The next Yang Feng completely put aside the rights and wrongs of the capital, and led the mighty army of righteous women to the north along the canal.

But when he got to Huai'an, he had to get off the boat.

After all, it was still winter at this time, and the canal to the north was still frozen.

Walkable only.

Fortunately, the righteous girls are in good health and full of energy, after all, they have seen the prosperity of Daming along the way, and they are all looking forward to their new life with joy. In this way, the mighty procession continued to go north while watching along the way, and when they arrived in Yanzhou, the imperial grandson had officially ascended the throne.

As for the era name......

For the time being, it's still Hongwu.

This will have to be changed after the New Year.

In fact, Zhu Di has always used Hongwu before he became emperor, so the fourth year of Jianwen has been Hongwu for 35 years in the official history of the Ming Dynasty.

Ambassador Yang, who arrived in Yanzhou, directly borrowed the currently vacant Lu Wangfu.

Of course, it wasn't him who came forward.

Theoretically, he was still on his way to Guangzhou at this time.

Of course, the leader of these righteous daughters is Zhang Ying.

At this time, Zhu Zhaoxuan was just ten years old, he was still only Lu Shizi, and he still lived in the Ten Princes' Mansion in the capital, which only Princess Lu occasionally came back to inspect, and now it is just used to place Yang Feng's righteous daughters. And Yang Feng is not ready to go back in a short time, Lao Zhu's funeral is very troublesome, originally in history, Zhu Yunwen buried him for seven days, which is very strange for an emperor, the Son of Heaven was buried in seven days and in July. Although this weekly ritual is not strictly observed, it is long or short, and there are even years of discussion, but the seven days are still exaggerated, which is almost comparable to those who have been thieves for ten thousand years. So even if Lao Zhu was the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty, according to his principle of restoring ancient etiquette, he would have to be in the funeral palace for at least seven months, but Zhu Yunwen did not allow his uncles to enter Beijing, and he was buried in just seven days.

It's a little weird indeed.

In fact, it is seriously out of order, especially when he is surrounded by great Confucianism.

But Zhu Yunxi will definitely not be like this.

And it's winter now, so I didn't have to worry about rotting, but in the end, after the discussion of the ministers in the court, it was unanimously decided that he would be in the funeral palace for seven months in strict accordance with the etiquette law.

In addition, the vassal kings from all over the country were summoned to Beijing for burial.

He is different from Zhu Yunwen, the latter was originally weak-hearted, and he was buried in seven days, and it was impossible to give the vassal king time to come back, but he was basically solved by the vassal king now. The four kings of Jin, Yan, Zhou, and Chu have all been moved, the king of Qin is already the second generation, and Chang Sheng is staring, the king of Qi is a fool, the king of Shu is very relieved, and the other kings are not in the climate, except for the king of Xiang in Jingzhou, the others are remote border fortresses, and there are many who are not at all. It can be said that he doesn't need to worry about the rebellion of the vassal king at all, on the contrary, he wants to show the world that the latter is subservient to him, not to mention not letting his family enter Beijing for burial, which is not right in itself.

Even ordinary people can't help but let their son go home to attend his father's funeral!

Seven months is enough.

Even if it is Zhu Di, he has enough time to rush back from the Western Regions.

At this time, he was presiding over the construction of Dihua City in Changbali, and according to Zhu Yuanzhang's holy decree, before the Beiting Commander and Dihuawei arrived, he had to take the various armies currently in the Western Regions to build Dihua City first.

In this way, the commander of the Beiting capital and Di Huawei will take over directly after they arrive.

From Dihua to the capital is nothing more than 6,000 miles, even if the message transmission time is added, seven months is enough for him to return to the capital, as for the remaining vassal kings, there is no farther than him, like the king of Chu who moved to the domain of Annan, the king of Han in Kaiyuan, and the king of Su in the northwest are all closer than him. Therefore, seven months later, all the vassal kings will gather in the capital to attend the funeral of the Daxing Emperor and meet the new monarch, officially completing the supreme power change of the Ming Empire.

It's still early!

At this time, when he returned to the capital, Ambassador Yang, as a foreign envoy, also had to participate in various ceremonies.

You have to wear filial piety.

Although he has pushed down other people's daughters, this kind of thing can still be avoided.

Yang Feng sent the righteous daughters to Yanzhou and asked Zhang Ying to continue to stay and settle them.

This palace is considered to be Zhang Ying's lease to Princess Lu and give rent.

Although the lease of the palace is a bit exaggerated, fortunately, Princess Lu is not the first.

Because the princess of Jin has rented some rooms in the palace to merchants as warehouses.

After the Jin King moved the domain, the palace remained in Taiyuan and had to be maintained, and it was useless, except for important buildings such as the main hall, such as the back house, those houses could be rented out. It just so happens that the industrial and commercial development of Taiyuan can be said to be advancing by leaps and bounds, and a large number of industrial and commercial people cannot find a place to be a warehouse in the city......

Money is the most important thing.

After the king of Jin moved to the domain, he was nothing more than guarding a bitter cold land.

That is, the rent that Yang Feng gave them, and then guarded the business road to collect some taxes, of course, they had to seize all opportunities to make money.

Now all vassal kings are like this.

Anyway, the emperor is already ready to let them live on their own, in fact, last year, a bunch of clans that needed to be knighted were not sealed, since he was not ready to give money, then he couldn't blame everyone for being shameless, renting out the palace or something was just the beginning.

Yang Feng still pretended to be a businessman, and then went north to Shanxi.

His tax package doesn't need to be cared about.

The key is the resettlement of those Mongols who came from Mobei.

But the situation is surprisingly good.

Although Shuofang is still a bitter cold place in the eyes of the princess of Jin, it is already a happy land for those Mongolians, after all, the winter in Mobei has to be minus forty or fifty degrees, and Hohhot is also minus twenty or thirty degrees, and in Mobei you have to endure hunger, here you have to worry about food and clothing. Since this is the case, let them continue to be happy, anyway, Ambassador Yang promised them has done it, Ambassador Yang promised to take them to Monan, Shuofang is of course Monan, he then went north to Huining, and then drilled into the reclamation area, in the severe cold of minus 30 degrees Celsius.

And at this time, the capital in the wind and snow.

Inside a nondescript mansion.

"How's it going?"

Huang Zicheng looked at Qi Tai who was brushing away the snowflakes on his body with an eager expression.

It's just that the latter is dressed in an old Confucian shirt and looks like a teacher.

Qi Tai is still the secretary of the military department, but Huang Zicheng was dismissed by Zhu Yunxi as an excuse, and after the latter ascended the throne, he carried out a large-scale purge of Zhu Yunxi's department, and most of them were dismissed. However, although the dismissal of the officials, the vast majority of these people are also in the capital, after all, they are just preparing to go home, but the preparation time is long, and it is impossible for His Majesty the Emperor to let the Jinyi guard come to the door and pick up the big stick.

"No news."

Qi Tai shook his head and said.

"Haven't seen it in Guangzhou?"

Fang Xiaoru said.

He was also dismissed.

"Nope."

Qi Tai shook his head.

"So where can he go? Even if he didn't know that the fleet had returned, he had to go to Guangzhou, could it be that he capsized in the river and fed the fish? ”

Huang Zicheng blankly fantasized about the happy scene of Yang Feng being fed fish.

Well, they're looking for Yang Feng.

After all, Yang Feng has not heard from him for a long time, and the holy decree given to him by Zhu Yuanzhang is to go to Guangzhou to take the four new warships that have been prepared, and then go to Luzon to welcome the Jiahe fleet. But the Jiahe fleet has returned to the capital, even if the news is slow, it will arrive in Guangzhou in a month, not to mention that the news of the emperor's death is announced to the world by holy decree, this is faster, and it will arrive in Guangzhou in a few days. It is impossible for Yang Feng to know that the emperor died and continued to go to Luzon, and besides, whether he goes or not, Guangzhou will always show up.

Now what's going on?

"Maybe there was an accident, he hasn't shown up since he left Anlongsi, Anlongsi has been in the mountains and mountains all the way to Guangzhou, and it's not impossible to have an accident."

Fang Xiaoru said.

"I didn't drown him at sea last time, can I drown him in the river in Guangxi?"

Qi Tai was speechless.

"How does that explain his disappearance? What's more, there are no places like Datengxia on the sea, he took the waterway to Guangzhou, and there were some barbarian people along the way, maybe there would be some accidents. He is not an immortal body, if he is really an immortal body, he doesn't need to be heavily armored all over his body, as long as his body armor is outside, when is it not worn?

He can be killed just as well.

Maybe in that deep mountain canyon, the boat capsized in the gutter and was shot to death by the natives with poisoned arrows.

What's more, no matter whether he is dead or not, as long as he is not in the capital, it will be our chance after all, as soon as the new monarch succeeds to the throne, he will change the imperial examination, reuse the northerners, and change the tax law. also let those villains falsely accuse the king of Guangze County of privately complaining about the emperor of Daxing, which is clearly to fabricate a crime to kill the king of Guangze County, our Ming Dynasty just sent away a tyrant, and this gave birth to another tyrant. ”

Huang Zicheng said with a sneer.

As soon as Zhu Yunxi succeeded to the throne, he immediately ordered to change the imperial examination system that he had been thinking about for a long time.

That is, to divide the profession.

There are five subjects: literature, industry, agriculture, arithmetic, and soldiering.

Liberal arts are the previous imperial examinations, but they are no longer limited to Confucian classics, simply put, they are arbitrary propositions to be examined, but in fact they are still Confucian, after all, the people who write the questions are still those civil officials.

But the remaining four subjects have nothing to do with Confucianism.

Moreover, the five subjects are at the bottom of the exam, and then they are promoted according to their grades, and the liberal arts scholars are still to the county government as in the past, but not necessarily the county, it may also be the main book, or even the history. However, Dingjia still entered the Hanlin Academy, but the five Dingjia all entered the Hanlin Academy, and the second class still entered the yamen of the capital, also starting from the lowest officials, and then the engineering department entered the Ministry of Industry, the Department of Calculation, and the Ministry of Military Affairs. This reform seriously hurt the interests of Confucianism, in fact, almost half of their positions were cut, and even if it is a liberal arts, it is not necessarily all Confucianism, after all, there is no limit to Confucian classics.

The question is a civil official, but the final approval is still the emperor!

He can take the Da Ming Law test.

The Confucian scholars were completely stunned by the slap, especially the great Confucians in the south who cultivated and read the heirloom, and they didn't know what to do at all?

Studying hard in the cold window to compete with a group of artisan vendors or even mud legs?

Agricultural science is really mud legs.

Of course, it's actually agricultural students.

The reform of the imperial examination was systematic, and it was not that the imperial court opened an agricultural department all at once, but that the local government first carried out agricultural education and used the teaching materials prepared by Yang Feng to open agricultural schools. Zhu Yuanzhang has established a nationwide basic education, which means that there are a large number of literate children, so these children can apply for agricultural schools.

Then I studied agronomy.

After completing the study, he participated in the imperial examination.

However, agronomy must be done in the field, such as breeding, fertilizer research, how to study without going to the field?

If you study fertilizer, you have to study the various components of dung!

The smell was overwhelming.

Yang Fengdu had to provide homemade gas masks to the workers who produced dung pills.

This reform of the imperial examination was already designed by Yang Feng and the imperial grandson four years ago.

There are even quite a few experimental schools.

The same is true for several other subjects, and even the liberal arts actually have schools dedicated to law.

All in Yangfeng's Wutai Mountain.

Zhu Yunxi is only finally staying up until his grandfather dies and becomes the emperor himself, so he can promote the original experimental school to the whole country, anyway, he opened the imperial examination, and the first batch of peasants, workers and soldiers are counted as students in these subjects, which are the experimental schools that he and Yang Feng ran, these are the protégés of the Son of Heaven, go directly to the examination, and then go to the grassroots level to become officials.

His Majesty the Emperor suddenly had a large number of grassroots officials who met his own standards.

And then open more of these schools.

Step by step, increase the number of miscellaneous scholars.

Officialdom was gradually replaced.

This has been planned for a long time.

It's just that Lao Zhu didn't want to do this before, after all, he understood that Confucianism was very beneficial to the maintenance of the family world, but Zhu Yunxi didn't care about this, or he was influenced by modern thought, and he had his own theory of protecting the family and the world.

But......

"Even if there is no Yang Feng, what can you and I do with a group of Confucian students? His Majesty still has the Shenji Battalion, there is no Shenji Battalion and the Beijing Battalion, even if there is no Yang Feng, he still has Lanyu.

What can you and I do?

King Yan is far away in the Western Regions, what can you and I do? ”

Qi Tai said.

Indeed, this situation is simply desperate!

"Brother Nantang, don't forget, we are grasshoppers on a rope, do you think I will go to Your Majesty and shake out the conspiracies we used to have together, will he punish your three clans."

Fang Xiaoru sneered.

Qi Tai's eyes widened......

"Then you don't want to run."

He said angrily.

"Fang Mou received the grace of King Guangze, and he should repay him with death, only the three clans, what about the ten clans? Fang Mou is to report the three clans of King Guangze, I don't know if you can give it? ”

Fang Xiaoru said.

Qi Tai froze instantly.

"Brother Nantang, you can't back down, in fact, you know very well, we can't help it, as long as Yang Feng is not there, we have a glimmer of life, here is a letter from the king of Guangze County, you might as well take a look first."

Huang Zicheng saw that the fire was coming, and pushed a letter in front of Qi Tai and said.

Zhu Yunwen has been grounded in the mansion, and they can't go to see him.

The latter was stunned for a moment.

He then opened the letter......

"King Yan is far away in the Western Regions, do you think a mere King of Hunan can protect the King of Guangze County?"

He then sneered.

Well, Zhu Yunwen's secret letter was to ask them to rescue him, and then flee to Jingzhou to ask for the protection of King Xiang, after all, he also knew that if he didn't run at this time, he would really wait for death.

"Brother Nantang, the King of Xiang can't protect it, then let's go and ask the King of Chu, the King of Chu can't protect it, then let's go and ask other vassal kings, His Majesty the Emperor wants to kill his brother and beg his uncle for protection, this is very reasonable, right?"

Huang Zicheng said.