After listening to Emperor Chongzhen's words, Wang Chengen's heart moved, and he immediately thought of the matter that Zhu Daolin had entrusted him with in private letters several times, so he took advantage of the emperor's rare opportunity to feel guilty and cautiously mentioned it:

"The slave maid heard that General Zhu was born in the Shangqing faction Ziyang Temple, because of the wide set up of medical centers, universal people, and deeply supported by the people, a group of enlightened people led by Xuanqing Daochang, not only for several years in a row to shelter the homeless, widely indoctrinate, cured the thousands of years of epidemic in the south of the Yangtze River in various parts of the schistosomiasis, that is, commonly known as water Gu, but also funded the Shangqing faction ancestral court in the north peak of Maoshan Mountain, opened the first Ming Dynasty observatory, convened the world's Taoist sects to explore the law of time and climate."

"It is rumored that the dozen or so astronomical telescopes they used, the same as the one given to the saint by General Zhu before, can not only clearly see the surface of the moon, but also come to the conclusion that the Qixing and Chang Gung stars are originally one star, and have been recognized by the Nanjing Qintianjian Yamen, which has caused a sensation in the world."

"This discovery has made the Maoshan Observatory, like the famous Ziyangguan Medical College, a place that today's Ming scholars yearn for, and even the students of North Korea, Annam and other subject countries and missionaries from Western countries have also gone to Jiangnan, and their influence is getting bigger and bigger!"

Emperor Chongzhen immediately remembered a request from Zhu Daolin, thought about it and made a decision happily: "The Shangqing Sect was originally the state religion that my Zhu family trusted and relied on for generations, and its contributions in recent years are far above the Chaotian Palace in Jinling, and its reputation is a hundred times better than that of other sects and the world's famous temples, so it deserves to be rewarded......"

"In this way, you go and send the Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, the Zongren Order, and the Qin Tianjian to me, and then recommend them to the world: Give Master Xuanqing, the abbot of the Ziyang Temple of the Shangqing Sect, the Taoist Master of the Dao Sect, as the true person of Ziyang, and give the title to lead the development of the Gu elixir to benefit all the people, and the elder Xuanyue Daoist of the Shangqing Sect who has developed the elixir of Gu and benefit all the people is the real person of Xuanyue, and the Ziyang Temple is promoted to the Ziyang Palace!"

Wang Chengen was overjoyed: "The saint is wise! The merits of the Upper Puritan sect over the years are indeed worthy of the divine reward, so that it is so. Not only can it conform to the will of the people, it can appease General Zhu, but it can also make the Korean Chinese military force have no complaints, and count them in one fell swoop! ”

Emperor Chongzhen smiled proudly, and his pale face had some blood: "When my people in the Ming Dynasty have been in trouble for a long time, they urgently need to be boosted. Set an example of loyalty and patriotism, hehe! Now that the Spring Festival is approaching, we need to spread good news all over the world, and we must send this edict to Jiangnan before the Spring Festival. ”

"Whoa! The slave and maid will do it. Wang Chengen happily bent down to say goodbye, thinking that after receiving so many heavy gifts from you Zhu Daolin, I can finally repay you today.

"Come back!"

Emperor Chongzhen suddenly stopped Wu Chengen: "The robes sewn by the queen with machines are becoming more and more beautiful, and she has always had a good impression of Zhu Aiqing, who pays tribute to sewing machines and often respects many silk and silk and jewelry in the harem. Summoned several palace maids with superb embroiderers from the Shangyi Bureau to sew a few clothes for Zhu Aiqing's wife and infant son. ”

"Go back and go to the back and tell the queen the edict I gave to the Qing faction, and it is best to let the clothes sewn by the queen for Zhu Aiqing's wife and children go to Jiangnan with the edict."

Wang Chengen was moved, and hurriedly arranged his official robes and bowed deeply to the young emperor: "Holy Lord, Holy Ming! On behalf of the people of the world, the slave and the maid thanked the Holy Lord. Presumably, when General Zhu heard this good news, he would also be overjoyed and thanked the north. ”

"That's it. Zhu Daolin, that guy shouldn't have any grievances, haha! Get up, your faithfulness knows in your heart, don't kneel, go and do your errands......"

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Zhu Daolin was indeed full of resentment as Emperor Chongzhen had speculated, and the great achievement and far-reaching significance of recovering Yingzhou were more important in his mind than the elimination of 100,000 Tartars.

It's just that you can't get the emperor's reward. Unexpectedly, it attracted the jealousy and discrimination of the Manchu Dynasty, which made Zhu Daolin extremely angry but helpless.

Therefore, for two months, he did not have a smile on his face, and he also took this opportunity to "gamble" not to rescue Jinzhou City, which was besieged by Huang Taiji's heavy troops, and originally formulated the battle plan of "attacking Jinzhou Wei and Jiulian City in two ways". Indefinite postponement.

The unfair treatment suffered by the marshal Zhu Daolin aroused the resentment of the officers and men of the whole army.

Zhu Daolin's expressionless iron blue face and the order to cancel all vacations and increase the intensity of training in the whole army were like catalysts, pushing the long-accumulated dissatisfaction with Emperor Chongzhen and the imperial court in the hearts of the soldiers to the extreme, so that there was not a single person in the whole army who did not scold the officials of the government and the opposition, and there was no general who did not feel cold when he was disappointed with the current Ming Emperor.

Even the three main generals of the Dongjiang New Army, who were eager to fight, jointly submitted a letter, requesting that the attack on Liaodong be postponed in order to vent their anger in their hearts.

On the twentieth day of the twelfth lunar month, the emperor vigorously praised the Puritanism and the Ziyang Temple, and the good news spread to Liugong Island, the base camp of the North Sea Fleet, which was well-equipped and changing with each passing day.

Zhu Daolin, who was immersed in his work in the newly built marshal's mansion and scheming day and night, finally felt a lot better, but he was unwilling to make this belated imperial favor public and destroy the seeds of hatred that had been silently planted in the hearts of the officers and men of the whole army for a long time.

Therefore, apart from giving the officers and men of the North Sea Fleet, the officers and men of the Fourth Marine Division of the newly built Marine Corps, and all the officers and men of the Dongjiang New Army who had been in a state of intensive training for a long time 15 days to celebrate the Spring Festival, Zhu Daolin still did not have the slightest smile on his face, but felt a deep headache about how to deal with the representatives of the Zheng family in Fujian who were about to rush to Qingdao to negotiate with him.

In the past two months, the Zheng family in Fujian Province has sent important personnel to Tamsui Port and Jinling City several times to hold talks with Wang Zhaohuan, who guards Yingzhou, and Ye Liangchen, the chief staff member who sits in Jinling's old nest, to explore the details.

After receiving the warm reception and kind explanations from all sides, the Zheng family was still not very relieved, and they had to meet in person Zhu Daolin, the commander of the Dongjiang New Army and the Baoshan Water Division, whose rapidly rising strength had swelled, and finally had to sacrifice the real attempt of "sincere consultation, resisting foreign enemies, and maintaining maritime trade", which led to the summit meeting between them to be held in Qingdao on the first day of the Lunar New Year. (To be continued.) )