Xiao Ruxun's return to Beijing is not a trivial matter, at least for now, this has become a major event that the whole Beijing division is paying attention to, and with Xiao Ruxun's return to Beijing, there are still many big things to do.

For example, the noon gate prisoner sacrifice ceremony, such as the reward ceremony for meritorious soldiers, such as the knighthood ceremony of several major military generals, and the most important ceremony for Xiao Ruxun to be crowned the Duke of Qin, of course, are more things that the army needs to prepare.

According to Xiao Ruxun's report, there are about 10,000 meritorious soldiers who were brought back to Beijing to be rewarded together, and all of them have the merit of beheading more than the fifth level, and the rest have not been allowed to come, so this alone is a lot of expenses.

Because of this, the imperial court has been jumping for several days, but fortunately, the-stirring sticks have been served by the previous Shen Carp incident, and the Jingcha Storm has directly entered the second stage after the fall of Shen Li, and the arrest of people in the first stage has been basically completed, so most of the manpower has been saved.

At present, Shen's usual decree is unimpeded, and many of the details of the ceremony have been assigned.

Who is responsible for what things, who writes what edicts, what level of rituals to prepare, what things need to be used, and some things that have been sealed in the warehouse for a long time must be fished out, blown and shaken clean and reused.

Many officials of the Ministry of Rites are complaining-

I thought I would never use the things that I turned out again, the ashes are layer after layer, the things that can be used are not much, and a lot of them are broken, and they have to be repaired and repaired, so that these pampered masters are tired enough.

The Ministry of Rites was originally the Qingshui Yamen, and there was basically no sense of existence until the year of the imperial examination, and of course there was nothing to do, generally just to engage in official activities such as sacrifices, and sit in the office and drink tea when there was nothing to do, and now there was a sudden wave of big things, and they were not used to it.

But Shen's consistent decrees one after another made them dizzy.

The former Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites has just been eliminated by Shen Yiyi, and Zhu Geng, the new Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites just appointed by the imperial court, is his fellow countryman, although he has not yet arrived, but seeing that Shen Yiyi is about to take charge of the Ministry of Rites, no one wants to offend Shen Zhengyi in this stall and be taken away.

It is very bad to be hated by Shen Zhengyi, at least for now, when Shen Zheng has not officially become the first assistant of the cabinet, everyone has already seen Shen Zhengyi's methods.

An auxiliary minister and a Shangshu were killed by Shen Cheng beating rabbits at the same time as the Jingcha storm, which made the officials of the six ministries who were accustomed to bullying Zhao Zhigao feel frightened.

Zhao Zhigao is a soft persimmon, anyone can pinch it, anyway, he has no power, he is honest, bullying honest people is a great pleasure of being a man, but after Shen has always been in power, this situation will change.

So the officials of the six ministries, who were accustomed to the relaxed life of Zhao Zhigao's era, lamented that the Zhao Zhigao era was gone, Zhao Zhigao was a strong cabinet before, and Zhao Zhigao was still a strong cabinet after that, and the six ministries only lived a good life for about three years, and now they are going back to their original days.

Think about the time when Zhang Juzheng was in power to the six ministries, the six Shangshu only Zhang Juzheng was the first to look forward, even the later Zhang Siwei Shen Shixing Wang Xijue also held control of the six ministries in their respective periods, until Zhao Zhigao suddenly took the throne, the six ministries eased up and began to bully the cabinet, but in less than three years, they returned to their original shape.

But fortunately, Shen Cheng also knows how to pull a group to fight a group, and when dealing with the Jin Party, he will win over other factions, Shen Li, Yu Jideng and the Metropolitan Procuratorate are taking the initiative to find trouble, and they really can't blame Shen Zhengyi, as for what Shen Zheng will do in the future, no one knows.

Everyone is doing things honestly, preparing for the next noon gate prisoner sacrifice ceremony, and also preparing for the upcoming incident of Shen Cheng being the first assistant of the cabinet after the noon gate sacrifice ceremony.

Yes, everyone is keenly aware that the emperor wants Shen Cheng to become the next cabinet chief assistant, and does not hesitate to support Shen Cheng while the current first assistant Zhao Zhigao is still in power, increase Shen Yiyi's power, and clear his opponents, which is a typical support.

Although the matter of Qin Guogong still made many people dissatisfied, but as soon as Xiao Ruxun was about to come back, the huge prestige raised by the lives of hundreds of thousands of northern captives made these cats and dogs tremble, they had never met such a famous general, and they didn't know how to deal with him.

On the other hand, this incident has touched the sensitive nerves of the emperor, and the cabinet ministers and the secretary of the Ministry of Rites have fallen because of this, and no one wants to be the next victim, and everyone understands the principle of pursuing advantages and avoiding disadvantages.

They almost watched as Xiao Ruxun, who surpassed the existence of all the previous generals, approached the capital step by step, and arrived at the highest power center of the Ming Dynasty step by step.

On May 10, Xiao Ruxun led his troops to Bauhinia Pass, where he remembered the beginning of the battle, for him, this battle began here, and many things began here.

At the end of last year, he went to Shanxi and Datong from here, and now, five months later, the war is over, and the soldiers have returned, and the mood is naturally quite excited.

However, at present, there is still chaos and busyness inside and outside the Bauhinia Pass, and there are constantly ragged people dragging their families from the Bauhinia Pass to the outside of the Bauhinia Pass, and the guards stationed at the Bauhinia Pass explain that these are the people who fled from Shanxi during the Great War.

"It's May now, but they haven't returned to their hometown to start farming, now, this year's grain harvest in Shanxi and Datong should not be able to look at it directly, if it is placed in the past, I'm afraid this is another disaster, but this time, thanks to those grain caves, this year's grain should not be short, and these people probably won't starve to death."

Xu Guangqi accompanied Xiao Ruxun to stand on the Bauhinia Pass City, looking at the refugee brigade that was constantly heading west, and his mood was very heavy.

"I fought wars, defended the land against thieves, and fought for the country, in order to let these people live and work in peace and contentment, but after winning the war, I also missed the agricultural time, and the people are still displaced and cannot live and work in peace and contentment, and this winter will inevitably be hungry and cold.

Zixian, you say, we are fighting so desperately, fighting so desperately with the northern captives, in the end, these people are still displaced, and foreign enemies can be killed with swords, guns, swords, halberds, how can the people live and work in peace and contentment? ”

Xu Guangqi has never been an official at all, he only has a belly of book knowledge and battlefield experience, battlefield knowledge can not be applied to governing the country, ignore, book knowledge tells him to govern the country to be benevolent, lightly dispense with the poor, treat the people well, the country will naturally become rich and strong.

But how do you do it?

Xu Guangqi didn't know what to say.

The more he experienced the most real pain, the more he faced the most real misery, the stronger his doubts about book knowledge and the ideal world, and the more he questioned whether what he had learned could be used for himself.

Xiao Ruxun's question made him even more wavered.

After a long time, Xu Guangqi remembered a poem that had made him feel extremely confused.

"Xing, the people are suffering, dying, the people are suffering, Xiao Hou, I really don't know how to let the people live and work in peace and contentment."

Xiao Ruxun didn't say anything, just took a deep breath and nodded.

"Now that I'm back in Beijing, where do you want to go? Staying in Beijing to prepare for the exam? Or somewhere else? If I can help, I'll help you once. ”

Xu Guangqi thought silently.

"Myanmar, please allow me to go to Myanmar, I have a lot of questions I want to ask Mr. Yuan Huang for advice."