In the history of the Ming Dynasty, both father and son of the Yang family have their own biographies, and they are listed in the first volumes of their respective volumes.
Yang Shen, whose courtesy name is Yongxiu, has appeared in the previous auction. He was one of the three talented men of the Ming Dynasty, alongside Xie Jin and Xu Wei.
But these three great talents all had very bad luck: one was frozen to death, one was banished to death indefinitely, and one went crazy and died of poverty.
So if you travel through time, be sure not to be one of the Four Great Talents of Jiangnan, or the Three Great Talents of the Ming Dynasty, otherwise you will enjoy all kinds of weird ways to die.
However, his reputation as a talented man is not an exaggeration at all.
To give a simple example, the song "Linjiang Fairy - Rolling Water of the Yangtze River Passes East", which is known as the eternal masterpiece, was written by him. "Success or failure turns to nothing. The green mountains are still there, and the sunset is red several times." This sentence,
It has made countless people shed tears and be fascinated by it.
Putting aside his literary achievements, Yang Shen's political luck was not comparable to that of ordinary people.
He has been appreciated by Li Dongyang since he was a child. Although he has the intention to win over his father, being able to become Li Shoufu's favorite disciple means that he is not only the emperor's confidant, but also one of the future leaders of the civil service group.
This is an even more advantageous advantage than his father. In the original official history, he failed the imperial examination next year and won the top prize four years later. His life reached a peak. However, he failed to become a civil servant of the Ming Dynasty because he offended Emperor Zhengde and Emperor Jiajing successively.
The leader of the group.
In the post-Zhengde era that had been messed up by the otaku Zhu Shou, Yang Shen, in addition to serving the emperor with his father, was also actively preparing for next year's imperial examination.
Zhu Shou asked him to be his study companion. This is just a popular saying. As mentioned before, people around the emperor must not have official positions. Even the eunuchs who hand toilet paper to wipe their butts are at least seventh-grade officials. No.
People in official positions, except for palace ladies, had no chance to show their faces in front of the emperor.
Therefore, Yang Shen's official position is: the official name of Zhan Shifu's Economic Bureau. This is a junior official from the ninth rank, but where is Zhan Shifu?
They were dedicated to serving the prince and the emperor while they were studying. Most of the cabinet elders in the Ming Dynasty followed the shortcut of taking the imperial examination, entering the Imperial Academy, entering the Zhanshi Mansion, and being promoted to the sixth department, and finally became the cabinet elders.
Although it is not an important position in Zuochunfang, the Bureau of Economics and Management is pretty good. Many Jinshis even beg their grandfather and grandmother to cry and want to join.
If Yang Shen gets the top three in high school next year, let alone the number one scholar, like his father, he will definitely become the new elder of the Ming Dynasty in less than fifteen years.
Yang Shen, who is only nineteen years old this year, can be said to be suffering from horse hoof disease. Looking at his father's bitter face, he felt quite disapproving.
Different from his father and teacher, Yang Shen has a fatal flaw: he has no talent, which means he doesn't look down on people very much, and he only looks at people through his nostrils.
This bad habit of his was later broken by Yang Yiqing. According to historical records, one year, Yang Shen went to visit Yang Yiqing. After reading the latter's collection of books, he pretended to be 13 and wanted to test Yang Yiqing, because we all know that Yang Yongxiu has an outstanding memory.
Wouldn’t it be great to use your own strengths to slap others in the face?
But Yang Shen was slapped in the face. No matter what question he asked or what book he took, Yang Yiqing could recite it and knew it very well. Comrade Xiao Yang was shocked by this, and his personality changed drastically from then on.
I study my knowledge honestly and don't even show my nostrils when looking at people.
It can be seen from this that pretending to be 13 must not be done in front of very naughty people, otherwise the possibility of being slapped in the face is very high.
However, Zhu Shou liked Yang Shen not just for the above reasons, but because Yang Shen understood his mind.
Let us turn our attention to the Daming Martial Arts Academy a few days ago.
Decades ago, Yu Qian selected elites from the three major battalions and established a 100,000 regiment camp, which has since become the elite force of the Ming Dynasty. During the Xianzong Dynasty, after the regiment camp was restored, it was expanded to 12 battalions, with approximately 140,000 troops.
people.….
By the time Emperor Zhengde ascended the throne, there were only 60,500 elite soldiers in the regiment and camp. Including the old and weak, the number was less than 90,000. So elites were selected from the 3,000 battalions of the Fifth Army to form eight
A new elite regiment of ten thousand people.
After Zhu Shou opened the Ming Dynasty Martial Arts Academy, his intention was to use the Martial Arts Academy to train officers and the Twelve Regiments and Battalions to train soldiers.
However, his idea of using regiment camps was strongly opposed by the civil service group, and even the eunuch group, many people disapproved of it. Admiral Zhang Yongzhang once said to the emperor in private: "This is the way to create chaos."
Why is this?
We might as well look at the reasons for the establishment of the regiment camp. The reason why Yu Qian established the regiment camp was the Tumubao incident.
This battle took place in the 14th year of Zhengtong (1449). Not only did Ming Yingzong Zhu Qizhen be captured, but 500,000 Ming troops were completely lost. The more important impact was that it completely eliminated a ruling group.
:Martial nobility, referred to as nobility.
The team that Zhu Chongba started from were his Huaixi buddies. Although many of them were brutally beaten to death by Brother Chongba, there was always a group of people who survived, plus a group of elite generals who emerged during Zhu Dijing's calamity. These people
This formed a very distinctive ruling group in the early Ming Dynasty: Xungui.
Before the Yingzong Dynasty, the status of the Xungui Group and the Civil Service Group were almost the same. At that time, the status of the civilian officials was not high enough to make the military attachés three levels lower. The confrontation between the civilian officials and Wu Xun was the political landscape at that time, and
The eunuchs are still studying hard.
Neishutang, founded in the first year of Xuande, tells us: knowledge can really change destiny.
From then on, the eunuchs stood up and gradually became an important political force in the Ming Dynasty.
The decisive battle between nobles and civil servants was the Tumubao Incident. Wang Zhen, an outstanding figure in the eunuch group at that time, led this historical drama.
After the drama ended, people were surprised to find that: British Duke Zhang Fu died, Taining Marquis Chen Ying died, Pingxiang Bo Chen Huai died, Xiangcheng Bo Li Zhen died, Suian Bo Chen Xun died, and the governor Liang
Cheng, Wang Gui also died. The death of these adult nobles made the Xungui Group no longer in business.
Some people may say that the civil service group also suffered a lot of deaths, including hundreds of ministers, bachelors, and officials from the six ministries. However, the civil service group has an imperial examination supplement every three years, and what about the nobles? If a group of them died, they would still have to die.
Wait more than ten years for the next wave to grow.
By the time the young nobles understood politics, the political situation of the Ming Dynasty was already beyond their control.
Therefore, the eunuch Wang Gonggong rewrote the history of the Ming Dynasty and made the Xungui Group become a lowly civil servant.
Even a fool can see what Zhu Shou did: the emperor wanted to cultivate a new noble group.
This is a hornet's nest.
We know that the emperor has no right to privacy. Even when you are sitting on the toilet, there are dozens of people surrounding you waiting for you. Do you still want to have the right to privacy? Do you want to visit incognito and pick up girls? Just dream.
Therefore, every action of the emperor will not take long to be known to everyone in the court.
Officers from the martial arts academy, paired with soldiers from the regiment and camp? Your Majesty, stop dreaming here! The civil servants of the Ming Dynasty will never allow a second group of honorable nobles to appear, and the eunuchs do not want a new one.
power to divide the emperor's love for them.
Therefore, Zhu Shou's idea of reorganizing the regiment met with unanimous resistance from the top and bottom, and finally had to give up.
In this process, Yang Shen actually stood out.
After the Hongzhi Dynasty, the elite soldiers of the Ming Dynasty usually used Hong Yong's training method, that is, within five days, they would walk in formations and set up camps on two days, practice martial arts on three days, and practice twice a month.
The students of the Daming Martial Arts Academy, under Zhu Shou's request, must practice every day.
In the morning, I learned strategy. The textbooks were "Sun Tzu", "Wu Zi", "Sima Fa" and other military books, as well as "The Analects of Confucius", "Mencius" and other popular reading materials that the people loved to read...
In the afternoon, I learned martial arts, eighteen kinds of weapons, firearms, chariot formations, transportation, astronomy, geography, etc., whether horse, foot, or riding, I had to learn everything.
This is the teaching content set up by the old man Xu Jinxu, Zuo Cheng of the Martial Arts Academy. He also invited a group of frustrated generals and literati, and even a few rangers, who said they could teach him the knowledge of being a spy.
Zhu Shou was once very interested in getting to know the heroes of the Ming Dynasty, so he deigned to attend a lecture. He did not expect that although the knights were not afraid of death, they were very afraid of the emperor. They knelt on the ground and did not even dare to raise their heads.
Not to mention standing in front of the emperor and giving lectures.
Looking at their appearance, they were even more shameful than the old farmer Cao Xiong. They all looked weird and did not fit the "heroic" style in Zhu Shou's heart. This made the emperor who wanted to find Ximen Chuixue very hurt.
Why are there no swordsmen to assist me in my great cause? Zhu Shou looked up to the sky and sighed, feeling sad that he had not traveled to the world of martial arts.
He could only turn his mind back to the fifteen hundred Hikari Young Shota. This was his officer corps and where his hope lay.
So, he summoned one hundred and fifty Xiaoqi people and prepared to brainwash these young ladies.
Looking at the young men kneeling on the ground, Zhu Shou did not immediately lecture, because the emperor was not allowed to speak first. This was a court rule.
Therefore, Yang Shen, the unemployed scholar who had been following him, spoke up: "All officers and men, you are all slaves of the Holy One!"
At this time, Young Master Yang, who had not yet been appointed as a reading boy, and who was from the ninth grade of Zhanshi Mansion's Economic Affairs Bureau, was so shocking that Zhu Shou was stunned for a moment.
This guy is so suitable for me! Zhu Shou was very happy, this is the way of YY.
Yang Shen did not waste the opportunity his father gave him. The first sentence touched Zhu Shou's mind: enslaving the officers' minds and making them the emperor's private army instead of the court's army.
Some people may find it strange: throughout the dynasties, didn’t the emperor represent the country? It is said that I am the world, so why are there still divisions between the emperor’s army and the court’s army? Isn’t this an open promotion of militarism?
This is true for Zhu Chongba and Zhu Di, because under the iron-blooded policy of these two military madmen, no one really dared to challenge the emperor.
But after the Xianzong Dynasty, how many emperors still knew military skills and dared to fight? If they were not ignored by the civil servants, it would be really unreasonable.
Why do you say that?
Emperor Zhengde has the most say in this matter, whether it is from official history or from time travel.