The three thousand forwards from the Shenji Battalion and the three thousand forwards from the Fifth Army Camp have both decided to leave Beijing, one going to Huguang and the other to Sichuan.
The number of people is not very large, but this time they left Beijing with the consciousness to fight. The transportation of ordnance, grain and grass, and the marching route along the way must all be prepared.
Cui Yuanze focused on conveying His Majesty's decree to Xiangcheng Bo Li Quanli and Dingguo Gong Xu Guangzuo: wherever the march passed, whether the Beijing camp could make no mistake with the local people would determine His Majesty's judgment on the merits and demerits of this expedition.
The purpose of implementing the new law was to benefit the people of the Ming Dynasty. If the resettled Beijing camp has no military discipline when it is fully paid or even double paid this year, then it will naturally be a failure.
The selection of forwards in the Beijing camp has not yet started, but news from Sichuan continues to come.
The leaders of the Jin Yiwei and the inner factory in Sichuan were all petitioning for orders. Zhu Houcong also "pleaded for mercy" after seeing the secret report of the Jin Yiwei's trip to Sichuan.
Because Chen Yin clarified the situation in a secret letter to him and suggested that he send someone to share the tracking information on Gao Kewei and others with Xue Lun.
"Although I am afraid that I will mess up His Majesty's plan, I think that if Gao Kewei's culprit escapes, the consequences are unpredictable. Therefore, I am bold and have sent people to Cheng Anbo and other generals who are pursuing Gao Kewei to inform Gao Kewei's whereabouts. If he is guilty, I am willing to be punished... …”
This secret report was handed back to Jinyiwei first. Luo An took it over and asked for the order.
After reading it, Zhu Houcong asked: "Chen Yin?"
Luo An immediately replied: "The son of Chen Ting, a hereditary descendant of the former Yiwei Department of the Royal Palace. After arriving in Beijing, he went to Guangdong with Wang Zuo. The year before last, your Majesty ordered me to send someone to take charge of the Yang family. I and Wang Zuo appointed him. I have no good way to govern. Please convict Your Majesty!"
Jinyiwei sent out various provinces to walk, and the order was naturally only from the top to the bottom.
Judging from the inside of Jinyiwei, they didn't know what the emperor's plans were. Since the previous task was only to monitor the movements of local officials, he should not take the initiative to directly contact local civil and military officials.
This is the same reason why Xue Lun's staff advised Xue Lun.
Zhu Houcong was just curious about Chen Yin.
There were originally a lot of people in Prince Xing's Mansion, and there were more than 300 Jinyi captains who served as ceremonial guards. Zhu Houcong did not expect that there were some people with great potential among them.
"It's useful and there's a plan, so what's the crime?" Zhu Houcong also understood the key, "Just know how to apologize in time."
In the future, if there will be people in other places who are greedy for merit and take charge of things without authorization, then it will be nothing more than punishment on a case-by-case basis. The balance between the people below showing their initiative and being rigidly on standby but striving to make no mistakes can only be constantly adjusted through encouragement and punishment. As for some minor disturbances and changes that may occur during the process, that is the price that should be paid.
In the end, it must be those who are truly smart who dare to adapt to the situation.
Luo An breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that the emperor was not guilty.
Zhu Houcong said slowly: "Besides Zhang Jin, Huang Jin and others, you are the only one with the highest authority in Qiandi. Luo An, let Wang Zuo sit in the capital. You, Cui Yuan and Zhang Zilin will rush there after presiding over Master Zhou's funeral. Sichuan. I will give you three months to straighten out the relationship between Wei Lin and Jin Yiwei, so that after the selected forwards of the Fifth Army Battalion arrive in Sichuan, Fei Hong and Xue Lun can more confidently clean up Sichuan. Then, you will go Huguang.”
Luo An's head trembled: "I obey the order."
Perhaps because Zhou Zhao passed away, Chen Yin and Jin Yiwei took the initiative to travel to Sichuan without arousing the emperor's dissatisfaction.
From Luo An's perspective, the emperor's nerves should be very nervous now. Just after the incident in the Five Military Camps, there was also a rebellion by the Sichuan Inspector General. The new law has great momentum, and many people in the world are uneasy. Among the powers that the emperor can truly and absolutely control, the Jin Yiwei is a very important one.
The Jin Yiwei of Sichuan were able to survive this calamity only because of their status as Chen Yinqian's former ministers.
Only Zhu Houcong has the most comprehensive information.
The advisers have no way of knowing the intelligence of Jinyiwei and Neichang; the urgent reports and memorials submitted by the local civil and military system through official channels will not get past the hands of Jinyiwei and Neichang.
Zhu Houcong's nerves were not that tense, and he even "practiced calligraphy" as usual.
"Your Majesty, what is this word?"
In the small study in the backyard of Yangxin Hall, Wen Suyun was helping Zhu Houhuang polish his ink.
Nowadays, both the queen and the virtuous concubine have children. Among the first and second concubines, only the concubine Shu, Wen Suyun, has never been pregnant.
But Zhu Houcong was not in a hurry, and neither was she.
Yangxin Hall is next to Changle Palace where Wen Suyun lives. Wen Suyun grew up next to Wen Zhengming, and his knowledge and attainments in calligraphy and painting are among the top in today's harem. Coupled with her lively personality, Zhu Houcong often invited her to come over and beat her.
"I have been busy on this matter for several months. Don't you see any clues?" Zhu Houcong did not raise his head and just asked casually.
"Of course I can see it." Wen Suyun pouted, and then looked at Zhu Houcong with admiration in his eyes, "Your Majesty, are you going to imitate Emperor Qin and simplify the text?"
Zhu Houcong nodded: "I've almost done it. I'll leave the rest to you to help me."
"...concubine?"
"It's simple. You can help me make a rough outline first. Next, I will arrange for your father to complete it with the Hanlin Academy."
What Zhu Houcong asked Wen Suyun to help him do was to make a model for this new dictionary style of simplified characters that combines radicals with the number of strokes, and to copy the complete batch of simplified characters.
It has been nearly two thousand years since Qin Shihuang unified and simplified the characters of all countries, from small seal script to official script to regular script, but there has been no larger-scale simplification of characters.
And simpler and easier-to-learn characters are the basis for expanding the scale of education in the next step.
Today, paper and printing technology have improved a lot compared to the Qin, Han and Tang Dynasties. In addition to the historical reason of bamboo slips, the other reason for vertical typesetting is the strong inertia of use.
Typesetting habits can be changed or not, but if you want to promote arithmetic, you still have to give it a try. Without a group of people with certain mathematical literacy, I am afraid there will still be an obstacle to the promotion of various technologies.
The reason why the characters must be simplified is the future Ming Dynasty's demand for the number of literate people.
In Zhu Houcong's goal, in the future, illiteracy will no longer be allowed within the entire official system, and the same will be true in the army.
Because of illiteracy, scholars can interpret edicts, regulations, official documents, etc., making the people and soldiers ignorant.
It just so happened that after the new law, the entire Ming Dynasty had a lot of demand for officials, so it was the time to implement this new set of things.
Wen Suyun finished polishing the little bit of ink, pursed her lips, stood aside and looked at the many pieces of paper Zhu Houcong had written on, and then turned to look at the emperor who was still writing new words smoothly and attentively.
To simplify so many characters with different shapes one by one, the skills required are beyond Wen Suyun's imagination.
Because there are so many words already decided, each one looks so natural and reasonable.
If each character can be reduced to three to five strokes or even more, then writing will naturally become much faster and it will be easier to learn.
He said he had been busy for several months, as if it was difficult. But even if a great scholar is asked to do this kind of thing, it must be done very cautiously, and it often requires countless people and years of effort.
With His Majesty, it was as simple as him taking another sip of tea just now.
Zhu Houcong just made a rough sketch as usual. Based on his feelings over the past few years, he selected a batch of hundreds of commonly used characters and wrote down the corresponding simplified characters in his memory.
He put down his pen and stretched his wrist: "Huang Jin, bring a soft stool over. What I wrote today is not the words, but the words beside them."
"Beside the word?" Wen Suyun said doubtfully, and then said, "I will sit here, my concubine."
Pointing to Zhu Houcong's legs, Zhu Houcong stared.
In what manner?
"..." Wen Suyun just likes to act coquettishly with him more and more. Moreover, they have been married for more than a year. Could it be that she is not familiar with him yet?
Huang Jin moved the soft stool over with a smile, and Zhu Houcong told her about the format of the planned "Da Ming Dictionary".
Nowadays, there is no so-called pinyin, so we only use radicals and strokes to look up words.
This dictionary also needs to compare simplified and traditional Chinese.
Since we have to do this, things like punctuation and sentence fragmentation must also be included.
Because of Zhou Zhao's death, Zhu Houcong stayed out of court for two days to show his respect and wait for new news from Sichuan.
In the Yangxin Hall, Wen Suyun was receiving a systematic training on writing standards, and he had to play a role in it.
"...I am afraid that I will not do well." She naturally felt that she, a woman, had no part in this matter.
"I've said it all, you just want to help me do some time-consuming and labor-intensive things, and put into practice what I just said." Zhu Houcong was talking, and Wen Suyun was already half-leaning in his arms, "You want to Instead of having to do this part by myself before, I will arrange for you or Huang Jin to do it."
Another reason is to find something for each of them to do, so as not to get bored in the harem and only know how to be jealous.
Sun Ming and Lin Qingping both had children. As for the nine concubines, Zhu Houcong arranged for each of them to learn one or two musical instruments and dances. The emperor went to "inspect" it from time to time, which was considered a kind of PUA.
It feels like plowing the fields according to the results of learning, and by the way, you can also enjoy the exclusive "girl group".
But Wen Suyun's energy was too strong, and Zhu Houcong decided to use things like this to kill her.
"Let Karolina and Qu Mei also study hard." Zhu Houcong ordered again, "After they have learned well, you can teach the people who work in Yangxin Palace, Qianqing Palace, and Changle Palace, and select a few who have learned well to go to the palace. Book Hall.”
Huang Jin said from the side: "Your Majesty, just teach this slave."
"Aren't you busy enough?" Zhu Houcong glanced at him, "Except for Wei Lin, Gu Dayong and Mai Fu, the guards from all over the country, especially the Nanjing garrison, go ask Zhang Jin and Zhang Zuoyi if they have made a list."
Corresponding to the gathering of advisors and advisers to various places, there was this round of major changes in the eunuchs guarding various important places.
After ascending the throne, Zhu Houcong blocked the request of Yang Ting and others at that time to remove the eunuchs who were guarding various places. On the other hand, he did not want to replace the eunuchs guarding various places.
During this process, the suicide of Fulun, the eunuch guarding Guangdong and Guangxi, and the eunuch guarding during the Ganzhou Mutiny occurred.
In the next stage, the functions of the local eunuchs will gradually change. The most important thing will be to help the emperor serve as communicators between the imperial guards and the intelligence of the inner factory system and the provincial governors and general military officers. .
In the future, the rest of the job may become an "operations director" in various locations of Huang Ming Ji.
A job like this requires not only the status of a minister, but also a certain accounting foundation.
Huang Jin went to the Supervisor of Ceremonies, and when he came back he was overjoyed and brought the latest news: "Your Majesty, Cheng Anbo has captured Gao Kewei!"
Zhu Houcong perked up and patted Wen Suyun on the butt: "Take all these and do as I say!"
After saying that, he walked to the imperial study room in the front yard of Yangxin Hall: "Come here with the advice!"
…
After learning that Gao Kewei had been captured, Yang Tinghe and others breathed a sigh of relief, and then they all praised His Majesty for being wise and well-arranged and employing people appropriately.
Zhu Houcong said with a smile: "As I said before, the world is not so easy to chaos. If you really want to rebel, you need a lot of courage. Now, the initiative lies with the court. Marquis Yangwu did not ask too many things, but after Gao Kewei was arrested, Yang Junlin was frightened and told some of the situation."
After a pause, he put away his smile: "The reason why the Fifth Army Battalion and the Tenth Battalion mutinied was because several of them, Commander Qian and General Commander, were selected through Gao Kewei's path to Zhang Wei. These few people, Even if it is a secret arranged by some people in the capital camp. Needless to say, the local land and other interests must be deeply involved. "
Cui Yuan immediately expressed his position: "I will definitely discuss with Duke Ding and others to conduct a thorough investigation of the generals in the capital camp."
"No need!" Zhu Houcong shook his head, "They are just fagots. Could it be that they have really planned a rebellion a long time ago? It's just to see if the new party's momentum and my will are wavering. Now, the target that needs to be targeted more is Yang Junlin. He confessed another person: Yin Mengchun of Yingtian Mansion."
Everyone looked solemn.
Ying Tianfu Yin, that is in the heart of southern Zhili.
"There has been a change in Sichuan. Gao Kewei has been captured. The news cannot be concealed." Zhu Houcong said, "Qing Jiang, Guo Xun and Xia Yan are both in Nanjing. You can go directly. At present, the two major treason cases of Zhang Wei and Gao Kewei have been verified. If they are related, then there is no need to hold anything back. Send the order to Sichuan and send Yang Junlin and Gao Kewei to Beijing without having to cover up their crimes along the way. The treasonous people will be caught in an instant, let's see how many people in the world are bold!"
After this incident, Yang Tinghe became more courageous.
The previous arrangements of Jinyiwei and Neichang in various provinces will definitely make the civil and military officials feel like a thorn in their backs.
But at this moment, for the new party, their role is clearly revealed.
The main conflict now can only be whether the new law will be implemented. As for the imperial power's stricter surveillance of civil and military officials... we will talk about it later.
At the fourth court meeting after the death of Emperor Zhou Zhao, the officials in Beijing were the first to know the shocking news.
A total of seven counselors will be sent to each province to take office as governors. The Beijing camp will select a total of 30,000 leaders to go to various places. In the first batch, Jiang Mian went to South Zhili, and Shenji Battalion and Fifth Army Camp each selected 3,000 forwards to go to Huguang and Sichuan.
The new series of high-ranking officials and the emerging power of the new law are hammering the hesitant hearts of many people.
At this time, in Qufu, Shandong, Kong Wenshao, the Duke of Yansheng, had just received the order. He didn't know that the sharp sword of the Beijing camp had been unsheathed, let alone that Zhang Shatou, a knife-wielding man, was about to governor Shandong.
On the Emperor's Longevity Festival in the third year of Jiajing's reign, it was finally time to organize a grand celebration.
The emperor summoned Duke Yansheng to the capital to congratulate him. Will he go?
Kong Wenshao asked his stepmother, who was now Xuancheng Boweicun's sister: "Is it true that your brother didn't send a letter?"
I was on a business trip yesterday. I drove more than 500 kilometers in one day and traveled to three cities. I really didn’t have any free time at all. I’m sorry. But I can only have one chapter today, I’ve been too busy with work recently.
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