As soon as Feng Jiang left, the county government began to complain in an indignant tone in front of Shen Xi, and they looked down on old eunuchs like Feng Jiang at all.

"Mr. Shen, this kind of person should be driven away earlier. If he stays in the army, he will inevitably leak the situation. If it is known to the Japanese pirates, it will be very unfavorable to us." Zhang Lun reminded kindly.

Tang Yin nodded, "What I know now is that many of the officials and gentry in Jiangnan have colluded with Japanese pirates, and these things have to be guarded against."

Chen Xi seemed indifferent: "Is there anything shameful in the army now?"

It was the same problem before. Chen Xi was not afraid that his situation would be known, but seemed to be afraid that others would not know. After capturing Shanghai County, Chen Xi did not disband the Ming people who had been plundered. Now he is so polite to Feng Jiang, breaking the previously inhumane impression that Tang Yin, Zhang Lun and others left by Chen Xi.

Chen Xi said again: "Let him go. If he wants to walk around the city, he can just send someone to keep an eye on it, and there is no need to hinder him. Focus on cleaning up the city, don't always think that others are coming to make trouble."

Zhang Lun wanted to say something, but saw Tang Yin wink at him, bowing consciously and leaving with Tang Yin.

In the end, Ma Jiu was left in the county government. Chen Xi ordered: "The official letter about recruiting civil servants and escorting prisoners from the Central Plains battlefield to Shanghai was sent to Nanjing immediately. It took 800 miles to speed up, and it took one day to arrive, and then sent people to contact the surrounding prefectures and counties, and then posted a list of documents on the important transportation roads inside and outside the city, and hired laborers to work here. As for the matter of transporting civil servants and prisoners, it will be handed over to Brother Jiu to handle it."

Ma Jiu asked curiously: "Sir, aren't you waiting for the imperial court to recruit me?"

"How many people can the imperial court transfer?"

Chenxidao, "While waiting for the imperial court to dispatch, they have to raise funds by themselves. In addition, the existing soldiers have laid the foundation for Shanghai as quickly as possible. Now it is only repaired and demolished, and the required personnel may be 50,000 or 60,000 people. At present, all the soldiers in the army are not enough, so it is better to look for more civilians. It is better to rely on others than to rely on others!"

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Chen Xi's letter was passed to Nanjing one day later.

When Zhang Yong learned about the situation, he was very nervous and immediately arranged to recruit civilians to go to Shanghai, but found that with his power, it was difficult to drive other yamen except the yamen in the inner government of Nanjing and the 17th Guards in the personal army.

Although Zhang Yong had basically controlled the situation by relying on imperial power after entering the city and vaguely suppressed Xu Qi, he was always just a strong dragon, and there was no good idea if he didn't let go of the local snake.

In the end, Zhang Yong had to go to Xu Qi's mansion to meet him patiently.

Xu Qiu was very enthusiastic about Zhang Yong. At first, the two had great misunderstandings, but under Shen Xi's mediation, the relationship between the two began to ease and heat up, and now there is a feeling of alliance.

"How did Eunuch Zhang come in person? As long as you send someone to inform me, I will go to see you in person. See if you are so polite, what gifts are you bringing..."

Xu Qi invited Zhang Yong to the main hall of the Zhongshan Prince's Mansion. As soon as he sat down, Zhang Yong expressed his meaning and explained the current difficulties involved the obstacles to the movement of the Six Ministry of Nanjing, Yingtian Prefecture and local prefectures and counties.

Xu Qi looked embarrassed: "Eunuch Zhang, it's not that I'm trying to refuse. Zhihou suddenly sent people to send people. Should we wait for the court's approval? It's true that we should cooperate, but every time we cooperate, it's best to get the imperial edict first, mobilize civilians across regions without authorization, and also cooperate in escorting prisoners of war south. If it spreads it, it will definitely be criticized."

Zhang Yong frowned: "This is what Lord Shen means."

Xu Qi nodded: "I also know that this matter is so kind to ask, but he is not very clear about Jiangnan's affairs... If he doesn't understand, we should remind you."

Zhang Yongdao: "What Mr. Xu means is that he refuses to help and asks him to find someone to build the city on his own?"

"I don't mean that, Eunuch Zhang, don't misunderstand it."

Xu Qi explained, "It should be that everything is reported to Your Majesty..."

Zhang Yong was very anxious and stood up: "Your Majesty has issued an order to ensure that the local government should fully cooperate with Lord Shen in doing things. If we have to report everything to the court, it will take five or six days or even more than ten days every time. If you don't worry, Lord Shen must be anxious. When he is anxious, he may be indiscriminate. Your Majesty will blame him..."

"No need to hurry."

Xu Qiu still had that indifferent expression.

Zhang Yong took a look at Xu Qi, and it was very puzzled at first, but after a little thought, he understood something.

Zhang Yong thought to himself: "Shen Zhihou had successfully mediated before, and it was because we joined forces to deal with Qian Ning. Now that he has submitted a memorial to the court, he has not responded to the matter about Qian Ning for a long time. So the cunning Duke of Wei began to perfunctory and refused to help with the matter."

Zhang Yongming understood that when he reached this level, he was not as anxious as before, and said, "I heard that Lord Shen has sent someone to recruit civil servants in surrounding prefectures and counties, but it is still employed. The money and grain used are not recruited by the Ministry of Revenue, but it seems that it is deducted directly from military expenses."

Xu Qi smiled and said, "Shen Zhihou is rich, which is well-known. It is not that he embezzled and accepted bribes, but because he is a businessman in his family. You may not know much about Eunuch Zhang. As far as I know, Lord Shen has a lot of business in Fujian, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Guangxi, Huguang, Jiangxi and Nanzhili. In addition, he has made a lot of money and money and grain that we raised may not be in his eyes at all, so we are just in a hurry."

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Just as Shen Xi was running his city on the banks of the Huangpu River, the news came back to the capital and was known to all political factions.

Some are happy and some are sad!

Xie Qian disagreed with Shen Xi's plan to build a new city at all. This time, Shen Xi did not discuss with anyone in the court. It was simply relying on Zhang Yuan's needle threading and the emperor's support to start construction. Xie Qian was very depressed. After all, in his opinion, even if such a thing is to be done, it should be decided by the court, rather than being "willful" like Shen Xi.

"The localities in Nanzhili have begun to recruit civil servants. I heard that they have to recruit people from surrounding prefectures and counties by themselves. As for the cost, the Ministry of Revenue has not allocated too much money and grain at the moment. It is possible that he will use the silver allocated by the imperial court to build warships before..."

Yang Tinghe also strongly opposed Shen Xi's construction of the city, just as he had opposed many of Shen Xi's strategies before.

At this time, Yang Tinghe had to stand against Shen Xi, because he knew that if he was like Liang Chu, he would not offend both sides, which would mean that he would not please him in several aspects and he would completely lose the opportunity to surpass Liang Chujin as the secondary assistant or even the chief assistant.

Now he is trying his best to fight for himself. Only in this way can he get closer to the core of power step by step.

When Xie Qian listened to Yang Tinghe's remarks, he looked cold and only Jin Gui was beside him.

On that day, Liang Chu's turnover was on and he would not come to the cabinet until evening to serve, so there were only three cabinet ministers in Wenyuan Pavilion at this time.

Jin Gui is a person who doesn't care about the three, and he even rarely speaks when discussing things, so he will not express his opinions at this time.

Finally, Yang Tinghe concluded: "...If there are about half a month, the amount of money spent will be tens of thousands of taels. If you want to stop, you can only ask Your Majesty immediately now?"

After Yang Tinghe finished speaking, the office room immediately became quiet. Xie Qian fell into deep thought and didn't speak for a long time. The Wenyuan Pavilion was silent, and even the crows could be heard outside.

After a long time, Xie Qian sighed slightly: "Even if you come forward, what can you do? When will Your Majesty listen to our advice?"

Yang Tinghe said: "I have repeatedly played the game according to common sense. I seem to have not done anything too much now, but it is also a waste of money. I used to devote my country to launch a war against the Tatars, and now I am arbitrarily building a city in Jiangnan. If this continues, I am afraid that he will be more and more chaotic."

Xie Qian shook his head helplessly: "Don't I know that he is doing now? It's very difficult to stop it. Your Majesty fully supports him. Now we want to go to Datian to listen to the words, but the road to listening to the words is not smooth. What can we do? If I retreat from the court in a few years, I'm afraid it will be even more..."

Xie Qian said the thing he was most worried about was the successor. Now that he is still in the court, he has no choice but to do anything to Shen Xi. Logically speaking, he is Shen Xi's mentor and the mentor who appreciates and promotes him.

If he retires, it means that no one in the court can restrain Shen Xi anymore. He even feels that Yang Tinghe will now face Shen Xi because he is behind the scenes. If he leaves, Yang Tinghe will probably turn around and stop arguing like Liang Chu. After all, Liang Chu is the one who wants to inherit his position as chief minister, and the principle of upward action has always been like this.

Yang Tinghe said cautiously: "Even if the advice fails, it can cause a lot of public opinion, arouse criticism from the government and the opposition in the capital, and force His Majesty to express his opinion."

Xie Qian was surprised, obviously not expecting Yang Tinghe to propose such a "poisonous move".

If the memorial to the emperor is ineffective, it will hit Shen Xi's reputation in the capital and even the Confucian circle. After all, Xie Qian was the chief minister, nominally representing the interests of all scholars in the Ming Dynasty. He would initiate the Qing Dynasty and easily make Shen Xi fall into the whirlpool of public opinion.

In the past, Xie Qian might have been hot-headed, but now he must be cautious. After all, he understands that Shen Xi’s current status in the court is too high, and suppressing Shen Xi’s reputation is actually no benefit to the stability of the court.

Jin Gui suddenly said, "It's better not to do this. The scholar went to Shen Mansion to protest the past... the result was too miserable."

A word made Xie Qian come out of his sluggishness. He immediately realized that the last time Li Mengyang and others launched a besiege of Shen Xi's mansion, opposed Shen Xi's motion to serve as the two ministers. Due to the emperor's interference, Zhang Yuan's fraud, and Shen Xi's inaction, many scholars, including the Hanlin Academy, Hanlin and Six Ministry, and the middle and low-level officials of the Temple Department, were punished, and some even suffered flesh and blood.

Xie Qian's already peaceful mentality suddenly became nervous. After all, in his eyes, the most important thing was the stability of the court and the maintenance of the orthodoxy of the Ming Dynasty.

Yang Tinghe said: "If you don't do it because you are afraid, it will be like bowing to the evil forces... You are so proud that you have started to do things wrong now, and it will become more severe in the next few years. What if it is decades later? Will there be a junior who can stop him? Even at that time, even the royal family will have to follow his ideas, right?"

Yang Tinghe told the question that Xie Qian was most worried about, that Chen Xi's arbitrary behavior would continue to deteriorate. In the future, after Xie Qian, even Yang Tinghe and Jin Gui retreated from the court, the newcomers would be unable to deal with Chen Xi. By then, the entire court was completely controlled by Chen Xi, and even the emperor's decree was handled by Shen Xi.

Jin Gui originally wanted to speak for Chen Xi, but at this time he kept silent because he could sense the current orthodox Confucian officials' exclusion of Chen Xi, which was not about the ability or factional struggles in the court, but was entirely worried that Chen Xi was in charge of the court.

Xie Qian finally sighed and said, "If it is suppressed by public opinion, then I am doing something wrong. If he does it right, then he is a hero of the Ming Dynasty. If he is wrong... he can be handed over to historical judgment. Now he has not done anything wrong and is still moving forward on the right path. If I suddenly push him behind his back, will he go astray?"

Xie Qian always opposed Chen Xi doing something on the surface, which was to stand in the identity and position of the court and maintain his position as the leader of civil servants.

However, in terms of personal feelings, Xie Qian did not want Chen Xi to be ruined. He wanted to maintain his reputation as aware of others, and even made others think that everything he did was right, instead of him promoting Chen Xi with his own hands and then pressing Chen Xi down. What is the difference between this and a confused villain?

Yang Tinghe was very anxious: "If you stop, you will suffer from chaos."

Xie Qian thought about it for a long time, but still shook his head: "I will think about this matter again. As for the matter of clear discussion, how should I do this? I don't want to actively interfere."

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Yang Tinghe talked hard in front of Xie Qian for a long time, but in the end he returned in vain.

This made Yang Tinghe feel powerless. After all, in his opinion, the only person who can check and balance or even suppress Chen Xi is the only one who can check and balance now. However, Xie Qian is obviously not the kind of person who can do big things. He seems smart and wise in small issues and talks endlessly, but once it involves big things, he seems indecisive.

"Everyone knows that Shen Zhihou's rise is a kind of destruction of the inherent order of the court. His current actions are to disrupt the court's principles. You, Xie Yuqiao, can use more resolute means to make Shen Zhihou retreat from the court... If you don't want him to be ruined, others can understand it. After all, that's your grandson-in-law, but young people always need experience. It's not better to let him be idle at home for a few years? He is the title of Duke, who can really do what he does?"

Chen Xi is too young after all. Although Chen Xi has been an official in the court for more than ten years, he is only in his twenties after all, and he is much younger than an old guy like Yang Ting and such.

Yang Tinghe was already a young man in the court, which made him feel powerless. Chen Xi's existence disrupted the order in the court. Coupled with the emperor's trust in Chen Xi and his vigorous promotion of young people, Yang Tinghe felt that the direction of the court's development had seriously deviated from the track of history.

"Since ancient times, whenever young people have attained enlightenment, they have been rampant, such as Wang Mang and Cao Cao. Isn't this the same thing in the court in recent years?"

Yang Tinghe was helpless, "If it were Liu Shaofu and Li Shaobao in the court, why would this be the case? Why was the last one who stayed in the court was Mr. Xie who only talked about nothing?"

Yang Tinghe was extremely disappointed with Xie Qian, but he had no choice but to find a way to push the matter from behind, but this time he could only skip Xie Qian and do it.

In this way, it was equivalent to Yang Tinghe who was doing things by himself, but he understood that there were many people who supported him behind his back, especially those in the court who were dissatisfied with Chen Xi, such as Empress Dowager Zhang, would secretly support him.

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In the palace, Zhu Houzhao knew about the progress of Chenxi's city building from Zhang Yuan's story and was very happy.

In the emperor's opinion, the city built by Chen Xi is his back garden. In the future, Zhu Houzhao is preparing to visit the south. At that time, he will definitely live in the new city built by Shen Xi for a while. While enjoying the customs and customs of Jiangnan, he can also take the big ship built by himself to go to the sea to experience the feeling of the Dragon King of the East China Sea on the sea.

"...Your Majesty, Lord Shen has recruited civil servants from all over the south of the Yangtze River. His initial idea was to recruit 50,000 civil servants and then transfer all 150,000 captured on the battlefield in the Central Plains. However, I thought it would be too slow to build a city of 200,000 people. It was necessary to build a city wall and various buildings, as well as a shipyard. If you find craftsmen to build a ship, you will have to need 300,000 people?" Zhang Yuan smiled.

Originally, Zhang Yuan thought something good, but Zhu Houzhao frowned slightly after hearing this: "It's a bit exaggerating to the 300,000 people? The food and drink cost is not a small amount. It's okay to say that the prisoners can survive. It's my kindness to be my extrajudicial grace, but if the people are unwilling to be recruited, wouldn't I be Emperor Yang of Sui?"

Zhang Yuan was a little at a loss about Zhu Houzhao's words. He immediately realized that although the little emperor had not seen much of the world, he would always compare himself with some emperors in history. If there was a foolish monarch as a precedent, Zhu Houzhao would definitely not do it.

Zhang Yuan quickly said, "How could Emperor Yang of Sui be compared with His Majesty? There are only a few people in the Sui Dynasty? Now the Ming Dynasty is peaceful and the people are prosperous, and the people are rich. Should there be tens of millions of people? Besides, Shangshu Chen will pay the people's salaries, not for vain, they are recruited by labor, but for employment."
Chapter completed!