open sea

Chapter 286 Sweet Potatoes
On the way back to the Xuanfu, there were nearly a hundred more riders in the entourage, followed by two burly men, General Zhenshuo always had an unfathomable smirk on his face.

Magui!
Ma Gui was sent by Ma Fang to work under his command!
Ma Fang gave the whole set as a gift. Ma Gui was a general in Xinping Fort in Datong, and had served as a guerrilla general in the Xuan Mansion in the past;

However, the gold content of this deputy commander is different from Chen Mu's previous Changzhen deputy commander. It belongs to the local small commander, and the headquarters has only more than 800 people.

The transfer procedures are the same. After Chen and Ma talked about the matter with Governor Wang Chonggu face to face, Chen Mu issued a transfer order to the Ministry of War. matter.

The name is to co-organize the riding department of the lecture hall.

After the spring plowing, the Xuan Mansion suddenly became bustling. With sufficient labor, the construction of the Military Weapons Bureau was progressing rapidly. In a blink of an eye, there were many houses along the river, hydraulic forging and sawing workshops, and some craftsmen devoted themselves to making workpieces. More Craftsmen also came from all over the world.

The craftsmen were amazed by Chen Mu's whimsical ideas. The potters and blacksmiths were able to design better iron-smelting furnaces. Brick factories and weaving factories were also put into construction. The church is also under construction.

The huge manpower of Wanquandu was put into the construction outside the Xuanfu after the busy farming season. General Chen invisibly elevated the status of the craftsmen. The government is in full swing.

"Ming Gong, this...is not a good choice!"

Zhao Shizhen's face was extremely bitter, and on the table in front of him was a mountain of manuscripts, all of which were written in large characters by Chen Mu himself.

Chen Mu wrote dozens of copies in big characters, and planned to have people make plaques and seal stone carvings.In terms of calligraphy, he couldn't trust his own aesthetics, so he asked Zhao Shizhen to choose the best one among his calligraphy and hand it over to the craftsman to carve a plaque and stele.

This is obviously a hard job for Zhao Shizhen.

Chen Mu leaned against the window and pressed the shredded tobacco into the short pipe, and glanced at Zhao Shizhen, "Pick it up!"

Of course he knew that Zhao Shizhen couldn't bear to look at his own handwriting, but his own handwriting must be used for plaques and stone carvings, and it must be read by future generations hundreds of years later!
Reluctantly, Zhao Shizhen picked out a pair, and when Deng Zilong came to report the matter, he smiled when he saw the scroll Zhao Shizhen was carrying, and said to Chen Mu while reading: "General, Li Dan is here, and Yang Yinglong is also with him. Studying in the Imperial College...Xuanfu lectures on martial arts and Army Academy? General, this word is much better than Xiangshan Shipyard!"

Chen Mu smelled the pipe, put it back into his pocket, looked at Deng Zilong with satisfaction and said, "Chang Ji, look, look at the eyesight of General Wuqiao!"

Zhao Shizhen suddenly realized, and said to Chen Mu: "General, why don't you send another copy of the book to Xiangshan, and replace the plaque of the shipyard."

"Don't change, don't change anything, future generations will be able to see the progress of Chen's calligraphy." Chen Mu raised his hand to reject Zhao Shizhen's proposal, and asked Deng Zilong: "Just now you said that Dan'er and Yang Yinglong came here? They where."

Speaking of which, Chen Mu turned his head and said to Zhao Shizhen: "That's all, please ask someone to make a plaque and engrave a stone. In the future, this will be the plaque of the Xuanfu Lecture Hall!"

The two generals walked out of the study one after another, Zhao Shizhen sighed helplessly, squinted his eyes and glanced at the calligraphy in his hand, quickly rolled it up and put it on his side, and followed him out.

When he walked out of the study, Zhao Shizhen clenched his fists. He decided that his first task right now was to help General Chen improve his handwriting!

"Why is this lecture hall called the lecture hall?"

Deng Zilong asked as he walked, "Longjun" is not a new word. The "Jin Shu" mentioned "Longjun" as opposed to "Navy".As an old subordinate who accompanied him to the north from Guangdong, Deng Zilong obviously heard Chen Mu's overtones before he asked, "What does the general mean, that there will be a martial arts school in the future?"

"Admiral? No, no, no."

"We want to use the navy and give lectures at the Naval Academy." Chen Mu walked ahead in high spirits. Now is the time for cabinet ministers to forge ahead with the establishment of the Tianjin School of Martial Arts, Sea and Land, and most of the promising memorials can be executed smoothly, which is unmatched at any time."

Just in April of this year, Gao Gong sent a letter to the imperial court, asking the ministers who are specially dispatched every year to look around. Looking at the past from the present, how much the money and grain have won, how much the soldiers and horses have increased, how much the equipment has been adjusted, and other methods of garrisoning salt and other things. Things expand geometry.Clearly open the report, if it has improved compared to the past, it will be rewarded for the same merit as in the past wartime capture; if it only maintains the previous level, it will be punished as if it was a missed opportunity.

Emperor Longqing gave permission, which means that from now on, all chief officials in the Ming Dynasty will conduct performance appraisals.Gao Gong's ability to come up with this shows that he is extremely talented.

When Chen Mu saw Gao Gong’s memorandum in the mansion newspaper, he wrote a convenient and standardized performance appraisal standard. This was not from his wisdom but from his experience in different times. Send this letter to Gao Gong.

He put it away.

Gao Gong has a grumpy temper, a narrow mind, and a high self-esteem. Of course, he has a high self-esteem talent, but at this time, Chen Mu thinks that it is not a good choice to give him a more standardized performance appraisal.

Elder Gao Ge is happy because of this memorial, so why should he bother Elder Gao Ge's happiness.

When he was about to walk to the school grounds, Chen Mu thought about it and said to Deng Zilong: "We won't stay in the north for long. The imperial court sent Jin Yiwei to Malacca. When Jin Yiwei comes back, it's time for us to go to Nanyang."

Li Dan came at the right time, and Chen Mu had the next step for him to take care of.

"My child pays homage to foster father!"

Outside the school grounds, Li Dan waited beside the convoy with a dozen or so men in armor and knives.The convoy belonged to Yang Yinglong, standing beside the car was the nine Miao soldiers of Yang's family, each of them showed a fierce vigor, with long standard crossbows casually slung over their shoulders, as if others would not see their aura.

Seeing Chen Mu's arrival, Li Dan offered a big gift, Chen Mu hurriedly laughed and said, "Get up quickly, I haven't seen you for a year! It's dark, but also strong, with a few scars, in Luzon and people Is there a war?"

Li Dan's young face has many signs of wind and sun, especially his complexion is much darker, and the rolled-up sleeves reveal the old scars on his arms, which were not there before.Chen Mu could feel that the aggressive aura of pirates on Yizi was getting stronger.

"Father was joking, you fought a battle with the Tatars in Baoding, that's a war, my son, it's just a small fight. With the help of foster father, everything at sea is much easier."

Li Dan clasped his fists and said in a low voice: "My boy did not disgrace his mission. He brought back sweet potatoes from Luzon. They were only seedlings when they came, and they should have roots by now."

Chen Mu nodded in satisfaction, looking around the driver's room, wondering where Yang Yinglong had gone since he was here, and when he turned his head, he saw a young man in green shirt standing on tiptoe at the gate of the school yard, looking inside. I still don't forget to turn my head and raise my hand inward with a smirk: "Hey! Soldiers are training!"

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)