On the second day, Yunxi officially issued an order to appoint Yang Feng as Lord. Of course, the Yang family was very happy. No, very happy is not enough to describe the joy of their family. Yang Feng's father fainted with joy on the spot, and several of his
The adult brothers and sisters were also crazy with joy. After the eunuch who announced the decree left, they gathered around Yang Feng to congratulate him. After their family members learned about it, they even formed a group to congratulate him.
Only Yang Feng's mother, Wang Shi, said to Yang Feng privately: "Feng'er, it is an honor for our family that you are the master, but it may not be a good thing for you! Our family has no control over the royal princess. If she is pampered by nature, just do it."
It’s hard on you.”
"Didn't you also work as a guard for the emperor before? Do you know what Princess Zhongshan's temperament is like?"
"Mom, the eldest princess of Zhongshan has a very good temperament and is by no means unruly." Yang Feng replied.
Mrs. Wang asked a few more questions carefully before she breathed a sigh of relief and said, "This will put your mind at ease."
Although the imperial edict of Yunxi was not widely publicized, how could it not attract everyone's attention because it was the first time a princess got married in the Jianye Dynasty? What's more, the Yang family wanted to publicize it and the people all over the country knew about it, so not long after they came to court that day
All civil and military officials in Beijing already know this.
The generals who had good relations with Yang Feng and a few civil servants immediately ordered their servants to prepare gifts and wait to congratulate him after they were off duty. Some generals who were strangers to Yang Feng mostly thought about how to get close to him, while the rest were secretly careful not to offend him in the future.
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Most civil servants felt that it was not appropriate, but they would not complain about it; but a small number of civil servants were very opposed to this matter and made fierce memorials to remonstrate.
Yunxi had long expected that there would be people who would remonstrate. He read all the remonstrances in person. Those who just pointed out that it was inappropriate for Her Royal Highness the Princess to marry a widower and whose words were not very violent, pretended that they had not seen the memorials, but for those who quoted the scriptures eloquently
He wrote a bunch of or all the edicts with strong words to reprimand them, and put them in the queue to be reprimanded.
After the storm passed, the Yang family began to prepare for the wedding. Since Yang Feng was going to marry the princess, the Yang family was afraid of looking shabby, so they tried their best to prepare for the wedding. Almost all the money the family had saved over the years would be spent. Yang Feng
The second brother's wife was a little dissatisfied, but she didn't dare to say it openly, so she had to complain to her husband in her yard.
Yang Feng came to the palace early the next morning to take charge, but was laughed at by his colleagues on the way. When he was a guard, he was transferred to Yunxi and was promoted to the seventh rank. Later, he was promoted to the fourth rank and became a deputy general.
After holding the title of third-rank official, he is now the seventh-rank official. Li Bo, who was relatively familiar with Yang Feng, checked his edict and smiled and said: "Yang Tongshi, come and see Shangguan."
"Go away!" Yang Feng also smiled: "Although your official rank is higher than mine now, you can't control me, so you are nothing like a superior officer!"
"Even if I am not a Shangguan, I am still a higher official than you. How can you not be polite when meeting a senior official?"
"Okay, okay, I've met Mr. Li." Yang Feng bowed and said as if he was joking.
After playing around for a while, Yang Feng walked into the Qianqing Palace. Li Xuhu, the assistant officer of Qiu, nodded when he saw him - he already knew about Yang Feng's coming to be the general secretary yesterday afternoon. Although he was surprised, he didn't say much.
, at this time, he exchanged a few words with Yang Feng, recalled the past when he worked in Zhan Shifu and Yang Feng was a guard, and arranged a seat.
After a while, Yunxi came back from the court. When he saw Yang Feng, he called him to his side and smiled: "Yang Feng, the imperial edict to confer you as the Princess Consort of Zhongshan has been drafted and issued. From today on, you are my brother-in-law."
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Yang Feng didn't know how to answer, so he just smiled. Fortunately, Yunxi immediately continued: "But even though you are my brother-in-law, you must be respectful to your superiors and be friendly to your colleagues, and you must not act like a consort."
"You also have to be diligent in your work. I only have four words for employing people: public loyalty, integrity and ability. The more you fit these four words, the more I will promote you. The merits of your ancestors can make people live in good clothing and food for a lifetime, but they are not directly officials.
Basis." What the family said last night is what the public said today.
Yang Feng immediately bowed and agreed. He was originally chosen by Zhu Yuanzhang to serve as a bodyguard by Yunxi's side because of his cautious personality. Even without Yunxi's instructions, he would not show off his identity as a consort.
After Yunxi warned him, he added: "You are here for the first time today, so I'm afraid you are not familiar with how my cabinet works, so you should familiarize yourself with it first. Please step aside."
Yang Feng agreed, bowed and stepped back.
The people present here were very polite to him, and some even treated him as a Shangguan. Although no one could understand why the emperor appointed Yang Feng as the General Secretary, it was obvious that he could not have been thrown into the street, and later it was heard that he became the consort.
Later, I confirmed my thoughts.
A few months passed like this, and August soon came.
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On the early morning of the ninth day of August, Yang Feng came to the Qianqing Palace on time to take up his duties. He walked into the front hall, said hello to his colleagues, and sat down to start the day's work.
But although it was said to be work, he actually had nothing to do. Yesterday was the seventy-fifth anniversary of Zhu Yuanzhang's birth. The day before yesterday, Yunxi led his family and all the vassal princes in Beijing to the Xiaoling Mausoleum to worship their ancestors. Since the emperor is not here, whether it is to discuss government affairs or
There was no matter of drafting the imperial edict. As for drafting the papers, there were very few papers from the Governor's Office of the Fifth Army, and with Li Xuhu, the Qiu Auxiliary Officer, here, he could not get a few papers to comment on in a day.
So after Yang Feng made the tea, he took out a book and read it. On the cover of the book, he saw "Summary of the Kingdom of Samarkand" written on it.
No war can be started easily. As the generals know themselves and their enemies, they can fight a hundred battles without danger. When the strength of the generals is not much different and the commanding abilities of the generals are not much different, the role of intelligence is very important.
But Yunxi’s views on which intelligence is important and which is not are different from those of people of this era. Yunxi believed that the population, the amount of food and grass, the composition of social organizations, the composition of military organizations, whether the domestic people support the war, and the military generals’ opinions on
Things like whether there is support for the war and the morale of the soldiers are much more important than tactical-level intelligence - it is certainly important to know in advance that the enemy is going to ambush you, but it is important when the armies of both sides are already stationed dozens of miles away from each other.
In a head-to-head confrontation, tactical-level intelligence is less important.
Especially the structure of social organization. Chinese people have always insufficiently understood the importance of this point. They think that the whole world has the same social structure as China. At most, they think that it is the same as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and they are unlikely to be aware of other factors such as religion.
Important role, even if he emphasized this matter several times, the effect was not great.
In order to popularize his views and increase the chance of winning the war, in the second year after Yunxi took the throne, he ordered the people of the Qin vassal and Jinyiwei to work together to send people to Samarkand to collect this information. Even the price of cabbage must be recorded and summarized. At the end of last year, I initially compiled the "Summary of the Kingdom of Samarkand".
Yang Feng read it with relish. This book involves a lot of local customs and customs of Samarkand, which are very strange to the people of the Central Plains, so Yang Feng was very engrossed in reading, and sighed in a low voice from time to time: "I see!" "Why is this so? "This custom is so strange" etc.
After lunch, Yang Feng did not go to the palace where they could take a nap. Instead, he found a pavilion in the Qianqing Palace that was leeward and shaded from the sun, and sat down to read.
As he was watching, he suddenly felt someone gasping next to him. He quickly turned his head and saw a man wearing a guard uniform standing next to him, staring at the book in his hand.
"Servant Chen is very curious about this book?" Yang Feng recognized the guard named Chen Lijie.
"Master Yang, forgive me." Chen Lijie immediately bowed and said: "The official is on duty nearby. Hearing Master Yang muttering something while reading a book, he was curious, so he came over to take a look. I didn't want to read the book. There were so many strange and strange things written about it that I couldn’t help but read it.”
"It's nothing. His Majesty did not say that this book is not allowed to be read by others. But, do you know the words on it?" Yang Feng remembered that when he asked Li Bo about the palace guards, he heard him say that the guard named Chen Lijie was from Orion. , he came to Yunxi as a guard by chance. He probably didn't know how to read.
"Master Yang, after he came down to work as a bodyguard for the emperor, he saw that the original bodyguards around the emperor were all literate, so he also taught himself writing, and he knew almost all the words in the book." Chen Lijie replied.
'He only came to His Majesty as a bodyguard at the beginning of the second year of Jianye. It has only been three years since this year, and he has already known so many words. It's amazing! Being a bodyguard is a bit of a waste of talent.' Yang Feng thought in his heart.
However, he did not say anything about this, but said to him: "I remember Chen Weiwei, you are the sixth grade, and I am only the seventh grade now, but I can't be called your lord. Just call me by my name, or call me I'm in charge of Yang Tong, but Yang Sheren can also do it."
"Although Mr. Yang is only of the seventh rank now, the emperor attaches great importance to you, and the lower officials would never dare to call you by your first name. Moreover, according to the rules, the consort is a first rank, and the lower officials should also address you." Chen Lijie said.