In Shen Xi's opinion, it is not impossible to accompany the prince to play Keju in his spare time, but it is not realistic to think that this can allow the little prince to combine work and rest to increase his interest in reading.

After Zhu Houzhao moved to the Fangdian Palace, he lacked the discipline of his parents, even the husband on weekdays did not dare to beat and scold him, the child's nature is playful, and there is no external pressure, so it is difficult to make him calm down and study.

In the afternoon, Shen Xi still talked about "Historical Records", Zhu Houzhao sat there sweating and listened, Liu Jin and others next to him desperately fanned him, and he also urged him to hurry up from time to time, making Liu Jin tired enough, and there was a little more resentment in his eyes when he looked at Shen Xi.

Before the end of class, Zhu Houzhao urinated, and when Shen Xi saw him again, he was already playing football with a group of little eunuchs in the garden, and due to the introduction of new rules of play, he had more fun than before.

Shen Xi packed up the lecture and came out of the Chufang Palace, and as soon as he returned to Zhan Shifu, someone spread the word, saying that he was invited to go to the household department after the lecture, saying that he had asked him about any case. Shen Xi thought to himself that Zhang Lian's case had been transferred to the Criminal Department, and now the Ministry of Household Affairs let him go, mostly to inquire about the situation of stolen money and dirty silver.

Shen Xi didn't have a bottom in his heart.

Now the two household servants, Xu Jin, the former governor of Gansu and Shaanxi who followed Ma Wensheng to recover Hami, and Gaoming City, who bribed his relatives to ascend to a high position, all went out on business and did not come back, and it coincided with the summer grain storage, and Liu Daxia, the head of the household department, must be very busy, and it is expected that the people below should see him.

When he arrived at the Hubu Yamen, Shen Xi knew that it was the Hubu Tang official who summoned him this time, and it was Liu Daxia who "pitted" him again during this trip to Quanzhou.

is different from when I saw Liu Daxia in the past, the current Liu Daxia has no leisure, his eyes are bloodshot, and his face is haggard, which shows that he is busy. Emperor Hongzhi transferred his deputy Xu Jin out on an errand at an inappropriate time, and nearly half of the head of the household department Langzhong was running around for disaster relief, and many things needed Liu Daxia to do himself...... As for Gaoming City, Liu Daxia did not let him touch power from beginning to end, just be a bodhisattva.

Shen Xi was full of questions.

Why did Liu Daxia come over to him at this time, isn't there another errand dispatched? But after all, he is a Hanlin official, and he is not in the same system as Liu Daxia, even if Liu Daxia needs him to do things, he has to consider cross-departmental issues...... It's important to run errands for the household department, isn't it important to give lectures to the prince and train the prince?

Liu Daxia said: "...... You have been back from Fujian for some time, and you have not had time to see you, although you arrested the prefect of Quanzhou recklessly, but you hoeed the traitor and eliminated the evil, and resolved the people's grievances in time, which can be regarded as a contribution to the imperial court. ”

Shen Xi bowed humbly: "Liu Shangshu is too famous." ”

Liu Daxia talked about the matter and asked some things about the wind disaster and insect disaster in Quanzhou, and Shen Xi told him in detail what he saw and heard along the way.

After hearing this, Liu Daxia sighed and said: "After verification, most of the grain in the granary of Quanzhou County was forced by Zhang Lian to put the local gentry and merchants into it to save face. ”

Although His Majesty exempted the government from taxes to alleviate the people's grievances, but in the end, food is not said to be available, and how can the victims live before the harvest? Shen Xi, when you came back from Quanzhou, have you heard about local businessmen helping with disaster relief? ”

Zhang Lian's corrupt hand was stretched out very long, and while he wanted political achievements, he didn't even let go of the grain in the government treasury, and sold most of it privately. Xie Qian reported to Emperor Hongzhi that the local treasury was full, which was the opposite of the real situation. Emperor Hongzhi wanted to transfer the grain from the Quanzhou treasury to the north for disaster relief in North China and the Central Plains, or for the war in Beiguan.

Shen Xi saluted and said: "Back to Liu Shangshu's words, the disaster relief of local businessmen in Quanzhou was led by the Tingzhou Chamber of Commerce, and about 6,000 stone was raised for disaster relief, mainly purchased from Jiangxi and Huguang regions, but even so, it was a drop in the bucket. And after the relief grain was transported to the locality, the government had many deductions. In addition, the wind disaster and insect plague in Fujian are not only in Quanzhou, if Quanzhou is exempted from taxes, the surrounding prefectures and counties may have grievances......"

Shen Xi was talking about what he had seen with his own eyes.

Fujian has not been broken in the past two years, the reason why Quanzhou Mansion is particularly serious is because Zhang Lian's rampant expropriation has caused the people's resentment to boil, so that the people do not produce, but the situation in the surrounding prefectures and counties is not much better, and now the imperial court is only reducing the taxes in Quanzhou, and there will definitely be people in the other state capitals who are dissatisfied...... Why can Quanzhou be reduced, so that we still have to bear heavy taxes in the year of famine?

The Tingzhou Chamber of Commerce can help with disaster relief, but only by virtue of the power of the Chamber of Commerce can help is limited, the government has always regarded businessmen as grass mustard, the Chamber of Commerce allocated some food in the past, and the local government did not first help the disaster, first withheld most of it for other purposes, which is a common thing.

Liu Daxia nodded and said: "It seems that the household department has to play, please transfer the grain from the Jiangxi and Zhejiang treasury to the south to alleviate the disaster." ”

Shen Xi knew that Emperor Hongzhi adopted his suggestion and wanted to solve the current embarrassment by reducing taxes, and Liu Daxia was tantamount to slapping Emperor Hongzhi in the face by doing so. But after all, he is soft-spoken, and his idea is his, so it is not good to give Liu Daxia anything casually at this time.

Liu Daxia asked again about Zhang Lian's dirty silver and the amount of Franc man's loot.

Shen Xi was in a hurry to return to Beijing, and when he left Quanzhou, Zhang Lian's family property was still in the inventory, and the dirty silver could only be traced by the people of the Fujian Chengxuan Political Envoy Department.

"200,000 taels of silver can't run away......"

Shen Xi reported the figure he had speculated roughly, and Liu Daxia frowned and did not comment. Shen Xi did not know whether the Fujian Chengxuan political envoy had withheld or concealed the report, but the problem of the war booty of the Franc machine was very clear, and Zhang Lian had relatively exaggerated the amount of the war booty and wanted to extort a sum of money from the merchants to fill the war booty.

It's all a mess.

Even Shen Xi noticed Liu Daxia's anxiety, and he didn't know the difficulties of this world, and he hated to break a penny into two pennies after becoming a family.

At present, Liu Daxia is the home of the entire Ming Dynasty, and he has to be responsible for all the income, expenses, and expenses of the court, but most of the time the east wall is demolished to make up the west wall, and there will be different algorithms under each account, to put it bluntly, it is a question of how much to deduct.

Liu Daxia asked everything clearly, even if this meeting was over, before sending Shen Xi away, Liu Daxia asked: "I once asked you, do you want to work in the household department?" You are excellent, you should do more practical things to train you, and you should not stay in Zhan Shifu to waste your time......"

Liu Daxia's words were not finished, but the general meaning was that local work like Zhan Shifu was purely "eating and waiting for death".

This may be a prejudice of a pragmatic minister against the officials of the Hanlin system.

When Shen Xi was just the champion, Liu Daxia asked him if he was willing to go to the household department on an errand, at that time he was just from the six-grade Hanlin revision, even if he went to the household department, at most he could only be the head of the six-grade department, and he was likely to be transferred to other places. At present, Shen Xi has been promoted to the fifth grade, and if he is transferred, he should be a member of the household department, and he is the lieutenant below the middle level of the household department.

In general, it is very hard to go to the household department to run errands, and often have to go to all parts of the country for business, and when it comes to collecting taxes, let alone taking care of the family, even eating and sleeping.

For Liu Daxia's love, Shen Xi is grateful, at the beginning, he tried to solve the yuan in Fujian Township or Liu Daxia helped to keep it, but now he is only a teenager after all, it is best to do some mental work as an official in the imperial court, and if he is pragmatic, his body can't bear it, and his prestige is not enough, so he can only refuse Liu Daxia's kindness.

"Students have served in Zhan Shifu for a short time, and they still need to be sharpened, so they can only live up to Liu Shangshu's love." Shen Xi bowed and apologized.

Liu Daxia nodded silently, he had always admired Shen Xi very much.

Shen Xi can help him solve a lot of problems as a young man, and in his eyes he is a person with practical ability, even if there is no way to transfer Shen Xi to the household department at the moment, he can still delegate Shen Xi to do things in the future, just like this trip to Quanzhou, as long as he has an order, Shen Xi has never pushed it.

Shen Xi came out of the yamen of the household department, and secretly rejoiced in his heart, fortunately, he was not hot-headed to accept Liu Daxia's kindness, if he came to the household department, not to mention his hard work, the two wives of the family would also follow to guard the empty boudoir.

Shen Xi thought to himself: "Even if you want to enter the sixth department now, it is best to enter the Ministry of Rites, and at the other yamen, I am afraid that it is a young talent who will be sent in, and he will be as tired as a grandson. In the past, I always felt that the Sixth Department was the best way for the Beijing officials to be promoted quickly, but now it seems that they can also make a difference in the Hanlin Academy and the Zhan Shifu, so let's think about how to climb up in this kind of retreat yamen in the future. ”

Maybe it was the trip to Quanzhou that made Shen Xi shudder, at the moment he really didn't want to work too hard for a quick promotion, thinking that he would be an official at the age of thirteen, and now he has been promoted two levels in a row only a year, which is something that others dare not imagine. Stay in Zhan Shifu for a few more years, and wait until he is seventeen or eighteen years old to transfer to other places, and avoid the power storm in the capital at the beginning of the crown prince Zhu Houzhao's succession.

After making up his mind, Shen Xi's appreciation of Liu Daxia and Xie Qian's appreciation were all forgotten, and he was at ease to be a Hanlin official for a few years, doing learning, and leaving a little reputation in the Confucian academic world, which was more important than anything else. However, Xie Duo can move around more, compared to Liu Daxia and Xie Qian, Xie Duo will help him more now.

Shen Xi returned to Zhan Shifu and went home after sorting out the case, but before he arrived at the door, he saw Jiang Liwei standing under the big tree in the middle of the alley waiting for him.

This time, Jiang Liwei came in an official sedan chair, and the Jinyi guard entourage wearing a flying fish suit and an embroidered spring knife on his waist brought more than a dozen people, giving Shen Xi a feeling of showing off his might.

Yu Niang stood in front of the door of the Shen Mansion and did not come forward to greet her, obviously she knew that Jiang Liwei was not good at coming and did not want to wade into troubled waters.

"Jiang Zhenfu? It's been a long time. ”

In the past, when Shen Xi saw Jiang Liwei, he needed to look up, when he first entered the officialdom, he was crushed to death by the thousands of households in Fusi Town, Weibei Town, Jinyi, who were in the fifth grade.

But now the situation is different, Shen Xi is already an official from the fifth grade, as a Hanlin official serving in the Zhan Mansion, he can be regarded as a close minister of the Son of Heaven, and his status is much higher than the official rank, and now Shen Xi's identity and status are not only on an equal footing with Jiang Liwei, but even the only head of Jiang Li.

"Shen Yude is so powerful as an official, he didn't send people to invite him, so he had to go out in person?" Jiang Li was the only one who came up to put on an official stand, and Shen Xi could only think that his confidence was insufficient, and his voice was fierce.

Shen Xi smiled faintly and saluted: "I don't know when Jiang Zhenfu sent someone to invite you?" ”

Jiang Liwei glanced at Yu Niang coldly, and it seemed that Yu Niang would do the work for him when he was invited.

Shen Xi sabotaged Jiang Liwei's good deeds three times and twice, especially after pushing Gao Mingcheng to the party of his relatives, making the pursuit of Gao Mingcheng fruitless, Jiang Liwei held a grudge against Shen Xi, and now Shen Xiguan has been promoted to one level, and he is a dignified Hanlin official, and although Jiang Liwei has risen quickly, and Jinyiwei is known as the pro-army of the Son of Heaven, he is still just a martial artist of the fifth grade, and his jealousy is even worse.

Jiang Liwei said coldly: "Shen Yude came back from Fujian Province, the nobles are busy, there is a curfew in Beijing right now, martial law will be imposed in the city in the near future, and all commercial goods will be deployed by the government. ”

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