open sea

Chapter 358 Argument
Night, Nanyang Yamen Fort.

It rained again in Macheng, dripping on the red glass windows, Hai Rui had never seen such a window.

In fact, taking office this time has already brought a great shock to Hai Rui, even if Chen Mu didn't talk nonsense.The old man has never seen such a fort, nor such a window, nor has he seen a warship like the Chihai class in the past.

"I'm not picky, I'm not picky. When I'm old, I'm nagging. You Chen Shuai is impatient to say a few words. What he said is what he said, and he even used a painting to fool me."

Hai Rui was lying on the couch, and Cheng Hongyuan was getting needles on his skinny legs. He had rheumatism, and his legs hurt when it rained. However, Macheng is located between two mountain ranges, and it always rains when the clouds accumulate.

"Old man, that's not a painting. Duke Ming is right. It's a map of the world."

Secretary Zhao sat on the side with low eyebrows, obediently like a student.He was ordered by Chen Mu to come and see what Hai Rui was not used to when he first arrived here. He happened to see Hai Rui soaking his feet in hot water, so after asking about it, he called Cheng Hongyuan, a medical craftsman, to give him a massage.

"I've also heard a little bit about it from foreign countries. It's definitely not what Chen Shuaitang said."

The maps of foreign countries that Hai Rui mentioned were the charts that Zheng He brought back from his voyages to the West, and they were different from Chen Mu's charts.

Zhao Shizhen said: "Chen Shuai doesn't have any maps of foreign countries. The one in the hall was drawn from east to west by Ming people and from west to east by Pintuo, a staff member of the Western Barbarians. It has not yet been completed and is being filled in."

"Who has been there?"

Hai Rui lay on his stomach and stared wide-eyed, "If you haven't been there, you can't take it seriously!"

Zhao Shizhen smiled, nodded in agreement, and said: "That's right, Chen Shuai also thinks so. He said to use it as an impression first, and then do it carefully after the fleet sails past. You can't be biased."

Hai Rui felt better, squinted his eyes and nodded, and then continued: "I know that Luzon is no better than the middle school, the war is still going on, Chen Shuai has no one to help him with all the matters, and he is very tired. It is said that the old man is leaving Wherever you go, you will find the trouble. The old man is not sick, if those colleagues don’t take it as their own responsibility to search for the people’s fat and anointing, Hai will find them trouble?”

"The people don't even have enough to eat, and the post houses can cost hundreds of stones a month, and the extravagance of officials and officials is becoming more and more extravagant. It seems that this world should be like this." Hai Rui narrowed his eyes, with a stern look, and said coldly: "My ancestors have rules for a long time. If you are greedy for money, you should be stripped!"

As he said that, Hai Rui changed the subject again, and praised Chen Mu, saying, "It's rare for an old man like Chen Shuai to bring two fish as a greeting gift without feeling shabby."

Zhao Shizhen curled his lips and said proudly: "My lord doesn't allow people to give him gifts, but the atmosphere is like this. In today's world, anyone who wants to achieve great things must unblock the top and bottom, and there is no way."

In other words, Chen Mu only gave gifts, not received them.

This is actually something that goes against common sense. If you don't accept gifts, where do you get the money to give gifts?But Chen Mu couldn't stand the fact that he was so open-sourced.

Zhao Shizhen laughed at the two fish, but it wasn't the two fish that he laughed at, but who in the world could afford to give Chen Mu a gift.

How much do you have to give to make the God of Wealth raise his eyebrows?
"Duke Hai can rest assured about the corruption of ink. My lord doesn't look down on that bit of money, a county magistrate." Zhao Shizhen raised a finger and said: "Searching for people's fat and people's ointment for a year and a half, and the whole family's wealth is not as good as Minggong's one day." Handle the account, alas."

Just being proud, Zhao Shizhen sighed suddenly, and said: "It's just a dealer, and it was released in a blink of an eye. Either it was enshrined in His Majesty's internal treasury, or it was sent to the treasury of the Ministry of Households. What production, plus self-raised military expenses.”

Zhao Shizhen squeezed his eyes and shook his head, saying: "Gold and silver are not money in Nanyang yamen, but gunboats are hard goods."

Hai Rui is very intelligent, but he is new to Nanyang Yamen and doesn't know much about it. Quan took Zhao Shizhen's words and nodded noncommittally. Hearing Zhao Shizhen talk about the three treasures of the Chen family, he asked, "I wanted to ask Chen Shuai earlier. , those six warships, why do they carve huge stone statues on the bows, which is beneficial to the war?"

"Ha, Haigong is talking about the god statue on the bow, I learned it from Xiyi. When I came to Luzon, I met a big ship from Xiyi named Pablo. They had a huge stone warrior statue on the bow. The warship Invincible at sea, our navy used multiple warships to wound him and capture him, and sent him to Nanyangwei Shipyard to be learned by craftsmen."

"The craftsmen have not learned the skills yet, so the craftsmen learned from this big stone statue first." Zhao Shizhen laughed when he talked about the bow statue, "The statue of Liuding is really powerful! It is estimated that the six new ships early next year will be the statue of Liujia."

"This year Ding Chou prolongs my life, Ding Hai detains my soul, Ding You restrains my soul, Ding Wei eliminates my calamity, Ding Si saves me from danger, Ding Mao saves me from disaster; next year Jia Zi protects my body, Jia Xu protects my form, and Jia Shen Strengthen my life, Jiawu guards my soul, Jiachen guards my spirit, Jiayin nurtures my truth."

Although Zhao Shizhen was a scholar, he was very excited when he talked about the same virtues as the warship and Chen Mu's subordinates, and said: "Haigong wait, the lord said that next year Xiyi will definitely send a large army to attack. If we come out, we can truly establish our Ming Dynasty's prestige in Nanyang!"

Hai Rui knew about the patron saint of Liu Ding Liu Jia, but Hai Rui didn't know about the Nanyang naval battle, and he didn't care. Chen Mu had to worry about the war, and he didn't have to take care of it.The old man sighed and asked: "Chen Shuai can tell you, what do you want me to do in Luzon?"

"Speaking of which, Haigong came at the right time. Now that the new governor has not arrived, my lord asked me to take care of the political affairs temporarily, but it is far different than Haigong. Right now, there are three important tasks in Luzon, one is the great master of politics, Haigong served as an edict, it is no problem; secondly, you have done it in the past to formulate taxes for Qingzhang’s land; as for the third one, it is much more difficult, and you need to compile a set of regulations."

"Please do these three things, so that my lord will not have to worry about the future, and think about whether to go east or west after defeating Xiyi in the coming year."

Cheng Hongyuan took off the last needle, Hai Rui sat up and stretched his legs, frowned and asked, "Walking east and west?"

Zhao Shizhen nodded and said: "Yes, going east and going west is the next strategy of the Nanyang Yamen. Based on Guangdong and Luzon, they will build warships and train sergeants. It is easy to say that it is a thing. In fact, there is also the south, Chen Shuai said. There is a big island thousands of miles south, so the real saying is to go east and west and go south.”

"To the west is Borneo and Malacca; to the east is Japan in the midst of war, and to the south is an unknown giant island."

"Currently, the staff are arguing about where to go. Borneo and Malacca are the easiest, but there is no guarantee that there will be conflicts with the Portuguese and barbarians. Now the main source of income is the Portuguese barbarians, and they cannot be enemies."

"Even if there is a huge island in the south, a large number of people and manpower are needed, not to mention the miasma and unacceptable water and soil, and the property is not known, so there is a lot of loss; the last is Japan, where there is a silver mountain. Chen Shuai means to intervene in its war and support several people. The feudal lords are fighting in turmoil, but it is against our way of dealing with the world, and it is still being debated."

　Zheng He Haitu was burned by Liu Daxia from "Novel Monthly" in 1929

　　The author Xiang Da quotes Gu Qiyuan, a scholar of the Ming Dynasty, from "Guest Guest Duplication"

　　Gu Qiyuan Quoting Yan Congjian's "Zhou Zi Lu of Special Domains"

　　The original words of "Zhuyu Zhouzilu" are that it is better to burn the sea charts than to keep them
　　Zheng He's charts were quoted in Mao Yuanyi's "Wu Bei Zhi"

　　It shows that in the era of Mao Yuanyi, Zheng He's charts can still be found through normal channels
　　
　
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