"The late emperor once said: 'The Taixue School is the gate of wisdom in the world. It is the source of etiquette and righteousness, the source of talents, so that all students can be successful, the practices of scholars have changed, and the country depends on it.'"
"As the late emperor said, you are all the outstanding talents of our Ming Dynasty. I adhere to the wishes of the late emperor. Although I am busy with things, I also pay great attention to the Imperial College. I have called you many times whether it is the previous wine offering or the current one.
Enter the palace and interrogate the imperial supervisors to find out the good ones."
"I have long wanted to teach you a lesson in the Imperial College, but I am busy with things and have never been free. Fortunately, now that the new year is coming, I decided to come to the Imperial College in person to teach all the students." He explained casually that he would teach the class.
for the sake of.
The faces of all the academic officials in the Imperial College were not very good-looking. No matter what the reason was, the Emperor's personal teaching was a rejection of them, so of course their faces were not good-looking. Only Jin Shan remained the same as usual, both in his expression and in his heart. He was not responsible for the specific teaching.
, the emperor had told him this matter from the bottom of his heart before, so he didn't care about it.
After the students agreed, Yunxi ordered the textbooks to be distributed. The guards came in with many notebooks in their hands and distributed them around the tables.
After the guard put the textbook on his desk, Chen Tingfeng immediately picked it up to read the content. He was very curious about what the emperor wanted to teach. Not only him, but everyone present was also so.
Chen Tingfeng opened the cover and saw the title of the book: "The gains and losses of changes in the past dynasties."
At the same time, he heard Yunxi's voice coming from the front: "Today I will talk about my views on the changes after Guan Zhongxiangqi."
The purpose of Yunxi coming to the martial arts hall is to instill his thoughts into them. If this is the case, then talking about history is the best way to mix private goods; and in history, it is easiest to teach the reforms of the past dynasties to contain private goods.
So he decided to teach the subject to his students.
He did not feel that the supervisors could fully accept his ideas, even just for these reforms. Therefore, he would not tell them all his understanding of these changes, but would select some of them to talk about.
Not long after, Yunxi finished teaching a class. These students seemed to have many puzzles, but Yunxi had no intention of answering. Instead, he said to Jin Shan: "Call the next class over." After hearing this, all the supervisors
Understanding that the emperor was going to teach a few more classes, he hurriedly bowed and left.
Yunxi narrated these contents to all five classes in Shuxingtang. By the time he finished speaking, it was almost dark. Yunxi said: "It's getting late today. Next time I will come to the Imperial College to teach you courses."
Let me answer your questions."
Having said this, Yunxi left the classroom, rested in the public room for a while, got up and returned to the palace.
As soon as Yunxi arrived at the Zuo'an Gate of the palace, he saw Wang Xi already waiting here. When he saw the driver, he rushed up to greet him and said to Yunxi who had already opened the curtain: "The official family, Marquis of Jingchuan, Marquis of Changxing
, Zheng Guogong, Liang Guogong and other dignitaries are already waiting in the palace, and no one is missing."
"Okay." Yunxi agreed and was about to put down the curtain; but his hand suddenly stopped halfway, opened the curtain again, and said to Wang Xi with a smile: "It's so cold, you can come up too."
"How can a servant like an official, He De, ride in the same carriage with His Majesty?" Wang Xi said immediately.
"Come up when I tell you to. Why are you being pretentious?" Yunxi said. Seeing that Wang Xi still refused to say goodbye, he added, "If you don't come up, I will keep the curtain open."
"How can this be done? How can an official's family be kept in the cold all the time?" Wang Xi jumped to his feet anxiously, and finally had no choice but to get on the carriage.
Yunxi smiled at him and said: "That's right. Just get on the bus when I tell you to, don't wait and see." After a pause, he added: "You have been following me for ten years, and I am with you. My affection is different from others. Tomorrow is the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month. I should have let you go home to celebrate the New Year, but there are too many things in the palace this year. I don’t know who can take care of all these things without you. I can only I’ll wait until after the new year to take your vacation.”
"Minions are servants of the official family, and they should serve in front of the official family during the New Year." Wang Xi thought about it for a while, and then said: "Although Huang Lu and Huang Fu have not yet experienced enough to take on the leading roles, they still have to be in the palace. There are other eunuchs who can take care of these things."
"Who?" Yunxi asked immediately. He didn't even know there was such a person.
"In the second year of Jianye's reign, they were Wang Jin and Wang Bu, who were demoted by the officials to the rank of eunuch of the capital magistrate and eunuch of the palace of Jinshen."
Yunxi didn't speak for a long time. After a while, the carriage arrived at Qianqing Gate. He turned to Wang Xi and said, "Why do you think of them two?"
"Guan family, although Wang Jin and Wang Bu did something wrong back then, they have regretted it all the time in the past three years. I saw them two days ago. Even though they were wearing eunuch clothes, they were working very hard. There is no neglect in doing work. It is better for the officials to see that they were doing well in serving the officials, bypass them, and re-appoint them." Wang Xi replied.
Yunxi sat in the carriage and stayed for a long time, then said to him: "You should take care of things in the New Year Palace."
"Official!"
"You don't have to say it anymore." Yunxi put down these words and walked out of the carriage.
Yunxi walked into the palace full of worries, and heard many people shouting: "I have seen your Majesty."
"No courtesy." Yunxi recovered his thoughts and smiled at the generals in front of him.
Afterwards, Yunxi sat down and asked them all to sit down as well. He casually said a few common words and said seriously: "Tomorrow is the New Year's Day. I originally wanted all of you, my beloved, to have a good New Year, but suddenly this morning I suddenly News has come from the northwest, and I have to invite you all to come to the palace tonight to discuss important matters. Please don't mind me."
"How dare I care about His Majesty's summons? It's just a major matter to discuss, but the Samarkand Kingdom is going to send troops to the Ming Dynasty?" said Geng Bingwen, the oldest person present.
"Exactly." Yunxi said: "The Jinyi Guards in the northwest, six hundred miles away from the Qin vassal capital, urgently received a secret message. Timur conquered the Kipchak Khanate and after searching for its soldiers to no avail, he withdrew his troops and returned to the city of Samarkand. .”
"But after he returned to the city of Samarkand, he once again mobilized his troops with the intention of going out for an expedition. After discussing with the generals of Shaanxi Xingdu Division, Qin Fan believed that his eastward expedition was very likely. Even if he did not want to occupy Yiwu, he must still occupy it. Powerful."
"Yi Li is a barrier for the Qin vassal, and it must not be captured by the Kingdom of Samarkand. Therefore, I invite you all to come to the palace to discuss how to deal with this matter."
When the generals heard this, they were speechless for a long time. Like the students of the Imperial College, they did not pay enough attention to the war with Samarkand that would happen in an unknown year. At this time, they heard something more conclusive from the emperor's ears. News, I didn’t know what to say for a moment.
After a while, Geng Bingwen asked: "Your Majesty, do you know how many troops the Samarkand Congress will send in this battle?"
"It's hard to say, but it will be no less than 300,000. A careful investigation revealed that he has about 200,000 elite soldiers who can serve him to the death. Because Timur has never failed in his campaigns from east to west.
Therefore, his prestige is very high, and even those tribes that are not directly under his jurisdiction will be willing to follow him in battle. Therefore, there will never be a shortage of troops." In order to make it easier for them to understand, Yunxi always compared Timur to the Mongols on the grassland.
"In this case, the number of troops sent cannot be less than 300,000. To be on the safe side, we have to recruit additional troops from Uzang and other places to fight, and we must also send troops there. The total number of troops cannot be less than 400,000." Cao Zhen said.
"Slightly less than 400,000." Geng Bingwen said: "I have seen the map. It is much closer from Samarkand to Yilibali than from the Central Plains to Yilibali. The enemy's geographical advantage is better than that of the Ming Dynasty, and Timur has long-term experience.
A veteran general on the battlefield has a high prestige, not to mention that he may not only send 300,000 troops. So in my opinion, he must send at least 500,000 troops."
"However." He said with some worry: "I once led troops to exterminate the rebels in Shaanxi. I know that the northwest is bitterly cold, and I am afraid it will be difficult to afford the supplies of an army of 500,000."
"Don't worry about it." Yunxi smiled confidently: "I started to deploy in the northwest more than three years ago. I have accumulated a large amount of grain. I have built granaries in Xi'an, Lanzhou, Ganzhou and other places, which are enough to carry dozens of grains.
The expenses of ten thousand troops. I also sent people to build rail carriages. Now it is connected from Xi'an to Yiwu. It is also very convenient to use rail carriages to transport food and wages. There is no need to worry about food and grass."
After Yunxi guessed that the envoy was from the Kingdom of Samarkand, he prepared for the northwest battle. He sent the best people in the palace to build rail carriages and appointed Xia Yuanji, Xu Huizu and others to go to the northwest.
We are preparing for the war, so now we have enough food and grass.
Of course, he didn't know that Xu Huizu was now troubled by bandits who specialized in robbing money and food along the tracks. The northwest was barren, and they were jealous when they saw the food and grass being transported and often robbed them. Most of these bandits were Xifan or Mongolians, who lived in
There is no fixed place, and it is very difficult to exterminate them. Even if they exterminate a group, it will not help. The guards at the post stations along the way are even more nonsense. Facing the ferocious bandits, they were full and sacrificed their lives to protect the food and grass. No matter how harsh Xu Huizu was
, it cannot be said that they lost their heads because they could not guard the food and grass. Xu Huizu had no choice but to gather many carriages every time, and some of them were guarded by soldiers. But even so, occasionally some food was taken away.
"Since there is enough food and grass, this matter will be much easier." Geng Bingwen said: "Send out 400,000 soldiers from the Central Plains Guards, and then recruit the Westerners and Mongols in the northwest. A total of 500,000 troops will be sent out to fight with Samar.
The soldiers of Han State started a war."
Everyone felt that this number was already quite large, but after thinking about it, Yunxi said: "Isn't half a million a little too small? It's better to send 600,000 troops."
"Your Majesty, six hundred thousand, I think it is a bit too much." Cao Zhen said. Lan Zhen also agreed: "Your Majesty, even if the northwest has prepared food and grass, the food and grass consumption of the army's expedition is huge, so it is better to be lenient in anticipation.
.If Your Majesty is not confident about the ability of the Westerners or Mongols to fight, can you use all the Central Plains Guard Stations?"
"No, we still have to recruit the Western Fans and Mongols to fight." Yunxi thought for a moment and said: "I called the King of Qin and the King of Gan to come to the capital. Because the war is about to happen, the King of Qin is busy and can't come, but the King of Gan is about to come to the capital. In the end, we will send troops.
How much, we can discuss it with him after the year."
Everyone agreed. Yunxi discussed several matters with them, formulated different methods of recruiting troops according to the number of troops, and immediately sent orders to various places along the way to prepare early.
After discussing all these, it was already the second watch. Yunxi left them in the palace for a midnight snack and said to them: "My dear friends, you should have a good time this year. The northwest is colder than the south of the Yangtze River. Timu
I will never go out to conquer the Ming Dynasty at this time. I will discuss it with you again after the New Year."
The generals agreed and immediately withdrew.
However, Yunxi kept Lan Zhen and smiled at him: "In addition to celebrating the New Year, it will also be Siqi's birthday in the next few days. You must remember to prepare for her."
"Your Majesty, I have been prepared for a long time, and I will never neglect the princess."
"Although she was granted the title of princess by the late emperor, she is also your niece. You cannot call her princess except when honoring the state."
"Yes, Your Majesty." Lan Zhen bowed and agreed, then remembered something and said to Yunxi: "Your Majesty, I would like to borrow a cook from Your Majesty, please allow Your Majesty's permission."
"What kind of cook? What kind of cook do you do?"
"I remember one time I heard Siqi say that she really liked the cake made by a chef in the palace, but His Majesty did not allow her to eat more, so she was very greedy. I want to make a cake for her for her birthday this time."
"This can't be done." Yunxi said with a smile: "This is what I want to prepare for her birthday celebration. How can I let you take the lead?"
Lan Zhen deliberately looked depressed, which made Yunxi laugh again, and then he retreated.
Yunxi sent someone to inquire and learned that Xiyao had gone to bed, so he did not go to Kunning Palace and found a room to rest in Qianqing Palace.