The purchase price inside the palace is much more expensive than outside the palace.
The purchase money given by Xu Miaoyun was also calculated based on the prices in the palace.
Yang Xuan made a lot of money from this purchasing trip.
For this reason, he specially bought a lot of good things and gave them to Xu Miaoyun.
Of course, everything was sent from Anqing.
During this period, Yang Xuan did not enter the palace again.
The reason is to avoid Zhu Di.
After all, he had just been tricked once.
And he also heard that Zhu Di had been furious these days.
The reason was that Zhu Di ordered Jie Jin to repair the book, but the results produced by the latter did not meet Zhu Di's expectations.
Just complete the task for the sake of completing the task.
How could Zhu Di not be angry?
So this time, in order to show his importance, he appointed five Hanlin bachelors as presidents and twenty Hanlin Academy officials as vice presidents.
The people chosen are all well-educated people.
In addition, Zhu Di also issued a nationwide mobilization order. Regardless of status, young or old, as long as they are knowledgeable people, they can compile it.
Think this is enough?
Haha, I’m thinking too much.
In order to achieve the goal of excellence, there is another kind of person that Zhu Di needs most.
This kind of person does not need much knowledge, but his handwriting must be beautiful.
You must know that Zhu Di's requirements for this book are to integrate all ancient and modern knowledge.
A large amount of data needs to be collected, and all of this data needs to be copied.
And this book repair, in other words, is a national task.
The handwriting must be clear and beautiful.
This represents the face of the country.
Finally, Zhu Di appointed the old monk Yao Guangxiao as his second in command.
With such a big gesture and action, no matter how slow Jie Jin was, he understood the importance Zhu Di attached to this book.
He restrained other small thoughts and concentrated on the work of repairing books.
…
Yang Xuan has been living a good life recently, and occasionally meets Zhu Gaoxu and Zhu Gaosui to go hunting outside the city.
Or go to the red maple forest outside the city with Anqing.
In the court, Zhu Di ordered the construction of weaving bureaus in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places.
Most of the silk that Zheng He brought with him on this voyage was purchased from private sources.
After being reminded by Yang Xuan, Zhu Di felt that the imperial court should have its own stable supply channels.
In addition, Zhu Di also expanded the scale of porcelain firing in Jingdezhen.
These are all for the voyages to the West.
In addition to these, Zhu Di also moved many people to the north in recent years.
Most of them are refugees, and some have broken the law and been exiled to the north.
Culturally, Zhu Di has basically implemented the final policies formulated by Lao Zhu during his lifetime.
Schools were built, textbooks and annotations were unified, and many scholars were sent to the north to serve as teachers in various schools.
Over thousands of years, the saint's classics have derived countless versions.
The educational resources possessed by big families with a long heritage are unmatched by ordinary people. Therefore, it is too difficult for ordinary people to get ahead through the imperial examination.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Lao Zhu developed stereotyped writing and stipulated the scope of imperial examination questions.
To a certain extent, this gives ordinary people more fairness and reduces their study pressure. After all, the imperial examination now only tests the Four Books and Five Classics.
However, the Four Books and Five Classics have been handed down to this day, and there are annotations in various versions.
A sage's words can have several meanings.
Children of big families have a lot of contact, so they have rich knowledge and have more advantages in the imperial examination.
Students who are from ordinary people's backgrounds have got who knows which version of the commentary.
If they want to pass the imperial examination, it is as difficult as going to heaven.
Therefore, unifying annotations is a must. The most important thing is that unifying annotations can unify the readers' thoughts.
This is what Lao Zhu values most, and it is also an important reason why Zhu Di spared no effort to implement this education policy after taking office.
The effect of this policy can be seen from the passing rates of ordinary students in county examinations, prefecture examinations, and township examinations in recent years.
The more scholars there are, the more efficiently Zhu Di can kill people.
Don't worry about being like the Hongwu Dynasty, where the number of officials in the court will be reduced by half at every turn.
Zhu Di's personality, which is similar to that of Lao Zhu, also destined him to not get along with civil servants.
If it were not for Prince Zhu Gaochi to mediate between the two, the efficiency of the government's governance would probably be compromised several times.
Zhu Di saw all this.
Although he didn't say anything, he felt like a mirror in his heart.
In short, it is impossible for Zhu Gaochi's position as prince to change.
…
Ming Dynasty was advancing steadily in this way.
Winter turned to spring, and time came to the fifth year of Yongle.
There was a rebellion in Jiaozhi, and Zhu Di appointed Zhang Fu as the chief military officer and led the army to quell the rebellion.
At the end of the fifth year of Yongle's reign, the rebellion subsided, and Zhang Fu was ordered to stay behind to frighten those with ulterior motives.
In the sixth year of Yongle, sixty-five-year-old Zhang Yu was dying due to the recurrence of old injuries sustained on the battlefield in his early years.
Zhu Di summoned Zhang Fu back to Beijing.
After seeing his son, Zhang Yu closed his eyes after explaining his death.
A famous general of a generation passed away suddenly.
Zhu Di issued an edict to stay out of court for three days to express his condolences.
He also posthumously named Zhang Yu the King of Hejian, worthy of enjoying the Imperial Ancestral Temple.
Zhang Fu inherited the title of British Duke, and his annual salary was increased to 3,500 shi. He was granted the title of Youzhu Kingdom, and was specially appointed as a Ronglu doctor. He was also given crowns, clothes, platinum and other items.
Zhang Yu's funeral ended, and the capital once again returned to its former peace.
The Ming Dynasty was still developing steadily, and the princelings and the Han kings fought from time to time in the court.
However, Yang Xuan discovered that Zhu Di had more white hair.
"After the Hejian King Zhang Yu left, your condition became much worse." Yang Xuan found Zhu Di and said.
"Really?" Zhu Di said.
"Yeah." Yang Xuan nodded.
"I'm worried about the future." Zhu Di said.
"There are not many people in the Ming Dynasty who can be commanders of an army. Zhang Yu's departure is equivalent to breaking one of my arms!"
"Qiu Fu is getting older, and I don't know how many more years he can last."
"And Qiu Fu's character is not as stable as Zhang Yu's."
"Zhang Fu is like his father, but he needs to observe filial piety in the next three years."
"If war breaks out again, the DPRK and China may have no generals available."
Zhu Di talked about his worries.
In fact, it is not that there is no one to lead the army, Ning Wang Zhu Quan is a very good candidate.
But Zhu Di was still worried about him in his heart.
Xu Huizu was also good, and he did his best to guard Beiping.
But what Zhu Di trusted most were the generals who followed him through the Jingnan Campaign.
However, the generals who can be commanders of an army have basically withered away. The remaining ones can be generals, but not commanders.
"Then let's do martial arts!"
"Otherwise, when this generation of generals withers away, the military generals of the Ming Dynasty will fall into a state of inactivity."
"When the prince and the emperor's eldest grandson get it in the future, there may really be no generals available."
Yang Xuan thought for a while and said.
"I'm thinking about this too," Zhu Di said.
"It's better to go sooner rather than later. Even if you pass the martial arts selection, you still have to enter the military to gain experience."
"There are too few people like Han Xin and Huo Qubing who are born to be commanders."
"What's more, it's about accumulating experience through war after war."
…
