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Chapter 23: Presentation of pictures

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The strongest woman in the Daming Palace today is still Princess Taiping. Other noble ladies in the palace are suppressed and unable to interfere with the government. The noble ladies usually have nothing to do on weekdays, that is, they just go around or attend banquets and plays held by Princess Taiping, raising flowers and cultivating eyebrows.

Princess Jincheng lived in Penglai Hall. She had nothing to do when she woke up early in the morning. She was walking around the palace. When she walked to the palace outside the Penglai Hall, she was seeing the emperor's chariot passing through the avenue.

Because she was very far away, she had no etiquette and just stood on it and watched.

At this time, Xue Chongxun suddenly turned around and looked up at the que. The car he was in had no roof, and he could see his every move from a distance.

Seeing this, Princess Jincheng bent her knees slightly and nodded far away as a greeting.

Xue Chongxun looked at him for a while and recognized him as Princess Jincheng. It was not until the crowd turned a corner that her figure disappeared from sight.

The eunuch Yu Liben, who was walking on the side, said softly: Your Majesty, it is Princess Jincheng.

Xue Chongxun didn't say anything, and he felt a little touched.

But soon he entered Zichen Hall surrounded by his entourage. The ministers were already waiting there to talk about serious matters, and he had to deal with it, so he didn't care about feeling too many faint personal feelings.

The meetings between court officials in front of the imperial court usually take place until near noon, and it was filled with a lot of boring things. Then they went to work in the yamen. Xue Chongxun also left the throne to choose a comfortable place to read the memorials and so on. Most of them were in the greenhouse hall. Of course, sometimes he was in the spirit of the ministers and was also in the greenhouse hall.

After the meeting, he and Sanniang and others went to the greenhouse hall, changed their clothes and had lunch, and then read the memorial.

The dragon robe looked luxurious in the morning, but it was actually a bit uncomfortable. Xue Chongxun didn't like the bright colors of yellow. After leaving Zichen Hall, he changed into an old clothes brought from the King of Jin's Mansion, a green outer robe...

I remember that it was bought by Cheng Ting in Shanzhou a few years ago, but the fabric was easy to wear for several years and it has not been broken. It is a white cotton lining inside.

Xue Chongxun prefers this kind of dress, especially in mid-April, the weather is getting warmer and it feels refreshing and comfortable to wear cloth, so at most a piece of jade is hung on the decoration.

The place in the Greenhouse Hall, which is the imperial study room, is also very spacious, but Xue Chongxun asked someone to pull a curtain to the north to separate it, because it did not appear empty.

A desk and a chair beside the bed on the north side of the bed was where Xue Chongxun sat. There were incense, porcelain and other objects in the room. Incense burned in the cauldron, and the surroundings were also very quiet.

There is also an incense table, where the jade seal and red pen are all there, and Bai Qimei sat there to help Xue Chongxun approve the memorials, so the two words "approval" of those memorials are in very beautiful fonts.

Some officials who hold important positions do not necessarily have literary talent, and it is very common to have typos in the memorials. The appointment and removal of officials from the Tang Dynasty to the Jin Dynasty was not entirely due to the imperial examinations to select scholars.

Xue Chongxun didn't care much about this kind of subtle details. If Bai Qimei saw it, she would use a red pen to circle it out without hesitation. Maybe she would write a few sarcastic sentences, which would make the dull government affairs system more energetic.

Xue Chongxun looked at it for a while, and after seeing it, he threw it aside. The eunuch took the incense table below and asked Bai Qimei to give it a reply.

He suddenly looked up and said to Yu Liben on duty: Tomorrow, you will go to the Political Affairs Hall and send the memorial to the cabinet first. Let the cabinet minister read it first and summarize the main content in one sentence and post it outside, so as to save so many words and feel tired...

Then he suddenly remembered that the Ming Dynasty seemed to have similar methods, and of course he had to learn from good methods.Yu Liben hurriedly replied: Follow the order.

Xue Chongxun asked about the geographical and military situation in Youzhou, and Yu Liben was probably not very good at military affairs and often couldn't answer it.

When Xue Chongxun was about to change Yang Sixu to come on duty, someone came in with a roll of things and reported: The right martial guard general Du Xian presented the things to His Majesty.

Open.Xue Chongxun said casually.

When the four eunuchs slowly unfolded the things, Xue Chongxun felt very familiar after just one look. This is a map!He hurriedly looked at the words on the picture: The map of the great Jin Dynasty.

Xue Chongxun's eyes lit up suddenly, and he couldn't help but stand up from the chair and walked to the drawings.

This map looks so familiar. Isn’t it just a map of China?

However, the shape is somewhat different from the impression.

He was very happy to see this and praised Du Xian for giving him a good thing. He immediately ordered someone to hang it up on the spot and said: It is said that Du Xian went to the palace to meet.

A eunuch responded and ran out quickly.

This picture is several meters wide and describes the mountains, rivers and terrain in detail. It can be seen that Du Xian has indeed taken some effort.

Xue Chongxun looked around the places with great enthusiasm and looked at them one by one from the map. Only then did he truly feel that the territory he ruled was so large, completely different from the description in the file. He seemed to be able to touch the power in the picture.

After being summoned, it took a long time to wait to meet people. Xue Chongxun waited for people to enjoy the map of the country.Finally, he looked at the area of ​​Youzhou for a long time.

Although there are still many places around the Central Plains that have not been completely conquered, and the crisis of Tubo being defeated in the war and falling into internal division has become much weaker, the army in the Central Plains still did not occupy the other side; the nomadic peoples on the northern plateau are also rising one after another; there are occasional wars in the Western Regions.

But at this time, Xue Chongxun was most concerned about the Northeast, and with some of his personal emotional influence, he attached great importance to Youzhou and Liaodong.

If it were two years ago, Xue Chongxun might have had the idea of ​​personally leading troops to conquer the Khitan, Xi and other tribes.

But now that he ascended the throne, he could not go out to Beijing to fight easily. Moreover, there are still many problems in the country that he wants to solve. Preventing Huhua, Hebei is only part of it.

After a long time, Du Xian finally came to the palace. Xue Chongxun interviewed him and asked a lot about the military affairs in Youzhou.

Xue Chongxun did not appreciate Du Xian's picture in person, but as soon as Du Xian came in, he saw that his picture was hung high and was soon received alone. Naturally, he knew in his heart that this thing was presented very appropriately.

In the years since Wu Zetian came to power, the Khitan, Xi and the Central Plains have fought some battles. The most miserable defeat of the Khitan was in the hands of the Turks. The Central Plains really didn't get much advantage in the Northeast.

Du Xian is worthy of being a Confucian general and has a wide range of military knowledge. Although he has never led troops in the Northeast, Xue Chongxun still knows everything about the past and present.

Before Jin, there were mainly three towns of troops defending against the Khitan and Xi, such as Northeast nomadic peoples, such as Hedong, Youzhou and Jizhou; earlier, the Andong Protectorate was located in Silla (Korean).

But now the Jin army has changed slightly. The two towns of Youzhou and Jizhou have been merged into one military region, called Youzhou Governor's Office, with one regular army stationed by 8,000. After the Battle of Heisha City, the number of soldiers in Youzhou has been reduced to more than 3,000. In addition to the border troops of various departments, Zhao Qu was unified to take charge of defense. The Andong Protector's Office was also renamed the Andong Governor's Office, and the first army stationed by the regular army is called Andong Army, and the capital has been moved to Pingzhou within Yuguan (near Shanhaiguan).

The relocation of the Andong Protectorate was after being controlled by the Khitan and Xi in Yingzhou and other places. At that time, the imperial court used national strength to wars with Tubo and Turks in the west. The actual control scope of the eastern vassal states was gradually narrowing. In addition, the Chang'an palace coups continued, and it mainly relied on the title of kings, marriage ties and passive defense to maintain the border line. The dynasties after Wu Zetian also took the initiative to fight several battles. The Tang army may not be in the east, so the Tang army lost more and the winner was less.

Through conversations with Du Xian, Xue Chongxun had a rough understanding of the situation in Youzhou.

He had been to Youzhou once in his life, and his purpose was to contact King Li Shouli of the then King of Shi, to participate in the political struggle. He was basically not clear about the local military facts, and to understand some of them through memorials and oral statements by ministers.

There are fifteen roads in the world, and there are more than 300 states in the country. Xue Chongxun suspected that the emperors in the past could not have known too much about the places one by one. Anyway, he believed that he was diligent and could not get such detailed information.

Xue Chongxun asked again: Most court officials suspected that Youzhou wanted to rebel, so General Du thought how to properly resolve it?

Du Xian smiled and said: As long as your Majesty issues an order to ask me to bring thousands of Mingguang Army or Shence Army to Youzhou Governor's Office, I will shout outside the camp, "Are the soldiers willing to follow the emperor to pacify the barbarians?" Ninety percent of the soldiers will be cast, and no one in Youzhou can restrain them.I will take people directly into the city to arrest a group of people on the charge of dereliction of duty and then go to Beijing to question how to deal with the matter of His Majesty's words.If Zhao Qu and others dare to gather the border troops to resist, the elite officials would fight to the death.

General Du's heroism remains undiminished.Xue Chongxun praised.

All thanks to Your Majesty's reputation.

Du Xiandao, the soldiers of the governor's offices in the north were all warriors who followed His Majesty to fight south and north. They were full of the integrity of the Han family and were honored to stabilize the border and maintain peace. How could these people follow the nameless Zhao Qu and others to rebel against His Majesty?

Xue Chongxun and Du Xian were very interested in talking, and they were still unsatisfied until the palace gate was almost closed.

Xue Chongxun did not leave Du Xian to talk at night. He wanted to do this, but it was not a good thing to think that sometimes it was not a good thing to favor a certain court official. For example, Jia Yi, who wrote "Theory of the Qin Dynasty", hit it off at first sight and talked loudly together day and night, and Jia Yi had no good ending.

So Xue Chongxun asked Du Xian to go back first and let him participate in the discussions of the center the next day.

Du Xian was about to leave, but Xue Chongxun thought about it: the people participating in the decision-making meeting were rules he set himself. It would be a bit unreasonable to suddenly let Du Xian, a bureaucrat who was not in the three provinces and the cabinet sequence participate. If the rules are broken, the suspicion of favored officials would be too great.

After he thought about it, he called Du Xian and said: The Political Affairs Hall is full, how about letting you go to the cabinet to serve as a bachelor's degree?