Chapter 8 Adopted Son
Chen Mu is afraid of trouble?
Deng Zilong went back and thought about it for a long time, but he still couldn't understand what Chen Mu meant.
The Guanghai Acropolis, which has stood in the South China Sea for almost 200 years, made you push a coffin and blew it up, and now let you marry a mother-in-law with a high dowry, you say you are afraid of trouble?
Deng Zilong said that he didn't believe anything.
No one can understand this.
In fact, Chen Mu himself didn't think clearly about whether this matter was good or bad, although Yang Yinglong would rebel, but that was more than 20 years later, and now Hailongtun has not yet been built, and he has not even inherited the official position of the Banzhou Propaganda Envoy, because the sorrow about what has not happened is too unfounded.
But it's there, and he can't help but don't want to.
But it's not all trouble, at least compared to marriage, whether it is to build Guanghai City or Nanyang City, it has become a trivial matter.
"It's a big deal to demolish Guanghai City, transport the city bricks to Nanyang, and build only this one city."
Why bother thinking about the things that disturb people's worries and let them be?
Chen Mu still likes to be comfortable, idle and idle, with his apprentice, Hachiro, son, and his goose, strolling on the endless sandy beach in the South Seas, blowing the sea breeze to adjust the gun position, accompanied by the deafening cannon sound to smash the target floating on the sea.
When the sun sets on the beach, the golden red is reflected on the sparkling sea, the beautiful women dance, the musicians play the flute, and the beautiful scenery of beautiful women and wine can make people forget all the troubles.
The Ordnance Bureau has something new to ponder.
The armor craftsman invited from Foshan Town taught the Ordnance Bureau how to make armor and chain mail, and the master asked for forty-two taels of silver to buy a full set of utensils for pulling iron wires, which were modified by the craftsmen themselves, and when Chen Mu went to inspect the Ordnance Bureau again, he felt that the skills of the entire Nanyang Guard Ordnance Bureau were a little deviated by him.
Half of Xiangshan is close to the side of the estuary, except for the stone fort is the Ordnance Bureau, which is large or small, far or near and all kinds of waterwheels, providing a steady stream of power for the Ordnance Bureau, Yang Yinglong is right, his craftsman is really lazy!
With the help of water power, the Ordnance Bureau entered the era of semi-automation.
Wrought iron is hammered with water; drill the bore wire, with water; Even the iron locks that hoisted the artillery were used by them to use water, but if they could do without manpower, they would not use manpower.
The tall walls lock Nanyang Wei is a water monster that is very different from this era, and it may not even be this era anymore, even in the memory of Chen Mu's soul that is gradually covered by another era, there seems to be no period or region that has such a huge dependence on water power.
They were forging steel, buying Suzhou steel by ship at a price equivalent to wrought iron, and copying the plate armor obtained from Haojing in the Ordnance Bureau, although there were only a few pieces, but this was not difficult for craftsmen, like making artillery, it was not difficult to make a cannon, but it was difficult to be more suitable in terms of how heavy and thick it was.
Selecting the middle point between protection and redundancy requires a lot of experiments and data support.
When he first gave an order to the finished products of the Guan craftsmen, Chen Mu felt that he was a person who twisted himself - the plate armor was originally a Western thing, and he demanded that the plate armor made should have the symbol of the East.
Some of them have the mentality of being a to stand in the archway.
Later, he found that he was thinking too much, his craftsman was much more awkward than him at this point, Guan Yuangu had long positioned this new steel armor as a general armor, at least more than 100 households in Nanyang Wei could wear the armor as an inner lining as a chest, so he worked tirelessly to design the carving, and the finished product he dedicated to Chen Mu could not be seen to be a set of weapons with Western blood at all.
The breastplate is carved with a tiger's head in the middle, and the two mountain tigers on the shoulders can be guarded against stray bullets released from 30 steps away from the bird's gun, according to Guan Yuangu. The whole armor is nailed to the inner lining of a leather robe, and the real armor on the outside is lacquered Qingshan Wen armor, and each mountain character armor has bubble nails in the triangle, which is an improvement made to protect against arrows.
The protection of the mountain armor against chopping and stabbing is very high, but the defect is that when the arrow crossbow nail is fired, it will be at the relatively weak connection of the armor because of the corner of the mountain piece, and at this time, it can only rely on the chain mail as the lining in the past to protect the arrow cluster, which can generally be nailed into the chain mail for less than three points, so as not to hurt the vital point, but it is also very painful.
It is very different when the nail is pressed on the horn of Shanwen, first, the impact of the split will be transmitted to the large cuirass, and second, it is difficult for the arrow cluster to penetrate the bubble nail if it is fired directly.
The two are combined, beautiful and practical, but they are still a little heavy.
The cuirass is fifteen pounds, plus the mountain armor and a full set of protective gear, weighing more than forty pounds.
The weight is about the same as that of the lined chain mail in the past, and if it is a naval battle, you can still only wear the inner lining to fight.
This set of armor was customized by Chen Mutui as the commander, the thousand households were the chest armor lined with cuirass, the hundred households were cloth cuirasses, the small flag general flag was the cuirass mandarin duck battle jacket, and the ordinary flag army was a single-sided cuirass battle jacket.
The Ming people's requirements for clothing and etiquette are much higher than Chen Mu's.
After the regulations are formulated, the rest is to build it slowly, and if you want to equip the whole army with armor, it is estimated that it will be the end of next year.
Chen Mu was busy with one thing, recruiting family soldiers.
Because General Chen, who is not yet married, has two more sons, one of whom has even changed his surname.
The reason is that Chen Mu wants Balang to go to the imperial examination, although Wei Balang commanded the artillery team under the city of Guangzhou to make meritorious contributions, Chen Mu did not promote his higher official position to Zhang Han, and personally came to invite the old man who was idle at home to be his teacher, teaching him Jingyi, this rabbit cub does not learn whether he lives or dies, and what does he say that the big husband should make meritorious contributions, and ten years later he will be the commander of Nanyangwei, what is the use of learning to compose poetry!
"Li Dan is your son, he calls you dad, you don't invite him to the old gentleman, I also call you dad, don't invite the old gentleman to me!"
Chen Mu was so anxious that he couldn't frown, the old man invited people who couldn't let go of other people's pigeons, but they rummaged through Nanyangwei and didn't meet the requirements of the boy who could count and had a bit of identity to complete enlightenment, and finally Chen Ye couldn't do it, so he carried a burning stick to smoke the eighth master all over the house, and wrote a letter to Chen Lan when he was done.
Chen Xuan's son Chen Jiujing, who is slightly younger than the eighth master, has been familiar with the bow horse in Mongolia, and the son of the general also has an identity and was sent to Nanyangwei to study.
Later, the two of them simply invited guests to call good friends, set up a banquet, Chen Lan and Chen Mu became brothers, Wei Ba changed his name to Chen Zhi, called Chen Bazhi, recognized his father-in-law Chen Luan, adoptive father Chen Mu, Chen Jiujing also recognized Chen Mu as his father-in-law, and the two families simply got married.
The trivial matter of the kitten reading was turned into a big thing.
The eighth master is still the eighth master, and if he doesn't like to take the scriptures and history to gain fame, he won't take the test, but the book still has to be read.
Chen Mu's handwriting is big, let the eighth master go out to recruit two talented warriors as the Chen family, he does not have Li Chengliang's big heart, not to mention that this is not nine sides, on the play to recruit more than 200 families of Tan, soil, and Miao in Nanyangwei, the left arm tattoo snake to avoid water, the right hand tiger mouth pattern loyalty and bravery, rationed with the newly built warship and artillery armor, personally drilled by the eighth master led.
In history, in the winter of the third year of Longqing, it snowed in Guangdong, and the grass and trees in Xiqiao Mountain were all icy.
What is due will come.
The drum belly building outside the city of Guangzhou has been closed.