open sea

Chapter 817 News
Since the immigrant arrived from the east, the messy affairs in Changsheng County have not stopped for more than half a month. The news of the death of the imperial court official was brought by the Shanghai ship. He assigned his cronies to take the next boat back to Daming to go to Yihuang County in Jiangxi to pay condolences to Xinjian on his behalf.

It was Tan Lun who passed away first, who was already the crown prince Shaobao, and the imperial court gave the crown prince Taibao posthumously, with the posthumous title of Xiangmin.

The old man still remembered him before he passed away, so he sent someone to copy four copies of his military book, called "Military Regulations Class Examination". in his hands.

The remaining two copies were sent to the North and South Lecture Halls to bring an end to his military career.

Another death news is that Wu Guifang, the old governor who promoted Chen Mu at the end of the century, was first transferred from the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi to the right servant of the Nanjing Ministry of War, and then turned north to the left to be the left servant of the Beijing Ministry of War. At that time, Chen Mu went north, and Wu Guifang's health was not very good .

Later, the old man became the governor of water transportation, built Caowan River on the north bank of Huaihe River, and built two dikes in Gaoyou East and West to store the lake water. The minister of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce passed away within a month, and the imperial court presented the meritorious service of Gaoyou Lake to Prince Shaobao.

In addition to these two, it was rumored in the family that Gao Gong's health was also not good. The emperor ordered the doctors of the Beiyang Medical Academy to go to Nanyang to recuperate the health of the ministers. The first-class doctor who went there was called Li Shizhen. ", summarizing tens of millions of herbs in the world.

However, his book was not taken seriously in the Beiyang Medical Academy. I remember that if there are too many prescriptions, mistakes will inevitably occur. Regardless of whether the Medical Academy or the Imperial Hospital are imperial institutions, they do not pay attention to miscellaneous prescriptions, and pay more attention to practical and symptomatic main prescriptions.

For example, another book by Li Shizhen who won the Wanli Medical Award, "The Eight Meridians of the Strange Classics", was the favorite of Cheng Hongyuan, an old doctor who became the dean of the Beiyang Academy of Medical Sciences in a daze. "Pulse Science" is deeply loved by the dean who is not very skilled in medicine.

Since Cheng Hongyuan, who knows only surgery, has read Li Shizhen's book, his medical skills have improved by leaps and bounds.

These news have been bombarding indiscriminately in his ears for several days, making Chen Mu inevitably feel sad.

Tan Lun and Wu Guifang passed away one after another, and Gao Gong became seriously ill, which made him feel more and more that an era was coming to an end.

It belonged to the era when the Ming Dynasty was deeply troubled by the southern Japanese and the northern captives.

In Chen Mu's view, that era full of disasters is indeed over. In the army brought from Japan with Li Dan and Chen Jiujing, there is a well-known figure to Chen Mu. In response to the order of the Japanese King Ashikaga Yoshiaki to come to aid.

But it’s useless. Uesugi, known as the “Dragon of Echigo”, has not been in command of the guard for more than a year. He drank too much alcohol and fell asleep on the ship on the voyage, causing panic among the two thousand Echigo soldiers. It all depends on the adopted son Jing Sheng to stabilize the morale of the army, otherwise their dozen or so boats would turn around and sail back.

Chen Mu asked Chen Jiujing, who led the troops, how his official position in Japan was calculated, and why he gave Uesugi Kenshin a fourth-rank commander.

The Nine Classics said that this was determined by Bazhi, because Uesugi's original official position was from the fifth rank on their side, and the subordinate officer was promoted to the third rank, which happened to be the fourth rank, so he was sealed as a commander.

This is great, he died from drinking on the road, and Chen Mu's military government had to be promoted on the spot, and sent a proposal to the court to posthumously give away the third-rank Echigo Commander, and at the same time appointed his adopted son Jing Sheng to take over the official position of Wei Zhenfu , Continue to command the troops.

Of course, there are good things in the news from China, for example, the old man Zhang Han joined the cabinet.

Perhaps it was because he did not oppose Zhang Juzheng in the matter of seizing love. Zhang Han entered the cabinet soon after Lu Tiaoyang left, becoming one of the few ministers in the history of the Ming Dynasty who entered the cabinet without Hanlin qualifications.

Judging from the letter, the old man must be happy, but he is more afraid than happy. This letter was written when he first entered the cabinet, but he asked Chen Mu in the letter whether he would go to Dongyang or Nanyang after he became an official. it is good.

From the bottom of his heart, Zhang Han hopes to go to Nanyang, because it is close to home; but because he is close to home, he feels scared, and thinks that Dongyang is probably better.

He was nervous, as if he was not entering the cabinet but entering a prison.

Fortunately, the airs of the Dongyang Military Mansion have been set up, and the staff and chiefs of various departments can still do things without Chen Mu. Otherwise, just handling these things one by one can take up all of Chen Mu's time.

After he paid homage to Tan Lun and Wu Guifang, and then returned to the port office, the former underground wine cellar had been transformed into an underground command room.In the middle of the two rows of tables is a huge sand table with a length and width of five feet. The topographic map of the sand table shrinks the radius of Changsheng County to a radius of [-] miles strictly according to the terrain and scale.

Mountains, canyons, ravines, plains, rivers, dense forests and oceans, all kinds of landforms are in a square inch, glued with dyes of different colors.

This five-foot-long sand table is only half completed now, with densely packed squares drawn with ink lines surrounding Changsheng County near the sea, and numbered with ink pens according to the distance from the county seat to the squares.

On the side of each number, there are molds to burn out small pottery courtyards. The size of the pottery courtyard is no more than half a palm. Some of the villages near the county seat have written the name of the village, while the places farther away have only numbers but no names for the time being.

No matter how far away, because of the distance, the Ming army could not fully understand the local terrain, so there was not even a small courtyard.

Qianhu Lin Huer led the banner army to escort the immigrants to the station from west to east. Another task he took on was to map out the surrounding terrain of the passing villages according to the number. When his banner army came back, these terrains and villages could be integrated Once completed, this also means that the eyes of the Ming army's mastery of the terrain will directly face Mexico City across the mountain.

If those people knew the irresponsible attitude of the local governor, they would be very angry, right?Before Chen Mu knew what the terrain looked like two hundred miles away, he had already allocated the land five hundred miles away.

Zou Yuanbiao didn't come to work today, only County Zhongdian Shi was in casual clothes and decorated by craftsmen in the underground command room.

In the county, there are aboriginal people getting married. In the Ming Dynasty, this happy event was called Xiaodengke. When common people got married, the groom could wear a nine-rank green official robe, and the bride could wear a nine-rank phoenix crown and a nine-rank embroidered school pattern Xiapei—honest and honest Ordinary people only have this chance in their lifetime to obey the order and violate the system.

This custom also continued here with the Ming army. The official robes of Dianshi were lent to the aboriginal grooms who got married.

As for his parents, Mr. Zou Yuanbiao, the magistrate of the county, asked for leave today from Mr. Zhao, the mechanics unit of the military government, and went to drink a wedding.

In fact, Chen Mu should also go to this kind of occasion, but he was depressed because of the death of two elders who had supported him. He didn't want to participate in such a happy event, so he had to go to the command room to look at the sand table and think about the food behind. from where.

Before he could figure out the result, the guards at the port ran into the basement of the yamen, cupped their fists and said, "Commander, the fleet is urgent!"

(End of this chapter)