Zhu Houzhao is now living a very leisurely life. She occasionally goes out of the palace to have fun, and eat, drink and have fun are basically provided by Zhang Yanling. Even if Zhang Yanling cannot go there in person, she will find someone to make sure that Zhu Houzhao has a good time outside the palace.

Emperor Hongzhi Zhu Youzhang was getting worse and worse. He could survive the illness before, but with his weak body now, he didn't know if he could survive the small cold.

Even so, the civil servants still did not make Zhu Youcheng worry-free. There was something wrong with the court every day. Zhu Youcheng could not even handle the simplest official business, so he could only temporarily hand over everything to the cabinet and the Sili Supervisor. Xiao Jing, the eunuch in charge of the Sili Supervisor, did not act, and his power was monopolized by Liu Jian and Li Dongyang.

The emperor was in poor health, and Empress Zhang was just an ordinary woman and didn't have much knowledge, so naturally no one disciplined Zhu Houzhao.

The prince, who grew up, began to become deeper in his scheming and would consider everything he did. What would be best for him? It just so happened that he was in a rebellious period of youth and could not live with his parents according to the rules of the royal family. Once he was led to the wrong path, it was easy to go on a wrong path. Zhang Yanling wanted to lead his little nephew to the wrong path. Moreover, Zhang Yanling did not have the awareness of a slander. In his opinion, this was all for the Zhang family. As for being scolded, it didn't matter. Anyway, he was scolded every day and criticized. It didn't matter if he was more or less.

Furthermore, Zhang Yanling secretly took Zhu Houzhao out of the palace for fun, and it was impossible for the censors to know that Zhu Houzhao was abducted and taken out of the palace gate.

Zhu Houzhao ran wildly on the evil path, and before he knew it, history began to return to its original track.

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Zhu Houzhao was free and easy, but many people in the capital were not so comfortable at this time.

For example, Xie Qian.

During this period, Xie Qian's life was very monotonous, basically walking between the palace and the home.

Li Dongyang was responsible for the funeral, and the Empress Dowager Zhou died of illness. Li Dongyang was responsible for the funeral. Liu Jian was in poor health and the cabinet was led by Xie Qian, but Wang Hua was more than a staff officer around him.

Wang Hua's meaning is basically the meaning of Liu Jian and Li Dongyang. Li Dongyang would take the initiative to check the memorials at Wenyuan Pavilion, and even reject Xie Qian's tickets and relist the new tickets to be submitted to the Silijian.

As for the memorial sent to the Silijian, it is basically a formality, and whatever the cabinet says is what it says.

Liu Jian and Li Dongyang refused to delegate power and did not want the court affairs to be controlled by Xie Qianlai. Now Li Dongyang is trying to run around and submit a proposal to Emperor Hongzhi to increase the number of Grand Secretary of the Cabinet, but at this time the emperor seemed unwilling to make further compromises.

Even if Xie Qian had the help of the emperor, he would get back the ticket and plan to be a powerful person, but he was not interested in being a power minister because he had no intention of competing for fame and fortune. Instead, he wanted to be an idle person. It would be better not to care about anything. He could go home early to raise flowers and grass on time to enjoy his life.

The grandson-in-law Chen Xi's career was smooth, and Xie Qian's mind became much simpler and more peaceful. There were not many people and things to worry about at home. Although the court had a little unpleasant quarrel with his two former friends, he didn't want to argue. Liu Jian and Li Dongyang said that they would do whatever they wanted and would not do it against each other.

Gradually, Xie Qian felt that family was more important than court affairs, so he gradually spent more and more time with his family.

But there is one thing that Xie Qian had to care about, that is, the war between Chen Xi in the southwest. Even if it was just a trivial news to the capital, he would pay special attention. He only looked up all the six southwest provinces a few days ago, hoping to find a few words about Chen Xi.

"Why is this kid so honest and nothing is done? I'm still waiting for him to do something that is unforgivable to the law so that he can wipe his butt..."

Xie Qian was puzzled.

In the past, Chen Xi always caused him trouble or made him worry for no reason. Chen Xi was leading troops outside, as if he had to find someone to run errands in the middle and busy them.

But this time, Chen Xi didn't have to worry about anything, and handled everything properly, without needing help from others at all, which made Xie Qian uncomfortable.

Xie Qian was most afraid that Chen Xi would not report any matters and would be exposed, causing disputes in the court.

However, with the local reports from the six southwest provinces gathering the capital one after another, Xie Qian found that Chen Xi's march was very smooth, and even the victory of Baoqing Prefecture was not exhausted. Unfortunately, this level of victory had long been less serious in Xie Qian and Liu Daxia.

Xie Qian ran to the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Revenue, wanting to know the actual situation of the soldiers and horses in Chenxi and whether there is any difficulty in transporting food and grass materials in the army.

After learning more, Xie Qian went directly to Ma Wensheng for help. As a result, when he arrived at Ma Mansion, the elderly official of the Ministry of Personnel left him in the main hall for more than half an hour. It was not until Liu Daxia came that Ma Wensheng appeared.

Only then did Xie Qian realize that Ma Wensheng didn't want to meet him alone, but invited Liu Daxia and the three of them sat down to discuss together.

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Ma Wensheng, Liu Daxia and Xie Qian sat down, but Xie Qian didn't think so. He and Liu Daxia only had a dispute over certain things. The two were relatively fair in their work, and they were also thinking about maintaining and promoting Chen Xi. In addition, Chen Xi was promoted to the left censor and the Minister of War Liu Daxia made great contributions in the matter of Liu Daxia, and Xie Qian was embarrassed to hold a grudge.

Ma Wensheng asked, "Yu Qiao, don't blame me for calling Shi Yong. I know the purpose of your trip. Shi Yong is in the Ministry of War. He is a little aware of the war situation in the southwest. He said that he is much better than me, the old man!"

Xie Qian glanced at Liu Daxia, didn't say anything, just nodded.

Liu Daxia asked proudly: "Yu Qiao, what do you want to know? The southwest incident involves military secrets. The local government has not submitted the memorial to the cabinet department. However, the Ministry of War has gained some gains. Maybe I can solve the doubts for Yu Qiao!"

Liu Daxia and Ma Wensheng sang together, which made Xie Qian realize that the two must be prepared in advance. He shook his head: "I don't want to ask more about the matter of Chen Xi's child in the southwest. This time I just want to know whether the imperial court has special arrangements in the southwest, such as personnel and military, food and grass transfer?"

This question is very targeted.

Originally, Chen Xi's marching and combat was not a secret, and Chen Xi even wrote a letter to Xie Qian every once in a while, telling him the route of troops and the combat plan.

So what Xie Qian is more concerned about now is not the situation of Chen Xi, but the court’s policies to assist Chen Xi and help him win the war against the rebellion.

Ma Wensheng and Liu Daxia looked at each other, and Ma Wensheng said, "Why did Yu Qiaozuo ask this? Could it be that there is any news outside?"

Xie Qian glared and asked, "Is there a wind outside?"

Ma Wensheng smiled and said, "Your Majesty had sent a letter to the Ministry of Personnel to inquire about the arrangements and appointments of Chen Xi after the war in the southwest was pacified. The Ministry of Personnel planned to let Chen Xi continue to be appointed as the Minister of War, take the military affairs of the southwest, sort out the local rebellion well, or beat up the disobedient vassal states around the southwest. What do you think?"

Of course Xie Qian was willing.

He was worried that the court would kill the donkey, and he would quit Chen Xi when the war to combat the rebellion ended. He would return to serve as the governor of the two provinces, and even deprived him of the title of Zuodu Censor and Minister of War.

Now that the court has decided to let Chen Xi still hold the title after the war, he has no objection.

Xie Qian was secretly happy, but on the surface he said in an impatient tone: "I don't want to ask about how to settle down the child of Chenxi after the war. Now I just want to know who the court appointed and removed people in the southwest, or what materials were collected for Chenxi to make his rebellion in the southwest smoother?"

This time, Ma Wensheng simply shook his head: "No!"

Xie Qian's face suddenly became unfavorable.

Liu Daxia said: "Yu Qiao, isn't it the biggest gift for His Majesty to appoint Shen Jialang to the troops and horses of the six southwestern provinces? What else do you need to recruit him? Originally, he could call tens of thousands or even tens of thousands of troops, but in the end he only used four or five thousand. Every time he went to the local government, he would reward him, so how could he need additional support?"

Xie Qian said angrily: "I also want to bring more people, but I have so many food, grass and weapons in my hands?"

Liu Daxia said: "Maybe Shen Jialang wants to go into battle lightly?"

Xie Qian became angry immediately and couldn't help but stand up and wanted to argue with Liu Daxia.

Ma Wensheng quickly persuaded him to reconcile: "Don't argue. You are not unaware of the current situation of the court. This will not be able to expand this war. This will give Chen Xi greater authority so that he can collect food, grass and weapons from various provinces. Now that he has not asked the court for it, why should he worry about it?"
Chapter completed!