After all, Wang Yuan was going home to attend the funeral, and his fellow villagers did not show too much joy.
An old man was leaning on a cane, being supported by his grandson. He stepped forward, hunched over and said, "Master..."
Zhang Mu immediately corrected him: "It's the Grand Master."
"It doesn't matter." Wang Yuan said.
The old man realized that Wang Yuan had been promoted again, so he stroked his beard and asked, "Do you still remember the old man?"
Remember, Wang Yuan could only act like he was thinking about it.
The father-in-law quickly reminded: "Zhuangyuan Building."
Wang Yuan immediately realized that that was the place where he and Li Ying often drank, and the old man in front of him was the shopkeeper of the restaurant. When he went home to marry Song Ling, he entertained his old classmates at the Zhuangyuan Building. After he got drunk, the boss asked for a pair of
calligraphy.
Wang Yuan held his father-in-law's hands and said, "It's been a long time since we passed, and the shopkeeper is already full of children and grandchildren."
"Thanks to the Grand Master," the old man said happily, "since the restaurant was renamed Zhuangyuan Building, business has been much better. Not only locals, but also guests from other provinces, all come to the Zhuangyuan Building to have a drink."
In Guiyang City, there are a lot of shops with the word "number one scholar" on them.
Regardless of whether Wang Yuan had visited in the first place, let’s change the name first. Even if they confronted Wang Yuan face to face, the bosses would be honest. Who can still remember clearly after so many years?
Surrounded by fellow villagers, they arrived at the city gate. Officials from Guizhou's Third Division and Guiyang Prefecture finally arrived and warmly welcomed Wang Yuan into the city.
It seemed that the whole city was mobilized, the streets were lined with people, and even the girls from the brothels came to watch the fun.
Scholars from Guiyang Academy and Guiyang Prefectural School came to Wang Yuan one after another to perform discipleship ceremonies. Most of them were disciples of mind science, and a few were deeply involved in physics. However, they all benefited from Wang Yuan. Guizhou increased the number of candidates for three consecutive times.
It is enough for the scholars here to offer Wang Yuan as an offering.
"Jiro!"
Wang Yuan turned around in search of the voice, but it was Mr. Song who came in a hurry from the Song Family's North Office outside the city with his family disciples.
Wang Yuan cupped his hands and smiled: "Long time no see, Brother Song is well."
Mr. Song actually did not drop his book bag, and his speech was not as refined as when he was young. He only smiled and said: "Everything is fine, everything is fine."
Song Ling'er stepped forward and shouted: "Brother."
"My sister." Mr. Song said happily.
Song Ling'er introduced Huang E: "This is the eldest brother of my clan."
Huang E greeted him and said, "Blessed brother."
Mr. Song cupped his hands and said, "My wife is well."
Mr. Song is still the patriarch of the Song clan and is also the envoy of Zuoxuan in Guizhou (from the third rank). However, the Song clan members are very dissatisfied with him because during Mr. Song's tenure, the Song clan in Shuidong lost 70% of its territory and lost 70% of its territory in Lu.
One after another they were rehabilitated.
However, the Han people and indigenous people under his rule wholeheartedly supported Song Gongzi.
After initially eager for quick success and instant gains, he blindly launched various large-scale projects, severely overdrawing his finances and people's resources, and then quickly reflected on his political mistakes. In these years, he has been doing light work and low taxes, gradually opening up wasteland and digging canals, and reclaimed a large amount of land.
The fields were distributed to the people.
In the past twenty years, the population under the Song family's jurisdiction has increased dramatically. Although only 30% of the territory is left, it is still more than the total number of people before.
After leaving Guizhou, no one knew Mr. Song.
Outside of Guizhou, Mr. Song was unable to achieve such political achievements.
But if he dies one day, he can build a temple to worship him and accept the imperial decree to receive incense.
Just by looking at the attitudes of the officials in front of him, one could tell how respected Mr. Song was. The chief envoy of Guizhou took the initiative to step forward and bowed in a polite manner. How could he show the slightest disdain for the chieftain from the civil servants?
Several former classmates came to meet them. They never passed the examination and each found a job to live a normal life. Most of them worked as teachers in Guiyang Academy, mainly spreading Wang Yangming's thoughts on psychology.
The Wangmen School in central Guizhou has developed into one of the main schools of mind science. They follow Wang Yangming's early academic views and place special emphasis on "proofing the mind" and "devoted practice", that is, "the unity of knowledge and action." They are also too lazy to communicate with the mind studies from other provinces.
, even too lazy to take the imperial examination, spontaneously founded academies everywhere in Guizhou, using the academies as a base to quickly occupy the right to speak.
On the contrary, Wang Yuan's physics has always had little influence in Guizhou. Even if it does, it focuses on mathematics, astronomy, mechanics, machinery, chemistry and other categories, and almost no one is willing to touch it.
"Brother Zonglu, aren't you an official outside?" Wang Yuan was a little surprised.
Chen Wenxue explained: "The spread of Xinxue all over the world will inevitably lead to mixed results. I have resigned and returned to my hometown to focus on spreading the authentic Xinxue. I am now the mountain chief of Guiyang Academy."
Wang Yuan said: "That's it."
These are all fanatical believers of the mind science, and they are the first batch of disciples who followed Wang Yangming from Longchang. They do not recognize the various schools of the mind science, and firmly believe that they are the authentic ones, and some even despise Wang Yuan for starting a new school.
After being delayed on the street for a long time, Wang Yuan finally arrived at his eldest brother's home, which was the mansion Wang Meng bought in Guiyang City.
Mrs. Wang Jiang stood behind the door and waited. When she heard the noise outside, she immediately walked out three steps at a time. When she got closer, she said with a trembling voice: "Brother Yuan."
After hearing these three words, Wang Yuan's eyes became wet, and he quickly stepped forward to support her: "Ama."
Although Wang Yuan is a time traveler, he was born directly in his mother's womb and was pulled up by his mother through all kinds of hardships. After many years of career, his mother's hair has turned gray, and the wrinkles on her face tell the story of the passage of time. Wang Yuan, who has experienced strong winds and waves, was also softened in his heart.
Wang Meng said: "Mom, go in first and then talk."
Mrs. Wang Jiang was helped by Wang Yuan to the main room. As soon as she sat down, she took out a pile of cloth shoes from the bedroom. Some were for her son, some for her son, and some for her grandchildren. I don’t know how many of these shoes have been made.
Year.
Guizhou is really too far away and it is not easy to get to Beijing.
The next day, Wang Yuan asked his wife and children to put on new shoes and go to Chuanqingzhai to visit his father's grave.
Things have changed again. The leader of Fang Village has died of illness, and his son Fang Zheng has succeeded him. Carpenter Liu suffered a stroke and was lying in bed. However, his second son has been admitted to the Juren Examination and is as promising as his eldest son Liu Yaozu.
Both the father and son of the Yuan family are away, Yuan Gang also died of illness, Yuan Zhi is a general of the Song family, and Yuan Da is the commander-in-chief of the border town.
Even many of Wang Yuan's contemporaries moved down the mountain because, after all, the land in the mountains was barren.
Most of the faces he saw were strangers, but Wang Yuan became an honored guest.
Asking someone to rebuild the old house, Wang Yuan settled down in the mountains, which could be regarded as living in a cottage to mourn his father. The children only stayed for a month and then returned to the capital one after another. Only Song Ling'er and Huang E stayed.
An academy was built on the mountain. Wang Yuan devoted several hours every day to personally teach the children in Chuanqingzhai to read. In his spare time, he continued to improve economic theories.
Song Ling'er felt quite at ease, as if she had returned to her girlhood, when Tian Tian took Huang E to hunt, but unfortunately she couldn't find the panda she had fed before.
It is said that at that time, the imperial master set up a cottage in the mountains to give lectures. Rich families in Guiyang sent their children to study one after another, and many poor scholars also came to study on their own initiative. Within two months, Chuanqingzhai became lively, and Wang Yuan’s new students alone
There are hundreds of people.
Song Gongzi also often went to the mountains to ask for some physics knowledge, and also asked Wang Yuan to teach him how to do experiments.
Huang E was so tortured by Song Ling'er that he really didn't want to go hunting anymore, so he was hired by Song Gongzi to study in the Song clan as a physics teacher. As a result, Huang E also regained his youth and no longer had to think about raising a husband and raising children. He taught, read, and wrote every day.
Poetry, a laboratory was also built in Song Clan Studies.
For Song Ling'er, such days are the most comfortable, just like animals being released into the forest.
For Huang E, such days are also very comfortable, as if she has become a hermit retreating to the countryside.
Even the concubines in Beijing suffered a lot, not being able to see their husbands for three years unless they made a special trip to Guizhou.
In the second year of Wang Yuan and Ding You's reign, chaos broke out in Bozhou.
The cause was that a chieftain from a branch of the Yang family occupied people's fields without any reason, causing several lives and triggering a local Miao uprising (actually a villagers' riot). Tongzi camp and Suiyang camp immediately dispatched, not only killed the little chieftain, but also pursued him
The remnants were used as an excuse to enter the core territory of the Yang family in Bozhou.
Yang's mother and son were frightened and summoned the native soldiers to fight, but were defeated by rifled muskets.
Chieftain Yang Xiang committed suicide out of fear of sin.
Yang's mother and her grandson Yang Lie asked for surrender, and Bozhou was transferred back to Liuzhou, and the whole state was placed under the jurisdiction of Guizhou. Guizhou finally added the right chief envoy.
The imperial court did not embarrass the Yang family and allowed them to keep their frivolous wealth and 5,000 acres of land, but all the remaining land had to be handed over. Even so, the property accumulated by the Yang family over hundreds of years was enough for them to be rich for generations to come.
The serious trouble in the southwestern region was finally eliminated, and the little emperor didn't even know where to deploy his troops.
Laos?
Wang Hong is instigating the little emperor to take back Laos. Based on the original "Laos Propaganda and Comfort Envoys Department", he will set up the Chief Envoys Department, the Inspectorate Envoys Department and the Capital Command Department. To put it bluntly, he is establishing a province in Laos, imitating the early Ming Dynasty.
An old example from Guizhou.
This proposal triggered huge disputes. Radicals, young people and opportunists responded one after another, and even splits occurred within the reformists.
This was completely beyond Wang Yuan's expectation. The trouble was not the old party's counter-offensive, but the territorial expansion proposal initiated by the speculators. Even among the young officials, many shouted for the expansion of territory, and the whole court was filled with a sense of unease.
An arrogant and confident atmosphere.
Among the five cabinet ministers, the second assistant Wang Hong was the initiator, the first assistant Mao Ji firmly opposed it, Wang Tingxiang remained silent, Luo Qinshun suggested caution, and Chen Yong did not comment on it.
Gui E encouraged Chang Lun and Yan Song to coerce the young physics disciples into promoting expansion.
Xinxue officials tried to dissuade them one after another, believing that Jiaozhi had only been conquered for a few years, and even if they wanted to establish a province in Laos, they would have to sort out Jiaozhi thoroughly before doing so.
The two sides are evenly matched, but obvious cracks have developed between the psychology and physics disciples at the center.
This guy Wang Hong actually messed up the situation carefully planned by Wang Yuan by himself.
Zhu Zaiyi was persuaded, and he was eager to use military exploits to establish his authority. After several rounds of testing, the little emperor finally couldn't help it and directly ordered the establishment of a garrison in Laos.
Even if he still has some brains, Laos doesn’t even have a guardhouse, it’s just a bunch of toast, what a fucking province?
First, we need to send troops there, then immigrate to cultivate the land, and absorb the local Han people or pro-Han people. We can develop it for ten to twenty years to see if we can establish a province.
It is a pity that the Ming army was defeated.
It wasn’t the strength of the Laotian chieftains, but the barren mountains, snakes, insects, rats, ants and climate that defeated the Ming army.
However, the little emperor declared his victory, and the court also announced the good news to the outside world. Even the chieftains of Laos relented because they also suffered heavy losses. After this battle, the Ming Dynasty established four guards and twelve stations in Laos, which further strengthened its control over Laos.
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Privately, there were different opinions, and there was even a consensus that without Grand Master Wang, there would be no war.
The little emperor was so disgraced that he could only continue to endure and did not dare to take back his power quickly.