On the summer solstice of the fifth year of Wanli, Dagukou, Tianjin.

There were several flag soldiers standing behind the female wall of Baihusuo City every ten steps. The cold general Zhenshuo's muzzle was raised to face the sea, and the high-hanging flag fluttered in the wind.

Since the Beiyang Military Prefecture was established in Tianjin, the originally lazy flag army at Dagukou met an important official from Beiyang who could not stay idle. They led cavalry to run around all day long, making it impossible for people to be lazy.

The Beiyang Army resting on the beach outside the hundred houses, and their armaments made the 100 houses of the fortress look jealous. Some cavalry armor was painted with red and black paint, and there were still ears on their chests and shoulders, shining brightly in the sunlight. More people only wore plain armor, so bright that they could reflect figures on their breasts. Under the armor, the dark blue standard recruits' collars were erected, with symmetrical square patterns that marked the number of the troop and the name of the position.

Beiyang infantry and artillery are already brief in terms of military equipment in the military office, and even so, they are all top-notch. Whether it is properly cut military uniforms or finely forged armor, they are enviable.

The cavalry obviously entered another class in the military equipment. The armor and weapons were more exquisite, and there were more decorations on people and horses. Each cavalry breastplate was created with animal patterns by military craftsmen with superb skills in the Nanyang Guard. Compared with the brim of the infantry helmet, the hat brim is smaller and shorter. The neck guard lock curtain is colored wolf hair and yak hair. The biggest difference is that the cavalry cadet uniform is red.

People have always believed that "military affairs are more powerful", so the military uniforms are purely red, and purple, blue, yellow, white, etc. are used as colors to achieve the purpose of intimidating the enemy and showing their majesty.

However, the color of the suit has an easy-to-identify effect, especially in infantry, various suits and armors can be more easily identified by the generals to achieve the purpose of easy command, so by this time there are few pure red military uniforms.

Even the Beiyang cavalry uniforms were dark blue at the beginning, but just in time the blue dye in the bedding factory was not enough, so they made a batch of red military palaces. Later, Chen Mu found that the red color looked better and more suitable for the majestic appearance of the cavalry running, so he simply ordered the first phase of the September military training to change all the cavalry, treating this as a ceremony to enhance the sense of honor for recruiting troops.

In this way, the cavalry has a sense of honor, and the envy of other troops will follow. Regardless of the first or second phases, the recruitment of soldiers is for this money. The infantry pays the lowest, the artillery and cavalry are a little higher than others, and the cavalry are even better than the artillery. Who can not envy this?

Unfortunately, it is useless to envy. When the bird gunner is promoted to various types of troops, the best talents in subjects such as guns, guns, and battle formations are selected. Artillery must be selected based on the results of subjects such as geometry, arithmetic, and eye power.

Simply put, as long as you are good enough, you can have the opportunity to become a cavalry, but artillery is different. Artillery also depends on talent. Some new recruits have very good grades in all aspects, and even if they are killed, they will not be considered ballistic, so they will not be considered artillery.

Several flag soldiers of Dagukou Hundred Houses stood on the city wall next to the cannon of General Zhenshuo, whispered to each other, and were discovered by the flag officers patrolling in the distance. They walked over with a calm face and whispered: "Stand up and listen, the military commander Chen is there, don't embarrass us in this area!"

Seeing that the officers were coming, the flag army quickly stood up. A brave man muttered to the general flag in a low voice, saying, "Look at the big cocks in it, aren't it the new army? OK, let's give them the energy."

The big cockscomb is about the large clusters of red tassels on the helmet of the Beiyang cavalry. They lifted two inches high from the top of the helmet and fell backward to the shoulder blades. They looked very majestic, but the flag army, especially the flag army outside Guangdong, must feel uncomfortable when they look at this outfit.

Originally, the treatment of recruiting soldiers was better than that of the flag army, and they were all soldiers, but the treatment was a lot less than the monthly salary of the people who calculated the stones. Now, the Beiyang Military Office has also recruited soldiers, and the treatment is even higher than the recruitment of soldiers in the past.

"Have you heard about this Baihu? I don't know how to calculate the salary of these Beiyang cavalry. They can take care of their food and live well. Many people can get three taels of silver a month!"

Most of the soldiers who were in the army were rich by killing people. No one killed the military salary was enough to take care of half a full amount. No matter how much money was like the Beiyang Army, the salary was so much, but the total banner salary was only about 40 taels a year.

"I have to give this money, let alone put the hair in the tower, and pull the bird's hair into the tower!"

The young general flag raised his foot expressionlessly and kicked his subordinates who were unrestrained, and told them to stand guard with righteous words, not to think about the lack of anything. After taking a few steps, he calculated in his mind how much property he had. Seeing that Chen Shuai was also very kind, could he ask someone to get a place for the martial arts lecture hall this year?

His family's three lifetimes of flags, and the highest generation is fortunate to be a hundred households. To his generation, if they can be a hundred households, they will be considered as shining their ancestors.

But then again, who doesn’t want to be a thousand households and commander? Tianjin has been peaceful for a long time. If you want to be promoted but don’t want to work hard on the road to money, but you are also using money to send it to Qianhou. You can be promoted to a hundred households in two years. But if you want to send yourself to a martial arts lecture hall, you will be out of two years, but you will not be a hundred households in just a few years.

In just ten months, several of the students from the Xuanfu Martial Arts Hall in Beiyang have been promoted from 100 households to 100 households.

Just as I was thinking, the flag army on the tower at Baihu was blowing the horns of the buffalo. Looking up, several blessed ships on the sea slowly sailed along the coast, with large and small shapes, all of which looked like warships.

"Go quickly, no, go and inform me of Chen Shuai, the lucky boat is here!"

Did he know that the Eastern commander had been running towards Dagukou in recent days, but he was waiting for the Beijing Transportation that was coming to overseas.

There is no need for others to remind me. Chen Mu had already seen the lucky boat coming from the sea. He put down his telescope and frowned and handed it to Zhao Shizhen, saying, "Look, is that the road-conscious ship that followed Tang Huan from Nanjing to Spain."

There are six large and small ships in total, with a carrying capacity of only 10,000 shi. At a glance, you can tell that this size is not a Beijing ship sent from Nanyang. However, after the agreement was signed, there were only two Dafu ships that went to Spain to recognize the way. I don’t know where the four additional ships came from, which made Chen Mu feel itchy.

"There is one of the road recognition boats to Spain. I'm back. There are two more ships that seem to be the ones I went to find Magui with Mr. Chen last year." Zhao Shizhen looked at the sea with all his eyes and said slowly: "There are three remaining, like cargo ships in the south of China."

"Chen Ju's ship?"

Chen Mu tapped his temple lightly, and he remembered that Chen Ju took a dangerous journey when he returned from Meliga Majiagang, North Asia. A boat turned around and walked south to the equator north, and went north, one after another, and several months later.

Although there were navigation charts on that route where the Spaniards sent Manila sailboats, it was the first time they sailed, and it was not necessarily much safer. Chen Mu was even more worried about whether the sailors on their ship would be short of them.

"I believe the Beijing shipping ship in Nanyang has arrived, so I will pick up people. You will stay in the port these days and wait for the Beijing shipping ship."
Chapter completed!