As an emperor, Yunxi naturally would not sit with the ministers below. He would sit at a small table by himself on a high platform.
Of course, he would not just sit on the high platform and watch his ministers drink and have fun. Yunxi called Li Jian and Xu Jingchang up to offer them seats and said a few words. He smiled at Xu Jingchang and said: "Now you are giving
Your father earned a hereditary title. I heard that Huizu and Zengshou didn't trust you in the past, thinking that you would never get better in the future. This time, you can tell them with facts: you were wrong."
Then he said to Li Jian: "Uncle, now I don't have to worry about the future of my cousins."
After hearing Yunxi's words, Xu Jingchang was filled with excitement when he remembered how he showed the alchemy iron certificate to his uncle and father. He wanted to go to Yongming City immediately to tell his father. He suppressed his excitement and said: "This is all
Your Majesty, your grace."
Li Jian also echoed: "If your Majesty had not rewarded and punished people fairly and on their merits, I would never have been awarded the title of World Knight."
"There is no need to say these words when you are alone in front of me. I have clear rewards and punishments, and you have to work hard to serve the Ming Dynasty." Yunxi said: "Although I appoint people on their merits, I still have to show your virtue.
Talent can be promoted.”
Even though the two of them were enemies after listening to Yunxi's words, they couldn't admit it just like that, and they still praised His Majesty's sage. Yunxi just listened quietly without saying anything. After they finished speaking, they got down to business.
"Uncle, I have no choice but to appoint you as the left prime minister of Zanyi. Speaking of it, it is not easy to choose the left and right prime ministers of the vassal state. If you are already in a high position, coming to the vassal state to be the left prime minister may be regarded as derogatory.
, may not really assist Zan Yi; and most of those who originally had a low position have no ability."
"I put a lot of thought into choosing my left and right prime ministers. I finally selected the right prime minister, but I couldn't decide on the left. In the end, I had to appoint my uncle as the left prime minister. My uncle is a member of my family, and I believe that my uncle can understand my last resort.
Wherever possible, I will do my best to assist Zanyi."
Yunxi's words came to this point, and Li Jian could only show his understanding and said: "Your Majesty, don't worry, I will do my best to assist His Highness King Jingjiang."
"Don't worry, now that you have been granted the title of hereditary earl, I will transfer you back to the capital in three to five years and grant you the title of hereditary marquis. I will never treat you badly," Yunxi said again.
Li Jian naturally thanked me again. After a while, he was about to say goodbye when he suddenly remembered something and asked: "Your Majesty, I remember that His Royal Highness King Jingjiang discussed with me a few days ago whether to change the title, and also asked Your Majesty
I have entered the book. I dare to ask Your Majesty, will you change His Royal Highness's title?"
"I don't think there's any need to change it." Yunxi said, "I think the name Jingjiang is good. Zanyi would like to change it to a single-character title, to King of Yue, but I think it's better not to mention the words Nanyue and Annan less often."
"Your Majesty, I believe that all the vassal kings in the world have a one-character title, and only His Highness King Jingjiang has a two-character title. Even though His Highness is a special one among the vassal kings in the world, it is best to treat them uniformly. Otherwise, I am afraid that there is something wrong in your heart.
All grudges."
"Besides, even if you don't add the title of King of Yue, I still have a title to be given. Your Highness can be renamed King of Jiao, and the country's title will be Jiaozhi. Wouldn't it be better if it matches the ancient title and has a single-character title," Li Jiandao.
"Okay, then I will change Zan Yi's title to King Jiao." Yunxi said.
He also understood Zhu Chanyi's feelings. Throughout the Hongwu Dynasty, there was no clear statement on whether Prince Jingjiang could be regarded as a prince or a county king. For some reason, Lao Zhu had set strict standards in other aspects, only for his nephew.
My dear canonization is rather vague.
The annual salary of Prince Jingjiang is 5,000 dan, which is less than the 10,000 dan of an ordinary prince, but more than the 2,000 dan of a county prince. His land grant is also less than that of a prince and more than that of a county prince. But at the same time, the official system of the Jingjiang Prince's Mansion is similar to that of a prince.
, there was a king and prime minister at the beginning, but later he abolished the king and prime minister and had a long history of left and right, which the county prince did not have; not to mention he also had three guards, and many mainland princes did not have as many troops as he did.
Therefore, after Yunxi succeeded to the throne, he recognized Zhu Zanyi as the prince based on the canonization of his two nieces (princesses with low salaries) by Lao Zhu; and because he was closest to Annan, he was canonized as the king of a vassal this time. However,
His title is always two characters, the same as the county king.
‘Now, it’s time for Zanyi to be free from all the knots in her heart.’ Yunxi thought.
After the matter was settled, Yunxi had nothing to say to Li Jian. Li Jian bowed and left. Yunxi turned his head to look at Jingchang and started chatting with him.
Yunxi attached great importance to Xu Jingchang. In his opinion, because the Xu family basically did not appear in the history books after the Yongle Dynasty in his previous life, he thought that the Xu family had no talents who could support the family business after the death of Xu Huizu's generation.
They would slowly wither away, so they didn't really pay much attention to the Xu family. When they conquered Majapayi, they sent Xu Jingchang just because they couldn't stand the nobles' children living in the capital.
But what he didn't expect was that Xu Jingchang actually made great contributions and got along well with his colleagues. Only then did Yunxi pay attention to him, and this time he asked him to come to Annan to fight. And this time,
Xu Jingchang has made great contributions again, and this time the credit is so great. Although it is due to luck, his own ability also accounts for the majority.
Only then did Yunxi raise his interest in the Xu family and pay attention to Xu Jingchang. At the same time, Yunxi was also puzzled: Since Xu Jingchang was quite capable, why didn't he show it in his previous life?
After thinking for a while, he realized: The Xu family was in the Yongle Dynasty, and Zhu Di was afraid of it. Especially after the entire army in Qiu Fu Mobei was wiped out and Zhu Neng died of illness, a general who could stand alone among the heroes of Jingnan was
With only Zhang Fu alone, Zhu Di had to reuse many generals passed down from the Hongwu Dynasty, and there should be many people related to the Xu family. Zhu Di himself was not in the right position, and Xu Huizu had conspired to overthrow him. He was not careful.
If things were not normal, Xu Jingchang could only eat and wait for death in the capital. Without a chance to fight, he would not be able to show off his talents.
Yunxi talked to Xu Jingchang for a while, and after showing concern, he was about to ask him to leave. Suddenly he noticed an unknown person sitting next to Mu Sheng. He saw that the official uniform was only a hundred households, so he became curious. He thought again.
Seeing that Xu Jingchang was sitting at the same table before he came up, he pointed at this person and asked, "Jingchang, who is this person? Why is he sitting there?"
Xu Jingchang looked back, then immediately turned around and replied: "Your Majesty, this person is from the 100 households of Wu Dewei in the capital. His name is Cao Zheng, and his father is Cao Xing, the Marquis of Huaiyuan."
"Let me tell you, it turns out he is Cao Xing's son. No wonder he can sit at your table. I don't remember that he is among the people who have made great contributions." Yunxi suddenly realized.
"How good is Cao Zheng's ability in commanding troops to fight?" he asked again.
"Your Majesty, in my opinion, Cao Zheng still has the talent to lead troops in war, but his heart is not here and he has no merit."
Xu Jingchang's conversation started: "Your Majesty, Cao Zheng has had little interest in either civil or military paths since he was a child. He neither likes reading nor studying martial arts. He has very special hobbies and likes to ponder some strange things. ."
"For example, he once stared at the ant nest carefully for a long time and wondered how the ants talked to each other; for example, he once bought a little white rabbit and killed it at home, but he did not eat the meat, but watched See if the inside of a rabbit's body is the same as that of a human. If the family wasn't strict, he might even find a dead body to cut open and take a look."
"After the age of thirteen or fourteen, he stopped thinking about these things and became obsessed with geography. Logically speaking, being obsessed with geography is not a bad thing. A general who doesn't know geography is a mediocre person. But he is still different. He wants to think about such a How are multiple terrains formed, and why are there mountains between heaven and earth?"
"What made Marquis Huaiyuan even more angry was that he actually thought about astronomy, muttering all day long about why the sun, moon and stars hung in the sky and did not fall down. This astronomy has always been the subject of people in the Qin Tianjian, how can ordinary people do this? matter?"
Xu Jingchang talked a lot, which made him thirsty. He picked up the wine glass and took a sip of wine. Just as he was about to say more, he suddenly realized that the emperor was opposite him and suddenly became panicked.
'Oh my God, what did I say? When His Majesty asked Cao Zheng how good he was in fighting, I told him the truth. Why did he say so much? Your Majesty was too approachable just now and told me about Aunt Miaojin. It’s time to treat him as an uncle. Your Majesty has always hated military generals who are just cheating. Why don’t you kick him out of the army when you hear that he is so dishonest? If Uncle Cao knew that it was because of my words, how could I celebrate the New Year? Why go to their house to pay New Year greetings?' Xu Jingchang thought in his heart.
He wanted to open his mouth to make amends, but no matter how much he thought about it, he felt that nothing was good. He just looked at Yunxi nervously, hoping that Yunxi was lowering his head and thinking now and was not thinking about when to drive Cao Zheng out of the army.
How did he know that Yunxi was very surprised at this moment, very, very, very surprised.
He doesn't know how Yunxi was allowed to behave in ancient times, but judging from the history books he has read, starting from the Han Dynasty at the latest, Chinese people have put less emphasis on theory and more emphasis on practicality. For a certain natural phenomenon, few people will study why it is like this. Most people As long as people have mastered its laws and can take advantage of or avoid risks. For example, the invention of the seismograph. The seismograph was invented in the Han Dynasty, but after someone proposed a set of divine theories, no one thought about it anymore.
This is also the most difficult thing that Yunxi has always wanted to do to develop science and technology. He can provide various conveniences for scientific research, but without anyone to conduct reliable research, everything he does will be in vain.
‘Finally I found a person who can truly be a scientist. I will never let him go.’ Yunxi thought to himself.
After a long while, he suppressed his excitement and said lightly to Xu Jingchang: "I see, I understand, please step back."
