Qin Song was quite helpless in the end. If he was an ordinary official position, it would be easy to arrange a position in the guard for the clansmen to eat, but he was the commander of the Jinyi Guard, so he didn't dare to collude with others, so he could only refuse; Fortunately, the clansmen of their family have watched the drama for so many years and know that it is impossible for the emperor's secret agent agency to install people at will, so they dare not make a fuss in vain. But there are also many people who come from Fengyang's hometown to eat mixed rice. He couldn't leave it alone.

"The same is true for me. The few unsuccessful children in the royal family want to get rid of their royal status, but they can only open their fortunes on time. Yun smiled.

Because the royal family has been clothed and fed since childhood, there are many unsuccessful people, although there are not many people who are very bastard, but there are so few, Yun is very unaccustomed to these people, and has repeatedly punished them by starvation, fines, punishments, and boards, so that they dare not do evil. But no one knows if it has been pulled over or has been dormant for the time being.

Yun sighed a few words about this, and then said: "Family, the most important thing is harmony, your family has not had discord because of the affairs of the clan, very good, Qin Shoushan can probably be regarded as a model of the old master." ”

"When I read the Yongfan's report, I often see Qin Sen's name, he has done a good job in the Yongfan, which is commendable. When I return to the capital as an official, I will definitely promote him to an official. ”

"It's just that next year, when I go to the northwest, I want to recruit the soldiers and horses of the Yong Domain to fight, are you willing Qin Sen to fight?"

"This," Qin Song was silent for a while before he mustered up the courage to say: "Your Majesty, Qin Sen is still young and has no son, and the minister begged the emperor not to let him go to the northwest to fight. ”

The battle of the northwest against Samarkand can be different from others, once it starts, it will be a bloody battle of millions of people, and even the commander may not be able to survive, not to mention that Qin Sen is not yet able to mix with the commander.

"Well, I will let him stay in Yongfan next year, and announce his return to Beijing after the battle with Samarkand is over when King Yong returns to the fiefdom with his troops." Yun said. If it was an ordinary family, he wouldn't care what other people's families thought, but the Qin family was different. Qin Song and Qin Sen's eldest brother died in battle for the guards by his side back then, leaving only orphans and widows, he felt ashamed of the Qin family, so he has always been kind to their family. Qin Song also dared to ask for this because of this.

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Qin Song said immediately.

Yun nodded, chatted with him a few more words, and told him to step down. Yun stood up and stretched, went to take a bath, got up and went to the harem to accompany his wife and children.

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"Your Highness, according to this newspaper, Samarkand will invade the Ming Dynasty eastward next year?" At a post station in Chuzhou, north of the capital, Qin Sen, who was about twenty-five or sixteen years old in a five-grade official uniform, held a newspaper in his hand and said to the person wearing the prince's regular clothes beside him.

"I can't guarantee that it must be the eastward invasion of the Ming Dynasty, maybe it's just to fight Yili. However, if Yili is occupied by him, the fief of the second brother of Qin will not be able to hold it, and the imperial brother also understands, so it is inevitable to fight a battle with Samarkand in the northwest Daming next year. Of course, the prince agreed. He usually gets along with his subordinate generals very casually, so he said indifferently at this time.

"I heard that Samarkand is also a big country, from the capital to Yili Jiangli all the way to the plains, it is very easy to walk, there will be no less soldiers, how can there be three or four hundred thousand, and the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty will not be less than him. At this moment, nearly a million armies in the northwest are gathered in one place to fight each other, which makes people excited to think about it. Qin Sen said with a look of inability to himself.

"It sounds really exciting, but in such a big battle, there will be many casualties. Especially for military generals, when the time comes, they will rarely lead by example, even if they command the chaotic army, it will be difficult to protect everything. Yun Dao.

"Anyway, it's worth it to walk around such a big battlefield. Your Highness, will the emperor recruit the soldiers and horses of our Yongfan? Qin Sen asked.

"It's hard to say, but according to the royal brother's previous practice, it will probably be recruited."

"It's really good. Your Highness, if the emperor recruits the soldiers and horses of the Yong Domain to fight in the northwest, Your Highness must remember to send his ministers to the northwest to see the chief. ”

"Are you really willing to go?" Yun glanced at him in surprise. Yun thought he was just talking. Everyone has the idea of seeing a big scene, but like Qin Sen, he has also fought a few battles in the past few years, and people who know the cruelty of the battlefield should not be willing to fight this kind of big war.

Besides, because his second brother Qin Song was the commander of the Jinyi Guard, he was unwilling to send him. In case he dies in battle, Qin Song will hate him, which is not a good thing for him.

Ke Yun stared at him carefully for a while, saw that his face was full of determination, and said, "Think about your brother." ”

"If the minister's brother is still there, he must agree with the minister."

'No way. You don't have a son now, and even your brother won't want your royal palace to protect the emperor at a critical juncture. Yun thought to himself.

But Qin Sen was very willing to fight at this time, so he could only say to the snake: "Okay, if the imperial brother recruits the soldiers and horses of the Yongfan, I will let you take the troops to the northwest." "But I thought to myself; You're about to arrive in the capital, and Gu sent someone to tell your father and brother, but Gu didn't believe that they couldn't stop you. ’

On the second day, Yun got up early, led his entourage to continue his journey, and arrived in the capital before noon.

After entering the city, Yun smiled at his entourage: "Qin Sen, a few of you people from the capital should go home, you don't need your escort when you go to the capital, today is the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, you go home for the New Year, and give your family a surprise." ”

As he spoke, he also took out a package from the carriage, took out a few things from it, and asked the guards from the Yongfan to distribute it to them: "This is the reward for you during the New Year. ”

Qin Sen took the small bag, opened it, and saw ten pearls of average size inside, he was taken aback, raised his head and said to Yun: "Your Highness, this, the reward is too rich, and the minister does not dare to accept it." "Such a round pearl, although the size is not particularly large, but a full ten in the capital is enough to sell for thousands of taels, still priceless.

"It's just a few pearls, what's it worth?" Yun said: "The specialties of the Yongfan are leather goods, ginseng and pearls, and each of you has a lot of leather goods in your hands and brought them to the capital, and the ones in your lone hands are not better than yours; Ginseng is not easy to pick, and there is no way to send one per person; After thinking about it, I can only divide a few pearls. ”

"Although pearls are very valuable in the capital, they are nothing in our Yongfan, and you all have sisters or aunts and nephews, and it is much better to give these than to give something else, so you will accept them."

"But," Qin Sen still wanted to refuse.

"Why," Yun turned his face blank, "You dare not to be rewarded by me!" ”

Seeing that His Highness was angry, although everyone knew that he was just pretending to be angry, they didn't dare to refuse, and hurriedly bowed down to accept it.

Yun immediately turned his anger into joy, and asked them a few more words, and let them disperse.

But after Qin Sen left, he quietly instructed a person who was born in the same guard as Qin Sen: "After you go back, find a time to see Qin Sen's father, Qin Shoushan, and tell him that Qin Sen wants to go to the northwest to fight in the battle with Samarkand next year, and there is no need to say anything about it." Remember not to let Qin Sen know. ”

"Yes, Your Highness." The man said yes, mounted his horse and left.

After Yun finished ordering everyone, he took the rest of his entourage to his palace.

The palace has long been cleaned. The subordinates guarding the palace in the capital immediately cleaned up the entire palace after learning that the prince would definitely return to Beijing this year, and they didn't even dare to have a single fallen leaf.

After reading it, Yun felt quite satisfied, and ordered the eunuchs who followed him back to Beijing to put all the luggage in each room, and said to his eldest wife Wu, "Do you have anything else?" If you have nothing to do, enter the palace with me to meet the royal brother. ”

"Even if there is something, I have to go to see the imperial brother first." Wu said with a smile: "There is nothing more important than meeting the imperial brother." ”

"That's right." Yun also smiled, and said to his little wife Yang: "You also enter the palace to meet the imperial brother together." ”

"Your Highness, I," she was amazed. This side concubine is his local in Yongfanna, it is said that the ancestor is still the descendant of the Jin royal family, after the Mongols destroyed the Jin, because the Mongols did not have any preferential treatment for the Jin people, and the third-class Northern Han Dynasty, for the convenience of the Han surname was changed to Yang. Her family is the leader of a very large local tribe, but the Taoist chief in Wudang Mountain quickly believed in Taoism after going to Yongfan to preach, and he was also very deferent to Yun, so Yun accepted the chief's daughter as a side concubine.

She has been by Yun's side for more than two years, and she also understands a lot of Han etiquette, knowing that she is just a little wife, I am afraid that she has no right to meet the emperor.

"It doesn't matter. According to the etiquette system, all those who have fallen on the jade butterfly must be canonized by the queen, and you are in a hurry to obey the power in Yongfan, and the first time you come to the capital, you naturally have to meet the queen. Yun said.

When she heard this, she hurriedly agreed.

Seeing that she agreed, Yun instead instructed the eunuch to arrange the gifts he had brought back from the Yong Domain, changed his clothes, and got into a carriage to go to the palace with his wife and concubine.

The carriage soon came to the outside of the palace, drove into the imperial city from the right gate of Chang'an, and did not stop until outside the Qianqing gate.

But before he reached the Qianqing Gate, he saw a figure flash at the door, and a person dressed in the emperor's regular clothes stood at the door, smiled at him and said, "Fourth brother! ”

"Brother Huang!" Yun shouted, walked quickly to him, and knelt down to salute.

Yun Yi pulled him up and said with a smile: "I haven't seen you for two years, how did you become so angry." ”

"The younger brother hasn't seen the royal brother for two years, and he can't help it." Yun smiled.

The two of them laughed a few words, and the Wu family led the Yang family to step forward and bow down: "The concubine has seen the emperor." ”

"Hello brother and sister. This is," Yun said, looking at Yang.

"This is the side concubine that my younger brother married in Yongfan." Yun hurriedly said.

"Okay, okay." Yun glanced at her a few times, said a few good words meaninglessly, and instructed the eunuchs beside him: "You take the concubine of King Yong to visit the queen, and tell the queen to reward the concubine more." After all, it's the first time we've met. ”

The eunuch received the order and led the way to Kunning Palace.

Yun Ze and Yun came to the Qianqing Palace side by side, and asked as they walked: "You have been in Yongfan for the past two years, and there are fewer excerpts in the imperial court, and the imperial brother doesn't know how you are doing business over there." What is the current population? Can the food be on its own? Come and talk to the royal brother. ”

"Brother Huang, my younger brother has been in the Northeast for the past two years, and he thinks he has run a good business." Yun Xian boasted to himself, and then said: "In the past few years, the Yong Domain has received a total of more than 2,000 people from the Central Plains, and of course such a small population is not enough, so my younger brother has sent people around to crusade or contact the Jurchen tribes to expand the population. Before the ministers left Yongfan, there were more than 107,000 naturalized Jurchens and Mongols. He counted the Jurchens who were used as slaves after being defeated.

"Taoism plays a big role in this. The locals are very ignorant, and the younger brother uses Confucianism to educate them with little effect, but the Taoist priests who have learned some rudimentary medical skills are very popular in various tribes, and often as long as one person is cured, the whole village will all believe in Taoism. Although most people are only superficially believers, they have much less resistance to the government after believing in the Tao. ”

Zhang Zhenren also brought hawkers to their villages to do business, which greatly changed their impression of the Han people. A few real people took in a few young children as Taoist children, and after a few years they were devout believers, preaching from village to village with the masters. ”

"Hehe, it's right that the imperial brother told you to support Taoism." Yun smiled.

"Brother Huang is really a visionary. At first, the younger brother didn't quite believe that the Taoist church had such a big effect, and if it wasn't for the emperor's insistence, I am afraid they would only be left to fend for themselves. There would never have been such a big situation. Yun Dao.

Yun smiled and instructed him again: "Even so, you can't rely on Taoism completely. Taoism just keeps them from resisting the Ming Dynasty, but if you open a local government and build a government, you will inevitably levy taxes and send errands from them, and they will not willingly pay taxes and send errands even if they become Taoists. ”

"You still have to defeat a few big local tribes, so that they will not dare to disobey you. The ultimate goal was to break up their tribes and divide them into villages. You can't finish a term like a rogue official, and only focus on the present and ignore the long-term. The kings who will be will be your descendants. ”

"How could my brother not know such a thing? The royal brother can rest assured, and the younger brother will do the same. Yun said.

Then he went on to introduce: "The climate in the northeast is cold, and the younger brother has calculated the latitude, and Yongming City is further north than the Kaiyuan City of the Twenty Uncles, and the grain can only be cooked once a year. ”

"But the land is very fertile, and the old farmers say that the land is so fertile that even if there is no need for any fertilizer, the crops will not go any further. Later, the seeds of sorghum, wheat, barley and other crops were planted, and sure enough, the crops grew well, and there happened to be no disaster, and all the fields were harvested and the granaries were full. As long as this can be done every year, Yongfan will not need the grain of the Central Plains. ”

"It's for the best. But I'm afraid you can't be so lucky every year, and now you still transport some grain from the Central Plains every year to store it, and then stop transporting grain from the Central Plains when you have almost enough rations for the people to rule for a year. Fupin Chinese