In the Ming generation, the highest position that a living martial artist can do is a national prince, even Xu Da, Chang Yuchun and other famous generals in history, that is just the result of being crowned king after death and hereditary national prince.

Most of the more famous generals in the Ming Dynasty can be replaced by very few of them, and the famous general Qi Jiguang is just a prince and a governor of Zuo.

There are also a very small number of people among the generals who have picked up the titles of marquis and earl due to fate, but in the end there is basically no good end.

Even if Li Chengliang waited for a small achievement in three days and a big victory in five days, he was just an earl.

The title of the third duke, Wenchen absolutely never wants to get the title without field merits, but it is very simple to obtain a title such as the third duke, and the military general is the opposite, although it is difficult to get the third duke, but there are many titles that you want to add to the title of Taibao and Shaobao.

Of course, all these rules are empty words in front of the imperial relatives of the Ming Dynasty, after Wang Zheng occupied Nanjing, there were hundreds of large and small relatives who only had titles in Nanjing City.

These people did not pay taxes, and they all kept private men in the house, and they were the first to deal with them after Wang Zheng entered the city.

The Xun Qi welcomed the Shandong army into the city, and it was definitely not possible to kill them before conquering the country, but Wang Zheng was able to cancel their right not to pay taxes, and cut most of the private soldiers, and gave them to wait for death in different places.

So after receiving Wang Zheng's request for King Feng Ning this time, some ministers suggested that they should give a prince a young guarantee.

"Wang Zheng is just a martial artist who started selling salt, and Anton Hou's title is not satisfied, and he actually asks for a one-word king title, which is really crazy!"

"This ...... What else is the system! ”

"In addition to thieves and Tartars, there is actually such a villain inside and outside the Ming Dynasty!"

"I heard that Wang Zheng is completely in Jiangnan under the banner of the imperial court, and it is no different from that Zuo Liangyu, in my opinion, what kind of king is still crowned, and a punishment charter must be come up!"

The cabinet ministers were furious for a while, but Luo Yangxing, the commander of the Jinyi Guard who was standing on the side, did not say anything, but kept sneering in his heart.

At present, the highest status is the cabinet scholar and the first assistant Chen Yan, and this time it is a routine meeting of the cabinet, and he is just pretending to be ordered by order.

However, those ministers are not stupid, they are out of anger, and they always have to come up with a charter and submit it to the emperor for adjudication.

After deliberation, the cabinet felt that it was feasible, and said that this was not low, and it was the best one in recent years, which was reasonable and reasonable.

Most of the Wenchen who have this idea see that Wang Zheng is a vulgar martial artist who doesn't understand these political affairs, and wants to take the title of Shaobao to fool the past.

Chen Yan, the first assistant of the cabinet, also suggested that Chongzhen give Wang Zheng a blank check, let him and Li Chuang fight to the death, and say that he would win the battle and then be crowned king.

The cabinet has tried and tested Zuo Liangyu in this way, and Zuo Liangyu does not dare to openly confront the imperial court at all, and the title of a thief general can make him have nothing to say.

With the prestige of the king in the court today, it is completely qualified to be crowned a one-word king, and in the eyes of the Shandong army, even the two-word king is a little condescending.

Li Chuang was defeated by Wang Zheng countless times, but he could rise again every time, and now he has established the Dashun Dynasty and become the emperor, and Wang Zheng is still a marquis, which is really unreasonable.

In fact, after the Shandong army heard the news that Li Chuang was proclaimed emperor in Xi'an, it was not uncommon for Wang Zheng to follow Li Chuang's voice and proclaim himself emperor in Nanjing, and even some people in the staff office thought so.

But Wang Zheng was very resistant to this, and he got angry when he mentioned it, and in the end, no one said it again, but he turned to ask the court to give him a one-word king, which is the bottom line.

Although Chongzhen was not angry this time, and was extremely calm, his attitude was still the same stingy, what kind of one-word king, it didn't exist at all.

This time, the cabinet was surprisingly efficient, and the meaning of the imperial court reached Nanjing in January.

The result was that he was not crowned king, but Chongzhen also left a leeway, and the secret decree said that if the Shandong army sent troops to destroy Dashun, he could add the crown prince to Wang Zheng, and advocated that this was the best title for military generals, and he should be content.

However, there are many military talents in Shandong, and there are many people in the original court, and these words were exposed at once, and there was indignation from top to bottom, and even the relatives felt that Emperor Chongzhen was too picky this time.

The rumors in the Shandong army that originally made the king fight for the emperor have calmed down, and this matter has increased since then, saying that the court didn't take it seriously at all, and fooled our Shandong army as a child.

This result was really expected by Wang Zheng, and in history, Li Zicheng, a change in the Jiashen Kingdom, was beaten to the point that his eyelids were low, and he was short of an order to attack the Forbidden City.

Li Zicheng is already the emperor of Dashun, but he asked to be crowned the king of the northwest, this is not a one-word king, of course, maybe Dashun does not know the difference between a one-word king and a two-word king.

The Dashun army didn't have any intention of refutating, they all felt that Chongzhen would definitely agree, and they had already begun to pack up their things and prepare to go back to their hometown in Shaanxi to show off their might.

But Chongzhen refused, he had no intention of being crowned king at all, and even if he hanged himself, he was unwilling to back down half a step, which was equivalent to slapping everyone in Dashun.

Now that Wang Zhengyuan is in the south of the Yangtze River, it is whimsical to want to be crowned a one-word king with a piece of paper.

Originally, in the eyes of the Shandong army, this matter was actually no different from the Dashun army under the city of Beijing, and it should be a matter of course, and it was at this time, what are you hesitating about?

The imperial court will fight for the title of King Ning, and the Shandong army will be able to step on the steps to send troops, and it may be possible to destroy Dashun.

This is good, Emperor Chongzhen has done everything perfectly, and he clearly looks down on the Shandong Army, and he still uses his hot face to paste a cold ass.

If something happens to the Jingshi in the future, it is impossible for Shandong to send troops to Qinwang, then it will be shameless.

said a thousand ways and ten thousand, even if Wang Zheng can afford to lose this person, Shandong is now so big, how many people from top to bottom are attached to and count on the change of dynasty, it is naturally impossible to be satisfied.

Therefore, after the news spread throughout Nanjing, people began to persuade Wang Zheng to follow Li Zicheng's example, establish a new dynasty, and change the dynasty to Kaiyuan.

The failure of the request for the title of the king was the beginning of a complete break between the Shandong army and the imperial court, and everyone no longer had any hope for this imperial court, and only thought about changing the dynasty.

However, Wang Zheng's attitude towards this matter is very resolute, no matter how many people you ask, anyway, he is not the emperor, and he just begins to arrange a plan to collect other state capitals in Jiangnan.

After a long time, there were fewer voices of persuasion, and Wang Zheng still waved the banner of the official army, arranged several soldiers and horses, and marched towards the south in a grand manner.

However, at the beginning of February, Wang Zheng received a document from the garrison of Lu'an Prefecture, the capital of Luzhou, saying that Gao Jie, the general soldier of the Ming Dynasty, led more than 5,000 soldiers and horses to the outside of the city at the end of January, requesting to accept the reorganization of the Shandong Army and be included in the foreign department.

After the staff office discussed, he was originally going to directly reorganize the matter, but Wang Zheng pushed the resolution of the staff office and directly ordered Gao Jie to come to Nanjing to meet in person.

Hou Ye personally ordered, and the staff office did not say anything, immediately issued a document to inform the foreign army and horse commander stationed in Luzhou Mansion, and asked him to send someone to bring Gao Jie to Nanjing.