"Your Majesty, Yang Feng, has seen you. Long live, long live, long live!" Yang Feng bowed and saluted when he saw Yunxi.
"I have said that you and Cao Xing want to call me official. You don't need to call your majesty, so why should you call him your majesty?" Yunxi stood up and helped him up with a smile.
Yang Feng also smiled and replied: "For officials, the first greeting when meeting an official must be solemn, and the minister must also address you as Your Majesty."
"What's the first and second ceremony? It's not like I haven't seen you for a long time, so why should you care so much?" Yunhe said.
Yang Feng smiled and did not answer. After sitting down and chatting with him for a few words, Yun He said again: "What did you do in the palace today? Is it because you were afraid that I would feel lonely, so you came into the palace to chat with me?" It turns out that Yang Feng came in today.
It was not Yunxi who proclaimed him, but he applied for it himself. Yunxi had some vague guesses about his purpose, but he still allowed him to enter the palace.
Yang Feng smiled and said: "How can an official feel lonely when the queen and other concubines are with him in the palace?"
"Haha, Yang Feng, you are also joking with me." Yunxi smiled and said: "The queen is indeed very good. I often chat with her at night and never feel bored. But she is a woman after all, and her knowledge is still different from that of men.
, how can I be the same as you?"
Yang Feng smiled apologetically for a while, joked a few words with Yunxi, and then said: "Guan family, it has been almost two months since I returned to the capital from Datong and was received by the officials. Although my wife
I died of illness in late March, but it’s already passed July 7th.”
He added half-jokingly: "Could it be that the official's caring father is already old and wants me to spend more time with my parents at home? My father thought that I was greedy for comfort and did not want to be an official, so he picked up a broomstick and wanted to beat me."
"I understand what you mean. I want to run an errand. I was thinking that since you have been away from the capital for more than three years, I would like to rest for a few more days, but I don't want the boss to misunderstand my meaning. This is my fault." Yun.
Xi smiled.
"The officials are considerate of me, and I understand that, but my father has been busy all his life and has no time to spare. Now that he is over fifty, he still has to find something to do in the guard. This makes the commander of the guard very troubled, and he has to arrange an official position for my father;
Nor can we accept that other people who can still move are idle and muttering about me all day long."
"Furthermore, I have been busy for three years and suddenly I am free. I feel uncomfortable all over, as if I have grown hair on my body. Even if I am arranged to be the leader of the army, I am willing. At least I will not grow hair." Yang Feng still smiled.
"Hey, there are still people in the world who don't want to be idle. I would rather spend the whole day in the harem in peace and quiet, but it's not possible." After saying this, Yunxi saw the change in Yang Feng's facial expression and said seriously.
: "Yang Feng, it's not that I don't want you to run errands, it's just that I haven't figured out how to arrange it for you yet."
"There will be a battle with the Kingdom of Samarkand next year or the year after that. By then, I will definitely arrange for you to be given the position of a general to lead the army in the battle. The army deployed for the battle of Samarkand will definitely be larger than that deployed to attack Annan.
There are still many guard posts. If I appoint you as deputy general, I am worried that you will not be able to control the situation, so I will only serve as a general. Once you make contributions in this battle, I will be able to make great use of you in the future."
"But I'm still hesitant about how to arrange for you before the battle with Samarkand. I'm thinking of letting you lead the troops below, but the highest level of troops near the capital is just a commander, which is lower than that. I'll send you to other places.
It’s not a good time to transfer you back.”
"If you are to serve as the Commander-in-Chief of the Fifth Army, your qualifications will be slightly less than those of a Commander-in-Chief and a Commander-in-Chief, but you won't get much training as a Commander-in-Chief. So I haven't decided how to arrange you."
Yunxi's words were very sincere. Except for the reason that he did not plan to appoint him as deputy general, everything else he said was the truth. Yunxi regarded Yang Feng as a friend, and besides, it was not a big deal, so he did not hide it.
The reason why he did not plan to appoint him as deputy general at that time was not only worried that the generals would be dissatisfied, but more importantly, he was not very convinced of his military commanding ability. Although Yang Feng had served as deputy general in Datong and Yansui Town in the north, he had fought several battles.
The battle performance was good, but the scale was too small to be used as evidence. Commanding 10,000 people is completely different from commanding 100,000 people. The most typical example is Hu Zongnan. Later generations commented that he was only at the level of a regiment leader.
It's okay to be a division commander, but any more would be beyond his capabilities; but he is asked to command an army of hundreds of thousands. Can he command it well?
Yang Feng naturally felt that Yun Xi was telling the truth, and was quite moved in his heart. He said: "Guanren, why do you need to consider me so much? If you want me to lead troops, send me to lead troops at the guard station; if you are the commander-in-chief of the Five Armies,
The same goes for the government and commanding people."
"This can't be done." Yunxi said, "How can I send you away so easily."
"Official, although what I just said was a bit of a joke, it is also what I mean. No matter what position the official arranges for me, as long as I serve the court, I will happily accept the official's appointment without any complaints.
." Yang Feng stood up and said.
"Sit down quickly, what are you standing up for?" Yunxi said hurriedly. If someone else had said this, he would have been unfazed. But now that Yang Feng was saying it, Yunxi believed it and was a little moved.
When Yang Feng sat down, Yunxi said: "In that case, I will appoint you to an official position. Don't think it is too small."
"Last year, I appointed many generals around me as generals in the conquest of Annan. Among them, Zhang Fu made the greatest contribution. There were many others who also made contributions, but their contribution was not great, so their reputation was not obvious. This is not the case.
Don’t talk about it, it’s just that there are fewer Tongshisheren around me. I want to appoint you as Tongshisheren, are you willing?”
"I accept the decree." Yang Feng said immediately without any hesitation.
"Okay, then I will appoint you as General Secretary, and you will come to the palace to take charge tomorrow." Yunxi thought of something else, and said with a smile: "I don't know if Li Bo and others were with you as my bodyguards back then.
How will people react when they hear this?”
"Them?" Yang Feng also laughed: "Most of them will be dumbfounded. I worked as a bodyguard, then as a border deputy general, and now I go to the palace to sacrifice myself for the general. There are not many people like me who have such a big difference in official positions."
"Not only is there not much, you are the only one in the Ming Dynasty. I won't tell them now. When you enter the palace tomorrow and they interrogate you, you can tell them later. Then tell me their expressions at that moment, so that I can enjoy it."
"I obey the order." Yang Feng made a gesture of accepting the order, causing Yunxi to laugh again.
After laughing, Yunxi asked Wang Xi to bring him pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and personally wrote him a handwritten edict to settle the matter.
