There is only one protagonist in today's court, that is Chen Yue, the Duke of Qi, all the glory belongs to him, and for the ministers, it is shocking wave after wave.

first sealed the hereditary prince, and then the hereditary prince with a fief, and then Chongzhen personally promised to marry the princess to Chen Yue.

Note that it is a marriage and not Princess Chen Yueshang, which is an essential difference.

In the Ming Dynasty, the status of the horse is very low, although he has the title of the captain of the horse, but he is no different from the royal son-in-law. The princess lived in the princess's house, and the concubine could not even see the princess without permission. In terms of status, the princess is the king, and the concubine is the minister, and the status is very low, which is very different from the situation of the Ming Dynasty's male superiority and inferiority.

And now Chongzhen is marrying the princess Yu Chen Yue, that is, Chen Yue marries the princess instead of the princess, in fact, it is a marriage between the royal family and the nobles, which is completely different from ordinary horses.

Chen Yue and Princess Kunxing's partnership in business was well known in Beijing, Chongzhen was angry and grounded Princess Kunxing and even wanted to choose a horse for her, and later as Chen Yue made great contributions in succession, Chongzhen also acquiesced in the matter between Kunxing and Chen Yue, but because Princess Kunxing was in the filial piety period, she could not marry.

And now, Chongzhen exited for the first time, and announced in public in the court that he would marry Princess Kunxing to Chen Yue.

With Chen Yue's age and status, it can be said that he is the biggest golden beetle son-in-law in the Ming Dynasty, if there is no reason for Princess Kunxing, I am afraid that the proposer would have already broken through the threshold of the Chen family.

Many ministers, such as Qian Qianyi, have had the idea of marrying their daughters or granddaughters to Chen Yue. But because of the relationship between Chen Yue and Princess Kunxing, they didn't dare to bring it up. Today, Chongzhen is a pro-court, and many people can only sigh and put away their thoughts that they shouldn't have.

returned to Pingnanhou with a large number of rewards, no, it should be called the Duke of Qi Mansion now, and everyone in the mansion congratulated Chen Yue. Now that the mansion is still in mourning, it is not appropriate to celebrate, Chen Yue instructed the housekeeper Du Yuan to take out some silver money to reward the people in the mansion.

"There is a hereditary prince of the fiefdom, this is the only one in the Ming Dynasty, Your Majesty is really generous." After the people dispersed, the important people in the mansion gathered together, and Qian Fenglin praised with a smile.

Among the rewards, the most important thing is the fiefdom of Zhoushan, and the crowd didn't report much hope at all, but they didn't expect it to happen! Hearing what Qian Fenglin said, everyone laughed.

"With Zhoushan Island in hand, our career will be much smoother in the future. This 10,000 taels of silver is really worth it! Shan Minglei also smiled.

Zhoushan Island is located off the coast of Zhejiang, although the island is desolate and sparsely populated, but stuck in an important shipping lane, whether it is going north to the Japanese Ryukyus, or south to the Luzon South Sea, you can't avoid the Zhoushan Islands.

There are also many islands and several excellent harbors, which is the best place to train the fleet. Since the plan was made to attack the eastern Luzon overseas state in the future, Zhoushan, which is located off the coast of the mainland, is the best rear base. The matter of attacking overseas is to do it behind the back of the imperial court, and naturally what needs to be done is very hidden, and Zhoushan, which has many islands, is the best place to secretly accumulate strength.

In order to get Zhoushan, everyone secretly spent a lot of effort and bought off the old Qian Qianyi, which finally got their wish.

"It's a pity, these tens of thousands of troops that were trained so easily have all cheapened the imperial court." Shan Minglei sighed.

Now that he has handed over the military power, Chen Yue now has more than 3,000 guards in his hands, which are counted as his family members. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, every general had his own family, which was not established by the imperial court, but belonged to the general's own private army, and his transfer and promotion followed the main general.

Chen Yue's original guard battalion had a cavalry battalion, with a number of nearly 10,000 people, but considering that there were not many cavalry needed to attack overseas, and the humid and hot climate in the south was not conducive to the survival of war horses, coupled with the fact that Yu Feng's cavalry battalion performed too eye-catching in the Battle of Nanjing, and made countless contributions in previous battles, it was not appropriate to use them as domestic soldiers, so they were left in Wuhu.

Even if Chen Yue is a duke now, it is not appropriate to have too many private troops, three thousand people are exactly one battalion, which is already a lot.

However, among these 3,000 people, the vast majority of them were the backbone of the Pingnan Army in the past, and many of them were old people who came from Beijing. The old people in the original Xishan Army were all among them. It can be said that it is the army that is most loyal to Chen Yue. However, there are still many important officers who cannot be taken with them.

"These brothers have been with me for so long, and they will all get the rewards they deserve this time, and I am worthy of them." Chen Yue smiled.

Chen Yue, the commander, has been rewarded, and it is the turn of ordinary generals next. Like Jin Shenghuan and Yu Feng, who have made a lot of meritorious contributions and performed outstandingly, most of them will get the title of earl. Most of the other battalions and battalions will be given official positions such as deputy generals and staff generals of the general army, and when the imperial court is employing people, each of them will have a better future.

On the contrary, those who chose to follow Chen Yue did not get the rewards they deserved, such as Liu Neng, who worked hard to do a lot of things, killed Emperor Shun Li Zicheng, and persuaded Hao Shaoqi to return to Shun Daming, but he chose to follow Chen Yue to Zhejiang as a family member, and his name was no longer on the credit book, and the reward of the imperial court had nothing to do with him.

Another example is Xu Qingtian, who had already become a deputy general under Chen Jianghe, but this time he also lost his military position and chose to follow Chen Yue. Another example is Ma Chuang, Li Yulin, Xiao Bing, Li Yi, many people have already become the chief soldier of the battalion, but this time they also lost their military positions and chose Chen Yue to be their own soldiers.

All this made Chen Yue very stressed, he knew that these people chose to continue to follow him because of loyalty and trust, but he didn't know if he could give them a better future in the future, and whether he would eventually live up to them?

Everything can only turn into a sigh in the end, and the chosen path must continue no matter what.

Just returned to Nanjing for a few days, and met a few times in the middle and had to leave, which made Princess Kunxing very sad, pulling Chen Yue's sleeves and reluctant to give up, Chen Yue had to soothe her with good words, saying that Zhejiang is only a few hundred miles away from Nanjing, not the end of the world. And it only takes three years, and when the filial piety period expires, the two can be together forever.

"If you go, Wan'er will follow, and I'll be left alone." Princess Kunxing cried with a sad face and said pitifully.

Speaking of which, the two of them are also pitiful, they are obviously good but they get together less and leave more, which makes Chen Yue feel very guilty, so he can only hug Princess Kunxing wordlessly and soothe him softly.

On the third day after the reward, Chen Yue bid farewell to Chongzhen and left Nanjing with the coffin. The group marched overland to Zhenjiang, where they met with a group of people from the Yangzhou shogunate, and then marched along the canal to Hangzhou, where the burial place of Chen Jianghe was chosen on the mountain outside Hangzhou.