The cold and dry of the Daming Jingshi is not under the Dongsheng City in the Hetao, but the prosperity of any street in the Daming Jingshi is far better than any city in the Hetao.

Since he was born, he has been living on the Hetao Plain, that is, the Feng'en Marquis who was newly rewarded by Emperor Chongzhen, this time he left the grassland where the Mongols lived for the first time in his life, the first time he entered the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, and the first time he came to the capital of the Ming Dynasty.

Originally, along the way, Elu Chen had already seen the majesty and magnificence of Datong City and Juyong Pass, but since following Cao Bianjiao's team and coming to the capital division of the Ming Dynasty, he was even more shocked by the majesty and magnificence of Beijing City.

The tall city walls, the strict guards, the wide streets, the shops, the teahouses and restaurants laughing and laughing, and the streets and alleys, the endless stream of people.

Entering the city from outside the Xizhi Gate, these scenes encountered along the way were unprecedented in the life of the thirty-year-old Eluchen at this time.

The grassland is sparsely populated, and Dongshengcheng, the most populous Jinong station, is only a few thousand people.

If there was no open border exchange market that Daming had engaged in with them in the past two years, then they would not even have pots and pans, salt, vinegar and tea, the most common commodities in Daming.

However, this way east, he also passed through Yulin, Youyu, Zuoyun, Datong, Huai'an, Huailai and other Xuanda areas.

Although the city is magnificent, it is also sparsely populated, and the countryside is so desolate that sometimes there is no smoke for hundreds of miles.

On the field road, you can still see the frozen corpses from time to time, quite a little white bones exposed in the wild, and there is no rooster crowing for thousands of miles.

This kind of scene is familiar to him, and it is also what he is used to.

Because this is the scene on the grassland, this is the scene on the vast Monan grassland, and the Hetao where the Ordos tribes live and graze is also this scene.

Therefore, on the way from Xuanda to Beijing, he was still imagining that maybe the land of Gyeonggi in the Ming Dynasty was also like this, at most, the city was taller and the garrison was stronger.

As a result, after coming to Jingshi, everything he saw was beyond his imagination.

And he finally recognized a reality, although the northwest of the Ming Dynasty was poor, and his Ordos was not much better than his Hetao, but the Ming Dynasty was the Ming Dynasty after all, and the strength behind the prosperity of the Jingshi and its surrounding boundaries was not something that Ordos could contend with.

When I came, I saved up all kinds of thoughts and rhetoric on the way, and when I entered the capital of the Ming Dynasty, especially when I entered the Forbidden City, a city within a city, I put them all down.

When he met and bowed to Emperor Chongzhen in the Wuying Palace, Bu Lost Rabbit, Eluchen, Shandan and Zamusu, after listening to the will of the reward read out by Emperor Chongzhen, they did not dare to say anything more except for the etiquette taught by the Li Fan Academy.

It wasn't until he knelt down to resign from the emperor in a daze and was led out of the Forbidden City by the pedestrians of the Imperial Court that he realized that he didn't seem to have anything to say, but at this time, he could only sigh and leave with a sigh of loss.

Eluchen was named a first-class Feng'en marquis, with an annual salary of 6,500 taels of silver, which is almost the same as the Tatar Khan Altan Khan, that is, the grandfather of the current Shunyi King Bu Lost Rabbit, who received the annual reward from the Ming Dynasty every year through the tribute market.

Now this young man is enough for his family, young and old, more than 30 people, to live a pretty good life in the prosperous place of Daming Jingshi.

It's just that he can no longer return to Ordos and return to the land of the Hetao.

And from then on, the land of the Hetao no longer belonged to the Ordos tribes.

Just after Emperor Chongzhen made the new Shijue hierarchy and the will to reward the meritorious ministers in the recent national war, through the form of holy decrees and court reports, he soon made new arrangements for Saibei, Xuanda, Hetao and Liaodong after the war.

On the morning of March 1, at the Shuo Sun Dynasty meeting of the Jianji Palace, Emperor Chongzhen instructed the cabinet, the military aircraft department, the official department, and the military department to jointly put forward a set of arrangements for the court and the places of Monan, Xuanda, Liaodong, and Hetao, which were officially adopted after some dull discussions.

At this court meeting, Emperor Chongzhen struck while the iron was hot, and the Ming Dynasty decree was determined that the Ming Dynasty Cabinet and the Military Aircraft Department were set up as permanent examples, and the palace and cabinet scholars were special permanent positions, and the rank was all ministers.

Why did Emperor Chongzhen clearly determine such a thing?

Because at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang abolished the prime minister system and let the six ministries be directly responsible for reporting various affairs to him, monopolizing all the power in his own hands.

This approach avoided the emperor from being overshadowed by the prime minister, but it also increased a lot of pressure on the emperor.

Over time, Zhu Yuanzhang found himself a secretary team, which was the origin of the Ming Dynasty cabinet.

It's just that Zhu Yuanzhang can't trust the minister, and the members of the secretary team he selected are relatively young, so the official positions are relatively small.

And sometimes it is set up when it is needed, and it is removed when it is not needed, and there is no customization.

By the time of the reign of Emperor Yongle, the prototype of the cabinet finally came out, and there was a relatively fixed group of low-level officials who drafted various documents for the emperor, such as holy decrees and the like.

Emperor Yongle was more similar to his father Zhu Yuanzhang, who liked to do everything himself, so the status of the cabinet was very low.

After Emperor Xuande, the grandson of Emperor Yongle, ascended the throne, he promoted his teacher to the position of scholar, and the status of the cabinet began to rise day by day.

But even so, Emperor Xuande also set the rank of the bachelor who entered the cabinet and auxiliary politics on the fifth grade because of the habit of attacking the past.

After that, decades passed, the government became more and more onerous, and the emperor became more and more lazy, and the position of the cabinet became more and more important.

The rank of the five grades of university scholars is completely inconsistent with their actual authority.

As a result, the title of scholar gradually became associated with the six scholars, and most of the time several of the six scholars or squires served as cabinet scholars.

In this way, the powerful position of the scholar has gone up, but the rank of the scholar itself is still the fifth grade.

It's just that most of the high-ranking officials such as scholars and scholars are also scholars, so their grades are not determined according to the grade of the position of scholars, but according to their own officials.

This situation is simple and simple, but it is actually quite complicated.

After all, if a scholar does not have the position of six scholars held at the same time, the level of this position itself is a bit too low.

And once a scholar serves as the secretary of a ministry at the same time, it is difficult for him to maintain relative independence when dealing with the affairs of the six departments.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there was continuous party fighting, and it is also related to this.

This time, what Emperor Chongzhen did was to accept and acknowledge the fait accompli, and confirm the status of the cabinet above the six ministries in the form of a holy decree.

However, this time, Emperor Chongzhen also made it clear that the Governor's Office of the Five Armies was separated from the jurisdiction of the Cabinet, especially the Ministry of War, so that the Governor's Office of the Five Armies was directly responsible to the Emperor through the Military Aircraft Department, and everything was no longer reported to the Emperor through the Ministry of War.

Second, Emperor Chongzhen also dismissed the newly promoted first-class Ningcheng Bosun Chengzong from the post of secretary of the military department at the Shuori court meeting of the Jiji Palace.

At the same time, Sun Chengzong was also dismissed as the old minister of military aircraft to inspect the armaments outside the border of Jizhen and supervise the enemy, and ordered him to hand over the army to You Shiwei, the chief military officer of Jizhen in front of the army, and others, and returned to the court from the mountain city of Ulan Hada, and served as a full-time cabinet auxiliary minister and minister of military aircraft.

This is not exactly what Emperor Chongzhen meant.

Sun Chengzong, as the Minister of Military Aircraft and the Secretary of the Ministry of War, has been outside the border for a long time, of course, it is inappropriate.

Therefore, now the Chongzhen Emperor also intends to let him return to Beijing as soon as possible to serve as the Minister of Military Aircraft.

After all, Zhang Weixian is old and sick, and if there is no big man in the Military Aircraft Department who can take on the heavy responsibility, he will not be able to carry out the military reform tasks that the emperor is going to implement next.

However, Emperor Chongzhen did not mean to immediately remove him from his post as secretary of the military department.

The people who wrote to request that he be dismissed from his post as secretary of the military department were Xu Yuqing, the military department, as well as Jia Jichun, the left deputy of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and Xu Guorong, the imperial historian of the Metropolitan Inspectorate.