Feeling the strangeness of the princess of the prison country, the argument of the officials below stopped.

Qian Qianyi, a bachelor standing in front of the left, turned around and glanced at Huang Daozhou who was a little behind, with irrepressible joy on his face.

When the hall was quiet, a noisy footstep could be heard outside the hall, indicating that a large number of people were rushing towards the main hall.

Shoufu Shi Kefa had a premonition of what was happening, and the expression on his face was complicated and obscure. Second assistant Lu Zhenfei looked outside the hall and then at Princess Kunxing, with a look of surprise on his face. Princess Kunxing had already stood up from the throne and looked out of the hall with a pale face.

Under the worried gaze of the ministers, an officer in brocade stood at the door of the main hall and shouted: "Your Majesty has arrived, and the ministers kneel to greet you!" ”

Sure enough, it was Emperor Chongzhen who came, and Shi Kefa's face turned pale. The hundred officials in the hall looked at each other in disbelief, and then looked at the elders in front of them and the princess of the prison country standing in front of the throne.

"Greetings to Your Majesty!" Qian Qianyi did not hesitate at all, and knelt down facing the palace gate.

"Greetings to Your Majesty!" After Qian Qianyi, the officials suddenly woke up and rushed to their knees. Even Shi Kefa and Lu Zhenfei had to kneel down.

In an instant, all the officials in the hall knelt down to welcome the arrival of Emperor Chongzhen.

In the midst of the countless complicated eyes of the ministers, a man in a yellow dragon robe stepped up the steps and appeared at the door of the main hall.

That's their emperor, that's the king who has been the son of heaven for twenty years, even if he has been sick for a long time, he still makes the ministers lie down when he appears, this is the majesty of the emperor.

Chongzhen has just recovered from a long illness, and his steps are very slow when walking, and even a little staggering. In this way, he passed through the kneeling crowd of officials, and walked straight in the direction of the throne.

"Father!" Princess Kunxing's face was pale, and she snorted, and slowly bowed down.

Chongzhen glanced at her, didn't say a word, walked straight to the throne, and sat down.

raised his hand, followed by Tian Cheng, who was standing next to him, and said loudly, "Your Majesty has a will, and all the secretaries are flat."

The civil and military officials in the palace all got up, each returned to the train, and when he looked up at the front, he didn't feel stunned, and saw that the princess of the prison country was still kneeling there.

Chongzhen sighed and said, "Give the princess a seat." ”

Tian Cheng brought a brocade pier and put it in front of Princess Kunxing, and said with a smile: "Princess, please take a seat." ”

Princess Kunxing pursed her lips, glanced at Tian Cheng coldly, and sat down without saying a word. Judging from Princess Kunxing's knife-like eyes, Tian Cheng's face changed slightly.

"Zhongqing, I have just recovered from a serious illness, I originally wanted to continue to raise in the palace, but I didn't want to win the Northern Expedition, I was really overjoyed, I really couldn't stay in the palace, so I came to the palace.

Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know what you just discussed? ”

Cold words came out of Chongzhen's mouth and echoed in the main hall.

The ministers were silent for a while, and it was Shi Kefa, the first assistant, who took the lead in walking out of the train, bowed to Chongzhen and said: "Back to Your Majesty, the King of Qi led his troops to the Northern Expedition, annihilated more than 60,000 soldiers of the Eight Banners, expelled the Mantars to the outside of the pass, and achieved an unprecedented victory.

After the great victory, it is natural to reward the meritorious soldiers, and the ministers are discussing how to reward the king of Qi and his generals. ”

Chongzhen said: "I don't know what the result of the deliberations is? ”

Shi Kefa said: "The rewards for the generals are basically agreed, and only the drafting of the knighthood can be taken care of by the Ministry of Rites." Only the king of Qi himself has reached the peak of his official title, and he doesn't know how to reward his merits. ”

Chongzhen groaned slightly, and said: "The position is to reward the merit of the knight, Chen Yue and his subordinates have made immortal contributions to my Ming Dynasty, why should I be stingy with the reward of the knight?"

Zhu Qing has not forgotten that I had given Chen Yue overseas islands such as Zhoushan and Dongfan at the beginning, so what does it matter if I have more territory now?

However, Shandong and Liaodong are the inherent territories of our China, which cannot be possessed by human ministers, and if they are forcibly sealed, they will harm Chen Yue. But everyone should know that in addition to the Ming Dynasty, there is also a vast desert land in this world, Liaobei, Mongolia, and even the Western Regions of the wider desert, which is not much smaller than the Ming Dynasty.

The whole world is not the king's land, so I decided to give Chen Yue the land of Liaobei and Mongolia beyond the Great Wall, from the Great Wall to the Beihai, so that he can establish a big vassal state and defend my Ming Dynasty forever! ”

Chongzhen's cold words echoed in the hall, and the faces of the ministers in the palace changed when they heard the words, and their minds turned sharply.

Princess Kunxing Huo Ran turned around and looked at Chongzhen in disbelief.

Seeing that the ministers in the hall were shocked by his words, Chongzhen nodded with satisfaction, "Zhongqing, how is my reward for Chen Yue?" ”

"Your Majesty is really kind to King Qi," when the ministers had not come back to their senses, Qian Qianyi came out of the crowd and praised him, "From the Great Wall to the Beihai land, the desert is vast and thousands of miles, and so much land is enough to reward the King of Qi for his achievements in the world." ”

Immediately after Qian Qianyi, more ministers stood up and praised Chongzhen's reward.

Shi Kefa smiled bitterly and shook his head, and had to admit that Chongzhen's handling was extremely wonderful.

Chen Yue's great merit has been sealed, and there is only one way to reward him. But if you can't really give the land of the Ming Dynasty to Chen Yue, that will cause the division of the Ming Dynasty. Chongzhen gave Chen Yue all the land in the desert beyond the Great Wall, which was enough to reward Chen Yue for his great work.

But the land outside the Great Wall is not owned by the Ming Dynasty, it is the land of the Jurchen Mongols and other foreign races, and Chongzhen's move is generous to others, and it does not cost the court half a penny. And if Chen Yue wants to be a vassal king who proves his words, he must continue to fight, completely eliminate the Manchus outside the pass, and completely destroy or conquer the Mongols, so that he can completely own the land from the Great Wall to the North Sea. But what a difficulty it is, I'm afraid Chen Yue won't be able to do it in his life.

But how powerful is the temptation of this reward, being a vassal king with a vast desert jurisdiction must be full of temptation for a person with great ambition like Chen Yue. If Chen Yue accepted, he would have to run around the battlefield fighting with foreign races for the rest of his life, defeating the Jurchens and fighting the Mongols, and constantly pacifying the threat from the north for the Ming Dynasty. In the future, no matter how much territory Chen Yue conquered and how many alien races he exterminated, the imperial court would not need to reward him with additional rewards, because he was fighting for himself, and every inch of land he conquered was his own domain.

As for whether Chen Yue's vassal kingdom will become a threat to the Ming Dynasty after the rise of the north? That would happen many years later.

With Chen Yue in the north, the Ming Dynasty will have no external worries, and he can concentrate on dealing with domestic affairs.

But no one is a fool, will Chen Yue agree to this kind of reward that is not worthy of the name and is not worthy of the name? Shi Kefa expressed deep concern.