"Wan Sheng! Wansheng! Wansheng! ”

"Boom, boom—"

On the fifth day of the first month of winter, with the sound of the mountain calling for victory, the salute outside the Jiangdong Gate also rang out.

On the water of the Yangtze River in the cold winter, 5,000 horses and horses are moored at the wharf, and what walks down is the triumphant division that went to Japan's Eastern Crusade.

"Chen Xuan, the Marquis of Pingjiang, fortunately did not disgrace his life, went east to quell the chaos, beheaded 26,427 rebels, captured 30,627 people, broke Kyoto, and helped Xiaoren to be the lord of the country."

Chen Xuan, who was dressed in a given dress, bowed respectfully, above the dock and under the canopy, Zhu Gaoxu had a smile in his eyes, the corners of his mouth were lightly picked, and he was full of confidence.

"Appreciating Pingjiang Hou Chen Xuan, a ...... in Sumatra Copper Mountain"

said an understatement, but it shocked the officials of the six departments behind him to kneel down one after another: "Your Highness, you can't!" ”

At the beginning, Zhu Gaoxu's reward of the southwest generals for the copper mountain was carried out in the Chunhe Palace, and it was too late for the ministers to stop it, but now in front of them, a copper mountain was rewarded again, which was too ......

"If you don't get rewarded for your merits, how can you convince the public?"

Zhu Gaoxu still spoke confidently, ignoring the advice of the ministers, raised his chin and signaled to Chen Xuan: "Get up." ”

"Minister, Your Highness Longen!"

Although Chen Xuan thought that the reward would be very rich, he did not expect to get a copper mountain directly.

"The rest of the military attachés and soldiers participating in the war will be rewarded with five times the money!"

Zhu Gaoxu waved his hand, and countless military officers and soldiers knelt down one after another: "Your Highness is a thousand years old!" Chitose! Chichitose ......"

With a wave of his hand, millions of pieces disappeared, which made people feel distressed.

"It's not going to be like this to destroy a little Japan."

"His Royal Highness is used to being extravagant with military attachés, it's really ......"

"We don't see any reward for our diligence......"

Zhu Gaoxu's generosity made the civil officials inevitably whisper, but Zhu Gaochu didn't care, but just signaled to Chen Xuan, Zheng Jun, Yang Wen, Yang Xiong and others:

"The Chang'an Gate Tower and the Chang'an Gate have set up a banquet, and today all the gentlemen drink together to celebrate the triumph of our army."

"Ministers receive the decree ......"

At the sound of an order, thousands of returning Eastern Expedition soldiers disembarked one after another and followed the team to Chang'anmen Square to celebrate.

Military attachés above 100 households in the army got the opportunity to enter the palace city and go to the Chang'an Gatehouse to celebrate.

In the past, local border troops were usually only allowed to enter the palace at the level of commander and envoy, but when Zhu Gaoxu opened his mouth, no one dared to disagree.

As for the group of kneeling ministers, Zhu Gaoxu just glanced at it: "Quelling the national turmoil in Japan is very important for the future trade between the imperial court and Dongzhou, and the money, grain, and taxes brought are millions, so don't make trouble in vain!" ”

can make Zhu Gaoxu say this, it can be seen that their approach has provoked Zhu Gaoxu.

Seeing that Zhu Gaoxu was angry, the group of people hurriedly got up again, without Wei Zheng's courage and Haigang Peak's iron bones.

Ignoring them, Zhu Gaoxu returned to Miyagi on a golden chariot and under the escort of soldiers and horses.

When the golden chariot passed by the Gangdong Gate, the streets were lined with people who had come to pay their respects to the current prince.

Since the school year has not yet started, middle school students can also enter and exit the school, especially come to observe.

Here, they saw the majestic division of the Ming Dynasty, and also saw the golden chariot carrying the prince of the Ming Dynasty.

Although they only saw the carriage, this scene still shocked Jianghuai and them, especially the Eastern Expedition army afterward.

There was an endless stream of cheers and cheers, young people were full of praise for their way of proclaiming national prestige, and the women, although shy, stared at them intently.

From Hongwu to the present, in just eleven years, the status of the military has changed from the former mud legs to the current sergeant.

After all, after years of literacy, the overall illiteracy rate of the Ming army has dropped from 97% in the first year of Yongle to 72% today, and it continues to decline at a rate of 3% every year.

The reason for this is mainly due to the current policy of recruitment.

At present, there are standards for recruiting soldiers from the Governor's Office of the Six Armies, with a height of no less than five feet two (166cm), and a primary school diploma, in addition to other physical fitness standards.

Of course, the standards of some armies will be lowered according to the types of troops needed, such as the Uszangdu Division and the Duogandu Division, as well as the Yunnan Metropolitan Division, the Jiugang Capital Division, the Jiaozhi Capital Division and other places can lower the standards as appropriate.

Needless to say, the quality of the soldiers in these places is that only they can adapt to the local environment, so standards such as culture and height can be lowered.

However, a temporary reduction does not mean that it can be reduced all the time, after all, the Ming Dynasty has migrated a large number of Xifan people into the interior, in addition to opening primary schools in Qamdo, Derge, and Xining, teaching the local Xifan people to read and write.

The people of Xifan usually send their children to these three places, because sending their children to primary school can reduce the horse endowment for one year.

Although such a policy will cause many Fanmin to have children all year round to be exempted from paying taxes, but this will bring them more pressure, and in the end, in order to survive, they can only obey the instructions of the imperial court and migrate to Sichuan and Longxi to settle.

These various standards are destined to be very difficult to be paid as a soldier in the Ming Dynasty, and if the same profession is scarce, it is easy to be touted.

It was in this context that the mud legs became sergeants.

"Beep-"

"The flag is fluttering, Ma Zheng Xiao Xiao, a good man, a good man, a good man to serve the country in the future!"

When the whistle sounded, the soldiers of the Eastern Expedition who marched in an orderly manner began to sing the "Song of the Army", which overshadowed the cheers around them, and the soldiers also happily walked to Chang'anmen Square.

"What a man!"

Jiang Huai has never forgotten who liberated his family from serfs to common people, and he couldn't help but cheer when he looked at the appearance of the soldiers of the Eastern Crusade.

It's a pity that there is no endless feast in the world, and as the team goes away, the people also leave spontaneously, leaving only the loneliness after the hustle and bustle.

Jiang Huai felt a sense of loss, and after sorting out his mood, he walked out of the city with his classmates and embarked on the return journey to the school.

Soon, the soldiers of the Eastern Crusade came to Chang'anmen Square, which was also cleaned up, and many thick oil-paper umbrellas were set up to shade the sun.

As thousands of people took their seats, Zhu Gaoxu and others in the Chang'an Gate Tower also took their seats.

Wenchen is on the left, military attache is on the right, the number is more than 200 people, and dozens of tables are set up in the building.

On both sides of the head of Chang'an City, the court band of thousands of people was ready, and when Zhu Gaoxu opened his mouth to eat, thousands of eunuchs began to pass the dishes.

According to the four wines (appetizers), boiled mutton, steamed chicken, pepper and vinegar goose, roast pork, pork soup...... and other kinds of meals have been served.

In accordance with the requirements formulated by Zhu Gaoxu in the third year of Yongle, a banquet was set up for a triumphant division, and each table should use a goose, two chickens, three catties of mutton, three catties of pork, two buckets of white japonica rice, nine catties of tea, 90 pieces of sesame oil cakes, and 10 catties of various fruits.

In addition, there are five catties of imperial wine such as lotus stamen, Hantan incense, autumn dew white, bamboo leaf green, golden stem dew, Taixi white, etc., regardless of the category, in short, it is necessary to go up to five catties.

Taking a table as a small flag and ten people, the soldiers returning from the expedition had little soup in their stomachs, and they were about to eat more wine and meat in order to comfort their loneliness and bitter cold suffering.

"I'm afraid this state banquet will cost a lot of ......"

"Be quiet......"

The ministers muttered, and Zhu Gaoxu didn't bother to pay attention to them when he saw it.

With the food on the table, Zhu Gaoxu said: "Play music!" ”

When he spoke, Yishaha in the palace hurriedly asked people to pass the word, and soon the court musicians on the city wall played and jumped one after another.

The triumphant division naturally has to listen to music such as "The Elephant King's Walk" and "Song of Victory".

The orchestra of more than 1,000 people played Chinese music, which immediately set off the atmosphere of the scene.

Zhu Gaoxu picked up his wine glass, put one hand on his waist, and toasted the ministers with the other, revealing a hint of joy in his majestic tone.

"This rebellion against Japan demonstrated the prestige of our China, and let the vassals of the Quartet see our China's determination to protect the vassals."

"Someone just said that my reward for Chen Xuan was too generous......

As he spoke, some of the ministers lowered their heads in embarrassment, and the military attachés glanced at them unhappily.

"I want to say that as long as there is a meritorious person for me, whether it is a civilian official or a military attaché, there must be a reward."

"The gold and silver mountains are not enough to show my love for you, I have issued an edict to build a high platform in Huyu in Shuntian Mansion, and place a merit tower, so that future generations can see the meritorious heroes who have no battlefield."

"For the meritorious men who came back alive, I also issued an edict to let Hu Hui set up the "Shou'an Town National Monument" on Mount Fuji in Japan, and the soldiers who participated in this battle will be named on the monument, Yongzhen Japan! ”

Zhu Gaoxu's words made the military attaches very excited, but before their thoughts landed, Zhu Gaochu looked at Chen Xuan, Yang Wen and others, and continued:

"Chen Xuan, Yang Wen, Zheng Jun, the three of you have made countless contributions, and you have to build a swallow platform for you and the other three in Tianshou Mountain, cast a golden body, and paint a statue."

"In addition, we must build a temple in your three hometowns and carve stone statues, so that the three of you can receive incense."

"Minister!" When the three of them heard this, their minds were blank, and after reacting, they hurriedly knelt down and said, "Thank you, Your Highness Longen!" ”

Zhu Gaoxu's move is a bit arrogant, but everyone knows that Zhu Di has the heart to pass on the throne to Zhu Gaoxu, so now he is actually half the emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

He can decree or issue an edict on behalf of the Son of Heaven, and Zhu Di will not object anyway.

"Come, play "Breaking the Array Music" again, and float a big white!"

Raising a glass and drinking, Zhu Gaoxu began to walk down the golden platform and shuttle between the ministers.

From afternoon to night, the fireworks rush to burst into the sky, and the scenery is breathtaking.

When Zhu Di learned of this scene, Zhu Di had just returned to Beijing.

He glanced at it and felt that it was good for Zhu Gaoxu to do this, so he couldn't help but say to Wang Yan beside him:

"This Yantai needs to be built, but it's better to build each one."

"I heard that there is a group of painters who are good at painting under the old second-hand, and you asked the second child to send these people to Qiu Fu, Zhu Neng, Zhang Yu, Young Master (Yao Guangxiao), Zheng Heng, and Meng Shan...... Twenty-five of them painted statues, carved stone statues, and built a swallow platform in front of my mausoleum. ”

Zhu Di said, afraid that Wang Yan would leak themselves, so he didn't forget to remind: "By the way, you and Zheng He also have to engrave." ”

"Slave and maid ......" Wang Yan's nose was sour, he didn't expect that he could enter this Yantai even if he was a eunuch.

"Has Xie Jin stopped recently?"

Zhu Di rubbed his eyebrows, feeling that there were a lot of things, but he couldn't arouse his interest.

"He ......"

Wang Yan didn't know what to say, so he could only take out a copy of the note on the table, and this note was the note of the impeachment of Xie Jin by Chen Ying, the imperial history of Zuodu.

In the entire Ming Dynasty, if you want to find out the people who hate Xie Jin the most, then Chen Ying and Ji Gang are definitely on the list.

In the face of a solution full of loopholes, how could they let it go?

[Jin borrowed the concert to enter Beijing, Fang Kai reviewed the Wang Warriors in Guangxi, Guangdong, mountains and rivers, absurd and abnormal, no one courtesy! ] 】

A simple line of words made Zhu Di instantly angry.

As an emperor, he was running around for the Ming Dynasty, going to the bitter cold land of Mobei to sleep in the open air, climbing ice and lying in the snow.

He sent Xie Jin to Guangxi because he knew that his second target's next target was Guangxi, and he wanted Xie Jin to go to Guangxi to do something and ease the relationship with the second child.

But Xie Jin's house is good, and he can't even manage the affairs of a Guangxi senator and governor of the grain road, and he also took leave at will, and entered Nanjing under the pretext of sparseness, but he ended up traveling around.

"Is the evidence true?"

Zhu Di suppressed his temper and asked Wang Yan, Wang Yan could only take out a Tang newspaper from the table and present it to Zhu Di with both hands.

[Yangshuo County Zhongcheng North Temple, people say that Cao Ye lived in the old days. Nianshen Temple is abandoned and no one lives, only Shi Yanming reads. Yangshuo Jiangcheng is based on stone, and the Tang monument is still in the cold current. On the city of Suwang Temple, the dawn of the sky shines on the painting building. 】

[Embroidered water comes to the ancient Yujiang River in the east, and the ancient vine city Guo Zhen Nanbang. The mountain cloud bridge is shaped and rainbow merged, and the river moon building is empty and the swallow is double. On a sunny day, the warbler flowers are red and the cotton tent is green, and the spring breeze smoke trees are green. The evokes the dragon dance, and the golden duck burns incense and pours the jade jar. 】

[Jinguo Tengzhou, love Teng landscape, Yushui Moon Rock, Panhuan Yueyue, rattan people go to school......]

"Bastard!"

Zhu Di was really angry and wanted to kill: "I cherish my talents, but it doesn't mean that I don't dare to kill him!" ”

"If he dares to disobey me as a Confucian student, does he really think that I dare not kill him?!"

He scolded, and Wang Yan also hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed: "Your Majesty is angry, Your Majesty is angry, it's not worth being bad for such a person!" ”

"Order Ji Gang to bring Xie Jin to Beijing, and I won't go back to Nanjing for the New Year this year."

"Doesn't he like to play in the mountains and rivers? I think Beijing City is very good, let him have a good time in the Imperial Prison! ”

Zhu Di brushed his sleeves away, and Wang Yan had no choice but to follow him.

When he entered the Qianqing Palace to rest, Wang Yan did not rush to deliver the decree, but waited all night, and saw that Zhu Di did not have any idea of changing, so he issued an order to ask the Criminal Department to send a driving post to Jinyiwei, and ordered Ji Gang to escort Xie Jin, who had no courtesy, to Beijing.

Within a few days, Ji Gang received a decree from Beijing, which made Ji Gang happy:

"Good, good! Finally waiting for this day. ”

"Don't worry, you still have to release the news first, and also release the evidence, so that you can stop the mouths of those Jiangzuo people."

On Ji Gang's house, as Ji Gang stood up, Chen Ying, who was sitting in the first place, also hurriedly suggested.

"You can do this matter, anyway, as long as Xie Jin enters the edict, I will have a way to clean up Jiang Zuo's people."

Ji Gang's expression was gloomy, and when Chen Ying heard this, her face gradually showed cruelty.

The next day, before Ji Gang started, Jin Yiwei had already begun to spread the news in the capital, publicizing what Xie Jin had done for more than a year.

In the fourteen months, it took more than four months to travel, more than seven months to do things, of which more than three months were spent on sightseeing, and the remaining three months were to take leave, and then go to Beijing to play.

Four months, you must know that Zheng He set off from Jiangnan and arrived in Ceylon only four months.

For a while, Xie Jin's reputation began to be ruined by his own actions, and some Jiangzuo officials did not dare to openly say where Xie Jin was good, for fear of being thought that they were the same as Xie Jin, so they would only say and not do anything.

On the nineteenth day of the winter month, Xie Jin was taken away from Quanzhou Mansion in Fujian Province by Ji Gang, and when he was found, he was still inscribed poems in Kaiyuan Temple in Quanzhou Prefecture.

Zhu Gaoxu was not surprised at all when he heard the news, although the old man had a good temper, it did not mean that he kneaded the dough.

Xie Jin slapped him in the face three times and twice, and didn't give him some color, how could the old man still be the emperor?

"Your Highness, do you want to ...... Xie Jin?"

In the Chunhe Palace, Yisha carefully made a gesture around his neck, but Zhu Gaoxu said:

"Do you think it's better to deal with this kind of person than to let him die directly, or is it better to let him live rather than die?"

"Your Highness, you don't want to kill him?" Yisha was a little surprised, after all, Xie Jin had fought against His Royal Highness twice and three times.

"I want to kill him, but I want him to live rather than die." Zhu Gaoxu chuckled:

"Didn't he look down on the military attaché? In that case, then I will wait for his charges to fall into place, and I will marry him and confuse him. ”

Yisha also smiled when he heard this: "If this guy knows that his descendants will be a military household for the rest of his life, I am afraid that he will be so angry that he will commit suicide." ”

"Leave him alone, just a clown jumping off the beam." Zhu Gaoxu sorted out the notes in his hand, and then took out a copy and said:

"Chen Yao, the lord of Annan, died a few days ago, but he died just right, and now the court can also let go of Li Li."

Chen Yao, the lord of Annan, this is the last descendant of the Chen family supported by Fu Rang, because he was a little stupid, so he was supported by Fu Rang to stabilize the hearts of the original Annan people.

Now, in the past few years, the Ming Dynasty has already boiled frogs in warm water, successively migrated more than 500,000 mouths, and more than 106,000 military households entered Annan, completely controlling both sides of the Red River.

Without the Great Plains of the Red River Delta, the scale of the rebellion within Annam has become smaller and smaller in recent years, and most of the Annam people have accepted the identity of the current Ming people, only a small number of them are still stubborn, among which the soldiers and horses under the command of Li Li are the most majestic.

Li Li hid in the Changshan Mountain, allied with the Changshan barbarians, and often harassed the Ming army, with nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses.

With the products of Changshan, he will definitely not be able to support tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, so there must be people in Annan who support him, and he doesn't need to think much to know that it is those squires who rose after the local land.

Even if the Ming gave them a chance, they would not thank the Ming and would only find a way to get Li Li to re-establish a country of the Annamite people.

"At the beginning, my father went on the Northern Expedition, and he was going to summon Zhang Fu, Zhang Chun and Xu Sheng to participate in the Northern Expedition, but unfortunately he was entangled by Li Li and failed to go north in time."

"Since Li Li doesn't want them to go, then after pacifying the Tusi in Guangxi, he will first deal with Changshanman and then deal with the Tusi in Yunnan."

Zhu Gaoxu's fingers were a little harder, and the brush in his hand worth thousands of gold was easily broken, obviously he was very unhappy with Li Li's harassment of Jiaozhi.

"How is the mobilization of grain and grass in the southwest, and can we move troops on the first day of the lunar month as expected?"

Due to the hot and humid weather, it is best to choose the two colder months of the lunar month and the first lunar month.

"The grain and grass have been raised, but Fu Rang is going to be sparse over there, and he is ready to personally sit in Jiaozhi City and send Xu Sheng to sit in Qinghua."

"As for the matter in Guangxi, he is ready to send Zhang Fu and Zhang Chun to the north to participate."

After Yizha explained, Zhu Gaoxu also bowed his head and said: "Since Chen Yao is dead, there is no need to disguise it anymore, there are six departments of the fatwa and three divisions of Jiaozhi......"

After saying this, Zhu Gaoxu thought of Wang Ji who was sent to Shanxi by himself, and couldn't help asking: "How is Wang Ji doing in Shanxi?" ”

"Impeachment of officials from time to time, many of our people ......" Yisha hesitated to speak, but Zhu Gaoxu said coldly:

"There is no one of us, the virtuous will use it, and the virtuous will not be dethroned."

"You go and talk to Sun Cheng and let him make it clear to the people below that whether he is from the New Deal or from Bohai, as long as he touches the red line of the imperial court, no matter who it is, Gu is not ready to forgive."

"The body is not afraid of crooked shadows, if they all act above board, then why should they be afraid of Wang Ji?"

When the words fell, Zhu Gaoxu also spoke: "Promote Wang Ji to be the political envoy of the left side of Jiaozhi, and temporarily take the position of the political envoy of the right cloth." ”

Zhu Gaoxu handed over the position of the political envoy to Wang Ji on the left and right sides of Jiaozhi, obviously he was ready to let Wang Ji do a good job in Jiaozhi.

With Wang Ji to cooperate, Fu Rang can also let go of the encirclement and suppression of Li Li and Changshanman.

"Slave Maid Leads ......"

Seeing this, Zhu Gaoxu also leaned back in his chair.

Yishaha put down the music in his hand and kneaded a few of the places where he often got sour for Zhu Gaoxu, and after a while, Zhu Gaochu opened his eyes: "What is the attitude of the feudal lords after they get the "Zong Gui". ”

"The behavior has converged a lot."

Yisha smiled and said the result, but Zhu Gaoxu snorted lightly: "What they are afraid of is not the "Sect Rules", but they are afraid of me. ”

"The people below, you tell me well, all the kings and governors must be our people."

"What they have to do is to supervise the vassal kings for the imperial court, and in addition, my eldest brother and third brother, have there been any changes recently?"

Zhu Gaoxu asked sideways, because he remembered that Zhu Zhanji seemed to have begun to take over the soldiers and horses of the Han Palace.

"There is no major movement, whether it is His Royal Highness the King of Han or His Royal Highness the King of Zhao, in addition to going out to play every day, the rest of the time is to watch the singing and dancing in the mansion, there is nothing inappropriate."

"If you don't have it, it's fine."

Exhaling a breath of turbidity, Zhu Gaoxu got up and prepared to go to the former dormitory, and rest at Guo Yan's place a little later.

Yishaha followed, and Zhu Gaoxu did not forget to explain: "Zheng He and they calculated the time, they should be able to arrive at Kunlunjiao in another month, I don't know if they can send back good news." ”

"The Atlantic Ocean and the Little Western Ocean are dangerous, and the carrier pigeons have suffered heavy losses, so we need to breed a lot."

"Slave and maid receive ......"

In the sound of explanations and responses, the figures of the master and servant gradually disappeared in the Chunhe Palace.

As for Xie Jin, his unlucky days have just begun......

(End of chapter)