From early summer to midsummer, it was almost an overnight thing, and the capital suddenly became hot, for Shen Xi, who had to wear regular clothes to go to Hanlin Academy every day, this kind of hot weather was the most fatal, even if he sat down motionless, his body was sweating profusely, and he had to bring a folding fan, and he began to fan the wind constantly when he sat down.

Zhu Xizhou was a little puzzled: "Shen Xiushu is from Fujian, this summer should always be more scorching than the capital, why can't he adapt to this weather?" ”

Shen Xi thought to himself, Fujian is hotter than the capital, but western Fujian is different, whether it is Ninghua or Changting County, the altitude is more than five or six hundred meters, there is no severe cold in the east, there is no scorching heat in summer, and the hottest in summer is only 278 degrees.

At the same time, at home, in the middle of summer, you can go shirtless or wear a gown like a shoulder, anyway, the family is not strange to think that he is a child, and the weather is really hot, and Lin Dai, Lu Xi'er or the maid fanned him, where is like now, wearing thick official clothes to work, a room of people, the ventilation conditions are not good, even if you sweat a lot, you are not allowed to untie your clothes to cool down.

In late May, the palace was calm, and the matter of the Jianwen era seemed to end here, even Xie Qian didn't bother Shen Xi anymore and arranged for him to do this and that, but Shen Xi felt that this was the calm before the storm, and there seemed to be a big storm brewing in the imperial court.

Someone in the Hanlin Academy knew the officials of the Ministry of Officials, and on this day brought a piece of news, saying that the assessment of the Ministry of Officials will probably end at the end of June, and the vacancies of the attendants and attendants in the Hanlin Academy will be filled at that time.

But the general view at the moment is that Zhu Xizhou must have a seat, and Wang Zan also has a chance in the other seat. As for others, they can only consider supplementing the Hanlin revision, and on top of the Hanlin revision, Wang Jiusi is a popular candidate.

Shen Xi is not interested in who is promoted, he is now a mixed qualification in the Hanlin Academy, and he has the intention of being able to be released as an official at the age of sixteen or seventeen, for him, it is better not to be promoted before the release than to be promoted, he is different from others, he entered the court at the age of thirteen, and it is easy to pull the egg when he takes a big step, and he wants to try to avoid the political tide in the capital in the early years of Zhengde.

At the end of May, there was news that the Mongolian envoy team was about to arrive in Beijing, which was the first time that the envoys were sent to the capital of the Ming Dynasty since the tension between the Dayan Khan and the Ming Dynasty.

To say that among the Mongol tribes in Guanbei today, the strongest are the Warats in Western Mongolia and the Dayan Khan in Eastern Mongolia.

To say that this Dayan Khan, in the Mongolian steppe is also regarded as a powerful figure, he unified the steppe departments during the Hongzhi period of the Ming Dynasty, and became the Mongolian Great Yuan Khan. Dayan Khan was a member of the Mongol Qiyan tribe, also known as Chahar Batu Munk, the fifteenth grandson of Genghis Khan.

In the Mongolian steppe, the position of the khan is generally brother to brother, and there is rarely a situation of a young master, because the Mongols pay attention to the supremacy of force, if the lord is a little child who is not an adult, the people below feel sorry for the blood of the wolf and the egret flowing in the body if they do not rebel. The exception was Dayan Khan, who was only six years old when he succeeded to the throne.

This is mainly due to the fact that he has a good wife, Mandu Haihatun. Hatun means queen in Mongolian, and this woman is also a strange woman in the grassland.

Dayan's throne was inherited from his uncle's great-grandfather Mandulu, and Manduhai was Mandulu's second wife, his "grandfather and grandmother", after Mandulu's death, the thirty-one-year-old Manduhai decided to support the young Batu Munk to inherit the throne, which was for Dayan Khan, Manduhai regent, and made an amazing move to marry.

A thirty-one-year-old woman, married to a six-year-old, is simply ridiculous to say.

Although Manduhai is Dayan's grandfather and grandmother, the little khan succeeded to the throne, not her mother-in-law regent, but his daughter-in-law to regent, which makes any Ming person seem absurd, but people are so unruly on the grassland.

In the twenty-third year of Chenghua, Dayan Khan was sixteen years old and began to govern pro-government, still with Manduhai as the queen. Manduhai gave birth to a total of seven sons for Dayan Khan, and the Ming Dynasty people felt that it was unreasonable and unethical marriage, which did not affect the harmony between Dayan and Manduhai in the slightest.

Previously, the Dayan Ministry had been trading with the Ming Dynasty in Datong, Xuanfu and other places, and sent envoys to the Ming Dynasty many times to pay tribute, but in the eleventh year of Hongzhi, the tribute of the Dayan Department was interrupted for a time. Unexpectedly, after a year, Dayan "repented".

The Ming Dynasty is basically peaceful, in the case of the Houjin has not yet risen, the court is most worried about the grassland departments, after all, the world of the Ming Dynasty is taken from the Mongols, a few decades ago just had the pain of the change of the civil fort, and now the Dayan Department is re-paying tribute, and is regarded by the imperial court as a prosperous move of "coming from all over the world".

A few days after the news came, the imperial court began to prepare for the reception of the envoys, and the reception was mainly handled by the Honglu Temple, and the Hanlin Yuan also had the responsibility of coordination, so that the records could be compiled and archives for preservation.

Whether the Mongols come or not has no impact on Shen Xi, he only knows that the Dayan Department will send troops to Koubian in the coming year.

This time, the envoy of the Dayan Ministry was not good, but unfortunately in his capacity, he was not qualified to remind the imperial court to be careful, but Shen Xi was not very worried, because now the Dayan Department has not yet completed the unification of the grassland tribes, and the wars between the wars are continuous, and it will take six or seven years for him to conquer the southern Mongolian tribes such as Yisimain, Huosi, and Yibra.

The invasion of the Dayan Department into the Ming Dynasty was just a "passing" to the Ming Dynasty in the process of unifying the Mongolian tribes, and they always returned in vain.

The Ming Dynasty has just conquered the northwest now, and it is when the soldiers are strong and strong, and there are still a large number of capable ministers such as Zhang Mao, Ma Wensheng, and Liu Daxia in the court, and there is a harmony between the top and bottom of the court, and the Hongzhi Emperor is not a radical emperor, and the Dayan Department has no chance to knock on the border defense of the Ming Dynasty.

On May 26, on this day, Shen Xi came home from Hanlin Academy and met Miss Li Er, who came to give a thank you gift.

The Li family realized that Li Yue had offended the "Zhao painter" who had all hands and eyes, and then contacted Shen Xi, and Miss Li Er came forward.

The Li family was very efficient, and in just a few days, they bought the old mansion and old shop of the Xie family proposed by Shen Xi, although they didn't know how much silver they spent, but they expected to be missing 1,500 taels of silver.

Miss Li Er said: "The house will come out immediately, the shop still has a half-year lease, if Zhao is not satisfied, or can pay 20 yuan, I will send someone to send it later." ”

Shen Xi smiled and shook his head: "No need, it doesn't hurt to let the store renew the lease for half a year." The shop is useless for the time being, and we are in no hurry to take it back. ”

Originally, Shen Xi also said that he would open a pharmacy in the capital to sell dog skin plasters, but Xie Yuner was afraid that the Chamber of Commerce would affect Shen Xi's official reputation, so she resolutely disagreed.

Shen Xi on the other side of the shop is not in a hurry, he can get back the real estate deed of the house and the shop, and give it to Xie Yun'er, which is also his heart's content, to say that he has not mentioned this matter to Xie Yun'er before, he is afraid that in the end, things will not work out, so that Xie Yun'er will be happy.

Miss Li Er handed over the contract to Shen Xi, and at the same time explained some procedures that needed to be handled by the government, and then asked a little strangely:

The little woman knew that the two properties that Zhao Painter wanted were the ancestral property of the Xie family, but she didn't know that Zhao Painter ...... What is the relationship with the Xie family? ”

Because Shen Xi initially said that this was his "ancestral property", Miss Li Er was puzzled, why had these two mansions never had the surname "Zhao" in history? But it is not enough to say that it is deceitful, because the mansion and shop that the Li family originally wanted to use as a reward, the clarification workshop located in the root of the imperial city, are more valuable than these two.

Shen Xi smiled and took the contract into his arms, and said with a straight face: "There are some things that are inconvenient to say to Miss Li. ”

Miss Li Er smiled, she saw that Shen Xi still had a problem with the Li family, so she simply stopped asking such a personal question. When Shen Xi was about to leave, Miss Li Er suddenly said: "If you have a chance, I want to invite Painter Zhao to my home as a guest." But...... Can Zhao Painter know Shen Zhuangyuan? The little woman wants to visit and give a thin gift, I wonder if Zhao can recommend it? ”

Shen Xi was stunned and asked, "Why is Miss Li looking for Shen Zhuangyuan?" ”

Miss Li Er's face was grateful: "The little woman heard that after Zhao Painter found someone to send the painting to Xie's Mansion that day, Xie Ge Lao asked the members of Beijing and the Hanlin Academy to appreciate it, if it weren't for Shen Zhuangyuan to come forward and say it, Xie Ge Lao would not return the painting easily, so my Li family owes Shen Zhuangyuan a favor." Our Li family has always been gracious, but I am afraid that it will be abrupt to visit. ”

Shen Xi wanted to refuse directly for "Shen Zhuangyuan", but after thinking about it, this woman obviously knew where the Zhuangyuan Mansion was, and if she wanted to say that the small courtyard where he lived was very famous in the surrounding area, the neighborhood said to people if they were fine, Oh, this is the famous Zhuangyuan Mansion, and the champion studied hard in this courtyard, and finally got admitted to the champion.

Shen Xi sighed lightly: "I had a relationship with Shen Zhuangyuan because of the relationship between Su Juren, this person is very arrogant and unfriendly to people, especially for the family of industry and business, I advise Miss Li Er not to disturb." ”

Miss Li Er frowned slightly, her face was slightly puzzled: "Why did the little woman hear about it just the opposite of Painter Zhao?" It is rumored that this Shen Zhuangyuan is a good gentleman who is polite and kind, and is polite to the peddlers and pawns. ”

Shen Xi thought to himself, is my reputation so good?

"Hearsay may not be credible, I have seen this person in the end, I think he is a young man, he is heroic, how can he look down on us people in the market?"

Shen Xi said with empathy, but in fact, he wanted to "show up and say": He even looks down on me, a painter who is considered a scholar, let alone your Li family, a merchant family?

Miss Li Er thought about it, felt that Shen Xi's words made sense, and nodded in agreement, in fact, it was mainly because she had some nostalgia for her identity as a businessman and felt inferior.

Shen Xi finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Miss Li Er stop, and really let Miss Li Er "come to visit", that was really a troublesome thing, the Li family knew that the familiar "Zhao painter" was the champion Shen Xi, and wouldn't they have to come over to slap him in the future and ask him to do this and that?

It's better to have less trouble!

Shen Xi asked for his farewell again, and Miss Li Er pleaded: "Painter Zhao, the little woman still has something to ask for." ”

Shen Xi stopped, this young lady really didn't know what to do, and asked for one after another...... Hey, you've been painted with a full-length portrait by me, don't you feel blush in front of me?

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