Chapter 13 First Arrival at the Military Department
On August 17, Yunwen and Yunxi came to the Ministry of Husbandry and the Ministry of War respectively. It was impossible to give them any practical work on the first day, not to mention that Zhao Mian, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, and Shen Shu, the Minister of the Ministry of War, had not yet thought of what to give them. What to do, so I just looked around.
Yun Wen looked around, chatted a few words with the various officials, got off work when it was time to get off work, and then went to the place agreed with Huang Zicheng.
When Zhu Biao was still alive, Yun Wen became friends with Huang Zicheng because of his excellent knowledge and literary talent. Many of Yun Wen's views were deeply influenced by Huang Zicheng. However, due to Zhu Biao's death in the past few months, Yun Wen's Due to illness, and Huang Zicheng's transfer to Taichang Temple Minister, the two of them had not seen each other for a while. As soon as they met, they greeted each other excitedly, only saying, "I miss you so much!"
However, this pair of good friends did not spend much time chatting, because Yunwen had to rush back before the palace door was locked, and there was not enough time.
Huang Zicheng said: "Your Highness, it is a God-given opportunity for Your Highness to be sent to the Ministry of Household Affairs to handle matters now. Although the affairs of the Ministry of Household Affairs are messy, the officials of the Ministry of Household Affairs are all gentle and gentle scholars. Your Highness can communicate with them very well; and now I am a good friend. Yao Shan happens to be the head of the Household Department, so he can help His Highness."
"The Third Highness, in the Ministry of War, mainly deals with military generals. If it is too lenient, His Majesty will definitely be dissatisfied. If it is too strict, things will be difficult to handle; especially the former Crown Princess is the daughter of King Kaiping, and a descendant of the Chang family is an old soldier. There are so many of them, and His Highness the Third Prince is even more in a dilemma."
The two talked for a while, exchanging issues in life and new insights in literature. It was almost time for the palace door to be locked. Huang Zicheng was afraid that Yun Wen would not be able to come back in time, so he said: "Now, Your Highness. I have already gone out to do some work, and there are many opportunities to meet, so there is no rush today."
Yun Wen said goodbye to him again before returning to the palace. He happened to meet Yun He at Donghua Gate. The two of them looked at each other, and they didn't seem surprised that the other one came back at this time. From today, or from yesterday. After Zhu issued the order for them to come out to work, they were already direct competitors, so they didn't know what to say when they met, they just greeted each other; although they walked together together afterwards, they almost didn't say anything. .
Yesterday we were brothers who had a cordial discussion together, but today they have ignored each other. We were brothers who had hugged each other and cried at their father's funeral before, but today they are strangers to each other. Power is really the most evil thing. Reply After arriving at the East Nuan Pavilion of the Wenhua Palace, Yunxi, who suddenly exuded the aura of a literary youth, thought so. Then he immediately slapped himself, bastard, why did today's painting style become like this, sb.
Let's get back to the subject. Today Yunxi stayed in the Ministry of War all day, and did not come back until the palace door was about to be locked. In addition to greeting the minister and the minister first, he then browsed through every department and expressed cordial condolences on behalf of the Ming Dynasty royal family. In addition to the officials at all levels who worked conscientiously to make the Ming Dynasty prosperous and the people of the Ming Dynasty prosperous and healthy, we should study the person of Qi Tai (now also called Qi De, for convenience, he is uniformly called Qi Tai).
Qi Tai, Huang Zicheng, and Fang Xiaoru are considered to be the three main culprits who caused Emperor Jianwen to be killed by Zhu Di. They are basically synonymous with incompetence. When Yunxi read "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty" in modern times, he saw King Jingnan of Yan. In one section, in order to determine whether these three people were useless or not, I also specifically checked the "History of the Ming Dynasty".
After reading the biographies of Qi Tai, Huang Zicheng, and Fang Xiaoru in "History of the Ming Dynasty", Yunxi felt that it was okay to regard Huang Zicheng and Fang Xiaoru as waste, but he felt that Qi Tai actually had some abilities. At least he was more accurate in judging people, and Zeng firmly opposed it.
Let Li Jinglong be the head coach and beat Zhu Di (on the contrary, Huang Zicheng strongly advocated making Li Jinglong the head coach). If Yun Wen had adopted Qi Tai's opinion at that time, Zhu Di might not be able to thrive in the second year of Jianwen.
At the same time, Qi Taike is indeed the person Zhu Yuanzhang likes, and he even changed his name specially, which shows that he attaches great importance to him, and Lao Zhu's vision is not bad. It is impossible that he just missed Qi Tai.
Based on his trust in Lao Zhu's vision, Yunxi decided to get close to Qi Tai and try to get him under his account (where did you get the "account"), maybe he would be able to suppress him and worship him as soon as his domineering aura spread out.
Woolen cloth!
However, it turned out that Yunxi did not have a domineering spirit and could not control anyone. Qitai just talked to him very politely and answered his questions very carefully, but he was neither enthusiastic nor distant.
He looked completely businesslike. Yunxi knew at a glance that there was no chance of subduing him now. Qitai happened to be the head of the staff department now, and there were a lot of information and maps to see. In order to resolve the embarrassment, Yunxi asked for a copy of the information.
stand up.
This is a piece of information about the daily drills for Japanese troops on the seaside. It is only the early Ming Dynasty, and there are Japanese pirates? Yunxi thought doubtfully, he really didn’t know this. Isn’t the situation in Japan still relatively stable now?
Well, we are still a hundred years away from the Warring States Period, right? Yunxi naturally also has ideas about the sea. Starting the Age of Discovery a hundred years before the white people in the Far West, Yunxi is very clear about the benefits it represents.
.But now is not the right time to mention it, we have to wait.
Hey! Isn't this a legitimate reason to talk to Qi Tai? Yunxi took the information and said to Qi Tai: "Master Qi, I see that our military system in the Ming Dynasty also has a special preparation for the Japanese army. How is this?
What's going on? Are there many Japanese pirates now?"
Qi Tai is processing the documents requesting the dispatch of military rations from the armies of Bashu and Yunnan (including Guizhou Province). In the past two years, there have been many rebellions in Sichuan and Yunnan, and many troops have been mobilized. The pressure on the allocation of military rations is not small. You must be careful about which granary you transfer food from.
consider.
After hearing Yunxi's words, Qitai stopped what he was doing and explained: "Reporting to your highness, since the chaos in the late Yuan Dynasty, many merchants who were originally engaged in maritime trade have changed their careers and become pirates, and in the Japanese country, the poor people are poor.
, during the chaos at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, no one cared about the people along the coast, which made it very easy for pirates to plunder the people. Japan was surrounded by the sea, and the people were mostly water-savvy. Seeing this, they came to be pirates one after another and tortured the people on the coast of the Ming Dynasty. However, the Ming Dynasty unified the world.
Since then, we have been actively preparing for Japanese pirates, and have informed the Japanese king several times to restrain the people, so now there are not many Japanese pirates, and the Japanese army has also been cut down a lot, and the rest is just for preparation."
Yunxi understood as soon as he heard it. During the chaos, it was difficult for maritime merchants to get goods from the mainland. Even if they got the goods, the prices were high, and they could not make much money by selling them to other countries. Ordinary small maritime merchants could not afford it, so they had to rob it.
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But what surprised him most was Qitai's point of view. He actually considered why there were Japanese pirates from the perspective of cost (the cost of robbery), instead of considering the national character like some people who are stupid in reading. Later generations of Yunxi were regarded as a
A person who graduated from economics-related majors believes that most of the things that happen in the world can be explained from an economic perspective. The cause of most things is because of interests, whether it is a country or an individual, not something else.
national character.
Yunxi asked two more questions casually, and Qi Tai answered them one by one. Yunxi was speechless again, so he could only find another piece of information to read. In this way, Yunxi has been in the Ministry of War, specifically the Staff Division.
When it was almost time for the palace gate to be locked and Qi Tai was about to get off work, he started to rush back, and happened to meet Yun Wen at Donghua Gate.
Going back in the evening, Yunxi began to wonder why Lao Zhu sent him to the Ministry of War. Yesterday, he was busy and excited and did not think about this issue. Today he calmed down and noticed: Why did Yunxuan be sent to the Ministry of Husbandry and me to the Ministry of Husbandry?
What about the Ministry of War?
However, this question is not difficult to answer. Most people have seen through Lao Zhu's thoughts. Of course Yunxi also thought of it. It seems that Lao Zhu is very afraid of Lan Yu and others. Yunxi thought so.
Chang Yuchun has been dead for more than 20 years, and Yunxi's biological mother Chang Fei has been dead for almost ten years. Since then, Yunxi has never seen Chang Mao (dead), Chang Sheng or Lan Yu, but Zhu Yuanzhang unexpectedly
They are still afraid that Yunxi will favor them. This shows how powerful the Chang family was in the army. And Xu Da's status was still higher than that of Chang Yuchun, and he did not die until the seventeenth year of Hongwu. The Xu family should be even more unfathomable.
Isn't it because of this that Xu Da's daughter cannot marry the eldest, second and third eldest brother?
Yunxi realized that he had gone off topic again, and hurriedly came back, but found that there was nothing else to think about, so he read for a while and fell asleep.
