With the approval of the cabinet and the permission of Emperor Chongzhen, the matter of Chen Yue Shangshu's burial of his father on the coast of Zhejiang was decided.

"It was approved so quickly, it seems that the emperor and the court want to keep the Hou Ye away so that they can control the Pingnan Army." Shan Minglei sighed.

"The Ming Dynasty ruled the country with filial piety, since it was the last words of the old marquis to be buried in a place facing the sea and the spring flowers bloomed, there was no reason for the imperial court not to allow it. The key is how the imperial court reacts to the next step of the marquis. Qian Fenglin said.

The next step, naturally, Chen Yue continued to play, resigned from the post of governor of Jiangbei, and resigned to keep filial piety for his father.

Now there has been a lot of discussion in the court, and the military department played Chen Zilong in the matter, saying that the current wars are frequent, and it is a good time for the official imperial court to wave the Northern Expedition to recover the rivers and mountains, and Chen Yue, the Marquis of Pingnan, should take revenge and continue to lead the troops after burying his father. Chen Zilong is born in the Qing Dynasty, is the most prestigious poet of the late Ming Dynasty, his poetic style or tragic and desolate, or magnificent and beautiful, straight after Qi Liang and the early Tang Dynasty, for the graceful word master, the leader of the Yunjian word faction, the reputation of the Shilin is far above the so-called four great talents in the late Ming Dynasty. It has a large number of fans.

Under the influence of Chen Zilong, a number of imperial histories were played one after another, saying that the imperial court should regain the affection of Chen Yue, the Marquis of Pingnan, so that he could continue to lead the army. This situation was completely unexpected by Chen Yue, he always thought that except for a few ministers such as Lu Zhenfei, he was already full of enemies! It seems that justice is at ease in the hearts of the people, and everything he has done for Daming has not been done in vain.

Of course, the past behavior made Chen Yue too many enemies, after Chen Zilong played, there were immediately many imperial histories jumped out to refute, saying that the Ming Dynasty governed the country with filial piety, how could the father be the son of man if he was not filial, and if he was not filial, he would not be loyal, how could he expect him to lead the army to serve the country, and the power of the army would be the scourge of the Ming Dynasty, Yunyun.

Moreover, although the Ming Dynasty won the battle, it was also exhausted for a long time, and the lack of materials and food, the first battle of Yangzhou made the Hongze Lake embankment burst and flooded countless grain fields, so that the grain particles were not harvested, and the people were displaced, and the disaster relief alone consumed the money and grain of the national treasury, and now there is no ability to send troops to the Northern Expedition.

This group of imperial historians who oppose Chen Yue said very reasonably, since the imperial court is not capable of the Northern Expedition, Chen Yue does not need to be in a hurry to win the revenge, it is better to honestly guard filial piety for his father. As for the remaining Manchu army thieves and thieves, they can be exterminated by the second auxiliary Lu Zhenfei Supervisor.

There were endless disputes in the court, and it was uncertain whether Chen Yue would be able to reinstate the cabinet and Emperor Chongzhen. At this time, Chen Yue resigned and went to Zhejiang to bury his father's performance to the imperial court.

"Let's not talk about the resumption of love for the time being, let's let the loyal prince enter the soil first." Qian Qianyi said to Chongzhen.

It has been some time since Chen Jianghe passed away, and although the weather was hot, the body had been cremated when he was in Wuhu, but he had to be buried in the ground after all. And whether to seize the love and recover is not too anxious, you can let Chen Yue go to Zhejiang to bury his father first, and if the war is urgent, you can ask Chen Yue to come back to command the army to fight.

After thinking about it, Chongzhen adopted Qian Qianyi's advice.

However, before Chen Yue left Nanjing for Zhejiang, he had to decide on the reward.

In the two major battles, Chen Yue led the army to defeat the two Manchu Tartar armies, and annihilated the Eight Banners as many as 60,000 soldiers.

In fact, when the news of Wuhu's victory came, the imperial court was preparing for the reward, and it was also nerve-wracking.

First of all, Chen Yue's reward is a problem, Chen Yue's contribution is too great, and he is a marquis, so he must at least be crowned a prince. But once famous, how could there ever be such a young prince?

Of course, a prince is nothing to the imperial court, and Chongzhen will not be so stingy. After all, the duke and the marquis are just a little higher in status, and there is no difference in essence. But you can't just be a prince of the country, there must be other rewards to be worthy of Chen Yue's merits. What bounty? It is nothing more than land wealth, and the wealth is now Chongzhen's inner treasury, and the silver in Chongzhen's inner treasury is all the salt store of the Four Seas Commercial Bank opened by Chen Yue, and he rewards others with the silver he gets, which makes Chongzhen feel a little awkward.

Land, according to Chen Yue's merits, is to reward tens of thousands of hectares of fertile land is not an exaggeration, but the imperial court land was seriously annexed, a large amount of land in the hands of the gentry, if the meritorious heroes are rewarded with good land, it will make the court pay less and less land.

At the critical moment, Qian Qianyi met with Chongzhen and gave Chongzhen a bad idea, suggesting that Zhoushan Island be given to Chen Yue as Chen Yue's fief.

Zhoushan Island? Chongzhen's eyes widened suddenly, although the island was large, it was a barren place overseas, a place where pirates were rampant, and there was not much arable land to grow on the island. Rewarding Chen Yue with this kind of place, doesn't this make people in the world point at my backbone and say that I am stingy?

"What the minister said was to reward the entire Zhoushan to Chen Yue, for Chen Yue's feudal domain, just like the imperial court gave the prince the fief of the prince, the entire Zhoushan Island is Chen Yue's feudal domain." Qian Qianyi continued.

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Chongzhen's eyes widened.

At the beginning of the founding of the country, Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang decided to build a clan and promote feudalism on a large scale, "the feudal kings, with the Weizong Society, the public opinion of the world for all generations". But it was only for the Zhu family's own people, and later, with the successive reduction of the feudal domain and the power of the feudal king by Chengzu and the later emperors, the current feudal kings are not much different from the pigs in captivity, and feudalism has long lost its significance.

And what Qian Qianyi said was clearly to let Chongzhen follow Zhu Yuanzhang's example and give the entire Zhoushan Island to Chen Yue, which made Chongzhen not angry.

"Your Majesty, please listen to the minister, Zhoushan Island is far away from the land, it is just a place outside the world, the island is not suitable for the people to live at all, there are only thousands of fishermen, even if he is given to Chen Yue, with a barren land outside the country, how much threat can it pose to the imperial court?

The Duke of Qianguo feudal Yunnan, for generations, has been the barrier of the southwest of the Ming Dynasty. Giving Chen Yue a mere island is actually a thin treatment compared to his promise. But in the eyes of the world, Your Majesty, your Long En is really high and thick. ”

With Qian Qianyi's persuasion, Chongzhen's mood gradually calmed down. As Qian Qianyi said, Zhoushan is just an overseas barren island, compared with rewarding tens of thousands of hectares of arable land to Chen Yue, giving the barren island to Chen Yue does not have much impact, after all, Zhoushan's output is dispensable to the imperial court.

Moreover, there is a precedent for the Mu family in Yunnan, and it is not unacceptable to seal Zhoushan to Chen Yue.

"Okay, just take what Aiqing said, and reward Zhoushan to Chen Yue." Chongzhen nodded.

"Your Majesty Shengming!" Touching the silver ticket of 10,000 taels of silver in his sleeve, Qian Qianyi had a smile on his face.