Zhu Youxiao's speech won extremely warm applause. The officers knew that their rise in status was entirely contributed to by this emperor, so the gratitude in their hearts could only be expressed with applause.

The master of ceremonies continued: "Please take the oath on behalf of the graduating students." He motioned to Zhu Youxiao to stand next to the loudspeaker and not move. Wang Zuomin, Du Guangting, and Chen Liyuan came to the stage, stopped about five steps in front of Zhu Youxiao, saluted Zhu Youxiao, and Zhu Youxiao returned the salute. The three of them knelt on one knee, raised their hands and clenched their fists, and said: "The whole army of the Guards must be loyal to Your Majesty, loyal to the Ming Dynasty, and loyal to the Chinese nation." We hereby swear: only obey Your Majesty's words, any act that goes against Your Majesty's will is our enemy, and any violation of the Ming people will be regarded as a violation of the entire Ming Dynasty, and any violation of the Ming Dynasty will be severely punished by the Ming army. Those who dare to offend my Ming will be punished even if they are far away! ”

Wei Zhongxian held three short swords. Zhu Youxiao picked one up and gently pulled it out, and the blade of the sword radiated a cold light. He inserted the sword into the scabbard, exposed one side of the hilt, and saw that there were three words engraved on it, "Zhongyongren", and turned to the other side of the hilt, which was engraved with "Gift from Zhu Youxiao".

Ye Xianggao, who was sitting behind Zhu Youxiao, saw those words, and he whispered to the other party: "Look at those words." Fang Congzhe had actually seen it, he shook his head and said, "There is no way now, I'll talk about it later." ”

Zhu Youxiao said: "This is the Loyal and Brave Sword, awarded to the outstanding graduates of each period, and this time it will be awarded to twenty people." In addition to outstanding students, they will also be presented to meritorious generals in the future. I hope that you will be loyal to the country in the future, and everyone will be presented with a loyal sword. ”

He took the sword, put it on Wang Zuomin's head, and slapped it on both shoulders and said, "Loyalty, bravery, benevolence." Then he handed the sword to Wang Zuomin. With tears in his eyes, Wang Zuomin took the short sword. Then a military salute was given. Zhu Youxiao smiled: "Stand up." ”

Wang Zuomin stood up, stood up and saluted, and Zhu Youxiao replied with a salute: "When you can stand up in the future, you must stand up and salute." Wang Zuomin replied loudly: "Thank you, Chief Mountain." ”

After giving Du Guangting and Chen Liyuan the sword in the same way, Sun Chuanting began to call the names of the outstanding students one by one, after these students came to the stage, they saluted, received the sword, and thanked them, and when it was Zhang Zongling's turn, Zhu Youxiao smiled and said: "Zongling, I heard that you are unwilling to take the oath?" ”

Zhang Zongling's face was red-eared and equatored: "Report to the mountain chief, the students have inconvenient legs and feet, and they are afraid of being laughed at." ”

Zhu Youxiao said with a smile: "A man's husband, what does it matter if his legs and feet are not effective. I know that you are afraid of affecting the oath-taking ceremony, you must know that what I want is a corrective man who can fight, and if you can fight, you are a good man. ”

Zhang Zongling saluted: "Report to the mountain chief, although the students did not take the oath on stage, when they took the oath, the students followed the oath in their hearts. ”

This is good, all the students who did not take the oath on the stage stood up and saluted together: "Report to the mountain chief, although the students did not take the oath on the stage, when they took the oath, the students followed the oath in their hearts. ”

Zhu Youxiao raised his hand and saluted, first turned to the left, then to the right, and then put his hand down and said: "I know that you are all good students of me, I am proud of you, and I believe that you will not live up to my hopes." ”

The students said in unison: "Thank you, Chief." ”

At this time, the sword awarding ceremony continued, and after the completion, Zhu Youxiao said: "The first phase of the lecture martial arts hall has been successfully graduated, and soon you will go to all parts of the country, maybe Liaodong, maybe Mongolia, maybe the South China Sea, Annam, Japan." Everywhere, I want you to understand that the truth is only within our control by force. If we want others to listen to our reasoning, we must first make them understand that they cannot afford the price of not listening to our reasoning. ”

The officers listened wholeheartedly, and the emperor's words meant that if others did not obey, they would be beaten to obey, and this was the easiest thing for these soldiers who were good at violence to listen to.

After the ceremony, Zhu Youxiao and several members of the cabinet discussed the subsequent transfer of the army. Fang Congzhe and Ye Xianggao were all angry, and the emperor was silent when he asked them.

Zhu Youxiao was puzzled, and at this time, Xu Guangqi glared at Sun Chuanting fiercely and said, "Your Majesty, there is something wrong with the words on the Zhongyong Sword. ”

Sun Chuanting saw Xu Guangqi's cold eyes, and he also screamed in his heart. He only knew that there was a sword ceremony, and he hadn't seen what the sword looked like before, and Wei Zhongxian was all in charge. He didn't dare to argue, so he bowed his head and didn't speak.

Only then did Zhu Youxiao understand, he smiled and said: "Sir, don't blame Sun Gebu, these are my ideas, every word is decided by me, the factory minister has also persuaded me, and several people from the Weapons Bureau have also said it, but I forced them to write according to my meaning, so if you are angry, sprinkle it on the kid." ”

Ye Xianggao heard that he actually called himself a kid, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, the ministers just thought that the Sun Pavilion Department knew and didn't tell us, so they didn't dare to blame Your Majesty." It's just that I, China, is famous for its etiquette, but now I engrave His Majesty's name on the hilt of my sword, which is really decent, and others will think that we don't even know how to hide for His Holiness, and we will make the country laugh. ”

Zhu Youxiao made a lot of effort, he said: "In fact, since the dynasty became an ancestor, it has not paid much attention to avoidance. Just like ingots, there was indeed no ingots when Taizu was there, but after becoming an ancestor, it was still called ingots. And I am the ancestors of the ancestors, and there are many commonly used words in the name, and there is no requirement to avoid it? ”

Ye Xianggao said: "Your Majesty, I will avoid the two names not to be biased, if it is one word, of course it can not be avoided, but two words must be avoided." ”

Zhu Youxiao said: "But when Xuanzong succeeded to the throne, he clearly told the world that the name of the emperor today does not need to be avoided, this is not a word to avoid." ”

Ye Xianggao was stumped when he was a freshman. Because of the evasion, the most powerful in Chinese history are the Tang Dynasty, the Song Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty. And the evasion of the Ming Dynasty was a very strange situation: when Zhu Yuanzhang first became emperor, the evasion was very strict. For example, Feng Guosheng, the general at that time, changed his name to Feng Sheng in order to avoid Zhu Yuanzhang's word Guorui, and the ingots at that time were renamed Tongbao.

But after Zhu Yuanzhang's death, the avoidance suddenly became much more relaxed, and when Zhu Di was in the time, one of the "Tang Tangs" in the Book of Poetry was obviously guilty of Zhu Di's obscurity, but no one changed its name. There is a word "town" in the name of Zhu Qizhen, but there has always been a town in the official position of the Ming Dynasty, and no one said to change the name.

There is only one word of guilt in these things, but it is still reasonable. But Ming Xuanzong Zhu Zhanji did announce to the world with a holy decree after ascending the throne, and his name did not need to be avoided. In this way, Zhu Youxiao engraved his name on the Zhongyong sword, and he could barely say it.