As the group passed near Beimen Bridge, Yunxi remembered something, stopped and turned sideways and said to Wang Bu: "The Shandong Noodle House is near here, I guess. You go there to express your gratitude to Boss Tang and his family and give them something. Also, what happened just now?" Jinyiwei has forgotten that Li Ya was placed in Jinyiwei as a hundred households, so you should also go to his house to express your gratitude on behalf of the orphan and give him something."
Wang Bu replied: "Your Highness, Your Majesty has already rewarded them, especially Li Ya, who was rewarded as a hereditary family of 100 Jinyi Guards; why does Your Highness need to reward them in addition?"
Yunxi replied: "Your Majesty's reward is your Majesty's, and their timely notification saved Gu Yi's life. How could Gu not express it?" Then he turned to Chen Xing and said, "Go and buy some ordinary gadgets. "It would be best if there are specialties from Anqing Prefecture. After buying them, take them to Wenhua Gate, and I will ask the eunuch to wait there." Chen Xing promised.
Wang Bu and Chen Xing each took one or two people to do something. Yunxi rode his horse to the palace, went to the Ministry of Household Affairs, handed the horse to the eunuch of the Royal Horse Supervisor at Chengtian Gate, and then went to the Jinshen Palace. Go, and at the same time, don't forget to send someone to Wenhua Hall to inform Wang Jin that he has sent someone to wait for Chen Xing at Wenhua Gate.
Yunxi came out of the palace from time to time and walked around. It was only the third quarter of Shenshi, and Lao Zhu was reviewing the memorials as usual. When he saw Yunxi walking in, he said, "Yunxi is back now?"
When Yunxi saw that there were other eunuchs, he saluted respectfully and said: "Hello, Grandpa Huang." Then he straightened up and said back: "Back to Grandpa Huang, the officials of the Bashu Department of Hubu have handled the matter very well. There is nothing that requires my intervention. , so I just walked around and didn’t do anything, so I came back so early.”
Yunxi paused for a moment and continued: "But I think because Bashu Division has added such a job, the staff is stretched and there is not enough staff. Can the emperor temporarily dispatch a few officials from other yamen to Bashu Division to help?"
After listening to what he said, Lao Zhu said: "Have you talked to Zhao Mian?" After saying that, without waiting for Yunxi's reply, he added: "It's useless to talk to Zhao Mian at this time. The entire household department is very busy in the spring and autumn. It’s so busy that Zhao Mian probably won’t be able to recruit anyone.”
Yunxi flattered him a little and said, "Grandpa Huang is really perceptive. That's how Zhao Shangshu answered me."
Lao Zhu laughed. If the official said this, he would definitely think that the official was flattering; but when his children and grandchildren said this, he was very happy.
Lao Zhu said: "Let grandpa think about which department can dispatch people. The Yi people from Yunnan have not yet returned, and the Ministry of Rites and the Lifan Yuan are very busy; the Ministry of Industry also has official duties of building embankments along the Huaihe River, and they can't spare them. Send people out; the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of War are also very busy now." As for the Ministry of Justice and Dali Temple, which he did not mention, they had no free time throughout the Hongwu period and were ready to arrest and try officials at any time.
Lao Zhu thought for a while and said: "Only the Metropolitan Procuratorate can dispatch people. I gave Zhan Hui an order to select a few people from the Metropolitan Procuratorate to go to the Ministry of Household Affairs to help."
Yunxi saluted again and said, "My grandson would like to express my gratitude to Grandpa Huang on behalf of the officials of the Bashu Division of the Ministry of Household Affairs." However, although he thanked him, he was still being cute and made Lao Zhu laugh again.
Then Lao Zhu asked all the eunuchs serving around him to go out, asked Yunxi to sit next to him, and said to Yunxi: "Yunxi, you have been officially canonized as the crown prince. Biao'er was canonized as the crown prince on the 24th. The memorial ceremony begins at the age of 65; but grandpa is now sixty-five, and he may not have eight or nine years to wait for you to grow up, and you are more mature and smarter than Biao'er, so grandpa will start teaching you now. Handle memorials correctly."
As he spoke, he took out five memorials from the thick pile of folds in front of him and said to Yunxi: "Look at these five memorials. They are Qu Neng's report on the current situation of Yuelu Timur's crusade, Fengyang Mansion's report
Reporting on the flood control of the Huaihe River, the Chief Envoy of the Three Qin Dynasty petitioned for a reduction of this year's autumn tax, the Huating County Inspection Division reported on the North Korean tribute, and the Ministry of Personnel reported that the term of three, six, and nine years will be completed in the second half of this year, and the grade will be in
A summary report shall be submitted for the transfer or retention of officials from the fifth rank to the seventh rank."
"When dealing with government affairs, urgent matters should be given priority, and among urgent matters, military situation should be the first priority. Among the matters reported in these five memorials, Qu Neng's report stated that military situation is the most urgent, so this memorial should be dealt with first."
As he spoke, he opened Qu Neng's book, read it himself, and asked Yunxi to read it again. Yunxi thought for a while and asked, "Did you find anything?"
Yunxi replied: "Grandpa, Qu Neng just said that although Yuelu Timur was defeated in Shuanglang Village, he let him run away and failed to annihilate them all. Now he has pursued Jianchang, and then please change to another one."
The troops are just fighting, is there anything we need to pay attention to?"
Lao Zhu said: "Qu Neng's memorial is quite honest. There are no words to justify his faults, but there are also ambiguities. Look at this sentence, 'Although the Ganzhou Guards are brave and good at fighting, they have been working hard for a long time and their military minds have returned. Please adjust them.'"
The Lanzhou guards took their place. The actual situation is probably that the Ganzhou guards suffered heavy casualties and were unable to fight anymore. They may even be disobedient if they were forced to fight."
"In this case, we must agree to transfer the troops and fight in the northwest in the next few years. The situation of the Ganzhou Guard must be taken into consideration when dispatching the guard post."
Yunxi said: "Then Qu Neng used soldiers to cause heavy casualties. Shouldn't he be reprimanded?"
Lao Zhu said: "Yunxi, you have to understand that one general's success is the result of thousands of deaths. The success of every general is based on the death and injury of a large number of soldiers; the victory of every war requires the sacrifice of a large number of soldiers."
Life is the price. Death and injury are inevitable."
"And if you reprimand a general because he suffered a lot of casualties in a war, then who will dare to fight in the future?"
In fact, Yunxi also understood what Lao Zhu said when he read the history books, but the general principles are easy to understand. When encountering specific things, people who have not experienced them are rarely able to deal with them soberly.
Fortunately, Yunxi now has Lao Zhu to guide him and impart his experience of more than 40 years of military career.
Then Lao Zhu wrote a dozen words on the fold and placed it in a small frame next to it. Yunxi noticed that the frame said: Governor's Mansion of the Fifth Army.
Later, Lao Zhu picked up the document "The Chief Envoy of the Three Qin Dynasty petitioned for exemption of this year's autumn tax" and said to Yunxi: "Taxation is the top priority of the country, second only to military affairs, so the second one to deal with this memorial is
." Then do the same as above, read it yourself first, then let Yunxi read it, and wait a while to ask Yunxi for his opinion.
Yunxi was much more attentive this time than last time, and after thinking a little more, he said: "Judging from the memorial from the Chief Envoy, it is true that the local harvest this year was not good due to natural disasters, and the stipulated grain cannot be fulfilled.
The collection of things is just based on the excerpts, and it is impossible to know whether the excerpts are exaggerated."
Lao Zhu said: "Your last sentence is very good. Although local officials dare not make things out of nothing (they dared to do so in the later stages), it is common to emphasize or even exaggerate difficulties. Moreover, these officials are all good at playing with words. Just from the memorials
It’s impossible to tell whether this is the actual situation.”
"At this time, my time will be spent elsewhere. Grandpa, I basically don't deal with the folds at first, keep them without sending them, wait a few days to see if there are similar folds from the three Qin governments; and let the Jin Yiwei keep an eye on the three Officials with Qin nationality in the DPRK should check to see if any letters from home have been sent; there is also the possibility of asking the chief envoys of Shanse, Henan, Bashu and other governments bordering Sanqin to report to their own government and neighboring Shaanxi and Qin. Regarding the situation in the state capital, a more correct decision can be made by taking a three-pronged approach."
Yunxi was immediately impressed. Lao Zhu had considered this very carefully and it was already the most comprehensive method in this era. There is no GPS now. If there was a GPS now, Lao Zhu would definitely ask the Ministry of Household Affairs to print real-time pictures of the GPS positioning. I made a decision only after showing it to him.
Lao Zhu didn't write anything on the fold this time, but just threw it into a relatively larger box, with the words: Stay in the middle.
