Chapter 1082
Chapter 1082
Chapter 1082
That's right, the third prince plans to stay in the capital and study at the Imperial Academy.
There are so many wonderful things in the Ming Dynasty that he wants them all, but many things cannot be bought or sold privately. So he decided to enroll in the Imperial Academy to learn all those wonderful things.
The Ming Dynasty wouldn't sell it to him, so he learned to reply to Liang Guti and create his own.
The emperor was pleased that they would stay and study, thus strengthening exchanges between the Central Plains and the grasslands. So when the third prince revealed this idea, the emperor immediately handed the people over to Hu Ying of the Ministry of Rites and the Chancellor of the Imperial Academy, instructing them to make arrangements immediately.
Therefore, Miaohe and Tao Yanbai's main task now is not to translate for the third prince, but to teach him Chinese characters and the Chinese language.
Miaohe's temper flared up at a visible rate.
Once again, Miaohe was driven out of the study in anger by the Third Prince. She stormed to the tree, raising her foot to kick it, but at the last moment, remembering her senior brother's teachings, she suppressed her anger and silently chanted, "Don't be angry, don't be angry. He'd be happy if I got angry to death..."
After reading it, Miaohe was still not appeased. She could no longer bear it, so she turned around and ran back to the study. She said to the Third Prince, who was looking at Tao Yanbai with a dazed expression, "Third Prince, why don't you go back to the grasslands? We'll escort you back with us and have Tieliangguti send another prince to study at the Imperial Academy."
Third Prince: "Are you saying I'm stupid, not as good as my brothers?"
“This isn’t just my opinion, it’s the truth!” Miaohe said. “You’ve been studying for so long, and you still can’t even write your own name. You want to learn how to build a telegraph machine, a generator, or a bicycle? Let me put it this way, learning these things is more difficult than me ascending to immortality!”
The third prince, feeling guilty and angry, got into a big argument with Miaohe.
Tao Yanbai hurriedly tried to persuade them, but ended up being accidentally injured by the two.
Pan Jun felt that this was not a solution, so he said to the emperor who came to his door again: "Your Majesty, from the far west of Tieliangguti to the far east of Kuwu, the Ming Dynasty is under the jurisdiction of the Jimi Prefecture, and they all belong to the various northern Hu tribes. If they are allowed to unite into one, it will be extremely detrimental to the rule of our Ming Dynasty."
The emperor had his eye on Wang Cong and originally intended to talk to Pan Yun about recruiting Wang Cong into the palace as the head of the Imperial Observatory. However, upon hearing her bring up serious matters, he immediately put the matter aside and asked, "What does the Imperial Advisor mean?"
"The Nurgan Regional Military Commission was taken over, its tributary state was removed, and a garrison was established within its territory, with officials appointed to directly govern it."
Zhu Qiyu lowered his eyes and pondered for a moment before saying, "Yu Qian also mentioned this plan to me, but the war in the north has just ended. If we bring this up now, will the tribes of the Nurgan Regional Military Commission rebel?"
Pan Yun: "It is precisely at this moment, with our power and influence, that we can resolve this matter without losing a single soldier. Otherwise, if we drag it out any longer, we will really have to fight a battle to settle it."
Zhu Qiyu nodded solemnly, then remembered something and immediately said, "There are many timbers and medicinal herbs in the Nurgan Commandery. Your nephew Wang Cong is often in the medicinal herb business, otherwise I would appoint him as an imperial merchant?"
Pan Yun said, "He only has four boats and three shops at most. How is he qualified to be an imperial merchant?"
Wang Cong went into business because he enjoyed making money and the freedom it offered. If he had actually become a royal merchant, he might not have been happy.
Fearing that the emperor might think of someone else again, Pan Jun quickly said, "Your Majesty, my second brother, Pan Yu, has some talent in martial arts. Didn't the battle report from the Korean battlefield come back? He also has some talent in commanding troops. He also made meritorious contributions in the defense of Datong back then. He was in charge of the patrol of the Liaodong border before. If the Nurgan Regional Military Commission sets up garrisons, he might be useful."
Upon hearing this, the emperor's eyes lit up, and he nodded repeatedly, saying, "Yes, yes, I will bestow favors upon Pan Yu."
Zhu Qiyu brought it up again: "Are you only showing favor to Pan Yu, but not helping Pan Yue?"
He had some doubts: Could it be that the Imperial Preceptor and his elder brother were not getting along?
The emperor's thoughts were practically written on his face. Pan Yun: ...
She said, "Pan Yu was rewarded for his meritorious service, while Pan Yue did not achieve any merit when he became a county magistrate. How can he be given unjust favors?"
He added, “Your Majesty, governing a region requires time to maintain policies and time to see results. A Jinshi (successful candidate in the highest imperial examination) may have studied diligently for ten years and be highly talented and knowledgeable, but that doesn’t necessarily mean he can govern a region well. He also needs to learn and accumulate experience. Suddenly giving him a high position is not good for him, but rather harmful.”
Zhu Qiyu pondered for a moment: "Forcing seedlings to grow faster... is indeed inappropriate."
He was somewhat disappointed.
Upon seeing this, Pan Jun couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong with Your Majesty?"
Zhu Qiyu smiled at her shyly: "I originally wanted to send the eldest prince to the Grand Preceptor to be a Taoist disciple, so that he could be influenced by his surroundings from a young age and become a wise ruler in the future."
Pan Yun: "...Has the eldest prince turned one year old yet?"
Zhu Qiyu quickly replied, "He's already a year and a half old, can walk, and can say simple words."
Pan Yun rubbed his forehead and said, "Your Majesty... never mind, it's good that you realized it."
Taking the opportunity, Zhu Qiyu said, "Grand Preceptor, once the eldest prince begins his studies, how about I send him to the Imperial Observatory to serve you?"
Pan Yun asked, "Does Your Majesty want him to be the Imperial Preceptor, or the Emperor?"
Zhu Qiyu currently has only one son. Although he is still young and will have more sons in the future, he naturally wants to raise his only son to be an emperor.
However, these words should not be spoken lightly.
The emperor's words were law, and once they were spread, the entire court and the harem would be shaken. If a legitimate son were born in the future, there would likely be discord among the brothers. Therefore, he remained silent.
Pan Yun didn't necessarily need an answer. She said, "If Your Majesty wants him to be the Imperial Preceptor, you can send him here. If Your Majesty wants him to be the Emperor, Your Majesty should personally guide him and let the wise ministers and ministers of the court teach him."
Zhu Qiyu paused for a moment and then said, "As long as the Imperial Preceptor is the Imperial Preceptor of my Great Ming Dynasty, he will always be the Imperial Preceptor of my Great Ming Dynasty."
Pan Yun: "Then Your Majesty should carefully select a tutor for the eldest prince."
Zhu Qiyu whispered, "I think the Imperial Preceptor is extremely intelligent, and perhaps he can teach the eldest prince in the same way he taught me."
Pan Jun smiled and shook his head slightly, saying, "I can teach His Majesty, but I cannot teach the eldest prince."
Why?
“My senior brother often says that I don’t seem like a Taoist, but rather a Confucian disciple,” Pan Yun said. “Although after the pre-Qin period, the various schools of thought merged and became intertwined, the core of each school’s doctrines remained distinct.”
"It is impossible for a person to accept only one doctrine in his life. Especially after the Song Dynasty, more and more people read books and books became more and more circulated. If we divide a person's life into four stages, then the youth is Confucianism, the young adulthood is Legalism, the middle age is Taoism, and the old age is Buddhism."
This was the first time Zhu Qiyu had heard such a conclusion.
Pan Yun said, "Although it's simple and crude, it's very apt."
She said, "Many people think Confucianism is stubborn, but that's mostly a prejudice born from pedantic and pedantic scholars. Confucianism is what people need, the principles they most desire and need at birth. That's why young people are spirited, fearless, and have the drive and courage to do the impossible."
"In youth, one learns the rules, thus emphasizing law over Confucianism; in middle age, one's edges soften, realizing that things in this world cannot be forced too much, and one should go with the flow, turning from seeking outward to seeking inward; and in old age..."
Pan Yun shook his head and said, "Of course I hope that the eldest prince can follow the will of Heaven and the people and become a wise ruler for all time, but he started learning from me at the age of seven. If he cannot become a wise ruler, I will not become a famous teacher either; let him come to me again when he is thirty."
Zhu Qiyu was stunned and asked in confusion, "Then, what about me?"
Pan Yun winked at him: "Your Majesty is not old enough to reach the level of understanding Taoism and Zen, but I am also a Taoist who has been defined by my senior brother as a Confucian disciple. Therefore, our meeting is a match made in heaven, and we complement each other perfectly." Zhu Qiyu was stunned: "Is this how you use the idiom?"
“That’s not important,” Pan Jun waved his hand and said, “Your Majesty just needs to remember the conclusion: it’s not that I’m unwilling to have the Pope’s eldest son, but that our time is not yet right. When he’s thirty, or if he looks older and matures, he can come to me when he’s twenty-five.”
If she is still in the palace at that time.
The emperor readily agreed and kept these words in mind. Afraid that he would forget them, he turned to Cheng Jing and instructed him to remember them as well.
Cheng Jing bowed and agreed.
Pan Jun let out a breath: "Your Majesty, you see, I have no intention of leaving the palace for at least thirty years, so could you please put aside your idea of granting me this favor?"
Seeing that she had brought it up explicitly, Zhu Qiyu simply asked, "What if the Imperial Preceptor is exceptionally talented, his cultivation progresses by leaps and bounds, and he ascends to immortality?"
She would laugh out loud, cough cough, no, Pan Yun withdrew the corners of her mouth from the upturned corners of her mouth and said seriously, "That's impossible. Look at Senior Zhang, he has been in the palace for seventy years and he has not ascended. How could I ascend so quickly?"
"That's because he's connected to the fate of the nation..." Zhu Qiyu paused here, then, thinking of another point, quickly asked, "Grand Preceptor, Wang Cong is Wang Feiyin's son, so does that mean your Sanqing Mountain is a Zhengyi sect?"
“Yes.” Pan Jun nodded.
Zhu Qiyu's eyes lit up, and he excitedly grabbed Pan Yun's hand.
Pan Yun refused before he could speak, saying, "No, I don't agree, you can't!"
Zhu Qiyu's smile froze: "You haven't heard it yet."
Pan Yun glanced at him and said, "I know what you're going to say without even listening. First of all, I am devoted to the Dao and have no other thoughts in my heart. Secondly, I have calculated that I have no marriage line in this world, so there is no need to think about it. Finally, Your Majesty, if I were to get married and have children, well, I might indeed stay in the mortal world for a long time. But in that case, my selfish desires and selfishness might erupt, and then the other national teacher might not be the same national teacher."
Pan Yun counted on his fingers and chanted, "May the Heavenly Venerable grant me boundless blessings. Although I am who I am, I am not who I am. Why did Your Majesty create a national advisor who is rife with greed?"
Upon hearing this, Zhu Qiyu felt a chill run down his spine.
After a moment's thought, he realized she was right, and he finally dismissed the idea that had just arisen.
Well, thankfully there are still three members of the Pan family. No, the Pan family has two branches, and the other branch is in their ancestral home of Changzhou.
You can add "en" to either.
Zhu Qiyu glanced at Pan Yun secretly and decided not to tell her this time.
So by the time Pan Yun found out, her second uncle's family had already set off from Changzhou to Beijing to celebrate her birthday.
Pan Yun: ...
Faced with the emperor's attitude, Pan Yun had no choice but to change his mind and begin to make other arrangements for the Pan family.
Pan Yu was the first one to be assigned.
This is one of the reasons why Pan Yu's return from the Korean War went so smoothly.
With the emperor and the imperial advisor present, the court naturally wouldn't investigate his return to the capital with the Korean envoy team.
The program is barely correct.
However, most people thought that Pan Yu would not make it to the birthday celebration, but to their surprise, he arrived the day before.
Pan Yun was also very happy. While her second brother was there, she told him about her plans to reorganize the Pan family.
“Since the emperor has given it to us, it would be disrespectful not to accept it,” Pan Yun said. “Although I am involved and cannot predict fate, I can sense that the Pan family’s destiny is about to begin.”
"However, one must be extremely cautious in one's actions, remember not to alienate the people, and keep in mind the virtues of benevolence, love, integrity, and righteousness, and one can avoid disaster."
Pan Yu wrote it down one by one, then asked in confusion, "Shouldn't you say this to my eldest brother? He is the eldest son and grandson."
Pan Yun smacked him on the head and said, "Aren't you a descendant of the Pan family? Every member of the Pan family should remember this."
"Oh." Pan Yu paused for a moment, then said, "Father is resigning from his official post and going home?"
"That's right. You'll know if you go back and ask him. He's worried sick about you all."
Pan Yu was skeptical, so he went back and asked his father, "Father, did you resign from your post and return to your hometown for my brother and me, or for my younger sister?"
Pan Hong glared at him and said, "For the sake of the three of you, what, do you want to settle this with a fight?"
"No, that's not it."
Pan Hong sighed, “Ever since Yun’er’s soul left her body last time, His Majesty has been in a strange state of excitement, wishing he could bring all the members of the Pan family into the palace to bind Yun’er. The steward did not meet your second uncle’s family at the city gate today, but if they did not arrive today, they should arrive tomorrow or the day after. Our family cannot all be in the capital, much less all of them can serve as officials in the court.”
"That……"
“I returned to my hometown for two reasons: first, to establish a school, and second, to restrain my clansmen so that they would not use the name of the Pan family to commit evil deeds.” Pan Hong said, “Grand Secretary Yang’s reputation was ruined in his later years, wasn’t it because he raised a wicked son?”
At this point, Pan Hong gave Pan Yu a critical look, and after a moment said, "Forget it, you haven't even gotten a wife yet, so I won't say anything unpleasant."
Pan Yu: "..."
Pan Yu, with her neck stiff, said, "My elder brother isn't married either."
"Oh, I forgot to tell you, your elder brother is engaged. After I resign from my post, I will go to his place to arrange his wedding before returning to my hometown."
Pan Yu was stunned: "Big brother is getting married? Whose daughter is she? How come I didn't know?"
"You're in Liaodong, where correspondence is difficult, and there was fighting recently. What could you possibly know?"
“Isn’t there a telegram…” Pan Yu paused under Pan Hong’s gaze: “Oh, that telegram machine can only transmit official business, not private matters.”
Pan Hong nodded slightly and said, "Your elder brother is marrying the daughter of a local gentry in Cao County. Her father is a scholar who passed the imperial examination, so it can be said that his family has a long tradition of scholarship. I thought she was good, so I let him get engaged first. Originally, I couldn't attend the wedding, but fortunately, I am about to resign from my official post, so I can personally handle the wedding arrangements."
"Cao County? How come it's so far away? No, why has my brother taken a fancy to her? There are so many noble ladies in the capital. When the results were announced, even the granddaughter of the Grand Secretary wanted to catch him after the results were posted, but he didn't agree. What kind of extraordinary woman is that?"
“It is indeed quite strange. Your elder brother was robbed while passing through Cao County, and then he was rescued by a girl. I heard that she is particularly good at using double swords. Oh, although her father is a scholar, he also has some reputation in the martial arts world. Both father and daughter are skilled in both literature and martial arts. In my opinion, your elder brother got a great deal.”
(End of this chapter)