If Almansa was sober, he would definitely not make such a request to Chen Mu.

He had just learned an idiom in Changsheng, which was called seeking skin with a tiger.

However, Chen Mu agreed quite sincerely.

He was indeed sincere.

People's decisions are often related to their position, Chen Mu's identity determines his position, and decision-making should be considered in terms of the pros and cons of the Ming Dynasty or China's future.

If it is necessary to go to war, he will take his ancestors to fight until he is old, and it is useless to have any treaties and constraints, not because Chen Mu has no spirit of contract, but because his view of contract is different from ordinary people.

"Only the weak will regard the treaty as a constraint on the strong, and the strong will use false constraints to provide the weak with a false sense of security, in order to achieve what they want, that is, the contract between countries, human beings have always been barbaric and have never changed."

Zou Yuanbiao, who had lost weight, looked a lot better, but he still didn't like Chen Mu so much, the magistrate pouted and whispered to Zhao Shizhen: "The virtue of the handsome is not good!" ”

Chen Mu's wine woke up, Almansa was already on the road, everyone was talking about Almansa's 'script', since it was small talk, not to mention Zou Yuanbiao, it was normal to be open-mouthed.

"Say it out loud!"

Chen Mu glanced at Zou Slender angrily, reached out and said: "Virtue, virtue is very important, justice is also very important, and the inner satisfaction brought by noble personality is even more important, but in the face of war, you have to take a step back." ”

As he spoke, Chen Mu raised his eyebrows, looked at Zou Yuanbiao and asked, "Who is the justice in this war between Ming and Xi?" ”

Yang Tingxiang wanted to speak and stopped, so he heard Zou Yuanbiao say: "It's me!" The Westerners do not love the people according to this place, and they are so violent that the people's grievances are boiling, and only under the anger of the heavens and the resentment of the people can our heavenly army cross eastward and uphold justice! ”

Zou Yuanbiao's words were impassioned, and Chen Mu almost felt that it was true, but he still shook his head and said, "It's just a matter of fooling the enemy in this article, do you really think so?" ”

"If it's not in my ......" Zou Yuanbiao's face was ugly, "Could it be that he is still a Westerner?" ”

Chen Mu pursed his lips and said: "I am from the Ming Dynasty, and in my opinion, justice is naturally in the Ming Dynasty; Bernal was a Spaniard, and justice naturally resided in Spain in his opinion; But everyone has forgotten that we are all outsiders, and the justice of this war should be in the hands of the natives, so why do we step on other people's land, but we don't seem to feel their existence? ”

Chen Mu thought he was logical, so he paused and waited for the effect of shocking the four seats, but he saw that Zou Yuan's face seemed to be normal, and he blinked as if he was still waiting for Chen Mu to say the following, and when he saw that it was gone, he said without even thinking about it: "Yes, justice is in the people, the people are in the Heavenly Empire, justice is still in me!" ”

This time it was Chen Mu's turn to be stunned, the key to the problem was what Zou Yuanbiao said...... Seems to make a lot of sense.

Suddenly, he came to his senses that he had entered the strengths of Zou Yuanbiao's bickering, so he simply skipped the topic and said to the conclusion: "In the final analysis, it depends on whether the fist is big or not, it has nothing to do with virtue, and only with a strong Arhat arm can you deserve to have the compassionate heart of a bodhisattva." ”

"I said before I went to sea that our cause may not be just, and this will be left to future generations to comment, but I know that even if future generations say that we are full of evil, they will secretly thank us in their hearts."

"Morality is not important, it is enough to be able to keep the foundation of being a man from morality and greed, and draw a bottom line."

Chen Mu's hypocrisy affects every move, and he knows that in the world where the Ming Dynasty did not go to sea again, what happened to the countries that colonized the world by the unjust war in this era.

It was disappointing that the retribution had not yet arrived, and for hundreds of years, they were doing well.

When you are strong, you are stronger than anyone else, even if it declines, self-preservation is still not a problem, the people live very comfortably, you can climb the technology tree if you have money, and if you don't have enough smart people, hire your smart people to climb in the past, step by step.

Even if you don't have any money, you can still play some art, after all, this thing has a small investment.

Human beings have always been barbaric, and if this creature becomes civilized, it is not that he is really civilized, but that civilization is more beneficial to him, and once the environment is unfavorable, civilized people will soon remove their coats and reveal their barbaric nature.

But Chen Mu didn't intend to get involved in their evil deeds.

Zou Yuanbiao looked at Chen Mu suspiciously, and said, "Then the marshal really doesn't plan to send troops when the Western Kingdom threatens us?" Covering your head like this, it will damage the national prestige! ”

It hurts the national prestige of a fart.

"Don't fight, it has nothing to do with whether you promise them or not, who dares to be a mine supervisor when the Spaniards are gone? Are you going? ”

This is Chen Mu's bottom line between morality and greed, he doesn't want people to mine, but someone has to dig it, either you dig or he digs or I dig it, I don't want to dig, and I don't want to force you to endure hardships and accept digging, there are few others and not enough.

Let him force you to dig, I don't hurt you, I hurt him.

Chen Mu's logic was simple and rude, which could only reduce the guilt in his heart, but he shook his head very firmly: "When the time comes, if he wants to make trouble, he will threaten, who of us doesn't know that Da Ming doesn't eat this set, that's what he said to the Spaniards, just let them play by themselves." ”

"When the time comes, Chen Bing will be at the border, scare him to death!"

Chen Mu said jokingly, and then waved his hand and said: "Okay, then we will relax the situation for a while, and the West Country will keep an eye on Portugal, but we have a lot of work on us, so let's do our best." ”

"First of all, the ports of the five counties have been repaired, and shipyards must be added, Changsheng will add three, Jincheng two, Youjing and Jiexian each one, the two of them can repair warships, build small ships under 400 materials, Changsheng and Jincheng must be able to build big ships."

As soon as Chen Mu spoke, everyone entered the working state, this feeling was actually quite annoying, Zhao Shizhen still had a smirk on his face that ridiculed Zou Yuanbiao, and suddenly instinctively took out a small notebook to record it, wrote two lines before reacting, and hurriedly put away the smile on his face.

"The second is the Ordnance Bureau, Jincheng should be in a place where there is a river, a casting armor workshop, a gun-making workshop and a cannon casting workshop, there is nitrate in Jincheng that is busy boiling nitrate, there is sulfur in the south of Mexico City, and soon there will be a gunpowder workshop."

Zou Yuanbiao bowed his hand, looked very tired, and said: "The armor, the cannon, and the gunpowder are all there, and the handsome - iron?" ”

There are so few iron mines here, let alone three iron-consuming workshops running, and even the blacksmiths are not enough to make some farm tools, and the immigrants will not be enough.

"The imperial court has shipped some, you can use those first, and then let the Westerners send them, and there are ships, as long as the Western Kingdom can afford the price, I can sell them all the guns and warships."

Not to mention Zou Yuanbiao at this moment, even Yang Tingxiang's eyes changed, and he hurriedly said: "You can't be handsome, guns can still be sold, but this warship is a weapon of the country, and it can't be sold, if it buys it and comes to fight me, what if it comes to fight me?" ”

Chen Mu smiled: "If you sell a ship, it must be at the right price, and the money you earn can build three or five more, the more you sell, the more warships we can build, and we can train more skilled shipbuilders, if their shipbuilding industry can't compete with us, it will decline, and over time it won't build good ships." ”