However, Shang Xi's expression suddenly made Yun Xi a little unhappy. Since the thirty-first year of Hongwu, Shang Xi has also lived in the capital for more than three years, and they have already had a brother-sister relationship. Yun Xi thought that she would marry Song Hu next for six ceremonies, and she would get married in about a year, and then another good cabbage would be arched by pigs, so she was a little unhappy.

At this time, Xiyi suddenly smiled and said, "Your Majesty, your expression is the same as my brother's expression when my sister and I got married." ”

"Really?" Yun Xi also smiled, reached out and touched his chin.

"Hmm." Xiyi nodded seriously.

"Thinking of my sister, although it's a pity that she is not her own sister, she will be married in a year or two, and I feel very unhappy." Yun Xi smiled again and said.

"But isn't it a matter of course for men to marry women?" Xiyi said.

Yun Hee didn't speak again. In his opinion, it is nothing not to marry. But, alas.

The next day, on the second day of August, Yun Xi summoned Song Hu alone. Song Hu rushed to the capital yesterday and handed over the sweaty and bloody BMW to the eunuch of the palace imperial horse supervisor, and was received by Yun Xi. So he was a little strange after receiving His Majesty's command to let him enter the palace again.

But no matter how strange it was, he didn't dare to resist the decree, so he immediately put on his highest-grade clothes and followed the little eunuch who came to deliver the decree into the palace to meet him.

As soon as he walked outside the right gate of Chang'an, he happened to meet his eldest brother Song Xuan.

Song Xuan also asked with some surprise, "Your Majesty summoned you?" ”

"Yes, big brother." Song Hu replied.

"Didn't you already see Your Majesty yesterday, how did Your Majesty ......" Song Xuan was halfway through his words, and suddenly realized that the eunuchs in the palace were on the side, and hurriedly changed the topic stiffly: "Why haven't I seen your clothes?" ”

"It was given to me by His Royal Highness the King of Qin." Song Hu replied somewhat casually.

But Song Xuan heard Song Hu's answer, but grabbed him and said to the little eunuch: "I'm sorry, this father-in-law, please stay for a while." Then without waiting for the little eunuch to answer, he pulled Song Hu aside, leaving the little eunuch alone with a bewildered face.

Song Xuan didn't have time to care about the little eunuch, he put the corner of the wall outside Song Amber's imperial city, with an expression full of hatred, and said in a low voice: "You are wearing the clothes rewarded by His Royal Highness King Qin to meet Your Majesty?" How do you have a brain! ”

"What's wrong with this?" Song Hu asked with a confused expression.

"This," Song Xuan looked at the eunuchs, guards and officials of all grades coming and going, and said to him: "You don't care why, if it doesn't work, it won't work!" Take your clothes off quickly. ”

"Big brother, I didn't have a change of clothes on me, so I only had my middle coat left when I took off this clothes." Song Hu said.

"Let's change our clothes! It just so happens that you are in command in the northwest, so you don't have to worry about overstepping. Although there are some differences in the size of our brothers, the court clothes are very wide and inconspicuous. Song Xuan said.

"But, big brother, just change clothes here?" Song Hu said.

Song Xuan knocked on his head and said, "Of course it's not here!" Then he was dragged to the place where the officials who had entered the palace had stored their carriages and horses, and hid between the two carriages and changed his clothes.

When Yun Xi saw Song Hu, he didn't know that he had such a small episode when he entered the palace. After Song Hu finished saluting, in order to let Shang Xi look at Song Hu twice, he told him about the situation in the northwest. But as he spoke, he forgot his original intention and seriously talked about the affairs of Qin Fan.

"Your Majesty, there are more than 20,000 Han people, more than 60,000 Mongolians, and more than 10,000 Tibetans and Xifan people in Hami in the northwest. There are also more than 30,000 people in the three guards of King Qin, counting more than 100,000 people in his family. The total population is more than 210,000. ”

"His Royal Highness sent some of the soldiers of the Sanwei out to defend the people, and set up the Iwuwei and recruited the local Mongols as soldiers. The Mongols were very obedient to the so-called golden family of Genghis Khan's descendants, so with the help of King Yili Baali, the Mongols were more obedient. Song Hu said.

"The influence of this golden family is too great, didn't Shang Bing think of any way to stop this?" Yun Xi asked.

"Your Majesty, His Royal Highness the King of Qin asked the military doctors of Sanwei to open a medical hall to treat the local Mongols, which attracted the Mongols to be very interested in Chinese medicine. His Royal Highness took the opportunity to open a school and was willing to teach Mongolian medicine, but only children under the age of seven, and to teach the Chinese language and Han customs. ”

"And His Royal Highness, on the grounds of better communication, ordered all Mongolian generals to learn Chinese, and if they can't learn Chinese within a year, they can't be generals." Song Hu said.

"Shang Bing's measures are of course right, but the effect is too slow, and it needs to be faster. Let Shang Bing set up a school to enroll the children of Han, Mongolian, and Western people. Yun Xi said.

"No, they must not want to go to school, and this cannot be forced. Aren't there many eminent monks who have gone to Igo now? Tell Shang Bing that he must build a Buddhist temple in Hami immediately. Yun Xi said again.

"Your Majesty, but now that there is Tibetan Lamaism in Hami, His Royal Highness the King of Qin is worried that the rash establishment of a Buddhist temple will cause turmoil." Song Hu said.

"Will long-term turmoil be more harmful in the future, or will temporary turmoil be more harmful? Can't he settle the account? ”

Of course, I understand his concerns, and this determination is not so easy to make. That's why I've made this decision for him. ”

"And it is not necessary to force the local Lamaism into a desperate situation, so that the local monks will be incorporated into the Lamaist monks." Yun Xi said.

"Co-optation?" Song Hu said in surprise.

"Yes, it's co-optation." Yun Xi walked up and down the steps, no longer caring about Song Hu, completely immersed in his thoughts: "Isn't Lamaism also a branch of Buddhism?" Why can't it be co-opted? ”

He was under the impression that there were very few of the high-ranking people of all religions who were truly convinced, and many of them were engaged in blasphemy against their own religion. The monks of Shaolin Temple in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China can harm many local girls and daughters-in-law. Some monks even openly declared: 'A good daughter-in-law cultivates good land, and a daughter-in-law plants land, and a daughter-in-law does not have land.' ’

Yun Xi then talked a lot about the measures to 'eliminate' the local Lamaism, completely forgetting about the others, Song Hu just stood at the bottom of the steps in a daze and didn't know what to do, and Shang Xi, who was hiding behind the curtain, was not in the mood to peek at Song Hu at all, so he blocked his ears and squatted on the ground.

It was still Wang Xi, while noting down the main points of Yun Xi's words, and secretly asked the little eunuch to get an earplug and a small stool for Shang Xi.

I don't know how long it took, Yun Xi finished saying everything he wanted to say, detached himself from his thoughts, and said to Song Hu with an "oops" sound: "Have you written down what I just said?" ”

"Your Majesty, Minister, have made a note of some." Song Hu bowed and said.

Yun Xi was just about to continue speaking, Wang Xi said, "Your Majesty, the servant has written down what Your Majesty just said. ”

"That's good." Yun Xi breathed a sigh of relief. He had thought and said a lot just now, but now he couldn't remember some of the words he said.

He looked at Song Hu again, and suddenly remembered that the purpose of announcing his entry into the palace today was to let Shang Xi take a look at him, and then he would leave him in the capital to wait for marriage, and he couldn't immediately return to Qin Fan and Shang Bing to say what he had said, and he could only tell Shang Bing these things by writing a letter.

So it doesn't make sense for him and Song Hu to talk about this. Thinking of this, Yun Xi couldn't help laughing, thinking that Shang Xi should have been watching for almost an hour, and said to Song Hu: "Is there anything else that King Qin asked you to report to me?" "I wanted to send him away.

But Song Hu said: "Your Majesty, His Royal Highness King Qin has nothing to report to His Majesty. When Kechen passed through Ganzhou, His Royal Highness King Su had something to ask the minister to report on his behalf. ”

"Well, why didn't Uncle Fourteen report it himself and let you report it on your behalf?" Yoon-hee asked.

"I don't know." Song Hu said.

"What did Uncle Fourteen ask you to report on your behalf?" Yun Xi then asked.

"His Royal Highness King Su said that the first emperor had added His Royal Highness King Min in Minzhou, but later changed His Royal Highness King Min to Yunnan. However, the previous Minzhou guard was established according to the vassal king's guard, and because it was prepared to be expanded into three guards, the soldiers were nearly twice as many as the ordinary guards. ”

"Therefore, His Royal Highness King Su requested that the Minzhou Guard be split and make up for some of the guards with insufficient soldiers." Song Hu said.

"So that's the case," Yun Xi said, "He just needs to discuss it with Wu Gao, but he doesn't have to report it to me." ”

"However, why did Uncle Fourteen mention this to me, and not Wu Gao?" Yun Xi suddenly thought.

"Your Majesty, when the minister arrived in Ganzhou, His Royal Highness King Su and Wei Guogong inspected the guards in various places in the Sanqin Capital Division and the Sanqin Xingdu Division, so His Royal Highness King Su and the ministers said." Song Hu said.

"I see." King Su and Xu Huizu were patrolling around together, so they happened to talk to Song Hu about it.

After that, Song Hu had nothing to report, and bowed down.

As soon as Song Hu retreated, Shang Xi walked out from behind the curtain, and complained to Yun Xi a little dissatisfied but cautiously: "Brother Huang, my sister's legs standing in the curtain are numb. ”

"This is really an accident, the imperial brother didn't plan to talk to Song Hu for a long time, let you take a few glances and let him retreat. It's just that I accidentally talked about something. Yoon-hee explained.

"Brother Huang, is it necessary to attach so much importance to religion? My sister saw that you and Brother Shang Bing both attached great importance to Buddhism. Shang Xi asked curiously.

"It's a pity," Yun Xi touched her head and said, "The Han people, except for a very small number of people, have a shallow belief in religion, and it is common to worship the Bodhisattva in the morning, Sanqing at noon, and the land god at night. ”

"But other ethnic groups are different, you may have seen the Xifan and Tibetans in the northwest before, they are different from the Han people, and they are very devout to the gods and Buddhas they believe in."

"The promotion of religion, in places like the northwest and northeast, can play a greater role than fighting wars. In the future, if you go to the northwest or northeast, you will know. ”