At the beginning of November, the dusty Li Yuntian finally led the triumphant Ming army to the capital, and the orthodox emperor personally went out of the city to greet him, which can be said to have given Li Yuntian and other soldiers great glory.

It's a little embarrassing to say, when the Northern Expeditionary Army left, they took away 150,000 elite soldiers of the Gyeonggi Governor's Mansion, but this time Li Yuntian only brought more than 30,000 soldiers from the Gyeonggi Governor's Mansion, and the rest died in the Western Regions.

Most of the 30,000 soldiers of the Gyeonggi Governorate alone were from the exchange of prisoners between Li Yuntian and the Timurid Empire, and due to the poor conditions of the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan prisoner of war camps, many prisoners did not survive to the day when the Ming army won.

In addition to the soldiers of the Gyeonggi Governor's Office, Li Yuntian also followed Li Yuntian back to Beijing this time with the officers and soldiers of the Western Army, the Xiaowu Army, the Guanxi Qinglong Battalion, the Northern Expeditionary Army, and the Northwest Ming Army.

The news of Li Yuntian's triumphant return to the city shook the entire capital, and the people of ten miles and eight towns came to welcome the army into the city, and the scene was full of excited crowds, which was very lively.

After three years of absence, the orthodox emperor grew much taller, and under the support of the important ministers of the Chinese dynasty, he seemed to receive Li Yuntian and Zhou Zheng and other high-ranking generals who had returned triumphantly.

Although the Orthodox Emperor knew that he wanted to maintain the prestige of the Great Tomorrow, when he saw Li Yuntianhou, his eyes still showed an excited look, and he seemed very happy.

For orthodoxy, the teachers in the palace are too dull and pedantic, and if Li Yuntian teaches him, his studies will not be so boring.

Moreover, the orthodox emperor was very interested in the war in Guanxi and wanted to learn more details from Li Yuntian, and the battle of the Ming Dynasty can be said to have fought a heavenly might, defeating the two strong enemies of the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan.

In particular, the Timurid Empire, in the eyes of the Ming Dynasty, was the overlord of the West, with a huge territory comparable to the Ming Dynasty, but now it has to submit to the Ming Dynasty, pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty, and pay tribute as usual.

In August of the fifth year of orthodoxy, the envoy sent by the Great Khan of the Timurid Empire arrived in the Ming Dynasty, officially presented the letter of state, bowed to the Ming Dynasty, and caused a sensation in the government and the opposition.

Unlike the time of Ming Taizu, the Timurid Empire's vassals were not perfunctory, but were beaten by the Ming Dynasty, and in order to negotiate peace and even compensate the vast territory of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty has never won such a huge military victory since the founding of the country.

Therefore, the court's praise for the orthodox emperor is endless, and hundreds of civil and military officials compete to sing praises to the orthodox emperor, and regard the orthodox emperor who is only more than ten years old as an imperial talent that is rare in the Ming Dynasty for a thousand years, and will create a greater achievement than Ming Taizu.

The orthodox emperor is now just a big child, and he is not at all interested in this kind of flattering recital, and he throws it to the celebrant without looking at it, and asks the eunuchs of the celebrant to approve it.

In the past few years since Li Yuntian left the capital, the celebrant has gradually become powerful under the secret support of the Empress Dowager Zhang, and even the recitals of the auxiliary ministers are often rejected by him.

Obviously, the orthodox emperor is not yet able to govern in person, and the Empress Dowager Zhang does not understand the government affairs of the imperial court, so the courtiers' recitals naturally fall to the celebrant eunuch, and the eunuchs of the celebrant will deal with it.

Although Emperor Xuande selected auxiliary ministers for the orthodox emperor to handle the political and military affairs of the Ming Dynasty, it was actually very dangerous for the young orthodox emperor to do so, and it was easy for the court's ministers to be overlooked.

In addition, the civil official group of the Ming Dynasty can be said to be the most powerful in all dynasties, so the Empress Dowager Zhang had to rely on the celebrant left by Emperor Xuande to restrain the courtiers, especially the civil official group.

In fact, in Li Yuntian's view, the auxiliary minister and the celebrant are the two weapons left by Emperor Xuande to the young orthodoxy: spear and shield.

In order to enhance the power of the celebrant eunuch, with the acquiescence of the Empress Dowager Zhang, the celebrant began to dispatch town guards and town guards to the local area.

However, it is worth mentioning that the places where the town guards and eunuchs sent by the ceremonial supervisor avoided the sphere of influence of Jiangwutang, that is, they avoided the Guangxi Bu Political Envoy Division, Jiaozhi Bu Political Envoy Division, Mongolian Bu Political Envoy Division and Liaodong Bu Political Envoy Division in the 16 provinces of the two capitals of the Ming Dynasty.

First, Guangxi, Jiaozhi, Mongolia and Liaodong have always been remote and bitter cold places, and no imperial court has any force to look down on them.

Second, these four places are the territory of the Wutang, and the officials of the three political envoys in Jiaozhi, Liaodong, and Mongolia are all military attaches from the Jiangwutang, and even if they are the political envoys in Guangxi, the middle and low-level officials in the officialdom have all been replaced by the military attachés of the Wutang, and in another two years, the high-ranking officials in Guangxi will probably have to be replaced by the people who speak the Wutang.

Therefore, neither the civil official group nor the people in the inner court want to offend Jiangwutang because of these four remote and barren areas, because it is very unwise to be an enemy of Li Yuntian, and the Empress Dowager of the Zhang family has great trust and reliance on Li Yuntian.

After this battle in the Western Regions, the Ming Dynasty soon had another province, that is, the Guanxi Political Envoy, including the territory of the Seven Guards of Guanxi and the Turpan region.

Obviously, the Guanxi Political Envoy Department should also be under the jurisdiction of the Jiangwutang, because there must be no civil officials of the imperial court who are willing to go to Kansai to serve as officials, let alone let those civil officials govern there.

The orthodox emperor has set up a celebration banquet for Li Yuntian and his party in the palace, because the orthodox emperor was too young to drink, so he asked the Taishi Zhou Zheng to preside over the banquet on his behalf.

After the banquet, Li Yuntian, Zhou Zheng, Zhang Hao, Niu Shihao and Bai An were summoned to Cining Palace by the Empress Dowager Zhang for questioning.

The Empress Dowager Zhang was very satisfied with the series of victories won by the Ming army, praised Li Yuntian and Zhou Zheng, and rewarded many valuable gifts.

After some tossing, it was already late at night when Li Yuntian left the palace and returned to the mansion, and the entire capital was shrouded in silence.

"Lord Wang!" The ladies of the Zhongwu Mansion did not sleep, Zhou Yuting led Zhu Yuxin and Lei Ting and other concubines to wait for Li Yuntian while chatting in the living room in the front yard, and they all came out in surprise after seeing Li Yuntian walk into the courtyard.

"It's been a lot of hard work for everyone." Li Yuntian smiled and picked up Zhou Yuting and spun around in place, and then said to Zhu Yuxin, Lei Ting and other women who were happily surrounding them, his face full of apologies.

Although Li Yuntian is a well-known Zhongwu King in the eyes of people, he is not a good minister, Zhou Yuting and her family are busy with everything, and they take care of all the affairs of the Zhongwu Palace, which solves Li Yuntian's worries.

"It's important to say that this is my job." Zhou Yuting was hugged by Li Yuntian like this, her cheeks suddenly became a little crimson, and she said with a smile.

Li Yuntian's heart suddenly warmed when he heard this, and he felt extremely relieved, and he was ready to accompany Zhou Yuting and others when he came back this time, so as to take on the responsibility of the prime minister.

In the early hours of the morning, Li Yuntian lay on the bed and hugged Zhou Yuting and whispered, Zhou Yuting is the princess of the Zhongwu Palace, Li Yuntian naturally wants to stay here tonight.

"Xianggong, you have made such a great contribution this time, and the court is really busy with how to reward you." After telling the pain of lovesickness, Zhou Yuting put her cheek on Li Yuntian's strong chest, closed her eyes and said with a smile, "The concubine heard that this time the emperor may enter the title of the prime minister!" ”

"Xianggong is already the king of the county, and if he rises further, he will be the prince, I'm afraid it doesn't match the etiquette." Li Yuntian smiled slightly when he heard this, his eyes flashed with a look of comfort, and he said with a smile while stroking the hair on Zhou Yuting's head.

This time, Li Yuntian not only turned the tide and saved the situation in the western part of the war, but also opened up territory for the Ming Dynasty and gained vast territory from the Eastern Chagatai Khanate and the Timurid Empire.

According to the ancestral system of the Ming Dynasty, Li Yuntian's military exploits should be crowned king, otherwise any reward will not be able to match his military exploits, and it will also chill the hearts of the world's soldiers.

However, because Li Yuntian has been made a prince by Emperor Xuande, this time his prince will be promoted to the next level, from the prince of the county to the prince, and he has the most honorable title in the Ming Dynasty, and his wealth is close to the royal family.

You must know that after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, only the children of the royal family were named princes, and those kings with different surnames who were posthumously crowned were all county kings, and if Li Yuntian became a prince, he would be comparable to the royal family.

Although the ancestral system of the Ming Dynasty did not say that the king with a different surname could not be crowned a prince, there were very few people who could enter the prince, and the only few kings with different surnames were still the county kings who entered the title after his death, which made no one think about entering the prince before, after all, it was too difficult to meet the requirements of the prince, and there was little hope.

But then again, the so-called Shiyi time shift, Ming Taizu and Ming Taizong would not have thought that in the future, someone would really be able to expand the territory of the Ming Dynasty and lay a big country, after all, the national policy formulated by Ming Taizu and Ming Taizong is to be cautious of foreign war, so Ming Taizu also deliberately set the "country that does not conquer".

Therefore, according to the ancestral system set by Ming Taizu, Li Yuntian's military exploits this time are definitely enough to enter the prince and prince, and he has expanded the territory of the Ming Dynasty by about one-fifth.

In fact, it is still a relatively taboo topic in the Ming Dynasty, because the prince has always been a unique title for the children of the royal family, and Ming Taizu and Ming Taizong have always attached great importance to this, otherwise there would be no posthumous title of king with a different surname.

Therefore, in addition to the emperor being able to mention it, if the courtiers talk about the matter of becoming a prince, it will be a big taboo, and it will be regarded as a challenge to the authority of the king.

After sorting out the exploits of the generals who fought against the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan Dynasty, the auxiliary ministers listed the rewards that Zhou Zheng and Zhang Hao and others should have in their recitals to the orthodox emperor.

Only Li Yuntian is different, the chapter only shows his military exploits and does not list the reward, because the entry of the prince at this level must be decided by the emperor.

Li Yuntian's entry into the crown is the grace of Emperor Xuande, and the next thing is much easier to do after this layer of window paper is pierced, and the orthodox emperor only needs to follow the ancestral system to enter Li Yuntian's prince.

Moreover, not only the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, but even the Empress Dowager of the Zhang family also knew that Li Yuntian's military exploits this time could only be matched by entering the title of prince, and naturally he had to conform to the name, making Li Yuntian the first prince with a different surname after the founding of the Ming Dynasty.

It is precisely because no one has ever been able to become the prince with a different surname in the Ming Dynasty before, so Li Yuntian feels that "it is not in line with etiquette", but this matter is not something he can decide.

Tomorrow, the orthodox emperor will read out the rewards for the meritorious soldiers who fought against the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan Coalition Army this time, and whether Li Yuntian will be crowned prince will be revealed to the world.