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Chapter 535 Guess
In the following days, Chen Mu was so busy that he didn't even touch the ground. He met the native officials from all over the country who came to see him in Baigu. It was a blessing from heaven to be able to save his life as a defeated one. What will I do next.

Envoys or native officials came from all over the country and lived two streets on Baigucheng Street. Chen Mu and the supervisor Chen Ju would meet with them one by one. Mentality and this Ming-Myanmar, no, it is the Burmese Army and Civilian Propaganda and Consolation Division's views on the war and future thoughts.

It's still good to make three announcements and six comforts, or to reform the land and return to the exile.

Chen Mu is collecting his own investigation report on this land.

This has nothing to do with the battle report, the battle report of the supervising army was sent to the capital along with Mang Yinglong as early as the end of the war, but this will involve the imperial court's strategic changes in the three propagandas and six comforts and even Yunnan.

It's not that Chen Mu sees how much influence he has on the government, nor is it that it's difficult for him to do these things, all of which are not difficult, but no one in Yunnan is willing to do it, because no one values ​​native officials as much as he does, and no one People like him have a deep understanding of the heart of Three Propaganda, Six Comforts and Annan, and what is important is this heart.

When his analysis is sent to the court, this is an isolated evidence. It is obvious that the Southwest has won a big victory. Anyone in the court who can have anything to do with this matter wants to get a piece of it. The easiest way is to arrange it after the war. Play the manuscript to get credit for yourself.

But no one is more meaningful than this manuscript from the Nanyang Military Mansion.

They don't know the geometry of the minerals in the Indochina Peninsula, the geometry of the yield per mu, and the geometry of the jade, but Chen Mu knows.

He is busy, and the Banner Army is not idle either, running back and forth for surveying and mapping maps, routinely patrolling various places, and Chen Bing shocked Chen Bing at the borders of Siam and Arakan, while the rest of the people were busy picking up pickled food. Please come out with the ears, and each department will allocate the proportion of military exploits in advance according to the military exploits and battle reports.

It can't be counted by the number. According to the stinginess of the officials who record the merits of the six departments, if a thousand ears are so good that they can check five hundred in their hands, it is already a great favor.

Now that the gang of misers are coming, it is related to the wealth and honor of the banner army, so it must not be sloppy.

But that was what Qi Jun thought, Chen Mu didn't think so.

"In the past, the Nanyang Military Government was self-financed for military achievements, and the imperial court didn't bother with it. It just sent the battle report back to Beijing and it was done. The Ministry of Households did not allocate money and compensation to the Ministry of War."

The Chinese military tent was set up in the Baigu Palace, and when the court officials were coming, Chen Mu also had to care about his actions. He sat upright in the tent, scrubbing his short beard, and together with Deng Zilong and others said: "Mr. Zhang Ge time, what do you mean?"

Listening to Shao Tingda said with a smile: "The imperial court wants to pay us!" This kind of wishful thinking can still get the approval of many generals, Chen Mu is very discouraged-he has never missed the old lunatic Xu Wei and the mechanics unit Zhao Shizhen so much.

"Why, Brother Mu doesn't think so?"

Shao Tingda's smiling face was slowly suppressed, his elbow lightly touched Shi Qi who was silent, and said, "Storyteller, what do you mean?"

Shi Qi glanced at Shao Tingda angrily, and said: "Our good times are coming to an end, the Sixth Department is going to take over the Nanyang Military Mansion, maybe this is just the beginning...but the handsome man's good days are coming."

The first half of Shi Qi's sentence expressed what Chen Mu was thinking. Ever since the imperial court dispatched meritorious officials to make three announcements and six comforts, and count the Nanyang Army's military achievements, Chen Mu had this feeling in his heart. He said to Shi Qi, "Tell me, good or bad." Yes, talk about it."

"Second Master, this isn't a military discussion, right? Fine, then I'll just guess casually. The subordinates feel that the imperial court sent people to record meritorious service, and they would not reward the Nanyang Banner Army according to their meritorious service. Speaking of 20 taels, Nanyang has less pensions, but also has a lot of military exploits. The first-level merits are not as good as them, but the rewards for first-level achievements, extraordinary achievements, siege achievements, and field achievements are no less than those in the north, and maybe even more."

"Not to mention that the imperial court gave us a reward, it would be good if the imperial court did not let the Nanyang Military Mansion take out the silver reward from the Second Commander in the North, and I guess we can't escape the Nanyang Military Mansion's award of the silver reward from the Second Commander in the North, nothing more than To put it another way, or dig it out from Nanyang’s Beijing Games this year.”

"If it is not for payment, it must be the weight of the Nanyang military government. The court is trying to decentralize power, but this is overseas. It is quite unwise to decentralize power when it is in full swing. I would venture to guess that the court did not just want to seize the second master. right."

Chen Mu was the second child. In the early years, Bai Yuanjie called him Chen Erlang. The generals of the Nanyang Department were all ex-partners, and they were used to calling them blindly in private. Chen Mu didn't care. He nodded noncommittally and said, "Go ahead."

Shi Qi was encouraged, nodded and said: "The above is the worst result, the court is jealous, to divide the power of the handsome; if you want to say good things, don't you think that the handsome has not been promoted for a long time? Like Yu Shuai, even if No matter how you are demoted, the official rank will go up, right?"

Deng Zilong smiled and said: "Go up, if you can get promoted, you will be promoted sooner, don't care whether you are in the outer sea or in the court, the cabinet always knows Chen Shuai's talent, where can you go for promotion?"

"If you want to talk about the governor of a province, or if you want to change the military government to be the governor, I, Deng Zilong, put my head here. If you want to say that Chen Shuai doesn't have the talent to do this, Deng will replace his head with this!"

Deng Zilong patted the Chenxiang wooden table and said so.

Then the topic changed: "Do you really want to be the governor of a province?"

"That's not something that can be done just by being talented. The general can understand those old officials' words and actions? Can they be as sure as the Nanyang Military Mansion's mission with one order?" In three months, you must be so angry that Juniper will carry a gunpowder cartridge and blow up the mansions of the subordinate officials, or you may directly shoot arrows at the yamen!"

Chen Mu felt that Deng Zilong had got to the point. Zhang Juzheng should know better than Deng Zilong, and he should not be hindered in his work.

So what does this mean now?

Shi Qi snickered when he heard Deng Zilong's words, saw Chen Mu looking at him again with a smile, and hurriedly continued: "So this subordinate guesses, it's just a guess——Minister Nanyang, except for Chen Shuai, everyone else can't do it well, Even if Duke Gao comes to do it, it will not work, because Duke Gao will not lead troops to fight, only Chen Shuai can do it."

"But it is impossible for Chen Shuai to be the Minister of Nanyang all the time. In the past, even if there was Xinming Island, it could still be considered as Nanyang. But now that Malacca is out of the west, and a fleet is about to be organized to go to Mexico in the east, can this be considered Nanyang? How big is Nanyang? , Just change the name to the Minister of the Sea!"

"If Commander Chen is promoted to the side, where will the Nanyang military government go, and the Nanyang ministers can still have the power to overthrow the country?" Shi Qi shook his head, and he had spoken with certainty a moment ago. Seeing that everyone was silent, his heart became numb again, and said: "I It's just guessing, the imperial court can't just divide up power just because of suspicion, so there were so many suspicions in the past, your majesty and elder Ge still have great trust in Chen Shuai, it can't be suspicion."

"I'm just guessing, don't take it seriously!"

After Shi Qi said this, he followed Natou and bowed, saying: "Chen Shuai, don't care where you go, you must pull me!"

(End of this chapter)