Chapter Seventy-Seven: Improvement
Since Annan has won, Mo Jingdian has no intention of raising troops in the east, and the matters that should be reported to the imperial court for decision are also reported, and there is nothing to do with the military government here.
In the next garrison and deterrence, the two veteran generals Yu Dayou and Liu Xian were much more experienced than Chen Mujun, and the defense was taken over by Yu and Liu Marshal, and the military government gave some rewards to the Zong Fan Banner Army, and gave them a fifteen-day holiday in Thang Long City.
Of course, this holiday is only relative, and it is forbidden not to return to the camp at night, to commit adultery and plunder, to be an adulterer, not to drink and have fun, and to practice for two hours every day.
The so-called holiday is just a rotation of 100 households for two hours a day, limiting the number of people entering the city every day to no more than 1,000 people, taking the flag army under his command to visit Thang Long City, and each person is allowed to buy 100 catties of special products and send them home.
Chen Mu was reluctant to send Tongbao outflow, he was reluctant to spend it, of course he would not give Tongbao to the flag army, he didn't even give silver, each person according to their merits, give a few pieces of cotton cloth or a few feet of silk, or a few sets of porcelain, let them spend it themselves.
In short, as soon as he heard the news of the victory, the merchants of Fujian, Guangzhou, and Nanyang came here to pay the 'profit tax' to the military government and guards, and there was a mess of everything, and a shipload of goods gave him half of it, and the goods were piled up, which was just distributed to the flag army, and he could also make up for part of the reward expenses.
The profit sharing tax is actually the tariff that should have been handed over to the Annan court, and in this situation, who can collect the tax of the merchants in Annan? But in the end, it is a heroic country with 200,000 troops, and it doesn't even have tariffs to make people laugh?
This matter still depends on our Governor Chen.
However, since the Banner Army was on holiday, the tax and the Nanyang Army camp outside Thang Long City were all under the care of Bai Yuanjie, and Chen Dudu went to Guangzhou Mansion on business.
At this juncture, Mo Jingdian returned tens of thousands of Chen soldiers in Nanshan, and it was definitely impossible to talk about peace of mind, but Chen Mu still had to make a small mistake, and he had to do two official things.
The first thing is the most important, the sailors on the Chihai ship have all changed the flag guards of the military government, and the sail ropes are all hundreds of households, not counting Chen Mu, Deng Zilong, Zhang Shijue and Jun Song and other accompanying soldiers, and ninety-three flag officers below 1,000 households went to Guangzhou Mansion with the ship.
They spent three days in the Navy Lecture Hall, where they gathered with the academy lecturers to exchange experiences from several combat operations in Annam.
After proofreading the notes written by each of them in Annan for several months, they were handed over to the Jiangwutang War Collection Building together with Annan's drawings and other military documents, which were used as materials for the compilation of teaching materials in the future, and this was also the obligation of the graduates of Jiangwutang.
Their teachers will consider their notes one by one, record them in their resumes, and evaluate the outstanding generals, this kind of evaluation has no interest in the promotion of generals, but if they are wounded in the war in the future and cannot continue to lead their troops to fight, then the notes they have compiled are very important to life.
If you are good enough, you will be transferred to the lecture hall, and according to the talents shown in the notes, you will be appointed as a military attaché or weapon research officer in each department, and continue to serve the country.
Speaking of which, the second thing Chen Mu did when he returned to Guangdong was also related to the Navy Lecture Hall, but it was mainly led by the Ordnance Bureau under the Nanyang Military Government.
Guan Zunban, the chief officer of the Ordnance Bureau, carried a private letter with him when he was transporting goods in the previous meeting, handing over to Chen Mu the idea of the Ordnance Bureau's plan to comprehensively improve the ordnance, involving the main weapons and armor.
Even if Lu Bo, the head of Wutang Mountain, had urged him many times, Chen Mu didn't know and didn't make a decision, and Guan Zunban didn't dare to do it.
In this season, the ship boarded from the mouth of the Red River from the north of the Beibu Gulf to Guangzhou through Qiongzhou to Guangzhou, and the speed was not changed, and the whole ship had to drift at sea for five days, but this also just gave the flag officer on the ship time to revise his notes, which was not a bad thing.
In the cabin belonging to Chen Mu on the Chihai ship, Chen Mushuai, the military governor of the Nanyang Minister's Military Mansion, was in chaos at this time.
Six bayonets of different sizes and lengths were spread out on the table, and on the wall weapon racks hung three bird guns with slightly different patterns, as well as the armor uniforms of the flag army holding armor plates or sorting on the ground.
Three breastplates, two armor skirts, two arm bindings, four helmets, four military shoes, two carrying belts, three backpacks, two water bottles, three rice bowls, and even a standard notebook and a map are available in two copies.
Chen Mu has roughly seen these things, some of which he understands about the improvements, and some of which he can't see at all, not to mention that the data is too huge, Guan Zunban is waiting for Chen Mu to return to the military palace to explain in person, so Chen Mu is not in a hurry.
Guan Zunban took over the military and government guards for two years, and he did not have a big mess, and the weapons and armor sent this time can be seen that it is bound to improve the ordnance system.
Although these ordnance can not only make Chen Mu clear at a glance, such as adding padding to the helmet armor, winding and changing the line to densely weave canvas, and other improvements that can allow the soldiers to maintain their combat strength, there are also many improvements that he will not understand for a while, but this is not important.
When he arrived in Guangzhou, Guan Zunban would naturally tell him the reasons and results.
What he has to do now is to add a few small items to the armament, cut his hair and beard, grate and clean his face, in the war of Annam, it was not Mo Jingdian and Ruan's Northern Dynasty army that caused the greatest loss to the combat strength of the Nanyang Army, but the lice in the hair of the Ming army.
In peacetime, the army has a station, and each department has a special holiday for cleaning and sanitation every few days, and can also boil water and take a bath after daily drills.
By the way, because of the various shops of the Ming people, including the barber shop, after Chen Mu occupied Manila, more than a dozen Spaniards hoped to still live in Macheng, after all, the living facilities here are far beyond the side, and not everyone lives in Madrid when they return to China.
However, during the war in Annam, the Ming army did not have such an opportunity to clean personal hygiene, and the conditions were extremely poor.
Ten days and a half without bathing is already unbearable in a place like Annan, but at the moment of war, patience has passed; But if you don't wash your hair for ten days and a half months, I'm afraid it's not much more uncomfortable than killing your head.
Of course, Chen Mu didn't let the soldiers shave their hair, although he did want all his soldiers to shave their heads into big bald heads, which was the most convenient hairstyle for fighting, so that it was easy to clean and hygienic, but this was a big deal, and he was neither prepared to challenge the tradition, nor did he have such determination.
He prefers to figure out how to do it from the rules and regulations.
It is not an exaggeration to say that the logistics of the Nanyang Army is the second in the world, but this is not something that logistics can solve, and it is necessary to distribute tools to people, and he is thinking about what tools should be added to the backpack of the Banner Army, what kind of rules and regulations should be formulated, and how to get the tools.
"Shuai Ye, it's not far from the mouth of the Pearl River, should you go to Guangzhou Mansion first, or go to Weigang first?"
On the afternoon of the fifth day of the voyage from Shenglong, the Chihai arrived in the waters of Guangzhou, and Juniper came in to report the news, and was startled by the ordnance spread all over the ground.
"Put these away and pack them up, go to Weigang to put me down first, and let Commander Zhang take the students to the martial arts hall to do what he should do, and you and Liandou will go with me." Chen Mu pointed to the messy ordnance in the cabin and said, "Let's go and finalize the ordnance regulations." ”
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