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Chapter 499 New Army
In fact, if they only want to make money, exchanging silver for Tong Bao in Daming and buying goods and selling back silver in Annan is enough to make a fortune.

But let alone Annan, it is impossible for Chen Mu to spend Tongbao in any corner of the world.

He can't wait to send all Tong Bao to Nanyang Weigang to melt down and make artillery.

Nanyang ministers do business with one trick, full screen with a red mouth and white teeth, and open their mouths to barter.

In fact, Chen Mu always felt that he had suffered a big loss when he exchanged large quantities of cotton cloth, brocade, and silk for Southeast Asian specialties, but the situation forced him to do so.

Due to the industrious Portuguese merchants and the industrious merchants who went to India from Malacca in the Ming Dynasty, a large amount of cotton was imported from Macau, which made the Guangdong silk weaving market, which had just burst into great vitality, reach a bottleneck, and the production capacity was very excessive.

It was two years ago that Yin Zhengmao made a mistake and made a decree that caused a shortage of human resources in the Guangzhou government and stimulated the use of very primitive steam engines. The common people and merchants learned from Nanyangwei to form a factory model.

At that time, this was a good thing for Chen Mu. His goal for himself was to invest in these merchants, not to directly give them money to expand production, but to use the strong financial resources of the Nanyang Military Mansion to buy all products at a unified price. Stimulate them to produce for profit.

On the other hand, he also started investing in technology. At that time, he believed that there would always be a day when there would be a qualitative change.

But he didn't expect that what came was not a qualitative change, but a fucking quantitative change.

Guangzhou Mansion is better, but the scale of the factory has expanded to Guangdong Province, and even Guangxi and Fujian have been affected.

This was the first time in Chen Mu's life that he felt the butterfly effect.

He thought that by controlling the import of cotton, the scale could be controlled, but the local gentry, merchants, and common people were not fools, especially the people in Fujian and Guangxi who would rather go to sea to beg for a living on the charge of beheading.

The cotton brought by the Portuguese from India was not enough, so they transported cotton from Shandong, Henan, Shanxi, and Shaanxi by sea and land, and some of them sought business opportunities to sell the cotton at the market price and make a small profit.

Some merchants with factories in Guangzhou directly hired people to buy goods from the north, or merchants from the north directly exchanged cotton for cotton cloth, which could be sold as far as Mongolia.

Because it is cheap.

Elsewhere, a bolt of machine-made cotton cloth costs three cents and two cents, and a bolt of Guangfu cotton costs two cents and six cents.

This is a good thing, but the bad thing is that he can't stop the blood transfusion to Guangfu cotton, and it's not easy for him to go to the north to compete with merchants for profits, so it's not in line with his original intention. The overseas market is only so big for the time being, and everything is In tropical and subtropical regions, only summer cotton cloth can be sold.

How many people does it take to add one piece of Nanyang countries?
Adding a piece is not as good as Wu Gongji!
"If it's for making money, I won't sell it to Wu Gongji in exchange."

Chen Mu has always thought this way in his heart. If he only wants to make money, he can support the two with one mouth. One side will raise the price with Wu Gongji, and the other side will supply Hexingsheng. Barter, once in and out, the military expenses for the Annan War will be there.

Although this kind of profit is not as good as the maximum profit that Chen Mu can achieve.

No matter what, when the Nanyang Military Government announces the rewards for the military exploits of this outing, and the soldiers in each hundred households, general banners, and small banners preached, the morale was indeed as Deng Zilong thought, and everyone was prepared. Another fight.

The so-called preaching soldiers are the double-paid flag soldiers who gather around the bonfire in the evening to tell heroic stories to the flag army in each small flag. Work on pre-war and post-war psychological problems in the Army.

This is not brainwashing.

A flag army of the Ming Dynasty, following in the footsteps of the heroes of the ancestors of the Central Plains, set foot on the battlefield in a world of great controversy, achieving the goal of enriching the country and strengthening the army between life and death, and giving them the courage to survive. Chen Mu never felt that this was brainwashing.

Brainwashing, that's what Chen Ju asked to dispatch Jin Yiwei to do when he went back.

They went to Annan, to Malacca, to India, to Spain, and may even spread their footsteps all over the world.

These Jinyiwei with spy missions will try their best to convince others that their own country is weak, failed, and evil; they will believe that their own nation is stupid, stupid, and inferior.

That is brainwashing.

The battle to conquer Annan did not bring much to the entire Ming Empire. It was nothing more than earning a little money and getting a canal from Yunnan to overseas, which would clear the joints for the next Burmese battle and reduce the pressure on supplies.

But for the Nanyang military government, the meaning is completely different, and it is a big event that kills birds with one stone.

He gained wealth and opened up the market. More importantly, the cohesion of the Nanyang Army was very different.

For the logistics supply of the Annan War, the [-] army guards of the suzerain state and the [-] banner army of the vassal state are treated equally. The nine thousand households from various countries have never eaten such military rations on the battlefield before, and they never thought of military exploits before going out. Rewards will be treated equally.

Not to mention those bannermen, even in the country, they rarely have the opportunity to eat such meals, and it is even more unexpected that they will be treated like this during the war.

Looking at the vassal national flag army waiting for the battle, Chen Mu could imagine that when the war ended, they returned to their respective countries with rewards for their military exploits, which would influence more people from bottom to top to gather under the flag of the Ming Empire Xianglong.

Chen Mu even thought that if the empire could digest the internal pressure with the world market in the next hundred years and rejuvenate, and join the important imperial struggle for hegemony a hundred years later, this battle would be of great significance in world history.

There are also officers of the military guards, those young generals and academies who are really educated and come from the navy and army lecture halls. For them, the art of war is not an obscure word that is not specific, such as loving soldiers like sons and soldiers sharing joys and sorrows.

How to sleep in the same tents and barracks as the soldiers, how to eat the same rations as the soldiers, how to drive the same road, and even what to say when eating the meat in your own bowl to the thin or strong subordinates.

It is learned in class and written in textbooks.

No matter from which angle you look at it, this is the first time that the new army with the tradition of the Ming Empire and the characteristics of the suzerain vassal has played in battle.

Three thousand Ming army, nine thousand tributary national flag army, new force composition, new organizational system, new weapons and armor, new officer training, and even new logistics.

It's just that at this moment, except for Chen Mu, the single-handed founder of this suzerain army, no one can fully understand the entire source of this army's terrifying combat power.

When this army hadn't shined in the eyes of the world, Chen Mu had already been aroused by the dazzling light with great ambitions.

At the beginning of September, Wei Qianhu, the military mansion under the command of Chen Mufa in Shenglong, went north to Yunnan with Lou Qimai and ordered him to support Yang Yinglong.

Later, a letter was sent to Shi Qi, who was stationed in Malacca, ordering him to collect all the information on Burma held by the Portuguese, and dispatch scouts to collect information on Burma from the coast.

(End of this chapter)