On the morning of the next day, July 21, Yunxi woke up refreshed. He looked at Xiyi who was still sleeping soundly beside him, and thought to himself: 'Relaxing the whole body and mind is indeed the best way to rest. However, You also have to get enough sleep.'
He then gently got up from the bed, walked outside, got dressed under the service of the palace maid, and went to Fengtian Hall to attend court.
There was nothing new to say in the previous court, it was just a formality. After no one spoke, Yunxi immediately asked the waiter to announce his withdrawal from the court.
He then returned to the Qianqing Palace to criticize the memorials. He had something to do in the afternoon, and he had to finish all the memorials in the morning, so he responded very quickly.
But just after 30% of these memorials had been approved, Yunxi suddenly stopped writing and frowned at a memorial in front of him.
"Am I coming? What on earth does he want to do?" Yunxi whispered.
Ever since he saw me at the Shanghai Shipping Department two years ago, I brought him to the capital and appointed him as the commander of the imperial army's vanguard. According to the report from the Jin Yiwei, he has been very peaceful and worked hard to learn from the Ming Dynasty. Everyone in the army has never complained about anything. Why did he send such a memorial today?
Yunxi couldn't figure out what I was going to do, so he simply said to Wang Xi: "Send someone to the vanguard of the government army and call me here."
After a while, the man who was blind in one eye, short and stout and suspected to be Fusang came in, knelt down and said, "I have also met your Majesty."
Yunxi asked him to get up first. After he finished criticizing the memorial in hand, he picked up the envelope he had entered and said, "I love you too. What do you mean?"
"Your Majesty, I mean what I said in the memorial. I used to have some acquaintances in Fusang. Some of these people have the status of warriors, some do not have the status of warriors, but regardless of whether they have it or not, they are all highly skilled in martial arts. Maybe. Thousands of them formed military formations to fight on the battlefield against soldiers who were inferior to the Ming Dynasty, but if they were divided into small groups to fight, one of them could deal with three or five of the Ming Dynasty's elite soldiers." I Laiya said with a slightly proud tone.
Yunxi has no doubt about this. The warriors of Fuso and the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty are not the same thing. The warriors of Fuso are similar to the knights of the West or the aristocratic soldiers of the Spring and Autumn Period. They are all highly skilled in martial arts. If there is a street fight, ordinary soldiers of the Ming Dynasty will be ten times more powerful. One may not be able to beat another one. However, this aristocratic military system is not conducive to fighting. In the late Spring and Autumn Period, various vassal states gradually abandoned this system, and the countries that abandoned it more thoroughly fought more fiercely.
Yunxi was thinking on the side, and I continued: "But now the country of Fusang is very stable, and their good martial arts have no place to use. So I want to go to Fusang to gather these people and go to Annan to fight for the Ming Dynasty." campaign."
"Besides, Fusang is a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, and it is the right thing for our people to serve the Ming Dynasty."
Yunxi looked at him steadily, trying to see his true purpose. But he couldn't see it. I stood there calmly, with only the eager expectation for his approval in my eyes, nothing else.
'In this battle against Annan, I originally didn't want the Fuso people to participate in the battle. As the country with the strongest individual infantry combat capability in the East, Fuso should perform on a larger stage. But since he is willing to call a few people Coming here doesn't seem to be harmful to Daming, so you might as well agree to him first. Besides, you can also use this to find out who he is and where he comes from.' Yunxi thought to himself.
So Yunxi said after a while: "In that case, I promise you and allow you to go to Fusang to recruit warriors or wild warriors to serve the Ming Dynasty on the battlefield of Annan."
"Thank you, Your Majesty." I paused for a moment and then said, "Your Majesty, in that case, I have one more thing to ask of Your Majesty. The ministers of Taizheng in Fusang, the generals who conquered the barbarians, etc. may not be willing for these people to leave Fusang, so I ask
His Majesty ordered Yokohama Town Commander-in-Chief Prince Yongan to help them leave Fuso."
"I will write you a handwritten edict and bring it to Meng Tan when you go to Fusang." Yunxi said without thinking too much.
"I thank your Majesty for your grace." I knelt down and kowtowed again, and then withdrew.
Yunxi wrote this matter on the bookshelf nearby and continued to criticize and respond to the memorial.
After a while, Yunxi received another memorial related to the Battle of Annan, which also required military commanders to participate in the battle, but this time Yunxi agreed without the slightest hesitation.
"Cao Che and Yunying are going to take the Taiwanese barbarians to Annan to fight? The Taiwanese barbarians don't refer to the high mountain people. Forget it, I won't guess, you will know when you see them. But even if they are not high mountain people,
They are also a people in the mountains and forests and can be of great use." Yunxi said in a low voice.
Finally before noon, Yunxi finished answering all the memorials and handed them to the eunuch beside him to send to the General Administration Department. He stood up and stretched himself, gave a few instructions to the auxiliary officers, and got up to eat.
At the end of the afternoon, Yunxi got up on time, washed his face, and said to Wang Xi, "Have the driving arrangements been made?"
"Your Majesty, the arrangements have been completed and the guards have arrived." Wang Xi replied.
"Okay. Pass the order. I'm going to the ferry outside the city to have a look." Yunxi said.
Wang Xi was very confused about why Yunxi wanted to go to the ferry, and this doubt was not solved even when Yunxi came back from the ferry. Yunxi just looked at the navy anchored at the port, and called a few sailors after revealing his identity.
The generals of the division came over, asked them a few words, and then let them go back. Then he also returned to the palace and did nothing else.
This made Wang Xi and Yunxi's guards confused. They didn't understand what Yunxi wanted to do. They didn't dare to ask, so they could only keep it in their hearts.
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Beginning on July 25, the navy stationed in the capital escorted a fleet carrying a land defense division and set off. Their destination was Lianzhou Prefecture in Guangdong Province to transport the fleet of the land division.
This guard will be sent there, and then the guard will walk to Nanning Prefecture to join other troops who are going to attack Annan from Guangxi. The navy will then go to the port of Leizhou Prefecture to station.
At the same time, troops recruited from other places in the eight southern provinces plus the Yidu Division of Yidusi also set off one after another. Among them, the troops from Sichuan and Guizhou went to Yunnan half by water and half by land, and the armies from southern Huguang and southern Jiangxi went to Guangdong and then sat down.
The ships go to the northern parts of Guangxi, Huguang, and Jiangxi provinces, as well as the armies of Zhili, Caojiang, Yongjian, and Guangdong provinces all go to their destinations by ship.
And Yunxi didn't know what was going on these days. He would go out of the city every few days and go to the ferry to see the ships transporting troops from Huguang upstream. Sometimes he would also call some generals from the guard station to ask him a few words. But he
He didn't do anything else, just asked questions, and then returned to the palace.
Everyone was very confused and had various speculations. Even Xiyao asked him tactfully one night what he wanted to do. But Yunxi just smiled and said, "Nothing."
On this day, Yunxi came to the ferry again, and as usual, he called several passing generals from the guard station to question him.
But when everyone thought that today would be exactly the same as usual, Yunxi suddenly pointed to a boat in the distance and said, "Look, do the people on that boat have strange hair colors?"
Wang Xi and others followed Yun He's finger and looked over, and they saw a ship. The hair of the people on the ship was not black, but had many colors, such as yellow, brown, flaxen, hemp, etc. There were also some hair.
It's black, but there aren't many of them.
"Li Bo, go and ask one of their thousand households to come over." Yunxi said. After giving the instructions, he walked to the house of the chief seal officer of the nearby Fukou Yamen and took out a book to read while waiting for them to come over.
Li Bo took the order. After a while, he came over with a man with flaxen hair. When the man saw Yunxi, he immediately knelt down and said: "Qianhu Tiecheng, the left guard of Wuchang, has met your majesty. Long live your majesty.
Years old!" His Chinese words are all correct and pronunciation is very standard Wuchang dialect.
Yunxi glanced at him, was startled, and asked, "Why don't you have any accessories on you?"
"Your Majesty, I have no habit of wearing jewelry," Tie Cheng said.
"Don't you believe in the Tianfang Sect? The Tianfang Sect has regulations for believers," Yunxi said.
"Your Majesty, I am not a believer of Tianfang Sect. I believe in Buddhism." Tie Cheng said very seriously.
Yunxi suddenly felt that his world view had collapsed. He put his left arm on the table and supported his forehead, not knowing what to say.
Yunxi has been wandering around the dock these days. One is to see the morale of the troops that will be sent to fight near Annan and whether they are eager to fight. The other is to wait for the Semu army coming from Wuchang and other places.
Yunxi didn't take the Semu people of this period seriously at first, thinking that there were not many of them and there was no rush to deal with them; but that day he heard that there were four to five million Semu people in Wuchang alone, and he suddenly became vigilant.
Semu people, as the name suggests, refers to people whose eye color is not black, Semu. Since their eye color is different from that of Han people, the difference in other physical features is even greater. Even if you look at it from a distance, a Semu person
You can tell people apart from Han people at once even if they walk side by side.
Yunxi had no discrimination against different ethnic groups. Regardless of bloodline, as long as he practiced Han rituals, spoke Chinese, and acted according to Han rules, he would regard that person as a Han. The Han nationality is also formed in this way, which contains many historical facts.
Other ethnic origins. However, these people did not necessarily become Han Chinese voluntarily. Since the Zhou Dynasty established many vassal states in the south, they began to force the local barbarians to pay taxes and labor as Han people. This process even continued until the Manchu Qing Dynasty.
But for the Semu people whose physical characteristics are obviously different from those of the Han people, Yunxi is somewhat repulsive. The appearance difference between the Semu people and the Han people is so big that it can be seen at a glance. No matter how they are integrated culturally, they are so huge in appearance.
Difference also does not consider oneself to be Han Chinese.
If that's all, that's it. After all, the number of Semu people is too small. If they mix blood, their descendants will slowly become the same as the Han people. The Xianbei people with tall noses, deep eyes, chestnut hair and blue eyes will disappear like this.
But the Semu people of the Ming Dynasty are different. They are not like the Xianbei people who were real barbarians before entering the Han Dynasty and did not have their own culture. The current Semu people have at least a thousand years of trust and history, and have their own culture.
My own belief: Tianfang Sect, or Eastern Cross Religion, it was very difficult to assimilate them. This process was not completed until the end of the Qing Dynasty.
Therefore, we cannot use the methods used by rulers in history to deal with these semu people. We must adopt new methods to treat them. Yunxi wanted to actually observe the semu people and formulate appropriate strategies for them. But he did not expect that the first summons
The Semu people actually don't play their cards according to the routine.
After a while, Yunxi continued: "Where do your ancestors come from? Why do you believe in Buddhism?" He was suddenly very curious about where he came from.
Yunxi looked him up and down again and thought: 'It's not like he came from India. The Brahmins and Kshatriyas in India look similar to Westerners.'
"Your Majesty, my ancestor was brought back from far west by the Mongolian Batu during his western expedition. As for why I believe in Buddhism, it is because there is a Buddhist temple near the guard post where I am. I once heard
The master of the temple gave a lecture and was deeply moved so he converted to Buddhism," Tiecheng said.
"The west?" Yunxi thought to himself: 'Batu set out from Kazakhstan in later generations and successively occupied the Urals, Caucasus, Oros, Ukraine, Belarus, Romania and other places. The farthest west reached Vienna and Prague.
.This range is too large and difficult to guess.'
'But the most likely one is this nation.'
"Can you still speak the language of your ancestors?" Yunxi asked.
"Your Majesty, I will tell you a little more."
"Remember how to say 'hello' in the language of your ancestors."
"Remember."
"That's good." Yunxi smiled and suddenly said: "I'll take it as long as I die."
Tie Cheng raised his head in surprise and looked at Yun Hei; not only him, but also the guards around Yun Hei also raised their heads and looked at Yun Hei.
"Is this the language of your ancestors?" Yunxi asked without paying attention to the eyes on him.
When Tiecheng heard Yunxi's words, he realized that he was very rude just now. He immediately lowered his head and said, "Your Majesty, what your Majesty just said was the language of my ancestors."
'He is indeed a Russian Maozi! When Batu conquered the west, he occupied the longest period of time. His descendants still occupy the place where the Russian Maozi was. The Volga River, the mother river of the Russians, is still the center of their rule.' Yunxi thought in his heart.
think.
"But since your ancestors were Oros, why didn't you believe in Christianity?" Yunxi said, took out a piece of paper, and then took out a pencil and drew a cross on the paper, and then asked: "That's why you don't believe in Christianity."
This is the symbol of religion. Could it be that you have lost it after passing it on for so many generations?”
"Your Majesty, my ancestors have never believed in such a religion. There are many items in my family that were passed down more than a hundred years ago, but I have never seen anything like this." Tiecheng said.