Beijing, Renshoufang.

Today is a generous son of heaven, this is a fact recognized by the court, although in the government of the government, the requirements of today's are extremely strict, but he treats his subordinates, not only easy-going and close, but also generous, every time he rewards his subordinates with gold and silver, it is much more than when the emperor was in charge.

And for Yu Shenxing, a cabinet minister who was deliberately reinstated, the same is naturally true.

Zhu Changluo not only sent Wang An to prepare the mansion a long time ago, but also prepared the servants and slaves for him early, and all the arrangements in the mansion were also arranged according to the mansion when Yu Shenxing was in his hometown.

Out of the palace, Yu Shenxing followed Wang Anxing for a short time, and then came to his new mansion, saying that it was a new mansion, but Yu Shenxing was no stranger at all, because this is the mansion where he lived when he was still in the capital, although with his return to the countryside, this mansion has been changed hands several times and redecorated, but the general structure is still unchanged.

Wang An explained all the trivial matters in the house to the housekeeper and a few old servants brought over by Yu Shenxing, and then gave his hand to Yu Shenxing and said goodbye.

As the chief steward of his inner court, he is naturally handy to do these things, but if it weren't for Yu Shenxing's good attitude towards him that made the prince have a good impression, he would naturally not be so comprehensive.

Now that Yu Shenxing has completely settled down, Wang An has also returned to the palace, after all, although Wang An is relatively idle among the several big eunuchs in the inner palace, he is also very busy.

Sent Wang An away, and handed over the matter of cleaning up the house to an old servant, Yu Shenxing ordered to go down, telling those subordinates not to disturb him casually, and he himself went straight to the study.

The study is elegantly furnished, which is quite in line with Yu Shenxing's aesthetics, but his gaze, from the moment he enters the door, is fixed on the exquisite box on the table!

This box is what the Son of Heaven gave him in the palace today.

Yu Shenxing looked at the box fixedly, but his expression was quite complicated, the box was not locked, as long as Yu Shenxing gently stretched out his hand, he could open it, but he was not in a hurry to open this box, because he had a hunch in his heart that there was something in this box that could shake the entire court!

And the Son of Heaven handed over this thing to him at this time, obviously preparing to start this turmoil by his hand.

Therefore, before opening this box, Yu Shenxing must carefully sort out the situation in the capital today.

In fact, as early as a few days ago, even before the Son of Heaven's decree was issued, Yu Shenxing received a letter.

A letter from the current Shoufu, oh, now the former Shoufu Wang Xijue.

In the letter, Wang Xijue was blunt, saying that now the court is turbulent, the officials are decadent, and there are many ills, but fortunately, he is determined to forge ahead and has the heart of innovation, but the old ministers in the court are restricting one side, so that the Son of Heaven is tied, in view of this, the old Shoufu decided to go to the office, opening the door for the Son of Heaven's innovation, and the reason why he wrote to Yu Shenxing is because he has recommended Yu Shenxing in front of the Son of Heaven as the successor of the first assistant......

In fact, although Yu Shenxing has not been in the court over the years, he has countless close friends in the court, Wang Xijue is one of them, so the old Shoufu did not have any secrets about Shenxing this time, and explained all his views on the court situation in detail, and asked Yu Shenxing to succeed him to continue to assist the monarch and prosper the Ming Dynasty.

So in fact, Yu Shenxing is not as familiar with the capital as the outside world thinks, on the contrary, he is very familiar, and not only that, as early as when he received Wang Xijue's letter, he had already begun to prepare to enter Beijing, so to speak, this time into Beijing, Yu Ge Lao came for the position of the first assistant!

Of course, Yu Shenxing also knows in his heart that although he has Wang Xijue's recommendation, it is still extremely difficult for him to become the first assistant, after all, this is the extreme of people and ministers, not to mention anything else, just in today's court, there must be countless people secretly coveting this position, and his advantage lies in the Son of Heaven.

It sounds a bit absurd, after all, it should be clear that Yu Shenxing has almost never met with the current saint, let alone has any friendship.

But this is indeed the case, Wang Xijue's letter clearly said that the Son of Heaven knows people accurately, considers people, and can suppress the court ministers with the power of celibacy, and emphasizes talent and virtue and ignores qualifications.

So in the end, Wang Xijue's advice to Yu Shenxing was that if he wanted to ascend to the position of first assistant, the first thing was to gain the trust of the Son of Heaven.

This is easy to say, difficult to say, easy because Yu Shenxing has Wang Xijue's recommendation, although he has been at home for a long time, but he also knows that the relationship between today's son and the first assistant Wang Xijue is very close, and this is Wang Xijue's recommendation before leaving the court, it will definitely occupy a lot of weight in today's heart, from this point of view, in terms of the preference in the heart of the Son of Heaven, Yu Shenxing is better than other courtiers.

And the difficulty is because Yu Shenxing knows Wang Xijue's skill and temperament, with such an outstanding political talent as him, he can't have the upper hand in the hands of the Son of Heaven, and if Yu Shenxing is replaced, he may not do better than him.

But in order to stand out from the crowd of competitors, Yu Shenxing must show the ability to be valued by the Son of Heaven.

To put it simply, Wang Xijue's recommendation is just a guiding stone, if Yu Shenxing himself is outstanding enough, then he can take advantage of the favor of the Son of Heaven, and then ascend to the position of first assistant with the help of the Son of Heaven.

But if he is not outstanding enough, the guiding stone is just a guiding stone, the original official is reinstated, and the central decree enters the cabinet, this kind of grace can be regarded as the reward of the Son of Heaven for the old Shoufu to pay his life for the court.

So in fact, there is only one problem that Yu Shenxing faces, that is, how to gain the trust of the Son of Heaven!

It should be said that on the way to Beijing, Yu Shenxing has been thinking about this problem, but even he didn't expect that the Son of Heaven would start such a big battle as a test for him.

There is no need to say it explicitly, from the moment he stood outside Bei'an Gate, Yu Shenxing knew in his heart how he should gain the trust of the Son of Heaven, because the chess game of the Son of Heaven has been set, and what Yu Shenxing has to do is to win this game of chess for the Son of Heaven!

And his opponent is none other than the Manchu Dynasty civil and military!

This point was once again confirmed in the dictation received after Shen Xing entered the palace.

What the Son of Heaven wants him to do is to break the situation and break the stalemate between the monarchs and ministers in front of him!

In the previous recital, in fact, Chen Ju only said two things, the first is that the imperial examination is very important, and it must not be delayed, how can it not be delayed? Of course, let people not delay, the imperial court has held so many examinations, the procedure process has already been familiar, and there will be no mistakes, and the only place that may go wrong is people.

The list of examiners has already been announced, but now that Zhu Geng and Li Tingji, the two examiners, have all handed in their resignations, the first thing Yu Shenxing has to do is to pull these two people out of the mansion and let them honestly preside over the scientific examination.

And the second thing, in fact, is also simple, Chen Ju said before, now the court situation is chaotic, so that the emperor is quite uneasy, the meaning is actually clear, that is, let Yu Shenxing sweep away the chaotic court situation, and careful observation is not difficult to find that the biggest reason for the chaos of today's court situation is the opposition between monarchs and ministers, and the specific embodiment of this matter is that the officials promoted by the edict of the Son of Heaven are all unwilling to take office under the pretext of illness.

And more importantly, the Son of Heaven also made it clear in his edict that after seven days is the period of the examination, as the deputy chief examiner, when the examination, Yu Shenxing must enter the Tribute Academy, so the time left for him to solve these two things is quite limited!

It should be said that these two things will feel extremely heavy pressure on any courtier, the first thing involves two ministers, one is extremely senior, the other is the merit of the dragon, and both of them are ministers with a lot of power in the court, no matter who it is, it is not a simple matter to let the two of them obey orders in one fell swoop, let alone Yu Shenxing, who has just entered the Beijing Division.

And the second thing seems simple, but in fact it is more tricky, the few people who come out of the Du Sect, although they are not as powerful as the two high-ranking people, but the significance of their representatives is heavy!

Because behind them is the entire Wenchen group, Yu Shenxing knows in his heart that the most important reason why they will resist and disobey the decree is because the several wills of the Son of Heaven have angered the civil official group, unless the Son of Heaven is willing to bow his head and admit his mistakes, otherwise, this matter will not end.

And what's worse is that Yu Shenxing's current situation is not good.

Although he has not been in the mansion for a long time, he has already heard of the rumors in the capital, not to mention that he is not a fool, the edict of the Son of Heaven promoted four officials, and only he accepted the appointment.

The pressure above the court will definitely be concentrated on him in an instant, so in fact, there are three things he has to do now, and the other one, and the most important one, is how to change the bad influence brought about by his appointment by the Son of Heaven, and only by solving this matter can he start to solve the other two things.

After carefully recalling the recent news in Beijing, Yu Shenxing pondered for a long time, and his brows finally eased a little......

At the same time, for this son of heaven who has never met, I can't help but feel a sense of admiration.

Because as long as you carefully sort it out, it is not difficult to find that the current court situation seems to be a mess, but it has never been out of the control of the Son of Heaven, it can be said that as long as the Son of Heaven wants to end this chaos, it can end at any time.

Not to mention anything else, according to Yu Shenxing's knowledge, a certain elder surnamed Li has always been obedient to the words of the Son of Heaven, and this time he will defend this, which really has to be suspicious, and look at the three candidates promoted by the Son of Heaven, Yang Lian needless to say, he is the confidant of the Son of Heaven, although he is also a civil servant, but Yu Shenxing believes that as long as the Son of Heaven is willing, Yang Lian can defect at any time, and the next problem is actually Zhu Geng and Pei Yingzhang, as long as these two people are solved, the rest of the people will not be a climate.

What is interesting is that Zhu Geng and Pei Yingzhang are both members of the Zhejiang Party, and everyone in the court can see that the Son of Heaven transferred Pei Yingzhang to serve as a waiter in the Criminal Department, in fact, he went to be the secretary of the Criminal Department.

But from the perspective of the court situation, Pei Yingzhang can go further, which is undoubtedly beneficial to the Zhejiang Party, so Zhu Geng is likely to admit his mistake because of this.

Of course, the premise is that Li Tingji, Yang Lian and others are the first to be the first birds, and if the pressure of public opinion in the court is eased, Zhu Ge Lao can take advantage of the trend, and this time the seemingly thrilling crisis can also be lifted in an instant.

And all of this is actually in the hands of the Son of Heaven, the Son of Heaven seems to have taken out the entire court game as a bet, but in fact, it is just his words to break the game, of course, Yu Shenxing can see this clearly, and naturally he can guess that if the Son of Heaven makes a move to break the game, then he will naturally lose the status in the heart of the Son of Heaven, then it will be meaningless for him to enter Beijing this time!

The Son of Heaven's method is the Son of Heaven's method, Yu Shenxing wants to play this game of chess well and gain the trust of the Son of Heaven, he must find his own way to break the game.

However, since Yu Shenxing can see the mystery that most of the ministers of the imperial court have not penetrated, he naturally has roughly the confidence in his heart, after all, if he has no ability, how dare he covet the position of first assistant?

Of course, time is a little tight, and if he wants to break the game smoothly, he can't have any delay, after all, the time left for him by the Son of Heaven is less than seven days.

And before he really gets into action, there's one more thing......

Yu Shenxing's gaze slowly moved to the box in front of him, he was very curious about what was in this box given by the Son of Heaven.

"Click!"

Raising his hand to untie the straight lock on the box, Yu Shenxing slowly lifted the lid of the box.

However, even though he was already prepared in his heart, when he saw the contents of the box, Yu Shenxing couldn't help but feel a pang in his heart.

There are stacks of notes inside, which are enveloped, but I can't see the content of them for the time being, but just looking at the payment above, Yu Shenxing is heart is tight.

Chen Jinyi Wei commanded Luo Sigong to play!

Liang Yong, the commander of Chendong Factory!

Although there are many seals in this letter, there are only two people who can be sparse, Luo Sigong and Liang Yong, the commander of Jinyiwei, and Liang Yong, the commander of Dongchang, that is to say, these things in front of him are all Jinyiwei and Dongchang's secret music to the Son of Heaven.

Yu Shenxing vaguely felt a hint of foreboding, he didn't expect that what the Son of Heaven gave him was such a confidential thing, and he also had a hunch that the content here might change some of the judgments he had just made, and even have a turbulent impact on the entire court situation.

Even so, Yu Shenxing hesitated for a moment, but still raised his hand to open the envelope, took out the secret music in it and read it carefully, but the more he looked at the content of these notes, a fine and dense sweat oozed from Yu Shenxing's forehead.

It turns out that this is the real test of the Son of Heaven?

After reading it all, Yu Shenxing couldn't help but close his eyes and groan, and his expression was quite entangled, but it was only a moment, and he became energetic again, and a pair of cloudy old eyes emitted a terrifying light.

It's nothing more than turning the entire court upside down, the Son of Heaven is not afraid, what is he afraid of!