open sea

Chapter 553 Madness
Just when Qi Jiguang felt that Chen Mu was cautious, the big bomb came.

The situation he said is terrible, and Qi Jiguang knows that if the enemy has artillery, it will really become like that, not to mention that he also knows that the current disadvantages of the car formation are not only that.

There are no soldiers in the four corners of the chariot formation. If an enemy who is not afraid of death storms the four corners, the central army can be driven for a long time; and the cavalry who used to be used as assault jumpers are locked in the center, without the ability to surprise and win.

On the contrary, Chen Mu said that the car formation was breached by artillery, which is not that important to Qi Jiguang. The car formation is in the northern border, so the enemy can have artillery, and is it the heavy artillery of General Zhenshuo?

However, Qi Jiguang and Tan Lun are the most aware of the decline in the combat capabilities of the army. Most of the military drills in various places have been reduced to child's play. Not only Chen Mu is aware of the problem, everyone feels that there is a problem, but what can be done if there is a problem? ?

Wei Jun has talked about the evils for several years. Now except for the capital of Guangdong, which has trade benefits, and the capital of Xuanfu Wanquan has opened a factory, the Wei Jun in the rest of the place still has no way to find a way to make a living. Not everyone can talk to Xu Jue and kill him. There are more than [-] families in a thousand households in brocade clothes, and they took back all the occupied army fields and mines.

They all say that they don't know the true face of Lushan Mountain, only because they are in this mountain.

That's bullshit, how big is the problem in a place, ask the people at the bottom, although they can't solve it, they can find the right one for big and small problems!

It is useless to know the problem, and sometimes it is useless even if there is a solution. The Weisuo factories in Xuanfu and Guangdong have solved the problem of food and clothing for the banner army. Dedicated to the training, all the guards are rewarded by the chief officer and rewarded diligently, so training soldiers is naturally easier than training elsewhere.

But can other provinces do the same?

One Guangdong and one Xuanfu are now the bosses of the imperial court. Merchants, common people, and bannermen live comfortably, but the most feared things in all dynasties, barren land and land annexation, happen there all day long. Days are worried about causing civil unrest.

The result is just not as strange as you say?
Even if there is no civil unrest, who is not afraid?
It is impossible to expect the whole country to become like that in a short period of time.

When Qi Jiguang was about to leave, he left a word for Chen Mu, he said: "Qi admires Chen Shuai very much, and takes the affairs of the world as his own responsibility."

Chen Mu chatted with Xu Wei and Zhao Shizhen for a long time at night before he finally realized that Qi Jiguang was reminding him that he had exceeded his authority again.

"Then what is the master's plan?"

Chen Mu is no longer the commander-in-chief, Xu Wei is still used to using this title, he and Zhao Shizhen are Chen Mu's people, as long as Chen Mu doesn't commit suicide in prison like Hu Zongxian, they will always be.

There is a strong fire in the room, and an unattractive red-lacquered iron chimney stretches from the house to the outside. It seems that the owner of the mansion has poor aesthetics, especially considering that Zhang Juzheng's mansion has been turned on with electric lights, and the hot smoke from the warm walls makes people feel uncomfortable. Entering the house seemed like a spring breeze, making Chen Mu's eyes on his house not so satisfied.

He said seriously: "I'm going to ask the decoration team from the Ministry of Industry to come."

Xu Wei didn't speak, got up and left the table with no expression on his face, he didn't wear the fox fur hanging beside him, he only went out in his unlined clothes with the door open, and the cold wind blew into the room.

Zhao Shizhen was a little scared when he saw Chen Mu in the past two days. Chen Mu has not asked him about the process of negotiating peace with Spain, nor what happened, but he always feels that Chen Mu will ask. He is an old lunatic, and if he can't guarantee it, he will reveal his affair with a foreign woman. He has been considering whether to confess to Chen Mu first-but he is afraid of being shot.

At this moment, the cold wind blowing in from Xu Wei's door opened his neck and heart, and he interrupted Chen Mu, who was wandering in the sky, and said, "Marshal..."

Before the words came out, there was a 'plop' in the yard, followed by a warrior shouting: "Mr. Xu threw himself into the lake!"

Flying like chickens and dogs, Zhao Shizhen, who finally mustered up the courage, looked at Chen Mu, moved his body that was fat from eating ducks in Nanjing, and rushed outside like the wind, and then Chen Mu's slow voice came from the room: "The old man has a big temper. The fish pond in the courtyard is four feet deep, and the bottom is covered with bluestone slabs. Where can he throw himself into the lake!"

When Chen Mu walked out of the room, Xu Wei was standing at the bottom of the pool with his hands open and shouting: "Leave me alone, the water is cold, sober up!"

Chen Mu beckoned, asked Xu Wei to find a change of clothes, cook ginger soup in the kitchen, and sent two wrestlers to wait for Xu Wei to fish for him when he had played enough, turned his head and patted Zhao Shizhen, and entered the room.

"Let him play. I've been pretending to be a normal person in Nanjing for three months with you, and it's been hard for the old man."

Zhao Shizhen's eyes widened: "It's freezing cold, what should I do if I die after a serious illness?"

"If you don't freeze to death, he is Xu Wenchang, who wants to die." Chen Mu said angrily, and muttered in a low voice: "It's his wish to die."

There are people in this world who have a rough life, their second brother died early, got married three times, helped out everywhere, learned a lot, lost their six relatives, went to seven years of unjust imprisonment, failed eight times, and committed suicide nine times.

Chen Mu has nothing to say to Xu Wei. Sometimes he needs Xu Wei's knowledge, but most of the time, he only hopes that Xu Wei can do whatever he wants because of his own existence when he is alive, even if Xu Wei wants to put himself Get rid of it and let him go.

The tragic reality in the past has proved that Xu Wei failed to commit suicide nine times, so it doesn't matter if he tries for the tenth time.

In fact, Chen Mu believes that the most likely way for Xu Wei to die is to leave him, because it is not easy to find a job because of personality problems.

"What were you trying to say?"

"Ah?" Zhao Shizhen just breathed a sigh of relief, when Chen Mu suddenly asked a question, his rounded face was full of bewilderment, and then he thought that he wanted to be frank and lenient, but now that courage is gone, he shook his head and said solemnly : "The student wants Chen Shuai not to blame Mr. Xu for leaving the door open."

Chen Mu sneered, shook his head and said, "I'm used to it, instead of blaming him for opening the door, it's better to blame him for howling at night—in Nanjing, is his illness better?"

Xu Wei has always been ill. Most of the time he is normal. When he is normal, he is like a fairy. He writes books and draws pictures. Something that no one can understand, sometimes makes Chen Mu suspect that Xu Wei is just pretending, because he needs an environment to relax himself.

"It's okay in Nanjing, except sometimes..." Zhao Shizhen didn't know how to describe the sound that made the Minister of Rites suspect that a wild animal was locked in his room, so he could only shrug his shoulders and make a rather funny gesture, saying: "Chang Xiao."

At this moment, Xu Wei, whose hair was wet and covered with water plants and shivering from the cold, was pushed into the room by a warrior wrapped in fox fur, his lips were purple, and he said to Chen Mu: "I think that the general should not play this manuscript. , each perform their own duties, non-duty matters are the way to bring disaster, there is no rush to strengthen the army and strengthen the country, as long as the overseas affairs are successful, the country's military strength will be reversed!"

(End of this chapter)