Xie Qian asked Shen Xi to summarize the report of the border pass in recent years, but there is actually nothing to summarize about those bad things, mainly to say, that is, the northern Xinjiang is in dire straits, the soldiers are in difficult conditions, the generals are worried, the Great Wall and many acropolises need to be repaired, and the people need to be pacified.

Shen Xi believed that even if he submitted these summaries, Emperor Hongzhi would throw them aside without waiting to see the end from the beginning. He is also thinking about Xie Qian, the emperor trusts you so much now, I will help you do some good things and put forward more practical suggestions.

Waiting for Shen Xi to check it from beginning to end, a question suddenly came to mind:

Before Xie Qianjin submitted this advice, he must first digest it himself, in case Emperor Hongzhi asked him questions on the spot, so if he can't mention too complicated and lengthy suggestions, try not to mention them, and only write some simple and easy terms that Xie Qian and the emperor can understand, and they are effective.

The most important thing is to lift the apportionment of the officers and men of the border army and track down the moths at the border passes.

The proposal may seem drastic, but if it is not painful, it will not do anything substantial to the current situation in the border towns of Xuanfu, Datong, and Yulin.

At dawn the next day, Zhu Shan said, "Young Master, Young Master!" Shen Xi, who had not slept well at all in the middle of the night, could only get up, put on a piece of clothing casually, and prepared to take the things that he had worked hard to sort out last night to the servants of the Xie family, but when he walked to the door, he saw an official sedan chair parked in front of the house, and Xie Qian was looking up at the door.

"Xie Ge Lao is here in person, it's really brilliant."

Shen Xi is not polite, he does feel that Xie Qian can come in person to give him enough face, Xie Qian rarely attends some social occasions, let alone visits other people's houses, and Shen Xi himself is just a Hanlin official from the fifth grade, and it is really a lot of glory to go out to the lintel.

Xie Qian said: "The place to live is not bad, but the gate is a little smaller, and it will always have to be rebuilt in the future." ”

Shen Xi said with a smile: "Whether or not it can be rebuilt in the future depends on Xie Ge Lao's promotion and cultivation." ”

Xie Qian looked at Shen Xi angrily and said, "Do you need it?" Hmph...... "Then without Shen Xi's invitation, he strode directly to the courtyard that is now the "Shen Mansion".

Xie moved to the living room in the front yard, and Zhu Shan and Lu'er, who were cleaning, saw an old man in good spirits coming from nowhere, and saw their young master following behind him, looking extremely respectful.

"Don't bother." Shen Xi waved his hand and said, "If you want to come, Elder Xie Ge won't stay in the mansion for a long time." ”

Zhu Shan and Lu'er didn't understand what a "pavilion elder" was, they only knew that they were a big official, anyway, Shen Xi had a life, they didn't have to wait in the front yard, so they hurried back to the inner courtyard, and Shen Xi beckoned Xie to move into the study.

"I'm going to enter the palace soon, so I'm going to come over in person and re-copy Shangshu, and listen to what you mean by the way......" Xie Qian's face was a little not good-looking, and it was likely that he didn't rest well last night.

Shen Xi thought to himself, Old Man Xie was cunning and cunning, probably because he was worried that he would write some obscure language in the Shangshu on his behalf, so he would come over to supervise and review it in advance, so as not to be speechless after being asked by the emperor.

Shen Xi was a little helpless...... Why do you want to use me if you're guarding against me? Don't even have a basic attitude of employing people?

Xie Qian didn't say anything, after sitting down, he asked Shen Xi to take out a pen and paper, and even asked Shen Xi to study ink for him, and when he found that Shen Xi's sparse words were not many, his face was a little unpleasant: "Shen Xi, you fool things...... Is it too obvious? ”

"Why did Xie Ge Lao say this?"

Shen Xi looked at Xie Qian, and said in his heart that if it weren't for the understanding that you were going to confess to the emperor, I could stay up all night to write such a concise and constructive Shangshu to you?

Now I don't appreciate it, and I am kind to treat it as a donkey's liver and lungs!

Xie Qian looked at it a little, and it seemed that the writing was not bad, so he waved his hand: "Okay, when the old man writes, you will explain a ...... or two."

Shen Xi said while studying ink: "Students don't need to see it, right? Isn't this a clear piece of music? ”

"Let you say it, and give you a chance to perform, I don't know how to cherish it...... Are you an old man who listens to others casually? ”

Xie Qian was very dissatisfied with Shen Xi's perfunctory attitude, and while teaching a lesson, he copied what Shen Xi had worked hard to write in the middle of the night.

Sure enough, he was a "professional", and even the suggestions put forward for border guarding were so effective. Xie Qian thought to himself: "I thought that this kid would fool me with the content of the last time he went to Beiguan to guard against it, but I didn't expect him to change his mind and write a new one, it seems that he is attentive!" ”

Xie Qian copied meticulously, and whenever he encountered something he didn't understand, he asked Shen Xi, and Shen Xi explained in detail, and the old and the young cooperated closely.

After Xie Qian finished copying, he dried the ink, stood up and said: "The old man basically understands the content of this performance, you can get busy first, and I will enter the palace." ”

As if he was at home, Xie Qian didn't even have the basic etiquette, so he put Shangshu into his arms and walked to the gate, Shen Xi didn't send it, it didn't seem right not to send it, so he had to follow out behind, and before he reached the door, Xie Qian had already got into the sedan chair and told the sedan chair man to get up the sedan chair, as if he had forgotten that he was the master.

"Is this your house or mine?" Shen Xi really wants to go up and kick the sedan chair, you are too domineering!

When the door closed, Shen Xi thought about it and was relieved again...... Who calls people to be elders and have capital above the top?

Shen Xi returned to the living room, Xie Yun'er had already come out, looked at the door and asked with some surprise: "Xianggong, is that the old Mr. Xie Qian Xie of the Imperial Cabinet Department?" ”

Shen Xi nodded slightly and said, "Speaking of which, it's all the Xie family." ”

Xie Yun'er was happy on her face: "I know that the prince is capable, in the past, it was Xie Lao's sacrificial wine that came to the door, and now it is the cabinet department, and in the future, our family will really become a place where famous dignitaries in the capital want to visit." ”

After all, "Shen Mansion" uses the original "Xie Mansion" mansion, the Shen family has glory, and even Xie Yun'er's face has brilliance.

Shen Xi said: "Don't think too well of Xie Ge Lao, he uses more ingredients for me, if I can't use it in the future, I'm afraid he won't come again." ”

Xie Yun'er said with a smile: "Look at what Xianggong said, Xie Gebu has a good reputation outside, and many people can't visit him, let alone take the initiative to visit him today?" If others want to be 'used' by him, they have to see if they have that ability! ”

Shen Xi knew that now Xie Yun'er's admiration for herself had fallen into a blind situation, but being able to let his wife worship like this can be regarded as a man's greatest glory! But the problem is also here, the result of blindness is blind obedience, what he used to appreciate most was Xie Yun'er's independent thoughts, which could give him some good suggestions, and now it seems that Xie Yun'er is gradually losing this advantage.

Probably this is what the saying goes, a woman is stupid for three years when she is pregnant!

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Shen Xi is not without any errands now, at least he has to go to Wang Gong's factory from time to time to inspect the progress of cannon making.

The specific official document has been issued, Shen Xi will escort the Buddha Lang cannon to the northern Xinjiang, although this is an errand arranged by Emperor Hongzhi, but Shen Xi received the official document of the Ministry of War, that is to say, strictly speaking, Shen Xi cannot be regarded as the emperor's errand.

As for Gao Mingcheng and Wang Shouren, they are real ministers, and the two sides have little to do with each other.

Shen Xi is a little strange, since it is not very involved, why does Zhang Yanling bother to give beauties and gifts?

Shen Xi was unanimously supported by the craftsmen in Wang Gong Factory, mainly because they heard that Shen Xi had raised the national prestige in the previous paddock......

The gossip always spreads very quickly, and the people are now singing about it, saying that Shen Xi, the fourteen-year-old champion of the Ming Dynasty, made the invincible Tatar people sincerely kneel down to the Ming Emperor to present his credentials......

These rumors praised Shen Xi like a god in the sky, but rumors are rumors after all, because the people didn't even understand the difference between the Uliangha and the Tatars, they only thought that this time they actually came to enter the country to write a Tatar who had committed crimes before, but they didn't know that the Uliangha people had not had too direct conflicts with the Ming Dynasty in recent decades, and they belonged to a relatively weak tribe in the grassland.

Of course, if it weren't for the fact that the Ming and the Tatars were at war and the two countries went to war, the Ming would not have taken the Uliangha people seriously and specially allowed them to come to pay tribute.

The imperial court deliberately advocated this enclosure hunting, in addition to showing the prestige of the Ming Dynasty, more importantly, so that the common people could increase their trust in the imperial court and no longer worry about the Tatars' crimes.

So that although the folk rumors were biased, the imperial court had no intention of correcting them at all, and even added fuel to the fire, admitting in disguise that it was actually the Tatars who came to pay tribute.

"Lord Shen turned around and ascended, but don't forget the small one, the small one is called ......"

A bunch of craftsmen gathered around to introduce themselves to Shen Xi, hoping that Shen Xi could remember their names in his busy schedule, because they heard that Emperor Hongzhi praised Shen Xi in person, and said that there would be a reward, and it was estimated that it would be indispensable to increase the number of officials and become knights.

But at least until now, Shen Xi has not enjoyed the treatment of being promoted to a knight, after all, he is already a Hanlin official from the fifth grade, and it is really difficult to be promoted again, with his current age and qualifications.

Shen Xi thought in his heart, there are difficulties, but the principle that the imperial court must be rewarded for meritorious service and punished for mistakes must not be violated, right? No matter how you say this, this matter is now in an uproar and the whole city knows about it, and it is estimated that it will not be long before even the people in Jiangnan will know about it, and if you don't reward anything, the people will also cry out for me.

So Shen Xi waited for the news of his promotion to come.

But Emperor Hongzhi seemed to have forgotten about this matter, and there was no movement even on the part of the officials, and the time passed unconsciously, and it was late October in the blink of an eye, and the court did not mention this matter at all, and even Shen Xi still couldn't go to the East Palace to give lessons to the prince...... In Xie Qian's words, don't think about anything before you go to Beiguan.

This is roughly similar to the situation before Shen Xi went to Quanzhou on an errand, but last time it was because he taught the prince to play, which made Emperor Hongzhi distrust him, but this time it was the prince and Empress Zhang who were poisoned one after another, and only he and his wife Xie Yun'er could solve it, so that Emperor Hongzhi suspected that he had bad intentions in treating diseases and saving people......

Shen Xi thought to himself: "Anyway, whoever you use is not whom, that's the emperor's final say, who called me this Zhan Shifu Right Yude is not to do things for the imperial court, but to teach you children?" ”

It was not until October 22, the first two days after Shen Xi set off for Beiguan, that the official document was issued, which probably meant that Shen Xi had been promoted.

When he arrived at the Ministry of Officials with full expectations, Shen Xi knew that his official rank had not been promoted, he was still from the fifth grade, and his official position had basically not moved.

At the same time, enter the Japanese lecturer.

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