The battle of Liaocheng was a great victory, the Ming Guards regained Liaocheng, and the news that Dolgon led the remnants to flee the Daimyo's Mansion was transmitted back to Nanjing as soon as possible. Cao Yue, who was still worried about Cao Yue and was afraid of inferior troops, was defeated by Sun Chuanting, who was defeated under the resourceful Dolgon, and almost fainted with joy after seeing the military report.

"This kid, he really has two strokes, against everyone's persuasion, using firearms as the main means of war, and actually achieved such a record," Sun Chuanting's happy mouth was about to crack to the back of his head, and after he muttered a word of praise to Cao Yue, he immediately sent the news to the palace and presented it to the little emperor and the Empress Dowager Zhou.

Then he immediately instigated the little emperor to gather his ministers and announced the matter.

Previously, Cao Yue had good news from time to time, all of which had been recreated as slaves with a small loss. The ministers, who were originally worried about this war, gradually relaxed as the good news kept coming back. But no one expected that in the end, Cao Yue brought such a surprise to everyone.

After hearing Sun Chuanting's announcement that Cao Yue led the army to inflict heavy losses on Jiannu, recovered Liaocheng at a very small price, eliminated more than 100,000 Jiannu, and Dolgon led the remnants to flee Liaocheng in embarrassment, the main hall suddenly turned into a vegetable market, and it became noisy, and the ministers with their own thoughts expressed their excitement in their own ways.

Gao Hongtu, the head of the household, was the first to jump out, and praised Cao Yue's courage when the palace praised him, and said that it was a very wise decision for the emperor to take Cao Yue as the governor of the capital to take charge of the world's soldiers and horses. The Ming Guards, under the leadership of Cao Yue, a young and energetic governor, inflicted heavy losses on Jiannu in Liaocheng, and defeated more than 200,000 horses led by the regent of Jiannu Dolgon, with inferior troops, which is a rare victory since the founding of the Ming Dynasty.

Then the old slippery head Qian Qianyi also stood up and impassionedly sang praises for this huge victory, saying that Cao Yue turned the tide in danger and brought Daming out of a desperate situation, and then Cao Yue will bring more surprises to Daming, and the Ming Guards under his leadership. He will recover all the lost territory and avenge the emperor.

Gao Hongtu and Qian Qianyi praised Cao Yue at the same time, but also did not forget to ask for credit for him, they believe that Cao Yue has made such a great contribution to the Ming Dynasty, and it is not too much to give a heavy reward, and it is not too much to be crowned a prince or even a king.

These two people took the lead in standing up for Cao Yue to ask for credit, and even Qian Qianyi proposed to crown Cao Yue as the king, which shocked everyone in the palace, even Sun Chuanting was surprised. He couldn't have imagined. Cao Yue actually cleaned up these two scheming old slippery heads so obediently, and he couldn't help but admire them greatly.

After the two stood up and invited, the others immediately understood, Ma Shiying also pulled down his old face, and when the palace praised Cao Yue, he said that he must reward Cao Yue and the soldiers who made great contributions in this battle. Ma Shiying is an old fox, he did not directly hope that the emperor would crown Cao Yue as a prince or a king like Gao Hongtu and Qian Qianyi, but just said that no matter how the court rewarded him. He didn't think it was too much.

Even Ma Shiying said this, and other ministers, naturally not to be left behind, stood up one after another to ask for credit for Cao Yue. The pomp and circumstance is unprecedented. Even the little emperor Zhu Cijiong and Sun Chuanting, who was standing on the side watching the play, felt a little incredible.

In the end, Sun Chuanting was afraid that Cao Yue would be harmed by this group of people, so he had to stand up, saying that it was not appropriate to make Cao Yue a king with a different surname, and that the Ming Dynasty had a king with a different surname when it was founded. But then it was gone. Now that Cao Yue is the king, it is really lame more than profitable, this kid is still a concubine. If he becomes a prince, won't the eldest princess be a princess? It's all messed up, if you really want to reward Cao Yue, it's enough to have anything else.

The little emperor finally obeyed Sun Chuanting's Jiannu, and with a stroke of his pen, he drafted an edict and named Cao Yue as the Duke of Dingguo.

The princess's husband was crowned the Duke of the Kingdom, which is not impossible, and Chai Shao, the husband of Princess Pingyang in the Tang Dynasty, was awarded the title of Huo Guogong for his merits.

In addition to giving Cao Yue the title of Guogong, the little emperor also gave him a rich reward of money and goods, and even Zhu Yujiao followed suit.

All the meritorious soldiers also have rewards, and the little emperor Zhu Cijiong, who doesn't know the height of the sky, promised a very rich reward like a lion's mouth, which made the face of Gao Hongtu, the head of the household department on the side, pale with fright.

It's just that these rewards are for Cao Yue and Cao Yue's generals, and he doesn't dare to stand up against it, so he can only think about retreating from the court, and go back to think about how to squeeze out this huge bounty.

Today's Ming ******, the treasury is still a little empty, but it is much better than when Emperor Chongzhen was in Beijing, after all, the south is far richer than the north, and after Cao Yue came to Nanjing, he also took a lot of measures to encourage commercial trade, broaden tax channels, strengthen tax management, etc., and there is a lot of money and grain in the treasury under the control of the household department, otherwise there is no way to support this war.

It's just that now the money and grain in the treasury are a bit reluctant to support the war, and then take out a large amount of money and silver to reward meritorious generals, so that Gao Hongtu is a bit of a clever woman and it is difficult to cook without rice. He had to report his difficulties to Cao Yue, who was far away in Liaocheng, hoping that Cao Yue would understand and give him ideas, otherwise he would be punished by the little emperor.

Cao Yue received a secret report from Gao Hongtu before the arrival of the imperial court's reward edict, and he couldn't help but be very proud when he learned that the little emperor was going to make him the Duke of Dingguo. Because he was happy, he was not unhappy about Gao Hongtu's request for help, and immediately replied to Gao Hongtu, who only needed to prepare one-third of the total bounty, and he would find a way to do the rest.

The industries controlled by the Cao family have gained a lot from military production and trade, food and military supplies, and Cao Yue has never taken money too seriously, what he pursues is to change history, which is the most important thing, and many other things don't matter. Taking out money from his pocket to reward soldiers, he also felt that there was no loss, after all, this could gain a good reputation and buy people's hearts.

Cao Yue didn't pay much attention to what happened in Nanjing, and he didn't worry about what kind of chaos the pedantic minister would make, he could receive news from Nanjing every day from the channels of Jinyiwei, it can be said that through Jinyiwei, he could still control the remarks of most officials in the court and their fate, and he didn't have to worry about anything.

What he had to worry about most now was how to consolidate the places that had been regained and withstand the counterattack of Jiannu that would soon occur. Cao Yue had already received the news that Duoduo and Azig, who were fighting against the remnants of Li Zicheng in Shaanxi, had been ordered to return to Beizhili, and after receiving the order, Duoduo and Azig quickly stopped the war against Li Zicheng and returned to the front line of Shanxi, and in half a month, they could join forces with Dolgon.

After the main force of Jiannu will be divided, there will definitely be a big move, in the face of Jiannu who is several times his own, Cao Yue does not dare to have any carelessness, he must be fully prepared for this. Two new forces are what he is looking forward to the most, one is Cao Bianjiao's men and horses, and the other is the righteous army led by the Red Lady.

Just when Cao Yue was looking forward to it, the more than 70,000 righteous troops led by the Red Lady arrived at the front line of Liaocheng. After hearing the news, Cao Yue was overjoyed and personally led the guards to greet him. (To be continued.) )