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More than a month after the news of the Datong Army dispatching troops reached Nanjing, Zhao Han received a secret letter from Daishan requesting to be a minister.

"Judging from the battle report of the cavalry division, the Tazi soldiers are no longer able to fight." Li Banghua made a judgment.

Pang Chun said: "The main force of the Tartars is on the front line of Sarhu, and the cavalry divisions are not fighting the elite Tartars. However, according to the Tartar soldiers of the Wula tribe who fled to Fushun Pass, the main force of the Tartars has already begun to owe their wages. And the Tartars The gunpowder battalion of the son has not been able to get enough gunpowder. My suggestion is not to fight this year for the time being, and it will be fruitful after another year."

Song Yingxing asked, "Don't you accept the Tartars' surrender?"

Pang Chunlai's usually calm and calm face suddenly showed a bit of ferocity: "If you gain power, you will enter the Central Plains, and if you lose power, you will bow your head and become a vassal. How can there be such a cheap thing in the world?"

Li Banghua also said: "Not to mention killing all the Tartars in Jianzhou, at least we must beat the Tartars and punish all the nobles of the Eight Banners severely. Otherwise, if the Tartars are spared today, it will become a heartache again in a few decades."

Zhao Han suddenly smiled and said, "We don't have to reject Daishan's secret letter outright. Mr. Li's writing skills are good. You can write a reply letter to the puppet Qing emperor and queen mother. Angrily accuse the Tartars of violating our Chinese territory." To kill the people of Shenzhou, this hatred can only be washed away with the blood of the Tartar emperors. The false emperors, queen mothers, and nobles all have to apologise with death. can be forgiven."

"Ah, wonderful!" Pang Chunlai clapped his hands and laughed.

Song Yingxing said: "This is a conspiracy. Even if we know it is a plan, the Tartars will be alienated. Give the Tartars a year and let them fight among themselves. Our army will collect the food next year and then send troops. Ministries of Jianzhou."

Zhao Han also said: "Issue another imperial decree to tell all the tribes in Haixi. The Haixi Jurchen is an old minister of the Ming Dynasty. He has bathed in Han family education for generations and has a bloody feud with the Jianzhou Jurchen. When the four Haixi tribes perished, the leaders were all built. Killed by the Jurchens of the state, countless men were killed and injured by the Jurchens of Jianzhou, and women were plundered and humiliated by the Jurchens of Jianzhou. As long as the Jurchens of Haixi rebel against the Qing Dynasty and stand on their own, their past sins can be forgiven. The Haixi people who served as soldiers in the Eight Banners Army, If you can't escape back to your hometown, you can join the Datong Army nearby, and the Datong Army will detour to Ye He to send him home."

The three cabinet ministers smiled. Before, it was the nobles of the Qing Dynasty who separated, but now it is the soldiers of the Eight Banners.

Many of the Haixi Jurchen served as soldiers in the Eight Banners Army, but only a part of them escaped now. Once Zhao Han's imperial decree is disseminated through detailed works, it will inevitably lead to the collapse of the Eight Banners Army.

With the two estrangements thrown out, Zhao Hanzhen didn't care about Liaodong, and just waited for the next year to send troops to pick the fruit.

In addition, a death order was given to the Datong army. Except for the troops in the direction of Tieling, which can go out to rescue Ye He's tribe, the Tartars are not allowed to send troops no matter how violent the disturbance is. Even if there is internal strife in Hetuala, Manchu nobles fight each other, or even dedicate the city to the Datong Army, no interference is allowed.

It is to let the Tartars kill each other and make the Jurchen tribes forge mortal enemies. Even for the Haixi Jurchen, it would be better to die more. It is not so easy for them to escape. After all, many people moved westward with their families, and they all lived near Jianzhou. On the way to the Datong Army, he might have been killed by the Jianzhou Tartars.

In addition, transfer a division from Yanshan to the south, take the sea route to Qiongzhou (Hainan Island) to garrison, adapt to the tropical climate in advance, and wait to go to Vietnam next year to play.

After waving the cabinet ministers to leave, Zhao Han reviewed the memorials, and called the musicians to continue the rehearsal at noon.

"Steel Torrent March" was adapted to be performed on traditional musical instruments. Although it still sounds magnificent, the details always make Zhao Han feel that there are shortcomings.

In the afternoon, continue working.

Li Xiangjun took a waist card and said: "Someone asked to see him with a card, saying that he was a student of Jinling University."

Zhao Han had already forgotten about Lu Tianxiang, nodded and said, "Let Sister Fan arrange the time."

Li Xiangjun only served the emperor, and was not qualified to arrange activities for the emperor. This was also a kind of separation of powers in the inner court. Elder Sister Fan also belonged to the missionary group. She is already forty years old and is currently working as a female officer in the Supervisor of Rituals.

Jinling University.

The playground is very lively, especially the cuju field with the largest number of people, and the rules of the game are still from the Song Dynasty.

On the side of the Cuju field, there is a small open space, where Lu Tianxiang is playing wooden archery with his classmates.

Wooden shooting is bowling.

There are fifteen wooden stakes in total, and ten red wooden stakes represent virtues, namely: benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and trustworthiness, gentleness, kindness, respectfulness and thrift. Five black stakes represent inferiority, namely: arrogance, sycophancy and greed. Points are scored for hitting the red stakes, and points are deducted for hitting the black stakes.

"Look at me!"

Lu Tianxiang picked up the rolling ball, and using the standard bowling posture, rushed forward a few steps and threw it violently.

Accurately hit a red stake, and no black stake fell to the ground.

"good!"

The students on the sidelines cheered one after another. This technique is really powerful, because the red stakes and black stakes are placed alternately.

The number of students at Jinling University is increasing, and the first class even graduated.

They like to imitate the prosperous Tang Dynasty, even when playing games. Wooden shooting is also known as fifteen-pin ball game. Some students found out such a way of playing through the classics of the Tang Dynasty, and it quickly became popular in universities.

After several rounds, Lu Tianxiang scored seven points, while her opponent only had four points.

"Run around, run around!"

Everyone started booing, a boy was so ashamed and angry, he rolled up his skirt and ran around the playground.

Lu Tianxiang clapped his hands: "I don't want to play anymore, I still have things to do in the afternoon."

Of course, he went to the palace to meet the emperor, and the appointment was at 3:30 in the afternoon, and he only had fifteen minutes to meet him.

More than 20 children of chieftains in several provinces in the southwest have graduated and returned home. Jinling University does not have high requirements for them. If they can speak Chinese and write 200 Chinese characters, they can graduate smoothly and return to their hometown to work as officials. In particularly primitive areas, he can even take over from his father's class as mayor.

After all, the Datong court faced the reality and retained some native officials, which belonged to a disguised hereditary, but the highest position was the mayor. And if you want to succeed the mayor, you must graduate from Jinling University.

Dozens of Yunnan students came this year. They are also the children of chieftains and are working hard to learn to speak Chinese.

Lu Tianxiang went back to the girls' dormitory to take a shower, and just after getting dressed, her roommate came back.

Her former roommate, Feng Heng, has successfully graduated. With good grades, I went back to my hometown to take care of my husband and children, and by the way, I was hired as a teacher in a girls' school.

The folks still do not understand women as officials. Before graduation, female college students will use winter and summer vacations to get married, and basically go home directly after graduation. Regarding career choice, the bottom line for parents-in-law is that they are allowed to be teachers, and they can only work in girls' schools.

Wen Ruyu is an outlier.

After this impoverished woman who passed the examination in the mountainous area of ​​Jiangxi Province was named by the emperor, the dignitaries rushed to propose marriage. She refused all of them, and she was accepted as a graduate student of Qintian Academy, and studied physics under Fang Yizhi. At the age of eighteen, she didn't have the slightest intention of getting married.

Chen Weisong, the school grassroots of Jinling University, was also admitted as a graduate student and studied classics and history under Zhang Pu of the Imperial Academy. Although this guy got married, he didn't go home all day. Instead, he rented a house in Nanjing with a Kunqiang actor and started living together.

"Why are you dressed as a Yi nationality?" roommate Lin Fing asked.

Lu Tianxiang smiled and said, "Go to see the emperor. His Majesty gave me a badge. As long as I learn 500 Chinese characters, I can take the badge to have an audience. Haha, I'm going to be a female general!"

Lin Ping joked, "I bet you can't be a general."

Lu Tianxiang said: "You are not joking, your majesty cannot go back on what you say."

Lin Ping is a top female student who came from Fujian. Unlike Wen Ruyu, who comes from a poor family, this one is from the rich Lin family in Fuzhou. Moreover, she is an only child in this house, and she plans to gradually take over the business when she returns home after graduation, and by the way, find a husband with a good character.

After tidying up, Lu Tianxiang twirled around in her skirt and asked, "Does it look good?"

Lin Ping smiled and said, "It's pretty. If His Majesty sees you, he won't let you be a general, but will keep you as a concubine."

"I don't want to be a concubine, how can I have the prestige of being a general?" Lu Tianxiang asked, "How is your lover?"

Lin Bin hid her smile and sighed, "Oh, I'm afraid there is a beginning and no end."

When Lin Ping first entered college, he fell in love with a rich man. But her father said that when they get married in the future, they can only recruit a son-in-law, and it is impossible for a rich man to be a son-in-law.

So, Lin Bin searched secretly again, and finally found a new target.

It was a poor student from Hunan. Although he could not be called handsome, he was upright in appearance and excellent in character and learning.

Lin Bing took the initiative to approach, and the relationship quickly heated up. Both of them abided by etiquette and did not pierce the window paper, but they regarded each other as life partners in their hearts.

Helplessly, this poor student is really too good. In the final exam of last semester, he got the second best grade in the whole year. He also wrote a memorial and asked the teacher to pass it on to the emperor. The emperor actually followed the suggestion of the memorial and asked the Hunan chief envoy to adjust his policy.

It is rumored that the cabinet has valued this person, and once he graduates, he will be directly recruited to be a member of Zhongshushe. In a few years, when the Shushe people come down, they can be sent to other places as officials. In the future, not to mention being a cabinet minister, they will become a provincial official without any mistakes.

Would such a promising young man be willing to go back to Fujian with her to be his son-in-law?

A boyfriend who is too good is also a kind of trouble.

But Lin Ping has already had deep-seated love, and vowed not to marry unless she is a gentleman, so she can only go home and quarrel with her parents.

Lu Tianxiang bounced away from the school, cheering all the way. After verifying his identity and entering the imperial city, outside the Forbidden City, he saw a group of women crying with their heads in their arms.

However, there are more than 300 court ladies who are leaving the palace collectively after the five-year contract expires. They have good sisters in the palace, once they parted, it would be several years, and they were saying goodbye there.

There are also a small number of female officials who also want to get married and do not want to stay in the palace. After their term of office expires, they apply to leave the palace and go home.

There was a lot of crying and howling, and the guards and female officials didn't drive them away.

After a long time, the clock rang, and the female officer shouted: "It's time, leave the imperial city quickly, don't break the rules!"

Hundreds of young ladies waved goodbye to each other and wiped their tears as they walked. Those who didn't know thought it was life and death.

(Thanks to Master D for the reward.)