After Shen Yi responded, the eunuch nodded and silently returned to the palace to serve the emperor.
Looking at Gao Ming's back slowly walking away, Shen Yi felt quite emotional.
Others don't know how Gao Ming and Xu Fu came to be uncles and nephews with different surnames, but Shen Yi, the person involved, knows it all.
It can be said that these two people came together purely because of their interests and became an inexplicable uncle-nephew relationship.
And Xu Fu also relied on this superficial relationship to obtain the status of an imperial merchant and began his prosperous life.
However, in the past few years, Xu Fu followed Shen Yi's instructions and always treated Gao Ming as his uncle. No matter what he thought in his heart, he never stopped giving him gifts during holidays. Occasionally when he asked Gao Ming out for dinner, He was also polite and called uncle one by one.
The eunuch had no children, so maybe the great eunuch of the inner court did have some real feelings.
However, the main reason why Eunuch Gao took the initiative to benefit Xu Fu this time was because Liulichang was doing well. Not only did it bring a lot of income to the palace, but he also helped the court get a telescope.
Although this thing is led by Shen Yi, Mr. Shen is just a hands-off shopkeeper. Xu Fu is doing almost everything and Xu Fu is busy.
As for Xu Fu, in the emperor's view, in addition to being bound to Shen Yi, he was also bound to Gao Ming.
Xu Fu handled things well, and Eunuch Gao's position became much more stable.
At least within a short period of time, he will not be impacted by the rising star Sun Jin.
After sighing with emotion, Shen Yi shook his head and left Deqing Palace.
But this time, he did not go home directly. Instead, he went to the Ministry of War for a walk. He first visited the three officials of the Ministry of War, and then went back to the Martial Arts Department to take a look.
The person in charge of the Martial Arts Department now is Zheng Ling, a member of the Martial Arts Department, because he was promoted by Shen Yi. After meeting Shen Yi, he acted extremely warm and courteous, and even made sure to invite Shen Yi to dinner. Master Shen said that he had many things to do. Reason refused.
After wandering around the Ministry of War and consolidating his position, Shen Yi walked to the door of Zhongshu. After hesitating for a moment, he still did not go in.
Originally, he should have met with Prime Minister Chen Jing and explained the situation to him. After all, before he left, the Prime Minister also took the time to meet with him. However, he thought of Chen Jing's attitude towards him and his desire to fight against the emperor. Mr. Shen curled his lips and went home to sleep instead of entering Zhongshu.
If Chen Ping'an doesn't come to invite Shen Yi, Mr. Shen will never go to see him!
Early the next morning, while Mr. Shen was still sleeping at home while he was not at work, several prime ministers were invited by the emperor to the Manlu Palace to discuss matters.
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His Majesty the Emperor was sitting on the throne, glanced at the five old men sitting at the bottom, coughed, and said: "My lords, General Zhao hurried back to Jiankang a few days ago and met me. We all know it, but I don’t think you know what General Zhao told me.”
"The reason why you are invited here today is to discuss this matter."
The emperor said slowly: "Recently, there have been frequent movements among the Qi people. There are more and more Qi soldiers north of the Huaihe River. According to intelligence, there are already 140,000 to 50,000 people."
"They may cross the Huaihe River at any time."
"General Zhao said that the Huaihe Navy's troops are insufficient. He asked me to temporarily second the 20,000 Coast Guard officers who were training in Songjiang Mansion to the Huaihe River to guard a section of the river on behalf of the Huaihe Navy."
"To reduce the pressure on the Huaihe Navy."
After speaking, His Majesty the Emperor set the tone for the meeting: "I have already promised General Zhao."
He looked at the old men and asked slowly: "Do you have any different ideas?"
After hearing these two words from the emperor, several prime ministers felt more or less helpless.
Good fellow, you've already come down, and you still ask us what we have to say. Are you going to write a letter to refute the imperial edict?
Although Zhongshu does have this power, basically no prime minister will use it. Everyone mainly relies on persuasion.
After all, no one wants to use their wealth to challenge His Majesty the Emperor's temper.
As a result, the five prime ministers were silent for a while. After a while, the Prime Minister Chen Jing slowly stood up. He first bowed his hands to His Majesty the Emperor and flattered him.
"Your Majesty is holy."
Immediately, Old Man Chen changed the topic and continued: "However, I believe that although the soldiers of the Coastal Capital Division have been very effective in suppressing Japanese invaders in recent years and have made a lot of contributions, there may still be some gap between them and the soldiers of the Northern Qi Dynasty. …”
"It's okay to let them support the Huaihe Navy, but should we give it to General Zhao to coordinate the unified command and dispatch? Only in this way can we advance and retreat as one, without worrying about one thing and losing the other..."
The emperor sat on the throne and frowned: "Does Mr. Chen mean that General Zhao's idea is wrong?"
Zhao Lu was a general on the front line, but Chen Jing had never been in charge of troops, or even served in the Ministry of War, so he naturally had no right to speak. He coughed awkwardly and said: "Your Majesty, I have never led troops, so naturally I don't have the right to speak." I dare to say that Anpinghou is wrong, but I feel that this matter is not trivial, and it cannot be based solely on General Zhao’s personal thoughts..."
He raised his head to look at the emperor and asked: "Your Majesty... would you like to invite several officials from the Governor's Mansion and the Ministry of War to discuss it together?"
"They have never fought against the Qi people, so what do they know?"
The emperor waved his hand impatiently and said, "I think that the Huaihe Navy has been guarding the border of Dachen for decades, and General Zhao has been guarding the Huaihe River for more than ten years, so there is nothing wrong with it."
"Let's just do it this way."
The emperor yawned and said lazily: "Looking back, I will have someone draft the edict and issue the letter. The princes will stamp it and send it out immediately."
"The military situation is on fire and there can be no delay."
After speaking, the emperor glanced at the five old men with bright eyes.
At this moment, Chen Jing was the only one standing. He looked back at his four colleagues.
The four "colleagues" were silent and did not dare to speak.
As a result, Chen Xiang could only sigh, silently lowered his head and cupped his hands and said: "Your Majesty... Sheng Ming."
The other four prime ministers stood up one after another and saluted with their hands in unison: "Your Majesty, you are wise."
As a result, this almost absurd and not very "reliable" resolution was successfully passed by Zhongshu under the emperor's almost arbitrary interference.
Moreover, it was quickly printed and issued by Zhongshu, who then printed and issued it to the Ministry of War. Then the imperial edict, together with the documents from the Ministry of War, were sent to the Songjiangwei camp at an accelerated speed of 600 miles.
At the same time, His Majesty the Emperor ordered the Governor's Office and the Ministry of War to discuss the specific river sections to be defended by the Coastal Governor.
As for the protagonist of the incident, Mr. Shen had just gotten up, got on the carriage, and left the house.
After the Shen family's carriage left Shen's house, it went all the way out of Jiankang City, and finally stopped at the gate of the manor that had been renamed "Liulichang" outside the city. Xu Fu, dressed in commoner, stood respectfully at the door to greet Shen Yi. After seeing Shen Yi come down, he immediately stepped forward to salute, bowed slightly and said: "Young Master."
Shen Yi waved his hand at him, indicating that there was no need to be polite.
After walking into Liulichang, Mr. Shen said straight to the point: "Last time I wrote to you, asking you to get more telescopes. How many have you got now?"
Xu Fu lowered his head slightly and said, "Sir, it's not difficult to make things. Lenses and wooden frames can be made. Even these lenses are very time-consuming to polish..."
He paused and continued: "And it takes a lot of time to adjust it. There are only a dozen or so useful telescopes now..."
"Later, I will have people rush to make it as soon as possible..."
"A dozen or so is about right."
Shen Yi breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Put it all in the box and I will take it away later."
Xu Fu nodded in agreement.
Shen Yi thought for a while and then said: "Do as much as possible, and then let people specialize in studying this. The farther away the better."
Xu Fu nodded and said, "Don't worry, sir, I have already found twenty or thirty craftsmen to think about this."
Mr. Shen nodded, picked up one of the binoculars and took a look.
Although it is still not as useful as the telescope from another world, it is much better than the first generation telescope he showed the emperor.
Soon, more than a dozen telescopes were loaded into Shen Yi's carriage.
After getting these telescopes, Mr. Shen touched his chin and began to think about it again.
"Right now, there is still a shortage of a large amount of gunpowder and artillery. These are only available from the Gunpowder Department of the Inner Court War Bureau..."
"This time, the emperor has his ducks in a row. This gunpowder..."
Mr. Shen was a little angry.
"You must give me more!"
