Chen Yi'er was too young and didn't know what marriage was. She just thought it was fun and wanted to enter the palace to live a life different from the Shen family's mansion. However, she didn't know that the courtyard wall behind the door was deeper and higher.

Chen Xi felt a little emotional.

"After all, Zhu Houzhao is also a playful and playful person. Maybe their personalities can really deal with them, but I'm just in vain?"

He didn't force Chen Yi'er to know anything. There were many things he couldn't explain clearly to Chen Yi'er, so he only left them to Xie Yuner to talk about.

To make a girl accept some foreign indoctrination ideas, or a girl who is in the rebellious period of youth, she must speak in a woman's way.

Chen Xi is both a man and an elder who Chen Yier is very resistant to. No matter how much he says he is playing the piano against a cow.

That day, Xie Yuner called her sister-in-law to the room and gave her a marriage class. Chen Xi gave Xie Yuner a "teaching outline". From the current situation of the palace to the darkness of the palace fighting, and how to protect herself, she would take care of everything. As for how much Xie Yuner played, Chen Xi would not interfere too much.

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But Zhu Houzhao came to the main hall of the Ganqing Palace after returning to the palace.

This was supposed to be where he met the court officials. He came here at night to experience the fact that he would be a good emperor who was diligent and loved the people. He specially ordered the Silijian to send memorials and ask for a candle office.

Silijian was very surprised after receiving the order.

Zhang Yuan was not in the palace, but after hearing the notice, he rushed over and rushed to the palace with Li Xing, who was on the rotation, and Zhu Houzhao had been waiting in the hall for half an hour.

When Zhu Houzhao saw the two men sweating profusely, she couldn't help but frown: "It's not easy to work at all. I have sent someone to spread it for so long, why are you here now?"

Li Xing looked at Zhang Yuan. He wanted to complain that Zhang Yuan did not live in the palace, which was a dereliction of duty, but he was afraid of Zhang Yuan's power, so he kept silent.

Zhang Yuan gave a speech compiled halfway through the journey.

"Your Majesty, the matter is in a hurry. Lao Nu and Eunuch Li have to sort out the books in the custody of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank

While speaking, Zhang Yuan deliberately glanced at Xiao Tiaozi... He was not afraid of Li Xing's complaint, but was afraid that Xiao Tiaozi would gossip in front of the emperor and say bad things about him. In the end, Xiao Tiaozi would not deal with him.

Xiao Guozi looked at Zhang Yuan with disdainful eyes, obviously not interested in informing him, because he himself also owned a private house outside the palace like Zhang Yuan, and the emperor did not live in the palace. Starting from Liu Jin, many powerful eunuchs began to move outside the palace. This was related to Zhu Houzhao's harshness on eunuchs during Emperor Hongzhi's time and the palace ban became loose.

Zhu Houzhao was not in the mood to care about being late with Zhang Yuan, and waved his hand and said, "Send all the memorials to me, and I will review them now."

Zhang Yuan waved his hand and immediately came over more than a dozen eunuchs, each holding a memorial book in his hand and put it on the desk in front of Zhu Houzhao one by one.

Zhu Houzhao frowned when she saw it: "Are so many?"

Zhang Yuan said: "Reply to Your Majesty, this is just a small part of the memorial. Those who are not very close and report only local customs and peoples are not brought... Will the old slave choose some of the most important reviews for you?"

Zhu Houzhao raised his hand: "No need, I want to read it in turn... These memorials have already made a ticket in the cabinet, right?"

Before Zhang Yuan could answer, he picked up a memorial and the note in it fell down immediately. Zhu Houzhao reached out and grabbed it, took it in his hand and looked at it. He nodded slightly and said, "The ticket is well drawn. It seems that all the Grand Secretary are still diligent and self-reliant!"

Zhang Yuan thought to himself: "Your Majesty's detailed memorial book is written, so he approves of the votes. Is it because he has the intention to reuse the old things in the cabinet? It is both a good thing for me to marry the Shen family and face a crisis. Your Majesty's diligence also means that he will approach the people in the cabinet. I'd better be careful."

The emperor had many thoughts. Zhu Houzhao had just read the pledge and praised it casually, which made Zhang Yuan have such thoughts. Even Zhu Houzhao himself did not expect this level.

Li Xing stepped forward and asked for instructions: "Your Majesty, will you send the remaining memorials from the cabinet?"

Zhang Yuan turned around and glared at Li Xing fiercely.

This suggestion seemed to him to be ulterior motives, because when he arrived at the Sili Supervisor, he specially suppressed some memorials about military affairs, and only sent some relatively important but not very urgent memorials to Zhu Houzhao. Zhang Yuan thought that the emperor could not concentrate on reviewing the memorials and would not find him tampering with it.

Zhu Houzhao didn't look up. At this time, he was reading the memoir, looking absent-minded, and said casually: "No need, finish reading these first. If you have the energy, then read other memoirs... Those unimportant things can be handed over to you to Zhu. I don't need to take care of everything."

"yes."

Li Xing lowered his head and did not dare to look at Zhang Yuan, so as not to feel unhappy.

Xiao Tiaozi said, "Your Majesty, it's time for you to have a meal."

Zhu Houzhao was not very energetic at all. He raised his head and looked dazed: "Oh, I forgot if I don't say it. I haven't eaten this supper yet. Let's prepare dinner first. I will only have the energy to handle things after I have enough food and drink..."

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Zhu Houzhao went to have a meal, but Zhang Yuan and Li Xing were not allowed to leave. They wanted to stay in the Qianqing Palace to give Zhu Houzhao a review of the report and serve as consultants.

After all, Zhu Houzhao had serious lack of experience in this area and needed the eunuchs of the Silijian who were acting in peacetime to help him take care of it. Zhang Yuan and Li Xing stood there and waited patiently, but they did not wait for the emperor to come back for a long time.

Zhang Yuan was silent at first. He thought of resolving the score with Li Xing after he went back. However, the emperor was slow to come. Zhang Yuan felt that Zhu Houzhao might have put down the matter that night and went back to the future. He was reborn and no longer asked about the court affairs, so he didn't care about the occasion. He looked at Li Xing coldly and joking with a sarcastic emphasis: "Eunuch Li is quite independent in front of His Majesty."

Li Xing knew why Zhang Yuan was like a mad dog, so he bit him up and replied carefully: "Eunuch Zhang is so serious, but I want to do my best in front of His Majesty. Is this also a share of the burden for you, right?"

Zhang Yuan snorted coldly: "Now you see it? Your Majesty is just a temporary idea. How could he concentrate on reviewing memorials? Not to mention that you have good intentions and end up hurting yourself."

“Yes, yes.”

Li Xing quickly responded and did not dare to argue with Zhang Yuan.

Not long after, Xiao Twist came out, and Zhang Yuan hurried over and asked, "Xiao Twist, where is Your Majesty? Are you not going to come out? Can our family go back first?"

Xiao Tiaozi narrowed his eyes and asked, "Who said that? Your Majesty asked our family to come and give him instructions, saying that he would come after meals, and asked you to continue waiting. However, Your Majesty was kind to me and arranged for our family to come and give him a seat... Why, accompany Your Majesty to review the memorial, and he actually wanted to go back and enjoy his happiness?"

Zhang Yuan was a little awkward and explained: "Where is different? I won't fall asleep so early, so move the chairs!"

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Even if Xiao Tiaozi came out and passed the message, Zhang Yuan still felt it was unreliable and was sure that Zhu Houzhao would not come out that night. But unexpectedly, in less than a cup of tea, Zhu Houzhao came out of the inner hall and started working with candles while yawning.

Zhang Yuan and Li Xing quickly surrounded the table and became advisers.

Zhu Houzhao picked up a memorial, read it for a while, and asked a few questions. It sounded insightful but was actually specious. Many questions were not answered by Zhang Yuan and Li Xing. On the contrary, Xiao Tiaozi seemed quite opinionated and often gave answers. In this way, Zhu Houzhao's eyes often fell on Xiao Tiaozi.

Zhang Yuan was very upset: "At most, this kid was just a job in the Sili Supervisory Office, but he was so active, afraid that Your Majesty wouldn't know he was capable?"

Because Zhang Yuan's ability is very mediocre, he has left everything to Li Xing, Gao Feng and Zhang Yong to do in the past. Among the three eunuchs in the Silijian, Zhang Yong has the highest ability, which makes many decisions rely on Zhang Yong to lead.

Li Xing is a good at making money. In addition, he has been an eunuch in the imperial prison, which has made him make some achievements in matters such as expenses in the inner government and the Ministry of Accounting. He belongs to the "accounting" type. Although he has certain wisdom and ability, he does not want to show too much in front of Zhang Yuan, which is related to Zhang Yuan's previous threat.

In this way, Li Xing obviously had a better answer to the questions asked by the emperor, but he just didn't say anything. When Zhang Yuan could not answer, it was Xiao Tiaozi's turn to play, which made Zhang Yuan feel a grudge against Xiao Tiaozi.

Zhang Yuan was very angry, but Xiao Tiaozi was proud, while Li Xing was watching the fire from the side of the river. As for Zhu Houzhao, he always seemed weak, and he didn't have much thought about who to answer the question.

Because no matter what the answer was obtained, Zhu Houzhao finally planned to issue a red mark according to the cabinet vote. In other words, no matter whether the three eunuchs said in front of him made sense, it could not stop him from trusting the cabinet ministers, and it was also related to the fact that the cabinet ministers always had superior views.

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It was almost midnight when Zhu Houzhao finished reading the memorial. At this time, he was exhausted and his little eyes had long lost their charm.

Zhu Houzhao stretched, stood up and said, "I didn't expect it to be a diligent and loving emperor. I was so tired when I tried to review the memoirs on the first day. How could I persist?"

Zhang Yuan said: "Your Majesty, you don't have to be so tired. Some memorials have been accumulated for a long time, and it's hard to read them. And with the old slave here, I will help you get things done."

"That's right, but I am the king of a country. Everything must be based on my will. How can I rely solely on the cabinet ministers and you?"

But even though that was said, Zhu Houzhao still waved his hand, "Okay, I won't ask about those small matters in the future. I will temporarily shorten the time for reviewing the memorials to one hour in the next few days. It cannot be longer, otherwise I will not be able to bear it."

"Yes, yes." Zhang Yuan responded.

He thought about how to make Zhu Houzhao less interested in handling court affairs. It would be better to find some difficult problems to make things difficult, or find some food, drink and fun, so that Zhu Houzhao would not have the heart to ask about government affairs.

Zhu Houzhao yawned and took the little twister to the backside. When he was about to reach the door of the back hall, he turned around and said, "Go back and convey my comments to you. Tell the various corporations that this is a memorial that I personally approved, so that they can do their business well, and no one can neglect them."

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Zhu Houzhao reviewed the memorial, but it was only three minutes long. On the first day, he processed official documents in the Ganqing Palace for more than two hours, and left halfway in less than one hour the next day. On the third day, he simply did not stay in the Ganqing Palace and spent the night in the Leopard Room that night. He had thrown his promise to Chen Xi out of the sky.

At this time, the marriage between Zhu Houzhao and Chen Yier is under preparation.

The Ministry of Rites has sent people to the Shen family many times, but it was not to the Chenxi Mansion house, but to the Shen Mingjun and his wife's house to discuss the details of the wedding.

There were many people talking about this in the capital. Chen Xi chose to remain silent about it. Chen Yi'er also sent it back to her parents' mansion. The palace was preparing a house for Chen Yi'er to live alone, training palace etiquette, and preparing for entering the palace.

As the eunuch of the Ministry of Rites, Gao Feng also undertakes the preparations for the wedding and assists the Ministry of Rites and the Honglu Temple and other yamen to organize wedding matters.

This marriage is a political marriage, and the court is very clear about it. Even the people in the market know how strong the emperor's desire to win over Chen Xi is.

In the court, because Xie Qian was sick and Shen Xi took leave, all civil and military officials did not respond much to the emperor's wedding. Most officials in the yamen did their own things step by step. At this time, Wang Shouren, the new right assistant minister of the Ministry of War, who was transferred back to the court, returned to the capital.

Wang Shouren arrived in the capital on the ninth day of the second month. Before that, the court had discussed the candidate for the right assistant minister of the Ministry of War many times. The final choice of Wang Shouren was also the result of compromise between the parties.

Although Xie Qian and other old-fashioned figures in the court think that Wang Shouren is still young, he is Wang Hua's son and has a close relationship with conservatives. At the same time, he is not too close to Chen Xi, so he can barely accept this appointment.

In addition, others did not understand Wang Shouren's political stance, but Xie Qian was very clear about it. Moreover, Xie Qian felt that as Wang Hua's old friend, there should be no problem to successfully control Wang Hua's son. In this way, Xie Qian adopted a default attitude towards Wang Shouren's return to Beijing to become the Right Minister of War.

However, Wang Shouren and Chen Xi were both Jinshi. Many people seemed young and energetic, and believed that his current attainments were far from being able to serve as a military department. So many people in the court were not so convinced by Wang Shouren, especially those old Confucian officials who believed they were diligent and experienced in the court.

The first thing Wang Shouren did when he entered the capital was to perform his duties at the Ministry of War. He had planned to meet the emperor, but at the same time he knew that it was not easy to meet the saint.

In the afternoon, he submitted a memorial first. After the Ministry of War contacted the Left Minister Lu Wan, when the shift was almost over, he left first and asked for a meeting at the Shenfu Mansion.

Chen Xi had basically never seen foreign guests these days, but he had to see Wang Shouren when he arrived. No matter what, the new minister was recommended by him. He was a direct subordinate. In addition, he wanted to express his dissatisfaction with the emperor in the form of Xiumu. When he could not perform his duties in the Ministry of War, the new Wang Shouren had to bear great responsibility.

Chen Xi did not pretend to meet Wang Shouren on the sickbed, but chose to meet guests in the study.

Wang Shouren originally thought that Chen Xi was really sick, but he didn't know much about it in other places. When he saw Chen Xi, he found that his immediate boss was full of red faces and immediately realized that Chen Xi's illness was just an excuse. Even if he really got a disease, he would not need to stay at home for a long time.

“…Brother Bo’an has worked hard all the way.”

Chen Xi was very polite. He and Wang Shouren were on the same list as Jinshi. Because the sales test case was released in that class, the selection of Shuji was not arranged after the palace examination. Wang Shouren lost the opportunity to enter the Hanlin Academy because he was not in Dingjia.
To be continued...