In Zhang Juzheng's mansion, they talked about far less things than Chen Mu imagined, in fact, long before he rushed back to Beijing, other ministries had been talking about these things for some days.

This matter was only learned when Chen Mu dated Qi Jiguang and Tan Lun to Chen's mansion to talk about military matters the next day.

"The Ministry of Officials wants to grasp the appointment and dismissal of official positions in Nanyang, and our Ministry of War also wants to grasp the dispatch of Wutang and overseas soldiers, and Wang Xuefu of the Criminal Department thinks that the Universal Law must be changed, and the Ministry of Household Affairs must directly grasp the accounts and silver of Nanyang, and the Ministry of Rites also wants to join in the fun." Tan Lun sat on the seat in the lobby of the Chen Mansion, showing that the old famous general now has no pride in leading the army to kill blood and wrists, and speaks very slowly, humming two lines of singing from time to time, and suddenly laughing: "It's good that you still didn't give us the power, but pulled us into your yamen!" ”

In Tan Lun's view, the six ministries are very moved by the proposal of the ministers of the four oceans and the Beiyang Yamen, he said: "But this matter must be discussed again, if the important ministers of the Beiyang are concurrently served by the six ministries, the power of this yamen is not only overseas, but overseas and domestic orders are unimpeded, and the courtiers are now very frightened of you, who knows what you want." ”

Joke!

I think that Emperor Longqing, who was crazy about self-denial, gave Chen Mu an empty shelf of power and sent him to Nanyang, and the whole court was waiting to see his jokes, but there were only a few people from the first-class officials, Nanyang could get the best money, and it didn't matter if he couldn't do it, he couldn't come back and then serve as the retro guard of the capital division.

Who would have thought that in a hurry, the Nanyang Military Government relied solely on the guards of Guangdong to play a huge name, integrate the Nanyang countries and pull out tens of thousands of vassal armies, and make the appearance of weak cadres and strong branches, and transported more than five million taels of silver in Beijing in four years.

These five million taels of silver are the merits of the Nanyang Military Government on the surface, but the discerning people in the cabinet and the household department know that this is the most inconspicuous of all the merits of the Nanyang Military Government.

The huge overseas commercial trade is not only the war profits and trade of the Nanyang military government, but the total trade volume is not even one-tenth, and the majority is still in the private merchants, the customs tariffs of Macao, Yuegang, and Tianjin ports, the commercial taxes of Guangdong and Fujian, and the changes brought about by the concentration of industries in various places, which can be compared with two million taels of silver a year?

Qi Jiguang was late, he went to the Beijing camp this morning, and when he came back, he went to the arsenal division again, and Yang Bing, the governor of the Beijing camp, wanted to build 1,140 chariots, plus the firearms and soldiers needed for the chariots, some of the arsenals should be issued according to the number, and those that did not have the arsenal should be immediately estimated and built for drills.

Juniper went to lead the horse, Qi Jiguang entered the hall and begged for a bowl of warm tea first, then shook his head and said: "It will be difficult to get together the chariot in Beijing for a while and a half, how do you say that this Xuanfu Ordnance Bureau knows how to make guns?" ”

The initiator, Chen Mu, squinted and chuckled lightly in his arms, and then said: "The Xuanfu not only makes cannons, but also makes armor rocket grenades and mines, but it can't build chariots. ”

Saying that, Chen Mu spread his hands and said helplessly: "Because I didn't use the car camp, how long have I been in Northern Xinjiang, the Ordnance Bureau and the Wutang will go to Nanyang after they are established, and the back is operated by Mr. Huanzhou, but Qi Shuai wants a chariot, and the Nanyang Ordnance Bureau has a newly made rocket car, the famous Shenwei machine car, and the rocket, I am improving it before I go north, and it is estimated that it will be sent around May." ”

"Rockets?"

Qi Jiguang is not very energetic, in the years when he suppressed the Japanese in the southeast, he tried almost all the weapons that could be transferred from the arsenal in person, and even a swarm of bees was specially equipped in the Pingwei Zhejiang army, but it was different in the northern Xinjiang, Lao Qi shook his head and said: "Chen Shuai has not fought with the captive cavalry, in a cold place, his armor and thick clothes, there is no need for many rockets, and it is useless to kill people with guns." ”

Qi Jiguang is still talking about old-style rockets, which rely on gunpowder to boost, and mainly rely on arrows to kill people.

This made Chen Mu extremely surprised, and asked, "There are no small banners and arrows in Qi Shuai's army?" ”

"It's too expensive, three taels of small flag arrows, ten taels of total flag arrows, its power is very great, one arrow is put to explode ten steps, but it is not very accurate, less is not accurate, put a hundred taels of silver out, Qi is not Chen Shuai has the ability to raise military expenses by himself, the silver money is allocated for the imperial court, it is better to add five artillery, and put it in battle."

Qi Jiguang said and looked at Chen Mu with a smile, he still had something to say in his heart, he opened the small flag arrow and looked at it, the internal structure was not very exquisite, and the cost of an arrow inside and outside was at most four coins of silver, and it was also the cost of the foot boat purchased from the Nanyang Ordnance Bureau and transported to Tianjin.

However, the southern army all ate this set, and those guard officers in the south saw the majesty of the Nanyang Army's battle, and went crazy to let people dig iron and lead, and sent it to the Nanyang Ordnance Bureau to exchange ordnance.

He can also make that thing, but firstly, he takes into account the injury of Chen Mu's face, and secondly, he is not a resale of arms, Chen Mu can find new sources of wealth for the Ministry of Industry, such as electric lights and wires, steamers, electromechanical telegraphs, etc., but he does not have this ability.

Not everyone can do it.

"It's so expensive!"

Chen Mu pretended to be confused, the price was set by him, could he not know? But he is not happy to give it away at this juncture, if he wants to be there, it doesn't matter if he wants to send three or five thousand small flag arrows, but there is also a big man who uses arms Tan Lun here, and he can't close it as soon as he opens it, he smiled and said: "It's okay, after the Ordnance Bureau improves the Shenwei Arrow, the technology advances, and the cost of the small flag arrow and the total flag arrow should be slightly reduced, and it is not difficult to supply some to Jizhen at that time." ”

It's like the truth!

Qi Jiguang was embarrassed when he heard this, clapped his hands and said: "Chen Shuai is looking for him, please invite Tan Gong to come, saying that he is discussing new military uniforms and military law, what is that?" ”

Tan Lun also turned his gaze to Chen Mu, it seemed that Chen Mu really didn't pay attention to the Nanyang restructuring, and said as if he was listening: "What Chen Shuai wants to say, please say." ”

The two also knew that Chen had just returned from Burma, and before that in Annam, it was a place with a high incidence of hot and hot miasma, and as soon as he arrived in Burma from Annam, many soldiers fell ill with malaria, and they were almost defeated all over the field. The Ming sergeants are usually bearded, and ordinary people are all short beards or sheep's beards, only the sergeants have long hair and beards, and they are majestic and murderous. Chen Mu said and spread his hands and said: "But it is also heavy lice, I want to play the handbook, please ask the sergeant on duty in the tropics to cut the hair short, and the court will set a fixed sergeant hairstyle." ”

Fixed hairstyle?

Qi Jiguang and Tan Lun thought this proposal was good, but he then asked, "Cut short, how short?" ”

Both of them had led soldiers, and they knew that the sergeant's long hair was fine when he was free, but once he had a few months of wartime, it would be difficult to have a chance to freshen up, and he would be deeply disturbed.

But the problem is that Chen Mu wants the sergeant to cut as much as he wants to cut and cut less, which will not work; Cut more, then you won't be a monk, even if the law allows, the society will discriminate, and the sergeant himself will not feel good.

"Less than an inch!"

Tan Lun pursed his lips and smiled a little stiffly, and reached out and said: "Chen Shuai can play the handbook, the old man can help you speak, this is very useful, but whether it is successful or not, you can only try, there is a lot of resistance, if the sergeant's hairstyle is set by the regulations, the past pocket is not suitable." ”

"There is also a military uniform, this is a new military uniform prepared by Chen, please take a look."

As he spoke, Chen Mu put out a few patterns on the table that drew three-dimensional geometry with charcoal, including several hairstyles and several sets of military uniforms, which made the two of them shine.