Cao Xing was worthy of his experience in Xuanfu, and Yunxi stood up for him. Although he had never been in Shangzhiwei before and had never dealt with the soldiers of the left guard of the Fu army, he successfully defeated the left guard of the Fu army.
The affairs of the guards were arranged, and no one among the soldiers dared to disobey orders.
After Yunxi saw that Cao Xing had roughly arranged the affairs of his own guard, he told him: "I will leave it to you to capture the commander-in-chief of the formation of cavalry in the Shangzhi Guards. Don't just worry about the left guard of the government.
The right guard of the army should also go and see him from time to time and discuss anything with Song Xuan."
"If you need anything, just tell me. No matter how much you need, I will allocate it to you. But don't cut it down just because you think it's a big expense."
"Don't just focus on the cavalry, the infantry should also pay attention to training." Lin Lin gave many instructions, and Cao Xingjun agreed respectfully.
Yunxi finally said: "According to the reports from the northwest kingdoms and the Jin Yiwei sent by the Ming Dynasty, Timur will send troops eastward either next year or the year after, with the intention of invading the Ming Dynasty. Fighting with Timur's Samarkand Kingdom
When the time comes, I will definitely send the two guards under your control to the front line."
"I heard that the cavalry of the Samarkand Kingdom is very powerful. They have never lost a battle in the east, west, south, and north. When the time comes, I want to see if your two cavalry guards can defeat the Samarkand cavalry."
"Your Majesty, rest assured that the left and right guards of the government will definitely be able to defeat the cavalry of Samarkand. I am willing to issue a military order: If the left and right guards of the government are defeated, I am willing to deal with it according to military law!" Cao Xing stood straight and said loudly.
"There is no need for a military order, I believe in you." Yunxi said with a smile.
After that, Yunxi mounted his horse, asked Wen Yuan and others to get on the carriage again, and left the left guard of the government army.
However, their group did not march like this for long. After arriving at a prosperous place that must be passed by the left guard of the government army to return to the palace, Yunxi asked Wen Yuan and the three of them to get off the carriage, and he also got off his horse and said to them
Said: "Father will take you around the market today."
"Since ancient times, most emperors have been in the palace and have no idea how the people live and what they want. Therefore, even if they have diligence and love for the people and strive to govern, they don't know how to display it, so they are deceived by the ministers.
As a result, the country will be destroyed and the family will be destroyed. You will all be at least in charge of one party in the future. My father will take you around the streets of the capital today to let you know what the lives of the people are like." Although these three children felt that at this time
You may not be able to understand what he said, but he explained it anyway.
In Yunxi's view, not to mention that the country's ills were persistent and the emperor was unable to reform this situation. In other cases, a large part of the reason for the country's demise was that the emperor did not know what the people wanted and what the real situation among the people was.
What, so even if you want to work hard to govern, you are not aiming at the place, such as Zhu Youjian, Emperor Sizong of the Ming Dynasty in history. Zhu Youjian was very diligent, but many of his actions were wrong. The most typical one was to abolish postmen.
As for commercial taxes, given the current situation, the court couldn't collect them even if it wanted to, so it's not his fault.
In order to avoid this situation, Yunxi decided to let his son walk around the market more from an early age to see the life of ordinary people.
After listening to Yunxi's words, Wenyuan and Wenqi were still young after all. In fact, they were less than five years old. Even though the royal children were already sensible, they were a little confused and just nodded in agreement; but Wenyao was already eight years old.
, according to the age of later generations, he is seven years old. Although he is only two years older than Wenyuan and Wenqi, he knows much more things. He somewhat understands what Yunxi means. He bowed and said: "Father, I understand."
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Yunxi nodded, but said: "Wenyuan, Wenyao, Wenqi, you should be careful. You can call me daddy or father on the street later, but you must not call me father."
"Yes, father/daddy." They still understood this sentence and agreed immediately.
"When you are walking on the street in a while, you don't have to just look at it. If you see something interesting or useful, you can tell the guards and ask them to pay for it and take it back to the palace. But you still have to eat.
Be careful, the stalls outside, especially on the streets, are not as good as those in the palace, and the food you eat is not very clean, so don’t buy at will."
"Later on, you should call the guards who are guarding you master, or uncle, and not guard Cao, as guard Song is called." Yun He ordered.
"Your Majesty, how can I be called uncle by His Highness? Let the three Highnesses call us master, or just call us by our first names." Li Bo and Song Qingshu immediately said in unison.
"I heard that the children of wealthy families call their family's bodyguards uncle. This makes it more realistic. Besides, it's just uncle. They are still young, so it doesn't matter."
"No, Your Majesty, no." The guards just refused to agree. Yunxi had no choice but to ask his three sons to call them master.
Yunxi gave some more instructions and assigned a few guards to follow Wenyuan and others into the bustling street.
Although this place is also a bustling commercial street, it is different from the streets in the south of the city. The guards stationed in the capital are all in the north or northwest of the city, and the families of the Shangzhiwei officers are all here.
Military officers from other places also live in public rental housing here, so the commercial streets here clearly serve the guardsmen.
There are significantly fewer pawnshops, banks, banks, etc. in the north of the city than in the south. There are also fewer shops selling jewelry, rouge, gouache, antique calligraphy and painting, and there are not even a few inns on one street.
However, there are obviously many more blacksmith shops, carpenter shops and masonry shops, especially blacksmith shops. Although the Ming Dynasty prohibited private possession of armor and crossbows, and firearms were added after Yunxi came to the throne, ordinary weapons such as swords, guns and sticks are all
They can be held at will. Most military generals don't like the weapons issued by the court, so they spend a few dollars to hire someone to make them in a blacksmith shop. Moreover, the court often hires blacksmiths to build a batch of weapons. It is more convenient for them to open a shop here.
The number of food shops is similar to that in the south of the city, especially the number of high-end restaurants. The generals have paid attention to it. Since the yamen is here and the residence is here, it is natural to invite people to drink and eat here.
It's over.
Yunxi was walking on the street, looking at the shops on both sides of the road and paying attention to what the three children were doing. Among them, Wenyao magically took out a small notebook and a pencil, and from time to time he was writing in the small notebook.
What was written on it made Yunxi very curious.
Wen Qi was curious about every shop with swords, guns and sticks hanging on it. He always went in to ask, and even stretched out his hands to touch. The people in the shop probably thought that the guards following him were unusual, so they did not stop them, but introduced them in detail.
With.
As for Wenyuan, he just walked on the street at first, scanning every store, but never stopped in front of any store. It wasn't until he found a bookstore that he happily walked in with his guards.
Yun He immediately ordered a guard next to him: "Hurry over and note down that Xi Yuan is interested in those books." The guard agreed and walked over quickly. He continued walking on the street, walking to a house from time to time.
Ask the price of the item in front of the store, ask the guard to record it, and compare it with the data reported by the Jin Yiwei or the town secretary.
Soon, Wen Qi had looked at all the blacksmith shops on this street. Because the guards advised him not to leave this street, he turned back from the end of the road and looked at other things.
This time he was obviously interested in many unique gadgets. He stopped at street stalls from time to time, asked what the things on the ground were, and then asked the guards to pay for them.
There were also a few children from nearby residents gathered around these stalls to watch, but most of them were just watching, and few bought. Wen Qi ordered the guards to buy everything they wanted, and turned around
Seeing that their eyes were shining with envy but not buying anything, I asked, "Since you like it, why don't you buy it and take it home?"
The children were startled. After hearing what he said clearly, one of the children, who seemed to be the youngest, said: "Our family doesn't give much pocket money. This month's allowance has been spent long ago and is gone."
Then he looked at the things in his hand and said with envy: "I have wanted to buy these things in your hand for a long time, but I never had the money. You can buy so many things at one time, your family must be rich."
"Our family doesn't have much money," Wen Qi said, remembering how he occasionally saw Yunxi or Xiyao telling the female officials and eunuchs in the palace to be frugal, and said: "Sometimes, my father or aunt would scold them because of the money.
A servant of the family."
"One or twenty guan!" The child who just spoke had his eyes widened: "So much money! My father's monthly salary is only a few guan, and the pocket money in my hand has never been more than ten guan. Moreover,
There are servants in your family! These are not rich people!"
"How much is one or twenty guan?" Wen Qi wondered. He didn't have monthly money yet, but he remembered that the monthly money of the third or fourth aunt was hundreds of guan.
"Don't say one or twenty guan, even one or twenty guan is a lot of treasure." The child explained to him.
After listening to his explanation, Wen Qi said: "It turns out that one or twenty guan of money is worth so much."
"That's right. So even though these things only cost a few pennies, you can't buy them all," the child said.
After hearing this, Wen Qi suddenly put all the things in his hand into his hand and said: "I will give these to you." Then he pointed to the things in the guard's hands and said to the other children:
"These things are all for you."
"What about you?" the child who spoke at the beginning asked.
"I'll just buy another one." Wen Qi said nonchalantly.
They all hesitated, wondering whether they should accept his gift; but after all, they were just a few children, and in the end they couldn't resist the temptation. As one child stepped forward, the others swarmed up and took away all the gadgets in the guard's hands.
