The Oriental Flag Army in Asia is not easy to survive, too far from Yigeland and too close to Chen Mu.

Their robes in other parts of the world, such as the brothers stationed in the Port of Daming, Spain, are respected by their faces that are naturally grown like strong people, and they can even live a good life without violating military discipline.

Not to mention in Yigeland, any person can make extraordinary achievements, and promotion is like taking a divine power arrow.

Even if you are a little further away, you can leave the Gulf of Mexico on a warship and conduct a mission that lasts more than thirty days. There are daily beer and rums on the ship.

There is no way - for more than a month, the fresh water in the barrel will start to smell or produce green algae, and there is nothing else to drink without drinking.

Only the flag soldiers who were just under Chen Mu's nose lived the most uncomfortable life. Asia is a place where people are treated equally. No one except the Spanish can look down on them.

In fact, on the legal level, the Spaniards cannot look down on them, but the Spanish suffered several defeats under their hands, and never had that battle convinced them. This kind of look down on them cannot be changed even if they were military laws.

It’s not that the flag army must look down on anyone to find a sense of existence for themselves, but they really don’t have much presence here.

The Spanish were cleaned up too early, which made them lose the opportunity to be promoted in military merits, and only the endless training of Asian native recruits.

In fact, if they were in the local area, their monthly salary was indeed not low. In addition to the salary they should have given in the contract for recruiting troops, they also provided monthly allowances according to their own responsibilities. In the case of the old flag army staying in Asia, they would have spent five taels of silver every month, and they should have lived a very decent life.

The problem is that the currency circulating in Asia is not silver, but currency used by Tongbao, the Eastern commander, to make money for the court.

Six or seven thousand treasures can’t help but spend them.

Just relying on the monthly salary of having enough food and clothing, which is impossible to be rich and noble, it is subject to the rules and regulations of military law. It is not allowed to smoke or drink, and it is not allowed to do business without fighting, especially when you watch others smoke and drink and do business all day long.

Relatively speaking, the Beiyang Banner Army, which had the most comfortable life in Asia, was transferred out of the country in its early years and held important local positions.

For example, Pei Xiao, who made meritorious service with the Spanish in his early years and was awarded the title of Changsheng Inspection.

His life was very comfortable. In his early years, he was inspecting archers on the ground of Shuntian Prefecture. He caught up with the Beiyang recruiting soldiers and came to Asia as a cavalry. In the Ming and Western Wars, a Spanish knight was killed and injured. After recuperation, he was also over and over, and he became an inspector.

In the Ming Dynasty, the inspector was a powerless official position, with a low position and low power in charge of affairs, but in Asia, it became an important official position in the territory. As long as it was related to public security, they arrested thieves and smuggling, and they were responsible for everything.

This is especially true for Pei Xiao. From Changsheng County to Daxi Port, from Panama to Florida, except for Chen Mu, the Changsheng Inspection Department was established by him.

In fact, as early as when he was Changsheng's inspector, Pei Xiao's daily income had exceeded that of his colleagues in the Banner Army. As the largest commercial port in Asia, Changsheng's local area could reward him with a lot of rewards by just smuggling.

Later, other inspection departments were established, Pei Xiao was promoted to the General Inspection Office of Changsheng, and he was in charge of the twenty-four inspection departments of Changsheng. He was able to take his archers from time to time to challenge robbers and bandits, drive a lucky ship to intercept smuggling merchants, and even generate income for Changsheng County.

Changsheng's smuggling is nothing special. Most of the goods are allowed to be trafficked back to China after customs declaration, mainly saltpeter sulfur or finished gunpowder, and the other is tobacco.

Only official ships from the Oriental Military Office can transport saltpeter and gunpowder, so it is considered smuggling; Makino's tobacco is not allowed to be sold outside the East. This is something specially used to exchange gold and silver for Europe, and it is also smuggling.

There are few people smuggling nitroso and gunpowder, and most of the merchant ships returning to their homeland smuggling are Makino smoke.

The counties in Asia are actually equivalent to prefectures in terms of jurisdiction. The general inspections of many inspection departments under them are also subject to the magistrate's control. The seized smuggler goods are also subject to Changsheng County after intercepting them.

The magistrate of Changsheng was Zou Yuanbiao. Over time, Zou Yuanbiao had a special channel for selling stolen goods... A group of merchants who bought tobacco from Li Yuxina in the past took the magistrate's line to Zou County, and purchased goods directly from Changsheng at a slightly lower price and sold them to Spain.

Zou Yuanbiao discussed with Chen Mu, and Chen Mu agreed without saying a word.

In Chen Mu's eyes, this is an economic account. The smuggling merchants bought goods from Li Yuxi, and they bought them in boxes, one box of three hundred bags, and one bag paid 28 taxes to the military government before going to sea.

Originally, I went east to sea, and I had to pay another tax of 88 Tongbao at the customs.

If they didn't go east, Chen Mu couldn't receive the eighty-eight Tongbao, but was stuck by Pei Xiao. Not only would Chang Sheng receive a high fine, but after the goods were confiscated, they would resell them at a price lower than 10% or 20% of Li Yuxi, which made another profit.

If you go back to sea, the military palace can collect eighty-eight treasures.

It basically conforms to Chen Lin's economics - if the person who bought goods was a smuggling merchant and was stuck by the inspection department, then it was Chen Lin's economics.

Isn’t the ministers of Nanyang selling arms in Nanyang like this?

Arms are not goods, but those who buy arms are goods.

For this matter, the military government also specially checked the smuggling merchants for the inspection department based on the amount of smuggled goods. They also had the money to use the inspection team leader and the archers to investigate the smuggling.

Later, Pei Xiao was promoted to the Dongyang Military Office for his effective investigation and smuggling. He was the chief inspector of the general inspector and the general inspector of the county and was in charge of the public security of Mo County, the military office.

There are more than 200 inspection departments in Asia, each inspection department is organized by a hundred households. Some of them are responsible for the public security of counties, townships and villages. The other is investigated for smuggling on the west coast and tax evasion on the east coast.

The inspection departments on the east and west coasts found that they had no income and handed over to the military government. The money they earned in one year was enough for the military government to pay them two years of salary.

Chen Mu initially founded the Inspection Department to train a group of reserve soldiers who were not organized by the army, mainly to let local archers learn words and understand orders in the Inspection Department.

Later, when the war ended, the tobacco trade on the east coast became prosperous, but unexpectedly it became a way for counties to increase their income.

Even if war occurs again, Chen Mu is unwilling to throw these patrol soldiers who are skilled in robbing and smuggling merchants and blackmailing local tyrants into the war.

This is a job that requires great experience. Even if the most powerful Beiyang Banner Army is placed in their positions, it may not be better than what they do.

What's more, Pei Xiao does have a way of maintaining public order.
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