Shen Xi asked himself, he didn't have the qualifications to raise a foreign house, but no matter what, Li Jin belonged to his "forbidden body" at the moment...... The person was bought by him, the identity was given by him, a woman who even had more than ten years of experience in front of her was faked, she could not survive in a patriarchal society at all, and she had to rely on others to live.

At first, it was just a business relationship, but now it seems that it has become a burden for Shen Xi, and he needs to settle and support Li Jin before he can find a proper solution.

Li Jin has no capital to return, so she can only use the simplest way to treat herself as Shen Xi's outer house, and fulfill her duty of serving Shen Xi like a slave to her master.

In fact, Lin Dai and Yin Wen are very similar to Li Jin's situation, they are also helpless to stay by Shen Xi's side, but the biggest difference between them and Li Jin is that they have affection for Shen Xi, and Shen Xi is also interested in them, and they are real ********.

Shen Xi felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, even if he really wanted to possess the woman in front of him, he didn't want to use this simple and rude relationship between master and servant.

"If you don't want to leave, just stay." Shen Xi's face sank like water, and he said with some regret, "The case of the high servant of the household department has been concluded, and the Li family has been convicted of bribery, and several other charges have been fabricated out of nothing...... I heard that most of the people involved in the case were assigned to the frontier ......"

When Li Jin heard this, he was stunned at first, and soon tears flowed out.

If she is still in prison, she will be assigned like her family, and it is very likely that she will be bought as a concubine and a maidservant, or even bought by the owner of the Qinglou to sell her body, then her life will be changed because of this, and now she is redeemed by Shen Xi in advance, which is a blessing in misfortune. Shen Xi is young and promising, and her future is limitless, if she can stay by Shen Xi's side, it is not impossible to overturn the case for the Li family in the future.

Another point is that Shen Xi will not treat her badly.

"Cheap concubine...... Will you be able to see your loved one for the last time? Li Jin cried for a while before asking with pleading.

Shen Xi shook his head: "Your current identity, going to meet will only harm others and yourself, stay here with peace of mind, in the end, there is no one in the Li family who has been sentenced to beheading......"

In fact, everyone in the criminal department knew that the Li family's bad luck was just because their wealth was coveted, and they were clinging to the wrong person, so when the case was decided, they were all held high and careless, and the male was finally sentenced to be assigned to the frontier to do hard labor, while the female dependents stayed in the Jiaofang Division and the Huanyi Bureau, and no one was sentenced to death.

In other words, if the case can be reversed in the future, the people of the Li family can regain their freedom, and they can recover some of their assets. Li Jin knew that the only person who could give her this kind of hope now was Shen Xi. Whether it is for the sake of her own future, or for the Li family's grievances and hope, she must stay by Shen Xi's side.

In her heart, even if she doesn't love Shen Xi, she at least has some respect for Shen Xi, knowing that Shen Xi really wants to help her, and she doesn't hate this person in her heart.

If she was really bought by the Li family's enemies or former business competitors, such as Zhou Fatzi, who she once hated so much, then she would rather die.

Shen Xi didn't stay for long, and he and Li Jin had no emotional foundation.

From the time they met to the time they got along, they all happened by mistake, and even from the beginning, they did not develop in the direction of the relationship between men and women, and they only traded and used each other. Until now, Shen Xi has redeemed her, and the relationship between the two is clear, that is, one master and one servant, Li Jin is like a commodity, bought by Shen Xi and becomes his private property.

A woman who doesn't even have her own life doesn't dare to talk about any conditions in front of Shen Xi at all.

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……

In the Dongnuan Pavilion of the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Youzhu brought several confidants and ministers to discuss things, and the first thing was to determine the envoys to the Dayan Department.

This is the last time it will be discussed, and no further changes will be made as long as it is agreed.

Although Xie Qian, Ma Wensheng and Fu Han had worked hard for Shen Xi, it seemed that it was very likely that Emperor Hongzhi would send Shen Xi as an envoy to Tatar, and even the Dayan Ministry was waiting for the dust to settle down and return to the grassland with the Ming envoys.

“…… Your Majesty, the old minister thought that Shen Yude was young and vigorous and not enough to take on this great responsibility. ”

The first to speak was not Xie Qian and other ministers who had spoken to Shen Xi before, but Li Dongyang, the deputy assistant of the cabinet and a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion.

Unlike Xie Qian and the others who didn't want to send Shen Xi to the grassland to die, Li Dongyang was not optimistic about Shen Xi.

Although Shen Xi has done a lot of things, in Li Dongyang's opinion, he is still too young and involved in military affairs, so he must not be a child's play.

It was precisely because he looked down on Shen Xi that Li Dongyang's move did Shen Xi a big favor in disguise.

However, Zeng Jian, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, had a different opinion, and said: "It is precisely because Shen Xi is young and vigorous, when he trains more, going to the grassland to preach the great tomorrow's prestige is just a normal mission, and it doesn't take much time to come and go." Moreover, among the speakers in the East Palace, there is no shortage of him! ”

Zeng Jian completely intended to blame Shen Xi, because in the matter of the Franco machine gun, what Xie Qian and Shen Xi did made him, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, unable to come to Taiwan, plus Zeng Jian's relationship with Min Gui was not bad, Min Gui had always had a prejudice against Shen Xi, and naturally hoped that Shen Xi would suffer when he went out of Beijing.

In the bitter cold land such as the grassland, there is nothing, coupled with its internal rebellion, this envoy is destined to have many twists and turns, so this kid should be tempered a little more, and let him know that the court is a place where there is dignity and inferiority...... Don't think you're a Hanlin official, you want to and pee on other people's heads at a young age!

Unlike in the past, Zhu Youzhu did not ask everyone's opinions one by one, and seeing that Li Dongyang and Zeng Jian had different opinions, he put aside the matter of selecting the envoys of the grassland for the time being, and changed the topic: "Ni Shangshu is sick again today, and he has resigned one after another before, what do you think?" ”

One problem has not been solved, and the second one has come again.

Ni Yue, the secretary of the ministry, is known to be frail and sick, but now that the whole dynasty is up and down, there is really no old minister who can take over the position of the head of the six ministries.

Ni Yue in history died in his tenure as the secretary of the ministry, also this year, but nine months later.

Regarding Ni Yue's matter, everyone was silent, and finally Zhu Youzhu looked at Shoufu Liu Jian and asked, "What is your opinion?" ”

Liu Jian looked at Ma Wensheng, who was dizzy and dizzy, and said, "If Ni Shangshu returns to the field, he will probably be the only one who can take on the position of secretary of the ministry." ”

One sentence shows that the status of Qiqing is ranked.

When Ma Wensheng was working hard at the border, Ni Yue comfortably followed the path of the Hanlin Academy's editing, bachelor's study, lecturer in the East Palace, and the right waiter of the Ministry of Rites, the left waiter and the Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites.

Finally, when Ni Yue served as the head of the six ministries, Ma Wensheng had been the secretary of the military department for more than ten years, for which Ma Wensheng felt quite unhappy, and returned home to write a poem, which included the sentence "The court is gloomy, and the heart is told to the sky" to vent the complaints in his heart.

Now that Ni Yue has finally retired again, if he directly promotes the servants of the Ministry to the top position, he will not be able to convince the public.

This is also an unwritten rule of the Ministry of Officials...... If there is a vacancy in the other Shangshu in the six departments, or the Shangshu is evenly adjusted, or the Shilang is promoted, only the Shangshu of the Ministry of Officials, who is in charge of the official hats of the officials in the world, is basically taken over from the respected old ministers.

This is also the fundamental reason why Ni Yue was transferred from the post of secretary of the Nanjing Military Department to the capital after Tu Tu Zhishi.

Zhu Youzhu nodded, even he felt that it was a little too embarrassing to let Ni Yue continue to be the secretary of the ministry, since Ni Yue was bedridden at the end of last year, and now he has not participated in the court meeting for nearly a month, and the affairs of the ministry cannot be delayed. At the same time, Zhu Youzhi also felt that Ma Wensheng was worthy of the post of secretary of the ministry.

"But ......"

Zhu Youzhu was still a little hesitant, "In this way, there will be a shortage of the military department's book......"

"Your Majesty, isn't there Liu Shangshu?"

You Kankan Xie Qian stood up at this time, and when he put forward the candidate, this time not only Emperor Hongzhi, but all the ministers present nodded in agreement.

Regardless of whether these ministers were convinced by Liu Daxia or not, but Liu Daxia now fought a big victory in Yansui, boosting the morale of the army, and Liu Daxia has always been a hard-working minister relied on by Emperor Hongzhi, and often traveled south and north for the emperor, and now he has made great contributions, and he is more than sixty years old, and it is time to return to Beijing to enjoy Qingfu.

In contrast, the head of the household department in the six departments is in charge of the money bag, which seems to be more respectful than the book of the military department, but the Ming Dynasty established the country by force, and the book of the military department ranked second in the ranking of the six departments, which is also the fundamental reason why Ni Yue was transferred to the secretary of the Nanjing Ministry of Rites, and the next position was the secretary of the military department.

For the emperor, the military power must be in the hands of people who can rest assured, and for Liu Daxia, the military department is much lighter than the household department secretary who is dedicated to taking care of money and food, and it is just right to provide for the elderly.

But the problem comes again, Ma Wensheng replaced Ni Yue, and Liu Daxia replaced Ma Wensheng, both of which look very good, but the question is who will replace Liu Daxia as the head of the household department?

Not everyone can do it, and people who can just play tricks will definitely do a mess in this position, just like Liu Daxia, who is so capable, in the past two years in the Hubu Shangshu, he can only be regarded as decent.

In the later years of the Hongzhi Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty's fiscal deficit became more and more obvious, but with the previous accumulation, there were no major problems. But now, after the successive wars in Beiguan, the problem of the emptiness of the treasury has been put on the bright side.

Li Dongyang said: "Your Majesty, the old minister thinks that the right capital Yu Shi Zhong has both virtue and ability, and may be in charge of the household department. ”

She Zhong has a good relationship with Ma Wensheng and Li Dongyang, and in history, it happened that She Zhong succeeded Zhou Jing as the head of the household, and it was also because of the arrival of Shen Xi that history was deflected.

"Okay, then it's settled." After soliciting the opinions of all the people, Zhu Youzhu decided on the appointment and dismissal of personnel.

Zhu Youzhu is an emperor who likes to listen to people's opinions, not only the six books, but even the appointment and dismissal of the cabinet scholars are basically proposed by the seven secretaries and the cabinet scholars themselves, and then make a decision after a little discussion, which is also the fundamental reason why the Ming Dynasty is prone to the emergence of friends, many officials can be promoted or not, but if there are people in the court, it is easy to be promoted, otherwise there is a great possibility that they have been nameless, and they are suffocated to death in some inconsequential positions.

Zhu Youzhu had the intention of dispersing the meeting, and Liu Jian reminded: "Your Majesty, the person who sent the envoy to Tatar? ”

"This ......"

Zhu Youzhu almost directly named Shen Xi's name.

Xie Qian suddenly stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, the old minister has just received a letter here, which was presented by Shen Yude, please take a look at it." ”

Everyone looked at Xie Qian in surprise, although they had heard that Xie Qian and Shen Xi were close, but now they actually handed Shen Xi a sparse, which was a bit arrogant.

Shouldn't you be a member of the cabinet to do your job, and everyone will be forwarded by you, so what is the purpose of the general envoy?

After Zhu Youzhu took it, he looked at it patiently and found that the content in it was unique and incisive, which mentioned the strategy of dividing and dividing the various tribes of the grassland, which was deeply in line with Zhu Youji's heart.

Zhu Youzhu thought to himself: "This is exactly the same as what I think in my heart, just like the roundworm in my stomach!" ”

"Xie Aiqing, is this really written by Shen Yude?"

A bright smile welled up on Zhu Youji's face, which made everyone inexplicable.

"Exactly."

Xie Qianyu said, "Although Shen Yude is young, he has a lot of insight into frontier affairs, and now he has made contributions in Yansui Town, I am afraid that the Tatars will win him over because of this......"

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