Just when the imperial court was depriving the Ministry of Science and Rites of the Imperial Court, Shen Xi, as a party concerned, remained in the inn and waited for the next day's palace examination. He didn't think much about it, he only knew that if the imperial court wanted to deprive him of his huiyuan, he had to do it before the palace examination, and March 14 was already the deadline, if he could pass this night safely, then it would basically be announced that he could participate in the palace examination, at least he could be admitted to the Jinshi.

That night, Yu Niang prepared wine and food for Shen Xi, and by the way, brought a little news from the imperial court, that is, the scope of the Ministry of Rites will not be expanded, at least Shen Xi is safe for now.

“…… A few days ago, a thief sent a letter to the Liaison Office of the Ting Prefecture Chamber of Commerce in Chongwenmen, wanting to see Shen Gongzi. It seems that if they had done something, it would have been today. Yu Niang said, "After tomorrow, Shen Gongzi will be a Jinshi, and they will come again...... You have to think about the consequences. ”

In Yu Niang's estimation, the reason why the thieves in the treasury grain theft case did not come to contact Shen Xi for a long time was because Shen Xi was very likely to be involved in the case.

Yu Niang never said who was behind the grain theft case in the treasury, but with Shen Xi's wisdom, he could probably guess some of the culprits should be the princes and nobles of the imperial court, not in the six ministries system, but there are many officials in the six ministries who work for them, and even "ruthless characters" like Ma Wensheng and Liu Daxia can only be secretly investigated, which shows how powerful they are.

According to Shen Xi's comprehensive analysis, there are only a few people involved, and the most likely of them are the relatives of the Zhang brothers: Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling.

For these two people, Shen Xi, who has studied the history of the Ming Dynasty, is not a stranger.

The father of the Zhang brothers, Zhang Luan, is the father of today's Empress Zhang, and was awarded the title of "Shou Ningbo" in the fourth year of Hongzhi. In the same year, Empress Zhang gave birth to her son Zhu Houzhao and was made the crown prince, and Zhang Luanjin was named "Marquis of Shouning". The following year, Zhang Luan died, and was awarded the title of "Duke of Changguo", and the eldest son Zhang Heling inherited the title of "Shouning Bo", and later promoted to "Shouning Marquis" and "Changguo Gong", and the second son Zhang Yanling was "Jianchang Bo" and "Jianchang Marquis".

The honor of the Zhang brothers will continue until the Jiajing Dynasty. That is to say, in the next twenty or thirty years, no one can shake the status of the two in the court, and only wait for the death of the current Empress Zhang, who is also the future Empress Dowager Zhang. The Zhang brothers will encounter a catastrophe, and it is not wise to have a hard encounter with their relatives at the moment.

Shen Xi calculated, this is probably the reason why Liu Daxia doesn't want to make a big deal about the case, he can catch some small fish and shrimp or something, in fact, it's almost the same. It's best to warn the Zhang brothers, so that they won't be too presumptuous, it can already be regarded as a miracle effect, if the case is really big, even Liu Daxia can't hold it, let alone his new science and technology Huiyuan.

"I wish Shen Gongzi a smooth palace test tomorrow, and the title of the gold list will be the champion." Yu Niang picked up the wine glass and toasted Shen Xi.

If Yu Niang said this in the past, it would be at most a compliment and good wishes, but today is different, Shen Xi got the Huiyuan in the Ministry of Rites exam. Even if Shen Xi does not play well, it is still very promising to get the top three in the first class, and the worst is listed in the top few in the second class.

But Shen Xi knew that because this Ministry of Rites examination involved the question case, he had not selected Shu Jishi after the palace examination, and only the top three people who entered the Hanlin in this palace examination were only the top three, and if they came to the palace examination, they could not enter the top three of the first class. Then he can't be a Hanlin official, but he will be arranged to be an official in the six ministries or places, and he will slowly climb and roll.

In comparison, Shen Xi still hoped to enter the Hanlin Academy. Because he went to the Sixth Department to do things, or governed one side, he couldn't serve the public at his age, but it was better to stay in the noble Hanlin Academy for a few years to learn, and then take on specific positions when he was older.

Shen Xi knew that Emperor Hongzhi's health was not as good as before. And this emperor has the bad problem of taking medicine indiscriminately, according to historical development, the Hongzhi era has taken a total of eighteen years, that is, there are still six years, this rare promising Ming monarch in the middle of the Ming Dynasty is going to die, and the successor is the absurd Emperor Zhengde.

If Shen Xi wants to make a difference, he must either get closer to the prince and make a difference in the Zhengde Dynasty, or he will resume a place during this period, stay away from the rights and wrongs of the court, and wait for Emperor Zhengde to be absurd for a few years, and then strive to enter the court as an important member after his death. Even if it takes more than 20 years to go before and after, he is only in his thirties and in the prime of life.

Shen Xi replaced the wine with tea, raised the wine glass and said, "Chengyu Niang Jiyan." "A cup of tea was drunk in one gulp.

After dinner, Yu Niang personally packed up the dishes and chopsticks and went out, and not long after, Yun Liu, dressed in men's clothes, came in and delivered a letter to Shen Xi.

There was no handwriting on the envelope, and Shen Xi opened the letter, but it was an invitation to invite Shen Xi to drink tea in a teahouse not far from Dongsheng Inn. The specific matter was not explained, and he didn't even settle the payment, but Shen Xi knew that it should be the gang of people from the treasury who came to contact him, the young master of the Tingzhou Chamber of Commerce, to discuss the grain transportation.

After a long time of fishing, the big fish finally took the bait.

"When Childe goes, the little girl will follow and serve throughout the process, and Yu Niang will also send someone to protect her, and she will never let Childe have an accident." Yun Liu doesn't know martial arts, so he can play at most by Yu Niang's side and act as a think tank. This kind of thing, it will be dangerous for her to go, but Yun Liu's attitude is very resolute.

"Okay."

Shen Xi didn't have any more words, he had received great favor from Liu Daxia during the Fujian Township Test, and now he should repay the favor and try his best to fulfill Liu Daxia's entrustment, even if he can't find out the culprit behind the grain theft case in the end, at least he can recover some losses for the imperial court.

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Shen Xi walked out of the inn under the escort of Yun Liu, the carriage had already been prepared outside, Shen Xi and Yun Liu entered the carriage, and it was Xi'er, who was also in men's clothes, who drove the carriage.

When I arrived at the agreed place, it was already night, and the shops along the street were basically closed, only the teahouse in front of me still had some faint lights.

Shen Xi entered inside, the first floor of the teahouse was empty, and he didn't even see a guy, and when he went up to the second floor, he saw a person sitting in the corner, but he didn't come to contact him, but Zhou Fatzi, the head of the local power who had bought Shen Xi's paintings before and was currently helping the imperial court transport grain in the name of the Tingzhou Chamber of Commerce.

"Zhou is in charge."

Shen Xi bowed and said hello.

Fat Zhou stood up eagerly, but he didn't step forward, and bowed directly, so that Shen Xi was not mentally prepared at all.

"I've seen Master Gongshi, see you in a few days, I should call Master Jinshi, or Master Guan......" Zhou Fatzi compliments people very well, and he is also the kind of person who is good at political investment, and he is just a Jianghu person. But he can have a relationship with the factory guard and do things for the imperial court.

Shen Xi sat down, and Zhou Fatzi offered tea to Shen Xi, and then bowed very respectfully. He didn't dare to sit with Shen Xi at all.

"In the past few days, Zhou Dangjia has helped the imperial court transport grain, and there is a poor pool in the middle?" Shen Xi was not reluctant, and asked casually.

"How?"

When Fat Zhou laughed, his face was sideways. "Everything is carried out according to the model of the Tingzhou Chamber of Commerce, or the seventh prince you give a point, the silver money obtained from this grain transportation, the villain will send it to the house in full, please the seventh prince smile."

The ships and manpower used to help the imperial court transport grain are all Zhou Fatzi, and he has to share the profits with Shen Xi after making money, which is considered a disguised bribe, and Shen Xi is now a Huiyuan, and he will participate in the palace examination in Japan. How can you not be diligent now?

Shen Xi smiled: "The silver is earned by the Zhou family, and I don't dare to divide it in the future." ”

In fact, the imperial court will not give too much freight to find someone to transport grain, even so, there are many people who want to lose money to transport grain for the imperial court, and what these businessmen want is just the connections of the imperial court. Shen Xi thought to himself: "The fat man has lost money this week, and now he has to pay me some more money, which is to pay more than compensation." ”

When Zhou Fatzi heard this, he thought that Shen Xi was too little, so he hurriedly added: "The quantity will definitely satisfy the seventh prince." ”

It's not okay to talk to businessmen, here in Zhou Fatzi. Everything is a deal, he doesn't spend a lot of money, but he doesn't believe that others will do things for him, and he has a share for Shen Xi. Yu Niang and Jiang Liwei will not be less over there, and what he can get, in addition to the connections of the government, there is also a son who enters the country to study, and he can come out to be an official in the future, this is Yu Niang's promise to him.

The person who came to contact me never arrived. Shen Xi asked Fat Zhou to sit down and asked him something.

Under careful questioning, Shen Xi roughly figured out the gifts that Zhou Fatzi gave to Jiang Liwei and Yu Niang, what Zhou Fatzi gave to Jiang Liwei was a house in the city, which was fully furnished, and there were several beautiful maids at the same time, according to Zhou Fatzi, they were all carefully selected by him. This house is not used as a mansion for Jiang Liwei, but as an outer house.

Zhou Fatzi's gift to Yu Niang, is a "green building", although Yu Niang for the imperial court, belongs to the secret agent, but to stay in the capital for a long time must have an identity cover-up, before Yu Niang said to engage in the "old business", ready to open a green building to support the girl she brought, Zhou Fatzi grasped the preferences of Yu Niang, and sent a green building that was run by him, let Yu Niang take care of it, together with the original girl in the green building.

As for whether Yu Niang will personally pick up guests as an old bustard, Shen Xi does not know.

In comparison, Zhou Fatzi's gift to Shen Xi was the most direct, and it was silver money, because Zhou Fatzi didn't know what Shen Xi's preferences were. He also tried to send Shen Xi beauties, but Shen Xi didn't seem to be interested in this, and Shen Xi was about to become a new science and technology jinshi, and he would be a prince in the dynasty, and having real estate and land in the capital too early would cause people to be suspicious, so he thought about it, and finally gave Shen Xi silver money and let Shen Xi dispose of it himself.

Although Zhou Fatzi didn't say how much silver there was, he expected that this generous gift was worth at least a thousand taels of silver, because the gifts he gave to Jiang Liwei and Yu Niang were almost this price, and he couldn't show favoritism in gift-giving.

Among the three of Jiang Liwei, Yu Niang and Shen Xi, the most worthy of him is actually Shen Xi, after all, Jiang Liwei and Yu Niang are both mysterious and high-ranking characters, not when they got acquainted with him at the end of the year, they can use him now, and they may not take more care of him in the future.

Shen Xi is different, he was born as a new science and technology jinshi, and at the same time he is a young man of the Tingzhou Chamber of Commerce, and in the future, Zhou Fatzi will have to do business in the name of the Tingzhou Chamber of Commerce, and others don't need to stammer, as long as they serve Shen Xi well.

While he was talking, a carriage suddenly came downstairs.

The carriage was extremely low-key, and there were only two people driving the carriage. Shen Xi, who was driving the car, knew the old man he saw when he first came into contact with the person who stole the grain, and as for the person who followed the old man, he looked to be in his forties, although he was in civilian clothes, but he had a sense of nobility, and he was obviously from the government.

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