marquis of jingan

Chapter 983 How to Reward?
The dragon chariot will be ready soon.

Accompanied by the great eunuch Gao Ming, His Majesty the Emperor sat on a dragon chariot, left the palace all the way, and left the imperial city.

This made Jiankang civil and military officials, almost everyone looked at him.

Sitting in the car, the emperor waved to Gao Ming and said with a smile, "I'm happy today. Go and call Shen Heng, who is from Zhongshushe, home. I'll see you together."

Eunuch Gao nodded quickly, turned around and called a young eunuch, who immediately bowed his head and said yes, turned around and went down.

Shen Yi's family lived on Datong Street, not very far from the imperial city, and not long after Long Nian left the imperial city, he stopped at the gate of Shen's residence.

At this moment, the Shen family had already received the news. By the time the emperor got off the chariot, a group of people had already knelt at the gate of the Shen residence. Among them, Lu Ruoxi, the wife of the third rank, was kneeling at the front. Shen Yuan, who was already five years old, also knelt down beside his mother in an orderly manner, shouting long live.

Beside Lu Ruoxi was Chen Youniang, the second daughter-in-law of the Shen family. Compared to Lu Ruoxi, this woman from a farming family was quite nervous when she met the emperor for the first time.

The emperor walked up to Lu Ruoxi with a smile, stretched out his hand to help her up, and said with a smile: "Madam Shen, don't be too polite."

As he spoke, he looked at Chen Youniang, who was already pregnant, and said with a smile, "Who is this?"

Chen Youniang lowered her head, not daring to speak.

Relatively speaking, Lu Ruoxi was much calmer, she saluted and said: "Return to Your Majesty, this is my concubine's brother and sister."

"Oh."

The emperor smiled: "It's Shen Zichang's wife."

Chen Youniang quickly bowed her head and said yes.

Only then did the emperor turn his head to look at Shen Yuan who was at the side.

At this moment, Shen Yi's eldest son is already five years old, and his stature has also grown, because Lu Ruoxi has personally brought him up since he was a child, taught him to read and some basic etiquette rules, and now the little guy is quite well-behaved and sensible.

The emperor bent down, pinched his nose, and said with a smile: "Little guy, do you still recognize me? When you were young, I hugged you."

Shen Yuan first looked at the emperor curiously, and then at his mother who had been winking at him. After thinking for a while, he shook his head honestly and said, "I don't remember clearly."

The emperor laughed, bent down and hugged him in his arms, and walked towards the gate of Shen's house.

Lu Ruoxi's face changed drastically, she hurried forward, bowed her head and said, "Your Majesty, this is impossible, how can this child bear it..."

The emperor hugged Shen Yuan, and smiled brightly: "I am about the same age as his father, so I can be regarded as the same generation. I am his uncle, so what does it matter if I hug him?"

As he said that, he continued to walk into the Shen family's house. As he walked, he said: "Mrs. Shen, I like this child very much. You can take him into the palace to play often when you have nothing to do in the future. My children are all about the same age as him, so we can be playmates together."

When the emperor spoke, Lu Ruoxi naturally didn't dare to answer, and kept bowing her head to answer.

"correct."

The emperor stopped and said, "Didn't Shen Qing still have a daughter, why didn't she see her?"

"Go back to Your Majesty, in the backyard."

Lu Ruoxi lowered her head and said: "The little girl is still young, she doesn't know the rules, and she was afraid of bumping into the Holy Driver, so she was not let out..."

The emperor smiled all over his face and said, "I'll have to bring it out for me to see in a while, I haven't seen that child yet."

Lu Ruoxi nodded yes, but murmurs arose in her heart.

My husband once told her that the emperor intends to let the eldest son of the emperor, Li Wang, marry his youngest daughter, but he did not agree...

Could it be that His Majesty the Emperor, taking advantage of her husband's absence, wanted to force this marriage?
Thinking of this, Lu Ruoxi shook her head in her heart and rejected this idea.

As the Son of Heaven, no matter what, he couldn't do such a thing.

While she was thinking wildly, His Majesty the Emperor had already entered the main hall. He was the Son of Heaven, the Ninth Five-Year Supreme, so he naturally sat on the main seat honestly, but His Majesty the Emperor seemed to like Shen Yuan very much, and still held the child in his arms, and asked him some questions from time to time.

Shen Yuan followed his mother since he was a child, and now he knows a lot of words, no worse than some ignorant boys, and he answered naturally. After the emperor asked a few words, he was elated and said with a smile: "Good boy, you really know a lot. You will grow up quickly. When you enter the palace examination in the future, I will also choose you as a Jinshi."

When Lu Ruoxi heard this, she knelt down, bowed her head and said, "I'm on behalf of the dog, thank you Your Majesty for your kindness."

The emperor looked at Lu Ruoxi who was kneeling on the ground, and was stunned.

However, he was in a good mood today, so he quickly smiled heartily and said with a smile: "You husband and wife really don't have a fuel-efficient lamp, that's all, I mean what I say, but the premise is..."

The emperor rubbed Shen Yuan's head, and said with a smile: "This child will have to go to the palace for a test in the future."

As a mother, she naturally thinks about her son. Now that the emperor has personally promised her a future, Lu Ruoxi is naturally happy in her heart, and quickly thanked her: "Thank you, Your Majesty."

The emperor put Shen Yuan aside, stood up and helped Lu Ruoxi up, and said with a smile: "Don't just kowtow, sit and talk."

Lu Ruoxi sat down cautiously, and after she sat down, she looked up at the emperor, and asked: "Your Majesty came to the humble house suddenly, and my concubines are terrified..."

"I know, your family is thinking, what did I come to your house suddenly?"

The emperor smiled and said, "I'll tell you about this matter later when Shen Heng comes back."

"correct."

The emperor looked at Lu Ruoxi and asked, "Shen Qing's father, isn't he in Jiankang?"

Lu Ruoxi shook her head, and said: "Jiangdu's uncle is not in good health. Not long after the New Year's Eve, my father went back to Jiangdu to visit uncle, and he hasn't come back yet."

She asked: "Your Majesty, do you have something to do with your father-in-law?"

"it's okay no problem."

The emperor lowered his head and took a sip of tea, then smiled and said, "Gossip is commonplace."

While the few people were talking, Shen Heng from Zhongshushe hurried back, ran all the way to the main hall of his house, and knelt down in front of the emperor: "Chen Heng, I pay my respects to Your Majesty!"

The emperor stretched out his hand to help, smiling: "Get up and talk."

Shen Heng stood up respectfully, and waited until the emperor asked him to sit down before he carefully sat down.

At this moment, the whole family finally arrived. The emperor put down the teacup in his hand and glanced at everyone, with an unstoppable smile still on his face.

"Everyone should be able to guess that I am here today because of Shen Qing."

"Long story short."

The emperor said with a smile: "Not long ago, Shen Qing made a great contribution in the north, a great achievement that has not been seen in decades. I am very happy in my heart. I must reward the Shen family with something. In front of me today, if you want anything, you can say it."

The emperor is very generous.

"I agree with them one by one."

At this moment, the eyes of the family were all on Shen Heng.

Shen Zhang and Shen Yi are not at home, so the Shen family is naturally decided by Shen Heng, a Tanhualang.

As a member of Zhongshushe, Shen Heng met the emperor quite a few times on weekdays, so he was not too nervous in front of the emperor. He bowed his head respectfully and said: "My brother is serving the imperial court and serving His Majesty, which is what he should do. The whole Shen family dare not be greedy for merit..."

"Besides, since it's my brother's credit, it should be my brother who receives the reward, minister..."

"I am ashamed to accept..."

The emperor stood up with a smile on his face.

"Shen Qing, I naturally want to reward him. When the memorial he wrote to the court arrives, I will immediately hold a court meeting to discuss the reward for him."

"But rewarding him is rewarding him, rewarding you is rewarding you, no hindrance."

After speaking, the emperor touched Shen Yuan's head.

"Little guy, how about I give you Chengzhiro?"

Shen Yuan scratched his head, a little puzzled: "Your Majesty, what is Cheng Zhilang..."

Before he finished speaking, Shen Heng knelt down on the ground, bowed his head and said, "Brother Chen Dai, thank Your Majesty for your grace!"

Cheng Zhilang is Wen Xun Sanguan, the sixth rank.

Similar to a title of honor.

Such as Shen Yuan is a typical shadow official, but courtiers usually give shadow officials to their descendants after they become adults, or when the adults in the family are gone. A five-year-old shadow official like Shen Yuan is really rare.

You know, Shen Heng is now a seventh-rank official.

That is to say, purely based on the level of salary, the salary of his eldest nephew will surpass that of his ninth uncle in the future.

The emperor was in a good mood today. He first gave Shen Yuanyin an official position, and after meeting Shen Sangsang, he gave a piece of jade pendant that was close to him to the youngest daughter of the Shen family. After staying in the Shen family for half an hour, he left in a dragon chariot.

After leaving the Shen's house, the emperor looked at the eunuch Gao who was driving beside him, and said with a smile: "Gao Ming, you said that when I tell those old men that my Huai'an army has captured Xuzhou City, what kind of expression will they have?"

Eunuch Gao thought for a while, then lowered his head and said, "Return to Your Majesty, I feel that the lords of the temple should not be too surprised."

The emperor pondered for a moment, then said with a smile: "That's right, when I come to Shen's house today, they should be thinking wildly behind their backs, and they won't find it strange what I say."

Every trip of the emperor has its political implications.

Especially this kind of aboveboard, traveling on a dragon chariot, has a particularly strong political meaning.

Today, the emperor came to Shen's house.

Among other things, the Shen family's family status in Jiankang will be raised a lot in the future!
And it's obvious that the emperor is building momentum for Shen Yi!

"Gao Ming..."

His Majesty the Emperor sat on the dragon chariot, stroked the beard on his chin, and made trouble.

"How would you like to reward him?"

(End of this chapter)