Chapter 633: Hunting for a guaranteed monthly pass)
Seeing Chen Xi's face look ugly, Yu Niang asked curiously: "I just learned about the situation in Fuzhou. I am asking Shangshu Liu for advice to see what to do, but I don't know where Lord Shen learned the news from?"
Chen Xidao: "I have met Mr. Gao."
"Great Priest?"
After hearing Chen Xi talk about Gaoming City, Yu Niang naturally thought of the former parents of Tingzhou Prefecture. She thought for a while and said, "We have an internal channel to convey information. I just learned about it here, but he could immediately know that this matter may have a lot to do with him. Lord Shen is better to be careful..."
Chen Xi could hear that Yu Niang intended to lure his anger to Gaoming City, which shows that the Ministry of Revenue's investigation of Gaoming City has not ended. It was just that because Gaoming City is now a member of the foreign relatives and is valued by Emperor Hongzhi, even if there are clues, it is impossible to recover the stolen goods.
We can't get back the money given to the Zhang brothers from Gaoming City. Most of the stolen money is now in the inner treasury. If we want to get it back, we can only ask Emperor Hongzhi for it.
Yu Niang said again: "I heard something from you. Your Majesty seems to be intending to send Lord Shen to cooperate with Minister Gao to North Pass to Suifu. Lord Shen must prepare in advance."
"I already know it at this time." Chenxi Road.
Yu Niang looked surprised: "It was also sent by Mr. Gao to inform him? Then his news is really very well-versed. As soon as His Majesty made a decision, he already knew about this... I finally understood why Mr. Gao wanted to ask someone to inform Mr. Shen about Fuzhou..."
Yu Niang wanted to ask what Gaomingcheng said to him, but Chen Xi obviously had no intention of answering, but instead asked: "Can Shu Liu send someone to accompany him?"
Yu Niang smiled, her meaning was self-evident.
Asking for some reason, how could Liu Shangshu feel assured that Gaoming City will go alone? Even if Gaoming City is Sun Wukong, can he escape from the palm of the Tathagata Buddha?
Chen Xidao: "It seems that Yu Niang is going with her, too?"
Yu Niang nodded: "Shangshu Liu does have this intention, but he has not made any formal arrangements yet, and everything has variables. Lord Shen just let go of his heart. I promise that as long as he is the one whom Lord Shen cares about, there will never be any trouble."
"Do you know who I am concerned about?" Chen Xi asked.
Yu Niang nodded confidently.
Chen Xi is not good at saying anything at the moment, because nothing is useful. Even if you arrive from Beijing to Fujian, it is too late. The only way to believe in Yu Niang and the power behind her.
What Chenxi, Fuzhou City, was most worried about was not the brothers from the carriage and horse gangs, but the Yin shopkeeper's family, including Yin Wen, the young girl who couldn't let him go.
After saying goodbye to Yu Niang, Chen Xi sighed secretly: "I hope there will be no accident in them." Before he knew it, he thought of Hui Niang who would rather take risks than go against his wishes, and felt powerless.
If it weren't for the distance between the world, Hui Niang would have to be tied up from Tingzhou Prefecture even if she was tied up.
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Chen Xi was worried about the Tingzhou Chamber of Commerce, and the autumn days of the imperial court came unknowingly.
As the Youchunfang Youyude of the Zhanshi Mansion, Chenxi was just a fifth-rank civil servant. It seemed insignificant in a place like the capital where princes and ministers were everywhere. However, even a Hanlin official like him became a key figure in Qiuwei because he was responsible for showing the "powerful artillery equipped by the Ming army" to the Urianha people in the paddock.
The day before Qiuwei, Ma Wensheng called Chen Xi to the Ministry of War for instructions, which roughly meant that Chen Xi would go with the Ministry of War the next day, because this time, Empress Zhang and Crown Prince Zhu Houzhao did not accompany him. Except for Zhan Shi Wu Kuan, the others in the Zhan Shi Mansion performed their duties, and Chen Xi was temporarily recruited to the Ministry of War to listen to him.
"Shu Ma, just like when he was performing cannons in the school field that day, he demonstrated that artillery bombarded the straw men and the straw horses in front of the Urianha people?"
Chen Xi still asked for a specific verification, because the Ministry of War has only told him to be responsible for the artillery in the past few days, and he did not mention the process at all.
Ma Wensheng nodded and said, "You don't need to worry about the specifics. You will naturally tell you where to fire the fire. Don't worry."
Chen Xi thought to himself, can we still make tricks when performing cannons in the paddock? This time, if we don’t fight against fakes, we will try to fight real people and try to try the actual combat effect?
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The hunting ground in the capital of the Ming Dynasty was located in Nanhaizi, south of the capital. It is said that Houhai and Shichahai were named according to their geographical location.
Nanhaizi is also the "Haizili" commonly known as the people of the capital.
Nanhaizi was first built in the Yuan Dynasty and was the royal hunting ground in the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty. After Chengzu moved the capital, he expanded the hunting ground in the 12th year of Yongle, and the scope was ten times that of the Yuan Dynasty. In the third year of Xuande in the Ming Dynasty, the Nanhaizi wall, bridge and earthen wall were repaired for about 120 miles long, and four gates were opened, namely Dahongmen, Nanhongmen, Donghongmen and Xihongmen. At the same time, the palaces used by the emperor to hunt were built, two admiral offices were established, and the "Haihu" was guarded.
There are more than a thousand sea households in Nanhaizi. In addition to protecting the garden, the more important thing is to maintain animals and help with flowers, plants and trees. There are no ferocious beasts inside. They are all tame animals that are easy to hunt, which is almost equivalent to an open-air ecological zoo.
During the Chenghua Dynasty, Emperor Chenghua often brought Concubine Wan to hunt here, but when he arrived in the Hongzhi Dynasty, Emperor Hongzhi had long put aside his hunting matters, so that Nanhaizi lacked funds over the years and became a little desolate.
On this day, Emperor Hongzhi went on a tour to hunt, and the roads were closed from the palace to the Zhengyang Gate. After Luanyu left Zhengyang Gate, he continued to go south. After walking for about an hour, he saw the Dahongmen, the north gate of Nanhaizi. He entered through the Dahongmen, and walked for about a stick of incense before entering the Wudian Palace.
At this time, the follow-up car of the long queue had just driven out of Zhengyang Gate.
Because the hunting lasts for two days, on the first day, Emperor Hongzhi will take civil and military officials and hold a small ceremony outside the palace. Then Emperor Hongzhi will receive the envoy of Urianha and announce the start of the hunt in the form of artillery fire.
During these two days, those who accompany the officials who can ride horses and shoot arrows can participate in the hunting. Finally, there will be a small competition to determine the outcome based on the amount of prey they are hunted, and Emperor Hongzhi personally rewarded it.
On the first night, there was also a bonfire party in the yard, which was equivalent to an open-air barbecue party, with imperial wine and food. On the next morning, Emperor Hongzhi met with the envoy of Folangji Almeida and others in the palace and returned to the palace that night.
When Emperor Hongzhi decided to go on a tour, Empress Zhang Shangfeng was in good health. He originally planned to bring his wife and son together, which was equivalent to vacation. However, because Empress Zhang's body suddenly changed, Emperor Hongzhi was in a bad mood and wanted to cancel it, but after all, he had already decided to meet foreign envoys during hunting. It was not the style of the emperor without trust, so Emperor Hongzhi could only come with a tough bullet.
As for the accompanying officials, the cabinet was left by Liu Jian and Li Dongyang, Xie Qian was accompanied by him, and one of the six ministries was left by the Minister of State or the Minister of the Secretariat. This will be agreed in advance.
Because the Ministry of Revenue is quite special, the Ministry of Revenue and the Minister of Revenue and the Minister of Rights and Assistant Ministers did not attend the meeting when the autumn grain was put into storage and the amount of money and grain needed to be allocated by the border troops.
Zhu Youzhang couldn't ride a horse, but when he was young, he was influenced by his father Emperor Chenghua and learned to shoot archery. However, he hated fighting and killing, so he would rather stay in the palace to rest than participate in this hunting. But he was the king of a country after all, he was both the initiator and the host of hunting. Everyone should act according to his expression. Zhu Youzhang knew this very well, so he would try his best to participate in activities other than hunting.
The civil officials came to the yard to participate in the hunting, and they did not feel monotonous. In addition to barbecue and wine supply, there were also activities to recite poems and essays. I think those great poets and great writers of the Tang and Song dynasties also wrote a series of gorgeous poems and beautiful articles while accompanying the emperor on a tour.
Since the Ming Dynasty governed the country with civilization, of course, it could not be left behind. However, the Ming officials were basically selected from the imperial examinations. Many of them entered the officialdom in their thirties and forties, and were promoted in terms of qualifications. The final result was that those who could become senior officials of the court were basically a group of old guys.
After these people were young and middle-aged, even in this kind of horse hooves and magnificent hunting activity, they could not find any good poems and articles.
In order to make this hunting more meaningful, Emperor Hongzhi brought several young officials from Hanlin Academy, all of whom were selected in advance by the Hanlin Academy. Not only were they young, but the most important thing was that they were good at learning poetry and essays. When they arrived at the hunting ground, they would not disappoint the emperor when they needed to recite poems and essays.
Chen Xi was originally a good candidate, young and promising, and talented. Unfortunately, he is now just working in the Hanlin Academy. This time he was transferred to the Ministry of War for help, but he was not doing anything.
In the convoy heading south, Chen Xi sat in the bumpy carriage, watching the withering branches and leaves outside, and there was a kind of sadness and vicissitudes and confusion in his heart. It was good if he went out to hunt in this ghost weather, and it was not frozen to death... This was no longer the clear and cool autumn weather, but early winter. The winter in the north of the Little Ice Age was not ordinary cold.
In this kind of weather, as long as the cold current arrives, it will never wait for the winter month.
"Mr. Shen, it's almost time to reach the Hongmen. Why don't you come down and have a walk?"
Except for Chen Xi, other members of the Ministry of War did not have the treatment of him as a carriage. The old men began to inspire Chen Xi to get off the carriage and move their muscles so that they could sit on the carriage for a rest.
"No."
Chen Xi tightened her clothes, "I went out today and didn't bother to add clothes. It was cold outside, so I still hid in the carriage and got off the carriage when I got to the place."
The old men were a little disappointed, but they didn't dare to say anything. Chen Xi was from the fifth-rank Hanlin official and the Minister of Shangshu invited him to help, and repeatedly told him to serve him well.
At this time, the sound of horse hooves came from behind the chariot, from far to near, and the speed was very fast... Chen Xi approached the window and saw a young man in brocade clothes riding a horse quickly, as if something important was reported.
When Chen Xi saw this person, he couldn't help but turn his head to the side and muttered: "Why are you pretending to be like this at this time?"
It's not someone else, it's the old acquaintance Jiang Liwei.
Since Jiang Liwei wanted to take private goods to Chen Xi and get nothing after taking over the fat man Zhou, Chen Xi hasn't seen this person for a long time.
At present, as the accompanying guard escorting the emperor on patrol, Jiang Liwei can finally show her face in front of others, but in Shen Xi's opinion, Jiang Liwei has a bit of a fox and a tiger's power.
"What did Lord Shen say?"
Zhang Laowu was also in the carriage. When he heard Chen Xi's words, he couldn't help but ask curiously.
"Nothing, I mean, the weather is quite cold today. If you go out to hunt, you will have to freeze to death!" Chen Xi said unhappily.
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ps: The fifth update is here!
This chapter is an update for all book friends. Thank you for your support... It is particularly pointed out that there were 35 great rewards from Qidian today, and the Creation side also exploded surprisingly. In addition, there were 34 people in QQ Bookstore that gave rewards, so I couldn’t be grateful!
Finally, the monthly ticket was in a hurry, and the emperor asked for help!
Chapter completed!