Next, Yang Feng completely put aside the rights and wrongs of the capital and led the mighty legion of adopted women northward along the canal.
But he had to get off the ship when he reached Huai'an.
After all, it was still winter at this time, and the canal to the north was still frozen.
Can only walk.
Fortunately, the foster girls are in good health and full of energy. After all, they have seen the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty along the way, and they are all looking forward to their new life with joy. It is like this mighty team continuing to go north while watching onlookers along the way.
By the time they arrived in Yanzhou, the emperor's grandson had already officially ascended the throne.
As for the year number...
For the time being, it’s still Hongwu.
This will have to be changed after the New Year.
In fact, before Zhu Di proclaimed himself emperor, he had always used the name Hongwu. Therefore, in the official history of the Ming Dynasty, the fourth year of Jianwen was always the thirty-fifth year of Hongwu. As for what era name Zhu Yunxi would use, this great scholar studied it for him.
There is no need for Ambassador Yang to worry.
Ambassador Yang, who arrived in Yanzhou, directly borrowed the currently vacant Prince Lu Mansion.
Of course, it wasn't him who came forward.
Theoretically, he was still on his way to Guangzhou at this time.
The person leading these adopted daughters is of course Zhang Ying.
At this time, Zhu Zhaohui was just ten years old. He was still just the son of Lu, and he still lived in the Tenth Prince's Palace in the capital. Only Princess Lu occasionally came back to visit this palace, and it was now used to house Yang Feng's adopted daughters. Moreover, Yang Feng was short-lived.
I don’t plan to go back in time. Lao Zhu’s funeral is very troublesome. Originally, Zhu Yunwen buried him in seven days in history. This is very strange for an emperor. The emperor buried him in seven days and buried him in July. Although this Zhou ritual is not
It is not strictly adhered to, there are long or short days, and there are even years, but seven days is still an exaggeration, which is almost comparable to those who were beaten by old thieves. So even if Lao Zhu was the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty, according to
His principle of restoring ancient etiquette required him to stay in the funeral palace for at least seven months, but Zhu Yunwen not only refused to allow his uncles to enter the capital, but also hurriedly buried him in just seven days.
It's indeed a little weird.
In fact, it is seriously against etiquette and law, especially when he is surrounded by great Confucians.
But Zhu Yunxi will definitely not be like this.
Moreover, since it was winter, there was no need to worry about the problem of spoilage. Finally, after discussion with the ministers in the court, they unanimously decided to strictly follow the etiquette and let him freeze in the funeral palace for seven months.
In addition, vassal princes from various places were summoned to Beijing for the funeral.
He is different from Zhu Yunwen. The latter had a guilty conscience and was buried for seven days, which would not give the vassal king time to come back. But now he has basically eliminated the vassal kings. The four kings of Jin, Yan, Zhou, and Chu have all transferred their titles.
The King of Qin is already the second generation, and Chang Sheng is watching. The King of Qi is a fool, and the King of Shu is very relieved. The other kings are not good enough. Except for the King of Xiang, who is in Jingzhou, the others are remote frontiers, and there are many fundamental problems.
He did not become a vassal. It can be said that he did not need to worry about the vassal king's rebellion and seizing the throne. On the contrary, he wanted to use this to show the world that the latter surrendered to him, not to mention that he would not allow people to come to Beijing for burial. This is wrong in itself.
Even ordinary people can't help but let their sons go home to attend their father's funeral!
Seven months is enough.
Even Zhu Di had enough time to rush back from the Western Regions.
At this time, he was presiding over the construction of Dihua City in Changbali. According to Zhu Yuanzhang's imperial edict, he had to lead the troops currently in the Western Region to build Dihua City before the Beiting Commander and Dihua Guards arrived.
In this way, the Beiting Commander and Dihuawei can take over directly after they arrive.
It is only more than six thousand miles from Dihua to the capital. Even if the message transmission time is included, seven months is enough for him to return to the capital. As for the remaining vassal kings, none is farther than him, like the one who moved to Annan
The King of Chu, the King of Han in Kaiyuan, and the King of Su in the northwest are all closer than him. Therefore, in seven months all the vassal kings will gather in the capital to attend the funeral of Emperor Daxing and meet the new emperor, officially completing the replacement of the highest power of the Ming Empire.
It’s still early!
Returning to the capital at this time, Ambassador Yang, as a foreign envoy, also has to attend various ceremonies.
You also have to wear mourning.
Although he has pushed his daughter down, this kind of thing can still be avoided.
Yang Feng sent the adopted daughters to Yanzhou and asked Zhang Ying to stay and accommodate them.
This palace was rented by Zhang Ying from Princess Lu and paid rent.
Although renting the palace is a bit exaggerated, fortunately Princess Lu is not the first.
Because the Princess of Jin has rented some rooms in the palace to businessmen as warehouses.
After the King of Jin moved to the vassal state, such a large palace still had to be maintained in Taiyuan, and it was of no use. Except for important buildings such as the main hall, the houses like the back house could be rented out. Taiyuan's industrial and commercial development happened to be rapid, and there were a lot of industrial and commercial people.
There was no place to serve as a warehouse in the city. Since they gave them money, of course the Princess of Jin ignored her own face issues...
Money is the most important thing.
After the King of Jin moved to the vassal state, he was just guarding a bitter and cold land.
That is, the rent Yang Feng gives them, and then they collect some taxes according to the business rules, and of course they must seize every opportunity to make money.
Now all the feudal lords are like this.
Anyway, the emperor is ready to let them live on their own. In fact, a bunch of clans that needed to be ennobled were not ennobled last year. Since he is not prepared to pay, he can't blame everyone for being shameless. Renting out the palace is just the beginning.
Yang Feng still pretended to be a businessman and went north to Shanxi.
There is no need to worry about his tax package.
The key is the resettlement of the Mongols brought from Mobei.
But things turned out surprisingly well.
Although Shuofang is still a bitterly cold place in the eyes of Princess Jin, it is already a paradise for those Mongolians. After all, the winter in Mobei is minus 40 to 50 degrees, while Hohhot is only 20 to 30 degrees below zero, and in the desert
Bei still has to endure hunger and have no worries about food and clothing here. In this case, let them continue to be happy. Anyway, Ambassador Yang has done what he promised them. Ambassador Yang promised to take them to Monan. Shuofang is of course Monan.
, he then went north to Huining, and then went into the reclamation area, where he went into winter in the severe cold of minus 30 degrees Celsius.
At this time, the capital city was in the snow.
In an inconspicuous mansion.
"How was the check?"
Huang Zicheng looked eagerly at Qi Tai, who was brushing off the snowflakes on his body.
It's just that the latter is wearing an old Confucian shirt and looks like a teacher.
Qi Tai was still the Minister of War, but Zhu Yunxi found an excuse to dismiss Huang Zicheng. After the latter came to the throne, he carried out a large-scale purge of Zhu Yunwen's clan, and most of them were dismissed. However, even though they were dismissed, most of these people were in the capital.
After all, they were preparing to go home, but if the preparation time had been longer, His Majesty the Emperor would not be able to let the imperial guards come to the door and drive them out with big sticks.
"No news."
Qitai shook his head and said.
"Have you never seen it in Guangzhou?"
Fang Xiaoru said.
He was also dismissed from office.
"No."
Qitai shook his head.
"Then where can he go? Even if he doesn't know that the fleet has returned, he still has to go to Guangzhou. Could it be that he capsized the boat in the river and fed the fish?"
Huang Zicheng dreamed about the happy scene of Yang Feng being fed to fish.
Well, they are looking for Yang Feng.
After all, there had been no news from Yang Feng for a long time. Zhu Yuanzhang's imperial edict was to go to Guangzhou to take the four new warships that had been prepared, and then go to Luzon to meet the Jiahe Fleet. But the Jiahe Fleet had already returned to the capital, so the news was reported to Di.
Hurry, we have already arrived in Guangzhou in a month. What's more, the news of the emperor's death was announced to the world by imperial edict. This is faster. We will arrive in Guangzhou in a few days. It is impossible for Yang Feng to know that the emperor has passed away and still continue to go.
Luzon, besides, whether he goes or not, he will still show up in Guangzhou.
What's going on now?
"Maybe there was an accident. He hasn't shown up since he left Anlongsi. The whole journey from Anlongsi to Guangzhou is steep, so an accident is not impossible."
Fang Xiaoru said.
"I didn't drown him at sea last time. Can I drown him in the river in Guangxi?"
Qitai was speechless.
"Then how to explain his disappearance? What's more, there are no places like Dateng Gorge on the sea. He took the waterway to Guangzhou, and there were some barbarian people along the way. There might be some accidents. He is not immortal. If he is,
With his immortal body, he doesn't need to be heavily armored. When does he not wear his body armor whenever he goes outside?
He can also be killed.
Maybe in that deep mountain canyon, the boat capsized in the ditch and was shot to death by the natives with poisonous arrows.
What's more, no matter whether he is dead or not, as long as he is not in the capital, it is our opportunity after all. As soon as the new king takes the throne, he will change the imperial examination, re-employ northerners, and change the tax law. In just a few days, the court has already become a mess.
We also let those villains falsely accuse the Prince of Guangze of having a private grudge against the Daxing Emperor. This is clearly an attempt to accuse the Prince of Guangze and kill him. Our Ming Dynasty has just sent away a tyrant, and here comes another tyrant."
Huang Zicheng said with a sneer.
As soon as Zhu Yunxi succeeded to the throne, he immediately issued an order to change the imperial examination system that he had been thinking about for a long time.
That is to say, to select scholars by subject.
The five subjects are literature, engineering, agriculture, arithmetic and military.
The liberal arts were tested in the previous imperial examinations, but they were no longer limited to Confucian classics. Simply put, they were tested on arbitrary propositions, but in fact they were still Confucian. After all, the people who asked the questions were still civil servants.
But the remaining four subjects have nothing to do with Confucianism.
Moreover, Jinshi in the Five Subjects are at the same level. After passing the exam, they will be at the bottom, and then promoted according to their results. Jinshi in Liberal Arts will still go to the county government as in the past, but they may not necessarily be the county magistrate, they may also be the chief registrar, or even the classics historian. However, Dingjia is still
Enter the Hanlin Academy, but all the top five subjects enter the Hanlin Academy, and the second top ones still go to various yamen in the capital. They also start from the lowest level officials, and then go to the Ministry of Industry from the engineering major, then to the household department from the arithmetic major, and from the military department to the military department. Although the agricultural major does not
The Ministry of Agriculture, but you can go directly to the county government just like liberal arts. This reform seriously harmed the interests of Confucian students. In fact, almost half of their positions were cut off. And even liberal arts are not necessarily all Confucian. After all, they are no longer limited to Confucianism.
It’s a classic.
It was the civil servants who set the topic, but it was the emperor who gave the final approval!
If he wants to take the Ming Dynasty law test, that's fine.
The Confucian scholars were completely stunned by the slap, especially the great Confucian scholars in the south who were cultivating, studying, and heirlooms. They had no idea what to do.
Studying hard in Hanchuang just to compete with a group of craftsmen, traders and even mud-legged people?
Agricultural science is really a mess.
Of course, they are actually agricultural students.
The reform of the imperial examination was systematic. It was not that the imperial court suddenly opened agricultural subjects, but that local governments first carried out agricultural education and used the teaching materials prepared by Yang Feng to open agricultural schools. Zhu Yuanzhang had already established basic education that was popularized throughout the country, and also
That is to say, there are a large number of children who are literate among the people, so these children can enroll in agricultural schools.
Then study agriculture.
After studying, he took the imperial examination.
However, agronomy definitely requires going to the fields, such as breeding and fertilizer research. How can you do research without going to the fields?
Those who study fertilizers must also study the various ingredients of manure pills!
The smell was quite strong.
Yang Fengdu had to provide homemade gas masks to workers who produced dung pills.
Yang Feng had already designed this reform of the imperial examination with the emperor Taisun four years ago.
There are even many experimental schools.
The same goes for other subjects, and even liberal arts schools actually have specialized schools such as law.
They are all in Mount Wutai in Yangfeng.
Zhu Yunxi finally survived until his grandfather died and became emperor. He could promote the original experimental school to the whole country. Anyway, he opened the imperial examination, and the first batch of students in these subjects were he and Yang Feng.
For those experimental schools, these are the disciples of the Emperor. They go directly to the exams and then go to work as officials at the grassroots level.
His Majesty the Emperor suddenly had a large number of grassroots officials who met his standards.
Then more such schools will be opened.
Step by step increase the number of Jinshi in miscellaneous subjects.
Gradually replace the officialdom.
This has been planned for a long time.
It's just that Lao Zhu didn't want to do this in the past. After all, he understood that Confucianism was very beneficial to safeguarding the family world, but Zhu Yunxi didn't care about this. In other words, he was influenced by modern thinking and had his own theory of safeguarding the family world.
but……
"Even without Yang Feng, what can you and I, a group of Confucian scholars, do? Your Majesty still has the Shenji Camp. Without the Shenji Camp, there is still the Beijing Camp. Even without Yang Feng, he still has Lan Yu.
What can you and I do?
King Yan is far away in the Western Regions, what can you and I do?"
Qitai said.
Indeed, this situation is simply desperate!
"Brother Nantang, don't forget, we are grasshoppers on a rope. Do you think if I go to His Majesty to reveal the conspiracies we had together in the past, will he punish your three clans?"
Fang Xiaoru sneered.
Qitai's eyes widened...
"Then you and the other three tribes won't be able to escape."
he said angrily.
"Fang received the kindness of King Guangze and should repay him with death. It's just three clans, so what about ten clans? Fang could give up three clans in order to repay King Guangze. I wonder if you can give up?"
Fang Xiaoru said.
Qitai froze instantly.
"Brother Nantang, you can't back down. In fact, you also know very well that there is nothing we can do. As long as Yang Feng is not here, we have a glimmer of hope. There is a personal letter from Prince Guangze here. You might as well read it first."
When Huang Zicheng saw that the heat was coming, he pushed a letter in front of Qi Tai and said.
Zhu Yunwen has been banned from the house and they cannot see him.
The latter was stunned for a moment.
He then opened the letter...
"The King of Yan is far away in the Western Regions. Do you think a mere King of Xiang can protect the King of Guangze?"
He then sneered.
Well, Zhu Yunwen's secret message asked them to rescue him and then flee to Jingzhou to seek protection from King Xiang. After all, he also knew that if he didn't run away at this time, he would really be waiting to die.
"Brother Nantang, if the King of Xiang cannot protect us, then we will go to the King of Chu. If the King of Chu cannot protect us, then we will go to the other vassal kings. If His Majesty the Emperor wants to kill his brother with his brother, the elder brother will ask his uncle for protection. This is