As soon as Emperor Chongzhen said this, Li Guoyan and the three of them knew that the emperor was angry.

And it seems that if Zhu Xieyuan can't be crowned a marquis this time, then the possibility of Wenchen and military generals being marquis in the future is also very small.

And this responsibility is also to blame on Li Guowei and the others.

As soon as he thought of this, Li Guoyi took a step forward, lifted his robe and knelt on the ground and said: "The ministers can't see this, Your Majesty, please calm your anger!" ”

Xu Guangqi and Zhang Weixian also hurriedly got up and knelt on the ground without speaking.

Seeing this, Emperor Chongzhen neither stopped nor picked up, but continued: "As for the problem of excessive killing of various officials and soldiers under Zhu Xieyuan's command, I also have a word here.

"The Quartet is afraid of power but not virtue! I have been generous for 200 years, and I have been treated with courtesy, and I am especially unconvinced, and I think that my Ming is weak and can be bullied! This time, the imperial army suppressed Shuixi, although the killing was heavy, but it was just right to stand up!

Speaking of this, Emperor Chongzhen looked at the three important ministers kneeling on the ground, and then said solemnly:

"I'm not a cruel tyrant! It's just that the world is changing day by day, people's hearts are becoming more and more hypocritical, and the enemy is tolerant and honest to cause trouble, and it is not with grace to tolerate rebellion. Living in today's politics, without using thunderbolt means, you can't show the heart of the Bodhisattva! I want Zhu Xieyuan's move to be done as a last resort, so I will forgive me! ”

Seeing Emperor Chongzhen say such a thing in such a serious manner, Li Guowei, Xu Guangqi, and Zhang Weixian were also touched in their hearts.

The emperor distinguished the courtiers who dared to slander him like this, which also moved the hearts of these old ministers who had been up and down in the sea for many years.

Li Guowei said: "The ministers don't know Your Majesty's painstaking efforts, and the heroes will not be rewarded!" Shame on you! Please punish Your Majesty! ”

Xu Guangqi and Zhang Weixian saw Li Guoqi say this, and also said: "The ministers are ashamed and willing to be punished!" ”

Of course, Emperor Chongzhen would not punish these important ministers in front of him at will because of such a thing, so he said: "Qing and others are not guilty in front of me, since it is out of public intentions, how can they be punished!" Wait and get up, sit down and speak! ”

Waiting for the three of them to get up and sit down again, Emperor Chongzhen ordered Wang Chengen to refill the hot tea for the three of them, and then continued: "Shizhu Xuanwei Si Qin Liangyu has always made outstanding contributions, this time he entered the west with the warriors, and all the battles were victorious, and he personally beheaded the rebel Chongming in the chaos of the army, Zhu Xieyuan also asked for the title of Shijue, and the Qing and others thought how to reward him?" ”

Emperor Chongzhen has successively set the princes of Hou Liangzhu and Zhu Xieyuan, and also made Li Guoyao and other three important ministers kneel down and confess their guilt, thinking that if even Qin Liangyu's title is determined by himself, and he can't get the endorsement of the cabinet, and the plan to reward is spread, I am afraid that it will attract even more criticism from the government and the opposition.

After all, Qin Liangyu is a woman.

Sure enough, as soon as Emperor Chongzhen's words fell, Li Guowei, the first assistant of the cabinet, said: "Shizhu Tusi has always been respectful to the imperial court, and this credit is not small!" It's just that in recent decades, the stone pillar toast has been pacified step by step, from appeasement to consolation, and now it has risen irrelevantly!

"Now Qin Liangyu has made a lot of contributions, but if he doesn't reward him, it's not enough to show his credit! In the opinion of the minister, Mo Ruo gave him the title of "Mrs. Zhongzhou", and then rewarded the children of Shizhu Ma and Qin with his merits, which can be described as comprehensive! ”

Li Guowei said this, Emperor Chongzhen actually knew what he meant.

In that year, Mrs. Xiangxiang opened the Longchang Nine Post to help the Ming court stabilize the southwest, and Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, gave her the title of "Mrs. Shunde".

And the famous Tumut three ladies, first persuaded Altan Khan to lead Monan Mongolia to submit to the imperial court, and after the death of Altan Khan, he led Monan to take effect of loyalty to the Ming Dynasty, and finally gave a title of "Loyal Lady".

Now that the Ming Dynasty is doing this, it is equivalent to saying that Qin Liangyu's contribution this time is as great as that of a heroine like Mrs. Xiangxiang and the third lady.

However, for this, the current Emperor Chongzhen is not satisfied.

Qin Liangyu was the female general he admired the most in his later life, how could he only give it to a Zhongzhou lady.

So, Emperor Chongzhen said slowly: "I also know the meaning of the first assistant. It's just that this time Qin Liangyu has made a lot of contributions, and if he doesn't reward him heavily, it is not enough to show the true intention of my Ming court to punish evil and promote good, reward merit and punish faults! I will give him the title of Marquis of Zhongwu! What do you think? ”

As soon as Emperor Chongzhen's words came out, Li Guowei and other three important ministers were all taken aback, and everyone in the imperial study of the East Warm Pavilion of the Qianqing Palace was also surprised.

The Minister of Military Aircraft, the British Minister of War, Zhang Weixian, immediately left his seat, stood up and bowed down and said, "Your Majesty, Qin Liangyu is a woman!" Loyal or loyal, brave or brave, just a martial word, given a Miaojiang woman, will inevitably make millions of men in my Ming Dynasty and the army ashamed!

"And if Qin Liangyu is knighted as a woman, not only the national dynasty, even the Han and Tang dynasties, but also the Song Dynasty, there has never been such an example! Your Majesty is cautious! ”

After saying this, the British public Zhang Weixian stood on his own, as if waiting for the emperor in front of him to dispel his thoughts and give him an answer.

Of course, Emperor Chongzhen would not be shaken by his words, and immediately said: "Shizhu Xuanwei Si has always been loyal to the king, loyal and respectful, and loyal and brave, and the meritorious deeds are also from martial arts. Wouldn't it be just right to bestow a loyal martial marquis?! ”

Seeing that the emperor said this, Li Guoqi and Xu Guangqi knew the emperor's mind and did not speak, but Zhang Weixian still stood and said:

"Your Majesty, Qin Liangyu personally beheaded extravagance and Chongming, and the credit is naturally not small, but she is just a woman after all!"

"What about Qin Liangyu as a woman, which man has ever made any meritorious deeds? As the so-called women don't let the eyebrows go! If there are also millions of men in my Ming army who have made such a meritorious service, why should I regret the reward of the marquis?! I named him the Marquis of Zhongwu, and I want to make millions of men in the Ming army ashamed and brave, ashamed and enterprising! ”

Although Zhang Weixian still didn't think so, seeing that the emperor defended Qin Liangyu like this, and said such a thing, knowing that the emperor had made up his mind, it would be useless to say more, so he sighed secretly and sat down.

There was silence in the study.

After a while, Xu Guangqi suddenly said, "Your Majesty! The minister heard that the Shizhu Xuanwei Division has Zhongzhou in the north and Wulong in the south, and the Shizhu Xuanwei Division is also in the middle of Zhongwu.

"If you borrow a word in each of the two place names of Zhongzhou and Wulong, it is not only in line with the practice of the ancestors to be knighted, but also in line with the beauty of His Majesty's praise of loyalty and martial arts, I don't know what Your Majesty thinks?"

At this time, Li Guowei also said: "Not bad! Loyal is Zhongzhou, Wu is Wulong, each take a word, make up Zhongwu, this stone pillar Xuanwei Division of the north and south place name coincidence also! I agree with this proposal! ”

Zhang Weixian looked at Li Guoqi and Xu Guangqi a little blankly, knowing that these two people did not agree with the title of Qin Liangyu Zhongwuhou, but he didn't expect that these two people could misinterpret the emperor's meaning so far-fetched.

However, for the current Emperor Chongzhen, the ministers can understand it as much as they want, as long as he gives the title of Marquis of Zhongwu to Qin Liangyu.

Although Qin Liangyu is a southern woman, her military skills and integrity are not inferior to any northern general in the late Ming Dynasty, and even compared to most northern generals, it is much stronger!

Now this Emperor Chongzhen has read the history of the Southern Ming Dynasty in later generations, one of which writes that the news of Emperor Chongzhen's martyrdom reached Chongqing, Qin Liangyu cried in the north and wore filial piety, and stopped for a few days, and when the Manchu soldiers pursued the rest of Li Zicheng into the Chongqing area, the local court officials either fled or surrendered.

At this time, Qin Liangyu faced the surrender of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and said to the Shizhu Xuanfu people: "I am a woman, who has been favored by the country for 20 years, and now I am so unfortunate that I am here, how dare I take it for the rest of my life?" ”

In that era when the sky was falling apart and the earth was stormy, there were too many civil and military generals of the Ming Dynasty, facing the Manchu army, looking at the wind and surrendering, especially the Tusi leaders in the southwest region, who changed their flag and returned to the Manchu Qing Dynasty like a carp crossing the river, it was in this situation that Qin Liangyu still said to her generals: "There is no forgiveness for the captive clan!" ”

It is precisely because of her insistence on resisting Zhang Xianzhong and resisting the Qing Dynasty that during Qin Liangyu's lifetime, when Emperor Longwu ascended the throne, she was once named the Marquis of Zhongzhou.

It's just that Emperor Longwu was spun up and down, his reign was too short, the will of the feudal marquis did not reach Zhongzhou, and Emperor Longwu had been captured by the Manchus and then died of hunger strike.

In the second year of Yongli, Qin Liangyu died of illness at the age of seventy-five, and the Yongli Emperor, who fled all the way, gave her the nickname of loyalty, and at the same time, posthumously named her a loyal marquis, which made Qin Liangyu the first female general in Chinese history to be a marquis.

It's just that at that time, the fall of the Ming Dynasty was imminent, the princes of the Yongli court were everywhere, Uncle Hou was not as good as a dog, and Qin Liangyu was already in his last years, whether it was the Marquis of Zhongzhou before his death, or the Marquis of Loyalty after his death, in fact, there was no status or honor or gold content at all.

Therefore, it does not have much practical significance.

Now, of course, this Emperor Chongzhen knows this history.

So now that he knows this history, he must set up such a model and example of the leader of the Southwest Tusi as soon as possible, and the status and glory that should be given must be given enough, so that Qin Liangyu, a heroine who was loyal to the Ming Dynasty to the last moment and fought to the last moment, can enjoy the glory it deserves when the Ming Dynasty is still stable and authoritative.