open sea

Chapter 540 Dagu
Even though the new year has just passed, the route from Nanyang to Tianjinwei is not lonely at all.

In the Fujian-Guangzhou area, the freight is developed, and you can meet merchant ships and cargo ships along the way for dozens of miles; in the Zhejiang and Nanzhi areas, it is even more prosperous, and you can see the port throughput when you stop to replenish water and food. Let the baggage boat wait for him for two days, and then go to Songjiang Mansion to see Xu Jie's School of Lectures.

After boarding the boat and entering the territory of Beizhili, the atmosphere is even more different.

It seems that only here can people suddenly think: Oh!Daming is still fighting wars for foreign countries!

Most of the routes to and fro are military ships, and you can see sergeants boarding and shouting everywhere, or grain ships carrying luggage. Chen Mu called a few soldiers on the neighboring ships and asked about the situation in the Japanese battlefield. Can these people answer the question? His stories are full of battlefield legends and the like, and he doesn't know anything about the actual military situation.

The battle in Japan was supposed to be controlled by the Nanyang military government, but Gao Gong followed the procedure and asked the Japanese king to send an envoy to Beijing to ask for help, and then handed over the battle to the imperial court. Except for Chen Bazhi, all the troops participating in the subsequent battle were dispatched from the northern border of the imperial court, and Nanyang The military government will clear up the relationship.

He doesn't know where the war is now.

On February [-]th, the fleet arrived at Dagukou, Tianjin Wei, the sea and land throat of the seven provinces, which is the key point of Jiuhejin.

"It just snowed the day before yesterday, and the Ministry of Rites prepared winter clothes and official robes for the ministers of Nanyang. We took a short rest in Haikou Fortress. Tianjin Wei had already received a letter from the adults to return to Beijing to report on their duties. The adults who came to greet you will be there in a while!"

The staff of the Ministry of Officials took the official seal from him respectfully, and the staff of the Ministry of Rites took him along with a group of more than ten people like the Dagu Fort Fortress, prepared warm soup and meals, and took care of everything.

The official robes prepared by the court were not used, but the patch was used. Chen Mu's patch was a lion, and the crane was brought by the Ministry of Rites.

There is a big difference between animals.

The so-called going to Beijing to report on their work, in the position of governor of various places, most of the time it means that the official position has reached the top, either promoted or downgraded, some for three years, some for four years, but others return to Beijing to report their work in time. Before, Chen Mu himself was not a governor, but he had powers beyond the governor, not to mention the long distance, there was no custom, as long as he returned to Beijing within the time limit according to the edict.

He was several months ahead of schedule!

Dagukou Fortress is very famous in later generations. It is famous for several battles with foreign countries in this place, and it was killed and injured.

This was built by Zhu Di, Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty. In the second year of Yongle, Tianjin set up guards, and Haikou built piers and guns, so it has the name of Dagukou.

After so many years, the artillery has not been replaced. Chen Mu was led by the staff of the Ministry of Rites to watch while walking, patted the ancient battlements and asked Juniper to take out his notebook, and said: "Go back here, and there are two repairs. One temple, two temples are required for boarding and disembarking at the port, and the cannons also need to be replaced, all of which are written down, and I will tell His Majesty when I finish my duties."

Chen Mu, or all the governors in the world, did not just report to the emperor or the cabinet, he had to report to Xu Da.

Yes, it is Xu Da, the founding general of the Ming Dynasty in the past, and the current Chengtian Jianguo Simin Shengfu Mingling King, in the City God Temple in Juyongguan.

Because after Zhu Yuanzhang established the country, he not only managed the household registrations of the people such as military households, craftsman households, and Danhu households, but also had a unified plan for the construction of all temples, and even the conferring of gods was in charge of this person.

He said: "I set up a city god to make people fearful; if people are afraid, they dare not act rashly."

He felt that there might be some people who dared to fool the emperor, but those who dared to fool the gods were much less. He ordered the counties to build the Town God's Temple within three years. The counties correspond to the unified arrangement of the titles of Duke, Marquis, and Bo. The gods of the city gods are different in different places, but they are all historical figures and are admired by people.

For example, Xu Da is a first-rank great immortal who sits in the City God's Temple in Beijing. All the main officials of the Ming Dynasty have to take an oath to sleep in the Town God's Temple where they work. Sleep by your side.

How do you say that?
In the three worlds of the Yang Dynasty, it is up to you to accumulate good and evil; throughout the ages, who has the underworld let go?You are here.

Chen Mu was no exception tonight. His destination was not the Forbidden City in Beijing, but the Town God's Temple in Juyongguan. He went to report to Mr. Xu Da.

Going to the Town God's Temple to sleep is nothing to Chen Mu, he is not as trembling as others, if Mr. Xu Da knows what he has done in Yangjian, he might have to come up and have a drink with him.

Just like returning to Beijing to report on his duties, he has a clear conscience.

The Lord who came to greet him didn't let him wait any longer in this remote fortress that had been established for more than a hundred years and hadn't been used to much use. Not long after, a cavalry soldier with a helmet and a small flag clasped his fists and knocked on the wall, asking the Nanyang minister to go out.

There is no way, the sea route is not like the land route. If it is a land route, the nearby post station will send someone to send a message to the capital on a flying horse, and the people who greet him will also wait on the road early, but the sea transport is different. It is impossible to let Chen Mu in the sea for the sake of honor. Floating, send the boat ashore first.

When Chen Mu saw these cavalrymen on the fortress, he knew who was coming to pick him up.

There is only one robot-like army in Ming Dynasty, and this army is in Beijing now, called the Qi Family Army.

Strictly speaking, whether Chen Mu or Chen Bazhi, their military law was born out of Qi Jiguang, but Chen Mu added more rewards, deleted unnecessary punishments, and had his own new things; One of Qi Jiguang's military laws was not reduced, and a penalty dedicated to restraining the Nanyang vassal banner army was added.

Leaving aside whether the revised military laws are better or worse, there is no doubt that neither of them can compare to Qi Jiguang, the original creator, in the implementation of military laws.

The cavalry under the fortress can only be Qi Jiguang's people.

In the distance, a group of guards of honor are slowly approaching.

"Leading the horse." With a smile on Chen Mu's face, he said to Juniper: "The first time I came to Beijing from the north, I went to see Qi Shuai at the Wangjing Building on the Great Wall of Jinshanling. It seems like a lifetime away!"

The city gate of the fortress opened slowly, and the Tianjin Wei Dagukou Banner Army handed each other off in the city. Chen Mu stepped onto the tall white girl, and the red embroidered crane official robe was covered with fox fur. On the way, he went to the general's mansion in the city to stay, and took Juniper and other four riders to meet the guard of honor sent by the court.

On the other side of the official road, Qi Jiguang straddled a tall horse of the same Spanish blood, smiled at him with his hands folded, turned around and made a gesture of invitation, and said: "Sing the gong to clear the way!"

Chen Mu also clasped his fists and said, "How dare the younger generation bother Qi Shuai to greet you, it's really rude."

Qi Jiguang smiled, waved his hands and walked together, saying: "Let's not talk about hypocrisy and politeness, you have sent nearly ten million taels of silver to the court in the past few years, not to mention Qi, even the old man and His Majesty would like to come to Tianjin Wei." Pick you up, anyone else can afford 600 million taels of silver, and transport 500 million shi of rice and grain to Beijing in four years."

"However, the emperor was persuaded by Elder Ge. Elder Ge was worried that too much fame would be bad for you. He will hold a banquet at the mansion the next day. You will go to Juyongguan Town God's Temple to report on your duties tomorrow, and you will enter the Forbidden City the next day. The night after tomorrow, you will go to Elder Ge's mansion. The Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of War all want to see you, and Qi will go with you, and Jizhen also has something to tell you in detail, so take it."

Said, the cavalry brought a wooden box, which contained a gorgeously decorated ruler-long pistol, Qi Jiguang smiled and said: "You gave me a pistol, and I will give you one too. Reciprocity."

"Thank you Qi Shuai, then Chen will accept it." Chen Mu looked at the pistol and said with a smile: "Qi Shuai gave it to me, and I don't know how to compose a pistol song, so I will give it a name—it It's called reason."

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)