open sea

Chapter 564 Accounts
At three poles in the sun, there are hundreds of houses in the backyard of the hundreds of yamen at Dagukou.

Chen Gong, an important Beiyang official who occupied the magpie's nest, climbed up from the couch sleepily. The cool wind made him slip back into the bed again. It took a long time to pluck up the courage to crawl out. Wear it over a plain silk singlet.

He glanced at the table, sober.

The large pocket watch on the table that has traveled half the world has gone through many wanderings, and the brass case has long since been disc-coated by the hands of many masters. The time-marked dial that was replaced by Chen Mu is now pointing to three o'clock.

It was almost noon.

Pushing open the door, the strange scene of the courtyard came into his eyes. Juniper was shirtless and swinging two heavy stone locks.

There are several followers behind him, all of them are about the same in appearance, but at the same time they are trying to exert their strength, but at the same time they show a light-footed demeanor-their voices are not as loud as the birds in the trees in the yard.

Seeing Chen Mu leaning out lazily, Juniper opened his hands, and two large stone locks weighing forty to fifty kilograms fell to the ground with a heavy sound, smashing two small holes in the surrounding compacted ground, holding them on his shoulders. Wiping the towel on his body, he grinned and said: "The handsome man can count. The governor of Guangdong and Guangxi came to say goodbye in the morning. Seeing that the handsome man didn't get up, he said that he had gone to Beijing to report on his work. Anyway, he had to take the sea from Tianjin again in a few days." .”

"It's better to sleep comfortably in Baihu Yamen. When I have free time, I will go back to Qingyuan with me. I don't know if my Zongqi Yamen is still there."

Chen Mu stretched himself facing the sunlight, and yawned meaninglessly a few times, then asked Juniper in surprise, "Mr. Yin is leaving now, and he left by himself?"

Chatted with Yin Zhengmao very well last night, Chen Mu drank a few more glasses, and he couldn't remember exactly what they talked about at the end, but his impression seemed to be the customs of the countries in Southeast Asia.

He shook his head and yawned again, and then he said with a bit of guilt: "I drank too much last night, I should get up early to deliver it."

While talking, there were servants carrying copper basins and various utensils that had already been prepared. Three copper basins were filled with cool water, and the kettle was filled with hot water. Nine small paper packets.

In the paper bag, there are teeth-cleaning powders made of white teeth, meretrix meretrix, sea clams, and cassia, which can whiten teeth; agarwood, white sandalwood, sorrel, carapace, diptero, musk and cooked honey for fresh breath The prepared toothpaste; and a small cup of mouthwash with a little alum in it - this is a bit toxic and cannot be used frequently, because the weather in the north is dry, and Chen Mu has a bit of mouth ulcers recently.

The paper package for washing face is egg white, bean powder, honey, soap pod pulp, Angelica dahurica, Radix Aconiti, Bletilla striata, Tribulus terrestris, Bai Lian, Aconitum aconitum, Hawthorn, Gansong, white clove, rhubarb, Artemisia, Crane White, almond, mituoseng, camphor, and baby tea are agglomerated into soap, which has the effects of cleansing, invigorating blood, refreshing the brain and removing stains.

I wash my hair with juice extracted from sesame leaves, hibiscus leaves, ginger, etc. You can understand it when you see the ginger. It is obvious that Chen Mu has lost some hair recently.

In addition to these, there are mouth grease and face grease, which are applied after washing. Chen Mu, who has no experience in the backcountry, doesn't understand these. It was delivered by Yang Qingluan, the wife of Weigang, who was packed every other day, and sent for daily use every other day.

The Yang family has never spared manpower. Chen Mu used to think that Yang Yinglong had already shown it by bringing a dozen large boxes of silver drinking and tableware when he went out. Facts have proved that he still knows too little.

Unless he went to war, it didn't matter whether he was in Beijing or Manila, wherever Chen Mu could go, the daily paper packages from Weigang Chen's House could be delivered in ice boxes right after him.

It’s not that they couldn’t be delivered during the war. The earliest supply ships also had these things. It’s just that military law doesn’t allow them, and second, he doesn’t have time to use them. The lady just gave up.

"No need to send it off. The governor of Guangdong and Guangxi came to Beijing to report on his duties and is more prestigious than the handsome man. The official sedan chair came directly from the capital. In the morning, he was waiting outside the Baihu Office at dawn." Juniper looked at the lazy man who washed his face so late. , smiled and said: "Where does he look like a handsome man, he can ride a horse when he enters the capital."

Chen Mu, who was washing his hair, laughed, and the apology in his heart for not seeing him off disappeared. He closed his eyes and said, "I don't sit in a sedan chair. You go out and ask, who in Beijing doesn't know?"

"By the way, handsome, Luzon's commander is waiting at the yamen."

"Understood, fetch the armor."

Chen Mu was like a bright mirror in his heart. What Fu Yuan said was that the ship was broken on the road and would have to be repaired at the port for a few days. However, Chen Mu felt that it might be because he himself made a small problem with the ship when he was near the port. There is a message from the military mansion or the Guangzhou mansion.

Cleaning instructions are complicated to say, but in fact they were finished in a while. The weather was warm and they were meeting their own people. Chen Mu, who was wearing mail and his hair was disheveled, entered the yamen.

Fu Yuan was still the same, no matter how hard he tried to pretend to be sitting upright, his inadvertent rogue look could deceive others, but he couldn't deceive Chen Mu who had watched him transform from a banner soldier to a commander.

"Subordinates pay respects to the commander-in-chief!"

Chen Mu beckoned him to sit down, and everyone in the hundred-household yamen was dismissed by Chen Mu, and asked: "What happened at home, why did you go ashore on purpose?"

Seeing that Chen Mu saw through, Fu Yuan laughed straight away, without any embarrassment on his face, and complimented in a low voice: "The commander-in-chief knows things like a god, but in fact it's not a big deal, it's the Nanyang Military Mansion."

"Now Nanyang Commander-in-Chief is taken over by Gao Gong, and Commander-in-Chief Bei takes up the post. We in Nanyang are all senior commanders. In the past, it was the responsibility of the Generalissimo. I don't know whether we should pass the message to the Commander-in-Chief now, and Mr. Gao did not." In this sense, we, together with Bai Shuai and Chen Shuai, should say that the escort ship is going to Japan to transport grain." Fu Yuangong clasped his hands and said, "I sent the younger one here."

As he said that, he flipped his hands again and said: "Unexpectedly, the handsome man dismissed the Nanyang commander and appointed the Beiyang commander who controlled the Sanyo. The little one is in vain."

As Fu Yuan said, he dug out a thick stack of bound documents from his cowhide backpack, and submitted them to the supreme authority: "These are the various accounts of the Nanyang Military Mansion last year, and they were not fully prepared without the permission of Duke Gao; When we arrive in Nanyang, Duke Gao should be ready to send it to Beiyang."

Chen Mu looked at Fu Yuan and nodded slowly, without looking at the accounts, he slowly pushed to Fu Yuan and said, "Burn it, Mr. Gao did the right thing, don't do things like get accounts from now on, especially don't take them yourself."

He didn't go to see it because he didn't need to.

People from Nanyang sent their hearts, not accounts.

He is in charge of Nanyang, so do we need to look at last year's accounts?He just didn't know the accounts after leaving the Nanyang Military Mansion this year.

"But you came just in time. I have a few things for you to do."

Fu Yuan got up and clasped his fists over there, while Chen Mu raised his finger and said, "Escort the boat to Japan, and let Li Dan report to me with all the situation of the battle; return to Nanyang, let the military government build ships, and send six Ding Liujia formations to Beiyang to transport craftsmen." [-] soldiers, [-] military doctors each, and [-] graduates from the Naval Lecture Hall this year."

"Also, send a letter to the Ordnance Bureau to use coke to make iron, and use coke to make iron. Whatever technology is good, come here."

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)