Long boxes kept being carried back and forth from the ship, and a box was pried open casually, and the shiny flintlock bayonets inside exuded a smell of grease, looking at these things, Mao Jue's heart was relieved.

To tell the truth, even if it is him these days, he is not at ease in this Xiongjin shipyard, although it is out of season, but who knows if the Japanese will come to have a professionalism and fight him again, there are only a hundred pro-soldiers on hand, and the main generals are still injured and not bloody, if it is really coming, he Mao Jue has to run away.

But with this batch of munitions, the situation can be improved, even those recruits of the mercenary regiment can't fire their guns, and you will always stab people with bayonets, right? The scale of the last invasion was about 300 to 500, and if you dare to do it again at this time, you won't be able to kill these little Japanese!

In addition to these, the bags of cement produced by Tieshan, the new bud rice, sweet potatoes, potatoes, gunpowder, quilts and so on that Mao Jue just received this month, are also more than ten boats, pulling dozens of tons over, Mao Jue doesn't know when he actually became so rich.

However, Su Changmei, who came to deliver the goods this time, was not so good-looking.

Downstairs, Wen Meng was busy again, the materials from Jiangnan were hand-sewn by the Yizhou quilt factory, a total of three models of large, medium and small military cotton uniforms, two sets in summer and winter, and a set of bedding had been tied together before departure, Mao Jue's mercenary group Everyone can receive a copy, this one, Wen Meng handed the newly opened duffel bag forward, and the Goryeo mercenaries who took the salute needed to immediately hold the duffel bag with both hands and shouted loudly.

"Thank you for the gift of the general!"

One by one, the GIs put on new clothes and carried the futon back to the dormitory that was temporarily used as a military camp, and the mercenaries who worked in the shipyard were envious, and in so many eyes, these mercenaries puffed up their chests proudly.

Don't underestimate this sound of thanks, this is subtle, it is to tell all the mercenary group members whose clothes they wear, whose food they eat, and who they want to give to them! This is crucial in today's feudal era.

Upstairs, on the second floor of the cement and concrete two-story building that Tieyi has become accustomed to, Mao Jue's office, Su Changmei reported angrily.

"General, the reward of the imperial court has come down, Wu Sangui's kid has been promoted to the chief soldier of the Ningyuan regiment, and the general of the defeated army of Zu Dashou has also been knighted, but when you come here, you haven't even added a general rank, only a hundred hereditary households in brocade clothes, this gang of Liaodong Town generals is simply too deceitful! If there were no generals, they would all be dry bones in the grave! He was so greedy!"

The battle was almost all in Dongjiang Town, and the Iron Righteous Army fought, but there was no self when the reward was awarded, if you left a little sweat, it would be okay, but this was all fought out with blood, and now she regarded herself as a member of the Iron Righteous Army, no wonder Su Changmei was angry like this.

But Mao Jue doesn't care about this result, as long as Mao Wenlong is the governor of Dongjiang Town for a day, it doesn't matter if he Mao Jue is a gang leader, the chief soldier and the deputy general have no meaning to him, and the hundred households in brocade clothes are just a good name, and this result, Zu Dashou and Wu Sangui owe more to themselves, he Mao Jue wants to open this mouth, and the two of them must pay it back, otherwise, if they don't hold the grace of saving their lives, they won't be able to mix in the Ming army.

Mao Jue doesn't care much about personal honor and disgrace, and his eyes are full of shining silver now.

"Has the pension money from our military town arrived?"

"General! Don't mention the money!"

It's okay not to mention this, but when she mentioned this, Su Changmei was even more angry, patting her thigh and describing it to Mao Jue, listening to this reply, Mao Jue's face quickly darkened.

"So little!"

…………

He stayed in the shipyard until the beginning of September, and with the arrival of the imperial messenger, Mao Jue also had to return to the Dongjiang River to receive the order, and prepare to accept the reorganization and expansion of the Iron Volunteer Corps.

Wen Meng was thrown to Xiongjin by him, originally this old boy was unwilling, so Mao Jue had no choice, promoted him to garrison, and divided the Xiongjin mercenary group under his garrison, especially in the big war next year, promising him to be the vanguard, which made Wen Meng reluctantly agree.

On the day of leaving, these recruits also took flintlock pistols, put on armor, and lined up neatly on the side of the tidal flat to see them off, and in the pond of the shipyard, the skeleton of seven behemoths once again stood between the sea and the sky, and in the southeast corner, the castle that Mao Jue ordered to build, the foundation was also beaten, and the rest was to use antiseptic wood as the skeleton, concrete as skin and flesh, and the fortress wall was built little by little, and the craftsmen were constantly busy.

Everything seems to be on the right track, but standing on the bow of the spacious and bloated fortune boat on the Dongjiang River, Mao Jue's face is always gloomy.

On the fourth day of the ninth month, he returned to Phi Dao, but the envoys from the imperial court had already arrived first, and he came a Lang official from the military department and a blue-robed eunuch in the palace, both of whom were not of high rank, but the faction was big enough.

"Inuko, why don't you come and meet the two angels!"

Mao Jue didn't care, but Mao Wenlong cared about the abnormality, he had just returned to the governor's yamen, at the gate, he was personally pulled by Mao Wenlong, in the courtyard, a scholar in his early thirties, wearing a blue official uniform and quail complement, stood there arrogantly, next to a cyan robe, almost twenty little eunuchs were also full of arrogance, and the incense case was placed at the back of the courtyard, at that end, Mrs. Zhang was full of pride hiding in the corner of the courtyard and peeking, and the old man Wen Steward even secretly wiped the corners of his eyes with his sleeves, this atmosphere, made Mao Jue have the feeling that he would completely set off firecrackers in the college entrance examination in later generations.

But before he could react, he was knelt down by Mao Wenlong on the crook of his leg, and then Mao Wenlong himself knelt on the futon, his hands raised high, and shouted highly.

"The old minister Mao Wenlong and the dog Mao Jue will take the order!"

It can be regarded as a human-like dog shaking off the yellow silk, and in Mao Jue's disdainful look with his head down, the shrill voice of the dead eunuch sounded in the courtyard.

"Fengtian carries the emperor, the edict says, only the Mao family of Luoxia Township, Suzhou Prefecture, is young and promising, bold for the country, serving the territory, I am very comforted, and there is a ...... in ancient times."

An official article is really stinky and long, only in the end, Mao Jue understood and gave himself a thousand taels of silver, a few boxes of silk, and then an official position of seven products and hundred households of brocade clothes who didn't know what to be happy about, followed by Mao Wenlong, Mao Jue kowtowed three times as if he was on the wrong grave, and took the yellow silk with a copper seal that could not be smaller.

"Come on, come on, two adults, please wait for a kilometer, Mao has already prepared a banquet, here and here!"

After the grand ceremony, Mao Jue saw Mao Wenlong's old face smiling like a flower for the first time, stretching out his hand in front of him to guide the way to the flower hall, and Wen Bo also came over with a plate covered with red silk, looking at the amount, there should be a lot of silver.

But in the midst of the joy of everyone, Mao Jue's cold voice sounded behind him.

"Two adults! Mao's military exploits and war falls, the soldiers are still waiting for the reward, and the martyrs are also waiting for the pension, this buried silver and the soldiers rewarded the silver, I don't know if the two adults brought it!"

"How do you speak, son?"

Mao Wenlong's face immediately changed slightly, and he reprimanded loudly in annoyance, a eunuch and a civil official, who was yelled at by Mao Jue, also looked bad.

But Mao Jue has been in a bad mood for two or three days, and his mixed temper has come up, where can he still make these two errands in a good mood.

"Father, my department fought bloody battles in Dalinghe City! Thousands of people died in the battle, and the bones of the soldiers are not cold, how can I, the commander, not care!"

"According to the rules of the imperial court, 63,000 taels of silver were burned and buried, and 30,000 taels of silver were rewarded by the soldiers.

This time, even Mao Wenlong's face was not sold, Mao Jue asked aggressively, and the faces of the eunuch and civil official who asked were even more ugly.

The two of them looked at each other a few times in embarrassment, and then the wolf officer of the seventh rank of the military department pinched his beard and pretended to be official.

"General Xiao Mao loves soldiers like a son, and this official admires it, but the court is a big deal! It must be strictly inspected, and the roster has been checked one by one! To ensure that the silver of the court does not fall into the hands of corrupt villains, General Xiao Mao, do you know? ”

In fact, this is an unspoken rule of officialdom, the imperial court gave a few discounts to the generals of the pension and the reward, and the generals deducted more than half of it, and sent two casually to fool the soldiers, so that you will also get rich and I will be rich, and everyone will be happy.

And in recent years, it has happened from time to time for officers to lie about their military exploits and overreport casualties, and generally these Qincha are blind to one eye, but Mao Jue spoke too impulsively, and he aggressively forced the two Qincha petty officials to come, which made this soldier Wailang take this matter into account.

said that he knew that his words had not fallen, but Mao Jue had already slammed his thighs excitedly.

"It's so good, at the end of tomorrow, the general will gather the fallen soldiers and sufferers, and the heroes who participated in the war will take the roster and ask the two to check it, this, Mao is in military affairs, so I won't accompany him much!"

As he spoke, Mao Jue turned around with a black face again, and turned out with an angry stride, causing the two messengers to look at each other, and turned their heads to look at Mao Wenlong again.

is also very embarrassed, Mao Wenlong forced a laugh, hugged his fists and said.

"The battle was tragic a while ago, and the dog was also mentally traumatized, and it hasn't eased up for several days, and I hope that the two adults Haihan!"

"Young and frivolous! Ling Gongzi has made another military exploit, and he is favored by His Majesty, and he has a little temper, which is understandable!"

"Pole to pole! What Master Zhang said is extremely true!"

The plate of silver was handed over, and the two Chincha lords immediately became reasonable again.

"Thank you both! Mao has prepared a banquet, please here!"

"Lord Mao, please!"

It seems that the harmony between the guest and the host has been restored, and in the happy laughter of the two sides, they went to the flower hall hand in hand, but the two Qincha did not know what kind of feast Mao Jue had prepared for them tomorrow, and how much they could eat with trepidation............