Chapter 228 The blade of the Beijing camp strikes the soul
Chapter 228 The blade of the Beijing camp strikes the soul
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 personnel is not very large, but this time they leave the capital with the consciousness to fight. Ordnance, food and grass transportation, and marching routes along the way must all be prepared.
Cui Yuanze focused on conveying His Majesty's decree to Xiangcheng Bo Li Quanli and Dingguo Duke Xu Guangzuo: wherever the march passed, whether the Beijing camp could make peace 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 from 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 reading 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 the culprit Gao Kewei escapes, the consequences are unpredictable. Therefore, I am daring and have sent people to Cheng Anbo and other generals to pursue Gao Kewei and inform him of Gao Kewei's whereabouts. If he is guilty, I am willing to be punished...
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This secret report was first handed back to Jinyiwei. 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 family 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 forgive me, Your Majesty!"
Jinyiwei sent out various provinces to walk, and the order was naturally only to go from the top down.
Judging from the inside of the Jinyiwei, they didn't know what the emperor's plans were. Since their previous mission was only to monitor the movements of local officials, they should not make the decision without permission and directly contact local civil and military officials.
This is the same reason that Xue Lun's staff advised Xue Lun at the beginning.
Zhu Houcong was just curious about Chen Yin.
There were originally many 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.
"If there is a plan, what crime can be committed?" 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 decisions without authorization, then they will just punish them on a case-by-case basis. The balance between the people below showing their initiative and being rigid and waiting for orders can only be achieved through encouragement and punishment.
Adjustment. 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 circumstances.
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 among the ministers 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 your order."
Perhaps because Zhou Zhao passed away, Chen Yin and Jin Yiwei traveled to Sichuan without causing any dissatisfaction from the emperor.
From Luo An's perspective, the emperor's nerves should be very nervous now. There had just been a change in the Five Military Camps, and there was also a rebellion by the Sichuan Inspector General. The new law was so powerful that many people in the world were uneasy. Among the powers that the emperor could truly and absolutely control,
The Jinyiwei is a very important team.
The Jinyi guards in 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; emergency 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 room in the backyard of Yangxin Hall, Wen Suyun was helping Zhu Houhuang sharpen 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. His knowledge and attainments in calligraphy and painting are among the top in today's harem. Coupled with his lively personality,
Zhu Houcong often invited her to come and beat her.
"I have been busy on this matter for several months, and you haven't seen any clues?" Zhu Houcong didn't 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 with was to make a model for a new dictionary style that combined radicals with the number of strokes for this edition of simplified characters, 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.
Nowadays, 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 vertical typesetting is due to 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 arithmetic 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.
Coincidentally, after the new law, the entire Ming Dynasty also had a lot of demand for officials, so it was the right 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 that 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 unimaginable by Wen Suyun.
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 that he had been busy for several months, as if this matter was difficult. But even if a great scholar were to do this kind of thing, it would be done very cautiously, and it would often require 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 over a soft stool. 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. Doesn't it mean that she is not familiar with him yet?
Huang Jin brought over a soft stool with a smile, and Zhu Houcong told her about the format of the planned "Da Ming Dictionary".
Nowadays, there is no such thing as 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 the past 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 role 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" them from time to time, which was considered a kind of PUA.
It's quite a bit 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."
"Don't you think you're busy enough?" Zhu Houcong glanced at him, "In addition to Wei Lin, Gu Dayong and Maifu, and the guards from all over the country, especially the Nanjing guards, go ask Zhang Jin and Zhang Zuoyi if they have made a list."
Corresponding to the dispatch of advisers to various places, there was this round of major changes in the eunuchs guarding various important places.
After he ascended the throne, Zhu Houcong blocked the request of Yang Ting and others to remove the eunuchs who were guarding various places. On the other hand, he did not want to replace the eunuchs who were guarding various places.
During this process, the suicide of Fulun, the eunuch who guarded Guangdong and Guangxi, and the incident of the eunuch who guarded Guangzhou 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 a local imperial guard, a communicator between the intelligence of the inner factory system, the governor of the provinces, and the general military officer. .
In the future, I am afraid that the rest of the job will become an "operations person in charge" of Huang Mingji's various locations.
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!"
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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 didn't ask too much, 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, General Qian, selected them through Gao Kewei's path to Zhang Wei. These few people, Even if it is a trap 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."
"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? Just look at the momentum of the new party to see if I am swayed. 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, it is in the heart of southern Zhili.
"There is a change in Sichuan. Gao Kewei has been captured. The news cannot be concealed." Zhu Houcong said, "Jiang Qing, Guo Xun, and Xia Yan are all in Nanjing. You can go directly. At present, two major treason cases of Zhang Wei and Gao Kewei have been verified.
If they are related, then there is no need to hold back. The decree was sent to Sichuan, Yang Junlin was sent with weapons, and Gao Kewei entered Beijing. There was no need to cover up his crimes all the way. The treasonous person was 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 passed. 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 were sent to each province to take office as governors. The Beijing camp will select a total of 30,000 forwards to go to various places. The first batch is when Jiang Mian goes to South Zhili, and the Shenji Camp and the Fifth Military Camp each select 3,000 forwards to go to Huguang.
Sichuan.
The new series of high-ranking officials and the emerging power of the new law are hammering the hesitant minds of many people.
At this time, in Qufu, Shandong Province, 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, nor did he know that Zhang Shatou, who liked to wield a knife, was about to governor Shandong.
On the Longevity Festival of the emperor in the third year of Jiajing, we finally had to organize a grand celebration gift.
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 has no 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.