On the second day, Yun officially issued an order to let Yang Feng still be the master. Of course, the Yang family was very happy. No, being very happy is not enough to describe the happiness of their family, Yang Feng's father fainted with joy on the spot, and several of his adult brothers and sisters were also crazy with joy, and they couldn't stop congratulating Yang Feng after the eunuch who announced the decree left. When their relatives learned about it, they organized a group to congratulate them.

Only Yang Feng's mother, Wang, whispered to Yang Feng in private: "Feng'er, you are still the lord, it is the glory of our whole family, but it may not be a good thing for yourself!" Our family can't control the princess of the royal family, if you are pampered by nature, it will be bitter for you. ”

"Didn't you also serve as a guard by the emperor's side before? Do you know what the temperament of Princess Zhongshan is? ”

"Mother, the eldest princess of Zhongshan has a good temperament, and she is by no means a barbaric person." Yang Feng replied.

Wang asked a few more words carefully before he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Then my mother can rest assured." ”

Although Yun's holy decree was not widely publicized, how could Jianye Chao's first time a princess marry without attracting everyone's attention? What's more, the people of the Yang clan are eager to publicize it all over the country, so the civil and military officials who were in Beijing not long after the end of the day already knew about it.

The military generals and a few civil officials who had a good relationship with Yang Feng immediately ordered people to prepare gifts, waiting to congratulate them after they got off duty; It was very unfamiliar with Yang Feng, most of the generals were thinking about how to get up, and the rest were secretly paying attention not to offend him in the future.

Most civil servants don't think it's appropriate, but they don't compromise on it; However, a small number of civil officials were very opposed to this matter, and they fiercely reprimanded them.

Yun had long expected that there would be a person who gave advice, and he had read all the notes for himself, and for those who only pointed out that it was inappropriate for Her Royal Highness to marry a widower, and whose words were not very fierce, he did not see the notes, but he reprimanded all the decrees that had written a bunch of quotations from scriptures or had fierce words, and were included in the ranks of those who were ready to denounce.

After this turmoil passed, the Yang family began to prepare for the wedding. Since Yang Feng was going to marry the princess, the Yang family was afraid of looking simple, so they did their best to prepare for the wedding, and almost all the money that the family had accumulated over the years would be spent. Yang Feng's second brother's wife was a little dissatisfied, but she didn't dare to say it publicly, so she had to complain to her husband in her yard.

Yang Feng came to the palace early the next morning to be on duty, and was ridiculed by his colleagues on the way. When he was a guard, he was transferred to Yun's side after he was the seventh grade, and later he was promoted all the way to the fourth grade, and after he became a deputy general, he hung up the title of the third grade, and now he is the general secretary of the seventh grade. Li Bo, who was quite familiar with Yang Feng, checked his edict and said with a smile: "Yang Tongshi, come and see Shangguan." ”

"Go aside!" Yang Feng also smiled: "Although your current official rank is higher than mine, you can't control me, what kind of official is it!" ”

"Even if you are not a high-ranking official, you are also older than you, how can you not be polite when you meet a high-ranking official."

"Okay, well, I've met Master Li." Yang Feng also bowed down and said jokingly.

After frolicking for a while, Yang Feng walked into the Qianqing Palace. Qiu Auxiliary Officer Li Xuhu nodded when he saw him, he already knew about Yang Feng coming to be a general secretary yesterday afternoon, although he was very surprised, but he didn't say anything, at this time he exchanged a few words with Yang Feng, and also recalled the past when he was in Zhan Shifu and Yang Feng was a guard, and arranged a seat.

After a while, Yun Xia came back, and when he saw Yang Feng, he called him to his side and said with a smile: "Yang Feng, the holy decree to canonize you as the concubine of the eldest princess of Zhongshan has been prepared and issued, and from today on, you will be my brother-in-law." ”

Yang Feng didn't know how to answer, just smiled. Fortunately, Yun Yun immediately continued: "But although you are my brother-in-law, you must also be respectful to Shangguan and friendly to your colleagues, and you must not put on the appearance of a colt. ”

"I also have to be diligent in doing things, I only have four words for employing people: public loyalty, honesty and ability, the more I fit these four words, the more I will be promoted. The merits of the ancestors can make people rich and clothed for a lifetime, but it is not a direct basis for becoming an official. "The words of the family have been said last night, and today is the words of the public.

Yang Feng immediately bowed down and agreed. He was able to be selected by Zhu Yuanzhang to be Yun's side as a guard because of his cautious personality, even if he didn't have Yun's orders, he wouldn't honor his identity as a horse and swagger around.

After Yun admonished, he said, "When you first come here today, I'm afraid that you are not familiar with how my cabinet operates, so you should familiarize yourself with it first." Stand down. ”

Yang Feng agreed, bowed and retreated.

The housekeepers present were very polite to him, and some even treated him as an official. Although everyone didn't understand why the emperor appointed Yang Feng as a general, he obviously couldn't have hit the street, and later heard that he had become a colt.

Months passed like this, and soon it was August.

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Early in the morning of the ninth day of the eighth month, Yang Feng came to the Qianqing Palace on time. He walked into the front hall, said hello to his colleagues, and sat down to begin his day's work.

But although it is said to be work, he actually has nothing to do. Yesterday was the 75th anniversary of Zhu Yuanzhang's birth, and Yun led his family and all the vassal kings in Beijing to worship his ancestors the day before yesterday. Since the emperor is not there, there is no matter whether it is to discuss the government or draft the holy decree, as for the vote to be folded, there are few excerpts in the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, and there is Li Xuhu, an autumn auxiliary official, he can't get a few excerpts a day.

So after Yang Feng made the tea, he took out a book and read it. I saw that on the cover of the book was written "Outline of the State of Samarkand".

The so-called "knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent" is that one cannot be defeated in a hundred battles, and the role of intelligence is very important when there is not much difference in strength and the command ability of the generals is not much different.

But Yoon's views on what information is important and what information is not important are different from those of this era. Yun believes that the size of the population, the amount of grain and grass, the composition of the social organization, the organizational composition of the army, whether the people at home support the war, whether the army generals support the war, and the morale of the soldiers are much more important than the intelligence at the tactical level.

In particular, the Chinese people have always had insufficient understanding of the importance of this point, thinking that the whole world is the same social composition as China, and at most they think that it is the same as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and they are not very aware of the important role of religion and other factors, even if he emphasizes this matter several times, the effect is not great.

In order to popularize his own views and increase the probability of winning the war, Yun ordered the people of the Qin clan and Jinyiwei to send people to Samarkand to collect this information in the second year of his reign, and even the price of cabbage should be recorded and summarized, and at the end of last year, he preliminarily compiled this "Summary of Samarkand".

Yang Feng watched with relish. This book involves a lot of customs and customs of Samarkand, which is very rare for the people of the Central Plains, so Yang Feng is very involved in reading it, and sighs quietly from time to time: "I see! "Why is this so?" "This custom is so strange" and so on.

After lunch at noon, Yang Feng did not go to the palace where they could take a nap, but found a leeward and shaded pavilion in the Qianqing Palace, sat down and watched.

As he was watching, he suddenly felt the sound of someone gasping beside him, and when he looked sideways, he saw a man in a guard's uniform standing beside him, his eyes fixed on the book in his hand.

"Guard Chen is curious about this book?" Yang Feng recognized this guard named Chen Lijie.

"Lord Yang forgives your sins." Chen Lijie immediately bowed and saluted: "The lower official is on duty around here, and when he heard Lord Yang muttering something while reading the book, he was curious, so he came over to take a look." I didn't want to write so many anecdotes in the book, so I couldn't help but read it. ”

"It's nothing. His Majesty did not say that the book should not be viewed by others. Just, do you know the words on it? Yang Feng remembered that when he asked Li Bo about the palace guards, he heard him say that the guard named Chen Lijie was born in Orion, and he came to Yun's side as a guard by chance, so he shouldn't know how to read.

"Lord Yang, after coming down to the emperor's side as a guard, because he saw that the original guards around the emperor were literate, he also taught himself to write, and he knew almost all the words in the book." Chen Lijie replied.

He only came to His Majesty's side as a guard at the beginning of the second year of Jianye, and it has only been three years since this year, and he has known so many words, which is amazing! Being a guard is a bit of a condescension. Yang Feng thought in his heart.

However, he didn't say anything about it, but said to him: "I remember that Chen Shiwei is the sixth grade, and now you are only the seventh grade, but you can't afford to be called your adult, just call me by my name, or call Yang Tongshi and Yang Sheren." ”

"Although Lord Yang is only the seventh grade now, the emperor attaches great importance to the adult, and the lower officials never dare to call the adult's name. Moreover, according to the rules, the horse is a subordinate product, and the lower official should also call the adult. Chen Lijie said.