It was not until the early morning of the second day that the reward for Egawa was finally decided.

Emperor Ji Siyuan of the Ming Dynasty wanted to directly issue a decree to reward Jiang Chuan at first, but he changed his mind a second before he spoke.

He wanted to convene a court meeting to let the ministers of the six ministries of the cabinet and the five eunuchs of the celebrant eunuch discuss the reward for Jiang Chuan.

It's not that it's hard for him to decide how to reward Jiang Chuan, but he wants to take the opportunity to see which of the six cabinet departments are still reliable.

The emperor had a flash of inspiration, he just wanted to take the opportunity of rewarding Jiang Chuan to reward those who should be rewarded and punish those who should be punished. He wants to take this opportunity to tell the people of the world and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty that I will not treat him badly to anyone who is truly loyal to me and sincerely serves the Ming court.

But those who want to seek personal gain, and who want me to be the king of the dead country, I will never let you have a good time.

In the Xinuan Pavilion of the Qianqing Palace, there are two long mahogany tables.

The two tables are placed opposite each other, and the pair is neat and tidy, almost the same.

Behind the desk on the left hand stood five people, the first was Wen Tiren, the first assistant of the cabinet, and the second was Zhou Tingru, the second assistant of the cabinet and the heavenly official. The third is Liu Kongzhao, a cabinet minister and a local official, the fourth is Qian Qianyi, a cabinet minister and spring official, and the fifth is Meng Junze, a cabinet minister and summer official.

Under the head of the five people, there were two people standing alone outside the table, one was Qiu Guan Hong Xifan, and the other was Dong Guan Lu Gaoxuan.

These two people are not in the cabinet, so they are not qualified to stand behind the mahogany table.

The so-called Heavenly Officials, Earth Officials, Spring Officials, Summer Officials, Autumn Officials and Winter Officials are aliases of the six Shangshu, which correspond to the Shangshu of the Ministry of Officials, the Book of Households, the Book of Rites, the Book of Soldiers, the Book of Criminal Affairs and the Book of Works.

The Ministry of Officials is in charge of the selection, acceptance, assessment, and dismissal of officials in the world, just like the sky covering all things, grand and majestic, so the Ministry of Officials is called the Heavenly Official.

The household department is in charge of the collection and dispatch of money and grain, and the money and grain are the foundation of the stability of the court and the peace of the world, just like the earth carries and grows all things, so the household department is called the local official.

The Ministry of Rites is the chief official of the court of various ceremonies, sacrifices, imperial examinations and other things, just like spring is the beginning of all things, for the beginning of the law of all things, so the Ministry of Rites is called the spring official.

The military department is in charge of the crusade of the soldiers, and the soldiers are strong and mighty, like the heat of summer, so the military department is called the summer official.

And the criminal department is in charge of criminal proceedings, just like the autumn Xiao Suo killing, so the criminal department is called the autumn official.

The Ministry of Industry is in charge of building roads and bridges, building embankments and dams, etc., laying the foundation for the operation of the imperial court, just as winter is preparing for the brewing of the second year, so the Ministry of Industry is called the winter official.

Behind another mahogany table opposite the five ministers, there were also five people standing.

These five people are also in crimson robes, but the shape and situation are very different from those of the five cabinet ministers.

The first one with a white face and a simple appearance is Wei Zhongxian, the eunuch who is the current celebrant and the eunuch who holds the seal, is also known as the inner minister, and can be said to be the first person in the inner court.

After Wei Zhongxian, there was Huang Jin, the chief eunuch of the ceremonial supervisor, who was in charge of Dongchang and Jinyiwei.

The third is Chen Hong, the second eunuch of the celebrant and the second eunuch.

The fourth is also the third-ranked eunuch Yang Jinshui.

The fifth is Li Sheng, the eunuch who was the master of ceremonies and the eunuch Bingbi who was at the bottom.

These five people were the five most powerful among the 100,000 eunuchs and palace maids in the inner court. Among them, Wei Zhongxian, the eunuch with palm prints, was called the ancestor by all the palace maids and eunuchs, and the other four eunuchs were called the ancestors.

These five people are in the inner court, and for those eunuchs and palace maids, it can be said that they have the power to kill and take away.

And now that the emperor has ascended the throne, he has reused the celebrant to compete with the cabinet and the outer court, so the power of the celebrant is even greater.

Last winter, the entire Ming Dynasty survived the most difficult winter since the founding of the country. Throughout the winter, there was no snow from the beginning of winter to the 29th day of the lunar month, and the city of Beijing was dry and cold.

As soon as the wind blew, the whole city was full of the kind of sand and dust that ghosts cried and wolves howled and screamed, and turned into streams of yellow dragons with the wind, raging all over the city.

Including the Forbidden City, the entire city of Beijing is shrouded in a dull and bitter atmosphere.

The people of the heavenly city of Beijing are in despair.

This is a natural disaster, and the most desperate thing is the constant news of the defeat of the army and the continuous loss of the city, which makes people even more desperate.

Emperor Ji Siyuan, who had just ascended the throne for a few days, summoned Zhou Yunyi, the supervisor of Qintian, and asked him about celestial phenomena.

As a result, Zhou Yunyi said that this was because the emperors of the Ming Dynasty did not cultivate virtue and politics, so it would lead to natural and man-made disasters, continuous military disasters, and the fall of the city, which was warned by God through drought.

As long as the emperor conforms to the will of the people as soon as possible and does not go against the trend, there will be a glimmer of opportunity.

The new emperor was furious, believing that Zhou Yunyi was simply a spy sent by Li Zicheng to the imperial court, and tried in vain to use these words to deceive people and subvert their Ji family's soldiers, and in a fit of rage, he ordered Zhou Yunyi to be executed with a court staff.

The court staff was used by the Ming Emperor to punish those courtiers who offended the emperor, and it was generally supervised by the celebrant and carried out by a special eunuch.

The original prisoner was Wei Zhongxian, who also held the eunuch seal from time to time.

Wei Zhongxian's thoughts about the new emperor were insightful, and he knew that the new emperor wanted to hear more names from Zhou Yunyi's mouth.

Unexpectedly, Zhou Yunyi's mouth was too hard, and he was beaten to death on the spot by a court cane, his entire internal organs were broken, and the blood merged into a small river under his body.

It is also strange to say that after Zhou Yunyi was killed, a six-petal snowflake fell from the sky.

The heavy snow fell for three whole days from the 29th day of the lunar month, and the snow fell, and the hearts of the people in Beijing were also alive.

The little emperor believed that his judgment was correct, and Zhou Yunyi should have died.

Wei Zhongxian also became a palm seal eunuch, ascended to the sky in one step, and became the ancestor of the inner court under one person and above ten thousand people.

It's just that the emperor left a thorn in his heart, and this thorn is the name that Zhou Yunyi didn't want to say until he died.

But the emperor believed that even if Zhou Yunyi didn't say it, he would know his backstage. Those people are hidden in the middle of the court, in the cabinet.

It's just that at that time, he had just succeeded to the throne, and he felt that people's hearts were unstable, and there was not enough evidence to clean up those traitors in his heart.

Now the opportunity has finally arrived, and he has a loyal Jiang Chuan who has made great contributions.

Jiang Chuan's rise gave him courage, confidence, and confidence in a showdown with this person.

He felt that it was time to clean up these traitors who were hiding in the court, occupying high positions but having a vegetarian diet, but intending to subvert the Ming Dynasty.

He wanted to see how many of the Cabinet and the Six Ministries were traitors.

There is one he packs one, and there is a pair he packs a pair. If all of them are traitors, then he will grit his teeth and clean them all out.