Forbidden City, Canopy Palace.

After the early dynasty, Emperor Hongzhi came to the Huagai Hall to deal with government affairs, and he approved a batch of concerts in his hand, and he had nothing to do for the time being.

"Xiao Jing, how is the training of the Ming royal guards?"

Although Emperor Hongzhi handed over the Ming royal guards to Li Zhaotong for training, and let Zhu Houzhao supervise the army, in fact, he was still not at ease.

First, Li Zhaotong and Zhu Houzhao are so young, and Li Zhaotong has not yet reached the point where he is worthy of his complete trust.

Second, it was because Zhu Houzhao was unreliable, and he had a very good relationship with Li Zhaotong, Emperor Hongzhi was worried that Zhu Houzhao would not be able to do a good job of supervising the army, and in the end, he spent the money, but let others pick the fruit, then he would be miserable.

Therefore, many of the personnel in the military supervision office under Zhu Houzhao were Jinyi guards and Dongchang factory guards installed by Emperor Hongzhi.

They were the eyes of Emperor Hongzhi, competing with each other and paying attention to the every move of Li Zhaotong, Zhu Houzhao, and the imperial guards of the Ming Dynasty.

"Your Majesty, at present, the Ming royal guards are only conducting some very simple queue training, and the slaves and maids do not understand this training method very well, but according to the spies, they said:

Li Zhaotong said that this training method is very conducive to cultivating the discipline of the army, so that it will become a strong army that is as fast as the wind, as swift as a forest, as fierce as a forest, as invading as a fire, as immobile as a mountain, as difficult as a yin, and as moving as a thunderbolt. ”

Xiao Jing bowed and replied.

"Li Zhao has a miracle with this son, his every move is not ordinary, it is understandable, wait and see!"

Emperor Hongzhi has a high tolerance for Li Zhaotong, and he knows very well in his heart that Li Zhaotong is a deviant little guy, so Emperor Hongzhi is willing to give Li Zhaotong time to prepare.

"Is there anything else besides cohort training?"

"Yes."

Xiao Jing bowed again,

"In addition to the queue training, Li Zhaotong also arranged for Wang Hua's son Wang Shouren to teach the officers and soldiers of the Ming Royal Guard to be loyal to the monarch and patriotism, and only loyal to Your Majesty, as well as ...... Teach the officers and soldiers...... Literate. ”

Xiao Jing didn't agree with simplified Chinese characters from the bottom of his heart, but just now Emperor Hongzhi said that Li Zhaotong had a miracle and had to wait and see first, so he didn't want to directly say that Li Zhaotong was teaching the officers and soldiers to write simplified characters, because according to his understanding of Emperor Hongzhi, Emperor Hongzhi would not care too much about simplified characters.

He deliberately said this in a way that would attract the attention of Emperor Hongzhi, and then he could admonish Emperor Hongzhi and implore Emperor Hongzhi to issue an edict to stop Li Zhaotong from doing so.

Xiao Jing's little plan really worked, and Emperor Hongzhi was really noticed by him, and frowned and asked:

"Why did you suddenly talk and slurp, is there anything hidden in this?"

Emperor Hongzhi asked, and Xiao Jing naturally quickly answered:

"Your Majesty, Li Zhaotong asked Wang Shouren to teach the officers and soldiers simplified characters, and it is a simplified Chinese character, which has never appeared, and also, Li Zhaotong asked Wang Shouren to teach the officers and soldiers the pronunciation, not my Ming official dialect Hongwu Zhengyun, but an accent very similar to the Beijing dialect, what is it called Mandarin."

Xiao Jing didn't directly say that Li Zhaotong was deviant and betrayed Emperor Gaozutai's regulations, he just told the facts, because he knew that Emperor Hongzhi would think this way.

Emperor Hongzhi did think about it this way, but he only frowned, and then decided:

"It doesn't matter what the accent of the officers and soldiers is, and it doesn't matter if they know simplified characters, because most of the other officers and soldiers are illiterate and their accents are messy.

As long as Wang Shouren is teaching the officers and soldiers to be loyal and patriotic, I will be very satisfied. ”

"By the way, Li Zhaotong asked me for so much silver, how about the food he gave to the officers and soldiers of the Ming Imperial Guard?"

"Very good! It couldn't have been better! ”

Speaking of this food, Xiao Jing felt a little painful for Emperor Hongzhi,

"Your Majesty, the officers and soldiers of the Ming Royal Guard, not to mention eating three meals a day, and almost every meal has meat to eat, this kind of day, even if it is a lot of officials, they can't live it!

So, Your Majesty, do you think you should cut it down so that some of the officials will not be impeached? ”

"No, I don't."

Emperor Hongzhi was generous this time, because he thought clearly about the importance of having a heavy army in his hands, and he waved his hand:

"The Ming royal guards spend my internal money, and those officials can't control it here. They want to impeach, although they are impeached, but none of these impeachments should be sent to me. ”

"Okay, Your Majesty, the slave remembers."

Xiao Jingcai took Emperor Hongzhi's words to heart, and he saw a eunuch at the gate of the Huagai Hall probing his brain.

He also noticed that Emperor Hongji also saw it.

So, Xiao Jing immediately walked over, and then reprimanded the little eunuch:

"Bastard! This is the place where you can come and go? And you still dare to eavesdrop on His Majesty's speech, you don't want to live anymore? ”

"Godfather, how dare the villain eavesdrop on His Majesty's speech, the villain is coming to the good news!"

"What's the good news?"

Xiao Jing wondered.

"Xiangrui?"

The little eunuch said with some uncertainty.

Because he is just a messenger, he is also suspicious of the auspicious Rui he wants to report.

"Come in with me."

Xiao Jing knew that this godson was just a messenger, because other Dongchang spies would not be able to enter the palace to face the saint unless there was a big event, such as a military event such as the Tatar invasion.

Some ordinary things must be passed through some powerful eunuchs in the palace.

There are so many auspicious things to report to the emperor, so much so that this was originally a very important thing, but now, it has long been reduced to a very ordinary thing.

"Okay, godfather!"

Seeing that Xiao Jing didn't blame him, the little eunuch immediately became excited.

Then, he followed Xiao Jing and entered the Huagai Palace.

After entering the Huagai Palace, the little eunuch immediately knelt down very sensibly, and then asked Xiao Jing to report first, and then he would talk in detail.

"Your Majesty, there is another good news for you below."

"Say it!"

Emperor Hongzhi didn't care much about this auspicious rui, because he had seen too many unreliable auspicious rui.

For example, a bear with black and white fur was caught somewhere in Shaanxi and sent it to the capital, saying that it was a Rui beast Pixiu, but Yang Tinghe from Sichuan recognized it at a glance that this was a bamboo bear widely distributed in the bamboo forests of Shudi, and it was not a Pixiu at all. A joke.

Emperor Hongzhi said that the little eunuch immediately understood and knew that his opportunity to perform had come, so he hurriedly straightened up slightly and said:

"Your Majesty, Tianjin Wei sent someone to report auspiciousness to you, saying that someone flew into the sky and returned to the ground successfully and safely."

"Flying?"

Emperor Hongji's first reaction was disbelief,

"Is that true?"

"Your Majesty, the slave maid is not sure, because this is what the person sent by Tianjin Wei said."

"Then send that man to me."

"Good ......"

Before Xiao Jing's words fell, Mu Bin's excited and excited voice came in from outside the hall:

"Your Majesty, auspicious rain from heaven! Auspicious from the sky! ”

PS: I'm back, physically and mentally exhausted! Take a break today, start tomorrow, and resume the update!