On the ninth day of September in the second year of Wanli, it was the Double Ninth Festival. Zhu Yijun served the two palaces and climbed Jingshan Mountain to enjoy the autumn colors of Xiyuan. He also had fun with important ministers, nobles, and Hanlin officials, and climbed high and looked far away together.
Because the harem and the foreign ministers cannot be in the same place, the viewing areas are separated. The inner court is surrounded by the queen mother and concubines, who are drinking, eating crabs, admiring chrysanthemums and playing in the yellow enclosure on the top of the mountain. Zhu Yijun brings the nobles, and all the ministers are there.
A hundred steps away is another fence.
Zhu Yijun first went to the two palaces to sit with her for a while. Because of the passing of Concubine Ye, he paid special attention this time and did not show any abnormality among the beautiful women.
After chatting and joking for a while, seeing the maid next to Queen Mother Rensheng taking out the jade mahjong again, the corners of Zhu Yijun's mouth twitched, thinking whether he had released something extraordinary.
The phenomenon of mahjong addiction has been studied by boring psychologists in later generations. Its allure is even more attractive than gambling addiction - and gambling addiction is no less harmful than drug addiction.
In later generations, both men and women are addicted to mahjong, but there are more women addicts than men, and most of the unemployed middle-aged and elderly women have some.
The most famous male addict is Liang Qichao, whose famous saying is: "Only by playing mahjong can one forget to study, and only by studying can one forget to play mahjong." When he returned from Europe in 1919, he was invited to give a lecture.
, Liang Qichao actually replied: "I don't have time, I have four people to do their homework."
The reason is probably that fun and gambling are mixed, which is the ultimate enjoyment for those who need to kill time.
Queen Mother Rensheng had been living in the harem for many years and was bored out of her mind. She loved to play Ma Diao before - but the complexity of Ma Diao was completely different from that of mahjong. Therefore, after Zhu Yijun invented mahjong, Ren Sheng
Saint must do the "four people's homework" every day.
Later, Cisheng faded out of government affairs and was beaten several times by Rensheng, and he easily became addicted. Now Mahjong in the harem has become popular, and the wives of the capital are also following the trend - in less than a year, it is said that this
Mahjong has spread to Sichuan and Guangdong, and even the gameplay has begun to mutate.
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Zhu Yijun saw the two palaces starting to play mahjong. At the beginning, he sat behind Cisheng and gave her instructions. After firing two cannons in a row, he realized that his level was far behind.
After being given a sideways look by Ci Sheng, he walked out of the harem and went to the group of distinguished ministers. Although there were some among the distinguished ministers who loved playing mahjong, among the ministers and the Imperial Academy, they were all very dignified, and no one mentioned it.
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By this time, the officials had known that Zhu Yijun didn't like rhetoric, so they didn't need to spend so much time writing poems to praise saints. They were all very boring.
Seeing that there was some silence, the people present looked for topics to talk about. They surrounded the two newly promoted earls, Ning Yuanbo Li Chengliang and Jinghaibo Qi Jiguang, who had been rewarded in Beijing, and started to flatter them and talk about military matters.
Only this time did Zhu Yijun see General Li Chengliang, who had influenced Liaodong for fifty years in the original time and space, supported Nurhaci, removed the Six Kuandian Fortresses, made the Nurhachi family bigger and finally became the world's leader. - The previous award ceremony was hosted by the Ministry of Rites, the United Kingdom
The official presided over the ceremony, but Zhu Yijun did not attend.
Li Chengliang is forty-nine years old this year. His courtesy name is Ruqi and his nickname is Yincheng. He is from Tieling, Liaodong. His ancestors fled to Korea to avoid the unrest in the late Tang Dynasty.
According to Ming history records, during the Hongwu period, Li Ying, Li Chengliang's great ancestor, came from Korea to the Ming Dynasty and was given the title of Tieling Guard to command Qianshi.
According to research conducted by later generations of Korean historians, it is believed that the Li Chengliang family originated from the Lee family in Xingzhou, Korea; according to research conducted by Japanese scholar Sonoda Kazuki in the 1930s, it is believed that the Li Chengliang family was originally a Jurchen living in the south of the Yalu River.
At the end of the 14th century, under the leadership of the founder Li Yingni, he moved from Korea to Tieling, and was later incorporated into the Ming Dynasty Guards and served as an official. It can be seen that the so-called historical research is all for the sake of national interests.
At this time, Ning Yuanbo's inner understanding certainly believed that he was a die-hard Han Chinese. Zhu Yijun saw that he had broad eyebrows and big eyes, a square face, a dignified appearance, a bear's waist and ape-shaped arms. His thick beard was trimmed into a peach shape, and he looked like a general from appearance to temperament.
The choice made him compare favorably with Qi Jiguang next to him.
For Li Chengliang, although he received a knighthood from the court this time, there were still two flaws. One was that he was not knighted alone, but Qi Jiguang was his companion; the other was that, like Qi Jiguang, he did not receive a world certificate.
This earl did not have the privilege of retiring from his country.
Despite this, because the imperial court had not awarded military honors for many years, Li Chengliang was as beautiful as in the clouds for receiving this honor. At this time, he was already grateful to Zhu Yijun, Zhang Juzheng, Tan Lun, etc. to the bone.
His emotional intelligence is not a little higher than that of Qi Jiguang. Qi Jiguang only knows the simple principle of "hugging the thighs". He has been fawning over Zhang Juzheng since the end of Jiajing. Later, he discovered that after his holy family member Youlong, in addition to the original thigh-stretching principle,
In addition to not throwing it away, it turned out that many relations between the inner and outer court had become cold. Of course, he left Jizhen and did not have so much money to manage. It was also an important reason.
Li Chengliang is not the case. He looks generous on the outside, but is extremely delicate on the inside. Including the ministers in power, others are also well-rounded. He will burn incense in every temple, kowtow when he sees the Buddha, and would rather live in a village than settle in a household. He is above the rank of minister of the imperial court.
Everyone from the young eunuch of the inner court to above felt that they and Li Chengliang were both iron men. Zhang Juzheng's forces were liquidated in the original time and space, but he was spared, while Qi Jiguang died in depression. This is the reason.
Therefore, everyone's topics basically revolved around the two events of the Great Victory of Liaodong and the fall of Wang Gao. No one mentioned Qi Jiguang's contribution to pacifying the Japanese, and he served as a foil for Li Chengliang.
After Zhu Yijun came over, he saw that the topic revolved around Liaodong. At first, he smiled quietly and listened. Later, he found that they only talked about military affairs, not civil affairs or commercial matters, and they could not consider the problem comprehensively. He couldn't help but sigh secretly.
With a slight cough, Zhu Yijun interrupted and asked Li Chengliang: "In Uncle Ning Yuan's opinion, how will this Liaodong Jurchen be treated in the future?"
After hearing the emperor's intervention, all the ministers calmed down and listened to Li Chengliang's reply. Li Chengliang stood up from the small pier, knelt down again and knelt down to worship Zhu Yijun and replied: "Replying to the emperor, I am a warrior, and the general strategy of border affairs depends on the court."
Lord, I dare not speak falsely."
Zhu Yijun smiled and said: "Uncle Ning Yuan, there is no need to be too modest. The only word for my governance is 'seeking truth'. You have been operating in Liaodong for many years, and you must have insights on business, civilian, military and other matters. It's okay to give it a try."
Li Chengliang listened to the emperor's words and felt secretly in his heart. He first guessed who gave him eye drops in front of the emperor.
After pondering for a while, Fang replied: "Your Majesty, I think that there are many feuds among the Jurchen tribes, and they have been attacking each other for hundreds of years. Since Liu Yingjie, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, ordered me to cut down the big
, no matter how small, maintaining the balance of several directions can be called a wonderful method."
After Zhu Yijun heard this, his understanding of Li Chengliang deepened. He also asked about the rise and fall of power among the various Jurchen tribes, which was mutually confirmed with the Jin Yiwei's information.
After Li Chengliang had finished recounting the details, Zhu Yijun asked again: "How did the Jurchen tribes react when Wang Gao was killed?"
Li Chengliang sung the holy way: "The emperor planned the strategy, and the city of Gule was turned into powder in a few days. The Jurchen Hada, Ula, Yehe, Jianzhou and other departments are heartbroken. They can only serve the court with sincerity and never dare to have two minds!"
Zhu Yijun said: "What is the situation of these savage Jurchens? Because they are outside Haixi, I don't know them well. Does Ning Yuanbo know what they are?"
Li Chengliang was secretly happy after hearing this, saying that I am the only one in the world who can explain this matter clearly. Today, I will let the emperor know that no one can do anything in Liaodong without me, Li Chengliang.
Organizing his language, Li Chengliang played loudly: "The emperor is a wise man, and his words go straight to the core of the Liao affairs. I have been dealing with the Jurchens in Liaodong for many years and I know that although the savage Jurchens are not from a wealthy family, they are powerful in battle. They are not savages, but
Calling themselves 'Hezhe', they are divided into two parts, Huerha and Erwaka. Although they have no writing, they use their own language, which is not the same as Jianzhou and Haixi Jurchen!"