Li Yan came back from Xu Jie and discussed with Feng Qi and Jiang Yifan, and drafted a very big draft, hoping that Xia Yan would be able to ask questions when summoned.

All his wishes come true! Xia Yan actually sent a message to summon him, and what Li Yanzhi and others expected was that Xia Yan did not summon him to the mansion, but to the West Garden!

Where is Xiyuan? It turns out that in the 21st year of Jiajing, a rare incident of usurping the palace maids occurred in the palace. Several palace maids who had been oppressed had strangled Jiajing's neck with hemp rope while Jiajing was sleeping and wanted to strangle him to death. Unfortunately, they were in a hurry and had a knot tied the rope, which scared Jiajing fainted. After that, the queen arrived and beheaded the palace maids. However, after this incident, Jiajing was too frightened and did not dare to live in the Forbidden City, but moved to the Western Garden of the Imperial City. This incident was the famous "Renyin Palace Incident".

The emperor did not live in the Forbidden City, but the world of Ming Dynasty had to continue to move. Therefore, after the 21st year of Jiajing, the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet also followed Jiajing to work in the Xiyuan Banfang. After the Renyin Palace, Jiajing did not attend court for a while, and even the six ministers of the ministers of the six ministries could not see his long face. Therefore, those who could walk into the Xiyuan Banfang were Xia Yan, Yan Song, and a few ministers and Taoists who could win the emperor's favor, could almost say this: It is easy to go to the Golden Palace, but it is difficult to enter the Xiyuan Banfang!

Unexpectedly, by chance, Li Yanzhi was summoned by the cabinet master before he passed the Jinshi exam. He did not dare to neglect. After taking a shower and changing clothes, he arrived on time. He just entered the side door and ran into Lu Bing and wanted to come out. Li Yan looked straight at his nose and nose, just pretending that he didn't know him.

Lu Bing glanced at him and asked the guard: "This man has a strange face, who is it?" He is the head of the Jinyiwei and has the responsibility to defend the emperor, so he asked this question.

The guard said: "It was Mr. Xia who summoned him to ask questions."

Lu Bing said oh before letting him in.

It goes without saying that the quiet and elegant forest garden in Xiyuan is full of talismans, Bagua gates, peach wood swords, stone benches are placed as seven stars, trees are singing, and Taoist atmosphere is very strong, unlike royal gardens.

Li Yan lowered his head and walked into another door, but saw three people talking and laughing. One of them was an eunuch, the other was a Taoist priest, and the other was an old man. He was thin and had a sparse eyebrows. He was sixty or seventy years old, but he was still full of energy. He wore Taoist Xiangye Temple on his head, which made him look even more unworldly.

When the person who led Li Yanzhi saw them, he hurriedly took Li Yanzhi aside and called him "Gei Lao". Li Yanzhi's heart moved: "Is this old man Yan Song?" Because there are only Xia Yan and Yan Song in the cabinet at the moment, seeing the reaction of the person who led him, this person should not be Xia Yan, so it should be Yan Song! As soon as he thought of this, Li Yanzhi couldn't help but peek at him and said to himself: "How did he give birth to the weird Yan Shifan with such a fairy appearance?"

Yan Song and others ignored Li Yanzhi and walked over and took two steps. Yan Song suddenly turned around, looked at Li Yanzhi and asked, "Who is this?"

The official who led Li Yan to come straight said, "Gei Master Qi, it is the one who summoned and asked questions from Master Xia."

Yan Song said oh, saying, "Why are you wearing casual clothes when you come to Xiyuan to see the chief minister? You are rude!" He pointed at Li Yan and asked, "Where are you an official? What is your official position?"

Li Yanzhi hurriedly saluted and said, "The student has not yet entered the official position, and is still just a disciple."

Yan Song smiled at the eunuch, and the Taoist priest said, "It's so strange. Guixi (Xia Yan) actually met a disciple." He asked Li Yanzhi: "Are you a relative of Master Xia? Could you come here for the next year's examination?"

When the eunuch and the Taoist priest heard this, they were all over and thought: "Do you want to say that he is here to bribe the ministers? Master Xia is not such a person! He is afraid that this dirty water will not be poured on him."

Li Yanzhi was calm and bowed and said, "The student is a student of the Jiachen imperial examination in Fujian. Three years ago, because he was not adapting to the water and land on the road, he turned back and missed the test. This time, he rented a house in Beijing and studied half a year in advance, while adapting to the water and land in the north. Today, he was summoned by Master Xia. He was frightened, but he still didn't know what it was for."

Yan Song smiled and suddenly thought of something, and asked again: "What's your name?"

Li Yanzhi reported: "The student's surname is Li, his name is Zhe, and his courtesy name is Yanzhi. He is from Youxi County, Yanping Prefecture, Fujian."

Yan Song said oh, and waved his hand, "Go, go, since it was Mr. Xia, I won't stop you, so as not to be blamed by him if he goes too late." He said elegantly and gentlely. If someone who is not scheming or knowledgeable, he will definitely think that he is a good person! Li Yan claimed that he had seen a lot of people. Before he saw Yan Song, he felt that he knew this person very well, but when he met him, he could not understand the other party.

After farewell to Yan Song, he came to the front room where Xia Yan was on duty. The official ordered him to wait, come in and report, and let him in for a while.

Li Yanzhi lowered his head and entered. The entire western garden was shrouded in the atmosphere of Quanzhen. Only the fragrance of books in this board room was swept away the illusory delusions, and it was full of righteous and diligent spirit! Some people copied documents in the room, and some people ran back and forth, extremely busy! A handsome old man sat in the middle, who was reviewing documents. Li Yanzhi did not look up when he came in. It was the official who led Li Yanzhi to pay homage to him. Li Yanzhi realized that this person was Xia Yan. He glanced out of the corner of his eyes and sighed in his heart: "How can I speak in this environment?"

Xia Yan seemed to have not noticed that Li Yanzhi had arrived. After busy for a while, he raised his head and asked, "Are you the Juren from Fujian?" But he didn't seem to be asking, he was just confirming.

Li Yanzhi was so aware, but he didn't know how to speak for a while. The distance between the juren and the cemetery master was as big as the sky, as mud as clouds. Although Li Yanzhi was not as scared in front of the chief minister like an ordinary juren, he could not speak nonsense before Xia Yan spoke.

At this time, several Hu beds and several cases in the boardroom are piled up, and Li Yanzhi knew that any official document involved a major event! When the Ge Lao picked up the pen, the difference in circles could lead to tens of thousands of households losing their fortune or overselling, which could make a certain industry prosperous or completely sink into decline! After struggling in the southeast for so long, more than 100,000 men on the sea pursued by the men at risk of their lives was just a piece of paper in this house!

This is the power of life and death decision! It makes people outside afraid, the people beside the door envious, and the people inside the house tremble!

Xia Yan planned to come to an end, and then stopped. Li Yanzhi was thinking about how Xia Yan asked the merchants what to answer when they broke the ban on going to sea, how to answer when sailors killed people, how to answer when they asked about the pros and cons of the ban on sea, and how to answer when they asked about the pros and cons of the ban on sea, and planned to focus on the tax benefits that the court might get after opening the sea ban on customs, and to lobby Xia Yan to raise the troops in the northwest with wealth from the southeast, to turn the business sea into a blessing, and to trample on Mongolia to establish authority. Unexpectedly, Xia Yan asked: "I heard that there are gentry in the southeast who operate the last business (commerce) and use the ban on sea to open the sea to invite profits. Is that true?"

Li Yanzhi was shocked, but he didn't expect Xia Yan's eyes to be so vicious! He was happy again, because if Xia Yan agreed with this, the next words would be easier! He replied: "Gei, it's true."

He was about to move him with words, but Xia Yan didn't give him a chance at all, so he asked, "I heard that the people on the border and sea encounter unfair things and did not resort to the magistrate's parents, but went to the island boat to listen to the decision of the heroes among the traitors. Is there any reason?"

There were originally a group of heroes on the sea, who were fair and reasonable. At the beginning, they only acted on the sea boats. As their power expanded, they also acted on the islands where they opened Australia. At that time, the officials in the southeast were corrupt, officials in prefectures and counties were corrupt, and officials in prefectures and counties were corrupt, and their credibility was greatly damaged among the people! As the saying goes, the yamen opened southward, and there was no reason or money. The people had no way to complain in the local area. Only a few people with great grievances and a tough personality would petition, otherwise most of them would swallow their anger. But from the sea

Those who came out of these heroes, and those who did not believe in the government, went to complain to these heroes, and many of them were indeed dealt with impartially. The disputes between the island courts of Haizhou had begun to form a certain influence in the lower class at that time. For example, the three elders of Shenmingting in Penghu were actually one of them, but most officials in the southeast ignored this. People like Sun Taihe only needed the ant people not to cause trouble, so they thought it was not important.

But this matter involves the prestige and credibility of the Ming court. It seems to be okay, but in fact it is related to the foundation of the Ming Dynasty's founding! Li Yanzhi naturally knew that the interference was significant! When Xia Yan asked, he was stunned by Yi and sweated slightly on his forehead! But he had to say, "This is the case."

He was about to explain the beginning and detailed process of this matter, Xia Yan asked again: "I heard that there are barbarians living in the island caves in Zhejiang and Fujian. These people opened Hong Kong and Macau. Any matters of big and small will be discussed by the traitors on the island. Can this be found?"

In fact, the information Xia Yan had may not be much more than other officials, and he could not go deeper into the knowledge that Shuangyu was the leader at this moment - he had to pay too much attention to, had too much vision, and could not remember the names of "little people" in detail in detail.

However, he was able to see the smallest ideas in such general and vague information, and he immediately caught the most important point! Such terrifying insight is really terrifying!

Xia Yan's third question involves the system of Shuangyu being autonomous by the head of merchants! The leaders involved in the autonomy are mixed with Chinese and foreigners, but this cannot be denied. Although Li Yanzhi has a complete set of plans to gradually expel the forces of Folangji from the East China Sea, it is a fact that the Yi people have a certain political voice on the island! With his current status, he cannot explain this clearly to Xia Yan!

Although the system of merchant autonomy is just a prototype at this time and its power is still very weak, it has a life-and-death conflict with the entire Ming Dynasty system! This is something that Li Yanzhi could not tell him clearly!

If there is room for improvement on the issue of "event", Xia Yan actually caught the fatal point of "system". Li Yan felt a chill in his spine, sweating profusely, and said, "Yes!" and couldn't continue.

Xia Yan nodded and said, "Okay, I understand, you go." He ordered people to review the Mongolian sect.

Li Yanzhi entered the Xiyuan prefabricated room and met Xia Yan. In addition to the polite words such as farewell, he only said three sentences! After he came out, Feng Qi and Jiang Yifan asked him what happened, but he couldn't speak for a long time. Finally, he sighed: "There's nothing more."

Jiang Yifan was puzzled and asked what it meant. Li Yan said straight: "Old Xia Ge is so respectful, but everyone has different positions and different paths, so their momentum cannot be matched!"

Feng Qi and Jiang Yifan looked at each other, and were as if he was unable to speak, but suddenly he reported Yan Shifan to come and ask him. Feng Qi said in surprise: "Young Master Yan's news is so fast!"

"It's not that he's getting a quick news." Li Yanzhi sighed, "It was me who met Yan Song when I went to Xiyuan. Well, but that's fine. Now I thank Master Xia Ge instead. He summoned me to Xiyuan for asking questions. He was selfless, but it also seemed that my trip was clear. Even if Yan Shifan knew, he would not be afraid of him."

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