Chen Mu didn't expect Feng Bao to come in person, and Feng Bao didn't expect Chen Mu would just bow to him.

It is not that it is wrong to give the gift. In fact, when Feng Bao entered the hall, none of them gave Feng Bao a big gift. They just gave up their seats, and the scene suddenly became lively. Even the people who hosted the banquet did not need to worry about Chen Mu. Several officials of the dynasty volunteered and even more respect for Chen Mu that they should not have existed.

Each official presented tea and cups, hairpin gold flowers, hold jade, and drink each other.

There was a musician brought by Feng Bao to play the piano and sing music. Before he could drink two teas, Feng Dabaner waved his hand, and he took the sedan chair by himself. He opened the road and many officials left the palace to bid farewell, and then left in a hurry.

From beginning to end, Feng Bao didn't say a word to Chen Mu, and it didn't even look like he was visiting. It was obvious that everything here could not arouse the slightest interest of the governor of the East Factory, and he did not talk to others, nor did he drink tea or drink wine, but he still sat here for a moment.

Feng Bao did not come here to visit, but he listened very seriously. He listened to three songs and came to visit the door. He walked along the way from Dong'anmen to return to the palace from Dong'anmen.

This is indeed a visit, because it is not far away. Feng Bao used to be the eldest son of the crown prince when he was in Prince Yu's mansion. Now the crown prince has become the crown prince, but Feng Bao still often goes to and from the East Palace to take care of the crown prince, and sometimes he stays in the East Palace to study with the crown prince.

People all know that Gao Gong can stop Feng Bao for a while, but he cannot stop him for a lifetime.

Chen Mu knew even more that because there were only two palace gates away from him, the person who lived in the Eastern Palace at the age of seven was the future Emperor Wanli.

Even Xu Jue didn't know that Feng Bao would come, and Chen Mu didn't know why Feng Bao came to support the scene for him. No one knew. Others only knew that perhaps Feng Bao, who would have the power of the inner palace in a few years, would personally visit the mansion when General Zhaowu, who was living in the capital, moved to his new home.

Because of this matter alone, twenty-three guests later gave additional gifts, which ordered Chen Mu to receive an additional gift of 1,700 taels of gifts.

Especially those officials who laughed at Chen Mu because he was very happy to accept Liu Chenglong's dressing box, he collected a thousand taels for Chen Mu at a table, and made up for it the next day, hoping that Chen Mu would not blame them.

It was late at night and Yan Qingyao put on a thin cloak on Chen Mu who was sitting by the table. Her master had been stunned for a long time with a thousand taels of silver on the table, as if he was stupid.

Although a thousand taels of silver are indeed quite easy to make people foolish, Yan Qingyao still worried that her master would really become foolish because of this money.

"Isn't Nanyang quite profitable? Why are you stunned when Jun Ye looked at the money?" Yan Qingyao curled his lips and said, "Your son can earn you so much after going to sea."

Chen Mu took a deep breath, reluctantly moved his eyes away from the silver, and his head was extremely slow.

"I don't think of money, it's power."

Chen Mu saw Feng Bao, who said nothing in the silver, and saw himself, the original owner of the silver.

"Why don't Jun Ye kneel? Eunuch Feng will be unhappy if he doesn't kneel that day, everyone knelt down, only Jun Ye is still standing." Yan Qingyao whispered in a low voice: "It would be great if they all followed Jun Ye, and they wouldn't seem a little rude."

Chen Mu frowned and recalled that at that time, he was very confused. Everyone stood up and left the table and bowed, and his movements were consistently like how many times had he rehearsed. He did not take this matter seriously at all. Instead, he was thinking about why Feng Bao was coming: "If you don't want to kneel, don't kneel."

Kneeling on the sky, kneeling on the ground, kneeling on the parents, at most, kneeling on the emperor in this era is not unacceptable.

Just kneel down and let it go.

"Unhappy?" Chen Mu raised an eyebrow with a bit of joking on his face, but he didn't say anything that was inconsistent with his current identity. He raised his hand and knocked on the table, asking Yan Qingyao to call his servant to put away the silver, "Save the silver at home, I'll leave tomorrow and go to Changping."

"Tomorrow, a North Korean man named Liu Chenglong will give you a mother-of-pearl dressing box for the servants to receive it. I left him a letter without seeing him. If he has anything to say, he can leave the letter and send someone to Changping."

Yan Qingyao was particularly surprised and asked, "Will you leave tomorrow?"

"All the troops are about to arrive in the Beijing camp. I want to go back to Changping to train troops. You can stay here for a few days to live in the capital to have a house. You will be in Xuanfu at the latest next year."

Chen Mu clenched his fists, curled up the corner of his mouth and said to Yan Qingyao: "Your military officer went north this time and he is very excited."

He had a feeling that the situation was moving in the direction he expected.

When this reading ends, no one will be able to block his way in the next two years.

His military books were almost finished, but if he was writing military books, it might not be all. To be precise, Chen Mu still wrote manuals, and they were manuals that needed to be distributed separately, covering the flag army, small flag, general flag, hundreds of households, commanders, and six categories: cavalry, chariot, cannon, earth, baggage, and music, and the exercise and command manuals of generals and officers at all levels.

In addition, there are two sets of method manuals that restored the Guards to the early Ming Dynasty or even surpassed the early Ming Dynasty based on their geographical environment. One is production and the other is rewards and punishments. The rewards are diverse, so the punishments are much less.

Chen Mu did not plan to be a good person. If the development of things was as he thought, when others arrived at Xuanfu, the external resistance they received could be ignored, and the easiest way to deal with internal resistance was to be the same as before - they were all first offenders and left the entire body.

Most military books in this era have increased the upper limit of generals' combat ability, while Chen Mu's manual has increased the lower limit of the flag army to commander. His manual does not teach people how to fight, because even Chen Mu himself has not been able to teach people how to fight.

Although he had not lost a war, his family knew his own affairs, and he knew very little about planning and defeating the enemy thousands of miles away.

If all flag troops can reach 30% according to the requirements in the manual, then the Ming Dynasty's Wanquan Defense Line, which lasted 500 miles on the northern border, would have a reserve force that was not considered waste; if it could reach 70%, then the Wanquandusi could be responsible for the main force in the north.

That is what Xu Jue said when he heard that the court appointed Chen Mu as the assistant minister of Wanquandushi: This is all money.

To meet this standard, the Xuanfu government has a total of nearly 130,000 troops, among which the battalions and soldiers except the guards can be revoked or adjusted for defense. The financial pressure of the Xuanfu government has been reduced, and the capital does not need to transport tens of thousands of taels of silver a year to subsidize the Xuanfu government.

If it reaches 100%, Wanquandushi can store some fields outside the subway, plant some land, raise some horses, and kill some people.

Then Chen Mu's expectations for the guards were met, from the self-sufficiency of military rations, military expenses, ordnances, and military horses to the self-sufficiency of the head, merits, and silver rewards.

It was late at night, Chen Mu turned off the lamp, and a letter was lying calmly on the table. The letter was left for Liu Chenglong. He hoped that after he returned to North Korea, he would help him find an old friend, take care of him, teach culture and martial arts, learn more about maritime affairs, and send him to him at the right time in the future.

That old friend is now just a poor boy country bumpkin named Li Shunchen.
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