Empress Dowager Li agreed to give Qi Jiguang a title because she had her own plans. Qi Jiguang became a disciple of Zhang Juzheng. After becoming a count, he could serve in the capital and become the commander-in-chief of the Beijing camp. When that day came, Zhang Juzheng's Zhang Dang, Today's Jin Party, although not a clan party, is enough to threaten the emperor.
This was something she would never allow to happen, so when Qi Jiguang entered the palace to watch the emperor practice martial arts, Empress Dowager Li made such a condition without any discussion.
Zhu Yijun's expression remained unchanged. Empress Dowager Li did not tell the young emperor her thoughts in advance. He did not want to embarrass Qi Jiguang too much.
Empress Dowager Li is relatively easy to talk to on some matters, but on others she is extremely difficult to speak up on. If her children suffer a little, Empress Dowager Li will feel distressed and will not forcefully issue an edict to stop her. However, when it comes to matters outside the court, Empress Dowager Li rarely Listen to the great truths of the little emperor.
Of course he can be granted a title, but Qi Jiguang, the sharpest sword in the Ming Dynasty, must be in the hands of the emperor.
The emperor's sole responsibility was the bottom line that Queen Mother Li could not provoke.
This time Qi Jiguang's knighthood was a test of the emperor's exclusive management after Zhang Juzheng and Chen Wushi. Zhang Juzheng's debate with Yang Bo in the Fengtian Palace proved that Zhang Juzheng did not intend to usurp the artifact and did not interfere with the emperor's exclusive administration. For Empress Dowager Li, everything else that Chen Wu Shishu did was bearable.
The emperor listens to the government at home, the emperor approves memorials, the emperor summons ministers, state affairs need to be discussed by the court, and Beijing officials need to be evaluated, these are all reasonable requirements.
The young master is suspicious of the country. Under the imperial system, the imperial power is absent, and the courtiers took the opportunity to make some demands. It is not too much to ask the emperor to listen to the affairs, manage the affairs, and see the ministers.
Zhu Yijun had just planned to speak to Empress Dowager Li. He was eloquent and since the foreign minister was still here, Empress Dowager Li should give him this little emperor's face.
"I have always been a minister of the Ming Dynasty. I live on the emperor's salary and are loyal to the emperor." Qi Jiguang spoke first, bowed his head and said, "Please give me the Queen Mother's warning."
"That's true. It's good that Qi Shuai understands." After hearing Qi Jiguang's answer, Queen Mother Li knew that Qi Jiguang had agreed and would no longer be a member of the Quanchu Guild Hall in the future.
What Qi Jiguang meant was that in the past, worshiping under Zhang Juzheng was purely helpless. If he could meet the saint, and if he could do things without worshiping under other people's names, he was not willing to go around worshiping the master.
After paying homage to the master, you are like a lackey under someone else's sect. To the soldiers who are fighting, it is a humiliation for the powerful.
Qi Jiguang and Zhang Juzheng were good friends, but this was the only way this was possible in this messy court.
"I'm tired. Qi Shuai will stay in the palace today and have dinner with His Majesty." Empress Dowager Li did not say anything else to Qi Jiguang. The emperor had already issued an imperial edict and expressed his affirmation to Qi Jiguang. Empress Dowager Li was not working for her subordinates. Recruiting generals, but recruiting generals for the emperor.
The banquet was held at the Fengwang Palace, accompanied by Jizhou General Chen Dacheng. Chen Dacheng was very excited. When the commander returned to the capital, he not only received a full reward, but also received a title. Not only that, he also received the emperor's favor. A feast for you!
The personal guards who came to Beijing together this time also selected ten people to accompany them.
"I don't drink. It's a military rule that no one except the navy can drink." Qi Jiguang looked at the wine pot and wine glass and said with a little embarrassment. No drinking is allowed in the army. This is an iron rule set by Qi Jiguang. He cannot take the lead in breaking it. He has to leave the city and return to Jizhou today.
Zhu Yijun smiled and said: "The content in the cup is just water."
Just drink to create atmosphere. If he drinks at this age, Zhang Juzheng should read the Notes of Sinner every day, and Queen Mother Li should take the young emperor to the Ancestral Temple to read the Edict of Sinner aloud.
When Qi Jiguang heard it, he realized it was really water. He quickly stood up, waved his sleeves and pretended to kneel down, saying, "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your consideration."
"In the future, you don't have to kneel down to answer when you play in private. When Mr. Yuan Fu lectures on banquets, Tiqi exercises and martial arts, or Xu Xu teaches me about farming, there is no need to kneel down to answer." Zhu Yijun said quite accurately, interrupting Qi Jiguang's kneeling He also gave an example and told Qi Jiguang that this was not a special grace.
For a forty-year-old warrior who had been fighting for nearly thirty years, it was etiquette to kneel to his ten-year-old master, but His Majesty the Emperor's oral instructions were an imperial edict.
When there is a conflict between etiquette and imperial edict, who listens?
Qi Jiguang chose to listen to the emperor. He discovered another characteristic of the young emperor, that is, he was informal and informal. This may be the method Empress Dowager Li taught the young emperor to win over people's hearts. Any method that can win over the loyalty of civil and military ministers is good. means.
But this method is extremely useful.
The guests and hosts enjoy a meal together.
Zhu Yijun highly affirmed Qi Jiguang's martial arts in pacifying the Japanese and resisting the enemy, praised his achievements in the Battle of Xifengkou, severely attacked the conspiracy between the young prince of the Northern Barbarians and Dong Hu, and dealt a heavy blow to the enemy's arrogance. Inspired the Ming army and people to resist the enemy, and at the same time raised their concerns about the Northern invaders once again invading the border.
Qi Jiguang said that he would do his best to resist the invasion of bandits and bandits with resolute measures. At the same time, he would increase the number of distant princes on the piers and platforms, detect the enemy's movements in a timely manner, do everything possible to keep the enemy out of the country, and live up to the Ming Emperor, civil and military officials, and the people of the capital. We hope that the soldiers in the three towns will dare to fight, fight hard, and win a decisive battle.
"I have opened a Baoqi Hall in Jingshan. The Qingming Festival has passed. Qi Shuai will accompany me to have a look?" Zhu Yijun finished lunch and proposed that we go to Shanglin Garden together.
"I am willing to go with your Majesty." Qi Jiguang quickly bowed his head and said. His Majesty said he was not allowed to kneel, but he was still very respectful.
As for His Majesty's promise, Qi Jiguang did not expect His Majesty to fulfill it. He only expected the Emperor to pay attention to military affairs and prevent military disasters from spreading to the Gyeongsang region.
Zhu Yijun took Qi Jiguang and Chen Dacheng to Jingshan Baoqi Hall, and took Qi Jiguang outside the sun room. He stood under the noon sun, looked at the seedlings in the field, squatted down, and introduced potatoes and sweet potatoes.
"According to Luo Gongchen, a fellow governor of Haiphong, the yield of sweet potatoes and potatoes exceeds one thousand catties per unit overseas. Qi Shuai and General Li are both from military households in the field. They should know the significance of the yield of one thousand catties per unit. The important thing is this When planting crops, don’t choose poor and fertile crops. If you can grow crops successfully, you will be able to live in countless people.” Zhu Yijun squatted on the horizon and pointed at the seedlings in the field.
The seedlings are dark green, egg-shaped and heart-shaped, full of vitality. Qi Jiguang also squatted down and looked at the seedlings carefully. It was obvious that the seedlings had been carefully taken care of.
Zhu Yijun pointed to the five acres of field on the left and said: "There are seedlings every six inches. One acre of land requires four thousand seedlings. The seedlings have four nodes. Two leaves are exposed to the ground, and the remaining leaves are inserted into the soil."
"This does not mean that four thousand potato seedlings are needed. The potato seedlings are specially cultivated in the fire room. If the temperature exceeds 40 degrees, the seedlings will burn. Therefore, after the cultivation is completed, they must be inspected every day. After the potato seedlings are moved out of the fire room, When they reach six to eight inches tall, start pruning the seedlings and plant them in large fields.”
"Forty degrees?" Qi Jiguang asked immediately after hearing the unfamiliar term as he looked at the rice seedlings.
Zhu Yijun led Qi Jiguang and others to explain in detail the principles of thermal expansion and contraction of thermometers and the defined standards.
"Potato seedlings like sandy loam soil. When planting, the soil must be broken, finely ground, and leveled. Too much water will easily cause the seedlings to rot and the tubers to rot." Zhu Yijun finished explaining the whole process of raising seedlings.
The construction of a fire room does not necessarily require a sunroom. The main function of the sunroom is to cultivate attenuated potato seedlings. Whether it is pinching or killing, the sunroom is used. After the potato seedlings are six inches old, the seedlings can be cut and transplanted. It grows very quickly, with four sections forming a seedling.
In the twenty-fifth year of Jiajing's reign, Qi Jiguang inherited his ancestral position and became the commander of the Dengzhou Guard. He was responsible for farming affairs. Although the Nanbing (Qi's Army) was a recruiting system, it did not mean that farming was not done. On the contrary, farming warfare was also emphasized. The soldiers of the South, who did not rob or plunder, relied on farming and fighting.
Farming was a matter of course for Ming Dynasty.
Qi Jiguang had very rich experience in farming. He had a serious chat with the Ming Emperor for a long time, while Xu Zhenming was on the side responsible for checking for omissions and filling in the gaps. When the emperor did not understand, Xu Zhenming would answer most of the questions. Even the emperor can answer it.
It wasn't until he reached the small pavilion of Baoqi Hall that Qi Jiguang suddenly realized that he was exchanging farming experience with His Majesty the Emperor! Is Your Majesty not doing his job properly?
However, the little emperor was very familiar with farming and was not joking. This made the flame of hope in Qi Jiguang's heart become much stronger.
"Your Majesty, do you often come to Baoqi Hall?" Qi Jiguang asked curiously. In his impression, it was enough for the Ming Emperor to hold a plow as a gesture of worship when offering sacrifices to Jumang in the spring. Even Song Renzong When you are farming and harvesting, you can go and have a look.
Qi Jiguang can write military books. Since ancient times, military strategists who are good at conquering and fighting are rare. The battlefield seems to be designed for them. However, there are not many military strategists who can pour out everything in their stomachs and write military books.
Many military strategists know how to fight a war, but if they are asked to explain it, they can't explain it logically. They are like dumplings in a teapot that cannot be poured out.
Qi Jiguang was able to pour out the dumplings in his stomach because he studied well and had excellent literary talent. If he had to inherit his ancestral position, he would have thought about getting a meritorious title. Although his military talent was dazzling, Qi Jiguang still couldn't let go of the papers in the army.
So Qi Jiguang knew that Song Renzong's Baoqi Hall was just to show his emphasis on agriculture and mulberry. Could it be that Song Renzong still farmed the land himself?
Emperor Gao, Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, personally farmed the land, and even farmed the land in the palace after becoming emperor.
"Your Majesty comes every day." Xu Zhenming answered this question. His Majesty cherished these seedlings very much. No matter how late it was, he would come and take a look, even just once, before the palace door was locked.
"Your Majesty is Hongyi, I would like to congratulate the Ming Dynasty and congratulate the people of the world." Qi Jiguang said with mixed emotions.
Zhu Yijun sat down in Baoqi Hall. This is a small hall less than three feet and five rooms wide. It is more like a pavilion than a palace. He smiled and said: "Qi Shuai, Chen Shenjiang, Xu Xueshi, sit down." Let’s talk.”
Zhu Yijun looked at Qi Jiguang and said very clearly: "Qi Shuai, I have doubts."
