The court storm that began in October of the first year of Zhengde did not end because of the two old masters stepping down and the officials of the six ministries changed their blood, but became more and more intense with Liu Jin's purge.

In the first month of the second year of Zhengde, when the news came that "Mu Bin, the commander-in-chief of the Jinyiwei, was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the Jinyiwei, was in charge of the Nanshifu Office", Shen Rui was already in northern Zhili.

A few days later, Du Laoba came in person and brought the latest news about this matter - Mou Bin put a stick on the thirty of the scepter in the que and surrendered to hundreds of households to live in idyllic.

Because he was in the inn and had no secret room, Du Laoba was extremely cautious and only had a secret talk with Shen Rui alone, while Wang Jianzi and Tian Feng were also guarding outside.

"After a while, I have used a lot of sticks. It is said that it has something to do with Liu Jin. I heard that Liu Jin lost a lot of people to the Jinyi Guard, intending to torture and torture, and then bring it in.

But Mou Bin ignored many people and treated these people quite well, which angered Liu Jin." Du Laoba looked solemn and said, "But both of them and their boss thought that Liu Jin was afraid that Wang Yue's affairs were counted on Mou Bin.

I was on my head and then I started killing me.”

Since being assigned to Zhang Hui by the British Prince Zhang Lun, Du Laoba has completely changed his words and no longer called Zhang Hui the second son, but used a commonly used name for merchants - the boss, who volunteered to be Zhang Hui.

The shopkeeper, even the guy.

It is said in public that Du Laoba was no longer a guard of the British Duke's Mansion. The grandson's gang was just a street gangster. It was a different matter if he secretly helped the grandson do business. Now that he changed his words,

It's more appropriate on the surface.

After hearing this, Shen Rui nodded and said, "When Brother Sticks told me about the matter, I thought about it repeatedly. There was no flaw in that matter. It was common sense to be thought of by the Jinyiwei."

This is not to let Mou Bin take the blame. Mou Bin was not Liu Jin's all-rounder. Since Liu Jin took office, Mou Bin's position itself is unstable.

Knowing that if Liu Jin continues to do something, Mou Bin will inevitably be replaced with a fellow party member. Shen Rui couldn't help asking: "Is the current commander... have any hindrance to Brother Zhang?"

"The boss is now focused on the martial arts of Beijing and Wei, and has nothing to do with these people." Du Laoba said, "The new commander is Yang Yu, and he is not a powerful person."

Seeing that Shen Rui was obviously very unfamiliar with this name, Du Laoba further explained: "Yang Yu's father was the assistant commander of the Jinyiwei, and the Hongzhi Dynasty was gone. Yang Yu inherited his father's shortcomings and was originally released.

Hey, he doesn't have the ability of his father, and his crime has been reduced to a thousand households. He is lucky to be pardoned and transferred to Wanquandusi to bring his salary. Last year, he was shameless and begged to stay in Beijing."

Du Laoba's unshaven face could also be seen with a clear sarcastic expression, which shows his disdain, "...He reasoned that his aunt, Mrs. Wei Shenggongxi's tomb was in the capital, and his descendants were filial. The emperor promised

No. This guy is waiting here. In less than three months, he will get a high position."

Shen Rui was even more unfamiliar with the title of noble ladies in Beijing, and Du Laoba added, "Madam Wei Sheng Gongxi is the nanny of the late emperor."

Shen Ruifang suddenly realized and couldn't help but sigh.

Since ancient times, neither the people nor the Tian family have been free from the common people. Among the redundant officials in the Ming Dynasty, a considerable proportion of these are the emperor's sons and nephews who are close to others have obtained the official position.

The emperor's wet nurse, nanny, and a well-known eunuch in the palace always seeks a lot of official positions!

Not long ago, Zhang Yong, Gu Dayong, Ma Yongcheng and Wei Bin's younger brothers were just awarded the title, either the sacrificial family or the hereditary Jinyiwei Baihu.

These redundant officials were also one of the reasons why they defeated the Ming Dynasty.

Du Laoba didn't know what Shen Rui was thinking. Seeing him sighing, he changed the topic and said, "The matter will be completely over at this point, and the second young master Chen doesn't have to worry about him anymore. There is another thing, a certain family came out of it. Previously, Lord Deng from Liaodong asked the court to increase the annual silver of Liaodong by 50,000 taels of silver. The head of the army mediated the good news, and the emperor was already sure."

When talking about Liaodong, Shen Rui couldn't help but feel excited. He had many ideas related to Liaodong, and Liaodong was also one of the places he wanted to run the most.

Fifty thousand taels of silver are nothing to Liaodong's huge military expenditure. I don't know which reason Deng Zhang asked for it.

"I heard that Lord Deng was going to build a granary and barnyard," Du Laoba's eyes flashed with a cunning smile, "There is also a horse farm."

He smiled and said, "Just at the end of last month, the Censor Wang Ji submitted a memorial. Oh, it's so long, I can't remember it anymore. In short, this person was ordered to go out to investigate Zhili, Henan, Shandong and other places. After raising horses, I found that the foals under the mare were too few for the past year, and they were too weak to run and were useless at all. It happened that Lord Deng came in with the memorial of him and wanted to open more horse farms in Liaodong. To make up for the shortfall, the emperor allocated 50,000 taels first."

It is said to be a lot of 50,000 taels, but it is still far from building a large number of horse farms.

Du Laoba heard it: "Second Young Master, you had the idea of ​​a long and short carriage that you sent back by calling sticks. The boss felt it was wonderful, so he also wanted to pay money to Liaodong to build our own horse farm. The business of Ma Xing is getting started, and it’s all for horses and cows.”

Shen Rui knew that he wanted to ask himself if he wanted to invest in the money. He thought for a while and said, "How much money does it cost to open a horse farm? Can Brother Zhang calculate it? What about the people who raise horses in the future? It's still good in summer, but Liaodong is bitter and cold, and winter is long. Where can I prepare this hay and bean cake?"

Du Laoba was stunned for a moment, scratched the back of his head, and said, "This, I sent someone to Liaodong and got the money. I can always find someone who knows what he knows about it. There is also the Ma family." When he talked about the Ma family, he again I couldn't help but grin, "There is always someone in the Ma family who knows how to raise horses."

This joke was cold enough. Shen Rui couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth, but shook his head and said, "The Ma family's generals are located in Liaodong, and it is easy to trade horses, so it may not be hard for him to raise horses."

He put away his smile and said seriously: "Brother Zhang is in a hurry to send you here, but I'm afraid he's waiting for him to reply. But in my opinion, there is no need to place a horse farm at present, so it's easier to trade with horses in Liaodong. If you are afraid that others will block our business path in the future and you will not be able to get a horse, you can also contact some young girls' tribes outside Yizhou and hire them to raise horses for us, just like tenants, how much horses and how much money they spend every year, Even the food, cloth, medicine and even iron tools that their tribe needs are always something that we can't refuse."

"Old Du, I understand your concerns, but the foal is not raised in one or two days." Shen Rui patted Du Laoba's shoulder and said, "Bring my words to Brother Zhang, I hope he If you can watch it, Lord Deng has already sold a favor, and the horse farm will rise in the future and we can't get into it. It will never be difficult to get some horses out of this favor."

Du Laoba smacked his lips and said, "Well, a certain family doesn't understand the rules here, so he sent a message back first. It's only a few days before the second young master returns to Beijing."

He paused and smiled, "The carriages and horses in the city are already in place, so I'm waiting for long live. When will I issue an order to open the Xiyuan Garden? There is no shortage of horses for the time being. The second young master will have some leisure time when he goes back. , please go to a certain car dealer to give advice."

Shen Rui smiled and said, "Old Du, your store is open, and I will go even if I don't go to the courtesy."

Both of them couldn't help but laugh, and then Du Laoba said again: "When it comes to Xiyuan, I haven't congratulated the second young master yet, your brother-in-law's father..." He hurriedly covered his mouth again, hey, and said : "A certain rough man, this, this, the second son, don't blame him..."

Shen Rui couldn't help but smile. Knowing that he was talking about Li Yanqing's father Li Wu, he couldn't help but say curiously: "Old Master Li is supervising the construction of the West Garden, why? Have you been rewarded by the emperor?"

Du Laoba narrowed his eyes and said, "State of the Ministry of Works Zeng Jian retired a while ago. A few days later, the old man passed away. Fortunately, he retired quickly, and he did not do anything like Zhang Shilang of the Ministry of Personnel. It is popular that Mr. Zeng was promoted to the position of the Prince Ronglu to give him a funeral to the Prince Taibao."

Shen Rui had already understood, and he could hear Du Laoba say: "Now, Lord Li is already the Minister of Works..."

*

Last twelfth lunar month, the Minister of War Xu Jin was renamed the Minister of Personnel. Just a few days after the death of the Minister of Works Zeng Jian, the Minister of Justice Min Ban and Yan Zhongyu, who had just passed away from the Left Minister of War, wrote a letter to him because he was sick and asked to beg for bones. , retired and returned home.

At this point, in less than four months, all the six ministers of the Ministry of Justice changed.

The Secretary of War in Nanjing also changed a new member, the same day that Li Wu was promoted to the Secretary of Works.

As Shen Rui expected, the emperor could not promote Wang Shouren again, but the candidate for this new secretary also reassured him - He Jian, the left minister of the Ministry of Justice, was promoted to the Secretary of the Secretary of the Ministry of War, Nanjing.

He Jian worked with Chen Cang for many years and had a good personal relationship. Because He Dongsheng, the right assistant minister at that time, made He Jian closer to Chen Cang.

After Shen Cang passed away, the case of liaison broke out and the three departments tried. He Jian and Yang Zhen generally stopped walking with the Shen family because of avoiding suspicion, but he personally visited Chen Cang's two anniversary celebrations.

This time he was transferred to the position of Minister of War in Nanjing, Shen Rui believed that he and Wang Shouren could get along well.

After all, it was the emperor's method. Shen Rui shook his head when he thought of Shou Ge's childish face. Shou Ge was worried that Wang Shouren was promoted to the Minister of War, but he still wanted to use him, but he refused to let others go and restrain him, so he chose He Jian.

Shen Rui only thought that this was good, but he didn't know that transferring He Jian was fulfilling Liu Jin's wish.

The newly promoted Minister of Justice, Tu Xun, the Right Censor of the former Censorate, defected to Liu Jin.

After changing the center and cleaning the place, it was not all due to Liu Jin's instructions.

On the day Shen Rui arrived in Tongzhou, the Zhengde Dynasty began to lay off redundant officials for the first time.

First, the Ministry of Personnel issued a letter to submit an office, saying that after the order was issued, the number of officials from both inside and outside was added, the total number of officials from both inside and outside was 129. The land was in a complex manner, and the number of people who were resigned could not be severed, and the number of people who were resigned was 26.

A thick memorial was written with "Two members of the Communist Party of Yuheng's Armor Factory and Zunhua Iron Metallurgical Office" and "One member of the ambassador of the Taipu Temple Changyingku Ambassador of Shuntian Fuku", Seeing this made Brother Shou feel dizzy.

The mid-spring wind blows into the curtains, warm and makes people drowsy.

Brother Shou really couldn't get interested, so he walked to the small table with some dessert fruits, picked up a stained plum and threw it into his mouth, and his whole face was sore that it shrank into a ball.

The little fire man standing beside him was sore, and he couldn't help but shrink his neck and showed an ordinary expression.

However, Shou Ge did not vomit it out immediately. Instead, he narrowed his eyes and seemed to be savoring it carefully. After a while, he said to himself: "The candied fruit that the Xianfei entered is really... tsk... sour two teeth...

…”

Xiaohuo was not old and had not been serving Shou Ge for a long time. He learned the rules of the emperor fore. He knew that it was difficult to respond at this time, so he forced a smile and just waited for his master to open his eyes.

Then he glanced at the young eunuch at the door who was protruding his head from the corner of his eyes. The two of them exchanged eyes. The eunuch nodded to the emperor. The little fireman raised his breath and approached the emperor and called in a low voice.

Long live the Lord…”

Brother Shou raised his eyelids and saw the person at the door, he waved his hand lazily.

The young eunuch carried his robe and ran in, kowtowed and stood up and bowed his waist, laughed, and said a few words in Shou Ge's ear.

Brother Shou's sleepiness was wiped out, and he jumped up, and he became more energetic. He smiled a big smile on his face. He turned around and picked up another plum and threw it in his mouth, and said in a vague way: "Let's go, look."

The young eunuch ran out quickly and happily, and shouted, "Go up, Xishou Palace."

The Xishou Palace in the afternoon was also quiet. At this moment, it was the empress dowager who was resting at noon. Except for a few close-knit palace maids who were serving in the warm pavilion and a few eunuchs listening to the outside hall, the palace ladies next to them all scattered to find a place to rest.

It's gone.

However, at this time, a group of people stood in the courtyard outside the hall.

Three women and four eunuchs were wearing thick palace outfits. Even if the spring breeze was warm, they would still be sweaty and heavy shirts.

The four eunuchs were still good, and the two palace maids were already pink and flushed, which seemed to be a little exhausted.

Only the woman in front had heavy jewelry on her head. She stood for a long time but she didn't even bent her neck.

A concubine who is in the position of a concubine has set more rules than the palace maids who have been trained in the palace for many years, so that the most picky discipline nanny can't get the wrong things.

At this time, there was no sound of insects, only the occasional sound of birds hanging under the eaves made it look more and more quiet and depressing inside and outside the hall.

A crisp sound of footsteps came, and the standing palace ladies couldn't help but glance out of the corner of their eyes, but the concubine Wu De in front of them did not look sideways and kept staring at the main entrance of the hall.

An eunuch ran in, and soon a female official walked out quickly. Seeing that Concubine Wu De was still standing there, she hesitated for a moment, but she still said nothing and bowed slightly, and then hurried out.

The palace ladies behind Wu Defei all showed disappointed eyes.

But soon, the look became warmer.

Because of the eunuch's sharp voice, "The emperor is here..."

As he spoke, the imperial chariot stopped outside the courtyard gate. The little emperor took his hands and walked into Xishou Palace in vain.

Looking at the person kneeling in the yard, the little emperor raised his hand casually and walked to Wu Defei, as if he was surprised: "The beloved concubine is also on the side of the mother."

Concubine Wu De's voice is always so steady: "I am here to pay my respects to the empress."

The little emperor smiled and said, "My mother is going to take a break from noon?"
To be continued...