"Senior, please call me Erlang. Chen is just a younger generation who goes out to sea a few years earlier than Yin Gong."

Don’t worry about whether Yin Zhengmao’s title is serious or not, Chen Mu is not serious anyway. As the saying goes, people are just as high as others, let alone since Yin Zhengmao was appointed as a Western minister, it only took a few days to become an important official of the Beiyang Military Office. To put it bluntly, they are colleagues at the same level.

The only thing is a title, and title and official position are different... It is meaningless to get along with officials. Even if you are a duke, you still have to bow to the governor if you serve as a general.

Can't you say that you can fight your boss by enjoying a special allowance?

It does not exist.

What's more, if the overseas affairs are done well, it is worthy of being awarded the title, and Yin Zhengmao's title is ten times easier than Chen Mu!

"Mr. Yin came just right. I don't have good wine and food here, but there is a picture for Mr. Yin to watch."

Chen Mu welcomed Yin Zhengmao into the Baihu Yamen. He told the truth. The Dagukou Fortress was a Baihu Yamen. He did not expect that Yin Zhengmao would come to visit him, ask someone to cook tea, and then take out the design drawings of the Beiyang Yamen. He enthusiastically combined several tables to be placed on one for Yin Zhengmao to watch.

Chen Mu was very proud to prepare the map, but in fact he carefully looked at Yin Zhengmao's expression. He wanted to know what kind of person he was, and even more wanted to know whether such a person with poor reputation would affect his arrangements for Daming overseas.

He originally thought that the Western ministers would be Gao Gong's position. Even if Gao Gong had a gap with Zhang Juzheng, others could not play with overseas affairs. Even if there was a naval martial arts lecture hall, I really wanted to wait for those people to stand alone, at least ten years would be needed.

Chen Mu always believed that the ministers of the Four Oceans would only come out of his Nanyang division, but he did not expect it was Yin Zhengmao.

Yin Zhengmao looked at it very carefully, more carefully than Chen Mu imagined the most serious situation. He even stood up and found the rules in the yamen. He carefully compared the distance to the cannon temple at the Haikou Pass in Caotougu on the design drawing... Chen Mu even suspected that Yin Zhengmao was deliberately pretending to be careful.

The entire design drawing includes bastions, cannon temples, steel brick and mud structures, trench and gun defense structures, which are not difficult to understand from Nanyang.

For a long time, Yin Zhengmao was exploring the setting map carefully. Chen Mu could only wait for him to watch, and was even a little sleepy. He saw Yin Zhengmao putting down the rules and looking up at Chen Mu, who looked bored, hesitating for a moment before asking cautiously: "I hope that Jinghai Bo will tell the truth, if there are enemies overseas, you can attack Lai Denghai defense and directly invade my Tianjin Guard?"

Before Chen Mu could speak, Yin Zhengmao raised his hand and pointed to the inscription on the design drawing. Yin Zhengmao's fingers were short and his knuckles were wide. Even though there were wrinkles due to the years and years, they still seemed strong and powerful. The clean and white nails pointed at the point of Chen Mu wrote in charcoal: Beiyang Yamen - Jinmen Jinghai Front.

"The heavy artillery on the coast, deep trenches and high trenches, temple turrets, and the same works as the Nanyang Military Mansion Island; these industrial plots called Jinghaibo are also similar to Guangzhou Prefecture, but there are still large areas of military farmland plots, which are something that has never been seen before when Jinghaibo was located."

Yin Zhengmao frowned, not seeming to think that it is embarrassing to examine Chen Mu’s place and then say it out loud. He just discussed the matter and raised his head and asked again: “Overseas, there are those who cannot win even if there are Liu Ding and Liu Jia?”

How should Chen Mu answer this question?

It was after 1840 that Dagukou was captured, but he just wanted to repair it. Can he control it?

"Mr. Yin doesn't need to worry too much. There may be warships that can win over Liuding and Liujia overseas, but there is no possibility of attacking here." Chen Mu said with a smile: "It's just that Chen came here to see Dagu's important sea and land town that is close to the capital, which is in disrepair for a long time, so he intends to renovate. Since it has been renovated, why not repair it with the best defensive position at present?"

Yin Zhengmao looked at Chen Mu deeply and seemed to sigh: "I am afraid that the court cannot allow the Beiyang Yamen to build such a majestic pass. It is because Jing Haibo has the courage to make such a memorial. If this memorial is made, the subordinates will never dare to submit it. Is this silver a expense to the Nanyang Military Palace?"

Chen Mu blinked, and Yin Zhengmao asked knowingly.

Until now, Chen Mu has understood that Yin Zhengmao's report is different from his own. His report is to return his position and look for Xu Da; Yin Zhengmao is probably going to look for Xu Da, but he has already received a new position.

Chen Mu just smiled with a pursed lips, but in fact he was already a little anxious.

You are an old man over 60 years old. He traveled thousands of miles to Shuntian and went straight to Dagukou. He thought it was not about having a good sleep here. Whether you were extorting money or someone else, you had to give it a clear sentence, and we had to ask what you needed?

But I didn't know that Yin Zhengmao sighed and shook his head and said, "This is not possible. The Western Military Palace has newly established and there is no silver or grain yet. It is good to have such a position, and it is difficult to use it abroad."

"The official under the position charter has recorded it. Jing Haibo was troubled and pointed out that when he went to a foreign country, how should he create his past places? In this way, those are the most important things, everything should be simple."

Yin Zhengmao said as he bowed his hand. Chen Mu felt relieved and asked carefully: "Since the Western Military Palace is empty, the Nanyang Military Palace will first provide 200,000 taels of silver?"

"Hahaha, Jing Haibo misunderstood!"

Yin Zhengmao raised his head and laughed, then said seriously: "It is better to teach people how to fish than to teach people how to fish. I have a bad reputation for officialdom, but I have a good reputation for making money. I first went to Tianjin to report my job. One is to pay homage to the superiors, and the other is to ask Jinghai Bo for advice on going to sea."

"To be honest, before I report my job, I went to Guangzhou Prefecture first, then went to Macau and Nanyang Vilar Port, and took a boat to patrol the Nanyang Military Palace... I didn't look at the accounts, and if I wanted to see them, I would tell you in person." Yin Zhengmao said and smiled at Chen Mu, saying, "I asked Jinghai Bo for advice without vain. I would like to talk about both things. If it works, I would like to ask Jinghai Bo to inform all the things in the West. If I feel it is useful, what does Jinghai Bo think? "

Exchange hostages?

"Then I would like to thank Mr. Yin. If the two things are useful, I will not only say everything, but also allocate 200,000 taels of silver to the Western Military Administration for recruiting soldiers, purchasing weapons, and preparing food and grass. I know that Mr. Yin is good at making money. This is the right to use Chen to still have the power of the Four Oceans to allocate the start-up funds for the East and West Eryang. There will be no such good days in the future."

Yin Zhengmao heard Chen Mu say this, his eyes moved slightly, then picked up the charcoal pen on the table, and drew several points on the design drawings: "I inspected the satellite port, the military mansion island and the voyage came to Tianjin. He saw Chen Shuai's usual arrangements, striving to bombard the heavy artillery, deep ditches and high trenches, but the beacon was leaked. He chose the place where he was high and looked around to build a pier, and with a divine eyepiece, he could see twenty or thirty miles in a radius, and early warning."

"When I was in charge of Guangdong and Guangxi, I made a detailed order for the beacon and had been handed over to the Navy Military Academy. If Jinghai Bo felt it was useful, he could order someone to take it. Maybe Chen Shuai knew that it was just useless or it was missed. Because I found that the Nanyang Military Office was abnormally observing the customization of Chen Shuai, even if there was a better method, he would not dare to use it without the order of Chen Shuai, so I said this."

Chen Mu found that he had missed this, and did not show any timidity. He smiled and bowed, "It is indeed as Yin Gong said, I have always used divine eyepieces and ship patrols as early warnings, and the beacon was leaked."

"As for the second, it is also related to the decision of Chen Shuai's Nanyang affairs. I visited the Nanyang Military Weapon Bureau. In Xinhui, Foshan is surrounded by coal and roasted to form reefs. It is very labor-saving to make iron. However, the Military Weapon Bureau only uses willow trees due to Chen Shuai's order. You can know that the reef can be extinguished for five days when it is put into the furnace, and it is the most labor-saving to fry ore and cook stones."

Yin Zhengmao looked at Chen Mu's stunned expression and bowed, "Is these two words Yu Jinghai Bo useful?"

Chen Mu's surprise was a little different from what Yin Zhengmao imagined.

He slowly exhaled with a very awkward expression and bowed to Yin Zhengmao.
Chapter completed!