Return to Beijing!

On the way back to the capital, Wang Dou sent back Xuanfu's elite troops one after another, and 9,000 servants also sent 6,000 people back. When he came to the emperor's feet, only 3,000 servants were left with him.

On this day, Emperor Chongzhen, regardless of the opposition of others, personally led hundreds of civil and military officials to go out of the city ten miles to welcome him, granted him the title of Marquis of Xia, and made him his wife.

Even according to rumors, Chongzhen once said personally before leaving Beijing that the Ming Dynasty is now a key node. After that, there will be two hundred years of national destiny. If it fails, Chongzhen will not have twenty years left.

Wang Dou is very sincere!

He did not lead an army to force the palace!

Chongzhen was also very sincere. On the third day after Wang Dou's return, he ordered him to marry the princess. On the fifth day, despite the objections of the officials, he appointed Wang Dou as Minister of War.

Although he is only the Minister of War, not a cabinet minister, let alone the chief minister of the cabinet, anyone with a discerning eye can see that Wang Dou will definitely be the chief minister of the cabinet in the future!

Chongzhen once again showed his sincerity, and Wang Dou began to show his sincerity in disguise.

Today's Wang Dou and Chongzhen are like two guys doing business. You take a step back and I take a step back. Both parties want to cooperate, but they are afraid of each other, so they can only cooperate step by step, so that it looks more like

It is a battle between king and minister.

You give in, I give in.

But in any case, overall it is quite harmonious.

As Minister of War, Wang Dou also started to do things.

He restructured the Ministry of War, changing the tradition of civilian officials checking and balancing the military attachés. He also changed the tradition of eunuchs supervising the army, but at the same time, he established the Logistics Department and the Staff Department.

Among them, the Logistics Department is composed of civil servants, eunuchs, and royal guards, and is responsible for logistics-related matters such as payment, soldiers, and armor. The Staff Department is composed of military generals and is responsible for formulating various plans.

Through system construction, the number of troops that the generals can directly control is only a thousand servants. The rest of the soldiers are controlled by the court through various means such as logistics control.

Even the elite soldiers of Xuanfu are no exception!

At this moment, three years have passed since that battle.

Wang Dou proved with ironclad facts that he had no intention of rebellion.

Chongzhen's sincerity also followed.

Wang Dou enters the cabinet!

The four words "exit general and enter prime minister" have directly become the most popular words in the capital.

At the same time, Chongzhen was promoted to Duke Xia on the grounds that Wang Dou had made great contributions!

Divorce with the country, inherit the hereditary throne, Duke Xia!

The beauty of the uniform is called Hua, and the great etiquette is called Summer!

The title of Xia Gong is enough to prove Chongzhen's trust and expectations for Wang Dou, and Wang Dou is also very satisfied with it. As a time traveler, he only feels that his life has reached its peak at this moment!

Although he is not the chief minister of the cabinet yet, he is Xia Gong. Today's chief ministers of the cabinet are all a head shorter than him. It is only a matter of time before he becomes the chief minister.

You know, he is only in his thirties this year. What else does a thirty-year-old minister of the Ministry of War and a bachelor of the cabinet want?

…

Late at night, in Duke Xia's mansion, Wang Dou looked at the desk in front of him and fell into deep thought.

Tomorrow I will be the Grand Bachelor of the Cabinet, and I will carry out deeper reforms. I will paint freely on top of the landscape paintings of the Ming Dynasty according to my own will.

Mr. Xia!

Mr. Xia!

Mr. Xia!

At this moment, Wang Dou felt satisfied in his heart. There is nothing more satisfying in life than this!

Without rebelling and becoming emperor, this may be the best that can be achieved at this moment.

But what Duke Xia, who was thinking about how to reform, how to enlarge the portion of the cake, and how to skillfully cut the meat, did not expect was that the civil servants were also very excited tonight.

"Husband, I heard that civil servants have become more and more active recently, so you should be careful."

Listening to the princess's concerned words, Wang Dou smiled slightly and said unconcernedly: "The scholars have been rebelling for ten years, and those civil servants are just shouting loudly. In front of the sword, they are nothing. As long as I and your majesty

Working together, they can do nothing!"

"But what you said makes sense. Then I will beat them tomorrow to make them calm down." Wang Dou said nonchalantly.

The Manchus of the Qing Dynasty were crippled by him, but they were just civil servants, so what could they do?

Even if you think about the efforts of civil servants, it is better to think about how to carry out better reforms, how to extend the life of the Ming Dynasty, and how to make the Han Dynasty last another three hundred years!

…

In a study somewhere, a group of shady civil servants started gathering again, but this time there were very few people participating.

"I don't know what kind of enchanting soup he poured into His Majesty, so that His Majesty trusted him so much and actually made him a cabinet bachelor. It seems that I will not be the chief minister for much longer."

"Hehe, just look at Xia Gong's actions. The restructuring of the Ministry of War prevented the generals from directly controlling the army without weakening the combat effectiveness of the soldiers. With such a system, from then on, military rebellions became minimal. Xia Gong took the lead.

The elite soldiers of the Xuanfu were dispersed to nine sides and to the south. There were only 3,000 servants out of 15,000 in the heyday. Aren't these loyal ministers enough?"

"Yes, if you don't like it, Mr. Ge, if I were Your Majesty, I would also like such a loyal minister, not to mention the son-in-law, who is a family!"

"Yes, during his three-year career as Minister of War, he trained at least 200,000 elite soldiers for the Ming Dynasty who could fight. He also wiped out the Liaodong warlords, suppressed the barbarians in the south, and even suppressed many pirates. These are all

It proves that this Duke of Xia has administrative abilities and is truly capable of civil and military skills. He can put down rebellions with force and reform and reorganize the system. He is qualified to serve as a cabinet bachelor!"

Hearing the ridicule from everyone, the chief minister of the cabinet didn't care. Instead, he looked at them with wide eyes and waited for them.

I just kept quiet and didn't speak.

It went cold for a while.

"Well, everyone has the same purpose of coming here today. Everyone has suffered a lot of losses in the past few years, right?"

"Biaowu is gone. Ever since Xia Gong took the royal guards and servants to ransack the houses of all the officials one by one, Biaowei is gone. In the past, the military pay of one million taels of silver distributed to the court, when it left the treasury

, there were only 800,000 taels left. When we arrived at the place, there were only 600,000 taels left. When it was in the hands of the soldiers, there were only 100,000 or 200,000 taels left."

"But now all this is gone, not even a tael of silver! Everyone in the court hates Duke Xia deeply."

"Xia Gong advocated maritime transportation and the opening of the sea. Almost all the high-ranking scholar-bureaucrats in the south disagreed. The millions of people related to the water transportation system were also dissatisfied."

I am not opposed for the sake of opposition, but for the consideration of millions of people who are related to water transport, I oppose Duke Xia.

"Xia Gong opened many salt farms near Beihai. The quality of the salt there is excellent and the quantity is huge. It is now the largest private salt industry in the world. Half of the salt merchants in Yangzhou were wiped out. This is competing for profits with the people!"

The scholar-bureaucrats talked to each other. They just told Wang Dou's crimes for half an hour, and then listed Wang Dou's power and fell silent.

"Your Majesty has great trust in Duke Xia. As long as your Majesty still trusts Duke Xia, we have no choice."

"Yes, if your majesty is around for one day, Duke Xia will be unrivaled, but what if your majesty is gone?"

This night, there is an undercurrent!

After dawn, Wang Dou went to the palace excitedly and became a member of the cabinet's bachelors.

On this day, Chongzhen fell into the water and fell into a coma!

On this day, Wang Dou hurried to the palace and saw the unconscious Chongzhen.

A few days later, Chongzhen returned to the throne and ordered Wang Dou to be the Minister of Gu Ming and Grand Master. Wang Dou went to the palace late at night to honor the imperial edict.

But once I left, I never came back!

However, as a time traveler, Wang Dou has always left himself a way out. Especially after Chongzhen fell into the water, he became extremely vigilant.

Unfortunately, he still overestimated the bottom line of civil servants.

However, although Wang Dou did not come back, under the leadership of his loyal subordinates, the princess, son, and daughter successfully used the tunnel to escape Beijing City, returned to Xuanfu, and returned to Shunxiang Fort.

After he became the Duke of the country, hundreds of square kilometers of Shunxiang Fort became his fief, and there were three thousand servants loyal to him there!

There are hundreds of thousands of people there who are loyal to him!

On the second day, the four gates of the capital city were closed tightly, and the Jin Yiwei searched the whole city. Whether they were scholar-bureaucrats, Jinshi masters, or high-ranking nobles, all the doors were broken in and searched carefully, not even a corner was spared!

A few days later, after learning that the princess could not be captured and Wang Dou's son could not be found, the senior officials finally determined the cause of Wang Dou's death.

If the princess is captured and the root cause is successfully eradicated, then Wang Dou is the mastermind behind Emperor Chongzhen's fall into the water, with the purpose of seizing the world. For specific actions, please refer to Yang Jian.

Didn't Yang Jian take over the Yuwen family back then?

Don't say it's impossible!

Everyone is dead, can they still pop out and confront them?

But if you didn’t catch it, it would be a big mistake!

As a result, Duke Xia died in an assassination attempt by Hou Jin!

It's the conspiracy of the late Jin chief Huang Taiji!

Huangtaiji who is thousands of miles away: Meow meow meow?

The new emperor Zhu Cixi ascended the throne within a few days. By the time the princess went to Shunxiang Castle, it was already the tenth day since the new emperor ascended the throne.

At this moment, the news that Chongzhen died of falling into the water and that Duke Xia died of assassination due to Huangtai Ji's conspiracy has been made public and announced to the world.
To be continued...