open sea

Chapter 688 Yellow Dog
Chen Mu has always regretted not bringing two geese on board.

The long voyage made life extremely boring. Fortunately, he brought a yellow dog with him, and he could walk the dog on the deck of the Great Wall in his free time.

The voyage of the Eastern Fleet brought more than 800 dogs, and almost every officer had one. The excitement of these dogs going to sea was no less than that of their owners.

During the half month when the fleet first set sail, there were countless dogs running during the day and barking at night on the flagship of each fleet.

Chen Mu's banner army is the most powerful banner army, and their yellow dogs are also the strongest yellow dogs.

"The imperial court called this a hundred households four thousand miles away. Why is it called four thousand miles, four thousand miles away from the capital?"

Standing on the deck together with Chen Mu, Zhu Xiaoen watched from afar the four-thousand-li-hundred-thousand-li-hundred-thousand-li household that they had just replenished with supplies. There was also a dog standing under his feet, with long red curly hair growing on his body. Irish hounds.

It was the same size as Chen Mu's yellow dog, two feet tall at the shoulder, but the yellow dog, which looked like a prairie wolf, was quite different, not quite like a wolf.

Chen Mu raised his arm and pointed at four thousand miles of hundreds of households, so he said westward: "There is a big bay over there. The distance from Kuwu Island to the northeast is four thousand miles, and the coast is eight thousand miles."

"Our brave general walked a long way when exploring the way. It was less than two thousand miles from Kuwu Island to sail eastward. He called Baihusuo this name to remember that he had walked a long way. Be more cautious when exploring the road in the future."

"Smart move."

Zhu Xiaoen nodded slowly. Over the past year in Beiyang, his words and deeds have become more and more like a person from the Ming Dynasty. This is not because of the influence of the environment, but because he has been actively learning.

Learn from what he has seen, from all that he can see.

For example, how a huge country operates, such as the thoughts of the military commander Chen Mu-analyze what is in his head.

In Zhu Xiaoen's eyes, everything in this country is divided into two parts, one part has nothing to do with Chen Mu, and the other part is more or less influenced by Chen Mu.

For example, crafts, for example, military.

Both parts are very powerful to Zhu Xiaoen, but one part is completely unfamiliar and not so easy to understand, while the other part is not so strange, and even seems familiar.

Chen Mu brought him such a strange feeling, his military thinking, his military uniform, his armor and guns, as the first person who can barely be called "knowledgeable in both Chinese and Western", Zhu Xiaoen has quite unique insights .

"Smart move?"

With a suppressed smile on Chen Mu's face, he said, "Later, the heroic general of the empire continued to sail eastward, set up camp in Wangxia Prefecture for several months, and set sail again. This time he went far away again."

"He always thought he was lost, but I knew it wasn't lost because there was no way in itself."

"We can't go to Wangxia Prefecture anymore, otherwise we should really show you. The current Wangxia Prefecture is [-] miles away and [-] miles northeast of Baihusuo. The Wangxia Prefecture originally established by Ma Shuai is [-] miles northeast .”

"In this season, the sea there has frozen into ice, and only the ancient ancestors would walk from the ice to the other side of the sea."

"From here to the east, the fleet sails westward for [-] miles. It may or may not pass through hundreds of households on the island along the way. Those are dangerous places. Small fleets with insufficient supplies must rely on them if they want to pass here. "

"I've never seen a person who is so obsessed with military affairs like the commander-in-chief." Zhu Xiaoen heard Chen Mu bring the topic to the military again, and said helplessly: "No matter what we are talking about, the commander-in-chief will eventually talk about the military, and the military cannot solve the problem." In all matters, most Ming people attach great importance to clan, children and grandchildren, your child is almost two years old, but the commander-in-chief is much more affectionate than his son when it comes to military affairs."

"We live..."

Before Chen Mu finished speaking, Zhu Xiaoen took over the words directly: "I know, I know, we live in a world changed by war, and we will use war to change the next world."

"This sentence will be spread more widely than Plato's 'Children are justifiable to be afraid of the dark, but the greatest tragedy in life is that adults are afraid of the light'. I heard people say that if you stand by yourself, war is the way of a great commander?"

"I can guarantee that in the near future, the whole world will know that in the Ming Empire, there is a general born for war."

Chen Mu tilted his head and smiled. Zhu Xiaoen's Chinese is very fluent, but some pronunciations can be recognized as a barbarian with his eyes closed. Only the sentence he learned, the world changed by the war, is exactly the same as his own in terms of tone and pause.

But he still shook his head and said with a self-confident smile: "You know this sentence, but you don't know the meaning of this sentence. I am the only one in the world who knows."

Zhu Xiaoen blinked, looked at the seabirds flying high in the sky beside the boat, stroked away the water spots splashed by the waves on the scarlet boa robe, cupped his hands and said, "I would like to hear more about it."

Chen Muchui pointed to the yellow dog lying beside his feet, and said, "Which one is better, it or your dog?"

"I don't know." Zhu Xiaoen shook his head, his eyes were a little confused, he didn't know why Chen Mu would ask such a question, and then he continued: "The yellow dog runs fast, is not small in size, is ferocious, has a simple and gentle temperament, and is a very good dog .”

Chen Mu nodded slowly, and said, "It's like us. For thousands of years, it has spread across the world from the Yellow River Basin. Wherever the footprints of the ancestors go, it will follow."

"It has the most noble lineage. It was the ancestor who hunted and guarded the house. It was the first emperor who ruled the world 800 years ago, and it was the one who led the way."

"I am it, it is me, the people of the celestial dynasty and the dog of the celestial dynasty have a face born to win."

"You know the Battle of Linlai Island. I let their fleet sink into the sea. Not only did they treat us as human beings, even the natives of Amerika who looked very similar to the Tang people could be regarded as human beings."

"If we lose Linlai Island, our men will be vulnerable in the battle, and our women will have no status. People are inferior to other people, let alone dogs?"

"If you have enough food and clothing, you will know honor and disgrace. If you lose the war, you will have neither etiquette nor honor and disgrace, and everything will go backwards."

"Everyone must have something to do in this world. Chen was not born for war. I have always wanted to find a way to avoid war."

Zhu Xiaoen stared at Chen Mu seriously, he did not believe that Chen Mu would really find a way to avoid the war, obviously everything about Chen Mu came from the war.

A man never knocks down the walls of an old house until he has a new one.

"did not find."

Chen Mu spoke very naturally, he shrugged his shoulders, raised his feet as soon as the sleeping Rhubarb wagged his tail and followed, leaving Zhu Xiaoen standing on the bow of the boat alone, listening to Chen Mu humming the libretto from nowhere.

"This pile of moss and green tiles, I once slept in a romantic sleep, and it will rise and fall for 50 years-see it all!"

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)