Chapter 66: The Matchmaker

This spur is not scientific.

Chen Mu made a temporary move on the battlefield and recorded a flash of inspiration, it is expected that the total weight of the capital will reach sixteen or seventeen catties, and the spurs are long, which only brings the advantage of facing short spears and waist knives, compared to the two or three zhang long spears, the power is still limited.

Unless the firepower forms a qualitative change and can directly crush the enemy's morale in the shot, it will be difficult to win even if the opponent is a Spanish formation.

Can only be used as supplementary firepower and can be used for fortification.

The main thing is to waste, good steel, to make such a long spur, if only use the section that exposes the mouth, one is enough to make two two-foot spurs.

But grenades have a lot to offer.

Paper shell hemp thunder wrapped in prefabricated fragments of iron wire shell, China is the most important thing is sulfur-containing pig iron, the price is affordable and fried to ensure crunchy.

"Qianhu, this is much more useful!" Guan Yuangu looked at Chen Mu and praised the design and structure of the palm thunder, it seemed that he was also not very satisfied with the spurs of the scrap steel mouth, and said: "Throw it out by igniting it, it's similar to the Flying Earthquake Heavenly Thunder." ”

Megatron thunder?

Chen Mu asked, "What's that?" ”

He asked Guan Yuangu to stop, and after a pause, he stammered: "This, Lao Er has never seen it, I only heard that it was made by a blacksmith named Li Changsun at the beginning of the Japanese rebellion. ”

Talented.

Ancient craftsmen were indeed talented.

He had seen the prototype of rockets and tigers, and he had also seen the prototype of firearms, and now he knew that there were still flowering bullets in this era...... Although it sounds less safe and less powerful.

It's great enough in this day and age.

"There's one more thing that's easy to do, but this one isn't so easy to do." Chen Mu turned another page, on which was painted with an iron shell triggering a mine, and explained to Guan Yuangu: "A round cake, with good iron underneath and scrap iron on top, also has to cast cutting lines, and the key is in this load-bearing small iron pipe." ”

The kind of mines that ignite the fuse themselves existed in the Ming Dynasty, but the battlefield was too restricted; More than 200 years ago, there was also a structure of steel wheel ignition, but unfortunately Guan craftsmen were not serious craftsmen of the Ordnance Bureau, and it was not easy for them to make a suitable steel wheel firing mechanism.

"The rod is supported by three sections of bent scrap iron and suspended in the air, and the iron is beaten below, and the bottom of the load-bearing rod is connected with flint, and the branch is broken when stepped on, and the flint hits the iron and fires." Chen Mu is more and more energetic as he spoke, and his eyebrows fluttered: "You can also try a chain of mines, I haven't thought about the structure, step on the last mine, find a way to blow up the mines buried in front, and it must be very useful to deal with the enemy on the march in a narrow area!" ”

After talking about the idea of making a new weapon, Chen Mu directly dealt with a meal in Guan Yuangu's iron workshop, anyway, he was the only one at home, and it was the same wherever he ate.

During the meal, Guan Yuangu smiled embarrassedly, and said to Chen Mu where the matchmaker came to the door and said that the rich merchant in Guangcheng had a girl to be married, "Why don't you think about it and start a family as soon as possible?" ”

Many times.

Too many times.

In the past, no one knew him in Qingyuanwei, not to mention that his official position was low, and he was still a dilapidated military household who didn't know when he would die, and no one cared about him. But when you go to Xiangshan, it's different, the young Wupin Xiangshan Thousand Households, who have made meritorious contributions one after another, don't need to be notified in advance when they enter the governor's yamen - the blind can see that the future is immeasurable.

Chen Mu smiled and said, "Thanks to others who can't find me, you have to suffer for me." ”

He doesn't reject matchmakers or even blind dates at all, to be honest, every time he goes on an expedition, he has to pin his head to the waistband of his trousers first, who doesn't want to have a pillow person behind him who knows cold and hot waiting at the door to watch him go on the expedition?

Others are busy saying goodbye to their families, and the bastard Fu Yuan and Li Dan are waiting, only him and the eighth master.

The eighth master hugged the old dog, he walked the goose, even if he completed the solemn farewell ceremony and stepped on the battlefield.

Who can feel better about this?

The blind date he rejected was not allowed to meet.

Chen Mu also thought that he didn't have to take care of those old-fashioned worldly rituals, but even if he went to the sky, those things were there, and he couldn't ignore them, and he couldn't help but look at them.

Marriage is a major event, far more important than the afterlife.

Marrying the daughter of a commoner means accepting the intricacies of market relationships; Marrying the daughter of the businessman Jia Haoyou means that he will be supported financially and politically; Marrying the daughter of an official also means attacking and defending each other in officialdom.

Even like Mo Chaoyu, the general of Wuluo in the past, when he formed the militia group, he married the daughter of the local Tusi, and when the Tusi died, he took over the post of the local Qianchang, thus laying the foundation for his actions among the seven Zhuang Yao.

Guan Yuangu smiled and said: "Lao Er knows the thoughts of a thousand households, if you don't marry a wife first, or take a concubine, it's really not okay to buy two maidservants to serve in the room, it's better than being alone, isn't it?" ”

Chen Mu shook his head, waved his hand and smiled: "Let's talk about it later, a matchmaker has found Guan Jiang here and helped me block it back...... At the moment of the great enemy, where do you have time to take care of these things. ”

"Building a few more cannons is much more important than taking a concubine."

The alarms on the coast of Guangdong did not stop after the Battle of Guanghai, and he was like a slippery loach, and the places of Qiongzhou, Leizhou, and Chaozhou, as well as the guards of Xiangshan and Guanghai, were all his targets, and he harassed almost all the coastal areas in a few months.

Chen Mu silently planned Zeng Yi's offensive movements with Bai Yuanjie and Deng Zilong in the Thousand Households Yamen.

Compared with Zhibing, whether it is Bai Yuanjie, who has a family history since childhood, or Deng Zilong, who was born in Wuke, they are a few points stronger than Chen Mu in terms of strategy.

The Qianhu Yamen is like a small staff headquarters, with a map of the coastal area of Guangzhou hanging in the center, including the map of Xiangshan, Xin'an County, and Lingdingyang at the mouth of the Pearl River in the middle.

Temple counts.

"Zeng Yi was originally menacing, eighty percent of them were hidden in the overseas islands, and they would attack Guangcheng in the summer." Bai Yuanjie said categorically, "He attacked Guangcheng for just a few months. ”

In particular, at the turn of autumn and summer, the downwind rushes into the Lingding Ocean, and then leaves with the wind when the sea breeze changes, which is the easiest to break through the coastal defense.

"In April and May, the merchants of Xiangshan will come by boat, and they are not expected to follow and attack, as long as they can guard the Haojing, it is enough to free up their hands to clean up Zeng's book." Chen Mu said this, Zeng Yi's biggest threat to him came from the sea, and Lu Zhan was not worried, "If Zeng Sanlao dares to land in Xiangshan, don't care about thousands of people, Xiangshan can eat, but I'm afraid that he will directly attack Guangcheng." ”

Chen Mu, a merchant of Haojing, can see clearly, even if there is an agreement to assist in defense, they will also be rewarded, if the war happens in Haojing, they will fight enthusiastically, but if it is a war in other places, they will not help to fight.

Deng Zilong smiled, got up and slapped his palm on the map, and said: "Then there is nothing to worry about, it is impossible for Zeng Yi to cross Xiangshan and directly hit Guangzhou City, unless the new security ...... Thousands of households, can Xin'an prevent it? ”

Chen Mu's winning smile froze on his face, yes!

"Xin'an, can you prevent it?"