open sea

Chapter 440 The Ship
Chen Mu, who returned to the Nanyang Military Mansion, kept thinking, why did Yu Dayou call the Li Zhu ship Li Lou ship many times when he was parting?

"Duke Gao, are Li Zhu and Li Lou so easy to mishear?"

Chen Mu was a little worried, and decided to send a doctor to Yu Dayou. When people are old, they will have auditory hallucinations, weakness, and memory errors.

Thinking about this, Chen Mu looked at Gao Gong suspiciously, this old man is also getting old.

Gao Gong has been busy for several days. The entire Nanyang military government is preparing for Magui's upcoming expedition across the strait to America. It must be calculated clearly.

"Li Zhu and Li Lou? How could you hear me wrong, this is the same person."

Gao Gong raised his head in surprise, put down the Langhao pen, turned his eyes from the right side to the left corner of his eyes, then turned up to look at Chen Mu, and asked, "Young handsome man, is this another joke?"

"one person?"

Chen Mu's face was a little stiff, he licked his lips, and asked, "Isn't Li Zhu an ancient beast?"

"What kind of divine beast? It's a person. Huangdi lost the Xuanzhu and asked Li Zhu to look for it. His eyes have the ability to discern every detail with a hundred steps, so he can find the Xuanzhu for Huangdi." Gao Gong rolled up his sleeves and said: "Zhou Zhuang Zhou of the dynasty called Li Zhu Lilou, so this man has two names, what his name is is unknown today, but people will know him when they mention these two names."

"So that's it, the junior has been educated." Chen Mu cupped his hands and nodded, and said with a smile, "I must study more in the future."

"Chen Shuai doesn't need to study anymore. If you want to study, you have to be free. Now that you are an extremely human minister, let him study more when you have a descendant. If the old man is around then, it doesn't matter if you have a disciple." Gao Gong said with a slight twist of his old face, "I will never teach him to be as ignorant as his father."

Chen Mu pursed his lips, knowing that it was just a joke whether it was a handsome young man or an ignorant man. He knew in his heart that Minister Gu Ming would inevitably have a secret feeling in his heart in Nanyang.

It's already a good situation to be able to make a few innocuous jokes with a sharp tongue.

After laughing, Gao Gong asked, "Why did Chen Shuai mention this all of a sudden?"

"Duke Gao found out in two months. Nanyang Wei built a big sky lantern, which can send people into the sky. With the help of telegrams, people can know the situation twenty or thirty miles away. Whether it is at sea or on land, it is interspersed with encirclement and collection. If soldiers break through, these tactics will be easier in the future.”

Gao Gong raised his eyebrows, he didn't pay attention to the matter of carrying people into the sky with sky lanterns, he knew that Chen Mu was always doing this kind of thing, and he was careful enough, he wouldn't use it if he was not sure, he just squinted his eyes and asked: " Chen Shuai wants to use this for the Magui fleet exploring America?"

Chen Mu nodded and said, "Yes, a long sea voyage can cost thousands of miles if lost. We don't have an accurate sea chart for our voyage to America. Once we get lost and cannot return, it will be an unbearable loss."

"Westerners regard desperadoes as explorers, and they all use small boats to fight against wind and waves with courage. Our flag officers all have such courage. I can let them fight with their lives. They will, but I cannot."

The corners of Chen Mu's mouth turned up, showing a satisfied expression, and said: "There is a court with all the power to send three treasures to Nanyang, and Chen will also use his talents to help Magui achieve success."

Gao Gong nodded, he knew what it meant if he could not see the land at sea, even if it was just going south from Jilong Island to Luzon Island, this sea route that he was no longer familiar with the Nanyang Banner Army, the sailors on board were still there in the last few days near the land. Feeling irritated and suspicious.

As for the lack of hope for a long time, what kind of despair the sea can bring to people, Mr. Lin, who fought in the bloody Guam battle, knows best.

Gao Gong sighed deeply from his throat, Chen Mu is good everywhere, except that sometimes he looks like a reckless man who has never read a book, and what makes people feel awkward is to think of what to say.

Shouldn't ordinary people keep this kind of thinking in their hearts and not say it?
"So Chen Shuai named the big sky lantern Li Zhu, and others call it Li Lou?"

Chen Mu nodded, patted the chair in Gaogong's study, sat down and said, "It's almost the same as what Gao Gong said, it's a ship, I named the big ship with sky lanterns Li Zhu, which is equivalent to the level of a ship, like Chihai "It's not everyone else, it's Yu Shuai, who always talks about Li Lou when he mentions this."

Hearing what Chen Mu said, Gao Gong raised his eyebrows to look at Chen Mugao, and asked solemnly, "Where did Chen Shuai hear this name?"

Gao Gong didn't believe that Chen Mu could have such a depth, and casually pulled out the names of ancient characters from ancient books thousands of years ago, and he didn't even know whether the owner of the name was a human or a beast.

Chen Mu turned his head and looked out of the window. Lifu and Banner Army in the far distance of the island were building a new Nanyang Military Mansion. He would not tell Gao Gong that he heard from Xu Wei. The Juyongguan on his face was calm when he was lying, and said : "I get something occasionally."

"Yu Shuai is prudent after all. He was mentioning Chen Shuai. It would be better not to have Zhu in his name."

Chen Mu frowned, thought for a while, and said in a low voice, "Have you violated a taboo?"

"That's not true. The taboos of the state are written in the Ming Law. The Taizu is generous and has no taboos. After that, the sub-words of the emperor's name are avoided, and only the single characters of the Emperor Chengzu are taboo." Gao Gong shook his head and said: "Proximate sounds and the like are also taboo. There is no taboo, since Emperor Taizu, the only way to avoid pigs is because of the zodiac sign of Wu Zong, Emperor Taizu even wrote a couplet to the butcher of pigs, telling his hands to split the road of life and death, and cut right and wrong with one knife."

"If you want to avoid this taboo, you have to use Zhu Zhu to criticize the butcher who swallowed cinnabar and committed suicide."

"Yu Shuai is right, though. He is a general who has been humiliated seven times and demoted four times. He is more cautious than Chen Shuai, and it is normal." Gao Gong shook his head slowly, and said: "Since ancient times, there have been many people who were convicted for their words, and most of them were criminals. It's a disaster for the fish in the pond, if you really want to do it, what name will Chen Shuai give the warship, and what if you gather armored soldiers privately?"

Not to mention, if someone else said this, Chen Mu would just smile. Gao Gong had been in the cabinet for a long time and served as the chief assistant. When he said this, his momentum was very different, and it just made his heart beat twice.

Next, before Gao Gong could react, Chen Mu had already brought a pen and ink on the table, swiped more than a dozen words, strode to the door, patted the guard with him, and said, "Pack the letter into the post and send it to the Guangdong capital." Command Bai Jingchen."

Gao Gong looked at Chen Mu and sat back on the chair again, without blinking, and said with emotion: "Chen Shuai is in a hurry to splash ink, and he doesn't need to pretend to be a letter. Who can understand if he hasn't been friends for ten years?"

"It's okay, brother Jingchen can understand eight points."

"Chang Ji went to the capital and hasn't come back yet. I miss him very much." Chen Mu shook his head, then said to Gao Gong: "Let's not talk about it, just counting the days, the Kuwu Island Banner Army should have finished the human pox vaccination, and the preparations are almost the same. Waiting for the boat Once there, they're ready to go."

"On the boat?"

Chen Mu smiled slyly, and sat obediently, "Yes, it's the boat, and the one with the sky lantern called the boat."

　2018 is over in a few days, don't be unhappy.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)