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Chapter 653 Obligations
In the past, Chen Mu didn't quite understand what low eyebrows and pleasing eyes meant. He understood the meaning of this word, but he never really understood it.

But this time on the way back to Beiyang from the capital, he understood.

When he entered Beijing, he brought two Wubians with him, and followed Chen Ju all the way to the capital. When he returned, he followed the same two Wubians, but there were 15 more people.

Four Imperial Forests and one Ministry of Punishment inspect government affairs. Five people have to commit crimes and make meritorious deeds. They are accompanied by five soldiers from the five city soldiers and horses, and five Jinyi escorts.

This low eyebrow is pleasing to the eye, and it is talking about the ten escorts and soldiers, not the five 'prisoners' who have committed crimes and made meritorious deeds.

They were full of teeth and claws, escorting the soldiers along the way, talking nicely, serving good wine and good food, especially Zou Yuanbiao, who was very interested in watching Jinger as he walked, and even painted a picture on the boat, and sent someone to take a rest when he was resting. Send the painting to Chen Mu——Chen Mu is very angry and funny, do you think this is a spring outing?

However, Jun Bing respected these five gentlemen very much, at least more than Chen Mu—because of what the court said, Chen Mu played a complete villain in this turmoil.

He is ignorant of human feelings, ignorant of etiquette, and contempt of God's will. If he is not of high position and authority, the people may still think that he is flattering the powerful.

Regardless of whether they were noisy or calm along the way, Chen Mu didn't pay much attention to these five people, and even went on separate boats. The mere 18 people took two boats and went on the same road until Tianjin.

"The commander-in-chief is back, and it will take two full days to ask the students to wait."

It was Zhao Shizhen who was waiting for Tianjin Weilai by boat. He took a red lacquered single-masted Dafu, intercepted Chen Mu's two small boats at the port, and took everyone on board. Seeing that Chen Mu was puzzled, he explained to Chen Mu as he walked. Said: "This ship was conscripted by Shandong Dusi. In the past, it has been transported by water and by sea along the coast. In the same batch, 23 ships were sent, of different sizes. Fourteen sea ships and the other six were sent to the shipyard. Monthly renovation, this is one of the remaining three ships, and the remaining two are too small to be used, so the military mansion has returned."

"It's just right to stay here. From now on, we will specialize in the transportation from Dagu to Tianjinwei. The six ships will be rebuilt for three months, and three months will be enough to build six new Dafu."

Chen Mu said a little dissatisfied, and had already entered the state of giving orders, saying: "The fourteen sea ships and the sea ships sent from Nanzhi and Fujian in the future will be allocated to Yang Fan's merchant fleet to go to North Korea to transport goods." , no problem and then incorporated into the army's food and horse fleet."

"The time is about the same, but it can save labor and material money! Newly built six brigantines and 920 materials Daifuku, there are 440 workers, and the wages are 400 seven taels of silver. Guangdong and Nanyang have ready-made baked wood and canvas. They are all transported to the Beiyang warehouse, and the cost is about 140 taels. If it is only for renovation, [-] taels will be enough if the six ships are fully loaded."

At present, the Beiyang Shipyard employs more than a thousand craftsmen and corvee craftsmen. The shipyard is only working on six thousand-material warships, and the manpower is far from being saturated. Even if we build a few more Dafu ships, the construction period will not be a problem, especially the ship materials. It is relatively easier to build a batch of ships shipped from Nanyang to Beijing.

However, considering the cost, it is indeed cost-effective to renovate the Fuchuan.

While the two were talking, Zhao Shizhen saw the first few Jinshi behind Chen Mu, and he really let him see a fellow villager Shen Sixiao, and said happily, "Jishan! Why did you take the boat with the commander?"

Shen Sixiao and Zhao Shizhen were not only from the same hometown, Gao Gong, the head of the official department, once wanted to recruit him as a subordinate official when he was a Jinshi. The Ministry of Punishment is in charge, and is actually very close to most officials of the Nanyang faction.

To say that each of the five people has their own experience, they can be divided into three groups. Wu Zhongxing and Zhao Yongxian were the first to go to the memorial. After finishing the memorandum, I went to Zhang Juzheng with the secondary cover to let him read it, and told the teacher face to face: I sue you, the students objected to your being robbed of love.

Afterwards came Ai Mu and Shen Sixiao, they were Zhang Juzheng's fellow villagers, they were very angry when they heard that Duoqing, after summing up, they went to the memorial together, after Wu and Zhao, they both carefully considered.

I won’t talk about Zou Yuanbiao at the end.

This Shen Sixiao had seen Zhao Shizhen a long time ago, but he was embarrassed to say hello, not because of his guilt, but mainly because someone specially conveyed Chen Mu's words in the court to them after the court, Shen Sixiao these two days I kept thinking about Chen Mu's words, but I lost all embarrassment when I was said, and I was a little self-closing.

He bowed his hands to Zhao Shizhen listlessly, without saying much.

Except for Zou Yuanbiao, who was still thinking about painting and drinking among the five, the remaining four fell into deep self-doubt.

Ordinary people in the field only know that Chen Mu is a big villain. He said that the five gentlemen are guilty, but these parties know more about the ins and outs. For example, is Chen Mu right?Although his words are not respectful of the law, the truth is correct.

But if Chen Mu is right, does that mean he is wrong?They don't think they are wrong, so who is wrong?
So even if they are all on the same boat right now, Shen Sixiao can't get up the spirit to say hello.

On the other hand, Zou Yuanbiao, since he was escorted to the boat, has always looked like a high-spirited person who has nothing to do, now he patted Shen Sixiao and the others again, and said with a smile: "Don't be so listless."

After cheering up a few people, he stepped forward and stood in front of Zhao Shizhen, cupping his hands and said, "My lord, Zou Yuanbiao, was born as a Jinshi. He has observed government affairs in the Ministry of Punishment for three months. He is going to take up his post in America. From now on, colleagues, be polite!"

Chen Mu didn't know where Zou Yuanbiao's energetic spirit came from. He curled his lips and introduced angrily: "Zhao Changji, a staff member of the Beiyang Army, has mastered several foreign languages, is good at calligraphy, general translation, and making weapons. Looking at Beiyang and Nanyang, official document writing can be ranked third.”

"Oh, I've heard of your name! Calligraphy is famous in the world. You must have studied in Taixue!" Zou Yuanbiao not only knows this, but also knows that a pair of poetry fans mentioned by Zhao Shizhen can sell for hundreds of taels of silver, but not Knowing whether people like it or not, he simply didn't say anything, saying: "I didn't hear about it later, so it turned out that he entered the shogunate!"

The fellow who greeted him didn't pay attention to him, and a familiar person popped up suddenly, which made Secretary Zhao a little confused. He smiled awkwardly and said hello, and frowned at Chen Mu and asked, "Master, this..."

"Impeaching the five gentlemen who are old Duoqing in the pavilion, they might have been beaten to death by the emperor. I think it's a pity for young people to say a few words in exchange for a beating and ruin their official career." Chen Mu spread his hands. , Not shy away from speaking, said: "Pack them up and bring them to Beiyang. The Ministry of Officials has given them official positions. When the fleet goes to sea, put them in North America as county magistrates."

"Because of these five idiots, Mr. Zhang from the Ministry of Officials said that I don't know the principles of human relations, and my words are biased and rude to the court. I have two first-rank officials and one has a salary of nearly six thousand stones for two years from the first-rank official position." Chen Mu clapped his hands together, Said: "The penalty is confiscated. This sailing eastward is really voluntary labor."

(End of this chapter)