As Deng Zilong expected, the shooting level of the Beiyang Banner Army was not significantly improved under the huge amount of gunpowder consumption, but all indicators outside the final results were greatly improved.

In the processes of loading drugs and loading ammunitions and cleaning the gun chamber after the shooting, it can be seen that the Beiyang Banner Army has suffered a lot during this period.

After the shooting competition, the wealthy businessman was hosted by Zou Yuanbiao, the magistrate of Changsheng County, and Chen Mu called the three Spanish men to have some food on the second floor of the military government office.

He was far from the level of a banquet, and he just ate a few servings of military rations. In China, Chen Mu still paid more attention to food, but in Asia, he ate military rations every day.

Of course, he ate slightly better than most people. Dongyang Buxing officer stoves, and he ate one more dish than infantry food.

But this does not mean that it is simple. The best chefs in the New World are all in the East Military Palace. Like the flag army, small flag officer, and propagandist, the East Military Palace has a complete set of chef assessment indicators and promotion routes, and there are also level rewards.

Just as the flag army has excellent combat skills and can get double salary, three salary and even five salary that exists in theory; the flag officers obey orders and command subordinates with high talent can get official promotion; the propaganda is appropriate and the salary can be paid as a substitute to become a flag officer in wartime; the keen man can also stand out.

Although it is relatively more difficult for kids to be promoted, after all, it is difficult to adjust. Once they get enough promotion, their highest honor is what he ordered all kids to do today and what the Japanese ministers have to eat.

It is not easy to become a level-level governor-level chef. In fact, it is no longer cooking that measures the value of skills from the command-level chef. They also try their best to use new ingredients that can be found everywhere in Asia, thinking about how to make new dishes, and compiling them into books to teach lower-level chefs.

It’s not okay to know how to cook, it’s not okay to innovate, it’s not okay to be lazy, it’s not okay to be illiterate, and it’s even worse if you don’t know the nutrition of the ingredients.

Of course, it is the nutrition within the knowledge framework of this era.

Fortunately, the best chefs in Dongyang are basically the people who took the blame for every small flag marching in the Qianhu Suo period of Xiangshan. Most of the flag soldiers and a group of them are guard generals, and these people have good cultural skills.

The Eastern General cared too much about what his subordinates ate because he knew too well that as long as the Chinese soldiers were full, they would no longer be afraid of any enemies.

Chen Mu's meal was served in a red-black lacquered wood double-layer food box from the Beiyang Army and the baggage. After the staple food box was opened, a fried sweet potato cake and two small pieces of yellow soft corn cake.

The main dish box is divided into four columns. The amount of dishes is not large without serving, but it is definitely enough to eat together. It is six slices of Majiagang pastrami, four Changsheng Jinshang noodles steamed with shelled crab meat, and a tablespoon of appetizing tomato sauce stewed with soybeans and Jiexian lamb enema with onion roasted mutton.

Just in the middle, a red Deng Deng Jincheng salted duck egg was also put on.

Jincheng San'a led by Alva did not have this standard lacquered wood food box. They used standard partitioned large round pottery plates, which were slightly heavier than lacquered wood food box. The Beiyang Banners sometimes used this. In the garrison, pottery was easier to clean than wood.

These pottery were not burned by immigrants. The brick and tile factory under the Dongyang Military Office is now too busy to make bricks and tiles. Moreover, if an immigrant wants to set up a factory, it requires review by the Dongyang Bureau of Commerce and Changsheng Branch. It has directional recommendations for their factory creations and takes the route of increasing added value.

The simple and cheap work of burning pottery and making tableware was outsourced to the indigenous people. Zou Yuanbiao highly encouraged the indigenous people to build factories and buy industries. Although they were not as familiar with their business as immigration or official factories under the military government, they were willing to learn everything from the court. As long as the court taught them, they would learn and they would start to make a fortune with a command.

They had simple feelings for the Ming Dynasty, not only because the Ming army did not come, but because many of them would die in the Spanish mines, but also because the Ming Dynasty allowed them to be different.

The Eastern Military Palace never forbids them from speaking the indigenous language, never forbids them from performing indigenous sacrifices, and never forbids them from doing anything that is permitted by the law.

Because no matter what they do, Yang Tingxiang's disciples will search for clues from the long river of history: Look, three hundred years ago, this province of the Central Plains dynasty used such things; look, two thousand three hundred years ago, the Central Plains mortal state of the Central Plains dynasty had this custom; look, three thousand years ago, the priests also used such masks.

The more they do, the more they will be discovered that the two continents with vast oceans actually have almost the same customs and equipment... In fact, let alone the two continents, even the whole world has many similarities, the pirates in Nordics also have dragon boats.

The Ming Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty may be their hometown that they once could not go back to, or they may have no connection with them.

Some people are not able to distinguish, they try their best to accept everything that Yang Tingxiang's disciples have instilled; some people are able to distinguish, so they try their best to erase the controversial parts for Yang Tingxiang and others.

There are also a few people who know the truth, but they smiled without saying a word with the statue of the Dragon and Tiger Taoist Jun. They encouraged their children and grandchildren to go to the county magistrate to borrow a robe during the wedding, saying: It’s time for our family to build a ancestral hall.

In any case, the indigenous people who had no support found a backer and tried their best to integrate with the mountains.

These things are too simple for Chen Mu's Eastern Military Mansion. They are so simple that Chen Mu doesn't need to bother. How complicated can a matter be with affection and intention?

But the Duke of Alva behind the dining table was different. A pair of chopsticks stumped him, which was much more difficult than the galloping earth dragon.

He silently tried his best to pick up a soybean soaked in tomato sauce, but persistence is always more than giving up pain, and sometimes giving up can bring greater happiness.

Just like now, Alva, who no longer competes with soybeans, holds chopsticks and inserts two slices of Majiagang pastrami dipped in sauce and puts it in her mouth. Only then can she finally feel the enjoyment of the five-spice bison tendon mixed with soy sauce and garlic paste blooming in her mouth.

Until the maid from the military palace silently lifted a napkin on the table from behind, revealing the spoon on the pottery stand below.

Although the two sides have passed many letters and even signed multiple treaties together, they have never seen each other. This is the first time Alva has seen Chen Mu, and it is also the first time that Chen Mu has seen Alva.

But for Alva, they were already very familiar with him. He did not mention good or bad food. By this time no one cared about food. He smiled and said, "In every country I went to, if they had unique etiquette habits, they would specially pick out a long time before the banquet started to send a special professor, but in the Ming Dynasty there was no one."

"This is not a court, not to mention a banquet. This is... home-cooked food." Chen Mu was really embarrassed to say that he had not planned to invite the Spanish San Ah to dinner. He first frowned and thought for a while, then nodded seriously and said, "If Spain needs it, I will send someone to Iberia to teach all the nobles to use chopsticks."

Duke Alva looked at each other and said helplessly: "Let's talk about something else, it sounds like the Moors from eight hundred years ago."

Chen Mu put down the chopsticks and wiped the corners of his mouth, held his hands together on the table in front of him, and smiled and said, "What do you want to talk about?"

Actually, he wasn't full yet, but Alva's tone made him feel like a customer came to him.

“Talk a promise.”

The Duke of Alva also put down his spoon and said seriously: "Your Excellency is a noble family and is upright. You should not regret what you promised. So when I am about to lead my army to leave New Spain, I hope to get your personal promise."

"Don't attack New Spain and Peru anymore."
Chapter completed!