When Liu Jin arrived at the Ministry of War, he did not see Chen Xi himself, and he did not even see the two Ministers of the Ministry of War, Xiong Xiu, the Left Minister, and He Jian, the Right Minister.

Wang Shouren, a doctor in the Ministry of War, received a notice that he had just left the office room. Seeing Liu Jin heading towards the lobby without any news, he hurriedly came up to him, saluted respectfully and asked, "Why did Eunuch Liu come?"

Liu Jin looked into the lobby and asked, "Where is Shangshu? Our family is ordered by the emperor and come to see him if you have something to do."

Even though he was meant to thank Chen Xi and ask for advice, Liu Jin also showed up as an attitude of finding someone to settle the score. Anyway, he came by the emperor's order, so as long as no one reported it to the emperor, he would be allowed to do whatever he did.

Wang Shouren said: "It's still early today, and Secretary Chen hasn't arrived at the yamen yet... Otherwise, how about Eunuch Liu going to the lobby to wait for a while?"

Liu Jin frowned: "It's already noon. We are both court officials. The other yamen of the six ministries have been opened for two hours, but the Minister of War will not arrive. What does this mean? Don't you think about the emperor's kindness to the country and intend to slack off on official business?"

When Wang Shouren heard Liu Jin's accusations against Chen Xi, he became accustomed to it. Everyone knew that Liu Jin and Chen Xi were incompatible. If Liu Jin did not cause trouble for Chen Xi one day, it would make people uncomfortable.

Wang Shouren answered seriously: "My father-in-law doesn't know anything. Now Shangshu Chen is busy raising food and salary for the local garrison troops in the capital, so he has been running around in the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of Works these days. In addition, he is also responsible for the military school affairs designated by His Majesty, so he will basically not come to the Ministry of War to take up the work."

"The affairs on the yamen are mainly handled by the two ministers... But today Mr. Xiong and Mr. He have something to do. If the father-in-law has urgent matters, he can find someone..."

Liu Jin was very annoyed and thought to himself: "I came to find Chen Xi's child, but he actually hid. It seems that he was afraid of our family, but he still had to be careful of him secretly making trouble... This kid was sinister and cunning. For the last time the fire broke out in his mansion, he was like a mad dog to see whoever bite him."

Just as Wang Shouren was about to take someone into the main hall to rest, Liu Jin waved his hand: "No need, our family has other things to deal with. If the surname Chen comes back, send someone to the Sili Supervisor to notify us. Our family will come to visit in person... This is your Majesty's entrustment, don't forget!"

As he spoke, Liu Jin was very rude to Chen Xi.

After Wang Shouren gave the salute, he respectfully sent Liu Jin away. At this time, he was also a little puzzled, not knowing where Chen Xi had gone, but in order to deal with Liu Jin, he still found a reason for Chen Xi to make excuses.

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...

Liu Jin left the Ministry of War and was going to return to Silijian.

But he was afraid that things would change, so he simply went to the official post to see Wang Quan first and asked him to return to Xuanfu quickly to report to Sun Xiucheng, and he must let Sun Xiucheng prepare all the people in the shortest time and the army will be on the road at any time to avoid any problems.

After doing all this, Liu Jin was worried and went back to his house to ask Sun Cong for inquiries.

After hearing the situation introduction, Sun Cong was extremely anxious: "My father-in-law is confused, why don't you stay in the leopard room and stop Shangshu Chen from going to meet the saint?"

"Well!?"

Liu Jin was a little confused, looked at Sun Cong in confusion and asked, "What do you mean?"

Sun Cong sighed: "Didn't my father-in-law understand? Shangshu Chen knew that there was a false report of military achievements in Xuanfu before, but he had to endure it. He also deliberately asked his father-in-law to send someone to investigate thoroughly, and then showed an attitude of not caring about it. Is it just to turn big things into small things and small things into nothing?"

"No! He clearly wanted to go to His Majesty to sue you before his father-in-law after submitting the review results, so that his father-in-law would be inseparable from this matter."

Liu Jin frowned: "After you said this, our family is really nervous. At this moment... he won't really go to the leopard room to meet the saint, right?"

Sun Cong shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Shang Chen wrote a saint, can you still declare it to your father-in-law? I am afraid that Shangshen Chen is not a saint alone at this time. In order to make his words convincing, he will definitely come up with evidence and hire a helper. Perhaps he is from the Three Laws, or perhaps Xie Ge Lao and others. At this moment, he may have already exposed the matter in front of His Majesty!"

"ah!"

Liu Jin stomped his feet, shouted loudly, pulling his feet to leave, but found something was wrong, and turned around and looked at Sun Cong and asked, "If this is the case, and he will show evidence, what should we do?"

Sun Cong seemed very decisive and said, "My father-in-law must express his attitude and say he is unaware of it. He was deceived by Sun Xiucheng and others."

Liu Jin shook his head and said, "Is it not appropriate? Our family reported to His Majesty before that the person sent to Xuanfu investigation has returned, and the matter has been verified."

Sun Cong was anxious and asked, "For father-in-law, is it important to be a car or is it more important to be handsome?"

Liu Jin frowned and said, "What do you mean... is to let our family abandon the car and protect the handsome guy and abandon the Yan Guang? This... our family cannot do such a thing."

Sun Cong smiled bitterly and said, "If things come to an end, I may not be able to choose... However, I still have to wait for my father-in-law to go to the leopard room and find out after seeing the situation. But my father-in-law remembers that a small impatience will cause trouble, and my father-in-law's own safety should be put first at any time."

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After receiving Sun Cong's guidance, Liu Jin immediately left the mansion and headed towards the leopard room without stopping.

When he arrived at the door of the Leopard Room, he saw that there was nothing special, Liu Jin felt much more at ease: "My brother-in-law just likes to exaggerate. He thought that the reaction of Chen's surname would not be so fast. He could come to see the saint immediately after we left the Leopard Room."

To be cautious, Liu Jin was still going to go in and check it out, urged the people in the Leopard Room to guard against it and not allow Chen Xi to face the saint easily.

As soon as he entered the gate, Liu Jin didn't even have time to summon the guards to ask questions, and saw Qian Ning coming in a hurry.

Liu Jin raised his face and asked, "Why are you so panicked?"

Qian Ning was slightly stunned when he saw Liu Jin, then reacted and said in an anxious tone: "Dadfather-in-law, the big thing is not good, Minister Chen from the Ministry of War is facing the saint."

Hearing this, Liu Jin was furious and asked loudly with a dark face: "When will it happen? Our family had just come to meet His Majesty earlier. The surname Chen came to meet the saint so quickly? And you... actually let him in?"

Qian Ning looked unjust: "Dadfather-in-law, it's not a villain who doesn't stop him, but he really can't stop him... Shangshu Chen is tough and said that whoever hinders him from facing the saint will be punished. If he had no choice, the villain could only give in."

"The villain doesn't know why the Secretary Chen came here, but this is not... As soon as he knew that the Secretary Chen had entered, the villain rushed out to find someone to notify your father-in-law, you are very loyal..."

Liu Jin didn't want to listen to Qian Ning's explanation at all, so he waved his hand and said, "No need to say more nonsense. The surname Chen has just entered not long ago, right?"

Qian Ning nodded repeatedly.

Liu Jin didn't care about why Qian Ning didn't stop Chen Xi, so he hurried to see Zhu Houzhao, fearing that Chen Xi would do something that was unfavorable to him.

Liu Jin went straight to Zhu Houzhao's bedroom, and was worried along the way, and he shouted at him by the guards along the way.

When he arrived at the bedroom in the backyard, Liu Jin saw the little knives standing at the door and asked, "Where is Your Majesty now?"

Seeing Liu Jin's face ferocious face, Xiao Guozi couldn't help but shiver and said quickly: "When you go back to Eunuch Liu, your Majesty has just gone to the west wing. Lord Shen came to wake up Your Majesty himself, saying that there was a major discussion."

Liu Jin was so angry that he muttered: "It's so fucking strange. How could a man named Chen regard this place as his back garden? He would leave as soon as he wanted to come? Even when His Majesty was resting, he could meet the saint at any time?"

Liu Jin glared at Xiaozi fiercely, then headed towards the west wing.

Because he ran all the way, he was so tired that he arrived at the west wing with panting. He realized that Chen Xi had been doing some time in the matter, and even Zhu Houzhao had finished reading Chen Xi's memorial.

"Eunuch Liu, such a coincidence?"

When Chen Xi saw Liu Jin breaking into the door, he looked natural and could not see any intention. Liu Jin had a ghost in his heart, so he stepped forward and knelt down: "Your Majesty, don't listen to the one-sided words of Shangshu Chen, the old slave did nothing."

Zhu Houzhao looked at Liu Jin kneeling on the ground, glanced at Chen Xi again, and asked, "What is Eunuch Liu doing? What did Shangshu Chen say, make you so nervous?"

After hearing Sun Cong's words, Liu Jin rushed to the leopard room. He knew that Chen Xi had come to meet the saint as expected. He was sure that the other party wanted to fight the time difference. He complained to Zhu Houzhao while he was not there, so he completely denied the crimes that Chen Xi had been prosecuted. When Zhu Houzhao asked, he was a little surprised and thought to himself: "No, is it that the only person named Chen who had just arrived and had no time to complain to His Majesty?"

"this……"

Liu Jin couldn't answer at all.

Zhu Houzhao seemed inexplicably: "Eunuch Liu, what you said just now... seems to be saying that someone wronged you. Let's talk about it, what's going on?"

Liu Jin stood up: "No... nothing big. I don't know what Secretary Chen came to report to His Majesty. However, Secretary Chen had previously proposed that the Xuanfu local area falsely reported military merits, and this time he came in such a hurry... Old slave..."

At any time, Liu Jin felt that he was eloquent, but because he made a mistake in judgment, he found that he was a little exhausted for a while.

Zhu Houzhao looked straight: "Since Eunuch Liu can't tell me why, then I have something to ask you, didn't you say that the person you sent to Xuanfu to investigate has returned? Where is the person now?"

Liu Jin was speechless again.

At this moment, Liu Jin became more and more confused. He had no idea whether Chen Xi complained or not, and thought to himself: "It is best not to say anything before you figure out the situation."

Chen Xi said intentionally or unintentionally: "Is the envoy mentioned by Eunuch Liu arguing that Zhang Wenmian failed? This person heard that he was a scholar and had made many achievements after joining Eunuch Liu. He helped Eunuch Liu to take charge of the court affairs many times..."

Liu Jin quickly said, "Shangshu Chen, if there is no evidence, don't talk nonsense. Our family is in charge of the rituals and supervision, and dare not neglect any of the affairs of the court. How can we ask for a staff officer? This time, we sent someone to Xuanfu to investigate whether there was any false reporting of military achievements in the local area. Your Majesty ordered him to do so. You wouldn't want to use this to attack our family, right?"

Zhu Houzhao said annoyedly: "Shut up, I just answered the question, I didn't know what to say... You said it was not the one named Zhang, who is it? I want to meet again."

Liu Jin was in a state of confusion and didn't understand why Zhu Houzhao was so interested in Zhang Wenmian. The only reason was that Chen Xi slandered Zhu Houzhao and said that Zhang Wenmian had not returned to Beijing. Liu Jin was extremely cunning and thought to himself: "You Chen Xi wants to attack me with this matter, but there is no way! I can just find someone to make up for the numbers. As long as what he said can be fulfilled, Your Majesty will not believe your words!"

Liu Jin said: "Your Majesty, this person is irrelevant. The most important thing is that he has investigated clearly that there is no false report of military achievements in Xuanfu. I have reported the specific matters before. Please be aware of yourselves!"

Chen Xi seemed helpless: "Eunuch Liu, it doesn't matter who you sent to Xuanfu to investigate the case, but now the Xuanfu reports that the person you sent was hijacked by bandits on the way. I think it's important, so I came to report to His Majesty to see if I find a way to rescue him, but I never thought that my father-in-law said that this person had returned to the capital. What was going on? Could it be that the report was wrong?"

Liu Jin was sure that Chen Xi had no choice but to do anything to him, but after hearing this, he suddenly felt something was wrong.

"No wonder Yan Guang has not sent back the letter in the past two days. Could it be that the boy named Chen sent someone to capture him? Hey, this boy is actually having fun with our family?"

Zhu Houzhao was furious: "Liu Jin, didn't you say that the person you sent to Xuanfu investigation has returned? Why did the local area report this? Could it be that you sent two groups of people to go?"

Liu Jin doesn't know how to answer now.

According to Zhu Houzhao's intention, he said it was not possible. Who knows if the emperor intended to test it? It would be impossible to directly deny it. He was completely unaware of who reported Zhang Wenmian's kidnapped. If Chen Xi instructed him behind his back, he tortured and forced him to take Zhang Wenmian's confession and confronted him directly, the matter would be difficult to end.

"Zhang Yanguang looks resourceful, but he is a corrupt person who forgets his righteousness when he sees profit. Such a person cannot be won over. It is because of Sun Cong's recommendation that our family value him. He never thought that this person was caught by a boy named Chen. If he turned around and bite me, what would he think?"

Chen Xi saw Liu Jin lowering his head and thinking, and took the initiative to attack while the heat was hot, "Your Majesty, whether the person robbed by the bandits was from Eunuch Liu, but when he heard that this person passed by Juyong Pass, he actually asked for 5,000 taels of bribes. This time, he was hijacked by the bandits together with the silver. Otherwise, those poor and crazy bandits would never dare to take the risk of robbing the convoy of the government..."

Liu Jin was angry and pointed at Chen Xi and said, "You are not slandering the envoys we sent, but slandering our family... Your Majesty, you are going to be the master of the old slave!"

After saying that, Liu Jin knelt down and kowtowed to Zhu Houzhao, looking very aggrieved.

Zhu Houzhao stared at Liu Jin tightly and said angrily: "What kind of master do you want? I want someone from you now! Didn't the envoy you sent have investigated the situation? Where is the person?"

Liu Jin did not dare to say that he had returned to the capital at this time, so he quickly changed his words: "Your Majesty, this person is still in Xuanfu and has not returned to the capital. He just sent his subordinates to report the situation to the capital. The old slave did not know whether he was kidnapped by bandits, and Shangshu Chen said that this person was asking for bribes. The old slave thought it was purely a false sense. No matter how brave this person was, he would not dare to do this."

Zhu Houzhao asked with a dark face: "Since anyone hasn't come back, what are you going to protect? Is your life?"

Liu Jin was dumbfounded. How dare he make a promise easily?

Based on his understanding of Zhang Wenmian, it would be strange that this person went to Xuanfu under his banner and did not ask for bribes along the way.

Moreover, Zhang Wenmian is his representative, which is related to the merits of many generals under the Governor Xuanda. Many people will take the initiative to curry favor with him. Even if Zhang Wenmian does not speak, a large number of people will be "filial to him". At the same time, Zhang Wenmian will bring back the portion of the money given to him by Liu Jin.

Chen Xi was angry when he saw Zhu Houzhao, and seemed very surprised: "Your Majesty, today I just heard that the envoys sent by Eunuch Liu were robbed by bandits, but I don't know that Eunuch Liu had any other things to report before, but Is it about the false reporting of military merits in Xuanfu?"

Zhu Houzhao said angrily: "That's right. Eunuch Liu told me earlier that the Xuanfu did not falsely report his military achievements, but if the people he sent openly solicit bribes, then it's impossible to say."

Chen Xi sighed, "Your Majesty must beware of the generals of Xuanfu's government killing good people and taking credit for their achievements... If the people who are slaughtered are the people in the Ming Dynasty, then your Majesty will use the heads of the innocent people in the Ming Dynasty. The meaning is ominous, and he may be punished by God!"

Liu Jin continued to kowtow: "Your Majesty, there is no such thing as this, no such thing!"

Zhu Houzhao seemed very disappointed: "Liu Jin, you said it so convincingly before. I believe you, but now I believe in evidence more. No one you sent back has come back. You just sent a letter and you said that there is no such thing. Have you seen it with your own eyes? Why do you make me believe you?"

"Your Majesty, I am willing..."

Liu Jin was about to say something, but was interrupted by Chen Xi.

Chen Xidao: "Eunuch Liu should not make any promises easily... Now the Japanese officials have also obtained information. The left-wing troops of the Tatar Khan tribe, which had been completely wiped out by our Ming Dynasty, appeared in just two days near the Longmen Guard of Xuanfu. The number was nearly a thousand. After slaughtering more than a dozen of our border troops, they left... I dare to ask a soldier who had been completely wiped out suddenly. Could it be that he would have resurrected by borrowing a corpse?" 8)
Chapter completed!