It was already dark, Lao Zhu finished reading Yun Xi's fold, raised his head and said to Yun Xi: "Do you think that this lecture on martial arts can really make these generals more able to lead troops to fight, and be more loyal and patriotic?" ”

Yun Xi said: "Grandpa, not only the grandson thinks so, Song Guogong (Feng Sheng), Ying Guogong (Fu Youde), Xin Guogong (Tang He) and others all say that the students who teach martial arts are much stronger than those who do not speak martial arts, and they are also much more loyal to Your Majesty. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

Lao Zhu said with a smile: "It seems that the establishment of the lecture hall is the right one." Yun Xi, your original plan was good, and in the past two years, you have taken full authority to deal with the affairs of the martial arts hall, and you have done a good job. Lao Zhu knows that it is not enough to have a good idea, and whether things are good also depends on whether they are well executed.

Yun Xi said: "It is also the officials of the martial arts hall who do their best. The grandson begged the grandfather to reward them. ”

Lao Zhu said: "You draw up a list, you should be promoted, you should be rewarded, and grandpa will approve it." ”

At this time, it was already November of the twenty-seventh year of Hongwu, and Yun Xi had already passed his sixteenth or seventeenth birthday, and he would be eighteen years old in March next year.

In the past two years, Yun Xi has mainly presided over the affairs of the martial arts hall and discovered the talents in the martial arts hall; In addition, it is about the integration of grain and the spread of the land into the mu.

Although these two things are not in Yun Xi's hands on the surface, whenever Lao Zhu goes wrong, he will deal with the problem while telling Yun Xi why there is a problem, and at the same time telling him how to prevent or solve it. Yun Xi, who didn't know much about the countryside, quickly became familiar with the countryside and knew so many twists and turns in the fields.

When the implementation of apportionment into mu and integrated grain payment, Lao Zhu had no choice but to kill his scalp, especially in Guangdong, where the clan was the strongest, and even dispatched troops from other places. Yun Xi also persuaded Lao Zhu to exile many people who were supposed to be executed to Hami and Liaodong.

Yun Xi saw that Lao Zhu was happy, and said, "Grandpa, my grandson has a reluctant request, and I also ask grandpa for permission." ”

Lao Zhu said: "What does Yunxi want to do? It can't be someone's life again. ”

Yun Xi said: "Sun Er is not for this this time. The grandson wants to travel to the north. ”

Lao Zhu exclaimed: "Why do you have such an idea?" ”

Yun Xi said: "The ancients said: It is better to read 10,000 books than to travel 10,000 miles. The grandson has grown so big, and he has never been out of Jiangning and Shangyuan counties! And listening to the grandfather's explanation, I always feel that I am watching the flowers in the fog, and the grandson will go to various places to take a look, so that I can know the actual situation in the place. ”

"Third, didn't grandpa say last time that he would send me to the Fengyang Imperial Mausoleum to worship my ancestors after the New Year? The grandson thought about taking a look in the north by the way. ”

Lao Zhu pondered for a moment and said, "It's okay, Biao'er's grandfather often sent him out before his death." Grandpa is still physically able to hold on. What if you just talk about the martial arts? ”

Yun Xi said: "Zuo Yude Chen is good at teaching for Lone; And because I was afraid that the lecture on martial arts would be useless, I did not recruit the second class of students last year, so even if there are students next year, it will only be one session, and now all the gentlemen who lecture on martial arts have adapted to the lectures, and there will be no problem; Besides, the grandson has only been in the north for three or four months, and he will be back soon. ”

Lao Zhu thought for a while and said, "That's okay." Then you should also go to the ancestral mausoleum in Sizhou to worship. The ancestral mausoleum of Sizhou was built by Biao'er personally when he was alive, and he worshiped his ancestors and asked them to bless him. ”

Yun Xi said, "Oh." ”

Lao Zhu said again: "But before you go, there is one thing that must be completed." ”

Yun Xi asked, "What's the matter, grandpa?" ”

"Your wedding gift."

Yoon-hee choked. He envisioned a lot of things that Lao Zhu would do, but none of them were this.

Lao Zhu didn't care about Yunxi's reaction, and continued: "Not only is it your big wedding gift, Wenying also has to set someone to come. ”

Yoon-hee regains his composure. It's just getting married! Although he was not married in his previous life (in fact, he didn't even have a partner before the crossing), but except for the wedding trouble, it was not a big deal, and he was not short of money now.

He asked, "Which one does Grandpa have a crush on?" "It's not about who, it's about who.

Lao Zhu said: "It is the daughter of Xue Ning, the commander of the Jinwu guard, and the clansman of Xue Xian. He has twin daughters, and his grandfather plans to make the elder sister the main concubine and his sister the side concubine. ”

Yun Xi recalled that two years ago, when he went to Jinwu's avant-garde residence, he once saw a pair of sisters, who looked very similar, they should be identical twins, it seemed that they were surnamed Xue, or the cousins of Yang Feng and Qin Nan.

I remember the sisters were beautiful. Yun Xi thought.

Then Yun Xi was excited: This is a sister flower! And it is a twin sister flower that looks about the same. Yun Xi doesn't remember that the emperor married twin sisters, which may have been a precedent.

Yun Xiqiang suppressed his excitement and said, "Grandpa has already made up his mind?" ”

Lao Zhu said: "Well, even if you don't go to the north, grandpa plans to let you get married next year; By next year, you will be eighteen, not young, and Biao'er was married at the age of seventeen. ”

"Grandpa plans to appoint Xue Ning as the hereditary commander, but he is just a nominal commander, and he can't let the future queen's maiden family be too low. And Xue Ning has been diligent and diligent all these years, and he also has talents, if he hadn't caught up with the good times, it would be common for him to have a command now. ”

"And Xue Ning's eldest son is quite capable, and although the second son is young, he is also smart, and he can help him in the future."

Yun Xi smiled bitterly. Lao Zhu is really not a democratic person, he just informed him. Although it doesn't make much difference to him who he marries, he is still not used to it. Over the years, Lao Zhu has not restricted everything Yun Xi has done, so now Yun Xi is used to being at ease.

Yun Xi thought again: Lao Zhu is still the military general selected, not the civil official selected for Yun Xi in history, which shows that Lao Zhu should accept Yun Xi's strategy of 'expanding land and enough food';

Lao Zhu said: "But your sister Wenying's family, grandpa wants to go to the details with you." ”

"According to the custom of my hometown when I was a child, after my father died, my eldest brother was like a father, and my grandfather's words were more counting. You are also Wenying's eldest brother now, so you should also say a few words. ”

However, although he said this, it only means that he has not told the family yet, and he does not really want to consult Yun Xi's opinion. Yun Xi himself knows, so if it wasn't for someone who was too bad, Yun Xi would not object.

Lao Zhu continued: "Grandpa plans to officially give Wenying the title, how about the county lord of Jiangdu? The person chosen for Wen Ying is Cao Che, the second son of Jingchuan Hou Cao Zhen, do you think it's good? ”

Cao Zhen! Yun Xi's heart shook dramatically. Yun Xi didn't know what Cao Zhen's ending was, but just because there was no such person when he was 'Jing Nan' later, he should have been killed by Lao Zhu. But now that Lao Zhu wants to let the Cao family still be the master, it is impossible to kill him.

In this era for so many years, there are people from the Chang family and his three East Palace military attachés who have explained the factions in the army to themselves half-truthfully, and Yun Xi also knows a lot about things in the army.

Although Cao Zhen has a good relationship with Chang Yuchun and Lan Yu, because Cao Zhen is quite capable and has been in Bashu and Huguang for a long time, he actually has a small faction of his own, which is not a person from the Chang faction, and Lao Zhu must also know it. In addition, Yunxi's concubine has no faction in the family, and Lao Zhu can be said to be painstaking.

Yun Xi thought it was not bad, so he didn't object. Lao Zhu knew that Yun Xi was afraid that his heart was not calm, so he didn't talk to him anymore, so he asked him to go back to Wenhua Hall to calm down.

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At this time, in the courtyard of the Xue family in Jinwu's avant-garde residence, Xue Ning was sitting with his wife, sons, and daughters.

Xue Ning was summoned by Lao Zhu this afternoon and then told that his daughter was selected as the concubine and side concubine, and it happened to be today, which is really a coincidence. Lao Zhu only gave a verbal notice, and did not issue a formal holy decree, but what came out of Lao Zhu's mouth could still be false?

So Xue Ning was full of ups and downs until he got home.

Fortunately, he is also a person who has been in the eunuch field for a long time, and after returning home, he normally let his eldest son come back, and when the whole family arrived, he informed him of the news.

Xue Ning's eldest son, Xue Xiran, immediately stood up and said, "This is impossible! There are many shadows in the palace, how can I let my sister go to such a place. What's more, the two younger sisters are stuck in the fire pit. ”

Xue Ning shouted, "Stop! What Your Majesty has decided, how can you put your beak in it! ”

He also said: "How can I want Yao'er and Yi'er to enter the palace," Speaking of this, he was already in tears, "Don't I want Yao'er and Yi'er to marry into a normal family like the daughters of other people's families, and they can be the wives of a normal family, and they can come and go often." But do we have a choice? ”

Xue Xiran listened to his father's words, sat down dejectedly, and cried. On the side, Xue Ning's wife was also full of tears.

Xue Ning's second son, Xue Xiyang, is not yet ten years old, and although he is smart, he doesn't know why his parents and eldest brother are crying. He just heard that his two sisters were going to the palace, where His Majesty the Emperor lived. I also want to marry the imperial grandson. Could it be that this imperial grandson is very bad? Why is everyone against my sister marrying him?

Xue Xiyao and her sister Xue Xiyi also had red circles. However, although Xue Xiyao is the same age as her sister, only sixteen years old (imaginary age), she is much more mature than her sister. She said: "Father, mother and eldest brother don't have to cry, my sister and I are just entering the palace, or the concubine, that is, the future queen of the Ming Dynasty, what's wrong." ”

Xue Ning's wife, Wang, knew that this was the eldest daughter who was comforting herself insincerely, so she came over and hugged her two daughters and cried: "My hard-working daughter! ”

After crying for a while, everyone stopped crying. Xue Ning said to her daughter: "Although I don't like you to enter the palace, I am glad that you two sisters entered the palace together; In the harem, you can support each other, and Yao'er is a concubine, so there may not be any real problems. It's just that I'm suffering you. ”

"No matter how much you fight between the concubines in the mansion, there is a limit; Daddy won't marry you into a family that has no rules at all; But although there will be no concubines in the palace to fight with you, you have to worry about everything. ”

"I plan to invite an old lady out of the palace tomorrow to teach you, you don't understand the rules of the palace, and you accidentally violate Your Majesty or His Royal Highness the Imperial Sun without knowing it."

Xue Xiyao and Xue Xiyi nodded silently.