"My lord is now new to Fujian, just came to the court to ask for silver, subordinates think that the court is difficult to agree to the reply to the lord, nothing more than the thief in Shaanxi is now strong, the court is in need of silver, as a military salary, this is a top priority, and the rebuilding of the water division, the recovery of Penghu, compared with the suppression of bandits, is a trivial matter, from the slow Lord only needs to pacify the rebels in Fujian, other things, wait until the extermination of the rebels in Shaanxi to discuss this, from the island to dispatch generals, I am afraid it will not be over" Jiang Jie directly said what he thought in his heart

After listening to Jiang Jie's analysis, Yue Su pondered in his heart for a moment, nodded, and said: "What Mr. said is good, the Queen Mother is very jealous of me at the moment, and now at this time, if you open your mouth to ask the court for money, I am afraid it will be exactly the same as Mr. expected."

Speaking of this, Yue Su shook his head helplessly, and said with a sigh: "Sir, then you say, what should I do now?" ”

"My subordinates thought that the adult's recital could be written like this, and maybe there would be some possibilities," Jiang Jie said

"Sir, please speak," Yue Su said immediately

"I remember that the lord said to his subordinates on the way to Quanzhou that he intended to recruit Zheng Zhilong, if so, the lord might as well play what he thought in the imperial court and the battle of Quanzhou, the defeat of the Fujian Navy Division, and the adults can also follow Wu Sinan's example, exaggerate the harm caused by pirates, and attract the attention of the imperial court. The imperial court will definitely agree," Jiang Jie spoke eloquently and put his opinion aside

This suggestion did not achieve the effect expected by Yue Su, but it seemed that it could only be like this Yue Su nodded and said: "Then so be it, on the side of the sailor, the ships will be used first, and when the good generals come, after strengthening the training, the combat power can at least be improved by a level, and then recruit some pirates, and finally think of recovering Penghu and Taiwan."

After Yue Su finished speaking, he took the pen and paper, and wrote the fold on the bookcase

"Chen Yue Su rushed to the north of the hundred worship, knocked on the emperor Sheng'an Chen ordered the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, has now arrived in Fujian, is sending people to search for ambush and ambush the governor Wu Sinan of the rebels, a few days ago, there are pirates Zheng Zhilong led the troops to attack Quanzhou, Fujian sailors heard the news to block, unexpectedly the thieves are powerful, the sailors have suffered heavy losses The original sailors have been aging, many large ships, difficult to launch, and then after this battle, it is really a big injury to the pirates to disturb the Fujian border, not to mention, the Dutch Yangyi also seized my Penghu Islands, it is even more indignant So, the minister intends to ask the emperor to allocate two silver, Rebuild the Fujian Navy Division, suppress the pirates, and recover my lost land, but considering that the imperial court is in an eventful season, the rebels in Shaanxi and the Tartars outside the pass are the top priority, if the emperor is asked to allocate silver taels at this time, it will undoubtedly increase the burden on the imperial court, make the treasury worse, and the rebels in Shaanxi should be in a hurry, and the pirates on the Fujian side can be slowed down a little, but even if it is slowed down, the minister should not act inactively, so the minister intends to recruit Zheng Zhilong, the leader of the pirates, so that it can be used by the imperial court, and can use his strength to annihilate and recruit other pirates one by one. After recruiting An, if he doesn't let him see the power of my Ming sailors, I am afraid that he will not put the court in his eyes, thinking that the court can only honor him with him, and take the opportunity to raise his own body The deceased ministers plan to transfer one or two generals in the water war from Mao Wenlong on Phi Island, and strengthen the training of the sailors Fujian sailors not only the warships are aging, but its soldiers are also negligent in the battle formation, if there is no battle-hardened general, even if the reconstruction is completed, I am afraid that it will be embarrassing to use the above Chen Request, and I hope that the emperor will decide"

Yue Su finished writing the fold, and early the next morning, he sent people to Beijing to send it from Fujian to Beijing, which took a lot of time, and half a month later, before the fold arrived in Beijing, Jin Chan sent the news -- the firearm had been intercepted

Intercepting this batch of firearms, it can be said that the process is not tortuous, because the people sent by Lord Wu to follow are really very set, and the traitors who escorted the firearms are staring closely but during this period, it seems that the other party found that Jin Cicada led the army to come, hid the firearms in a secret place, and wanted to dodge, but it was still targeted by Lord Wu's men, and when Jin Cicada arrived, he handed over the news, Jin Cicada directly led his troops to kill, and the rebels resisted. But he still made the rebels run halfway

After the task was completed, Jin Chan returned to Nanping County and sent someone to report that Jieyue Su got the news, and his face finally showed joy, especially when he saw the seizure, he was even more happy

What are the intercepted firearms, including ten artillery, and they are all large-caliber, 500 muskets, although the level of firearms in the Ming Dynasty at that time was not much different from that of foreign countries, but it was still a foreigner's firearms that were used, and the range was also longer

For these firearms, Yue Su immediately ordered, Jin Chan led the troops to Quanzhou, just on the warship, there are not a lot of artillery, can be filled As for the musket, to tell the truth, the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty really don't like to use it, because compared with the bow and arrow, the musket is really a bit troublesome, if there are many soldiers, use the musket to shoot, there is also a lot of lethality, you can finish firing, squat down to load, and then there is a back row to fire but when there are few people, the other party rushes over, after you launch, it must be too late to launch the second time, Large-scale soldiers and horses are mainly cavalry, relying on muskets to resist, it is estimated that after you shoot a row of guns, the opponent's cavalry also rushed to the front and the opponent's bow and arrow range is longer, this musket is obviously inferior to a few points, so, the troops of the Ming Dynasty have always disliked to use

However, the musket is still useful after all, it depends on how you use it, how to cooperate with other arms Five hundred muskets are not a small number, you can completely equip a musket team, don't look at the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty don't like to use it, but Yue Su still knows that this thing is powerful, properly used, it must be a combat force This time to carry out naval battles, muskets are even more effective, plus on the island, there will be no cavalry, muskets are more powerful At the same time, Yue Su also wants to fight with the Dutch again, learn from the use of the opponent's muskets

Yue Su did not issue these muskets to the Fujian sailors, and anyway, you don't like to use him to carry these muskets, leave Quanzhou, and rush to Fuzhou

Fuzhou is Fujian's governing place, the Fujian general army and Fujian's main force soldiers and horses are here, after arriving, the first thing he did was to go to the general army camp to parade the Fujian general army showed the 3,000 people who saw the big competition, and put on a posture to drill this look, the posture is good, but Yue Su can see that these soldiers obviously lack a bloody energy, is the reason why these 3,000 people have not been on the battlefield, and they are also the most elite troops in Fujian, Yue Su immediately ordered to transfer 1,000 from them to his command to serve as his protector

Lord Yue is a dignified governor, even the chief soldier is under his control, transfer some soldiers, the chief soldier naturally did not dare to object, immediately agreed not to say, and let Lord Yue himself choose Yue Su to see that these three thousand people are not too much, so he did not carefully select, only pointed to a thousand people, and assigned them to his own account, Lord Yue's next plan is to form a musket team At present, Lord Yue has just asked for a thousand people, and there are hundreds of people under his own hands, so many people, he has to find a place to settle the governor's yamen who has no county seat in the city, However, the prefect of Fuzhou has prepared a temporary governor in the city, and it is not a small one, and it is not a problem to accommodate more than 3,000 soldiers and horses, but Lord Yue wants to train the musket team, and it is really inappropriate to "ping pong" in the city, so he found a place to camp outside the city as a temporary governor

The camp was set up, and early the next morning, Yue Su gathered all the soldiers and horses, and lined up in the teaching military field, in addition to the 1,000 soldiers who had just been recruited, there were also hundreds of guards under Lord Yue, since it was a naval battle, the cavalry would definitely not be useful, and Lord Yue's side, there were really not many horses, and the cavalry was organized, so this branch of the army was temporarily left behind and began to focus on infantry drills

Among them, 500 people formed a musket team, and there were 450 soldiers who had just been recruited, and 50 guards under Yue Su, and his own guards and soldiers were mixed together, which could effectively strengthen training and play a certain leading role

For the use of this kind of musket, Fuzhou Prefecture has a military bureau set up by the imperial court, and there is a gunpowder department, which is in charge of firearms, so there is no shortage of masters who can use firearms

The War Bureau is one of the eight major bureaus of the internal officials, but it is not only in Beijing, there are in the thirteen provinces in the country to know that weapons are consumables, after damage, they must always be replaced, so many soldiers and horses in the country, if they are all made in Beijing, they must not be tired to death, and the transportation is not convenient, so in most provincial capital-level cities, there are military war bureaus, specializing in the manufacture of weapons, armor and other things, and supply the local troops The War Bureau has a supervisor eunuch outside to manage affairs, and they have always been with the local supervisor and eunuch to fight hotly, The two sides often join forces to sell arms

Because, after the War Bureau produces weapons, they must be reported to the eunuchs of the supervising army, and if the eunuchs of the supervising army sell the ordnance privately, they must also replenish the inventory, so only the two join forces to do it seamlessly

There is no need to go into detail about this matter, Yue Su transferred two masters who knew firearms from the Gunpowder Department of the War Bureau, and asked them to help teach the soldiers how to use muskets

Foreign muskets, and the muskets produced by the Ming Dynasty, in fact, are not too much different, the usage is basically the same two masters with a little experiment, you can get started with the musket at this time, the method of use is, first add gunpowder in the chamber, derive the fire rope from the back, and then load the lead bullet from the front, and finally ignite the fire rope, you can fire

The steps are more troublesome, it is really not as clean as the bow and arrow, but the advantage is that it is not effortless, you don't need to have any strong arm bends, as long as you can hold the musket, you can fire Yue Su That is a police background, the pistol is accurate, the spear has also been played, and the fight is still accurate, once instructed, it is immediately able to get started, and perform in public in the teaching military field, shoot eighty steps away, and shoot straight into the bull's-eye

The musket produced in the Ming Dynasty can fight about seventy or eighty steps, but the musket produced in the Netherlands can hit one hundred and twenty steps, don't look at it, it is forty steps behind, and when the infantry fights, the gap is very large

Yue Su's performance was applauded by all the officers and soldiers, and Yue Su took this opportunity to shout loudly: "Anyone who can reach the realm of this governor will be rewarded with twenty taels of silver each!" What we have is ammunition, wait for the drill to begin, Jin Chan and Li Haoran will serve as the commanders of the musket team, and you two will be responsible for training matters, you two have to listen to Ben Du, your archery skills, if you can't compare to the soldiers under you, Ben Du will let them take your place! Also, every ten days, the two sides will have a contest, and the winning side will be rewarded with two hundred and fifty taels of silver, and the losing side will be punished by running five laps around the line every day, and the soldiers of the winning side will be washed."

This is Yue Su's first order, these soldiers' spiritual heads are coming immediately at the beginning, they are still very unhappy to let themselves practice muskets, now I heard that as long as they can shoot the bull's-eye like adults, there will be a reward of twenty taels of silver, this is a good thing that fell from the sky, why don't you make money with silver Look at Lord Yue's understatement to shoot the bull's-eye, it seems that this musket is also quite easy to use, this silver is definitely in hand and, every ten days a contest, if you can win, there is a reward to see the number that the adult said, It should be one or two per person

As soon as Jin Chan and Li Haoquan heard that if they were not as good as these subordinates, they would be replaced, how could this be, once this was the case, they would not lose their faces, and they immediately made up their minds that they must practice hard and never lose this person

Subsequently, Jin Chan and Li Haoquan led the selected musketeers to start training, and Yue Su arranged for Tong Xuan and Tie Qi to train other soldiers

The content of the training is nothing more than bows and arrows and formation attacks

The rest of the troops, counting Yue Su's guards, a total of about 600, Yue Su is still the old rule, divided into two halves, Tong Xuan and Tie Qi each take a drill is also the old rule of training, every ten days a competition, the winning side, the same reward, the losing side, with the musket team punishment

From today on, the soldiers began to practice, for the training of muskets, Yue Su played with guns in his last life, how can he practice marksmanship accurately, he is very experienced, after all, the musket at this time has no rifling, and it is not so easy to practice accurately

In terms of shooting, the gun is the basic skill, and it must be stable, so when Yue Su taught the musketeer training, he set up a compulsory course, and he had to hold the gun for half an hour every day, so that those musketeers were complaining, but they saw that the leading Jin Cicada and Li Haoquan also followed suit, and Yue Su's guards were also meticulous, so they didn't dare to be sloppy

Of course, there are also some lazy among them, holding it, the gun will hang down to treat this kind of soldier, Yue Su is not soft, directly reward ten whips Seeing that Lord Yue is so strict in governing the army, gradually, these soldiers dare not be lazy again

In fact, the group of soldiers recruited by Yue Su is already quite good, after all, it is a local training in Fujian, and the soldiers who go to participate in the big competition rarely slack off on weekdays, and have a certain level of literacy

Ten days later, the soldiers and horses under the command of Yue Su ushered in the first big competition of musket team The competition is divided into three, the first round is to shoot one by one, every ten people in a group, to shoot the target, to see who shoots accurately and finally accumulates the total magic number, to determine the victory and defeat The second round is a platoon shooting, the same is the target in front, the musketeers in the first row shoot after shooting, squatting in the loading, starting to shoot from the second row is more skilled than which side is more skilled, which side shoots the most rings, and then synthesizes to evaluate the victory or defeat of this round The third round, Yue Su unexpectedly asked for a test gun, this victory and defeat is easier to distinguish The time limit is one hour, see how many people can persevere, it will be considered a victory, if there is a tie at that time, it will be delayed for a quarter of an hour, continue to compete, and it will definitely be able to divide the winner in the end

As a result, it was not used to compete in the third game, the team led by Jin Chan, because of the two percent in a row, won the victory Yue Su said that he would practice, and the bounty was immediately issued, and the punishment should be ruthless for ten consecutive days, running around the governor for five laps, these five laps down, which one is not tired enough, and then he has to wash the clothes of the winning side, and the defeated soldiers have lost their faces, and they are painful to learn from the pain, in these ten days, they must train hard and strive for revenge

When they saw that the losing side was running circles and washing their own clothes, they thought to themselves that they could not lose in the next round, otherwise, people would be thrown home because of rewards and punishments, and the enthusiasm of soldiers for training was unprecedentedly high

Tong Xuan and Tie Qiu's infantry training was also held on the same day, and Yue Su did not set up a wooden formation as before, but just let them test bows and arrows, formation drills, and hold wooden weapons, one-on-one fighting, only one round, depending on which side was knocked down more people

The competition between the two sides was not like the competition of the musketeers, the first bow and arrow competition was won by Tong Xuan's troops; In the second exercise, the iron carpenter's troops won; In the third infantry fight, the result was a draw, and each fell one hundred and fifty men

This is for Yue Su not to know Tong Xuan and Tie Xu, it is bound to take the easiest way to let the two of them compete to distinguish the winner from the loser However, Yue Su knows the kung fu of the two benevolent brothers under him, and Tong Zhou's kung fu is also good, but compared to Tie Qiu, it is obviously weaker, if he is allowed to win or lose, it is better not to fight, this is not obviously bullying Tong Zhou

So, Yue Su issued an order again, let the remaining 150 people on both sides fight again, and then judge the winner of this round of the competition, the victory and defeat will be divided, and finally Tong Zhou's army is left with 80 people, with a slight advantage to win the reward that should be rewarded, the punishment that should be punished, and if there are those who are not satisfied, ten days later, the competition will be carried out again

At the same time, Yue Su's recital had now been delivered to Beijing, transferred from the cabinet to the celebrant supervisor, and then handed over to the Empress Dowager Zhang

Yue Su's recital, written is stable, so that people can't find the slightest fault, although I have the heart to ask for money, but also think of the court's hardships, you can give, or not give but, the scourge of pirates is very serious, you don't give silver to reorganize the navy, I also came up with a way not to spend money, all in all, you can't agree to anything

Zhang Yan has seen the folds, the folds below, there is Fang Congzhe's suggestion, his suggestion is: Lord Yue is sympathetic to the court, worthy of being the minister of the first emperor to trust the lonely, now the court is using troops in Shaanxi, and the Liaodong Jurchen is eyeing the tiger, there are too many places to use silver, Lord Yue is right, the urgency is orderly, the silver should be only here first, the Fujian sailors, can be temporarily slow, wait for the court to pacify the Liukou in Shaanxi, and then agree, Lord Yue proposed to recruit the pirate Zheng Zhilong and transfer the generals of Phi Island to Fujian, After all, it is beneficial to the imperial court, and Xiong Tingbi can be ordered to communicate with Mao Wenlong, the chief soldier of Phi Dao, and arrange for the generals to go to Fujian

Yue Su asked for the silver implicitly, and Zhang Yan couldn't say anything, okay, then do it according to Fang Shoufu's wishes, and respectively issued an order to Yue Su and Xiong Tingbi to Yue Su's will to recruit Zheng Zhilong, a pirate from An, and the general of Naughty Island rushed to Fujian to assist the Fujian sailors

The order given to Xiong Tingbi was that he would communicate with Mao Wenlong and dispatch generals who were proficient in water warfare from Phi Dao to Fujian to assist Lord Yue

The two decrees were issued one day, and the day Xiong Tingbi got the holy decree must have been much earlier than Yue Su, after he received the will, seeing that it was Yue Su's business, how could he not handle it as soon as possible, he immediately issued an official letter and asked people to send it to Phi Dao and ask Mao Wenlong to transfer generals

Phi Island, the residence of the chief soldier Mao Wenlong

The lord of Mao Island lives on the island, which can be regarded as the emperor of the sky, I am the biggest here, and my life is quite leisurely, especially now, after Xiong Tingbi took over as the governor of Jiliao, the Jurchens did not even dare to move, and honestly squatted in the nest, at best, they had nothing to write a letter over, either to seek peace or to persuade them to surrender, in short, there was no intention of moving knives and guns at all

Sun Chengzong was the most famous strategist in the late Ming Dynasty, but the Xiong Barbarian made the Jurchens even more frightened When Nurhachi was alive, there was no way to take the Xiong Man, and now that the old man is dead, his son Huang Taiji still has no way to take the Xiong Lord

Since there is no war and there is no war, Mao Wenlong is on the island, he has nothing to drink a little wine, and he is very comfortable to do some business with overseas places

Today, he was drinking in the flower hall of the house, and he was seated with his own son Mao Chengdou, his adopted son Mao Chenglu, his three righteous sons Mao Yongshi, Mao Youjie, Mao Yongxi, and his adopted grandson Mao Youjian

This full house of children and grandchildren, except for his own son Mao Chengdou, who has no martial arts, the other children and grandchildren are all people who can fight habitually, especially the three righteous sons, Mao Yongshi, Mao Youjie, Mao Yongxi are even more skilled, and the names of these three are only after worshipping Mao Wenlong for Lao Tzu, their real names are Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, and Shang Kexi

The family was drinking, and suddenly there was a report from the family outside the door, saying that the governor Xiong sent an official letter Mao Wenlong immediately asked people to present it, and when he opened it, the original calm look on his face changed immediately