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At this time, the Ministry of War was complaining about the Ministry of Industry's ineffective cannon casting, and the Ministry of Industry in turn accused the Ministry of War of being too demanding. No one is convinced of this kind of thing, Lu Jian Zhenzhen has words, I am casting cannons on the orders of His Majesty, not for you Liu Daxia, I am completing the task of casting cannons at the specified time, whether it is good to use the front-line soldiers to have the final say, not your military department can dictate.

According to the military system of the Ming Dynasty, the military department had the responsibility of issuing the right to transfer troops on the orders of the emperor, but did not have the power to directly command the troops. The Governor's Office of the Five Armies commanded the subordinate Metropolitan Guards, managing the affairs of drills, guarding, tuntian, and herdsmen in peacetime, and was ordered to send generals to lead the troops in wartime.

Lu Jian's meaning is to say that the governor's office of the five armies has no opinion, what kind of trouble is your military department!

Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang for the balance of the Ministry of War and the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, the weapons casting assigned to the Ministry of Industry, the army to cast weapons and equipment can only be responsible for the Ministry of Weapons, after the casting is directly transported to the front line, nominally the Ministry of War is responsible, but in fact, the Ministry of Industry Weapons directly face the nine-sided soldiers.

Liu Daxia was very dissatisfied, cast 200 cannons, thought that the Ming border pass was fine, but only more than 100 cannons worked, as for the quality of the shells, it was even more uneven, casting a bunch of broken copper and iron, not to mention fighting with the Tatars on the battlefield, even if it can be fired, it is a problem.

In the end, Zhu Youji's words interrupted the dispute between Lu Jian and Liu Daxia: "Since there is a problem with the casting of the cannon in the Ministry of Industry, just recast it, the border is peaceful at present, and there is no problem even if the delivery is delayed." So be it! ”

In a word, let Liu Daxia take the order respectfully.

The court is always a place to suppress people, and even if the emperor hears bad things in a row, he will inevitably be unhappy. The ministers saw that Emperor Hongzhi's face was ugly, and those who knew each other were silent, but those who were responsible couldn't care so much, knowing that they would touch Emperor Hongzhi's mold, they still had to be based on the facts and strive to solve the problem, which is the attitude that courtiers should have.

Some ministers have the ability to see and mention something that makes the emperor happy when the emperor is unhappy, such as Xie Qian, taking advantage of the free time, he hurriedly went out of the queue and played the book of Qin Hong, who was the secretary of the household department and the imperial history of the right capital, and the general system of the trilateral military affairs, and presented some good changes in the three sides in the past two years, so that Emperor Hongzhi was happy.

Xie Qian handed over the recital book and played it with a smile: "...... Your Majesty, since the withdrawal of the Tatar troops, by the Qin Shangshu general system of the three sides, along the border passes, build a fort every 20 miles, 500 soldiers, wartime for soldiers, idle time for farmers, insufficient soldiers from the interior to recruit people, two years to open hundreds of thousands of hectares of land, 500,000 stone of grain, now the border soldiers have been able to self-sufficient. ”

After saying a word, not only Emperor Hongzhi smiled, but the ministers were also amazed.

This end is still worried about money and food, and the other end of the border pass has been able to achieve self-sufficiency, it seems that Qin Hong has the ability, but in fact, the border pass repairs the soil fort, tuntian, and recruits merchants to develop trade, these suggestions are all from Xie Qian's hand.

But if you want to talk about the root cause, it is still Shen Xi's suggestion to Xie Qian, which Xie Qian accepted in its entirety and played it, which was adopted and arranged for implementation by Emperor Hongzhi.

"Qin Shangshu has made great contributions, and Mr. Xie has also worked hard."

Zhu Youzhu stood up from the dragon chair and bowed to Xie Qian.

In the court, in front of so many ministers, he directly called Xie Qian Mr., and also gave a salute to show respect, only Liu Jian had such treatment in the past.

Xie Qian hurriedly said: "The main thing is that Your Majesty is wise, and the soldiers at the border pass are united, and the outsiders dare not invade the border, and the people in the border can live and work in peace and contentment." ”

All the officials hurriedly saluted and patted the emperor's ass together: "Your Majesty Shengming!" ”

Zhu Youzhu waved his hand, Shi Shiran sat down, although he had a smile on his face, the smug smile was enough to show that Emperor Hongzhi was pleased to receive the compliments of his courtiers.

Xie Qian took out another copy of Shangshu: "Your Majesty, Qin Shangshu invites you to build a chariot on the border, called 'Quansheng Chariot', and prepare it with firearms around it, which can be used for attacking cities and conquering cities in wartime, and can be used for transporting food supplies in leisure time, please show your Majesty!" ”

Xie Qian then handed over a drawing.

Emperor Hongzhi was very satisfied after seeing it, Qin Hong and Xie Qian were great heroes at this time, and they proposed to build a "winning car", even if they worked hard and lost money, they would gladly agree.

However, in order to show that he was a king who was humble and accepting advice, Zhu Youzhu specially asked the ministers present what they meant, and handed over the drawings of the "Quansheng Che" to the ministers for circulation.

When it was passed to Shen Xi, Shen Xi just glanced at it, and couldn't help but smile bitterly, he thought that this "Quansheng car" should have some characteristics of an armored car, that is, a thick silhouette, leaving a few holes to fire out, but in fact, Qin Hong didn't have much knowledge at all, and the "Quansheng car" designed looked like an ox cart used by Shen Xi in the First Battle of Yuxi.

Along with the drawings of the all-winning chariots, there was also the so-called "chariot formation", which was nothing more than a formation of chariots, with the Franco's cannons on them covering the enemy, and the infantry and cavalry covering the clouds in front and rear......

This kind of trick can catch the Tatars off guard once and use it twice, and it is purely dead.

It's a pity that Shen Xi didn't have the right to discuss and veto, and directly exchanged the drawings to the eunuch.

In the end, Zhu Youzhu asked matter-of-factly: "What do you think?" ”

It's this unnutritious sentence again, what can the ministers say in the face of this problem? They don't know how to build cars and cast cannons, since it was built by the hero Qin Hong, even the emperor himself thinks it is good, and the minister naturally has no reason to refuse. So the plan to build a car was approved.

The originally depressing atmosphere of the court became lively and cheerful because of Xie Qian's performance, and Emperor Hongzhi no longer dealt with government affairs with a gloomy face.

The next things to discuss, even if it was to ask the court for money and food, or to impeachment and roff, Emperor Hongzhi listened carefully to them one by one and actively gave back.

From beginning to end, Shen Xi didn't have a chance to interject, he found that he was redundant in the court, even the four or five Shaoqing of those temples could take advantage of it, but he didn't have that qualification, because the court was the place where seniority was the most important, and his low status naturally had no right to speak, and the emperor would not take the initiative to ask his opinion.

The court meeting ended in a relatively relaxed range.

When the hundred officials were about to salute and leave, Zhu Youzhu suddenly glanced at the back of the crowd and ordered: "Zhan Shifu Right Chunfang Right Yude ......"

Xie Qian hurriedly gave Emperor Hongzhi a look, Zhu Youzhu remembered it, and quickly changed his words: "...... Right son, stay for the time being, I have something to talk about. ”

Except for Shen Xi, Emperor Hongzhi did not leave anyone behind, that is to say, Zhu Youzhu summoned the right person alone this time.

After all the ministers retreated, Shen Xi stood there respectfully, not daring to breathe, facing the emperor, he had to be cautious, a word of carelessness could lead to death.

In the Ming Dynasty, it is not a joke to accompany the king like a tiger, think about how many Wenchen killed by the Ming Dynasty to know how dangerous it is to be an official in this dynasty, and you must be treated as if you were walking on thin ice.

Zhu Youzhu smiled and took out a copy from under the pile of notebooks placed on the desk in front of him, opened it and looked at it, and said, "Shen Shuzi, this is your precautionary matter for the southeast coast of Chen, I have seen it, and the proposal is very good." It seems that you are attentive. ”

Shen Xi thought to himself, this is just Xie Lao'er called me to his home, and I wrote it in a hurry without being able to excuse myself, where I put my heart, I simply relied on some common sense in my mind to temporarily summarize it.

But after being praised by Emperor Hongzhi, Shen Xi had to pretend to be flattered, and replied respectfully: "Back to Your Majesty, it is the duty of a courtier to contribute to the defense of the Ming frontier." ”

"Okay."

Zhu Youzhu clapped his hands and sighed, and said with emotion, "Shen Qing's family is young, but he is all-round in civil and military affairs. In the first two years, the trip to Northern Xinjiang was supposed to send artillery to the military department, but unexpectedly...... Hehe, Liu Shangshu asked for credit for you, saying that he was in a desperate situation at that time, and you went to Yuxi with ten artillery pieces to help, and you made great contributions in the first battle......"

When Shen Xi heard this, he was secretly shocked in his heart: "Liu Daxia, Liu Daxia, you finally found out in your conscience, in order to let me go to the southeast coast at this time, you actually did not hesitate to show the emperor about my credit." But...... Are you a little late? ”

Zhu Youzhu sighed faintly and said, "...... At that time, Liu Shangshu did not ask Shen Qing's family for the first credit, but to maintain the stability of the border pass, and now he asked me for punishment to punish the mistake of not being able to ask for a reward for merit. I will apologize to Shen Qing's family on his behalf today. ”

Shen Xi hurriedly said: "For Your Majesty and the Ming Dynasty, it is the duty of the minister, and I don't dare to take credit." ”

"Very good."

Zhu Youzhu laughed heartily, he was very satisfied with Shen Xi's humble attitude.

When the emperor is the emperor, he likes the kind of minister who obviously has a lot of merit, but never takes the initiative to fight for credit, especially a young official like Shen Xi, who is even more appreciated by him, "Bandits are prevalent on the southeast coast, and there are many invitations in the place, I don't know who to send to go." When I saw Shen Qing's book, I had some words and wanted to ask what was going on......"

Zhu Youzhi knew that Shen Xi had broken the Tatar iron cavalry with an oxcart formation, and he had a little more trust in Shen Xi, so he actually summoned Shen Xi alone to ask Shen Xi about the good strategy of the bandits on the southeast coast of Ping.

Shen Xi prepared for several days, and he could be said to have answered Emperor Hongzhi's questions fluently.

What Shen Xi mentioned was nothing more than that the local government paid for its own food, and the soldiers were recruited from the local guard station, and then the local people were requisitioned and transferred as warships to pacify the pirates and pirates along the coast and ensure the stability of the Ming coastal defense.

In addition, in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, many places on the southeast coast were not kings, ******** were prominent, rebellions occurred from time to time, Shen Xi put forward a lot of ideas for naturalizing ethnic minorities, and mentioned a series of measures to ease local contradictions, recuperate and recuperate.

“…… What Shen Qing's family proposed was very agreeable. Zhu Youzhu finally said, "Talking to you, every word of the Qing family is insightful...... It's quite old-fashioned. ”

The first time he faced the saint, Shen Xi was not only not nervous, but the on-the-spot answers and replies were reasonable and well-founded, basically what the emperor asked, he could answer it immediately, and even the emperor had to think for a long time about many insights.

Old ministers like Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, and Xie Qian can't answer so well, no wonder Emperor Hongzhi said this.

Shen Xi said humbly: "The minister is just prepared before entering the palace, not an old man. ”

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