Chapter 66: Chen Zhai

Zhang Juzheng wrote in detail in his letter that as far as he knew about the military affairs of the Xuanfu and the help that the imperial court could give, just like the letter he wrote to the general soldiers of the nine border towns, the words were respectful, and he did not look down on Chen Mu because of his youth.

This kind of trick was also used by Chen Muzhi in the past, when his status was higher than others, as long as he could treat him fairly or even a little closely, it would make people have extraordinary respect for him.

But the difference is that Zhang Juzheng is more sophisticated, and his words are humble and affectionate, which makes people feel like a spring breeze, but what is the feeling of reading it in the end?

It's that he's a very difficult person to get along with.

In Chen Mu's mind, this is the feeling he deliberately created in his letters.

The most interesting thing in this letter is that Zhang Juzheng asked him about Nanyangwei, about his warships, about his coastal defense, and about the income of overseas countries.

He asked the right person, Yu Long, Qihu and Tan Gancheng know at most two of these three things, and they are not as detailed as him in terms of shipbuilding, artillery and coastal defense, and this third thing, no one in the world understands more than him!

On the fifth day after Zhang Juzheng's letter, Chen Mu sent riders to get on horses outside Xuanfu City, carefully packed personal letters and galloped eastward, and took the urgent report to order Qitong to go to the residence of the cabinet ministers in Beijing to deliver the letter.

In the past five days, Chen Mu and the Dong brothers also exchanged views on the Changping Jingxiao version of the Flag Army Drill Manual, slightly modified, and printed more than 10,000 copies from the Xuanfu, the most of which was the small flag book, and the command envoy book only printed 100 copies.

In Xuanfu, there are more than a dozen guards and hundreds of commanders, and it is difficult to say whether the redundancy is serious or the attrition is serious. After all, the nine-sided command envoy is a high-risk industry, and it may die this year and next year, and someone will have to take over.

At the same time as the Xuanfu tried to get on the right track in Chen Mu's heart, in the distant Guangdong, the commander of the Nanyang Wei Dynasty worriedly sent someone to get on the horse with the letters he carried with him and went to Changping. He felt the atmosphere of the mountain rain coming, although he didn't know who it was, but Nanyangwei had a big problem in the past two days.

Those who brought the wind and dust of the south and the north were qualified to board the ship in Haojing through various means, they were old and young from all walks of life, businessmen, doctors, craftsmen and soldiers, noble sons with folding fans and green shirts, and refugees in ragged clothes, and even widows who covered their hair buns, all arrived in Haojing at this time.

Their destinations are also diverse, including Malacca, Manchuka, Johor, Perak, Old Harbour, and of course, some choose to stay in Ho Kyo.

The sudden occurrence of this kind of thing made Bai Yuanjie feel uneasy, and he even wondered if Chen Mu was captured in the north, which caused the sudden subtle changes in Haojing - this is not nonsense, Chen Mu is very bold, and Bai Yuanjie has always known it.

The most important thing is the order from Yu Dayou, the governor of the right capital, so that Nanyangwei can let the changes in the current Hao Jing be left to the table and not interfere arbitrarily.

Bai Yuanjie's heart was finally put down, although he didn't know what was going on, but at least it didn't seem to be coming at Chen Mu or them.

Seeing the rider drifting away, Bai Yuanjie waved his hand with some annoyance, and ordered to the left and right: "Tell Fu Qianhu to let go of the dozen or so fools caught in the guard, don't let them go directly." ”

"Beat it up first and then try it, don't care if you can judge a fart or not, you have to let it go."

The acting commander made Lao Bai's eyes full of wisdom, and said faintly: "This may be the only chance in your life to beat them, don't miss it." ”

The left and right flag officers didn't understand what the commander meant, and Bai Yuanjie didn't say much, but later when he summoned the five principal and deputy thousand households, he specially reminded them not to make mistakes.

In the next few days and nights, Bai Yuanjie often sat in the house belonging to Chen Mu in Weigang, lit the lamp, and looked at the sea chart hung on the wall, whether it was pirates, maritime merchants, or the sea charts brought back by He Xingsheng, he felt that Chen Mu would like the furnishings of this house.

Weigang has Bai Yuanjie's home, Bai's house is separated by a wall, and this is the middle of Weigang, this is not quite like a mansion of a high-ranking official in the Ming Dynasty, it is more like a mansion and the headquarters are in harmony, he knows that Chen Mu does not need a house, in Xiangshan, this guy only slept in a thousand houses, and ate and drank Lazar outside the thousand households yamen.

In the middle floor of the main hall of the spacious courtyard, a sand table with a depth of three zhang square and one foot deep is dug out, and there are 26 seats on both sides, all of which are carefully selected good materials and good woodworking materials.

There must be soldiers, although there is no porcelain frame, but there are two sets of weapon racks, the left Chen Ming war sword, the long sword, the Western stabbing sword; Right Chen arquebus gun, bowstring bird gun, flint bird gun, bayonet heavy gun.

The wall behind the main seat of the hall is generally used to put the portraits of literati or ancestors, Bai Yuanjie thought about it and didn't think that Chen Mu had any ancestors who could hang on the wall, so he simply found a painter to follow the various wood carvings of the Tuen Mun Ancestral Hall to recreate and paint a picture of General Chen hanging on it, the painting was too powerful and a little distorted, Lao Bai was embarrassed to look at it, and simply asked people to get the sea chart to roll it on the beam.

I usually block it with nautical charts.

By the way, in order to take care of Chen Mu's vanity, Bai Yuanjie also made a big bookshelf and smashed the books that no one read at home, which was considered to be given to Chen Mu.

In this house, Bai Yuanjie only spent two taels to transfer the title deed from Guangzhou Mansion to Chen Mu's name, but the furniture at home cost more than three thousand taels. But it doesn't matter, none of this money has been spent on their own.

Take it out of Chen Mu's treasury to do Chen Mu's business, and his brother still has to settle accounts, right?

He just wondered that Chen Mu should come back, and when he came back, he had to have a place to welcome his wife into the door.

At night, the lights of Weigang Chen's house were on, Bai Yuanjie sat in the main hall slowly and rhythmically patting the handcuffs on the table, he took another sip of wine, his resolute face showed a confused look, and looked at the chart.

"Malacca, Manchuka, Johor, Perak, Old Harbour...... Involving Jinyiwei, what do you want to do? ”

Bai Yuanjie muttered these place names in a low voice, although the titles are different, but in Bai Yuanjie's opinion, it is actually a place, that is, the place in the southwest corner of the map, some of these place names are new and old, some are adjacent, in short, it is that place.

Was he looking at the chart, or at the mighty and distorted portrait behind the chart?

Nobody knows.

But Bai Yuanjie knew that those sneaky people were Jinyiwei, not only did he know this, but he also knew that Jinyiwei's trip to Malacca must have something to do with Chen Mu.

Chen Mu is deliberately guiding something, step by step, in an orderly manner.

Defeated the Haojingyi people with guns, opened up the Malacca trade route with boats, the Nanyang Wei fishermen all drove gunboats and shark boats to fish, and the larger 500 shark ships in Weigang were also handed over to Chen Lan for use, Qi Zhengyan who lived in Japan, Li Dan who took root in Luzon to learn to grow melons, and Lin Afeng, who was in Penghu and planned to attack Luzon, and Hexingsheng, who could guide the entire Nanyang trade.

Too many people were involved in the south, under the guidance of Chen Mu.

This time, hundreds of brocade guards have infiltrated the mirror and traveled to Malacca, and it is foreseeable that these spies will rely on their talents to appear all over Malacca.

What will be the next time, Feng Bao to the West?

Bai Yuanjie didn't know.

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