Only the day before yesterday was a thief, and there was no thousand-day anti-thief.

For the huge agricultural countries of East Asia, the long coastline is a dead end, and there is no enemy coming from the sea.

Just like now, the battle report of the Qiongzhou Mansion transmitted from the upper echelons of the Guangdong Metropolitan Division to the Xiangshan Institute shows that the entire upper echelons of the Metropolitan Division were connected with the battles that took place in the Qiongzhou Mansion in the west of the Guangdong Metropolitan Division and the Chaozhou Mansion in the east.

To say that this is a conspiracy, it looks like, but in fact it is a conspiracy.

The high-ranking officials and generals of the Guangdong Metropolitan Division clearly knew that Zeng Yi was going to attack Guangzhou, but could many other prefectures and cities not be guarded? If you don't guard against it, a dozen is a quasi, and the total number of troops is like this, who will protect Guangzhou Mansion if you are separated?

The largest metropolis south of Wuling, if it is broken by the pirates, what will be the consequences?

But it is still necessary to divide the troops, Guangzhou Mansion is still protected by a big city, most of the people in other places do not have a big city, once it is a major event that will harm thousands of families, Zhang Han faced this tricky situation, and specially sent a message to ask for countermeasures.

It was definitely not just asking Chen Mu, Chen Mu didn't know about others, he only knew that the letter was sent to him, and he wrote a countermeasure for joint defense, but in the end it was not implemented well.

Since the beginning of the rebellion, the coastal people of the Ming Dynasty are used to being wild, only this year this year, the governor's palace reported to the imperial court of the thief situation, there are seventy-two mountain bandits, eight sea bandits, and the people in the coastal areas can not tell who is a soldier, and Chen Mu proposed that the main point of the joint defense of Jiali is to open an arsenal and distribute weapons to the people everywhere - who dares to divide this situation?

Fortunately, since Yu Dayou forced Zeng Yi to retreat along the coast of Chaozhou, this sea giant has not appeared on the coast of Guangdong again, but people know that he is watching Guangdong not far away, like a poisonous snake spitting letters, ready to open its fangs and bite at any time.

In the third year of Longqing, it quietly came under the condition of the police of the entire Guangzhou Prefecture.

Police or not, regardless of Chen Junye's affairs, he and Bai Yuanjie and Deng Zilong trained in Xiangshan to prepare for the army, and Zeng Yiyi actually helped Chen Mu.

Training the flag army is never an easy task.

The enemy is behind, and everyone knows in their hearts that it is close to the pre-war period, and they want to practice more every day, and they are much less tired and tired, but it takes too much gunpowder.

Especially Zhang Yongshou, who led the troops to patrol with a worried face all day long, he didn't dare to relax in the slightest.

Speaking of Lao Zhang, he was also unlucky, his brothers had a starting point, the first time he saw Bai Yuanjie and Chen Mu have been killed, he coordinated the flag army in the center to release the guns and beat his own people to death; The miners were blocked on the mountain and did not dare to come down; Garrison Qingyuan Gorge, Qingyuan Gorge was broken by a group of widows; Only Muroyama hardened once, and was so provoked by Chen Mu that he led his troops into the enemy tide and almost died.

Deputy Zhang Qianhu made up his mind to be ashamed this time - let Chen Mu go up when he saw the enemy!

When Zhang Yongshou strongly expressed this idea to Chen Mu, Chen Qianhu hooked the corners of his mouth extremely slowly, "Heh, heh! ”

Is it possible for this kind of person to have the passive attribute of attracting the enemy to attack first without knowing it, and delusionally want to change his fate by playing tricks?

"The ship from Yuegang is here, and it is stationed in Haojing."

Hao Jing welcomed a group of guests from Moon Harbor in the New Year, not only the caravan of the three of them, but also from others.

In order to avoid suffering from the troubles, the merchants spontaneously formed a huge fleet and anchored in Xinhui for a while, and then followed the Qianhu fleet all the way to Haojing—because they heard that the Xiangshan garrison had defeated the Haojing Yishang, and they expected that the army should be stronger.

In fact, it is precisely because Xinhui only stationed a general battalion, and the garrison strength of Nanhaiwei in Xinhui is almost negligible, but Xiangshan is obviously different.

Nearly two full thousand houses are stationed here, so that they can get the best protection, as well as trade.

At the behest of Chen Qianhu, Hua Yu, a 'Haojing wealthy businessman' who owned a dilapidated tavern, came forward to buy a large amount of raw silk and Fujian wool iron with property slightly lower than the price of Guangzhou, and transported it to Xiangshan Qianhu, where the peasant women weaved silk.

As for how much finished products can be woven, it is not in Chen Mu's consideration, if you find a financial way, you must try it first, not this year and next year, just familiarize yourself.

When the hands are ripe, they may be able to build a factory in Xiangshan to centralize management and supervision.

After the New Year, it is difficult for the whole of Guangdong to wait for Zeng Yi, and the defense of various places has been slightly relaxed, and the Xiangshan Thousand Households Office is the same, and the entire New Year is only practiced for 13 days.

It was not until March that the drill returned to two exercises in three days, and it was difficult to rise again.

Because the shipyard was built, the manpower of the Xiangshan Institute was really insufficient.

On the beach at the southernmost end of Xiangshan, the military remnants led by the flag army shouted the trumpet, dragging huge trees to leave deep ravines in the sand, the side of the open-air shipyard was lined with wooden fences, and the small ferries in the past were even larger.

A dockyard with a shallow draft is being built, and the adjacent frame has been renovated to make room for 400 warships in the future.

Of course, that's only in the future.

At present, no matter the financial, material and human resources of the Xiangshan Institute, it is not enough to build a huge ship shape such as Yu Dayou's transfer of the fortune boat, and even if there are enough materials, there is no skilled craftsmanship, so it can only be built from a small boat with a length of five or six zhang.

However, Chen Mu likes to solve the problem fundamentally.

At the ferry, Li Dan led people to drive a dhow in the war to come slowly, Chen Mu, who was looking forward to the shore, led people to dodge, and Li Dan and a few people on the boat jumped into the water near the shore, leaving the unmanned dhow to rush straight to the shore according to the predetermined course and ran aground on the beach.

"Father-in-law, are you really going to dismantle the ship?"

Li Dan took off his wet shirt and stepped in his hands, looking at the stranded warship from a distance with reluctance in his eyes, "Although this ship is small, it can carry small cannons, and the stern is too narrow, but it can hold four cannons in front." ”

Although it is a small boat, it is actually more than ten meters long and not small, but the rear half of the ship is narrow, and it can only be loaded with cargo and cannot be loaded with guns, and only the bow half of the body can be loaded with two to six guns, all of which have gun holes.

It is an armed merchant ship.

"Demolition."

Chen Mu commanded the shipwright and the painter to take a measuring tape to survey and map the shape of various parts of the warship, and said to Li Dan: "Don't you want to know why the same big ship, our 100-material warship can't even carry the Franco, and the ship will disperse after a few guns, but this kind of ship is fine?" ”

As he spoke, he waved his hand to the busy dock and said, "All have a place, in summer, the racks of a hundred warships can fill the entire beach, and the fishing boats of thousands of households will be replaced with a hundred warships with cannons." The apprentices have been sent to the gunpowder factory of the Francosians, for two or three years, they are all skilled gunners, and when the time comes, let the fishermen of the Ming Dynasty go to the South Seas to fish and drive the gunboats! ”

The sun shines on the beach, the busy shipyard craftsmen become beautiful backs, and the tide comes and goes.

On the silent boulder on the shore is engraved with the handwritten seal of Chen Mu, a thousand households in Xiangshan in the second year of Longqing: Xiangshan Shipyard.