Sun Chuanting and Cao Yue followed Zhou Tingru, Chen Xinjia, Wang Chengen and other ministers to greet them, and entered the Forbidden City directly.

It was in the morning when they arrived in Beijing, and when they came outside the Forbidden City, Emperor Chongzhen was still presiding over the Ming meeting.

Chongzhen asked them to enter the palace directly and participate in the court meeting. Of course, this is a deliberate arrangement, Emperor Chongzhen wants to meet the two people who have made meritorious contributions in the defense of Datong in public, and to praise the palace as a special show.

Under the leadership of Wang Chengen, the great eunuch in the palace, Cao Yue and Sun Chuanting followed the ministers who greeted them, passed through Zhengyang Gate and Chengtian Gate, and came to Taiji Gate, where the court meeting was held. After arriving at the Taiji Gate, Wang Chengen signaled Sun Chuanting and Cao Yue to wait outside the hall, and he and Zhou Tingru, Chen Xinjia and others entered the palace to report. Cao Yue and Sun Chuanting had to straighten up and wait outside the hall, listening to the propaganda.

After a while, the hall sounded the call of Sun Chuanting and Cao Yue to enter the hall to meet him.

After adjusting the official robe on his body again, Cao Yue followed Sun Chuanting and entered the Taiji Gate.

In the Taiji Gate, Emperor Chongzhen sat on the throne, and the two rows of civil and military ministers in the hall stood in turn, and Zhou Tingru and Chen Xinjia, who came to greet them just now, also stood back in the train. Cao Yue followed Sun Chuanting and saluted Emperor Chongzhen, but before they could finish saluting, Emperor Chongzhen had already got up from the throne, walked quickly to His Royal Highness, and personally supported Sun Chuanting and Cao Yue one after another.

"Sun Aiqing, Cao Aiqing, the two of you defeated Jiannu under Datong City, annihilated hundreds of thousands of Jiannu, and achieved a brilliant victory, I am very pleased, I am very pleased, haha, great!" Emperor Chongzhen Longyan Dayue took Sun Chuanting's hand, patted it hard, and then patted Cao Yue's shoulder, laughing: "I really didn't expect that with only 50,000 horses and horses in Datong, such a huge victory would be achieved, and Jiannu's vitality would be greatly injured and he would return in embarrassment, haha, in this way, Jiannu will no longer dare to invade the south easily, and my Ming Northern Xinjiang will restore tranquility." I will grant amnesty to the world to celebrate this joy. The two Aiqing and all the soldiers who have made meritorious achievements, I have a heavy reward!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Sun Chuanting and Cao Yue had to hurry up to thank him. They all know that what Emperor Chongzhen said has a heavy reward, and it is not heavy, so don't expect extravagant rewards in money and materials, at most it is the promotion of official positions.

In addition to expressing his appreciation and trust in Sun Chuanting and Cao Yue with his body movements, Emperor Chongzhen also immediately announced that he would continue to let Sun Chuanting be in charge of the military affairs of Shanxi, Henan, Shaanxi, Hubei, Sichuan and other provinces, and was ready to lead a large army to suppress the Liukou rebellion, and promoted him to the post of secretary of the military department. He encouraged Sun Chuanting in the palace, asking him to lead the army to fight well, and the court would give all support, hoping that Sun Chuanting could quell the rebellion as soon as possible.

The imperial court promoted him to his post, which made Sun Chuanting quite satisfied, and immediately knelt down to thank Long En.

Emperor Chongzhen in front of the Manchu Dynasty civil and military, especially praised Cao Yue, saying that Cao Yue has the style of his father, the tiger father has no dogs, this time in Datong City to defeat Jiannu, it is really a force to turn the tide in the critical moment, he is glad that the original reuse of Cao Yue is really a great trick. In order to commend his merits, he was ready to marry Zhu Yujiao, the princess of Kunxing, to Cao Yue, and take Cao Yue as the captain of the horses.

Because Cao Yue was very capable and good at training troops, Emperor Chongzhen was ready to continue to let Cao Yue train the army. Today's combat effectiveness of the Beijing camp is far less than before, and he is ready to use Cao Yue to supervise the Beijing camp.

However, before Emperor Chongzhen finished speaking, someone immediately stood up and opposed the matter very fiercely.

Standing up against it was Liu Zongzhou, the imperial historian of the Zuodu, who strongly opposed Cao Yue, who was about to marry the princess and become the captain of the horse, to continue to be in charge of the army on the grounds that Emperor Chongzhen's move violated the ancestral system.

Liu Zongzhou said with impassioned words, bitterly stated that if the emperor changed the ancestral system and let the concubine Duwei, who could not participate in the court politics, take charge of the Beijing camp, then all the laws and regulations formulated by the ancestors could be revised privately, and everything would be in chaos, and the world would be in chaos.

Liu Zongzhou's words immediately resonated with many ministers, and many people followed up to demand that Emperor Chongzhen not act so willfully. No matter how much credit Cao Yue makes, no matter how much ability he has, but if he wants to marry Princess Kunxing and become a lieutenant, he can't hold an important position in the court. This is the outline of the dynasty formulated by Emperor Taizu, and no one can change it.

Moreover, there are many people who strongly oppose Emperor Chongzhen's marriage of Princess Kunxing to Cao Yue, and Cao Yue does not agree to the conditions for being elected as a concubine.

In the late Ming Dynasty, the imperial court had regulations prohibiting the children of the civil and military ministers' families from becoming candidates for horses, and the horses must be selected from low-level officials or ordinary people's families.

In the face of the opposition of the ministers, Emperor Chongzhen's excitement disappeared a lot at once, and he also walked back to the palace, sat down on the imperial seat, and listened to the ministers with his eyebrows twisted.

Under the excitement of the crowd, more people stood up against the emperor's marriage of the princess to Cao Yue.

Those who did not object to marrying Princess Kunxing to Cao Yue believed that if the emperor wanted to elect Cao Yue as the commander of the horses, then Cao Yue's position as the general military officer of Datong must be removed, and he could not hold other positions, let alone participate in court politics in any form.

Later, many people stood up to accuse and even impeach Cao Yue, saying that when Cao Yue was the chief soldier of Datong, he privately manufactured a large number of muskets and ammunition, and in order to expand the army, he also asked for money and food from Zhu Chuanqi, the acting king, in a threatening way, and his behavior was very bad, which aroused the anger of the people and the dissatisfaction of the officials in the court, and asked Emperor Chongzhen to punish Cao Yue again.

Sun Chuanting was also implicated, and several ministers stood up to accuse him of "colluding" with Cao Yue in Datong, and extorted one million taels of silver from Zhu Chuanqi, the acting king, through very bad means, to serve as a military salary and deduct part of it into his own pocket, almost making the acting king desperate and hanged himself.

No one expected that what was originally a public reward for meritorious ministers turned into a denunciation of many ministers for Cao Yue and Sun Chuanting, two people who had made great achievements, and Emperor Chongzhen's face was very ugly. He originally wanted to take the opportunity of being the palace to reward the two meritorious heroes, raise his eyebrows, boost the morale of the Ming soldiers, and cheer up the officials of the DPRK and China, but he didn't expect it to become a farce.

Fortunately, Zhou Tingru, the first assistant, and Chen Xinjia, who was about to be promoted to the second assistant, stood up to play a round and support the emperor, which made the farce in the court not go further.

Cao Yue, who was standing on the side with a cold face, and Sun Chuanting, who was also depressed, were speechless, the treatment of Ming heroes turned out to be like this, if Emperor Chongzhen really obeyed the impeachment of those officials and blamed their two heroes, how many people would be disheartened, and who else would be willing to fight for the country?

"If the government is not reformed, such a shameless minister will not be cleared, no matter how hard he tries, he will not be able to save the Ming Dynasty," when this thought came up, Cao Yue's heart seemed to be a little bright!