Although they had rested in the fields of horses in Shandong for more than a month, during which no one from the Ming army under the command of Zhou Yanru came to disturb them, the military appearance of Abatai after returning was still very miserable.

According to the records of the Korean envoys in Shenyang, the Qing soldiers who returned "wore clothes that were completely torn and invisible, and all of them were in the shape of ghosts," and because of "the number of deaths was very large", "only half of the number of soldiers who had entered the country compared to the previous year." Many family members of military personnel looked through their eyes, but what they were looking forward to was the sad news of the death of their father and son. For a time, "inside and outside the city gates, there were many crying houses".

However, the Emperor Taiji praised him lavishly, rewarded Abatai with 10,000 taels of silver, and sent an edict to the king of Joseon to show off his victory. Of course, Abatai is indeed considered a meritorious service, capturing 360,000 people, plundering 120,000 taels of gold and 2.2 million taels of silver, so much people's wealth is really nothing compared to tens of thousands of war losses.

With such a population, gold and silver can be easily replenished, but the elite soldiers in a hundred battles may not be replenished in a year or two.

Huang Taiji not only rewarded Abatai, but also comforted Abatai's captured son, expressing his willingness to help Abatai negotiate with the Ming court, and willing to exchange the captured Ming generals for Bolo, if the Ming Dynasty did not agree, Huang Taiji allowed Bolo a son to inherit Bolo's title of Viscount Bei.

This move will be Abatai gratefully bowed down directly, saying that from now on, only Huang Taiji will look forward, of course, it is not ruled out that Abatai is taking advantage of the situation, looking for a reason, pulling down his face to face Huang Taiji, his little brother to surrender.

But politics is like this, Abatai is acting, and Huang Taiji is also willing.

In addition, a name has also entered the eyes of Huang Taiji: Yang Chao!

Because due to the appearance of Yang Chao, the Abatai army was much worse than in history, at least 10,000 more casualties, nearly half of the casualties in history, and now it is directly more than half, although 100,000 people. Of the 60,000 soldiers, only more than 40,000 returned, and less than 30,000 soldiers. Of course, most of them died of illness, but among the group of people killed by Yang Chao. But there were at least 6,000 soldiers.

Especially in Haizhou, 600 and 10,000 is too legendary, Huang Taiji can't pay attention to it, the method he took is not to suppress the news, on the contrary, it shows that Manchuria respects heroes, and publicly offers a reward for someone who can persuade Yang Chao to vote, and directly reward 10,000 taels of silver, and knight Beizi. Yang Chao was directly crowned the prince and still commanded the soldiers and horses of the headquarters.

Don't think that Huang Taiji is a good intention, let alone think that he really respects heroes, this heart is black, if there is no such person in Manchuria, the direction of history will be different, and it can even be said that this person laid the foundation of the Manchu Qing Dynasty for more than 200 years.

In his hands, a slave feudal military group like the Eight Banners slowly transformed into a small centralized feudal state, and really had the capital to compete with the Ming Dynasty. In the past, although his father Nurhachi was also very good at fighting, but he did not know how to build, and at that time, millions of Han people in Manchuria were killed by old slaves because of insufficient food.

In the hands of Huang Taiji. He used military and diplomatic methods to subdue Korea and Mongolia, and at the same time co-opted these forces, turning the disadvantage of being surrounded by Ming diplomacy into an advantage, so that he could bypass the Guanning defense line and enter the Central Plains from Mongolia, opening up another strategic direction.

Economically. He not only activated the economy of the whole of Manchuria, but also wanted to loot the population to ensure economic development. In this regard, it is compared to his father, one heaven and one earth.

is such a person who gives Yang Chao such a high evaluation. If it's really well-intentioned, then hell is it.

Obviously, he is still pit Yang Chao.

Imagine being promoted to such an extent by him and treating him as a prince, how can the Ming Dynasty still use Yang Chao? Also crowned king? I'm sorry that the Ming Dynasty didn't have this kind of system, and people with different surnames can't be crowned kings, and they can't be added to the ranks? No matter how much you add it, you can't add Huang Taiji's empty favor, will Yang Chao be resentful, if Yang Chao is an invincible and reckless man, I am afraid that he will really be dissatisfied in his heart.

This is the insidiousness of Huang Taiji, a problem for Chongzhen, Huang Taiji didn't pay anything, it made it difficult for Emperor Chongzhen, no matter what Chongzhen did, it would make people feel that they didn't pay enough attention to the heroes, because Chongzhen would never be able to give Huang Taiji those conditions, but in fact, Huang Taiji just talked about it, and Chongzhen really wanted to take out the benefits of real money.

So the discussion of Yang Chao was put on the agenda, which made it very difficult for the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty.

Especially the anti-Zhou party that has just been defeated, this faction is basically the Donglin party.

At this time, when it was time for the Donglin Party to harvest the fruits, Shoufu was naturally theirs, and the officials who were controlled by the Zhou Party in the past had to be theirs.

After fighting for the problems in the court, it was Jiangnan's turn, and at this time he had to face Yang Chao's problem.

To be precise, it was the problem between Yang Chao and Shi Kefa, Shi Kefa tied himself to Yang Chao and put all the future of his Caoyun Governor on the line.

Obviously, it is impossible for the Donglin Party to move Yang Chao, to be precise, it is impossible to move Shi Kefa, Shi Kefa also has a Donglin background to some extent, not only can it not be moved, but it must be upgraded to a higher level.

Isn't Yang Chao's military exploits the biggest confidence for Shi Kefa's promotion, so everyone quickly agreed to promote Shi Kefa to the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department.

But the difference is that in history, Shi Kefa only protected Cao Yun, compared to Ma Shiying's military exploits in Fengyang, in fact, this political achievement could not be taken at all, but Ma Shiying was from Zhou Yanru's party, so it could only be Shi Kefa's promotion to the secretary of the military department, fortunately, this time and space has Yang Chao's super strong military merits as a guarantee, and it is reasonable for Shi Kefa to be transferred to the Nanjing Military Department.

It's just that the handling of Yang Chao encountered a problem, Yang Chao handed over more than 5,000 heads this time, and more than 1,000 prisoners, so that Emperor Chongzhen gave a prisoner to his ancestors in a beautiful manner, and showed his face in front of the people of Beijing.

Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen has a spectrum in his heart, it is impossible to ask for guilt, but it is difficult to reward.

With the Ming military merit system, Yang Chao is a guest army, and the military merits of the guest army will be doubled, that is, the head of Yang Chao this time has to be multiplied by two, that is, more than 10,000, if he is promoted, Yang Chao can be directly promoted from the general of thousands to the general army, and even the acting position can be promoted to the highest level.

Not to mention the disgusting act of the Manchurian Emperor Taiji who wanted to crown Yang Chao as king.

Chaoyi has been discussing for three days, and finally the smart Ming officials have come up with a solution. still has to grasp Yang Chao's move to release water, and the merits will be offset.

So what to do with the promotion, Yang Chao has no credit. Shi Kefa's promotion to the secretary of the military department seems to be groundless, and the two are now tied together.

Smart officials have their own way.

Offset Yang Chao's merits in killing the enemy and the sin of releasing water. But their 'smart' surprise found that among the captives captured by Yang Chao, there was Bolo, the son of the captive chieftain Abatai, as well as many Baya Lazhen, large and small, and most importantly, Yang Chao cut off the head of the deputy marshal of the entrance, the white flag Gushan Ezhen Turge.

The first-level military merit and negligence are offset, and the general is accidentally discovered. The emperor kindly wrote it down to Yang Chao, so after a heated discussion in the court, he passed this method.

In fact, it is really difficult for this group of people, because Yang Chao's crazy credit is indeed a bit of a 'unappreciated achievement', especially for Emperor Chongzhen, who is now poor and wants to be the gold and silver in the palace, if Yang Chao's merits are counted, he has to be a thing again.

There are more than 10,000 military merit heads, not to mention the level that Yang Chao wants to promote, that is, the reward will be four or five hundred thousand taels of silver. The emperor really can't take it.

In the end, Yang Chao was successfully promoted to the deputy general of the Xinjiang Estuary Water Battalion, making up for the lack of Yu Chengwu, who had just returned to his hometown. The acting post was promoted to the first level of the governor and the second rank of military attaché.

However, for Yang Chao, he is quite satisfied, that is, he is a general soldier, let him leave Xinjiangkou, he will not be happy, for the current Yang Chao, if he can't go directly to Beijing to get reused, the commander of the Xinjiangkou water battalion is obviously the most suitable for him. If you can't directly grasp the heavy power, it's best to stay in Nanjing and accumulate strength.

But there's a windfall. Let Yang Chao be even happier than being promoted, that is, the emperor issued an order. Crowned Yang Mu Zhao Lan as a first-class lady!

This is an honor earned for his mother, although it is vanity, but don't say it, Yang Chao feels that he is really a little bit of a sufferer, how many false positions he adds to himself, Yang Chao feels that he doesn't care, but Yang Chao feels really happy to give his mother an honor.

In just one month, Yang Chao was still on the cusp of the storm in the previous month, and was constantly impeached, and the next month, he suddenly reversed and suddenly became a hot figure, and even the Dongyu outside the gate had to give Yang Chao the crown.

In the end, although the thunder was heavy and the rain was small, the acting position was promoted a lot, but the actual position was only promoted by one level, from the general manager to the deputy general.

From an outsider's point of view, the emperor still has the feeling of treating heroes badly, but he really understands people, but he has caught up with each other one by one.

So for a while, Yang Chao was constantly drinking and feasting, and he entertained every day.

Feng Kezong successfully cleaned up Xu Zhongxiao, and he did far more than Yang Chao requested, Yang Chao only asked him to clean up Xu Zhongxiao alone, and he didn't ask to kill Xu Zhongxiao, as long as he was sent away.

Feng Kezong didn't kill Xu Zhongxiao, but he copied the Xu family, all the men of the Xu family were sent to Liaodong to fill the army, and all the women were pulled into the Jiaofang Division.

This made Yang Chao, who had always felt that Zhulian was inhumane, sigh, but Feng Kezong was reasonable, saying that if the grass is not eradicated, there will be endless troubles, especially if he Feng Kezong wants to beg for food in the Jinyi Guard, if he does not kill the enemy, there will be too much trouble in the future.

The matter has been done, and Yang Chao can only acquiesce.

It's a pity that Xiong Mingyu is a pity, when the Nanjing Military Department really can't find anyone, the imperial court urgently let him out of the mountain, and now Shi Kefa appeared, and immediately kicked him aside, Yang Chao went to see him off, this old guy has a very good mentality, and even showed that he was relaxed, and said that he could finally go home and rest, as if the gold-lettered signboard of the Nanjing Military Department Shangshu was like shit to him, and he couldn't throw it away early.

After dealing with all this, it was already August, and Yang Chao began to rectify the military camp again, and if it was not rectified, it would not work, and there were too many problems in the army that Yang Chao could not think of.

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From this chapter, another new plot has begun, Yang Chao will stand on a higher stage and carry out a higher level of operation, I hope everyone will continue to support. (To be continued).