Zhu Youxiao's speech won extremely warm applause.
The officers knew that their rise in status was entirely caused by the emperor, so the gratitude in their hearts could only be expressed by applause.
The master of ceremonies then said: "Please take an oath on behalf of the graduating students."
He motioned to Zhu Youxiao to stand next to the speaker and not move.
Wang Zuomin, Du Guangting, and Chen Liyuan came to the stage, stopped about five steps in front of Zhu Youxiao, and saluted Zhu Youxiao, who returned the salute.
The three of them knelt on one knee, raised their hands and clenched their fists and said: "The entire Guards must be loyal to Your Majesty, loyal to the Ming Dynasty, and loyal to the Chinese nation.
We hereby swear that we will only obey His Majesty's words.
Any behavior that goes against His Majesty's will will be our fault."
Any violation of the Ming Dynasty by our enemies will be regarded as an violation of the entire Ming Dynasty, and any violation of the Ming Dynasty will be severely punished by the Ming Dynasty's army.
Anyone who dares to offend our Ming Dynasty will be punished no matter how far away they are."
Wei Zhongxian held up three daggers.
Zhu Youxiao picked up one and pulled it out gently, the blade radiating cold light.
He inserted the sword into the scabbard, exposed one side of the sword hilt, and saw three words "Zhongyongren" engraved on it, and turned it over to the other side of the sword hilt, which was engraved with "Gift from Zhu Youxiao".
Ye Xianggao, who was sitting behind Zhu Youxiao, saw those words.
He whispered to Fang Congzhe, "Look at those words."
Fang Congzhe had actually seen it.
He shook his head and said, "There is no way now. , I’ll talk about it later.”
Zhu Youxiao said: "This is the Sword of Loyalty and Courage, awarded to outstanding graduates of each period.
This time it will be awarded to twenty people.
In addition to outstanding students, it will also be given to meritorious generals in the future.
I hope you can be loyal to the country in the future.
Everyone will do the same."
You will receive the Loyal and Brave Sword as a gift.”
He took the sword, put it on Wang Zuomin's head, touched it on each shoulder and said: "Loyalty, bravery, benevolence and righteousness.", and then handed the sword to Wang Zuomin.
With tears in his eyes, Wang Zuomin took the dagger.
Then he gave a military salute.
Zhu Youxiao smiled and said: "Stand up."
Wang Zuomin stood up and saluted after standing at attention.
Zhu Youxiao returned the salute and said: "When you can stand up in the future, you must stand up and salute."
Wang Zuomin replied loudly: "Thank you, Chief."
After teaching Du Guangting and Chen Liyuan swords as usual, Sun Chuanting began to call the names of outstanding students one by one.
After these students came to the stage, they saluted, received the swords, and thanked them.
When it was Zhang Zongling's turn, Zhu Youxiao smiled and said: "Zong Ling, I heard that I ask you to swear that you don’t want to.”
Zhang Zongling's face turned red and he said, "I'm reporting to the mountain chief that the student's legs and feet are inconvenient and he's afraid of being laughed at."
Zhu Youxiao smiled and said: "It doesn't matter if your legs and feet are not flexible for a real man.
I know you are afraid of affecting the oath-taking ceremony.
You must know that I want a man who can fight.
If you can fight, you are a good man."
Zhang Zongling saluted and said: "Report to the mountain leader, although the students did not come on stage to take the oath, when they took the oath, the students followed the oath in their hearts."
This is great.
All the students who did not take the oath stood up and saluted: "Report to the mountain leader, although the students did not take the oath, when they took the oath, the students followed the oath in their hearts."
Zhu Youxiao raised his hand in salute, turned first to the left, then to the right, then put his hand down and said: "I know that you are all my good students, I am proud of you, and I believe that you will not let me down." " The students said in unison: "Thank you, Master."
At this time, the sword-giving ceremony continued.
After it was completed, Zhu Youxiao said: "The first phase of the martial arts hall has successfully graduated.
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No matter where you are, I hope you understand one thing.
The truth is only within the scope that we can control by force.
If we want others to listen to us, we must first let them understand that they will not listen to us.
They can't afford it."
The officers listened with great satisfaction.
The emperor's words meant that if others refused to obey, they would be beaten to make them obey.
This was the easiest thing for these soldiers who were good at violence to hear.
After the ceremony, Zhu Youxiao and several members of the cabinet discussed the subsequent troop mobilization matters.
Fang Congzhe and Ye Xianggao were all very angry, but they remained silent when asked by the emperor.
Zhu Youxiao was confused.
At this time, Xu Guangqi glared at Sun Chuanting and said, "Your Majesty, there is something wrong with the words on the Zhongyong Sword."
Sun Chuanting felt aggrieved when he saw Xu Guangqi's cold eyes.
He only knew that there was a sword-presenting ceremony, and he had never seen what a sword looked like before.
Wei Zhongxian was entirely responsible for this.
He didn't dare to argue, so he bowed his head and said nothing.
Only then did Zhu Youxiao understand.
He smiled and said: "Sir, don't blame the Sunge Department.
These are all my ideas.
Every word is decided by me.
The factory officials also advised me.
Several people from the Ordnance Bureau You have also said it, but I force them to write according to my wishes, so if you are angry, just take it out on me."
Ye Xianggao heard that he actually called himself a boy and said quickly: "Your Majesty, I just thought that Sun Gebu knew and didn't tell us, so I didn't dare to blame Your Majesty.
It's just that China is famous for its etiquette, but now we have the words "Your Majesty" written on the hilt of the sword.
The taboo of the name is really disrespectful.
Others will think that we don’t even understand the taboo of the Venerable, which will make the country laugh. " Zhu Youxiao, however, put in a lot of effort.
He said: "In fact, since the founding of the ancestors, the dynasty has not paid much attention to taboo avoidance.
Just like Yuanbao, there was indeed no Yuanbao when Taizu was the ancestor, but after becoming the ancestor, it was still called Yuanbao.
Moreover, many of my ancestors have commonly used characters in their names, and there is no requirement to avoid them."
Ye Xianggao said: "Your Majesty, our court stipulates that two names are not taboo.
If it is one word, of course you can not avoid it, but two words must be avoided."
Zhu Youxiao said: "But when Xuanzong succeeded to the throne, he made it clear to the world that the current emperor's name does not need to be taboo.
This is not a taboo."
Ye Xianggao was stumped for a while.
Because of taboo avoidance, the most powerful ones in Chinese history were the Tang Dynasty, the Song Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty.
The taboos in the Ming Dynasty were a very strange situation: when Zhu Yuanzhang first became emperor, taboos were very strict.
For example, the then general Feng Guosheng changed his name to Feng Sheng in order to avoid the taboo of Zhu Yuanzhang's surname Guorui.
All ingots at that time were renamed Tongbao.
But after Zhu Yuanzhang's death, the taboo suddenly became much looser.
During the time of Zhu Di, an article "Tang Di" in the Book of Songs clearly violated Zhu Di's taboo, but no one changed its name.
There is the word "zhen" in the name of Zhu Qizhen, but in the Ming Dynasty, there were always town governors and guard eunuchs among the official positions, and no one said that they wanted to change the name.
Only one of these words is taboo, but it makes sense.
However, Zhu Zhanji, Xuanzong of the Ming Dynasty, did declare his name to the world with an imperial edict after he ascended the throne, and his name did not need to be taboo.
In this way, it barely makes sense for Zhu Youxiao to engrave his name on the Zhongyong Sword
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