Yang Bo, the Minister of Personnel, who had been in general and prime minister for more than 40 years, died of illness. Although the matters of the court were not at all in the deaths of the late emperor, the cabinet ministers quickly proposed to choose a new candidate for the Minister of Personnel. When the newspaper was passed to Guangdong, Chen Mu picked up a pen and wrote two congratulatory congratulatory messages with humble and gentle words.

Secretary of the Ministry of Personnel in Beijing, Zhang Han.

Secretary of the Ministry of War in Beijing, Tan Lun.

This is probably the limit that Zhang Han can reach in his career.

When the imperial court changed from old to old, Chen Mu lived in the Chen Mansion in Nanyang for a few days, feeling the changes he brought to the world. He guessed that Gaoge was coming to play with him.

The undercurrents in the capital were surging, just like the uneven Pacific Ocean.

In this vast ocean named after Magellan, in the equatorial windless zone, a fleet led by Lin Manjue, the chief officer of Guangdong camp soldiers, was approaching Guam by Zeng Xishun. Nine warships, grain ships, all over the place, traveled eastward in line.

On the Fleet Flagship Five Hundred Materials, the deputy general manager Zeng Xishun walked quickly across the deck with a sword, and looked at Lin Manjue in the distance with a telescope at the bow and said, "Brother, isn't it far?"

This fleet of more than 400 soldiers were all villager-stricken in the past. They were villagers in the border areas of Guangdong, Huguang and Fujian. They have always been in the three irresponsible areas. The bandits were rampant and the clan protected themselves, so the people were brave. Lin Manjue and Chen Laidao commanded Lin Dayuan, the same clan. They suppressed bandits in the local area and had great military achievements, so they were transferred to their command by Chen Lin.

As for Chen Lin, he had never taken the martial arts exam and was not a military household. He was a local brave man, so he naturally liked these local brave men who had made a breakthrough through the same wild path.

In the past, Lin Manjue was a village hero in Pingyuan County. Since the magistrate Wang Hua ordered the local township to build villages to protect themselves, the Lin clan built towers and houses in the local area, just like a small castle. The clan craftsmen built bird guns and stone cannons. However, when there were few bandits, they attacked, and when there were many, they defended. They often crossed the border to attack thieves. Even if the soldiers were strong and the horses were strong, they were usually not as good as those in the camp, let alone the garrison.

The scale of the southern clan armed battle has always been very large. Qi Jiguang first recruited Yiwu mine soldiers to watch an armed battle from a distance. The ferocity shocked Qi Shuai, who killed the Japanese without blinking, and this was the Qi family army that became famous all over the world.

Lin Manjue was similar, and they were even better than Yiwu miners when it comes to using firearms. The reason why Chen Lin reorganized a general team was because he had eliminated all the women, children, the elderly and the weak under Qianchang, and let them stay in the place, and transferred more than 440 to him to fight south.

However, local soldiers also have the disadvantages of local soldiers. They are not afraid of fighting, but they are afraid of seeing fewer worlds and going to sea.

After floating on the sea for more than a month, the soldiers were panicked.

Lin Manjue was also panicked. He looked at the simple and clear charts in the cabin more than once at night, wondering if he had gone in the wrong direction... He had never seen such a sea, and he could not see any land in a whole month.

"It should be not far away. Let the brothers on the boat be careful from tomorrow and stop fishing." Lin Manjue felt unsure when he said this. Guam was just a little bit on the chart. Even if the course was just a little bit off when Chen came to the island, it would be more than a hundred miles away. He got off the telescope and asked in a pondering manner: "How far is this boat going in a day?"

"The wind is too small, and the boat dares not open a sail, so it won't go up." Zeng Xishun calculated with his fingers and said, "Between 150 and 200 miles a day?"

The Ming people measured the speed of ships the same as the method of measuring the speed of ships in the Eastern Wu period in ancient Three Kingdoms. People threw down the wood chips at the bow and ran towards the stern. If the wood chips arrived first, the ship speed was faster than the human being, and they would call more. If the wood chips arrived later, no one would run faster and they could not call more.

The day and night are ten times, and the normal speed of the first update is sixty miles. The relationship between wind and waves overseas is often slower than that of the first. Moreover, Lin Manjue is worried about getting lost and dare not open his sails.

"That should be almost here. Walk east for another three days. If you can't see Guam, you can't see north for three days. If you can't see south for another six days. If you really can't do it, you can only return it."

His soldiers were already very panicked. If they continued like this, something would happen. Moreover, their ship rations were only two months left. The windy day was coming again. Any accident would happen, and more than 400 people would be buried in the ocean.

From Chenlai Island to the southernmost end of Luzon, then turn east, they have sailed for 6,000 miles, and can't see anything everywhere. There is only the blue sky and blue sea. As the voyage goes further and further away, even seabirds cannot be seen. For sailors, the most terrible thing is the unknown.

"It's okay, brothers, you guys should not panic at night. Chen Shuai is really amazing. The fishing gear behind the small shark boat was complete, and a green dragon was caught playing in the water. It was more than 200 kilograms. The soup was already started on the big grain boat."

The green dragon plays in the water is not a snake, but a turtle with green hair on its limbs, heads, backs, braces, and braces. It is extremely rare.

"If you meet this thing again, don't slaughter it. Put it in the bottom of the ship and go back to present it to the general." Lin Manjue looked at the east and looked gloomy and cursed in depression, "I don't know if I can find them... Is there any fragrance?"

"Yes, yes, and you want to open an altar to worship Master Daojun?"

"By bye, General Deng gave Bu a divination before going to sea, saying that he was shocked and was in danger." Lin Manjue scratched his forehead and wiped his face and said, "If you can get back three of nine boats, even if I, Lin Saner, have not burned in vain!"

Lin Manjue actually had some hope that he would not be able to find Guam. Going back was nothing more than some punishment, but if he found it, he would have to wait for an opportunity to land on the island to find out the enemy situation. Anyone who landed on the island would be found, and at that time he would be able to chase the death and die, and work hard.

He didn't want to find Guam, but after finding his responsibilities, he had to land on the island, otherwise he would be unwilling to accept it.

This is because of fear, but not because of death. He led his tribe members to attack thieves and kill bandits for more than ten years, but never feared death. These young men were brought out from Pingyuan County. At that time, the villagers would ask him for babies. Compared to guns, cannons, swords and guns, he was more afraid of being faced with the elders.

After a while, the wooden carving of Chen Mu was actually slanted on the bow of the boat with red hanging color. Now, when Fujian Guang goes out to sea, he worships this. In fact, few people know the source of the True Lord of Dragon and Tiger Xuantan, and most people have never seen Chen Mu. Moreover, even if Chen Mu comes here himself, he may not be able to recognize the standard wood carvings. People just regard them as the God of Wealth, and the God of Sea has become one of the coastal beliefs.

The believers of the True Lord of Dragon and Tiger Xuantan were mainly military and businessmen, and they began to circulate with the scriptures, gradually seizing the incense of the Tianfei Temple.

Lin Manjue brought the sailors on the ship to bow three times and nine times, which was strange. It was less than half an hour after worshiping the statue, the soldier holding a telescope on the mast looked upstairs and shouted loudly: "Master, ship, red cross boat!"

In the past, the Ming army of the coastal coast called the large black ship with two decks of Portuguese as plywood ships. As a result, their own shark ships generally have two or three decks, and their own ships became plywood ships. Because they fought with Spain in the previous battle, they found that their warships either had red crosses or red forks of Burgundy cross sail flags, so sailors were used to calling Western ships a black tea ship.

This scream shocked Lin Manjue, who was on the bow of the ship, was so shocked that he pulled out his telescope and looked in his eyes. He saw two ships, one big and one small, sailing south towards them in the distance. He asked loudly: "Only two?"

"Just two, nothing else!"
Chapter completed!