Taking a step back on both sides, Wang Yan's army began to continue southward, and after missing the people who were playing along the way, the speed of the army was much faster, and it reached the boundary of Yangzhou from Shandong in half a month.

Here, Wang Yan met the golden envoy sent by Haoge, and Han Chaoxuan, who originally thought that Wang Yan had been dressed in a yellow robe, found that Wang Yan was not the emperor, and he was disappointed in his heart.

As long as Wang Yan is proclaimed emperor, there will inevitably be internal turmoil in the Ming Dynasty, and then the Jin State can secretly fund the Ming restoration forces and create trouble for the Ming Dynasty, Wang Yan will have no time to attack the Jin State, and the Jin State will have time to rest and train the army.

Now there is no major internal turmoil in the Ming Dynasty, but because of the destruction of the Qing State and the recovery of Beijing, the morale of the Ming Dynasty has been greatly boosted, and the Jin State is in danger.

In order to delay time, Han Chaoxuan could only say that the Jin State was willing to coexist peacefully with the Ming Dynasty, while Wang Yan proposed that the Jin State go to the emperor, return Guanzhong, Hanzhong, Hexi Corridor and other places, and pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty, please be a vassal.

Such conditions were naturally unacceptable to the Jin State, and Han Chaoxuan could only return to the Jin State in a gloomy manner.

From Shandong to Lianghuai, after the road is relatively deserted, when you arrive in Yangzhou, you have to be lively again.

In order to celebrate the victory, the Nanjing court and the Empress Dowager Zeng sent a large number of officials across the river to greet Wang Yan in order to celebrate.

Wang Yan was caught by many officials and palace attendants as soon as he went to Yangzhou, and then crossed the Yangtze River with gongs and drums, and at this time, the people of the Ming Dynasty sincerely expressed their welcome to Wang Yan.

After operating Jiangnan for five years, officials from all over the country came out to greet them, and the gentry and people cheered on the road, embraced the honor guard of the king of Chu, and welcomed the triumphant soldiers back to Jiangnan.

The cabinet returned to Nanjing first, nominally to prepare for the triumphal ceremony, but in fact to implement the conditions put forward by Wang Yan.

After several cabinet ministers entered Nanjing, they immediately convened a meeting of the council hall to discuss and inform everyone of the three conditions that Xia Wanchun said. At this time, Wang Yan's accession to the prison country was irreversible, and everyone had no opinion on the emperor's move to Beijing, and the focus of the dispute was on Article 3.

Xia Wanchun mentioned that when the emperor's will is contrary to the order of the imperial court, because the will of the imperial court should prevail, many ministers think that it is inappropriate, and feel that there is no legal basis, and it is easy to cause serious confrontation between the emperor and the imperial court, which is harmful to the national capital.

Seeing that the matter was irreparable, he immediately suggested that it was better to follow the Song system, and the emperor's will must be signed by the prime minister to take effect, and without the prime minister's signature, it is equivalent to waste paper. In this way, there is a precedent to be found, and it can also avoid the emperor issuing an order and the imperial court issuing another order, causing the two sides to compete against each other and the people in the world to be in turmoil.

The Song Dynasty was ruled by kings and scholars, and there was this tradition.

It is said that during the Song Dynasty, Shenzong had issued an edict to the general to take Suizhou, and the prime minister Wen Yanbo saw that Suizhou had been defeated, so he immediately ordered Chong'e to be locked up in the name of privately transferring troops, and was almost killed. Chong'e took out the holy decree, but it didn't work, Wen Yanbo said that there was no attachment to me, it was fake, and he directly slapped the holy decree to the ground.

Since there was a basis to be found, many people agreed with Du Yinxi's opinion, so Su Guansheng ran outside the city again and met Wang Yan to state the cabinet's proposal.

Wang Yan also admired the Song system, but the Ming Dynasty did not have the same foundation as the Song Dynasty, and he agreed that the emperor's will must be subordinate to the prison in order to take effect, but in order to avoid the emperor from passing him and issuing "edicts" indiscriminately, or directly ordering the courtiers to intervene in political affairs, in the third article, the emperor must not interfere in political affairs, and must make a statement beyond the cabinet order, and those who have not received the holy decree attached to the prison state will exterminate the three clans.

At that moment, Su Guansheng ran back to the city and informed Wang Yan's request to the council hall, and most of the people agreed, so that one could be ordered to go out and not strengthen the authority of the central government and the cabinet.

After both the council hall and Wang Yan agreed, Su Guansheng and several pavilion elders went to Miyagi together.

Empress Dowager Zeng has few things that need her to come forward in these years, and she and the emperor basically do not go out of the palace gate except for presiding over various sacrifices of the dynasty and accepting the worship of ministers and vassals in the New Year, and they will not take the initiative to meet the ministers.

Now that several cabinet ministers have come together, Empress Dowager Zeng immediately panicked, although she didn't ask about the government, but she didn't know anything, and the rumors outside had already spread in the palace.

Empress Dowager Zeng is also worried these days, for fear that when she wakes up one day, the armor soldier with a blade in hand will suddenly rush into the palace.

She met with Su Guansheng and others in the palace, and when she learned that she and the emperor would be sent to Beijing, and that the emperor needed to appoint the king of Chu as the superintendent of the country, and then issue an edict to declare the world, she immediately breathed a sigh of relief in her heart, at least their mother and son were safe for the time being.

Empress Dowager Zeng is still very shrewd, leaving Nanjing to Beijing, their mother and son will be equivalent to leaving the sight of the King of Chu and his party, and it will be safer, she naturally agrees, as for the edict, she can issue it, but she needs the King of Chu to give him a promise.

The situation in the Ming Dynasty has developed to the present, the royal family has been very dangerous, and the Empress Dowager Zeng is also psychologically prepared, she doesn't care about her fate, but she has to think about the emperor, she doesn't want the emperor to have any three longs and two shortcomings, she hopes that one day even if the emperor loses the country, he can continue to live a rich life like the Chai family or the Liu family.

Although Wang Yan once made a guarantee to Emperor Gaozong, it was only a verbal promise after all, and now it seems that the King of Chu is not really a credible person, and the Empress Dowager Zeng is not at ease, she needs a legal or ceremonial guarantee.

After listening to the words of several Xiangguo, Empress Dowager Zeng did not immediately agree, but suddenly said: "The mourning family heard that the eldest daughter of the king of Chu wrote poems, although she was young, she was very well-behaved and lovely. The mourning family wants to set this family affair for the emperor, do a few ministers think it is feasible? ”

Su Guansheng and the others glanced at each other and understood that this was the condition of the Empress Dowager Zeng, but this was the family affair of the King of Chu, and they couldn't be the master, but Du Yinxi immediately replied: "The Empress Dowager has this intention, and the King of Chu will not object, this matter is up to the minister!" ”

When the group came out of the palace again, Du Yinxi went to see Wang Yan outside the city again, Wang Yan thought for a long time, and finally nodded in agreement.

On July 10, Wang Yan led the generals to lead the army back to Nanjing, accepted the cheers of the people, and the army circled the city to show the military might, and finally assembled at the Xiaoling Tomb, accepted the review, and held a grand ceremony to sacrifice prisoners to comfort Taizu and Emperor Gaozong.

In the square in front of the Xiaoling Guard, hundreds of officials from the court and the central government, as well as famous gentry, gathered here. The young Gongzhi Emperor, wearing a twelve-chapter dragon robe and a crown on his head, tried his best to hold up his small chest and maintain his majesty.

Wang Yan entered the square under the attention of hundreds of officials and the emperor, and the people present, whether they were Wang Yan's henchmen or political enemies who regarded him as a thief, had to admit one thing at this moment, that is, the king of Chu was really powerful.

In ten years, from Qingzhou to the top of the scene, to now the Central Plains, recapture Shenjing, and sweep away the strong enemies of the Ming Dynasty for more than 30 years, this is a dream that Emperor Gaozong failed to realize, but he realized.

Wang Yan led the generals, turned over and dismounted after entering the square, and under the gaze of the civil and military officials and nobles on both sides, he walked forward, and behind him countless officers and soldiers in bright armor and armor stopped with banners like clouds, and did not make a sound, only the sound of flag hunting and war horses could be heard.

Wang Yan only led a few generals to the bottom of the steps, saluted the emperor, and then offered a prisoner sacrifice, and when all this was over, the little emperor picked up the treasure of the prison country from the tray in the hands of the eunuch, Wang Yan took it on his knees, and there was an attendant next to him who unfolded the yellow silk and read aloud: "Fengtian carrier, the emperor said." In the past, there was Hu Yuan, who died in China, and the people of Li mourned, and there was no sweet food. Heaven ordered my Taizu Emperor Gao to drive it out, and he returned to Shuo Desert, and the world admired it, such as coming out of the faint cellar and seeing the sun and the moon. In the year 288, the emperor is eighteen. ”

"However, Meng Yuan broke my civilization, Taizu established his business, and the Han system died for a hundred years. Now I think about it, the accumulated disadvantages of the dynasty, the rebellion of the clan, the disaster of the eunuchs, the centrifugation of the gentry, the swarming of thieves, the capture of two years and the overthrow of my two capitals, and the death of our country, it began here! ”

"Fortunately, there are stone pillars in the country, the king of Chu has been a total soldier for many years, and he has worked hard and made great achievements, and now he has restored the Central Plains, recovered the old capital, and returned to the dynasty with great achievements, I am very pleased! However, although the homeland has been restored, the disadvantages have not been eliminated, and the future troubles are endless. I thought about it again and again, reformed the legacy of the Mengyuan Dynasty, restored the system of the Han family, and wanted to rule the world with scholars. ”

"Today, I remember the merits of the King of Chu, and I am specially given the treasure of the prison country, and all military and political affairs are ordered to go out of this door. The emperor's edict, when there is a cabinet seal, the world can obey it. Announce to the world, let the salty make it known! ”

"Long live our emperor! Banzai! Banzai! After the waiter finished reciting, thousands of troops in the audience shouted in unison, and the momentum shook the sky! The ministers on both sides also saluted and received the order, and the cheers were thunderous, straight into the sky!

At this point, Wang Yan can really take over the power of the Ming Dynasty, but this is not without flaws.

Now it is equivalent to the emperor handing over the Ming Dynasty to him to rule, although he took over the power, but if he does not do well, the world is in chaos, and someone will inevitably raise the banner of returning to the emperor to drive him down, which is actually a kind of spur and checks and balances.

This is a bit like the fall of Japan, but Japan under the rule of the shogunate was a bunch of separatist regimes, and the Ming Dynasty was different, now it was a unified and powerful centralized regime, and it was difficult to bring down Wang Yan, unless he really messed up the world.

After a series of celebrations, Wang Yan returned to Nanjing, and the next day, in the name of the superintendent of the state, he promulgated the "New Chapter of Senior Administration", the first of which was aimed at the cabinet, and also referred to the Song system, stipulating that after the cabinet ministers had been in Beijing for four years, they would be sent out to serve as the governor's department, and the performance of the government would be tried to decide whether to return to Beijing as the prime minister. In addition, before the minister enters the cabinet, he must have an administrative plan in the council hall, and if he cannot complete the plan after entering the cabinet, he will be sent to the local government to become an official.

After taking office as the superintendent, Wang Yan's goal is to stabilize the world, so he can't indulge the forces around him too much. After all, it is the ideal of the literati to enter the cabinet as the prime minister, and then put the cabinet ministers in the locality, and then try to recruit the people, and you can also go to the cabinet to understand the people's situation and better govern······

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