The reason why Yunxi asked this question was very simple. During these days, he was annoyed by civil servants who were trying to dissuade him from sending troops to the northwest.
The Ming Dynasty has fought many wars since Yunxi succeeded to the throne. Although the treasury is still full, the civil servants do not support war with Samarkand out of their own interests and concerns about the country.
Of course, when Yunxi was in Guangzhou, he disclosed that the spies of the Samarkand Kingdom were plotting to assassinate him. If he did not go to war with the Samarkand Kingdom, the emperor would lose face. According to Confucianism, they did not dare and could not object to joining the Samarkand Kingdom.
The Kingdom of Markhan went to war, but opposed the war.
It happened that they also learned that the Samarkand Kingdom had the intention to invade the Ming Dynasty, so since he returned to Beijing, countless memorials came to him to advise on this matter, stating that although it was necessary to send troops to the northwest to punish his country, in order not to waste the troops,
To reduce wages and reduce the burden on the country, all you need to do is defeat the invading Samarkand army and give them a slight punishment. Although they didn't just say that, that's what they meant.
Yunxi was annoyed by their remonstrances, but because most of the civil servants' starting point was actually good for the country, the civil servants who did not remonstrate on the matter had doubts about the loyalty of the Ming Dynasty, and he could not deal with them, so he made a decision
For such a question in the examination, take "In order to save money, Emperor Taizong Zhao Guangyi of the Song Dynasty did not completely pacify the northwest, which later led to the rise of the party members. The Song Dynasty had to fight for years, and the expenditure far exceeded the expenditure of pacifying the northwest at that time."
Tell the ministers not to treat Samarkand lightly.
All the Gongshi present thought of what Yun Xi meant, and after a brief daze, they picked up their pens and started writing.
But Zhou Shu did not start to answer immediately. Instead, he continued to study the ink and wondered if there was any other meaning.
‘...it was difficult for the army to move to Dingdu and Li Jishan was appointed as the governor of the interior. However, some members of the Li clan stayed in the area and failed to move inland, which caused chaos in the area and could not be pacified for several years.'
"But the Li clan members stayed in the area and failed to move in together, which caused chaos in the area." Zhou Shu thought for a long time and thought about the Di newspaper he had read since arriving in Beijing, and finally realized what else Yunxi had to offer.
One level of meaning.
After the semu army rebelled, Yunxi demoted all the family members of the semu soldiers who participated in the rebellion to slaves. This caused some civil servants to complain, thinking that the emperor's treatment was a bit harsh. Yunxi used the Li family as an example to show that if the situation could not be completely
Eliminating the family members of these rebel soldiers will not guarantee that they will not cause chaos in the local area.
After thinking of this meaning, Zhou's statement was no longer paused, and he picked up his pen and began to answer.
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During the imperial examination, Yunxi certainly didn't just sit on the throne and wait.
'In the next year's expedition to Samarkand, should we recruit Mongolian troops to fight? Mongolia will not be immediately threatened by Timur's eastward advance, and will not be as dedicated to Samarkand as Oara and Yili.
When the army goes to war, it may even drag down the entire army.'
'But it is not a good thing to leave the Mongols to recuperate in the grasslands while the army marches to the northwest. They must still be recruited and sent to fight, and they must not be allowed to wander outside.'
'It's just that how to recruit them to send troops to fight requires a lot of thinking. It's better to call Yang Feng and others into the palace to inquire and make plans.'
Yunxi had made up his mind and was about to send Wang Xixuan Yang Feng, Cao Xing and others into the palace when he saw Wang Xi holding a stack of test papers in his hand and saying: "Your Majesty, all the students have finished answering, please review it."
"Oh," Yunxi took the more than one hundred test papers from him and started to read them. After only looking at the first test paper for a few times, he said with a slight surprise: "Zhou Shu actually thought of my other one."
mean."
The first one was naturally Zhou Shu's article. To be honest, Yunxi was a little surprised when he saw his article. He was not discriminating against the IQ of people of this age. According to the admission ratio, the ancient scholars who could pass the examination were equivalent to
Students from Tsinghua University and Peking University in most modern provinces, those who can pass the Gongshi or Jinshi exams are equivalent to the top few in the modern province, and even the top students in some provinces cannot pass the Jinshi exams. Except for extremely rare students who can pass the Jinshi exams,
Except for a few, they are all smart and hard-working people, but I can't compare to them in terms of IQ.
However, Yunxi's idea of writing questions is unprecedented in this era. Although ancient people often used metaphors, they are not the same as Yunxi's ideas, and he did not write many questions. Jie Jin and others still cannot fully understand it.
What did he want to express in the question? So Yunxi was a little surprised to see Zhou Shu understand what he meant.
He carefully looked at the literary style and context of the article, and found that the logic was very strong and the literary style was outstanding, so he immediately started to think about it.
"It's a good story to win three yuan in a row, so I selected him as the number one scholar. As for the future, he will stay by his side as a scholar in the middle school as usual. I will allocate official positions based on his nature." Yunxi made arrangements for Zhou Shu.
Then Yunxi read the next test paper. There were not many Gongshi who thought of another idea, but there were only one or twenty. Yunxi ranked these people in front, and let Xie Jin and others consider and arrange the rest.
The ranking in this imperial examination.
After the palace examination was over, the waiters led the prospective Jinshis to salute the emperor and then left the palace. Yunxi returned to Qianqing Palace and told Wang Xi to send Xuan Yangfeng, Cao Xing and others into the palace, and then he returned to the front hall to comment on the memorial.
Soon it was noon. Yunxi put down his pen, had lunch with the fourth auxiliary officer, and took a nap. He got up before that time and was about to continue to criticize the memorial. Suddenly, the young eunuch Yu Ge ran in and said: "The official family.
, the eldest princess of Zhongshan and the eldest princess of Huainan ask for an audience."
"What are they doing here?" Although Yunxi was a little confused, he still said: "Let them come in."
After a while, Yun Zhi took Yun Lan's arm and trotted into the dormitory. When she saw Yun Xi, who was not wearing a neat coat, she did not shy away. Instead, she came over and took the belt from the young eunuch's hand, smiling at Yun Xi.
Xi said: "Brother, ask my sister to tie your belt for you."
Yunxi accepted her service calmly and asked with a smile: "Why are you so diligent today and still tie your brother's belt?"
"These eunuchs are all clumsy, how can they serve the emperor well?" Yunzhi replied.
"They are all people who have served brother for a long time, but they are better at serving others than you." Yunxi smiled and said: "You must have something to ask of brother, that's why you are so attentive." After saying that, he glanced at Yunlan: "
You also brought your second sister here because the matter you are asking for is so important that you asked your second sister to intercede for you?"
"Nothing can be hidden from the Emperor's brother." Yunzhi finally tied the belt and said with a smile: "My sister has something to ask of the Emperor."
"Brother Emperor, it's early April now. The weather has warmed up. It's a good time to go out for an outing. My sister wants to go outside the palace. Instead of going anywhere else, I just go to the village that Brother Emperor gave to my sister.
, try farm food and see how farmers work hard."
"Don't come here." Yunxi said immediately, "Brother doesn't know you yet! It depends on how hard the farmers work. You say this now, but you won't do it after you leave the palace."
"Besides, you love the excitement the most. How can you be satisfied just by going to Zhuangzi? You will definitely go for a stroll on the streets. If you don't have your brother accompanying you, how can those guards and maids dare to go against your wishes? In the end, you will definitely be in the most prosperous place in the capital.
After walking around the streets, I will return to the palace."
"So my brother will never allow you to leave the palace, so just give up on this idea."
"Brother!" Yun Zhi immediately grabbed his arm and started acting coquettishly. In the third year of Jianye's reign, Yun Lan was found to like Yang Feng. From then on, Yun Xi became wary of the princess seeing a foreign man. At that time, he was so angry that Yun Zhi did not dare to beg him.
Allow her to leave the palace.
After the spring of the fourth year of Jianye's reign, the court became unstable. Yunxi thought about Annan's affairs all day long, but Yunzhi didn't dare to ask for help.
Finally, nothing happened this year, and the relationship between Yunxi and Yunlan had eased a lot, so she had the courage to come over and ask Yunxi for permission to leave the palace, but she would not give up so easily.
Yunlan also offered help: "Brother Emperor, my fourth sister is still young, and she has liked martial arts since she was a child. She also wants to spend more time outside the palace. Brother Emperor, why not just agree to her."
"You're not young anymore," Yunxi glanced at Yunzhi: "It's her fourteenth birthday soon. It's time to act like a big girl."
"A girl is only fifteen years old, and Yunzhi is still more than a year younger. What's more, even a big girl doesn't have to be unable to leave the palace. My sister once went to a girls' school and heard them say that before entering the palace to go to school, sometimes
Even after entering the palace and going to school, he would go to the market with his parents during the Chinese New Year." Yunlan added.
"Well, the emperor will allow you to go out of the palace for a while. But you must not leave the palace by yourself. Tomorrow afternoon, the emperor will take you outside the palace." Yunxi said. After all, he is a person from later generations.
, was a little bit intolerant of the fact that the royal princess could not leave the palace before getting married, and finally agreed to her request to leave the palace. However, she could not be allowed to leave the palace alone with her servants and guards. It was not a big deal for him to be impeached by the official.
But it would be very bad if Yunzhi's reputation was ruined. It happened that he had been back in Beijing for twenty days, and he wanted to get a feel for the public sentiment, so he decided to take her outside the palace himself.
"Thank you, Brother Huang. Brother Huang is the best to my sister." Yunzhi immediately said happily.
Yunxi joked with them a few more words, and Yunlan and Yunzhi were about to leave. But Wang Xi suddenly jogged in, glanced at Yunlan, and whispered in Yunxi's ear: "Guanjia, Yang Feng and
Cao Xing asks to see you."
Hearing this, Yunxi also glanced at Yunlan. At this time, Yunlan said: "Brother Huang, since Brother Huang still has something to do, my sister took Yunzhi and left." With that, Yunzhi and she were about to leave.
Leave this dormitory.
But she didn't expect that a voice suddenly came from behind her and said: "Second sister, don't leave yet. Brother Huang has something to tell you later."
Yunlan stopped, turned around and asked curiously: "Brother, what else do you want to tell your sister?"
"We'll talk about it later. I'll come back and tell you when the emperor sends them two away." Yunxi said to Yunzhi again: "Fourth sister, please go back first."
"I also want to hear what Brother Huang wants to tell Second Sister." Yunzhi said.
"This," Yunxi hesitated for a moment, then said after thinking for a long time: "That's fine."
Yunxi gave the two of them a few more words, and then he took Wang Xi out of the dormitory. But after not walking a few steps, he walked into a room and told Wang Xi: "Ask Yang Feng and Cao Xing to come here to see me."
Wang Xi understood his plan as soon as he saw the room he had chosen, and immediately turned around to tell the two of them to come over.
Yunxi glanced sideways at the wall on the right, then sat down, asked the eunuch to make a pot of tea, and waited for Yang Feng and the others to come over.
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'Why did His Majesty meet us two here?' Yang Feng looked at the houses on both sides and thought with some confusion.
Just now he and Cao Xing were waiting outside Qianqing Palace for a while. Wang Xi came out and led them to meet Yunxi. The two of them immediately followed Wang Xi. But the further they walked, the more confused Yang Feng became: 'This is already This is where His Majesty rests on weekdays. Why do you want to receive us two here?'
At the same time, he was also a little uneasy. He had not thought of things like "Lin Chong accidentally broke into the White Tiger Hall". If Yunxi wanted to kill him, there were many ways without having to do this; he thought: Since ancient times, accompanying a king is like accompanying a tiger, and being a minister If you are too close to the emperor, it is easy to be promoted, but if you disappoint the emperor, you will often be punished more severely than ordinary ministers.
But when His Majesty receives him, he can choose a place? He can only worry secretly in his heart while following Wang Xi.
Not long after, they walked into a pavilion, where Yunxi was sitting reading a book. The two of them immediately knelt down and said, "I have met Your Majesty."
"As I told you, just call the officials." Yunxi put down the book, stood up and helped the two of them up, smiling.
He asked again: "I sent someone to call you two this morning, why did you come here now?"
"Guan family, I went outside the city this morning." Cao Xing said, "When I was in Xuanfu, I got two good horses. One of them was donated to the official family, and the other one I rode."
"I have returned to the capital because I have been in the city and there is no time for horse racing. I happened to go out of the city to ride horses this morning because I had nothing to do. However, I didn't expect that the officials would just summon me. Although Yang Feng did not leave the city, he was waiting for me to enter the palace to see him. I am an official, so I entered the palace with you at this time. Please forgive me for my sin."
"What's your crime? You're not on errands at the Fifth Army Commander's Mansion, and you didn't deliberately delay my affairs. You're not guilty." Yunxi said with an envious tone: "Speaking of which, I haven't ridden a horse for a long time. Now that I have a horse, I really want to go horse riding.”
He immediately made up his mind and said: "Tomorrow afternoon I will go to the horse farm outside the city to ride horses." He then said to the two of them: "You two will enter the palace tomorrow afternoon and accompany me to ride horses." The two of them quickly agreed. .
After talking about this, Yunxi started talking to them about business. "Yang Feng, Cao Xing, do you think that if I want to recruit soldiers and horses from the Mongolian headquarters to join us in the expedition against Samarkand, it will be possible?"
"Your Majesty, if you want to recruit Mongolians to fight together, it will naturally happen. But Guilichi is not threatened by Samarkand's eastward march. Even if he reluctantly sends troops to follow the war, it will be half-hearted, and it may hinder the whole army. .”
"Besides, if Your Majesty needs light cavalry, there are two other countries, Yilibali and Oara. They are also Mongolian countries and face Samarkand directly. They will definitely be willing to send troops to fight."
"What's more, if they are to be recruited to fight for the Ming Dynasty, even if they are not given military salary according to their merit, they must be given some swords, guns and armor before going to battle. After the battle of Samarkand is over, they will return to the grassland and use these weapons and armor to harass the borders. how?"
"So I think it would be better for Your Majesty not to recruit soldiers and horses from the Mongolian headquarters." After a while, Yang Feng said seriously. The titles were restored.
"I have thought about what you said, but the number of soldiers dispatched to conquer Samarkand will definitely not be small. It is possible that troops will be mobilized from the north. I am worried about leaving them to fight on the grassland."
"What's more, the Ming Dynasty was fighting fiercely with Samarkand, but many Mongolians were allowed to rest on the grasslands. I always feel that this shouldn't be the case. As for the swords and guns given to them, I don't care. With these swords and guns, they will not attack
If you don't want to destroy the city, just don't give them armor." Yunxi said.
Yang Feng was about to speak, but suddenly Cao Xing said: "Your Majesty, I think it is not impossible to recruit people from the Mongolian headquarters to fight, but Guilichi cannot be allowed to send troops. It is not just because they are half-hearted in fighting."
"The reason why the Mongols had to retreat to the grasslands was because they were driven out of the Central Plains by Emperor Taizu. People with the so-called golden family lineage like Gui Lichi were very angry about this, but now the Ming Dynasty is powerful and they have to surrender.
"
"So for Guilichi, dealing with the Ming Dynasty is more important than dealing with Samarkand. If Guilichi's army is recruited, they are likely to collude with Timur and act as a traitor for him."
"In this way, if the general in charge of the army is not aware of it, he will be defeated; even if he is aware of it or takes precautions, Guilichi's army will contain many armies, and the gain will outweigh the losses. Therefore, Your Majesty, you cannot recruit Guilichi's army."
After hearing what he said, Yunxi suddenly broke out in a cold sweat. He had never thought of what Cao Xing said, and it made sense when he thought about it. Although Guilichi may not have a good impression of Timur, the Ming Dynasty is his
If the Ming Dynasty's army in Samarkand could be wiped out or suffer heavy losses, and Timur's troops could force him into Guanzhong to fight to the death with the Ming Dynasty, he could watch the show and rest in peace on the grassland.
Already.
"Cao Xing, you are right. I thought it was simple." Yunxi said, "But when you said you could recruit people from the Mongolian headquarters to fight, who did you recruit?"
"Your Majesty, if you are determined to recruit people from the Mongolian headquarters to fight, you can only recruit those small tribes that are not subordinate to him without letting Guilichi know about it."