In fact, if you just want to make money, you can exchange silver for Tongbao in Daming, and buy goods and sell back silver in Annan to make a lot of money.

But don't talk about Annan, it is impossible for Chen Mu to spend Tongbao in any corner of the world.

He couldn't wait to get all the treasures to Nanyang Weigang and melt them down to make artillery.

The minister of Nanyang is a trick to do business, with a full screen of red mouth and white teeth, and opening his mouth is bartering.

In fact, cotton, brocade, and silk were exchanged for Southeast Asian specialties in large quantities, and Chen Mu always felt that he had suffered a big loss, but the situation forced him to do so.

Due to the industrious Portuguese merchants and the industrious merchants who went to India from Malacca in the Ming Dynasty, the bulk cotton was imported from Macao, which caused the Guangdong silk weaving market, which had just burst out of great vitality, to reach a bottleneck, and the production capacity was very overcapacity.

Yin Zhengmao's erroneous decree caused a shortage of human resources in the Guangzhou Prefecture, stimulated the use of very primitive steam engines, and the common people and merchants learned from Nanyangwei to form a factory model, which was two years ago.

At that time, this was a good thing for Chen Mu, and his goal for himself was to invest in these businessmen, not to directly give money to let them expand production, but to use the strong financial resources of the Nanyang Military Government to buy all products at a unified price to stimulate their profit-seeking production.

On the other hand, he also started to invest in technology, and at that time he thought that there would always be a qualitative change.

But he didn't expect that it was not a qualitative change, but a quantitative change.

Guangzhou is better, but the scale of the factory has expanded to Guangdong Province, and even Guangxi and Fujian have been affected.

This is the first time in Chen Mu's life that he has felt the butterfly effect.

He thought that if he controlled the import of cotton, he would be able to control the scale, but the local gentry, merchants, and ordinary people were not fools, especially the people of Fujian and Guangzhou who would rather go to sea to beg for a living than to be charged with murder.

The Portuguese did not have enough cotton from India, so they took the sea and land routes to transport cotton from Shandong, Henan, Shanxi, and Shaanxi.

Some of them are merchants who have factories in Guangzhou Prefecture and directly hire people to buy goods from the north, or merchants from the north directly come to exchange cotton for cotton cloth, which can be sold as far as Mongolia.

Because it's cheap.

Elsewhere, a piece of machine cotton cloth is three dollars and two cents of silver, and a horse of Cantonese cotton is two dollars and six cents of silver, and the price of two percent is very low.

This is a good thing, but the bad thing is that he can't stop the blood transfusion of Guangfu cotton, and he can't go to the north to compete with the merchants for profit, so it is not in line with his original intention, and the overseas market is only so big for the time being, all of which are tropical and subtropical regions, and can only sell summer cotton cloth.

How many people are there in the Nanyang countries?

One piece can't compare to Wu Gongji!

"If it's to make money, I won't sell it to Wu Gongji for something."

Chen Mu has always thought so in his heart, if he just wants to make money, he can support the two families with one mouth, raise the price with Wu Gongji here, supply Hexingsheng there, and make a profit in the middle, barter, and the military expenses for the battle of Annan will be available as soon as he enters and exits.

Although this kind of profit is made, it is not as much as the maximum profit that Chen Mu can achieve.

In any case, when the Nanyang Military Government announced the rewards for the merits of this expedition, and the military soldiers in the hundreds of households, general flags, and small flags preached it, the morale was indeed as Deng Zilong thought, and everyone was ready to fight again.

The so-called propaganda soldiers are the double-paid banner soldiers who tell heroic stories to the flag army around the bonfire in the evening in each small banner, and they look a bit like the priests of the army, but they still have the work of enhancing the cohesion of the flag army and solving the psychological problems of the flag army before and after the war in Chen Mu's heart.

This is not brainwashing.

A banner army of the Ming Dynasty, following in the footsteps of the ancestral heroes of the Central Plains, stepped on the battlefield in the world of great contention, achieved the goal of enriching the country and strengthening the army between life and death, and gave them the courage to survive, Chen Mu never felt that this was brainwashing.

Brainwashing, that's what Chen Ju has to do when he goes back and asks for the dispatch of the Jinyi guards.

They go to Annam, to Malacca, to India, to Spain, and maybe even to the whole world.

These spies-tasked guards will do everything in their power to convince others that their homeland is weak, defeated, and evil; Let them believe that their people are ignorant, stupid, and inferior.

That's brainwashing.

The battle of Annam was not much for the entire Ming Empire, it was nothing more than to make a little money, to get a canal from Yunnan to overseas, to dredge the joints for the next battle of Burma and reduce the pressure of baggage.

But for the Nanyang Military Government, the meaning is completely different, and it is a major event that kills birds with one stone.

He has achieved wealth, opened up the market, and more importantly, the cohesion of the Nanyang Army, which is very different.

The logistics supply of the Battle of Annam, the 3,000 military guards of the suzerainty and the 9,000 banner troops of the vassal state were treated equally, and the nine thousand households from various countries had never eaten such military rations on the battlefield in the past, and they did not expect that the rewards for their military achievements would be treated equally before they set out for the battle.

Not to mention those flag soldiers, even in the country, there are few opportunities to eat such meals, and in war, they can't imagine that they will be treated like this.

Looking at the banner army of the vassal countries waiting for battle, Chen Mu could imagine that when the war was over, they would return to their respective countries with the rewards of their military exploits, and they would influence more people to gather under the banner of the Ming Empire Mosaic Dragon from the bottom up.

Chen Mu even thought that if the empire could digest the internal pressure in the world market in the next hundred years and be reborn, and become one of the most important imperial hegemony in the next hundred years, this battle would have a decisive significance in world history.

There are also the officers of the military guard, those young generals and colonels who are from the navy and army martial arts hall in the real sense, and the art of war is not a specific and obscure word for them, such as loving soldiers like sons and sharing weal and woe with soldiers.

How to sleep in the same tent and barracks as the soldiers, how to eat the same rations as the soldiers, how to travel the same way, and even what to say when the meat in his bowl is given to the thin or strong subordinates during the meal.

It is learned in class and written in textbooks.

No matter from which point of view, this is the first time that the new army with the traditions and characteristics of the Ming Empire has fought in battle.

The 3,000 Ming Army and the 9,000 tributary flag army have a new troop composition, a new organizational system, new weapons and armor, new officer training, and even new baggage logistics.

It's just that at this moment, except for Chen Mu, the single-hand founder of this sect army, no one can fully understand the entire source of this army's terrifying combat effectiveness.

When this army had not yet shone in the eyes of the world, Chen Mu had been aroused by the dazzling light.

At the beginning of September, under the command of Chen Mufa in Thang Long, Wei Qianhu of the military government followed Lou Qimai north into Yunnan and ordered him to support Yang Yinglong.

Later, a message was sent to Shiqi, who was stationed in Malacca, ordering him to collect all the information on Burma in the hands of the Portuguese, sending scouts to sail from the coast to collect Burmese intelligence, and at the same time dispatching Shao Tingda to lead 4,000 troops to move to Malacca.

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