In the twelfth lunar month, the capital was filled with heavy snow and the temperature was very low. Spring seemed to be far away.

After Chen Xi obtained his official position, he not only did not have time to go to the yamen, but also left more.

On the 18th day of the twelfth lunar month, Emperor Hongzhi issued an edict in the palace, formally determining the contribution to the Chinese civil and military officials of the Tatars' fighting in the court.

As the emperor said before, Chen Xi did not rank first, but a second-class minister. When commending Chen Xi's contribution, he specifically mentioned that he attacked foreign captives at Tumu Fort and captured countless results. At the same time, he talked about his great achievements in returning to the capital to serve the king and lifting the Tatars' siege of the capital.

As civil officials expected, his first contribution belonged to Liu Daxia, Minister of War.

From Chenxi down there were several generals. As for the civil officials who raised food and grass for Liu Daxia during the war and formulated marching strategies, the list of meritorious officials was ranked behind.

As for the list of military merits in the Battle of the Capital, Crown Prince Zhu Houzhao was not among them, and Zhang Mao, Xiong Xiu, Ma Wensheng, Zhang brothers and others were on the list. Wang Shouren did not receive too high merits in this battle, just like the situation that Chen Xi encountered after the Battle of Tatars in the 13th year of Hongzhi. The court suppressed Wang Shouren's merits to prevent him from being impatient and losing his normal mind too early.

After all, Chen Xi is not a military general, otherwise it would be possible to be granted titles with his merits. Now he has no way to promote his official position, and even if he is a second-class official position, he cannot add a first-level official position.

Liu Daxia was appointed as the Prince Taibao for his first contribution and continued to lead the Ministry of War. In the eyes of many people, Liu Daxia's life was too long to replace Ma Wensheng as the Minister of Personnel. With Liu Daxia's status in the Six Ministry of Affairs, the only officials who can be promoted to him now are the Minister of Personnel.

Wang Shouren's position as a doctor in the Ministry of War was not changed, but the court seemed to intend to transfer him out of the capital and go to Nanjing for a few years to train. Even when Chen Xi went to the Imperial College to visit Xie Duo, he received news that Li Dongyang met Wang Hua and was preparing to send Wang Shouren to Nanjing to serve as the Minister of the Six Ministry.

However, Wang Shouren's errand's job is still very controversial in the court. It is estimated that it will be decided after the beginning of spring, and Chen Xi will go to Huguang after the New Year, and it is estimated that he will not wait for the day the result will come out.

Chen Xi received a second merit and received a lot of rewards.

The imperial court granted Chenxi 160 acres of land in the suburbs of Beijing, which was nominally so many, but in fact it only had ninety acres, which were basically mature land and had long-term tenants.

Zhou was very concerned about this. She originally wanted to go out of the city with her husband to inspect the land, but Shen Mingjun told that the land belonged to Chenxi. As parents, they were not qualified to take the land given to Chenxi by the court as their own, which made Zhou very unhappy. In her impression, her sons were all their own, and their son's things were naturally their own.

But suddenly, my son seemed to have split from her. All the matters in the Shen family had nothing to do with her, but Xie Yuner took care of it.

Compared with his military merits, Chen Xi received was insignificant and not even as much as the spoils obtained in the army. However, the imperial court's Finance Department is currently well-off, and Chen Xi was not very good for himself. He handed all these rewards to Xie Yuner, and at the same time asked Yun Bo, the old housekeeper of the Xie family, to go outside the city to receive the land. He himself was not interested in going out of the city to check.

For Chen Xi, the little land and houses in the capital were only a small number. With his age, he would not be moved by this little favor.

As the New Year approaches, Chen Xi rarely spends a stable and peaceful year in the capital.

With the arrival of the seventeenth year of Hongzhi, Chen Xi felt that the pressure on his shoulders increased a lot. The turning point of the Zhengde Dynasty in history was getting closer and closer. Chen Xi began to speculate on the changes in the current situation.

However, no matter what, Chen Xi was not going to stay in the capital. In his vision, he would have to stay in Huguang for at least three or five years. If everything develops according to history, he could basically survive the chaos in the early years of Zhengde. At that time, he would consider whether to continue to stay in the local area as an official, or return to the capital to enter the center of the court.

Chen Xi discovered that he had been a human being for only eleven or two years again, but he had reached a height that others could not reach in the court. Many court officials received in their final life and were not as glory as him.

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The New Year is coming silently.

In the first few days of the first lunar month, Chen Xi stayed at home to accompany his beautiful wife. This time he went south and did not plan to take his family. According to his previous plan, he would take his family back after he settled in Wuchang Prefecture.

The family had just reunited not long ago and was about to separate again. The girl around Chen Xi was particularly obsessed with him.

Even Yin Wen and Lu Xier repeatedly hinted when they were alone with Chen Xi that they wanted to enter the Shen family to be his woman. But Chen Xi was not busy marrying Yin Wen and Lu Xier. In fact, when marrying Xie Hengnu, it was entirely because he was going to Fujian and Guangdong, so he had no choice but to do it.

In Shen Xi's eyes, even if girls get married early in this era, they should be the most suitable one to get married at the age of seventeen or eighteen. Now Yin Wen and Lu Xier are both fifteen or sixteen years old, and they should not be allowed to take on family responsibilities too early.

During the period when Shen Xi returned to the capital, Xie Yuner and Zhou both mentioned in front of him that Na Yinwen and Lu Xier came in, but Chen Xi refused. According to his wishes, these two marriages would have to be discussed for one or two years.

During the New Year, the court was still resting, but Chen Xi kept receiving officials sent by local government offices such as Huguang, Jianggan and other places in Beijing to contact him.

Officials from Huguang, Jiangjiang and Ganzhou learned that Chen Xi was transferred to governor of the two provinces and held the highest administrative and military power of the two provinces, and they dared not be as negligent as when Chen Xi went to Fujian and Guangdong before. The gifts sent by those who contacted the office in Beijing almost filled Chen Xi's house with a custody room.

They said they were here to contact each other, but in fact they were all here to congratulate them. The main purpose was to get familiar with Shen Xi so that they could work together in the future.

These people brought a lot of gifts, and they were relatively expensive.

In the past, Chen Xi would have kept people from thousands of miles away, but this time he was abnormal and asked his family to collect the gifts he sent in different categories.

Until the tenth day of the first lunar month, there were still people coming to visit, but at this time the one who came to the door became the big merchants in the capital of Jiangjiang, Gan, Huguang. These people were more generous in giving gifts and offering gifts to Chenxi like ancestors.

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In the middle of the first lunar month, as the ice and snow melted, the temperature rose rapidly, and the capital was peaceful and harmonious, but Chenxi had to start preparing luggage so that it would embark on a journey after the Lantern Festival.

This time, he was going to the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and served as the governor of Huguang and Jiangjiang provinces. His office was announced in Huguang, Wuchang Prefecture, the governor of the political envoy. The imperial court set a date for him on the 17th day of the first lunar month, and the day for his duties was the first day of March.

Chenxi had more than a month to complete this journey. According to the plan, he planned to go to the north bank of the Yellow River by land. After crossing the Yellow River, he decided whether to take a boat to the south depending on the situation of the canal. When he arrived in Yangzhou, he would go upstream along the river and arrive at Wuchang Prefecture by boat.

Chen Xi was not surrounded by people, mainly more than a dozen brothers from the carriage and horse gang, plus fifty guards sent to him by the court, and Shen Yongqi and Yang Wenzhao, in addition, there were coachmans and grooms.

As for the left governor of Huguang, Ma Zhongxi and his party, they originally said they went south with Chen Xi, but the latest news was that Ma Zhongxi was old and felt cold during the Chinese New Year and was bedridden. The deadline for the imperial court left him to take office was extended accordingly.

The court did not send Dongchang and Jinyiwei people to accompany him, so Yu Niang had no reason to meet with Chen Xi, but Yun Liu and Xier would rush to Wuchang Prefecture to make arrangements in advance. As for the time and location of the meeting, Chen Xi did not make any rigid regulations. It is very likely that they would meet after they arrived in Wuchang Prefecture.

In Jianggan and Huguang merchants in Beijing, they originally planned to send someone to escort Chen Xi and his party south, but Chen Xi was afraid that these people would be ill-intentioned to him and did not want to expose his whereabouts of going south too early, so he politely refused.

In addition, the local governments wanted to send people to guide and see off, but Chen Xi was also shirking it. In Shen Xi's view, taking office in the south this time was to be a relatively leisurely local official. He would not touch the interests of many local forces, and avoid the difficulties of officials, gentry, landlords, and merchants with him.

The old subordinates of the Beijing Camp, such as Hu Songyue, Liu Xu and others, were promoted and reused after returning to the capital, and their status in the Beijing Camp increased rapidly. They originally wanted to send Chen Xi, but Chen Xi performed his duties in this place and hoped to keep a low profile, and he did not even notify him before leaving.

Before Chen Xi set out, he saw Xie Qian and the other person, but he was told to be sentenced to death. Chen Xi pretended that he didn't hear it.

The court did not give much explanation to Chen Xi. Zhu Youzhang's expectation for Chen Xi was to rectify the military affairs of Huguang, Jiangxi and Ganzhou provinces and quell the rebellion of local ethnic minorities as soon as possible. However, it should be based on a peaceful method, with military collection as a supplement. Chen Xi directly governed the commander-in-chief yamen and a commander-in-chief yamen in both provinces, with tens of thousands of troops under his command. At the same time, it also cooperated with the governing and envoys in the two provinces. It can be said that they have the highest authority in local civil and military affairs.

The Ming Dynasty did not form a regular system in the appointment of local governors and governors, and there were no clear regulations on authority, which was mainly related to the ability to appoint officials.

If the governor is not in charge of affairs, his authority is less than that of the governor. However, if the governor is skillful enough, he can form supreme military and political power in his jurisdiction, which is not much different from the local emperor.

Chen Xi is not very interested in fighting for power and profit, but he doesn't want to be controlled by others, so he still has to fight for the rights and interests he should fight for. Now it depends on who will jump out and become his opponent.

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