After a night of hangover, these soldiers all looked groggy and hazy, looking extremely military-looking, like wilted cucumbers.
In this way, Chen Mu sent Huo Quxie to the entrance of Lihe Village. Huo Quxie got on his horse and then smiled at Chen Mu who was dismounted.
"Sir, just send it here."
Chen Mu bowed his hands and said, "General, please be patient."
"In three days, I will pick you up and take you to the Monan front line, okay?"
Chen Mu shook his head: "Time is too tight. I still have a government exam to take. It will take seven days. What do you think?"
Hearing that Chen Mu was going to take the scholar examination, Huo Qu immediately looked slightly startled, and then couldn't help but smile bitterly and shake his head.
"I won't give you an official position directly, but I will have to study hard for merit. Could it be that Sir is eyeing the position of the chief minister of the dynasty? He is really a strange person."
After hearing this, Chen Mu also shook his head and smiled: "You have to make your own living in this world."
"Hey, forget it, even rough guys like us can't figure out what sir is thinking. Also, I'm very curious about the thing that sir said can restrain the Tatar cavalry. I really want to see it as soon as possible. I'll say goodbye."
After saying that, Huo Quxie handed over his hand again, whipped his horse whip, and headed forward.
After ten more veterans were sent to the dock of the ship bound for Bajun, Chen Mu returned with Xiahou.
I just finished the child examination, and I never thought that overnight, I would get in touch with Long Xia's military.
In seven days, we will go to Monan. Thinking about it now is like dreaming. Everything will happen much faster than Chen Mu expected.
All I can say is that plans cannot keep up with changes.
We were almost halfway up the mountain, but surprisingly, Xiahou, who usually talked a lot, didn't say a word.
Chen Mu couldn't help but turned around and asked, "What's wrong? Are you still drunk? You didn't even fart this whole time?"
Xia Hou lowered his head and glanced at Chen Mu as if he were a thief. After a long time, he muttered: "I was thinking about what happened yesterday."
Chen Mu frowned: "Yesterday? What happened?"
Xia Hou was like an angry child, sitting down on the stone and scolding himself: "If I hadn't been so talkative... Brother Mu, your steel-making method wouldn't have been used by that boy named Huo."
Even though Chen Mu received five thousand taels of gold, Xiahou had lived on the battlefield for so many years and knew very well that this transaction was actually a loss.
Top-notch weapons are very valuable. The famous swords made by famous craftsmen are far inferior to the Tang Hengdao, but some wealthy families will still rush to spend thousands or even thousands of gold to buy them.
But now, it was because of his talk that he directly sold the method of smelting steel at a very low price. Just imagine how Xiahou could not blame himself?
"If you have anything to blame yourself for, let me tell you, kid. Even if you don't talk too much, even if you don't have Huo Quxie, one day I will even give him away for free."
Hearing Chen Mu's sudden words, Xia Hou was surprised and said: "Free gift?"
Chen Mu smiled bitterly: "Why are you so surprised? Do you think that I, Chen Mu, am just an unscrupulous businessman who only knows how to make money?"
Xia Hou waved his hands quickly: "No...that's not what I meant."
"We are indeed unscrupulous, but Xiahou, remember, we don't have to talk about morality, but justice must be our bottom line. When the country is in crisis, if we continue to be selfish for money, what is the difference between us and inhuman animals?"
Chen Mu considers himself not a good person. For the sake of money, he can peel off other people's skin, but he can still be selfless when the country is in trouble.
In normal times, you can go to any lengths to make business profits, but you will not sacrifice the national interests even if you kill them, making the country difficult to make money.
Without a country, where can he find a place for Chen Mu?
These are the two words of morality that Chen Mu has carried in his heart in both lives.
It is also because of this moral principle that has been implemented throughout his life that Chen Mu is also willing to go to Monan in person to contribute to the country.
This is why he agreed so simply yesterday, why he could obviously send Xiahou to go and take risks himself.
The more I think about it, the more funny I find it. He is obviously a mature man in his forties, but he is still like an angry young man, with a secondary idea of saving the world and upholding justice in his heart.
Just like in previous lives, when people discussed state affairs, they were criticized by some people who thought they were sober in the world. The more unpromising a person is, the more they worry about the country and the people.
The world is strange, twisted and sick, but Chen Mu has always maintained such sincerity.
"But... I think Brother Mu only has a hundred people, and the country's affairs are not something we can worry about."
Hearing Xiahou's sudden words, Chen Mu stared at him for a long time.
"We are indeed common people, but let's remember today that although you and I are in humble positions, we will never forget to worry about our country and live in this world. This is the righteousness!"
Chen Mu's voice was not loud, but his tone was extremely firm.
This sentence made Xiahou look stunned, and he did not recover for a long time.
All along, Xia Hou felt that the young man in front of him was just smarter than him.
But now it seems that what is worse is still this state.
Most people in the world are still running around for a bite of food, but he may have been standing on the attic looking down and thinking.
Looking at these pair of extremely serious eyes, Xiahou was sincerely convinced and had a broad mind. This kind of person really deserves to be called brother!
When he returned to Lihe Village again, Chen Mu allocated a hundred taels of silver to Xiahou and went to the city to buy the materials needed for black powder and explosives.
Now that there are only seven days left, Chen Mu needs to make a batch in advance so that he can use it directly when he gets to Monan.
Chen Mu is not ready to reveal the gunpowder to the Long Xia court yet.
A very important reason is that I heard from Huo Quxie yesterday that there are two factions in the dynasty: military generals who lead the war, and civilian officials who lead the peace.
It seems that everyone has their own selfish motives. The Long Xia Dynasty has always been dominated by civilian officials and military attachés. The military attachés want to completely reverse the situation with victory in the war.
The civil officials did not want these military generals to overwhelm them, so they have been constantly obstructing them.
Today's emperor is weak, and he keeps jumping between the war and the two factions, unable to control the situation.
There is no guarantee that those peace factions who are out of their own interests, in order to prevent the war faction from becoming stronger, will jump over the wall after learning about the method of making gunpowder and sell it to the Tatars to suppress the general group in disguise.
It sounds strange, but you never know how far a person can go for his own benefit. People are very complex and abnormal.
If that were the case, this country would have been declared destroyed in advance.
But it should be used during this trip, so get it out in advance and take it directly with you.
In order to speed up the process, Chen Mu directly transferred all the young people in the village to Long Kiln and asked them to hammer saltpeter, charcoal and other things.
As for Xiahou, Chen Mu ordered him to shoot out more fire blunderbuss as soon as possible.
In his previous life, Chen Mu liked to read history. These nomadic peoples on the grasslands were definitely the most capable people in the world during the cold weapon era.
The Mongolian Iron Buddha Tu passed through the border, like a torrent of steel. Even the few times that the Central Plains Dynasty crushed it, it was because of the unprecedented strength of the dynasty in all aspects, coupled with the emergence of so many ruthless people in charge of military and political affairs.
win.
However, even such a powerful nation became able to sing and dance instantly after the advent of firearms.
The only way to deal with these prairie cavalry is to make their horses unable to run, or to kill them directly in front of them.