The Jinyiwei Qianhu seems to have a respectable status, but that is only in the eyes of ordinary people or middle and lower-level officials. However, with the identities of Xie Qian and Dai Yi, they look down on a small Jinyiwei Qianhu. .

If Xie Qian hadn't been patient for his desperate efforts, he would have been out of the way... Who are you? You dare to come out to stop me?

Dai Yi was also a little dissatisfied. In the end, Qian Ning obtained today's power position because of his ability to do business and flatter the emperor. Dai Yi was afraid of Liu Jin, but he was not afraid of Qian Ning who did not have much power at hand. He said now:

"Qian Qianhu, you have to know who you are talking to... This is the chief minister of the dynasty and came with the order of the Queen Mother. Do you know that you are speaking inappropriately?"

Qian Ning replied with a smile: "Grandmaster Xie and Eunuch Dai are sorry. Although the villain has a low status, he conveys the imperial edict of His Majesty. If the two think that the villain is inappropriate, the villain apologizes here, but if he wants to enter the leopard room, the villain would rather die than obey. This is related to Your Majesty, please forgive me!"

Now in Qian Ning's eyes, only those who are praised and trusted by the emperor are worthy of his favor.

Liu Jin is one, and the other is Chen Xi. He dared not offend these two people. As for Dai Yi, he was not afraid at all. He even felt that his status in the court was higher than Dai Yi.

As for Xie Qian, Qian Ning was just respectful in courtesy, not to the point of being respectful, because he had long seen that it was difficult for Xie Qian to even see the emperor, and the power at hand was completely suppressed by Liu Jin. The government orders did not leave Wenyuan Pavilion and could not interfere with the promotion of his Jinyiwei Qianhu.

Dai Yi wanted to turn against Qian Ning, but was stopped by Xie Qian.

Xie Qian raised his hand and looked gloomy: "This Qian Qianhu, as a close minister of the emperor, you should understand what to do to benefit the emperor and the court and the people... Today I came to meet the saint, and was entrusted by the Empress Dowager. If you continue to stop me, don't blame me for showing mercy."

Use both soft and hard!

Xie Qian thought he could make Qian Ning surrender through his pressure, but he never thought that the young man in front of him was not a good man.

Qian Ning said with a stern face: "Gei Xie is wrong. It is precisely because he is a close minister of the emperor. Everything he does must be based on the orders of Your Majesty. If you let the two in, it will not only make Your Majesty unhappy, but also cause the villain to suffer from flesh and blood. Why bother?"

"If the two resist the order, the villain will summon the palace guards to expel the guests. Both of them are decent people and have high power in the court. Don't you want to end up being embarrassed, right?"

At this time, Qian Ning didn't listen to Dai Yi and Xie Qian's tricks at all. No matter what the two said, they would not give in.

Dai Yi still wanted to persist, but Xie Qian understood that this matter was not forced. He grabbed Dai Yi's sleeve and said, "Since we cannot meet the saint, let's go back and report to the empress dowager. Let's see how the empress dowager will give instructions."

When Dai Yi heard this, he couldn't help but look at Xie Qian with surprise, and couldn't understand why Xie Qian gave up so easily.

He is different from Xie Qian. Although he is an eunuch in the Sili Supervisor, he is just a slave of the royal family after all. If he fails to do things, the empress dowager may punish him... Just like Liu Jin, when Liu Jin was unable to complete the task, he created some scars and deceived himself, which made Empress Dowager Zhang soft.

Xie Qian was different. As the chief minister of the cabinet, he was only entrusted by Empress Dowager Zhang to persuade the emperor. Even if he could not complete the task, he would not suffer any flesh and blood.

Empress Dowager Zhang is not qualified to be a Cabinet Grand Secretary.

But Xie Qian insisted on going back, and Dai Yi had no choice but to return to the palace in shame to report to Empress Dowager Zhang.

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Even if Empress Dowager Zhang was anxious, Zhu Houzhao did not return to the palace for a while.

Empress Xia successfully moved into Kunning Palace, and everything was carried out according to royal etiquette... Empress Dowager Zhang cared about face and did not open up the matter.

But even so, the government and the opposition still talked a lot. There were so many people who knew about this that they still failed to keep the secret as Empress Dowager Zhang wished and let the news spread.

Zhu Houzhe lived outside the palace forever, and that was that he no longer involved in court affairs. The court affairs were basically controlled by Liu Jin, with only the Ministry of War.

As the main force against Liu Jin, Chen Xi did not hand over the power. Even if the other departments involved the court's verdict, they were controlled by Liu Jin, so that the area was opened from the capital as the center, and false cases occurred in the northern prefectures and counties, which made the public resentment boil.

For Chen Xi, the emperor's failure to return to the palace would have no effect on him.

The emperor stayed in the leopard room for twelve hours and had long since thrown his promise to study in the military school.

After the preparations for the military school were completed, in addition to carrying out normal teaching, Chen Xi began to formulate a system for selecting students.

The Ministry of War was in his hands, and before Liu Jin, the Governor's Office of the Five Army, had already reached out, Chen Xi had the imperially-defined national policy as a blessing and acted without any scruples.

If there is any new plan, Chen Xi directly notified the Governor's Office of the Five Army. Even if the troops in the Beijing camp were not under the jurisdiction of Wei Bin, the rest of the troops would obey the order. Chen Xi was able to draw personnel to the point of being able to help, and the number of students in the military school increased from more than 20 to more than 50 by late June.

However, because these students are basically middle and lower-level generals, the war in Xuanda area has not yet ended and the capital is under martial law. These students have a bad daily task and can only take turns to attend classes.

Coming to study in the classroom has become a burden for these students. The situation of skipping classes is very serious. This is related to the fact that Chen Xi did not formulate corresponding punishment measures at the beginning. Many people simply did not come to study at once. Some middle and lower-level generals were hereditary military households and could not read a single word. Teaching these people was simply playing the piano for cows. Chen Xi could only try every means to overcome this.

At this time, Chen Xi was concerned about two other things besides the military school.

One is to replace troops from other places with defense in the capital.

The second thing is about the battle in Xuanda area that seems to be small but is of great significance to Chenxi.

Because Zhu Houzhao no longer cares about the border war, Chen Xi did not have to worry about Zhu Houzhao's proposal to personally expedition. This battle to lure the enemy into deeper has become a war that requires certain results.

However, because the reinforcements sent were Li Pin's troops, they were not under the direct jurisdiction of Chen Xi, Chen Xi could only use the Ministry of War to organize the marching and combat. In the front, it was relying on Yunliu to thread needles and lead the line, and the war was very difficult.

Chen Xi could only hope that Li Pin would follow the orders, but because of this, he temporarily defected to Liu Jin, it was very difficult for Chen Xi to control.

However, because the Tatars had few troops invaded the border, and the series of plans of Chenxi finally took effect, the war soon came to fruition.

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June 27th.

Zhu Houzhao has lived outside the palace for nearly twenty days. The sun is bright and the capital is under martial law, and the streets and alleys are quiet.

Chen Xi came out of his home and arrived at the Ministry of War. Before he could sit down in his office, the emergency document sent by Yunliu had been submitted before the case was submitted.

Yunliu delivered the information much faster than the imperial court's stud horses, which was related to Chen Xi's usual strict requirements for scouts. Many of these people followed Chen Xi and Yunliu and even had old subordinates recruited by Chen Xi from Quanzhou, including Zhang Laowu's yamen brothers.

In addition, Chenxi calmed down the old subordinates of the bandits on the southeast coast. These people received rigorous military training. After Chenxi established an intelligence system, they also conducted systematic and rigorous training on these recruited people. Their abilities are undoubtedly many times better than those of the court's scouts.

Chen Xi picked up the information and looked carefully. The big stone that had been hanging in his heart for many days finally landed on the ground.

With the help of Yunliu, the military and civilians on the front line of the Xuanfu cooperated with the more than 600 soldiers sent by Li Pin to fight a beautiful annihilation battle with the Tatars.

Although the final main battlefield was not on the front line of the Great Wall, but in the area north of Huailaiwei, the result was not bad.

More than a thousand cavalry sent by the Tatars were besieged by the Ming army. They broke through in panic and killed more than 100 cavalry on the spot. More than 100 Tatar soldiers were captured, and as many as 600 people were rescued from the local plundered soldiers and people...

Compared with Chen Xi's previous victory against Tatars, the results of this battle seem insignificant.

But this was the first real victory achieved by Emperor Zhengde in the battle against northern ethnic minorities after he ascended the throne. Although it was not a great victory, it was also exciting enough.

"Greed is not enough to swallow elephant. If the Tatars had not been greedy and took advantage of our army's 'new defeat' and plundered our Ming people, livestock and wealth, they would not have ended up like this."

Chen Xi checked and found that the Ming Dynasty suffered a lot of troops this time, especially under Li Pin, who lost more than 300 people.

Chen Xi was very worried when he saw it: "It was obvious that the Tatars were surrounded by heavy troops, and the Tatars broke through hastily, but as a result, more than 1,000 people were left, and only 300 people were lost to Longqingwei alone. In addition, the number of local troops in Xuanfu is probably to reach seven or eight hundred... The combat power of our Ming army is worrying!"

After receiving the battle report, Chen Xi was not in a hurry to report it.

The report of such local reports should be based on court documents. The private information transmission cannot be used as a basis, and Chen Xi has no intention of seeking credit.

Chen Xi thought to himself: "Li Pin won the victory, although he was dispatched by the Ministry of War, will Liu Jin not take the opportunity to seek credit? Liu Jin can completely describe Li Pin as his person, and all the victory of this war is to the command of the eunuch party generals... Now it depends on how Liu Jin repays his merits to His Majesty!"

In this matter, Chen Xi seemed unhurried and impatient. Although the war was completed under his command, Chen Xi intended to give the opportunity to Liu Jin.

However, the court's war report was obviously much later than the information Chen Xi received. Until the next day approached dusk, neither the Ministry of War nor the Governor's Office of the Five Army received any information about the war.

Chen Xi thought to himself: "It seems that reforming the court's intelligence system is imminent."

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The first year of Zhengde, June 28th.

The sun hung diagonally on the top of the West Mountain. Liu Jin came out of the Silijian and returned to his private house from Donghuamen. After a few steps out of the palace gate, he heard someone coming from behind.

"Who?"

Liu Jin did too much trouble and always kept rushing in and out. There were eunuchs accompanying him in the Forbidden City, while there were Jinyiwei and privately recruited thugs following him. Liu Jin was domineering in the morning, but usually acted very low-key in order to avoid being targeted.

The visitor was a little eunuch who served tea and water in Sili Supervisor. After several strong eunuchs who were close to protecting Liu Jin held it down, Liu Jin walked over and shouted, "Xiao Shunzi, what are you doing?"

The little eunuch, known as Xiao Shunzi, was only fourteen or fifteen years old. He had no status in the Silijian and usually worked as a choreographer. However, because he was smart and elegant, he was noticed by Liu Jin.

Xiao Shunzi was pressed to the ground and was frightened. He quickly said, "Father-in-law, the company's etiquette has arrived. You can go back and take a look."

After Liu Jin thought about it for a while, he knew that Xiao Shunzi had no malice towards him. He waved his hand and all the followers next to him retreated. Liu Jin said, "Don't be so reckless in the future. Those who don't know will think it's an assassin. If there is another time, don't blame our family for being merciless!"

Xiao Shunzi quickly knelt down and kowtowed: "Thank you, my father-in-law, for waking up, Xiao Shunzi knew that he was wrong."

"Um."

Liu Jin nodded and turned back to the palace gate.

As soon as the person arrived at the Silijian, he saw Dai Yi, Wei Bin and others waiting at the door... The emergency official documents were intercepted by Wei Bin from the Governor's Office of the Five Army. Before he had time to send them to the Ministry of War and the Tongzheng Envoy Department, he was sent directly to the Silijian. Dai Yi had no time to leave because he had to deal with some official documents.

As Liu Jin's best friend, Wei Bin walked forward to salute: "Eunuch Liu, here is an urgent report from Xuanfu, saying that our army won a great victory on the front line of Huaihua, annihilated and captured nearly a thousand enemies!"

When Liu Jin heard this, his eyes widened and asked in surprise: "When did it happen? It wasn't it the conspiracy of the Ministry of War that he deliberately deceived us?"

When Liu Jin heard an emergency military newspaper, the first thing he thought of was Shen Xi playing tricks. Now Liu Jin regards preventing Shen Xi as his top priority and is full of doubts about the military.

Wei Bin was stunned: "Where did you start with my father-in-law? This victory was submitted by Li Pin, commander of Longqing Guard, and Sun Xiucheng, governor of Xuanda. There should be no problem!"

Liu Jin was relieved. He didn't think about the credit. But after careful consideration, he asked again: "Sun Xiucheng, I have sent it to our family before... Well, let Liu Shangshu of the Ministry of Personnel come to see you! This matter must not be leaked. If there is any war report coming, all of them will be intercepted from the Governor's Office and the Tongzhengsi Office!"

Wei Bin was very capable and bowed: "Yes, father-in-law, let's go now."

Liu Jin watched Wei Bin leave excitedly, frowned and pondered. Dai Yi came forward to ask, "Eunuch Liu, do you need to report this matter to Your Majesty immediately?"

Liu Jin looked at Dai Yi with a slant and asked, "Does this matter have anything to do with you?"

Dai Yi nodded and said nothing, but Liu Jin thought about it: "Sun Xiucheng and Li Pin are both Liu Yu and are included in my command. They are basically my people... Although the combat plan was formulated by the Ministry of War, it is my people who lead the troops to fight. Of course, I have to submit my contributions this time. We must not leave the opportunity to the boy named Shen!"

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To be continued...