"Emperor!" Han Zanzhou asked tentatively, "Yanpingbo's killing of the pseudo-Qing prince Shuo Sai is a great contribution, and it is natural to be named a marquis. However, this giant ship was personally supervised by the loyal and brave man. If there is no loyal and brave man, how could Shuo Sai be killed? Since Yanpingbo has been granted Yanping, can the loyal and brave man be appointed as Duke?"

"Capital Duke?" Zhu Ciyang was shocked, "It is no exaggeration to be loyal and brave enough to be rewarded by the great achievements of the king. But now if he is granted the king, then loyal and brave enough to come to Japan to attack the Central Plains, recover Yanjing, and make great contributions, what should he be granted?"

If the Duke goes up again, he will be the prince. Although Zhao Peng is the emperor's brother-in-law, if he is granted a prince, he will be a king of different surnames. Looking at Chinese history, there are actually many kings of different surnames in history. The largest number is concentrated in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms at the end of the Tang Dynasty. There is a common feature that it is easy to produce kings of different surnames in troubled times.

However, in history, the kings of different surnames were either killed or rebelled, and it seemed that there was only these two ends, and there seemed to be no third way to go. In history, several kings of different surnames who had good ends were originally emperors, but after they were destroyed, they gave face to be named kings. For example, King Chenliu, who was conferred by Sima Yan to Cao Huan, was finally generalized as Duke.

Later, after the Five Barbarians invaded China, the Sima family was unable to protect themselves and fled to the south, so they also granted the title of King Chenliu to Cao Yi. Later, the Eastern Jin Dynasty was destroyed and the Southern Dynasty retained King Chenliu, but this King Chenliu was actually a mascot.

And those kings of different surnames who rely on military merits in troubled times, such as those in the late Qin and early Han dynasties, Han Xin, Peng Yue, Ying Bu, and Lu Wan, who had a good ending? Zhang Er, the only one who died well, was demoted to Xuanping Hou.

Let’s look at the few kings of different surnames in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. Which one was a good person? In the end, he became emperor himself? So the Three Kingdoms were created.

The kings of the Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties became even more chaotic. Today is the king, and tomorrow is the emperor. When it comes to the two kings Li Yuan and Wang Shichong, who were conferred the title of Sui Dynasty, everyone knows what's going on, so there is no need to say more.

The kings of the Song Dynasty were all posthumously conferred after their death, so naturally, this kind of title cannot be passed on to their descendants. To this day, the kings of the different surnames conferred by the Ming Dynasty in the early Ming Dynasty were also posthumously conferred.

Of course, the emperor was not at ease with the kings of different surnames. The kings of different surnames were not at ease with the emperor. One was afraid that the kings of different surnames would rebel, and the other was afraid that the emperor would take his own head one day. The emperor of the Ming Dynasty would not be at ease with the kings of different surnames to the heroes, even the Dukes of the Ming Dynasty were basically killed by Zhu Yuanzhang, including Duke of Liang Lan Yu, Duke of Cao Li Wenzhong (suspected to be poisoned), Duke of Xuan Li Shanchang, Duke of Song Feng Sheng, Duke of Ying Fu Youde, etc.

Therefore, Zhu Cilang did not grant him the title of Duke of Zhao Peng, who made great contributions for the time being. In the future, Zhao Peng will definitely have a reward after he attacked the Central Plains and recovered Yanjing. Then he will be granted a Duke of the State.

In the original time and space, let alone Dukes, Zhu Youlang even had a large number of kings in different surnames. That was the Nanming in danger. Zhu Youlang could only rely on these kings in different surnames to protect the country of Nanming, but in the end he could not save it. China was stolen by the Qing Dynasty, causing the land of China to fall into darkness for nearly three hundred years.

Zhu Cilang issued an edict, giving Zhao Peng a python robe, a gold and jade belt, a reward of 10,000 taels, and allocating 10,000 acres of land from the Ming Dynasty Imperial Village to reward Zhao Peng.

It’s strange that a great hero like Zhao Peng did not have any of his own land. All the land seized by his Jinyiwei in Nanjing, Jiangnan and Huguang was handed over to the Daming Imperial Village, without leaving him a piece of land. Because Zhao Peng did not want to be a landlord to make money by collecting tenants and rents, he wanted to develop industry and commerce, especially industry. To enable the Ming Dynasty to achieve industrialization, the first thing to do was to solve the problem of land. For the landlord class, those who committed the crime happened to physically eliminate them. Those who did not commit the crime and cooperate with him would subtly change them and transform them from the landlord class to the bourgeoisie.

When Zhao Peng heard that the emperor wanted to reward him with 10,000 acres of land, he wanted to refuse, but he was not willing to give the emperor face in person, so he had to accept the imperial edict.

After obtaining these lands, Zhao Peng will adopt a new business model, no longer letting farmers pay tenant rent for themselves, but instead turning all the land into farms and farmers into agricultural workers.

Seeing Zhao Peng accepting the order, Zhu Cilang smiled and said, "Hurry up and wait, hurry up and go home and have a look. My sister and Miss Fei are almost mothers. Go back and take care of them quickly. Don't run around if you have nothing to do. The matter of transferring troops north to Dagukou will probably not be that fast for a while. It will be too late for you to wait for two months before going."

Zhao Peng thanked him and returned home.

When she got home, she saw Fei Zhen'e, who was erect and supported Princess Kunxing, who was also erect and stood in the backyard waiting for her. These two women, Fei Zhen'e has been pregnant for more than eight months, and Princess Kunxing has been pregnant for more than seven months, and both of them are almost mothers.

But before Zhao Peng could even keep warm with the two girls for a while, he heard someone coming from outside to report.

"Holding for loyalty and courage!" A Jinyiwei lieutenant hurried in, "Northwest reported that Jiannu went to Mongolia and entered from Yulin, Yan'an. Dashun King Li Zicheng could no longer resist it."

"The Great Western Army still did not send troops?" Zhao Peng asked.

The Jinyiwei said, "Zhang Xianzhong's guy just didn't get in. Li Zicheng's people went to ask for help, and our people also went to persuade him. After saying all the good things, he just refused to send troops to rescue Li Zicheng."

Zhao Peng frowned slightly, and it seemed that Li Zicheng's situation was a little bad. Once the Qing army bypassed Hangu Pass and Tongguan and detoured from the north into the Weihe Valley, then Li Zicheng had no danger to defend, and Xi'an City would definitely not be able to defend. Once Li Zicheng was defeated, the Qing army would definitely divide into two groups, chasing Li Zicheng and chasing the Yangtze River; and attacking Sichuan along the way.

Zhang Xianzhong may have thought that Sichuan was surrounded by mountains, which were easy to defend but difficult to attack, so he stayed in Sichuan and became the local emperor.

Once Li Zicheng could not resist and retreated to Hubei, the Qing army would chase the Yangtze River and then cross the Yangtze River to the south. At that time, Huguang, which was flat, would not be able to stop the Qing army.

In fact, Li Zicheng was enough, and helped the Ming Dynasty win four years. Zhao Peng made the next plan, that after Li Zicheng retreated, he recruited his troops and blocked the Qing army in Hubei. On the other hand, he also had to send troops here and sent an elite force to land at Dagukou, so that the Qing army would be distracted and could not cross the Yangtze River south to attack Huguang.

After receiving the urgent report, Zhao Peng rushed to the palace and explained the situation to Zhu Cixuan. He went to the New Army camp to order troops and asked the brothers to prepare for the expedition.

Now Zhao Peng has 50,000 combat soldiers in his new Ming army. In addition, the militia adapted from the original 200,000 military households can be drawn from these military households to follow 50,000 combat soldiers to fight together, which will have 150,000 troops.

As for landing in Dagukou, it was impossible to transfer all 150,000 people to Tianjin. Zhao Peng decided to dispatch 15,000 combat soldiers and 50,000 auxiliary soldiers to Dagukou north, land at Dagukou, build a fortress under the cover of artillery fire from the navy, gain a foothold at the sea entrance of the Tianjin Haihe River, and create pressure on the Qing army behind.

The 15,000 combat soldiers and 50,000 auxiliary soldiers who were preparing to go to the expedition were nervously prepared. A month passed. Just as Zhao Peng was preparing for the Northern Expedition, Fei Zhen'e gave birth to a daughter.

Half a month later, Princess Kunxing also gave birth to a daughter.

"Oh, why did you give birth to a daughter? Why isn't you a son?" Princess Kunxing was very disappointed that she had a daughter. More than half a month ago, Fei Zhen'e gave birth to a daughter, and she was secretly happy in her heart, thinking that she must have given birth to a son, but who knows it's a daughter.

But when Princess Kunxing felt much more uncomfortable when she saw Zhao Peng's love for her daughter.

Princess Kunxing said: "Zhao Lang, in the future, when you attack the Central Plains and regain Yanjing, the emperor's brother will at least be a duke. If you don't have a son, who will inherit the duke's duke's duke's duke's duke's duke'?"
Chapter completed!