Chen Mu and Zhao Shizhen jointly asked him to take Li Zhi back to Mo County, but they didn't think about how to meet with him in an opening remark, because his plan was to let Li Zhi stay first, think carefully, and then ask him to do what job.

Therefore, Zhao Shizhen took Li Zhi and went to Changsheng County for a meal. He changed to the county magistrate's house that was much more comfortable than the port to stay for one night. He set off for Mo County early the next morning.

Zhao Shizhen was very happy along the way.

Although Li Zhi looked crazy, he was not as difficult as Xu Wei. On the contrary, Zhao Shizhen felt very comfortable.

He knew that the master of the curtain, Chen Mu, wanted to bring Li Zhi into the Eastern Military Mansion. Zhao Shizhen also had this idea at the beginning, who thought there were too many talents?

Although he did not know him, Li Zhi served as a teacher, a doctor of the Imperial College, and a governor of Yao An, and was obviously a very talented person.

As soon as he saw this person, he knew that this would be his future colleague. It was nothing else. The secretary of the military office was too busy and tired, and Xu Wei was a master who could not be used by anyone.

Zhao Shizhen really hopes that he can help him again.

Unexpectedly, after a conversation, this person was very real, had a mind open, couldn't see it openly, and could understand anything, but there were many things that could be understood and unacceptable. If you like it, you like it, and if you don't like it, you don't like it.

Joy and anger are all on the face.

This is so easy for Zhao Shizhen to get along with!

The journey is not long. After walking for two days, he and Li Zhi were already a little overjoyed.

Because they talked about the functions of the Siyang Military Palace and Chen Mu.

When talking about the Nanyang Military Palace and the Dongyang Military Palace, Zhao Shizhen obviously felt embarrassed, but in his opinion, there was nothing shameful about this, so he said openly: "The Grand Commander of the Pavilion Minister, the late emperor asked to set up the Nanyang Military Palace in person, just for two points."

"Mr. I am from Quanzhou. I know the Japanese turmoil in the coastal years. The Western tyrants and Portuguese slaughtered cities and destroyed countries and occupied trade routes. They often invaded the coastal areas, seized goods and burned houses, and plundered women and did everything they could."

"The Yi merchants opened military ships and gunboats, and the crew was armoured and held firearms. Ordinary merchants could not compete for profit; and the powerful people at sea were also called to the government to kill them on land. Once this ship was traveling, it would take ten times and a hundred times the profit."

"The Grand Marshal was a coastal flag officer. He relied on pacifying the Japanese and served as the commander. He knew the benefits of shipping and knew that the court was the backer for the people to go overseas to do business."

"The establishment of overseas military offices is for competition and for profit. In fact, let the general himself say that he would say it was just for a cake."

"oh?"

Li Zhi nodded slowly when he heard this. He knew a little about Chen Mu, but he didn't know about these things, but in general, he actually came to Dongyang for Chen Mu.

But he really didn't know the story about the pancake and asked, "Is Chen Shuai going to sea for pancake?"

Golden cake?

Facing Li Zhi's confusion, Zhao Shizhen in the carriage closed his eyes and fell into reminiscence. Before he knew it, it was already a very distant story.

"At that time, the late emperor was still a student of Zhao. He said he was studying in Beijing. In fact, it was just to find a way out. He made some money by writing inscriptions and writing newspapers. He had a hard life. He had everything and had no money."

Li Zhi deeply agreed with Zhao Shizhen's words. He was also very miserable, and unlike Zhao Shizhen, he was very miserable for the whole first half of his life.

Li Zhi was born in a poor family, and his father was a teacher. When he was 26 years old, the whole family raised some money, which allowed him to get the money for the Juren. He passed the Juren but had no money to go to Beijing to take the exam. The family also urgently needed his income to support his family, so he had to go to work.

He is an official who relies on the support of his relatives to get financially.

If you receive the benefits of others, you will naturally have to fulfill your obligations, otherwise you will forget your roots... You must take on the life and glory of the entire family with the salary of your tiny position and the slightest power in your hands.

After working as a teacher for several years, he was promoted to doctoral degree in the Imperial College. A few years later, his father passed away and returned to his hometown. Before he could mourn his mother, he caught up with the Japanese pirates besieging the city and led his clans to fight to defend Quanzhou.

After three years of mourning, he went to Beijing again. Not long after, his grandfather passed away. His salary was small, and he lost his income after attending the funeral. He had to move his family to Henan, where he used to be a teacher, bought a few acres of land for his wife, and asked her to take her daughter to live, and take a leave to return to her hometown of Quanzhou to attend the funeral.

The three years after he left Huixian, he was just about to catch the drought in Huixian. He could only harvest a few hu of grain from a few acres of land. His two daughters died of starvation one after another.

If Li Zhi's friend Deng Shiyang had not received two taels of silver and wrote to his friends to raise some money, Li Zhi's wife would not be able to survive.

During these poor years, he finally made the living environment a little better after becoming the prefect of Yao'an and gaining various common practices and gray incomes.

But it was just a little bit. The family had all helped each other back then, so that today, the clan members came to ask for money and materials, which made him in a dilemma and ended up having to part in a bad mood.

In order to avoid relatives and friends, he lived in the home of Zhou Sijing, the head of the Steam Bureau, and was recommended by Zhou Sijing to the Eastern Military Mansion - in fact, it was to find a place for him to study with peace of mind.

Is there any place that is more suitable for academic research than Chen Mu's location?

This land has no restraint on people, and anyone can get something when they come. Just as Li Zhi and a student, Yuan Zizhang, were a general in the Eastern Military Mansion, so the old man came here by himself.

The boat was found by Zhou Sijing, and all the money was left to his family. Li Zhi brought two boxes of books and boarded the boat alone across the ocean.

But Li Zhi's experience was so painful that he could not express his satisfaction in remembering the bitterness and sweetness of Zhao Shizhen like he mentioned in the past. It was so painful that he couldn't remember the slightest happiness.

He couldn't easily say these things, and these things would always be a knot in his heart.

"Shi Shuai Chen showed his face in the late emperor's grand reading and was named General Zhenshuo. He was a popular figure in front of the late emperor. There were many things about him in the newspapers. I wrote and arranged Chen Shuai's articles, and instead taught him to take a look at it and recruit him into the shogunate."

"Chen Shuai said that he strongly advocated opening the sea because the late emperor was too self-reliant and he was unable to control the corruption in the inner court. He just wanted to make more income overseas in the overall situation of the court, so that the late emperor could eat a cake and a donkey intestine."

Zhao Shizhen said as he clapped his hands in the carriage: "Now, the Siyang Military Palace is mobilized all over the world, no one can stay out of it. Even old man, aren't you here in Dongyang?"

Li Zhi waved his hand quickly after hearing this. The old man even showed a fear on his face, and he said with a very indescribable feeling: "The secretary doesn't know anything, and I am especially unrestrained, so I will inevitably make a grudge with Shangguan."

"When the teaching instructor offended the magistrate and the magistrate; in the Imperial Academy, five priests, and five priests; in the Ministry of Rites, they offended Gao Shangshu, Yin Shangshu, Wang Shilang, and Wan Shilang."

"When I arrived in Yao'an, I went against the Governor of the King of Yunnan, so I had a reluctant request."

Li Zhi's face was extremely sad, and the following words seemed to be too difficult to speak.
Chapter completed!