At night, Nanyang Yamen Fort.

It started raining again in Macheng, and the dripping hit the red glass window. Hai Rui had never seen such a window before.

In fact, taking office this time has brought great impact to Hai Rui. Even if Chen Mu doesn't say nonsense, the old man has never seen such a fort, such a window, and has never seen a warship like Chihai-class in the past.

"I'm not picking on the wrong things. When I get old, I'll nag you. I'm still impatient when you say a few words. What he said is what he said, and I'm using a painting to fool me."

Hai Rui was lying on the couch, and Cheng Hongyuan was pricked on his thin legs. He was rheumatoid and his legs hurt when it rained. But Macheng is located between two major mountains, and it always rains when clouds accumulate.

"Old sir, that's not a painting. Ming Gong said it's right, that's a map of the world."

Secretary Zhao sat on the side with his eyebrows down and sat obediently like a student. He was ordered by Chen Mu to see what Hai Rui was not used to when he had just arrived here. He happened to see Hai Rui soaking his feet in hot water. After inquiring, he called the doctor Cheng Hongyuan and gave him a massage.

"I have heard of foreign fans and I have heard of it a little, and it is definitely not what Chen Shuaitang hangs it."

The foreign pictures mentioned by Hai Rui were the charts brought back by Zheng He when he voyage to the West, which were different from Chen Mu's charts.

Zhao Shizhen said: "Supervisor Chen has no foreign pictures. The deceased in the hall was drawn from east to west by Ming people, and the Western barbarians Pingtuo from west to east. It has not been completed and is being filled."

"Who has been?"

Hai Rui lay down and widened his eyes, "You can't take it seriously if you haven't been there!"

Zhao Shizhen smiled, nodded and said, "Yes, Chen Shuai thought so too. He said that he would use it as an impression first, wait for the fleet to sail, and then do it thoroughly, and you should not believe it."

Hai Rui felt comfortable, squinted his eyes and nodded, then continued, "I know that Luzon is not as good as the middle school of the country. The war has not yet ended, and Shuai Chen has all kinds of things and is very tired. Everyone says that I will find trouble wherever I go. I am not sick, and if those colleagues do not take it as their responsibility to plunder the people's wealth and ointment, will Hai cause trouble for them?"

"The people can't even have enough food. The inn can consume hundreds of stones in a month. The extravagant trend of officials and human relationships is getting worse and worse, as if this world should be like this." Hai Rui narrowed his eyes, and said in a cold voice: "My ancestors had already had regulations. If they were greedy for 80 chunks of money, they should be skinned and grass!"

As he said that, Hai Rui changed his mind and praised Chen Mu, saying, "Like Chen Shuai, I don't feel shabby when I brought two fish for a meeting ceremony, and there are very few people."

Zhao Shizhen curled his lips and said proudly: "My lord doesn't let someone give him gifts, but the atmosphere is like this. In today's world, anyone who wants to achieve great things must clear the upper and lower levels, and there is no way to do anything."

In other words, Chen Mu only gives gifts, not accepts gifts.

This is actually something that goes against common sense. If you don’t accept gifts, where can you get the money to give gifts? But you can’t resist Chen Mu’s own open source and opening.

Zhao Shizhen was full of ridicule for these two fish, but he was not mocking the two fish, but mocking who in the world could afford gifts to Chen Mu.

How much does it take to get the God of Wealth to raise its eyebrows?

"Haodun can rest assured about greed about the ink, my lord doesn't like that little money, a county magistrate." Zhao Shizhen raised a finger and said, "I have been plundering the civil servants for a year and a half, and my whole fortune is not as good as the Ming Gong who earns money in one day. Alas."

While being proud, Zhao Shizhen suddenly sighed and said, "It's just a manager, and it was released in a blink of an eye. It either worships His Majesty's inner treasury or sent to the Ministry of Revenue's treasury. The remaining small ones have to be invested in Guangzhou Prefecture, saying that they want to encourage production, plus self-raised military expenses."

Zhao Shizhen squeezed his eyes and shook his head, "Gold and silver, in the Nanyang Yamen, it's not money, guns, cannons, ships are just hard goods."

Hai Rui is extremely intelligent, but he still doesn't know much about the various situations in the Nanyang Yamen. He assumed that it was a trap for Zhao Shizhen's words, and nodded without comment. He heard Zhao Shizhen talk about the three treasures of Chen and asked: "I wanted to ask Chen Shuai earlier why those six warships carved huge stone portraits on the bow of the ship, which is beneficial to the war?"

"Ha, the Haigong is talking about the statue of the gods on the bow of the ship. It was learned from the Western Barbarians. When they came to Luzon, they met a large ship called the Babulo. They had a huge rock warrior statue at the bow of the ship. The warships were invincible at the sea. Our navy used multiple warships to injure it and captured it, and sent it to the Nanyang Guard Shipyard for craftsmen to understand it and learn its skills."

"Before learning the skills, the craftsmen have learned this big stone statue first." Zhao Shizhen said the bow image and laughed, "The statue of Liu Ding is really powerful! It is estimated that the six new ships at the beginning of next year will be the statue of Liu Jia."

"This year, Ding Chou will prolong my life, Ding Hai will restrain my soul, Ding You will restrain my soul, Ding Wei will curb my disaster, Ding Si will overcome my danger, Ding Mao will overcome my disaster; next year, Jiazi will protect my body, Jiaxu will protect my body, Jiashen will consolidate my life, Jiawu will protect my soul, Jiachen will suppress my spirit, Jiayin will nourish my trueness."

Although Zhao Shizhen was a scholar, he was extremely excited when talking about the warship and the people under Chen Mu's commandments, and said, "Hai Gong, wait, lord said that the Western barbarians will definitely invade the army in the next year. At that time, the Six Dings and Six Jias will be launched together, which will truly establish the prestige of the Ming Dynasty in Nanyang!"

The patron saint of Liuding and Liujia, Hai Rui knew, but Hai Rui didn't know the matter of the Battle of the South China Sea and didn't care. Chen Mu was worried about the war, so he didn't care about it. The old man sighed and asked, "Shuai Chen said, what should I do in Luzon?"

"I've said that it's time for Mr. Hai to come. Now that the new governor has not arrived, the lord asked me to temporarily manage political affairs, but it's far from you. At present, the three important tasks in Luzon are: one is the great master of academic affairs, and Mr. Hai is a teacher, so it's no problem; the other is to formulate taxes for clearing the land and acres of land, which you have done in the past; as for the third one, it's much more difficult, and you need to make up a set of detention methods."

"You are here to do these three things. The lord has no worries and will think about whether to advance east or go west after defeating the Western Barbarians in the next year."

Cheng Hongyuan took off the last needle, Hai Rui sat up and moved his legs, frowned and asked, "Go east and west?"

Zhao Shizhen nodded and said, "Yes, going east and west is the next strategy of the Nanyang Yamen. Based on Guangdong and Luzon, building warships and training soldiers. It is said that it is something, but it is just an easy statement. In fact, there is still a south side. Chen Shuai said that there is a big island thousands of miles south, so the real statement is to go east and west to go south."

"To the west, there are Borneo and Malacca; to the east, there is Japan in war, and to the south, there are giant islands that are unknown to the truth."

"At present, the staff are all arguing about where to go. Borneo and Malacca are the easiest, but they are worried that it will be difficult to guarantee a conflict with Portuguese. Now the main source of income is Portuguese, and they cannot be enemies with them."
Chapter completed!