Li Jie's reward finally came down, early this morning, Lao Zhu sent someone to read out the holy decree, because of the previous merits of the Wa Kingdom and Goryeo, Li Jie was crowned as Jing Haibo, a thousand stones, and a lot of financial rewards.

After Li Jie received the holy decree, he immediately rushed to the palace to thank Lao Zhu, but when he came to the warm pavilion, he found that Zhu Biao was also here, compared to a month ago, Zhu Biao has now lost fifty pounds, and the whole person looks more energetic.

"My Jing Haibo is here, are you satisfied with my reward?" Lao Zhu seemed to be in a good mood, and when he saw Li Jie coming in, he took the initiative to speak.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Li Jie immediately stepped forward and saluted, who would dare to say that he was not satisfied with the emperor's reward?

"Li Jie, do you still have the perfume you gave to Yuning yesterday?" Zhu Biao rushed to ask Li Jie at this time, yesterday Zhu Yuning gave him the last bottle of perfume, and he gave it to Concubine Lu, but there are many women in his palace, plus some daughters who have grown up, and now they are clamoring to ask him for perfume.

"Now there is no more, perfume is extracted from flowers, and it can only be refined after the spring flowers bloom in the future." Li Jie spread his hands and replied, now that it is almost the New Year, there are no flowers for him to refine, except for the three bottles of perfume that he refined before, the remaining bottles were all sent back to his hometown to his mother and Aunt Zhao.

"How about you refine some more in the spring?" Zhu Biao asked again, not only the women in the family need it, but he also feels that he needs it, after all, fat people are easy to sweat, and if they sweat a lot, they will have a peculiar smell, and it is more convenient to cover it up with perfume.

"Alright, don't waste all your energy on the things these women use!" Unexpectedly, Lao Zhu suddenly interrupted at this time, and glared at Zhu Biao when he spoke, Lao Zhu was born in poverty, and he was very unaccustomed to things like grease and powder.

In the face of Lao Zhu's reprimand, Zhu Biao also smiled and didn't dare to speak again, but he glanced at Li Jie, and Li Jie also understood what he meant, so he nodded quietly, telling him that he would refine another batch of perfume in the future, which also made Zhu Biao smile knowingly.

"Li Jie, the reward for you has come down, but I only awarded you a title, but I have not changed your official position, because I have been thinking about it for a long time, and I don't know what position is suitable for you?" Lao Zhu turned his gaze to Li Jiedao at this time, Earl Jinghai is only a title, but Li Jie's official position is still the prince's companion.

"Father, I think it's better to let Li Jie serve in the Zhan Mansion, for example, I think it's good for him to serve as the young Zhan Minister!" Zhu Biao spoke again at this time, he didn't want to let Li Jie go, so it was better to let him serve in his Zhan Mansion.

Lao Zhu actually considered letting Li Jie continue to stay in Zhan Shifu, but he felt that with Li Jie's talent, it was too wasteful to stay in Zhan Shifu all the time, so he was also a little hesitant at this time, so in the end, he asked Li Jie again: "What do you think of yourself?" ”

"This ......" Li Jie didn't expect Lao Zhu to kick this question to himself, in the past, the emperor directly appointed ministers, and you could do whatever you wanted, but now Lao Zhu lets himself choose, which is a little difficult.

But at this time, Li Jie suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and immediately raised his head and said: "Your Majesty, the minister wants to go to martial arts!" ”

"Martial arts? What martial arts? Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned when he heard this, and Zhu Biao next to him also showed a puzzled expression, and it was the first time they had heard of the name martial arts.

"Your Majesty, this martial arts is actually a plan prepared by my uncle, before the Iron Book Army was transferred, leaving behind a group of noble princes, so my uncle wanted to open a place similar to the academy to train these noble sons into useful talents......"

Li Jie gave a general overview of the plan of martial arts, although he proposed this plan, he put most of the credit on Liu Ying.

First, Li Jie doesn't need much credit now, and secondly, it is also to add a layer of protection to Liu Ying, although Lao Zhu trusts Liu Ying, but the other princes have returned to their hometowns, but Liu Ying is left alone in the capital, which may cause others to be jealous, and Lao Zhu's trust is not permanent, so Liu Ying's current status is actually not very safe.

"I remember, in the former Song Dynasty, there were two martial arts schools for the purpose of cultivating military generals, but both times they were withdrawn in a very short period of time, and now we have reset the martial arts, can we really succeed?" After listening to this, Zhu Biao raised his own questions.

"The former Song Dynasty ruled the country with literati, and extremely suppressed military generals, causing the people to be ashamed of joining the army. Lao Zhu waved his hand and said very confidently.

In fact, Lao Zhu's words are still very reasonable, he relied on military generals to fight the world, most of the Huaixi nobles are military generals, and even Xu Da, Li Wenzhong and other military generals have also been prime ministers, so the status of military generals in the early Ming Dynasty was quite high, and the civilian group was once suppressed by the Wuxun group.

This situation continued until Ming Xuanzong, that is, when Zhu Di's grandson reigned, the Wuxun group still had an advantage, but unfortunately after Ming Yingzong Zhu Qizhen became the emperor, a change in the civil fort made the Ming Dynasty's martial arts lose most of it, but it was the civil official group headed by Yu Qian who turned the tide, since then, the Wuxun group has completely declined, the civilian official group is in power, and the Ming Dynasty has once again formed a situation of strong civil and military weakness, which has lasted until the end of the Ming Dynasty has not been able to change.

"Your Majesty is wise, the nobles started with their military exploits, but they know how to fight, but they may not know how to cultivate talents, many of the nobles do not practice martial arts, do not know the art of war, they are simply a group of gentlemen, simply insulting the reputation of their fathers and ancestors, so the minister thinks that he can set up martial arts and train these people to become useful talents of the Ming Dynasty!" Li Jie spoke again.

"This is a good idea, instead of letting those noble sons wander around in the Iron Book Army, it is better to let them learn something, and I will be more at ease in the future!" Lao Zhu nodded again when he heard this.

Lao Zhu is actually a very contradictory person, on the one hand, he is very defensive of the Xungui Group, on the other hand, he hopes to use the power of the Xungui Group to rule the Ming Dynasty, if those Xungui children are too useless, I am afraid that it will only be bad and not successful, so Lao Zhu still agrees with the idea of martial arts.

"Your Majesty, the army is the cornerstone of the country, and the military generals are the key to Your Majesty's control of the army, so martial arts is also very special, and the minister thinks that His Majesty should be in charge of martial arts himself, and the people who come out of martial arts in the future are also protégés of the Son of Heaven, only in this way can their loyalty to the royal family be guaranteed to the greatest extent!" Li Jie suggested again at this time.

"Good way!" Zhu Yuanzhang also stood up and exclaimed when he heard this, Li Jie's words reminded him that for the emperor, although the ability of the generals is important, the most important thing is their loyalty, otherwise handing over an army to a person who cannot guarantee loyalty is simply putting his head under the guillotine, and God knows when the guillotine will fall.

I saw Zhu Yuanzhang walking back and forth excitedly a few times, and finally suddenly made a decision: "I heard that the folk academies all have the position of mountain chief, who is in charge of the entire academy, and martial arts can also follow suit here, and set up a mountain chief, which I personally serve, and the prince as the deputy mountain chief, and another Xuezheng position, to manage the entire martial arts for me!" ”

"I'm also going to serve in the martial arts?" Zhu Biao next to him was also stunned when he heard this.

"Nonsense, not only do you have to serve in martial arts, but you also have to set up a rule that all future princes will serve in martial arts!" Old Zhu glanced at Zhu Biao and said, in the cultivation of the crown prince, he may be the most attentive emperor in history.

"Sons obey orders!" Zhu Biao also reacted at this time, realized Lao Zhu's painstaking efforts, and immediately saluted solemnly.

"Send someone to call Liu Ying, I want to discuss this martial arts matter with him!" Lao Zhu immediately instructed again, although he suspected that the idea of martial arts was thought up by Li Jie, but since Li Jie put the credit on Liu Ying, this matter must be called to Liu Ying to discuss together.

After waiting for about an hour, Liu Ying also ran in breathlessly, he was planning martial arts in the Iron Book Army, but suddenly received the news that he had entered the palace, so he hurriedly rode into the palace, the palace was not allowed to ride, he could only run all the way in, for fear of being blamed by Lao Zhu, but when he saw Li Jie, he almost guessed the reason why Lao Zhu called him into the palace.

"See Your Majesty!" Liu Ying took a few breaths and immediately stepped forward and saluted.

"No need to be polite, Li Jie has already told us about martial arts, and I also think this method is good, and it is all your credit!" Lao Zhu praised Liu Ying.

"Your Majesty has praised it falsely, and the minister is just doing his duty to do things for Your Majesty!" Liu Ying also said beautifully when he heard Lao Zhu's praise, he was a person with no ambitions, he used to be messing around, and now it was the first time he heard Lao Zhu praise him.

"Don't be modest, just now I discussed with Li Jie, and decided that I and the prince will take the positions of mountain chief and deputy mountain chief, and in addition, the position of Xuezheng will be set up in the martial arts, and you will take the position and manage the entire martial arts for me!" Lao Zhu opened his mouth again and commanded, he and Zhu Biao were just names, and it was Xuezheng who really managed martial arts.

"I ...... Am I here to be a school leader? Liu Ying suddenly felt empty when he heard this, before martial arts was just his and Li Jie's idea, and even just wanted to do it casually in the Iron Book Army, he didn't intend to alarm Lao Zhu at all, but now it's good, Lao Zhu himself serves as the mountain chief, and the prince is the deputy mountain chief, so if he fails to do martial arts well, I'm afraid he will face Lao Zhu's anger.

Thinking of this, Liu Ying couldn't help but turn her head to look at Li Jie next to her. Liu Ying's actions were also seen by Lao Zhu, which made him smile secretly, so he spoke again: "In addition, Li Jie will take the position of Shaoxue, as your deputy, and assist you in managing the entire martial arts!" ”