When Ji Shen returned to the Xuanshu Palace, Gu Changfu hurriedly greeted him and told him that Nie Yuansheng had been waiting for a long time, and Ji Shen ordered him to eat together.

Only then did he enter the table in the side hall, and he came to report from outside, saying that the Mu family had led people to ask to see him, Ji Shen thought about it, and said to Nie Yuansheng: "The old servant of the Mu family who entered the palace a few days ago is said to have made a first-hand plum cake, which can be used locally at this time, and I have not tasted it until this time." ”

Nie Yuansheng stroked his palms and smiled: "The minister is going to touch His Majesty's light again." ”

"When you say that, it's hard for me to think about it and not to share it with you." Ji Shen smiled and ordered, Mu Biwei took Ah Shan into the door not long after, she changed into a pine green color edge of the collar wide sleeve palace dress, tied with colored silk around the waist, the corner of the skirt pressed a pair of white jade carp wear, the head of the lily bun, a little fat powder, the eye waves between the flow of both clear and demonic, Ji Shen raised her hand to let her be polite, unconsciously looked at a few more glances and said: "Wei Niang pine green is appropriate." ”

Mu Bi smiled and said, "Your Majesty forgot?" These pine, green, brocade inlaid with gold silk brocade were given by His Majesty the day after the slave maid entered the palace! ”

As soon as she said this, Ji Shen thought about it and said with a smile: "You are very well dressed." He asked Ruan Wenyi again, "How many kinds of clothing are similar to this?" Send ten horses each to the Wind Lotus Courtyard. ”

Ruan Wenyi bowed and said: "There are more than others, but the blue has rewarded the goose brocade too much, and now there are less than seven horses left, if you want to make up ten horses, I am afraid that you will have to go elsewhere to be even." ”

"I remember that Hualuo Hall got a lot at that time, and I asked someone to come over and gather ten horses." Ji Shen said indifferently, cyan is heavy, even if the splendid is heavy, because most of the palace rooms in the palace have earth dragons, or for the sake of charcoal pots, young and delicate concubines are rarely willing to wear them in winter, Zuo Zhaoyi Qu has always been calm, but he likes this kind of color, so in the past, such as cyan and pine green, but it was the most Hualuo Palace.

Ruan Wenyi was busy.

Mu Bi pursed her lips slightly and smiled: "Slave and maid, thank Your Majesty for your reward!" "Saying that, he ordered Ah Shan to put the food box on the case, "The slave maid gave Ah Shan a hand today, and was busy in the Wind Lotus Courtyard for a long time, and finally caught up with His Majesty's meal, and I hope Your Majesty will not dislike a little bit of your heart." ”

Ji Shen bowed his head, Ruan Wenyi next to him stepped forward to open the food box, and the cold plum fragrance rushed out with the steaming heat, Nie Yuansheng praised: "I haven't seen its shape and color, and I have already felt its taste, and this pastry is excellent." ”

The little waiter brought up the silver chopsticks, and Ruan Wenyi personally tried them one by one, and then he started to bring out the utensils containing the plum cake - but he saw that on the shallow dish of lotus mouth cloud glaze in quadruplicate, there were several pieces of hot cake as white as snow, and the cake was a little red, just like the red plum unintentionally falling on the snow, echoing each other with a touch of crimson cloud glaze in the white, which became more and more lovely.

Ji Shen and Nie Yuansheng are both people who are accustomed to seeing rich and noble, and when they saw this plum cake, they were not surprised, but they also felt pleasing to the eye, so Ji Shen praised: "Qingzhi's old servant is really good at craftsmanship." ”

"The slave maid was praised by His Majesty, and she was really ecstatic." Ah Shan has been reminded by Mu Biwei that Ji Shen doesn't like what others mean by others, even if it is not right, it will inevitably annoy him, so he thanked him generously.

Nie Yuansheng said: "This cake is very good, but it's a pity that the name is too ordinary, if Your Majesty likes it, why not give one?" ”

Ji Shen has always been fond of him, and because Mu Biwei is being favored, he doesn't want to say at the moment: "This cake is red and white, cute and distinct, and it is quite similar to the Yunxia glazed dish it contains, so it is called Yunxia cake." ”

Mu Biwei hurriedly received it, and Ah Shan thanked him again.

Ji Shen ordered half of the next Nie Yuansheng to be divided, and asked Mu Biwei to serve him closely, so after the meal, Ruan Wenyi took Xiao Nei to serve tea, Nie Yuansheng took the tea in his hand, took a sip, and said: "It's February now, I don't know if Your Majesty wants to be the same as usual this year?" ”

"It's as good as last year." Ji Shen said a word indifferently, and suddenly remembered that this matter was not under Nie Yuansheng's control, he deliberately entered the palace to mention it, thinking that it was for other reasons, so he frowned and said, "But what did the previous dynasty say?" ”

"The minister heard that the prime ministers thought that this year's spring was too cold, and they were afraid of hurting the green seedlings, and Gyeonggi all discovered the disaster, thinking that if they still had to hunt in spring as usual, they would inevitably be considered by the people as not sympathetic enough." Nie Yuansheng said in an extremely flat tone.

Ji Shen's face sank: "I am the Son of Heaven, and the common people dare to talk about the Son of Heaven?" The so-called thunder, rain and dew are all Jun'en, these two old people still want to coerce the common people to force me to comply! ”

"Your Majesty is angry." Nie Yuansheng persuaded lightly, and said, "In fact, in the opinion of the minister, Yedu is already far north, and further north, it is not a place for cultivation, although the south has also suffered a snow disaster this spring, in the end, the climate is originally warm, I want to come to another month, after the snow disappears, it is almost spring frost to melt, so the prime minister of the left and right canceled the spring hunt, I really have some thoughts." ”

"These two old goods are staring at me every day, and they also say that they are even more verbose than when the emperor ancestor and the first emperor were there, which is really hateful!" Ji Shen said coldly, "I have lived in the palace since I was a child, so I can go out in the spring and autumn to relax and relax, but they can't even see it!" It is clear that he has a grudge against Mu Qi and his son last time, and intends to take revenge! That's why I used the excuse of spring cold to try to stop it! ”

Mu Biwei heard his words and talked about his father, so she didn't dare to slack off, and quickly knelt down and pleaded guilty: "It's all the father and brother of the slave who have caused Your Majesty!" ”

She was standing behind Ji Shen, and she knelt on Ji Shen's knees, and Ji Shen pulled her up casually and said: "Jiang thief, thief is small, what does it have to do with Wei Niang?" It has nothing to do with your father or brother. ”

Hearing him say this, Mu Biwei breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that Nie Yuansheng really knew Ji Shen, this spring hunt, a few words actually caused Ji Shen to have a small impression of Jiang Yao and Ji Jianran, so it seems that although Ji Shen will not immediately take Jiang Yao or Ji Jianran, but after the crown pro-government, I am afraid that Jiang and Ji can be very good.

However, although I heard Nie Yuansheng mention it before, the left and right Cheng did not have a good impression of him, but Nie Yuansheng is now only a six-grade petty official, even if Ji Shen trusts him, but it will take two years for Ji Shen to be crowned, Nie Yuansheng is two months younger than Ji Shen, and two years later, he is only the age of the crown, no matter how Ji Shen lifts, there is the Empress Dowager Gao and the Manchu Dynasty, how can Nie Yuansheng want to control the government?

Mu Biwei thought of this, but saw Nie Yuansheng's gaze seemed to sweep over him, his heart brightened, no wonder Nie Yuansheng wanted to show favor to himself, he also knew that he was too young, although his grandfather Nie Linyi was the founding minister, and he had a title to seal his descendants, but because he was grateful for the resolute decline of Yuan Pei when he was poor and sick, not only did he always respect the Yue family, but he also remained loyal to Yuan Pei, not to mention concubines in his life, and he didn't even have a handmaid who served closely, so he only had two sons and one daughter with Yuan. The eldest son also died, and although the uncle who raised Nie Yuan inherited the title of Duke of Linyi County, he did not have other important positions, so he may not be able to do it.

Nie Yuansheng is Nie Linyi's eldest son and grandson, and his other brothers, I'm afraid that they are not as old as him, even if they are all shrewd and have qualifications there, it is really not enough to take any power.

In this way, although the Nie family is much more prosperous than the Mu family, it is far from enough to see compared to the Qu and high-ranking families.

And the Mu family is thin, even if Mu Bicheng grows up a few years later, there are only three male heirs, even if he has Ji Shen's dependence, there are not many positions he can occupy - the three in-laws of the Mu family, the Shen family and the Xu family are all prestigious families, and they are not afraid of no one, but the relationship between Shen Taijun and the Shen family has been estranged, and when Mu Qi and Mu Bichuan were imprisoned, Shen and Xu were afraid of He Ronghua's favor, and they did not make a move.

What's more, the Xu family is not the biological mother of Mu Bichuan and Mu Biwei, and there is the matter of Mu Biwei entering the palace, Mu Bichuan, the eldest son of the Mu family, will not secretly yin the Xu family in the future. As for the Min family, if there is a capable person, when Min Rugai was alive earlier, there would naturally be arrangements, so why bother asking them to just take some idle jobs and live on the ancestral property.

Therefore, as a relegated minister of Ruizong, Nie Yuansheng is safest only by joining forces with the Mu family.

Moreover, Mu Bichuan is willing to take the initiative to ask He Ronghua's sister He Sanniang for marriage in order to protect his sister from He Ronghua's troubled murder in the court, as the eldest son of the Mu family, which shows the importance of Mu Biwei.

I heard Nie Yuansheng say: "In the opinion of the ministers, since the prime ministers have decided to cancel the spring hunt, I think they will ask to see Your Majesty to report this matter in the past two days, and Your Majesty will make a decision as soon as possible." ”

Ji Shen pondered for a moment and sneered and ordered the pen and ink to serve, Ruan Wenyi hurriedly asked someone to take the four treasures of the study, spread them on an empty desk next to them, and the little inner servant who had already had a spirit rolled up his sleeves and went up to study the ink, Ji Shen said: "I drafted a decree in the Yuan Dynasty, and said that due to the loss of the Snow Blue Pass, I plan to use this year's spring hunt to assess the camps of Gyeonggi, and the Feihewei is also among them. ”

Nie Yuansheng rolled up his cuffs, got up and walked to the side of the desk, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty is wise!" ”

Although Mu Biwei didn't dare to say anything next to him, he thought that in this way, the matter of Xuelan Pass would be mentioned again, and now the discussion of Yedu has not been suppressed, no wonder Mu Qi would rather be demoted to avoid the northwest - Mu Qi, as the only son of Mu Xun, grew up listening to everyone, including the praise and admiration of Emperor Gaozu of this dynasty, and has never lost anything for many years.

But this excuse is Ji Shen's thoughts, Mu Biwei can only grit his teeth secretly, and when Nie Yuansheng has prepared the purpose, he handed it over to Ji Shen to look at, and handed it to Ruan Wenyi to convey it everywhere immediately, Mu Biwei thought of one, and begged in a soft voice according to Ji Shen: "Your Majesty, the slave maid knows that her identity is humble, and she doesn't dare to ask for the luxury of being able to drive with her during the spring hunt, but the slave maid's grandfather has a few cousins, whose qualifications are mediocre, but they are simple in heart, and they also have a little martial arts. It is also a great honor to be able to do one or two things for Your Majesty. ”

Ji Shenqi said: "Your maternal grandfather is the former Shangshu Ling Min Rugai, why can't his grandson accompany him?" ”

Mu Biwei's face suddenly had a difficult face, but Nie Yuansheng explained for her with a smile: "Your Majesty has a lot of opportunities, and I am afraid that I will not have time to pay attention to idle things, Min Shangshu is a bright and upright person, although the official is still the order, but the four sons under his knees, but he only has some idle official positions, and the grade is not high, and only the eldest grandson and second grandson have an official body, which is also very low, and he did not participate in the autumn hunt last year, so Tsing Yi asked for it." ”

"Min Rugai is really upright." Ji Shen really has no impression of this Shangshu Ling, Min Rugai because he was not born in a prestigious family, and he took advantage of the troubled times to achieve Shangshu Ling, and he has always done not seek merit, but he has no fault, otherwise he will not seek a high position for them because of the mediocrity of his descendants, so when Ji Shen was heavy on color and light on virtue and confronted the Empress Dowager Gao, Min Rugai was sick and pretended to be deaf and dumb, which did not leave a bad impression on Ji Shen at all, and now I heard that Nie Yuansheng also had the meaning of speaking for Min Rugai, so he praised it by the way.

Of course, Mu Biwei hurried to thank the Min family.

Now that he is grateful, Ji Shen will also push the boat down the river.