to two inches. It has been difficult to boil out nitrate in the cave of Anyuan Post Station, which accounts for more than seven or eight laborers in the past six months, and boils out nearly 2,000 catties of saltpeter.

It's not that Chen Mu doesn't want to continue boiling, boiling nitrate is a lot of physical work, Old Man Zheng is tired and sick, and the other Yu Ding can't stand it, so he has to rest for a month.

The nitrate cave on the left and right couldn't boil anything, so Chen Mu simply asked the rest of them to go home to rest, and ordered someone to take all the saltpeter to the newly built small warehouse of the General Banner Yamen for storage. It was the two widows who made him a little sad, and it took three or four months for their hair to grow four inches long, but fortunately, men in the Ming Dynasty wore hats or scarves, and after Chen Mu brought them a scarf and then wore a big hat, it didn't look weird.

Chen Mu felt that it was time to give these two widows military registration.

However, Fu Yuan, who came back from the Qianhu Yamen with the military status of the two people, brought back another unusual news, Bai Yuanjie once mentioned to Chen Mu that Li Yayuan, who was in Shaozhou Mansion, had become a big trend, gathering tens of thousands of people to capture Heyuan and Wengyuan counties.

"Bai Qianhu asked the humble post to tell the general banner that he was going to prepare for the expedition, and the governor Wu Guifang conscripted 100,000 troops, and the order has been passed to Qingyuan, and the expedition will be set out on the same day!"

Note: The reform of the Ming Dynasty's martial arts was not until the end of Wanli, when the martial arts became more complete, and the examination of guns, knives, halberds, fists, stabbing and other techniques was added, as well as camp formations, mines, gunpowder, chariots and other items, and the theory also became the test of the art of war, astronomy, geography and so on.

However, although this reform was approved by the emperor, it was not fully implemented.