Snapped!
Black spots fall.
Yang Rong looked at the chess game and found that no matter where he fell, he would suffer heavy losses. He stood up and said with admiration: "The emperor is superb at chess, and I am ashamed to say he is inferior."
Zhu Yunwen dropped the black stones in his palm into the chess jar and sighed: "You are not ashamed of yourself. You obviously know that you are not as good as you. It's boring. You don't even have to use your full strength to play chess with me."
Yang Rongxin said: Except for your son and your woman, who dares to win against you...
Zhu Yunwen stopped thinking about playing chess and said to Yang Rong, "Have you read Zhang Fu's report?"
Yang Rong nodded slightly, followed Zhu Yunwen to one side, and replied seriously: "The reason why the chieftain of Zhen'an Prefecture in Guangxi resisted the imperial court was not out of his original intention, but because he was tortured by the censor. Cheng Heng, the censor, discovered that the chieftain was in the account book He lied to the chieftain and used it to coerce the chieftain to send his wife to accompany him. The wife was so fierce that she couldn't bear the humiliation and committed suicide. Instead of restraining himself, the censor even reached out to the daughter of the native official..."
Zhu Yunwen looked sternly: "A small censor dares to bully the local government. How bold he is!"
Yang Rong continued: "According to the documents sent by Zhang Fu, the censor Cheng Heng is related by marriage to Chu Yong, the chief envoy of Guangxi. This should be This is what gives him the courage to act recklessly and bully the local area.”
Zhu Yunwen clasped his hands behind his back and said in a deep voice: "Chu Yong has been in power in Guangxi for many years, and his official reputation is still good. The Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Metropolitan Procuratorate have evaluated him several times and have given him excellent evaluations. Zhang Fu also said that he is a good official. Sir. Who would have thought that his son-in-law would do such a thing!"
Yang Rong followed and said: "Your Majesty, Chu Yong is Chu Yong, and Cheng Heng is Cheng Heng. Although Cheng Heng relied on Chu Yong's identity to do evil, it was not Chu Yong who did evil. I thought that only Cheng Heng could be dealt with. "
Zhu Yunwen stopped, looked at Yang Rong who was defending Chu Yong, and asked coldly: "What, you accepted his benefits?"
Yang Rong trembled and said quickly: "How dare I!"
Zhu Yunwen said with a cold face: "Cheng Heng is just a censor, but he can hide the truth. Several investigations by the court have been led astray, and the problem has never been revealed! Don't you think that a censor can have so much energy to make Guangxi Province All the officials are covering for him? In my opinion, Chu Yong is guilty of a very serious crime!"
Seeing what Zhu Yunwen said, Yang Rong did not dare to continue to plead for Chu Yong.
Indeed, regardless of whether Chu Yong arranged for someone to greet him or not, local officials did not dare to offend Cheng Heng because of Chu Yong's status as chief envoy. This is a fact.
It doesn't matter whether he protects or not, Chu Yong will leave Guangxi because of his son-in-law's fault.
Zhu Yunwen thought about it again and again, and finally made a decision.
Cheng Heng was escorted to the tomb of the chieftain's wife in Zhen'an Prefecture and beheaded to appease people's hearts. Officials were sent to Zhen'an Prefecture to assist the chieftain in maintaining local stability and eliminate the mentality of resisting the imperial court.
As for Chu Yong, the chief envoy of Guangxi, he was demoted to the county magistrate and sent to Jiaozhi to continue his official career.
Zhang Gongchen became the new chief envoy of Guangxi.
While dealing with matters in Guangxi, Zhu Yunwen also sent a decree to the Ministry of War: Yu Tongyuan was ordered to take over as the commander of the capital of Guangxi, and Zhang Feng was transferred back to Beijing.
Tie Xuan didn't understand the meaning of Zhu Yunwen's arrangement, but Zhang Fu's return to Beijing was an unusual signal in itself. The last time he came back, he still kept mourning for Zhang Yu, but he only stayed for three months before returning to Guangxi.
The Commander-in-Chief of the Chinese Army.
Xu Huizu has been a little busy recently and wanted to ask Zhu Di for help. He was leading the cavalry and artillery battalion to fight in the field. He had to go to the mountains to test maneuvers. In the past few days, there were thunders in the mountains outside the capital and no rain. He was frightened. Some people thought that the Thunder God was working overtime and the Dragon King was sleeping.
Originally, the cavalry artillery battalion was focused on grassland operations, but considering that there are many mountainous areas in the northeast and the island countries to the east are full of mountains, the cavalry artillery battalion could only keep up with the needs and study tactics after discarding the small divine machine cannon.
In desperation, Xu Huizu had no choice but to find Mei Yin, who was idle at home, to discuss the logistical leather-making issues together.
Emperor Jianwen hoped that military logistics could be separated from the Ministry of War, and an independent government team should be set up to take full responsibility. The response time to ensure that logistics could meet the needs of 200,000 troops in combat could be shortened from three months to one month. He also proposed the construction of a dedicated munitions warehouse.
This is not a simple change, involving a number of institutions, authorities, material allocation processes, military docking, civilian recruitment, transportation methods and tools, etc.
According to Zhu Yunwen's requirements, the logistics must have the ability to send out 50,000 troops on the same day and support the 20-day march, which also involves the issue of military food rationing.
As the military becomes more and more firearm-oriented, firearms continue to iterate, steel-making and forging capabilities improve, reducing the weight of weapons and armor, and increasing logistics weights have become issues that must be considered to ensure that the military can maneuver as quickly as possible. March the furthest distance.
Changing logistics is still a trivial matter for Xu Huizu. After all, the strategy proposed by the Fifth Army Governor's Office is only part of it. The Ministry of War is also studying the strategy. The real trouble is the reform of the household registration system.
Once the military status is changed, the foundation of the garrison system will be shaken. If the garrison system is shaken, the military garrison will be easily shaken, and a series of problems will need to be solved.
Xu Huizu looked at Mei Yin and was complaining about the issue of military status. The pedestrian Si Yan Xubo came in and held an imperial edict. Without waiting for Xu Huizu, Mei Yin and others to salute, he came forward and said, "The emperor said, this edict is Just see for yourselves.”
After receiving the imperial edict, Xu Huizu ordered someone to send Xu Xingren off, then opened the imperial edict and frowned.
Mei Yin felt a little uneasy and quickly asked: "What's the matter?"
Xu Huizu handed the imperial edict to Mei Yin and said seriously: "See for yourself."
Mei Yin unfolded the imperial edict, glanced at it, and stood up immediately: "What does this mean? Why do the Beijing troops also learn to swim?"
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Xu Huizu remained silent, and Emperor Jianwen's thoughts were incomprehensible.
The Beijing army mainly fights land warfare. The battlefields are in plains, grasslands and mountains, even in the Gobi Desert and deserts, but not in the water. Why learn to swim? This is not torturing people and taking up the training time of sergeants. , disrupting the normal sergeant training plan?
Which military units do what? The navy is responsible for water matters. It is not necessary for the entire army to have water skills.
Mei Yin placed the imperial edict on the desk next to Xu Huizu and asked in a low voice: "Isn't this matter related to the Eastern Conquest of Japan?"
Xu Huizu picked up the tea bowl and found that the tea was cold, so he put it down again: "Rong Guogong, do you think that the Donghai Navy and the Southeast Navy can't destroy Japan together?"
Mei Yin sat down, looking confused.
The Southeast Navy had more than thirty-nine thousand officers and men, fifteen treasure ships, and three hundred large and medium-sized fortune ships.
When the Donghai Navy was divided, there were ten treasure ships and 172 large and medium-sized fortune ships. However, with the return of Zheng He's navy, the repaired ships and the main sergeants were all assigned to the Donghai Navy, and the number of sergeants exceeded 30,000. !
The combined strength of the two navies is 70,000, and the fleet is extremely large. With such a vast fleet, it is no longer a problem to deal with Japan's small fishing boats, and it does not seem to be difficult to capture Japan.
No matter how you look at it, there is no need to use the Beijing army to attack Japan. At this time, Emperor Jianwen proposed that the Beijing army also learn to swim and get on ships to adapt to navigation. What is the purpose?
Xu Huizu picked up his pen, wrote a document, and called Xu Yingxu: "Send this document to the Ministry of War and tell Tie Shangshu that the Beijing army will be transferred out in turn to adapt to navigation, learn swimming, etc., and let the Ministry of War and the Navy Commander The government receives transfer orders, and each transfer is for one guard."
Xu Yingxu took the order and left.
Xu Huizu looked at Mei Yin: "The emperor's arrangement has its own considerations. Let's work together to do it. The most difficult thing right now is the household registration system. I'm worried that the guard system will collapse too quickly and the number of troops will not be able to keep up."
Mei Yin smiled and said: "In my opinion, the recruitment system is completely feasible. Wei Guogong, you must not underestimate the appeal of the new army strategy, not to mention that monuments to heroes and martyrs are being built everywhere to respect heroes and martyrs, kill the enemy and serve the country, and leave their names. Immortality has become the belief of countless people. As long as the court says a word, not to mention a hundred thousand soldiers, even a million soldiers can be raised in an instant!"
"If this is true, the military status can be broken."
Xu Huizu said solemnly.
Mei Yin pulled out a list from the desk, looked at it and handed it to Xu Huizu: "There are a lot of people taking the martial arts exam this year. It actually exceeds 600, which is far more than in previous years."
Xu Huizu was not satisfied with this result. You must know that the imperial examination often costs two thousand, three thousand, or even more. There are still too few people for the martial arts examination.
However, the increase in the number of martial arts examiners also shows that martial arts education in the imperial court has not fallen behind due to the great development of culture and education in recent years. In addition, the number of opportunities for martial arts examiners has increased, heroes and martyrs are respected from top to bottom, and the base of martial arts practitioners has also begun to expand.
Nowadays, once the martial arts exercises become Chinese, they often need to go to the frontier to practice.
The road is far away and there is nothing to be afraid of.
The Ming Dynasty is strong, where can it not be home?
Mei Yin and Xu Huizu began to discuss military examination matters again, while the Ministry of Rites was busy with examination matters.
Different from previous years, the examination questions for the 11th year of Jianwen were no longer issued by the Ministry of Rites, but were composed of partial questions written by Dr. Guozijian.
The time of the examination has also been changed. It is no longer nine days, but four days.
On the first day, we will examine Confucian classics and historical classics.
On the second day, the main examinations were mathematical calculation and practical calculation.
On the third day, the main examination was on the first subject of miscellaneous studies and policy theory.
On the fourth day, the main examination is on the first subject of miscellaneous studies and policy theory.
There are two miscellaneous subjects chosen by candidates.
With the simplification of scientific examinations, Juren no longer need to bring candles into the Gongyuan, nor do they need to stay overnight there. They can enter the examination room at sunrise and leave the examination room at sunset. They can get through it with just two nests.
The newly reformed imperial examination was welcomed by many candidates, especially the old candidates. The Gongyuan felt like being in a prison. They had to listen to people grinding their teeth and snoring at night, and they couldn't get enough rest. They had to continue suffering the next day.
How good it is now. After the exam, I can have a good meal when I go back, adjust my condition and fight again tomorrow. Even if I don't pass the exam, at least I won't suffer.
During the orderly preparations for the imperial examination and the military examination, Xue Xia from the Security Bureau who went to North Korea's Shipping Department finally returned to the capital, bringing news that shocked both the government and the public...
