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Chapter 13 Finally, we must part

Chen Xi could disobey orders and stay in the three southeastern provinces to continue to combat bandits, but this would cause him to be unfaithful and unrighteous. Chinese website ん He made up his mind to go north and report his duties in Beijing, and had some plans in his mind:

After arriving in the capital, try to make a good statement. It is best to let Xie Qian and Liu Daxia run around, but they are afraid that this matter will be dominated by the two.

It is understandable that Liu Daxia is the emperor's destiny, but Xie Qian knows that going to the northwest is very dangerous, and now Xie Hengnu is pregnant again. Do you really want her to be a widow in the Shen family for the rest of her life?

Nowadays, daughters marrying women do not mean that their husbands can regain their freedom when they die. After they become women, the ones who decide on marriage are no longer the parents' family, but the husband's family.

Generally speaking, if a woman has children, and the husband's family considers the interests of her children, it is difficult for her to agree to a woman's remarriage. After all, the status of the child after remarriage is the most embarrassing and is usually not accepted by the husband's family. Therefore, there are many widows who have been a lifelong widow.

Just like Hui Niang, in order to save her husband's property, she almost became a victim and was married to her husband's clan.

Even if his wife is like this, Xie Hengnu still joined the Shen family as a concubine, and his status is even lower. If Chenxi died, the Shen family sold Xie Hengnu as a rule of the Ming Dynasty. Of course, the national law is like this, and the truth is another matter. With Xie Qian's status in the court, who dares to sell his granddaughter?

However, it is not easy for Xie Qian to welcome Xie Hengnu to the mansion.

"Thank you, if this is yours, you not only harmed me, but also your granddaughter. I can't guarantee that I can easily withdraw when I go to the northwest. In the end, I'm afraid even your recommender will be implicated!"

In the battle of the northwest in the winter of the 13th year of Hongzhi, Xie Qian almost paid the price of bleeding for his advice. At that time, Xie Qian had already realized that if he had been defeated in the Ming Dynasty, he would probably have to slaughter himself to thank the world.

This lesson is first. Unless Xie Qian heals the scar and forgets the pain, how dare he send his grandson-in-law Chen Xi to the northwest easily?

The court formally transferred the order, Chen Xi began to prepare for the capital, and the three armies were filled with grief.

The credit that is about to be obtained has gone away, and whether the merits I received before can be fulfilled has become a problem now. Fortunately, the previous spoils have been taken in advance, and Chen Xi also made a promise to reward them separately before leaving.

It took Chen Xi two or three days to recover. He did not rush to set off, but instead placed the soldiers of the three armies and waited for the transfer order of the new governor of Guangdong and Guangxi Pan Fan.

However, it is impossible for the troops to stay in Fuzhou for a long time. An army of 4,000 people is easily provoked by people who are interested in disturbing the local area or even rebellion. The troops must be disbanded on the spot and return to their respective defense offices in units of Thousand Households and Hundred Households, and then reassemble as needed.

While Chen Xi settled the army, he also had to properly resettle his family in Guangzhou.

There are many female relatives in Chenxi's family, especially Xie Hengnu is pregnant and Hui Niang, who has no status and has just given birth to a son.

In addition, now that Shen Mingjun and his wife are not in Guangzhou Prefecture, he still needs to write a letter to Tingzhou to notify them.

In fact, the best thing is to stay in the inner house for the time being, go north alone, handle the court's affairs, and consider whether to take your family to the capital according to the new position.

This time, Chen Xi will probably leave directly to the northwest, leave his wife, children and children in the capital, and instead become a hostage in the hands of the court.

But from the reality, Yu Niang went south this time, in addition to escorting Jiang Liwei and urging him to go north, there is also a great possibility that she would escort Chen Xi's family in Beijing.

This disguisedly shows that the court is preparing to send Chen Xi to the northwest to perform his duties, leaving his wife and children in the capital, and preventing him from making treason in the war in the northwest. This arrangement has been common in foreign wars in all dynasties.

If someone really treasons, then this person's family will not end well, which is also a warning to others.

If Chen Xi became a vanguard officer and was besieged by the Northern French soldiers, he would not surrender even if he fought to the death. This is a bloody reality.

In the next two days, Chen Xi sent a large number of letters at the official post, including those written to local governments in Fujian and Guangdong, to homes in Tingzhou and Guangzhou, and to Huiniang and Li Jin through secret channels.

Arrangement of Hui Niang and Li Jin made Chen Xi the most trouble!

It was finally difficult to open up the situation in Guangdong Province, and the business context was spreading across Guangdong, Guangxi and other places. If Hui Niang and Li Jinjing were brought in, the previous pains of hard work would be overwhelmed. Therefore, even if we had to endure the pain of separation from Hui Niang, Chen Xi could only keep Hui Niang and Li Jin and continue to improve his business territory on the southeast coast.

This is very different from the situation when Chen Xi was a Hanlin official in Beijing before!

Even if Chen Xi leaves, Chen Xi now has enough connections and power in Fujian, Guangdong and other places. Li Che, Chang Lan and others need to rely on Chen Xi's position in the court, so they will naturally give him enough shelter to the commercial organizations under his name. Even if someone wants to attack these commercial institutions, they must weigh their own weight.

Chen Xi went to the capital as the "coastal admiral of the three southeastern provinces" and "with other uses". Even if he went to the northwest, he could basically become the governor of Yansui or a stubborn job under the premise of only promotion and not reduction. He usually holds the title of the second-rank Right Censor.

In terms of rank, the Governor of Yansui was greater than the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, but there were too many nobles in the northwest. The Governor of Yansui was a difficult official. Once he was well done, he would skip the Shizhong when Chenxi returned to the capital. The Shizhong became the Secretary of the Six Ministry. No matter how bad he was, he would become the Secretary of the Six Ministry of Nanjing and form a ruling over the provinces in Jiangnan.

In terms of authority, the Censorate was introduced by the former Censorate, who was in charge of supervision, impeachment and suggestions. Together with the Ministry of Justice and Dali Temple, the three courts were called the Three Judicial Departments. The highest officer of the Censorate was the left and right censors, and the Thirteen Departments were also divided into supervision censors, inspecting prefectures and counties, and specializing in the investigation of officials and impeachment.

The Censorate can not only supervise the judicial organs, but also have the right to "report big things and make decisions on small things", and is the highest supervisory organ. In other words, the so-called eight-official inspectors in the plays are actually just the dispatched personnel of the Censorate. Chen Xi is given the title of Right Censor, and actually has the authority to impeach all officials. How can officials in those local areas not be afraid and afraid?

However, even so, Chen Xi was worried that "it is better to take care of the Shangguan now", so he still made proper arrangements for everything and must be foolproof.

The Fujian Provincial Administration and Censorate Department changed frequently during this year. It is reasonable that Chen Xi was not strong in Fujian, but with Tao Yan's help, things went smoothly.

Tao Yan left Fujian as the right governor of Zhejiang. The successor of the Fujian Censor was Zhang Luyu, who was of the same faction as him. If someone attacked Song Xiaocheng in Fuzhou, he had to go through the Censorate Office to harm him. Tao Yan introduced Chen Xi, and Chen Xi gave Zhang Luyu a careful explanation, so he let Song Xiaocheng stay in Fuzhou Zhan.

Guangdong mainly relies on the left governor Liu Yanhe and the commander Li Che to open up the way for Chen Xi's commercial organization.

When Chen Xi went south to perform his duties, Jiang Liwei and Yu Niang were escorted along the way. When he went there, the governor and the governor disbanded. Jing Yue and others wanted to withdraw from Guangzhou Prefecture with their troops. Chen Xi could not bother the local garrison to provide him with escorts, so he could only bring some carriages and horses with his brother Ma Jiu to stay in Fujian temporarily, involving the aftermath of artillery and the Bolang aircraft ship. He was worried that others would let others take care of it.

After two days, Chen Xi found that his legs were almost broken.

When he led troops to fight, Chen Xi was the leader of the three armies. He needed to plan and arrange everything in advance. Now that people are leaving, the court originally ordered him to move his sleeves and leave, everything would be fine, but he had a strong sense of responsibility and did not allow the army he brought out with him to have nowhere to go like a blind flies. He would rather stay for two more days and arrange everything.

On May 18th, Chenxi left the city, supervised the three armies to set off camps, and returned home.

The soldiers came over to say goodbye to Chen Xi, and their faces were all reluctant.

These veterans have not been convinced by many people in their lives and fought with Chen Xi for several months. Although they were not tough battles, they also realized the difference between Chen Xi and other officials.

The Chenxi battles, and the military supplies are well prepared. The officers and soldiers are not worried about not having enough food or clothing. When they fight, they watch all kinds of unheard artillery pieces, explosives are flying all over the sky, and military achievements are obtained one after another.

Unfortunately, the good days were too short, and Chen Xi was transferred to Beijing, and the whole army knew that Chen Xi would go directly to the northwest and led the border troops to fight the Tatars.

According to those thousands and hundreds of households, Chenxi will return to the triumphant plan from the northwest to continue the plan to combat bandits in the southeast. The soldiers did not know whether it was true or false, so they took their own burdens and rewards, and carried the extra few months of salary Chenxi paid, and then set off to reunite with their wives and children.

Many people know that as hereditary military households, from birth to old age, they were bound to a small piece of land. This time, they missed the opportunity to make achievements with Chen Xi, and they would not know when and when will they have a second time. Therefore, when bidding farewell to Chen Xi, the most common sentence the officers and soldiers said was to let Chen Xi "return as soon as possible."

As for whether Chen Xi can win the battle in the northern battlefield, whether Chen Xi will be promoted as an official in the court, it is not within the scope of consideration of the soldiers.

6 The officers and soldiers set off first, and the fleet then left.

Jing Yue came over with his horse and said, "Sir, after you, remember to tell me about it for your brothers. Even if you have to fight your life, you will still fight against the Tatars in the northwest!"

Chen Xi patted Jing Yue on the shoulder and nodded, "Old Jing, it's not me to compliment you, you are the ones among the many soldiers in the army."

"But you have many advantages and many problems. You are reckless, greedy for money, and don't know the general situation! This time the court plans to make merits, maybe you can be promoted to a thousand households. Even if you are not promoted, you will be a deputy thousand households. You can work in Guangdong Province for a year or two. When the time is right, I will recruit you to your side!"

"Sir, take it seriously?" Jing Yue was overjoyed when he heard Chen Xi admire him so much, and finally smiled on his face, diluting the sadness of parting.

Chen Xidao: "Teach troops well and train the bastards under your command into elite soldiers. When I return, I will fight the bandits again. I will definitely destroy them. If your subordinates are still as bearish as they are, I will ask you!" (To be continued.)
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