Xie Qian said that he asked Chen Xi to give his advice, but in fact he wanted Chen Xi to draft a memorial for him and let Chen Xi find an excuse for the truce so that the court could explain to the people of the world.

Chen Xi thought to himself, what does this mess have to do with me?

I said I would not fight if I didn’t fight. Not only did I quit my post, I also threw my troops outside the city, but turned my head but asked me to give me a suggestion to cease the war. What should I do if I wade into this muddy water?

Chen Xidao: "Go back to the cabinet, the students have no objection!"

Xie Qian was dissatisfied: "You have no objection before you can do anything?"

Chen Xidao: "It is really inappropriate for students to discuss major affairs in the court. When it comes to military use, students must listen to the teachings of the elders and dare not talk nonsense!"

After tossing and turning, Chen Xi just said that he wouldn't ask me, it would be useless to ask me!

Xie Qian was so angry that he wanted to slap the table, but seeing Chen Xi's respectful appearance, he could only force his anger down. He knew that Chen Xi had just returned to the capital, so he immediately asked Chen Xi to draft the report and the tickets too hastily, and he said angrily:

"If you have time, you can take a look at it. The court is not making enough money. Who will give them food for the soldiers you brought back? How can your family support you?"

It would be fine if Xie Qian said this, Chen Xi suddenly began to worry about this problem.

When Chen Xi left the capital, the Shen family did not come back. When their families returned to the capital, the capital was already in wartime. The food prices on the market must be ridiculously expensive. However, at this critical moment, the court also cut off the salary of ministers in the court. The family did not store grain. How could the family want to save it?

Chen Xi asked, "Gei, nothing happened to the Shen family during the period when the students went to war, right?"

Xie Qian frowned: "What do you mean? What can happen? Could it be that someone will harass your family? After all, it is also the residence of a second-rank official in the court. Who dares to do it??"

Chen Xidao: "Others may not dare, but students heard that the capital had searched for the rebels and opened their doors to the government officials for searching. In order not to be harassed, every household must hand over the treasury according to the amount of silver and money. Is there any such thing?"

Xie Qian's face suddenly became very ugly. He naturally knew about this. Even when Liu Jian made this suggestion, he was still one of the witnesses present.

Perhaps Liu Jian made this decision first with kindness to avoid the infiltration of the capital by Tatar spies, but under the circumstances at that time, the people below took advantage of this opportunity to collect intensive taxes and make things wrong.

Even though Xie Qian later found that the situation was wrong and could not be compensated, he could only rush to stop with Liu Jian and Li Dongyang, and then he did not dare to report the matter to the emperor.

Xie Qian had a dark face: "Don't worry, no one in your family dares to go. Why are they my granddaughter's home? Do you think I will let someone go to your house to make trouble?"

Chen Xi sighed lightly and said nothing, he was full of disappointment with the court at this time.

The people who formulated strategies in the court were obviously noble and unparalleled. They thought they were knowledgeable and could control the overall situation, but the strategies formulated were not down-to-earth. In the end, they almost caused the capital to fall, and even the capital city did not fall. The capital became chaotic first, which made both officials and the people feel disappointed.

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Chen Xi stayed in Xie Qian's yard that night and took a break after simply eating.

The next day, it was dawn and Chen Xi had already gotten up. He didn't bother to wash, didn't even eat breakfast, and didn't say hello to Xie Qian, so he left the yard directly.

He was light and Chen Xi had no task to go to court. All he had to do is go home immediately and see his family who had been away for a long time.

Since the beginning of the year, Guangzhou Prefecture led troops to fight, Chen Xi has never seen his relatives again. When he left, Xie Hengnu had just become pregnant, but now Xie Hengnu is about to give birth, and it is almost eight months in between.

Chen Xi left the courtyard and had not walked far away when he saw a carriage coming from the opposite side. Chen Xi subconsciously avoided the carriage. Who would have thought that the carriage stopped and there was a person coming out of the carriage, but it was Zhang Yanling, the Marquis of Jianchang that Chen Xi didn't want to see.

Zhang Yanling greeted him long ago: "Isn't this Shen Zhongcheng?"

Chen Xi had no choice but to go forward and bow slightly: "I have met Marquis Jianchang!"

Zhang Yanling sneered: "Shen Zhongcheng is so arrogant. When he sees this marquis, he doesn't even call him, but he thinks this marquis is not worth mentioning in your eyes?"

Chen Xi didn’t know why Zhang Yanling appeared here... Was it a coincidence or was Zhang Yanling intentionally coming to block people?

Zhang Yanling's tone came up and said that some of the things he had been experiencing before were probably aware of, but now he wants to suppress himself, which is no longer as easy as before. He used to be a small Hanlin official, but now he is a chief official and a hero of the Ming Dynasty. Who dares to act rashly?

Chen Xidao: "My uncle, please forgive me. I will go home now. If you have time to go back, you will definitely visit me!"

If you don’t like to hear me call you Marquis Jianchang, then call you uncle. If you want me to call you Marquis, there is no door!

Isn’t he just a uncle who has climbed up with nepotism? Without Queen Zhang, you can’t even pass the exam for a scholar with your ability, let alone become an official in the court.

Chen Xi did not expect to have a conflict with Zhang Yanling. Before, he was concerned about Zhang Yanling and even his brother for self-protection. You must know that when Song Xiaocheng and others were sent to kidnap Zhang Yanling, he actually had the opportunity to break up the votes, so he took the initiative to let Zhang Yanling go.

Zhang Yanling sneered: "Shen Zhongcheng is such a busy person. He doesn't even want to say more to me... Humph, let's take a look!"

After saying that, Marquis Jianchang got on the carriage again and left. Chen Xi waited for a while, watching the carriage go away before quickly returning home again.

According to etiquette, Marquis of Jianchang was more respectful than Chen Xi, but the civil officials in the court all had their own character. The emperor would not easily make things difficult for his brother-in-law and civil officials, unless Empress Zhang was blowing the wind beside the emperor's ear.

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After Zhang Yanling was in a carriage and moved from Chenxi, he was in a bad mood.

It was not the emperor who was blown by the pillow now, but him.

Zhang Yanling still favors the newly acquired concubine until now, and wishes she could stick together every moment.

But this concubine has a deep resentment towards Chen Xi. She said bad things about Chen Xi in Zhang Yanling's ear. Zhang Yanling himself hated Chen Xi. He suspected that the kidnapping was related to Chen Xi. He thought that Chen Xi was dead and had been over. As a result, Chen Xi came back smoothly. When he left home in the morning, his concubine said a few bad things about Chen Xi. As a result, he met the master before he arrived at the Governor's Office of the Five Army. It can be said that he was a coincidence.

"This kid doesn't cry until he sees the coffin. He thinks that this marquis is easy to bully? So what if you are the right censor now? If this marquis wants you to be ruined, isn't that going to happen all day long?"

Zhang Yanling cursed and felt very angry. The servant who was driving the car in front turned around and said, "Master, why don't you find a few people to set fire and burn that kid's house?"

Zhang Yanling lifted the curtain of the car and stretched out his hand, slapped the head of the talk servant: "You don't have a long memory. You think it's the house of ordinary people, and you can burn it if you say it? If the emperor knew that this marquis went to burn the house he gave to him, how would you let this marquis deal with it?"

The servant was a little dissatisfied: "Master, let the young men go and burn it, it has nothing to do with you!"

"Bang!" Another slap on the forehead.

Zhang Yanling said: "If something is not clear, if something happens to you, can this martyr escape responsibility? The capital is now under martial law. It would be strange if you are not tracked down. I will bear it first. After a while, I will see how I deal with him. At a young age, I thought my wings were hard. I shaved his hair to see how long he could jump around!"

While cursing, the carriage stopped at the gate of the Governor's Office of the Five Army. When Zhang Yanling got off the carriage, he happened to see Zhang Mao coming out of the yamen.

As the in charge of the army, Zhang Mao has stayed in the Governor's Office of the Five Army these days and has not returned. Even though Zhang Yanling was a little disdainful of Zhang Mao, he still came forward to greet him: "Mr. Zhang, are you not sleeping or just woke up?"

Zhang Mao replied: "I was busy until midnight yesterday, but I still had two or three hours of sleep. Isn't this... There is news from Xuanda area in the Ministry of War. I'll go over and see what's going on!"

Zhang Yanling said: "I will go with you!"

In front of Zhang Mao, Zhang Yanling was a little unscrupulous. After all, he was the national uncle and the closest person to the royal family, and Zhang Mao was just a hereditary duke. He believed that he had the capital of Zhang arrogance. Zhang Mao's face was a little unsightly, but he could only suppress his anger. The two of them arrived at the Ministry of War together, and from a distance he heard a familiar voice yelling:

"...I don't care. Let Shen Xi come out. I won't leave here today! Whoever dares to talk to my father? Don't say that I am anxious with him!"

Zhang Yanling had a headache when he heard this voice. He had never complained about this little nephew before, but over the past two years, as Zhu Houzhao grew older, he gradually realized that he could not control this kid.

Zhang Mao and Zhang Yanling entered, but there was no one inside. Zhu Houzhao was about to lose his temper. Xiong Xiu, the left assistant minister of the Ministry of War. Xiong Xiu was a little confused at this moment. Seeing the British Duke and Jianchang Hou coming in, he quickly stepped forward to salute.

Zhu Houzhao sat on the Grand Master's chair in the middle of the Ministry of War lobby, pointed at Zhang Mao and Zhang Yanling angrily and asked, "Where is Shen Xi? Let him come to see me!"

From last night to now, Zhang Mao had never seen Shen Xi at all, and he didn't know how to answer for a while. However, Zhang Yanling felt relieved and said with a smile:

"Crown Prince, I just saw Shen Zhongcheng before. He went north of the city and said he had just returned to the capital. Let's go home first!"

After hearing this, Zhu Houzhao stood up anxiously and walked directly outside the lobby of the Ministry of War. After someone left the door, Zhang Mao suddenly realized why this kid ran to the lobby of the Ministry of War early in the morning to make a fuss?

Zhang Mao thought to himself: "How can Your Majesty let the prince run around the capital during the war?"

Zhang Mao hurriedly chased him out and asked, "Crown Prince, where is this going?"
Chapter completed!