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Chapter 1358: Winter is coming

The deep winter has arrived.

There is also a bit of atmosphere outside the pass in Beijing. The streets are sparsely populated and extremely empty. Only the tall buildings under the heavy snow and the icy rims under the intriguing eaves remind the world that this is the capital.

The winter in the north is always accompanied by the bitter cold wind, so that at this time, people become lazy, and most people hide at home and enjoy the remaining flames of hot charcoal.

People's lives are always changing quietly. As Zhenguo Mansion's demand for coal kilns increases, people suddenly discovered that the role of coal is more extensive. Therefore, the charcoal used to be gradually replaced by coal mined from Beishan. The coal balls in Zhenguo Mansion's coal yard have now entered thousands of households.

There is no coal in the warm pavilion, but it is still as warm as spring. Zhu Houzhao is anxious to leave the palace. His daily life has become simpler now. With the experience of the desert, he is also more stable. Of course, this is just for him, so in addition to reading some memorials, the rest of the time was to call Eunuch Cao to the warm pavilion and start telling his legend.

He likes to tell his own stories, and it is obvious that there is the expression that Zhu Houzhao has always longed for. He hopes to gain recognition from his subjects.

But Eunuch Cao is not responsible for recording. The one who recorded Zhu Houzhao's original words were several small eunuchs. What he did was to find inspiration, just like an artist immersed in art, and he needed to find some inspiration from these stories.

Today, Zhu Houzhao was in a hurry to leave. It was a very urgent matter to leave the palace, especially when he made an appointment with Ye Chunqiu to go to Jingshan to shoot arrows. He said it was archery, but it was just that Zhu Houzhao wanted to try his own riding and shooting skills.

I haven't shot for so many days, and I can't stand the jimo in my heart. Jingshan is a good place. Although it is outside the Forbidden City, it belongs to the Royal Garden. No one disturbs me. There are also flocks of sheep, deer, cranes and other animals that can climb high, drink alcohol, and shoot arrows.

You can play as much as you want, and you can dabble on horseback freely, and you can do almost anything you want.

Zhu Houzhao loved this tone. Because of this, he was very anxious, and it could be said that he was impatient, because Ye Chunqiu had been waiting outside the Ming Gate. Now the ministers could no longer ban Zhu Houzhao from doing this, and Zhu Houzhao was also happy.

He hurriedly changed into his clothes and armor, which seemed very heroic. Unfortunately, the golden armor that Ye Chunqiu paid tribute could not be worn. It was too ostentatious, and it was inconvenient to wear it on the horse.

After finishing his dress, Zhu Houzhao had inserted four rifles on his waist and immediately returned to the appearance of King Shan. He was anxious to leave, so he urged: "Have you not the car driver arrived yet?"

"Your Majesty..." At this time, Liu Jin took the opportunity to walk in with a memorial.

"What's the matter?" Zhu Houzhao's face collapsed when she saw Liu Jin coming in, and immediately said impatiently: "I'm leaving the palace and go and urge me to drive the car."

"It has arrived." Liu Jin still smiled and then said, "But, Your Majesty, this is a few that Your Majesty needs to commend and declare to the world after the Beijing Campaign this year..."

Zhu Houzhao was already unable to wait, and he was completely out of control and wanted to go out in a hurry.

"Let's talk about it when I come back."

Liu Jin refused to give up and hurriedly chased Zhu Houzhao behind him, chatting like an annoying fly: "Your Majesty, this... is about to end the New Year. Logically, this is not delayed. The cabinet and the Tongzheng Department are waiting. If you delay it again, I am afraid that after the New Year, many local prefectures have not received any reports."

Zhu Houzhao stamped her feet: "It's really troublesome, take the red pen."

At the end of the year, Zhu Houzhao asked Zhu to criticize many memorials, including death row prisoners, officials who were commended, and pensions from the royal family. He was already very upset. Especially at this time, he was in a hurry to leave, but Liu Jin said so. He knew the importance and knew that this commendation was a common practice in previous years. If he delayed this for the sake of playing, the cabinet would definitely blame him for his greed for playing. At that time, he would be afraid that the censor would scold him again.

The eunuch beside him was busy adding ink to Zhu Houzhao's vermilion pen.

Zhu Houzhao took the memorial and was too lazy to look closely. There were a thousand words inside, probably the deeds of these officials who were honored. Zhu Houzhao picked up the pen and only scribbled in this memorial: "See it." Then he threw the pen, striding out of the house with a meteor, and muttered, "I'll send it earlier next time." As he said that, the person had already gone far away.

Liu Jin was smiling in this warm pavilion. He carefully put away the commemorative memorials handed over by the cabinet. In the memorials, there were Zhu Houzhao's comments and the work of the cabinet scholars, among which there was also the name "Yang Shen".

Yang Shen, the top scholar in the sixth year of Zhengde, was appointed as the Hanlin editor and entered the Hanlin area. He worked diligently, cautiously and honestly, with a strong temperament and a straightforward nature. The officials verified that the person knew the clear spirit and was straight and unyielding. He was ashamed of the cold and cold as he was.

This is his evaluation.

He has a strong personality, a clean and upright person, and is a rare and good official in the court.

Liu Jin smiled and blew the red marks on the memorial drying, and then he carefully put them away.

He knew His Majesty's character very well. Perhaps Liu Jin did not understand His Majesty's heart, but he absolutely understood His Majesty's living habits. Once something happened, he would be in a hurry and would not care about anything at this time. If there was an urgent memorial at this time, the memorial would not be of any major concern. He only needed emergency responses. His Majesty would never take a look at the memorial.

Otherwise, with Your Majesty's character, if you see that there is Yang Shen among the people who are honored, you will most likely throw the memorial back with Your Majesty's attitude towards Yang Shen and let the cabinet ministers discuss the candidates again.

And now...thing is done.

With this memorial, Liu Jin only needed to add a seal, and then sent the memorial to the cabinet, which sent it to the waiting room. He ordered the Hanlin to draft an imperial edict for commendation. At the same time as the imperial edict was issued, the mansion newspaper would also be copied at the same time. Therefore, it would not take long for the ministers who were commended to not only make a fortune, but also known to everyone in the world and become a model for officials in the world.

Liu Jin had no expression on his face, and had already walked out of the warm pavilion with his hands behind his back. He was snowy outside, and the whole world was white. The world was covered with silver was really beautiful, but many things were not as simple as it seemed.
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