The rocket made by the blacksmith and the carpenter, Chen Mu felt that it was okay.

The modified rocket flew three steps to the left of the intended target with a shrill whistle, and exploded on the side of the skinned scarecrow with a thud, and the hole in the scarecrow showed that Guan Yuangu was right.

Extremely fast speed, convenient ignition, terrifying killing, basically Chen Mu imagined that the advantages of rockets have all of them.

There are also quite a few disadvantages.

Not counting the labor cost of one or two or four dollars of silver, the relatively high cost.

The short range, which can only be fired horizontally or slightly angled, limits the rocket to most of the time before hand-to-hand combat.

Not being able to match the accuracy of artillery at the same distance means that there is not enough of them to form an effective combat force.

All these characteristics determine that this is only an auxiliary weapon used to disrupt the line, kill and injure enemy troops, and undermine morale, supplementing the means of attack.

"Make a strap, it's called a small flag arrow."

Chen Mu chose the name lightly, as if a slightly weak name could make the improved rocket more deterrent, but what he said next was terrifying.

"Under each flag, the flag armament has two cylinders. Then build to ensure the quality, first make 20 barrels, 40 arrows. ”

It is true that the small flag arrow is very powerful, but it has fatal shortcomings.

Chen Mu was born with a bird gun, and he knew what the lethality of the bird gun was, eighty steps to a hundred steps, which was the maximum range of the bird gun. This means that if his banner army wants to release rockets in front of the formation, they must enter the maximum range of the Bird Gunner.

But as far as he knows now, no one in the entire Ming Dynasty may be so good at playing the bird gun, this thing is dedicated to fighting rebels and robbers!

As for the future, it's a big deal that Lao Tzu will make the general flag arrow, the arrow of 100 households, and the arrow of 1000 households!

General Banner Yamen.

"Chen Erlang, give me a craftsman, and I want one!"

Deng Zilong couldn't help but see the little flag arrow explode next to the scarecrow, he couldn't imagine that a weak childlike rocket could exert such a great power in Chen Mu's hands!

Even when Chen Mu named the rocket, he discovered Chen Mu's ambition.

There are five small flags under the general flag, and the five small flags are equipped with two small flag arrows, and the enemy is charging forward, and the ten small flag arrows in front of the formation are lined up in a row, what is the scene?

Ten steps before the enemy's formation, directly clear the air!

"If Deng is still the boss, the archers in front of the formation are mixed with small flag arrows, and the arrows are only three shots, and the enemy sends rockets at nearly 100 paces, leading the charge, and the rockets explode fifty steps away from the enemy, and they will run away!" When it comes to the war, Deng Zilong said with great energy, and there was a sense of rebuke in his gestures, "Thirty steps are all their backs, fifty quick guns are fired in a volley, and it is a trip to the past with a spearhead!" ”

Chen Mu has been smiling and listening to Deng Zilong say that he has seen Deng Zilong's tactics, so it sounds full of pictures at this time, as if he saw the scene of Deng leveling the general trip into the enemy formation and then being surrounded by a large army of the enemy.

Of course, in order to encircle a fierce general like Deng Zilong, the rebels used seven or eight times his strength to achieve the encirclement.

After Deng Zilong finished speaking, Chen Mu smiled even more, raised three fingers, and said, "Hello brothers, five taels." ”

"Huh?" Deng Zilong was stunned, looked at him and stretched out three fingers and asked, "What five taels?" ”

Chen Mu glanced down, his five fingers opened quickly, his smile was right, and the philistine came appropriately, "Five taels of silver and a small flag and arrow, two silver goods, and no bullying for children!" ”

"The craftsman can't give it, but the rocket can still sell you."

Deng Zilong leaned on the side of the table and leaned slightly, as if he realized for the first time that Chen Zongqi still had such a profiteer side, stretched out his finger and was speechless, and it took a long time to shoot the case and shout: "You are a stupid dick of Deng!" I'm listening, the money is only a few dollars, and you ask me for five taels, and you say it's a brother! ”

"Did you hear that?"

Chen Mu's face continued to shine for a moment, and then put on a formulaic smile, and said with a straight finger: "Then three or two, it can't be lower, and the craftsman's money can't be in vain!" If you give out thirty taels, Chen will send you another one, and eleven rockets will be sent to the Thousand Households Institute when you take office! ”

Deng Zilong stopped talking, seeing that it was impossible for Chen Mu to give him the craftsman, and the rocket was indeed too expensive.

In the end, Deng Zilong was a battalion general in the past, and even if it was a guard, not everyone had the heart of Chen Mu to raise their own armaments.

Thirty taels can buy a five-room house outside the city of Guangzhou, how could an officer sell the house to buy weapons for his soldiers, in the entire Guangzhou Mansion, the only ones who are willing to do this are Bai Yuanjie and Chen Mu.

To put it bluntly, Chen Mu is a complete warlord style, but he didn't even notice it himself.

Take the land of the imperial court and train your own soldiers.

"You keep it for Deng, there will be a war in the future, maybe Deng will come to you to buy rockets if he is ruthless."

Chen Mu smiled and didn't speak, he didn't have the idea of selling rockets to make a fortune, he just used this to block the mouth of Deng Zilong's wanted craftsman.

Last time, Shi Qi reminded him very right, before the dust of the official position settled, he should not do anything, the current craftsmen are also for the future preparation, if the dust settles on the deputy thousand households, these craftsmen will play a more important role in his hands.

For example, hydraulic hammers, flintlock pistols, glass kilns, and even making your own iron are all conceivable.

"Don't be discouraged, you are Deng Qianhu, or it won't be long before you get rich!" Chen Mu smiled sheepishly and said to Deng Zilong: "Wait for the craftsman to make a few rockets, I will send you five for emergency use, come on, I still have something to ask you to help with!" ”

When Deng Zilong heard Chen Mu say this, his rough face smiled, and he got up happily and said, "What's the matter?" ”

"Follow me."

Chen Mu didn't say it directly, when he entered the room, he laid a wide paper on the table that almost covered the table, and drew a brief mountain and river with charcoal, which was he drew the topography of the coastal waters of Yuegang according to his memory, and said to Deng Zilong with a lamp: "You have fought naval battles, and you have seen a lot of knowledge in Guangzhou Mansion, if this is a seaport, if you want to build a city, what do you think the port's commercial market, camp, and defense will do?" ”

Chen Mu showed his hand and asked Deng Zilong to paint.

On this map, most of the houses and fields that Chen Mu asked Shao Tingda to buy were outside the city near the sea, and others didn't know that Yuegang was going to open a port, just because he wanted to glorify his ancestors.

In fact, even if someone knew that Yuegang would be used as a place of switching, they still couldn't figure out Chen Mu's thoughts.

Chen Mu naturally has a way to sell some of the land to make money after waiting for the switch, but this is only one of them, for him, it is easy to buy land, how to give away the land in his hand, and the meaning of the gift is the key.

For example, a piece of land that is most suitable for a port business market was given to Tu Zemin, the governor of Fujian.

What about the land deeds that were given to the government together, plus the map of the moon port and the maritime rules that he drew and wrote himself?

He doesn't want much, as long as he can speak and leave a name, it's enough.

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Shock: Frightened or frightened XX. From - Han Sima Qian's "Book of Reporting to Shaoqing": "The ruler of Zhanqiu is long, salty and terrifying.