Drove out of the 400-mile road in two days, the journey was not far, and the people were really tired, but fortunately, they changed horses at the post stations along the way, so that Bai Mei was not paralyzed.

Chen Mu is paralyzed, he would rather swing a thousand miles on the boat than on horseback for four hundred miles, since leaving Xuanfu, he has not ridden so far in two days, this kind of riding is nothing when he was still the general of Zhenshuo, but Nanyang does not ride a horse in the war, this has been several years, suddenly let him jolt, feel like he is falling apart.

But even so, he didn't dare to enter Xu Da's house and slept with the door, except for the dragon picture on the mural, it was eighteen layers of hell, and the ten halls of Hades were enshrined next door, and he slept when he threw the door?

Can't!

When I arrived at the City God Temple in Juyong Guandu, it was nearly dark, and I climbed to the city, entered the City God Temple and asked Jun Song to take people to the wing room to arrange the bedroom, and walked into the main hall alone to give Xu Da respectfully incense, and lit three red candles.

Only then did he arch his hand to Xu Daxiang and the assistant next to him, black and white impermanence, bull head and horse face, life and death, civil and military judges, and read out his exploits loudly.

"Chen's name Mu, born in the twenty-fourth year of Jiajing, was born in the fifth year of Longqing, the first emperor appointed the minister of Nanyang, with an edict and a flag to the Nanyang, and now the four-year period has expired, and he has returned to Beijing to report on his work."

"People may not know what they have done in Nanyang, but God must know that the general has been made a god, the food in the sun is useless, if the candle flame is not extinguished, Chen will eat with his relatives on the night of the sacrifice, and he is a little hungry after running for two hundred miles.

The City God Temple looked particularly eerie at night, and Chen Mu was left to give himself courage in words.

He paused to see that the candle was not extinguished, put down his pipe and bowed to Xu Da, and then continued: "Emperor Ming is in this life, taking advantage of Taizu Chengzu Yu Lie, with the legacy of Emperor Muzong, the Ming Dynasty regained Luzon, expelled Xiyi and defeated his army on Linlai Island; Combined with the Nanyang countries, take Malacca as the Manchurian thorn and take revenge, expel the Portuguese, fight for the southern invasion of Burma, and set up more than 100 prefectures and counties overseas, and accept millions of households. ”

"Chen is not a good official, he has not been able to be a parent in any place, he does not know benevolence and righteousness, he does not distinguish between public and private finance, and he borrows the power of the Ming Tiger in the overseas fox, which is unreasonable; I don't dare to say that my assets have not been used for four years. ”

"These assets were taken from overseas and invested in the Ming Dynasty, and so far there have been 12,700,000 taels of silver; This year, it is planned to build horse farms in Qiongzhou, Luzon, and Junfu Wei, Chen has never led the infantry, and has trained the Shenji Battalion of Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty and the third half of the infantry army after General Qi's Beijing Army, and the military government Wei 3,000 can beat the Shenji Battalion all over the ground to find teeth. ”

"Although I have never trained cavalry, I will definitely be able to train the best cavalry in Chinese history."

"In addition, Luzon, Burma, and Annam will be able to solve four million stone of grain per year for the imperial court in the next three years, and Lord Chenghuang should think that Chen, the minister of Nanyang, is quite competent, don't put out the fire, and the little one will go next door to eat your animal and sleep?"

Chen Mu felt that he didn't need to be polite to Xu Da, now we are also dragons and tigers, there is no distinction between gods, at most it is a report between superiors and subordinates, after all, people's believers are big people, and our believers are ordinary people.

He sat cross-legged in the main hall of the City God Temple for a while, and when he finished what he wanted to say, he kept what he didn't want to say in his heart, but felt that the atmosphere of the City God Temple was very good.

The conventions in the world made Chen Mu feel that he was not alone here, in this main hall that was neither big nor small, and there were gods who were looking down from a position of three feet up, and also gave him a chance to examine his own actions and gains and losses.

After a while, Chen Mu raised his head, the candle did not extinguish without wind, but he realized that if he didn't leave, the animal meat that Juniper made next door should be hot for the third time, so he got up a little reluctantly, bowed to Xu Daxiang again, and said: "Thank you Lord Chenghuang, if you don't go away, the candle should be extinguished, today's farewell, Chen will rest in Beijing for a while, and he will go overseas again, see you in four years, then the small preparation is sufficient, bring some unused livestock to your old man, and say goodbye." ”

Out of the main hall, bypassing the horse and sedan chair of the city emperor, I saw the juniper and the night merging into one from afar, standing outside the wing room and looking through the autumn water, they were all hungry with their chests sticking to their bellies.

"Let's get started, I told Lord Chenghuang that Chen has a meritorious service in Nanyang, and he invited us to have a meal." Chen Mu took off his official robe and breastplate as he walked, and handed it to his relatives and did not forget to advise: "Don't forget to give Master Chenghuang a plate and the wine you brought, so that Master Xu can taste it." ”

There are two rooms inside and outside the wing, and the three pro-soldiers have been set up in the outer room, Chen Mu and Jun Song went into the inner room to eat and chat, and Jun Song smiled: "Dashuai This is really rare, I heard that local dignitaries have always reported to the capital God's Temple, and they all trembled, and they came out with three bows and nine knocks, and they have never heard of anyone as comfortable as Dashuai as if he entered his own home." ”

"That's because they can't do their job well, what does the couplet say?" Chen Mu picked up the small wine jug and poured a glass for Juniper and himself, took a sip and said: "Be a good person, be upright and have a stable soul; Do some good deeds, and God knows how to admire ghosts and gods...... There are countless living people like Chen, so you don't have to guard against the gods, it's enough to prevent people from framing. ”

He is talking about the couplets of the City God Temple in Juyongguandu, each City God Temple has a couplet, although they are different but the purpose is the same, they are all to punish evil and promote good.

Chen Mu was feasting, Juniper took two bites and stopped talking, and then asked in a low voice with Chen Mu's permission: "Do you think of where to go in the future?" ”

Chen Mu, who was immersed in eating, raised his eyes and was stunned for a moment, then put down his chopsticks to wipe his mouth, and waited for his mouth to swallow, then said: "There are not many places that the imperial court can let me go, and it is not bad to stay in Beijing and send abroad." ”

"I'm just going to the imperial court, I guess the South Seas won't be under my control in the future, I think it may be to go to America, anyway, where I want to go, that's a good place to show off my skills now, our Ming national strength, not in the world, it's a pity."

Juniper drank a glass of wine, glared at the ring and said, "Nanyang has so much power, and the handsome man just gives it to others?" ”

"What to do with the seizure of power? If I take 10,000 steps back, the court will dismiss me and let me go home to rest, and I am quite happy. Chen Mu patted his chest and smiled: "It's good to take risks outside and fight for the country; But if you want me to see the prosperity of the world in Beijing, and let me go to Jiangnan to get drunk and dream of death, isn't it good? It's also good. ”

"In Beijing, Nanjing, in Jiangnan, in Guangzhou, wherever you go, it is a prosperous scenery, as long as I close my eyes, all the beauty of this world can be controlled. It's nothing more than that your handsome man is in the midst of prosperity, always thinking about opening his eyes to see that there are still people starving to death in the poorest places, and there are people who are sick and can't even afford to pay for the soup, so I have to go out for them to get some money and come back. ”

"Didn't you find that there have been fewer rebellions in the past two years? The northern court provided disaster relief, and Chen also prepared silver and grain; The land annexation in the south is powerful, but the displaced people did not gather together and went to Guangdong, there is a shortage of manpower, and the skilled workers are about to catch up with you in January, and the old man in the court is to do the work of the officials to live up to their mission, and I let the people eat and dress the people in the people. ”

"Sometimes domestic problems are difficult to solve, so while solving them, we can find a way from the outside, and the stones of other mountains can attack jade."

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