In the original history, Hong Chengchou had a bad relationship with his colleagues in the officialdom, because of the killing of prisoners and surrenders, he was attacked and impeached by the imperial historians above the court, although he made countless contributions, but he was never able to enter the court and the cabinet, which is directly related to his poor popularity.

Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen, who originally wanted to reward these civil and military generals, finally reached a consensus with the cabinet, the Military Aircraft Department and the Metropolitan Procuratorate after Liu Zongzhou, Liu Hongxun and others led the impeachment of Hong Chengchou, and the court discussions for several days.

The system of civil servants not being knighted without military merits remains unchanged, and at the same time, the principle that those who are knighted for military merits and whose descendants are not allowed to be knighted without military merits is also maintained.

It's just that Li Banghua, the Marquis of Pingyang, proposed by Emperor Chongzhen, became Pingyang Bo, and the Yongning Bo Hong Chengchou and Jingle Bosun Chuanting proposed by the emperor lost the opportunity to be knighted in World War I.

Three days later, the cabinet and the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of Rites drafted and presented the edict of reward, which was countersigned by the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Six Departments Corridor, and sent to the hands of Emperor Chongzhen by the Celebrant Supervisor.

It's strange to say, whether it's the cabinet, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, or the people in the Six Science Corridors, although they don't look down on the generals in their hearts, they are often relatively tolerant of the fact that the generals are rewarded for their military merits.

On the contrary, the civil officials who are also from Jinshi are rewarded for their military merits, they are very close.

This is not a special phenomenon during the Chongzhen period, but a characteristic of the entire Ming Dynasty that lasted for more than 200 years.

This is not to say that the emperors of the Ming Dynasty do not want to give or are unwilling to give, but the civil officials in the court themselves are very strict about the matter of this knighthood, and they do not let go easily.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the great heroes were feuded, not to mention what happened to these people decades later, at least at the beginning, the merits of the military generals were equally valued.

Li Shanchang, Liu Ji, and Song Lian, all of whom were strategists and civil officials, also got knighthoods, and Li Shanchang also had to be knighted.

As a result, later, I don't know when it began, it was very difficult for civilian officials to be knighted, and no matter how great the military merits were, there was no chance.

With Hu Zongxian's merits, not only was he not knighted, but he was also constantly impeached by the Chinese officials of the DPRK, and was finally imprisoned and put to death.

Perhaps, this is also a manifestation of the contempt of literati.

A few days later, the imperial court's edict to reward the merits of Shanxi Ping's thieves arrived in front of the army, at this time Li Banghua happened to be in Pingyang Mansion, and the news of Pingyang Bo came, and all the generals under his command and the officials of Shanxi and Pingyang came to congratulate, and Li Banghua was also happy in his heart.

It's just that when he knew the inside story, he was also remorseful in his heart.

Because of the impeachment of Hong Chengchou by the General Administration Department, Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting not only lost their titles, but also missed the opportunity to become a marquis.

Of course, Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting will not know the inside story in a short time, but the two of them originally did not dare to report any extravagant hopes for the knighthood of World War I.

It's just that after hearing that Li Banghua was named Pingyang Bo, although the two were not in the same place, they ignited their inner hope at the same time.

Li Banghua, Minister of Military Aircraft, can be named Pingyang Bo because of his military exploits in suppressing thieves, so won't they still have a lot of opportunities in the future?

It was also the imperial court that ignited the hope of sealing the marquis, and it was not only these governors on the front line of Shanxi's thieves.

With the emperor's edict of Li Banghua as Pingyang Bo because of Shanxi's military exploits in suppressing thieves spread all over the world, the governors of the Ming Dynasty all saw another way to enter the cabinet and assist the government.

In addition to Li Banghua, who was awarded the title of Pingyang Bo for his work in suppressing thieves, other rewards also came.

Lu Xiangsheng, who captured Shennanyu, was promoted to the imperial history of the left of the Imperial Court of the Imperial Palace, and the governor of Shunde, Guangping, Daimyo and other places.

Although the land of Shunde, Guangping and Daimyo is not large, it belongs to the southern gateway of Beizhili, and the strategic location is important, and the original Daimyo prefect also serves as the military garrison of the three prefectures, and is promoted to the governor of the justifiable name, which can be regarded as a leap in the official career.

Although the place in charge has not changed, the governor is the governor after all.

After having the name of governor, even if you enter the circle of local governors, the next step is to become a cabinet official or directly become a governor, which can be regarded as laying a good foundation.

Although Hong Chengchou himself did not have any reward, Emperor Chongzhen saw Hong Qiyin's name from the list of Hong Chengchou and Li Banghua's meritorious service, so he directly appointed Hong Chengchou's brother Hong Qiyin as the governor of Yongning Prefecture, which was a little comfort to Hong Chengchou.

In terms of military generals, there is no need to elaborate, except for Li Bei, who was once again promoted to the chief soldier of the Zhenxi Battalion, all the meritorious soldiers reported by Li Banghua have all been promoted and rewarded, including the Pei brothers who died in the Zhenxi Battalion, and they were also posthumously awarded official titles and commendations.

Originally, Zhang Liwei and Wang Guozhong, who were directly promoted to deputy generals by Emperor Chongzhen because of the killing of Wang Jiayin, were not promoted to the position of deputy generals this time, but they were also appointed by the imperial court.

Wang Guozhong was awarded the post of general of the Zhenxi Battalion because of the merit of killing the thief leader "Hengtian King" Wang Jiayin and the thief army "Zuo Prime Minister" Wang Er, and was allowed to recruit 2,000 young men to garrison Yongning Prefecture City, and at the same time accept Hong Qiyin's control and dispatch.

The 2,000 Qingzhuang naturally had to be recruited from among the more than 16,000 Shanxi thieves captured at Shimen Pass and Shennanyu.

In the future, under the command of Hu Yikui, the commander of the Fusi of Jinyi Weixi Town, Zhang Liwei was awarded the newly established Jinyi Weixi Town Fusi Envoy, and he was specially responsible for the functions of plotting against the leader of the thieves and arresting the relatives of the thieves.

For Wang Guozhong and Zhang Liwei, whether it is Emperor Chongzhen himself or the governors on the front line of Shanxi's suppression of thieves, they are actually very relieved, and they are not worried at all that they will rebel or become thieves again.

After all, these two people killed Wang Jiayin and Wang Er, and wiped out the entire camp of the Shennanyu thief army!

If you have two hearts for the court in the future, it will be purely looking for death.

Historically, when Wang Guozhong was fighting against thieves, he was dismissed because of a defeat.

He himself knew that if he lost the protection of the imperial court, he would inevitably be retaliated by the thieves, so he lived incognito in Suide, but in the end he was found out by Li Guo, who broke Suide, and after being dedicated to Li Zicheng, he was executed by Ling Chi.

It can be seen how much Li Zicheng and other bandit leaders hate Wang Guozhong's betrayal!

Therefore, now the two of them are really the ones who are most afraid of the thieves making a big fuss and the most afraid of the thieves becoming a climate.

If there is a third person, then this person must be Liu Guoneng.

This time, Liu Guoneng did not go further, but not long after Emperor Chongzhen's reward decree arrived in Pingyang Mansion, he followed Wu Guoan, a thousand households of Beizhen Fusi from Beijing, to Huaiqing Mansion in Henan Province to report to Li Xin, the guard of Lushun Town, who was recruiting troops in Huaiqing Mansion.

As for Li Banghua, not long after he was named Pingyang Bo, he also went north to Taiyuan along Fenshui.

His request to return to Beijing was rejected by Emperor Chongzhen and the cabinet.

It's not that the emperor doesn't want him to return to Beijing, but although the war against thieves in Shanxi has come to an end, the thieves entrenched in northern Jin have not been wiped out, and the war against thieves in Shanxi has not completely ended after all.

Besides, Sun Chengzong is not there, Li Banghua is not there, and there is only one British public Zhang Weixian who has been fishing for three days and drying nets for two days, and now many things can be decided by the young Emperor Chongzhen, and this situation is also good if it lasts for a while.

Therefore, Li Banghua was left in Shanxi by a decree drafted by the cabinet and approved by the emperor, so he could only continue to go north to Taiyuan and sit in the town to encircle and suppress the thieves who were like the northern Jin Dynasty.

Lu Xiangsheng took the Tianxiong camp and escorted the remaining 12,000 thieves who were selected by the generals of various departments to be captured, and set off to leave Pingyang Mansion.

After passing through Lu'an Mansion to replenish grain and grass, go out of Fukou Pass, and then travel all the way.

He was to escort these captives to Dengzhou, and then hand them over to Zhang Keda, the commander of Denglai, and then send them to the various islands under the jurisdiction of Yingzhou Town.

Lu Xiangsheng and the generals of the Tianxiong Battalion under his command, of course, still want to stay in Shanxi to suppress thieves, after all, only by fighting can they continue to make military achievements.

But so many thieves are captured in front of the army, how can they do it if they don't send them away, just the problem of eating, drinking, and sleeping for a day is enough for Li Banghua and Lu Xiangsheng to have a headache.

In addition to letting the Tianxiong camp escort these captives through the state and send them to Dengzhou to the sea, Li Banghua couldn't think of any other better way.

It was also at this time that Lu Xiangsheng and his generals suddenly discovered Hong Chengchou's cleverness.

Because Hong Chengchou's team does not have such a problem.

Nearly 30,000 captives were all killed or buried alive, so there was no need to raise food and grass for them to eat and drink, and it also saved them the follow-up trouble of dividing the fields and land for resettlement.

Now that he has captured Shimen Pass and taken the old nest of the thief army, Shennanyu, the main army of the dignified Tianxiong Battalion who became famous in the first battle, can only do some work to escort prisoners, which directly changed the views of Lu Xiangsheng and the generals of the Tianxiong Battalion on the issue of accepting and surrendering prisoners.

Of course, that's for later.

When Lu Xiangsheng and his generals carefully escorted a large number of prisoners of the thief army through the state to Dengzhou, Hong Chengchou also completed the handover procedures with Wang Guoliang, the chief military officer of Shanxi Town, who came to hand over the defense, according to the will of the imperial court, and then took Wang Chengen, the general of Shaanxi, and Weixian, the general who rushed to the rendezvous, and other horses, went south to Fenglingdu, preparing to cross the river and return to Guanzhong in Shaanxi. [.]