After winning the great victory over the Hanhai, Li Rusong did not immediately return to the court with his troops.
After all, it was still winter, and they had already lost countless camels and horses when they arrived, and even lost a lot of their troops. Now it was impossible to go back immediately and continue to be devastated by the wind and snow.
Li Rusong planned to use the winter supplies his wife had hoarded until the weather got warmer next year before returning to the court, but only used a large sum of money to convince a small group of soldiers to risk going back to communicate with the court.
After Li Rusong stayed here, he began to organize people to build stones and erect monuments, and asked Liang Yunlong, a fellow countryman from Hai Rui who came with the army and a fellow Jinshi supervising the army in the eleventh year of Wanli, Liang Yunlong:
"Liang Fengxian, have you finished writing your merit-recording article? Once it's written, I can have it engraved on it."
Liang Yunlong, who was suffering from high fever, hurriedly took out the article from his sleeve and coughed while saying:
"It has been written for a long time, but unexpectedly I got cold, so I didn't have time to hand it over to the admiral. Please ask the admiral for corrections."
Li Rusong took it and read it carefully, saying: "The literary talent is good, and the writing is very exciting. With Feng Xian's talent, he should not just be a top three."
"The examination focuses more on classics articles. For someone like me who loves to learn the style of Mr. Zhenchuan (Gui Youguang), to be able to win the top three Jinshi is already a great favor from the emperor. Only by increasing the number of fifty Jinshi can I have the opportunity to win the title of Toad Palace. How can I Be on the top list.”
Liang Yunlong said something with a smile, then coughed again.
Seeing this, Li Rusong asked someone to make a cup of hot tea for Liang Yunlong first.
Literati have always been complicated, and there are all kinds of people. Some are willing to surrender to the enemy and treason for personal achievements, while others dare to take risks and go on expeditions for personal achievements.
Liang Yuanlong was a person who dared to take risks, so he took the initiative to sign up to go out with Li Rusong as the censor of the army.
Of course, Liang Yuanlong also had to do this.
Because he was the last Jinshi on the gold list in the eleventh year of Wanli, if he did not take the risk to go out and perform meritorious service, he would have to start as a local magistrate, in which case he might never be able to become a public official.
Therefore, Liang Yuanlong needed to make up for his shortcomings in the imperial examination through meritorious service.
Same as Yang Hao.
Nowadays, the court pays more attention to people who have done meritorious service than to establish virtue.
Those who wanted to be a Jinshi also began to gradually change from asking for reputation based on virtue to asking for fame based on meritorious service.
The so-called establishing one's virtue and inviting one's reputation is to prove that one is morally loyal, upright, upright and not afraid of powerful people by admonishing the king and impeaching important ministers.
And to claim fame for meritorious service is to leave a strong mark on a great achievement, so that people cannot erase their name when talking about a great achievement.
If Liang Yuanlong wanted to be virtuous and famous, he naturally did not need to risk his life and go to Mobei to write articles on his achievements and leave his own pen and name in the vast sea. He only needed to learn from Zou Yuanbiao in history and impeach Zhang Juzheng first. Then impeach ministers such as Xu Xuemo.
But now this road is dead.
He could only use meritorious service to invite names like Yang Hao.
After all, Liang Yuanlong was a scholar, so after the expedition to the vast sea, he was still the first to have a fever because his physical condition was not as good as that of Li Rusong and he was not rude to others.
However, after Liang Yuanlong saw that his article was engraved on the inscription and still stood on the shore of the vast sea that he had only seen in history books, he did not regret coming here. He felt proud in his heart and said: "A real man can If I have the opportunity to record it here, I will be satisfied even if I bury my bones here.”
"Why did Feng Xian say this! It's not just about wind and cold. This dynasty's medical skills are profound, and since the reform of the medical record system, there have been a great number of good doctors. Those who follow the army are all good at treating wind and cold. Feng Xian will not sleep here forever."
"The worst thing is, we'll stay a little longer and wait until May next year before we leave."
Li Rusong comforted Liang Yuanlong with a few words.
Liang Yuanlong felt a little relieved, and continued at this time: "Admiral, we will not leave for a while, why not erect a few more monuments, and even bury a few in the ground, to indicate that this is the land of our emperor, so that even in the future There are barbarians who come here to destroy the monument, but they cannot destroy it all. I understand that if there are future generations of ambitious people who come here, they may find it through archiving notes and erect it again. I wonder what you think?"
"In addition, the emperor now intends to change the old rites and establish new ones, which is to bring the etiquette system back to the righteousness of the saints. The original intention of the new etiquette is to treat common people, and ordinary men should also be valued by the country, so why not also name the soldiers and even the cooks. Engraved on it to let future generations know that they also contributed to the opening up of the country’s borders?”
"Including those who were killed in battle and those who died on the way to the conquest!"
Liang Yuanlong made another suggestion at this time.
"Very good!"
"Just do it!"
Li Rusong agreed with this and immediately arranged for people to follow Liang Yuanlong's wishes.
The soldiers present became excited after hearing this.
At this time, when Li Rusong saw the name engraved on the stele, which was not rude to him, he couldn't help but turn around and said to him, "You should also have a Chinese name. It will look more dignified if it is engraved here."
In this era, the Han nation rose to prominence among the nations of the world due to the renewed drive out of the Tartars, and they had not yet perished at the hands of tens of thousands of Jianzhou Jurchens as they had in history and became their slaves, so they were not disrespectful to the Xiongnu in the Han Dynasty. Just as they are willing to take on the name of Han people to show that they are more noble, they also want to have a Chinese name and are willing to be Sinicized to show that they are different from other Mongolians.
Even in this era, Chinese civilization inherently represents nobility, so many foreigners will take the initiative to change their Chinese names. Some even envy them, but they have low self-esteem and feel that they are not culturally enough and dare not.
And the reason why he didn't do this was because he didn't dare to take a Chinese name rashly and was worried about making the emperor unhappy.
Therefore, after Li Rusong said this, he was not rude and said:
"I hope that because of this achievement, we can ask the emperor to give us a national surname, so that we can ask a famous sage to give me a Chinese name."
"Your Majesty will definitely be willing to give the public a national surname."
Li Rusong said something and looked to the south.
Behind him, a large monument full of Chinese characters stood high in the north, like a statue looking down at Lake Baikal for future generations.
…
A few months ago, it was a day in October of the twelfth year of Wanli.
In the Forbidden City of the Ming Dynasty in the south, in the Yangxin Hall.
Because it was snowing in the evening, the cold wind rustled the yellow leaves and caused the temperature to drop sharply. Zhu Yijun hid in the Nuan Pavilion, hugged himself in lavender clothes and guarded the copper stove, preparing to read the secret music. He first took Li Rusong's secret music. He held it in his hand and looked at it.
After just a few glances, Zhu Yijun's face darkened, and then he started to take a pen to copy the list. After he finished copying, he shouted loudly: "Come here!"
Zhang Jing hurriedly walked in: "Please give me your instructions!"
"According to the list, arrest these people and send them to prison to interrogate them for the crime of interfering with barbarians and disrupting rituals!"
Zhu Yijun threw a manuscript with a list of names in front of Zhang Jing.
"yes!"
Zhang Jing hurriedly picked it up from the ground, then walked out backwards holding the oracle in both hands.
Zhu Yijun continued to watch the secret performance of other generals, and as he watched, he laughed again: "Okay, okay, what a good Li Rusong, I knew he would straighten things out in the border town!"
"return!"
But after Zhu Yijun saw the secret performance of Gui Jin, Xie Sheng and others, he couldn't help shouting.
Zhang Jing hurriedly came back: "Please give me your instructions!"
"It's said that Fang will come to see me at the right time!"
Zhu Yijun said this.
(End of chapter)
