The Mexican Expeditionary Force had long been annihilated in Guam, and even Chen Mu, as the creditor, forgot that he had a debtor who was the king.

Dahai is really annoying. If a decision is not received in half a year or less than half a year, who can still keep in mind?

Not to mention that the debts were just something Chen Mu said casually, and he really didn't expect Philip II to pay them back. Even if Chen Mu's soul was Westernized enough, he was still a Chinese with greater face.

This identity determines that he should not only understand. He would never think that as a king or as a court, he would owe to private merchants money and not pay interest, but he would even want to lose his principal?

He just simply felt that asking for seven million taels of silver was a kind of humiliation.

As long as this message is conveyed, his purpose will be achieved. He never thought of getting the seven million taels of silver he mentioned casually.

Thinking about the seven million taels of silver, it would be better to educate the people of Guangdong how to breed pigs.

This is not a joke. Chen Mu, the right governor of the Nanyang Military Prefecture, has been busy with this matter recently. He wrote to local officials in Guangdong as a private identity, hoping that they would educate the people and not use the smallest one to keep pig breeds in the future, but the largest one.

This idea comes from his intention to build a horse farm in Qiongzhou and Luzon, and encourage local people to raise horses, for fear that the people would make the smallest horses like they did in raising pigs, so they simply changed the pigs together.

Compared to Chen Mu, the Nanyang Military Office was much more busy as soon as the structure of each of its own duties was released. Gao Gong and Xu Wei from the Foreign Affairs Department's staff bureau were busy planning all matters in Japan, trying to avoid possible criticisms from the court censors with the most shrewd means.

After all, there is still the ancestor's method of the country that does not conquer, and Gao Gong needs to avoid this and plan from multiple sources.

When the Shang Dynasty asked Japan to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty after the war, Chen Mu spread his hands and said, "Why should we pay tribute? This is a matter of losing money and gaining publicity, should they not be the ones who are not the ones who are not the ones who are not the ones who are not the ones who are not the ones who are not the ones who are not the ones who are not the ones who are not the ones who are not the ones who are not the ones who are not the ones who are not the ones who are not the ones who are not the ones who are not the ones who are not the ones who are not the ones who are not the ones who are not the ones who are not the ones who are not the ones who are not the ones who are not the ones who are not the ones who are not the ones who are not the ones who are not the ones who are not the ones who are not the ones who are not the ones who are not the ones who are not the ones who are not

Chen Mu was increasingly disliked to pay tribute because in recent letters sent to the Nanyang Military Office, the imperial court condemned the Nanyang "tributary" he led again and again, which caused many complaints from the countries.

In the past, tributes were tributes from small countries that could make money in the tribute trade. Since Chen Mu came to Nanyang, tributes became tributes. The accompanying Nanyang Banner Army stipulated how much goods they could bring back on their way back from the capital, and separated the best tributes when the tribute fleet was not on the way, not counted in the tribute value calculation.

"Chen Shuai - the things you know, why God lets you know, is not a more wise and outstanding person." Old Master Gao looked at Chen Mu with infinite eyes approaching heartbroken, and sighed: "Heaven is jealous of the Ming Dynasty!"

Gao Gong didn't know what to say when he was so fond of money when he was a Chen Nanyang. Fortunately, he was used to being a teacher and asked in a tempting manner: "Does Chen Shuai understand tribute?"

"I can't understand." Chen Mu was not happy to be said like this, even if Gao Gong said this, what does it mean to let God know about these things? God is jealous of the Ming Dynasty. Well? It is obviously a blessing from heaven! Chen Mu pressed his hand on the table and said, "The tributes from all countries in the South China Sea have been taken care of by Chen in the past two years."

"Well, you'll do it all right. The officials of the Ministry of Rites have complained a lot in the past two years." Gao Gong nodded angrily and said, "Why did Chen Shuai think the tribute is to make some yellow and white things?"

Gao Gong said and waved his hand, "I have no intention of despising property. The court has been unable to make ends meet for a long time. Military pay is arrears, disaster relief is not good, and rivers are difficult to repair. This requires money. But Chen Shuai really thought that the court was so declining that it needed to pay tribute to earn silver. That was also very funny."

"Trades are not for silver, nor for respect. Whether it is the late emperor or the current emperor, it is not very happy to see the vassal tribute. The tribute is to defeat the enemy without fighting." Gao Gong emphasized Chen Mu's identity and said: "Supervisor Chen is a military general, and training is to fight and kill the enemy, and to report to the emperor to save the head of Guizhou."

"But in the court, the emperor is in the cabinet ministers, and when you use your orders, you are not a number, and you want to fight and fight the enemy without any casualties. This does not mean that we are all heartless."

Gao Gong sighed and said, "When I was in the capital, I asked Chen Shuai for the Nanyang Temple calculations. The opening of the temple calculations would cost tens of thousands of lives. When it comes to Chen Shuai, it would kill people on one battlefield after another. Which army would not want to go home to live a good life, eat and wear warm clothes and have no worries about food and clothing?"

Chen Mu nodded. He knew it. Not to mention it, he often wanted to go back to Qingyuan and Yuegang, have fields and houses, have children when they are full, and sleep when they are tired of giving birth, and continue to eat when they wake up.

Not to mention Lin Manjue, who made contributions to Guam, took the whole man to retreat from the battlefield and happily went home to rest for half a year through Luzon. Chen Mu also asked him to think about it carefully. He would not come back after he had enough rest. Who would be willing to work hard?

But.

"Is this related to tribute?"

"I already know it. No matter what, I tell Chen Shuai concisely that Chen Shuai cannot understand."

Gao Gong explained helplessly: "Tribute is often not a loss. Chen Shuai did this to make money, but the court's past tribute did not pay. The compensation was only due to the fact that when the border countries paid tribute, even if the court put all the tributes into the official position without any price, it was still unfair to fill the reception group."

"It's not good to go with each other but not good. In addition, the purpose of tribute is to control neighboring countries and pay tribute. If they attack each other, they can mediate the war when they attack each other. If the countries do not annex, they can not only protect the people of the country, but also make the Ming Dynasty profit."

Chen Mu understood this sentence.

If others are forbidden from annexing each other, their territory will always be a little bit, and there will never be any powerful neighbors around them, and there will never be any threats.

"Thank you, Mr. Gao, Chen understands."

Chen Mu couldn't help but smile, thanked Gao Gong before saying, "Then we must divide the Three Kingdoms and even more. Their kings are not easy to move, but Jiuzhou and Hokkien land must be divided into divisions and feudal states."

Gao Gong frowned slightly and signaled Chen Mu to continue, and then listened to Chen Mu: "The Han people in Jiuzhou were used to establish a country together; the local natives and Jurchens established a country together. In this way, the Three Kingdoms were restrained, and if a hero was born, they could be discovered as soon as possible."

In fact, the ministers of the Ming Dynasty never cared about Japan. Few people were as interested in Japanese newspapers as Chen Mu. They never placed Japan within the scope of the general barbarians such as Mongolia, Jurchens, Korea and the southwest tribes.

In this era, China and the barbarians divided the noble and the humble, but the family was just like the late Emperor Longqing said: Hu and Yue are one.

Japanese are like Westerners, and it has nothing to do with this.

"Since Chen Shuai is interested, just send a message to Chen Bazhi like this, asking him to seek help from the court to quell the rebellion. The Nanyang Military Office will also submit a letter to the cabinet. Chen Ming's interests will be completed soon. The Nanyang Military Office will open the Japanese Dushi again."
Chapter completed!