Chapter 877: More Joy Than Sorrow
Since entering Chongzhen for three years, until August, for Emperor Chongzhen, the internal and external situation of the Ming Dynasty has been happy and worried, but after all, there are still more joys.
Empress Zhou gave birth to the emperor's eldest son, and the harem in the Forbidden City has really settled down since then.
Not only does the queen Zhou no longer have to worry about the disputes in the palace in the future, but the other harem concubines have also settled in their places.
Now this Emperor Chongzhen was not in a hurry when he originally thought about the issue of heirs, Empress Zhou and the other concubines were younger than him, and they gave birth to children at the age of seventeen or eighteen or even sixteen or seventeen, I am afraid the quality will not be too high.
But later it turned out that the issue of heirs is an extremely important issue for the royal family, and the quality of heirs may not be high, but it must not be without.
After three years on the throne without an heir, not only will the harem in the Forbidden City gradually become unstable, but even the court outside the Forbidden City will gradually be unfavorable to itself.
Now that Queen Zhou has given birth to a son, and she is the eldest son, all the problems in this regard have been solved.
As Princess Zhaoren received at birth, the newborn prince Zhu Cihong was personally cared for by his biological mother, Empress Zhou, in the Kunning Palace, rather than being cared for by selected nurses and nurses, as was the case in the palace in the past.
In addition to the happy event of the queen's birth and the stability of the harem, the restructuring and reorganization of the five military governors, which Emperor Chongzhen has been planning, is also being carried out in an orderly manner.
By the middle of August, all the will of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies of the Beijing Division had reached the hands of the governors, governors, governors, general soldiers, and commanders of the southeast, northwest, and central parts of the Ming Dynasty.
Emperor Chongzhen, who was in the Forbidden City, also began to receive the above list of governors and border towns from all over the country one after another.
Although some of the governors of the border towns are still on the way, the ones they have received have already made Emperor Chongzhen feel at ease and down-to-earth.
The title of Zuo Governor of the Left Army Governor's Office, which was originally led by Mao Wenlong, the commander of the Dongjiang River, was removed in the restructuring and reorganization of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies.
Of course, he is not the only one who has been stripped of such titles and generals.
In Emperor Chongzhen's vision, in the future, positions such as the left and right governors of the Five Military Governors Mansion could only be granted if they actually arrived in office.
Letting the generals of the border towns lead such a position, although it can show the extraordinary trust and reliance of the emperor or the imperial court on these border town generals, but doing so itself is a kind of damage to the authority of the governor's office of the five armies.
So this time, in the process of restructuring and reorganizing the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, Emperor Chongzhen acquiesced to the Ministry of War and withdrew the title of Zuodu Governor of the Zuo Military Governor's Mansion led by Mao Wenlong.
Therefore, when the imperial court's will to reorganize the Governor's Office of the Five Armies was distributed to all parts of the world, Emperor Chongzhen's heart was always worried about the direction of the Dongjiang River, worried that the unruly Anton Marquis had misjudged the imperial court's measures and made something he didn't want to see.
Facts have proved that now this Emperor Chongzhen is thinking too much about himself.
After the will of the imperial court arrived in Dongjiang Town, Mao Wenlong, Marquis of Anton, quickly praised the emperor Shengming, and welcomed the imperial court's transfer of Mao Weizhang and the appointment of Lu Daqi, a scholar in the cabinet, to take over the post of the imperial history of the Dongjiang Town Supervisor and Chen Jisheng to take over the post of the envoy of Yingzhou Town.
At the same time, Mao Wenlong also happily asked Qu Chengen, a veteran of Dongjiang Town, to go to Dengzhou to take over the post of chief military officer of Denglai Town with a cadre of personal guards, and also happily asked another veteran of Dongjiang Town, Shen Shikui, to go to the General Military Office on the left side of Dongjiang Town, Changshan Island, to take over Qu Chengen's position.
It wasn't until he received the above table that Mao Wenlong, Marquis of Anton, expressed his approval, and the report sent to Beijing by Jinyi Wei Dongjiang Qianhu, that Emperor Chongzhen was really relieved about the restructuring and reorganization of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies.
Speaking of which, Anton Hou Mao Wenlong didn't pay much attention to the Zuo Governor of the Left Army and the Governor of the Left Governor's Mansion that he originally led, and for a border town commander like him, he never thought of holding any position in the Beijing Imperial Court.
The Governor of the Left Army's Mansion Zuo Du seemed to be extremely noble, but it was not in the eyes of Mao Wenlong, the marshal of Dongjiang Town, at all.
For him, if he took away this empty title, he would take it away, and when he originally had this title, he couldn't command other border towns, so he could only command the army of Dongjiang Town on the territory of Dongjiang Town.
As for Qu Chengen and Shen Shikui, the only remaining veterans in Dongjiang Town, he wished that the imperial court would quickly find a place for them to transfer away.
Shen Shikui is the father of Mao Wenlong's concubine Shen, and the maternal grandfather of Mao Wenlong's current youngest son, Mao Chenghei.
Speaking of which, this person can be regarded as his father-in-law Mao Wenlong, but Mao Wenlong has always been difficult to give complete trust to Shen Shikui.
After Shen Shikui handed over the position of the commander-in-chief of the Chinese army in the Phi Dao Marshal's Mansion, Mao Wenlong immediately handed over this position to his more trusted son Geng Zhongming, and then Geng Zhongming's brothers Geng Zhongyu and Mao Zhongge were also immediately promoted by Mao Wenlong.
Geng Zhongyu is Mao Zhongyu, after cooperating with the Lushun town guard Li Xin to launch an attack on the hinterland of the Jin State after the capture of the Jian, he made a contribution, and now he has also been ordered by Emperor Chongzhen to restore his original surname.
As for Mao Zhongge, of course, his real name is Geng Zhongge, and after these brothers joined Mao Wenlong's sect and became Mao Wenlong's righteous son, they all changed their surnames to Mao.
Now among the three brothers, Mao Zhongming and Mao Zhongyu have restored the surname Geng because of their merits, and Mao Zhongge is still surnamed Mao.
Originally, Mao Wenlong was very unhappy with this kind of digging up the wall in the court, but he was a little helpless.
As a result, now Mao Wenlong has a biological son, and he no longer values his righteous sons and grandchildren.
Second, he can't openly oppose the court's approach, these righteous sons have contributed to the court, it is a matter of glory to the ancestors, the court let them restore their original surnames, how can you openly oppose it?
Moreover, the imperial court has been reusing these righteous sons and grandsons of his, and these righteous sons and righteous grandchildren are still respectful to him, the great commander who has been relied on by the imperial court.
All this made him secretly unhappy, but he couldn't openly oppose it.
With the support of Mao Wenlong, the marshal of Dongjiang Town, the reorganization of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies was no longer the surprise that Emperor Chongzhen feared, and by the end of August, everything was steadily advancing.
Although the Navy Governor's Office has only taken over the command of the Denglai Naval Division, the Tianjin Naval Division, and the Juehua Island Naval Division, and has not dared to intervene in the powerful Dongjiang Town Naval Division's fleet, when Emperor Chongzhen received the report from Zhang Keda, the Governor of the Left Metropolitan of the Naval Governor's Office, he still breathed a sigh of relief.
Jin Guan, deputy general of the Juehua Island Naval Division, Huang Long, deputy chief of the Tianjin Naval Division, and Zhang Kedu, who is now promoted to deputy chief of the Denglai Naval Division and has taken over the Denglai Naval Division, were all brought under the direct command of the Navy Governor's Office.
Even if there are any unexpected changes in the direction of Dongjiang Town in the future, there will be no more serious threats to the Jingshi of the Ming Dynasty.
These news, in the case of a large-scale drought in the north of the Ming Dynasty again, are of course real good news for Emperor Chongzhen.
In addition, Lu Shanji, the governor of Liaodong, also sent some news to Emperor Chongzhen in August that could be regarded as good news.
Since Lu Shanji was appointed as the governor of Liaodong, in addition to vigorously rectifying the internal affairs of Liaodong Town, he strictly pursued the strategy of Emperor Chongzhen in Liaoxi.
Not only did he withdraw all the troops in Guangning and Daling River to the city of Jinzhou, but since then, without the emperor's will, he never easily sent troops north.
Therefore, since he took office, he has been impeached and attacked by many civil officials in the imperial court.
Especially after the emperor led the army to conquer Juyongguan and returned victoriously, many people in the court accused him of supervising Liaodong for three years, wasting a large amount of money and grain in the imperial court but doing nothing in Fuliao, impeaching him for leading tens of thousands of strong troops in Liaodong but cowering in Ningjin Jiancheng, not daring to take a step north.
However, the reason why Lu Shanji is like this is of course because of his understanding of the entire battle situation, but more because of the secret decree of Emperor Chongzhen.
Therefore, when the imperial historians in the court impeached Lu Shanji for inaction, Emperor Chongzhen was quite satisfied with this Liaodong governor who was under great pressure to implement his strategy.