Yun Xi sighed for a while, and silently made up his mind in his heart to rehabilitate Fu Youde and Wang Bi in the future, put away the fold and continued to look at the fold below. When the pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info was not long, he found another noteworthy excerpt, and it was still an excerpt involving diplomacy.

This letter was sent by the political envoy of Guangdong, and the content was that Annan asked for tribute; Lao Zhu refused their request for tribute because Minister Annan deposed the monarch without authorization.

Yoon-hee was delighted. Annan was the place he had to take in his plan. The current Annam territory is the northern generation of Vietnam for later generations, which is very important in Yun Xi's plan. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the French preferred to build the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway rather than the Yunnan-Guizhou Railway, which shows that it was much easier to get from Yunnan to North Vietnam than to Guangxi, and there were large rivers from Yunnan to North Vietnam. To strengthen control over Yunnan, Annan is indispensable.

Now Lao Zhu refuses to pay tribute on the grounds that they have deposed the monarch without authorization, and he can use this as a reason to do something else when he ascends the throne in the future.

Yun Xi finished reading yesterday's excerpts, and it was expected that Lao Zhu would definitely send someone to find him. Sure enough, when it was about to be lunch at noon, the little eunuch came to inform Yunxi that Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to have lunch with him.

Yun Xi followed the little eunuch to the Qianqing Palace, and Lao Zhu was already waiting in the dining hall, but the dishes had not yet been served. Seeing Yun Xi walk in, he said with a smile: "Yun Xi came early, and the chef in the imperial dining room hasn't prepared the dishes yet." ”

Yun Xi also smiled: "I got up earlier today, and I finished reading the excerpt earlier, and I had already finished reading the excerpt when my grandfather sent someone to call me, so I came earlier." ”

Lao Zhu laughed. By this time, the Imperial Dining Room had already prepared all the meals. Li Jinzhong walked in and asked, "Your Majesty, can you start serving?" ”

Lao Zhu said: "Serve." ”

The grandfather and grandson chatted while eating. Lao Zhu first talked about something not very important: "Yun Xi, why did you drive back two eunuchs that your grandfather sent you to repair the house?" ”

Yun Xi replied: "Grandpa, the two of them don't abide by the rules of my Wenhua Palace, so I'll let the two of them out." Why, someone still comes to Grandpa to complain? ”

Lao Zhu said: "How come, those two eunuchs have been killed with a cane, and no one dares to come to grandpa to chew the root of the tongue." ”

"Your rules are very strict, and your implementation is very good, which is very good, and you have to be so strict with your subordinates. But you can't do this to the officials under you, except for corrupt officials, you still have to give a chance to change the way for ministers who don't understand the rules at the beginning. ”

Yun Xi responded.

The two chatted for a while, and Lao Zhu said, "Yun Xi, you should have seen the twists and turns of the Jinyi Guard's commander. ”

Yun Xi replied, "Yes, grandpa, I have already seen that recital. ”

Lao Zhu waved his hand to let all the subordinates go down, and said to Yun Xi: "Yun Xi, you must have seen it, yes, it was Grandpa who instructed Jinyi Wei to arrest Wang Bi and Fu Youde." ”

"Wang Bi and Fu Youde are both capable people, and they have been out of the Northern Yuan Dynasty many times, and their reputations are extremely high. Although you are intelligent, resolute, and perceptive, these two are too famous, and you are too young, and your grandfather thinks you can't control them, so he orders them to be removed. You are different from Biao'er, you should be able to understand grandpa's hard work. ”

Yun Xi said: "Grandson understands what grandpa means. But must we get rid of them? Is it not okay to be demoted and exiled, or even placed under house arrest? "Yun Xi is reluctant to execute them because they are considered heroes of the Chinese nation.

Lao Zhu said: "Demotion to a local government or exile cannot ensure that there is no problem. Although house arrest is possible, it cannot be done once and for all, and it is better to spend people to monitor them all the time, so it is better to execute them all at once. ”

Yun Xi understands this truth, but emotionally feels that it is too pity. But the butt decides the head, and he accepted Lao Zhu's approach.

Lao Zhu was very pleased. Then Lao Zhu said: "Grandpa discussed with the officials of the Ministry of Rites in the morning, the wedding ceremony can't be too simple, when your father got married, the Ming Dynasty was established, and the inner repair was outside the capital to recover all places, so it was simpler; But now there is nothing to do inside and outside the Ming Dynasty, and your wedding gift has to be done in a big way. ”

Yun Xi didn't know what to take, but said, "It's all up to grandpa." He remembered that he hoped to go to the north in the spring, and said, "It would be nice if it could be soon, my grandson wants to go to the north in the spring." ”

Lao Zhu said: "Then don't think about it, after the six salutes, it will take half a year to say less." Grandpa has already asked the officials of the Ministry of Rites to do it, and it will be at least April; I have to pick a good day, and I have to start May. ”

"And you can't just get married and go out. I have to stay in Beijing for another month, and wait until the concubines are pregnant. Grandpa plans to let you go out in June and come back before the wax moon. ”

Yun Xi didn't know that he hadn't gotten married yet, so why did the topic jump to the matter of his concubine's pregnancy. Yun Xi didn't know what to say anymore, so he could only bow his head and be silent.

Lao Zhu thought that Yun Xi was ashamed, and said with a smile: "It's really strange to see you like this, hahaha." ”

Lao Zhu hadn't laughed like this for a long time, and after laughing for a long time, Yun Xi stood up and beat him on the back, and it took a while.

After the meal was finished, Lao Zhu didn't have anything important to say, so he let Yunxi go back.

Yun Xi returned to the Wenhua Palace, and as soon as he sat down, Wang Jin walked up and said: "Your Highness, just now the eunuch guarding the gate of the East Corner Gate came over and said: 'The guard Chen Xing said that the head of the village along the river just sent someone to tell him that His Highness was looking for a craftsman to make the 'glass', and they made a similar one, and asked His Highness if he went to see it. ”

Yun Xi stood up all of a sudden. Two years ago, after Yun Xi obtained the riverside village from the Chang family, he asked his subordinates to recruit craftsmen to study glass and cement. Yun Xi still knew a little about this, so he told them everything he knew. But there has been no progress in the past two years, and Yun Xi will inevitably have trouble thinking about it.

Now that he learned that there was progress, Yun Xi said happily, "Then I'm going to go and see." Quick, change your clothes for Lonely. ”

Wang Jin said: "It's already noon, and it's not too late for Your Highness to rest first and then go." Seeing that Yun Xi's face was not good, he said: "The craftsmen also have to rest, Your Highness let them rest, wouldn't it be better to tell Your Highness in the afternoon?" ”

Yun Xi thought about it too, so he took off his coat and went back to the dormitory to rest.

But he couldn't sleep even when he rested. After half an hour, he got up and called Wang Xi and went out.

Chen Xing and the others are all waiting at Chengtianmen, they have been waiting here since the morning after the message. Although they felt that it was unlikely that Yun Hee would go out at noon, what if he did? So I'll have to wait here; And when noon passes, Na Yunxi will definitely go to see it in the afternoon, and he can't tell what time it is, so everyone still has to wait here.

Yun Xi arrived at Chengtianmen, and he didn't say much, and took out the horse from the imperial horse supervisor and went straight to the riverside village.

At the riverside village, Lu Chengfeng said to Feng Mo, the owner of the second village: "It seems that the main family will not come back today, such a big person, how many things are there every day, even if you pay attention to the things that our craftsmen here do, how can you have time to come over immediately." ”

Feng Mo said: "This is all arranged by me, I remember that the main family really attaches great importance to it?" I've come to see it a few times. And how many things can a young boy have? ”

Looking at Feng Mo's puzzled face, Lu Chengfeng said in his heart: "That's because you don't know his identity, how can you always have time to come to Zhuangzi when you are the prince of the court." ’

As he spoke, he felt the ground rumble. Both of them were experienced, and they knew that this was the sound of at least dozens of horses running, and both of them stood up, especially Lu Chengfeng was very surprised: His Highness is really here!

The two hurriedly went out. Yun Xi had already hit his horse into Zhuangzi and went straight to the place where the craftsmen were. The craftsmen have also gotten up to work; When they saw a large number of horses coming, they knew that the master had hired them to study glass and cement. Because this master is the young master of the Chang family, the craftsmen fell to their knees one after another.

Yun Xi dismounted and said, "Let's be polite." ”

When the craftsmen stood up, Lu Chengfeng and Feng Mo also came over and said, "Meet the young master." ”

Yun Xi didn't greet them either, and said directly to the leading craftsman in charge of studying glass: "You made glass?" ”

The leading craftsman once served in the north and saw many big people, so he didn't panic, and said: "If you go back to the young master, you have made a 'glass' that is similar to what the young master said." As he spoke, he took out a small piece of something.

Yun Xi asked Wang Xi to come forward and take it and then come back and hand it to him. He looked at the thing in his hand, which felt similar to the touch of glass, very translucent, but still with a little color. But it's pretty good, close to the glass of the 90s.

Yun Xi raised his head and said, "How much has this glass been made?" How big can it be? ”

The leading craftsman said: "Young Master Hui, a total of more than a dozen pieces of palm-sized glass have been made. As for how big it can be, I don't know if it hasn't been made too big. ”

Yun Xi forcibly suppressed his excitement and said, "You grind five or six glasses into 'double convex lenses' for me." ”

The leading craftsman said suspiciously, "What is a 'double convex lens'?" ”

Yun Xi patted his head and knew that he had missed it, so he immediately said: "It's just that both sides are convex in the middle and concave all around." To grind a little smoother. And as he spoke, he gestured.

After his comparison, the leader of the craftsmen finally understood, and said: "The grass people immediately let the master who is good at grinding to grind." However, it takes a lot of time to grind this, so I'm afraid it won't be done today, but tomorrow. ”

Yun Xi also knew this, and said, "Then I will send someone to pick it up tomorrow morning." Be sure to hold on. I will allow you to light the lamps tonight. ”

When the head of the craftsman heard this, he knew that he was very serious about it. Although he was puzzled, he still said, "The grass people must grind it tomorrow morning." ”

Yun Xi calmed down and said, "All craftsmen have worked hard. All the glass craftsmen were rewarded with ten dollars each. Then he said to the chief, "Twenty pieces of silver." ”

The craftsmen immediately knelt down in thanks. Ten times the money is enough for their whole family to spend for a year, how can they not be happy.

Yun Xi explained: "In addition to grinding, you also have to see if you can make bigger glass." By the way, who is the person who made the most effort to make glass this time? ”

The leader of the craftsmen pointed to a craftsman kneeling on the ground and said, "It's this person, called Lu Yuan, who claims to be a descendant of Lu Ban." I don't know if it's a descendant of Luban, but the craftsmanship is really powerful. ”

Yun Xi called the man: "Lu Yuan, you raise your head." ”

Lu Yuan looked up at Yun Xi.

Yun Xi said: "You also reward twenty times, no, you add ten more times, and you will be rewarded with thirty times." ”

Lu Yuan kowtowed happily and did not speak.

Seeing that he was so silent, Yun Xi couldn't talk to him anymore. He looked up and said, "Do a good job, and I will not spare the reward." The craftsmen kowtowed and thanked him.

Yun Xi told Lu Chengfeng and Feng Mo to try their best to meet the requirements of the craftsmen, and went back.