marquis of jingan

Chapter 679 General direction and small achievements

Seeing Shen Yi's expression, Cheng Ting knew how this old fritter, who had been an official for decades, didn't know what he was thinking. The flowers and plants are in full bloom now, the old man took a look yesterday and they are quite beautiful, how about we go to the backyard to enjoy the flowers?"

Master Shen was drinking water, and he looked calm and breezy. Hearing this sentence, the tea in his mouth almost spewed out. He looked up at Cheng Tingzhi, and blinked: "Zhong Cheng Why are you suddenly going to admire the flowers?"

"Didn't your brother fail the exam?"

Cheng Futai sighed: "Although the old man is old, he also passed the examination in the early years, and knows what it's like to seek fame in the examination room. Since he failed the examination, Ziheng must feel uncomfortable."

Governor Cheng smiled and said: "But it's okay. Brother Ling is still very young, so I'll wait another three years. I'll take Ziheng to the backyard to enjoy the flowers and relax."

Master Shen was depressed, he got up and cupped his hands towards Cheng Futai, and said: "Zhongcheng, I haven't slept all night, and I'm very sleepy now, so I won't bother you. I'll come back on the day of my elder brother's birthday party."

After finishing speaking, he was about to get up and leave, but Cheng Tingzhi grabbed his sleeve, and the governor of Fujian looked at Shen Yi with a smile: "From your tone, I know that you are going to show off, after all, I will try it to the end." How did you do in the exam?"

Only then did Shen Yi stop and look back at Cheng Tingzhi with a sincere smile on his face.

"It's not very good either, I'll try fifth."

"fifth…"

Even this big official in the frontier couldn't help taking a deep breath at this time. He sat back on his seat, looked at Shen Yi with a smile on his face, lowered his head and took a sip of tea, and then slowly said In a word.

"Impressive."

Cheng Futai clapped his palms and sighed: "The Shen family in Jiangdu wants a family of brothers and double Hanlin."

Shen Yi also sat back in his seat, waved his hands and said: "It's just the test, the palace test hasn't been taken yet, so you may not be able to enter the Imperial Academy."

According to the rules of previous years, Hanlin usually takes the top ten, that is, from No.1 in the first class to No.7 in the second class.

Speaking of this, Shen Yi couldn't help laughing: "But my younger brother is very upbeat. Even if he can't enter the Imperial Academy this time, a second-class Jinshi is still safe."

The top five in the general examination, as long as you don't perform abnormally in the palace examination, you will be ranked in the top twenty at least, and you will be among the best in the second-class Jinshi.

Cheng Futai looked at Shen Yi, and said with a smile: "Ziheng, your holy family is in full swing. During the palace examination, Lingdi might be able to get a triple tripod armor."

Hearing this sentence, Shen Yi was a little unhappy.

He frowned and said, "Zhongcheng, you are also a scholar from the top two rankings. By saying such things, you underestimate not only your majesty, but also your younger brother!"

Seeing that Shen Yi was not happy, Cheng Tingzhi quickly waved his hands and said with a wry smile: "The old man made a slip of the tongue."

"The old man doesn't mean to underestimate Lingdi. Lingdi's knowledge is naturally enough. His Majesty may be beautiful when the time comes."

Shen Yi just retorted, not really angry, and said in a low voice: "It all depends on his own good luck, but I am very happy for him as a brother to be able to get this ranking in the test."

Master Shen took a sip of tea and said with emotion: "I think of when Hongde released the list in seven years, I will try to be 130 and [-]th. My younger brother is much better than me in learning."

When Cheng Tingzhi heard this, he added a cup of tea to Shen Yi with a smile, and said with a smile: "Who is stronger in learning and who is weaker? your."

Shen Yi smiled hoarsely: "Zhongcheng is killing me again."

"This is definitely not flattery."

Cheng Tingzhi said calmly: "Ziheng might as well think about it, the Jinshi who are in the same discipline as you, don't talk about others, just talk about the number one scholar in the seventh year of Hongde, where are they now?"

Shen Yi thought for a while, and said: "It should be still in the Hanlin Academy, but counting the time, next year, the group of Shujishi in the seventh year of Hongde should fill in the vacancies and become officials."

He looked at Cheng Futai, took a sip of tea, and continued: "This group of top scholars who are admitted to the Imperial Academy, who are in the same discipline as me, might be able to walk in the middle school and become a minister. The future is much bigger than mine."

The batch of Jinshi in the seventh year of Hongde was the first batch of Jinshi after the current emperor took charge. The emperor himself valued this batch of Jinshi very much, because this batch of Jinshi would become the cornerstone of the Hongde Dynasty in the future.

Therefore, the top ten of that batch of Jinshi have a good chance to pay homage to the prime minister.

Cheng Futai shook his head slightly and said: "After Zhuangyuan Lang leaves the Imperial Academy, he will indeed have a chance to enter Zhongshu and become the so-called prime minister, but that must be recommended by the chancellor of Zhongshu to His Majesty."

"Let's not talk about whether the number one scholar in your subject has such contacts, even if he has, he will have the opportunity to be promoted to the Imperial Academy's attendant or attendant lecturer after staying in Zhongshu for four or five years, and then he will enter six departments. , after the six yamen have taken turns..."

"If you do well, you will have the opportunity to become the Minister of the Six Departments, and then as the Minister of the Six Departments, you will be promoted to the Minister of Zhongshu."

Cheng Futai looked at Shen Yi with a smile: "Ziheng, do the math, how many years will it take?"

After all, Master Shen didn't have much experience in officialdom, so he shook his head slightly: "I'm not sure."

"Everything is going well, he is promoted step by step, and he is being trained as a prime minister by the Holy One. It will take nearly 20 years for him to be promoted to the prime minister of Zhongshu."

"However, among the top scholars of all dynasties, there are not many who can complete this road to pay respects."

Cheng Tingzhi looked at Shen Yi, and expressed some envy in his tone: "As for you, Ziheng, you have already been admitted to the Imperial Academy for a bachelor's degree in less than three years!"

"In addition to your qualifications in the Ministry of War, after you return to Jiankang at the end of this year, you may be able to enter the Six Departments for training. If His Majesty takes a fancy to you and promotes you to the Ministry of Officials, then the number one scholar in your same department, When you go to the Ministry of Officials to ask for an official, you may even ask for it on your head!"

After listening to these words, Shen Yi had a clearer understanding of the officialdom in this era.

But in his heart, he still denied Cheng Tingzhi's opinion.

Because he knows Emperor Hongde better than Cheng Tingzhi.

The reason why the current emperor uses Shen Yi so much, and even promotes him repeatedly, is definitely not that he trained Shen Yi as a prime minister, but because he has taken a fancy to Shen Yi's ability to do practical things.

It also happened that the emperor had just been in charge at that time, and there were no "confidantes" available around him. Shen Yi was a Jinshi in the Hongde Dynasty, and he was the same age as the emperor.

And for the emperor, for a long time to come, he will basically only do one thing!

Northern Expedition!

It's not the Northern Expedition, it's preparing for the Northern Expedition!

The first Northern Expedition of the Hongde Dynasty, when facing the Northern Qi, did not need any big victory, and did not need to recover much land. It only needed a small victory, even if it suffered a small loss, as long as it could subdue two or three prefectures and counties, it would gain points. Small and cheap.

Then, the Northern Expedition was not just a matter of recent years.

Maybe the entire Hongde dynasty would do such a thing.

Therefore, Master Shen's future does not lie in the chairs of the five prime ministers of the Zhongshu Province.

And in the north, in the word of merit.

So after he returns to Jiankang this year, he will not enter the Six Divisions to practice as Cheng Tingzhi said. He is in the Six Divisions... only in the Ministry of War.

In the future, there is a high probability of being promoted in the Ministry of War.

After pondering for a while, Shen Yi shook his head at Cheng Tingzhi: "I have benefited a lot from Zhongcheng's teachings, but Zhongcheng still takes it for granted. Your Majesty's thoughts today may not be quite the same as Zhongcheng's thoughts. Same…"

Speaking of this, Shen Yi couldn't help yawning, rubbed his red eyes, and said: "I could have chatted with Zhong Cheng for a while, but I couldn't bear it because I didn't sleep last night. .”

Cheng Futai stood up, smiled and said: "Then let's continue chatting another day, and I will send Ziheng out."

"I dare not."

Master Shen shook his head and said with a smile: "Where is the reason for a second-rank official to send a fifth-rank official out? Let others see it, and maybe they will speak ill of Zhong Cheng behind his back."

"I'll just go out by myself."

Cheng Futai shook his head and said, "You and I have never known each other, what's so special about giving away a friend?"

After a pause, he asked, "By the way, Ziheng, did your younger brother get married? The old man has a little daughter at home, you have met her before..."

Master Shen smiled dumbly: "Although my younger brother is not married so far, he probably has his own ideas about marriage."

"As for your love."

Master Shen smiled and said, "I'm in Jiankang, and I know quite a few people. If I go back this year during Chinese New Year, if I meet the right one, I can be a matchmaker."

Cheng Tingzhi just asked casually, and didn't continue immediately, just said with a smile: "Jiangdu Prefecture Ganquan Academy is well-deserved of its reputation, my second son is still studying and taking exams, let him go to Ganquan Academy to study next year."

"no problem."

Master Shen nodded readily: "My father-in-law is the head of the academy, and I can still walk through the back door for Second Young Master."

"It doesn't have to be."

Cheng Tingzhi said with a smile: "He won the Juren early, so it should not be difficult to enter the academy."

The two walked and chatted, Cheng Futai sent Shen Yi out of the gate of the governor's office all the way, and it was not until Shen Yi got into the carriage that he returned to the governor's office with his hands behind his back.

As for Master Shen, after returning to Xingyuan in the carriage, he was really sleepy, so he went back to the bedroom and took a nap.

When I woke up, it was already afternoon.

He stretched and got up, Jiang Sheng was already waiting at the door.

"Another letter?"

Shen Yi asked.

Generally, when Jiang Sheng was waiting at the door of the bedroom, he had some letters to hand to him.

Jiang Sheng nodded, and handed a letter in front of Shen Yi with both hands.

"Young master, a letter from General Xue."

Last night, Xue Wei had already sent a letter.

The content of the letter is that they wiped out a group of more than 300 Japanese pirates in Guangdong, and found several gathering places of Japanese pirates.

Shen Yi opened the letter again and took a look.

This letter...is not very well written.

It should be written by Xue Wei himself.

The content is not long, probably saying that Xue Wei's department has expanded from 2000 to about 500, and the dens of several Japanese pirates have been basically determined.

At the end of the letter, Xue Wei wrote such a sentence in untidy handwriting.

"Before June, most of the Japanese pirates should be wiped out. As for the small group of Japanese pirates, they will flee without a trace when they see the banner of our anti-Japanese army..."

"Need to be permanently stationed in Guangdong and wipe out at any time..."

Master Shen put down the letter and heaved a sigh of relief.

He has always been a little worried about the situation of the Japanese suppression in Guangdong. It's not that he doesn't believe in Xue Wei's fighting ability, but he is worried that something might go wrong due to Xue Wei's lack of experience.

Now, Guangdong's suppression of the Japanese is progressing smoothly, and finally a big stone in his heart has landed.

"After the Japanese pirates in Guangdong were wiped out, my trip to the southeast was almost complete..."

After muttering such a sentence in his heart, he glanced at Jiang Sheng, thought for a while, and said, "I'm going to write a letter now, and you send someone to Yueqing immediately."

It's time to invite the commander of the capital to come to Fuzhou.

Jiang Sheng bowed his head respectfully.

"Yes!"

　Although this chapter is all about dialogue, it still explains a lot of content...not hydrology! !And there are more words than usual!
　　In addition, I recommend an old brother's new book ~Ming Chaowen~

　　


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