People see the whole picture of war differently depending on the angle they are in.

The war that Lin Manjue saw was different from Chen Lan, and the war that Chen Lan saw with his own eyes was also different from Chen Mu.

"Why don't you tear it down and rebuild?"

The Chihai ship docked in Manila Bay, and Gao Gong first asked this sentence when he saw the castle hanging the plaque of the Yamen of the Nanyang Military Palace.

Along the way, although Chen Mu felt that Old Man Gao tried his best to listen more and talk less, but the intuitive feeling of the donkey race was that the person who was on the same boat with him was definitely not the governor of the Nanyang Military Government, even if it was not the first assistant Gao Xinzheng, it was also Gao Ge Lao.

Although it is really embarrassing to go to Guangdong with high arches.

On the sea road, Chen Mu was so angry that the roots of his teeth itched when he heard about it.

Let's not talk about Minister Wang's case, Zhang Juzheng has no personal grudges with Gao Gong, but others have too many personal grudges with Gao Gong.

Since the Empress Dowager ordered the expulsion of Gao Gong, the old man left Beijing in an ox cart that day, and Feng Bao also sent people to follow behind, and robbed two plates of silver to wrap the road fee, in order to let him go as miserable as possible.

Feng Bao and Gao Gong have a big enmity, and no one in Shuntianfu doesn't know about it.

Since ancient times, ministers have gone to the country, and there has not been such a miserable thing.

followed the people to Xinzheng, and before he entered the house, an edict came, ordering him to serve as the governor of the Nanyang Military Mansion - this appointment was like nonsense, but it also gave a reason.

Northern Imperial Tatar meritorious.

That is to say, Gao Gong's departure from Beijing to Xinzheng was the identity of the criminal minister who was deposed, and the people who had offended in the past took this opportunity to beat the water dogs, and only after the beating did he give back the military attache of the governor.

Others don't know in their hearts, because Chen Mu knew that he would expel Gao Gong sooner or later, he had already seen that Gao Gong was going to be exiled to Nanyang, of course, it was just speculation at that time, what does it mean that Gao Gong is really here now?

It shows that the middle-aged god has already planned to find a nest for Gao Gong, obviously, the humiliating road is deliberately done by the middle-aged God.

What is the reason Chen Mu didn't know, old man Gao didn't care what he thought in his heart, he boarded the ship from Weigang, Chen Mu didn't complain, and he didn't mention anything about the dethronement.

But when he thought of Gao Gong's esteemed status when he was in power, and then thought about the humiliation that Gao Gong suffered when he came, Chen Mu - it was useless for him to think of it, so he could only ask the cook in the Luo Mansion to invite Gao Gong to have a good meal.

It's good to be able to save your life.

"It costs too much money to demolish and rebuild, and the Nanyang Military Government employs a lot of people, and it costs four hundred taels of silver to rebuild a building with labor and materials." Chen Mu felt amused when he said this, smiled self-deprecatingly, and said, "It's enough for the soldiers of Guam to eat for three days." ”

Gao Gong had a casual expression on his face, and he believed in his heart that Chen Mu liked the appearance of this stone city military wall, and asked: "Chen Shuai pays the imperial court one million silver a year, even if you do whatever you want overseas, no one will control you, and you deviate from the four hundred taels of the mansion." ”

Gao Gong has seen Chen Mu's method of money, not to mention anything else, now all handed over to the briquette coal furnace of the royal treasury to draw points, more than 100,000 taels a year, he said not to, don't want it, the sea ship from Tianjin Wei to the court in two years to hand over two million taels of silver, now he said that he is reluctant to give up the four hundred taels.

Who believes it?

"Gao Ge thinks the younger generation is rich?"

Standing in the castle of the Nanyang Military Mansion in the royal city of Manila, Chen Mu turned his head to look at Gao Gong, nodded to himself: "Minduluo Island takes 300 taels of gold and more than 1,000 catties of coal every day when the kiln is opened; Luzon Island opens a kiln to take 100 taels of gold, more than 1,000 catties of copper and iron; There were also merchant ships at sea, and the trade of sulfur, nitrate, lime, giant wood, pearls, jibe, and cotton cloth, and the Nanyang military government was very rich in silver. ”

"But it also costs a lot, in the past few months, the military government Zhonghai Gong, Zhao Changji and others have often quarreled over the use of money, and the elder of the pavilion came at the right time, and governing the world is still like a fish in water, not to mention the financial affairs of the military government."

Recently, Chen Mu has also had a headache about the military government's money, not because of lack of money, but mainly because of the use of people.

He is in charge of full power, but he mainly controls the most important logistics, which he can't do alone, which makes Zhao Shizhen's manager Hai Rui unhappy, and the old man always thinks that Zhao Shizhen is a fool to settle accounts, and spending money is like running water.

Let Hai Rui manage the money even more, that is a stingy head, even Chen Mu is not happy to use silver to order a batch of short swords to reward military merits in the Nanyang Guard Weapons Bureau, and he counts for a long time, and he still says everything clearly.

Some people are stingy and are not willing to spend money on themselves, and some people are not willing to spend money on others, the old man Hai is real, and he is not happy to spend anyone, and this silver should be kept for the court and the cub in his eyes.

Now that the arch is high, the days to come should be comfortable.

Gao Gong was noncommittal, did not refuse or agree, stretched out his hand to signal Chen Mu to enter the mansion, and said: "Old man, let's see first, how many times the Nanyang Military Mansion comes and goes in a year. ”

Entering the mansion, Chen Mu directly took the high arch to the second floor, and the officers and clerks who worked in the government along the way heard that Chen Mu led the high arch into the mansion and didn't even dare to come out, and Zhao Shizhen above was the same, but Hai Rui took a few new Jinshi to the demarcated prefecture and county to be familiar with the place, or maybe the two of them would have to quarrel again.

Gao Gong once used Hai Rui to fight Xu Jie, and now Hai Rui sees Gao Gong in trouble, not to mention anything else, he must be very happy, although the old man Hai will not take the sin of his own people to death like Feng Bao, he is definitely not afraid of sneering in front of him.

"Two million taels in one year?"

When the ledger was placed in front of Gao Gong's eyes, he opened the general ledger, and he forgot to close his eyes and mouth.

Gao Gong always thought that Chen Mu's Nanyang Military Mansion had removed the million taels from the household department, and it would be good to have a balance of two or three hundred thousand taels, but how did he know that the Nanyang Military Mansion had more left than it went into the treasury, and he was surprised for a while, and he had thousands of thoughts in his heart - why did Chen Mu dare to let him see this account?

Zhao Shizhen stood cautiously on the side, nodded and said: "There were millions of taels of cargo on the Xiyi ship last year, which is far less than this in normal times, but this year, the seventeen kilns of Luzon copper, iron and gold, and the four kilns of Minduluo Island are almost the same. ”

Gao Gong quickly flipped through the account book, in the Nanyang military expenses, the soldiers were not much, although there were more than 40,000 in the register, but only more than 10,000 people really needed Chen Muyang, and all the grain, grass and armor were used less than 300,000 taels a year.

Although this is much higher than the military cost of Northern Xinjiang, which is calculated separately from military food and military salaries, it is not much compared to the harvest of the Nanyang Military Government, but it is even more shocking that the maintenance of warships and artillery costs 40,000 or 50,000 taels every year.

Of course, it is also indispensable in shipbuilding ships and artillery.

Gao Gong pondered for a long time, and finally asked what he wanted to ask, he looked at Chen Mu and said, "Chen Shuai, what about the remaining silver?" ”

It is clearly written in the account book that the balance of two years is 700,000 taels, isn't this bullying people who don't know how to count?

After asking, Gao Gong saw a line of small characters on the account book, the handwriting was dragon and phoenix dancing, it was Zhao Shizhen's handwritten 'surplus money was embezzled by Chen Shuai' - an average of 800,000 taels of silver a year, and it was misappropriated?

"Spent."

Chen Mu replied very naturally, and said: "Sponsoring the Ministry of Industry to develop new ordnance and new appliances, they are very greedy for ink, 100,000 taels in two years; Nanyang and Xuanfu two ordnance bureaus for two years, 400,000 taels; Encourage Guangdong businessmen to increase production, farmers to increase grain production, and craftsmen to create new tools, 400,000 taels in two years; There are also army and navy martial arts halls, and 200,000 taels in two years to encourage innovation in tactics and military equipment, and 200,000 taels in two years, all of which are condemned to death. ”

"The rest of the money will be used for the repair and daily supply of the Leaky Ze Garden, the Nursing Home and the Huimin Pharmacy in various places, and then the clan social studies in various counties in Liangguang and Fujian will be repaired, and some meat will be sent to Mr. Teaching, and some orphans and poor students will be subsidized to go to school." Chen Mu scratched his nose and said: "I don't count this money, all places are ordered to report to the Nanyang Military Government, except for the annual interception of 100,000 taels and waiting for disaster relief, all the things that should be used are used, and how much is left, how much will be approved for the students." ”

"I was too lenient in these things, so I didn't write them down."

Chen Mu's small movements increased significantly as he spoke, and he was a little embarrassed.

Gao Gong was dumbfounded, and paused for a moment before frowning and asking with a puzzled face: "You, why are you doing this?" ”

"Emperor Meng's great grace and courtiers, give me great power, I have all the promotions and fortunes that others want, and there are not many people in the world who live better than me, so I also have to pursue it!"

"Everyone thinks Chen is belligerent, and there is no shortage of officials in the country to impeach Chen, but the younger generation is not bad and thinks that there are many people in the country, and they want to send thousands of descendants of good years to Nanyang to die, and it is not the goal to conquer land and get money, in the final analysis, these means are not for the state of their parents to prestige the world, and their flesh and blood compatriots will not be poor, and they will benefit future generations."

"Whether the local dignitaries of the imperial court are greedy or not, there are few who are really stupid, they are all talented, but it is really not easy to govern the place well, they can do great things in five years and ten years, but even if they have the heart, they can't and dare not think about the century-old policy."

Chen Mu patted his chest.

He said, "I'll come." ”