In May, there are often magnificent scenes of large groups of cavalry running along the Wei River in Tianjin from the Sanwei to Dagukou area.

There were at least a hundred horses and at most three hundred horses. The riders with fully armed armoured armour were each armed with a horse, and they ran from east to west along the banks of the Wei River, carrying water and food for three days.

Sometimes they advance in a dense manner, sometimes they form formations, and rest and move in no particular day and night. Sometimes at noon, they tied their horses to the roadside to rest; sometimes in the middle of the night, a sound of horses neighing and hooves stomping by.

Sometimes not only cavalry, but also infantry and artillery will join the marching training, making the Wei River full of iron horses and golden swords for half a month. The people in the surrounding villages dare not go far, for fear of rushing to the army and causing trouble for themselves.

Chen Mu also led the team to run a few times, but he never walked west. On this official road that was 230 miles back and forth, he only led the team to go east and not west every time he led the team to travel.

The cavalry were more willing to follow him, because in the training outline, the march from the General's Mansion to the east to the Baihu Inn of Dagukou was called a march, and the longer road from the Military Mansion to the west to Tianjin Wei was called a raid.

Only a few generals who formulated the training outline knew that there was no difference between marching and raiding in the original training, but when their commander planned to strengthen their riding skills and marching abilities, there was a difference of difficulty.

The route to the west is led by Heiyunlong and Du Tong rotated to lead the team, requiring cavalry to travel a hundred miles a day, infantry and cavalry to travel 80 miles a day, and infantry and cannons to travel forty miles a day.

The route to the east is led by Chen Mu and Du Song in rotation. The cavalry travels 80 miles a day, infantry and cavalry travels 60 miles a day, and infantry and cannons ride twenty-five miles a day.

The speed of both east and west routes still has a lot of room for improvement. There is no baggage, small troops are marching, and the benefits of the official road. Infantry marching can also achieve the speed required by the cavalry.

But they are not for the purpose of practicing endurance or marching quickly, but for training the transformation of battle formations during marching, not falling behind in long-distance marching, and making soldiers get used to such the most basic marching conditions - this kind of marching condition is once a year in war. When they really fight, their marching speed may be slower than this, but they put in more physical strength, and it is much more uncomfortable to marching in full.

Chen Mu participated in the marching training and asked for trouble, but he had no choice. He had been loose for several months and gained a lot. He rode a horse with thirty miles so hard that he wanted to vomit. With such a physical condition, he did not dare to lead the fleet to the east.

Moreover, he led his team to Dagukou for other purposes. The fleets of Beizhi and Nanzhi provinces were temporarily recruited to provide the first phase of recruitment and training. The servants were sent to the ship to follow the fleet to guide the army. As time approached, the first Beijing transportation trip of Nanyang this year was sent, he often looked around the coast.

There are only four warships in Beiyang and Dongyang, and they are the emperor's warships to travel around the world. The grain ships, horse ships and warships served as three-masted Dafu Ship were sent from Nanzhili, but there were only a lack of warships.

The letters from Xiangshan and Nanyang were sent earlier to deliver a batch of ocean warships to the East this year, and there are more firearms and armor used in the Beiyang.

He knew that the warships belonging to the Beiyang Military Palace would be delivered together with the rice, grain, gold, silver and Beijing transportation from Nanyang to Tianjin this year, and even knew that everything he expected would be delivered within one month.

But knowing this did not prevent him from feeling awaiting a precious express delivery during this period.

Therefore, in recent days, every evening, he has stood in the newly repaired Dagukou Cannon Temple to look at the sea. Sometimes he sees the assembled fleet sailing towards Laideng or Jinzhouwei, sometimes he sees the ocean-going fleets and gathering at the port, and sometimes he can see the merchant fleets traveling to Shandong, Liaodong and even North Korea.

Most of the time, there are only the extremely lonely blue sea and blue sky.

Today is no exception. There were five hundred men and horses following Chen Mu march eastward to Dagukou, one cavalry household and one artillery household, and two first-stage infantry households and one second-stage infantry household. The recruitment of the second-stage recruitment has only been more than a month in the marching. There were both slow-moving mules, horses and artillery teams and had to take care of the new recruits. The speed was very slow, and almost failed to complete the training outline of the East Road marching.

When they arrived at the temporary camp at Dagukou, the first-stage old soldiers were all very energetic and completed the camp early and repaired the camp under the leadership of officers of each team.

As the evening approached, when smoke from cooking was rising in the military camp, several cavalry slowly pulled their horses from outside the gate. Zhao Shizhen passed through the camp and went to the cannon temple to look for Chen Mu. He climbed to the tower. Seeing Chen Mu looking at something in a daze, he coughed and reminded him, "Master, you have done everything."

He went to earn money for the Beiyang Military Mansion.

"Changji is back, how about it?" Chen Mu turned around, patted the corridor column, and asked, "Can you use more silver on the military mansion's books?"

"Originally, there were 24,000 taels of silver available on the books. This time, the Xuanfu official market was insufficient, and the imperial court almost stopped. In previous years, the Ministry of War, which supported the city, returned home due to illness, but was not replaced. Everything went smoothly in the city. The military government borrowed 14,000 taels to go out."

Since the mutual market opened, there will be an official market first, and then the official market will be opened. The court stipulated that the market in each border official market should not be less than 200,000 taels per year, and it is indispensable to purchase goods required for the mutual market. In previous years, it would not be enough to collect enough customers' salaries or send horses from the Ministry of War. However, this year, due to the illness of Zhang Juzheng's father, the court atmosphere was strange, and the officials of each department did not speak, so the disputes among the people below became even more serious, especially when it came to money.

They are very ruling each other.

This year, the commander sent by Xuanfu to purchase goods to the local government to Shuntian Prefecture. The city had not yet collected enough, and the Beiyang Military Prefecture was still pressing for a batch of goods, so Zhao Shizhen asked him to discuss it.

"After the market ends, buy war horses at 90% of the market price. The high-quality horses that are planned to be priced at 12 taels are roughly worth 8 taels, and then 90% are calculated. If they are calculated at 7 taels and 3 coins, they can get more than 1,900 good war horses."

Zhao Shizhen said as he presented the notebook to Chen Mu, saying, "In addition, they also have to buy goods, supplying the satin price of 2 taels per piece in the official market, and selling 1,300 pieces in the warehouse; selling 6,000 pieces in the blue and red cotton cloth, which is used by the clothing factory; and selling candy, silk pots, pots, needles, threads, combs, grates and other items for the private market. In the calculation, the book can be 23,000 more than before, and earning more than 1,900 war horses."

"But we can't see this money, and we spend 30,000 taels to send merchants to the market with the procurement command. The fast horses have already come out to submit letters to Altan Khan's tribes to purchase wool. The books are less than before, and there are more than 17,000 taels left."

Chen Mu finally took back his eyes from the sea and blinked and said, "It's useless to keep money. 30,000 taels of silver. If you can collect some money from Xuanfu Wool Spinning Factory, how much wool can you collect?"

"This, this student is not sure."

Zhao Shizhen chuckled and explained: "Cashmere wool has different quality and price. If the ordinary wool with the lowest market price is charged 600,000 jin; if the yellow and red velvet with the highest price is only charged more than 40,000 jin."

"According to the request of the Grand Marshal, all kinds of wool cashmeres on the grassland are collected. The students are estimated to be around 200,000 to 400,000 kilograms, but this is the best situation. The time is too short. Zhangjiakou will open on June 13. If you want to collect fluffs on a large scale, it will depend on next year. But the Grand Marshal will fight east this year. Moreover, if the Nanyang Beijing shipping ships do not come again, the military government's finances will be tight."

"Enough."
Chapter completed!