Transmigrating to the Ming Dynasty’s Imperial Examination

The emperor Hongzhi ordered the Ministry of War to print a new map of normal size according to the large map sent by Cui Xie and send it to various places in Jiubian.

After Cui Xie finished the business that Xie Ying entrusted to him, he also divided the journalist career of distracting and caring for his disciples, and supervised their "Heroes on the Frontier" to become a book.

This set of books should be called Wen Zhengming's paintings. He also wanted to secretly collect the original manuscripts. When later archaeologists opened his coffin, he could find a high-end collection worth more than 100 million yuan. As a result, the frontier soldiers strongly demanded to use his style of painting, and a good poetry, calligraphy and painting, Wen Zhengming, could only be like Tang Bohu's pearls.

In the end, he could only assign Wen Zhengming to the new painting book with characters, which was regarded as a rescue of his value as a calligrapher.

After the new book is printed, it will not be sold in Beijing, but will be donated to the border army for free.

The Ministry of War has seen people donating food and charcoal donating lime, but they have never seen a book donation. For a while, I didn't know what to do, so I had to ask the new Shangshu Liu Daxia with the book.

Liu Daxia took a look at the book and said, "Who is this?", she said without raising her eyelids: "Just follow the example of sending rice grains in the past, and ask the shopkeeper for a table. Cui Xueshi Don't care about this fictitious name. These books will be sent to Shanhaiguan first, so that all the interviewees will be distributed, and then they will be sent elsewhere."

Not only were they sent to the frontier army, but the heroes interviewed each gave a few copies to their homes.

Uncle An Shun's sons who hadn't been on the battlefield got together and opened the book excitedly. Because there are so many people who read the book and the book is far away, they don't care about the words underneath, so they look for the father first. But I didn't see my father after turning for a long time, only an old **** with white hair and beard directing people to build the city and kill the enemy.

What about their father and brother? Their father was camping at the border, and the elder brothers obeyed orders and worked so hard to serve the emperor. Why didn't they paint?

The brothers suppressed their displeasure, and squinted at the text below, wanting to see which battle this was and if their family hadn't played yet. After reading the text a few times, I realized that the old fairy with white hair and beard is their father? Those three beautifully-bearded Wen Wenru will be their eldest brother? And the little white-faced general of the pangolin... Is that the third brother who is going to be a grandfather?

This, this painting is not like it!

They couldn't help but prepare a gift and send it to Cui's house, wanting to inquire about this painting. Cui Xie invited these people in and replied indifferently: "This manuscript was written by the two uncles of the country. The appearance of the old man, the son, and the sons have been approved by them. The officials paint according to the words, and there is no error. If you don’t believe me, it’s better to write to the parents and ask if they are willing to make us paint like this."

This was written by Guojiu Interview, Bachelor Drawing Compilation, and famous talents in Jiangnan. How dare they question? It's just that the few princes looked at the old man with white beard and hair in the book, and they were a little sad when they returned home. They jointly listed on the table and asked the border officer to play with his father and brother.

After the book was passed to the border, Uncle Xue, the guard eunuch, the military officer and the commander all liked to comment on each other and appreciate their new image. The people in the book are handsome, brave and brave, and the older ones are world-famous people. Although they are not like them, they are much better than strictly realistic images in the eyes of the generals.

Appreciating paintings is focused on appreciating the air, the air is like oneself is enough, the facial features do not need to be modeled! Even though they are not so handsome, are they all heroic like the ones on this picture?

Xie Zhenfu's topographic map outside Guan is also a masterpiece. The drawing is really like that, and by measuring with a ruler against the map, you can estimate where a certain mountain, a certain river, and a certain depression are. Just take a compass, hold a map, and how far out the border is. Don't be afraid of going wrong!

Next time I will call Tan Ma Tan Place. When drawing a map, you have to follow this method too!

The two uncles were busy with their interview business at the beginning, and didn't care much about this map. Now they know it when they see the finished product. They also have the idea of ​​drawing while walking. I beg Xie Ying to take them all the way to the west and draw by the way. , Beat the thief.

Xie Ying didn't dare to take the two treasures of the country's uncles to take the risk. He only took them from town to town in the Great Wall and borrowed local soldiers and horses to protect them.

Fortunately, the "Serial Heroes Record" was donated to the Nine Sides. Not only Jizhen can see it, but the garrisons in Shan and Shaan also collected this book. The general officers and commanders stationed in the garrison all had an upper comic strip. The heart of a hero.

Wherever Xie Ying guarded the two national uncles, the local officers and soldiers were overjoyed to greet them. They took the initiative to take out their achievements and accepted interviews. They also personally led them outside the new city wall to see where they defeated the thief, without fear of trouble.

The three of them interviewed and drew pictures outside the Great Wall, and sent countless manuscripts to Beijing. Cui Xie was afraid of exhausting Wannian repeater Wen Zhengming and candidate Xu Zhenqing, so he decisively divided most of the manuscripts to Kang Hai and Wang Tingxiang, and used the first seven thoroughly.

The maps of the Nine Fronts he processed were sent to the palace one by one, and "The Record of Heroes on the Plug" was also printed locally. In addition to the ones sent to the Jiubian laborers, they also began to be sold in Liangjing and other places. .

Since the change of Yingzong Tumubao, Xungui could not raise his head in front of civil servants, and the status of military households became even lower day by day, and they were almost regarded as cheap. But nowadays, some people have written books praising that ordinary sergeants are also heroes who defend their homes and the country. How can those military households not be moved?

They also want to go to the border, kill the enemy and serve the country, and be a hero who can be celebrated!

The trend of this branch is not only rising among the warriors, but also the people of local origin also identify with heroes. Although they could not join the army, many people went to Fuxian Yamen to send grain, grass and money to support the army's invasion of the grassland and completely wipe out the captives.

Recruit Shang Liu Daxia looked at a piece of paper in the following newspaper, silently lifted a pen, and dropped the word "search set" on the paper.

When Ma Wensheng was a soldier, the imperial court could not support a great war and could only start from Xiubian City. If a large-scale search for tatami is possible, the land in the Hetao area is regained, and the wall is built along the Yellow River. This is the way to completely break the foundation of the tatami. Otherwise, the cities of Yan, Qing, etc. are outside the desert, and the walls are covered by wind and sand every year. If the sand is not removed, the sand is trapped in the city as if it is a bag.

But farther north in the desert, along the Yellow River, there are large tracts of aquatic and fertile fields. If it can be recovered, Daming will have a place to raise horses.

While writing, Liu Daxia analyzed the conditions for military deployment in his mind.

Since the availability of cheap and easily available cement to build dams, floods and droughts have been much reduced than in previous years; and the sweet potatoes and pumpkins imported from overseas in these years have fed countless people; the control of locusts in various places has also achieved results, and there are few famines and refugees. , The treasury is already very full.

Nowadays, the ruling and opposition parties are everywhere, and the soldiers are willing to use their lives. As long as the Fran cannon and war horses can be supplied, it is a good time to completely expel the captives and bring the remnants of the Meng Yuan to the "Monan no royal court".

He wrote to Yang Yiqing and asked him how the horse was governed. It would take several years to raise a horse for the court to search for.

Three years.

Yang Yiqing wrote down this number very confidently. In the past three years, the Yuan Horse Supervision, the Second Supervision and the Six Yuan Supervision can transport nearly 20,000 good horses to the pass; and three years later, there will always be 40,000 horses in the pastures.

And by that time, they will not only have horses, but also soldiers and grain.

He has now recovered the pastures occupied by the local guarding lords and officers, and eliminated the thieves who often harassed the horse farms. Not only did he restore the horse farms to more than 130,000 hectares when the horse guards were first built, but he later turned to Fortresses were built inside the enclosure, and two horse farms that could reach ten thousand hectares were rebuilt in Gan and Ningfu.

He also asked the soldiers to open up military villages in those wastelands that could not be grazing due to water and soil, planted soybeans and sweet potatoes, and fed tofu and starch. If it is too much wasteland, sand dunes, etc., it is not worth farming. People are only asked to plant weeds, thorns, and poplar trees found in Ganzhou to suppress wind and sand.

Nowadays, in the spring and autumn communication every year, the sand that is pushed under the walls of Yan and Qing has been much less. It is difficult for the captives to invade the city on the sand dunes, and can not withstand the long-range attack of the Fran cannon. They have gradually moved south.

The complex set is now a result that can be seen at a glance. It is no longer as unattainable as it was a few years ago, and can only rely on the construction of the city wall to keep Darius away from the nine sides.

Liu Daxia read his reply book, and rewritten a few parts of his own search book to play the emperor. After the emperor Hongzhi read it, he silently showed the cabinet in a book and asked the four elders for their opinions.

The imperial court is already united, the chief assistant and scholar of the Huagaidian University Liu Jian responded on behalf of everyone: "Now that the world is peaceful and the treasury is abundant, it is appropriate to expel the captives. Now that your majesty has the sacred judge, the ministers will allocate food. Ordnance, prepare for this battle."

The court had made preparations for three years to quell the thieves, but didn’t want to have an accident halfway through, and set the time for this battle a lot—

In the early winter of the seventeenth year of Hongzhi, the mission that went to Europa to purchase weapons quietly returned to Daming.

They not only brought the Francan cannon, but also the long-gauge gun that was more than one foot long and the most advanced Spanish matchlock in Europe at this time.

Although this kind of matchlock is a bit cumbersome, it can shoot through a fine iron breastplate from 35 to 60 feet away, while the Daming Fire Gun can no longer shoot people from more than 20 feet away.

They bought guns with a few ships of silk and porcelain, and they also bought local fine iron and craftsmen who could forge guns. In the future, Ming could also cast these foreign weapons himself. The same applies to the glass used to make telescopes. Although you can't buy the recipe, you can lure the craftsmen in the glass workshop with gold and silver, and then you can slowly build them by staring at them.

The emperor Hongzhi immediately called for a test shot. After seeing the firepower of these instruments, he was overjoyed and immediately ordered the Artisans of the Ministry of War to imitate this object.

The long-path cannon is a weapon for defending the city. The emperor only left one in Beijing for imitation, and many of them were sent to the three sides with rope guns, so that the sergeants could take advantage of the winter to train, and the grassland in the spring of the next spring when the grass is weak and the horses are weak , They will raise a large army to search for sets.

At this time, Xie Ying and his two uncles had walked slowly from Shanhaiguan to Shaanxi, and they were watching the newly delivered "Record of Heroes on the Frontier" with the trilateral chief Yang Yiqing and Shaanxi Yushi Wang Shouren and other generals. The Heroes of Shanxi.

atmosphere! fine! Excellent in art and painting!

Take a look at the "documentary literature" they both participated in, and see how meticulous and true they wrote, the heroes drawn by the husband are more handsome and energetic than themselves. It's no wonder people in Beijing and border areas love to read it.

Xie Ying did not hesitate to praise them for both civil and martial arts, and the book they wrote was better than the others. In the future, if you think about the words more carefully, the manuscripts you write will probably be written directly into a book, and you won't bother the talents to spend an extra touch of polish.

Guo's uncles told him to itch his heart with boasting, humbled a few words, and said in an official tone: "We didn't write anything. It is the guards who do not care about their lives and die to serve the country, and these wonderful stories are there."

Xie Ying smiled and listened to them boasting, but in her heart she thought about interviewing Yang Yiqing-Cui Xie wanted to paint his face at the beginning, but unfortunately he didn't leave a small photo before, so he could only draw a back. Thinking of Cui Xie’s affairs, he said to Er Zhang: “All the heroes of Shaanxi today are in front of you. Don’t be afraid of hard work, so you can start interviews as soon as possible so that the achievements of the adults can be passed on to the court and Let the people know."

The two uncles squinted their palms in agreement, threw down the new book, took out the interview book and pencil, and first caught the most emotional Wang Sage, and asked him to demonstrate for everyone.

Saint Wang didn't have much thoughts to tell, when the captive attacked, he naturally greeted him with a knife. Later, I thought about it, in fact, I shouldn't carry a knife, but I should have a three-eyed gun. After three rounds of marbles, I can still use a gun as a hammer, which is more useful than a knife and a tatar.

However, since the army used more artillery, he didn't like to go to battle personally.

The two uncles listened and remembered, and wrote the conclusion that a hero like Wang Zhuangyuan also loves to use guns. When adding descriptions to the story, because there were more interviews and experience, they did not need to say Wang Shengren himself, they wrote people as "clean under the wind and sand", "young handsome, face like a crown jade", A beautiful boy with "high nose and big eyes, and bright eyes."

The few eunuchs and the town army next to them looked at the words on the paper, and they understood how the colleagues stationed in other towns suddenly became beautiful men in the paintings. After that, I quickly thought about what I should paint—whether to have a long beard or a clear beard, whether to be majestic or handsome, whether to be a Confucian general or a brave general...

Oh, what annoying.

Everyone is adding happiness troubles to themselves, but Saint Wang wants to add some less pleasant troubles to them.

Looking at the descriptions in the text, he got air-conditioned and quickly stopped their artistic processing: "Is this me? How do I look like Pan An? I run in and out of town these days, and it’s true. I have lost a lot of black and thin, and my whole body only has these teeth white."

Reporter Zhang Da said calmly: "Brother Wang didn't know. We interviewed heroes in several towns before and said that as long as they are good-looking, the names are written under the painting. It doesn't matter whether they look like them or not."

Xie Ying testified with a smile on the side: "The previous Jin Yiwei is actually the same. Our An Qianhu is not actually the beautiful young girl in the book."

Wang Shouren thinks that my father wrote for Cui Xie, what if he knows that the two uncles "interviewed" him, and want to take it over for a while? What do you think if you see him written in the manuscript with such a beautiful appearance?

Forget it, let's write it down!

Writing truthfully, there is no room for the two uncles to use their skills, because Cui Xie recognized him a long time ago and can paint without looking at the manuscript.

The uncles of the country were unhappy, and the generals who wanted to beautify and called Saint Wang to calm down were depressed, Xie Ying also hesitated to say something. At this moment, Yang Yiqing stood up resolutely and resolved everyone's worries: "Xiao Wang Yushi is a beautiful student, and he is also a beautiful young man when he draws it as it is. Naturally, he does not need to add a pen, but the old man still wants He Zhongxian to paint better. Could you please write me down with the two uncles...shorter faces, more stretched eyebrows, and a clear beard?"

The two uncles immediately showed joy and geared up, vowing to write Li Dongyang's long-faced and temple-like Yang Yiqing as a gentle and elegant man like Yang Tinghe and a clean beard!