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After Shen Xi got his official position, not only did he not stay idle, but he went to the yamen more often.

On the eighteenth day of the lunar month, Emperor Hongzhi issued an edict in the palace, officially confirming the merits of this time for the Chinese military officials of the Tatar War Dynasty.

As the emperor said before, Shen Xi did not rank as the first meritorious, but the second meritorious, when commending Shen Xi's merits, he especially mentioned that he sniped foreign captives in Tumu Fort and won countless victories, and at the same time talked about his great achievements in returning to Beijing to master King Qin and lifting the Tatar siege of Beijing.

The first merit, as Wenchen expected, belonged to Liu Daxia, the secretary of the Ministry of War.

From Shen Xi downwards were several general military officers, and as for Wang Qiong and other civil servants who raised grain and grass for Liu Daxia and formulated marching strategies during the war, they were ranked at the back of the merit list.

As for the list of military merits in the defense of the capital, the crown prince Zhu Houzhao is not among them, Zhang Mao, Xiong Xiu, Ma Wensheng, Zhang brothers and others are on the list. Wang Shouren did not receive too high merit in this battle, just like the situation that Shen Xi encountered after the first battle against the Tatars in the thirteenth year of Hongzhi, the imperial court suppressed Wang Shouren's merits, so as to prevent him from being impetuous, and losing his normal heart prematurely.

Shen Xi is not a military general after all, otherwise with his merits, it is possible to be knighted, and now he has no way to be promoted in his official position, even if he is a second merit, he cannot add one level to his official rank.

Liu Daxia added the crown prince Taibao with his first merit and continued to lead the military department, in the eyes of many people, the day when Liu Daxia succeeded Ma Wensheng as the secretary of the ministry has been too long. With Liu Daxia's status in the six ministries, the officials who can be promoted to him now are the ministers and scholars.

Wang Shouren's position in the military department did not move, but the imperial court seemed to intend to transfer him out of the capital and go to Nanjing to train for a few years, and even when Shen Xi went to visit Xie Duo in Guozijian, he also received a rumor that Li Dongyang had met with Wang Hua and was ready to send Wang Shouren to Nanjing to serve as a waiter in the sixth department.

However, Wang Shouren's errand is still hugely controversial in the court, and it is estimated that it will be decided after the beginning of spring, and Shen Xi will go to Huguang after the New Year, and it is estimated that he will not wait for the day when the results will come out.

Shen Xi took the second merit and received a lot of rewards.

The imperial court gave Shen Xi 160 acres of land in the suburbs of Beijing, which was nominally so much, but in fact it was only 90 acres, which were basically mature fields and had long-term tenants.

Zhou was very concerned about this, she originally wanted to go out of the city with her husband to inspect the land, but was told by Shen Mingjun that the land belonged to Shen Xi, as parents, they were not qualified to take the land given to Shen Xi by the imperial court as their own, which made Zhou very unhappy, in her impression, her son was her own, and her son's things were naturally her own.

But suddenly, her son seemed to have separated from her, and the Shen family's affairs had nothing to do with her, but were taken care of by Xie Yun'er.

The rewards Shen Xi received were insignificant compared to his military exploits, and they were not even as much as the booty he received in the army. However, at present, the imperial court has a good treasury, and Shen Xi is not too concerned about himself, so he will hand over these rewards to Xie Yun'er to take care of, and at the same time let Yun Bo, the old housekeeper of the Xie family, go outside the city to receive the land, and he himself is not interested in going out of the city to check.

For Shen Xi, this little bit of land in the capital is just a small amount, and with his age, he will not be tempted by this little favor at all.

Seeing that the New Year is approaching, Shen Xi rarely spent a stable peaceful year in the capital.

With the arrival of the seventeenth year of Hongzhi, Shen Xi felt that the pressure on his shoulders had increased a lot, and he was getting closer and closer to the turning point of Hongzhi and Zhengde Dynasty in history, and Shen Xi began to speculate about the changes in the current situation.

But in any case, Shen Xi is not ready to stay in the capital, in his assumption, this time in Huguang at least three or five years, if everything according to the development of history, then he can basically survive the chaos of the early years of Zhengde, and then he will consider whether to continue to stay in the local official, or return to the capital to enter the center of the court.

Shen Xi found that he had only been a human for eleven or twelve years in his life, but he had reached a height in the court that was difficult for others to reach, and many courtiers were not as glorious as him in their ultimate lives.

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The New Year is coming silently.

In the first few days of the first lunar month, Shen Xi stayed at home to accompany his wife, he did not plan to take his family with him when he went south this time, according to the previous plan, after he settled in Wuchang Mansion, he would take his family there.

Not long after the family reunion, they were about to be separated again, and the girls around Shen Xi were extremely obsessed with him.

Even Yin Wen and Lu Xi'er repeatedly hinted that they wanted to enter the Shen family to be his women when they were alone with Shen Xi. But Shen Xi was not busy marrying Yin Wen and Lu Xi'er, in fact, in the matter of marrying Xie Hengnu, it was completely because he was going to Fujian and Guangdong, and he had to do it as a last resort.

In Shen Xi's eyes, even if girls get married early in this era, it is most appropriate to marry at the age of seventeen or eighteen, and now Yin Wen and Lu Xi'er are both fifteen or sixteen years old, and they should not be allowed to take on the responsibility of the family too early.

During the time when Shen Xi returned to the capital, Xie Yun'er and Zhou both mentioned in front of him that Na Yinwen and Lu Xi'er entered the door, but Shen Xi refused, according to his meaning, these two marriages would have to wait for a year or two.

During the New Year, the imperial court was still resting, but Shen Xi kept meeting with officials sent by the Yamen office in Beijing in Huguang, Jiangjiang and other places at home.

When the officials in Huguang and Jiangjiang learned that Shen Xi had been transferred to the governorship of the two provinces and held the highest administrative and military power in the two provinces, they no longer dared to be as lazy as Shen Xi had been when he went to Fujian and Guangdong.

said that they were here to contact, but in fact, they all came to congratulate, and the main purpose was to get acquainted with Shen Xi, so that they could work together in the future.

The gifts brought by these people were quite a few and relatively valuable.

In the past, Shen Xi would definitely refuse people thousands of miles away, but this time he was unusual, and the gifts he sent were all collected by his family.

Until the tenth day of the first month, there were still people who came to visit, but at this time, the people who came to the door became the big businessmen in the capital of Jiangjiang and Huguang, and these people gave gifts more generously, and offered to Shen Xi like ancestors.

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In the middle of the first month, as the ice and snow melted and the temperature rose rapidly, the capital was peaceful and harmonious, but Shen Xi had to start preparing his bags so that he could embark on the journey after the Shangyuan Festival.

This time, he was going to the middle reaches of the Yangtze River to serve as the governor of Huguang and Jiangjiang provinces, and his appointment was in Wuchang Mansion, the political envoy of Huguangcheng, and the imperial court set a departure date for him on the seventeenth day of the first month, and the day of his performance was the first day of the first month of March.

Shen Xi had more than a month to complete this journey, and according to the plan, he planned to travel by land to the north bank of the Yellow River, wait for the Yellow River, and then decide whether to take a boat south depending on the situation of the canal. When you arrive in Yangzhou, you will go upriver along the river and arrive at Wuchang Mansion by boat.

There were not many people with Shen Xi with him, mainly more than a dozen chariot and horse gang brothers, plus fifty guards sent to him by the imperial court, and then Shen Yongqi and Yang Wenzhao, in addition, chauffeurs and grooms.

As for Hu Guangzuo's political envoy Ma Zhongxi and his entourage, they originally said that they would go south with Shen Xi, but the latest news was that Ma Zhongxi was old, and he occasionally felt cold and was bedridden in the days of the Chinese New Year, and the deadline left by the imperial court for him to go to office was extended accordingly.

The imperial court did not send people from Dongchang and Jinyiwei to accompany them, and Yuniang had no reason to meet with Shen Xi, but Yunliu and Xi'er would rush to Wuchang Mansion in advance, as for the time and place of the meeting, Shen Xi did not make a hard and fast rule, and it was likely that they would meet after arriving at Wuchang Mansion.

The merchants of Jiangjiang and Huguang in Beijing originally planned to send someone to escort Shen Xi and his party south, but Shen Xi was afraid that these people would harbor evil intentions for him and did not want to expose his whereabouts to the south too early, so he politely refused.

In Shen Xi's view, this time he took office in the south, that is, to be a relatively idle magistrate, he would not touch the interests of too many local forces, and avoid the gentry, big landlords, and big businessmen from embarrassing him.

Those old subordinates in Beijing, such as Hu Songyue, Liu Xu and others, were promoted and reused after returning to the capital, and their status in Beijing rose rapidly.

Before Shen Xi set off, he only saw Xie Qian alone, but he was ordered by the ear again, but Shen Xi didn't hear it.

The imperial court did not give much explanation to Shen Xi, and Zhu Youji's expectation for Shen Xi was to be able to rectify the military affairs of Huguang and Jiangjiang provinces and quell the rebellion of local ethnic minorities as soon as possible, but it should be mainly in peaceful ways, supplemented by military conscription, and Shen Xi directly governed the two provinces to command the envoy and the yamen, and one line to command the envoy and the yamen, with tens of thousands of soldiers and horses under his command, and at the same time to assist in the two provinces' political envoys, so it can be said that he has the highest authority in local civil and military affairs.

The Ming Dynasty did not form a permanent system for appointing local governors and governors, and there were no clear regulations on authority, which was mainly related to the ability to appoint officials.

If the governor doesn't care about things, his authority is still less than that of the political envoy, but if the governor's means are clever enough, he can completely form the supreme authority of the military and political integration in the area under his jurisdiction, and it is not much different from the soil emperor.

Shen Xi doesn't have much interest in fighting for power and profit, but he doesn't want to be controlled by others, so the rights and interests that should be fought for still have to be fought for, and now it depends on who will jump out and become his opponent.

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