Chapter 742 Preparation and Going to the Martial Arts Hall
The remonstrances of the civil servants of the foreign dynasties were indeed much more intense than those of the military generals. Starting from the morning of the 27th of the second day, Yunxi was remonstrated by several people who were qualified to go to court. Even his cronies were opposed to it.
; When the next court came, memorials of exhortations and remonstrances were piled up on the table where memorials were usually answered.
However, Yunxi ignored the objections of this group of people and left all the memorials in place while he prepared a plan to go south.
At first, the result of discussions among various yamen was to let Yunxi go north along the river, enter the Xiangjiang River at Yueyang, land in Changsha, and then go all the way south to Guangzhou.
But Yunxi rejected it. "This time I will take a boat along the coast and go south." Yunxi said to them.
"Your Majesty, there are many winds and waves along the coast, especially in summer and autumn, and there are many typhoons. It is not safe to travel along the coast." Guo Hongtao, the envoy in charge of the town, said.
"Just take the boat south along the coast. I will never be far away from the coast, just by the coast." Yunxi said.
One of the reasons why he must go south along the coast is to promote maritime trade and overcome the inland people's fear of the ocean. Although the Ming Dynasty has established a shipping department for several years, there are still only those who actually organize fleets to do business.
People living by the sea, even in slightly inland places such as Suzhou, most of the big businessmen do business in the Shipping Department, and would rather earn less than take the risks of sailing on the sea.
The northwest trade route, whose transportation costs and risks are far greater than sea trade, has aroused great interest from businessmen in Shaanxi, Sichuan, Shanxi and other places. Countless big businessmen let their children go to Yiwu and even Yilibili along the ancient road.
.Although they have earned countless amounts of money, the profits are less than those from sea trade. This is enough to prove that most people are still afraid of the ocean.
Therefore, Yunxi himself set an example, telling everyone that the sea is not so scary, and encouraging inland businessmen to do business overseas.
After listening to Yunxi's unquestionable words, the person who made the itinerary could only go back and revise it. "For safety reasons, the fleet escorting His Majesty must not sail far away from the coast. However, except near the port, there are many underwater rocks on the seaside, and the boat His Majesty is on
It can’t be too small, so we can only use flat-bottomed lucky boats.”
"It's just that the flat-bottomed lucky boat travels very slowly, and His Majesty may not be satisfied." Zhang Xiaodong, who was called in to escort Yun He along the way, said.
Zhang Xiaodong's current official position is Admiral of the Donghai Navy. This is an official position invented by Yun Xi. It is a second-grade official and is equivalent to the commander-in-chief of the capital. The actual power far exceeds that of the commander-in-chief of the capital, and it is not a temporary assignment.
Regarding the navy, both civil and military officials should be at ease. Because the navy cannot go ashore, and there are no marines. Although the capital of the Ming Dynasty is on the riverside, the city is still several miles away from the Yangtze River, so everyone
We are not worried about the naval division revolting. But it is different for the land division. The restrictions are very strict.
Even Yunxi was no exception. He was a feudal emperor after all, and the Ming Dynasty was still a feudal bureaucratic state. Although reforms were to be carried out, he would also prevent his generals from rebelling, so he supervised the Lu division very strictly, especially
The land division near the capital is much more relaxed about the navy. Therefore, the three major naval divisions have permanent official positions equivalent to generals and deputy generals. The land division only has special positions. Zhang Xiaodong has also been promoted in the navy.
, if you want to continue to be promoted, you can only go to the Commander-in-Chief of the Fifth Army.
After listening to Zhang Xiaodong's words, Qin Song immediately said: "It's just a flat-bottomed blessing boat. Your Majesty's safety is the most important, and speed is not so important. If Your Majesty insists on both safety and speed, I can only ask Your Majesty to go to the Yangtze River."
Other officials present agreed with Qin Song's opinion, so they passed the decision to use the flat-bottomed lucky boat as the boat for Yunxi.
Yunxi himself had no objection. He also valued his own life and was unwilling to be thrown into the sea easily.
In order to add insurance to his own life, Yunxi also proposed the concept of a lifebuoy for later generations. He said to these ministers: "Make an inflatable object and tie it to the human body, so that even if it falls into the sea, it will not sink to the bottom."
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After Yunxi finished speaking, someone immediately said: "Your Majesty, is this the sheepskin raft in the northwest? The people in the northwest inflate the intact sheepskin, tie it to a wooden board, and travel in the river. It turns out that it can be used like this!"
Immediately, all the sheep-slaughtering places in the capital received an order from Yingtian Mansion: hand over a thousand complete sheepskins within ten days. If there are more, there will be a reward, but if the number is not enough, or if they are inferior, they will be severely punished.
Of course, these sheep slaughtering places did not dare to neglect, and within nine days, they handed over enough sheep skins, and all of them were intact.
The navy found someone to test it personally, and it was proved that it was indeed effective. Then the "sheepskin lifebuoy" was popularized in the navy. Of course, its name in the Ming Dynasty was the sheepskin soft bucket.
In this way, with the flat-bottomed lucky boat, the small escape boat previously installed on the big ship, and the soft sheepskin bucket, Yunxi's trip was much safer.
However, he can't go on patrol right away. Firstly, the Navy still has to prepare, and secondly, he still has many things to deal with.
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"Many foreign soldiers who came to Guangxi did not recognize the fruits in the wild, or mistook them for another kind of fruit, accidentally ate them and were poisoned or even died?" Yunxi said to himself when he saw a routine document from Guangxi.
He said: "These soldiers are all idiots! Do you dare to eat wild fruits that you don't know about?"
"Your Majesty, we can't blame the soldiers entirely." The newly appointed Qiu Auxiliary Officer Li Xuhu, who just handed Yunxi the memorial he had drafted, said after Yunxi finished speaking: "Hundreds of thousands of troops have arrived.
In Guangxi, rice, flour and other food were enough for them to eat, but the local vegetables were completely insufficient and the vegetables could not be transported from other places; and it was only during the march. No one could get used to eating pickles, so many people went to the woods.
Pick some wild fruits.”
"Not only the land division, but also the navy soldiers who sailed overseas sometimes went to uninhabited desert islands to pick wild fruits, and some were poisoned."
"Then when I travel by boat this time, how can I get fresh vegetables?" Yunxi didn't believe that the naval generals dared to let him eat pickled vegetables every meal.
"Your Majesty is traveling along the coast this time, close to the sea. Every day at least he will send a small boat to the villages on the shore to buy vegetables for your Majesty's consumption." Li Xuhu said.
Yun He understood and waved his hand to ask him to leave.
But although Li Xuhu's words just answered his question of how to eat fresh vegetables, the problem of ordinary soldiers in the Army Division still has not been solved. There are only so many people in Guangxi, and the strong laborers who serve in corvee have not yet poured in during this period.
Guangxi has many soldiers and can only cultivate so much land. It is impossible to supply hundreds of thousands of troops with vegetables.
And it is actually better for the soldiers to be stationed in Guangxi now. It will be difficult to deal with it when Annan fights. Historically, the battle against Annan was very smooth, but it does not mean that it will also be very smooth this time. In everything, the worst must be done. There are not enough vegetables in the fortified city. Although there are pickles that can be eaten with food, there will definitely be people who can't help but go to the woods to pick wild fruits.
However, Yunxi had no other choice but to write the words "I understand" on the routine report. However, he kept the matter in his heart.
After all the memorials had been reviewed, Yunxi put down his pen, looked at the time, and said to Wang Xi: "Let's make some arrangements. I want to leave the palace and go to the martial arts hall."
Wang Xi didn't ask why he wanted to go to the martial arts hall, and immediately went out to find Li Bo and other guards to make arrangements. After a while, Li Bo had already made arrangements.
Yunxi didn't do ink, so he quickly arrived at the martial arts hall. When he saw Yu Zhouwen and Zheng Xuan, he first scolded Zheng Xuan and scolded him for following the students and making noise.
Of course Zheng Xuan knew that the emperor would scold him to show that he had expectations for him, so although he was always being scolded and felt a little uncomfortable, he understood that it was not a bad thing for him. Although Yun He was very serious when he scolded him, But after finishing the scolding, he immediately said with a smile: "I am young and ignorant, so Your Majesty has to worry about it."
"You, you, you are obviously the same age as Yu Zhouwen, twenty-two years old this year, why don't you imitate his poise." Yun Xi said this again angrily.
"Well, Your Majesty, I will definitely learn from Yu Zhouwen's maturity and stability in the future," Zheng Xuan said with a smile.
Yunxi knew that this was his style of acting, so he said nothing more. If an ordinary emperor might not like such a person, Zheng Xuan would not be able to succeed in his life; but Yunxi was very concerned about this kind of unusual behavior. Geniuses are still very tolerant. They feel that such people can do things that ordinary people cannot do, so they are allowed to exist in the court.
Of course, Yunxi didn't know that it was because of his tolerance towards Zheng Xuan that Zheng Xuan always promised to be a mature and steady person, but he never changed. It didn't mean that he wouldn't change.
After talking about Zheng Xuan's matter, Yunxi immediately said: "Call out all the students in Jiangwu Hall, no matter what class they are taking. I want to check whether they can sing "Love Folk Song" now."
When he went to the Wujiang Hall in early July, he said that he would check their proficiency in "Love Folk Song" when he went to the Wujiang Hall again. But then the Annan people succeeded in assassinating Chen Tianping, and he arranged to go to Annan and forgot about it. , I didn’t think of it until I sorted out the things to do a few days ago. So he came here today, and after talking about Zheng Xuan, he asked Yu Zhouwen to ask the students to come out and sing.
Zheng Xuan's face froze, but fortunately Yunxi didn't look at him at this time; Yu Zhouwen's expression did not change. After hearing Yunxi's words, he immediately called all the clerks over. After a while, six hundred students came from the teaching Come out of the building and stand according to class.
Then Yu Zhouwen loudly asked them to start singing "Love Folk Song", and the students sang at the top of their lungs.
At this time, Yunxi had already heard what the guards said about Zheng Xuan's expression change just now, so he thought that it was impossible for these students to sing the love folk song from beginning to end; but to his expectation, most of them actually sang the love folk song from beginning to end. The song was sung in its entirety.
