As soon as everyone saw this situation, they immediately knew that this was the emperor's promise to fulfill the knighthood! So, who will get such great glory? It's a curiosity in everyone's mind!

And the generals' side, especially those general soldiers who accompanied the southern expedition and the northern war, were even more nervous. Although some people feel that they have little hope, but what if?

Under the curiosity of the whole hall, I only heard Cao Huachun screaming: "The chief soldier of the hussar battalion, Hu Dawei, and He Renlong stepped forward to listen to the order!" ”

As soon as he heard this, all of a sudden, the eyes of everyone in the hall turned to Hu Dawei and He Renlong, and countless envious eyes suddenly focused.

The two of them were naturally overjoyed, and they both came out of the queue to respectfully greet the order, and the voice that responded to Cao Huachun could obviously hear the excitement.

The matter of knighthood can be regarded as a conclusion, but why the emperor chose the two of them to be knighted is a doubt in the hearts of many people. No matter what, especially the generals, they want to measure themselves to see if they can meet the conditions for knighthood?

Under the reading of the nonsense, everyone could understand that in the will, a series of performances of Hu Dawei and He Renlong starting from the Qinwang War in the eleventh year of Chongzhen were listed, which can be seen from the number of medals hanging on the chests of the two of them. However, the two of them were knighted, and the most crucial factor was also clearly explained in the holy decree.

Hu Dawei in the defense of Jiajiazhuang, fighting to the death and not retreating, sticking to the mountains outside the city, wounded in many places, the tragedy of the battle, for the Ming Dynasty in recent years in the war is rare;

Second, Hu Dawei stubbornly resisted the impact of Jianyu in the bloody battle of Guihua City, until the reinforcements arrived, and the victory was decided.

As for He Renlong, the battle of Naturalization City was also emphasized in the holy decree. It was He Renlong's department that rushed to Naturalization City first, withstood the biggest impact of Jianyu, desperately blocked Jianyu's escape attempt, and waited for the arrival of reinforcements from Hu Dawei's department, and then held on together until the main force arrived.

Hearing this will, those generals who wanted to measure the reason why they were not knighted were convinced. They all understood at once that the basis for the emperor's knighthood is not how many victories you have won, but on the basis of winning more battles, you can still fight tough battles and hard battles!

Speaking of which, in terms of the number of military achievements, Hu Dawei and He Renlong originally had a lot, but the battle of Jiajiazhuang and the battle of Guihua City that the two of them experienced were not experienced by other general soldiers. The tragedy of those two battles is obvious to everyone, and the significance of winning is also quite important, and it is a very important battle.

Thinking of this, many generals secretly remembered this, and at the same time understood that a knighthood is a knighthood after all, and it is not so easy to get!

In fact, this is also the original intention of Emperor Chongzhen.

He has a golden finger here, and he expects the enemy to go first, which goes without saying. But sometimes, even if you know what the enemy is going to do, if your generals can't execute it properly, you may not be able to win the war.

One of the most obvious examples of this is the Battle of Naturalization. If it weren't for He Renlong and Hu Dawei, who marched day and night, and blocked this army before Jianyu heard the wind and fled, he would not have been able to completely annihilate tens of thousands of Jianguo on the grassland.

Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen should encourage this kind of general who can fight hard and bloody battles, for this reason, what is the title of knight, anyway, it is not a hereditary title.

For the hereditary title, at least for the current Emperor Chongzhen, it is cautious.

After the knighthood is completed, this great court meeting will also end.

Emperor Chongzhen has a lot of money, civil and military officials, no arrears, and even a year-end reward, which means a little, and then, disperse the dynasty, everyone goes back to celebrate the New Year happily, and there is something to talk about next year.

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Compared with the Ming Dynasty, whether the people or officials are celebrating the New Year, it is very miserable on the Jianyu side. In addition to ensuring that Anshan Post Fort can still have this, even the Shengjing Palace only has one meal a day, and most of them are rare.

It can be said that at this time, all of them were lying in their own houses, and they couldn't move if they could, they drank some water to satisfy their hunger when they were really hungry, and they ate some food when they were dying of hunger.

But even so, many people still starve to death every day. It's okay here in Shengjing, and those who starve to death can still have a finished corpse; In addition to Kai Shengjing, many people who starved to death eventually lost their bones.

It can be said that this winter is the most tragic winter since Jianyu can remember, and the number of attritions is far beyond their imagination.

Dolgon, who was in charge of the military and political power, knew in his heart that by the beginning of spring next year, the old and weak of the Qing Dynasty would probably never see each other again.

I have to say that the people who hate death the most at this time, including Dolgon, are Kong Youde. If it weren't for Kong Youde, they wouldn't have starved like this.

For this reason, many Han people who originally took refuge in Jianlu were all implicated by Kong Youde, and I don't know how many people were beaten to the door by Jianlu, ate their flesh, and drank their blood as revenge. But those who have forgotten their ancestors with these dictionaries can't believe it until they die, thinking that they will get such retribution for serving the Qing Dynasty!

However, there are also a few traitors who have been protected by Dolgon, for example, Fan Wencheng, Ning Wan and a few other famous ones. Even Fan Wencheng was entrusted by Dolgon and sent to the Wa Kingdom.

Before leaving, Dolgon explained to him in a heavy tone: "Fan Qing should know what is the attitude towards you Han people in China now?" But this king believes that Qing and Confucian thieves are different. Whether we can regain trust in the Qing Dynasty in the future depends on how much we can gain from Qing's envoy to the Qing Dynasty this time, and whether we can solve the difficulties of the Qing Dynasty! ”

Speaking of this, he looked at the envoy who was the envoy, the one with the most outstanding diplomatic ability who was urgently transferred back from Anshan Post Fort, Ying Erdai, and then looked at Fan Wencheng and said: "For the Japanese country, after all, you Han people are more familiar with it. Therefore, although the secretary is the deputy envoy, all the improvisation must rely on the secretary, and the goal must be achieved. ”

"Don't worry, the master, even if the slave is full of brains, he will repay the master's kindness!" Fan Wencheng was very excited when he heard this, and hurriedly knelt down and replied.

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Thinking back on this scene, Dorgon lay on the dragon bed, not caring about the people around him, and muttered in his heart: "At this time, no matter what, it is time to go to the capital of the Wa Kingdom, I hope not to disappoint this king!" ”

He guessed correctly, Ying Erdai and Fan Wencheng had already arrived in Edo at this time and were disembarking at the Edo pier.

This time the envoy not only wanted to show the strength of the Qing Dynasty, but also to pay attention not to stimulate the Japanese state, to say that the Japanese state should be moved, therefore, Fan Wencheng spent a lot of thought, and even the entourage was carefully selected, all of them were burly Liaodong Hans, or selected from the white-armored soldiers.

When I arrived at this Edo wharf, I compared it with the people of the Wakoku country, and it was simply standing out from the crowd, and at a glance, I knew that it was not a Wakoku person. Moreover, the white-armored soldiers are all the elite of Jianyu, and they are the soldiers of a hundred battles, and the kind of elite spirit on them is not just talking. Ordinary Japanese people, looking up at such a big man, don't even dare to ask for a favor.

It's so different, and it's naturally very eye-catching. When the Japanese officials learned that the Qing envoys had arrived, they immediately sent someone to report to the shogunate. At the same time, some people ran to a mansion in Edo Castle. After nodding and talking to a tall porter at the door, he received the reward and went away happily.

As soon as the porter and the others left, they also immediately walked to the house, and soon came to the owner of the house, and immediately said in Hokkien: "Fifth master, Jianyu is here, just got off the boat!" ”

This fifth master is naturally the fifth elder of the Zheng family, that is, Zheng Zhibao, who was named a hundred households of Jinyi Wei by Emperor Chongzhen and sent to Edo. Before he came to Edo, he had secretly entered Kyoto to meet him.

At that time, Emperor Chongzhen clearly explained to him, saying that Jianyu was likely to go to Edo and said that he would mobilize the Japanese state to fight against the Ming Dynasty.

In addition, it is also necessary to pay attention to the movements of the Japanese state, because according to reliable information, the Japanese state also has the intention of plotting land. Moreover, because of the Ryukyu incident, sooner or later the Ming Dynasty will administer justice and have a war with the Japanese state.

To be honest, getting such a will feels a little unimaginable for Zheng Zhibao, who previously knew about the Japanese state.

Because as far as he knew, the Tokugawa shogunate of the Wa Kingdom had learned the lesson of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and had no intention of making enemies of the Ming Dynasty again, but only thought of a way to control the Wa Kingdom and prevent other daimyo from effectively copying their Tokugawa family. Even Saiyi went to the Wa Kingdom and was expelled, all in order to stabilize the rule of the Tokugawa family.

Unexpectedly, Zheng Zhibao had just come to Edo, and the important minister of the Tokugawa shogunate, one of the four giants, Omefu, this similar to the commander of the Ming Dynasty Jinyi Guard, Inoue Masashige made a special trip to visit him, and inquired about his tone and asked about the Zheng family's fleet, especially Zheng Zhilong.

If it had been the case before, he might have thought that the Tokugawa shogunate wanted to do business, after all, the Zheng family was now the only foreigner who could do business with the Wakoku. However, Emperor Chongzhen had ordered him in advance, and he immediately understood the real intention of Inoue Masashige to visit him.

So, he was furious. told that his Zheng family was forced by the emperor, and Zheng Zhilong had no choice but to lead part of the fleet north to serve the imperial court, and helped the imperial court defeat the Jianyu Naval Division, but as a result, the emperor of the Ming Kingdom just thought that his eldest brother was a little wrong, so he directly dismissed his eldest brother's official and ended up idle. When he came to Edo this time, he was actually ordered by his eldest brother, and he felt that the imperial court was not reliable, so it was better to develop more business.

Zheng Zhibao remembers very clearly, at that time, he said to Inoue Masashige: "My eldest brother is disheartened with the imperial court, and the brothers who are still in Denglai also have a lot of opinions about the imperial court, and they treat them negatively, saying that since the imperial court does not attach importance to them, they will use them when they are used, and they will be treated like this if they are useless, and they all want to go back to southern Fujian and continue to be pirates." ”

When this Inoue Masashige heard this, the wrinkles in the corners of his eyes were all laughing. Zheng Zhibao dares to guarantee that this will definitely not be wrong!

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