Chapter 52 Qi Shuai, I have doubts
Empress Dowager Li agreed to give Qi Jiguang a title because she had her own plans. Qi Jiguang became a disciple of Zhang Juzheng. If he becomes a count, he can go to Beijing to serve as an admiral. When that day comes, Zhang Juzheng's Zhang Party is today's Jin Party. Although it is not a clan party, it is enough to threaten the emperor.
This was something she would never allow to happen, so when Qi Jiguang entered the palace to watch the emperor practice martial arts, Empress Dowager Li made such a condition without any discussion.
Zhu Yijun's expression remained unchanged. Empress Dowager Li did not tell the young emperor her thoughts in advance. He did not want to embarrass Qi Jiguang too much.
The Empress Dowager Li is quite easy to talk to on some matters, but on some matters she is extremely difficult to speak up on. Her children suffer a little, and the Empress Dowager Li feels distressed and will not forcefully issue an edict to stop her. But on matters outside the court, , Queen Mother Li rarely listens to the little emperor's big principles.
Of course it is possible to be knighted, but Qi Jiguang, the sharpest sword in the Ming Dynasty, must be in the hands of the emperor.
The emperor's sole responsibility is the bottom line that Queen Mother Li cannot provoke.
This time Qi Jiguang’s knighthood was a trial conducted by the emperor after Zhang Juzheng and Chen Wushishu. Zhang Juzheng’s debate with Yang Bo in the Huangji Palace proved that Zhang Juzheng did not intend to arrogate the artifact. , not interfering with the emperor's exclusive management. For Empress Dowager Li, Chen Wushishu's other matters can be tolerated.
The emperor listens to the government at home, the emperor approves memorials, the emperor summons ministers, state affairs need to be discussed by the court, and Beijing officials need to be evaluated, these are all reasonable requirements.
The young master is suspicious of the country. Under the imperial system, the imperial power is absent. The courtiers took the opportunity to make some demands. It is not too much to ask the emperor to listen to the affairs, manage the affairs, and see the ministers.
Zhu Yijun had just planned to speak to Empress Dowager Li. He was eloquent and since the foreign minister was still here, Empress Dowager Li should give him this little emperor's face.
"I have always been a minister of the Ming Dynasty. I live with the emperor's salary and are loyal to the emperor." Qi Jiguang spoke first, bowed his head and said: "Please give the Queen Mother a clear warning."
"That's true, As long as Qi Shuai understands." After hearing Qi Jiguang's answer, Queen Mother Li knew that Qi Jiguang had agreed and would no longer be a member of the Quanchu Guild Hall.
What Qi Jiguang said is that in the past, worshiping under Zhang Juzheng was purely helpless. If he could meet the saint, if he could do things without worshiping under other people's names, he was not willing to go around worshiping the master. .
If you worship the master, you will be someone else's lackey. To the soldiers who are fighting, it will be a humiliation for the powerful.
Qi Jiguang and Zhang Juzheng are good friends, but this is the only way this can happen in this messy court.
"I'm tired. Qi Shuai will stay in the palace today and have dinner with His Majesty." Empress Dowager Li did not say anything else to Qi Jiguang. The emperor had already issued an imperial edict and expressed his affirmation to Qi Jiguang. Empress Dowager Li was not recruiting generals for herself, but for the emperor.
The banquet was held at the Fengwang Palace, accompanied by Jizhou General Chen Dacheng. Chen Dacheng was very excited. The commander returned to Beijing and not only received a full reward, but also received a title. Not only that , and even received a banquet from the emperor!
The personal guards who came to Beijing together this time also selected ten people to accompany them.
"I don't drink. It's a military rule that no one except the navy can drink." Qi Jiguang looked at the jug and wine glass and said with a slight embarrassment. No drinking is allowed in the army. This is an iron rule set by Qi Jiguang. He cannot take the lead in breaking it. He has to leave the city and return to Jizhou today.
Zhu Yijun said with a smile: "The content in the cup is just water."
Just to drink in the atmosphere. If he drinks at this age, tomorrow Zhang Juzheng should write Notes on Sinner, and Queen Mother Li should take the little emperor to read Sinner aloud in the Imperial Ancestral Temple. The edict was issued.
When Qi Jiguang heard this, he realized that it was really water. He quickly stood up and waved his sleeves as if to kneel down and said: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your consideration."
"You don't have to kneel down to reply in the future, Yuan Fu. When my husband lectures on banquets, Tiqi exercises and martial arts, and when Xu Xu teaches me about farming, I don’t have to kneel down to reply.” Zhu Yijun said quite accurately, interrupting Qi Jiguang’s kneeling posture, and gave an example to tell Qi Jiguang, this is what he said. Not particularly graceful.
For a forty-year-old general who has been fighting for nearly thirty years, it is etiquette to kneel to his ten-year-old master, but His Majesty the Emperor's oral instructions are an imperial edict.
When there is a conflict between etiquette and imperial edict, whose advice do you listen to?
Qi Jiguang chose to listen to the emperor. He discovered another characteristic of the young emperor, that is, he is informal and polite. This may be the method Empress Dowager Li taught the young emperor to win over people. All means of loyalty are good means.
But this method is extremely useful.
The guests and hosts enjoy the same meal.
Zhu Yijun highly affirmed Qi Jiguang's martial arts in pacifying the Japanese and resisting the enemy, praised his achievements in the Battle of Xifengkou, and severely attacked the conspiracy between the little prince of the Northern Barbarians and Dong Hu. He suppressed the enemy's arrogance and inspired the Ming army and people to fight against the enemy. At the same time, he raised his concerns about the northern invaders once again invading the border.
Qi Jiguang said that he would do his best to resist the invasion of bandits and bandits with resolute measures. At the same time, he would increase the number of distant princes on the piers and platforms, detect the enemy's movements in a timely manner, do everything possible to keep the enemy out of the country, and live up to the Ming Emperor, civil and military officials, and the people of the capital. We hope that the soldiers in the three towns will dare to fight and fight decisively to win.
"I have opened a Baoqi Hall in Jingshan. The Qingming Festival has passed. Qi Shuai will accompany me to have a look?" After lunch, Zhu Yijun proposed that we go to Shanglin Garden together. "I am willing to go with your Majesty." Qi Jiguang quickly bowed his head and said. His Majesty said he was not allowed to kneel, but he was still very respectful.
As for His Majesty's promise, Qi Jiguang did not expect His Majesty to fulfill it. He only expected the Emperor to pay attention to military affairs and prevent the military disaster from spreading to the Gyeongsang region.
Zhu Yijun brought Qi Jiguang and Chen Dacheng to Baoqi Hall in Jingshan, and took Qi Jiguang to the outside of the sun room. He stood under the noon sun, looked at the seedlings in the field, squatted down, and introduced with potatoes and sweet potatoes.
“According to Haiphong colleague Luo Gongchen, sweet potatoes and potatoes can produce over a thousand catties per mu overseas. Qi Shuai and Li Shenjiang both came from military households in the field. They should know how much a thousand catties per mu means. The important thing is that this kind of crop, regardless of its poor quality, can survive for countless people." Zhu Yijun squatted at the edge of the field and pointed at the seedlings in the field.
The seedlings are dark green, egg-shaped and heart-shaped, full of vitality. Qi Jiguang also squatted down and looked at the seedlings carefully. It was obvious that the seedlings had been carefully taken care of.
Zhu Yijun pointed to the five acres of field on the left and said: "There are seedlings every six inches. One acre of land requires four thousand seedlings. The seedlings have four nodes, two leaves are exposed to the ground, and the remaining leaves are inserted into the soil. ”
“This does not mean that four thousand potato seedlings are needed. The potato seedlings are specially cultivated in the fire room. If the temperature exceeds 40 degrees, the seedlings will burn. Therefore, they must be inspected every day after the cultivation is completed. After the potato seedlings are moved out of the fire house, when they grow to six to eight inches, they start to be cut and planted in the field."
"Forty degrees?" Qi Jiguang asked immediately after hearing the unfamiliar term. road.
Zhu Yijun led Qi Jiguang and others to explain in detail the principles of thermal expansion and contraction of thermometers and the defined standards.
“Potato seedlings like sandy loam soil. When planting, the soil must be broken, finely ground, and leveled. Too much water will easily cause the seedlings to rot and the tubers to rot.” Zhu Yijun explained the whole process of raising seedlings.
The construction of a fire room does not necessarily require a sun room. The main function of the sun room is to cultivate attenuated potato seedlings. Whether it is pinching or killing, the sun room is used. The potato seedlings should be cut after they are six inches old. When the seedlings are harvested, the potato seedlings grow very quickly, with four sections forming one seedling.
In the twenty-fifth year of the Jiajing reign, Qi Jiguang inherited his ancestral position and became the commander of the Dengzhou Guard. He was responsible for farming. Although the Nanbing (Qi Family Army) was a recruitment system, it did not mean that farming was not done. On the contrary , also attaches great importance to farming warfare, and the Southern soldiers who do not rob or plunder also rely on farming warfare.
Farming is a matter of course for Ming Dynasty.
Qi Jiguang has very rich experience in farming. He had a serious chat with the Ming Emperor for a long time, while Xu Zhenming was responsible for checking for omissions and filling in the gaps. When the emperor didn't understand something, Xu Zhenming answered, The little emperor can answer most of the questions.
Until he reached the small pavilion of Baoqi Hall, Qi Jiguang suddenly realized that he was exchanging farming experience with His Majesty the Emperor! Is Your Majesty not doing his job properly?
But the little emperor was very familiar with farming and was not joking. This made the flame of promise in Qi Jiguang's heart become much stronger.
"Your Majesty, do you often come to Baoqi Hall?" Qi Jiguang asked curiously. In his impression, it was enough for the Ming Emperor to hold a plow as a gesture of worship when he offered sacrifices to Jumang in the spring. Yes, even when Song Renzong was farming, he went over to take a look during harvest time.
Qi Jiguang can write a book of war. Since ancient times, military strategists who are good at conquering and fighting are rare. The battlefield seems to be designed for them, but the military strategist can pour out everything in his stomach and write a book of war. Not much.
Many military strategists know how to fight a war, but if they are asked to explain it, they can't explain it logically. They are like dumplings in a teapot that cannot be poured out.
Qi Jiguang was able to pour out the dumplings in his stomach because he studied well and had excellent literary talent. If he had to inherit his ancestral position, he would have thought about obtaining fame. Although his military talent was dazzling, Qi Jiguang was still in the military. , still holding on to the scroll.
So Qi Jiguang knew that Song Renzong’s Baoqi Hall was just to show his emphasis on agriculture and mulberry. Could it be that Song Renzong still farmed the land himself?
Emperor Gao, Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, personally farmed the land, and even farmed the land in the palace after he became emperor.
"Your Majesty comes every day." Xu Zhenming answered this question. His Majesty cherishes these seedlings very much. No matter how late it is, he must come and take a look before the palace door is locked, even just once.
"Your Majesty is so generous, I would like to congratulate the Ming Dynasty and congratulate the people of the world." Qi Jiguang said with mixed emotions.
Zhu Yijun sat down in Baoqi Hall. This is a small hall less than three feet and five rooms wide. It is more like a pavilion than a palace. He smiled and said: "Qi Shuai, Chen Shen General, Xu Xu, sit down and talk."
Zhu Yijun looked at Qi Jiguang and said very clearly: "Qi Shuai, I have doubts."
Only by studying Xiaowu can everything be possible! ! ! ! I, Xiang, who Lin and my sister-in-law are returning, once again solemnly talk about it!
(End of this chapter)