Empress Dowager Li was full of sorrow in the Forbidden City, and Chen Mu, the medicine that must be tied to the bell in her heart, had nearly the same emotions on the other side of the ocean.

During the period when Emperor Wanli was preparing for the military parade, Chen Mu was not idle in Asia, and the matter of peace was handed over to Zhao Shizhen to go to the border to preside, and he and Xu Zhenming successively took a boat and sailed north and south.

Some time ago, Xu Zhenming has been sorting out the local exploration data of Panama in the past 30 years, but because of the different measurement methods and because he can't believe in the measurement method of the Westerners, Xu Zhenming has to go to the field for a field investigation.

Chen Mu first took a boat to the north, landed in Jiexian and Jincheng in turn, and inspected the training of the garrison and the governance of the county.

Amu raised hundreds of sheep and more than 3,000 people in the county, and it was almost impossible to have any impact on the environment of the narrow peninsula.

Jincheng is much better, the tribes from the south, north and even east are gathering there, countless soldiers and horses of the subject countries are practicing and learning Chinese here, and there are a large number of immigrants, who want mines and mines, and there are carts of nitrate and soil that lead to the valley to the east.

In Wu Zhongxing's words, Jincheng County is a blessed land, and it doesn't matter who the successor is in the future, it can be regarded as guilty if he can't be ruled by Dazhi.

Chen Mu felt that the magistrate under his hand who was exempted from the court staff was a little inflated, why did he think that he would not be re-elected as the magistrate for three consecutive terms?

However, Chen Mu's main purpose for coming here has nothing to do with the magistrate, he is here to pick up his son.

Two righteous sons, Li Dan and Chen Jiujing.

These two boys have changed more and more as they grow older, the innate gangsterism on Li Dan's body has almost disappeared now, and Chen Jiujing is not as powerful as Chen Luan, but has a bit of Confucian temperament.

The two of them each commanded thousands of men and horses when they sailed eastward, and Li Dan had an elite Japanese samurai team under his command and soldiers with chaotic banners recruited from various daimyos; Chen Jiujing went to Korea to receive soldiers and horses from Baishan and Heishui in response to the call of the Great Tomorrow after Ashikaga Yoshiaki entered the Ming Dynasty to pay tribute.

After arriving in Jincheng, their subordinates learned Chinese while scattering some of their troops and distributing them to various places, and now they all have about 3,000 troops left.

However, the main purpose of the dispersal was to worry that they would be too numerous to gather a crowd to rebel against the Heavenly Army, and there was no idea of weakening their combat power, such as sending Japanese troops to southern Peru.

Therefore, after the reduction of troops, the two subordinates still have strong combat capability, so the Oriental Military Government set up three battalions outside each guard station, and two of them are their two men.

Li Dan's army is called the Fusang Battalion, the elite of the two kingdoms of the main Japanese and the Ryukyus.

Chen Jiujing's department is called Baishan Battalion, the main Jurchen and the elite of the two kingdoms of Korea.

In addition, there is an army for the Baixu battalion, the battalion will be Ma Fang's eldest grandson Ma Ran, led by the Mongolian cavalry, Chen Mu did not move this army and horses, under the order of Ma Gui, the Baixu battalion and the Hulan Department of those black cloud dragons in the mouth of the 'Northern Yuan remnants' under the leadership of the Beiyang officers divided into teams, together in the vast and boundless north of Asia all the way to the east.

In this land under the rule of the Ming Dynasty, apart from the bison, the Mongol infantry had no natural predators, and no one could endure hunger, cold, and running more than them.

As soon as the order was issued, the men of the second battalion, who had been recuperating for a long time, boarded the fortune ship and followed Chen Mu to Panama.

"Father-in-law, isn't it time to go to the city?"

On the ship, Li Dan asked Chen Mu that the Seville in his mouth was naturally Seville in Spain, and the leased land in the treaty signed after the first war between Mingxi and the West.

"Well, last month I sent a message to the King of the West, informing him that he was going to send troops to take over Seville, and when he sent back the letter, you can go over and get next year."

Chen Mu nodded thoughtfully, raised his hand and asked, "How is the morale of your second battalion recently, I heard some time ago that someone was causing trouble in Jincheng?" ”

Li Dan and Chen Jiujing glanced at each other, they both nodded with a wry smile, and he arched his hand: "The Jurchens are not good at navigation, and the Japanese soldiers are not good at sailing. ”

"They feel that they have no hope of returning home, and they are asked to learn Chinese all day long, and they are inevitably irritable." Li Dan shook his head with a smile and said, "If they had come to catch up with the big war earlier, they wouldn't have so many things." ”

People can't be idle, and grass grows in their hearts.

Chen Mu was deeply impressed by Li Dan's words, nodded and said: "I think so too, so I am going to send you to Panama first, and walk from the west coast to the east coast along the road built by the westerners, and fight a few battles there, and the morale of my subordinates should be restored." ”

His words caused the two righteous sons to look at each other, and Chen Jiujing asked: "Da Ming and Xiyi have not negotiated, and they are going to war again?" ”

Chen Mu shook his head and smiled: "If you really start a war, you can't go to sea to fight with the Western Army, their infantry formation is still very powerful, it was to help the Western Kingdom clear the pirates on the route in the past, I see that you have a lot of firearms on the ship, and there are a lot of Franc machines." ”

"Yes, after the end of the war, the king ordered to collect it, and the heavenly army helped collect some, and Dongdu brought most of them, and the Fusang camp now has more than 1,000 Japanese guns, 14 large guns made by Portugal, and 8 small guns made by the Japanese country."

There is no difficulty in imitating the small cannon of the Franc machine, in Europe, the Franc cannon is knocked out with an iron roll and an iron hoop like a musket, even so it is enough to surprise Chen Mu: "I thought that the Franc machine was made by the Ming Dynasty, they are amazing." ”

"The righteous father didn't know that the princes of the Wa State were named Xinxuan, and the "Jiazhou Law" made by his people used the Central Plains Warring States to describe the time of his life, and the princes were in chaos for the war territory, and more than 10,000 iron cannons were collected after the single battle, not counting those who were unwilling to hand over the defenders of the county magistrates."

Li Dan pouted as he spoke: "Xiaoba left 3,000 guns, and the Li family took the path of the Beijing division and asked the military department to transfer 4,600 iron cannons to Liaodong, if it weren't for them, the child would have been able to have a firearm in his hands this time." ”

"Transferred to Liaodong? What does the Li family want so many guns...... Give it to him, and give it to him. Chen Mu calculated, Xiaoba Xiaojiu and Li Dan did not suffer: "The Li family has contributed people and efforts, and they deserve to share something after the war." ”

Of course, the main reason for the cautious donkey boy to be so generous was nothing else, but he suddenly realized that the iron cannons were arquebuses in the middle of his complaining words, which were useless to him, and even if he put it in his hands, it could only be resold to other countries.

It's not a bad thing to give Liaodong some firearms.

"Let's get off the west coast of Panama, I'll go to see General Deng's army, mainly to explore the difficulty of building the canal, you go east then, the ship will go around the south of Asia, General Deng's fleet is also moving the main force to the east coast, then he will send a few gunboats to support you."

"Take this opportunity, we can reach over there, and sooner or later the East Ocean will become our inland sea!"