When Ling Su and Xue Wei came out of the palace, an imperial edict that had been prepared was personally delivered to Zhongshu Province by the eunuch Gao Ming and delivered to the Prime Minister Chen Jing.
Eunuch Gao lowered his head slightly, with a rare smile on his face: "Mr. Chen, this is His Majesty's decree. Can you please seal it and send it to us?"
He handed the imperial edict that he had prepared to Chen Jing. Chen Xianggong took it with both hands and said with a smile: "If there is an edict in the palace, just send someone to deliver it. How can I bother Eunuch Gao to deliver it himself?" "
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"Everyone in the palace has a hard life."
Eunuch Gao said with a smile: "There is no difference between the one sent by our family and the one sent by others. Prime Minister Chen should take a quick look at it. After reading and stamping it, our family can return to the palace to resume his duties."
Eunuch Gao has been in charge of the inner court for many years. During his time in charge, Zhongshu has experienced three prime ministers. Therefore, even Chen Jing cannot be too rude to Gao Ming. After asking Eunuch Gao to sit down, Mr. Chen He unfolded the imperial edict and looked at it. He only glanced at it and frowned slightly.
He frowned, waved to a young man walking in Zhongshu, and told the young man to pass on the imperial edict and show it to the other prime ministers.
When the other prime ministers were reading the imperial edict, Chen Jing glanced at Gao Ming, coughed, and said: "Eunuch Gao, this Shen Yi and Shen Ziheng are the division officers of the Ministry of War and the most important chief officer of the Military Selection Division. , with his status, no matter what, he should not send Jiankang again. If Your Majesty wants to send someone to the front line to supervise the army..."
"It seems...it seems more reasonable to find someone from the Yushitai."
"Xiang Chen, why can't you turn the corner?"
Eunuch Gao smiled with a smile on his face and said: "For the errands of the Ministry of War, just find a deputy from the Military Selection Department. As for the Yushitai you mentioned, Mr. Chen, isn't it just to transfer Dr. Shen from the Ministry of War to the Yushitai?" Is it a matter of a word from His Majesty?"
"Why bother?"
Eunuch Gao didn't usually smile very much, but now in front of Prime Minister Chen, the smile on his face was quite obvious. He said with a smile: "You also know, Prime Minister Chen, that this coastal capital is a newly established army. Let them Your Majesty is worried about going to guard the Huaihe River, and you have to find someone to watch over it. Everyone in the court has looked at it, and Dr. Shen is the most suitable one."
In the past two years, Mr. Shen was in the southeast, and it can be said that he had a hard time before he started a career. This coastal capital was basically created by him, Shen Yi. Now, according to logic, it is reasonable to send Shen Yi to supervise the army.
At this time, the other prime ministers had already finished reading. Chen smiled at Eunuch Gao, then turned to look at the other prime ministers and asked: "Everyone, Eunuch Gao is waiting here. If you don't have any objections, I can It was sealed and distributed."
have opinions?
The great eunuchs in the palace are all watching here. The emperor's attitude has become so clear. What opinions can they have?
Cui Yu opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but remained silent in the end.
The other three people had no objections to this imperial edict and all nodded in agreement.
As a result, Chen Jing stamped the imperial edict with the Zhongshu seal in front of Gao Ming.
Eunuch Gao nodded with satisfaction and said with a smile: "Mr. Chen, gentlemen, this matter is quite urgent. We will take this imperial edict home and let the people in the palace declare it directly."
Chen Jing stood up and said, "I'll see my father-in-law off."
"I don't dare, I don't dare."
Gao Ming shook his head repeatedly, bowed his hands to Chen Jing and other prime ministers, turned around and left with the imperial edict.
After Gao Ming left, Cui Yucai sighed and said to Chen Jing: "Mr. Chen, this is obviously against the rules. As the leader, how can you say nothing?"
Chen Jing glanced at this guy and said angrily: "Why didn't you Cui Guangxian say anything?"
Cui Yu choked and said in a low voice: "Cui is not the leader of Zhongshu."
"Then Prime Minister Cui, go into the palace now. As long as you can convince His Majesty, you can take back your life."
Chen Pingan said in a low voice: "I will give up the position of chief to you Cui Guangxian."
"OK OK."
Xie Min, the oldest prime minister and also a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, stood up, smoothed things over with a smile, and said: "Prime Minister Cui, Prime Minister Chen is right. In Zhongshu Province, anyone who has an opinion will stand up for himself. How can you be harsh on others if you don’t dare to speak yourself?”
He looked at Chen Jing again and said with a smile: "There is something wrong with Duke Ping'an. The position of the leader was decided by His Majesty. How could it be that I just gave up after waiting for the ministers to give in?"
He was the oldest and most senior. When Prime Minister Wang Dan retired, he should have taken over as Prime Minister. However, he declined because he was too old and lacked energy, so the position of Prime Minister fell to Chen Jing.
Therefore, he stood up and talked to each other. The two prime ministers really had nothing to say.
Ever since, the matter just ended.
The imperial edict sealed by Zhongshu also quickly completed all procedures and was delivered to Shen Yi's home by the two young eunuchs in the palace.
At this moment, it is afternoon.
Mr. Shen had just finished eating with his two subordinates and his family. When they were still talking about some details in the backyard, they even delivered it to the door of Shen's house. Shen Yi and his family could only go out together and put out scented eucalyptus to greet them. Imperial decree.
Shen Yi already knew the content of the imperial edict in advance.
It is nothing more than appointing him as the imperial envoy accompanying the army to supervise all military affairs of the coastal capital.
However, after receiving this imperial edict, Mrs. Shen Lu Ruoxi was obviously a little unhappy. She just glanced at Shen Yi, then silently hugged her eldest son Shen Yuan and went back to the backyard.
Mr. Shen glanced at Ling Su and Xue Wei with some embarrassment. After coughing, he said, "Okay, you can go and do whatever you need to do. The Ministry of War and the Gunpowder Department will go out. You can go back in two days." Songjiang Mansion, once the section of the river we are guarding is determined, I will go to Songjiang Mansion to look for you."
Both of them looked at Shen Yi with eyes full of gossip, then respectfully clasped their fists to say goodbye and left Shen's house.
Master Shen also carried his hands behind his back and walked all the way to his bedroom, where he found Lu Ruoxi who was taking care of her child to write big calligraphy.
He moved a chair, sat next to the mother and son, and said with a smile, "Who made our little bird angry?"
Lu Ruoxi turned her head away, with obvious tears in her eyes.
"It's only been half a year since I came back, why are you going out again? Why go on an expedition with the army? Is that what a scholar like you should do?"
Mrs. Shen wiped her tears and felt a little aggrieved: "In the entire Jiankang City, I have never heard of a family with two rankings as Jinshi who goes out to hang out with the army every day."
Shen Yi sighed softly, looked at his son who was writing big characters, and said: "Madam, if your husband doesn't do these things, Yuan'er and his generation will have to do them in the future, and the situation will even be worse than now. Dangerous and even worse.”
"Leave aside the imperial government and the government, I have to do something just for our little family."
"There are so many people in the court..."
Lu Ruoxi wiped her tears and bit her lip.
"So many people..."
Shen Yi smiled and said: "Isn't it true that no one is as capable as your husband? Otherwise, how could Your Majesty let me do this?"
Seeing that Lu Ruoxi was still in a low mood, Mr. Shen smiled and said: "By the way, madam, the palace told me some time ago that our family will be rewarded with a large house this year, which will be at least six or seven times bigger than the current house. .”
Mr. Shen patted Madam on the back and said softly: "When the time comes, my husband's front and back yards will be filled with peach blossoms as Madam is used to. When spring comes, our house will be full of peach blossoms."
Lu Ruoxi snorted lightly and ignored Shen Yi.
Master Shen sighed silently and stayed with her without speaking.
Lu Ruoxi got angry for a while, then tears started to flow from her face. She reached out and touched her belly which was no longer flat, and cried: "If you leave, I will give birth to him alone."
Shen Yi came back at the end of last year. The couple had been together for more than half a year, and finally fell in love three months ago. Now Mrs. Shen is pregnant with her second child.
Shen Yi reached out and touched her belly and said softly.
"Madam, don't worry, my husband will definitely come when this child is born."
