The admonition of the civil officials of the foreign dynasty was indeed much more intense than that of the military generals, and from the morning of the 27th of the second day, Yun Xi was admonished by several people who were qualified to go to the court, and even his cronies were opposed; When I waited for the court, I was even more exhorted, and the recitals were piled up on the table that was criticized and answered on weekdays.

However, Yun Xi ignored the opposition of these people, and left all the twists and turns in the middle, and prepared a plan to go south.

At first, the result of the deliberations of the various yamen was to let Yunxi go north along the river, enter the Xiangjiang River at Yueyang, land in Changsha, and then go all the way south to Guangzhou.

But Yun Hee vetoed it. "I'm going to take a boat south along the coast this time." Yun Hee said to them.

"Your Majesty, there are many winds and waves along the coast, especially in summer and autumn, and there are many typhoons, so it is not safe to travel along the coast." Guo Hongtao, the head of the town department, said.

"I took a boat south along the coast. I will never be far from the shore, just by the coast. Yun Xi said.

One of the reasons why he had to go south along the coast was to promote maritime trade and overcome the fear of the people in the interior. Although the Ming Dynasty has been setting up the City Shipping Division for several years, the only people who really organize the fleet to go out to do business are still the people who live by the sea, even in slightly inland places, such as Suzhou, where most of the big businessmen do business in the City Shipping Division, and would rather earn less than take the risk of sailing on the sea.

The Northwest Trade Route, where the cost and risk of transportation was far greater than that of maritime trade, aroused great interest from merchants in Shaanxi, Sichuan, Shanxi and other places, and countless big merchants let their children go to Yiwu and even Yili along the ancient road. Although they also made countless money, it was less than the profit of sea trade. This is enough to prove that most people are still afraid of the ocean.

Therefore, Yun Xi himself came to set an example, telling everyone that the sea is not so terrible, and encouraging inland merchants to do business overseas.

After listening to Yun Xi's undoubted words, the person who made the itinerary could only go back and revise it. "For the sake of safety, the fleet escorting His Majesty must never sail far from the coast. However, in addition to the vicinity of the harbor, there are many underwater reefs on the seaside, and the boat on which His Majesty sits cannot be too small, so he can only use a flat-bottomed boat. ”

"It's just that the flat-bottomed Fu boat is moving very slowly, and His Majesty may not be satisfied." Zhang Xiaodong, who was called to escort Yunxi along the road, said.

Zhang Xiaodong's current official position is the commander of the East China Sea Division. This is an official position invented by Yun Xi, which is the second grade, which is equivalent to the commander of the capital, and the actual power is far more than that of the commander of the capital, and it is not a temporary dispatch.

For the sailors, they should rest assured that they are all military officials. Because the sailor could not go ashore, and there was no sailor marine, although the capital of the Ming Dynasty was on the riverside, the city was also several miles away from the Yangtze River, so everyone was not worried about the sailor rebellion. But for Lu Shi, it is different, the restrictions are very strict.

Even Yoon-hee is no exception. After all, he is a feudal emperor, and the Ming Dynasty is still a feudal bureaucratic state, although he wants to carry out reforms, he will also prevent the generals under his command from rebelling, so he is very strict with the Lu Division, especially the Lu Division near the capital, and the Water Division is much more lenient. Therefore, the three major naval divisions all have permanent official positions equivalent to the general army and deputy generals, and the land divisions only have special places. Zhang Xiaodong has also been promoted in the water division, and if he wants to continue to be promoted, he can only be promoted to the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies.

At this time, after listening to Zhang Xiaodong's words, Qin Song immediately said: "It's a flat-bottomed blessing boat." Your Majesty's safety is paramount, and speed is not very important. If Your Majesty insists on both safety and speed, I can only ask Your Majesty to take the Yangtze River. ”

The other officials present agreed with Qin Song's opinion, so the decision to use the flat-bottomed Fu boat as the boat on which Yun Xi was taking was passed.

Yun Xi himself has no opinion. He also values his own life and is unwilling to be thrown away at sea.

In order to add an insurance to his life, Yunxi also put forward the concept of a lifebuoy in later generations. He said to the ministers: "Make an inflatable object and tie it to a person, so that even if it falls into the sea, it will not sink to the bottom." ……”

After Yun Xi finished speaking, someone immediately said: "Your Majesty, is this the sheepskin raft in the northwest!" The people of the northwest were inflated in intact sheepskins, tied to wooden planks, and marched through the river. It turns out that it can still be used like this! ”

Immediately, all the places where sheep were slaughtered in the capital were ordered by the Heavenly Palace: within ten days, a thousand complete sheepskins should be handed over, and there would be a reward, but if the number was not enough, or if it was shoddy, a heavy penalty would be imposed.

Of course, the slaughtering places did not dare to slack off, and within nine days they had handed over enough hides, and all of them were intact.

The sailor found someone to test it himself, and it proved that it was indeed useful, and then the 'sheepskin lifebuoy' was popularized in the sailor. Of course, it is called a sheepskin soft barrel in the Ming Dynasty.

In this way, with the flat-bottomed Fu boat, the small escape boat that was previously set up on the big ship, and the sheepskin soft barrel, Yunxi travel is much safer.

However, he can't go out on patrol right away, first, the sailor still needs to prepare, and second, he still has a lot of things to deal with.

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"Many soldiers from other places who came to Guangxi did not know the fruit in the field, or mistook it for another kind of fruit, and were poisoned or even poisoned to death by mistake." Yun Xi saw a routine official document from Guangxi, and said to himself: "These soldiers are idiots! Dare to eat wild fruits you don't know? ”

"Your Majesty, it's not all the soldiers' fault." Li Xuhu, the newly appointed Qiu assistant who had just handed over his vote to Yun Xi after Yun Xi finished speaking, said: "Hundreds of thousands of troops have come to Guangxi, and rice and noodles and other grains are enough for them to eat, but the local vegetables are completely insufficient, and the vegetables cannot be transported from other places; And on the way to the march, no one is used to eating pickled vegetables on weekdays, and many people go to the woods to pick some wild fruits. ”

"Not only the soldiers of the land division but also the navy division sailed overseas, sometimes going to uninhabited desert islands to pick wild fruits, and there were also poisoned."

"Then how can I eat fresh vegetables on this boat trip?" Yun Xicai didn't believe that the generals of the sailor would dare to let him eat pickles at once.

"Your Majesty is traveling along the coast this time, close to the sea, and at least every day he will send a small boat to the village on the shore to buy vegetables and vegetables for His Majesty to eat." Li Xuhu said.

Yun Xi understood and waved his hand to make him stand down.

However, although Li Xuhu's remarks just now answered his question of how to eat fresh vegetables and vegetables, the problem of ordinary soldiers of the Lu Division was still not solved. There are so many people in Guangxi, and there are not as many strong laborers who have served as many soldiers as the soldiers who poured into Guangxi during this period, and there is only so much land to be cultivated, it is impossible to supply hundreds of thousands of troops to eat vegetables.

And now the soldiers are stationed in Guangxi, which is actually better, and it will not be easy to deal with it when the war is fought in Annam. The war against Annan went very smoothly in history, but it does not mean that he will definitely go very smoothly this time, and he must always prepare for the worst. There are not enough vegetables under the fortified city, and although there are pickled vegetables to eat with food, there will definitely be people who can't help but go to the woods to pick wild fruits.

However, Yun Xi didn't have any good options, so he could only write the words 'got it' on the routine recital. But he kept it in his heart.

After all the recitals were answered, Yun Xi put down his pen, looked at it, and said to Wang Xi: "Arrange it, I want to go out of the palace to talk about martial arts." ”

Wang Xi didn't ask him why he wanted to go to the martial arts hall, and immediately went out to find Li Bo and other guards to arrange. After a while, Li Bo had already made arrangements.

Yun Xi didn't ink either, and soon came to the lecture hall, and after seeing Yu Zhouwen and Zheng Xuan, he first scolded Zheng Xuan and scolded him for following the students.

Of course, Zheng Xuan knew that the emperor would also reprimand and explain that he had expectations for him, so although he had been scolded all the time, he felt a little uncomfortable, but he understood that this was not a bad thing for him, although he was very serious when Yun Xi scolded, but when he finished scolding, he immediately smiled and said: "The minister is young and ignorant, let Your Majesty bother." ”

"You, you, obviously the same age as Yu Zhouwen, twenty-two years old this year, why don't you learn from his stability." Yun Xi said this again angrily.

"Well, Your Majesty, the minister must learn from Yu Zhouwen's maturity and steadiness in the future, definitely." Zheng Xuan said with a smile.

Yun Xi knew that this was his style, so he didn't say anything anymore. If ordinary emperors may not like such people very much, Zheng Xuan will not have a bright future in his life; But Yun Xi is still very tolerant of this kind of unusual genius, and feels that such people can do things that ordinary people can't do, and allow them to exist in the imperial court.

Of course, Yun Xi didn't know that it was he who was tolerant of Zheng Xuan, and Zheng Xuan always verbally promised to learn mature and stable people, but he never changed, not that he would not change.

After talking about Zheng Xuan's matter, Yun Xi immediately said: "Call out all the students in the martial arts hall, no matter what class they are taking, and I want to check if they can sing the "Love Folk Song" now." ”

When he went to lecture on Wutang in early July, he said that when he went to lecture on Wutang again, he would check their proficiency in "Love Folk Songs", but then the Annan people succeeded in assassinating Chen Tianping, and he handled the expedition to Annan, so he forgot about it, and he didn't remember it until a few days ago. So he came here today, and after talking about Zheng Xuan, he asked Yu Zhouwen to ask the students to come out and sing.

Zheng Xuan's face froze, but fortunately, Yun Xi didn't look at him at this time; Yu Zhouwen's face did not change, and after hearing Yun Xi's words, he immediately called all the secretaries over. After a while, 600 students came out of the school building and stood according to their classes.

Immediately, Yu Zhouwen loudly asked them to start singing "Love Folk Song", and the students opened their voices and sang.

At this time, Yun Xi had already heard from the guards what Zheng Xuan's face had changed just now, so he thought that it was impossible for these students to sing the love folk song from beginning to end; But contrary to his expectations, the vast majority of people actually sang the song in its entirety.