Xu Jin came out with a relaxed expression less than half an hour after entering Cining Palace, and Empress Dowager Jiang summoned him, not so much to reprimand him as to appease. Because all the words of Empress Dowager Jiang can be summed up in only one meaning, that is, let Xu Jin not worry, not have complaints, and continue to do his best to assist the emperor in the future.

Jiang is a person who understands, knowing that Xu Jin is just taking the blame for the emperor today, plus Xu Jin's talent and ability are already obvious to all, and he will definitely be the pillar of the emperor's side in the future, so he specially summoned Xu Jin to appease. Of course, a few words of rebuke are still indispensable.

Zhu Houxi's kid expected that the queen mother would not embarrass Xu Jin, so he slipped away by himself very unrighteously.

Xu Jin walked out of the palace from the Xibian Gate, and his brother-in-law Xie Sangun was still waiting outside the palace gate, and when he saw Xu Jin coming out intact, he immediately greeted him happily and shouted: "Brother-in-law! ”

Xu Jin smiled and nodded: "Three guns, it's okay, let's go home!" ”

When Xu Jin returned to the Hourfang Mansion, Xie Xiaowan was waiting anxiously, and when she saw Xiang Ping'an coming back, she couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and said worriedly: "Xianggong, today the Queen Mother sent someone to the mansion to ask if the two princesses have been here, what happened?" ”

A trace of apology flashed in Xu Jin's eyes, and he hugged Xiao Wan's soft delicate body into his arms, and comforted: "The princess went out of the city with her today, and now she has returned to the game, don't worry, it's okay." What about the little monkeys? ”

Xie Xiaowan finally put her mind at ease when she heard this, and said lightly: "The little monkey just fell asleep, and Yue'er is taking care of it inside." ”

Xu Jin immediately glanced left and right like a thief, his hand quietly caressed the lady's fullness, and said in a low voice: "Lady, we haven't ...... for a long time Cough, it's better for the lady to serve the husband and take a bath! ”

Xie Xiaowan was caressed by Xianggong's claws, glanced at Xianggong shyly, and hummed weakly. Master Xu was overjoyed, and immediately called to prepare water in early spring and early summer.

Looking at the "gearing up" Xianggong, Xie Xiaowan was angry and funny, and at the same time a little apologetic, saying that since her son was born, she put most of her thoughts on her son, but she neglected Xianggong, and the husband and wife usually sleep in the same bed only a handful of times, no wonder Xianggong is greedy like this.

Soon, in early spring and early summer, the bath bucket was ready and filled with water, and Master Xu finally got what he wanted, and expressed heartily twice under the gentle welcome of the lady.

After more than half an hour, Xu Jincai dressed and dressed neatly, and walked out of the room refreshed, and after a while, Xie Xiaowan also walked out, and the intoxicating red glow on her face had not faded.

In the early spring and early summer, when they entered the house to clean up, and saw the wet room everywhere, the latter couldn't help but stick out his tongue and whispered: "Sister, the master is really powerful, he should have been doing it for half an hour just now, Mrs. can't stand it?" ”

Chu Chun's face was hot, and he said angrily: "The little hooves are not ashamed, what are you thinking about, hurry up and clean up!" ”

After dinner, Xu Jin brought the housekeeper Dabao, first asked about the glass workshop, and then instructed him to prepare a gift for the eunuch Lai Yi to send.

Next, Xu Jin teased for a while, chatted with his wife and maid for a while, and then came to the study.

Xu Jin sat quietly behind the bookcase for a while, then took out a piece of rice paper and spread it out on the desk, took out charcoal and drew a diagram of the relationship between the characters on the paper.

Xu Jin first wrote down the word "emperor", circled by a triangle, located at the top of the pyramid, and then wrote "Yang Tinghe" in the first place of the second layer, followed by Fei Shi, Mao Ji, and Jiang Mian, the three cabinet ministers.

On the third layer of the pyramid, Xu Jin wrote six Shangshu, the Imperial History of the Duchayuan, the Daliqing Temple, and the Tongzheng Sitongzheng Envoy......

On the fourth floor of the pyramid, Xu Jin wrote the names of the six servants and Shi Xuan, a scholar of Hanlin......

Xu Jin spent most of the hour listing all the officials with a certain weight in the court, forming a pyramid of characters, with civil officials circled in circles, military generals circled in squares, and then all officials close to Yang Tinghe were connected by lines.

Soon, the relationship chart of the characters of the Yang Dang family came out, and then Xu Jin connected the characters of the emperor's first line. As a result, the characters of the two lines are clear at a glance.

In contrast, at present, a considerable part of the officials in the court are Yang Ting and the first party, and the emperor's descendants are only Sun Jiao, the left attendant of the household department, and Yuan Zonggao, the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites, plus one himself.

The remaining officials can be divided into two factions, one is the pro-Yang faction, such as the third assistant Mao Ji and the fourth assistant Jiang Mian all belong to the pro-Yang faction; The other faction is a neutral faction that can be co-opted, including Fei Shi.

Xu Jin put an "X" on the name of Yang Tan, the head of the household department, and this product has been demoted to the head of the household department in Nanjing today, and the power of the Yang party has been weakened, and Sun Jiao temporarily replaced the household department of the book, and the power of the emperor's descendants has been strengthened......

In this way, Xu Jin wrote and drew on rice paper, and it took a whole night to straighten out the relationship between the officials of the DPRK and China, and made three lists in order, the first was the list of Yang Dang who needed to be swept away, the second was the list of neutrals that could be co-opted, and the third was the list of not to provoke.

As the so-called preparedness, knowing oneself and knowing the other can survive a hundred battles, Xu Jin never fights unprepared battles, not to mention, political struggles have always been cruel, winners take all, losers all lose, careless, the whole family suffers. For example, today, it was just a trivial matter for the princess to go out of the city, but Mao Cheng's old guy shouted and shouted to kill, if it wasn't for the emperor's best to protect him, it is estimated that he would have to shed his skin if he didn't die.

Now that he and Yang Ting and the other party are in trouble, they will either be disabled by the other party or disabled by the other party, Xu Jin naturally has to deal with it cautiously, and he will not allow any of his disappearance. And figuring out the relationship between the other party's characters is like figuring out the opponent's troop deployment, so that you can know it in your heart.

Obviously, now Yang Tinghe has a great advantage, most of the six Shangshu alone are Yang Dang, and the two elders of the cabinet are also pro-Yang. Fortunately, Xu Jin's biggest reliance is the emperor, as long as he is not stupid and has a handle in the hands of Yang Dang, he can naturally be safe.

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The news that Xu Jin was forced to resign from his position as a waiter in Hanlin soon spread in officialdom circles, and some people lamented it, and of course, there were more people who gloated, such as those nobles whose interests in Qingtianzhuang had been damaged.

Xu Jin himself didn't care, and commuted to and from work every day as usual. In the eyes of others, Hanlin is a close minister of the Son of Heaven, the future is limitless, and the possibility of entering the cabinet in the future is very great, but for Xu Jin, Hanlin is just a title, as long as the holy family is still there, thousands of officials will come back after they are gone!

In addition, as the saying goes, if the water is full, it will overflow, and when the moon is full, it is not necessarily a good thing to take advantage of the benefits everywhere. Since he participated in the imperial examination, Xu Jin has been singing all the way, even in the five yuan to explore the flowers and explore, and after entering the officialdom, he has been shining brightly, and secretly I don't know how many people have been jealous, so it is a good thing to suffer a little setback this time, at least there will be a lot fewer people staring at him in the future.

In the following days, Xu Jin put most of his mind on the business of flintlock pistols and glass mirrors, as for the 500 battalion, there were Wang Lin'er, Xie Erjian, and Qi Jingtong to train, he was very relieved, and the kicking industry was completely left to Wei Guogong Xu Pengju to take care of, this goods was born to be a good material for business.

At the end of May, the first glass mirror chain chain store in the Ming Dynasty opened, called: Ming Spiegel Zhai. coincided with the new Bowang Shouren returning to Beijing to report on his work, Xu Jin asked him to help with the inscription, and Lao Wang also sold Xu Jin's face, and inscribed a plaque on the spot for Mingjingzhai, and also attached an additional couplet: The body is a Bodhi tree, and the heart is like a mirror platform. There was nothing in the first place, where to stir up dust.

It is said that Wang Shouren has been famous since he pacified the rebellion of King Ning, and he was not only named a new uncle, but now he is also serving as the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department, and the "Yangming Xinxue" he founded is also popular in the Jiangnan area, with many followers, and the scholars of the major academies have studied "Yangming Xinxue", and there is a great tendency to compete with "Cheng Zhu Lixue".

As a result, on the opening day of Mingjingzhai, the mirrors of 100 interview water were sold out, and some of them were bought by Lao Wang's students, which greatly surprised Xu Jin.

It is said that after these scholars bought the bright glass mirror, they sat in front of the mirror every day and recited aloud: There is nothing outside the heart, nothing outside the heart, there is no reason outside the heart, the universe is my heart, and my heart is the universe.