It was night, the lanterns in the Song Mansion were full of joy and laughter, everyone was beaming, and they laughed before they could say anything.

After discussion, everyone unanimously decided not to move to the Dongyuan Guogong Mansion rewarded by the emperor to live, and this house on Caishi Street is the birthplace of the Song family, or still live here comfortably; So the little grandfather Zhang Lun ordered people to hang the large plaque of the Zhenguo Mansion with heavy gold to hang on the lintel, under the glorious lights, the golden plaque shimmered, and the residents of the streets and alleys came to watch, all of them smacked their tongues and admired.

After an excited night, the next morning, Song Nan woke up from the beautiful legs and delicate bodies of his wives and concubines, looked at the mess on the big bed, and remembered the madness of last night, Song Nan himself felt that this kind of life was too extravagant. But isn't that the life I've been looking forward to?

"Husband, wake up, the slave family will serve you to dress." Dai Su'er's crisp chest was half-covered, her hair was fluffy and she got up from Song Nan's feet, and under the thin obscene clothes, a pair of red colors were shocking.

Song Nan pounded his waist and smiled: "Yes, today is the morning, don't get up, I'll let Wan'er serve me to wash, last night was a little too much, don't make a noise with them, let them sleep a little longer." ”

Dai Su'er's face was slightly red, remembering that the girls were pulled into the room by Song Nan last night and slept together, she was too ashamed to raise her head, but she still got out of bed lightly, prepared a towel for Song Nan and warm water, helped Song Nan bring in the ironed straight official clothes, and waited for Song Nan to wear on her body.

Song Nan packed up and walked out of the door lightly to the courtyard. Outside, there was a thin layer of morning fog in the courtyard, and there was still the sound of roosters crowing in the distance; The lights in the house at the side were already lit, and it was the cook and the maids who got up early in the back house were already boiling water and cooking rice for breakfast.

Wan'er came from under the porch, and when she saw Song Nan, she saluted and said, "Master, Brother Da Niu is waiting for the horses in the outer house, and the porridge in the kitchen has been boiled, let's drink a bowl of porridge first and then go to court." ”

Song Nan nodded and said: "It's okay, I don't know how long it will take to go down to the court today, it's uncomfortable to be hungry, bring a bowl, I drank it to pad my stomach." ”

Wan'er nodded in response, and hurriedly ordered someone to set up a table in the courtyard, and after a while, a large bowl of hot red bean porridge was put on the table, and a plate of spiced tea eggs was steaming. Song Nanxili snorted and ate and drank, and ate a bowl of porridge and three eggs, and then got up and came out satisfied.

In the outer house, Li Daniu and a group of guards have been waiting for a long time, and when they saw Song Nan coming out, they saluted and said, "Say hello to Grandpa Guo." ”

Song Nan was stunned, and then remembered that he was already the grandfather of the country, so he nodded lightly, and Li Daniu stepped forward and said, "Brother, can you go?" ”

Song Nan signed the big black horse, jumped up, waved his hand and said, "Let's go." ”

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In front of the Fengtian Palace, the ministers talked in a bunch of east and west as usual, and during this period of time before the temple, this is the best place to socialize, not only can you inquire about all kinds of news, but also form countless small alliances, many major events in the DPRK and China, impeachment and promotion, etc., often reach a consensus here. But they have only one topic today, that is, there is an additional Zhenguo Duke in the DPRK and China from today, and the follow-up brought about by this incident is the issue they are concerned about.

As Song Nan entered the square in front of the palace from Fengtianmen, everyone automatically stopped talking, and more than 100 pairs of eyes brushed towards Song Nan who was slowly coming, Song Nan was wearing the python robe of the commander of the brocade guard as usual, no different from the countless previous meetings, but everyone realized that the Song Nan in front of them was different from the previous Song Nan's identity, and in his calm look and footsteps, he already had a different invisible coercion, powerful, confident, and even a little terrifying.

"Congratulations to Lord Song on his promotion to the Duke of Zhenguo."

"Zhen Guogong, congratulations, congratulations, it's well deserved."

"Grandpa Guo, the lower official has congratulated you."

All the officials greeted each other, whether they were sincere or not, they couldn't help but say something on the scene, because they knew that Song Nan was no longer easy to mess with before, and Song Nan would be even more difficult to mess with after being promoted to the Duke of the Kingdom.

Song Nan smiled and nodded, and kept returning the salute, in his heart he didn't want to talk to these people more, but Song Nan had already endured this qiē, and was even a little familiar with the road.

Above the high level, this is the exclusive position of Yang Tinghe and the scholars of the same cabinet, Yang Tinghe looked at Song Nan coming, and gently arched his hand as usual: "Congratulations to Lord Song on his promotion to the Duke of Daming Town, this is the first newly crowned Duke of the Kingdom in my Ming Dynasty in the past thirty years, and the courage on my shoulders will be heavier from now on, and I can't live up to the emperor's favor." ”

Song Nan smiled slightly: "Thank you, Scholar Yang should know that I, Song Nan, no matter how big or small the official is, is doing my best for the imperial court, and I don't need to be reminded, I will also go all out." ”

Yang Tinghe smiled and said: "That's natural, Lord Song was divided into the Duke of the Kingdom at the age of twenty-four, it can be said that there is no one before or since, this alone is enough to be proud, this qiē is all you deserve." Having said that this time to fight with the Tartars, the Zhenguo Gong greatly increased the prestige of my Ming Dynasty, and swept the little Tatar prince out of the game, and the court and his colleagues were also extremely excited after hearing about it in the court, and the court and here only on behalf of me to pay tribute to the Zhenguo Gong. ”

Song Nan was not surprised that Yang Tinghe could say this, Yang Tinghe was a personable person, although he secretly did something ungraceful, but at least on the surface he was always indifferent and modest, in front of the public, Song Nan naturally would not do anything ungraceful, so he smiled: "Scholar Yang has won the award, and the Tartar spirit is exhausted, I just want to complete this final end for the emperor." The merit of this battle is not the credit of my alone, more than 100,000 soldiers are of course charging into battle without fear of life and death, logistics supply, material scheduling is the joint efforts of the court, this battle is the work of my Ming Dynasty, I just enjoy the honor. ”

Yang Tinghe nodded slightly and said: "Very good, Zhenguo Gong is a person who understands, I was originally worried about the hard work of the people behind the scenes of the Zhenguo Guild, but now it seems that my worries are purely superfluous." The time has come, the time of the court has come, let's talk to the palace. ”

Song Nan stretched out his hand and said, "University scholars, please first." ”

Yang Tinghe was also not polite, the door of the hall in the morning bell rumbled open, and Yang Tinghe stepped into the hall surrounded by a group of cabinet scholars and scholars from the outer court. Subsequently, Song Nan, Zhang Lun, Yang Yiqing and others also entered the hall surrounded by a marquis, and the remaining officials entered the hall one after another, and in the blink of an eye, the empty hall with a trace of musty smell was filled with hundreds of officials.

Zhengde entered the hall and sat down, after the ministers shouted long live the pilgrimage, the early dynasty officially began, there is no doubt that today's main topic is focused on the matter of the great victory in the northwest, just to read out the reward of the meritorious personnel took more than half an hour, all the generals and meritorious people who participated in the war were added to the official into the knight for reward, Jiang Bin and Xu Tai in the northwest were promoted to the first class marquis, and Ma Ming was promoted to the third wait.

After that, Zhengde once again announced the reward for Song Nan to be crowned the deputy governor of the Zhenguo Commandery, and after the ministers congratulated him, Zhengde asked Song Nan to come out and say a few words, surprisingly, Song Nan did not say much about his promotion to the Zhenguo Gong, but instead submitted several resignations in a row. In addition to the commander of the Jinyi Guard, Song Nan submitted his resignation to the two military positions of the commander of the second army other than the commander of the Shenshu battalion.

In fact, this is also a matter of course, now Song Nan is already a national prince, and he is the deputy governor of the regiment and battalion, he is no longer suitable to command a battalion and an army alone, that is not a symbol of strength, but a self-surrender identity, and everyone understands that Song Nan is nominally giving up, in fact, Song Nan nominated Ma Ming, the successor of the Shenshu Battalion, and Peng Yang, the successor of the second army, are also his people; Nominally, Song Nan no longer controlled the two armies, but in fact, these two battalions were still firmly in Song Nan's hands.

There was no suspense in the matter, Zhengde agreed to Song Nan's request, agreed to Song Nan's resignation as the commander of the second battalion, and after a few words of encouragement to Song Nan, he began today's analysis of the current situation.

The civil officials who have not become the protagonists for most of the day have something to say this time, and as soon as Zhengde's sentence 'What do you have to say', the cabinet scholar Liang Chu first played: "Under the emperor's heavenly might, this battle of the Northwest Imperial Captives finally ended with my Ming victory, and the little prince of Tatar returned with a feather, and I am afraid that I will never have the courage to offend my Ming Dynasty from now on." This is all the result of the emperor's great blessings and the unanimous efforts of the whole court. Zhen Guogong's captivity is certainly featherful, but the minister feels that it is the duty of the military attache to fight well, and there is no need to exaggerate it too much, but the minister feels that the final decision of Zhen Guogong is the insight of a qualified military attaché, that is, the alliance with the Tartar in the salt pond, to be honest, this alliance is the biggest gain of this battle. ”

Song Nan sneered in the center of his ear when he heard this, what Liang Chu said was quite artistic, and he understated the merits of all the soldiers who swore to fight to the death, saying that it was right for soldiers to fight well; What is the biggest gain of the covenant that was made, this is an indirect indication that the cabinet's decision is correct, although Song Nan made the covenant in the head, but it does not hinder the correctness of the cabinet's decision.

Zhengde nodded and said: "I also think so, I heard Ma Yongcheng who passed the decree say that when the will of the imperial court was delivered, Song Nan had already made a peace agreement with the little prince of Tatar, and Yang Yiqing had already reported the peace agreement to me, and I had also let the cabinet and the secretaries of the outer court look at it, obviously the little prince of Tatar was sincere, and I thought it was very good." ”

Yang Tinghe coughed and said: "The content of the peace agreement is certainly good, the Tatars promised that they would never offend our border towns, and at the same time asked for the opening of border trade markets in a few years, in order to show their sincerity, let their eldest son hostage our dynasty, these are very good conditions." It's just that Zhen Guogong's decision was a little hasty, and if we could have consulted with the imperial court, we would have gained greater benefits. The ministers and the lords of the outer court decided to put forward the conditions for the Tatars to belong to my Ming Dynasty, but unfortunately, this proposal can no longer be implemented. The minister doesn't want to point out that the public and the Tatars make peace with the Tatars, after all, this is also the idea of the court, and it can be regarded as a coincidence, but this matter is not an example, if the leading generals can privately set a national policy for the court, then what does the emperor want the court to do? ”

It seems that the words are light and light, and there are not many offensive words against Song Nan, but these words are extremely sharp, expressing two meanings, one is that Song Nan asked the imperial court to prepare to propose that the peace conditions for making the Tatars vassal of the Ming Dynasty could not be implemented, and the other is that Song Nan was in charge of his own affairs, committed a taboo, and did something beyond his own authority. There are only a few words, but they are like knives and swords, which can not be described as ruthless.

There was a sigh among the ministers, lamenting that an opportunity to submit the Tatars had disappeared, and that if the Ming could make the unruly Tatars submit to the Ming, it would undoubtedly be a feat of the Ming Dynasty; After all, the wise gods and martial artists such as Taizu Taizong and other emperors have not been able to achieve this goal, on the contrary, because of this goal, the emperor was captured by the Tartars, which is really a great shame.

The atmosphere in the court suddenly became a little embarrassing, and many people suddenly felt that although Song Nan had merit, he had made an unforgivable mistake by wasting this good opportunity to leave a name in history, not to mention that this happened under the premise that he was making his own decisions.

Song Nan had a sneer on the corner of his mouth, he had completely lost hope in these pretentious and high-minded Wenchen, he knew that he and these people would never be the same kind, he secretly made up his mind to abandon some unrealistic bottom lines and illusions in his heart, because there are people who want to finish themselves all the time, and if he has the kindness of a woman, he will be the first stupid person in the world.

And at this moment, in the face of the attacks of these people, Song Nan never wanted to endure and tolerate it anymore, he wanted to face it head-on, just like fighting against more than 100,000 Tartar soldiers and horses on the Great Wall, without flinching.