Gao Mingcheng defected to the Relatives Party, which caused the investigation of the household department and the Yamen of the department to suspend it.

Once the case involved the two Zhang brothers, the case was given different meanings, and the state affairs became the emperor's family affairs. Coupled with the information revealed by Emperor Hongzhi's promotion of Gaoming City, as a minister, he can only understand the intentions, even if Jiang Li only wants to continue to investigate, Liu Daxia will stop it.

Just like Jiang Liwei said, the case has basically ended here.

After the investigation of the grain theft case in the treasury, the Zhang brothers were relatively short of money, and the "tribute" to Emperor Hongzhi was much less, but after Gaomingcheng defected, the two brothers suddenly became generous, and Emperor Hongzhi also praised the two brothers-in-law for their reliability many times in public.

As for what the Zhang brothers did to make the emperor greatly praised, although all the ministers who knew the details of Gaoming City knew it, they would not take the initiative to break it, and the emperor's face still had to be scrupulous! But in the bottom of their hearts, they all speculated how much money Gaoming City paid this time, so that Emperor Hongzhi could pardon his big sins, and he also avoided the evaluation and promotion of the officials.

But none of this has anything to do with Shen Xi. In the blink of an eye, in winter, Shen Xi was still walking between his home, Zhan Shifu, East Palace and Wenhua Palace, and what he told the prince was also in accordance with the requirements of Empress Zhang and Wang Wei, and returned to the "Twenty-first History", which was about the official history, but occasionally his vernacular history lectures were interspersed in the middle, so that the prince could understand.

Zhu Houzhao was a little dissatisfied with Shen Xi, especially after Shen Xi said that he would no longer teach him fun things, and he refused to even say the specific gameplay of Keju.

But Zhu Houzhao has just been punished by his father once, and his stubborn habits have been slightly restrained, at least he will not blatantly contradict the lecturer, although the situation of absenteeism is still very serious.

“…… Sir, you always tell me about the Sui, Tang, Song and Yuan dynasties, why don't you listen to you about the emperor of my dynasty? I wonder what my ancestors did! ”

Children are very curious, and they like to make difficult things the most, knowing that Shen Xi's responsibilities do not include telling the history of the dynasty, Zhu Houzhao still has to ask about the things after the founding of the Ming Dynasty.

Shen Xi shook his head and said perfunctorily: "I am conscientious and conscientious, and I am not comparable to the emperor of the previous dynasty." ”

"Who wouldn't say nice things? No matter how wise and martial my ancestors are, can they compare to the Qin Emperor and Han Wu? Zhu Houzhao pursed his lips disdainfully, "Many people still praise my father for being comparable to the ancient Yao Shunyu soup, every time my father said that he knew that he couldn't reach it, but when he came back, he said that in fact, he really wanted to be able to govern the country like the ancient sages, and let me be as diligent and love the people as he was...... Are all emperors duplicitous? ”

Shen Xi smiled bitterly, how did this bear child come to the conclusion that his father was "duplicitous"? Just because he has high hopes for his son?

However, Zhu Youji's earnest entrustment to his son is sincere, but a child who is not yet nine years old, what does he know? But thinking that Zhu Youzhi will go west in a few years, and the throne will eventually fall into the hands of Zhu Houzhao, in fact, Zhu Youji's entrustment now is very necessary.

Shen Xi shook his head slightly: "Now the Ming Dynasty is a peaceful and prosperous era, and this is Your Majesty's work." ”

Zhu Houzhao sighed twice and said: "It turns out that you are the same as those ministers, you are all flatterers, hmph, I will be the emperor in the future, and I must be no worse than my father, if you don't believe it, let's see!" ”

The young man has courage, but is it really good that you curse your father like this?

Shen Xi turned over the page of the lecture and continued to lecture: "Prince, the next thing to talk about is "History of the Song Dynasty", the thirty-eighth ...... of this book."

Shen Xi didn't care whether Zhu Houzhao wanted to listen or not, he always had to teach according to his own academic progress, and the imperial court issued him a salary, that is, he asked him to teach the prince to read, and no matter what work he did, he had to be worthy of his own salary.

Shen Xi's current work is actually quite light, because to tell the prince the "Twenty-first History", you don't need to let the prince recite it throughout, just talk about it once, and let the prince know what successes and failures the emperors and famous figures of these dynasties have.

This is a very difficult thing in the eyes of others, because even if he is a lecturer from a jinshi, he can't completely clear the fog of history, although Shen Xi can't do it, but he is open-minded, and often gives Zhu Houzhao a little explanation, so that Zhu Houzhao can understand what is desirable about this person and where the shortcomings are.

This is completely different from the usual officials who directly designate the emperor as a "bright monarch" or "faint monarch", and define a minister as a "loyal minister" and a "minister".

Shen Xi's approach is not to evaluate a certain figure in history, but to explain what this figure has done.

Shen Xi was talking, and Zhu Houzhao was just covering his eyebrows with his head in his hands, and he was napping there with his eyes closed.

Shen Xi couldn't do anything about it, he wanted to teach the prince well in his own ways and methods, and use fun and interesting things to stimulate the prince's interest in learning, but his boss Wang Wei disagreed, and even Queen Zhang called him to tell him not to let the prince mess around, what else could Shen Xi do? He can only be like other lecturers, holding the case, saying what he should have said, and then waiting for the reception with peace of mind.

Zhu Houzhao woke up from a sleep, Shen Xi was still talking there, and he finally asked a little impatiently, "...... Mr. Shen, I heard you say that those who are emperors are not at ease, either there is a disaster here today, or there is a rebellion there tomorrow, why don't we have these in the Ming Dynasty? ”

No? It's just that I don't want to say it, there are fewer rebellions in the Ming Dynasty? It's still messing up in the southwest now! Just because the scope of the impact is not large, it has been quelled locally, and it is basically declared as a bandit, and the more impoverished the frontier, the more likely it is to rebel.

In addition, many provinces on the southeast coast are now making trouble, but the situation is not very serious, and it has not reached the point where the whole country is worried about it during the Jiajing period.

"Then I wonder what the prince's attitude is towards the rebellion?" Shen Xi asked.

Shen Xi knows very well that what Zhu Houzhao wants most after taking office is not the praise of others for his cultural governance, he is not very interested in his father's way of governing the country with literature, he advocates the achievements in martial arts, for example, he proclaimed himself "the governor of military affairs, the mighty general and the chief military officer", single-handedly directed the great victory in Yingzhou, and personally conquered the rebel King Ning......

Zhu Houzhao didn't think about it and replied: "Do you need to talk about this?" I must personally lead the army to flatten them all, hum, if I am the emperor, who dares to rebel against me, I will let him die an ugly death! ”

Shen Xi sighed, it seems that Zhu Houzhao's character was not developed later, but he had this unreliable idea when he was a child.

Shen Xi wants to say very much, you are very similar to your great-grandfather Yingzong Zhu Qizhen, he also had the same idea with you back then, personally conquered Wara, and the final result was the change of Tumubao, your great-grandfather not only lost the throne, but even his life was almost guaranteed, although later the change of seizing the door took back the throne, and the national strength was greatly lost.

If it weren't for your father's legacy of loyal generals, you might have followed in your great-grandfather's footsteps!

Zhu Houzhao saw that Shen Xi was silent, and said with dissatisfaction: "You haven't said it yet, why there are not so many rebellions in the place after my court." ”

Shen Xi continued to turn the case to the next page, raised his head and said, "Maybe it's my emperors of the Ming Dynasty who have worked hard to make the country prosperous." ”

There is no way, the rules for teaching the prince are like this, he can only follow it, the history of the dynasty has always been to report good news and not bad news, if Zhu Houzhao wants to ask the ancestors about the merits of the emperors of the previous dynasties, he can say that if he talks about the "loss" of the government, he must keep his mouth shut.

It is said that the responsibility of teaching history is to let the prince "learn from history", but in fact, he uses the history of the previous dynasty as a reference, and the history of this dynasty, including the emperor and important ministers, is basically selectively skipped.

Shen Xi was in class, and someone outside suddenly reported that Wang Wei was coming, and Zhu Houzhao said angrily: "It's this old guy again!" ”

Since Zhu Houzhao was punished for playing tricks on Wang Wei, he has been angry and tried to find an opportunity to retaliate against Wang Wei again, but unfortunately he has not found a good time and a way to take revenge.

The purpose of Wang Wei's visit this time was not to teach the crown prince Zhu Houzhao, but to supervise Shen Xi, for fear that Shen Xi would come up with something "moth".

After the person came in, Shen Xi didn't squint, and he didn't mean to salute Wang Wei at all, because at this moment he was giving a lesson to the prince, which was more important than anything else, and everything else was negligible.

Wang Wei listened for a while, nodded slightly, and it seemed that he agreed with Shen Xi's current lecture method.

It didn't take long for Shen Xi's class to finish, and the first thing Zhu Houzhao did was to flash people, go to the imperial garden outside to play Keju, and didn't even say hello to Shen Xi and Wang Wei.

"There's nothing wrong with what you're taught, but after teaching, shouldn't you ask the prince some questions to see if he has mastered it?" Wang Wei began to pick bones in the eggs.

Shen Xi said: "What Bachelor Wang reminds is that the next time the official must pay attention." ”

Wang Wei's face was a little ugly: "Don't always want to be perfunctory to the old man, you teach the prince, that is the prince of a country, do you need the old man to remind you of these things?" ”

Shen Xi knew that Wang Wei didn't like him, in this case, no matter what he did, he would be picked, but he wouldn't argue with Wang Wei, after all, the other party was his boss, in charge of his future, so he could only make an appearance of being humbly taught.

While he was talking, someone outside reported that Scholar Xie was here.

Wang Wei originally wanted to severely reprimand Shen Xi, but at this time, he had to go out with Shen Xi to greet him.

Xie Qian walked over leisurely, and was a little surprised when he saw Shen Xi and Wang Wei together: "Jizhi...... Bachelor Wang is also there? ”

Shen Xi knew that Xie Qian and Wang Wei were Jinshi in the same year, Xie Qian was the champion at that time, and Wang Wei was Tanhua, and the relationship between the two in the court and China had always been good.

Wang Wei knew at a glance that Xie Qian was not coming to him, and after saluting, he asked, "Elder Xie Ge is here, but is it for the prince's studies?" ”

Xie Qian waved his hand and said with a smile: "I have something to come to Shen Xi, Shen Xi, you come here." Mr. Wang, see if this is ......"

Wang Wei was angry in his heart, you personally came to me as a dignified cabinet scholar, and it was not me, the young Zhan Shi of Zhan Shifu, who was studying for a bachelor's degree, but a mere Zhan Shifu Youzhong Yun Hanlin Xiu, which is like saying, you are not capable, and I will not ask you for help if I have something.

Wang Wei asked dissatisfiedly, "But I don't know what it is?" ”

Xie Qian was stunned, and then smiled bitterly: "There are some things that are inconvenient to say to Master Wang, and I will explain it when I look back." ”

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