It is now the end of August in the 22nd year of Wanli. The fragrance of cinnamon is fragrant and yellow flowers are everywhere. It is a good time to travel.
After Zhu Yijun said this, he smiled and looked at the military households outside the car.
The queen also looked over with a smile, but she would look back at her emperor husband from time to time. In her eyes, there was both respect for him being loved by so many military households, and also the joy in her husband's face. Joy.
Ministers Li Chengliang, Wang Xijue, Shen Li, etc. were also intoxicated at this scene of the common people offering chickens and ducks to the emperor. They all felt as if they had eaten honey, with happy faces. The number one scholar Jiao Hong who was accompanying him was even more reluctant. He couldn't help but murmured:
"I really want to compose a poem at this moment to remember this great occasion!"
Sun Jigao, who was also the number one scholar, nodded aside.
Zhu Yijun himself ordered the eunuch Huang Xun at this time:
"To convey my will, I said, I understand your innocent heart, but there are too many people who want to feast on me, so I can't patronize them one by one. However, it is difficult to refuse your hospitality, so I only sent Jin Yiwei to collect one or two from each house. of local things to show appreciation."
"In the future, when I go south to pay homage to the Xiaoling Mausoleum, I will also tell Taizu your thoughts so that he can know that the Ming royal family is still supported by the people."
"According to the order!"
So, not long after, a royal guard came to the door to announce the decree.
Different from the past when the Jin Yiwei came to the door to either seize someone or ransack the home, which would make the whole family sad and depressed, now the Jin Yiwei comes to the door and makes the whole family very excited, and the Jin Yiwei who comes and goes to announce the decree is crazily hanging meat and stuffing eggs on his body.
Therefore, when these royal guards came out, they all looked like bandits who had just gone to people's houses to rob them, with their necks, arms, and hands covered with earthenware.
Princess Rong Yi, the legitimate princess of Zhu Yijun, laughed from ear to ear. She pulled the queen and said, "Mother, the Han general who was specially selected is not good-looking at all. He went in wearing brocade clothes, but when he came out, he was wearing a grass skirt." Even though they are clothed in commoner clothes, they also use meat to make jewelry, just like savages.”
"Daughter's house, be more dignified! This is because the people love your father. It also shows that the Jin Yiwei does not bully the people very much now, so the people are not only afraid."
Queen Du hurriedly educated Princess Rongyi in a pretense of anger.
Princess Rong Yi said "Oh", then looked at Zhu Yijun, squinted her eyes and said with a smile: "I know it is my father who can govern the country, hehe!"
Zhu Yijun only smiled slightly, and then brought Princess Rong Yi over. Princess Rong Yi also cooperated and sat down towards Zhu Yijun, put her little head on Zhu Yijun's arm, and asked:
"Father, if they like you so much, they should also like me very much, right?"
"That's natural. A cute little girl like you, even if she comes from an ordinary family, will be loved and loved by others. What's more, we, Rong Yi, are the royal daughters who have inherited the beauty of our mother-in-law?"
After Zhu Yijun said this, Empress Du couldn't help but smile.
Rong Yi sat up and said, "Really? Then I would like to meet a few girls from common people's families and play together."
After hearing this, Zhu Yijun said to Queen Du: "Xingzhou Zhongwei also has a girls' school. You can go to the girls' school later and take Rong Yi with you. There are many girls in the girls' school, and most of them are soldiers who fought for the country. Girls, let her play with them, and by the way, let her get to know another side of the families of ordinary soldiers in the country by getting along with these girls."
The queen nodded and said yes.
Rong Yi was overjoyed here, shook Zhu Yijun's arm and said: "Thank you, father, I will make sure to inquire about their situation for you."
Zhu Yijun and the queen both laughed and said nothing.
At this moment, Rong Yi shouted through the car curtain: "Commander Deng!"
"I am here, please give me your instructions, Your Highness."
Dunning hurriedly stopped outside and replied.
Rong Yi asked at this time: "How far is it from here to the girls' school?"
Deng Ning said hurriedly: "It's still an hour's journey back to Your Highness."
"Ah, how long does it take?"
Rong Yi muttered in disappointment.
Zhu Yijun couldn't help but comforted him: "It's okay, just take a nap in the car and we'll be there."
Rong Yi nodded and said nothing more.
At this time of year, the weather is often the coolest, and it is also the time when the most grain is returned to the granary. Therefore, if you look around, you can see that there are many new granaries in every house.
Seeing this, Zhu Yijun couldn't help but start to think secretly. Since the material conditions of military households in the Ming Dynasty had improved a lot, their education must have also improved a lot.
After Zhu Yijun thought this, he looked forward with expectation. Like Rongyi, he wanted to see the school here quickly and see the education situation of the health center.
Because the military households were too enthusiastic and generous, Zhu Yijun seemed to have really gone out of the palace to plunder.
Therefore, as his ceremonial guard continued to go deeper into the Zhongwei area of Xingzhou, there were no less than a hundred carts behind his ceremonial guard carrying chickens, ducks, fish, and geese. There were even deer croaking on them, and tigers croaking on them. There was roaring in the iron cage in the car.
As soon as Zhu Yijun arrived near the social school established by Wei Li, he heard loud shouts of death. He opened the curtains and took a look through the telescope. On the social school teaching ground, there were many children wearing uniforms. Little Mian Jia was gesturing with her fists and kicks on the training ground, and each kick was quite powerful. She had a determined look on her face, but she did not feel weak due to malnutrition.
If social studies suddenly let children practice martial arts at this time, there is a suspicion that they have to do fake work because the emperor is coming, but the mental outlook cannot be fake.
After all, if you want to make the children of military families who were generally malnourished in the old days full of vitality and strong hands and feet, it can't be done with a full meal in one or two days. It will take several years of full meals.
You know, if you are a young man, you will eat me to death.
The fact that the boy has such a good mental outlook can only show that the material life of the military families in the Ming Dynasty is indeed very good. Not to mention rich, they can be considered well-off.
The girls' school was also practicing here, but they were holding red-tasseled guns. They kept making coquettish sounds, and with their demeanor and movements, they looked quite heroic.
Obviously, the policies that benefit the people and the military have also allowed girls from military households to live a good life.
Perhaps because the state is leading all of this, from external seizures to domestic favors, both boys and girls are cultivated by the rulers of the Ming Dynasty according to their own will, making them seem less spiritual, but Compared with the children of the previous Ming Dynasty military households, this has to be said to be a great improvement.
No matter it was a military officer like Li Chengliang, a civil servant like Shen Li, or an eunuch like Huang Xun, they would not feel anything wrong with the scene they saw in front of them, but would only feel happy.
Because they know very well what these children of military families were like in the past.
To put it simply, it would be considered good if the children of former military families could survive or not be sold as slaves. So to be like this now is a great improvement that is unprecedented, and there is no one here. At that time, he also denied the emperor's achievements.
Zhu Yijun got out of the car and asked Deng Ning, the commander of the Wei army, as he walked: "Why are all the schools in the Wei army asking students to practice martial arts at this time?"
"Back to your majesty, because your majesty has decreed that there is no need to delay the class due to the arrival of the Holy Emperor, and now it happens to be the time for the students to practice martial arts, and now there is this scene."
Dunning replied with a smile at this time.
Zhu Yijun nodded after hearing this: "All students in Weili must learn martial arts?"
"Yes, since I am a child of a military family, I think it is better to learn martial arts, not just literature."
Dunning replied at this time.
Zhu Yijun nodded after hearing this: "Very good, the children of military households should be both civil and military! Whether Huangming will always be strong depends on whether the children of military households can live like human beings and have extraordinary abilities."
Deng Ning cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty is wise!"
Not long after Zhu Yijun said that, he went to the Social Science School and met Xuezheng Xiu Wensong, a student from the Social Science School.
Xiu Wen Song was originally a military student. Because he was over sixty years old, he was selected as a junior college student. In addition, the country called on military personnel to actively return to their hometowns to educate their hometowns, so he signed up to study social studies.
After Zhu Yijun saw Xiu Wensong, he asked: "How are the students doing with their studies?"
"Your Majesty, the good and the bad are mixed, but it is much better than before when I didn't know what a country is and what China is. Thanks to your Majesty's intention to open up the people's wisdom, they are now much smarter than when they were children of my generation, and some are already better than they are now. Your minister is smarter and knows much more."
Xiu Wensong replied.
Zhu Yijun nodded slightly, and then said: "I said that I would randomly test some students, so I will randomly test your students here and ask them about their situation."
With that said, Zhu Yijun started walking on foot in the Social Studies Department. While looking at the classrooms with white walls and gray tiles, he walked on the gravel road covered with sweet-scented osmanthus. Soon, he entered a classroom and asked where he was sitting. Student in the first row: "What's your name?"
The student replied: "Student Ren Aiming."
Zhu Yijun nodded after hearing this: "This is a good name, and the meaning is obvious."
"My father gave it to the student. He said that it was because of the emperor that the student could come to this world. Let the student love me, the Ming Dynasty."
Ren Aiming looked at Zhu Yijun and replied.
Zhu Yijun patted his shoulder and said: "Reward!"
Huang Xun raised his hand and said yes.
Afterwards, Zhu Yijun really began to conduct in-class tests on these students, testing them in arithmetic, geography, history, literature, and modern studies.
The test results are not bad.
After all, Xingzhou Zhongwei is a place in the capital, and there is no shortage of outstanding educational talents, so the education level is naturally not much different.
Zhu Yijun also rewarded the school with silver dollars because of his good test results, and gave books to these students. He also specially sent a set of practice papers and teaching materials from Xingming Academy to the students who took the exam.
Ren Aiming also took these practice papers and teaching materials back home after school.
As soon as he returned home, Ren Aiming said to Ren Yonggang: "Father, the emperor is not as good as you said."
Ren Yonggang's black beard stood up after hearing this: "Why do you say that?"
"He actually gave us test papers, so many test papers! We couldn't finish them in a month!"
Ren Aiming cried as she spoke.
(End of chapter)
