In mid-December, in the Fengtian Hall of the Imperial City of Fengyang, the central capital, the main civil and military officials of Nanzhili arrived, and all the generals above the Tianwu Legion arrived.

Today, the imperial court's will to reward has come down, and it has been read out by the eunuch Bingbi, the eunuch of the ceremonial superintendent, the governor of Dongchang, and the chief of the Jingying camp, Cao Huachun.

At the head of Fengtian Palace, Cao Huachun's face was dark, and when he saw all the officials and civil officials standing and the military generals standing solemnly, he nodded with satisfaction.

Cao Huachun looked at Zhu Cihong and said with a smile: "Your Highness, our family is about to read the holy decree." ”

"Good!" Zhu Cihong nodded, got up from his seat, went to the imperial stairs and stood with his hands down.

A little eunuch handed over a brocade box wrapped in yellow silk, and Cao Huachun took out the yellow silk holy decree from the brocade box, and shouted: "Holy decree!" ”

Zhu Dadian, the governor of Caoyun, Zhang Guowei, the governor of Yingtian, Shi Kefa, the governor of Anqing, Shi Kefa, the prefect of Fengyang, and other major civil officials of Nanzhili all knelt solemnly.

Cao Huachun unfolded the holy decree in his hand and read it out in a loud and high-pitched voice: "Fengtian carries the emperor, and the edict says: ........"

Zhu Cihong stood bent, he already knew the content of the reward, and he didn't have anything to do with himself, but he didn't understand why there were two holy decrees in the brocade box.......

Everyone listened carefully, and the lowered faces of everyone in the Tianwu Army were excited.

Sun Yingyuan, the second-rank dragon and tiger general, Yin Yizi's son Shijin Yiwei commanded the affairs.

Huang Degong, awarded the second rank hussar general, Yin Yizi Shijin Yiwei commanded the affairs.

Li Tingbiao, awarded the second rank of the general of Fengguo, the first son of Yin, the world brocade clothes and thousands of households.

Zhou Yuji, promoted from a staff general to the chief officer of the Nanjing Beijing camp, was awarded the general of the second rank of Dingguo.

Yang Qili went deep behind the enemy to investigate the military situation and awarded the general of Erpin Zhenguo.

Zhao Jinglin, killed two thieves, and awarded the third rank of General Zhaowu.

Li Shaoyou, beheaded the first thief, and awarded the third rank of General Zhaoyong.

Wan Junjie, awarded the third grade of General Zhaoyi.

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Yang Yufan, who defended Luzhou with merit, was awarded the second rank of General Jinwu, and Yin Yizi's son Shijin Yiwei commanded the affairs.

Yang Tinglin, a civil official, governed Fengyang, and led the troops to aid Luzhou, and awarded the three grades of the righteous doctor.

Zhang Guowei, the governor of Yingtian, was meritorious in protecting Nanjing, and was awarded the title of doctor Guanglu........

The change of the military position of the Tianwu Army does not affect the rewards of the imperial court, most of the rewards of the imperial court are scattered ranks, and for some generals stationed in a certain place, they are specially awarded the general army of a certain place.

General Longhu, General Fengguo, and Doctor Zhengyi are all loose ranks, the ones with generals are the loose ranks of military generals, and the ones with doctors are the loose ranks of civilian officials.

The military generals are divided into thirty levels, each level corresponds to a different standard of Yulu, similar to the military rank of later generations, Zhu Cihong did not plan to use the military rank of the West in the later generations in the Tianwu Army, he felt that the scattered rank of the Ming Dynasty completely exploded those schools, lieutenant.

Many things in the West are learned from China, such as counts, marquises, dukes and other titles, divisions, brigades, battalions and other military systems, many people think that this is a Western thing, but in fact, it has been popularized in China more than 2,000 years ago.

Just like some people say that the costumes of the Ming Dynasty are like Korean costumes, but they don't know that Korean costumes are inherited from the Ming Dynasty, but they have changed a little.

In addition to the general soldier, deputy general, staff general, guerrilla general, etc., the other military positions are almost all called by the army according to their own situation, in fact, even the general rank is often just a title, and there are many titles for the general soldiers, some are called generals, some are called military gates, some are called a certain town, and even called the marshal.

When all the generals were rewarded, even Yang Tinglin, who was a civil official, was rewarded, Zhu Dadian and Shi Kefa felt a little uneasy, and sure enough, the reward was nothing for the two of them in the end.

Cao Huachun took a breath, and then shouted: "Zhu Dadian, the governor of Caoyun, and Shi Kefa, the governor of Anqing, receive the order!" ”

The two of them sweated faintly on their foreheads, and they came out of the crowd and said, "Minister, Zhu Dadian (Shi Kefa) takes the order!" ”

Cao Huachun glanced at the two of them, unfolded another holy decree in the brocade box, and read it out.

In the holy decree, Zhu Dadian and Shi Kefa were first reprimanded, and in the battle of Anqing, all 6,000 officers and soldiers were killed, and the two had unshirkable responsibility.

In the end, Zhu Dadian, the governor of Caoyun, was dismissed from his post and pushed to the end, and he was ordered to go home to retire; Although Shi Kefa was reprimanded, he was ordered to make meritorious service for his crimes, and let him take over Zhu Dadian's post as the governor of Caoyun.

The more Zhu Cihong listened, the more frowning he became, and everyone in the hall was also a little surprised, if Shi Kefa was dismissed, it would be better to say, after all, he was in charge of Anqing, but what was the matter with Zhu Dadian?

This place in Anqing not only belongs to the jurisdiction of the governor of Yingtian, but also belongs to the scope of the governor of Anqing, and even belongs to the governor of Fengyang.

At the beginning of this year, Zhang Guowei went to the imperial court and asked that Anqing be removed from his management and given to the governor of Anqing alone, but the imperial court did not agree.

Now the question is, in the first battle of Anqing, the officers and soldiers suffered heavy losses, whose responsibility is it? Either Shi Kefa, or Shi Kefa, Zhang Guowei, and Zhu Dadian were punished together.

Zhu Dadian is also the governor of Fengyang, and the Anqing area also belongs to his management, and it is understandable that the imperial court needs scapegoats, but why is Zhu Dadian unlucky, and the other two are also rewarded? Shi Kefa did not give a reward on the surface, but in fact, he did not give the post of governor of Caoyun.

Zhu Cihong can see from this punishment that someone specifically wants to engage Zhu Dadian, or even himself, and Zhu Dadian has been helping him to check the land of the guard, which naturally offended many powerful people in Jiangnan.

Originally, Zhu Cihong didn't trust Zhu Dadian a little, thinking that he was usually corrupt and had a loss of virtue, and let him check the land of the guard house to test him, but now it seems that Zhu Dadian really wants to mix with himself.

Zhu Dadian was dismissed, so that Zhu Cihong was a little caught off guard, originally he wanted to assess Zhu Dadian, and then use Zhu Dadian's position as the governor of Caoyun to take Huai'an Mansion and Yangzhou Mansion, and reform the two Huai salt tax system, but now it seems that it has to be slowed down.

The interests involved in Yanli are too great, including not only the gentry of the southeast, but also the interests of the nobles, officials and even eunuchs of the two capitals.

Therefore, Chongzhen urged Zhu Cihong to collect taxes in Nanzhili several times, but Zhu Cihong was not in a hurry, or he didn't collect it, and he did it thoroughly, grinding and chirping to collect hundreds of thousands of taels of silver every year, and making trouble for himself, it was meaningless!

Cao Huachun seems to be paying attention to Zhu Cihong, and he has been paying attention to Zhu Cihong who is in a trance.

After the reward was completed, Zhu Cihong held a grand celebration banquet in the imperial city, and a large group of Tianwu generals toasted each other during the banquet, and everyone looked extremely excited.

Zhu Cihong and Cao Huachun sat alone at a table, an old man and a young man were talking in a low voice, and Cao Huachun's face became very exciting from time to time.