Yunxi took the prince who had just learned to speak to the Temple of Heroes and the Temple of Heroes, which did not arouse much reaction among the ministers. Everyone had already guessed that Yunxi would do this, but they did not expect it to be so early.
But Yunxi taking Lan Siqi to the Temple of Meritorious Officers caused everyone to talk about it, and both civil servants and generals were surprised. However, after all, Yunxi had a good reputation as a teacher, and he did not violate the rules set by Zhu Yuanzhang. Everyone could just discuss it privately, but not
Who will file a memorial for this?
However, after that, Yunxi expelled the merits of two people who had participated in the examination this year on the spot, which caused a lot of repercussions among the civil servants. This touched the interests of the civil servants. Many people ignored Yunxi's higher prestige and gave him
Yunxi makes a fold.
Of course Yunxi also knew that his punishment was a bit harsh, but in a country like China, what is too much must be corrected, so Yunxi would give such a severe punishment at that time.
However, for this reason, Yunxi ignored these memorials and pretended that they did not exist. However, if someone who was qualified to meet him wanted to remonstrate with him in person, hehe, Yunxi would never be lenient. But such a thing did not happen.
After that, Yunxi spent a few days leisurely.
On the thirteenth day of the first lunar month, when Yunxi got up in the morning, he did not stay in the harem to accompany his wife and children as usual, but went to Qianqing Palace.
Of course, it was impossible for Yunxi to ask the guards to announce the arrival of people after arriving at Qianqing Palace, so when he arrived at Qianqing Palace, there were already two young people and a middle-aged man waiting here.
Yunxi gave way to Huang, and Huang and Fu placed the paper and pen maps to be used today, brewed four cups of hot tea, stood aside, sat down, took a cup of hot tea, took a sip, and said: "
Fourth uncle, brother Gao Xu, brother Xian Yao, please sit down, we are all members of the same family, so don’t be polite."
'If you really don't have to be polite, why don't you let us sit down as soon as we come in.' Gao Xu and Xian Yao complained in their hearts. As for Zhu Di, who is over forty and has experienced ups and downs, he will no longer care about such a trivial matter.
Complained.
After everyone sat down, Yun He said: "A few days ago, I changed the title of Nineteenth Uncle to the King of Song Dynasty. You all know about the title of Lu Song. Today, I want to officially grant the title to brother Gao Xu and brother Xian Yao.
Fan."
"The land of Manlajia is located at the throat of the Western Ocean into the South China Sea. The location is very important. Brother Xian'ao, the emperor plans to make you the vassal king of this place."
"There is a place at the southernmost tip of Managara, called Temasik, also called Dragon Tooth Gate or Haicheng. The location of this place is extremely dangerous, so I will use it as the capital of your fiefdom."
"Brother Huang has consulted the documents of past dynasties and found in the "Wu Shi Foreign Biography" written by Kang Tai, a general of the Eastern Wu Dynasty during the Three Kingdoms period, that this place was once named Pu Luozhong, so Brother Huang decided to change its name to Pu Luozhong and give you the title of Pu Luozhong.
King." This place would become Singapore in later generations. As the first port in Nanyang, Yunxi would certainly attach great importance to it.
It was only after Yunxi received envoys from many countries that he learned that the so-called "Manrak" country was not established by the Manraks, but by a former Srivijaya prince whose name Yunxi could not remember.
Not only that, the territory controlled by the Manchurian Kingdom at this time was very small, and most of Manchuria was not under his rule.
So while Yunxi was glad that he did not accept Manlajia's tribute rashly, he decided to take advantage of this opportunity to confer a prince title there.
After briefly introducing the situation there, he continued: "Brother, the emperor will ask the army stationed in Srivijaya to cooperate with you and force the former prince of Srivijaya to surrender. I think he has only been in Manchuria for three or four years. His basic foundation is If he is unstable, he will most likely surrender. Even if he doesn't surrender, don't be afraid. Just use the excuse of his overstepping and occupying Manlajia and destroy him."
"In this way, you will control part of Manlajia. The Imperial Brotherhood will support you in building a city in Puluo Zhong as your capital, and will allocate 30% of the Shandong rebels to you as your subordinates. But what happens next depends on you. It’s a trick.”
At the end of the Luxie Rebellion, there were more than 20,000 soldiers who stayed in Jiangbei as coolies because of their participation in massacres or other violations of military discipline, and 30% of them were about 7,000 people.
This number doesn’t look like a lot, but they still have families, and their families were also exiled, so the total number of people allocated to Xian Yao is about thirty to forty thousand, which is quite a lot. Xian Yao recruited half-old children During the march, you can gather an army of 10,000.
With the combat power of the Southeast Asian countries at this time, an army of 10,000 people could defeat more than 100,000 local indigenous people on flat terrain. If the army was spread out, a hundred people would be enough to defeat thousands of them. Historically, Portuguese soldiers A crew of forty-six men defeated more than a thousand people on the island of Ceylon. There was no reason why the Ming Dynasty could do worse.
On the way here, Xianyou guessed that Yunxi called him here this time to formally seal him, probably in a remote place, but he didn't expect it to be so remote.
He was not willing to go to such a far place, but how could he dare to disobey Yunxi's orders? He could only comfort himself: "At least he will be an independent vassal king in the future, and there is no need to stay in the Central Plains to see his face."
Yunxi then gave some instructions to Xianxu, and then turned to look at Gao Xu. Yunxi looked at Gao Xu for a few times, and then said: "Gao Xu, the emperor plans to change you to the title of King Su, and replace the original Three Buddhas." The place where Qi is located will be resealed to you."
Gao Xu was shocked: "Brother Emperor, where is Uncle Twenty-one?"
"My twenty-first uncle, the emperor, has another appointment, and I will never treat him badly. After thinking about it, I finally feel that you are more suitable to be the king of Srivijaya."
"Brother Huang has also allocated 30% of the previous Shandong rebels to you. After you take office, you will discuss with Hua Ying, He Rong and others to leave some soldiers from the land divisions of Guangdong and Guangxi, using these two units as the foundation."
"Brother Huang has also thought about it. It is better to win over the local aristocratic families. In this way, it is best to give them a left and right prime minister. The military power cannot be given up, so we can only use Hua Ying as the left prime minister to lead the military power. After you take office, choose an outstanding local person. People are right ministers."
"Liang Daoming and others have been here for a long time, but they are Chinese and not local natives, so we can try to win them over. Brother Huang has decided to keep Liang Daoming, Shi Jinqing and others here to assist you for the time being."
Yunxi gave Gao Xu many more instructions. From a geographical point of view, perhaps Manlajia was more important, but Manlajia was much smaller in area and the situation was simple. It was just a Manlajia country with only a small piece of land, and Just a bunch of Malay natives who believe in Tianfang religion.
However, the area of Sumatra is five times that of the Malay Peninsula, and there are many countries. It is very complex, so of course we need to pay more attention.
Yunxi finally said: "Gao Xu, the entire Sumatra Island is not just Srivijaya. There are also Suwendana, Sumatra, Orphan and other countries to the east. Don't just focus on Srivijaya." "
Yunxi's words tacitly approved Gao Xu's conquest of the entire island, even though Xuwendana was still a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty at this time.
Of course, Gao Xu also understood this sentence, and his eyes lit up. When he followed his mother to visit the Duke of Wei, he heard Xu Jingchang mention that the entire island of Sumatra is very large, roughly equivalent to Hebei plus Shanxi plus Shandong. If the total area could be all owned by oneself, it would be a big country.
So Gao Xu, who was originally unwilling, was willing to go to Srivijaya.