Chen Mu is very rational about the war in Burma, but not so rational about Annan.

In the second year of Wanli, the imperial court holiday rested, and the Nanyang Military Mansion reported to the imperial court through the post station, and Zhang Juzheng was in a hurry to recruit the military department Shangshu and the prince Shaobao Tan Lun to discuss the matter.

"Tan Shaobao, before the person entered the house, the cough had already made the servants hear it and greet him."

Zhang Juzheng and Tan Lun have been friends for many years, and now Tan Lun has seven out of fifty, and the two have a better relationship, Tan Lun knows that Zhang Ju is joking, and he doesn't care, he waved his hand and said: "The day before yesterday, I sacrificed to the altar of the sun with Your Majesty, the winter moon was cold, and the old man was coughing, and he was impeached." ”

"Maybe they're right, the old and frail are not suitable for the minister, if the war stops today, it's time to resign."

Tan Lun is old, really old, Jin Ge Iron Horse has become empty talk, he yearns for a few acres of thin fields, watching dramas and listening to music in the house.

After all, the troubles of the southern and northern captives have been eliminated in the hands of their generation.

"You can't go, and the war in the world will not stop."

Zhang Juzheng smiled, and the fox Qiu welcomed Tan Lun into the study of the mansion, helped Tan Lun to the guest seat, and then sat down by himself, and asked with a rare smug look on the face of the imperial first assistant: "Shao Bao can feel bright?" ”

Zhang Juzheng's mansion is very large, Tan Lun used to come when he was healthy, and he knew that Shoufu had a habit of cleanliness, his clothes should not have a trace of wrinkles, and there should be no clutter in the house.

However, this time, Tan Lun only felt that there were craftsmen from the Ministry of Industry entering and leaving the Shoufu Mansion a little messy, but except for the faint rumbling sound in the distance, there was nothing unusual.

The study room is very warm indoors, which is nothing special, most of the walls of the mansions in Beijing have sandwich ice flues, and the exterior is coated with thermal insulation pepper material, and the summer is the ice wall and the winter is the fire wall, and the flue is taken inside, so as to heat and heat.

But what is special about Zhang Juzheng's study is that there are four glass lamps on the wall, which can shine without fire.

"What is this?"

"The glass lamp of the Ministry of Industry, the steam drive motor, the water vapor is the movement, the power generation is bright, the smoke from the furnace is out of the fire wall, and the cold is driven away in winter." Zhang Juzheng took off his robe, sat back in his seat, and said: "Burning coal is not more than heating in the past winter, and it can still shine." ”

Tan Lun laughed when he heard it, and coughed uncontrollably a few times in the middle of laughter, and then said, "Chen Nanyang did it?" He didn't enter the Ministry of Engineering, and he gave in. ”

"Can he fancy the Ministry of Works? You Tan Shaobao wrote to him to ask him if he would like to come back to work in the Ministry of Works. Zhang Juzheng was joking, but he said with a straight face: "If Chen Nanyang is in charge of the Ministry of Works, and he manages the Ministry of Industry with the laws of the army, he can't be a virtuous minister." ”

"Then the Ministry of Industry is gone, and the most thorough implementation of the military order by the Nanyang Military Government is to kill the first offender, how many people are enough for him to kill?"

Tan Lun laughed out loud, carefully looked at the glass cup hanging on the wall beside him, and then said to Zhang Juzheng: "The elder said before that the war in the world has not stopped, and this time I will come down, where is there a war again?" ”

There was this speculation since he came, but seeing that Zhang Juzheng was joking with leisure, he didn't think it looked like it.

Seeing that Zhang Juzheng's interest in joking was almost gone, he asked.

"Chen Nanyang sent two handbooks a year ago, and he was blocked on the road by the wind and snow in Baoding during the New Year, and he only sent them from Yulin Post today."

Zhang Juzheng said and took out two letters and put them on the table in Tan Lun's hand, and said: "One of them, presumably after reading the impeachment of you by Yu Zun a few years ago, Chen Shuai scolded the official with a rare Wenhua, saying that there are three kinds of people in the world who can't be scolded by the official." ”

"Raising his parents' family and country, teaching his uncles and teachers, and protecting his army to protect the country, saying that he doesn't know who is the city for the imperial court, he only knows that he can't serve his family and country under his selfish desires, and he only knows how to use the benefits of his lips and teeth to deceive people's hearts - this handbook, if you take it out, it will offend many people."

Tan Lun narrowed his eyes and asked Zhang Juzheng thoughtfully, "Is it Chen Nanyang's handwriting?" He didn't get angry with the officials, who is trying to harm him, right? ”

"Who imitates his handwriting, Zhao Changji, who works in calligraphy, can't imitate it even if he is ugly, and he dares to write a handbook with charcoal in the world, in addition to him, can he find a second one?"

Zhang Juzheng said angrily and funny, motioned to Tan Lun to look at the second manuscript, and said: "At that time, most of the manuscripts were written with air, and in recent years, Yunnan has been attacked by the Burmese Propaganda Division, and its mountainous roads are difficult to travel, so it cannot be controlled. ”

"Today, the Nanyang military government is trading Malacca to the lion country, so the two military governments want to attack Mang Yinglong in the north and south, and send the baggage from Guangzhou to Yongchang, Yunnan by land, 4,000 li by land and water, if you go to Annam by sea, it only takes 2,000 li, and it can be reached in ten days, and the road consumption is very little."

"He sent to Annam Mo to discuss the killing of the envoy who borrowed the river, so he planned to help An Hou Li, Champa and Annam's general army to defeat Mo first, and then attack the Burmese Xuanwei Division."

Zhang Juzheng said the final word, and said: "The first handbook Tan Shaobao is happy and happy, and if he doesn't send it out, he is full of complaints, and he offends people, so there is no need to take it to the court to discuss." ”

"You don't have to take the impeachment of Shaobao to heart, how can a person who talks about it know how to govern the country."

Zhang Juzheng shook his head disdainfully, comforting Tan Lun and said: "He has offended Feng Daban, I don't know how to be a man with his tail between his legs, impeachment this and that, Feng Bao will clean him up when he thinks about it." ”

"The trick is still in Chen Nanyang's second handbook, this should be taken to the court to discuss, and the ministry is invited to come, just to have a bottom in your heart."

"Annan Mo does not respect the imperial court, Jin Yiwei has gone to investigate the truth of this matter, if this is indeed the case, it is okay for the Nanyang army to attack the Mo family to take the river, the victory is a great joy, and the defeat just recalled him to the court to idle for a few years."

Hearing him say this, Tan Lun raised his head suddenly, and saw Zhang Juzheng sighing helplessly: "When the first emperor sent him to Nanyang with an edict, he was not pampered, relying on his youth and outstanding achievements, even if he boasted that Haikou would lose silver for the imperial court, it would not hurt to teach him to go to Nanyang to play." ”

"He can do it wherever he is, not necessarily overseas."

Zhang Juzheng said and laughed again, and then said solemnly: "The servant is fifty years this year, and at most he can assist the country for twenty years, and the veteran Neng Chen, who has experienced the capture of the south and the north, is no longer there, but he Chen Nanyang is still in his old age." ”

"His scribe Zhao Changji said that he used to lament the treatment of the Japanese pirates, saying that the Ming Dynasty's Japanese pirates, those treacherous people are all heroes who have taken the wrong path, and none of the powerful pirates died at sea, but all died on land."

"Even if you don't recall him this year, you will still be called the year after tomorrow, and when you Tan Shaobao resigns, there will be no one he knows in the military department."

Zhang Juzheng said as he paced, turned around and pointed his finger on the second notebook, and said, "Recall him back to Jingshi, be good to him." ”

Tan Lun nodded, then smiled bitterly, coughed twice and arched his hand: "Burma and Annam, the DPRK and China don't know much about it, and they still need to rummage through the files, but the Nanyang Military Government has always read the war reports carefully." ”

"Chen Nanyang's three absolute guns are in the ship, in the artillery, and in the gun, and the heavy artillery is currently strong in the rear, and he is good at outnumbering the enemy, and he is all bullying the weak."

Tan Lun said these with confidence: "The combat power is equal to the Ji army, and the land of Myanmar is near the sea, and the two Guangxi have reported that the Mo clan has repeatedly expelled our fishermen to pearl diving in the pearl pond with warships, and has been repelled by fishing boats more times...... Ge Lao still passed on the book and asked Liu Nanchang. ”