Xu Qiong didn't do a formal wooing, and she didn't even talk to Shen Xi too much, and the Yamen of the Ministry of Rites was full of people, and some words could easily reach the ears of the king.

Xu Qiong would not provoke the suspicion of Emperor Hongzhi for no reason, as long as he did not meet Shen Xi for a long time, even if Zhu Youzhu knew, he would only regard it as an encouragement to the younger students.

Xu Qiong, as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, just added the prince Shaobao last year, and has a very high status in the court, but this time the Ministry of Rites will try to solve the problem and have a great impact on him, Xu Qiong's deputy Fu Han did not cooperate in many things, such as this grace banquet, according to the Ministry of Rites Shangshu and the waiter have to attend, the right waiter Cheng Minzheng has an accident, and the left waiter Fu Han has to come to the scene to show the unity of the Ministry of Rites, but it is a pity that Fu Han just doesn't give face.

So much so that later history books have speculated that this time the Ministry of Rites will try to solve the case, although Cheng Minzheng was framed by Fu Han's treacherous scheme, and Xu Qiong is also a victim.

But in any case, a scholar from the Ministry of Rites, who was born in the palace examination list, is almost at the age of Zhishi, but he expresses his intention to promote Shen Xi, a new champion, and he should be flattered if he is an ordinary person, but Shen Xi has no intention of being happy at all, because two days later he will go to the mansion of Zhang Heling, Marquis of Shouning, for a banquet, which is no less than the tiger's den in Longtan.

Shen Xi expected that Xu Qiong would also be present if nothing else, after all, Xu Qiong was the brother-in-law of the Zhang brothers, and the two sides were very close on weekdays.

Shen Xi returned to the Dongsheng Inn, it was already dark, and Yu Niang brought Shen Xi a message:

In order to show that this matter was not reported by the "Tingzhou Chamber of Commerce", the officers and soldiers will also seize the industry of Zhou Fatzi under the name of the "Tingzhou Chamber of Commerce".

Yu Niang told Shen Xi that she was to let Shen Xi be mentally prepared, but no matter what Shen Xi thought, she felt that Liu Daxia had crossed the river and demolished the bridge.

“…… Childe rest assured. Lord Liu specially explained that after the matter subsided at the end of March, the official grain was still handed over to the Tingzhou Chamber of Commerce for transportation. There will be no deviations. ”

When Yu Niang said this, she felt ashamed in her heart. She did not inform Liu Daxia about Shen Xi's invitation to the Shouning Marquis Mansion for a banquet. After Liu Daxia chose to act, Shen Xi went to attend the banquet, and it was a question of whether he could return safely.

Shen Xi sighed helplessly, there were some things he was not qualified to discuss, but he still muttered in a low voice: "Do you have to be in such a hurry?" ”

Yu Niang pretended not to hear anything, and just asked Shen Xi to sleep early.

But where can Shen Xi still sleep at this time?

Obviously, Liu Daxia did not do an authentic job in this matter, perhaps in the minds of these upright courtiers. The most important thing is to share worries for the king, and everything else can be sacrificed. Speaking of which, it is not as real as the Zhang brothers to win people's hearts with practical interests.

On the second day of the Rite Banquet, March 20, the imperial court awarded the crown and belt of the court dress and the treasure money of the Jinshi and the new Jinshi.

The crown belt of the court dress awarded to the champion is: Erliang Dynasty Crown, cyan hanging silk, the court dress is similar to the court dress of civil and military officials, composed of red Luo clothes, red Luo clothes, red Luo knee, white Su silk in the single and ribbon, etc., plus a Huai Wat and a gauze hat. A light silver belt, a pair of medicinal jade pendants, and a pair of boots and felt socks.

The regular service of the champion is relatively simple. A gauze hat with a little emerald hairpin on both sides, two round-necked scarlet clothes, the chest is mended with a heron, the leather belt is a six-grade silver leather belt, and the foot coat is a court boot.

As the champion of the new department, Shen Xi got sixty Ming treasure banknotes, which seems to be a lot, sixty yuan is equal to sixty taels of silver, but even if it is a Ming treasure banknote that was printed in the eleventh year of Hongzhi. But now when you get it on the market to exchange, you can redeem it at most.

But no matter how you say it, this is the heart of the Son of Heaven. With this money, at least Zhongxin Jinshi can have more money on hand. You will not go hungry and cold.

In comparison, the small amount of silver bills printed by the silver number under the Tingzhou Chamber of Commerce has a silver root system, which is very valuable, and even its actual value is higher than the face value.

Because for merchants, the most important thing is the safety of funds, not to mention the safety of silver money deposited in the bank, it can also be withdrawn from other places, which greatly facilitates doing business, and it is far easier to make a profit than simply depositing money in the bank to collect interest.

On the night of 20 March, after receiving the order of Emperor Hongzhi, Liu Daxia began to carry out a large-scale crackdown on some dens of stored and stolen grain inside and outside the capital, and more than 5,000 officers and soldiers were dispatched at one time, and more than 20,000 stone of stolen grain were inspected.

Liu Daxia's plan was implemented very smoothly, but it cast a shadow on Shen Xi's visit to the Shouning Marquis Mansion for a banquet the next day.

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March 21, morning.

Shen Xi tidied up the champion's clothes and crown, set off for the palace, and wrote a copy of the inscription with the new science and technology scholars to express his gratitude.

After walking out of the door of the inn, Shen Xi heard the news of the rising price of rice in the city from the mouths of passers-by.

Over the years, the shops dealing in rice and flour in the city have basically sold the stolen grain from the imperial treasury, which has almost formed an industrial chain, Liu Daxia's move, the grain that should have been sold to the common people has been confiscated, the imperial court's treasury is full, but the shops operating grain in the city have less supply, and the most direct response is to increase prices.

“…… Grain prices are rising every day, and they have almost doubled in recent years, originally there was a shortage of grain in the northwest war, but now that the war is over, there is still a shortage of grain, and the hearts of these rice and grain store owners are really black! ”

The spearhead of the common people, all the fingers are the owners of the rice and grain shops, in fact, these people are also very innocent, now there is a shortage of food in the market, and the time to buy grain from the Central Plains and all over the south is too late, how can the price of food not rise in the case of scarcity and expensive?

All of this is the impact of Liu Daxia's actions...... However, Liu Daxia chased the stolen grain from the imperial treasury, and he was not wrong. The Zhang brothers stole grain from the treasury and obtained a large amount of money as a result, which seems to be a great crime, but at the same time, it also keeps the price of grain in the market at a reasonable price.

In this world, there is no right or wrong, and it mainly depends on which side you look at the problem from.

On the day of thanksgiving, early in the morning, the officials of Honglu Temple set up a table in the east of the gate of Fengtian Palace, and the brocade clothes and guards set up a halogen book. As the palace gate opened, Shen Xi led three hundred jinshi to enter in turn and came to the front of the Fengtian Palace.

According to the arrangement of the officials of Honglu Temple, Shen Xiti wrote a recital to express his gratitude, and then each jinshi signed his name on it.

As the ceremony begins. The officials of Honglu Temple led Shen Xi, holding the notebook with the signatures of all the new science and technology scholars on the table, and then Shen Xi retreated to the Danqi and the imperial road a little east. The rest of the jinshi are in order.

The history books record this thanksgiving ceremony in the twelfth year of Hongji:

It has a leather dress and a royal palace. The deacons prostrate and finish. Honglu Temple official recital, please ascend to the hall. The pilot is in the lead, and the seat is raised. Make fun in the hall. Whipping. The civil and military officials have their own court uniforms and salutes, and the attendants are as usual. The officials of Honglu Temple introduced champions and jinshi into the class. Praise four times. Like the table. Honglu Temple's official table case is placed in the hall and praises the table. The officials of the Ministry of Rites kneel, announce the watch, and confess. Prostrate, prostrate. Through the case champion and Jinshi, and four bows, finished. Whipping.

The ceremony is over, for all new science and technology scholars. Being able to rank in the court, see Emperor Hongzhi with his own eyes, and be in the same hall with many ministers is really enough to reminisce about a lifelong event.

After a glorious day, there will be a short "holiday", the next day the court will not arrange anything, and the new branch will go to various places in the city for banquets, until March 23. There will be another grand ceremony, that is, to visit the Confucius Temple to release the food.

Coming out of the palace, all the new scholars gathered in groups of three or five, showing off which dignitaries they would go to for a banquet, or set up their own literary meetings, inviting those celebrities and Confucians and Beijing officials to attend.

Shen Xi, as the champion, wanted to invite him to the banquet with the most new scholars, but immediately someone learned that Shen Xi had been invited by the Marquis of Shouning to the Hou Mansion for a banquet, so he could only give up, and his gaze at Shen Xi was different.

This year's new science and technology junior high school. There were only a few people invited to the Shouning Marquis Mansion that day, Shen Xi and Lun Wenxu were invited in the first class, and there were also a few people in the second class. There are only ten people in total, and there is no one in the top three.

In the Ming Dynasty, although the entrance examination is equivalent to having an iron rice bowl, but the iron rice bowl does not represent the golden rice bowl, a fellow jinshi was born, and even the official vacancy of the seventh grade can not be obtained, even if it is the Hanlin Academy awarded by the champion, it is only from the sixth grade.

There are people in the court who are easy to do and want to be promoted. I had to find a backer, so I got the Jinshi. It is imperative to go to the homes of those dignitaries and dignitaries to pay their respects, and if you have the vision, you can cast on the future cabinet scholars or the heads of the six ministries. Then it will be good to enjoy the shade under the big tree in the future.

Being able to get the invitation of Shou Ninghou is enough to make all the Jinshi envious.

Who is Shou Ninghou, that is Empress Zhang's younger brother, uncle of the country, if you say that the emperor has many wives and sons, it is just that, but Emperor Hongzhi has only one wife and one son so far, and the eldest son Zhu Houzhao was made the prince early.

Now the prince is eight years old, when he was a child, the period of illness and disaster has passed, and he is thriving.

Shen Xi didn't feel how honored it was, if he was given the opportunity to choose, the Longtan Tiger's Den like the Marquis of Shouning Mansion would not be able to go to kill him.

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This banquet in the Shouning Marquis Mansion was a dinner party.

Comparatively speaking, most of the official banquets in the Ming Dynasty were held at noon, while private banquets were basically dinners.

The people invited by the Marquis of Shouning were mostly dignitaries and dignitaries of the imperial court, among which the prince Shaobao and Xu Qiong, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, were respected, and the rest of the people were officials from the six ministries and various temples of the imperial court, as well as officials from the Shuntian Mansion, but the most were the people of the Zhan Mansion.

The Zhan Mansion is responsible for the daily affairs of the Empress and the Prince's East Palace, and belongs to the emperor's retainers, among which the number of "Ministers" in the Zhan Mansion is the largest.

Ministers, officials appointed directly by the emperor without going through the selection process of the ministry, court recommendation, and ministerial council. Most of these ministers of the Zhan Mansion were friendly with the Zhang brothers, and were recommended to Empress Zhang through the Zhang brothers, who made a speech to Emperor Hongzhi and were directly appointed by Zhu Youjiao.

Most of these ministers are wealthy, and after becoming officials, they are devoted to the prince and queen, and secondly, they are grateful to the Zhang brothers.

As long as these people get any good things, they will inevitably hand them over to the Zhang brothers, and the Zhang brothers are also very good at being people, and if they have good things, they will think about their sister Empress Zhang first, as long as they give things to their sister, it is equivalent to giving them to their brother-in-law Emperor Hongzhi.

Zhu Youzhu took a look, hey, yes, my two brothers-in-law think about me for everything, and next time I help someone to ask for an official, as long as it is not too much, it will be allowed.

Under the supervision of a group of loyal ministers and ministers, Zhu Youzhu was a good emperor praised by the world outside. But in private, he also did a lot of ridiculous things. Because Emperor Hongzhi only remembered Empress Zhang in his heart, in his eyes the Zhang family was much closer than the Zhu family, Zhu Youzhu did not have a brother of his mother's compatriots, although the Zhu family had the same surname, but they were all potential competitors of his authority as the Son of Heaven, it was too late to take precautions, how could they have a heart-to-heart?

But the Zhang brothers are not afraid, although the chaos of relatives will happen in all dynasties, but the emperor is somewhat conceited, Zhu Youzhu feels that he can control his relatives well.

The Zhang brothers are very smart, they have the title, they don't fight for official positions, the most important thing is to have the support of their sisters, and let their henchmen become officials, so that others will slap you, and the officials will not find fault, and the wealth and power will continue to be in hand.

On this dinner, there were many people attending the banquet, and those who did not receive the invitation could only come with the supporters of the Zhang brothers.

Some people follow the Zhang brothers to become officials and reap the benefits, others look red-eyed, and they can't talk to the Zhang brothers, so they can only start from the followers of the Zhang brothers, as long as they know the Zhang brothers through them, it is equivalent to paving the official career with gold.

But before the Cotai Strip was paved, they had to spend a huge amount of money to honor the Chang brothers.

For such a banquet, Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling, as the hosts, not only do not have to spend money, but can make a lot of money.

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