Two days later, July 14th, on this day, when he was in charge of the entire Penal Prison of the Fifth Army Dudufu as the judge of the Chinese Army Dudufu, Chen Xingshan, a military doctor and the Cultural Propaganda Department, secretly yawned while going to court.
He has too many errands now. Even if the errands at the Ministry of War are all handed over to another minister of the Ministry of War, he is still busy enough with the errands at the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion, especially since Yunxi has so many concerns about the army recently. What a shame, he is busy until late at night every day.
Naturally, he didn't get enough sleep and felt groggy every morning.
‘Why don’t you ask for a favor from Your Majesty so that you don’t have to go to court from now on?’ Chen Xingshan thought in his heart.
Before he could figure out the result, he heard the emperor's attendant loudly say: "Quit the court!"
Immediately, all the officials in the room dispersed and walked out of the palace in twos and threes. Of course, Chen Xingshan could not continue to stand there and followed the large troops out.
‘I’d better ask your Majesty not to go to court, otherwise I won’t be able to hold on anymore. I happen to be in the palace now, so I’ll go to Qianqing Palace and talk to Your Majesty.’ He finally decided this after thinking about it.
Chen Xingshu turned his head and walked away from the large army towards Qianqingmen.
But before he could take a few steps, a young eunuch stopped him and said, "Master Chen, His Majesty has asked you to come over."
'His Majesty called me?' Chen Xingshan thought: 'Do you have anything else to give me?'
'It is very possible that His Majesty has been making trouble recently, and it must be related to the army. It seems that the work will increase again.'
He walked to the Qianqing Palace with a heavy heart. Although Chen Xingshan was loyal to Yunxi, it did not mean that he was willing to make the already very arduous work even more arduous.
When Chen Xingshan came to Qianqing Palace, as expected, he saw several governors from the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion, greeted them, and also greeted the fourth auxiliary officer.
He had just finished greeting Xie Jin and was about to say a few words to him when he suddenly heard someone say to him: "Brother Fuchu, why don't you say hello to me?"
Chen Xingshan hurriedly looked in the direction of the sound and saw a person he thought would not be here now.
'Zheng Yi? He is the Minister of Rites, why are he here today? Does His Majesty want to adjust his position?' Chen Xingshan was puzzled, but smiled and said to him: "Brother Linyuan, I'm sorry, I didn't look at it just now. your turn."
The two exchanged a few words, and Chen Xingshan asked: "Brother Linyuan, do you know why your Majesty called us here today?"
"I don't know either. His Majesty has not summoned me alone since the beginning of this year. I also want to know what is going on." Zheng Yi said.
"What about Your Majesty? Why haven't you seen Your Majesty?" Chen Xingshan asked again.
"Your Majesty has gone to change clothes. It's so hot now that you'll be sweating even if you wear thick and heavy court clothes for a while, and His Majesty is no exception."
"His Majesty also said that if anyone feels hot, they can wash their hands and face and take off their hats. Look, Li Jian and the others have taken off their hats," Zheng Yi said.
"I don't have to. There are ice cubes in this room that are quite cool. The sweat will stop after a while," Chen Xingshan said.
Having said that, the hat on his head was really hot and uncomfortable, so he took off the hat.
After a while, more than what Zheng Yi had guessed, Yunxi, who had changed his clothes and taken a shower, walked over from the dormitory feeling refreshed. Chen Xingshan and others hurriedly put on their hats and saluted him.
"My dear friends, this is not a formal occasion, why should it be like this? Just take off your hat after you have saluted. There is no need to wear it. Why don't I just take off my hat?" Yunxi said while returning the salute.
This is an old practice. Yunxi has never allowed them to salute, but no one dares not to salute.
But it was really hot with the hats on, so everyone took off their hats one after another.
After everyone sat down, Yunxi started to get to the main topic of the day.
"Dear ladies, I have called you here today because I have something to give you."
"First, I want to set up the national flag of the Ming Dynasty as a symbol of the Ming Dynasty."
As Yunxi spoke, he took out a national flag he designed and handed it to them.
China has not had a flag similar to the national flag since ancient times. When fighting between countries, a large flag embroidered with the name of the country is enough. In addition, there are various flags embroidered with the names of generals. The modern national flag was the first to appear in Europe.
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Yunxi was not used to a country not having its own flag, so he decided to set up a national flag.
The style of the national flag established by Yunxi was very simple. Since the name of the country was Ming, of course it was the sun and moon flag. Yunxi slightly modified the historical flag of the late Ming Dynasty and made it the national flag.
The officials present looked at each other, and finally Chen Xingshan asked: "Your Majesty, what exactly is the national flag?"
Yunxi explained without surprise: "The national flag is a symbol that represents a country. It is a symbol of the country. It reflects the national characteristics and history and culture through certain styles, colors and patterns." He gave a standard answer.
"But what's the use of the national flag?" Chen Xingshan asked again.
"Distinguish between the Ming Dynasty and foreign countries. All Ming Dynasty's armies, fleets and envoys sent to foreign countries must carry the sun and moon flag of the Ming Dynasty to clearly show the difference from other foreign countries."
"At the same time, the national flag will also represent the land of the Ming Dynasty. All land belonging to the Ming Dynasty, whether it is established as a prefecture, county or under the jurisdiction of the guards, must erect a national flag. And the national flag will never be allowed to fall where it is raised!"
Yunxi said passionately. He wanted the sun and moon flag of the Ming Dynasty to reach the power of the star-striped flag in previous lives. As long as the flag was raised, no one would dare to do anything.
But this group of feudal bureaucrats still can't understand the use of the national flag. In their opinion, a large flag embroidered with the word "明" should have the same function as this, and there is no need to set up such a separate national flag.
But since His Majesty likes it, they will not go against the Emperor for 'insignificant' matters.
Yunxi looked at the officials who didn't take this seriously for a few times, and finally could only look back and move on to the next thing.
"The second thing is that I designed the national emblem." Yunxi also showed them the national emblem he designed.
The national emblem, like the national flag, is a symbol of a country. In daily life, the Chinese emblem is more commonly used than the national flag. The national emblem is found on ID cards and passports.
Yunxi did not design the national flag and national emblem just because he was full. The national flag and national emblem can play a subtle role in daily life, allowing the people to identify with the country. Otherwise, why would the Uighur officials in the Western Regions in later generations designate the national emblem?
Replace it with the national emblem of the crescent moon? It shows that it is still useful.
Yunxi spent a long time designing the national emblem, repeatedly thinking about various design ideas, and finally decided to design it into five intertwined dragons, with one dragon head in the center and the other four dragon heads looking in the four directions of southeast, northwest and northwest.
The design was inspired by the double-headed eagle logo of European countries, which looks at the territory in both the east and west directions at the same time. Yunxi was more ambitious and felt that it was too stingy to only look at the east and west directions. He had to look at all directions, so he finally decided
Such a design.
Of course, Yunxi could not design the position of the five dragons by himself, so he asked the palace painter to experiment repeatedly, and finally designed the beautiful "Five Dragons" national emblem.
But the court officials could not understand the purpose of the national emblem. This time, Li Jian asked: "Your Majesty, since we have a national flag, why do we need to design a national emblem?"