Xie Pi sat down and asked Shen Xi some questions about his mind, and Shen Xi answered patiently, and at the same time took the time to read the remaining books.

Seeing that the twilight was thick, Shen Xi put away the notebook, got up and said, "Gongzi Xie, it's not early, I should go back." ”

"Why don't Mr. Shen stay and have a light meal together? I don't know when my father will come back. ”

Xie Pi has many friends, but there are very few people like Shen Xi who are talented and can help him a lot in his studies, and he regards Shen Xi as both a friend and a teacher. These days, he is locked up at home to prepare for the next year's township exam, and he wants to find a friend to catch up and chat, and Shen Xi's insight is exactly what he needs most at the moment.

"I still have business, next time." Shen Xi refused.

Xie Pi's face was full of disappointment, but there was a Xie Hengnu next to him who was even more disappointed than him. Xie Hengnu looked at Shen Xi for a long time, and then reluctantly accompanied his second uncle to send Shen Xi out of the house.

As a result, as soon as the three of them arrived at the door, they happened to meet Xie Qian, who bowed his head and got down from the sedan chair and was about to enter the mansion.

"Huh!?"

Xie Qian looked at Shen Xi, who was walking with his son and granddaughter, and there were a few more wrinkles on his old face, Xie Pi and Xie Hengnu saw this, and hurriedly went over to ask Xie Qian for peace.

Xie Qian glared at Shen Xi, and then scolded Xie Pi: "Take your niece in, the old man has something to say to Shen Yude here." ”

Xie Pi's face became extremely ugly, knowing that he had upset his father, he quickly pulled Xie Hengnu by the hand, and the uncle and nephew went in in a daze.

When only Shen Xi was left at the door, Xie Qian said angrily: "Shen Xi, the old man's family, can you stay away?" ”

Shen Xi screamed in his heart that he was wronged, he didn't mean to take the initiative to get close to Xie Pi and Xie Hengnu. His acquaintance and friendship with the Xie family's uncle and nephew can only be regarded as a coincidence, but in fact, it is mainly related to Xie Qian's invitation to his family many times.

Shen Xi said: "Elder Xie Ge said very well, in the future, students will try to visit your mansion as little as possible. ”

Xie Qian nodded at first, and then he realized a problem, Shen Xiqian had never taken the initiative to visit his mansion, every time he came, he was either invited by him with his colleagues from the Hanlin Academy, or he was summoned by him alone, he Xie Xue's mansion was recognized as the most difficult to enter in the capital, and it was far easier to visit Liu Jian and Li Dongyang than to visit his mansion.

"You kid!"

Xie Qian pointed at Shen Xi, as if he was a little angry, but he couldn't get angry, because he wanted to ask Shen Xi to do something, and finally had to sigh in annoyance, "The old man's son is now preparing for the township examination, and you yourself are also from the imperial examination, of course you know the difficulty of preparing for the exam." As for the old man's granddaughter...... She hasn't been out of the cabinet yet, you don't want to ruin her reputation, do you? ”

Shen Xi smiled bitterly: "Elder Xie Ge, this seems to be your mansion." ”

Xie Qian snorted lightly: "It's good to know, sort out the playbook at night, don't send it over, the old man will naturally send someone to your house to pick it up!" That's it! ”

Xie Qian didn't even say a word of "sending off", flicked his sleeves, and went into the door in a huff, making Shen Xi stand at the door of Xie Mansion extremely embarrassed.

You host is not at all friendly to the guests!

Since you think I'm interfering with your family's stability, it's okay to let me come a few times in the future, it's useless to show face with me!

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Shen Xi went back to the house full of anger, he couldn't lose his temper yet, and he had to complete the errand that Xie Qian had told him overnight. Xie Qian was also very dissatisfied here, and entered the house angrily.

This time, he didn't go back to the study first, but went directly to the inner courtyard, and as soon as he stepped into the moon gate, he heard Xie Hengnu talking to Xie Pi, and couldn't help but speed up his pace.

"Stop!"

In the end, Xie Qian was the ruler of the pavilion and the head of the family, and when this voice came out, Xie Pi and Xie Hengnu were both startled, and quickly turned around to salute Xie Qian.

"Father." Xie Pi said respectfully.

"Is that what you should be called?" Xie Qian reprimanded.

Because Xie Pi has been succeeded to Xie Qian's younger brother's room, according to his seniority, Xie Qian should be called "uncle", but because Xie Pi's family is a big family and Xie Qian is the head of the family, Xie Pi still habitually treats Xie Qian as his father.

Xie Qian taught his son and granddaughter: "You too, when there are guests at home, you stay in the inner courtyard, why do you want to come out to welcome guests?" Do you know him well? ”

Xie Hengnu looked anxious: "Grandpa, Seventh Brother, he has been here before, ...... you have seen?"

"What Seventh Brother? You don't know him, should you be a relative? When did our Xie family have such a person? ”

Xie Qian's heart swelled with anger, and he scolded his little granddaughter with his head and face, completely forgetting that this little granddaughter was the most favored baby on weekdays and was afraid to melt in his mouth.

When did Xie Hengnu suffer such grievances?

Xiao Nizi immediately lowered her head, whimpered and convulsed, and burst into tears.

Xie Pi said that Xie Hengnu was not worthy, and said: "Father, if you want to say that it is really wrong, it is all to blame the child, in fact, the child has something to learn, and he once visited Shen Hanlin, he has a lot of points for the child, you also knew it before, and did not object." ”

Of course, Xie Qian knew that his son had a relationship with Shen Xi, and he didn't object at that time because he felt that it was nothing for his son to make Shen Xi a friend, but the problem now is that his son seems to have been poisoned by Shen Xi, a young man who has already been married, and he actually treats a teenager a few years younger than him as a "sir".

In Xie Qian's thinking, Shen Xi, this kid, usually does things tactfully, where does he have the appearance of a teacher? I can't let my son continue to be wrong!

That's why he was so angry and wanted Xie Pi to go farther away from Shen Xi.

As for Xie Hengnu, Xie Qian's attitude was even clearer.

That's right, he had the idea of marrying Xie Hengnu to Shen Xi, because he really liked Shen Xi very much, and felt that the future was terrifying, and he would definitely do something in the future, but after Shen Xi explained that he had married a wife, Xie Qian broke off this idea, how could the granddaughter of his dignified cabinet scholar be a concubine?

But now it seems that his son and granddaughter regard Shen Xi as an old friend of the Xie family, Xie Qian hates that he always assigns Shen Xi to do things to "lure wolves into the house", after all, it is not easy for people to review themselves, and they are used to being angry with others, so Xie Pi and Xie Hengnu, who are "not angry", have become the targets of Xie Qian's harsh criticism.

"In short, you must not associate with him again. The old man won't let him come back to the house! Xie Qian finally gave the order viciously.

"Whew!"

Xie Hengnu didn't know why her grandfather scolded her like this, holding the skirt in one hand and covering her mouth and nose with the other, she whimpered and went in the direction of the inner house, and even Xie Pi looked at Xie Qian with a little resentment in his eyes.

Waiting for Xie Pimu to retire with a face, Xie Qian stomped his feet: "It's all to blame for Shen Xi'er, who taught my son badly, how could he dare to show my face to me before?" ”

Xie Qian was angry in his heart, but unfortunately he had to hope that Shen Xi would not be lazy at night, otherwise, let him sort out the reports from the three sides by himself, and he would have to see it in the middle of the night. That's not all, the key is that he doesn't understand those, there used to be similar recitals that needed to be drafted, and they were all done by Li Dongyang.

Emperor Hongzhi asked him to report it the next day, which was very difficult for him.

"If it weren't for His Majesty's instructions, I would have used you?"

Xie Qian muttered angrily, but in the end, he found that even his own use of Shen Xi was becoming more and more frequent, and he would always consult Li Dongyang and Liu Jian about anything before, but now he felt that as long as the matter was handed over to him, he could complete it alone, because Shen Xi was behind him to help him.

Xie Qian sighed and said, "It seems that my family is not shallow in his poison!" ”

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Shen Xi returned to the house and listed the timeline of the notebooks he had read before according to different regions.

To sum up, the frontier of the Ming Dynasty has been in crisis in recent years, and the passes that have fallen into disrepair abound, and if it is to be renovated, the Ming Dynasty needs to come up with two or three years of treasury expenditures to barely enough.

It's a pity that Daming doesn't have so much money and food, so the renovation of the border pass can only be delayed, and even forcibly apportioned, so that the border plug can solve the daily maintenance and repair problems every year.

The border fortress was already very difficult, and the soldiers below were not paid much money, but they had to worry about the Tatars who came at any time, lack of equipment, and lack of daily training, but they had to pick up shovels and serve as civilian workers to repair the city wall, and some of the money was sent out to repair the city wall.

I guarded the frontier for Daming, and it was just that the silver was secretly greedy for ink by Shangguan, and I could always get some. It's good now, the imperial court wants to repair the pass, and the border army has no money in hand, so it can only be intercepted from our small soldiers, and there is not a penny! Pity my wife and children in my hometown who are cold and starving, why should I serve such a court?

In this way, it is not difficult to explain why once the Tatars invade the border, the first thing that the Beiguan soldiers think of is to close themselves and let the Tatars plunder, because in the eyes of the Ming soldiers, they only regard guarding the border as an errand to deal with, rather than a responsibility.

It was also the original Taizu and Taizong who were afraid of Meng Yuan, and now the Tatars are small and rich, and they are only greedy for immediate interests, all they have to do is to keep looting, and retreat when they get their hands on it, so that it is equivalent to the Ming guards and the Tatars "inside and outside", and each other "has nothing to do".

You rob yours, I'll look at mine......

Everyone's well water does not interfere with river water!

Shen Xi has a feeling that he can't do anything about the current border situation, after all, the court doesn't give strength and treats the soldiers harshly, why should people work hard?

With the Franc cannon, it seems that the side plug is stable, but in fact, it is not very effective......

Many of the passes of the Great Wall have been dilapidated, the Tatars want to enter the Ming border, there are many ways to go, defend one place can not hold the other, put the Francophone cannon at the head of the city, the goal of the Tatars is to plunder the people, not close to the city at all, even if there are such powerful firearms what's the use?

Therefore, the most important problem is to take the initiative to attack and beat the Tatars, and after they know that the blood is bleeding more, they must act with fear of three points, so that the side plug can be stable for a few years.

However, in order to take the initiative to attack, it is necessary for the soldiers to regain their blood and courage, and they must first remove the various apportionments of the various names of the border gates......

Shen Xi listed a lot of suggestions, but unfortunately most of them were on paper, and after writing it, he sighed long, hoping not to do useless work! (To be continued.) )