open sea

Chapter 560
In the blink of an eye for more than ten days, during this period of time, Chen Mu was so busy that he kept inspecting the site selection of the Beiyang Yamen and the surrounding environment.

The location of the Yamen of the Beiyang Military Mansion was chosen on the north bank of the Wei River. The Tianjin Wei District set aside a large piece of wasteland, and began to recruit craftsmen with excellent construction skills to inspect the place and design and draw.

The surrounding area of ​​Tianjin is full of farmland and civilian fields. It is not easy for Tianjin Road to find a few decent places for Beiyang yamen. The other two places are on the south bank, both near Dagu Haikou.

Chen Mu chose the north bank because he did not want to disturb the fields of the people on the south bank, and because the northeast coast of the north bank is very suitable for building docks, and there are several villages far to the west, and the people are all salt cookers in the northwest salt field. On the land, the great achievements of the Beiyang military government were displayed.

Of course, when Zhao Shizhen saw Chen Mu's drawing of Beiyang Military Mansion, he always suspected that Chen Mu was not planning to build a military mansion, but wanted to build a redundant big city next to a big city.

Zhao Yuanwai, who supervised the construction of the warehouse, also knew that it was a bit strange to call the strange thing on Chen Mu's drawing a big city, because it really belonged to the category of a city. There was only a small bastion in the picture, but the surrounding area was too big!
Seeing that the rainy season in the north is coming, Nanyang's transport of heavy goods is likely to arrive before the heavy rain. They have to repair the warehouse and tamp the road first. Some goods cannot be damp.

Riding his horse and galloping along the official road on the north bank, Chen Mu rushed all the way back to the Dagu Fortress, for no other reason than people from Nanyang.

On the far coast, you can see warships docked like shadows. It is half of the Nanyang or Fujian-Guangzhou regular fleet, also known as Liuding or Liujia. Gather and stop.

There were only three such fleets in the whole of Guangdong three years ago, each of which indicated that there were twelve smaller warships around it.

But now, the standing fleet of Liuding Liujia is in Guangxi, Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang, and Nanzhili, and there are three fleets in one capital and four provinces-so to speak, the Nanyang military mansion has become the guy with short legs, The military government still only has one team of six Ding Liujia, and there are three other ships seconded under the command of Japan's Chen Bazhi.

There is no way, the Nanyang military government has too few troops, Liu Ding Liujia is a thousand-material warship, in Nanyang, where sea battles are frequent, there are two [-]-material ships and ten [-]-material battleships to protect the battlefield. There are six or more Sibaiyao Daifuku as grain ships.

A team of six Ding Liujia formations has a capacity of 1 people when fully loaded. There are only [-] in the Nanyang area directly under the Nanyang Military Mansion. The Zongfan army used their own ships when sending troops—after all, the ships they bought from Chen Mu couldn't just sit rusty, right?

Not to mention the secondment of Guangdong and Guangxi ships when needed, the Nanyang Military Mansion itself does not have more people to take the ship.

Outside the Dagukou Fortress, a hundred Nanyang Banner troops were setting up tents. Chen Mu recognized Fu Yuan who was giving orders in the camp in a serious manner while still on horseback. He followed him as if he heard the sound of horseshoes. Turning her head and running to the official road to greet her, she walked briskly to make the atmosphere become dog-legged.

"Handsome!"

Chen Mu frowned slightly, said hello to Fu Yuan, then turned his hand and pointed to the shore, saying: "What's the matter with the fleet, that's not Beijing Yun."

Hearing Chen Mu's nonsense words, Fu Yuan didn't even froze. He was obviously prepared to report, and said with a smile: "Since Commander Beishan reported his duties, the military affairs are handled by Gao Gong, Bai Shuai, and Chen Shuai. Acting, last year the Japanese war was fought in a hurry, and this is the baggage that was sent to the five islands at the beginning of the year."

The Chen in his mouth is Chen Lin's Chen.

"Then why did you go ashore, what are those boats doing?"

Those are six fleets, regardless of Gao Gong or Chen Lin, it is impossible for Fu Yuan to escort them alone, and the army alone maintains a combat strength of at least [-].

Immediately afterwards, I heard Fu Yuan say: "My ship is broken down, and I have to go ashore to rest. Others will leave tomorrow after replenishing water and food at Tianjin Port, and the military law will not let me go ashore."

Chen Mu saw that his expression was different, and felt that he had something to say. Fu Yuanchao looked at the fortress, and hurriedly said: "Governor Yin Gong of Guangdong and Guangxi came to Beijing to report on his duties, and he is waiting for the handsome man inside."

Now, Chen Mu understood that it was Yin Zhengmao who also returned to Beijing to report on his work, but the report at this time was very intriguing.

Chen Mu didn't tell Fu Yuanduo any more, probably he came to tell him about Nanyang's private affairs, and after seeing Yin Zhengmao, he didn't want to talk about it in detail, so he nodded towards Fu Yuan and walked towards the fortress.

The fortress of Dagukou is not big, and it is not as big as a small acropolis. When you pass through the school yard, you can see hundreds of yamen halls with soldiers waiting for you. Yin Zhengmao, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, who is over [-] years old, sits on the left and frowns while holding a teacup. He didn't say a word, wearing a black gauze on his head and wearing a scarlet robe, he was very serious. When he saw someone passing through the school grounds from the corner of his eye, he glanced this way, stood up, stretched his arms to retract the official robe, and walked out of the yamen quickly.

"Your official, Minister of the Western Ocean, Yin Zhengmao, pays homage to the important minister of the Northern Ocean, Chen Gong!"

Just as Chen Mu quickened his pace and wanted to go over to salute, Yin Zhengmao made a gesture of bowing down, but Chen Mu believed that he would really bow down if he didn't run two steps, but he was quite frightened, and hurried forward to stop him.

"Dr. Yin, please don't discourage this junior. I am not only your junior, you are also my old boss. It would be a sin not to come to greet you!"

To be honest, he didn't like Yin Zhengmao very much, and during the years when Yin Zhengmao was the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, he traveled north and south, and he didn't have much involvement with Guangdong and Guangxi. Apart from sending people to the house to deliver some things during the New Year and holidays, he didn't have much contact with him.

As the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, Yin Zhengmao has done much better than his predecessor Zhang Han. He is a veteran. The reason why Chen Mu doesn’t want to have more contact with him is that the reputation is not good, and Yin Zhengmao’s relationship is too hard. After Guangdong and Guangxi, it was the cold face of the chiefs of the two places, which made Chen Mu not dare to approach him. If he offended, he would not be able to offend them.

In the years when Yin Zhengmao was the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, Gao Gongzheng was in power, and he was the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi under Gao Gong's order; but in terms of close relationship, he was closer to Zhang Juzheng-the two were Jinshi in the same year.

Of course, the difference between the two is that in Jiajing's 26-year admission record, Zhang Juzheng ranked No. 12 in the positive number and Yin Zhengmao ranked No. 12 in the bottom.

As for the reputation, there is actually nothing to say, it is nothing more than that Yin Zhengmao was a civil servant, paid taxes, and was a military officer with black military pay.

It is not a secret that the government and the public know.

But whether you like it or not, Chen Mu didn't want to be unhappy with the [-]-year-old general, especially after hearing Yin Zhengmao's words, his face became like an intangible cultural heritage.

As soon as he lifted Yin Zhengmao from the ground with difficulty, Chen Mu stared wide-eyed with his usual exaggerated smirk and said in shock: "I didn't expect the court to appoint Yin Gong as the minister of Western countries! Overseas affairs are settled!"

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)