Hearing the emperor's decision, although the cabinet had not yet completed the process, after the banquet, Zhu Shuren could not help but receive a lot of compliments from his colleagues and subordinates.

No matter where you go, there is a sound of praise of "Congratulations to the prince", but no one shouts "Chitose"-

Speaking of which, this is also a false rumor of popular opera culture in later generations. In fact, in ancient times, let alone the dynasty, even in the Qing Dynasty, there was no casual call for the prince Chitose in person, until the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

It is nothing more than the people who wrote the record book in later generations, and it was generalized from the folk deeds about the eunuch party patting the "nine-thousand-year-old" Wei Zhongxian.

In fact, the real ancient princes only felt that those words were vulgar and nondescript, and at most they were willing to be "congratulated on a thousand autumns" (to celebrate the emperor's birthday, they could say "longevity without borders"), and they would not be used at all.

In the face of everyone's praise, Zhu Shuren naturally still has to express due humility, after all, Cao Cao had to resign as the king back then, where can he be more arrogant than Cao Cao? (Not only Cao Pi forced Zen to resign, but Cao Cao also resigned as the Duke of Wei and King Wei)

On that day, he had no choice but to hurry back home and close the door for the time being.

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In the next few days, Zhu Shuren did not wait for the process to be canonized, because although Duoduo died, the war in the Ming and Qing dynasties in the Jianghuai region was not over.

As mentioned above, after receiving an urgent report from the Qing army in Huainan, Dolgon ordered the Qing army in Shandong to go south to reinforce on the 24th of the lunar month, and asked the Qing army in Hebei to supplement the defense of Shandong. And the Qing army in Azig, Henan, at the latest around the 267th of the lunar month, could also make preliminary preparations for reinforcements and move eastward one by one.

According to the marching speed of the Qing army, the Qing army in Shandong will definitely be able to hit Yangzhou before the Lantern Festival in the first year of Longwu, and the reinforcements of Azig can come faster, and they will definitely arrive before the tenth day of the first month.

It's just that Azig is also involved in Nanyang, and the troops who come are definitely not as many as the Qing army in Shandong, and at most 350,000 reinforcements will be allocated.

No matter how much it is, there may be flaws in the process of shrinking and turning into defense along the way of Azigna, and it can only be slowly retreated and transferred in batches in order to be safe.

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Therefore, including the ceremony of changing the yuan and offering prisoners, Zhu Shuren rested for two or three days, and on the third day of the first lunar month, he was busy again.

Huang Degong of Jiangbei, at about the same time, reported that the Qing army might try to meet Duoduo's reinforcements and approach Yangzhou again.

The civil and military officials of Nanjing City, who were still immersed in great joy, couldn't help but be a little surprised again when they heard the news, but the degree of reaction was definitely much smaller than the last time the Qing army went south.

The myth of the invincibility of the Qing army was completely shattered, and the brief surprise quickly turned into a new unity.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Shi Kefa, the secretary of the Ministry of War, suggested that the imperial court should quickly simplify the cabinet process for the promotion and reward discussion, and at the same time let the celebrant and supervisor around the emperor also make special arrangements for special events during special periods.

In order to ensure that the rewards of all meritorious civil officials and generals are completely confirmed as soon as possible, so that the officers and men can be encouraged to continue to respond to the enemy without worries.

Originally, Zhu Shuren was crowned king, no matter how he said it, he had to go through a month-long process. Those feudal marquis and uncles were not so quick to come to conclusions.

However, the Qing army's rescue force advanced again, giving such an opportunity, so the military situation was like a special case, and on the fifth day of the first month, Zhu Shuren's official canonization came down:

Fengyuan Governor of the Three Provinces, the title of the Secretary of the Ministry of Troops, and Zhu Shuren, the Duke of Hubei,

He was the king of Hubei, the governor of the capital, the commander-in-chief of the Chinese and foreign military, and the governor of the seven southern provinces of money, grain and armaments.

In general, Zhu Shuren was authorized to lead the foreign combat operations of the Southern Ming army, and gave him the authority to raise armaments and build the army internally.

In other words, military power is unquestionable, while civil and financial power is not absolute.

Specifically, the Zhu Shuren could raise military rations in the southern provinces on the pretext of begging the thieves to recover the Central Plains, but they could not directly interfere in civil affairs and household affairs.

He did not collect the agricultural tax, nor could he directly manage the household registration, and as long as the local government gave him enough military rations, he would not be hindered from conscription, and he still could not interfere with the rest.

In fact, Nanming is not short of soldiers now, what is lacking is the rectification and transformation of the old army, the thorough investigation of empty salaries and other shortcomings, and the training and upgrading of equipment, so Zhu Shuren will not have any need for conscription in the short term in the future.

As for the judicial, supervising, personnel appointment, dismissal, and merit evaluation, he does not have the powers, so there is still a big gap between him and the direct national political power.

Of course, a lot of money is certainly needed to build up armaments, and military rations alone are not enough. In order to prevent the government from going into trouble and getting into trouble, the cabinet finally approved that he, who was "also in charge of the seven provinces of money and grain and armaments in the south," would only be in charge of military rations and industrial and commercial taxes.

The part of the money is naturally made up by the industrial and commercial tax, and the idea of the poll tax and the agricultural tax should not be moved, after all, those two still have the effect of maintaining local expenditure.

The Lijin system was implemented by Zhu Shuren five years ago, and he has also received it in Huguang and Sichuan for several years, and his experience is very mature. This time, he handed over all the cents of the seven southern provinces to him, and directly upgraded it to the official commercial tax of the Ming court, which was completely merged with the original scattered commercial taxes and managed in a unified manner.

Later, this also formed a new system in the Ming Dynasty: the materials needed for army construction, except for military rations, were all supported by industrial and commercial taxes.

And the situation that industry and commerce have not been valued for more than 200 years since Zhu Yuanzhang's small-scale peasant thought has completely become a thing of the past.

The emperors of the future will know that to strengthen the army and defend the country, it depends on the development of industry and commerce, and the manufacturing industry with science and technology. Only when industry and commerce are strong can there be a source of military spending, and only then can armaments have advanced weapons, armor, and excellent livestock.

Finally, because armament also involves construction, the functions of the Ministry of Industry will also be subsumed to a considerable extent under the overall planning scope of the Metropolitan Governor's Office, which is convenient for Zhu Shuren to intervene.

In this way, it is convenient for Zhu Shuren to prospect, mine, build metallurgical and steelmaking plants, arsenals, machinery factories, and armor stomachs within the scope of the whole Ming Dynasty...... It is equivalent to putting the Ministry of Industry under the overall planning of Zhu Shuren in addition to the two functions of building water conservancy and building palaces.

As the commander-in-chief of the Chinese and foreign military forces, and also the governor of the seven provinces of money and grain in the south, he has the absolute leadership of the entire military department, half of the household department, and most of the industrial department, which is basically the absolute leadership of half of the imperial court.

Moreover, although the original six ministries had military departments, civilian officials did not directly enjoy the command of the army, and Zhu Shuren actually had the right to command the military.

So in general, he roughly has the command of all foreign military generals in the imperial court except for the palace guard system, plus the command of forty percent of the civil official system.

Of course, Zhu Shuren is still very satisfied with such a scope of power.

He also didn't want to be too difficult to see the powerful ministers who were regarded as completely overthrowing the emperor, with the current situation that the emperor had no son, coupled with his relationship with the emperor, this rhythm was already the best now.

Moreover, Zhu Shuren is not good at doing judicial and supervisory things for sinners, as well as cumbersome personnel management, and things that are not professional and not interesting should be left to the original professional people to do.

In addition, in order to cooperate with Zhu Shuren's power structure, the imperial court has been discussing recently, gradually letting Shi Kefa and Zhu Shuren hand over the work, and then gradually transfer Shi Kefa to the position of the official secretary within this year.

This is not an empty history, but let him do something more suitable for him.

To tell the truth, Shi Kefa's talent in directly supervising and coordinating generals and military command is indeed not very strong. In history, he was only the most worthy of recognition for his loyalty, and the defense of Yangzhou was really a bit sparse.

It would be a better choice to let a selfless and faithful person like him lead the civil service.

And Wang Duo has been imprisoned, and he is still interrogating his specific crimes and preparing to convict him, and his vacated position as the secretary of the ministry naturally needs a powerful person of sufficient weight to take over.

In the years of peace in previous years, among the cabinet and the six ministries of the Ming Dynasty, it should be headed by the Ministry of Officials, and most of the first assistants of the cabinet were also the secretaries of the Ministry of Ministers, such as Zhou Yanru when Chongzhen was the first assistant of the cabinet, and at the same time it was the secretary of the Ministry of Ministers.

When the Nanming team was set up, it was nothing more than because the Central Plains and Beijing had fallen, and everything was based on military self-preservation, which was headed by the military department, which was regarded as a temporary wartime system.

Now that Li Zicheng has been killed and Duoduo has been repulsed, the cabinet ministers have gathered to feel that they cannot always maintain a completely wartime system, and the counteroffensive is still very difficult, and a long-term process is needed, and it should gradually return to the normal rhythm of paying equal attention to civil and military affairs.

At this time, it is not impossible to go back to the old style.

Emperor Longwu Zhu Changshu also talked to Shi Kefa in private in the past few days, so that he was a little mentally prepared, saying that after being transferred to the Ministry of Officials, the position of the first assistant of the cabinet is still his, and he will continue to be the head of the civil officials.

Shi Kefa is an upright man, and there is no objection to this.

After the military department was vacant, it was no longer specialized, and Zhu Shuren was the former governor of the three provinces, so he also hung up the title of military secretary, and directly let him do the same thing, and some of his powers originally overlapped with the military department.

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After Zhu Shuren and Shi Kefa's reward transfer was confirmed, the following middle and high-level military generals and civil officials were much easier to deal with.

In the decisive battle against Duoduo, the battlefield contributions of Cao Bianjiao and other generals are naturally the most direct, and Cao Bianjiao was also named a marquis because he led the team to kill Duoduo, which is very rare-

Previously, the Southern Ming Dynasty only gave the generals outstanding merits, and made the earl as appropriate, and the marquis has always been pinched, and the gold content is still very high.

Cao Bianjiao sealed the Marquis of Zhenjiang, but it had nothing to do with the fief of Zhenjiang Prefecture, but said that he cleared the Jiangfang, ensured that Jiangnan was not lost, and allowed the title to be hereditary.

Li Fuming sealed the Marquis of Jiangning, which also had nothing to do with the fief, and he only received a share of Shilu, but the title of the knight wanted to be reduced by one rank for the descendants.

Huang Degong is still an earl now, because he did not participate in the Jiangnan Campaign, but he recovered Liuhe, Yangzhou and other places, and the credit is not small, Zhu Shuren secretly wrote to him to let him make persistent efforts,

This time, Dolgon's rescue of Azig will soon arrive. When the news of Duoduo's death spreads and these Jiangbei Qing army reinforcements retreat, Huang Degong can be given gold at that time, and the credit for "repelling Jiangbei and rescuing the Qing army" will be greater, and he will be given the title of marquis for that reason.

Huang Degong is naturally very excited, and he is working harder and harder to patrol, he has already seen a "futures" marquis in front of him, and he can immediately "redeem the task reward" when he repels the Qing army reinforcements, which is not enough to die?

In the end, Zheng Chenggong, who made a strong contribution several times in the Battle of Jiangshui, also led the Battle of Jinshan Temple, which lasted for half a month and greatly contained and weakened Duoduo, which can be regarded as laying an advantageous foundation for the heaviest decisive battle.

It's just that considering that he is too young, and he has always been a civilian official before, he can compensate him in terms of promotion, so he doesn't have to rely purely on knighthood and merger like a military general. Therefore, Zheng Chenggong was named Dinghaibo and promoted to the rank of Fang Langzhong of the Ministry of War.

The other generals are not qualified to be marquis, but the earl still gave a few slightly.

Among the civil officials, it is worth mentioning that Yan Yingyuan, the prefect of Changzhou, because the attack was particularly successful, and the credit for the exhaustion of the enemy before the final battle was more conspicuous than Zheng Chenggong, but it was less than Zheng Chenggong's contribution to the battle of Jiang Chenggong, so the reward was only slightly lower than Zheng Chenggong.

Yan Yingyuan was exceptionally promoted to Susong Military Garrison, responsible for the military garrison of the four prefectures of Susong Changzhen, which was equivalent to being responsible for the preparation of river defense in the four prefecture-level cities along the Yangtze River in later generations.

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The affairs of the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of War are complicated, and it is difficult to describe them all for a while.

At the same time, the Criminal Department is also in full swing to deal with the aftermath of the war, and of course the discussion of punishing evil and eliminating traitors will not be slackened.

Wang Duo was finally sentenced to behead because he took the lead in becoming a traitor and surrendered, and he failed to escape the judgment of history, and a bunch of other colluding people were officially sentenced to be executed on the eleventh day of the first month-

Zhu Changshu didn't want to delay too late, because he knew that soon the Qing army's reinforcements would arrive in Jiangbei. Before the second wave of rescue attempts of the Qing army came, killing the main traitors could also boost morale and unify people's hearts.

But it is also unlucky to kill people as soon as the first month comes up, or to kill people during the Lantern Festival, so in the end, I compromised and chose a day that had just come out of the tenth day of the first month and had not yet arrived at the Lantern Festival.

Qian Qianyi was sentenced to exile, but before he could recover it, he was first exiled to Fujian for temporary detention and placed under the care of one of Zheng Chenggong's military generals.

In addition to their own traitors to be dealt with, the enemy officials and generals who were captured alive must of course be strictly interrogated.

The Manchurians, Mongolian Beizi, and Meler Ezhen who were caught were all eaten, and the lower ones were tortured or beheaded.

There is a difference between the punishment and Ling Chi, the Ming Dynasty punishment is roughly simplified to cut off the limbs and then beheading, which can be roughly understood as Lu Pheasant cutting the stick for Mrs. Qi, the number of knives is much less than that of Ling Chi, not a piece of meat, heavier than the waist chopping, not a permanent punishment.

And the captured Han officials, the most senior is of course Zhang Cunren at the banner master level, this guy is the mastermind of Duoduo, after the Qing army conquered Jiangnan in history, he also served as a governor in many places, and was one of the culprits in suppressing Jiangnan.

In addition, Zhang Cunren was Zu Dashou's subordinate general back then, was once a military attache of the Ming Dynasty, and finally defected to the enemy, so it is even more necessary to punish the most severe treason.

In the end, Zhang Cunren was sentenced to 3,000 knives, from the early morning of the eleventh day of the first month to the middle of the thirteenth day of the first month, the emperor also personally ordered not to delay, so as not to delay until the Lantern Festival and the blood is ominous.

Except for Zhang Cunren, the other old traitors don't have much to say, except for one Sun Zhiqi, who needs special treatment.

Originally, the Criminal Department only sentenced Sun Zhiqi to Ling Chi, who had a relatively small number of knives, and cut 64 knives, mainly to punish him for "instigating Duoduo to give a shaving order, resulting in tens of thousands of righteous people in Changzhen Erfu who refused to shave their hair to be slaughtered by the Qing army".

But Zhu Shuren is familiar with history books, and he also knows how Sun Zhiqi died after he was captured by the Tiandihui Righteous Army in history, and he really didn't want Sun Zhiji, a dog traitor, to be annihilated, so he specially said hello, hoping that the punishment would be extrahumane.

The prince of E has spoken, how could the criminal department not agree? What's more, it's just a little inspiration.

In the end, Sun Zhiqi reproduced the death method he was killed by the Shandong Righteous Army in history, and engaged in a "reverse Ling Chi" - the positive Ling Chi in history is to chop off the flesh on the human body piece by piece. And Sun Zhiqi was not chopped flesh, but the executioner added a lot of things to him.

The specific operation is to let the onlookers watch the punishment voluntarily donate a small handful of hair, and then wear it in the pinhole originally used to wear the sewing thread at the end of the sewing needle, pierce it into the skin and flesh of Sun Zhiqi, and then pass it out and cut the hair like a surgical wound, so that the hair is implanted into the skin and flesh of Sun Zhiqi.

Didn't he Sun Zhiqi want the Han people in the world to shave their heads and tie their braids like him? Then operate in reverse and let the Han people in the world give him a "whole body skin hair transplant".

In the end, Sun Zhiqi was stitched with thousands of stitches and hair transplants, like a long-haired chimpanzee, and he died of pain. After his death, the executioner also tied ropes to the inextricably stranded hair transplant, and let a group of cavalry pull them separately, and flew Sun Zhiqi's body into a kite to show the public, which could fly higher and farther away than hanging on a bamboo pole to show the public.

On the day the kite was flown by the orangutan sun, hundreds of people in Nanjing came to watch. Those righteous people who escaped from Zhenjiang and Changzhou and had their families killed because they refused to shave their heads, they were even more bitter and bitter, and they had to be watched.

There are also countless people who pay money to beg the executioner to accept their donated hair, and they have to transplant their own hair to Sun Zhiqi.