Chapter 209: Mu Monkey and Crown

After a brief and brutal military disaster, the people of Chang'an finally looked forward to the day when their emperor would move back to Luan. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info Some time ago, all kinds of rumors about the imperial court about to move the capital to Luoyang gradually disappeared as the emperor returned to live in Daming Palace.

As expected by the government and the opposition, in the ten days after returning to the Daming Palace, the emperor successively issued many decrees, rewarded the meritorious ministers, and announced that Li Chenghong would be expelled from the royal clan and listed as the number one rebel arrested by the imperial court.

In the long list of rewards, the most eye-catching is naturally the Jing father and daughter. In order to make up for the guilt of Jing Xuan in his heart, the first edict made by the emperor was to posthumously present Jing Xuan as the queen, and ordered the ministers to agree on the nickname "Zhenyi".

Jing Yuncong was meritorious in leading the army to recover Chang'an, and Jin Jue was the king of Dongyang County, leading soldiers and horses to garrison Fengtian in case the Tubo people came back at any time and threatened the safety of Chang'an.

Jing Zhao was officially appointed by the emperor as the governor of Gyeongzhao Province and the governor of Quan, and took over the important task of maintaining law and order in Gyeonggi from Wu Bi.

Although Wei Chang did not perform well in the matter of moving the capital, he was not without hard work because of his accompaniment to the east, and he was also temporarily replaced by the Zhongshu Shilang from the household servant to the subordinate waiter, and officially became the chief minister.

All of this, as long as the civil and military officials who followed the east, none of them were rewarded for the promotion of additional officials.

In the whole process of rewarding meritorious deeds, there are three things that not only stand out in the eye, but also arouse all kinds of speculation and doubts among the government and the opposition.

The first thing is the change in the pattern of the harem.

As soon as Jing Xuan died, there was only one concubine left in the harem, long before the emperor moved back to Chang'an from Shaanzhou, some people privately discussed, thinking that Wanrong would become the undoubted lord of the harem from now on, and even a very small number of ministers had begun to brew the last chapter to persuade the emperor to establish Wanrong as the queen.

However, the development of events was almost unexpected. While posthumously presenting Jing Xuan as the empress, the emperor did not forget to properly compensate Wanrong who was pregnant and accompanied him all the way. Wanrong's sons and daughters, who were only more than two years old, were named princes and princesses by the emperor's decree, and their fiefs were all in the rich land of Jiangnan. However, immediately afterwards, the emperor issued two more decrees, respectively Jin Ashina and Zheng two Jieyu as concubines, not only that, but the graceful body has been Gong Ying'er because of the merit of telling Shang Jing to conceal the military situation in Western Xinjiang, and was made an exception by the emperor to be awarded the second rank of Zhaoyi, and personally proposed the title of "treasure" for Ying'er, taking the meaning of the treasure of the family. In this way, the harem, which had just lost its checks and balances due to Jing Xuan's martyrdom, returned to a new pattern of checks and balances due to the ascension of the two new concubines and the sudden rise of Bao Zhaoyi Sakura.

Even though Wanrong was quite dissatisfied with this in her heart, she couldn't stand Sakura, who had just been named Bao Zhaoyi, swore in front of her that no matter what high position she held, she would always be Niangniang's minion, and everything was only your order, so she thought about it, with a body like Ying'er who had been promoted to Zhaoyi, at least she could help herself suppress the two new concubines of the Ashina clan and the Zheng clan, and it was not a good thing for herself, and invisibly, the resentment in her heart disappeared a little. In addition, the two babies of Jixiang and Ruyi have been thickly sealed, so they will turn a blind eye to the emperor's behavior of cultivating mutual restraint forces with her in the harem.

The second thing that surprised everyone was that it was Seung-eun.

In the process of the emperor's abandonment of the city and running eastward, Yu Chengen has no doubt that he should be the first to take the lead, and no one can match it. That is, according to the guesses and assumptions of a wise minister like Wei Chang, this Shenhe military supervisor who has made great achievements in saving and escorting the driver will at least be among the phases, and maybe he will follow in the footsteps of Li Jinzhong and become the second eunuch to be crowned king.

But when the emperor's will was issued, the long list of new titles hanging in front of the name of Yu Chengen made the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty feel confused. Yu Chengen's new title is actually the supervisor of Zhiguozi, the palace envoy, the idle stable envoy, the Wufang envoy, the palace envoy and the Shenhe military supervisor. The only thing that was still expected by the ministers was that Yu Chengen was rewarded by the emperor with the title of Duke Zheng Guo.

What kind of official positions are these!

Supervisor Zhiguozi, in other words, is the acting chief of Guozijian, the highest institution of learning in the country, except for supervising the studies of the children of officials and eunuchs, it can be said that he does not even have the slightest decent power in his hands.

The palace envoy is the messenger who plays with flowers and plants, the idle stable envoy is the messenger who herds horses, the Wufang envoy is the messenger who accompanies the emperor for entertainment, sets up eagles and raises dogs, and the palace envoy is the messenger who is in charge of the market in the palace, all of which have a common name, called miscellaneous errands. That is, the errand in addition to the serious messenger.

Yu Chengen easily got a chance to turn over in the officialdom in Shaanzhou, but in the end he only got these bits and pieces of messengers who did not contribute well, could it be that the emperor still remembered the old grudge that he had clinged to Empress Zhang, and intended to use these marginal messengers to fool him?

When the edict rewarding Yu Chengen was issued, the Manchu Dynasty almost without exception determined that Yu Chengen was the donkey who pulled the mill for the emperor, and although it was not yet time to unload the mill and kill the donkey, it was not far from the arrival of that day.

As a result, after Yu Chengen received a series of titles, he did not get many people to congratulate him. Only Pei Baiyao, the new Zhongshu Ling, who was activated by the emperor for the second time, and Wei Changcha, the new prime minister, sent him congratulatory gifts. From this point of view, even if Yu Chengen intends to set up a roasted tail banquet in the mansion to thank his colleagues, it is difficult to say how many people will come to the banquet. It's really the so-called hot and cold world, and it pierces through it at a glance.

Within a few days, Yu Chengen, the new supervisor of Zhiguozi, came to the Guozijian located in the Imperial City's Foreign Affairs Headquarters to take office. When he took over the official seal from the hands of the seventy-year-old priest and was about to take the stage to give the first class to the only remaining less than 100 prison students after the catastrophe, the news suddenly came that the emperor himself led the prince over ten years old to the national prison.

What's even more surprising is that the emperor not only came here to support the façade and face of the newly arrived Yu Chengen, but also took the trouble to lead Pei Baiyao and Wei Chang, the two prime ministers of the court, as well as seven or eight elderly princes who had been crowned kings and had not yet gone to various places to take up the domain, and seriously became a student and asked Yu Chengen to listen to the lecture.

Although Yu Chengen accompanied the prince (the father of the current emperor) in the East Palace for many years in the East Palace, he was familiar with literature and ink, but he did not dare to talk nonsense in front of the old sacrificial wine, Pei Baihua, Wei Chang and many other well-educated people. (To be continued.) )