"You say you're not asking for trouble? What is written on the warrant? ”

On the fourth day of Jing Haibo's return to the Beiyang Military Palace, Chen Ju's fleet returned from North Asia to Merica in the morning and docked, and in the afternoon Xu Jue followed from Beijing to Tianjin, following the eunuch to deliver the emperor's warrant to him.

Chen Mu helplessly put the oracle into his sleeve, raised his hand and shook his head, "Why didn't you make an order?" ”

"After you left, the chickens and dogs in the palace jumped, the emperor shouted to see the boat, was scolded by the queen mother, knelt for half a night, the queen mother was so anxious that she said that she wanted to stop the emperor and call King Lu to succeed to the throne, and repeatedly told her godfather not to let the emperor give an order recently."

Xu Jue has a posture of crabs everywhere he goes, even in the Yamen of the Beiyang Military Mansion, he is not in a proper shape when sitting on a chair, he has a big round belly and stretches out his waist and yawns: "The seal is in the godfather's place, Your Majesty can't make an order, so you can only write an edict and ask me to send it." ”

"Godfather said, don't care what is written on it, don't do it, the edict is useless, fake, it's all fake."

"Fake? I really can't do it! ”

Chen Mu blew hard, the two hands on the table fought with each other, and after a while, he said: "The emperor asked me to get four big boats along the canal to Tongzhou, the captain is about the same width as the narrowest part of the Wei River, and he can't move at all when he drives in." ”

"Don't worry about it, I have a way, my brother didn't just come over to give me an edict, right?"

"You can do it if you have a way, and now my brother can't take care of this little thing, anyway, you just coax the emperor to be happy." Xu Jue shook his head irritably, and said with a cautious expression: "Where can it be my turn to go to Jiangling for this matter." ”

"Zhang Ge's old father is sick, and the old man is seventy-four this year, and my godfather sent me to visit...... This is not a good time. Chen Mu had never seen Xu Jue so worried, his round face and facial features were crowded together, and his eyes were straight and said: "If the days are limited, the court will be chaotic!" ”

If you have a serious illness in your seventies, who can keep people?

Xu Jue's fluttering gaze suddenly glanced at Chen Mu, and said: "It's really not good, you give the court a handwriting, go abroad to bring my brother and me, send you a thousand brocade clothes, let's go to the Great East and go chic!" ”

Chen Mu's expression was stunned and stunned for a long time before he realized that the relationship between Xu Jue's words was because of filial piety.

If Zhang Juzheng's father dies, he will have to return to his hometown to guard filial piety, three years later, no one will leave the position of the first assistant to the middle-aged gods, looking at Xu Jue's posture, Feng Bao also panicked - no one who is now in power has offended people, once the court reshuffles, Zhang Juzheng really returns to his hometown to keep filial piety and waits for three years Whether he can be an official is another matter, let alone the first assistant.

And Feng Bao and Xu Jue were unlucky after them.

Chen Mu didn't answer, lowered his eyes and pinched his fingers to calculate, at the moment, the relationship between the six ministries and the cabinet assistants was not bad, and then he looked back and sighed that he was too deep in the play.

Zhang Juzheng has been the first assistant for ten years honestly, and he remembers this quite clearly.

Chen Mu raised his eyes and smiled at Xu Jue: "Brother, don't panic, if you want to go abroad, it's not just a matter of your words, but at this juncture, if you go abroad, Zhang Ge will be fine, do you still plan to come back?" ”

Xu Jue was stunned, waved his hand and said, "I'll just say that, how can I really leave at this time, but you don't panic at all?" ”

"Although you haven't offended anyone, everyone in the court knows that you have done practical things, and the test method has been implemented, but Qingzhang Tianmu has only just started to do the four provinces, the household bank has just begun, and the outdoor closure is pending, the elder is leaving now, do you think these things can be done in the future?"

Chen Mu nodded as a matter of course: "So the elder can't go." ”

This kind of calmness that doesn't matter to himself made Xu Jue hold the rest of his words, and his palm turned twice in front of him before he answered: "Then, then you don't plan to do something?" ”

"The old man's life, whether the old man is filial piety or not, what is the reaction of the courtiers, which does Brother Xu think Chen can do? I'll do it! ”

Seeing that Xu Jue didn't speak, Chen Mu raised his finger slightly and pointed to the Nanzhili fruit sent from the canal on the table and said, "Eat oranges." ”

Fat Xu blinked, took a tangerine and slowly peeled it in his hand, closed his upper lips and lowered his lips for a long time, and said, "After some time, I'm afraid there is really something you can do alone." ”

"Tell me, borrow guns, borrow guns, or borrow boats?"

Chen Mu also peeled a tangerine while speaking, he peeled it much faster than Xu Fatzi without distraction, put the two cloves of tangerines in his mouth, and saw that Xu Jue was stunned by his straightforward reply, raised his eyes and said: "Don't ask for money, the Queen Mother just fined me for a month, and my Oriental Military Mansion has not yet opened, and I am also poor at this time." ”

Xu Jue only peeled half of the orange in his hand, slowly put it back on the table, rubbed his hands and said: "Gunboats, you can not only do it, we have everything made by the Xuanfu and Nanyang Arsenal, and it is also easy to handle the Governor's Mansion of the Carriage and Horses, and your sea boat can't run into the canal...... I won't tell you now, even if my brother begs you, you have to remember, but I agreed. ”

Hey, this fat guy doesn't talk about anything!

"Don't, how do I know if I can do it if you don't say anything?"

Xu Jue waved his hand, his eyes were almost gone, and he said: "In case something happens, you don't want the elder to be topped, your Beiyang foundation is not stable, if the sky changes, the retrenchment will also be ......."

Chen Mu raised his palm, "It's useless to say this, of course I don't want to be topped by the elder pavilion, but you have to let me know in my heart, let me know if I can do it or not." ”

"Okay, it's enough to have your words, you can do it, you can definitely do it! It's just to get stuck in time, and I can't tell you first, wait for me to send the message. ”

Xu Fatzi seemed to have finished what he wanted to do, raised his butt and said goodbye, took a few steps and came back to stuff the peeled tangerines on the table into his mouth, and then turned to Chen Mu and said: "Yes, Your Majesty has been shouting in the palace for several days to see the boat, how are you going to do this?" ”

Speaking of this, Chen Mu had a headache, he rolled his eyes and rubbed his face, raised his hand and pressed his temples and said: "First find a skilled craftsman to make a few boats several feet long, exactly the same, make some things and send them to the palace for the emperor to see first, and drag the emperor down." ”

"The warships of the Oriental Fleet go to sea for tens of thousands of miles, and it will take several years to obtain silver mines for the imperial court and the influence of the Ming Dynasty in Europa, that is a big event, and when the time comes, the Beiyang Army must have an oath before going out, and the whole army will be loyal to the emperor, Your Majesty, the Queen Mother, the elder, and the Dugong will naturally be present, and no one can blame the emperor for being playful."

The most important thing is that no one says that they are not.

"This is good, Your Majesty always says, saying that the emperor will personally firmly grasp the military power, saying that you said, you have a pledge meeting before you go to sea, even if you don't let him see the ship, he can remember you for several years - but you be careful, if you teach the current emperor to be like Wuzong, future generations will scold you for 500 years."

Chen Mu smiled, he thought.

Five hundred years, not to mention that there will be no change of dynasty in five hundred years, even if the current Ming Dynasty wants to last another two hundred years, it is far from enough to teach a martial arts sect.

It is not expected to teach Zhu Yuanzhang like that, at least you have to teach an emperor Chengzu.