Three poles on the sun, 100 houses in the backyard of 100 yamen houses at Dagukou.

Chen Gong, a major minister of the Beiyang who occupied the magpie's nest, got up from the couch sleepily, and the cool breeze stimulated him to get back into the bed, and only after a while did he muster up the courage to climb out, and stared at him in a daze and picked out an embroidered group of lions and sprinkled them on the plain silk single coat.

He glanced at the table and sobered up.

The large pocket watch on the table that has traveled half the world has been adrift, and the brass shell has long been coiled out of the pulp by the hands of many owners, and the dial marked by Chen Mu is pointing to the third quarter.

It was noon.

Pushing open the door, the strange scene of the courtyard crashed into his eyes, Juniper was waving two heavy stone locks shirtless, and his already dark complexion was sweating profusely, reflecting the light like a layer of grease.

Behind him were a few other entourage, all of them almost average, exerting their strength but revealing a light demeanor—their voices were not as sound as the birds in the trees in the courtyard.

Seeing Chen Mu leaning out lazily, Juniper opened his hands, and two big stone locks of forty or fifty catties fell to the ground with a heavy sound, smashing the surrounding tamping ground into two small pits, wiping it on his body with a handkerchief on his shoulders and grinning: "The handsome man can be counted, the governor of Liangguang came to say goodbye in the morning, and when he saw that the handsome man didn't get up, he said that he went to Beijing to report on his work, anyway, he had to take the sea route from Tianjin in a few days." ”

"It's still a hundred households to sleep comfortably, and when you have time, follow me back to Qingyuan to have a look, and I don't know if my general flag yamen is still there."

Chen Mu stretched out in the sunlight, and let out a few meaningless yawns in his mouth, then pouted and asked Juniper in surprise: "Yin Gong is leaving, and he is still leaving?" ”

Last night, he chatted with Yin Zhengmao very closely, Chen Mu drank a few more glasses, and in the end he couldn't remember what he was talking about, and his impression seemed to be the customs of the Nanyang countries.

He shook his head and yawned again, and then said with a little guilt: "I drank too much last night, so I should have gotten up early to deliver it." ”

As he spoke, there were servants carrying copper basins and all kinds of utensils that had been prepared, three copper basins were filled with cool water, kettles were filled with hot water, and the remaining lacquer plates contained toothbrushes, eyebrow brushes, combs, grates, and eight or nine small paper bags.

The paper bag contains tooth polishing powder made of whitening teeth, clams, sea clams, stone cassia and other materials; toothpaste for fresh breath agarwood, white sandalwood, Suhe, nail incense, dipterocarp, musk and cooked honey; and a small glass of mouthwash with a little alum in it - this is a bit toxic and can't be used often, because the north is dry, Chen Mu has a bit of a mouth ulcer recently.

The paper packets for washing the face are egg white, soybean flour, honey, honey locust pulp, angelica, white aconite, white zombie silkworm, white root, white tribulus terrestris, white silk, grass black, hawthorn, jataman, white cloves, rhubarb, artemisia, crane white, almond, honey monk, camphor, children's tea condensed into soap, which has the effect of cleansing, invigorating blood, awakening the brain and removing pigmentation.

The juice used to wash the hair is sesame leaves, hibiscus leaves, ginger, etc., and you can understand when you see the ginger, obviously Chen Mu has lost a little hair recently.

In addition to these, there are also mouth grease and face grease that are smeared after washing, Chen Mu, who has no knowledge in the poor countryside, does not understand these, in the past, in Qingyuan, it was directly washed with water and rice washing water, where would you understand so many twists and turns, all of them were sent by Yang Qingluan, the eldest lady of Weigang, and they were packaged in different days, and they were sent for daily use every other day.

The Yang family has never been stingy with manpower, Chen Mu has always thought that Yang Yinglong has been reflected in the past when he goes out with more than a dozen large boxes of silver drinking utensils and tableware, but it turns out that he still knows too little.

Unless he goes to war, it doesn't matter if he is in Beijing or Manila, wherever Chen Mu can go, the daily paper package of Weigang Chen's Mansion can be delivered with a sealed ice box.

It's not that the war can't be sent, and there are these things in the earliest baggage boats, but first, the military law does not allow it, second, he has no time to use it, and third, he can't make the soldiers feel greedy for enjoyment.

"No need to send it, the governor of Liangguang went to Beijing to report on his work than the handsome man, and the official sedan chair came directly from Beijing, and he was waiting outside the hundred households as soon as it was bright in the morning." Juniper looked at the big lazy man who washed his face so late, and said with a smile: "Where is it like a handsome man, go into Kyoto and ride a horse by yourself." ”

Chen Mu, who was washing his hair, laughed, and the little apology in his heart for not seeing him off disappeared, and he closed his eyes and said: "I don't sit in a sedan chair, you go out to inquire, who doesn't know in the whole city of Beijing?" ”

"By the way, Shuai Ye, Luzon's Commander Fu is waiting at the Yamen."

"Got it, get the armor."

Chen Mu was like a mirror in his heart, Fu Yuan said that the ship broke down on the road and would be repaired in the port for a few days, but Chen Mu felt that it might be that he had made some small problems with the ship when he was near the port, and eighty percent of it was on behalf of the Nanyang Military Government or the Guangzhou Mansion that there was a word coming over.

The cleaning gesture is complicated, but in fact, it will be done in a while, the weather is warm, and the person who sees it is also his own person, Chen Mu, who wears chain mail, enters the yamen.

Fu Yuan is still the same old look, no matter how strong he is, he looks like he is sitting upright, but that inadvertently revealing rogue look can hide from others, but he can't hide Chen Mu, who watched him change from a banner army to a commander.

"My subordinates meet the commander!"

Chen Mu beckoned him to sit down, and everyone else in the yamen of the hundred households was retreated by Chen Muping, and asked, "What happened at home, why did you deliberately go ashore?" ”

Seeing that Chen Mu saw through it, Fu Yuan smiled, there was no embarrassment on his face, and he complimented him in a low voice: "The handsome man is like a god, but in fact, it is not a big deal, it is the Nanyang Military Mansion." ”

"Now the Nanyang Marshal is taken over by Gao Gong, the Dashuai Bei, we Nanyang are all handsome old men, in the past, the news that the Marshal is the duty, now I don't know if I should give the Marshal a message, Gao Gong doesn't have this meaning, let's sum up with Bai Shuai and Chen Shuai, or should we say that it coincides with the ship to Japan to transport grain." Fu Yuan arched his hand and said, "I sent the small one here." ”

Saying that, he flipped his hand again and said: "I didn't think that the handsome man dismissed the Nanyang marshal, and appointed the Beiyang marshal who controlled Sanyo, and the small one came for nothing." ”

Fu Yuan said, took out a thick stack of bound documents from his cowhide backpack, and handed them to Shangdao: "This is the accounts of the Nanyang Military Government last year, without the permission of the high prince, the preparation is incomplete; When the news of the imperial court reached Nanyang, Gao Gong should be ready to send it to Beiyang. ”

Chen Mu watched Fu Yuan slowly bow his head, did not look at the accounts, and slowly pushed Fu Yuan and said: "Burn it, Old Man Gao did the right thing, don't do these things in the future, especially don't take it yourself." ”

He didn't look at it because he didn't have to.

What the people of Nanyang sent was a heart, not an account.

He is in charge of Nanyang, do you need to look at last year's accounts? He just didn't know the accounts after leaving the Nanyang Military Mansion this year.

"But you're here just in time, I have a few things for you to do."

Over there, Fu Yuan got up and clenched his fists, and here Chen Mu raised his finger and said, "Escort the ship to Japan, and let Li Dan bring the entire battle situation to report to me; After returning to Nanyang, he asked the military government to build a ship, and transferred a Liuding Liujia formation to Beiyang, transporting 100 craftsmen and military doctors, and 200 graduates of the Navy Lecture Hall this year. ”

"Also, send a letter to the Ordnance Bureau, if you should use coke to make iron, you can use coke to make iron, how to get all the technology."