Chen Mu didn't know how many ways there were in his heart, but he didn't say it.

He just showed just the right amount of astonishment and disbelief, and opened his mouth to say: "I don't know, if the elder of the pavilion is interested, he will definitely be able to persuade the hundred officials to act, Chen is just a military general, and he is ready to be loyal to the country." ”

Wu Dui was a little surprised, and said with a smile: "From Juma River to Wanquan Dusi, Chen Shuai is not like a person who has no ideas. ”

"Chen has always had a lot of ideas, so that the flag army is full of food, so that the guns are strong and durable, and give the imperial court military expenses and troubles for the princes. As you can see, Chen has always had a lot of ideas. ”

Chen Mu showed his hand in the tea case, it seemed that the teapot under his hand was the perfect line of defense and the Ordnance Bureau, and then poured a full cup of the tea bowl, and said: "Chen can take all the ideas and do it well, but the major affairs of the country, in the worship and Rong, that is not the idea that can be taken in the next." ”

"But Chen Shuai seems to have made up his mind."

Wu Dui sighed silently, covered the teacup, and said to Chen Mu: "The general can't return to Nanyangwei, the movable gold and silver in Nanyang is 400,000 taels, and in Northern Xinjiang, there are also more than 200,000 taels of silver every year. ”

"Wu Mouguan's food and clothing are no different from ordinary people, and his daily use is only one or two taels except for the family's support and gifts, and he neither buys land nor land, and his expenses are not as good as those of the official and honest fields. If the general is not for the southern expedition, what is the use of hiding millions of gold and silver? ”

What Wu Dui didn't expect was that General Chen, who was sitting in front of him, actually looked like he had a sudden realization, and said, "Is it already so much?" ”

Wu Dui suddenly didn't want to continue talking to Chen Mu.

He has been a Beijing official for more than ten years, and just a few years ago, he finally gritted his teeth and saved enough money to buy a larger house in Beijing, but he didn't dare to buy it, because his career reached a critical moment, and the money to buy a house included gifts from the Beijing army over the years.

Even if there is a child in the family, Wu Dui remembers it clearly.

What did you Chen Mu just say, it's already so much, is it?

looked like he didn't know how much money he had - Governor Wu weighed the difference in physique, age, and martial arts between the two sides, and decided not to worry about the juniors.

Hmph, if Wu is twenty years younger, there will be big news in the officialdom tomorrow that the governor will beat the town general!

"Let Brother Wu laugh, those gold and silver are not Chen's, it is Chen who is in charge of the Nanyang Guard of the imperial court and the Wanquan Defense Line, because Chen thinks that instead of letting others squander these gold and silver, it is better for Chen to use them in more important places."

"It's a pity that Wuju is sparse and has not received a response from the imperial court, otherwise Nanyang would not be what it is now, and Taicang at the end of the imperial court should also have some surplus silver."

"I don't know much about it, Chen Mu doesn't understand the difficulties of officials and the hardships of Zhaoli, he will only take advantage of his official body, go through a little bit of Jia, and make weapons. But I am the general of the Ming Dynasty, just like General Ma knows the most about the affairs of the Northern Frontier, and he also cares about the maritime affairs of the South Seas. ”

"The country has reached this point, and the firecrackers issued to the southern guards do not know when they will explode, and the northern prisoners of Bian Taicang have no surplus silver to pay the salaries of the border army in the coming year - there is money overseas."

Chen Mu felt that his current expression must be painful, he was indeed very painful, he felt that he used his tricky lips and tongue to deceive an honest person like Governor Wu, his conscience was aching, but he still opened his arm very skillfully and hammered it on the tea case, and said generously: "If others don't build sea ships, I will build them, others don't make guns, and I will earn it myself without money allocated by the imperial court, and they will all be put on the account of the guard." ”

"I'm afraid of being suspicious, Chen doesn't have a house in Guangdong, if it weren't for His Majesty giving me a mansion, I wouldn't have half a wall to shelter me from the wind and rain in Guangdong after my dismissal, that's because I know what others don't know."

"In the South Seas, those Fanyi crossed the sea as wide as the land of the Ming Dynasty, from Malacca to Hao Jing O, from Hao Jing Ao to Japan, from Japan to Luzon, and then from Malacca back to their country, a beggar drove a board, to Hao Jing can buy a fortune boat, when he returns to Hao Jing from Japan, the wealth accumulated in the trading room is enough to buy ten great fortune ships, when he carries tea, porcelain, silk across the sea, he can become a huge rich."

Chen Mu nodded seriously at Shang Wu Dui's incredulous look: "Most of the people who do this are dead. ”

"Shipwrecks, pirates, and officers and soldiers of all countries along the way, it is easy to kill them, and after all the calamities, maybe only one out of ten people will make it back alive. But this man, who has the fortune to buy a thousand men, will sail through the waves in a great ship full of outlaws, birds, and cannons, and no one will be able to kill them. ”

Chen Mu stretched out his five fingers and said to Wu Dui: "That was the battle of Tuen Mun fifty years ago, the situation when the Portuguese first came, and they will come back one day." When Chen was still the small general banner of Qingyuanwei, Wu Shilang, who was the governor of Liangguang at the time, pulled Chen out of Xiangshan Qianhu, and at that time he let him contain Fanyi and guard Haojing. ”

Of course they will make a comeback, Chen Mu knows very well in his heart that even if they don't want to come, Chen Mu will create conditions for them to come.

"Chen knows Fanyi and knows that they will definitely make a comeback, and when their ships come back, he will ensure that they are buried at the bottom of the sea like their ancestors."

Wu Dui didn't know how to respond to Chen Mu, should he say that he was too worried? Or should I reassure him not to think about it?

Anyway, Wu Dui felt that this was not what he should say to Chen Mu, it was Gao Gong who should say these words, not him Wu Dui.

Chen Mu's face was generous, but his heart was a little drumming.

Did Wu Dui see something, otherwise why didn't he speak?

He gritted his teeth again and said, "When to send troops and when to fight, that is the decision that Gao Ge Lao has to make. What Chen can do is only when he sends out the troops, so that His Majesty and the elder of the cabinet will not have the difficulty of military expenses and the worry of ordnance. ”

"Chen doesn't know what to convince people with virtue, he only knows that we are the generals of the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty has no money now, but there is money overseas. Under the whole world, it is not the king's land, even if it is separated by the sea, it is also the king's land. ”

"If the imperial court wants to use it, a few elders only need a letter to come, and Chen only keeps one hundred taels, one hundred taels is enough for Chen to live in style, and the remaining silver taels will be handed over to the household department immediately. If the imperial court does not use it, Chen will prepare for another two years, raise millions of gold and silver, train male soldiers, make cannons, and repair giant ships, just wait for His Majesty and the ministers to agree on the southern expedition, and it will not cost the imperial court a tael of silver to help the imperial court go to the South Seas again. ”

This was not said to Gao Gong, because Chen Mu knew that Gao Gong would not stay in the pavilion for that long, and his emperor would probably not live that long.

But it makes sense, because what makes sense can only be said to those who can understand.

"Guangdong's Yu Shuai, Tang Shuai, famous generals like clouds, they go to the South Seas, Zhuyi's generation, don't worry, a year to say less for the imperial court to hand over 500,000 taels of silver, Chen can also enjoy the joy of the world in Beijing, how fast?"

"If this is not enough, you will not be able to fight better than the commanders."

"But use me." Chen Mu got up as he spoke, raised two fingers, chuckled, and raised his face slightly: "Silver two doubled." ”