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Chapter 460 Drought and Flood
In the autumn of the first year of Wanli, Magui stationed in Kuwu Island, frightened Jurchen in the north and Japan in the south, and dispatched a fleet to look at Xiazhou; Its method of building houses and trapping hunters prepared for the Ming people to expand eastward across the Beihai Strait.

Chen Bazhi's soldiers fell into Shijian country, and sent people to contact the king of Kyoto. He was discovered and angered Oda Nobunaga who supported the king. He sent a message to Nizi's family to attack Shijian. , but successfully contacted Ashikaga Yoshiaki, who was exiled by Nobunaga, so as to issue a letter of credence to Daming and form an exile shogunate.

However, even with Chen Mu's earlier letter to the cabinet, the imperial court was still not interested in sending troops to Japan. Although Ke Dao advocated for this matter and recommended Li Chengliang as the commander-in-chief, the situation did not allow Li Chengliang to leave Liaodong.

This year, Jurchen Wang Gao of Jianzhou invaded the frontier, and the war in Liaodong re-ignited. After Li Chengliang defended the border and defeated the enemy, he led the army to destroy the nest, so he had no time to take care of other things.

Chen Mu, the Minister of Nanyang, spread the news repeatedly, and a treaty was sent to the capital to receive Malacca and the Lion Kingdom. Together with the treaty, the silver that was sent to the household department this year was credited to the account at the same time.

In a blink of an eye, Zhao Shizhen has been living in the capital for more than half a year.

It was early winter, and there was no snow in the capital this year. After drinking, he led a horse and strolled along the long street where people come and go. Looking at the bright red lanterns hung by every household, Zhao Shizhen felt very lonely.

At first he lived in Zhang Juzheng's mansion, and it was still summer, so that Mr. Zhang Ge could answer his doubts in time when he was reading the Tao Te Ching.

After a long time, he read the Tao Te Ching similarly, and he was useless in the house, and there were many secrets of people coming and going, but Zhang Juzheng didn't let him go back to Nanyang for the time being, because he was still needed when he entered the East Palace to teach the emperor. Do accompanying reading to answer questions.

The mansion of the chief assistant did not stay for long, not to mention that he was not free enough to do anything, so he asked Zhang Juzheng to move to Chen Mu's mansion in the capital.

Strange to say, in the past many years, Zhao Shizhen has always regarded the capital as a writer. His grandfather once worked in Dali Temple, and later studied in Taixue, so he is as familiar with the capital as his hometown.

But after a few years abroad, he felt that Nanyang was like home. There was always something to do there, and he was really not used to this kind of idle life when he arrived in the capital. Except for the two hours in the Forbidden City, he was not traveling with his old friends who were studying in the Imperial College. It is to drink and have fun with the officials of the Ministry of Industry.

Without Chen Shuai's random bullying, there is only a lot more joy. After all, the most popular people in the Nanyang Military Mansion have more talking points than others at the banquet.

But after the guests and hosts had a good time and were covered in rouge, they relied on the lions outside the mansion to ward off evil spirits and beasts, but the grievances of frustration came to their hearts.

This grievance is not only for himself.

He had seen Chen Muduo's prestige overseas, but after returning to the capital for more than half a year, he finally figured out what the officials of the DPRK and China thought about overseas and Nanyang military mansions.

"Hey, why did Chang Ji sleep with the stone lion?"

Staring dazedly at the side of the stone lion, Zhao Shizhen, who was dozing off next to the stone lion, was awakened by the words beside him. He was terribly cold. He fixed his eyes and saw that it was You Qi from Zhang Juzheng's mansion, and hurriedly said: "Brother You, why are you here? Something in the mansion sent someone here Just a summons."

"Summon? Hey!"

You Qi was delighted when he heard it, turned his head and pointed at Chen Mu's mansion, and said with a smile: "We have been waiting inside for an hour, and when we came, the old servant invited me in and said, my brother, you are going out to socialize and drink, the master is not in a hurry, just wait here Come on, how can I think you are sleeping with a lion outside! Isn’t it cold?”

You Qi smiled and ordered the old servant who stayed behind in the mansion to bring Zhao Shizhen a cloak, raised his hand and said, "Let's go, my master has an invitation, I will come to the mansion to teach you warming wine soup for my brother... oh! This smell of rouge , don’t change, put on the robe and go to the mansion first to talk.”

The steward of the chief assistant smiled, but didn’t say anything else. Zhao Shizhen was a serious talent, and he said that he was teaching calligraphy as a companion to the emperor. Now that he has served in the Nanyang Military Mansion, the emperor wants Zhang Juzheng to find an eighth-rank official for him on the Ke Road in the capital.

Not to mention relying on the God of Wealth in Nanyang, what he wants in life can't be satisfied?

Zhao Shizhen, who was dizzy, took the carriage in the capital's mansion and wandered all the way to Zhang Juzheng's mansion, only to understand what it was to be called by the chief minister.

Disaster.

"Shanxi Yingzhou, Shuozhou, Shanyin, Mayi, Datong counties and Andong, Zhongtun, Shanyin, Yinhe, Gaoshan and other Wei, drought."

"After the severe drought in Lusi and other places under the jurisdiction of Lianghuai in the east of Gaoyou Prefecture in Nanzhili Province, there was a violent storm, the river and the sea overflowed, more than [-] houses collapsed, and countless livestock were drowned. Nothing."

"Heavy rains caused disasters in Xuzhou, Yangzhou and other places, and tsunamis and rivers overflowed."

Zhang Juzheng asked Zhao Shizhen, "Chen Shuai mentioned in the letter that he has disaster relief money, but he didn't say the amount. Does he really have it? If the money is used, it will be used by the Nanyang Army." Will government spending have an impact?"

The cool wind on the road had probably woken up Zhao Shizhen early on, but the hangover soup that You Qi asked someone to give Wen was not very useful. Zhao Shizhen gasped when he heard the disaster, and said cautiously: "Chen Shuai does have disaster relief money. 20 taels of silver, now there should be no less than 40 taels, and the elder Ge will send a letter, and the silver taels will be transported by sea ship in April next year at the latest."

It was Zhang Juzheng's turn to be stunned. He raised his hand to let the clerk in the mansion go out, closed the window again, set up the brazier in the room and asked Zhao Shizhen, "Chen Shuai loses a million taels of silver to the Ministry of Households a year. Retaining a huge sum of 20 taels for disaster relief, is Nanyang's military salary enough?"

Zhao Shizhen took it for granted, cupped his hands and asked back: "Old Ge, the Banner Army doesn't need salary, they have military fields, not to mention the fact that the two Chen Shuai have only just over ten thousand soldiers in their headquarters, and the rewards for military exploits don't cost much. The Nanyang Army Mansion is a net profit. "

Zhang Juzheng counts all the treasures in the governor's mansion of the six armies in the world, but he can't remember the number of soldiers in the Nanyang army mansion no matter what, and every time he doesn't pay attention, he makes a mistake.

When it comes to Chen Mu's military strength, he always has to calculate the tributary country and the headquarters in his head to get an approximate number.

"That's good. The servant sent a letter asking Chen Shuai to transfer the disaster money to the household department. First, use the silver that the Nanyang military government sent to the household department this year to go to the disaster relief. It was originally the northern Xinjiang military salary, so it should be transferred first."

Zhao Shizhen cupped his hands, feeling more irritable in his heart.

The Nanyang Military Mansion seemed to have nothing to do with the entire Ming Dynasty, especially in Beijing, where people didn't care about what happened on the other side of the sea, and the court was almost indifferent to Chen Mu.

Although this is indeed a good thing, Zhao Shizhen doesn't want to see such a scene. People are busy with affairs and don't know much about overseas. Even when drinking with officials, he heard people joke that he always thought that the overseas Nanyang military mansion was fake, and he just found it. Some savages became kings when they were sent to Beijing, and those so-called vassal states did not actually exist—just as if there were still only two capitals, thirteen provinces and the north in the world.

He felt that he should write a letter to Chen Mu, and after a year or two, he would transfer the officials who had done well in the Nanyang Military Mansion back to the country, and then transfer a new batch of officials there, so as to train a group of officials in the court who were good at the Nanyang Military Mansion. , Officials who have sufficient understanding of Nanyang and overseas affairs.

At this moment, Zhang Juzheng suddenly said to Zhao Shizhen: "There are rivers for disaster relief in Huaihe River, Changji, and disaster relief in Shanxi, you go!"
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The first year of Wanli in the book is the second year of Wanli in history, because there is the seventh year of Longqing in the middle.

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)