In the following days, Chen Mu was so busy that his feet did not touch the ground, and he met with the local officials who came to see him in Baigu, and it was a blessing from heaven that he could leave his life as a defeated person, but as long as his life was saved, these people in power must be worried about what he would do next.

Chen Mu wanted to meet with the prison army Chen Ju and them one by one, and he wanted to investigate the mentality of thousands of local officials and their views on the war in Ming and Burma, no, the military and civilian propaganda of Burma to quell the chaos, and his thoughts in the future.

It doesn't matter if you still preach three times and comfort six times, or change the land and return to the stream.

Chen Mu is collecting his own investigation report on this land.

This has nothing to do with the war report, the war report of the supervising army was sent to Beijing with Mang Yinglong as the end of the war, but this will involve the strategic change of the imperial court to Sanxuan and Liufu and even Yunnan.

It's not that Chen Mu sees himself as having a great influence on the government, nor how difficult it is for him to do this, all this is not difficult, but no one in the whole of Yunnan is willing to do it, because no one attaches as much importance to local officials as he does, and no one has a deep understanding of Sanxuan and Six Consolations and Annan like him, the important thing is this heart.

When his analysis is sent to the DPRK and China, this is a solitary evidence, and it is obvious that there is a great victory in the southwest, and everyone in the DPRK and China who can have anything to do with this matter wants to get a piece of the pie, and the easiest way is to play a handbook in the post-war arrangement, so as to get their own credit.

But no one can say more than this manuscript from the Nanyang Military Government.

The geometry of minerals, mu, and jade in the Indochina Peninsula is not known to them, but Chen Mu knows.

He was busy, and the banner army was not idle, running back and forth to survey and map maps, patrolling various places in various places, and the Chen soldiers who were shocked by the soldiers on the Siam and Arakan borders, and the rest of the people were busy inviting out the pickled ears, and each department distributed the proportion of war merits in advance according to the battle merits and war reports.

It can't be counted by number, according to the stinginess of the officials of the six meritorious officials, a thousand ears are so fine that they can check five hundred, which is already a great grace.

Now these misers are coming, which is related to the wealth of the banner army, and they must not be sloppy.

But that was the idea of the flag army, Chen Mu didn't think so.

"In the past, the military exploits of the Nanyang Military Government raised and calculated by itself, and the imperial court did not ask about it, only the war report was transmitted back to Beijing, and the household department did not allocate silver salary to the military department."

The Chinese military tent was set up in the palace of Baigu Wang, the court officials were coming, and Chen Mu also had to care about his own actions, he sat in the tent and rubbed his short beard, and said with Deng Zilong and others: "Zhang Ge Lao, what do you mean this time?" ”

Listening to Shao Tingda said with a smile: "The court wants to pay us!" This kind of wishful thinking can still be approved by many generals, Chen Mu is very discouraged - he has never missed the old madman Xu Wei and the mechanics unit Zhao Shizhen so much.

"Why, Brother Mu doesn't think so?"

Shao Tingda's smiling face slowly choked, and his elbow gently touched Shi Qi, who was not speaking, and said, "Storyteller, what does this mean?" ”

Shi Qi glanced at Shao Tingda angrily, and said: "Our good days are over, the six ministries want to take the power of the Nanyang Military Mansion, and this is just the beginning...... But the handsome man's good days are coming. ”

Shi Qi said what Chen Mu thought in the first half of the sentence, since the imperial court sent a meritorious officer to preach three and six condolences, and calculate the Nanyang Army's military exploits, Chen Mu had this feeling in his heart, and he said to Shi Qi: "Talk about it, talk about the good and the bad." ”

"Second master, this isn't a military discussion, right? Okay, then I'll just guess. The subordinates feel that the imperial court will send people to remember the merits, and will not reward the Nanyang Banner Army according to their merits, and the rewards and pensions of the second marshal's subordinates in the north are less than 200,000 taels, and our Nanyang pensions are less, but there are also a lot of military merits, and the first-level merits are not as good as them, but the first merits, miraculous merits, siege merits, and field merits, the reward is not less than that in the north, and it may be more. ”

"Don't say that it is the imperial court that gives us a reward, the imperial court does not let the Nanyang Military Government put out the reward of the second marshal in the north together, it is good, and it is estimated that the Nanyang Military Government will not be able to run away from the silver reward of the second marshal in the north, it is nothing more than another way of speaking, or it is dug out from the Beijing transportation of Nanyang this year."

"It's not for salary, it must be the weight of the Nanyang Military Government, and the imperial court wants to divide power, but this is overseas, and it is quite unwise to divide power when the sun is in the sky. I dared to guess that the imperial court did not just want to seize the power of the second master. ”

Chen Mu is the second in line, Bai Yuanjie called him Chen Erlang in his early years, the generals of the Nanyang Department are all old departments, and they are used to being called blindly in private, Chen Mu doesn't care, nodding noncommittally: "You go on." ”

Shi Qi was encouraged, nodded and said: "That is the worst result above, the court is suspicious, come and divide the power of the commander; If you want to say a good thing, don't you think that the handsome man has not been promoted for too long? Like Yu Shuai, no matter how demoted he is, his official rank will go up, right? ”

Deng Zilong said with a smile: "Go up, you can rise early, don't care if you are in the open sea or in the middle of the court, the cabinet always knows Chen Shuai's talents, where can you rise?" ”

"If you want to say that you are the governor of a province, or change the military government to be the governor, I, Deng Zilong, put my head here, if I want to say that Chen Shuai has no talent to do this, Deng Mou will change his head to this!"

Deng Zilong patted the agarwood table and said.

Then the conversation changed: "But do you really want to be the governor of a province?" ”

"That's not something that can be done just by having talent, those old officials talk and do things, can the handsome understand? Can an order be like the mission of the Nanyang Military Government? General Deng clapped his hands and said: "It will take less than a month to take office, and Bao Zhun is so angry that he asked Juniper to blow up the mansions of his subordinate officials with a gunpowder cartridge, and if he can't make it, he will directly release divine arrows towards the yamen!" ”

Chen Mu felt that Deng Zilong was to the point, and Zhang Juzheng should know better than Deng Zilong, let him do things, and he couldn't be hindered.

So what does that mean now?

Shi Qi snickered when he heard Deng Zilong's words, smiled and saw Chen Mu's eyes looking at him again, and hurriedly continued: "Therefore, the subordinates guessed, just guessed - Minister Nanyang, except for Chen Shuai, no one else can do it well, even if Gao Gong comes to do it, it will not work, because Gao Gong will not lead troops to fight, only Chen Shuai can do it." ”

"But Chen Shuai can't always be the minister of the South Seas, even if there is Xinming Island in the past, it can still be regarded as the South Seas, but now the west is out of Malacca, and the east is about to organize a fleet to go to Mexico, can this still be considered the South Seas? How big is the South Sea, and he directly changed his name to the Minister of the Sea! ”

"If Chen Shuai is promoted to the side, where will the Nanyang Military Government go, and the Minister of Nanyang will still have the right to tilt the country?" Shi Qi shook his head, and the words were conclusive a moment ago, seeing that everyone didn't speak, his heart was numb again, and said: "I just guess, the imperial court can't just divide power because of suspicion, then there were so many suspicions in the past, Your Majesty and the elder of the pavilion are not extremely trusting of Chen Shuai, it can't be suspicion." ”

"I'm just guessing, don't take it seriously!"

Shi Qi said this, followed by Na Tou and bowed, and said, "Chen Shuai, don't care where you go, you must pull me!" ”