On the morning of July 21 the second day, Yun Xi woke up refreshed. He looked at Xiyi, who was still asleep and still woke up next to him, and said in his heart: "Sure enough, relaxing with all your body is the best way to rest." But it's also important to get enough sleep. ’

He then got up from the bed gently, walked to the outer room, got dressed under the service of the palace maid, and went to the Fengtian Hall to go to the court.

There is nothing new to say in the last dynasty, but it is just a formality, and Yun Xi waited for no one to speak and immediately asked the waiter to announce his retirement from the court.

He then returned to the Qianqing Palace to approve the recital. He still has things to do in the afternoon, and he has to finish answering all these notes in the morning, and the answers are very fast.

But as soon as these recitals were answered, Yun Xi's pen suddenly stopped, and he frowned and looked at the recitals in front of him.

"Shall I come? What the hell is he trying to do? Yun Xi whispered.

Since two years ago he saw me in the Shanghai City Bosi also brought him to the capital, appointed as the commander of the avant-garde of the government army, according to the report of Jinyiwei, he has been very peaceful, hard to learn everything in the Ming army, never told anything. Why did he have such a letter today?

Yun Xi couldn't understand what I was going to do when I came, so he simply said to Wang Xi: "You send someone to the vanguard of the government army and call me over." ”

After a while, the man who was blind in one eye and had a short and strong stature who seemed to be Fusang walked in, knelt down and said, "I have also seen Your Majesty when I came." ”

Yun Xi asked him to get up first, and after answering the fold at hand, he picked up the fold he entered and said, "I came to love Qing, what do you mean?" ”

"Your Majesty, the minister is what it means in the compromise. In the past, the minister was in Fuso, and there were some acquaintances. Some of these people have samurai status, and some do not have samurai status, but whether they have it or not, they are all strong in martial arts. Maybe thousands of them formed an army formation to fight on the battlefield and killed soldiers who were not as good as the Ming Dynasty, but if they were divided into small groups to fight, one could deal with three or five elite soldiers of the Ming Dynasty. I also said in a slightly proud tone.

Yoon-hee has no doubts about this. The warriors of Fusang and the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty are not the same thing, the warriors of Fusang are similar to the knights of the West or the noble soldiers of the Spring and Autumn Period, all of them are strong in martial arts, if they fight on the street, ten ordinary soldiers of the Ming Dynasty may not be able to beat one of them. However, this aristocratic military system was not conducive to war, and in the late Spring and Autumn period, the vassal states gradually abandoned this system, and the more thoroughly abandoned the country, the more powerful the war became.

Yun Xi diverged his thoughts on the side, and I also continued: "But now that Fusang is very stable in the country, their good martial arts are useless. Therefore, the minister wanted to go to Fusang to gather all these people and go to Annan to fight for the Ming Dynasty. ”

"Besides, Fusang is a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, and the people of the country should serve the Ming Dynasty."

Yun Xi looked at him steadily, wanting to see his true purpose. But he couldn't see it. I also stood there calmly, with nothing but the fervent expectation in my eyes for his approval.

'In this battle against Annam, I didn't want the Fuso people to participate in the war. Fuso, as the country with the largest infantry combat strength in the East, should perform on a larger stage. However, since he is willing to call a few people over, it seems that it will not be harmful to Da Ming, so he might as well agree to him first. And you can also use this to see who he is and what his background is. Yun Xi thought to himself.

So Yun Xi said after a while: "In this case, I promise you to go to Fusang to recruit samurai or wild samurai to serve the Ming on the battlefield of Annam. ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty." I paused and said, "Your Majesty, since this is the case, the minister still asks Your Majesty for one more thing. The Imperial Ministers of Fuso, the Shogun of Seiyi, and other officials in Fuso may not be willing to leave Fuso, so the minister asks His Majesty to send an order to His Royal Highness King Yongan, the chief soldier of Yokohama Town, to help them leave Fuso. ”

"I will write you an edict, and you will bring it to Meng Yan when you go to Fusang." Yun Xi didn't think much about it and said.

"Thank you, Your Majesty." I knelt down and kowtowed again, and then withdrew.

Yun Xi wrote this on the bookshelf next to him and continued to comment on it.

After a while, Yun Xi replied to a copy related to the Battle of Annam, and also asked the commanders to participate in the battle, but this Yun Xi agreed without the slightest hesitation.

"Cao Che and Yunying are going to take Taiwan's barbarians to Annam to fight? This Taiwanese barbarian will not refer to the Gaoshan people. Forget it, don't guess, you'll know when you see it. However, even if they are not mountain people, they are also a people in the mountains and forests, and they can be of great use. Yun Xi whispered.

Finally, before noon, Yun Xi finished answering all the folds, handed them to the eunuch next to him to send them to the General Administration, stood up and stretched, gave a few more instructions to the auxiliary officer, and got up to eat.

Before the end of the afternoon, Yun Xi got up on time, washed his face, and said to Wang Xi: "Is the car driving arranged?" ”

"Your Majesty, the arrangements have already been made, and the guards have arrived." Wang Xi replied.

"Good. I was ordered to go to the ferry outside the city to have a look. Yun Xi said.

Wang Xi was very puzzled about why Yun Xi wanted to go to the ferry, and this doubt was not solved even when Yun Xi came back from the ferry. Yun Xi just looked at the sailors anchored at the port, and called a few generals of the sailors to come over, asked a few words, and let them go back. Then he also returned to the palace and did nothing else.

This made Wang Xi and Yun Xi's guards puzzled and didn't understand what Yun Xi wanted to do. They didn't dare to ask, so they could only hold it in their hearts.

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Beginning on 25 July, the naval division stationed in the capital escorted a fleet carrying a land guard division and set off. The destination of their trip was Lianzhou in Guangdong Province, where the fleet transporting the land division would send the guard, who would then march to Nanning to join up with the rest of the army that was to attack Annam from Guangxi. The sailor then went to the port of Leizhou to stop there.

At the same time, the troops recruited by the eight southern provinces and other places that had been subordinate to the First Capital Division also set out one after another. Among them, the armies of Sichuan and Guizhou went to Yunnan half-water and half-land, the armies of southern Huguang and southern Jiangxi went to Guangdong and then went to Guangxi by boat, and the armies of the two provinces of Huguang and Jiangxi, and the armies of Zhili, Weijiang, Jianjian, and Guangdong provinces went to their destinations by boat.

And Yun Xi didn't know what was going on these days, he would go out of the city every few days to the ferry to see the ships that were carrying troops from the upper lake, and sometimes he would call some guards and generals to ask for a few words. But he didn't do anything else, just asked, and then returned to the palace.

Everyone was very puzzled, there were all kinds of speculations, and even Xi Yao asked him euphemistically one night what he wanted to do. But Yunxi just smiled and said, "It's nothing." ”

On this day, Yun Xi came to the ferry again, and still called a few passing generals to ask questions as usual.

But when everyone thought that today would be exactly the same as usual, Yun Xi suddenly pointed to a boat in the distance and said, "Look, are the people on that boat having some strange hair color?" ”

Wang Xi and the others followed Yun Xi's fingers and looked over, and sure enough, they saw a boat, and the hair of the people on the boat was not black, but in many colors, yellow, brown, flax, ephedra, etc. There are also some black, but there are not many of them.

"Li Bo, you go and call one of their thousand households to come over." Yun Xi said. After he gave the order, he walked to the house of the official who held the seal of the yamen of the nearby ferry, took out a notebook and read it, and waited for them to come.

Li Bo took the order. After a while, he walked over with a man with yellow hair. When this person saw Yun Xi, he immediately knelt down and said, "Chen Wuchang Zuowei Qianhu Tiecheng has seen Your Majesty. Long live Your Majesty, long live, long live! "His Chinese characters are all correct and round, and it is a very standard Wuchang dialect.

Yun Xi glanced at him, was stunned, and asked, "Why don't you have any jewelry on you?" ”

"Your Majesty, the minister has no habit of wearing jewelry." Tie Cheng said.

"Don't you believe in the Heavenly Sect? The Heavenly Sect has rules for believers. Yun Xi said.

"Your Majesty, the minister is not a believer in the Heavenly Fang Sect. He embraced Buddhism. Tie Cheng said very seriously.

Yun Xi suddenly felt that his worldview had collapsed, and he put his left arm on the table, supporting his forehead, not knowing what to say.

Yun Xi has been wandering around the docks these days, one of which is to see what the morale of the army that is about to be sent to fight near Annam is and whether he is eager to fight; The second is the army of the Semu people who are waiting for them to come from Wuchang and other places.

Yun Xi originally didn't take the Semu people in this period seriously, thinking that they didn't have many people and were not in a hurry to deal with them; But that day, when he heard that there were four or five hundred thousand people in Wuchang alone, he immediately became alert.

Color-eyed people, as the name suggests, refers to people whose eye color is not black. Since the color of their eyes is different from that of the Han people, the difference in other physical characteristics is even greater, and even if you look at it from a distance, you can distinguish it at once if you look at it from a distance, and you can distinguish it from the Han people side by side.

Yun Xi did not discriminate against different ethnic groups, no matter what his ancestry was, as long as he practiced Han etiquette, spoke Han Chinese, and acted according to the rules of the Han people, he regarded this person as a Han person. Now the Han nationality is also formed in this way, which contains many other ethnic origins in history. It's just that these people may not be voluntary to become Han Chinese, since the Zhou Dynasty added many vassal states in the south, they began to force the local barbarians to pay taxes and labor as Han people. This process continued even into the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

But for the Semu people whose physical characteristics are obviously different from those of the Han people, Yunxi is a little repulsive. The difference in appearance between the Semu and the Han people is so big that they can be seen at a glance, so no matter how they integrate them culturally, they will not consider themselves Han because of the huge difference in appearance.

If that's all it takes, after all, the number of people with color eyes is too small, and if they are mixed, they can slowly make their descendants disappear like the Han people, the high-nosed, deep-eyed, chestnut-haired and blue-eyed Xianbei people.

But now the Semu people of the Ming Dynasty are different, they are not like the Xianbei people, they were real barbarians before entering the Han land, and they have no culture of their own; The current Semu people have at least a thousand years of faith, have their own culture, and have their own beliefs: the Heavenly Sect, or the Eastern Cross Religion, and it is very difficult to assimilate them. This process was not completed until the end of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Therefore, we must not adopt the methods used by the rulers of history for these people, but must adopt a new way to deal with them. Yun Xi wants to actually observe the Semu people and formulate a strategy that works for them. But I didn't expect that the first summoned person would not play according to the routine.

After a long while, Yun Xi continued: "Where did your ancestor come from? Why do you practice Buddhism? He suddenly wondered where he was coming from.

Yun Xi looked him up and down again, and thought, 'It can't be from India, the Brahmins and Kshatriyas in India look like Westerners.' ’

"Your Majesty, the ancestors were brought back from a very west place by the Mongols who took the western expedition to the west. As for why the minister believes in Buddhism, this is because there is a Buddhist temple near the guard where the minister is located, and the minister once listened to the master of the temple lecture and was deeply touched so he converted to Buddhism. Tie Cheng said.

"West?" Yun Xi thought to himself: 'Batu set out from Kazakhstan in later generations, and occupied the Urals, the Caucasus, the Rus', Ukraine, the White Rus, Romania and other places, and reached Vienna and Prague as far west. That's too big a range to guess. ’

But most likely, it's the people. ’

"Do you still speak the language of your ancestors?" Yoon-hee asked.

"Your Majesty, the minister will say a little."

"Remember how to say the word 'hello' in your ancestral language."

"Yes."

"That's good." Yun Xi smiled, and suddenly said, "Zi's death is the answer." ”

Tie Cheng raised his head in surprise and looked at Yun Xi; Not only him, but the guards around Yun Xi also raised their heads to look at Yun Xi.

"Is this the language of your ancestors?" Yun Xi didn't pay attention to the gaze that was on him and asked.

When Tie Cheng heard Yun Xi's words, he realized that he was very rude just now, so he immediately lowered his head and said, "Your Majesty, what Your Majesty said just now is the language of your ancestors. ”

'Sure enough, it's a Russian hairyman!' In that year, Batu went on an expedition to the west, and occupied it for the longest time, and his descendants still occupy the place of Russian Maozi, and the vicinity of the Volga River, the mother river of the Russians, is still the center of their rule. Yun Xi thought to himself.

"But since your ancestors were from the Rus, why didn't you believe in the Crusades?" Yun Xi said, took out a piece of paper, took out a pencil and drew a cross on the paper, and then asked, "This is the religion that is marked by this." Could it be that you have passed it on for so many generations and lost it? ”

"Your Majesty, the minister's ancestors have never believed in such a religion, and there are many items in the family that have been handed down more than a hundred years ago, and they have never seen such a thing." Tie Cheng said.