That night, the news that Hou Xuanyan was going to Suzhou with his two wives spread in the mansion, and the entire Hou Mansion was busy.

In the study, a cup of tea has not yet been cold, and five groups of people have come and gone, and the one who stayed in the study at this time was Ma Shiying, a cabinet scholar.

Ma Shiying was reminded by her daughter and took the initiative to ask Hou Xuan to play the king of Jinyue, which was exactly what Hou Xuanyan wanted. Hou Xuanyan, who came from later generations to read the history books, knows a truth very well, the credit has reached his point, if he is not called the emperor, not only will he end miserably in his old age, but even his henchmen and heirs will not end well.

But it is not so easy to be the emperor, Hou Xuanyan does not want to kill again, and hopes to ascend to that position step by step in the most gentle way. And put aside all the factors, just for yourself, you have to work hard. If you have a chance to reach the top, why do you have to be under people.

Ma Shiying is still chattering a lot, and Hou Xuan's head is too loud, and the left and right are just some red tape.

"These things don't matter, as for the candidates to invite the King of Jin, it's good to start with the martial arts hall." Hou Xuanyan clicked the table and groaned. He thought about it for a long time, the people who spoke about Wutang were all middle- and lower-level generals, and they were hardcore supporters of Hou Xuanyan, and the Northern Expedition had just been successful, and it was when these people were hot.

sent Ma Shiying away, Hou Xuanyan took a pen on the table to delete, delete and change, all of them are the list of rewards to be awarded tomorrow morning.

In the middle of the night, the candles in the study have not been extinguished, and they are all meritorious heroes, and the credit can be all in their own thoughts.

Finally arrived on the fifth watch, Hou Xuanyan bathed and changed clothes under the service of the early maids, and after finishing this set, the sky was already dark, and then he boarded the carriage and rushed to the Forbidden City.

In the main hall, the ministers went up and set up a chair. Hou Xuanyan sat on the left side of the Fengtian Palace, and the hundred officials looked sideways.

After a while, Wang Xiangnian personally carried the little emperor to the palace, and now she can sit on the dragon chair covered with fur.

Wang Xiangnian sang as usual: "If there is something to play, there is nothing to retreat." ”

Hou Xuanyan slowly got up from the chair and said: "In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs and caused chaos in the Central Plains. The first emperor appointed Weichen as the commander of the three armies to drive out the Tartars and restore China. Now, thanks to the support of your colleagues and the soldiers' lives, the Northern Expedition has been completed. Now we should reward the meritorious people, and posthumously seal the souls of the heroes who died in battle, so as to comfort the hearts of loyal ministers and heroes. ”

The little emperor is naturally just an ornament, and now she has not been weaned, and even if she participates in national events, she is a mascot.

The ministers in the palace consciously looked at Hou Xuanyan, who slowly took out a silk silk from his sleeve, on which was a list of rewards that had been written a long time ago and deleted overnight last night.

All the civil and military officials pricked up their ears and listened attentively to his reading, and the general content did not surprise everyone.

The success of the Northern Expedition, the first major thing is, of course, to reward the meritorious people, otherwise how to convince the public. The rewards of the middle and lower-level generals have already been completed, and the rest are the main events, and the government and the opposition are all staring at Hou Xuanyan.

Several generals of the Northern Expeditionary Army were all promoted to the Duke of Guo, and Li Haoxian was the Duke of Qi; Yan Yingyuan was sealed as the protector of the country; Zhu Dadian was named the Duke of Weiguo; Xia Wanchun was too young and the title above his father was not good, so he was named the Marquis of Xiangxi, but his father Xia Yunyi was named the Duke of Ningguo, and he would inherit it to his son in the future. Although Xia Yunyi has no military merits, he deployed baggage in Suzhou, which is a logistical support, and he is a little bit of a son who is not fake, and he can be regarded as convincing to the public. Yang Zhan, Marquis of Jinjiang, captured Hanzhong, recovered Shaanxi, and was awarded the title of Duke of Shu with military merits.

Plugging Yinxi was named the Marquis of Jiujiang; Gao Yigong is the Marquis of Xiangyang; Peng Zhuze, who made a revolution in Xiangxi, was Tan Hou.

Except for Zhu Dadian who continued to lead his troops to defend Fujian, Yan Yingyuan was ordered to guard Beiping, and the other princes all returned to Jinling. The military power is decentralized, and it always belongs to the imperial court, and the imperial court appoints the chief soldier. The so-called soldiers do not know the generals, and the generals do not know the soldiers, which was the reason for the weakness of the army in the Song Dynasty, but now the rise of the martial arts hall has made up for this.

The regularization of middle- and lower-level officers can enable the will of the commander-in-chief to be better implemented, and there is no need to use favors to maintain the relationship between the commander-in-chief and his subordinates.

Summoned foreign generals, Zheng Zunqian was promoted to the secretary of the military department, Jiang Jianxun, the former secretary of the military department, was the governor of the trilateral town of Shaanxi and Gansu, Gong Zifang was promoted to the fourth level of the household secretary, and Zhang Mingzhen, the commander of the Songjiang Naval Division, entered the court as the secretary of the Ministry of Industry.

Zheng Zunqian and Gu Yanwu led the Zhejiang soldiers back to their hometowns and returned to the local general army to control them, and Yao Yiyao, the deputy commander of the Songjiang Naval Division, turned into a regular commander and commanded the strongest naval division in the Ming Dynasty.

After a transfer of rewards, the ministers of the DPRK and China gradually discovered that after the war, the power of the Duke of Yue increased instead of decreasing...

After the soldiers and horses were returned to the locality, except for the large number of Zhejiang soldiers who returned to the south, causing the military power in the hands of Qian Sule and Sun Jiaji to skyrocket, the other generals were all returned to the imperial court. At the beginning, Zhejiang soldiers were the main force of several battalions, and there were too many recruits in Zhejiang. These Zhejiang soldiers, who were called weak, finally under the leadership of Hou Xuanyan, fought the blood of Jiangdong's children. The last one who took them to subvert everyone's cognition was Qi Jiguang. You must know that in the Spring and Autumn Period, Wu Yue Jian'er has always been considered synonymous with bravery.

After Hou Xuanyan finished reading it, the ministers had not yet come back to it, and Ma Shiying came out and said: "There are 2,000 people in Jinling Martial Arts Hall, and they all write to ask the Duke of Yue to be the king of Yue." ”

As soon as the words fell, there was an uproar in the hall.

It has been a long time since the king with a different surname was crowned, and only the meritorious generals who founded the country had such a title.

Hou Xuanyan's great merit and authority are not much better than his exploits at the time of the founding of the country. rescued a mud-like Nan Ming from internal and external troubles. The Minister of Civil and Military Affairs, who has experienced the turmoil in the past few years, is not like the previous Ming officials, so although everyone is surprised, there is almost no opposition.

Looking around the court, Hou Xuanyan suddenly felt a little ridiculous, the court meeting where the people of Shengdou Xiaomin respected the temple was actually an ignorant doll, leading a group of people to stage a drama where the strong man is king. All the worries were in vain, no one would touch his head at all, at least not in person.

Walking out of the hall after the dispersal of the dynasty, Hou Xuanyan was surrounded by a group of ministers, most of whom were his cronies who came to congratulate.

Hou Xuanyan grabbed Ma Shiying, invited him into his carriage alone, and slowly drove back to the Gongfu under the envious eyes of everyone.

Ma Shiying said with a smile: "Congratulations to the prince, congratulations to the prince, no one in the court opposed it today, the prince is really the hope of people at home." ”

Hou Xuanyan looked as usual, and said: "Although no one objected, and few people seconded it, how happy is it." ”

Ma Shiying sneered, and said in his heart that it was not easy for those ministers not to oppose this matter, if they all jumped out in favor of it like me, wouldn't it be famous. Who is so pragmatic with me, and regards those false names as floating clouds.

Hou Xuanyan continued: "I called you here today, not because of this matter, but because there is another big thing for you to do. ”

Ma Shiying immediately put away his sneer, and said with a straight face: "Although the prince commands!" ”

"Qian Sule has a daughter to be married in his family, and he is in love with me, you go to Hangzhou to help me talk about it."

I only saw one side, and Qian Qianwei, who had now forgotten about Hou Xuanyan, was forcibly agreed with and suddenly sneezed.

When Ma Shiying heard that it was such a private matter, it showed that the prince had already regarded him as a confidant, and said happily: "Don't worry, the prince will definitely handle this matter beautifully." ”