In an instant, many ministers present understood what Yunxi meant. Although he had not said anything else, everyone already understood what he meant.
No matter what the nine of them thought, they had to accept the holy edict in front of them. They could only kneel down and say: "I thank your Majesty for your kindness."
After they finished the ceremony, Yunxi had several more edicts read out, allowing the sons of more than a dozen civil servants to inherit the positions of Shangbao Sicheng and others.
"According to the emperor's edict, civil and military ministers must serve the country and should not be partial. All civil servants from the second rank and above can assume the position of Shangbao Sicheng."
The person who finally read out the imperial edict read: "I have been entrusted by the emperor to carry out the edict of the emperor. Regardless of whether he is civil or military, he is my humerus minister... Now Xu Shiyin, a civil servant, pays for his crime by his official position, and I admire this."
So far, Yunxi's purpose has been clear, which is to include civil servants into a system where hereditary positions are allowed and crimes can be compensated for by their positions.
The civil servants present were differentiated step by step. Most of those who could go to court thought they had a bright future. Although there were not many second-rank officials in the Ming Dynasty, they also felt that they could probably become second-rank officials and receive favors from His Majesty in the future.
Xu Yizi Shiyin, so everyone shut up.
Of course, there are still a handful of 'fundamentalists' who refuse to accept it, but these people can no longer affect the overall situation.
After settling the matter, Yunxi issued another decree: It is forbidden for military officers to ride in sedan chairs. They must ride horses when going to war, but they can ride in cars at ordinary times.
Yunxi forgot what book he read. It said that when the Taiping Uprising was suppressed in the late Manchu Dynasty, some generals went out in sedan chairs. When they were defeated, they were captured and killed by the Taiping soldiers because they could not ride a horse. Although Yunxi did not think that the Ming Dynasty
The army will develop like the Manchu army - even in the late Ming Dynasty, at least the leading generals will still be on horseback, but it is always necessary to be prepared.
Yunxi's decree did not cause too much trouble. Anyway, at this time, there were no generals riding in sedan chairs to fight.
After that, Yunxi took no further reform measures for the time being. He waited for a month to see how the soldiers of Zhiwei and the students of Jiangwu Hall practiced goose-stepping and walked in unison.
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The sound of "crack", "crack", "crack", "crack" sounded, and a man wearing the uniform of a sixth-grade general of the Ming Dynasty waved his whip and kept whipping a man wearing the clothes of an ordinary soldier. If it were normal, even this
Whatever mistake a soldier made, other soldiers may gloat about it, and some think it should be done, but many people, including those who think it should be done, will probably sympathize with it; but today, without exception, the nearly a hundred soldiers standing next to them all
He glared at the person who was being beaten without any sympathy.
After thirty such sounds, Baihu stopped whipping, threw the whip on the ground, and said to the person who was beaten: "This time I will give you thirty lashes. If you do it again next time, it will be sixty lashes."
"If it's a third offender, I won't dare to kill you, but just leave Baihu and go home to eat by yourself!"
With that said, he asked the soldiers to loosen the rope that tied the man and let him go.
This hundred households belong to the avant-garde of the government army and were selected to practice goose-stepping and walking in unison. Although Liu Yangzheng, the commander of the avant-garde of the government army, did not understand why a hundred households were selected to practice goose-stepping and walking in unison, since His Majesty
He would personally conduct the review, so even if he didn't want to be first, he couldn't be in last place, so Liu Yangzheng carefully selected a hundred households that he thought had the best discipline and the most rigorous training to practice goose-stepping and walking in unison.
And told them about His Majesty's reward.
The military attachés and soldiers of this hundred families were very excited, and His Majesty's golden words were true, so they practiced walking in step and worked very hard to walk in unison. But there are always exceptions. The parents of this person who was beaten made a decision when they put down the rebellion last time.
Because of his meritorious service, he received the hereditary title of Hundred Households, so he was not as excited as them and was relatively lax in practice, so he was pulled out by the Hundred Households and given twenty whips.
Although he was only whipped, Baihu was so angry that he struck hard. The man lost his balance and fell to the ground. Someone who usually had a good relationship with him helped him up.
The man said: "Wang Laoer, even if you really don't care about the title of Trial Hundred Households, don't show it like this. It's not like you have the title of Trial Hundred Households; besides, you can get the title of Trial Hundred Households without fighting.
I never dared to think about it before; and if it is really because of you that our hundred households fall to the bottom, the commander's face will not look good. What can you do if he persecutes you? So please stop being at odds with everyone, seriously.
Practice. Or ask for leave from Baihu, Baihu won't dare to force you to play."
The person who was called Wang Laoer, whose real name was Wang Lili, was called Laoer because he once had an elder brother above him. He covered the wound on his body and said: "I don't dare anymore." But he couldn't help showing resentment in his eyes.
color.
Naturally, he couldn't continue practicing after being whipped today, so he went back to the army to recuperate. The Ming Dynasty's military system is still strict, and he is not allowed to go home during the day, so he can only go back to the military camp.
Next, the hundred households rearranged themselves into formation and continued practicing. The palace guard who trained them said, "Just keep your straw sandals in line!"
Suddenly everyone looked to the left, trying to align themselves according to what the guard said before, but they were still not very aligned. Zhang Yue, the guard who was assigned to train them, straightened a few more people, and then said: "Straw Shoe Spin!"
The people below immediately started to turn. Although most people turned to the left, there were still a handful of people who turned to the right, and a few shoes fell off their feet.
Zhang Yue ordered those who had dropped their shoes or made wrong turns to go out and do push-ups, ten for each person.
After a few more rounds, Zhang Yue asked them to line up in four columns and walk together. Since they were just walking around a small area, Zhang Yue didn't have to follow them. He could just watch where they were going.
, giving verbal reprimands from time to time, and asking several people to do push-ups after stopping.
After struggling like this for a long time, Zhang Yuegang announced the disbandment at 3:00 noon, and many people immediately sat on the ground to rest.
The intensity of this training is not high, it can be said to be lighter than their usual, but it is difficult for them to adapt. Walking is actually required to be kept even at all times, and you will be punished if you are slightly uneven, not to mention turning frequently. Many people turn
My head was dizzy.
"It's really hard to get the title of Baihu. It's better to fight with real swords and guns on the battlefield!" someone complained.
"This guard is the same. I heard he was a guard in the imperial army. He is not polite to his own family at all. Such strict training." Someone else said.
"Okay, don't complain! If this is very easy, how could His Majesty promise more than a hundred people to try the title of "Hundred Households"? It would be good for us to be stricter Zhang Wei. Even if we don't seek first place, we will fall to the bottom.
It doesn’t look good either.” Someone said.
They were queuing up to serve the meal and talking at the same time. They got the meal from the cooking team and gathered together in twos and threes under the shade of the trees to eat and talk.
Suddenly someone said: "The food has been getting better and better since the beginning of last year. In the past, I could only eat a meal of white rice every ten days. Now I have white rice at noon every day, and occasionally there is meat. There are always days when there is no meat."
Mushrooms and tofu are like heaven and earth compared to before."
"The imperial court has been rich in the past two years. Since the opening of the sea in the 31st year of Hongwu, a lot of commercial taxes have gone into the pockets of the imperial court. I heard it is millions of dollars every year? Can't we improve our food? Even if we are more than ten
How much food can ten thousand people eat in a year?" A well-informed person said.
"That's because His Majesty is thinking about us and remembers to allocate money to improve the food. And I heard that not only we are in the Imperial Guard, but the food in other Beijing Guards is also much better." Someone else said.
"That's true. Your Majesty still remembers to increase our salary. Sure enough, Your Majesty is a good person. Everything is ruined by corrupt officials. Ten years ago, the head of one of our hundreds of households embezzled the salary from his superiors and was killed by the late emperor.
Kill them. Your Majesty has killed less corrupt officials since he came to the throne. He should be as aggressive as the late emperor." Someone else said.
Zhang Yue, who was sitting in his public room eating, naturally couldn't hear what the soldiers were talking about. He didn't know that they first spoke ill of him, then praised the emperor and demoted corrupt officials. If he knew, he would definitely do it.
After returning home, he told Yunxi that His Majesty was loved by ordinary soldiers.
Since he didn't know, he was naturally thinking about other things.
He was originally sent out to train them to walk in step, and he was very happy when they walked in unison. He felt that this was an opportunity for him to make meritorious deeds: although His Majesty did not explicitly say what would happen to them, ordinary soldiers could be granted a hundred households, and their rewards were indispensable.
His Majesty always treats those around him kindly.
Zhang Yue originally wanted to be rewarded for his meritorious service, but training these people was more difficult than he imagined.
These people couldn't even distinguish between left and right. He was troubled by this from the beginning. His Majesty came up with a clever trick to solve this problem by letting them wear straw sandals and cloth shoes. If Zhang Yue was left to figure out a solution on his own,
I'm afraid I won't be able to think of it until the day of review.
These people also had poor formation awareness. They could never arrange themselves into a neat formation during a gathering. He had to correct it every time. Once they started walking, it became even worse. The four-column formation would eventually bend into four snakes.
The four intertwined snakes might be more curved if the school field were wider.
This has not yet taught them the most difficult goose step. After five days of training, they still have this kind of behavior. Zhang Yue deeply doubts whether he can train them to a certain extent on the day of the review on June 11th. He no longer asks.
If you can get first place, it would be great if you don't end up in last place.
But now that the matter was over, he couldn't just go back and tell His Majesty that he couldn't do it, so he could only grit his teeth and persevere. He finished his meal in a hurry, asked the people sent by Baihu to serve him to wash the dishes, and slept on the bed for a while.
After a while, I got up and continued to train them.