After even Lu Qi walked downstairs, Zhu Youzhen walked out of the city tower and stopped until he reached the edge of the daughter wall. He was silent for a moment before raising his voice and said, "General Man Gui will be returning to Liaodong soon, I will give you two days off to say goodbye to your colleagues." ”

Wu Huai turned out from the shadow of the city tower, he bowed his head to Chongzhen's back and saluted: "Just now Weichen has already met with Manshuai, as for the fact that there is no deep friendship between colleagues in the army and Weichen, it is okay not to see him." ”

Zhu Youzhen turned his head and glanced at Wu Huai unexpectedly, "You are really... As a sergeant, you can't win a war if you can't be integrated into the collective. Starting tomorrow, you will spend half a day going to martial arts school every day, and learn how to deal with people first. ”

Wu Huai hesitated for a moment about Chongzhen's order, he thought that Chongzhen transferred him to his side because he didn't want the border army to be separated, but more to protect his own safety.

"Your Majesty, the minister is now the guard to protect His Majesty's safety, leaving His Majesty to go to martial arts, I am afraid that he will be derelict in his duties, please think twice." Wu Huai said to Chongzhen.

Zhu Youzhen turned around and continued to look at the scenery in the distance, and said plainly: "There are no less than 10,000 guards in the palace to protect me, and there is not one worse than you. My danger never came from my side, but out of my sight.

Since you are my guard, sometimes you have to go out to do things for me, if you are always so withdrawn and don't deal with people, how do you know who to turn to? Everything in the world is done by people, if you don't understand people, you can't do good things, and if you don't do good things, how can you protect my safety?

Besides, martial arts is a place of training for future Ming army commanders. But in order to prevent those civil officials from making noise in my ears, I can't often go to the martial arts to inspect it, I hope that you, as my eyes, will observe the situation of this martial arts, and I don't want the martial arts to raise a bunch of wine bags and rice bags of waste..."

When the Zheng Zhilong brothers entered the imperial city from Bei'anmen, they found that the seemingly massive mutiny two days ago had not left any traces in this majestic city, and the pedestrians walking on the street did not show any nervousness and panic on their faces, and the houses destroyed in the mutiny they passed by also began busy repair work.

Looking at these craftsmen who were busy working in and out, Zheng Zhilong sighed in his heart, sure enough, what Zheng Cai said made sense, such a huge empire would not fall because of a small mutiny.

Every time he entered the imperial city, Zheng Zhilong couldn't help but feel a little afraid in his heart. When he arrived in Beijing, he realized that he had underestimated the power in the hands of the Ming Emperor in the past.

At the beginning, I thought that I would use Taiwan as a base, gather thousands of ships, blockade the southeast coast of the Ming Dynasty, and attack the coastal areas of Fujian and Guangdong, and force the Ming court to take the initiative to appease its own strategy.

After seeing the majestic Beijing city wall and imperial city, Zheng Zhilong was surprised to find that if the Ming Emperor really turned his attention overseas and used the national strength of the Ming Dynasty to build warships and rebuild the sailors, then in front of the national forces mobilized by the Ming court, Shibazhi was just a strong ant at the foot of an elephant.

Zheng Zhilong, who went north from Nanjing, the most prosperous region of the Ming Dynasty, and the Suzhou and Hangzhou regions, did not realize that the prosperous scene he saw in the southeast region was just an illusory scene of a dynasty returning to the light.

In the southeast and beyond the canal, the rule of the Ming Dynasty was shrinking.

"Brother, what reward do you think Your Majesty will give you today? Last night, Grandpa Lu said that he wanted to surprise his brother today. Zheng Zhihu, who was walking beside Zheng Zhilong, couldn't hold back the joy in his heart and said.

Zheng Zhilong subconsciously glanced at Zheng Cai on the other side, and then said casually: "The left and right are just adding a false title, can you still give me another promotion." We just accepted the court's appeasement, and we didn't make war exploits for Your Majesty, even if Your Majesty looks at us differently, you will not exceed the rules of the court. ”

Although Zheng Zhilong pretended to have a nonchalant expression on the surface, the corners of his mouth raised showed that he was in a pretty good mood now.

Although Zheng Cai on the side did not squint, he couldn't help but have some slander in his heart about Zheng Zhilong's statement. If it was in the past, he would definitely feel that Chongzhen's reward was just a good sale of the city's favor, and he would carefully mention Zheng Zhilong in private.

But today, he felt that His Majesty was so careless, and Zheng Zhilong still had to pretend, which was too disproportionate for a courtier.

Ever since he was summoned by the emperor alone, Zheng Cai suddenly felt in his heart that in the emperor's mind, a scholar like him who had gone astray for a while should be regarded as his own people, and the vulgar pirate accomplices around him were potential rebels to watch out for.

With this kind of cognition, Zheng Cai also subconsciously began to keep a distance from his former accomplices.

Eighteen Zhi was originally a relatively loose organization, and after losing the threat of being torn up by the imperial court, the leaders of each family could no longer continue to unite around the Zheng family brothers, and began to plan their own interests.

When the 62 maritime representatives re-entered the venue of the Jiale Palace, they found that there were many more people in the venue today. Not sergeants with weapons, but civil officials in ceremonial robes and a group of eunuchs.

Xu Xinsu and other Fujian maritime merchants looked at the grand scene in front of them in confusion, and the imperial merchants standing beside them also felt inexplicable.

Zhu Youzhen, who was sitting in the speaker's seat high above, knocked on the gavel, and only after the venue was quiet did he signal Wang Chengen beside him to go out and read the edict.

After Wang Chengen walked to the middle of the venue, he said loudly: "The guerrilla general Zheng Zhilong stepped forward to listen to the seal... There is a merit in recovering Taiwan... Therefore, Zheng Zhilong was named a third-class Fengtian Yiyun Tui Cheng Chiayi County male, with 300 stones. The order was changed to Taiwan Longgang to Beigang, and Chiayi County was set up with Beigang as the center..."

The Ming Dynasty established the system of knighthood in the third year of Hongwu, divided into duke, marquis, and uncles, and dismissed sons and men. Each title is divided into four categories, and those who set the world by Zuo Taizu are said to be the founder of the country and the auxiliary transport of sincerity; From Chengzu to the army, it is said that it is difficult to push sincerity from Fengtianjing; Yu said that Fengtian Yiyun pushes sincerity and Fengtian Yiwei pushes sincerity. The military minister said that the military minister of Xuanli was a military minister, and the civil minister said that he was a civil minister.

After arriving at Chengzu, the Ming Emperor could only give Fengtian Yiyun Tuicheng and Fengtian Yiwei Tuicheng two titles. According to the ritual system, the Gong, Hou, and Bo can be in charge of the five prefectures and the six armies, and the general can be led to the seal of the general as the commander and governor, and he can govern the Cao Gang, but he is not allowed to pre-empt the affairs of the Nine Secretaries.

However, by the time Chongzhen ascended the throne, the military color represented behind these titles began to fade, and it was more used as a symbol of status.

Zhu Youzhen originally wanted to give Zheng Zhilong the title of earl, but not only did the cabinet disagree, but even Li Chengzuo, the Marquis of Fengcheng, who had already bowed to him, tried his best to dissuade him.

For the first time, the Wenchen nobles had the same opinion, thinking that Zheng Zhilong had not made any great contributions to the Ming Dynasty, and his background was low, so if he became a noble, wouldn't it make the famous weapons of the imperial court shameful and be looked down upon by the people of the world.

Again, will this inspire the rogue teenagers along the coast to learn from Zheng Zhilong to go to the sea as a thief, so as to gain a background?

After arguing for a long time, Zhu Youzhen finally took a step back and proposed to restore the setting of the two titles of son and man, separate from the original duke and earldom, and reward those who opened up territory for the Ming Dynasty and made outstanding contributions to the Ming Dynasty.

After listening to Chongzhen's suggestion, Li Chengzuo immediately agreed, and his bottom line was that he hoped not to let Zheng Zhilong and other contemptuous people mix into the noble group, so that these noble-born nobles would become a laughing stock.

The viscount and baron themselves are titles that have not been set up since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, and they look more like things used by the emperor to fool people, and Li Chengzuo and others naturally lost the will to resist.

On the cabinet side, after Chongzhen put forward the proposal to set up a Taiwan government, he chose to approve it after only discussing it for an hour. Huang Liji and other cabinet members have just pushed for a cabinet reshuffle and need good news to cheer people up to show the world that their reforms are good for the Ming Dynasty.

What other good news can make the people of Daming feel more comforted than expanding the territory.

After all, the bad news that happened in the Ming Dynasty over the years, such as the Dongyu Rebellion, the Shaanxi People's Uprising, the Lu'an Rebellion, and the Coastal Rebellion, is really too depressing.

The so-called Ningyuan victory and Ningjin victory are not great victories at all in the eyes of those who have a heart, but they are just tricks used by the imperial court to deceive the small people.

And the restoration of the island of Taiwan is really good news. The establishment of the Taiwan government will undoubtedly create a few more official positions, and it will also be an opportunity for civilian officials to expand their power.

As far as Zhu Youzhen is concerned, propaganda to recover Taiwan can politically package him as a promising king. In addition, it can also divert some people's attention to the vast expanse of overseas.

For the pirates and maritime representatives present, they really didn't know the difference between the baron and the duke, they only saw the solemn canonization ceremony in front of them, Zheng Zhilong changed into a unicorn robe.

The emperor was so solemn that they naturally did not think that this was a child's play, but a great honor.

Zheng Zhilong was certainly excited, even Zheng Zhihu's face was beaming, but the faces of several leaders in the Eighteen Zhihu were a little indifferent.

If Zheng Zhilong was to accept the appeasement or reward the title, maybe these leaders would be just

I just feel red and jealous.

But Zheng Zhilong was actually knighted for recovering Taiwan and dedicating his land to the imperial court, which immediately made these leaders feel angry.

Taiwan's foundation was created by Yan Siqi, and Li Dan also supported it behind it. After accepting the appeasement of the imperial court, dedicating the foundation of Taiwan to the imperial court was the request of the angels, and it was decided after discussion.

But how can it be now, all the benefits are left to Zheng Zhilong alone. Liu Peng immediately complained that his brother was coming, and the leaders of the eighteen Zhis who could fight with Zheng Zhilong were Liu Xiang, Chen Xinji, and Pan Bizheng.

Now Liu Xiang and Chen Xinji dare not go north, and the pirate representatives who go north have the final say in the Zheng family, which is really too boring for him.