In an instant, many of the ministers present understood what Yun Xi meant. Although he hadn't said anything else, everyone understood what he meant.

No matter what the nine of them thought, the Holy Decree could not help but accept it, so they could only kneel down and say, "Thank you, Your Majesty." ”

After they finished saluting, Yun Xi asked people to read out a few edicts, so that more than a dozen sons of Wenchen could inherit the positions of Shang Bao Si Cheng and so on.

"Fengtian carries the emperor's edict and says, the ministers of civil and military affairs, all serve the country, and it is not appropriate to be partial. All the ministers from the second rank and above, all can be shaded and a son will take the position of Shang Bao Sicheng. ”

At the end, the person who read the decree reads: "Fengtian carries the emperor's edict and says, not to use martial arts, but to be the minister of my humerus,......, and now Xu Shiyin's civil officials and children are guilty of their crimes. ”

At this point, Yunxi's purpose has been clear, that is, to include civil officials in the system of allowing them to inherit hereditary positions and can use their positions to atone for crimes.

The civil officials present were divided in an orderly manner, and most of the people who could go to the court thought that they had a good future, although the Ming Dynasty did not have many official positions from the second grade, but they also felt that most of them could be officials from the second grade, and they would be rewarded by His Majesty in the future, so they all shut up.

Of course, there are still a handful of 'fundamentalists' who refuse to accept it, but these people no longer have an impact on the big picture.

After solving the matter, Yun Xi issued another order: military generals are forbidden to ride in sedan chairs, and they must ride horses when they go out to fight, and they can take cars in peacetime.

Yun Xi forgot what book he read, saying that when the Taiping Rebellion was suppressed in the late Manchu Dynasty, some military generals actually went out in a sedan chair, and were captured and killed by the soldiers of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom because they could not ride horses when they were defeated. Although Yun Xi did not think that the army of the Ming Dynasty would develop to the same level as the army of the Manchu Qing Dynasty - even if it was at the end of the Ming Dynasty, at least the generals were still on horseback, but it was always necessary to be prepared.

Yun Xi's will did not cause too many waves, anyway, at this time, there was no military general to go to war in a sedan chair.

After that, Yun Xi did not take any further reform measures for the time being, and waited for a month to see how effective the soldiers of the Zhiwei and the students of the martial arts hall were practicing walking in step and walking in unison.

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The sound of "crackling", "crackling", "crackling", "crackling" sounded, and a person wearing the costume of a Ming Zheng six-rank military general waved a whip and kept whipping a person wearing ordinary soldier's clothes. In normal times, even if this soldier made any mistakes, although the other soldiers may have gloated and felt that they should have been, many people, including those who felt that they should have been, would have sympathized with them; But today, the nearly 100 soldiers standing next to him, without exception, all glared angrily at the person being beaten, and did not have the slightest sympathy.

After thirty such sounds, Baihu stopped the whip, threw the whip on the ground, and said to the person who was beaten: "This time I will beat you with thirty lashes, and if you commit it again next time, it will be sixty lashes; If it's the third offense, I won't dare to kill you, but you can leave the hundred households and go home and eat yourself! ”

As he spoke, he asked the soldier to loosen the rope that bound the man and let him go.

This hundred households belong to the avant-garde of the government army, and they are the hundred households that have been selected to practice walking in step and walking in unison. Although Liu Yangzheng, the commander of the avant-garde of the government army, did not understand why he had to select a hundred households to practice walking in step and walking in unison, since His Majesty would personally conduct the review, even if he didn't want to earn the first place, he couldn't fall behind in the last place, so Liu Yangzheng also carefully selected a hundred households who he thought had the best discipline and the strictest training on weekdays to practice walking and walking in unison, and told them His Majesty's reward.

The military attachés and soldiers of this hundred households were very excited, and His Majesty's words would not be false, so they practiced walking in step and walking in unison very hard. But there are always exceptions, the parents of this beaten man made a contribution to the last time they put down the rebellion, and he received the hereditary title of Hundred Households, so he was not as excited as them, and he was more lax in practice, so he was pulled out by Hundred Households and beaten with twenty lashes.

Although he was only whipped, Baihu was furious and did not take it lightly, and this man stood unsteadily and fell to the ground. It was still someone who had a good relationship with him on weekdays who helped him up.

The man said: "Wang Lao Er, even if you really don't care about the title of a hundred households, don't show it like this." It's not like you have a hundred-family title; Besides, if you don't have to fight, you can get the title of trying a hundred households, which I didn't dare to think of before; And if it's really because of you, our hundred households have fallen to the bottom, and the face of the commander is not good-looking, what can you do if you fix you? So you don't have to mess with everyone anymore and practice seriously. Either you will take leave with 100 households, and 100 households will not dare to let you play. ”

The person who is called Wang Lao's second name is Wang Lili, because there was a big brother above, so he was called the second child. He covered the wounds on his body and said, "Don't dare anymore." But there was a look of resentment in his eyes.

He was whipped today, so he naturally couldn't continue to practice, and he returned to the army to recuperate and be injured. Now the military system of the Ming Dynasty is still strict, and he does not dare to let him go home during the day, so he can only go back to the barracks.

Next, the hundred households rearranged their formation and continued to practice. I only heard the palace guards who trained them say, "Straw sandals are on par!" ”

Suddenly, all the people looked to the left, and tried to keep up according to what the guards said before, but they were still not particularly aligned, and Zhang Yue, the guard who was assigned to train them, straightened a few more people, and then said: "Straw shoes turn!" ”

The people below immediately began to turn, and while most turned to the left, a handful of them still turned from the right, and a few shoes fell off their feet.

Zhang Yue ordered people who fell off their shoes and turned staggered to go out and do push-ups, ten each.

Then he turned around a few more times, and then Zhang Yue asked them to line up in a four-way column and walk in unison. Because it is just walking around a small place, Zhang Yue doesn't have to walk along, just see how they walk, reprimand from time to time, and let a few people do push-ups after stopping.

After tossing and turning like this for a long time, as soon as Zhang Yuegang announced his dissolution at three o'clock in the afternoon, many people immediately sat on the ground to rest.

The intensity of this training is not very high, it is a little lighter than they usually are, but they are very difficult to get used to. Walking is required to be level at all times, and the slightest unevenness will be punished, not to mention frequent turns, many people turn their heads dizzy.

"It's really not easy to get the title of a hundred households, it's better to fight a battle with real knives and guns on the battlefield!" Someone complained.

"This guard is too, I heard that he was still a guard in the government army, and he is not polite to his family at all, such strict training." Someone else said.

"Alright, don't complain! If this is very easy, how can His Majesty promise the title of trying a hundred households to more than a hundred people? It is also good for us to be a little stricter with Zhang Guard, even if we don't ask for the first, it is not good to fall to the bottom. Someone said.

They were talking as they lined up to serve their meals. They fed from the cooking class, and they ate and talked together under the shade of the trees.

Suddenly, someone said: "Since the beginning of last year, the food has been getting better and better, from the first ten days to eat a meal of white rice, now every day at noon is white rice, occasionally there is meat to eat, there are always some mushrooms and tofu on days without meat, compared to the previous day is a day and a place." ”

"In the past two years, the court has been rich. Since the opening of the sea in the 31st year of Hongwu, a large amount of commercial taxes have entered the pockets of the imperial court. Can't improve our food yet? Even if we have more than 100,000 people, how much can we eat in a year? A well-informed person said.

"That's why Your Majesty remembers us and remembers to allocate money to improve the food. And I heard that not only our Shangzhiwei, but even the other Jingwei meals are also a lot better. Someone else said.

"That's right, Your Majesty still remembers to increase our money. Sure enough, Your Majesty is a good person, and everything is made bad by corrupt officials and corrupt officials, ten years ago, the head of our 100 households was corrupt and was killed by the first emperor. After His Majesty ascended the throne, he killed less corrupt officials, and he should have killed them like the first emperor. Someone else said.

Zhang Yue, who was sitting in his public house eating, naturally couldn't hear the soldiers' discussions, and didn't know that they first said bad things about themselves, and then praised the emperor and belittled corrupt officials. If he knew, he would definitely tell Yunxi after he went back that His Majesty was very much loved by ordinary soldiers.

Since he didn't know, he naturally thought about something else.

He was very happy when he was sent out to train them to walk in step and walk in unison, and felt that this was an opportunity for him to make meritorious contributions: although His Majesty did not say what he would do to them, ordinary soldiers could be given a hundred households, and their rewards were indispensable. Your Majesty has always been kind to those around you.

Zhang Yue originally wanted to be rewarded for his meritorious service, but the difficulty of training these people was beyond his imagination.

These people couldn't even tell the difference between left and right, and he was very troubled by this from the beginning, but His Majesty came up with a clever trick to solve this problem with one straw sandal and one cloth shoe. If Zhang Yue is asked to think of a solution by himself, I am afraid that he will not be able to think of it when it comes to the day of the review.

These people also have poor queue awareness, and they can't arrange a neat formation when they assemble at all, and they have to correct it every time. Once it is even more difficult to walk, the four columns lined up can always bend into four snakes in the end, and the four snakes that are entwined together may be more bent if the school field is wider.

This is not to teach them the most difficult step walking, after five days of training, it is still this virtue, Zhang Yue deeply doubts that he can train them on the day of the June 11 parade. He doesn't want to be the first anymore, he just doesn't fall into the last place.

But the matter has come to this, and he can't just go back and tell His Majesty that he can't do it, so he can only grit his teeth and persevere. He hurriedly finished his meal, asked the people sent by the hundred households to serve him to brush the dishes, and slept on his bed for a while, and then got up to continue training them.