Xie Qian was the one who was eloquent among the three cabinet ministers before, and he had a good understanding of his intentions. His performance made several other important officials admire him even more.

Xie Qian is not a god. He could guess that the matter had something to do with the prince, not that he could calculate it, but that Jin Gui had visited his mansion when he was on sick leave, and told him about Chen Xi's explanation before leaving, as well as several gifts of books and gadgets to the palace.

This is what Jin Gui wanted to take advantage of Xie Qian's power in order to protect himself.

As we all know, Xie Qian and Chen Xi have a marriage relationship, and the matter is about to be revealed. Jin Gui has no way to ask for help, so he was forced to see Xie Qian.

After Xie Qian learned about it, he realized that the Zhang brothers were wronged. It turned out that the gadgets of the shadow puppets were sent to the capital by the people of Chenxi in the three southeastern provinces, thousands of mountains and rivers apart.

While scolding Chen Xi for being a fool, Xie Qian thought to himself: "You kid, you understand the importance of managing a relationship with the prince. He is in Lingnan and actually gets along with the prince. Now I am your backer, and you can enjoy the cool under the big tree. Maybe the prince will ascend the throne in the future. I still want to rely on you boy to support me?"

Zhu Youtu said angrily: "I am also negligent in discipline with the prince, so I have made him abandon his studies and just want to have fun every day. Cough cough... I found this letter under his bed today. Look! Is there such an inconspicuous thing?"

As he said that, Zhu Youzhang slapped a letter on the table in front of him, which scared the five ministers present.

The eunuch Xiao Jing, respectfully picked up the letter and sent it to the chief assistant Liu Jian. After Liu Jian saw it, he looked a little more annoyed on his face. Then the letter passed through the hands of Li Dongyang, Ma Wensheng, Xie Qian and Liu Daxia in turn. The important officials finally knew why the emperor was so angry.

Because the matter was not the prince who was just making a fool of himself, it was related to another person. This person was the admiral of the military affairs of the three southeastern provinces that the emperor had personally ordered, and the right deputy censor Chen Xi.

This is the absurd thing in the world. The prince actually wanted to run away from home and wrote a letter to inform Chen Xi in advance, preparing to leave the capital and "return" to him?!

Several ministers realized that the emperor must have regarded Chen Xi as the initiator now. Now that he called them, he must have convicted Chen Xi, who instigated the prince to leave the palace.

The three cabinet ministers were all the emperor's mentors and counselors. Ma Wen was promoted to the Ministry of Personnel and was responsible for hiring people. Liu Daxia was the Minister of War and had some understanding of the situation of bandits on the southeast coast. This shows that although the emperor was angry, he still did not lose his mind. Even if he wanted to convict Chen Xi, he had to listen to opinions from all parties first.

Xie Qian had already sweated for Chen Xi at this moment.

Nowadays, the people from the Censorate, the Ministry of Justice and the Dali Temple are the only ones. This is at least a good signal... The emperor is just considering whether to dismiss Chen Xi from his post, but not the issue of imprisoning Chen Xi. But who knows whether the emperor has secretly mobilized the factory guards to Guangdong to get people?

The emperor was angry, and no one dared to speak casually. As the most respected person present, Liu Jian bowed and asked for instructions: "I don't know what your majesty wants?"

Zhu Youzhang said angrily: "I want to listen to the intentions of everyone."

Li Dongyang said: "The prince was fourteen years old after he was in the age of 1990. He had been teaching for six years. Now he should be a master of books and politeness and be an example for his ministers. However, Chen Xi, the lecturer of the Eastern Palace, was forced to the emperor's favor and instigated the prince to leave the palace to Guangdong and set the prince in a dangerous place, which made the Ming Dynasty's destiny and the crime was unforgivable. But when he was young and ignorant, his Majesty dismissed him and asked him to ask him, and at the same time, he ordered all lecturers of the Eastern Palace to speed up supervision of the prince's studies, so that the right way would be!"

Li Dongyang said this completely in a rage. At the beginning of the year, he wanted to make a big fuss about martial arts novels and let the emperor supervise the prince's studies more. As a result, the emperor himself became obsessed with martial arts novels. In addition, the rumored novels sent by Zhang's relatives into the palace, even Li Dongyang could not fight with Zhang's relatives head-on, so the matter was left alone.

Now the prince is missing and is preparing to go south to join Chenxi. In his eyes, Chenxi is a young man who is good at playing cleverness, so he can't help but want to punish Chenxi.

You still have to pick the soft persimmons.

If Li Dongyang is considered an open-minded person, he is also a person who is very easy to hold grudges.

Chen Xi deliberately changed his handwriting during the palace examination in the 12th year of Hongzhi, and finally made the examiners of the palace examination unable to judge the handwriting, so that Chen Xi picked up the top scorer and went back. This matter made Li Dongyang feel resentful.

Two years ago, Li Dongyang's eldest son was sick. Xie Qian asked Chen Xi to help diagnose and take medicine. Although his son's condition temporarily improved, he later used medicine intermittently while he was hesitant, and finally died of long-term illness. He did not review his indecision, but instead felt that there was something wrong with Chen Xi's medicine.

Xie Qian has been calling for the wind and rain in the court in the past two years. Li Dongyang and Xie Qian are good friends. Xie Qian praised Chen Xi for being capable in front of him, which made Li Dongyang feel that Xie Qian is suspected of being a nepotist. In addition, he himself has the intention to retreat. In order to prevent his old friends from reusing his younger generation, he spared no effort to suppress Chen Xi.

It happened that the prince was about to leave the palace and defect to Chen Xi. Li Dongyang started to be angry and ruthlessly broke Chen Xi's tragic loss despite the huge difference in identity and status with Chen Xi.

Among the other ministers, although Xie Qian felt that Chen Xi was erratic, he was completely helping his relatives and not helping him. This is Xie Qian's willfulness. Not to mention that there is no evidence now that the prince was instigated by Chen Xi when he left the palace. Even if it could be proved, Xie Qian would not want to see his grandson-in-law suffer a loss.

As for Ma Wensheng and Liu Daxia, they both cherish Chen Xi's talent and ability, and Liu Daxia felt ashamed of Chen Xi's contributions in the battle northwest and unable to receive rewards and titles. At this moment, they also wanted to help Chen Xi like Ma Wensheng, but they couldn't talk.

As for Liu Jian, he has no interest in Chen Xi and is relatively fair in his work. However, Liu Jian has always been loyal to the royal family, and what Li Dongyang said is not wrong in principle, so Liu Jian tends to support Li Dongyang and wants to punish Chen Xi.

Li Dongyang's words made Zhu Youtang nod. Zhu Youtang's most important life is his son. Chen Xi used to teach the prince to play, but from the perspective of the monarch, he forgave Chen Xi's behavior, but this time the prince left the palace and went to join Chen Xi, which he could not tolerate.

Zhu Youzhi said: "The Eastern Palace lecturer must be a model for performing his duties and mentors. Chen Yude's move is really a shame for my trust in him!"

Xiao Jing next to him quickly whispered to Zhu Youzhang: "Your Majesty, you are the son of Chen."

It is very unconventional for the emperor to make mistakes in the position of a minister. Zhu Youzhang once reminded the eunuch that if he made any principled mistakes, the eunuch of the Sili Prison should immediately correct them.

After Xiao Jing's statement, Zhu Youzhang realized that Chen Xi was promoted from Hanlin editor, Zhan Shifu's right middle and right Yude, and then to the right concubine's son, and then to the right concubine's son, and was promoted to the southeast platoon. He was instigated by Chen Xi as the "bold and arrogant" and dared to instigate his son to leave the palace.

Zhu Youtui looked embarrassed and said, "What are your opinions?"

Ma Wensheng came out and said, "Your Majesty, since his son Chen entered the Eastern Palace to give lectures, he has been diligent and has also ranked among the top in the evaluation of the Zhan Shi Mansion and the Ministry of Personnel. Now he has made outstanding achievements in the southeast coastal bandits. In this way... it is probably inappropriate to convict. Please think twice."

Zhu Youzhang is a king who likes to listen to other people's opinions and is often influenced by other people's opinions. This is a king who listens to both sides and is clear.

He thought about it carefully and it was not. It was true that Chen Xi's official position was promoted by him, but the problem was that Chen Xi followed the principle of rewarding each time he was promoted.

Chen Xi was promoted quickly, and he deliberately suppressed it. With the military achievements that Chen Xi had obtained in Quanzhou, Yulinwei and Guangdong, it would not be an exaggeration to transfer Chen Xi back to the capital to serve as the Minister of the Six Ministry. He was not rewarded for his great achievements, and he would be punished for minor mistakes. Who would do his best to do his best to the court in the future?

Seeing the emperor hesitating, Liu Daxia quickly stood up and spoke to Chen Xi: "Your Majesty, there was a letter from the southeastern year. The army was scheduled to quell the bandits in March. Now, Shen Shuzi is storming the bandits in northern Guangdong. He will be in a state of chaos and will change his commander at this time, and the three armies may change!"

When Zhu Youting heard this, he felt even more conflicted.

Now Shen Xi is no longer just a lecturer in the Eastern Palace without authority, but a rank-level official who holds military power in the three southeastern provinces. Not to mention whether Chen Xi dares to rebel after being replaced, just say that Chen Xi is leading troops to combat bandits and temporarily replacing the commander. Who can take on such a great task? The task of mobilizing a large number of money, grain and materials to suppress bandits is gone?

Zhu Youxi thought to himself: "I was also indignant for a moment and wanted to cure Chen Xi's crime. Now I think about it, but I can't cure it. But I said the words before. Mr. Li and Mr. Liu are both standing on my side. How can I go down the steps?"

Zhu Youzhang realized that Chen Xi could not be replaced for the time being. First, Chen Xi had made great contributions and had little mistakes, and the punishment was a big deal; second, Chen Xi was leading troops to combat the bandits, and the temporary replacement was not allowed.

In a dilemma, Zhu Youzing glanced at Xie Qian, and then he realized that Xie Qian, who had always been so funny, had not spoken at this moment. Zhu Youzing said: "Xie Qing family, you have always been resourceful. What do you think about this?"

Xie Qian is the most unsuitable for talking at this moment because he has a marriage relationship with Chen Xi, and the ministers in the court know how to avoid it when they are concerned about themselves.

However, the emperor asked in person, Xie Qian had to say that. Under the eyes of the emperor and his colleagues, he hesitated: "Your Majesty, the old minister and Chen Xi's son are...in-law, I'm afraid it's inappropriate to say."

After Xie Qian's statement, the emperor remembered that this was the case. Only Chen Xi's in-laws could call him "Chengxi children", because Xie Qian is now Chen Xi's elder.

Zhu Youzhang nodded slightly: "It's related to the country's destiny, but you can say it's okay."

"Yes, your Majesty."

Xie Qian looked hesitant and finally said embarrassedly, "Your Majesty, it's not the old minister who has to speak for Chen Xi, but... the prince went out of the palace to search for his old master in Fujian and Guangdong. The old minister was puzzled... Chen Xi's son is far away in Fujian and Guangdong, have you ever known?"

Zhu Youxi thought, this made sense.

My son is willing to go to Chen Xi. Now I found a letter from my son to Chen Xi. Chen Xi didn’t write a letter saying, Prince, don’t stay in the palace, come to me, I will protect you.

Not to mention not finding it, Chen Xi, as a minister, wrote such a letter to death. Even Li Dongyang, who had an objection to Chen Xi, did not think that Chen Xi would be so stupid as to write such a letter.
Chapter completed!