In the evening, Xie Jin returned to Dong's Mansion and talked about today's events with Dong Lun, who was returning home from work, and praised Yunxi and said: "Your Majesty is really a person with a discerning eye, and immediately appointed me as the deputy editor-in-chief of "Taizu Shilu", and allowed me to edit "The Great Dictionary of the Ming Dynasty" and rebuild "Yuan History" in the future. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info”

Dong Lun was very happy that Xie Jin was reused, but he was still a little worried about him, and said: "Brother Jie, you will be an official in the imperial city in the future, but you must pay attention." It is not proper for you to write an essay today without your Majesty's permission, and it is extremely inappropriate. ”

"Fortunately, Your Majesty is generous and doesn't care about you, otherwise, with your actions today, I'm afraid you will not be reused by Your Majesty from now on."

"There are countless people in the world who are good at writing, and you are not the only one."

Xie Jin said disdainfully: "How can others compare with me!" ”

Dong Lun listened to his words and didn't know what to say, so he could only watch and help him resolve it later.

Xie Jin said again: "But today I heard His Majesty chant a poem in the palace, which is quite good, and I don't know who filled it in." As he spoke, he memorized the song "Mo Shangsang".

Dong Lun said: "It's really good, it's all the bitterness and bitterness of the people who have landed." It doesn't sound like His Majesty pretended to be filled in by someone else, and His Majesty has not taken the imperial examination, so he can't make such a poem. ”

Xie Jin said: "I heard that it is a talent who has not been promoted in Yongping Mansion and Luanzhou, waiting for His Majesty to find this person, I must learn poetry with him." ”

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The next day was July 12. The officials of the Ministry of Rites designated July 13 as an auspicious day for the vassal king to return to his fiefdom. Even if Yun Xi wanted to gradually revoke the vassal kings in the mainland, he couldn't detain them all at once in the capital, he had to take them step by step, so he agreed to let them return to the fiefdom. In particular, Zhu Zanyi, the king of Jingjiang, was the most important, and he needed to return to Guilin to deal with the local officials.

However, all the little princes who had reached the age of seven but were not yet twenty years old were left in the capital, and only Zhu Gaochi was allowed to return to the fiefdom on the grounds of "going home to visit his newborn eldest son", but asked him to wait until Zhu Zhanji was a week old to return to Beijing.

When Yun Xi was teaching the four children to continue learning the "Three Character Classic" in the afternoon, Wang Xi walked in and said, "Your Majesty, His Royal Highness King Yan asks to see you." ”

Yun Xi was slightly surprised, but still said, "Please come in Uncle Siwang." Then he said to Baoqing and the others, "You wait a while, and I'll be back in a while." ”

Baoqing and the others nodded.

Yun Xi originally wanted to talk to Zhu Di in another palace, but he didn't expect Zhu Di to come quickly, and before Yun Xi walked out of this palace, Zhu Di had already arrived.

Zhu Di said with a smile: "Your Majesty, the minister has come to see Your Majesty." Then he knelt down and saluted.

Yun Xi hurriedly went to help, but as expected, Yun Xi couldn't help Zhu Di, and Zhu Di fell to the ground and kowtowed.

Yun Xi said: "Uncle Siwang, didn't you kill me!" ”

Zhu Di said: "Your Majesty is the Son of Heaven, how can you not bear it!" ”

Then after Zhu Di stood up, he greeted a few little guys, and the four little guys also returned the salute.

Min'er said, "Are you the fourth uncle?" Now the oldest among the kings of the Ming Dynasty, is he also very capable? ”

Zhu Di said with a smile: "Xiao Min'er, I am indeed the oldest in the Ming Sect now, but there are many people who have the ability to do it than me. Brother Ning and Brother Liao are much stronger than me. ”

Yun Xi was a little surprised when he saw Zhu Di like this for the first time, but he reacted and smiled: "Why should Uncle Four Kings be humble. The two of them laughed and went to another palace.

After they sat down, Yun Xi took a sip of tea and said, "Uncle Siwang has nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace, what is the matter with entering the palace today?" ”

Zhu Di said: "Since Your Majesty asked, then I will say it directly." ”

"The minister thinks that among the vassal kings, he can be regarded as having some ability,......, so please guard the border for Daming."

Zhu Di's words today have also been repeatedly considered. After discussion, Zhu Di's advisers agreed that Yun Xi always liked the people below to speak directly, and did not like to hide it; Yun Xi also puts things out when he does things, although you don't necessarily know what his purpose is, but at least his actions are on the surface.

Therefore, Zhu Di spoke relatively directly, and was neither humble nor arrogant, because the sycophant thing was when he first entered the door.

Yun Xi pondered. A ruthless person like Zhu Di, Yun Xi is of course planned, and good steel is used on the blade, and it must be used where it is needed most.

Yun Xi believes that the most suitable place for Zhu Di is the key position of the empire's sphere of influence, either the Uzbekistan in the northwest, the area from Tanjik to Kazakhstan, or the Bengal-Assam region, or Sumatra.

All three of these were the westernmost places where the empire could have maintained its direct rule for hundreds of years, and their geographical location was also important. There are no Han people in the local area, and a ruthless person like Zhu Di is needed to pacify the place.

But Yun Xi can't tell Zhu Di directly, now the Ming Dynasty can't reach these places, even Sumatra will have to live in a few years, not to mention that if the regime on Sumatra Island has ever declared itself a vassal to the Ming Dynasty, it has to bother to find a suitable excuse.

Yun Xi did not intend to change the kings of all the vassal states to Zhu, but an important island like Sumatra was a must.

If Yun Xi had told Zhu Di directly, Zhu Di would probably have thought that Yun Xi was prevaricating him. So after thinking for a while, Yun Xi said half-truthfully: "Uncle Siwang, you must have a feudal kingdom in the future." But where it is, I haven't figured it out yet. ”

Zhu Di wants to say that he is not disappointed, but Yun Xi's answer can be regarded as the truth, and Zhu Di is not good at asking Yun Xi about his consideration.

Next, the uncle and nephew chatted. Although the two of them only spoke seven points, they also talked happily. The two found that their views on civil officials, Confucianism, and religion were all similar, and they were all used to make use of them.

Yun Xi also humbly asked some questions about the humanities and geography of the north, but Zhu Di didn't think it was a big deal, and answered them one by one.

After a while, the sky was about to fall to the west, and Yun Xi left Zhu Di to have a meal.

Well, Yun Xi's teaching task for the four children in the second half of the year can't be completed, so it can only be postponed until tomorrow, but Yun Xi feels that it will be worth it if he can calm Zhu Di's heart.

The next day, Yunxi personally sent more than a dozen princes back to the fiefdom, and Jixi, Zhu Lu and others, who had a good relationship, still relied on others.

Yun Xi actually wanted to have a good chat with these uncles and brothers, but he was too busy to succeed to the throne just now, and he really didn't have time. But fortunately, everyone will come over on Zhu Yuanzhang's death day next year, and they shouldn't be so busy by then, so I can have time to have a good chat with them.

Of course, Shang Bing and the other three did not leave Beijing, and they still had to continue to toss the details of the feudal state in the capital, almost until next year.

On the same day, Zhang Shu left the capital, and he was going to Tieling to take office.

Before leaving, Yun Xi told him: "Zhang Qing, you are going to Liaodong, first, to increase the qualifications of leading troops in the local area, and second, to prepare for the future. I plan to wait for Uncle Ying to officially seal the country and make you the left prince of the United Kingdom, and concurrently lead the capital of Liaodong. ”

"In the future, remember, in Nuer Gandusi, first pick a tribe with more power to start the knife, and let them know how powerful my Ming Ying feudal country is. However, in the future, it is not possible to always use swords, mainly to support Sui, supplemented by troops. ”

"In addition, the soldiers of the Liaodong Xingdu Division are the soldiers of the Central Imperial Court, not the soldiers of the British feudal country, don't get confused." For this point, Yun Xi can only say so much, and if he says more, it will hurt his family. But he believed that Zhang Shu could understand.

Zhang Shu said: "The minister obeys the order." "I guess I understand.

Yunxi then let Zhang Shu go.

On the way back to the palace, Yun Xi kept thinking. In fact, this place in the northeast is counted as the coastal area of Liaodong on both sides, which is not far by sea, and there are many major rivers in the territory with convenient transportation. Yun Xi was actually reluctant to seal the Northeast out.

But there are too few Han people in Liaodong in this era! Since the Tang Dynasty lost Liaodong after the Anshi Rebellion, the Han people in Liaodong are becoming fewer and fewer, and there is no one in the Mengyuan and Yuan periods.

Zhu Yuanzhang worked hard for 20 years to make Liaodong have hundreds of thousands of Han people, as well as more than 100,000 domesticated natives. The Northeast is cold again, and it is not easy for people to take the initiative to come to the Northeast to open up the wasteland in the early Ming Dynasty. If you don't have a king to come here and 'educate' the natives with both soft and hard, I'm afraid that there won't be much change in a hundred years.

However, Yun Xi has already decided that when Zhu Song and other kings who will be sealed in the northeast die, he will implement the 'Tui En Order' in the northeast, turn the big country into a small one, and finally slowly return to the central government.

But you can't do that in the Western Regions. Even if there are other countries in the west of the Western Regions, Afghanistan and Kashmir in the southwest, they all have to be guarded against, and small countries are careful to be swallowed. As for the Min country in the southwest, it doesn't matter whether it is pushed or not.

There are more than a dozen princes in the royal family at once, and the capital seems empty, although these princes don't come out much on weekdays, and they invite their brothers to dinner in their own mansions, but they just seem to be much empty.

The princes were gone, and the study room dedicated to teaching the royal children was reopened.

But in fact, there are not too many people: Zhu Zhang's concubines who have reached the age of twenty have returned, and there are seven or eight; Zhu Li's sons; ZHU Gaoxu; Zhu Youstew also went back when he reached the age of twenty, leaving Zhu Hu's other sons; Zhu Zhen's two concubines; Zhu Rong's sons; Zhu Zhaohui, the only son of King Lu; There are also the eldest sons of Zhu Chun and Zhu Bai.

The children of the other Zhu Yuanzhang's sons were still young and did not stay in the capital. Calculated in this way, plus Zhu Yunxu and Zhu Yunjian, there are more than 20 people who remain in the capital (it seems to be a lot).

Yun Xi invited the great Confucian of the court, Xu Zongshi, the sacrificial wine of the Guozijian, and Fang Xiaoru, the scholar of the Zhongshu, to give them a lesson; I also found Guo Ying, who is semi-retired, to teach the art of war.

There are also several guards with strong martial arts skills to teach martial arts.

Yun Xi was very worried about these royal children, and it turned out that there were many disasters to the people, so Yun Xi specially came to give a speech on the first day of the reopening of classes.