After Shen Yi made some mental preparations, he opened the letter in front of Li Mu.
His eyes quickly scanned the letter, from beginning to end, without reading the specific content of the letter, but he saw two words...
First armor!
Shen Yi took a closer look at the three words behind Yijia.
First and third place.
This is the third flower.
Shen Yi stood there and was silent for a while. He didn't speak for a long time. After a long time, he read the contents of the letter again.
This is a letter written by Shen Heng. The handwriting is very familiar.
The general content of the letter is that after the results of the palace examination are released, he will rush back to his hometown in Jiangdu to worship his ancestors. In addition to worshiping his ancestors, he will also renovate his mother's tomb.
After all, my mother is already a fifth-grade imperial concubine, so her grave needs to be more decent.
At the end of the letter, Shen Heng told Shen Yi to take care of himself and pay attention to safety when doing things outside.
After reading the content of the letter, Mr. Shen stuffed the letter back into the envelope, silently sat back next to Li Mu, and picked up the tea on the table.
His hands were trembling slightly.
Li Mu smiled and asked, "It seems that the younger brother of the Shen family did well in the exam."
"Third place in the imperial examination."
Shen Yi exhaled a breath, glanced at Li Mu, and said in a sonorous voice: "Jinshi passed!"
Only Sandingjia can be called a Jinshi and pass the rank.
A second-level scholar like Shen Yi can only be called a Jinshi.
As for the top three...the words "Tongjinshi" can disgust them for a lifetime.
Hearing the word Jinshi and the third word, even a member of the clan like Li Mu couldn't help but feel slightly moved, stroking his palms and sighing: "It's amazing, it's amazing."
He looked at Shen Yi and said with a smile: "Zi Heng will probably have to spend more money in the future."
Shen Yi was stunned and asked, "What's the expense?"
"Of course I hired someone to guard the Shen family's ancestral graves."
Li Mu said with a smile: "The Shen family has two Hanlin sects. After this matter spreads back to Jiangdu, I am afraid that many people in your Jiangdu Mansion will secretly bury the dead in your family in the middle of the night next to your ancestral grave, or even directly. Enter your ancestral grave!"
Although there was some humor in Li Mu's words, it was not a joke at all.
What he says will almost 100% come true!
Someone will definitely try their best to bury family members in the ancestral graves of the Shen family...
Shen Yi shook his head helplessly: "They like to bury it, so let them bury it. My family still has elders in Jiangdu, let my uncle argue with them."
"Ha ha."
Li Mu smiled heartily and said: "We are happy today. You can't escape this meal Zi Heng no matter what. You have to invite me to the best restaurant in Fuzhou for a meal!"
Shen Yi smiled and nodded, and asked: "Does the Crown Prince want to meet officials from Fujian? If so, you can ask Cheng Futai to go out for a meal today and have a meal with the Crown Prince."
Li Mu touched his chin, and after thinking for a while, he said: "It's okay to meet, after all, we drove from Jiankang to Yueqing together, and we got along for half a month on the road. We are familiar with each other. Now that we are in his territory, Naturally, I have to pay my respects to the mountain."
Li Mu is undoubtedly very smart.
He knew his position very well, so he was determined not to interfere in any military affairs, and he basically did not even meet with the generals under Dusi Yamen, but he had no taboos in interacting with local civil servants.
After all, when he was in Yueqing, he hung out with officials from all over Zhejiang for more than a month.
Civil servants are incapable of rebellion...
"Well."
Shen Yi smiled and said: "I asked Jiang Sheng to go to the governor's office and invite the Master Zhongcheng to have a meal with me. I won't be in Fujian in a few days. If the prince has something to do, it will be convenient for him to go to him."
Li Mu stretched and said, "What can I do to him? This Cheng Futai doesn't seem to be here to curry favor with me, let alone take me to eat, drink and have fun."
He smiled at Shen Yi and said, "Zi Heng, you don't know that while you were away in Yueqing, I was invited by the governor of Zhejiang to live in Lin'an Mansion for a few days. Tsk, it was a really ecstatic few days."
Listening to his tone, Shen Yi knew...
Governor Zhou of Zhejiang probably took Li Mu to a health care clinic.
Mr. Shen sighed helplessly: "Actually, His Majesty doesn't have much precautions against the Crown Prince. The Crown Prince doesn't have to be afraid of being like this. He just does what he should do on weekdays."
"Since the seventh year of Hongde, at least five clans have been expelled."
Li Mu raised his eyebrows. He glanced at Shen Yi blankly.
"Does Yue Wang Yu know?"
Shen Yi was stunned for a moment, then whispered: "I know."
King Li Yu of Yue, the second son of the late emperor and the younger brother of the current Emperor Hongde, was appointed by Emperor Hongde to marry the daughter of General Zhao Lu.
"Prince Yue's Mansion already has a heir apparent."
The presence of a heir apparent means that King Li Yu of Yue had a son with a daughter of the Zhao family.
"It's getting deeper and deeper."
Li Mu stood up, flexed his muscles, and said calmly: "You and I both know in our hearts why your Majesty has spent so much energy on exploring the southeast in the past few years. One day in the future, when the situation in the DPRK is shaken and the Zhao family falls, King Yu of Yue will almost certainly be disgraced and expelled."
"Even death."
He looked at Shen Yi and exhaled: "My dear brother."
"Our Majesty is much more ruthless than Zi Heng imagined."
"How could I not be cautious?"
At this point, Li Mu suddenly smiled.
"But that's a good thing."
"When you sit in that position, you have to be ruthless so that you can sit firmly and accomplish things."
After saying this, Li Mu patted Shen Yi on the shoulder and said: "Zi Heng, you can rest assured that I am a hero who wants to do things. Since he wants to do things, he cannot do without a capable minister like Zi Heng." .”
Shen Yi remained silent.
Everyone is complex and multifaceted.
Obviously, the emperor in Shen Yi's impression was quite different from the emperor in Li Mu's impression.
However, Shen Yi also knew about the matter of Yue King Li Yu. As far as this matter was concerned, the emperor's temperament was indeed ruthless.
Shen Yi did not answer Li Mu's words directly, but just smiled slightly: "Stop talking about this, I will take the prince out for dinner."
"good."
The prince put his hands on his hands and smiled.
"Go and celebrate Xiao Shen Tanhua's success as a Jinshi."
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At the beginning of this year, when Shen Yi left Jiankang, he went with Cheng Tingzhi and Li Mu. Since they were old acquaintances, the atmosphere of the meal was not bad. When Cheng Tingzhi saw Li Mu, he first bowed his hands and saluted, and then He looked at Shen Yi and said, "The prince is coming to Fuzhou, why didn't Zi Heng inform him in advance? I can take the Fujian officials and go out of the city to welcome him."
At this point, he sighed to Li Mu and said, "It's so rude to be a lowly official."
"Welcome and you will be exempted."
Li Mu waved his hand and said with a smile: "I am afraid of strangers and I don't want to see too many strangers."
He smiled at Cheng Tingzhi and said: "If Zhong Cheng really feels that he has lost etiquette, he might as well make up for it elsewhere. I heard that the Yamen in the coastal areas are still under construction..."
"Don't worry, Your Majesty, the Governor's Yamen has sent craftsmen over to build the Dusi Yamen. The construction is already in progress. It is estimated that it will be completely completed by the end of May and mid-June."
Li Mu smiled and said, "What about the expenses?"
Cheng Tingzhi said without hesitation: "This subordinate has already made an agreement with Master Shen in advance that the money for the construction of Dusi Yamen will come from my Fujian vassal treasury."
Li Mu then smiled happily, raised his wine glass, toasted Cheng Tingzhi, and said, "In this case, I would like to thank Zhongcheng on behalf of the capital's Yamen."
After the two of them drank this glass of wine, the Jin prince raised his glass again and said with a smile: "This glass is to celebrate Xiao Shen Tanhua's achievement as a Jinshi."
Cheng Tingzhi raised his head and drank a glass of wine, looked at Shen Yi and said: It is indeed Sandingjia. Congratulations to Zi Heng. "
He couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "In the future, I'm afraid there will be talk about the Great Mr. Shen and the Little Mr. Shen in the court."
Shen Yi shook his head: "Both of the two of you are much better than our brothers, so don't praise him."
Cheng Futai also shook his head slightly, and said with a serious face: "If both of my sons can become Jinshi and enter the Hanlin Academy, let alone the official I have, even if it kills me immediately, I will be willing to do so."
Li Mu smiled and nodded: "There are only three Dingjia in three years. If I can choose, I will not be a member of the Lao Shizi clan. I will become a Jinshi of Yijia, and I can still contribute to the country."
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Seeing that the two of them were going to continue arguing, Shen Yi interrupted the topic in time. He coughed and said, "Okay. Let's talk about serious things."
Master Shen looked at Cheng Tingzhi.
"Zhongcheng, the Municipal Shipping Division in Langqi Town is already under construction. It will be completed in May. The Fuzhou Municipal Shipping Division will start trial operation in June. What do you think?"
Cheng Tingzhi nodded immediately: "No problem."
Shen Yi nodded again and said: "As for Quanzhou's Shipping Department, we can wait for a few months before talking about it."
Cheng Futai narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "The Shipping Department in Quanzhou will be able to operate normally by August at the latest."
After saying this, he looked at Shen Yi and asked, "Is Ziheng leaving Fujian?"
"Soon."
Master Shen smiled and replied: "The errand in Fujian went well. Once the things here are finished, I will continue to go south to run the final Guangzhou Health and Guangzhou Shipping Department."
"After Ziheng finishes his errands in Guangdong, he will definitely come back to Fuzhou again."
"otherwise…"
He sighed: "I don't know if we will have a chance to meet again in the future."
