The night the Empress ascended the throne.

"What should the Empress's husband be called?"

On the warm bed baked by the heater, Yuan Yuan said innocently.

"You should ask the empress what her husband's concubine is called!"

The Empress said angrily.

"Well, she's a sister!"

Yuan Yuan looked at Yang Qing beside him and said.

Well, the three of them were lying on the same bed, in fact, it had been like this for a long time, after all, Her Majesty the Empress was still very difficult to deal with Yang Qing by herself, and the two of them could barely hold on. Of course, sometimes the other two are also summoned together, and it is inevitable that they are a little shy at first, but now they are completely used to it, and occasionally play a little fun or something.

"Sister ......"

The empress dragged out her voice and looked at the so-called sister who climbed onto Yang Qing.

sister.

sister is also sister!

In other words, Yuanyuan is also considered to be in power at this time.

Of course, it's financial power.

Because she is not only the head of the Yang family, but also the head of her godmother, the Ming Dynasty is estimated to be the first and second richest people in the world, and all the property is managed by her, and in the nineteenth century, it was also at the level of Baron Rothschild.

"Sister, people like to be sisters!"

Yuan Yuan lay on Yang Qing's chest and said contentedly.

Anyway, she can't be a wife!

Being a concubine is also a little reluctant, after all, she is the only goddaughter of the Empress Dowager Yi'an, and she has basically been designated as the heir by the Empress Dowager Yi'an, who has completely retired behind the scenes as she gets older and older. Now she rarely leaves Xuanwu Lake, completely putting on a posture of retirement, and cultivating on the huge silver treasury that has swelled to 30 million, but she has no heir. And she also knows that she is only the nominal holder of a huge property, and after she dies, she will simply leave it to Yuanyuan, and leave it to Yuanyuan, which is also left to Yang Qing, she is a woman with no offspring, as long as she guarantees to maintain the life of the queen mother when she is alive.

In this way, Yuanyuan is even more reluctant to be a concubine, but there is no hope of being a wife at all.

Who dares to fight with the Empress!

In that case, let's be a sister!

But the questions she raised did need to be addressed.

What is the Empress's husband?

It is not possible to enter the rich, this is set by Chongzhen, to marry the empress to Yang Qing, although everyone knows that it was just the two of them at that time, he said that he was actually suspected of falsely transmitting the holy decree, but this has also been recognized by all parties over the years. Therefore, to enter the army is to violate the edict of the first emperor, which is definitely not possible, and the original preparations for marriage have been made, but this series of accidents have been delayed. Of course, to put it bluntly, the reputation of the son-in-law is a bit unpleasant to Duke Chu, even if Duke Chu doesn't speak, the empress still understands his mind very well.

But what is he if he doesn't get involved?

The royal husband?

"Your Majesty, do you want three palaces and six courtyards?"

Yuan Yuan said happily.

"I still need 3,000 heads!"

The Empress sneered.

Then Chu Gong, who had been closing his eyes, immediately opened his eyes......

"It's not okay to talk about it!"

The Empress said angrily.

"I will get married, and my children will be surnamed Yang in the future, who dares to say anything? I am the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and I am the master of my marriage! ”

Then the empress said very domineeringly.

Yang Qing closed his eyes again with satisfaction.

The royal husband is the imperial husband! In fact, Yang Qingcai doesn't care about such trivial things!

The empress is directly married to him, who dares to say anything to outsiders, it is enough to have the reason of Chongzhen's edict, they are an empress and a minister, this Ming has the final say on them, who will be stupid enough to provoke them in such a trivial matter, and whoever dares to make them unhappy for a while They will make him unhappy for the rest of his life. Although the imperial husband is unprecedented, whether it is the princess succeeding to the throne, the election of the emperor by the Four People's Assembly, or the trial of the emperor for treason, which of these is not unprecedented, and the imperial husband is not worth mentioning at all compared to these.

"But the Duke of Chu is indeed a little lower!"

The Empress said with a deep groan.

In fact, the Guogong is not low, at this time there are only four Guogong left in the Ming Dynasty, one negligible Wei Guogong, but the current Wei Guogong is not yet ten years old, and he is attending primary school in the school in the imperial city. The rest are the Duke of Chu, the Duke of Qian, and the warlord Duke of Shu, but there are a lot of marquis, and most of them are marquises.

"Crowned king?"

Yuan Yuan said somewhat excitedly.

"Don't!"

Yang Qing said suddenly.

"It is true that I can't be crowned king, my husband is a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty, how can he be in the same league as the traitor"

The Empress said.

At present, in addition to the clan, the only king left is Li Zicheng, everyone knows that the vassal king of the Ming Dynasty does not seal the surname, the county king does not seal the living, Li Zicheng only forced the first emperor to seal it, he is still a traitor in essence. The Duke of Chu is a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty, and he cannot be ranked with the traitor, and he is not only the king of the county, but it seems that he is more like a traitor, not a traitor, how to destroy the ancestral system of the Ming Dynasty? There is no difference between a duke or a county king to him, his 100,000 mu fief is at the level of a vassal king, so this county king can wait for him to die and add it to the tombstone, so that he can be in the same column as Xu Da and Chang Yuchun, not with Li Zicheng.

"Plus, the Duke of Chu will protect the country!"

The Empress then made a decision.

"Protector Chu Guogong?"

Yuan Yuan said stunned.

"Can you get rid of a country?"

The Empress said dissatisfiedly.

"Protector Chu Gong, it will be smooth to read like this!"

Yuan Yuan continued to lie on the body of the protector Chu Gong and said.

"But what's so special?"

She then asked.

"The Duke of Chu who protects the country, is above the ministers, and the prince of Chu below the vassal king needs to salute when he sees the Duke of Chu, the governor of the metropolitan governor's mansion, the chief of staff, and the commander of the Jinyi Guard, and the commander of the Ming Army and Navy, the militia, the Jinyi Guard, and the government affairs on behalf of me in the forbidden place!"

The Empress said, waving her hand.

"So what do we do?"

My sister said dissatisfied.

Yang Qing moved to the palace, what should they do?

"Let's move together, and after the wedding, we will all move into the palace!"

Her Majesty said.

After speaking, she pushed Yuanyuan off Yang Qing's body, and then climbed up by herself......

In this way, the Ming Protector Chu Gong was born, and in fact, no one called it that, they were directly simplified to the Protector of the Country, but this Protector of the Kingdom and the British are not the same thing. At this time, Cromwell had not yet proclaimed himself the Lord Protector, his Lord Protector was purely a matter of translation, one of the two words was a lord, the other was a protector, and the accurate translation should be the Lord Protector rather than the Lord Protector. And Yang Qing is to protect the country with the title of the Duke of the Kingdom, which is an honorific title added to his title, and with this honorific title, he is distinguished from those ordinary nobles, and becomes the first nobles after those vassal kings.

Even when the king of the county saw him, he had to salute.

There was no objection to this title, and at this time, the cabinet also completed the blood change, and Shi Kefa's first assistant also resigned himself......

Originally, he was in name only.

He is just a mediator of the contradiction between the Wenchen Group and the Wujiang Group, and now that Donglin Qunxian has retreated on all fronts, the cabinet has completely become Yang Qing's minions, so naturally he is not needed as a mediator. However, he also has a new position, that is, Dali Temple, the empress then modified the powers of the ministers, and the trial power is completely under the Dali Temple family, and the other criminal departments, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, including Jinyiwei, all have no trial power, only Dali Temple has the right to judge.

Moreover, it is not a trial handed over to the emperor for conviction, it is directly the right to judge and convict, no matter which trial in the past, there was only the right to convict, and the right to convict was the emperor.

But now the conviction is attributed to Dali Temple.

In other words, the emperor no longer cares about the trial and conviction of crimes, except for the death penalty, which must still be signed by the emperor, other punishments can be decided by Dali Temple.

The supervisory power of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

The Penal Department is in charge of the prison.

For the time being, the old system is still maintained.

The establishment of a local court system is also a big project, Yang Qing does not have so much energy to do this for the time being, just make a simple revision on the court side first, and first clarify the division of powers and responsibilities of the three law divisions and then manage the others. In fact, Dali Siqing, who is equivalent to the president of the Supreme Court, must have sufficient character, qualifications and prestige, after all, he took over the right to convict the emperor, and Shi Kefa, the seven-year cabinet chief, is the most suitable.

The new first assistant is Ma Shiying.

Although Li Yutian really wanted to be the first assistant, he was still much worse than Ma Shiying in terms of qualifications.

But he also transferred out of the military system to replace Ma Shiying's official department, and what he lacked was Shi Kefa's heir, Yang Qing's assistant Shi Dewei, and the Organization Department of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion was very important, and he must be an absolute cronie. And Gao Hongtu, the secretary of the household department, also died of old age, his position was taken over by Chen Zilong, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites was taken over by He Tengjiao, the former servant of the Ministry of Rites, and the secretary of the military department was taken over by Du Yinxi.

He was previously the governor of Huguang.

In fact, the Ministry of War has been reduced to a non-existent department.

But no matter whether the ministry doesn't care about anything, in fact, the ministry is often in charge of the most, and those affairs that are difficult to clarify the attribution of authority are all thrown to the Ministry of War to be responsible.

Yang Que of the Criminal Department.

Huguang people, the governor of Chongzhen, were originally killed when he persuaded Tusi to resist the Qing Dynasty in history.

The Ministry of Industry is still Gu Jiang, that is, Gu Yanwu.

He is the only one in the six departments of Wenchen who is not from a jinshi, and after he came back from the last contact with Zhang Xianzhong, he has already selected an official position in the Ministry of Industry as a supervisor, and he has also been promoted to the right waiter over the years. Yuan Jixian is not very good at the affairs of the Ministry of Industry, at this time the Ministry of Industry is mainly responsible for the national infrastructure, and the Ministry of Industry is actually Gu Yanwu in charge, and now Yuan Jixian tells the old man that he is just a logical successor.

His work achievements are obvious to all, the construction of national highways, water conservancy projects in various places, bridge construction, all of which were carried out by him in charge of the Ministry of Industry, even if he is not a Jinshi, all aspects have nothing to say about him.

The results of the Ministry of Engineering are there.

In this way, the new cabinet was completed.

And the Lord Protector still takes the chief of staff as a member of the cabinet, and is theoretically only one of the cabinet ministers, but because he handles all government affairs for the empress in the forbidden middle school, and all the cabinet folds are approved by him, so he is the de facto head of the cabinet, and Ma Shiying is more like his deputy, or specialized in work.

Of course, Lao Ma is very satisfied with his identity.

It's also an honor to be a dog for the protector!