According to the requirements of the imperial court, Shen Xi officially set off on the seventeenth day of the first lunar month. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

A group of sixteen carriages swept out of Zhengyang Gate.

Due to the freezing of the North Canal, the first half of the road to the south had to be driven by horse-drawn carriage, and Shen Xi chose to take Huangcun and Yangcun to Tianjin Sanwei, and then from Tianjin Sanwei to Shandong Dezhou via Jinghai, Qingxian, Cangzhou.

Shen Xi had walked this road before, and he was already familiar with the surrounding environment, and with the officers and soldiers on the road this time, he was not afraid of encountering any danger.

This time, Shen Xi only went on the road, and he didn't bring any of his dependents, not even a servant or maid, and he had to take care of himself in life.

Originally, with Shen Xi's current identity and status, he could use public money to hire a servant, but because he was used to being self-reliant, he liked to do many things by himself, and he had to hurry up on the way, so he didn't have much time to change clothes, so he simply brought more clothes, and waited until the big city for a short stay, and then solved the personal hygiene problem.

The way to the south, it is said to take the official road, but in this era the official road on both sides is still very barren, and it is the middle of winter, people are nesting at home to avoid the cold, even in the hinterland of the Central Plains, there are often dozens of miles to see no people, especially in the north Zhili, after entering the Shandong boundary, it is much better.

After all, the Ming Dynasty has just experienced the invasion of foreign Yi, many people in the north of Zhili joined the ranks of fleeing south, there is a lot of barren land, although the north wind and rain are smooth last year to this year, there are no natural disasters, but helplessly suffered man-made disasters, and the people are also miserable.

Shen Xi knew that he was powerless to change anything, even if he saw some injustices along the way, he had no intention of reporting to the imperial court, and the rejection and suppression of him by the civil official group made him confused about life for the first time since he entered politics, and he didn't even know whether he should pursue a stable life in the local area, or continue to forge ahead in the court, pay homage to the prime minister, and leave a name for eternity.

However, no matter what, Shen Xi is young after all, even if he is a year older, he is only eighteen years old, and the road ahead is still very long, he can squander his youth unscrupulously, even if he does nothing in Zhengde, he can wait for twenty or thirty years to win the court.

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After Shen Xi set off, it was as if nothing had happened in the capital, and the imperial court was still operating normally, without even a trace of waves.

Liu Daxia returned to the dynasty and still served as the secretary of the military department, but he added the title of prince and taibao, and the scope of his jurisdiction was only one acre and three points of land in the military department, and the affairs of the northwest were no longer under his management, and the imperial court began to negotiate new trilateral governors, Xuanda governors and other candidates.

In the previous war with the Tatars, the military yamen of the border fortress did not act, and allowed the Tatars to drive straight into the Beijing division, which made Zhu Youji very annoyed.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Emperor Hongzhi decided to replace the people in charge of the army in the northwest, and to have a big blood exchange.

As for the list of candidates, Zhu Youzhu did not mention it at the court meeting, and it was discussed and finally agreed upon by the courtiers. However, the cabinet scholars and the six ministries and nine secretaries still privately recommended the emperor's book, but in the end, it was Zhu Youzhi who had to make a decision.

As for the list of meritorious rewards, although it has been announced a year ago, it involves specific military merits and the amount of rewards, and it will not be implemented until the end of the year.

Shen Xi has already gone south, this reward has nothing to do with him, the rewards that should be given have been allocated in advance, and they are all inconsequential material rewards in Shen Xi's opinion, as for the official position, Shen Xi has changed from the coastal governor of the three provinces to the governor of Yansui and then served as the governor of the two provinces again, and there has not changed much over and over again.

Ma Wensheng, Liu Daxia and others can clearly see that this is an ostracism of Shen Xi by the civilian-official clique headed by Liu Jian and Li Dongyang.

Because Shen Xi has a high ability to do things, he transferred it to Huguang, which is called reuse, but in fact, it is derogatory, making him leave the center of power and avoid becoming an unstable pawn of the Jingshi.

Zhu Youzhu stood on the side of the civil official group without hesitation between the civilian official group and the military general group, saying that it was a reward to Shen Xi, but in fact he sent Shen Xi out, but this result was a good thing for Shen Xi.

Shen Xi asked for before, much lower than the governor of Huguang and Jiangjiang provinces, and he felt that it was very good to be a political envoy of Zuobu in a province, but now his authority is obviously higher than that of a provincial governor of Zuobu, and the authority of the governor of the two provinces is very compatible with his rank of the second grade, and he has now become a feudal official in the true sense of the Ming Dynasty.

Leaving the capital, there is no longer anyone to hinder him, Shen Xi can show his strength in Huguang and Jiangjiang, develop the business in Fujian and Guangdong to Jiangjiang and Huguang, and can fully influence and control the two provinces militarily, administratively and economically.

Shen Xi's temporary depression was only because of the suppression of him by the civilian clique, but when Shen Xi figured it out, he would naturally become the person with the most sense of direction in today's Ming Dynasty and knew which direction to exert his strength.

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At this time in the capital, for Liu Jian, the first assistant of the cabinet, and Li Dongyang, the second assistant, who finally expelled Shen Xi from Beijing, life was also not very good.

In the past, Emperor Hongzhi could be said to be obedient to them, but since the defense of Beijing, the cabinet insisted on going its own way and suppressed Zhu Houzhao, the prince of the prison state, which annoyed Zhu Youji, who was dedicated to cultivating his son.

After the war, Zhu Youzhu obviously showed vigilance against the cabinet, in the past, the cabinet ministers voted nine times out of ten, and now the cabinet votes are often beaten back by the celebrant supervisor, and even many were left behind, in the three-year small examination of Hanyuan that Liu Jian and Li Dongyang cared about, the emperor promoted several officials who belonged to the margins in their opinion.

Among the officials who had the best chance of becoming cabinet scholars, Wang Hua, Jiao Fang, Li Jie, Wang Wei and others were not promoted, but Yang Tinghe, Liang Chu, Jin Gui and others, who belonged to the rising stars, were reused, which was regarded by Liu Jian and Li Dongyang as Zhu Youji's layout for the monolithic situation of the civilian bureaucracy.

After Liu Jian and Li Dongyang announced the results of the three-year examination in the Hanlin system, they immediately proposed to Emperor Hongzhi to appoint a cabinet scholar to reduce the workload of the existing three cabinet ministers, Liu Jian and Li Dongyang's favorite person is Wang Hua, in addition, Liu Jian and Li Dongyang also recommended Wang Wei and the newly promoted Yang Tinghe, and submitted Zhu Youzhi to Zhu Youji, asking Zhu Youzhu to choose one of the three at will.

This was the only way for the Koji Dynasty to select cabinet scholars.

It was decided to add a number of cabinet scholars, and a few people would be selected first, not only to see the prestige of the court but also to see their ability to do things, and to transfer them to the cabinet for "internship" on a small scale, and each person would be given the same recital for votes, forming a three-way selection system of the emperor, the celebrant and the cabinet, and selecting the best people from among the candidates who best fit the emperor's wishes, and appointing them as cabinet scholars.

The time when Liu Jianjin submitted the list of candidates for cabinet scholars was the nineteenth day of the first month - two days after Shen Xi left the capital, at this time, the yamen in the capital had just finished their vacation, and many courtiers had not yet been able to come out of the victory over the foreign Yi and the festive atmosphere of the New Year, and even Zhu Youji himself was not ready to co-opt as a cabinet scholar.

The book was submitted, and it was not surprising that it was not sent in the middle, and the emperor seemed to have forgotten for a while that there was such a thing.

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