open sea

Chapter 1475 Constraints
Chen Mu and Zhao Shizhen conspired to let him bring Li Zhi back to Mo County, but they didn't think about what kind of opening remarks to meet, because his plan was to let Li Zhi live, think carefully, and then what kind of work he wanted him to do.

So Zhao Shizhen picked up Li Zhi, went to Changsheng County to have a meal, changed to a county magistrate's house that was much more comfortable than the port, and stayed for one night, and set off for Mo County in the early morning of the next day.

Zhao Shizhen was very happy along the way.

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

He knew that Chen Mu, the mastermind, wanted to bring Li Zhi into the Dongyang Military Mansion. Zhao Shizhen also had this idea at the beginning. Who would think that there are too many talents?

Although he didn't know him, Li Zhi had served as an instructor, a doctor of Guozijian, and the prefect of Yao'an, so he was obviously a person of great talent and learning.

As soon as he saw this person, he knew that this would be his future colleague. Without him, the military secretary was too busy and tired, and Xu Wei was a master who could not be manipulated by anyone.

Zhao Shizhen really hoped for another help.

Unexpectedly, once we talk to him, this person has a very genuine temperament, he can think openly in his mind, but can't see in his eyes. He can understand everything, but there are many things that he can understand and can't accept.

Happiness and anger are all on the face.

For Zhao Shizhen...it's so easy to get along with!

The distance was not far, after two days of walking, just crossing the Baima River, he and Li Zhi already seemed to be friends.

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

When it comes to the Nanyang Army Mansion and the Dongyang Army Mansion, Zhao Shizhen will obviously feel embarrassed, but in his opinion, there is nothing shameful about this matter, so he said openly: "The commander-in-chief, the first emperor, please set up the Nanyang Army in person. The government, for two points."

"Mr. is from Quanzhou. He is aware of the Japanese invasion along the coast in those years. The Western and Portuguese massacred cities and conquered trade routes.

"Yi merchants set up military ships and gunboats, and the crew carried armor and held firearms. Ordinary merchants could not compete for profits; and the powerful people at sea were also Japanese pirates who were killed by the government on land. This boat trip will bring ten times and a hundred times the profit. Let him take it."

"The commander-in-chief was born as a flag officer along the coast, and he served as a commander by relying on Pingwa. He is well aware of the benefits of shipping, and he knows that the imperial court is the backer for the people to go to sea to do business."

"The establishment of an overseas military office is for competition and profit. In fact, let the commander-in-chief say it himself, and he will say it is for a pancake."

"Oh?"

Li Zhi nodded slowly while listening in front. He knew some of these things about Chen Mu and some didn't, but generally speaking, he actually came to Dongyang for Chen Mu.

But he really didn't know the story about pancakes, so he asked, "Chen Shuai went to sea for pancakes?"

Gold pancakes?
Faced with Li Zhi's puzzled face, 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 in power, and Zhao was still a student of the imperial court. He said he was studying in the capital, but in fact he was just looking for a way out, earning some money by writing inscriptions for people and writing newspapers. His livelihood was difficult. He was young and had everything but nothing. money."

Li Zhi took Zhao Shizhen's words seriously, he was miserable too, and unlike Zhao Shizhen, he was miserable the whole first half of his life.

Li Zhi was born in a poor family. His father was a teacher. At the age of 26, the whole family pooled up some money to allow him to spend money on the Juren examination. After passing the Juren examination, he had no money to go to Beijing to catch the exam. The family urgently needed his income to support the family. , can only go to work.

As an official, he relied on the sponsorship of his relatives to have the financial resources to be admitted.

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

He worked as a teacher for several years and was promoted to a doctor of the Imperial College. Within a few years, Ding You, his father passed away and returned to his hometown. Before returning home to observe his filial piety, he caught up with the Japanese pirates besieging the city and led his clan into the battle to defend Quanzhou.

After three years of filial piety, he went to Beijing again. Not long after, his grandfather passed away. His salary was meager, and his source of income was cut off at the funeral. He had to move his family to Henan, where he used to be a teacher. He bought a few acres of land for his wife and asked her to take their daughter with him. To live, I asked for leave to go back to my hometown of Quanzhou for the funeral.

During the three years when he left Hui County, Hui County was hit by a drought. A few mu of land could only harvest a few bushes of grain, and his two daughters died of illness and hunger one after another.

If it weren't for Li Zhi's friend Deng Shiyang to donate two taels of silver and write letters to friends to raise some money, Li Zhi's wife would not be able to survive.

Such poor years until he became the magistrate of Yao'an, with all kinds of routine and gray income, which finally made the living environment a little bit better.

But it's just one point. Back then, the family gave all their money to help. Today, people from the clan came here in droves, begging for money and things, which made him entangled in a dilemma. In the end, he could only break up unhappy.

In order to avoid relatives and friends, he stayed at the house of Zhou Sijing, the head of the Steam Bureau, and was recommended by Zhou Sijing to the Dongyang Military Mansion—in fact, the purpose was to find a place for him to study in peace.

Is there any place more suitable for learning than Dongyang Asia, where Chen Mu is located?
This land has no restrictions on people, and anyone who comes can get something. It just so happens that Li Zhi also has a student, Yuan Zizhang, who is serving as a general in the Eastern Army Mansion, so the old man came here by himself.

The boat was found by Zhou Sijing, and as soon as he left all the money to his family, Li Zhi took two boxes of books and boarded the boat alone to cross the ocean.

But Li Zhi's experience was so painful that he couldn't show the satisfaction of Zhao Shizhen when he mentioned the past. It was too painful, so painful that he couldn't think of any happiness.

It is even more impossible to say these things easily, and these things will always be a knot in his heart.

"Chen Shuai showed his face in the late emperor's grand parade, and was awarded the general title of Zhenshuo. He was a celebrity in front of the late emperor, and there were many stories about him in the newspapers. I just wrote an article about Chen Shuai, and taught him to catch his attention. , into the shogunate."

"Chen Shuai said that he insisted on opening the sea because the first emperor was too self-denying, and he was unable to manage the corruption of the inner court. He just wanted to earn more income overseas for the overall situation of the court, so that the first emperor could eat pancakes and donkey intestines. "

Zhao Shizhen clapped his hands in the carriage as he said: "It's all right now, the Siyang Military Mansion, the whole world is mobilized, no one can stay out of it, even the old man, didn't you come to Dongyang?"

Li Zhi waved his hands quickly when he heard this, and the old man even showed a fearful expression on his face. He said with a rather unspeakable meaning: "The secretary doesn't know something, and the old man is especially unrestrained. It is inevitable that he will have grudges with the Shangguan."

"The magistrate and tixue were offended by the edict; in Taixue, five sacrificial wines and five officials were offended; in the Ministry of Rites, they offended Gao Shangshu, Yin Shangshu, Wang Shilang, and Wan Shilang."

"When I arrived in Yao'an, I was against the governor of Yunnan Wang, so I have a merciless request."

Li Zhi's face was extremely sad, and the following words seemed to be too difficult to say.

Unexpectedly, Zhao Shizhen didn't take it seriously at all, and waved his hand and said: "It's okay, old gentleman, don't worry too much, you will naturally know what the environment of the Dongyang Military Mansion is when you go to the Shogunate, I am afraid that the only one who can quarrel with you is me. "

　good afternoon.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)