Today's Ming Dynasty seems to have reached the beginning of the Ming Dynasty again, as if it had just opened the country, and all the contradictions in society are in a state of concealment.

And the civilian clique also began to be completely suppressed by the imperial power.

Even if it was the first court meeting in the twenty-first year of Chongzhen, Zhu Youzhen's feeling at this time was different from anything before.

Now these civil and military officials in front of them looked so deferential, and they all lowered their eyebrows, as if they had instinctively feared him.

This feeling makes Zhu Youzhen very cool.

Suddenly, he felt that he was now the real Emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

The return of the 150,000 Second Army of the Guards to the south of the Yangtze River, the presence of a large number of Guards naval warships on the Yangtze River near Nanjing, and the successive Manchu war criminals who were escorted to Beijing have convinced the civil and military officials that their emperor had indeed won the battle against the Manchus, and the Manchus had completely lost the creation of dominating the world.

The civil and military officials naturally understood that the current Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youzhen, no longer had any threat.

The mighty Guards were already the most elite in the world, and they were no longer in a position to rebel against the will of His Majesty the Emperor.

But at this moment, the civil and military officials also began to think about what His Majesty's plan was next, although they could no longer influence the emperor's thoughts, but they wanted to test the emperor's thoughts more clearly.

Zhu Youzhen knew that they were eager to become sharp eyes one by one and see through their hearts, but the more powerful Zhu Youzhen was at this time, the more unwilling he was to let his ideas be easily seen through, and he didn't want to be easily exposed before his ideas could be successfully implemented.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen did not directly mention what to do next, but first rewarded those who participated in the battle to resist the southward movement of the Qing army and fight against the two rebels of King Lu and King Fu.

First of all, Gao Hongtu, the first assistant of the cabinet, was added to the junior division, and Ruan Dayue was also added to the junior guard, and the rest of the civil and military officials were also promoted to the rank of scattered officials, and even the brave men in the city who participated in the defense of the city were also given a reward of silver, not to mention the guards, Liu Fangliang and He Xinju were promoted to marquis, and Zhou Yuji was also promoted to duke for the merit of annihilating the 200,000 army of Tan Tai.

In addition, Qin Liangyu was also crowned a duke, Li Banghua and Li Mingrui were also crowned earls, and even Lu Zhenfei was also made an earl.

Although Li Banghua, Li Mingrui and Lu Zhenfei are civil officials, they belong to the Generalissimo's Office, and it is normal for them to be knighted like the previous civil officials in border towns.

However, what no one expected was that Zhu Youzhen made three civil officials earls in one breath, you must know that in the more than 200 years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, there have been very few civil officials who have been awarded the title of lord, and now Zhu Youzhen is not unforgiving.

But Zhu Youzhen's intentions of such a big vassal were also seen by some of the ministers present Zhu Youzhen's true thoughts, Yuan Hongxun was one of them, and after the dispersal of the dynasty, he couldn't help but say to Gao Zhuo, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites:

"Your Majesty rewards the ministers, often given by the duke and earl, although it is the emperor's grace, but it can also be seen that His Majesty intends to inspire the ministers to be motivated, and he is interested in the Northern Expedition!"

"Yes, but we are not from the Ministry of War, nor are we the imperial history of the Imperial Court and the officials of the Six Departments of the Imperial Procuratorate, and it is not easy to participate, but the country has been poor for many years, and the people's livelihood is withering, it is the time when a hundred wastes are waiting to be rebuilt, and it is not appropriate to raise troops again, and Your Majesty's Forbidden City has not been repaired, and the imperial tomb has not been built, we can't let Your Majesty live in the broken palace for 10,000 years without a place to live, so how can you be worthy of being a minister!"

Wang Siren, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, said this, Yuan Hongxun stroked his beard and said: "This is exactly the matter of your Ministry of Rites, but it can't be too obvious, Your Majesty has just returned from a big victory, and you are full of ambition, and the following officials look at it, maybe this matter is more Your Majesty's intention." ”

Yuan Hongxun whispered in Wang Siren's ear as he spoke.

……

As soon as Zhu Youzhen's side dispersed, he did not do the imperial chariot again, but walked around the Qianqing Palace with the eunuch Yuhua Whale with the celebrant and the eunuch.

Nanjing's Qianqing Palace is not much different from Beijing's Qianqing Palace, even larger than Beijing's Qianqing Palace, covers an area of about three acres, the surrounding houses are also very many, the west side is now used as the office yamen of the Generalissimo's Mansion, the celebrant has also moved to the east side, and the front side of the whole Qianqing Palace is also lively.

Zhu Youzhen is not an emperor who likes to stay in the palace, he likes to walk around like this, and when he walked in a big circle, he saw Chen Yuanyuan waiting at the gate of the north side of the Qianqing Palace from afar.

During the period when Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen was not there, Chen Yuanyuan tried her best to make herself very busy, although she was already the female official in charge of the Qianqing Palace, and now there is no palace supervisor in the Qianqing Palace, so she is naturally the biggest, but she is rushing to work with the palace ladies below, and she has to wipe it several times when she sees the desk, and the gold brick floor is also dragged with a wet cloth several times a day, and the dust broom in her hand is not left in her hand.

Now that he learned that Zhu Youzhen had returned triumphantly, he was panicked like a deer, and he didn't know what to do, standing in front of the door and watching the sun rise and fall from the ground, after learning that Zhu Youzhen went directly to Kunning Palace, he didn't control himself and hurriedly ran away, but halfway through, he was afraid that the queen Zhou would say that he didn't understand the rules and had to retreat, and he listened to the north wind all night on the couch.

"Do you want to me", Zhu Youzhen walked in front of Chen Yuanyuan, easily picked Chen Yuanyuan's slightly pointed jaw, then took off the homeopathic and threw it into Chen Yuanyuan's arms, stepped into the warm room, and saw that the indoor windows were bright and clean, and there was no trace of dirt, so he laughed: "You are attentive." ”

"Your Majesty is thirsty?"

"Your Majesty, what do you want to eat?"

"Is Your Majesty cold?"

……

Chen Yuanyuan asked while packing up the big box, and Zhu Youzhen hugged her from behind: "Okay, I'm not cold, thirsty, or hungry, just sit down and answer me honestly, do you want to me?" ”

"No, no, there is", Chen Yuanyuan instinctively wanted to deny it, but then nodded again, and suddenly hugged Zhu Youzhen: "Your Majesty is good to come back, just come back!" ”

"I didn't hurt you in vain", Zhu Youzhen pushed Chen Yuanyuan away with a smile, he spent the night with the queen Zhou, he didn't have the energy to do things for men and women anymore, he only drank a sip of the hot tea that had already been prepared by Chen Yuanyuan and lay on the half-new soft couch and began to make up for sleep.

When Zhu Youzhen opened his eyes, it was getting dark outside, but at this time, he saw Lu Jiude coming: "Your Majesty, Like gave Cheng Jun a part in the matter, and advised His Majesty to abide by filial piety, and now he has made an immortal contribution to the north to reject Hulu, and he should sacrifice filial piety to comfort Taizu!" ”

"What is Baba's intention to suddenly make such a recital, how did the cabinet vote, and how did you master of ceremonies approve it?" Zhu Youzhen asked.

"The cabinet thinks that now that the Jiannu has been defeated, the ancestral foundation has been preserved, and it is to be sued in the heavenly ancestors, so the ticket is intended to be sacrificed to the filial piety tomb on the second day of the first month of the next month.

Presumably book friends have also seen it, the story is going on here, the first volume is about to end, the first volume is Zhu Youzhen's road to salvation, and in fact, the first volume is not difficult, the first volume of Zhu Youzhen's biggest golden finger is his identity as the emperor, because he is the emperor, he recruits troops and horses, and he doesn't care what others say, because he is the emperor, he doesn't need a reason to kill, because he is the emperor, and the Nanming infighting is naturally much less than the Nanming infighting in the original history; A new chapter is about to begin, and the new chapter is not about salvation and survival, but about revitalization and reform, and there will naturally be greater conflicts.

(End of chapter)