Wu Dui didn't bring his entourage, rode an old horse borrowed by Qi Jiguang and ran to Xuanfu to take office. The first thing he did was to tease Chen Mu, and by the way, he checked the post of the Xuanfu Ordnance Bureau.

Fortunately, Guan Zunban's experience in managing the Ordnance Bureau is very sufficient, and it gives Chen Mu a long face, regardless of the strictness of production standards or the progress of productivity, it is far beyond Wang Gongchang and other places.

"Chen Shuai's talent for military training Wu has already been taught, and Wanquan has gone many times, and there is no need to explore it with each passing day, even this Ordnance Bureau is not what Wu expected."

Sitting in the Xuanfu Zhenshuo General's Mansion, Wu Dui was not in a hurry to go to the governor's mansion to take office, but came to the door as a guest, took a sip of tea and said to Chen Mu: "The difficulty of the bird is the difficulty of drilling the barrel, and it is ten times faster than others!" ”

Chen Mu nodded, what Wu Dui said was ten times faster is not a compliment, and the preparation method of the gun pipe is already very proficient. Guan Zunban supervised the construction of more than 10,000 guns in Nanyang, even if the Xuanfu expanded the scale of production, but the system method is unchanged.

General Chen proudly raised a finger to Wu Dui and said: "The Ordnance Bureau can make 100 poles and drill 100 poles in a day, which is not the efficiency of making it with all its might, because the wooden gun bed can only be made into 100 pairs a day, and if the carpentry is enough, the Ordnance Bureau can make 200 guns a day." ”

"Let the Shenmu Factory and the Battalion Division do it, and send the gun bed shape over, and the Ordnance Bureau only needs to make the gun pipe, 200 poles a day." Wu Dui pounded the case and said: "You can replace the Xuanfu weapon in half a year!" ”

Chen Mu smacked his tongue secretly, Wu Dui's heart is really wild, a traditional official in the north, he has never seen such a reverence for birds. Wu Dui actually came up and asked for 30,000 bird guns to change the armaments of Xuanfu, Xuanfu is registered with 130,000, but the actual army is only 70,000, what is the concept of 30,000 bird guns?

It's the concept that the stockpile of gunpowder can't keep up with the consumption!

"Let's not talk about this first, looking for Chen Shuai is an important matter in Beijing, this-please also ask Chen Shuai to retire from his entourage."

Wu Dui asked Chen Mu to clear all the attendants in the hall, and then said to Chen Mu: "I have a message from the master below, and some things can't be written in the letter, so I came to pass it on in person, and someone has come back to the Jinyi Guard in Nanyang." ”

Wu Dui's seat master is not a bystander, it is the sharp second auxiliary high arch of the current dynasty.

Hearing this name, Chen Mu was shocked, not to mention that Jinyiwei had returned, which made Chen Mu struggle his eyes and asked, "So fast?" ”

Lao Bai said in the letter that Jinyiwei only went to Nanyang in the autumn of last year to go to Malacca, and now it has only been half a year, and Jinyiwei has returned. Chen Mu has already outlined the route and time of the West under the brocade in his heart.

In March, Yishang from Malacca to Haojing, in April, May and June, Fujian merchants went wide, Qiuyue Jinyiwei grabbed the tail of Yishang's return, went out to sea by boat, and then arrived in Haojing through Yishang in March this year, and went all the way to return.

If this is the case, now that the summer is almost over, the brocade guard should come back sooner than now.

He knew it was much too late.

"How?"

There is nothing more important to Chen Mu's heart than Nanyang's matter, but he asked eagerly, but Wu Dui was laughing and said, "Chen Shuai, it's not necessarily a good thing." ”

"Elder Ge asks you, in the two years that Chen Shuai served as the commander of the Nanyang Guard, he withheld the customs tariff money, which has exceeded 100,000 taels of silver in two years.

There was a showdown.

He couldn't hide this, no one could hide it, because it wasn't something that Chen Mu or Zhang Han deliberately hid back then. Even if he sent a handbook, Zhang Han would definitely approve it - in previous years, the customs tariff was more than 100,000 taels, just enough for the military expenses of Liangguang.

When Chen Mu rectified Nanyang, the imperial court's tariffs doubled in a year, and Chen Mu withheld more tariffs for Nanyangwei's needs, which no one would not allow at that time.

But now it's the problem.

However, Gao Gong chose to let Wu Dui ask himself in private, which is very revealing.

Chen Mu was very calm and said: "Build more ships and more ordnance for coastal defense." ”

Wu Dui nodded noncommittally, and then asked: "Nanyang Wei trafficked silk and silk to foreign oceans, and transported ordnance to internal guards. When Chen Shuai was the commander of Nanyangwei, the amount of such income exceeded 300,000 taels. Nanyang Wei consumes less than 30,000 taels of silver a year, 140,000 taels of silver in the Wei treasury, and the remaining more than 100,000 taels of silver, what does Chen Shuai plan to use? ”

Chen Mu was still very calm, the matter had come to this, he had nothing to worry about, and said: "Build more ships and more ordnance for the naval battle." ”

After changing the word, Wu Dui wrote down his head, changed his sitting posture and continued to ask: "The elder asked Chen Shuai, from the East to Malacca, the ship carries more than 10 million stones a year, and Fanyi lives in the meantime, so the merchants gather, if the merchant sails Malacca, how much profit will be made in a year?" ”

"Can't get by, the Portuguese don't let all the Ming ships pass through Malacca, there are only more than ten small boats that can pass, and the goods can be sold for 30 times the profit, and most of the merchant ships in Malacca are Portuguese ships." Chen Mu said helplessly: "There are merchant ships under Chen's command that can reach Malacca, and that is also to threaten them, so that there are only ten Haojing merchant ships that can reach Malacca." ”

Sitting in front of Chen Mu, who was twenty years younger than him, Wu Dui was actually very unsure about asking these questions.

In the past, the ministers of the court and the central government all thought that Chen Mu was a capable minister, and it was true, he could solve the problem in the north and south. Transferred from the south to leave a strong army in Nanyangwei, to the north to repair the Wanquan defense line, set up the Wanquan Ordnance Bureau, even with the support of the emperor, cabinet ministers, and internal officials, this is also a very powerful person can do.

People know that Chen Mu is greedy, this is obvious, there is no official in the imperial court who can speak well and does not have a few local products of Chen Shuai's hometown at home, and there must be a place for him to spend these expenses, but no one digs deeply.

This time, Jin Yiwei returned to Beijing and brought back the news, in Gao Gong's original words to Wu Dui, that is, 'this person makes the government and the opposition cold'.

The coastal defense policies mentioned how rich overseas was, and also emphasized that the Ming Dynasty navy was not enough in the ocean and needed to be strengthened; Chen Mu also did these things in the south, building new sea ships, building artillery, and making the coastal defense in the Lingding Ocean area solid.

Let the local authorities in Fujian have opinions - Chen Luan's fleet guarding Lingdingyang can overturn all the sailors in Fujian and Zhejiang.

No one in the court supports him, what is Chen Mu doing, he is preparing, Gao Gong is now the only person in the whole world who can connect what Chen Mu has done, this is not a good general and capable minister in their hearts who is well-behaved and skillful in training and preparing for the army.

Gao Gong has two big difficulties in his heart, in the past, there was only one Ma Fang who always wanted to lead troops to kick the tribe, but now there is one more Chen Mu, this guy wants to go to Nanyang.

"Gao Ge Lao also asked, the imperial court will not agree to go to Nanyang again to work the people and lose money - what should the Ge Lao do?"

This time it was Chen Mu's turn to glare, Gao Gong, this, what does this mean, what should I do if I call the elder pavilion?

"Brother Wu, I don't understand this sentence Chen."

Wu Dui nodded, repeated to Chen Mu, and asked, "If Elder Ge wants Chen Shuai to go to the South Seas, what should Elder Ge do?" ”