Wang Yuan went up to the tower and immediately saw Zhu Houzhao and Li Ying beside Zhu Houzhao.
Li Sanlang was not only by the emperor's side, but also the first person to follow him. This shows how smoothly this guy got along!
Of course, it is not that the emperor's favor for Li Ying has exceeded that of Qian Ning and Zhang Yong. Qian Ning is currently leading the royal guards to personally inspect various parts of the imperial city to prevent people watching lanterns from intruding into the forbidden areas. Zhang Yong is in charge.
For other official matters, as the Chief of Ceremonies, he rarely accompanies the emperor.
"Who is that girl?" Zhu Houzhao asked.
Li Ying replied: "That is Song Ling'er, the daughter of the envoy Song Xuanwei from Guizhou, and a classmate of Wang Erlang and I. She followed her mentor, the prince, to learn the art of war and strategy, and she was also in the capital at this time."
Zhu Houzhao asked with great interest: "A woman can also learn the art of war and strategy?"
Li Ying explained: "In the land of Yunnan and Guizhou, there are often women who act as chieftains. Song Linger is determined to be a female general."
Zhu Houzhao liked this kind of thing that went beyond etiquette, and immediately praised: "A woman with such ambition will not be inferior to men!"
Wang Yuan had already walked over with Song Ling'er, cupping his fists and saying, "Your Majesty, I'm sorry, I'm injured, so I can't do the full courtesy."
"It doesn't matter." Zhu Houzhao smiled.
Song Ling'er thought about it for a while, and rarely obeyed the resignation. She knelt down and knelt down and said: "I have met Your Majesty. I wish Your Majesty a long life!"
Zhu Houzhao raised his hand and said: "Get up and talk."
After Song Ling'er got up, she stood beside Wang Yuan honestly, but her eyes were very unruly, and she looked at the emperor carefully without any scruples.
Zhu Houzhao said to Wang Yuan: "I have ordered people to renovate the house in the west of the city, and the construction will start after the Lantern Festival."
Wang Yuan said: "There are too many violations in that house, and I'm afraid it will be difficult to rebuild. Your Majesty, it is better not to carry out any large-scale construction."
Zhu Houzhao said indifferently: "It's not that troublesome. Just remove the Danbi and change the decorations with carved dragons, phoenixes and painted pythons. You don't need to worry about the rest. So what about imitating the layout of the Forbidden City? I said it's okay. You don't want it.
If you refuse again, I will be angry!"
"So, thank you, Your Majesty." Wang Yuan accepted it.
He still has the fiery heart of an engineering dog. From now on, he must conduct experiments to make things. It would be more convenient to have a big house to do things.
Zhu Houzhao patted Wang Yuan on the shoulder and said: "If Erlang hadn't led the troops to quell the thieves, Qi Yanming would have been killed in the capital city during the New Year, and I and the imperial court would have been embarrassed! Your contribution this time is not ordinary in quelling the chaos.
To be able to compare, being promoted to three levels is not an exaggeration. But you are in the Hanlin Academy and cannot be promoted at will. This has already wronged you very much. What does it mean to be given a house or land?"
When Wang Yuan heard this, he immediately hit the snake with a stick: "In this case, I want to ask for a reward."
"Say." Zhu Houzhao smiled.
Wang Yuan turned to look at Song Ling'er, and then turned back to the emperor and said: "Your Majesty, I have been childhood sweethearts with Song Ling'er, the daughter of the Song Xuanwei envoy from Guizhou, and I request your Majesty to grant me a marriage!"
Song Linger was ecstatic and stood there with a silly smile on her face.
Li Yingze shook his head secretly, admiring Wang Yuan for his love and justice, but also regretting that Wang Yuan had ruined his future.
Zhu Houzhao didn't think much and said: "What kind of reward is this? If you agree..."
"Wait a moment!"
Song Ling'er suddenly regained consciousness, came out of her joy, and interrupted the emperor: "Your Majesty, if you marry the daughter of a chieftain, can you still be the chief minister of the Ming Dynasty?"
"Well," Zhu Houzhao thought carefully, "there is no explicit regulation, but it must have an impact. I can't tell clearly at the moment."
Song Ling'er said: "Then I won't marry!"
Wang Yuan scolded: "When a man talks, don't talk too much!"
"You want to marry me, why can't I say anything? I'm not happy to marry you!" Song Ling'er showed no sign of weakness.
Wang Yuan said: "I have my own ideas, don't worry."
Song Ling'er said: "I'm not worried!"
The two of them were actually quarreling with each other in front of the emperor, which made Zhu Houzhao overjoyed and very interesting.
How could other courtiers and Han women discuss marriage in this way? It must be so direct in the border areas. Zhu Houzhao felt that Guizhou had outstanding people and wanted to see it in person some other time. Anyway, it was more to his liking than the capital city.
Suddenly, Song Ling'er knelt on the ground and said to the emperor: "Your Majesty, I want to ask you for something."
Zhu Houzhao smiled and said, "Tell me."
Song Ling'er said: "My father lost his city and his land. He deserves to be executed for his crime. Please spare his life, Your Majesty."
Wang Yuan no longer bothered about the marriage, and added: "Your Majesty, you can take the opportunity to return the land under the Song family's jurisdiction and let more land in Guizhou be directly under the jurisdiction of the imperial court."
Zhu Houzhao was very tired of dealing with this kind of thing, so he said perfunctorily: "Just write a memorial and give it to the cabinet for processing."
Wang Yuan asked: "Your Majesty, do you want to expand the territory of the Ming Dynasty and become a sage king like the Qin Emperor and the Han Dynasty?"
"This is my lifelong ambition!" Zhu Houzhao said with a smile.
Wang Yuan continued: "Although the land of Yunnan and Guizhou is the territory of the Ming Dynasty, the chieftains hold military and political power, and they govern the people. They only know that there are chieftains, but they do not know that there is a court. Not only do the chieftains not pay taxes to the court, but they also pay taxes to the court every year
Those who are greedy for money and want money may even launch a rebellion. For the imperial court, the existence of chieftains means that they have no face and no dignity. How is this different from other countries? Both the Taizu and Taizong dynasties tried their best to weaken the chieftains and promoted the reform of the chieftains.
Return. If your majesty can do it, his achievements will be as great as those of Taizu Taizong!"
"That's right," Zhu Houzhao was moved, "please elaborate."
Wang Yuan said: "The civil unrest in Guizhou was caused by An Guirong, the Xuanwei envoy, who secretly instigated and financed it. His crime should also be punished. We can weaken the An family and the Song family at the same time, but we cannot force them too much. My suggestion is to take advantage of the Song Dynasty."
The places where the second chief official of the An family and the third chief official of the An family were put under the direct control of Chengfan Mansion. Among them, a new Gui County can be established in the north of Guizhou City. In these places where the land was converted from land to river, the chief officials were appointed by the imperial court.
, the adjutant can be appointed by the chieftain as co-inspector."
Zhu Houzhao asked puzzledly: "Why do we need to establish the same knowledge?"
Wang Yuan explained: "There are too few Han people, too many native people, and the level of education is not enough. If the native officials are not allowed to serve as Tongzhi, it will be difficult for the exiled officials to govern, and they may not even be able to collect taxes. In a few decades, we will wait for the enlightenment
If you have the strength, you can destroy the earth and knowledge."
Zhu Houzhao was not satisfied: "It's too troublesome, and it will take decades to educate him slowly."
Wang Yuan advised: "Governing a big country is like cooking small delicacies. Don't be impatient."
Zhu Houzhao nodded and said, "Then do as you wish."
Wang Yuan added: "The chaos in Guizhou originated from the An clan. The An clan had 48 troops and 480,000 soldiers. Even if they took advantage of the opportunity to take three of them, they would still dominate Guizhou. The Song clan suffered heavy losses this time.
It is difficult to check and balance An, so we need to formulate strategies to deal with it!"
"You finish it in one sitting." Zhu Houzhao was very annoyed.
Wang Yuan said: "An Guirong is old and seriously ill, and the three sons are at odds. The court can take the opportunity to extend its favor and divide the An family's territory into three parts and give it to his three sons to take care of."
Zhu Houzhao said: "Write down all your strategies and I will ask the cabinet to implement them according to the rules."
The plan succeeded, Wang Yuan smiled and said nothing more.
This was a vicious plan to draw fire from the bottom of the cauldron. The Tian family in Sizhou, which controlled half of Guizhou at that time, was completely destroyed by Zhu Di in this way.
Moreover, it is a conspiracy, and An Guirong cannot resist. Firstly, he should be executed for his crime and has no right to speak; secondly, he cannot suppress his son. In addition to the eldest son being unhappy, the second son and the third son will definitely be happy. If An Guirong openly objects,
It is estimated that his second and third sons killed him without any intervention from the court.
Zhu Houzhao looked at the bright lights outside the Forbidden City, and the officials and people were crowded together, which was like a scene of a prosperous age. He was in a better mood and said to Wang Yuan: "I have also read Wang Erlang's poems. Please write a Lantern Festival poem."
Wang Yuan thought to himself: If I traveled back to the Northern Song Dynasty, I would definitely copy "The Green Jade Case: Yuan Xi", but how would you ask me to copy it in the Ming Dynasty?
Still making the same old statement, Wang Yuan declined and said: "Your Majesty, civil unrest is widespread, the treasury is empty, and the system is corrupt. I am willing to work for the country, the country, and the country, and do not want to indulge in poetry. Please forgive me for not being able to write poetry."
This reason was so legitimate that Zhu Houzhao couldn't even blame him, and was even a little moved.
In addition, before Wang Yuan and Song Ling'er, one ruined his future for his childhood sweetheart, and the other refused to accept the marriage offer for his lover. They are both sincere people!
Zhu Houzhao hated hypocrisy, he liked sincerity and sincerity, and he increasingly felt that Wang Yuan was a true gentleman worthy of trust.
Li Ying was afraid that the emperor would be dissatisfied with Wang Yuan, so he tried to smooth things over by saying, "Your Majesty is astonishingly talented. Why not write an imperial poem with the title of Lantern Festival?"
Zhu Houzhao really thought about it carefully and then recited: "Fire trees and silver flowers fill the imperial capital, fragrant carriages and jade cover the star road. Zhengde has made great achievements in the dynasty, and the next year will definitely be called a prosperous era. How is this poem written?"
Wang Yuan couldn't laugh or cry: "I can express my ambition through poetry, and my Majesty is ambitious."
Li Ying flattered him and said: "What a poem!"
It is difficult to describe Zhu Houzhao's poetry in one sentence, with varying quality and great fluctuations in level. Some are doggerel poems, while others are similar to each other. They are quite interesting to read and perfectly demonstrate his uninhibited character.
Historically, this guy went on a personal expedition and came to Yang Yiqing's hometown on the way. He wrote several poems in one breath. One of them is: "The reputation of Zhengde has been spread, and I dare to be the first to conquer the south and the north. I will be mighty and peaceful throughout my life, and I will forever hold the country for thousands of people."
Thousands of years."
If "Zhengde" is replaced by "Qianlong", it will read without any sense of inconsistency. Some people may really think that it was written by Qianlong.
But also in Yang Yiqing's hometown, another poem written by Zhu Houzhao is of a very high level: "The power of the gods is powerful in the south, and the dragon boat rides the huge waves. The soldiers are far away, and Yu has great achievements in pacifying the chaos. The sun is colorful and the yellow ax is floating, and the clouds are moving.
Ocher robe. The old minister bowed his head three times, and feared that the saint would work hard..." This is still an ancient poem, with a total of more than 200 words. It is flat and straight, and the antithesis and allusion are very elegant.
Just like Zhu Houzhao's life and work, he also wrote poems based on his heart. When he was serious, he was extremely serious, and when he was absurd, he was extremely absurd.
After watching the lanterns and writing poems, Zhu Houzhao was in a good mood and said to Song Ling'er: "Do you want to be a female general?"
"Yeah, I think so!" Song Ling'er nodded repeatedly.
Zhu Houzhao was full of bad taste. He would do whatever he wanted against the rules. He immediately laughed and said: "I can't interfere randomly with the Ministry of War, but the Jinyiwei are the emperor's personal soldiers. I can make the decision as I please. I will name you Qianhu of the Jinyiwei. You can go back to Guizhou to find me."
Guard the eunuch and ask him to give you an army to fight!"
Song Ling'er said happily: "Thank you, Your Majesty."
Zhu Houzhao laughed out loud. It was so interesting that he actually had a female general under his command. He immediately said: "If you make great contributions, I will make you the deputy propaganda envoy... Well, you may not believe this, so you should be the consolation envoy."
Tongzhi. The Ming Dynasty did not comfort Tongzhi. I created one myself. It is not a legitimate official position anyway."
Wang Yuan was completely speechless and didn't know how to settle his marriage.