Will he go to Mongolia again, Chen Mu thought about it for a long time after returning to Guannei, he wanted to go.

Especially when he remembered the expectant look in my eyes when he said goodbye, Chen Mu felt that he should go.

After returning from the outside and delivering the results to Wang Chonggu, Chen Mu returned to his mansion in Xuanfu, easily deducted seven letters from the floor tiles and burned them.

If he doesn't come back, because of these seven letters, a lot of people will die.

The imperial court also entered a long quarrel around whether to open a border market, just like the scene during the Gengxu Change.

The same thing, if there is no side to say that it is wrong, in fact, it is for the future development of the Ming Dynasty, but no matter which small link is not handled well, it will cause a big mistake in the future.

Gao Gong once said in the court: to deal with the affairs of Hannaji must be handled appropriately, if you easily accept his conditions, then it is a show of weakness to him, will be unfavorable to the Ming Dynasty, which is not advisable. But if he was killed hastily, the idea of the Mongol tribes being subordinated would be cut off, and their resentment would be increased in vain. This is also not advisable.

In the matter of answering the tribute and opening the border city, Gao Gong said this: Mongolia has been asking for tribute for a long time since it sent an envoy to ask for tribute 30 years ago, but no one faced this matter at that time, so it was not handled well, so the border troubles have not stopped in the past 30 years.

From the emperor downwards in the Longqing Dynasty, among the ministers, they all have a very deep understanding of the Ming-Mongolian War during the Jiajing period, if the decision to fight was made under the excitement of blood thirty years ago, then now they are rational enough.

In addition to Wang Chonggu, Zhang Fuduan and Zhang Guoyan were all given in the matter, and Song Yingchang, Zhang Sizhong, and Ji Outline were also in their own ways, and there were similarities and differences with Wang Chonggu's eight discussions.

This has nothing to do with Chen Mu, after a trip out of the fortress, the soldiers of Xuanfu spread him like a fairy, but obviously he still needs to eat and drink, the weather in the north is too cold, in addition to wrapping in thick cotton clothes and robes to inspect the guards, Chen Mu spends most of his time in the house burning a vigorous stove to learn about the past things about the north.

Of course, he can't stop learning Di Bao, which is the fastest way for him to know the results of the Beijing court meeting.

In addition, General Chen was busy kneading briquettes, anyway, the craftsmen were idle, making a honeycomb coal mold, taking yellow mud, coal ash, and water, mixed to make briquettes, burning them is better than coal blocks, and the most important thing here in Xuanda is coal, which can form an industry in everything.

In the past month or so, Chen Mu wanted to understand one thing - why there were so many people in the ancient north.

Because in the north in winter, not to mention people, horses are reluctant to go out of the stable, this season is too long, so long that people have nothing else to do except have more children and more blessings.

There was no one working at the construction site of the Ordnance Bureau near the Xuanfu, and the complicated daily drills that Wanquan Zhuwei had originally planned could not be completed at all, so they could only be led by the same subordinate generals to their subordinates to practice, and they often ran, but even running could not meet Chen Mu's requirements.

Because they don't have enough to eat, and they don't have enough to sustain the discipline of great consumption.

The number of Xuanfu guards is not large, and they can still be full by feeding chickens and vegetables on weekdays, but in winter, the food drops sharply, and they are not as extravagant as Nanyangwei, feeding pigs and chickens to eat themselves. They feed the chickens to sell at the end of the year in exchange for noodles.

There are vegetables in winter, but they are too expensive, Chen Mu can afford to eat them, but the army can't afford them.

In fact, there are many patterns, the cheapest pickled vegetables and dried vegetables; The slightly more expensive ones are cellared vegetables, that is, through cellaring, sand storage, refrigeration, fruit mixing, wax sealing, sealing and other means, for example, when storing pears, mixed with radishes, it is not bad in winter.

In addition, there are also greenhouse dishes made in the hot spring area, out-of-season dishes like Yunhuo and Wengu, which are all delicacies on the winter table of dignitaries and nobles, and it is difficult for ordinary people to enjoy them.

They only have pickled vegetables and dried vegetables, and occasionally they can eat some Chinese cabbage, but there is not enough food, and Chen Mu will not be able to make so much for a while, which means that this winter can only be passed in a semi-deserted state.

This situation will continue until the end of the first month of the fifth year of Longqing, so Chen Mu has done something awesome.

He wrote a letter to the emperor, hoping to get a chance to enter the palace.

Because there is a piece of land in the West Garden of the palace, called the Goose Ash Pond, which is planted with flowers, vegetables, melons and beans and other things, which is related to his reward.

Speaking of rewards, Chen Mu was almost angry, he came back from the outside of the plug, and the reward given to him by the emperor was actually a room of flowers, which bloomed in a huge and gorgeous winter and were sent from seven or eight carriages in the imperial road from Beijing.

said that what he did was the spring of the Ming Dynasty.

But the little shopkeeper was so happy, he looked at it for several days, and said that this was the kindness of the harem concubines - Chen Muzhen didn't think it was a compliment.

After three days of driving, it was all rested, but what was Chen Mu thinking? He thought that there was a shed in the palace, and he had to get that thing, and it wasn't a problem for good things to hide in the palace.

After correspondence with Xu Jue, he knew about it, and immediately wrote a letter to the emperor, saying that he had never seen such a miraculous thing, and there were still flowers in winter, so could he be given a gift to enter the palace to see.

Within a few days, the emperor sent the letter back, and asked him to come to the palace on vacation to have a look, and specially put a little eunuch to wait in front of him, and show him the way when the time came.

The holiday of the last metaverse.

In a blink of an eye, the New Year is approaching, and the dogs are reluctant to go out of the nest in winter, but the border defense priorities in the past ten days must be strictly guarded, and the more reasonable it is to relax, the more it can not be relaxed.

Then he rode all the way to the Imperial City, entered the Forbidden City, and then passed through the Forbidden City into the West Garden.

In fact, this is the first time Chen Mu has met the emperor face-to-face, Xiyuan is the emperor's office and amusement place, in order to meet the generals, the emperor retired the palace maid and concubine, and made a special trip to take Chen Mu to see the flowers.

Zhenshuo's general cannon left a deep impression on Emperor Longqing, and even taking the matter of entering the palace to see the flowers was regarded by Longqing as an accommodation to the meritorious minister.

Chen Mu guessed that this road should be smooth and smooth, but there is obviously nothing in this world that can be agreed with his imagination, and as soon as Emperor Longqing saw him, he said something with a smile.

"General Chen, you have been impeached again."

Chen Mu knew that only unexpectedly, no one else could do it, and after the emperor asked him to be exempted, he pretended to be shocked and said: "Your Majesty, the minister is panicked, it must be that the minister has done something wrong!" ”

Emperor Longqing felt bored, his frowning expression was like eating a fly, and he waved his big sleeves like eating a fly, and walked in front with his hands behind his back.

"I've never seen anything worse than you!"

Chen Mu followed behind step by step, bowed his head and said expressionlessly: "The minister is really scared ......."

Before Chen Mu finished speaking, he saw Emperor Longqing quickly turn his head, the beard on his mouth was still trembling, he was excited and raised three fingers proudly and said: "Three days, it took them three days to know that I want to recruit you into the palace!" ”

Chen Mu was taken aback, and said slowly with a fixed mouth: "I'm really scared...... Terrified. ”

"Okay, I don't blame you, what does it matter if you come back from a trip to visit the Imperial Garden." Emperor Longqing was obviously in a good mood, and he flicked his sleeves and pointed forward: "Over there is the goose ash pond you want to see, also called the bite spring garden, there are cucumbers and leeks in it, but just look at it, you can't eat it." ”

"I told them not to get these things that waste silver, and they will burn an unknown amount of wood in a winter."

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