Chen Mu didn't really understand what it meant to have low eyebrows and pleasing eyes in the past, he understood the meaning of this word, but it had never been very real.

But this time on the way back to Beiyang from the capital, he understood.

When he entered Beijing, he took two Wu Ben with him, and followed Chen Ju all the way to Beijing, and when he went back, he still followed two Wu Ben, but there were fifteen more people.

Four Hanlin and one criminal department observe government affairs, five people have to make meritorious contributions, accompany five soldiers from the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses, and five brocade clothes to escort them, and they have to be escorted all the way to the Beiyang Military Mansion to complete the matter.

This low-eyebrow pleasing to the eye is talking about the ten escorted brocade clothes and soldiers, not about these five 'prisoners' who have made meritorious contributions.

They are dancing with their teeth and claws, escorting the soldiers along the way, saying good things, good wine and good food, especially Zou Yuanbiao, walking and watching Jing'er come to the interest, and also painting a picture on the boat, and when he rested, he sent someone to send the painting to Chen Mu - Chen Mu is angry and funny, what do you think of this as a spring outing?

On the contrary, the soldiers respect these five gentlemen very much, at least compared to Chen Mu - just because of the words of the DPRK and China, Chen Mu played a full villain in this turmoil.

ignorant of human feelings, ignorance of etiquette, and contempt for the will of heaven, if it weren't for his high power, maybe the people would still think that he was flattering and powerful.

Regardless of whether they were noisy or quiet along the way, Chen Mu didn't pay much attention to these five people, and even went by separate boats, and only eighteen people took two boats and traveled on the same road, all the way to Tianjin.

"Dashuai is back, it's been two days, and the students can be told to wait."

It was Zhao Shizhen who took a boat to Tianjin Weilai to wait, took a red lacquer dhow Dafu, intercepted Chen Mu's two small boats in the port, and took people on the boat, seeing that Chen Mu was puzzled, he explained to Chen Mu while walking: "This ship was transferred from Shandong Dusi, and in the past, it ran through Caoyun and also ran through the sea along the coast, and sent twenty-three ships in the same batch, of different sizes, fourteen sea ships, and the other six were sent to the shipyard to spend a few months to transform, and the remaining three were one of them, and the remaining two were too small and not suitable, and the military government returned." ”

"It's just right to stay, in the future, I will run the transportation from Dagu to Tianjin Wei, and the six ships will be transformed into a month, and the time for a month will be enough to build six new Dafu."

Chen Mu said a little dissatisfied, he had already entered the state of giving orders, and said: "The fourteen sea ships and the sea ships sent from Nanzhi and Fujian in the future will all be allocated to Yang Fan's merchant fleet to make a trip to North Korea to transport goods, and there is no problem to be incorporated into the military government's grain and horse fleet." ”

"It's about the same time, but it can save money on labor! The new construction of six twin masts and 400 material Dafu, is 14,922 workers, the wage is 4472 26 yuan silver, Guangdong, Nanyang ready-made baked ship, canvas are transported to the Beiyang warehouse, the cost is also about 400 taels, if only the transformation, six full of 140 taels is enough. ”

At present, the Beiyang Shipyard has more than 1,000 hired craftsmen and laborers, and the shipyard has only six thousand-material warships, and the labor is far from saturated.

However, from the perspective of cost, it is indeed cost-effective to transform the requisition ship.

As the two were talking, Zhao Shizhen saw the first few jinshi behind Chen Mu, and really let him see a fellow countryman Shen Sixiao, and said happily: "Jishan!" How did you get on the boat with Dashuai? ”

Shen Sixiao and Zhao Shizhen are not only fellow villagers, but also wanted to recruit him as a subordinate official when he was in the Jinshi, but he was resigned by Shen Sixiao, so Mu Zongshi was transferred to Panyu in Guangdong to be the county commander, and later entered the Criminal Department to do the main work, in fact, he was very close to most of the officials of the Nanyang faction.

To say that the five people have their own experience, it can also be divided into three groups, Shang Song Shu is Wu Zhongxing, Zhao Yongxian, the two little fat men first, the most courageous, there is a jealous and hateful spirit, they are all Zhang Juzheng's students, especially Wu Zhongxing also took the deputy cover to Zhang Juzheng to let him see, and told the teacher in person: I sued you, and the students objected to your being robbed.

Followed by Ai Mu and Shen Sixiao, they are Zhang Juzheng's fellow villagers, they were very angry when they heard about the seizure, and after the total, they went to the concert together, and after Wu and Zhao, they were carefully considered.

I won't talk about the last Zou Yuanbiao.

This Shen Sixiao had already seen Zhao Shizhen, but he was embarrassed to say hello, not because of his guilt, but mainly because someone specially conveyed Chen Mu's words in the court to them intact.

He arched his hand listlessly towards Zhao Shizhen without saying much.

Except for Zou Yuanbiao, who was contemplating painting and drinking, the remaining four people were all in deep self-doubt.

The ordinary people in the opposition only know that Chen Mu is a big villain, he said that the five gentlemen are guilty, but these parties know more ins and outs, for example, is Chen Mu right? Although his words are not respectful to the law, the truth is correct.

But Chen Mu is right, does it mean that he is wrong? They don't feel like they're wrong, so who is wrong?

Therefore, even if they are all in the same boat now, Shen Sixiao can't raise the spirit of greeting.

It was Zou Yuanbiao, who looked like a swaggering person from the moment he was escorted to the boat, and patted Shen Sixiao and the others again, and said with a smile: "Don't be so listless." ”

cheered up a few people, and then stepped forward and stood in front of Zhao Shizhen and arched his hand: "In Xia Zou Yuanbiao, born as a Jinshi, he observed the government affairs of Qiyue in the Criminal Department, and he is going to go to America to take up his post, and my colleagues in the future will be polite!" ”

Chen Mu didn't know where Zou Yuanbiao's energetic spirit came from, pouted, and introduced angrily: "Zhao Changji, a staff member of the Beiyang Military Government, masters several foreign languages, is proficient in calligraphy, translation and weapon making, and looks at Beiyang and Nanyang, and his official writing can rank third. ”

"Oh, I've heard your name! The sound of calligraphy is in the world, and you have studied in Taixue! Zou Yuanbiao not only knew this, but also knew that a pair of poetry fans mentioned by Zhao Shizhen could be sold for hundreds of taels of silver, but he didn't know if people liked it or not, so he simply didn't say it, and said: "I didn't hear about it later, it turned out that I entered the shogunate!" ”

The fellow villager who greeted him didn't pay attention to himself, and suddenly popped out a self-acquaintance, which made Secretary Zhao a little confused, smiled embarrassedly and said hello, frowned at Chen Mu and asked, "Handsome, this is ......"

"The five gentlemen who impeached the old man of the pavilion were originally going to be beaten to death by the emperor, and there were sixty court rods, I think it would be a pity for the young man to say a few words in exchange for a severe beating and then ruin his career." Chen Mu spread his hands, and he did not shy away from speaking, and said: "Pack them up and bring them to Beiyang, the officials have already given official positions, and when the fleet goes to sea, put them in North Asia to be the magistrate." ”

"Because of these five fools, the old man Zhang of the Ministry of Officials said that I don't know how to be an ordinary person, and my words are biased and rude to the court, and I have two first-class official positions for two years, nearly 6,000 stones." Chen Mu clapped his hands and said, "It's confiscated, this voyage to the east is really compulsory labor." ”