When Chen Xi was not allowed to enter the capital, Liu Jin felt that his opportunity had come.

During this period, Liu Jin's power in the palace gradually grew, and many eunuchs chose to stand by and obey his orders, while Zhang Yuan, who had been in power before, was obviously neglected.

Liu Jin was surrounded by eunuchs such as Wei Bin. More and more eunuchs in the various departments and supervisors in the palace were following him. These people all hoped to gain the emperor's attention through the relationship between Liu Jin and the emperor. Most of them gathered with Liu Jin for purpose, while Liu Jin used these people to gradually isolate Xiao Jing.

Zhu Houzhao still maintained his previous appearance and left the palace every now and then. Because Liu Jin arranged everything outside the palace for him, Zhu Houzhao's life was carefree and extremely free.

Even if he stayed in the palace, Liu Jin also prepared various programs for Zhu Houzhao. In addition to offering games such as hawks, singing and dancing, wrestling, etc., he also asked eunuchs and palace maids to play the role of people in the market, openly set up "markets" in the palace and conduct trading activities. Zhu Houzhao acted as the "chief director" and personally participated in this farce written and acted by himself.

In addition, Liu Jin also advised Zhu Houzhao to order that the palace would send eunuchs from all over the country to donate 10,000 taels of gold to the emperor, and at the same time requested to set up imperial houses, which caused a sharp increase in the number of imperial houses in just one or two months, resulting in a great disturbance to the capital area.

It was in this case that the day of Zhu Houzhao's wedding was approaching.

The candidates for the three queens were selected by Empress Dowager Zhang, and the last step was selected by Zhu Houzhao himself to determine who was the queen and who was the concubine among the three.

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Chenxi, far away in Huguang, was delayed for two days in Daye County and set off again.

During Chen Xi stayed in Daye County, he found that the local government was not as serious as he thought, so he put the matter aside and hurried back to Wuchang Prefecture.

After two months away, Chen Xi was a little attached to the soft pillow of the high bed at home, hoping to reunite with his family and have a few days to have a safe birthday.

Chen Xi returned to Jiangxia, Wuchang Prefecture City on the afternoon of August 13. On that day, the happy scene of the family reunited after a long separation. The love and affection with his wives and concubines was not worthy of being told by outsiders.

The next day, the day before the Mid-Autumn Festival, the teams that came to the Governor's Office to give gifts were lined up in two streets, which was rare to encounter a big festival. Local officials and gentry came to send gifts to Chenxi and sought the protection of the governors of Chenxi, the two provinces.

The unpleasantness that Chenxi had had with local officials and gentry in the past seemed to have disappeared.

When Chen Xi first arrived in Huguang, local officials and gentry wanted to use their local snake's convenience to fight with Chen Xi. Now Shen Xi has gained a foothold and has made great contributions in the local fight against rebellions and counterattacking the Southern Barbarians' invasion. It has a high prestige among the people, and it is meaningless to resist.

With the promotion of new crops, the new policies on salt and tea are comprehensive, and local order is in place, and the economic scale of the two provinces continues to expand. Local officials and gentry have come to curry favor with Chenxi, hoping to share some benefits from Chenxi.

All this comes from the success of the industrial park founded by Chen Xi.

The steel plant belonging to the industrial park has built sixteen large blast furnaces, and the steel products produced through the improved production process of Chenxi have been supplied to Huguang and surrounding provinces such as Jiangxi, Fujian, Guizhou, Guizhou, Yunnan, Sichuan, Shaanxi, Henan, etc.

Although the Ming Dynasty also had a specialty for steel in name, it ordered the dismissal of various jurisdictions as early as the 28th year of Hongwu, and allowed private mining and smelting to be free, and paid two-thirty of the tax based on output.

The steel factory built by Chen Xi used the most advanced smelting technology of this era, and its production efficiency far exceeded that of famous steel towns such as Foshan in Guangdong Province, Wujiang in Nanzhili, and Zunhua in the capital. The iron nails, wires, steel knives, scissors, saws, axes, iron pots, etc. produced quickly seized the market with high quality and low price.

Since the industrial park is Chenxi in the name of the Governor's Office, it is specially approved to be hosted by the Governor's Office. The industrial park pays one-tenth of the profit to the Governor's Office in accordance with regulations every year, and the things produced are sold by the Governor's Office. In the first half of this year, it produced more than 10,000 tons of steel, accounting for almost one-third of the total steel production of the Ming Dynasty during this period. The profit is rich and unimaginable to ordinary people.

Before this, the Chema Gang had obtained mining rights from the Governor's Office in the Tieshan area in the northwest of Daye County. Daye not only has rich iron ore and copper ore resources, but also has a rich coal reserves for industrial coking. It can be easily transported to the industrial park through water. With the production of supporting coking plants, the production capacity of the steel plant will be further increased in the next step.

In addition, at this time, subway mines such as Huangshi, Ningxiang, and Ningxiang, which were invested in by Chemagang in Huguang, also began to be put into production. In the short term, the industrial park needs enough coal and iron. Moreover, Huiniang's Chamber of Commerce had previously purchased a large area of ​​land in Pingxiang, Jiangxi. With the mining of Pingxiang coal mines, the steel base centered on Wuchang Prefecture will be basically formed in the future.

So far, the Governor's Office has only made profits from the steel industry in the industrial park, up to 40,000 taels of silver. This is also the confidence that Chen Xi went south to quell the rebellion and dared to spend money to buy food.

Moreover, in addition to steel, spinning machines and weaving machines produced by the machinery factory in the industrial park have greatly improved the production efficiency of four spinning mills and three weaving factories established by the chariot and horses.

The spinning machine designed by Chenxi combines the advantages of later Jenny spinning machines and hydraulic spinning machines. It is ten times more efficient than the spinning machine used in Songjiang, Nanzhili, which is currently the cotton spinning center. The cotton yarn is soft, fine and strong. The hydraulic loom, which uses shuttle technology to drive at the same time, has increased the weaving efficiency by a full forty times compared with the loom of this era.

In addition, the printing and dyeing factory supporting the industrial park also adopts the advanced technology invented by Chenxi. Based on this comprehensive calculation, Wuchang cloth is almost half the cost compared to Songjiang cloth, with better quality and richer colors. In a very short time, it was sold all over the country, and the income brought to the Governor's Office has so far exceeded 30,000 taels of silver.

It is precisely because of such great benefits that the little losses caused by the reform of salt and tea are no longer in the eyes of local officials and gentry. They hope to get the opportunity to cooperate with industrial parks, and be able to obtain steel products and cloth at "wholesale prices" and then ship them to other places for sale, gaining huge benefits from it.

Chen Xi naturally would not eat alone. He thought of binding most people to his side. In addition to supplying goods to officials and gentry, he also planned to clear the property rights after the industrial park was on track, and the chariots, who were his representatives, had absolute control. The Governor's Office, the Sansi Yamen and even the Wuchang Prefecture and County Yamen, were divided into a certain proportion and had equal interests. Chen Xi was sure that as long as he did not lose power in the court, no one would dare to make an idea of ​​his own industry.

On August 14th, Chen Xi welcomed an old friend who had been away for a long time in the main hall of the Governor's Mansion... Tang Yin and his wife who had been away from the south arrived in Wuchang Mansion.

Tang Yin managed the salt farm in Qiongzhou for more than a year. As the production of the salt farm was on track, Tang Yin, who was impatient with loneliness, returned to Guangzhou. Last summer, he wanted to go north and return to Chen Xi, who served as the governor of the two provinces, as a staff member. It happened to be the rebellion in the southwest of Huguang. Chen Xi led the army to the south. Tang Yin did not want to participate in the ranks, so he returned to Guangdong when he arrived in Ganzhou. Although he avoided meeting with his old enemy Ning Wang, he also lost a lot of points in Shen Xi's mind.

After returning to Guangzhou Prefecture, Tang Yinan was born for two months, and could not help but take his wife to travel to famous mountains and rivers in Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang and other places. In May this year, he heard that Chenxi had successfully won the triumphant victory, so he set out west from Hangzhou leisurely, and traveled to Huangshan, Lushan, Jiugongshan and other famous sites.

After not seeing each other for two years, Tang Yin was much more calm. When he saw Chen Xi, he was graceful and treated him with every move. Chen Xi almost felt ashamed of himself, thinking that he was an idle social vagabond, while Tang Yin was a master Qingtian who visited in private.

"... Brother Chen, I haven't seen you for many years. Looking at your complexion, I want to be proud of the officialdom. Spring and Autumn is in full swing. I have traveled downstream to the rivers and mountains of Jiangnan, and have created a large number of poems and paintings, and I will give them to you as a meeting gift..."

Tang Yin will give Chen Xi a gift when he meets him.

Chen Xi was overjoyed when he heard this. He always wanted to collect some original works of Tang Bohu as family heirlooms. Now he is really sleepy and someone gives him a pillow. But then he thought about it, is Tang Bohu, whose fate has been affected by his appearance, still the unruly and unruly tyrannical talent in history?

If Tang Yin's calligraphy and painting skills were reduced due to his unexpected factors, he would lose his strong yet elegant character and style, and would lose his beauty of hardness and softness, perhaps no matter how good Tang Yin's calligraphy and painting were, he would not have any value.

However, when Chen Xi admired several masterpieces of Tang Yin, his eyes became brighter and brighter.

After several years of dormant, Tang Yin's painting skills and calligraphy became more and more mature. His figure paintings were accurate and unique. The ink paintings were bright and pure, with elegant and free style and full of realism. They almost perfectly integrated the Song Dynasty courtyard skills with the Yuan Dynasty brush and ink charm. In addition, the calligraphy that was vigorous and vigorous in its beauty and agile in its beauty can be said to be much more exquisite than that in Chen Xi's memory.

Chen Xi was as precious as Tang Yin's calligraphy and paintings, so he called the guards to keep them carefully.

When Tang Yin saw Chen Xi accepting the gift, he felt very proud, so he prepared to ask Chen Xi for the salary he had over the past year.

Who would have thought that Chen Xi would turn his back on his face after receiving the gift and asked directly: "Brother Bo Hu has been traveling to famous mountains and rivers for more than a year. During this period, he seems to be in a state of distant business. When he comes back this time, is he going to continue to be an idle person or work as a member of the Governor's Office?"

Tang Yin was stunned when he heard this. Why was Chen Xi blocked his words before he could speak? According to the meaning revealed in Chen Xi's words, you were "absent from work" one year before. Now you come back, you either start working again or leave. As for the fact that you could not have been on paid vacation in the previous year, it must be calculated based on absent from work.

Tang Yin felt a little polite and said with a bit of respect: "Mr. Shen, you think you have just returned from the south and have worked hard all the way... You have just added a child at home, and you really need an errand, as for the previous year..."

Chen Xi raised his hand and interrupted Tang Yin: "I didn't expect that Brother Tang, you will be a father so soon. Congratulations! This is indeed a great thing. If you have time, I should drink three big cups to congratulate you. But the public and private are clear, and many things need to be ruled... A year ago, when I needed personnel around me, I was traveling abroad and lost my duty as a staff member. Now that I have come back, I need to reconsider my appointment..."

"Let's do this, Brother Tang, you settle down in Wuchang Mansion first, and wait until you wash away the journey and recover completely. I will consider your appointment. Come and see off the guests!"

What else Tang Yin wanted to say, Ma Jiu had already entered the lobby with great momentum.

Tang Yin was a little worried when he saw Ma Jiu's tough figure. He knew that this man was a rough man and would not tell him anything.

"Mr. Shen... Forget it, let's talk about it later..."

Tang Yin was forced to go home. This time he came to the Governor's Office not only not asking for his salary, but instead paid for his own lot of treasures, which was a typical case of stealing chickens and losing rice.

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After Tang Yin left, Chen Xi asked someone to take out Tang Yin's calligraphy and painting again, study it carefully, and the more you read it, the more you feel satisfied.

"It's really good. This business is not a loss. It will definitely be a priceless treasure in the future... I just don't know how this kid will make a living after he comes back!"

Chen Xi put down his calligraphy and painting, and sighed, "I took a lot of money from me at the beginning, so I had the courage to stop doing serious business for more than a year and ran out to travel around the country and the waters. Now my wallet is dry, and I come to ask me for money again. I think I will give you some idle and high salary errands? It would be nice if you didn't let you guard the yamen and watch the streets!"

"But... Tang Yin is a talent after all, and he is not inferior to those ministers from Hanyuan in terms of talent. He will first recruit him to see how he will be appointed in the future!"

Chen Xi did not take Tang Yin too seriously. After all, this person has flaws in character. Even a famous talented man in the world, he is not qualified in dealing with people and political strategies, and is not considered a good strategist. However, Chen Xi had not had many helpers before, but now Shen Yongqi, Yang Wenzhao, Zhou Xian and others are not useful at all.

Although Ma Jiu has strong execution ability, he does not have much talent and lacks confidence in communicating with people, especially those in the government, and communicating with women is one of his weaknesses.

But Tang Yin is different. He is an extremely smooth and thick-skinned and romantic talent. In addition, Tang Yin himself has extremely high talent. He was a Jiangnan provincial examination and even passed the Jinshi exam. Although he experienced a series of hardships later, he also enriched his life experience.

Chen Xi hopes that Tang Yin will stay by his side and become an indispensable member of his strategist team.

"Master, the person has been sent away and settled in Anjia Lane, a street from the Governor's Yamen. But Tang Jieyuan asked the adults to send some living expenses. Is the adults..."

Ma Jiu settled Tang Yin and came back, bringing Tang Yin's unjust request.

Chen Xidao: "He has no merit and no reward. He has not done anything for me for more than a year. Now there is no one in the southern salt farm. He still wants me to give him the cost of living? When he can't survive by himself, he will naturally come to me!"

Ma Jiu nodded: "Yes, lord!"

Chen Xi said again: "Brother Jiu, don't think I value Tang Jieyuan too much. He likes to show off his cleverness the most. Don't be deceived by him. This way, try to stay away from him. Since we have returned to Wuchang Mansion, you can reunite with Sister Xiaoyu more, and I will try to arrange for others to do the job!"

Ma Jiu quickly saluted. For him, it was very happy to be together with his wife and children after three or four months of going out and reunite with his wife and children.

Chen Xi will temporarily put his errands when he comes back, and he will have to spend ten hours with his family every day.

If he hadn't come out to meet Tang Yin, he wouldn't even plan to see the officials and gentry who came to give gifts from the place, and would go back to the back house to accompany the female relatives around him.

"After Mid-Autumn Festival, the weather became cooler. When the autumn grain was stored, I might be busy for a few days and I could live a simple and fulfilling life later!"

Chen Xi's tone was a bit leisurely and contented, "The local affairs are basically done. The court will not bother me for the time being. The industrial park is slowly getting on track, and the mines that should be acquired have been taken down... Brother Jiu, remember to rectify the troops of the Biao Battalion and talk to the commander-in-chief. After the autumn, we will hold military training, transfer a group of people to specialize in firearms, and form a team that can conquer and fight well is the most important thing at the moment!"
Chapter completed!