"Your Excellency is General Chen? What a young and promising! The day before yesterday, when I saw the general's greetings, the master specially instructed you to take you directly to the study when you came, and you didn't have to wait outside. ”

In front of him, the middle-aged man in the university mansion was slightly rickety, neat and tidy, physically strong, and his expression was humble and polite, even with a little flattery, but it was only to flatter, without the slightest flattery.

If the place is changed, Chen Mu will only feel that this is the housekeeper of the dignitary's family, except for the slight reserve that an ordinary housekeeper should not have, there is nothing surprising. Who would have thought that such a general-looking person with no slight official position, out of this mansion, is the same as the commander of the brocade clothes to talk and laugh, and the officials everywhere are brothers, and the role of China and foreign countries?

The housekeeper is also different from the housekeeper, because he is Zhang Juzheng's housekeeper, You Qi.

"You must be Brother You, Brother Xu, the commander of Jinyi, mentioned it to Chen, saying that Brother You often brings up his juniors and is a loyal elder who is famous in Beijing. When they met for the first time, Chen didn't bring anything that he could take out, and his family's local property was also clean. It just so happened that some time ago, I made a few small paintings and gave you a copy. ”

Chen Mu nodded and smiled, saluted slightly, asked where the study was, glanced at Long Junxiong beside him, and walked towards the study.

Long Junxiong followed the salute, took out a few inches of drawing paper, there were both cinnabar and blue indigo ink stains on it, the small paper painting abstract Bai Ze lion, the books on both sides twisted small characters, the left has Linjiang Xian, the right has Nian Nujiao, scribbling and graffiti, among which a large blank space is written on two or two big characters - Chen Mu, and stamped with the seal of General Zhenshuo.

You Qi looked at it carefully, and he felt that Chen Mu was playing tricks on him.

What is this ghost drawing charm doing for himself? It's better to keep it and fold it up to pad the table legs!

And those two big characters in it are really not good-looking!

You Qi held the paper painting in his hand, and looked up blankly at Long Junxiong who was waiting in front of the mansion, as if he noticed You Qi's gaze, Long Junxiong looked up at the sky like nothing to watch the clouds roll up.

The chief butler read both poems on the ghost drawing, only to find that there was a line of smaller words sandwiched between the poems: 'The person who holds this painting will exchange a thousand taels of silver in the Jingshi Hexing Sheng Hall. ’

You Qi put the painting paper into his sleeve with satisfaction, and he didn't even fold it, and the martial artist who looked at Wangyun looked at him with a little appreciation, and stepped forward to talk to him.

Fuchu study.

Chen Mu didn't wait too long in the study, and saw Zhang Juzheng slowly entering the room wearing a thin robe as if he had just woken up, Chen Mu hurriedly got up and saluted.

Zhang Juzheng sat down on the main seat and said: "Chen Shuai is busy with affairs in the Xuan Mansion, and it must be important for him to come in person, so there is no need to be polite, please speak up." ”

"It doesn't matter if the last general comes, but there are a few things I want to ask the elder to know." Chen Mu said and took out the notebooks on both sides from his sleeve, handed them to Zhang Juzheng, and said: "First, because the senior cabinet elder orders the ministers to come out every year to look at the past and the present, the performance method written is brought to the cabinet elder to read. ”

"Oh?"

Zhang Juzheng took the notebook, flipped through it, and looked at it, his face was silent, but he couldn't help but nod lightly one after another, and said while looking at it: "This notebook, does the elder Gao Ge think it's inappropriate?" ”

"The last general didn't show it to the elder of the high pavilion."

When Zhang Juzheng heard this, he suddenly raised his head and asked, "Why?" ”

"The method of the senior ministers of the high cabinet is extremely wise, and the elder of the cabinet is also very proud, so he thinks that it is not appropriate to offer another method at this time."

Zhang Juzheng looked at Chen Mu and smiled, didn't say much about it, continued to look down at the back of the handbook and said: "There is a handbook under the paperweight on the corner of the table, open it and take a look, it is the test method that the servant has prepared for a long time, and it has been modified several times to have the prototype now, Chen Shuai took a look and told the servant that the test method and the performance method are better or worse." ”

Exam Method?

Zhang Juzheng's reform is the most well-known is a whip method, but its greatest achievement is the examination method with excellent results in rectifying the governance of officials, Chen Mu heard that he hurriedly opened his handbook and looked at it, for a while the two of them only had the sound of looking at the handbook in the study, looking at each other's results, and the needle drop could be heard.

The examination method is a set of interlocking regulations to improve the efficiency of officials and supervise each other, compared with Chen Mu's performance, which focuses on improving efficiency, and the law of survival of the fittest with hard indicators of merit within officials, but limited by Chen Mu's identity, there is not much supervision mechanism.

It's not that there isn't, but Chen Mu doesn't write.

After a while, Zhang Juzheng raised his head and said to Chen Mu: "After reading it, Chen Shuai thinks that there are two methods, which one is better?" ”

"Passing the test!"

Chen Mu was categorical and said: "The six departments of the law inspector and mutual restraint are much more comprehensive than what I thought about below. ”

"Don't be presumptuous, Chen Shuai's performance method is also very good, this is summed up in the training, and there are references. In the future, if the test method is implemented, it will be called the test performance method, Chen Shuai, I am afraid that the servant will learn a lot from your performance method. ”

Chen Mu smiled indifferently, this was his purpose, and hurriedly said: "As long as the court can use it, it will not be written in vain." ”

"Where's this?" With the foreshadowing of the first manuscript, Zhang Juzheng is more interested in the second manuscript, "What is this method?" ”

"That's a private letter under the law, which writes the results of the work report of the Martial Arts Hall, the Ordnance Bureau, and the Wanquan Defense Line, as well as the idea of wanting to put the balance of 160,000 coal and silver a year into the household department of the imperial court, and the right to be a coal tax, because the deposit of the Wanquan Division is enough for the capital to support itself until it is self-sufficient, and it is useless for the general to hold this money."

Zhang Juzheng looked up at Chen Mu, opened his handbook and shook his head while reading: "An honest general, I have seen a lot of servants, but someone like Chen Shuai who makes money for the imperial court ...... Is it a lonely servant, you don't ship a ship and go to sea? ”

Chen Muleng paused for a moment, couldn't react for a moment and smiled, and then replied: "Back to the pavilion elder, now that the imperial court is building, the last general doesn't have to bother." ”

It seems that Gao Gong has already passed the anger with Zhang Juzheng on his own affairs, and listening to the tone of Zhang Juzheng's words, he doesn't seem to be disgusted with what he said about the Southern Expedition.

Zhang Juzheng took a cursory look, closed the notebook, and said: "Chen Shuai has worked hard to serve in the ministry, and you have worked hard, you general has more things to worry about than Li Gelao!" ”

Li Ge Lao said Li Chunfang, Chen Mu understood half of this, he did more things than Li Chunfang, after all, Li Chunfang's strength is in writing green words.

"Successive ministers?"

Zhang Juzheng smiled and said: "Establish a provincial ordnance bureau, this is the matter of the Ministry of Industry; Opening a martial arts hall is the responsibility of the secretary of the military department. ”

"Two handbooks, one is about the affairs of the Ministry of Officials, and this one calls the military surplus and craftsmen handicraftsmen, advocates the construction of factories, and proposes that the imperial court draw more than 10% of the commercial tax on merchants and encourage business, which does not seem to advocate agriculture-oriented, which is more thoughtful than the Ministry of Household Books."

"Some time ago, I also talked to Governor Wu Dui about restraining foreign vassal states and leading the fleet south to collect back tributary states, which can barely be regarded as a book of the Ministry of Rites."

"Chen Zhenshuo, do you still want to have a big hot trial and do more things about the six departments?"