Chapter 227: Noble, Four Aces
Although all the civil and military officials who still stand in the court do not want to see the rise of the upstart Wuxun Group, reality is often not varied by their will.
After the heroes completed the grand ceremony of the audience, Chongzhen immediately said, "Wang Cheng's will announce the order to enthrone."
Wang Chengen slowly walked down the imperial stairs, came to the front of the heroes, and glanced at everyone.
The eyes of the heroes involuntarily fell on the bright yellow scroll in Wang Chengen's hand. This scroll was related to their future, so how could they not look forward to it?
Wang Cheng'en slowly launched the imperial edict and proclaimed loudly: "The Emperor Fengtian Chengyun, and the imperial edict said: The Minister of the Military Affairs Office, Fan Jingwen, the governor of the Four Guards and the left and right governors of the Four Guards and the Li Banghua supervised the Four Guards and the achievements in suppressing the rebellion.
He specially appointed Fan Jingwen as the New Wu Bo, the Minister of the Military Affairs Office, and the Deputy Governor of the Five Army Governor's Office, and supervised the Jingying; he appointed Li Banghua as the New Zhenbo, the Minister of the Military Affairs Office, and the Deputy Governor of the Five Army Governor's Office, and supervised the Jingying."
"What?"
"Is it actually a title?"
Hearing Wang Chengen's decree read out, the whole court was in an uproar. No one expected that Fan Jingwen and Li Banghua, two civil officials, would have been awarded the title of Count.
As we all know, the titles of the Ming Dynasty were the most difficult to obtain in all dynasties. Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, all the titles enthroned by the Emperors of the Ming Dynasty have not been divided into three digits, and even fewer titles that can be passed down to this day.
Qi Jiguang won every battle in his life and had no defeat. His achievements were not inferior to those of historically-level famous generals such as Wei Qing, Huo Qubing, Li Jing, Li Ji, Xue Rengui. However, he failed to obtain any title in his entire life and only received a posthumous title from Wu Yi.
Perhaps it was precisely because Qi Jiguang did not receive a title in his life that he was the last place in the ranking of famous historical generals, and even some famous generals who had defeated the defeated generals were far inferior.
Qi Jiguang's lifelong experience fully demonstrates how difficult it is to get the title of the Ming Dynasty. But now Fan Jingwen and Li Banghua were awarded the title of Count just by supervising the reorganization of the Four Guards, and the ministers were not convinced.
Especially for civil officials, they were already difficult to win the title of military generals, but now they look at Fan Jingwen and Li Banghua, two civil officials, easily won the throne of earls. How can they not be jealous?
As the auxiliary of the cabinet, Huang Liji stood up and said, "Your Majesty, please think twice. Although Fan Jingwen and Li Banghua have made contributions to supervising the Four Guards, their achievements are obviously still difficult to match the rank of Earl.
Didn’t Your Majesty specially add a viscount and baron last month? I think it would be more appropriate to enthrone them as viscounts with the achievements of Fan Jingwen and Li Banghua.”
Huang Liji made his way forward, and the other civil officials and even military officials also came out to discuss and asked Chongzhen to take back his orders.
Under such circumstances, Fan Jingwen and Li Banghua had to kneel down on the ground in fear and fear, saying that the achievements of the Supervising Four Guards were not enough to match the earl's reward, and asked Chongzhen to take back his life.
Faced with the opposition from the civil and military officials of the court, Zhu Youjian, who was more confident, was arbitrary and insisted on his own initiative and said stubbornly: "Recalling the beginning of the founding of the Han Dynasty, Liu Bang was a great minister and appointed Xiao He's title as the first merit. All the civil and military officials of the court were dissatisfied with each other.
But Liu Bang convinced his ministers with the saying of "the man and the dog", calling him the generals who fought in the world a "dog", while Xiao He was a master of strategist, and his merits were naturally greater than those of meritorious dogs, so all officials were impressed.
Taking the theory that people and dogs are doing things as an example, although Fan Jingwen and Li Banghua made far less contribution than Xiao He, the reason why the Four Guards and Battalions were able to make their contributions in the two rebellions was inseparable from the supervision and training of Fan and Li.
Without the supervision and training of Fan and Li, there would be no transformation of the Four Guards and Battalions, and they won consecutive victories. Therefore, in two counter-insurgency operations, Bo Gong was the Fan and Li, what objections would the family of the ministers have?"
The reason why Chongzhen insisted on arbitrarily enthroned Fan Jingwen and Li Banghua as the earl was not only because of the last time Mao Wenlong was enthroned as a marquis, but also because of the fact that he was able to help Fan and Li take over the Beijing camp.
It is true that after two rebellions, a large number of military honors in the Beijing camp were ruthlessly cleansed, but there were still many military honors in the Beijing camp.
If Fan and Li only have official positions, it would be difficult to convince those old people. After all, Wu Xun is a rank, so why should he obey Fan and Li's orders?
But after Fan and Li were awarded the title of Earl, they had a title of Earl on their heads, and their status was not inferior to them. In addition, the trust of the emperor, it was not difficult to overwhelm them.
Although the officials were still dissatisfied with each other, Zhu Youjian even brought out Xiao He, which shows that his determination to enthrone the titles of Fan and Li cannot be changed, and he has to accept the reality.
Fan Jingwen and Li Banghua saw that all civil and military officials came to oppose their title of Earl, and they thought the title of Earl was gone. Unexpectedly, the emperor forced himself to win the honor and still enthrone them as Earls. This made them stunned for a moment, with an incredible look on their faces.
Seeing that Fan Jingwen, who had always been a mature and polite, Li Banghua was also worried about the title of Earl, and Chongzhen couldn't help but smile.
Wang Chengen coughed lightly and reminded: "Mr. Fan, Lord Li, why don't you get the order to thank me?"
Fan Jingwen and Li Banghua were a mature man after all. After being reminded by Wang Chengen, they immediately reacted and immediately bowed to Chongzhen with the impeccable etiquette of the scholars and officials.
After accepting the canonization, Fan Jingwen and Li Banghua's loyalty to Chongzhen had reached the sky.
They were originally Donglin Party members, but although they parted ways with the Donglin Party because of their disagreement of ideas, they still felt a little disgusted when they saw Chongzhen dismissing the Donglin Party and raising the butcher knife to the Donglin Party members.
But as Chongzhen conferred them as earls, the disgust in his heart disappeared immediately. Because he was granted the title of earl who was in the same residency with the country, they shared the same ties with the Ming Dynasty. They became more loyal to Chongzhen and completely became a brainless fan of Chongzhen.
After enthroned Fan Jingwen and Li Banghua, Cao Wenzhao, Sun Yingyuan, Huang Degong, and Zhou Yuji were both enthroned as viscounts by Chongzhen, and became the commander-in-chief of the army alone.
Because Cao Wenzhao was able to remain in office for the Four Guards because of his merits of capturing Zhang Dakui, the Four Guards were renamed Yongweiying. Cao Wenzhao was promoted to the commander of the Yongweiyingyingying, commanding 6,500 cavalry.
Sun Yingyuan was promoted to the commander of the Long Xiao Camp with the right guard of the cavalry in the Beijing camp, and the commander of the Long Xiao Camp with the two dragons and tiger guards into one, with a total of 13,000 soldiers.
Huang Degong was promoted to the left-behind right guard in the Beijing camp, and the Hu Ben camp was commanded by the Hu Ben camp, which combined the two into one, and commanded 13,000 troops.
Zhou Yuji was promoted to the left-behind left-guard in the Beijing camp, and the Wuwei camp, which combined the two Wude Guards into one, commanded 13,000 troops.
In this way, the imperial guards in Zhu Youjian's hands were formed, namely Yongweiying, Wuweiying, Long Xiaoying, and Hubenying.
In the future, the Fourth Battalion will become one of the most powerful troops in the world, and will be known as the four ace troops in Chongzhen's hands. It will make countless military achievements for Chongzhen and the Ming Dynasty.
Chapter completed!