Chen Mu didn't expect Feng Bao to come in person, and Feng Bao didn't expect Chen Mu to only bow to him.

It's not that it's wrong to bow your hand, in fact, when Feng Bao entered the hall, none of those people gave Feng Bao a big salute, they just gave up their seats, and the scene became lively, even the people who presided over the banquet didn't need Chen Mu to worry about it, and several of the officials volunteered, and even with a lot of respect for Chen Mu that shouldn't have existed.

The officials offered tea pots, hairpins, and jade cups, and rewarded each other with drinks.

There are musicians brought by Feng Bao to play the piano and sing songs, and before the tea has been drunk twice, Feng Daban'er waved his hand, and he prepared a sedan chair from the people, cleared the road, and many officials went out of the house to say goodbye, and then left in a hurry.

From beginning to end, Feng Bao didn't say a word to Chen Mu, and he didn't even look like he was a special guest, obviously everything here couldn't arouse the slightest interest from the Dongchang Governor, he didn't talk to people, didn't drink tea or eat wine, but he still sat here for a moment.

Feng Bao didn't make a special trip to be a guest, but he listened to the song very carefully, listened to people sing three songs, came to make a visit, and walked all the way back to the palace from Dong'an Gate.

This is indeed a visit, because the distance is really not far, Feng Bao was the eldest companion of the emperor's grandson when he was in Yuwang's Mansion in the past, and now the emperor's grandson has become the prince, but Feng Bao still often goes in and out of the East Palace to take care of the prince, and sometimes he accompanies the prince to study in the East Palace.

People know that the high arch can stop Feng Bao for a while, but it can't stop him for a lifetime.

Chen Mu knew better, because there were only two palace gates away from him, and the seven-year-old who lived in the East Palace was the future Emperor Wanli.

Even Xu Jue didn't know that Feng Bao would come, and Chen Mu didn't know why Feng Bao came to support himself, no one knew. Others only know that Feng Bao, who may hold the authority of the inner palace in a few years, personally came to the mansion as a guest when General Zhaowu, who lived in Beijing, moved to his new residence.

Because of this alone, twenty-three guests later gave additional gifts, causing Chen Mu to receive an extra 1,700 taels of congratulatory gifts.

Especially the officials who laughed at Chen Mu because he was happy to accept Liu Chenglong's dressing box, a table of people made up a thousand taels for Chen Mu and made up for it the next day, hoping that Chen Mu would not blame them.

In the dead of night, Yan Qingyao put a thin coat on Chen Mu, who was sitting at the table, and her master had been stunned for a long time at the thousand taels of silver on the table, like a fool.

Although it is indeed easy to make people stupid with a thousand taels of silver, Yan Qingyao still can't help but worry that her master will really become stupid because of this money.

"Nanyang is not also very profitable, why is the military master stunned when he looks at this silver?" Yan Qingyao pursed his lips and said, "Your son can earn you as much as twenty for a trip to the sea." ”

Chen Mu took a deep breath fiercely, reluctantly took his eyes off the silver, and shook his head extremely slowly.

"I'm not looking at money, I'm looking at power."

Chen Mu saw Feng Bao who was speechless from the silver, and saw himself, who was also the original owner of the silver.

"Why doesn't the military master kneel, if you don't kneel, the Feng Gong Guild will be unhappy, right? Everyone knelt down that day, only the military master was still standing. Yan Qingyao said in a thoughtful whisper: "It would be good if they all followed the military master, and they wouldn't be a little rude." ”

Chen Mu frowned and recalled, in fact, his mind was very chaotic at that time, everyone got up and left the table to bow down, and the movements were as consistent as how many times he had rehearsed, and he didn't take this matter to heart at all, but all he was thinking about at that time was how Feng Bao came: "If you don't want to kneel, you won't kneel." ”

It is not unacceptable to kneel to the heavens and kneel to the parents, at most in this era, to kneel to the emperor.

Kneel to others, and you will be spared.

"Not happy?" Chen Mu raised one eyebrow, with a bit of banter on his face, but he didn't say anything that didn't match his current identity, raised his hand and knocked on the table, and asked Yan Qingyao to beckon the slave to put away the silver, "Keep the silver at home, I'll leave tomorrow and go to Changping." ”

"Tomorrow, there will be a North Korean coming, named Liu Chenglong, who will send you a Luodian dressing box for the family to receive, I left a letter for him, you don't need to see him, if he has anything to say, you can leave the letter and send someone to Changping."

Yan Qingyao was extremely surprised and asked, "Leave tomorrow?" ”

"All the soldiers and horses are about to arrive in Beijing, I want to go back to Changping to train the troops, you live here for a few days for me to have a house in Beijing, and I will go to Xuanfu to live next year at the latest."

Chen Mu clenched his fists as he spoke, hooked the corners of his mouth and said to Yan Qingyao: "Your military master went north this time and made a big fortune. ”

He had a feeling that the situation was developing in the direction he had hoped.

When this reading is over, no one will be able to stand in his way for the next two years.

His military book is almost finished, but to say that he wrote a military book, I'm afraid it's not all, to be precise, Chen Mu still wrote a manual, and it is a manual that needs to be distributed separately, covering the flag army, small flag, general flag, 100 households, 1000 households, commanders, and subdivided into six categories: riding, car, artillery, earth, chariot, and music, and the drill and command manual of generals at all levels.

In addition, there are two sets of manuals for the restoration of the Wei army to the beginning of the Ming Dynasty or even beyond the beginning of the Ming Dynasty according to its geographical environment, one for production and the other for rewards and punishments. The rewards are varied, and the penalties are much less.

Chen Mu didn't plan to be a good person, if things developed as he thought, when others arrived at Xuanfu, the external resistance would be negligible, and the easiest way to deal with internal resistance would be the same - they were all first-time offenders and left all corpses.

Most of the military books in this era raise the upper limit of the general's combat ability, and Chen Mu's manual raises the lower limit from the flag army to the commander, and his manual does not teach people how to fight, because even Chen Mu himself is not to the point where he can teach people how to fight.

Although he had not yet lost a battle, his own family knew his own affairs, and he knew very little about how to plan to defeat the enemy thousands of miles away.

If all the banner armies can meet the standard of 30% according to the requirements of the manual, then the Ming Dynasty will have a reserve force that is not wasted in the Wanquan defense line that stretches for 500 miles on the northern border; If it can reach seventy percent, then the Wanquan Division can serve as the main army to deal with the north.

That is what Xu Jue said when he heard that the imperial court appointed Chen Mu as the secretary of Wanquan: This is all money.

To meet this standard, the Xuanfu has nearly 130,000 soldiers, of which the battalion soldiers recruited except for the guards can be eliminated or transferred to other places, the financial pressure of the Xuanfu has been reduced, and the Beijing division does not need to transport tens of thousands of taels of silver a year to subsidize the Xuanfu.

If it reaches 10 percent, Wanquan Dusi will be able to set up some fields, plant some land, raise some horses, and kill some people.

Then Chen Mu's expectations for the guards will be met, from the self-sufficiency of military rations, military expenses, ordnance, and military horses, to the self-sufficiency of the first rank, meritorious service, and reward.

Late at night, Chen Mu blew out the lights, and there was a letter lying calmly on the table, which was left for Liu Chenglong, hoping that he would help him find an old friend after returning to North Korea, take more care of him, teach literature and martial arts, learn more about maritime affairs, and send him to see him at a suitable time in the future.

That old man is now just a poor boy hillbilly in the middle of the road.://./14_14088/