New Shun 1730

The furnishings in the outer study of the Duke's Mansion are all half-old.

The tree house has new paintings but not old ones, and the whole family wears new clothes. This family is definitely not a noble family, but at most a nouveau riche.

The furnishings in this outer study have some military flavor.

On the wall hangs an ancient Han sword, a set of plate armor "tributed" from France, and a Western self-ringing clock on the side of the screen.

The pendulum like a weight swings back and forth, making a clattering sound.

There is not even a maid to pour water in the room. Liu Yu's father Liu Sheng sits at the table, holding a vernacular novel "The Story of Ming Heroes" in his hand, reading with relish.

Today, Liu Sheng, the Duke of Dashunyi, is about 40 or 50 years old. He has been pampered for a long time, but he still looks very young.

He wears a blue-green suit with a unicorn and Bai Ze embroidered on it.

Because the former Ming Dynasty called itself the Fire Virtue, and water can extinguish fire, Dashun called himself the Water Virtue based on the theory of the five virtues.

It is well known that the water virtue among the five virtues is black, such as the water virtue Qin all preferred black... But the old Shaanxi people in Dashun were very stubborn and insisted that water was blue.

The "Jiashen Chronicle" of the previous dynasty ridiculed: "The rebels claimed to be the king of water virtue, and their clothes preferred blue, so the army all wore blue, and the official hats were also blue."

Until the founding of the country, the old people of the previous dynasty ridiculed him as "vulgar and uncultured, ignorant of the five virtues, and the water virtue is blue, which is really the first strange thing in two thousand years. It is probably like this for mud-legged people to sit on the throne", but they never changed blue to black, and were very stubborn.

Liu Sheng inherited the Duke, and the higher the official rank, the bluer the color. The blue is better than the blue, and the Duke is the most noble among the ministers, so he must wear blue.

After Liu Yu entered, he bowed his head and dared not look directly.

After all, this is a feudal society, under the patriarchal system, especially in this kind of duke family, it is even more necessary to be particular. The father did not say to sit down, but if the son sat down directly, he would inevitably be beaten.

Liu Yu was still clear that feudal patriarchal system was full of nonsense. The bigger the family, the more rules there were. Although Liu Yu hated it from the bottom of his heart, he had no choice but to accept it.

Liu Yu smiled secretly as he watched his cheap father reading "The Heroes of the Ming Dynasty".

In recent years, the dynasty has become more stable, and the nobles can't hold the military power too tightly. They usually do trivial things - presiding over the wedding of princes and princesses, performing sacrifices on behalf of the royal family, presiding over Rong En Banquets, and even taking the name to revise "The History of Ming Dynasty" - the nobles took the name to show their respect for the previous dynasty, but they didn't do anything, just took the name.

Because of the wars before, "The History of Ming Dynasty" had not been completed, and Liu Sheng was still supervising the revision of "The History of Ming Dynasty". It's just that he was supervising the revision of "The History of Ming Dynasty" and reading "The Heroes of Ming Dynasty" here, which is a bit weird.

After a long time, Liu Sheng put down the book, took off the glasses presented by the Western missionaries, and suddenly asked: "Have you read "Heroes"?"

This book has been written for a long time. The life of Dashun is similar to that of the previous dynasty. It is widely circulated. Liu Yu nodded and thought that I had read it in my previous life.

"Since you have read it, do you know what is good about this book?"

"Huh?"

What is good about it? Liu Yu was a little confused. How can I say this?

What is good about it? Fortunately, it is quite lively and interesting?

After holding back for a long time without saying anything, Liu Sheng patted the book "Heroes" and said, "The good thing about this book is that after reading it, everyone feels that Guo Ying should not be granted a title of nobility, but at least a duke. In the book, Chen Youliang was shot dead by Guo Ying, and the Battle of Poyang Lake was the most dangerous battle of Zhu Ming. Just looking at this book, I am afraid that Guo Ying's contribution is not inferior to Xu Da."

"There are many rumors that "Heroes" was compiled by Guo Xun, the sixth-generation grandson of Guo Ying. This is not groundless. The family of meritorious officials is envied by the world, but I don't know that in order to keep the title, the descendants of later generations can think of all kinds of crooked methods."

Liu Yu was stunned for a moment, and then he understood. He thought that Guo Xun was a cunning chicken. He must have heard more people who heard about heroes than those who read "History of Ming Dynasty". By then, wouldn't the whole world know that Guo Ying shot Chen Youliang to death?

Thinking of this, Liu Yu secretly breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that his father was not in a hurry to find him for the bad reason he thought. It seemed that his cheap father was in a good mood?

"Father, do you want to compile a book called "The Biography of Dashun Heroes"? "

"Guo Ying was granted the title of Marquis of Wuding, and there was also a duke above that. Their family also had trouble later, and the title was almost lost. Now I am the Duke of Yiguo, why do I have to take such a crooked path?"

After saying that, he threw a booklet on the table and said, "Take these articles back and read them carefully."

Liu Yu didn't know what it was about, and thought to himself, if you don't plan to do this, why are you talking about this? He took the pages of the booklet, but it was not easy to flip through them directly in front of his father, so he could only take it in his hand first.

"I heard that you were rated as a junior officer in Wude Palace a few days ago?"

When he heard that he was going to praise himself, Liu Yu hurriedly said, "Yes, I was rated as a senior."

"Well, that's right. As the saying goes, we should learn from history and never ignore it. The nobles of the former Ming Dynasty were weak and incompetent, and after the Battle of Tumu, they were all playboys, and finally ended up like this. Not to mention the crooked tree on Coal Hill, even our family's mansion was originally from the Xu family of the former Ming Dynasty. Xu Da was such a hero, how could he have thought that his descendants would be so weak three hundred years later? During the siege of the city in Jiashen, Xu Yunzhen didn't even have the courage to fight in the city. The nobles should live and die with the country. You must understand that you can live and die with the country."

"Yes."

While saying this, I thought in my heart that this matter had little to do with me. It was not me who inherited the title, but my eldest brother. Even if my eldest brother is gone, he is still a nephew, and it is not my turn. In the future, I will divide the family and go out. You should tell my eldest brother about this.

"Since you have some talent, it would be great if you could enter Shangshe in the future. Now that everything is not peaceful, what do you think?"

The changed Sanshe method is a sharp blade that the imperial power uses to suppress civil officials and to stir up trouble in the officialdom.

There is no need to take the formal imperial examination route. Entering Shangshe is equivalent to graduating from a prestigious university in the previous life when universities were assigned jobs. Here, you are qualified to be an official.

Either civil or military. Generally, they will serve as imperial guards for a few years, guarding the Forbidden City or serving as imperial guards beside the emperor. When they are a little older, they will have the opportunity to be sent out.

It is hard to say where they will be sent out.

Duke Yiguo is the top noble of the dynasty. If he wants to move around, it is still easy.

Liu Yu knew that with his family in this position, he had no say in many things. After hearing what his father said, he thought about it and said, "It's all up to you, father."

Now the northwest is not peaceful, and the Junggar tribe has been fighting for years; the northeast is constantly harassing Russia; the southwest is also constantly in chaos.

Liu Sheng didn't say much, and left Liu Yu alone for a long time before saying, "When God wants to give a man a great responsibility, he must first make his heart and mind suffer and his muscles and bones work hard. The northwest is not peaceful, so you should prepare early. Your Majesty intends to expand the border, but is not satisfied with the fact that the sons of the nobles are too dandy and can't bear hardships. They complain about the hardship and fatigue of the three-shelf law, which requires living on campus for 100 days a year. How can this work?"

Liu Yu nodded hurriedly, but there were a lot of question marks in his mind, full of doubts.

From what he meant, this is to give himself a shot of prevention? When the time comes to go to the northwest army for training, you can't just not go because you think it's hard?

But such a shot doesn't seem to be that urgent, right? He hurriedly asked his servant to come and look for him. It's unlikely that it's just a small matter.

And he asked the servant to come and look for him right after the court meeting. Could it be that there was something going on in the court? Are they really going to use troops in the northwest?

Just as he was thinking about it, he heard Liu Sheng slowly and casually asked another question.

"I heard that you went to Dai Jiabin's house a few days ago?"

It was a very casual sentence, but it immediately made Liu Yu sweat. At this moment, he realized that the previous words were just appetizers, and the main course was here!

In the court, something big really happened.